In Older times
Once upon a time, during the height of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, back when noble titles were still common and still wielded some authority, a minor Earl had a daughter who was beautiful and demure, raised to possess and extol all the virtues expected of a young lady of excellent breeding. Her parents were quite pleased with their prim and proper daughter, and were anxious to wed her off in order to secure an advantageous alliance with another noble family. This would consolidate their control over certain shipping companies and bolster a burgeoning influence over certain American ventures.
The Lady Jessica Gardener, 17th Earl of Dortoshire, was slender but voluptuous, endowed with eyes that seemed to change colors, reflecting from green to blue, and back again in varying hues based on mood and dress. She was a beautiful young lady whom many expected to be the object of fierce competition for her hand in marriage. Her future appeared to follow one of those fairy tale stories where she marries a Prince and lives happily ever after. All of that changed when she met Sir Austin Lovelady, Baron of Locksley-upon-the-Sea.
Sir Austin was well known as a rake, a womanizer, a seducer of women, and a rogue of unusual skill and gifts. Despite this reputation, he was able to beguile and ensare the Lady Jessica by words of velvet and electric kisses. He seduced her, won her, ravaged her. And she begged him for more. So consuming was her passion for the rake, that she was eventually cast out of her family, sacrificed her marriage prospects by openly traveling with the young and handsome Baron, and what wealth she had she sacrificed to his other needs: gambling and booze.
In the end, Lady Jessica learned to her sorrow three chief facts that ruined her, her world, and her love of the young Baron. She learned she was replaceable, by being replaced by a younger woman after several years of being Austin's companion. She learned that her love did not matter to him when she begged him to stop seeing her replacement and he mockingly told her she knew what he was when she let him take her virtue. The most damning and final straw was learning that he was already married.
She snapped. She brutally murdered her former beloved, taking an axe to his beautiful face and figure. She gave him a treatment that mixed Lorenna Bobbit with Lizzie Borden. Then, she fled to the streets, where she eked out a miserable life. Sometime between her 19th and 21st birthday she was found by a vampire and was violated by him, dragged under the force of the Ardeur, ravaged, raped, and changed from human to something more.
The vampire now known as Osan'gar found her and took her under his proverbal wing. He helped stitch the broken pieces of her psyche together, restored her to a sense of normalcy, and then taught her new skills. Known then as the arts of covertcy and intelligency, now they are simply lumped together as 'Spycraft & Espionage' skills.
In This MOment
The Lady Jessica, under the guidance of Osan'gar, has been separate from the elder vampire for several years now. Osan'gar does not believe in handing things to the unworthy, and his close affection for Lady Jessica eventually led him to deliver a challenge to her. She could try to support his efforts, earn a new name for herself, and prove herself worthy to stand at his side...or he could leave her to the world for her to find her own way.
For the last several years, she was in the Deep South of the US, working to undermine and assimilate a number of large criminal enterprises into a sort of underworld conglomerate under her leadership. Promised that if she succeeded, she would earn a new name for herself and more than just a place at the side of the vampire she had come to respect and desire. So she set out, and Osan'gar watched her through agents and in person, observing her progress in Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, and Biloxi.
Successful, she returned to her tutor's side to claim the spoils she has won. Among them, a new name. "Mesaana". A name of a storied teacher and instructor that was intelligent, gifted, and had a penchant for instructing and molding the minds of the young and uninitiated. She returns to her adopted sire so that he can open the breadth of his dealings to her, and perhaps in the end provide a little comfort and solace to the older vampire.
As she returns to him, she finds him unwillingly bound to a necromancer and her world paused for a moment as he navigates the new environment. What happens after this? Only the gods, if there are any, really know. Osan'gar came here to Chicago for a reason and so Mesaana must wait for a time, wait and see what her patron and lover chooses to open to her. She knows, that in time, he'll reveal everything to her. He promised after all.
Looking Forward
Mesaana hopes that over the time between today and whenever Osan'gar finishes his business in Denver, that she will know enough about his operations to be able to contribute in a more direct manner. She knows he is building an empire, the sorts of high-stakes criminal ventures that only high level intelligence and law enforcement officials know about usually, and hopes to be able to lend her talents to his endeavors while reaping some of the benefits of that empire.
Contemplating eternity however, is not always the best thing for a mind to engage in, so while Mesanna does have a few vague plans none of them extend particularly far into the future, lest she tempt fate.
For now, she intends to savor a few luxuries and soak in some of the pleasures she has missed out on in the last few years. Not exactly a hedonist, but definitely a fan of the 'life of luxury' concept, Mesaana intends on indulging herself, her hungers, and now that she's come back to her mentor, she plans on indulging herself with him too
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What's Done in the Dark...
...Should probably stay there
Looks can be deceiving. This is one of the facts of life that are seldom taught to the young, but which are gained through sorrow and experience alone. Experience, is the best, and the most bitter instructor that ever there was to walk the earth.
Did you know that the devil wears Prada? And that she gives when she takes, and takes when she gives? The 'angel' of broken homes and jilted women, the punisher of unfaithful men walks the world in designer clothing, ready and willing to hand out her own unique brand of justice. Don't be beguiled by her beauty, she's a monster under the skin.
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