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#I do have another version that's not Mother... yk who. Might show that one sometime this week? Maybe. šŸ˜ˆ
the-cowardly-cheese Ā· 4 months
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Was that [NATASHA NEGOVANLIS]? Oh no no, that was just [MIRCALLA ā€œCARMILLAā€ KARNSTEIN], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [CARMILLA]. They are [THREE-HUNDRED-FORTY-ONE] years old and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they canā€™t stray from this city for long.
to use a gif where u can see her face or to use a gif thatā€™s slapstick......... the answer was obvious.
how long has your character been here
roughly a month and a half !
what is your character's job
night shift archivist........ using the excuse that dc is magic and therefore an mlis is totally not required.
where has your character been pulled from in their fandom
towards the end of season two when :\ she still thinks mattieā€™s dead and no one cares :\ of course, iā€™m gonna go ahead and hc that the events of s3 have happened and she just... does not remember them bc #magic but... cannot promise the same for the movie because i Do Not Know How to watch it and... we like to pretend sheā€™s still a vampire... which technically was stopped in s3 but shhhhhhh
has any magic affected your character
some memories have been wiped, but thatā€™s about it!
and any other information you might find useful for us and the other members to know!!
triggers: very very brief mention of necrophilia, brief mention of imprisonment, murder, manipulation, abuse, mention of blood (brief but significant), very brief mention of war
not too much is known about her super early life. she was born in styria as mircalla karnstein to a super wealthy father ( and super emotionally unavailable who only saw her as convenient when she was old enough to be used as a bargaining chip ) and... who knows about her mother? ( whenever i refer to her mother throughout the rest of the intro, itā€™s not her birth mother -- just a psa! )
anyway, she was murdered at a ball, as one is. but it was all good! because her newĀ ā€˜motherā€™ found her and resurrected her as a vampire ( for her own nefarious purposes, of course ). however, before she was able to be of any true use to her mother, her undead body was graverobbed by the necrophiliac man she was engaged to marry before her death. he kept her in a literal dungeon. which is so romantic (/s). however, sucks for him! her powers grew stronger and she managed to break free and murder his entire family so he would die sad and alone <3 romance <3
after that ordeal, she was put to work as a lure by her mother. every twenty years, they would return to styria and carmilla -- who would have some different name at that point, but one that was probably an obvious anagram -- would pretend thereā€™d been a carriage accident or abandonment or something. sheā€™d grow close to the girl ( sometimes seduction being involved, leaving it open to have the events of the novella have happened... minus the death ), the girl would grow weak of mind, then sheā€™d hand the girl off to her mother to go away to some certain doom.Ā 
also... because i love her... i want to add that, during this entire time, she had a best friend and sister of sorts ( another woman changed by her mother ) named matska (Ā ā€˜mattieā€™ ) who was much older than her, but humored her more idealistic views. like... man... mattie was really looking forward to killing this guy for no reason, but heā€™s a sensitive poet, guess sheā€™ll find someone else :\ ( aka i just... needed to mention this legend... )
the game changed when carmilla was enlisted to lure in a girl named ell. unfortunately, she actually fell in love with her :\ their close bond was real :\ she made plans for them to escape to the usa before her mother could find them... but her mother found out about it and revealed carmillaā€™s vampiric nature to ell. ell, horrified, led carmillaā€™s mother to where they planned to meet up. and her punishment for her disobedience was, like, the best parenting ever (/s):
she watched ell get dragged away to her doom, then was sealed alive in a coffin full of blood <3 mother of the year <3
she was exhumed towards the end of wwii with all of the explosives unearthing various graves. she was found by her mother again in 1955 and her mother just didnā€™t have the heart to reinter her, so she was put back to work ( but at least she got to watch the moon landing with the legend mattie <3 ).
this time, she tried to ruin opportunities when she could and, instead of get close to the girl, drive her away.Ā 
i donā€™t want to get too into the laura (web version) stuff because my love does not hinge on the ship, ja feel? but since she does have some memories of that, itā€™s important to mention!! she was assigned to go pretend to be a college student and lure various girls and, more specifically, roommates for her mother. laura was an intended target, then she showed carmilla genuine kindness and carmilla was likeĀ ā€˜well. guess iā€™ve gotta ruin an opportunity #forlove. motherā€™s gonna hate it but :\ā€™
as a side-note, even though she Does Not Know This from where im pulling her in her canon, it is probably important to note that she found out her mother was actually a goddess! same! the goddess innana! spoiler: and of course you can set an angry malicious goddess free with a hug <3 but yk what fun fact: one of my first critiques over the finale was laura just..... talking for minutes on end without a heart..... but someone looked it up and apparently you can keep functioning for four minutes without a heart so?? get it girls!! also i think in the movie it turns out ell is like... evil?? but weā€™re ignoring that until i find a way to watch it bc <3 she doesnā€™t rmr it anyway <3
also some fun + relevant tidbits + hcs:
can shapeshift into a black panther. alexa, playĀ ā€˜black catā€™ by janet jackson. also love some pyrokinesis and potential sonic scream and invulnerability to sunlight. also love the basics of super strength and speed. also love still having to live off of human blood. also love not turning people into vampires with bites like genuinely love that otherwise thereā€™d be a whole army. ~ sheā€™s not like other girls vampires ~
if u cant tell im ignoring the ending maā€™am sheā€™s a vampire. apparently the movie turns her back into a vampire which we love but i... donā€™t have a way to watch it so iā€™m just going off of what i read.
another big gay. gonna start a club w bismuth.
has canonically seen many vampire movies, including the twilight movies (in which she called edward aĀ ā€˜sparkly twerpā€™).
also canonically probably has light knowledge of the harry potter and doctor who franchises bc of laura. very hip with pop culture in spite of being over 300yrs old.
taught herself ancient sumerian because she wanted to read the epic of gilgamesh. love that for her.
inxp (leans te, but not enough for a for sure), 4w5, scorpio sun scorpio moon. affably evil <3
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