Pleiades

Pleiades is a Mastigos Free Council from Chicago, Illinois.

Overview

Quote: "I would love to meet you in person - No, I don't trust her! We'll go, no one minds if we leave for a few minutes - Everyone, Hush! I can't even hear myself think!"

Cecilia's mind first split in two when she was 11 and her mother committed suicide in front of her only child. Part of Cecilia screamed and screamed, and part of her looked the other way and pretended it didn't happen so she could still be the happy child she had always been. The second split occurred when Cecilia was 13 and her father, who had turned increasingly to alcohol after his wife's death, decided that he needed someone in his bed at night. Ceci became a woman who did what she had to do to keep her drunken father from hurting her. Cissy, the little girl, still kept her happy, child-like behavior, and Cecilia, the shell-shocked witness of her mother's suicide, relived the pain in nightmares every night. When Cecilia was 17, Cecile emerged and took matters into her own hands. She laced her father's alcohol with enough pain pills to kill several horses and set fire to the house while he lay in a near-coma. Without looking back, Cecile grabbed a suitcase she had already prepared and took Cecilia, Ceci and Cissy away to start a new life. The Trailways bus ride to Chicago was long, and she slept most of the way. As she slept, she dreamed, but this time her nightmares took her to a different place, a Watchtower of the Iron Gauntlet in the realm of Pandemonium. When Cecile got off the bus in Chicago, a new sister had joined her. This empowered and willful personality was named Pleiades, and she was Awake.

Triplex of the Game of Geometric Perfection heard her resonance, a cacophony of voices in the Supernal Realm, and located her. He undertook to train Pleiades in the rituals of the Free Council, but when she told him that she had already found a cabal, he did not stop her from joining the Starry Night.

Her colleagues in the Starry Night appreciate her for her strong mental capabilities, and they have learned to work around her various personalities. Usually, Pleiades maintains control and lends her confidence and magical talents to the cabal. When things go wrong, either Ceci the vamp or Cecile the ruthless protector takes over. Occasionally, the happy child that is "Cissy" shows herself. So far, the tormented Cecilia only shows herself in Pleiades' nightmares.

Description

Pleiades is a painfully thin woman in her early 20s with platinum blonde hair that falls in loose curls to her shoulders. Her eyes are a soft, dreamy blue-green most of the time, but they undergo subtle changes as her personalities emerge to the fore (clear blue for Cissy, muddy green for Cecilia, bright blue for Ceci and dark blue-brown for Cecile). She tends to dress in filmy clothes of muted blues and purples. When she works magic, she is all business and her slender, ethereal form seems to vibrate with pulsating energy, transforming her from a helpless victim to a woman of true power.

Her Nimbus is a nightmarish aura of blood-red flames that emanate both heat and light.

Stats

Dedicated Magical Tool: Brass-framed mirror, carefully fractured into five segments
Real Name: Cecilia Jean Collier
Path: Mastigos
Order: Free Council
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Resolve 4
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 2, Composure 2
Mental Skills: Academics 2, Investigation 1, Medicine (Psychology) 3, Occult 3
Physical Skills: Brawl 2, Firearms 1, Stealth (Remaining Inconspicuous) 3, Weaponry (Small Pointed Objects) 3
Social Skills: Empathy 2, *Persuasion 2, Subterfuge 3
Merits: Hallow 4, High Speech, Library (Shared) (Astrology, Astronomy, History of Magic, Physics) 4, Sanctum: Size (Shared) 4
Willpower: 6
Wisdom: 5 (Multiple Personality, severe: 6)
Virtue: Fortitude
Vice: Wrath
Initiative: 5
Defense: 3
Speed: 10
Health: 8
Gnosis: 4
Arcana: Death 4, Forces 3, Mind 4, Space 2
Rotes: Death - Grim Sight, Entropic Guard, Destroy Object, Enervation; Forces - Receiver, Influence Fire, Personal Invisibility; Mind - Aura Perception, Misperception, Psychic Assault, Psychic Sword; Space - Spatial Awareness, Untouchable
Manna/per turn: 13/4
Armor: 4 ("Entropic Guard," Death **), 4 ("Unseen Shield," Forces **)
Magic Shield: None

References

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