<strong>Player Name</strong>: Xenolord<br/><strong>Character Name</strong>: Maria Despair<br/><strong>Race</strong>: Human<br/><strong>Age</strong>: Looks around 18<br/><strong>Gender</strong>: Female<br/><strong>Condition</strong>: Vampire<br/><strong>Sexuality</strong>: Bisexual<br/><strong>Likes</strong>: Good deals, handsome men, pretty girls, money, and loves to bite her 'friends'.<br/><strong>Dislikes</strong>: Getting ripped off, ripping people off, ignorance and those who look down on the depraved.<br/><strong>Description\Picture</strong>: Maria Despair (http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t297/XenoGuy/1-2168396-8697-t.jpg). Standing at six one, Maria is a rather tall, imposing woman. Her soft emerald hair and beautifully enchanting crimson eyes all point to her condition as a Vampire. Sweet, chatty, and likable, she is more likely to take a bullet for someone then make them pay one cent over what she thinks something is worth.<br/><strong>Background</strong>: Maria became a vampire in what most modern historians would consider the 'distant past', longer then anyone can feasibly remember. Ever since the name 'Maria Despair' has appeared in history texts, it has always been associated with the fabulously rich. In the 1800's, Maria lived her life a tea and tobacco farmer in Europe. In the 1900's, she was an Oil Baroness in central North America, and in the early parts of the 2000's, she owned a substantial stock in runway companies such as Google, Amazon, and even helped bring the otherwise failing Xero-X (Or as some people call them, ZeroTen) Company from it's dredges to the most influential Video Game Development firms to date. Having lived for more then a half-millennium, Maria has managed to out-grow some of the failings of other younger Vampires, such as able to stand direct sunlight without turning into a candle, being able to cross running water without a flinch, and most interesting, even casts a reflection in mirrors.<br/><br/>In 2049, having maxed her eighth and last Swiss bank account to the maximum they would allow her to store off-shore, she decided to start giving back to the world that has given her so much and, in 2056, bought the decaying shell of what was once the Disavow Corporation, she set up a Pawn Shop on the corner of Main and Broadway. But this was a simple front to her real goals, pulling the destitute and impoverished off the street, and giving them some method to get back on their feet. In this city where money is life, paying another for companionship and romance is an extremely profitable business, and as any of her former workers will tell you, the pay isn't the only good thing about her. They say that what she runs is no brothel, no whore house, that her services are top notch, and she would sooner kick a customer out and refuse his or her money, then watch them harm one of her employees.