Nylissa Deona
She rarely goes by her given name, choosing instead the name adopted when taking her vows. She still responds to it, but the sigh she usually gives when responding is from her sadness that people will not respect her calling. Most of the people in the neighbourhood just call her Sister, treating her like family.
Physical Description
Rather short for a Daeva, and with more ornamental wings and large horns which start above her brow, curve upwards then twist and curve outwards, she also lacks a tail. This is because she is what they call a lesser, one who was born from a starving mother. While lessers are generally looked down upon in station, it is more out of pity than anything else, as they are unable to hide their horns and wings, leaving them exposed at all times. She doesn’t mind this, and has made a home in the church, with hopes of helping others.
She has bright red skin, and her horns push out through her skin, leaving the flesh around them darkened and raised. On her upper arms, she has the Lord’s Prayer in Enochian as a glowing magical tattoo. Also, due to her nature as a lesser, her fingernails are constantly long and sharp, and her teeth are as well, making her look almost feral. Her lips are not really painted, she just shadows the outside and uses a liner around them. She keeps her eyes darkened and shadowy, but has no need for blush. She paints her talon like nails a dark red pattern. Her body is very curvy and even in her nun’s tunic, her rather large bust is visible.
Physical Quirks
She loves to whistle, and will often be whistling hymns as she works. She also has a tendency to touch those she is counselling or speaking to, placing a hand on their shoulder or lap, holding them close to her. She also likes to run her fingers over the cheeks of those she likes as a sign of affection.
Clothing Style
Almost all the time you see her, she is in her habit, which makes it a very rare circumstance to see her long hair. She also is usually garbed in her tunic, but as her church isn’t as sex negative or as conservative in it’s dress code as others, she has a plunging neckline which always shows her rather impressive cleavage. She has a pair of high heeled black shoes that she wears with it. When she isn’t in her habit, she tends to be very casual, wearing basically a bikini bottom and a cut off shirt.
Mental Characteristics
Personal History
Her mother was born into poverty and was starving at the time she was born, so she was born a lesser. Feeling very guilty over the life she gave to her daughter, she sought help from the local church, who took pity on her and helped her as much as she could. They hired her mother as a groundskeeper, and helped educate the little one as best as they could. Because of this, she always had a close connection with the church and the people in the area. She grew up with all the other poor kids, and knows what it’s like in this life. When she was old enough, she joined the church and began her life as a nun.
In her early years as a nun, one of her parishioners was very despondent and ended up killing himself. She still blames herself to this day for not being able to help him. Being unable to afford secondary school, she learned to use the library and later the internet, to it’s fullest potential, allowing her to study in subjects that she could not pay to study in. She later earned a scholarship from the church to take on online class is psychology to better help her with her ministries.
Education
While she had the equivalent of a high school education, her own drive and resourcefulness in researching things on her own, plus the online course in psychology has put her on par with a good therapist. She also uses her connections with any Daeva she meets to learn more about her people, becoming quite a scholar in their past and history.
Employment
Her only job has ever been the church, and helping those lost souls she can. She takes this job very seriously and feels that it is her calling, and would do anything to help those who need it.
Morality & Philosophy
She feels it is her duty to help everyone and lead them to salvation. After all the church has done for her and her mother, she feels that bringing them to it is the best way to pay them back. She also wishes to ensure that everyone feels loved, and will go to great lengths to ensure that they are.
Personality
Motivation
She wants to repay the kindness showed to her family and will do anything for the people in her parish, as well as the church itself. She also knows what it is like to be an outcast, so wants everyone to feel loved, and feel the love of God. As her particular Daeva feeding is on the feeling of being loved, this works out well for her, and she is well fed.
Likes & Dislikes
She loves to help people and also loves animals, helping any injured or hungry animals she comes across. She also likes to play with the local children, challenging them to basketball or other sports to help keep them active. She doesn’t like the gangs in the area, and will do whatever she can to keep them from moving into her parish.
Virtues
She is an exceptional nun, displaying kindness, compassion and showing love for all. She is usually very forgiving and supportive of those she feels are in her charge, and will listen to anything they wish to tell her. She is also courteous and honest to a fault.
Vices
While this isn’t technically a vice in her church, others consider it one, but she has a sex drive that is unnaturally high. She also talks about it frequently, and says that it is good for both a healthy body and mind.
Quirks
While she does have a strong caring and compassionate side, she also has a very volatile temper. This doesn’t show up much, except when dealing with the local gang activity. In dealing with them, she sometimes is more than a little reckless, and has had to go into confession for some of the things she’s said and done to ensure they don’t pollute her parish.
Values
To her, the virtues of her church are the most important thing on how she judges people. Since in her church’s view, chastity isn’t a required virtue, she never judges on that one. The more of the six virtues you display, the more she respects you.
Sexual Style
As mentioned, she is absolutely lewd in her sexuality, and very open to discussing it. She also is very open about it, and doesn’t care who knows. This has led her to being quite well known for having sex. She also says that it is a reflection of the love of God, so sees no problem with giving it freely to everyone she feels deserves it. She is very open and adventurous, willing to try anything with anyone, but she does steer away from BDSM, finding it too close to cruelty, even with the emphasis on consent. She does have a particular attraction to exhibitionism, and has been caught having sex in public, but not openly, more than once. She will sit on someone’s lap, using her tunic to cover up the deed as she enjoys herself on them. She will not do this around children, however, and will never let herself be exposed around them. Behind closed doors, however, she is impossible to contain. She also will remind people during the act that this is just a small mirror of God’s love, and that they should accept his love as much as they accept hers. She has converted more than one person this way. She has also welcomed a few of her parish into adulthood with her own special baptism.
Social
Contacts & Relations
As her mother is still alive, but now has retired and is being taken care of by the church, she has everything and everyone she could ever need close to her. They are all family to her, and she loves every single one of them. She also has made friends with a few of the Daeva in the city, including Lucinda, who looks out for the church’s needs, to help with her own research.
Social Aptitude
An open and compassionate woman, she will happily meet and greet anyone who comes to the church’s doors. She is very open and honest about the church and herself, feeling that education is just as important as bringing the faith to them.
Religious Views
A very devout and open catholic, she is tolerant of other religions, but still can’t help but try and convert them to her path. She is very happy with her faith, and wishes for everyone to feel the same joy it brings her. She is as open about this as she is her sexual nature.
Mannerisms
A studious servant of God, and true to her faith, she exhibits all the traits one would expect of a nun, as well as a little extra. She does, however, feel a sense of shame at the life she was not able to save, so will go that extra mile to save anyone who shows even a little depression. She even has built up a bunch of connections willing to help her charges by offering them jobs, places to stay, food, whatever they need to get them back on the path of life. They all know how much this worries her, so are willing to help her, as much she helped each of them.
Hobbies & Pets
Her only real hobbies are her sexual activities and researching her people. Everything else revolves around what she would consider doing her job. Although in her mind, even these are part of her job in saving the souls of those around her, and educating them.
Speech Style
She speaks with a soft Brooklyn accent, but she has worked to make it less grating that it normally is, and she avoids curse words, except when dealing with gangs. After she does utter the curse words, and the confrontation is over, she makes her way to confession to be absolved. The priest of the church is usually chuckling as he forgives her, knowing she is just doing God’s work
Political Affiliation & Activism
She doesn’t involve herself with politics, and has no wish to do so, finding that most of them have no interest in helping her parish, only making themselves more wealthy at their expense. She isn’t however, crazy enough to think communism or anything like that would solve anything, having heard of the horrors it caused from a visiting Russian priest. She keeps her activism local, wanting to help the neighbourhood she grew up in.