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Mutuals only, 18+, selective, and private interpretation of CARMILLA from the 1872 novella of the same name by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. I'm obviously not the author and this is only my PERSONAL VIEW AND CHARACTERIZATION of Carmilla.

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Basic Information

FULL NAME: Countess Mircalla Karnstein

NICKNAME[S]: Carmilla, Millarca, Marcilla, Ramillca DISLIKES the diminutive "CARM" but accepts "CALLA", albeit reluctantly

BIRTH DATE: Approx. 1680 in Styria

DEATH DATE: Approx. 1698

AGE: Immortal (Appears much younger than she is)

ETHNICITY: Austrian

SPECIES: Vampire, once human

GENDER: Female

ROMANTIC / SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Lesbian / Homosexual

OCCUPATION: Verse dependent

AFFILIATIONS: TBA

FACE CLAIM: Anna Chipovskaya

ALT FACE CLAIM: Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey

Relationships

PARENTS: Count and Countess Karnstein (Names unknown)

SIBLINGS: None

SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Verse dependent

Personality Traits

Carmilla is not evil . She feels her actions are justified at least to some extent and she is not bothered by them.

NEGATIVE TRAITS: Manipulative, apathetic, jealous, possessive, paranoid, emotionally volatile, aggressive, callous, selfish

NEUTRAL TRAITS: Guarded, seductive, lonely, self-critical, self-contradictory

POSITIVE TRAITS: Ambitious, intelligent, charming (albeit superficially so), clever, observant, resourceful, affectionate

TROPES: Byronic heroine, horror hunger, aristocrats are evil, stalker with a crush, humanoid abomination, dream weaver, ill girl, evil feels good, animorphism, cats are magic

Vampiric Traits

Carmilla believes her vampiric nature to be apart of the natural order of things.

SUNLIGHT: Can move around in daylight, but loses significant amount of energy and is overall much more powerful at night. Her powers are enhanced by the moonlight

POWERS: Unnaturally strong hand grip that can make human limbs stiff, ability to shapeshift and pass through closed doors, superhuman speed, ability to vanish into thin air, can shapeshift into a black cat

COFFIN: Must return to her gravesite and cannot move the site of her grave on her own, rendering her territorial and bound to the land of Styria

FEEDING: Must feed on human blood to sustain herself. She sucks blood only from sleeping victims. Usually doesn't kill a victim in a single night and returns to feed off the same person for several days or, rarely, weeks. If unimpeded, the victim will ei...

Biography

NOTE: For brevity's sake, I will refer to Mircalla Karnstein as 'Carmilla' since it is what she is called for the majority of the original novella and is the name she primarily goes by.

CHILDHOOD

Countess Mircalla Karnstein (Carmilla) was born in approx. 1680 in Styria, a duchy of Austria on the Hungarian border. She comes from a respectable, aristocratic family. She grew up in the care of her mother. Her father was a man known for cruelty, especially to those socially and/or economically below him. Carmilla was at least somewhat aware of his tendency for rage and violence as she mirrored it upon occasion.

Overall, she had a relatively normal childhood marked by no strange events or foreboding omens. Austria's conflict with the Ottoman Empire didn't affect her because...