Full Name:
Riva Etienne
Nickname:
Alias/Nickname: Riva
Alias/Nickname: Etienne
Age:
Age Riva presumes she is:  I'm only 3 and a 1/2 + 37+ 13 + 56 + 19 + 1.33333 years old
Age Etienne assumes - 236
Age apparent: 24
Gender: female
Sexuality: Hetero
Occupation: Thief, photographer, leech
Languages: English, French, Cajun
Species: Vampire
Powers:
Riva - (standard)
Physical Prowess, Fast Moves, Acute Sense, Silent Moves, Passing for Human, Unaging
Etienne - (standard)
Physical Prowess, Fast Moves, Passing for Human, Stillness, Unaging, Rolling
Riva's themesong: Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Etiene's theme song: Within Temptation - Iron

Sex Scene Comfort Rating: 4V

Riva: Riva is fast and agile, faster than most vampires her age. She's quick on her feet, dodges well and runs as fast as her little legs can carry her. She's above average with a gun but prefers throwing silver tipped spikes. A light touch with a safe and an unbelievable sense of balance help in her cat burglary as well as the ability to pick locks. She's also the better photographer of the two, the machine gun, paparazzi style especially.

Etienne: Etienne is more of a thinker then anything, although possessing the same body, she does not think as quickly on her feet as Riva, and this hinders her movement at the same speeds. She's not as fast or quick and defiantly doesn't have the sense of balance. She does however, have a deft touch with anything electronic, buying and tinkering with any of the latest gadgets on the market, hacking computer systems and analysis security systems for their weak points. Unlike Riva, she doesn't have a fear of killing out of necessity and is a crack shot with a gun in her hands, far above average.


Overall Appearance:
Her hair a bright red and hanging just below her shoulder in a shaggy, home-style cut, uneven and manageable. Her skin is neither tanned nor pale, rather it looks like someone with pale white skinned, who spends large amounts of time in the sun, an orange-brown. And her eyes are a deep green, the color of the center of a green glass bead. Her iris looks slightly malformed, but only to ones who look close enough, slitted slightly and catlike.

She doesn't wear make up really and begrudges having a nearly flat chest on occasion. It's hard to flirt your way past security when you have nothing to flit with and don't wear short (or any) skirts. Noticeable features may be the handy dandy camera back pack she always has strapped to her back. Light weight, protective casing and great for every little thing your heart may need while on the job

Riva: I like to wear stuff, clothes and colors, and costumes. Whatever I throw on or works fun and fun like stuff. But I like to dress for the occasion!
Etienne: I prefer more neutral colors, clothing that covers and is practically off the rack.

Character Model: Rachel Weiz

Basic Personality:
There isn't just one personality to this one. There's a bit of an identity crisis. Riva is Etienne's best friend and Etienne is Rivas. The fact that they have the same body, memories and core personality has never factored in too much. They are two selves of the same mind and really what are best friends if not that. Before was Etienne, then there was Etienne and Riva and before Etienne was what she can't remember.

Etienne is the core personality with Riva but accents behavior and which name she answers to changes from time to time. She understands that they are both her as one person with the same body, memories and actions but still keeps the separate identities and doesn't show any craziness any other way. Riva however, is a bit of a nutter and believe Etienne is an existing individual apart form herself. She doesn't realize they are in the same body.

When it became the 'thing to do in the nineties, Riva and Etienne decided a trip to a psychologist might be in order, maybe to explain a few things. The first sentence of his report read, "In out brief time together, I've seen evidence of a personality type that is narcissistic, kleptomaniac, lethargic, pathological, condescending, adrenaline-addicted, anti-authority, and given to reckless suicidal tendencies."

As her mentor used to put it, she's a smart mouthed little so-and-so with no respect for the gravity of a bad situation.

Riva
The most prevalent personality, the most often in the drivers seat, and the most likely to be out and about doing things. Riva is playful, daring and childlike in her excitement about the world. Having been shielded and protected by Etienne, from the more negatives situations and experiences of their lives, she's never really developed and 'grown up' emotionally.

It's not that Riva goes looking for trouble, rather that somehow, without fail, it always seems to know where she is. And to be frank she enjoys it all the more. Riva is an adrenaline junkie, free running, cliff diving, snow boarding off a bridge... trying to put a flea collar on a werwolf....
She took the idea of how unlikely most things are to kill a vampire as a challenge and a tool to advance her "Things I have done this year that should have got me killed list."

She doesn't however deal well with getting caught for her troubles, or confrontation, leaving that to her best friend Etienne to handle, not knowing that they are two minds in the same body, and believing Etienne is in fact a separate person to her.

The most obvious personality trait about Riva is she's nuts. Delusional, naive and more than a little crazy. Her symptoms and psychosis' seem to grow and change daily and she seems to look at the world a little differently to everyone else....mostly as though she was living in a book or tv show.

All that said, Riva can also be emotional and reckless living for the excitement and thrill of the game, the adrenaline rush, loves the company of interesting people and is an accomplished flirt although almost never taking it further than that except for a few close friends who after, stay friends.

Merits: Daring, Friendly, Positive, Social
Flaws: Crazy, impatient, over confident, takes stupid risks and chances,

Personality: Etienne
Etienne is the stable half of their partnership. She, unlike Riva, knows the truth of the situation and has adapted accordingly. She is highly protective of Riva, often taking control and shielding them form the worst situations they've been through but envies Riva's child-like attitude to life. She is far more cynical and enjoys peace and quiet and more then anything doing work. Etienne's goal in life is that they live to see tomorrow...preferably in comfort.

She's the responsible one, she pays the bills, does the business and usually buys their blood. There's something deep in Etienne that's rather sad with the world though, and she's not quite sure why.

Merits: Patient, responsible, intelligent, straight forward, cunning
Flaws: lazy, cynical, fatalistic, reluctant, anti-social, bored






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Part 1: Sekhmet
When Ra rose from the mists, he created night and day, and Apophis, the Dragon of Evil formed in the darkness of the night vapors and tried to spoil all that was bright and good. Apophis was the enemy of the good rule of Ra as Pharaoh, and as Ra grew old, Apophis reached into the hearts of the people of Egypt and many followed his false promises of power and rebelled against Ra.

Ra called a counsel of his children, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut and Hapi. He also called on Nun who ruled the spirit of the primeval waters. And he asked them all what he should do about the evil among the people of Egypt.

"They gather in Upper Egypt to go greater evil even as we meet here," he said. "Should I strike them all down with a burning glance of my all-seeing Eye?"

Nun, the eldest, spoke first. "Pharaoh do not turn your eye upon Egypt, for you will destroy every being and every thing. Destroy only the evil men and women and spare the good."

Ra nodded and spoke the word Sekhmet and a mighty lioness sprang into the counsel circle. She circled the floor and finally stopped in front of the throne of Ra, standing back on two legs. For many moments Sekhmet looked at the face of Ra, then she twitched her blade and turned and leapt out of the circle and sped to Upper Egypt.

The mighty jaws and claws of Sekhmet slaughtered the evil doers in Upper Egypt until the Nile ran red with their blood. Her hunger was endless and every night she stalked the men and women of Upper Egypt, and hid by day licking her paws and dreaming of new prey in the coming morning.

But Ra did not want to destroy mankind, only the evildoers. He decided to trick Sekhmet to stop her slaughter, but said, "I will not humble her for she has done what I asked, but I will give her a far greater power over men so that she will not be dishonored." But first he had to catch her.

So to trap Sekhmet he sent messengers to Elephantine Island at the First Cataract of the Nile, telling them to bring red ochre.

He sent the ochre to Heliopolis to the priest of the Temple of the Sun, Ra's temple. He commanded the priests and all the royal court to make beer and to mingle it with the red ocher so that it was red as blood.

"Quickly, carry the blood red beer to Upper Egypt and spread it on the land to trap Sekhmet," commanded Ra.

When Sekhmet came out in the evening to feast on the wicked, she saw no men, but instead saw what looked like pools of blood spread over the land.

She found she was thirsty and she drank the blood until she was drunk and helpless. And Ra called to her, "Come my pretty one," and she staggered down the Nile to Heliopolis.

Part 2:
The master had called her to him. Thousands of years later they would be remember as Gods but the vampires who ruled Egypt feared for when the pharaoh's hand of destruction would turn against them again. So instead of obeying Pharaoh and bringing his childe directly to him to be deal with, instead they wove magic and blood to make her sleep and bind all she was from the ages and the world. They feared should she wake from the blood and magic keeping her mind closed and locked in. Pharaoh seeing this wept but called his servants to him that they could prepare his favored for eternal slumber, not prepared to kill that which he had brought into the night and groomed to be his weapon. With magic and will they bound her blood and bound her mind. Locked away all essence of what and who she was. In stone she was sealed, deep beneath the sands of Egypt and in time even the memory of her tomb was lost.

Sekmet would never again be free. Trapped in a mind who would not know her, a body that could not bare her power, a coffin that could not be broken. Time and the bindings would weaken her, fade her away until nothing more remained.

Part 3: Etienne
For over a millennia she slept, unknowing under the desert sands. Slept until the decades moved and shifted and the world with it. The land of Egypt rose and fell and fell again. And across it's territory it's ancient secrets and crypts were robbed and pillaged by those who could afford such artful decorations.

Once such, curator of an old museum, was a vampire, a rather gifted mind with a thirst for discovering secrets. And by some fortune and hard work, he finally unlocked the secret to undoing the wards and magic keeping the stone sarcophagus sealed.

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Part 3: Etienne
He opened the sarcophagus in secret, and in secret discovered a girl there. A normal, new born vampire girl. And called his rival in the quest for knowledge a cheat and scoundrel to have found a way to have done this to him. Having no name of her own, Etienne chose to take the rivals.

The first thing she knew was waking up in a stone box in a crypt under a cathedral in London. Lucky enough to have been found by a vampire, albeit an irate one, the kindly old blood sucker kept her alive long enough for her to learn to survive that on her own. She struggled at first to make her way through society in London but this might have been related to the fangs sticking out of his bottom lip and a severe allergy to sunlight.

One hundred years after time in the tougher sides of Britain it became important that Etienne made herself scare with the rather ancient and valuable collection of jewelry, previously in possession of one of London’s most powerful elders and she made her way to France before literally hopping ship to a one bound for the New World and New Orleans.

Part 4: Riva 1880
Living off the known channels, and a need to survive created a need for a new identity. She found one, Riva, taking it form the waters beside the crescent city itself. And long the way, something found here, a miserable old bastard of a ratkin, Lunie MacCoy. Pick the wrong pocket, earn the wrong debt, and you could find yourself forced into a near servitude for the wrong bastard.

She was brought into the fold of Lunie's motley family, and from that point Lunie became both her unappreciated master and slave driver, as swell as her teacher, teaching her all the tricks of the trade, and rules of the craft. Most important of all... keep up with the technologies. The lock you pick today won't be what's there tomorrow, they'll always try and find something new to keep you out.

Blackouts began occurring, more and more regularity until one day, confronting the issue head on, Etienne met Riva. The newly created, and whole formed personality in her head. For the first few decades Etienne stayed the one running the show, limiting Riva's control as well as she could...eventually however Etienne began to grow bored with the world, tired and empty, and she let Riva take over more and more...by the 1940's it was mostly Riva in the drivers seat.

Other then a brief stint of kidnapping and captivity by an elder vampire in the early 1980s-mid 1980s their time in the Crescent city was mostly uneventful.

Part 5: Current

After the second hurricane to hit New Orleans, Etienne decided it was enough, and time to move on. Over the years they'd gotten better and better. Stealing what caught their eye as well as anything they were contracted for and building a tidy little nest egg bit by bit.

River had kept up with the modern times, exploring in the film and arts scene as soon as she was able. Over time, sometime in the 70s Etienne and Riva found they had pretty good aim, with a gun and with a camera. And these days she makes her on paper living (identity cover) as a paparazzi free lance. Snapping up pictures and selling them to magazines. Not the standard "arriving at a club or red carpet pictures. But down and dirty and usually invasion of privacy illegal shots.

Their main stream of revenue however still comes from the cat Bulgar Riva uses to feed her adrenaline addiction and they have a great system worked out, with Riva going in, and Etienne running support with alarms systems and electronics.

And oh look, a lovely little town where the rich and famous love to frequent. Really, it's a two bird one stone situation if she'd even seen one. Riva wouldn't mind making this place home for a while.

Living or dead Family:
Riva and Etienne have each other.

(decided to do the below a little bit differently. Interpret as you wish)

Sexual Likes: Long hard road to hell by Marylin Manson
Sexual Dislikes: Everyday is exactly the same by NIN
Sexual Strengths: Timber by Kesha and Pitbull
Sexual Weaknesses: Running by Adam Lambert

Sexual Likes: Music of the Night by phantom of the opera
Sexual Dislikes: Pet by perfect Circle
Sexual Strengths: I love you Too Much from the Book of Life
Sexual Weaknesses:It's all coming back to me now by Celine Dion