Mary Ellen Kramer is an Imbued Hunter.
Overview[]
A ragged, dirty, skinny woman travels America, following her own erratic impulses. From time to time, she connects with a group of imbued, helping them fight supernatural evil. But she knows that such dalliances are just a distraction, just the warm-up act, and she occasionally tells those who will listen about the real performance.
Marry Ellen knows the truth: The Messengers are the enemy.
She didn't always feel that way. Some days, she can still remember when she was first imbued, when she was still blind. Like a good puppet, she fought the monsters infesting her community. She tilted at windmills and had her share of little victories. Then one night she came home to find a monster stealing her children - a creature that tossed her aside like a rag doll.
When she came to in the hospital, her husband Michael told her that their house had burned down and that Ethan, Amber and Chloe were dead. But that was unacceptable to Mary Ellen. Such a reality could not be, and rather than believe it, she embraced madness with open arms.
Mary Ellen threw away the life she used to have - her husband, job, lifestyle and sanity - and dedicated herself to searching for her children. She relentlessly pursued every lead, every clue, even those that existed only in her warped mind. The very fight against the supernatural took second place to her obsession. Other monsters didn't really matter when her children were still out there.
Mary Ellen's allies began to regard her as a dangerous psychopath. She thought of other imbued as fools trying to keep a lid on utter chaos. She also began to grow increasingly suspicious of the motives behind the imbuing and the true purposes of the Messengers. If these beings truly wanted to fight evil, why did they leave the chosen in the dark? Why didn't they simply tell her where her children were instead of orchestrating meaningless puppet shows? The hunt and the Messengers were a lie, pointless to a woman living in a world defined by three words - find my children.
It took months of searching, months that pushed Mary Ellen further and further into the abyss, until she finally learned the truth. Her children were alive, and she would never see them again. Her husband Michael, the father of her children, had given them away to monsters, to creatures that claimed a connection to them closer than hers. The man she once loved had destroyed her. Her children had never been hers. They had always belonged to the darkness. And the Messengers had let it happen.
Such a revelation should have destroyed Mary Ellen. Perhaps it did. Her mind shattered, but in her madness she found a new subject for the revenge she sought: the Messengers. The unknown eyes in the sky that pulled strings and laughed while children turned into shadows. In Mary Ellen's madness, rage burned inside her and she found a way to harness it, to crack open the secrets of the Heralds and pull fire out of her very body.
Soon, that fire will consume her. Soon, but not yet. Not while she still has a job to do. Mary Ellen no longer searches for the children that can never be hers. Instead, she stokes the fire and works with other imbued in their puppet games. To those who will listen, who can see past her madness and the smoldering in her eyes, she whispers what she knows to be true - she tells them to cut the strings.
Character Sheet[]
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina (Tireless) 4, Charisma 3, Manipulation 2, Appearance 2, Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3
Abilities: Alertness 2, Athletics 3, Brawl 3, Dodge 2, Empathy 1, Endurance 3, Intuition 3, Melee 2, Performance 1, Security 2, Stealth 3, Survival 2
Backgrounds: Contacts 3, Destiny 3, Patron 5
Edges: (Martyrdom) Demand, Witness; (Vengeance) Cleave, Trail, Smolder, Surge, Smite
Mercy: 3, Zeal: 10, Conviction: 8, Willpower: 3
Derangements: Dissociation, Manic-Depression, Obsessive/Compulsive, Schizophrenia
References[]
- HTR: Fall From Grace, p. 21-22, 24-28, 30-37, 39, 123-124