Name: Jyira
Nicknames: none
Sex: female
Species: vampire
Ethnicity: Italian
Age: 567
Position: Kiss member
Occupation: assassin, model,
Residence: Arcadia Manor

Appearance: Jyira is tall with marble white skin, and extremely proud of her status as a Goth. Her hair is bright red, falling to her shoulders, worn in a variety of different style. Her nails are sharp and talon-like, always painted either indigo or a satiny black. Her lips are painted either black or blood red. Her choice of clothing tends to be tight black leather, mainly corsets and tops that emphasise her large breasts, short skirts, patent leather pants, choice of colour again black, occasionally metallic blue, purple with a bit of blood red thrown in.
Marks/Scars/Tattoos: Jyira has a few scars on her back from previous incidents where she’s been tortured, including scars on her thighs. She has her ears pierced three times.
Carried Possessions: A cellphone, always on, a few guns, and a few knives hidden about her person. Occasionally she has a gram or two of coke, and sometimes can be found with weed in her possession.

Personality: Jyira is oddly calm. Not much gets her rattled. She's quite contemplative and can drift off into her own thoughts for a long time. She can have a sharp tongue and is not afraid to be a bitch and speak her mind when she feels it necessary. Jyira does have a dry sense of humour, which can sometimes be cutting and taken the wrong way. She is also a devoted and attentive mother when needed, to over compensate for the child she abandoned because of who her father was. Guilt plagues her often about the decision. As the former leader of a gang of rogue vampires and other things that didn’t fit into any society human or others wise she’s a good hunter, knowing what she wants and usually being able to get it. She knows how to organize people, manipulate people into getting her own way. She is open minded and will accept any form of thinking, though definitely preffers a democratic way of leadership. While she likes being in charge, she will accept there are others with twice as much power as her and learn from them when she can.
Talents: Talented in some forms of martial arts, such as kendo and karate.. She knows some variations of street fighting from her gang-land days, added to that with her bonus of supernatural speed and strength. She is pretty good at telepathy, she can call over long distances. She also knows a fair deal about magic, having opened her own magic shop in centuries gone by. Jyira likes reading, and languages, and has a vast collection of books on many topics. In recent times she has taken a liking to computers and become something of a computer whizz, from webdesign, to programming to medium level hacking skills.
Weaknesses: Jyira can be very cynical. She doesn’t believe in happy endings and always is suspicious. She thinks people always want something from her, no matter how nice they are being, she is conviced they have an ulterior motive or want something from her. She has trouble trusting people and opening up, and can come off as aloof and rude without even realising she's doing it.

History: Jyira grew up as a human child, unaware of the world of the supernatural. She was a slave in in the house of a wealthy family, along with her twin sister. Her life was dull, hard work and unforgiving. She had a pale beauty about her that made her appealing to the men of the house, who weren’t afraid to dress her up and use her for their own pleasure. Her twin hated being used by the men, while Jyira revelled in the attention. One of the men she attracted, a rich merchant Janos fell in love with her and married her. She quickly forgot about her sister.

Only afterwards did she discovered he was a vampire when she caught him feeding. He changed her, gave her a new name, and taught her about the world he lived in, the supernatural creatures who really existed outside of myth and ledgend. Janos had several residences in other countries he took her to see. The two of them became known as a charming and deadly couple with a taste for danger. Until vampire hunters attacked them. Janos was harshly murdered. At least that was what Jyira was told. Jyira was at a loss had no respect for anything or anyone anymore. She fell in with gangs of renegades- vampires, witches and shifters on the brink of theever growing supernatural world, the ones who didn’t follow the rules but wouldn’t be missed if they disappeared. Jyira was recognised from her life with Janos. She left his people to deal with his businesses, with an accountant to give her money when she needed it. She slowly became aware that she was being watched by a vampire named Khal who wouldn’t give up on seducing her, no matter how much she insulted him. He tried several times to kidnap her, none were successful. After her escape she needed somewhere to stay and fled to Japan, where she met a woman by the name of Elizabeth. After satisfying the other woman’s needs and company for a number of decades, the relationship became a sort of love-you-but-I-hate-you routine, and eventually the two parted ways.

Jyira wandered for several more decades, meeting various people along the way, but never finding anyone male who could make her feel like Janos, no woman who could make her feel like Elizabeth. Eventually Jyira found herself in Chicago and became part of the Kiss there.

Model:
Donna Ricci

Quote:
Thea Gilmore, Apparation 12