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Player Info

Name: Katie
Age: 26
Contact: superkappa @plurk
Characters Already in Teleios: Rebekah Mikaelson, Allison Argent and Lauren Lewis
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http://teleios-mods.dreamwidth.org/1551.html?thread=655631#cmt655631

Character Basics:

Character Name: Jessica Hamby
Journal: cheeto
Age: 19 (but looks 17 bc vampire)
Fandom: True Blood
Canon Point: Mid 6x10 -- she'll be coming in still high off fairy blood

Class A:

murder = 8 years
betrayal (sleeping with Hoyt's best friend) = 1 year



Class B: Total of Class B crimes here

Assault = 30 years (I'm estimating this because we see her feed on people a lot, and it's assumed she does it off camera too)
Fraud = 20 years (again, she glamours people a lot, and probably more than just what we see on camera)

Class C: Total of Class C crimes here
Aiding and Abetting - 3 months
Attempted murder - 1 month
Blackmail - 2 months
Impersonation - 1 month
Infidelity - 1 month
Rioting - 1 month
Seduction for personal gain - 1 month
Threatening Death - 4 months
Traumatizing Your Loved Ones - 2 months
Using abilities to mess with people - 8 months

List crimes you’ve created for your character here.

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GRAND TOTAL: Grand Total here, in years and months61 years

Canon Character Section:

History: http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Jessica_Hamby

Personality: Jessica is almost the living embodiment of the old nursery rhyme, "There was a girl, who had a curl in the middle of her forehead, and when she was good she was very good, and when she was bad she was horrible."

That is to say, Jessica is the sort of character who has two dueling natures. Part of this is because she's a vampire, and part of it because she lived a very, very repressed life before she was turned and now she suddenly has all this freedom and power for the first time ever in her life, and she has no idea how to deal with any of it.

For the most part, Jessica tries to be a good girl like she was always raised to be. And sometimes, it actually works. When she's with Hoyt, who usually shows her love and acceptance, she's sweet and calm. The normal childish tendencies that can be seen in her as assuaged because she doesn't have to worry about him liking her or not, he already does. For the first time in her life, someone just accepts and loves her, and it feels almost too good to be true.

And that's important to her, because what Jessica wants and needs more than anything else in life is acceptance. It was something she never got from her father who repressed and beat her, and her mother who turned a blind eye to her plight. When she got turned she looked for it from Bill, Eric and Pam but they all decided she was too annoying to deal with. And that's hard on her, because she feels like she doesn't have a place in the world. She's not like the other vampires, but she's not a regular girl either. And she doesn't know what she wants to be. This is why when Hoyt breaks up with her in the end of season two, it's extremely traumatizing on her. Because he was the one person who seemed to love her no matter what, and in her eyes she screwed that up too. So what was the point in trying anymore?

She's very fragile, and at this point in her life, she could really go one of two ways. She could grow into being a powerful, good vampire, or she could become an out of control monster. The problem is part of her wants to be both, she is torn between her two innate natures. More than anything else, she wants someone else to tell her what to be, to shower her what's right, but she has no guidance. Bill turned her and then basically abandoned her and she has all these changes and urges that she just doesn't understand. So it makes her angry, because that's how most people respond to that which they don't understand.

In many ways, Jessica is like a small child. Though she wants to be good, to be liked and loved, she's very immature. When she doesn't get her way, she's very likely to sling insults and pout and throw fits. The world seems unfair to her, like it's picking on her for some reason she can't understand. This is especially seen in her interactions with Bill, who she blames for her situation, as he's the one who turned her in the first place.

Even when she manages to find things to be happy, it seems like she's always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because she's not used to things going right in her life because they never have before. In a way, a lot of her acting out is a form of deflection. A way to try to push people away before they can get too close and hurt her. And even when she does manage to form a bond, she can never understand it. Because she hates herself and doesn’t know how to love who or what she’s become, she can’t understand why anyone else would care about her.

Jessica also has a lot of anger in her and has no idea how to control herself when she gets angry. This is shown when she tries to get revenge on her father for beating her, or when she bites Hoyt's mother for insulting her and her relationship with Hoyt. Because Bill is always off with Sookie or doing other things than teaching Jessica she has no idea how to control her vampiric nature.

But one of the most humanizing things about Jessica is that she still feels intense guilt over the things she does after she loses control. She still has a conscience, and because of that, when she messes up it just reconfirms her already existing ideas about lack of self worth. Although she initially seems to really enjoy the freedom that was given to her by being turned, it’s also caused her to see herself as something less than human. More and more, she begins seeing herself as a monster, because how could she do the things she does without being one?

As the series goes on, that guilt becomes less and less and she begins to accept who she is, even revels in it. She likes being a vampire. But part of her still clings to her old humanity which is probably seen best in her relationship with Hoyt. She only drinks blood from him, but it kills her to do so. Monogomy is a human construct, and for such a young vampire who's never really got to experience anything, it's becoming harder and harder for her. As is the realization that she might loose Hoyt if he realizes that she wants more. Which she does. She drinks from another man and then when she tells Hoyt about it she feels guilty, and erases memory by glamoring him.

But things only go worse from there, as she grows unhappier and unhappier trying to live a life that just doesn't fit her anymore. She's not a little girl anymore. She's not a human girl. So she breaks things off with Hoyt, and then she sleeps with his best friend. It's a terrible thing to do, but it's what she wants to do. And she's tired of trying to resist what she wants to do.

More and more she's been giving into her vampiric nature and losing the parts of her that made her human. It's the struggle between these two natures that makes her a particularly interesting character to explore and play.

Powers/Abilities:

Heightened speed, strength and senses, a healing ability, and the ability to glamour people (basically wipe their mind or control them). Jessica is particularly good at glamouring and can even do so to multiple humans at once. There's also bonding which happens between anyone would would drink her blood.

Her weaknesses are: sunlight, stakes, fire, and silver. Magic also been seen to be a weakness for vampires in the True Blood universe.

Also, due to being a vampire she cannot enter a home unless she's invited in first.

She also cries blood tears instead of the regular kind. And fangs pop out when she's hungry, aroused, or pissed off, though she's becoming better at controlling that.

Appearance: http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-201311/279f27251b0b835cd65990d126146426.jpg


Samples:

Actionspam Sample: http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/932355.html?thread=591045123#cmt591045123

Prose Sample: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/marinanova/306884.html?thread=41808836#t41808836