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#character: ilaria vann
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see the thing about ilaria is that they're very intelligent, except for when it comes to their ego, at which point their brain packs up and leaves
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baby's first stain and it's 2 OF THEM AT ONCE
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your turn, tell me about ilaria pwease, I am 👀 at ur tags and so curious!
YAY! THANK YOU! :3
so ilaria vann (they/she), my darling ilaria, is my first vtm character! they're a lamia, embraced by their sire evelyn a few years ago when they were in their late 30s.
evelyn had had her eye on ilaria for a while, apparently, as she was their mother-in-law for several years prior. evelyn's adoptive son durante was actually a ghoul trying to prove himself, like your isaiah was! except he was at it for 70 years and didn't manage to not be pathetic. I mentioned in the tags that ilaria was a dom, it's exactly why the spineless idiot didn't get embraced and his mortal wife did. she's just too powerful.
them being a dom wasn't the only reason ilaria was embraced, though! they were actually working in histopathology, and were morbidly interested in the dead and dying even before gaining the hecata compulsion. evelyn thought ilaria's work would be useful for the research some of the hecata in new york were doing on the blood plague.
after the embrace and a decent length of fledgelinghood that involved some hecata family events (where she met her coterie mate holiday!), evelyn sent her to new york for the research, and that's what she does now!
her coworkers hate her and refuse to give her advice or help outside of the job. they don't like daysleeping at their own apartment, so they couchsurf within their polycule of subs, which is fine because they've been pretending to be a vampire since age 6. she can barely drive, and holiday makes fun of her for catching the bus. they have a 0 in etiquette and don't care for politics.
they have a very high intelligence, high medicine, and specialties to do with diseases. she's quite strong, which means she's great at manhandling and physically hurting people. she's creepy and intimidating, meaning people often do what she wants. they can see ghosts, and have been asked by cammy princes to help out with necromancy on at least two separate occasions. they're also very funny (:
thank you for asking about my darling ilaria!! <3 I have a character tag for her which is attached to this post if you'd like to see more, which includes more art of her, which is mostly my own!
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got some art of ilaria (they/she)!
done by my buddy @/apollonartworld on instagram/Adonis_Poe on toyhouse
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just had session 0.5 of ilaria's game, in which the storyteller and I established a bit of the background surrounding ilaria's Embrace. here's a small timeline! it's very fucked up (cults, suicide, vampiric age differences, charm and blood bonding, infidelity, head trauma, etc.)! they're hecata though, what do you expect.
ilaria married their husband durante when they were 30 and he was. well. we didn't establish his age exactly. they'd been dating for 2 years at that point. we did not cover this in detail
what we DID cover in detail was how cool his adoptive mother evelyn is. cool enough of a mother-in-law that she invited ilaria to a bahari church and with a little bit of... persuasion... got them to commit some very sadistic infidelity with her + one of the bahari believers and then blood bonded ilaria afterwards. awful stuff, but again. hecata.
hubby was annoyed that ilaria was out longer than usual without telling him but he's pathetic and annoying so that was unimportant
despite not being religious, the bahari church and the lilins within were pretty cool. there was a nosferatu, claire, who answered a lot of questions. also injuries are fun to look at. lots of worrying vague cultish talk that didn't bother ilaria that much because that's just how religions are and it was amusing. plus evelyn is just so damn charming they can't help but stick around
and then, 6 months after the blood bond, the walk. they took a turn down a dark alley and WHAM evelyn got hit in the back of the head with a metal baseball bat. ilaria went protecc mode and despite getting hit in the shoulder for 1 point of damage they managed to rip the guy's bat out of his hands and scare him off.
they checked on evelyn, who hadn't moved since being knocked to the ground with a caved-in skull. except... her skull started knitting itself back together. she got up of her own accord and was very suddenly on top of ilaria.
the bite came next. the single most agonising thing ilaria had ever felt, far beyond any 10 most mortals would ever experience. even a big tough dom like ilaria was reduced to a crying, writhing mess who couldn't escape no matter how hard they tried. they were completely drained of life.
after that, an after you'd never expect to happen... they awoke with a wrist at their lips. evelyn's wrist, bleeding into their mouth less than you'd expect for how deep the cut was. evelyn retreated when they stirred and loosely bandaged the wound. ilaria felt this... need. they weren't sure what for. it was like a hunger, like a thirst, something fundamental they couldn't quite place.
evelyn offered them something. bags of red, bags of blood. almost mindlessly, barely even aware of themself and entirely incapable of stopping themself, they slaked their all-consuming thirst with the liquid.
when they calmed down, evelyn gave them some basics on the situation and expectations. ilaria couldn't help but listen, having had 2 sips from her already. she was so sweet, so kind, even if she had just inflicted something so incomprehensibly horrible on them. the aura of unease that had followed her while ilaria was human had vanished.
a few days of experimentation and growing, growling thirst later, ilaria approached evelyn about feeding. evelyn explained some more about how if they want the pangs to leave, they'll have to drain someone to death. they talked about blood resonances for a bit (ilaria rolled their eyes at the 4 humours) too
the first kill was decided. ilaria went to a bridge on the river and, luckily, found a lone man there ready to jump. ilaria went to Get Him and it was. pretty bad. he accepted their offer to end it for him, but hecata bites make it not so easy, and, despite himself, he struggled. they didn't let go. they drank up every last drop of life from him, enjoying it as both a sadist and a vampire. those weren't the only sensations in the mix though, and they! were! traumatised! yay!!!
evelyn was sympathetic for how bad that was and ilaria' felt incredibly conflicted about how it went. evelyn handled corpse disposal not by chucking the man in the river but by turning him to dust.
the two had A Talk in the car, and it turns out that was maybe kind of slightly unnecessary. ilaria didn't have it in them to HATE evelyn, but there was definitely anger bubbling over. hooray for composure as a dump stat!
durante was waiting at home, and when he saw ilaria's bloodstained chin and clothes, he got angry. he confronted them about the Embrace, saying he'd been waiting for his turn for 70 goddamn years. apparently he'd been ghoulified when he was younger by his now-deceased biological parents and he'd waited for his parents and then his adoptive mother to sire him.
unfortunately for durante, he had never been vampire material! spineless, weak, subservient, pathetic. exactly what had made him a good partner for the commanding ilaria, though things had become more and more strained over the years.
strained enough that after a talk about how incompetent he was and how maybe he should try harder, lol, he threatened his wife. he told them if they stayed the day they wouldn't see the next night.
ilaria got the last laugh and left, managing to duck out of the way of a statuette he tried to throw at them. they returned to evelyn and explained the whole "your son and I are getting a divorce" thing and they laughed together about it because god he's a loser
more information on the kindred world was passed along to ilaria. the masquerade, the factions, the clans. also, turns out evelyn is close to 200 years old!
a few months later, ilaria and evelyn attended a hecata family gathering. a charismatic samedi, jackson, recognised evelyn and greeted her there. he (and evelyn) explained a bit about the different families present, as well as The Family Reunion. ilaria listened, but was fascinated by the rotting state of the man and got a little too excited! yay messy criticals! their Beast spoke to and as them about how he'd look so pretty all cut up, which intimidated him into leaving.
more soon!
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ilaria compels me so much. they're not an idiot, but they're so wildly overconfident that people who aren't attracted to them think they are. she believes in some kind of justice and fairness, but she's so casually mean nobody'd know it by looking at her. they told off someone calling her and julia imbeciles because being accurate with your insults is, like, dom rule #6
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"I've already had the only funeral I'm ever getting."
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3 and 13 for Ilaria? :3c
How did you choose their name? 
I looked through a few lists of italian names and went for one related to cheer because I knew she was a comedic type. darkly comedic, but as I said before, they like to laugh.
How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all? 
I have some fics of them here (sfw) and here (aftermath of nsft), but very little else! it's early days, and even those pieces are more filling in bits that weren't covered by canon. I have no idea where this story is going, and I'm content to fill in the past and present as I go.
thanks for the ask! :3c
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14 for ilaria!
14. If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?
this question is actually pretty easy for ilaria! there's a lot to them, but I would say the two biggest keys to keeping them themself are pretty obvious. if you want to work with her well, you must know and remember that:
they're a sadist
she likes to laugh
thank you for the ask!
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a lighting study with my darling ilaria, uncropped!
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tastefully nakey ilaria to go with a piece I wrote about them and grace.
the writing takes place after a mature scene and references it, but is primarily about the seeming lack of consequences following the mortal grace's slip-up that revealed her non-ghoul status to their coterie mate holiday.
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