Selene Gallio

	Black Queen

Selene Gallio (Scenesys ID: 1429)
Profile
Name:	Selene
Superalias:	Black Queen
Gender:	Female
Species:	Mutant
Occupation:	Nova Roman Goddess
Citizenship:	Nova Roma
Residence:	Manhattan
Education:	N/A
Theme:	Marvel (VFC)
Groups:	Hellfire Club
Details
Apparent Age:	30s	Actual Age:	Around 17000
Date of Birth	15000 BCE	Played By	Olivia Wilde
Height:	5'10"	Weight:	130 lbs
Hair Color:	Black	Eye Color:	Blue
Twitter:	... what?
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Character Info

Profile

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The self-proclaimed first mutant and the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, Selene has recently left Nova Roma to haunt the modern nights.

Timeline

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Timeline:
Origins: Selene is born in an area that has since become Central Europe. Upon being born, she instantly drains the life force of her mother while being held. Her tribal elders recognize her power and the tribe eventually drives itself to extinction to feed Selene. Selene drifts from prehistoric society to prehistoric society, acting as a goddess, sorceress, seer, astrologer, wizard, oracle, cult leader, cunning woman, et cetera. She makes many powerful enemies, and drives numerous embryonic cultures to ruin.

Ancient History: Selene settles in Ancient Rome. At the height of the Empire, many cults surrounding Roman reinventions of foreign gods exist, and Selene styles herself as the goddess of one such cult. She is betrayed by her beloved servant Eliphas as she tries to feast on the humans of the city, and is mortally wounded over it. She roams the land for centuries of years until she founds a new, better Rome in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest.

Recent History: Nova Roma is discovered by outsiders. Selene, who had contented herself with being the goddess of Nova Roma for centuries, becomes once more aware in a meaningful way of existence beyond what she controls. She comes into conflict with the explorers from the outside world and is defeated, and realizes she has grown complacent and the world has evolved outside of her. Driven out of Nova Roma, Selene makes her way to New York, and quickly amasses power within the Hellfire Club.

Last few decades: Selene becomes the Black Queen of the New York City Hellfire Club's Inner Circle, and watches gleefully as mutants slowly take over and cast the former members aside. She does not help them, but she does enjoy the changes nonetheless.

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Personality

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Decadent:
Selene does not understand meekness, and her set of virtues are certainly set on the selfish side. Young mutants might see her as wretched and evil, but Selene doesn't judge herself by these measures. Selene does what she does because she wants, and because she can. She indulges in strange rituals, she kills mortals without any reservation, and she only stops when her hunger is sated, or she is made to.

Dramatic:
Selene has been around a while. Things get predictable, people get boring, and at a point she has seen almost everything at least once. She often forces experiences to fit a mold that will entertain her, even at the cost of her own well-being. This is not something she controls or even something she is aware of. Selene will converse with her enemies before killing them, she will torture those she hates to savor their anguish and she will even spare those she considers amusing.

Goddess:
Selene is over 17,000 years old and has spent much of that time styling herself as a goddess on Earth. While many of her tactics in amassing followers and building power bases are less 'goddess' and more 'effective cult leader,' it should almost go without saying that Selene buys her own hype. She expects to be treated as a goddess should be treated. She deserves it, innately. She is a goddess because she is Selene; she is Selene because she is a goddess. At the end of the day, nothing else really matters except that truth.

Ruthless:
Selene is uncompromising in her desires, and has zero regard for the sanctity of human life, the betterment of society or the planet, matters of the mortal soul, and so on. She will do whatever it takes to achieve her objectives, and possesses no moral or ethical sensibilities that would limit the ways in which she might do so.

Character Sheet

Powers

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External:
Selene is immortal and can only be truly destroyed by the touch of another External. She may be defeated, but she can never be truly destroyed, unless that requirement is met.

Life-Force Enhancement:
Through the syphoning of someone else's life-force Selene can greatly enhance her own physical attributes, greatly bolstering her strength, speed, stamina, reflexes and so on. Through these feats she can become a lethal hand-to-hand warrior if she so chooses.

Psychic Vampirism:
Through touch, Selene can take the life-force of other beings unto herself to empower her body and rejuvenate any signs of old age or wounds. By taking the lives of others (and their memories), Selene is immortal. She can also apply these powers to control those she feeds from, if she so desires. She says mutant souls are the tastiest of all.

Sorcery:
Selene is one of the oldest sorcerers in the world, and has challenge some of the most deadly practicioners of said craft over the eras. She is capable of turning herself into the stuff of shadows, summon demons, teleport herself and an assortment of other feats.

Telepathy:
Selene is a powerful telepath capable of establishing links, controlling empathic reactions, project herself in the astral realm, hypnotize her foes and defend against these powers. Not the most subtle at her craft, but her raw power makes up for it.

Skills

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History:
Selene is a student of history, because she lived said history. Ask her about the Black Plague! Or Morgan Le Fey, or Kulan Gath or how humanity used to walk around hunting and gathering. Selene might be able to give you a personal account on why certain civilizations fell.

Oratory:
Selene is great at speeches. You don't lead a cult on looks alone. Well, she does, but Selene could be quite the leader if she bothered dumbing down her motives so that her inferiors could understand them. When she cares to, the Black Queen is all passion and hard to resist.

Partying:
Selene loved Rome, then she made Nova Roma, now she is Manhattan. The woman knows how to party, from how to make one to how to enjoy herself in one. Dancing, singing, whatever may come her way, Selene can do it if it means indulgence for indulgence's sake.

Seduction:
Selene could take her subjects by force, use her powers to make servants, but she is seldom so crass. Selene offers, for a price. She knows how to tap into the hearts of people, their wants, and offer them riches, power aand fame in exchange of servitude.

Resources

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Cult of Selene:
Selene has a lot of servants in many places, some of which are not even human. They all owe her favors, they pay for her things and they would do much more if only she wanted. Selene can tap on those if she ever wanted, but servants are kind of boring. They are an option, though.

Hellfire Club:
Selene is the Hellfire Club's Black Queen, and that means she has the access to the Club's facilities, resources, contacts, and so on. Selene mostly uses such for parties and clothes, as she is terribly uninterested in human politics.

Weaknesses

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Arrogance:
Selene is a goddess in her own mind. She follows arcane rules that determine what she is, what she should do, and when she should take a threat seriously. She can often be thwarted, or even reasoned with, through the use of her own haughty behavior.

Sustenance:
Selene requires food to live, and most, if not all, her powers require she feed. That presents the problem, of course, that if she does fight, then if Selene survives, most certainly lives will be lost to get her back in her favorite state of being. Large expenditures of her powers cause her to age, which then requires feeding on more life force to undo.

Role-Play

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Krampusnacht 2024	December 5th, 2024	Just a little Yuletide celebration!
Power & Glory: The Ruin Revelation (Turn 1)	October 12th, 2024	The X-Men, the Brotherhood, a handful of their mystical allies, and professional chaos agent Selene converge on VS Farms, the purported site of a horrific blood ritual intended to empower a mad Purifier turned cult leader. While they succeed at winnowing the Purifiers' numbers and slaying their time-twisting Mutant enforcer, they find themselves stranded in the cult's extradimensional Labyrinth as the ritual races towards its apex.
Rapid Retrieval	September 29th, 2024	A mysterious package is retrieved and returned to its new (original) owner and some unlikely character bonding results.
It's the End of the World (In general)	August 16th, 2024	Two Magicians walk into a bar and discuss the end of the world.
Meeting of the Many Myriad Minds	July 15th, 2024	A Meeting of Minds that actually DOESN'T devolve into an argument or rancor!! It's amazing what like-minded people can accomplish!
Knight Moves	July 1st, 2024	An evening of leisure in the Hellfire Club's VIP lounge becomes an unexpected opportunity for the Black Queen to introduce her new protege to the woman who truly runs the Hellfire Club: the Herald Tessa.
A Woman With No Peer or Precedent	June 5th, 2024	At a charity function where the rich and privileged gather to sample delicacies made from the rarest creatures on Earth, the Queen of Genosha meets the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club and strikes up the beginnings of a partnership.
Around the Hellhorn	May 14th, 2024	The Black Court schemes, as usual.
Clever Chess Puns are Overrated	April 24th, 2024	Selene and Susan find they have common ground in their worldviews. And since they've both reacted to world events faster than events themselves can unfold, why not enjoy the privileges of rank? The world's not actually burning. Yet at least.
Fancy Trouble	April 19th, 2024	In an unexpected twist, Selene gets not one but TWO sword wielding scrappers under her wing in a single encounter. Surely this can only end well for everyone involved.
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway	April 15th, 2024	Mania and Venom reconnect while encountering someone else good at attracting attention when she wants it: Selene.
Hellfire Club Mardi Gras 2024	February 14th, 2024	The Hellfire Club Mardi Gras goes off without a hitch once again, and a good time was had by all.
Queens and Shadows of Black	February 2nd, 2024	No description
Volci la Reine, Chapeau Bas	December 28th, 2023	No description
Queens and Toads	December 9th, 2023	Selene presses Toad into service and gives him a message.
A Demon and a Queen Walk into a Bar	November 9th, 2023	Daimon visits Selene in the Hellfire Club, and she grants him an exclusive audience.
Magic Lessons	October 13th, 2023	Mistress and Apprentice cross paths after a time apart. Nico's still full of spirit. Selene's still an energy vampire with a commanding presence. What could ever go wrong?!
Stalking the Cat	September 12th, 2023	Selene creates a crime for Hellcat to solve, so she can get a bit inside the feline's mind...
Two Queens Are Better Than One	August 15th, 2023	Queens compare fashion and comfort tips, and than go out to wreak havoc.
Inky Blackness is All the Rage	July 15th, 2023	Andi finds more than she bargains for at Goth night at the HFC. Selene finds...exactly what she was looking for.
A Cat of a Different Breed	June 20th, 2023	Both Selene and Hellcat take an interest in each other after crossing paths.
A trip to the VIP room.	June 15th, 2023	Franklin has a talk with Selene, she tries to figure out what he wants, and Franklin just overshares.
The Dustless Library	May 20th, 2023	When an archeological team goes missing, someone who Nettie Crowe 'owes a drop of blood' to goes missing with them. Nettie calls up Daniel Ketch and Jinx to lend a hand. Things go a little sideways when Selene Gallio, an actual Death Goddess shows up. The group rescues the archaeologists, destroys the Dustless Library and its guardians, and saves everyone!
Little Miss Maddie and Along Came a Spider	February 28th, 2023	Madelyne gets a bit more than she bargained for when she decides to see what is in the Hellfire Club, and is found by its resident Black Queen, Selene.
The Hellfire Club's Valentine's Day Mixer	February 15th, 2023	Many a bond is forged. Some end in DOOM.
Emma and Selene, Murder is for Three	January 22nd, 2023	Selene and Emma talk over about life, immortality, power, and ennui.
A Hellfire Christmas	December 24th, 2022	The Hellfire Holiday Party was ... tame? Are they losing their touch, or is this a NEFARIOUS SCHEME?
Bleeding Black and White	December 14th, 2022	Emma vs Selene goes to extra rounds of snarkage!
Black and White and Bled All Over	August 20th, 2022	Emma and Selene have their latest verbal jabbing at one another.
Black is the new Black	August 17th, 2022	Sebastian welcomes Selene back to the Hellfire Club, and thirsts are slaked.
Black and Red and Dead All Over (Don't Spill the Beans)	July 12th, 2022	Selene finds an old old old old old old ally in a body that still looks not as young as hers, and makes an influencer's dream come true.
Mean, Queen, and On the Screen	June 13th, 2022	As the world turns in the Hellfire Club...
Shopping for Spells	May 17th, 2022	Nico went to the shop to get some Thyme, and got a bit more than she bargains for.
The Black Court Considers the White	May 17th, 2022	The Black King and Queen spar, but align on the important matters.
You Never Know What Lurks Around the Corner	May 3rd, 2022	Mania meets Selene, and maybe finds a friend
Little Black Book	May 3rd, 2022	Looking for a book of power in an occult shop at a late hour.
Hellfire in Leather	April 26th, 2022	Dark and Light face off as Emma and Selene snark over spankings.
Fire and Damnation	February 7th, 2022	Emma and Selene skirmish, and various heroes are caught in the line of psychic fire.
An Informal Get-Together For Friends & Allies at the Themysciran Embassy	January 20th, 2022	There is a mid month party held at the Themysciran Embassy, celebrating the new year to come. People mingle and some mystery is spied at.
Black and White and Dead All Over	January 19th, 2022	Emma and Selene renew their feud. Power Girl arrives right as innocents are devoured and Exodus realizes that he has a possible enemy as old as he is, if not older.
Discussion Amongst Debutantes	January 5th, 2022	Meetings in the Hellfire Club Bar go unplanned as literal helllfire is planned and psychic mayhem is underfoot as the dark ladies plot to power.
d8, e8 Meet.	February 2nd, 2021	Shaw and Selene reconnect, and plot the next move for the club.
Scream Queens	July 27th, 2020	Two vampires meet. One of them creates friction by trying to be devious when the other wants to be straightforward.

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