Vivian Linden

“... but let me make one thing clear for you: if you decline my offer, it'll be your brother who this job falls on," Vivian whispered, stretching her words and clearly enjoying the upper hand she had..”

Vivian is a "former assassin" also known as the Royal Reaper and the Lindworm. She became a nun in order to repent her sins and start a new life, but she couldn't stay on the right path for very long. Although she still seemingly works as a nun, it's merely a disguise to her and a way to get by. Vivian is an incredibly manipulative and intelligent woman who works with only her own best interests in mind: she can appear as a kind and inviting person as she is trained to act, but her constant smile and seemingly never opened eyes still tend to unsettle people after a while.

Appearance

Vivian is a fairly tall woman, standing 172cm tall. She has somewhat long face and long features in general, making her look even slimmer and taller than she actually is. Her shoulders and hip are aligned and she has a strong and sporty body due to her profession as an assassin. Her hair is gray-is brown and long, almost reaching her mid-back when her hair is open. The tips of her hair are wavy but otherwise her hair is straight. She has an average sized, slightly pointy nose and average eyebrows. Her eyes are bright blue but she keeps them always either closed or, sometimes, narrowed slightly. She is most often seen wearing a traditional nun attire, although her hair is partially visible from underneath her cap.

She has a lindworm tattoo on her body that occasionally moves on her skin due the fact it's alive. Most often the lindworm shows on her back and around her throat but it usually knows when to move so that the tattoo won't be revealed. Vivian is able to summon the lindworm if she reveals her skin and lets the creature out to manifest into a real creature.

Personality

Vivian's most prominent feature is her selfishness: she only works with her own best interest in mind and everyone else comes after that. She simply refuses to do things that do not benefit her in any way and she takes pride in this feature of hers. She is very good at making things look like she is doing things to people out of good will, but without a doubt there is always something behind it that benefits her. There are only a few occasions where she has helped someone out without gaining as much as she has lost. However, she refuses to explain her reasoning aside from the fact that she "still has only her interest in mind".

A trained assassin since childhood, Vivian has assumed a very merciless and cruel worldview and she doesn't consider people around her if they are no use for her. She is manipulative and has a way with words, making it easy for people to fall for her tricks and trust her - only to later find out they were scammed, tricked or used. The woman is a talented actor capable of imitating any emotion at any given moment in a very convincing manner.

She does not take pleasure from killing, but she also feels nothing for her victims. She sees killing purely as her work and a way to practice and test her abilities. However, as she doesn't seem to have any true ambitions or a goal, it can be assumed she simply enjoys working as an assassin in general and finds pleasure in testing her own skills. It is said that if it wasn't for her upbringing, she would have made a really great actress.

Due to her profession, she is mostly working alone and doesn't really get attached to people. She has difficulties feeling sympathy and she also doesn't seem to even try much, resulting in both her and other people not feeling comfortable working together any more than is necessary. However, it must be noted that she is capable of liking people and tolerating them but she is picky and doesn't let just anyone get close to her. And even then she likes to keep things mostly business oriented. Her view on relationship tends to be very practical.

Because of the seriousness of her life style, she sometimes resorts in doing silly and even dangerous things just for her own amusement. She enjoys the risk and likes to let herself loose once in a while.

History

Very little is known of Vivian's past, and she never herself talks about it. She might occasionally share bits and pieces for her own amusement but she avoids talking about it in full detail.

Vivian was born somewhere in north into an assassin family known for their power of lindworm inherited by a tattoo. The oldest child receives the lindworm tattoo and also its power, being able to manifest it from a tattoo into a real creature by revealing their skin. Vivian has a younger brother called Armas who is only a year younger than her. They are close on their own ways, although their assassin lifestyle made them also constantly compete with each other - Vivian usually winning. Despite their constant struggle for being the most talented child, they respect each other and are very fond of each other on their own way. However, people who don't know them might assume they hate each other.

She worked as an assassin until her circumstances made her regret her decisions and she escaped to the church in order to repent for her sins and start over. However, as much as the things she had done plagued her, she soon returned back to her old ways and threw away all her regrets and personal feelings about those she had killed. She worked in the church for three years while doing her work undercover and getting tangled up with the darker secrets of the church. After that she went on a travel in order to do her work more effectively.

Vivian stayed quite a while in the same city as the child group consisting of Ilja, Rosemarie and the others. She originally targeted the young Thomas and wanted to use him, but his older brother Karl came to his rescue and ended up working under Vivian instead. Much like her brother had taught Ilja knife fight in north, Vivian started teaching Karl how to use a gun and steal.

Skills/ABILITIES

• Her lindworm is something that is passed on in the family and it's a mark of power. Vivian rarely uses the lindworm in battle though as it requires her to reveal her skin and it's in all ways kind of bothersome and she is more effective without doing any of that extra stuff.
  
  
• She has a notably low voice for a woman which she is bothered by due the fact it makes it easier for people to recognize her and remember her
  
  
• Vivian specializes in knives, daggers and swords. However, she can also hold her ground in a close combat
  
  

Trivia

• She is one of the strongest purely human OCs I have even when not counting her lindworm as one of her weapons
  
  
• She has a twin brother called Armas