( character in brief )

CHARACTER NAME: Iris Virga
CANON: Vampire: The Requiem AU
→ AU notes:

• addition of psychic vampires ("predators" a.k.a. Shepherds) to the "food chain," at the tier above vampires: classic
• chron focused on the events after a worldwide disaster which had been orchestrated by predators to prevent a vampire plan to reveal themselves to humanity en masse

THE SHORT VERSION:

• priest in a gnostic order of vampires (the Sept) who believe fighting the Demiurge means hunting down vampires who exploit humanity; specializes in religious ritual magic.
• born Nah-thle-tla; childhood spent in a vampire-run Native American boarding school (exactly as awful as it sounds); rescued by the Sept vampire who ultimately became her "sire."
• (yeah there's some stuff to unpack about how she nevertheless continued practicing Catholicism, gnostic heresy notwithstanding.)
• chose to become a vampire to support the Sept's cause
• her experiences in the aftermath of the apocalypse shattered her faith; met the sun rather than accept the temptation to become a predator and thereby snuff out her emotions


• does not (did not) see herself as a "person," but a monster whose sole use is in service to humanity; genuinely compassionate but also pathologically self-martyring
• tends towards sex as an outlet, and often uses it to mask feeding; judges herself harshly for both
• overall: a deeply depressed person who knows she should want to heal, but struggles to feel healing is merited when the world is Like This.