Sister Stitch

Sister Abishag Stitch is a Frankenstein, and the Signature character for the Refinement of Gold in Promethean: The Created.

Biography

Abishag was created by someone who had turned to god, who stitched her together with the body parts of no fewer than 19 women, and taking her to an Alpine peak. But presumably as a consequence of Disquiet she was abandoned with nought but a mouldy 19th Century Bible, the Catechisms, and the message that she was made to seek God.

She eventually found herself stumbling down into a Catholic Convent of Nuns, who took her in. However, it was only a matter of time before it fell apart, forcing the Sister to flee in a stolen habit. Since then, she has travelled across Europe as a Mimic, becoming fairly well-known amongst the local Prometheans - although this is not necessarily a good thing, having hurt many people in the throes of Torment.

Appearance

Without Disfigurements visible, Abishag appears as a tall, skinny, gaunt woman with close-cropped dark hair, pale skin and wide, heavy-lashed, gray eyes. She has a large, livid scar across her right ear.

When Disfigurements are visible, however, it is clear just how grotesque she truly is. She has no hair and no right ear — a ring of steel holds the side of her face together, and reveals the inside of her face. Metal staples and thick metal wire hold her flesh together. Stapled seams run across her cheeks from the corners of her mouth to where her ears should be. Her lips are blue-black. Different parts of her body are clearly taken from women of wildly varying ages, with smooth neck of a teenager rising above the breasts of a woman in her 50s and the stomach of a mother of three. One hand is smooth and graceful, the other has liver spots, etc. People who meet her struggle to determine her age.

She wears an old nun’s habit, although she often uncovers her head. She hasn’t taken the habit off to wash in years. It’s filthy and covered with patches and mends. It smells sour and moldy, but refuses to remove it, presumably out of sentimental value or self-hatred.

Personality

The Sister is desperately trying to become human. The goal consumes her, and as a practitioner of Aurum, her attempts at acting human grow increasingly desperate with every passing year. She believes utterly in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and prays to the Virgin every day, knowing full well that she’s not part of God’s creation. As such, she knows that she’ll get no help from Him until that day she achieves mortality. She keeps the faith because she believes that she has to. It’s part of her Pilgrimage, to come under the sight of God. Her body is a constant “thorn in the flesh” to her: she loathes her own physicality, seeing it as the fount of all her sin, which is why she cannot bear to take her habit off, even to wash.

The Sister’s native language is German. She hasn’t been to Germany for a long time, but she still speaks with a slight German accent. Whatever language she’s speaking, she uses archaisms and slightly garbled religious language. She’s got the general principles of Catholic religion down, and knows the different saints’ days by heart. Unfortunately, the finer points of religion elude her, and her literal reading of the scriptures and the catechism sometimes cause her to indulge in very odd behaviour, ie, taking the statement “If thy hand offends thee, cut it off” quite literally.

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