<div class="floatright">(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i444/reia-elliquiy/Character%20Profiles/spacer.gif)(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i444/reia-elliquiy/Character%20Profiles/Diane/diane_01.png)(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i444/reia-elliquiy/Character%20Profiles/Diane/diane_02.png)(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i444/reia-elliquiy/Character%20Profiles/Diane/diane_03.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Diane Elkin<br/><strong>Character Type:</strong>Indoctrinated<br/><strong>Age:</strong>26<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Sexual Preferences:</strong>Pansexual with a kinky side - she's very dominant in the bedroom.<br/><br/><strong>Physical Description and/or image:</strong>Diane is of average height at just over 5 feet 4 inches. Her hair is never longer than mid-back length and never shorter than just below her shoulders. For the past few years she's been dying it a deep reddish-brown using henna as a way to keep her ties to her family severed. The color of her eyes seems to change, from an odd pale-green with darker green rings around the edges to a light green-blue. She's naturally pale and doesn't tan at all - when she does stay out in the sun for long she turns a nice, bright red. Her figure is toned and lithe, and while she may seem small, she's strong and able to stand her ground against people or things much bigger than her. Her clothes are casual and convenient - jeans and a t-shirt/tank are her staples, along with an old bomber jacket (http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i444/reia-elliquiy/Character%20Profiles/Diane/jacket.png) she found at a flea market a few years ago; she's never worn a dress in her life and sees them as extremely impractical. At first glance she seems like the average all-American college girl.<br/><br/><strong>Skills:</strong>Diane has a strong set of skills thanks to her upbringing, but while she's good at what she does, it all has a rough quality to it and no real finesse.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><em>picking locks</em> - learned this from her brother at a young age and quickly surpassed him in skill</li><li><em>knives</em> - pretty adept at using knives of all kinds to defend herself and always has a dagger or two strapped on her somewhere</li><li><em>shotguns</em> - when it comes to guns, these are her specialty, especially sawed-offs</li><li><em>self-defense</em> - this skill was drilled into her by her father from the moment he felt her old enough to learn</li></ul><br/><strong>Weakness:</strong>Her family is her greatest weakness - she senses they're in trouble and she loses all rationality. She's also extremely freaked out by cockroaches and she hates the smell of corpses (enough to where if exposed to it for too long, she'll get physically sick).<br/><br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Diane mostly hustles pool to get money. On occasion, if she's going to stay in one place long enough, she'll work as a waitress/bartender at a local bar. If things are really tight, she'll pick-pocket. Whatever money she gets she uses to keep her bike fueled and for cheap motel rooms when she needs a good place to sleep.<br/><br/><strong>Backstory:</strong>The Elkins come from a family of hunters. Diane's father had even boasted once that they had ties to the infamous Samuel Colt. Growing up, Diane had a strange childhood. She wasn't like most other kids and she never attended regular school. From as far back as she can remember, hunting had been the number one priority in her education. Her mother, while not a hunter herself, was supportive of her family and home schooled her kids. While she doesn't exactly love the life she lives, she knows nothing else and wouldn't actually want to be a "normal" person. Diane has a brother (Jason) and a sister (Amy), both older than her. They were trained by their father, being taught everything under the sun that they needed to know in order to go after the supernatural.<br/><br/>Regardless of her unconventional upbringing, Diane had a good life. Due to the work they did, her family was extremely close-knit and also had some close family friends amongst other hunters. They had their home base in central Texas, on an old ranch that had been in their family for generations. When a strange or unusual "something" cropped up, they'd travel to the city to check it out and take out whatever it was. Being the youngest, though, Diane was left home with her mother quite a bit. She didn't resent it, not to much at least, because her father would always tell her that someone needed to stay home to watch Mom.<br/><br/>When Diane turned 18, Jason and Amy took her for her first solo-hunt - a simple ghost haunting one state away. With only a few scrapes and bruises to show afterwards, she was delighted at her success and more than ready to tell her dad everything. When the three siblings arrived home late one night, about a week later, they realized something was wrong - as the red warning light wired to the top of the house was lit. Scared and clinging to Amy, Diane followed her brother and sister into the house, a knife held in her shaking hand.<br/><br/>The house was empty and completely quiet, all electronics off and no light coming in from outside. They inspected every bit of the house they could and found nothing. Which worried them even more. Upon declaring the house clean, Jason led his sisters outside to check the barn. That's where they found their parents. There wasn't much left to them, just measly shells of the people they had been. They were still alive, even though just barely, but non-responsive. Terrified, the three siblings quickly gathered up their parents and took them to the nearest hospital.<br/><br/>Their mother and father lived, but never truly regained full sanity. They could recognize their kids and talk about when they were younger, but that was it. Jason, furious at what had been done to his family, practically tore the house and barn apart in his search for answers. It was during one of his rampaging sprees that they found the message scribbled on the roof of the living room. Scratched into the plaster and speckled with bits of sulphur and black dust, were the words:<em>We'll get you.</em><br/><br/>After that, Amy decided it would be best if they split up - to hopefully distract whatever was after them if it had three trails to follow. There was an long and intense argument, but eventually they all agreed. They also agreed of a way of letting each other know that they are okay. Every two weeks they each send in a classified ad to several newspapers around the country with a coded message.<br/><br/>Since splitting from her brother and sister, Diana has been traveling all over the country on her dad's old motorcycle (http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i444/reia-elliquiy/Character%20Profiles/Diane/bike.png). She hunts daily and takes down what she can, occasionally accepting help from others when she knows it'll be a tough job. While it was hard at the beginning - as most of the seasoned hunters wanted nothing to do with a small 18 year old girl - she's managed to make a name for herself. She's made mistakes and has the scars to prove it, but she's not afraid of shooting first and asking questions later. When it comes to gathering information, she's a bit impatient and relies mostly on her own knowledge and the tattered notebook she jots things down in. However, she does work well with others and is more than happy to let someone else take the brunt of a job if it means her assured survival.<br/><br/>For the past few years Diane has been trying to find out what got to her parents and if there's any way to stop it. So far she hasn't found much more than myths and lore. But she's determined to get revenge and kill the thing so her family can be together again.<br/><br/>When we meet Diane she's in search of her sister as it's been over two months since last hearing from her and Cape Merrin is the place of Amy's last known whereabouts.