Sian Ashburn (New Orleans)

Vital Information
Euthanatos
Vitals
Gender	Female
Race	White
Location	New Orleans
Status	Alive
Character stuff
Nature	Survivor
Demeanor	Deviant
Essence	Primordial
Chantry	House of the Rising Sun
OOC
Player	Krissy

Description

Sian Kathleen Ashburn is 5'10" with white/platinum blond hair and deep crystal blue eyes. She has a very muscular-toned figure and weighs about 150lbs. She has a tattoo on her right forearm that has the shape of half cat/half dark shadow. The eyes on both sides of the tattoo are a deep crystal blue (just as her eyes) and the face appears to move. It is a talisman of sorts that was given to her by her avatar during a difficult time in Chicago before the cabal went to the Nephandi Akashic chantry in China. Most of the time her style of dress is black BDUs and either a tight black tee shirt or tank top (depending on the mission) with black combat boots. She almost always has her guns with her, including her newest edition doom gun. She has a long machete-type knife that is a talisman that has a spirit bound into the blade that she was given at age 16 in NOLA by a shaman.

She also usually has both an all gray cat and an all brown rat that run around nearby, both of whom are named Lazarus. This is her avatar and it likes to be very playful with itself and likes to talk to others. Lazarus the cat seems to favor Damien Allen the most and will talk to him whenever he is around.

Background

Sian Ashburn was born years ago (she does not like to give out her age) in New York, NY. She has a brother named Alan (who would be captured after the Paradox storm that hit New Orleans shortly after he and Sian arrived and turned into a vampire) who is two years older than Sian, with whom she ran away at age 14 because her father (she has since learned that this was her step-father) was trying to get a little too "friendly" with her. Alan woke her up in the middle of the night and they both took off without looking back. For two years they were on the run before finding their way to New Orleans.

After a few days in their new city, they were in for a huge surprise. That evening there came a terrible storm (the first huge paradox storm created in New Orleans) that would change their lives forever. Alan ended up being swept away in a torrent of water and Sian would not see him again for several years. After the storm subsided, Sian found herself wandering the city looking for her brother and any friendly face she could find. She finally came to a building and an apartment she recognized. Outside was one of the new girls she had met at a coffee shop several days before. She was a pretty tall and tough girl and all Sian knew was that she was called Hutch (Sian did not know that they would have a long history after that). She approached her new friend and Hutch immediately turned and welcomed her new friend into her home. Sian stayed with Hutch for several days before Hutch was taken away by some woman named Nun. After Hutch's departure, Sian was left on her own to live in Hutch's place. This is when she met someone that would be with her the rest of her life. A small gray cat came around Hutch's apartment and it seemed to Sian that this creature was being cared for by Hutch (at least that was Sian's assumption). The cat would follow close to Sian when she was at the house and had an annoying habit of laying on Sian's head when she laid down to sleep.

This was not the only annoyance that would come to bother Sian. While alone in her new home town of residence, Sian would go out wandering at night and was met by an old man. He claimed to be a shaman and wanted to help Sian connect with a "great energy that was flowing from her" as he so put it. During one of their late night sessions, the shaman gave Sian a long machete-type knife and told her to always keep it close to her because it was meant for her and her alone. The old man then began convulsing and told Sian that she must get out for their was a great evil coming for her. As soon as she stepped onto the street, there was a man outside acroos the street that was waiting for her. She would learn that this was Baron Semeti and he wanted Sian for his own. She was able to escape this evil, but it was definately a terrifying experience. Things were quiet for a few months and then her life was interrupted.

Sian was taking one of her day time walks through the city when she came across a nasty fomori that decided Sian made a nice target for his destruction. She ran as fast as she could and somehow ended up on the back of an alien zebra named Penelope and a brown rat sticking out of her pocket that told her he would take care of everything. There was a huge fireball and destruction every where. This is what alerted her new family to come to her. Sian stood there talking with the zebra, very confused, when Damien Allen, Wayne Censi, and Jonathan "JJ" Morrell showed up and told her to come with them. Figuring that there was no reason not to, Sian hopped into the car and was off to the place that would become her home and family for the rest of her days, House of the Rising Sun.

Sian began to learn where she was and what she was to become from that day forward. She was first mentored by Theora Hetrick, but soon after her mentor would switch to Damien Allen after Theora departed. Sian knew that she wanted to be a Euthanatos and Damien was the one to teach her. Sian's Coumatha was a rough one (author's note: thanks guys, that kind of thing is not to be done at 2am when one is half asleep and semantics are being played....hahaha) but at the end she knew her path was set and she was meant to be with this family and she was going to carry on with her newfound life.

Sian would have many adventures with the House of the Rising Sun and even though they created the second paradox storm, there were no regrets. Damien would eventually kick Sian from the nest, so that she may spread her wings and fly on her own. This was to be the best decision ever made.