Submitted by Soulless Zombie on Sun, 08/17/2003 - 12:33
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Race: Vampires
Sex: Females
Names: Jicaques and Mendiela
Nicknames: Janey and Maggie
Birth Date and Location: 27th of february 1574, Peru. Reborn: 18th b'day
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Description:
The twins were Aztec princesses before the cold blood of eternal life claimed them both, and so they have vampiric white skin, as even before they were vampires, they never were directly in sunlight because of their veils. They have large dark green eyes lined in kohl in the style of the Aztecs. They both have ebony black hair - Maggie's is long worn loosely flowing down her back, and Janey's in a short wedge bob. The two are otherwise identical in appearance with full lips and small noses. They are eighteen years old - turned to eternal life at the peak of the beauty.
The twins are protected by numerous charms, but they are fallible. They are regular vampires except for their more than natural understanding of magical activities in the world, and are individually very skilled with their chosen weapons. (These girls kick ass!)
Background:
On the 27th of February 1574, in Peru, twin girls were born. The twins lay sleeping as their mother died silently beside them, it was only later they would feel the pain of their lost childhood.
The twins were Aztec princesses, pure, holy; veiled and untouched until the eve of their eighteenth birthday when as gifts to the Aztec gods they were to be sacrificed that the sun might rise for the next year. Mendiela (Maggie) accepted her fate in order to protect her people. Jicaques (Janey) had sought to learn of the world beyond their restrictive society, and having seen the possibilities offered by the rest of the world, refused to accept the fate of her and her sister, and could not believe in the necessity of the sacrifice. Escaping, Jicaques went to an old wise-woman staunchly avoided by all for the rumours of strange beliefs and superstitions. The wise woman spoke of the alignment of the planets and the alteration of the twins’ destiny, before her face in the darkness appeared to change, and she drew close to Jicaques, and sank her head onto the girl’s neck, and turning her irrevocably to the dark. Jicaques felt a deep coldness sweep over her, and knew that her destiny had changed.
As the sun went down, Mendiela was taken to be sacrificed, and believing herself to have been abandoned by her sister, she cried silently. As she was bound, she begged for the high priest to kill her in any other way as the twins’ fear of fire – even before their vampiric rebirth - was greater than their fear of death. Jicaques arrived and stole her sister away, before swearing to both of them that her actions were for the best and would be their salvation, turned her twin to the dark as well.
The Aztecs panicked as there were no sacrifices, and the wise-woman had not been wrong – the planets were aligned, and the eclipse lasted three days. The twins then appeared to their people in glory and darkness, and promised to restore the sun if two holy sacrifices were made – and the people bound their King and High Priest to be burned. The twins stayed inside their temple when the sun was up, and the people believed them to be working to keep the sun in the sky. The Aztecs began to worship the twins as their sun goddesses, honouring and protecting them in any possible way, and the twins wanted for nothing.
Later in the 1600's when white men came to Peru, the Aztecs believed them to be White Gods who they believed had come to reclaim their goddesses. They hid the twins in a crypt, and there they remained in a 300-year slumber.
Rumour of the goddesses’ power and fame haunted South America throughout the ages. Many attempts were made to uncover the crypt, but it was not until the turn of the century that a group of dark arts amateurs decided to raise the twins from the dead. In 1899 the twins were taken to California and 'resurrected' in a ceremony of shadow and flames. Those who would pretend to great knowledge and power were not to know that the fire with which they welcomed the goddesses back to life would terrify them, and in their confusion and terror, the goddesses slaughtered their would-be servants.
Beneath America, the twins watched the world grow, and now one hundred years later, they rise into the world once more to live amongst humanity and their own cold-blooded kind.
Items:
When living as goddesses out of the light, the twins were surrounded by beautiful ancient objects; pots, clothes, jewellery, weapons etc.
Janey is now the quieter one of the pair, the sudden noisiness of her new world makes here retreat, but when the world was quiet she was the one struggling to speak out against the quiet. She refused to accept a passive surrender and turned against her own culture - she kept none of the Aztec trinkets expected of women of their station and dressed in simple robes. Now into the 21st century she is again at odds with the surrounding culture - she dresses sparcely in black with only a few dark-stoned rings.
Maggie is out-going and bold but underneath her loud chattiness she needs affection to fuel her confidence. As a vampire, Maggie has become hard to avoid being hurt and forces of evil possess her to become a servant for the greatest evil. Walking among the undead, Maggie had embraced a fate she did not choose for herself and has made the best of the fact that she now holds the power and need not walk in fear. She dresses with a modernity her sister cannot understand - mostly in pink - and has found liberation in her sexuality and is,er... very brazen about her body, the men she is attracted to, and the thrill of the kill.
Disclosure:
People, we are sure that in our history we got some dates wrong! Sorry, but please give us some artistic license!!!!