<div class="floatleft">(https://www.wallpaperflare.com/static/476/770/383/fantasy-art-magic-female-vampire-wallpaper.jpg)</div><strong>Name</strong>- Benedeka Jozefa Ilari von Desidera…   a.k.a. “Benni” a.k.a. “The Bloody Widow Baroness”<br/><strong>Sex, recognised sex</strong>– A very fancy lady<br/><strong>Species</strong>- Vampire<br/><br/><strong>Job</strong>– Rare Stamp Trader and guard in the Night Watch<br/><strong>Position</strong>- Lance-Corporal<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>– Benni is perpetually awkward. And tries very, very, very hard to be boring. She clings to her dullness the way a dehydrated man clings to the thought of water. She's lived an exciting life already. She wants to be a normal boring guard. She's a dutiful person and occasionally slips into weird Uberwaldan behaviors when she's not trying aggressively to be normal. She has a super thick accent.<br/><br/><strong>History</strong>- Her family all just became Black Ribboners in an effort to get with the times, and she’s been pressured to get on the bandwagon, too. So she has. Benni, unfortunately, to take the pledge...is having to re-invent her whole life. She came to Ankh-Morpork a few years ago to make her fortune...and the Watch has become an actually<em>reputable</em>(well, minus people like Nobby) position, like joining the military without actually fighting a war. So this past year, she decided to try her hand at being a guard after a series of failed other jobs. (For example, a vampire like Benni who says "ve do not drink....<em>wine</em>" makes a poor sommelier)<br/><br/>Benni isn't old for a vampire, but that isn't saying a lot compared to human ages--she's still much older than most humans. She had a rather vaunted history in Uberwald that she’s trying hard to not fall back into...and more importantly, she can't go back to it. There's plenty of vampire hunters eager to put a stake in her heart.<br/><br/>A good way to describe her personal history is the following interaction taken from her original interview before joining the Watch:<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Sergeant:</strong> Posh Uberwald nob, eh? Got a ‘von’ and everything in your name. Never did understand why you types join up—we got another one of you, a Sally. What’s it say here—you were a Baroness? Nice gal like you not married? You must have left a trail of broken hearts.<br/><strong>Benni:</strong> Erm. No. <br/><strong>Sergeant:</strong> No?<br/><strong>Benni:</strong> <em>No.</em><br/><strong>Sergeant:</strong> Bloody hell, you were the Bloody Widow?<br/><strong>Benni:</strong>  ...um. I haff my Black Ribbon to show you. I promise I am a new and improved me who does not in any vay seduce impressionable handsome men any longer. See, I haff <em>stamps</em> like a proper boring person vith zer normal human hobbies. <br/><strong>Sergeant:</strong> You can't be any weirder than the rest we get in the Night Watch; I'll pass your name up to the young Commander.</div></div><br/><br/>At the same time, a lot of Black Ribboners have to replace their addiction to blood with something else. Benni? She replaced hers with something that makes even other vampires cringe: stamp collecting. A sufficiently rare stamp can send poor Benni into an absolute frenzy. A bloodlust, if you will. But for stamps. She does trade stamps in her spare time since she's 'noble' and thus is expected to have useless hobbies anyways, and that dovetails nicely into her Black Ribbon pledge.<br/><br/>She's not been in the Watch very long but is determined to do well. She generally avoids talking about her personal life or history before she took the pledge with her family; she finds it embarrassing.<br/><br/><strong>Writer</strong>- Bly (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=42233) - O/Os (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297586.0)