Erisim Sinbad McAllister

Name: Erisim Sinbad McAllister
Age: 24, most likely
Gender: female
Race: Changeling
Current Powers/Abilities: Erisim has the ability to literally suck life out with a touch. When she wants, she can touch someone and absorb a chunk of their health into herself. She uses this most often as a means to finish off animals that haven’t died after getting shot, but she would not be able to leech out enough life force from a more sentient being to kill it. This ability is also confined to skin0on-skin contact from her fingertips, and takes a decent amount of willpower to pull off effectively. Erisim has the ability to open portals into the Hedge, a thorny cushion-dimension between her and the Fae world; she is an excellent shot with a ranged weapon and decent with her hand gun, she is a very skilled butcher, and has the ability to manipulate perception in humans and animals to make herself either unnoticeable or terrifying.
Weaknesses: Like many things of Fae origin, Erisim's skin will burn on contact with iron. She also looses her cool if confronted with things powerfully reminiscent of her past in the Fae world, and has a horrible phobia of jack-in-the-boxes.
Faction: Adytum
Occupation: Hunter/butcher. Sometimes sells antlers, bones, and teeth on ebay.
Personality: Erisim is, above all, passionate. She lives in a constant state of wonder and reverence for just about everything, as almost everything is enchanting to her. She has an almost spiritual perceived connection to animals and nature in particular. This stands out in sharp contrast to her profession, which requires a lot of scaring, hurting, and killing. The sport calls to Erisim because she feels that in taking the life of an animal she is not ending it, but carrying it alongside her own, making it a part of her. For this reason she is very selective in her hunts, and most private hunts don’t even end in a kill, as her kills are very personal and expressive. Erisim loves the ‘pieces’ of things as well as the living whole, and makes art from bones and hides on the side, as well as preparing pristine cuts of meat in her day job, which she absolutely loves. The call of the hunt and the potential of one day finding that perfect animal to ‘play’ with keeps her going, and drives her forward in an obsessive search for something she couldn’t describe if you asked her. Erisim is very tolerant and accepting of difference; the only thing that can really get to her is irreverence. While it’s not the carnage or mutilation that makes her so happy with her work, she is not above a little unorthodox slaughter for the sake of self expression.
Erisim likes having her hands moving and enjoys oil painting, crafts, and baking as a hobby, though she excels in none of these.

History: Born as Ariel Susan McAllister, Erisim was abducted into the Fae world at a young age, where she and others were made to participate in farie-talesque scenarios set up by her master in order to stay alive and sane. While they did, their minds and bodies were altered until they could no longer be considered humans; their sense of perception and judgment skewed and their bodies re-designed. Two of the other children Erisim made friends with ended up influencing two of Erisim’s strongest qualities; her love of the hunt and her strong sense of temperance. Physical alterations included the blackening of her skin (a sign of favor), her obsidian teeth (shaped to replace her real ones after they had been broken out over a transgression), and her little pronghorn antlers. Erisim doesn’t remember exactly how she escaped back into the mortal realm, but she did, and took up a job at a local deli.

Erisim eventually tracked down her parents, and discovered a Fae replacement had been put in her place and her family never realized she had been taken. While Erisim bested her wicked replacement and presented the two of them to her parents, expecting acceptance back into her old life, her parents naturally did not see it so logically, sending her into a frustrated wrath. While many replacements are not aware they are Fae constructs, Ariel is both aware of this and delighted by it, and remains a foil to Erisim and antagonist, delighting in bringing her harm.
Erisim grew weary of the conflicting mortal realm and charmed life, and finally sought residence elsewhere.
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You can read about Erisim's Magical Christmas in Arizona here
Frozen and BurnedIt was two in the afternoon, Eris had only just woken up, and she was shuffling around in Ugg boots looking for something to burn.    There were forlorn stacks of paper all over the house, all but haunting the place, begging for a decent cremation, but those were her parents' stacks of forlorn papers, and they were probably important to them.  If they had ever had a newspaper subscription, it had been removed when the money stopped coming, and Eris hadn't been to her parents' adorable little house in so many months that anything once tossed on their driveway was long gone.    Last time Eris had been her
That's not Erisim's work apron but she wears it when she's alone with the carcasses, I guess she thinks its more respectful or something to be so exposed.