- Aug 9, 2016
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Age Unknown, well over a millennium | December 22 | female | professional dominatrix, stripper | heterosexual
Appearance
Matilda, at first glance and nothing else considered, appears to be a woman in her mid-thirties. She has a pear shaped figure, with wide hips, a somewhat small bust, and shoulder length hair that falls in curls around her heart shaped face.
This is where most of her similarities to a normal woman disappear however. Her skin is a shade of gray-green that can only be called sickly, while her eyes have black corneas with yellow wolf-like irises. Her hair is likewise silver-white, each hair wispy thin like spiderwebs.
Matilda's lips are fixed into a permanent, painfully wide grinning maw filled with jagged fangs. She can force this smile down for short periods of time, but finds that this makes her face muscles sore, similar to a normal person smiling for too long.
The skin on the center of her back bears an obvious burn scar from a brand in the shape of Lord Mikhainon's sigil. It is a declaration to anyone who knows it that she is his property.
Naturally, Matilda smells like death. Some have likened it to rotting cheese or an old corpse. She keeps a glamour on her at all times that negates the scent, allowing her to still wear perfumes. The glamour takes the form of a pair of small stud earrings. Her favorite perfume smells like funeral flowers and mahogany.
Personality
Manners Maketh Man
Matilda is a bit of a stickler for decorum. She holds herself with poise and dignity, almost haughtiness some would say. Though she rarely speaks out to correct those around her, she will admonish use of foul language or unnecessarily passionate affection in public. Such things are better left for the privacy of bedrooms.
Never Trust a Fae
Matilda's past dealings with the Fae have left her bitter and resentful towards her kin. Though she rarely outwardly shows her disdain, she is slow to approach or acknowledge Fae in her presence.
If forced into a situation with other Fae, she becomes more toxic and blunt in her manners and words.
A Loyal Pet
Above all, Matilda is entirely devoted to her master, Gabriel Baltimore. She sings his praises to any who will listen and would leap to her demise at his command.
No friendship, no love, no hatred comes close to her faith in Baltimore.
She keeps nothing from him, and asks of nothing in return, merely basking in what praise and worth he gives her.
Species Abilities
A Head in the Hand
Matilda’s head is completely detachable, and her body and head can act independently of one another. She can speak fully well while her head is detached, and her body can continue to move. However, without her head to see where she is going and direct it, her body can be clumsy and slow. Even with her head detached, she is still aware of what happens to her body.
Whiplash
Matilda's whip, which resembles a human spine, is supernatural and can move like an appendage while she holds it. In another time the whip could tear out a person's eyes in a single swipe. Today however, its lashes merely cause fatigue on top of the usual pain inflicted.
Death Keeps a Solemn Vigil
Matilda can sense the general well being of an individual by looking at them intently. She can no longer see their fated dying day, but she can still tell what general state of health they are in. This ability can also be used to see over vast distances if she holds her head aloft by her hair at night.
For Every Lock, a Key
Dullahan can infamously unlock any gate or lock that bars the way between them and their target. Matilda, with her diminished power, can still do this on a smaller scale. She can still open any lock, but she must physically touch it and concentrate to do so.
The Gold Standard
As a Dullahan, Matilda is an immortal, whom no mortal weapon can harm. The exception to this is gold. While to most Fae, iron is anathema and can repel and harm them, Dullahan are instead repelled by gold. Matilda's affliction is worse for her not being at full power, as any gold that touches her paralyzes her from head to toe, as well as putting her in excruciating pain.
Background
If you asked Matilda when she was born, she wouldn't be able to tell you. Like most Fae, she simply was. As a Dullahan, it was her job to carry those fated to die to the afterlife. She enjoyed it; menacing the pitiful humans, serving her court, and generally being revered and feared by mortals wherever she went.
Her entire routine was shattered one Winter Solstice. As she attended court, two renegade Fae stole her coach and horses, filled the coach with gold, and sunk it in a lake. The coach being a major source of her power, Matilda was cut off from her fully powered form almost immediately. She begged other members of the court to help her pull the coach out of the water and remove the gold, but they took the fact that she had been tricked as a sign of weakness. She was cast out of the court, only a fraction of herself.
Matilda wandered the British Isles, living off of the hospitality of the humans who still treated her with a modicum of respect. But with the spread of Christianity, she found fewer and fewer places willing to host her. In the middle of the medieval period, she was all alone and at her lowest point.
That was when her savior appeared. Gabriel Baltimore, going by a different name back then, saw the pitiful Fae before him and took her in. She saw in him a chance for redemption, a chance to be powerful again. In her, Gabriel saw a pawn to be used at his discretion. If she knew his intentions, Matilda didn’t care. She devoted herself as fully to Gabriel as she had to the Winter Court all those years before.
Matilda traveled with Gabriel for a while, until he had to leave her for reasons they never spoke of. She stayed dutifully where he told her to stay, and went where he told her to go, doing well as much as she pleased as long as she made sure to keep him happy.
Most recently, her lord called her to the island of Manta Carlos to work as a dancer at the club Gomorrah. During this time, Gabriel introduced Matilda to the BDSM lifestyle, fulfilling his promise that he would help her feel powerful and in control again. She still strips at Gomorrah, but her main role now is as a professional dominatrix at Temptations
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