Name: Elizabeth Ashwood
Gender: Female
Profession: Private Detective/Occultist
Nationality: Welsh
Age: 33
DoB: October 31, 1988
Skills and Abilities:Intelligence: Liz has a higher than average IQ and combined with her experiences in the field and studies, she is a formidable mental opponent.
Occult Knowledge: Trained by her mother since she was a little girl, as well as years of accumulating forbidden and esoteric knowledge on her own, Liz has a near encyclopedic knowledge of all things occult.
Strong Inductive Reasoning Skills: Elizabeth is a skilled detective, honed from her experience in the field.
Street Smarts: As a native of Lludw, Liz is familiar with every street and back alley of her hometown, and has an innate knowledge of how the Underground works, both the normal and the occult.
Charisma: Liz possesses high levels of personal charisma, both from her well connected family, but also from her seductive and flirtatious nature. She has a list of contacts she can call to aid as well as being able to persuade people to assist her.
Hand-to-Hand: While not an expert, Elizabeth has enough knowledge and athletic proficiency to make use a variety of decent offensive and defensive martial techniques should she be forced to rely on them.
Instincts: Liz has a naturally good gut instinct. She can feel whenever someone is acting suspicious, sense when something bad is about to happen or has happened, and can tell when avoidable dangers present themselves.
Physical description: Elizabeth is a young woman of mixed Welsh and Irish-American decent. She has a fair complexion with black shaggy and unkempt hair that reaches past her shoulders, and sports a pair of deep set piercing green eyes with a mole under the left eye, she sports a heart shaped face. These eyes have a sullen, weary, distant look to them. Elizabeth has a svelte, yet a well-toned athletic and curvaceous physique. Elizabeth wears a black trench coat that grazes above the ankles, with a burgundy dressed shirt with a black tie. She was slim-fit black chinos trousers with a pair of monochromatic doc marten boots, her hands are covered by black gloves and a black belt around her waist. On her ears are a pair of red orb earrings. She has an elaborate set of tattoos on her back and shoulders that have cryptic meaning and symbolism.
Psychological assessment: Elizabeth is a cynical and sardonic person. Her experiences left her feeling world weary and suspicious of most people, tending to reveal only what she feels comfortable to share with most people, lying if it means keeping her secrets and getting what she wants. A woman who is as clever as she is foul mouthed, Elizabeth can display s flirtatious nature as well as a fiesty temper and a brutal honesty on some occasions. While she tries to put distance between herself and her mother she still displays the same arrogance that her mother has, as well as eccentric behavior. Elizabeth is a compassionate humanist and is strongly driven to delve into any mystery she can find to reveal the truth, regardless of the consequences. She is also an adrenaline junky that enjoys dealing with genuine anomalous encounters and mysteries, fueling her drive to seek the truth. However because of the things she sees she suffers from insomnia and nightmares as well as paranoia. These hidden truths also create the illusion of her being superstitious and being schizophrenic, as Avyscoptpy tends to easily be confused for schizophrenia. Worse still is that she habitually intact drugs to both ease her nerves and for the use of increase her supernatural senses or in the use of arcane rituals, becoming addicted to some of the drugs.
Personal relationship:
Alexandria Ashwood: Mother- Relationship is currently strained
Solomon Ashwood: Father- Relationship is currently good
Lorraine O’Hara: Ex-Lover- Deceased
Deirdre O’Hara: Sister of the Deceased- Relationship is currently hostile
Terrance Owans: Close acquaintance- Relationship is currently good
Timothy Browns: Close acquaintance- Relationship is neutral with a good leaning
Jacquelyn Vanth: Personal Therapist- Relationship is neutral.
Sexuality: Bisexual
Items and equipment: A glass knife, magnifying glass, tape recorder, camera, chalk, Sulphur and various dyes, notebook and pencil, flashlight, pocket watch, cigarette box and zippo lighter.
Dark Secrets: Elizabeth’s has been able to see the unnatural half of the world for as long as she lived. While such sights often prove to push her sanity close to the edge of madness it has provided her some useful, albeit dangerous, information. One such information is finding out which tomes and artefacts possessed genuine magical connections to aid her in magic. However her dabbling with unknown forces and being able to perceive unseen creatures has caused her to become a magnet that draws certain entities to her location, something that has happened numerous times in her life. But the biggest secrets she has are all connected to her family. Secrets she wishes to avoid as much as possible as she wishes to avoid following down a similar path her ancestors have taken.
Power: Elizabeth was born with Avyscotopy and as such as she always seen the other half of the world that most barely noticed or can’t see. She has used it to glean some information on the unnatural but in general is still trying to struggle with what she knows exists. She also practices magic in hopes of using it to gain more answers about the anomalous as well as protection from threats from that world, though she has become aware that such power is never free and that someday the debts she had accumulated from her early rituals will have to be paid.
Bio: Elizabeth Ashwood was born on October 31, 1988. The eldest daughter of the House of Ashwood, she was predestined to become the heir of the family’s resources and fortune in the future. Yet for Elizabeth such things were not her concern as like most kids she only cared about having fun, especially with the strange creatures she saw all around her.
The staff found the imaginations of the child to be both peculiar and discerning as she told them stories of strange creatures that most of the time she would have trouble describing and whose childish drawings would leave many deeply disturbed. Many would ask her mother to take her daughter to a psychiatrist to find out what was wrong and while Alexandria agreed she in truth knew already what was happening to her daughter; she was born with Avyscoptpy.
Thus for most of her childhood and young adult years, Elizabeth grew up believing she was relatively normal, albeit with an unusual condition. Any experiences with the occult or the supernatural were thus conveniently explained with her diagnosis. While her doctors did check ups and would tell the young heiress to not dwell much on her condition and the symptoms of it, Elizabeth would occasionally do her own research into her condition regardless of what her own mother and doctors told her, never finding one that match fully with what she had.
With no question given to her by most means she would try to live a normal life, even though such a task was at times very difficult. In her relatively normal life her visions and sensations would cause breaks in the veil of normalcy she tried to create. Many of these incidents making it difficult for her to find friends and creating odd quirks in her personality.
However by her teen years she would have some doubts over her visions as some of the things she would see would actually hit her. Any times she would see bruises, teeth marks, or cuts she would try to come up with rational explanations, most being that she injured herself somehow even thought she had her own doubts about it.
These injuries would cause her to try and hide them, even treating them on her own. Yet their efforts to hide them would fail as a teacher would find the injuries and call law enforcement to investigate her family as she suspects abuse. Yet the investigation would find her family being clear of charges, especially as they learn of Elizabeth’s condition and they came to the conclusion that the injuries were self inflicted. Despite her protest that she was not harming herself most ignored her calls, even her own parents would go along with the official story. This incident would cause her to see a new therapist for her apparent self harm and other doctors to see if her condition is worsening. It was in this time that she met Jacquelyn Vanth, who would become her personal therapist.
This incident would cause her to finally take a greater interest in knowing the truth of her visions. To know for certain if the injuries caused to her were really caused by her or by the creatures she can see. She would set up tests to record herself in her life and when she is asleep to catch any anomalous incidents. Yet she would find that even the cameras would fail to capture most things she can perceive. The few times she caught anything she couldn’t be sure if it was the camera messing up or something genuinely supernatural.
By the time she was to enter Cerridwyn University, and being deemed mentally fit to attend classes, her mother would tell her the truth; that her visions was true. This news would cause Elizabeth to latch out of her mother but her mother would make her daughter stop as she revealed that she knew the real condition and that her family has always had connection to the occult.
She would explain that the years of deception was to give her a chance of living a normal life and to keep her sanity, but with the past incidents she was forced to tell the truth. Now that she couldn’t keep the truth she wish to teach her ways of better protecting herself, promising her that she would find some answers to the questions that plagued her for years.
In her years in the university she would try to live a normal life while engaging in the secret activities of her family. Yet one of her old friends would eventually convince her to do her own personal investigation into the dark legends that surrounds the town and it was these personal journey to the truth that she would feel her feelings of the anomalous change from ambivalence to a deep seated fascination.
By the time her university years were done she would meet an occultist by the name of Lorraine O’Hara who visited the town due to its legends. Elizabeth would convince this out of towner to teach her what she knows The two would find that a good deal of occult tomes don’t offer much in real magical knowledge and working rituals, yet even with the many tomes that were fakes they would still find one that offer some nuggets of truth that awarded them a few working rituals that made the long periods of research worth it.
The years the two working as both partners and then eventually lovers would end tragically as an unknown incident would result in Lorraine's death, a few days later Elizabeth would break contact with her mother over another incident. She would open her own agency to use her skills for good and to make her own money to not rely on her own family's fortune.
She would mostly deal with paranoid spouses, missing persons, and security matters in her case, many of them mundane. But occasionally the supernatural would bleed itself into cases. When not focusing on cases offered to her by clients she would make her own personal investigations to figure out other mysteries that catch her interest.
Elizabeth would be forced to move back to her old home town due the landlord forcing her off the building due to complaints from the other tenants. Thus she reopen her business in an flat back in her hometown but still take offers that would have her move throughout different parts of the UK.
Roleplay experience: OP, but I have been in a few RPs in P2TM and I have made a few of my own RPs like Vim and Witch.
Theme song: A Different LifeRandom facts:Physical stats: Height: 5’5, Weight: 139 Ibs, Measurement: 38/24/40
Hobbies: Hiking, Urban Exploration, Collecting Antiques and Knick Knacks, Reading, Researching new mysteries and paranormal encounters.
Preferred cigarette brands are Silk Cut and Red Widow.
Never got her driver’s license as she feels her condition would make her a danger on the road.
Is fearful of failure as she feels that she is living under her mother’s shadow. She is also fearful of certain dolls, puppets, and marionettes due to past incidents.