Rip Van Winkle

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Name: Rip Van Winkle

Age: Over 70 years, but looks like she is in her early 20s

Gender: Female

Physical appearance:
Rip is quite tall, around about 5'10 with incredibly long, black hair that reaches her knees and a long curl protruding from her forehead. She is rather lanky with long limbs and very slim. She naturally has blue eyes and like all vampires, turn red at times when feeling bloodthirsty. Her face is speckled with small freckles and her mouth is filled with shark-like teeth.

Clothing of choice:
Rip wears a double breasted black suit, black trousers and black shoes as well as a salmon-pink collared shirt with a black necktie.
She also wears white gloves, glasses (out of habit as being a vampire she would not need them anymore)
and a large silver swastika pendant around her neck on a long silver chain

Weaponry of choice:
Rip wields an incredibly long-barreled musket which fires bullets (given the name Magic Bullets) that follow their targets like heat-seeking' missiles at their own accord.
Her bullets can also make repetitive hits before expiring and are capable of bringing down aircrafts with ease.

Race: Vampire, Category C

Abilities:
Regeneration may take a medium amount of time for major damage (ie: 10 posts), medium supernatural strength, agility, stamina, durability, and reflexes, medium weakness to silver and blessed weaponry, able to absorb memories, still killable through massive damage (conventional or otherwise), to turn virgins into vampires, non-virgins into durable but fairly weak ghouls, the need to drink blood once in a week, mild weakness to sunlight (they get irritated by sunlight).

Yet Rip is rather reliant on her musket than her abilities and as a result, she has an excellent sense of aim
and very rarely misses a shot, if she does, her bullets will easily track her prey down.

Organization: Millenium

Personality:

Rip usually has a joyous personality often accompanied by her trademark 'sharktooth' grin.
She has a great love for powerful theatre and opera and will fight while singing as if on a stage giving a
performance in front of hundreds.
Despite her sweet cheerfulness, it does not take much effort to scare her into hiding and as a result of her horrific encounter with Alucard, she usually chooses to trot after her fellow Werwolfs when going into battle.

Rank: 1st Lieutenant/Obersturmführer

Biography:
Born in Germany (exact city unknown) Rip had a normal childhood, taking lessons in baton twirling and
often attending opera performances where she gained an great interest in singing.
Though she enjoyed baton twirling too much to drop it for another class as her parents were only willing to allow her to attend one, she decided to teach herself to sing on her free time and
was lucky enough to gain tips from the singers she watched so many times.
Eventually she developed a love for one particular opera, Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber,
and went through a copycat phase of the character Kaspar, trading in her baton for one of her father's muskets.
Noticing this, her father decided to teach her the basics in using the weapon.
WWII began soon after with both of Rip's parents called into battle and unfortunately were both killed,
leaving Rip little choice but to take their place amongst the Nazis.

During her first couple years, she was rather clumsy, absent-minded and often misplacing her glasses.
Despite this, she was recognised for her excellent sense of aim which gained her the the
nickname 'the Huntress' as she moved forward in rank and agreed to take part in the Freak Chip project.
Implanted with her chip and surviving her development into vampirism, she was moved into the Major's elite Werwolf Forces and presented with her new weapon, the Magic Bullet musket that had been produced specifically for her.
Now a sugary sweet vampire yet capable of turning vicious at the drop of a hat, still gifted with her beautiful
voice and eager to take part in the Major's plans.


RP Sample:

Rip drummed her gloved fingers lightly upon the barrel of her musket and hummed softly as she waited for the oncoming enemy aircrafts.
Millenium was once again in need of new human test subjects and a small group of medics lead by the Doktor were currently situated in a small makeshift base surrounded by forest and mountains, a few miles from a nearby town.
Unfortunately the operation had not gone entirely to plan as word of the sudden disappearances of townspeople had not gone unnoticed, leading to a search with the Huntress now perched high on a branch with her musket, waiting to bring them down.
She gave an impatient sigh and raised a small device to her mouth "Dok, are you sure zhey even know vhere ve are?" she asked, her eyes scanning the empty skies like a hawk searching for prey "zhis place ist pretty vell hidden"Dok's voice responded "Ja I am sure, besides, ve haf no choice. I haf orders from zhe Major zhat zhis base needs to be destroyed vhen ve leave und if ve destroy it vhile zhey're searching, it vill only attract unvanted attention"She gave another sigh "very vell, vhat are zhey?" she asked as she loaded her weapon.
"Search helicopters I believe" the scientist answered "ve don't know if zhey are armed or not but apparently the exchange of gunfire isn't uncommon in zhis region"
Naturally a couple tanks would be needed to bring down aircraft, but all Millenium needed was a small orb not too much bigger than a marble, from the Huntress to bring them down.

"Here zhey come" Dok said and sure enough, Rip heard the familiar sound of rotating helicopter blades as they finally showed themselves from behind a nearby mountain.
Rip straightened up and raised her musket, taking aim.
'Look at zhem, all lined up perfectly. Too easy' she thought and without a second of hesitation, she fired.
The bullet zig-zagged rapidly before slamming into the side of once helicopter with the force of a missile.
Rip felt pride swell within her as she watched the small orb bring each of the aircrafts down, one by one, crashing to the ground in a firey heap.
"Vell done Rip" came Dok's voice "ve vill be leaving in a few minutes so return to zhe base"
Heaving her musket over her shoulder, the vampire leapt from the branch and headed back to the base,
pulling out leaves and twigs from her hair as she went.

Many parts of this sheet are simply lovely. I especially enjoyed the biography's attention to her early, pre-Nazi days. Lately there have been a large number of people that gloss over their character's early life in order to skip to the "badass period" so kudos to you for not following that trend. The big hangup that I have with this sheet is the Category B ranking for Rip. To be frank, I've never believed any of the Millenium officers (outside of Hans) to be that high up the food chain. Luke had impressive speed, but he was sub par in everything else and Alucard admitted to overestimating him. Alhambra didn't show anything on his own that the more capable Millenium mooks did. All of his impressive showings can be traced directly back to his cards. The same can be said for Zorin and Rip. Neither of them had rockstar showings in terms of vampiric abilities, (Rip went down like a sac of hammers from a single punch and Zorin got shown up by Pip Bernadotte of all people). Their true excellence shined through their use of unique abilities and weapons to get the edge. Our current Walter went with the Millenium route and operates at the highest level of FREAK which fits considering the rushed nature of his transformation. Since Rip has obviously been a vampire for far longer, it makes sense that her development would have progressed more smoothly and I could definitely see her having evolved into a Category C vampire. The other Staff may have their own opinions but my impression puts her between a "Superior FREAK" and a "Category C".

Alright, I've bumped it down to Category C Vampire

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