Post by Sherise on Aug 28, 2010 22:08:59 GMT -5
Character Basics
Name: Sherise LaSalle
Nickname:
Age:Roughly 250 years old (appears in her 20s)
Appearance
Looks:Sherise has smooth dark skin, even as a vampire, with her Caribbean heritage showing through. Her hair is jet black with some curl to it. She's average height at 5'5". Her eyes are the characteristic red of the standard vampire. She was a beautiful woman before her transformation, which only enhanced that fact. She's slender, but has womanly curves along with some musular definition gained while working in the fields in her human days.
Scars, tattoos, other marks: scar from transformation
Portrayed by: Rutina Wesley
Personality and Stats
Basic Personality: As a human Sherise was a strong, independent woman. That personality trait was carried over into her vampire nature. She is tough and strong willed, refusing to let anyone cross her and get away with it. Her emotions are strong, and she is fiercely loyal when attached. While she does have a tendency to get annoyed at things around her rather quickly, unless it is a wrong against her, she gets over things rather quickly. She will speak her mind and make sure the person she's talking to has heard all she's had before she'd done, but will then move on. She has good control and is intelligent, though never formally schooled.
Species: Vampire
Abilities: Standard Vampire abilities
Occupation: none
Car:
History:
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Dominica (West Indies)
Family:deceased
Friends:Aaron
History: During the time that Sherise was alive, her home island of Dominica was under control of the French, and slavery was alive and well. Slaves were both brought to the island, to help farm the resources of the land, and were taken away on ships to be sold to other countries.
Sherise's human life, though without freedom, was lived on Dominica. She worked in fields and tended to animals, as well as bore the child of a slave man she had fallen in love with. The baby died in childbirth and Sherise came down with an infection. She was useless as a worker while ill, but in hopes of selling her off to someone who wouldn't realize this, she was taken from her lover and put on a boat, to a destination that she didn't even know.
She was chained in the lower cabins of the boat, for weeks, barely fed as the boat stopped at various ports, dropping off slaves and picking up new ones. After one such stop, the ship had barely left when the screams came piercing through the ship. The terror filled her as the screams grew louder, of those closer to her. A vampire had boarded the ship and was using it as her own buffet. The ship's passengers had all become massacred. Sherise was bitten, drained and left for dead, but being deeper into the ship's cargo area, the vampire had drunk her fill before getting there and somehow Sherise survived.
Her maker was shocked when Sherise awoke a vampire. The two sunk the ship, before heading on their separate ways. Becoming a vampire gave Sherise her freedom, something she gladly accepted and enjoyed. The only thing she missed was someone to share it with, someone she could hopefully love like she had the man she left behind in her human life. After several failed attempts at creating one of her own kind, she turned Aaron, a southern boy with a pretty face.