Susan Sullivan

	Demona

Demona (Scenesys ID: 3349)
Profile
Name:	Susan Sullivan
Superalias:	Demona
Gender:	Female
Species:	Living Jiangshi
Occupation:	seeking employment
Citizenship:	USA
Residence:	USA
Education:	High School Diploma
Theme:	Original (OC)
Groups:	Mystic Arts, GIRL, Night Brigade, Spider-Verse
Details
Apparent Age:	20	Actual Age:	30
Date of Birth	11 Nov 1991	Played By
Height:	5'10"	Weight:	145 lb
Hair Color:	Brown	Eye Color:	Brown
Twitter:
Theme Song:	https://youtu.be/w_zeZVBvGWU

Character Info

Profile

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Demona is a person dredged from the mire of the twisting effects of bad qi and unholy energy of undeath. She strives to maintain her self at all times. Because most faiths don't accept those such as she, she largely bases her morality on Disney Princesses. As such, she puts high value on life, peace, happiness, and protecting others. While she does try to maintain her mind and self against her new, undead nature, she is not the woman she once was. Instead, she seeks to find who she is now while keeping the hunger within her at bay.

Timeline

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Timeline:
* 1991: Born in Los Angeles, CA, the daughter of a Chinese-American model and a special effects artist. Her mother retires to focus on raising her daughter.
* 1993: Family moves to Arizona.
* 1996: Enrolled in ballet and gymnastics. Her mother begins teaching her the fundamentals of Yoga and Feng Shui.
* 1997: Takes apart her father's antique pocketwatch. After being caught surrounded by gears and such by her mother, she is told to put it back together and actually manages it.
* 1999: Rearranges her room based on what her mother has taught her about Feng Shui.
* 2002: Spins her first bowl in her father's workshop which sparks a passion for making in her.
* 2005: Restores her first antique, a wardrobe.
* 2006: Enrolls in all the shop classes throughout high school. Manages to get into AP engineering classes.
* 2009: Begins 'flipping' mechanical antiques from bicycles to motorcycles to clocks, restoring them and gifting them to community figureheads who like such things. Loses TONS of money, but she has no bills, so it's probably fine.
* 2010: Graduates high school with highest honors; goes to 'apprentice' at machine shop in China while staying with aunt and uncle.
* 2012: Attacked by qi vampire and disappears shortly before the end of the world (December 21st).
* 2013: Using the principles of meditation and Qi manipulation taught to her by her mother, she fights the vampire. She manages to drain her master of qi and survive the sunrise while he is turned to dust.
* 2013: Finds a group of monks trained in mystic arts. Their leader agrees to attempt to teach her control. The monks lock her up in a dark basement and have her practice martial arts as a form of meditation. She also practices her mother's Yoga. They periodically release deadly predators into her cage. Every meal of living qi is a battle.
* 2020: Fully eight years after her breath was devoured with her living qi, through meditation of various forms, she unlocks a oneness with the world around her, allowing her to drink of ambient qi for sustenance.
* 2020: Her powers restored, her meals no longer dependent on living beings, the predators in her cage growing hungrier, the monks let her go a new woman.
* 2021: Moves back to the states taking the name Demona, after a character in a Disney show.

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Personality

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Centered:
Demona spends much time in meditation. She does not frequently lose herself in random emotions. She is controlled. Unlike a vulcan, she still shows her emotions, but they do not control her.

Confident:
Demona loves to try new things, and she is confident in her abilities. Her mantra is, "I can do it; I'm amazing." This goes doubly for things she already knows how to do.

Good:
Demona has fought to retain her former self. Her morality is a mishmash of western Christianity, eastern mysticism, and being a Disney Princess. She respects all life as long as she retains her self, and she fights hard to retain that self even if it's inconvenient for others. Losing her self to her new jiangshi nature would not be very Disney Princess of her.

Optimist:
Demona always tries to keep a smile on her face and a song in her heart. She has seen herself as a Disney Princess since she was little, trying to live up to that with kindness, good cheer, and shining a light into other people's days.

Personable:
Demona cannot stand isolation; she's had enough of THAT nonsense. She must be around people, socializing and connecting. She doesn't like crowds, however, and prefers one-on-one relationships. The more conversations she has to keep up with, the more distracted she gets; the more distracted she gets, the thinner the line between her new nature and her self.

Reformed Evil:
Susan has a dual nature. She has been Jiangshi and knows what it's like to have to struggle with evil. She is, perhaps, more cautious than other people when it comes to things that might be or lead to evil. She also might be a bit too zealous about stomping out actual evil where it lurks.

Character Sheet

Powers

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Immortality:
Susan is life overlaid atop undeath. Life is pervasive and has put down roots, but her undead nature will not be snuffed that easily. Some bits of it, such as not aging, are bumps that life got stretched over, and now Susan must live with for potentially eternity. She is supernaturally immortal, not biologically immortal. If she biologically dies, she will likely simply become just a Jiangshi again.

Qi Drain:
Western vampires drink life force with the blood. Jiangshi consume life force via the breath of a living being. Since the breath of life was given back to her, Susan's qi no longer requires replenishing, but she can still drain it from other living beings or the world around her. Like her qi sense, one must only hold one's breath to be immune, though she can wait longer than you can hold your breath. If drained in this way, Susan's victims would become her thralls. Typical vampire shenanigans. As Susan finds draining living beings distasteful (definitely NOT a Disney Princess thing to do), this rarely comes up.

Qi Flight:
Qi-starved Jiangshi are frequently called 'hopping vampires', as their bodies succumb to rigormortis until they feed on enough succulent qi. However, the skilled among them can hover at a walking speed. The practiced among them can fly with varying levels of height achievable depending on local qi flow. Susan can fly as fast as she can move on foot but atmospheric conditions sometimes make it uncomfortable or dangerous to go too high.

Qi Metabolism:
Susan has been gifted a new breath of life that overlaid atop what she was as a Jiangshi. She is alive, now, and can absolutely eat and drink and sleep and breathe. In lieu of that, however, she can metabolize qi to fill in where her biology might be lacking.

Qi Sense:
Jiangshi like Susan can smell qi on the breath. To defeat this sense, one must only hold their breath. The 'smell' does not linger for more than a second after the breath leaves the body. However, this sense does work over several meters. After the breath of life was restored to her, Susan has found the qi of others to be fainter and require more effort to find, since her natural qi breath can overpower it.

Qi Telekinesis:
Because her reach is so much greater than other Jiangshi, thanks to her meditation training, Susan can extend the power that allows her to fly. By manipulating the flow of qi in an area and augment it with her own natural life force, Susan can lift small objects. Her power seems to decrease with distance, but with great effort, in areas with abundant qi, or in times of urgent need, she may be able to extend the distance or size of things she might manipulate.

Her telekinesis is strongest on living things, allowing her to lift and move anything that is alive with minimal effort regardless of size. It is relatively strong on things that were once alive, weak still on parts of nature that were never alive themselves but absorbed a lot of the ambient qi over millennia, and miniscule on manmade materials such as forged metals and plastics that have had their psychometry changed to something unnatural.

Skills

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Making:
Machining, metalwork, carpentry, tinkering, restoration, and repair are things that Demona is naturally good at. She has been practicing techniques since she was a youth. While she missed the advent of 3D printers, she picks things up easily, and most of what she knows still applies.

Martial Artist:
Demona practiced a form of martial arts as meditation for years. She can defend herself if attacked physically, and she has been shown to be effective at taking down dangerous predators, though her qi drain was used to finally subdue them.

Meditation:
A key element to Susan's success in mastering her new nature before the breath of new life was her ability to center herself and overcome elements around her. She retains that ability and could almost certainly walk on hot coals, lay on a bed of nails, or do any of the other meditation-augmented tasks other humans can do. It is her meditation that lets her become one with the world around her and drink in living qi of the universe.

Multilingual:
Susan can speak English and Mandarin Chinese natively. She can read and write English and both traditional and simplified forms of Chinese characters. She is fascinated by Chinese languages and has learned to speak Standard Cantonese and many of the more widely spoken dialects of both modern and older Chinese languages stretching back into antiquity.

Performer:
Susan has trained in ballet, various musical instruments, and learned from her father how to do special effects and otherwise work on the production side of stage work. She could easily fill in in an orchestra pit, behind a sound board, as a videographer, or many of the other support roles for a performance, and if suitably covered up, she could even fill plenty of roles in front of a camera, including stunt work, now that she's a bit more durable as an undead.

Resources

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Abundant Qi:
A city is a living organism. Its heart beats twice a day. Fiber lines connect its members, power lines give it energy, it drinks in water, eats food, and poops out waste. While in a city, Demona is in a large, living organism with abundant qi. The world is also alive. It has cycles of seasons, not days. While on a life-giving world like Earth, Demona is on an abundant source of qi.

Ambient Nature:
Most of the time, animals can sense an undead's unholy presence. The rotted qi is uncomfortable to them, which is why many animals flee. People in touch with their spirituality may also be able to sense that unholy air to a vampire or other undead like a Jiangshi. Susan is straight up alive again, despite her undead nature lingering on. Her qi is refreshed like any normal, living human. If she spends time in meditation, her qi will take on a 'flavor' much like that of the world around her. Animals will ignore her presence as much as they would a tree or rock. Within a city, she is the same to pigeons as a statue, and as spiritually inoffensive to pedestrians as a lamp post. Nature's usual strong reaction to undead cannot be used to locate Susan or identify her as undead.

Technology:
Unlike other immortals who may struggle to adapt to the 21st century, Susan was born in the '90's, and grew up with the internet, cell phones, computers, and other technology. She is quite capable with it, and can summon technological spirits like Alexa, Siri, or Google like the oracle at Delphi. Admittedly, not particularly unique, but modern technology is a powerful tool if used properly.

Weaknesses

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Alive:
Though she is only life stretched over Jiangshi, Susan is alive! Her living body needs air, water, food, sleep, companionship, and all the other things a body needs. She can supplement missing needs with qi because of her qi metabolism, but this is expensive, and it is much easier just to sleep and eat and drink and breathe normally. Because she's alive, she can die, though if she dies, she will immediately revert to only Jiangshi.

Blood Talisman:
Susan's Jiangshi-derived abilities can be subdued by a thin, yellow piece of paper with a distinct spell written on it in blood and stuck to her forehead. If done correctly, her body will still refuse to age, but she will otherwise be merely human. Somewhat counterintuitively, smearing some of one's own blood on her forehead will prevent her from using her Jiangshi abilities on the owner of that blood.

Chinese Coins:
Antique, iron, Chinese coins, after being melted down and forged into a sword, can be left under the light of the moon. Thus 'charged', the blade is especially effective against Jiangshi, including Susan's undead self. In reality, any iron coins will work, but having been legal tender in coin form imparts something psychometric into the material and is not a skippable step. The sword would be just as effective against her living, human self as any sword.

Hunger:
Jiangshi typically need to constantly feed. Susan is alive, and as such, her qi behaves as normal. However, if she gets too hungry, too thirsty, stays up past bedtime, or otherwise burns through her excess qi reserves to bypass her biological limitations, she will once again feel the emptiness inside her. Typically, however, merely resting, eating, drinking, or doing whatever her body needs to get back to a normal healthy state is enough to sate this desire.

Invite Only:
Jiangshi typically cannot enter anywhere unless invited. If Susan enters somewhere uninvited, her qi abilities that come from her Jiangshi nature are completely disabled until she leaves or is invited by someone with the authority to do so.

Mirrors:
A holdover from when her qi was simply rotting constantly, Susan does not like mirrors. This is purely psychological, and a mirror holds no physical power over her. Nevertheless, she hates mirrors, and will avoid her reflection.

Rice:
Much like drawing out water in a wet cell phone, rice will draw bad qi from a Jiangshi. This process is uncomfortable, and will make the Jiangshi hungrier than they were. Because she spent so long as just an undead with such a vulnerability, Susan avoids rice. However, her living qi is unaffected by it.

Running Water:
Running water breaks up the qi of an area. Jiangshi typically can't cross rivers for that reason. Susan is just a normal (unaging) human when submerged in running water. In addition, her qi reserves must build up again once crossing it, leading to brief powerlessness after crossing, though she always has at least her normal human amount of qi.

Role-Play

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
Trinity Trifecta	March 24th, 2023	A small next of vampires unfortunately learn they are not alpha predators and just leave a mess behind.
The Low	March 23rd, 2023	Demona is out hunting vampires, Venom is investigating human traffickers, and vampires are dying horribly when the two meet.
Low key magical meeting	March 20th, 2023	Vacuums are sold, an artificer begins her career and a connection is made.
Lush Verdance	March 20th, 2023	Macguffin acquired! The flower that was needed is achieved, a vampire dusted, and Cass totally got to eat her sushi. Which is important!
A beam of Joy to herald spring!	February 13th, 2023	Ivy gets some friends to visit as Harl performs an intervention
Hostile Flora	February 5th, 2023	Susan has trouble with plants. Ivy helps and repays some plant kindness.
Mis-undead-standing	January 17th, 2023	Demona tries to fight vampires with zombie plants. Ember shows up and DECIMATES them. Then they talk.
Of Birds and Zen	January 8th, 2023	Harper Row meets a vampire hunter doing meditation martial arts in the snow. Future shenanigans are set up!
Manic Demonic	October 10th, 2022	No description
Food for Thought	September 2nd, 2022	Megan and Susan catch up after a long absence
Under the (Giant) Tree	August 5th, 2022	No description
Dance like No One's Watching	July 30th, 2022	No description
A New Delivery	July 11th, 2022	Susan looks for somewhere to build her new EV. Mercy's shop seems to not be the place.
That Which is Transparent Cannot Lie	June 9th, 2022	Grossness takes control of a fishing vessel and the heroes burn it with fire. And some ice.
Cat Scratch Fever	May 17th, 2022	Three girls meet at a cafe.
Holdup at Al's Corner Store	May 15th, 2022	A pair of robbers pick a bad night to rob Al's Corner Store. It all goes wrong when someone gets shot, leading to an intervention by those nearby - and a disturbing encounter as two monsters in disguise reveal themselves.
Ruined Meeting	May 10th, 2022	No description
Dollhouseguest	May 9th, 2022	Susan has a mouse (Kaida) over for snacks. They discuss furniture.
Just a Pizza	May 8th, 2022	Pajamas, pizza, Peter. It's a low key date, Spider-Man!
Not Exactly a Wok in the Park	May 5th, 2022	Troubles in Bryant Park, while Bobby Drake attempts to get lunch, animals keep appearing! When Susan Sullivan makes an Iceman float and dissuades others from getting food from the Wok-a-Wok-a-Wok-a food truck, the truck disappears and the animals revert back to being humans once again.
Doing What He Can	April 14th, 2022	Spider-man calls in a favor from some Princesses so Peter can give Susan the date she deserves.
Doing the Date Thing	April 14th, 2022	Susan tells Peter to take her more seriously as a datable woman.
Not Your Peter	April 9th, 2022	No description
a chance encounter in the park	April 4th, 2022	Hobgoblin gets frustrated and leaves. Susan has the means to escape eventually.
Random Coffee Run	April 1st, 2022	An errant remark almost gets the wrong Spider-man in trouble.
Magic	April 1st, 2022	Susan and Z talk about magic and qi and plants and stuff.
Currents of Magic	March 20th, 2022	Zee finds an interesting young magical user in Gotham and invites her to shadowcrest.
People Watching	March 19th, 2022	People Watching can lead to encountering all types. Some will puzzle you.
Yo, Dawg, I Hear You Like Games	March 19th, 2022	Susan and Peter visit Ned and the gaming group at Steve's for an introduction to RPGs. It proves to be a rough start.
Girl Talk	March 18th, 2022	Megan and Susan talk about girl stuff over pizza.
Spider-vestigation.	March 14th, 2022	No description
Absent Automaton Authority	March 13th, 2022	Kaida and Susan catch up while Susan machines bits and Kaida eats M&M's.
Zoomer Takeout Adventure	March 10th, 2022	Cindy gets spotted by a friend of a friend. TO BE CONTINUED
Branching Out	March 9th, 2022	Pamela returns to find Susan dutifully tending to her plants. Susan makes a request.
Zombie	March 8th, 2022	Questions may still remain about just what the Zomborgs were up to, but the dozens of lives saved mean that those answers can wait for another day.
72 hours later.	March 5th, 2022	Peter finally has Susan over for a date...with he and his aunt...it's not perfect.
An Un-Auspicious Introduction ft Machina and Batgirl	March 5th, 2022	Madame Machina makes her Gotham debut with a Bang and a Boop, and poor Batgirl gets left with the cleanup! Also Demona got in on the stealing, good work Demona!
Superheroic Makeovers	March 5th, 2022	Blake and Peter talk about costumes. Special Guest Star: Susan Sullivan!
=Hazy Shade of Winter	February 27th, 2022	Spider-Man and Susan Sullivan chat a little about various things.
All Together Now	February 20th, 2022	Susan, with Aunt May's help, cooks a grand Chinese dinner for Peter and his aunt.
Shopping Spree!	February 19th, 2022	Megan drags some friends shopping for a fashion makeover. Credit cards are fun.
Another One Flies the Gust	February 19th, 2022	Peter reveals his curiously civil breakup to Susan, who offer Chinese food and a Weird Automotive Project.
Blinktastic!	February 16th, 2022	No description
Just a cup of coffee!	February 9th, 2022	Megan catches up with Daniel and Susan again and asks for their help.
Post-Angel Recovery	January 20th, 2022	Spider-Man is consoled by Susan and Spinner...each in their own ways.
Animals Need rescuing too.	January 6th, 2022	Huzzah! Friends are made, animals are saved, a zoo renovation is promised and no seals, polar bears or birds were harmed in the making of this scene.
Creepy New Year	December 29th, 2021	Megan, Daniel and Susan confront creepy gremlins, rotting trees and mysterious portals.
Christmas Time Is Here	December 20th, 2021	Susan and Spidey meet up after a long hiatus and talk gifts and secret bases.
Winter Pool Escape	December 8th, 2021	Susan meets a Pixie! Pixie meets a Susan! Cool time pool time.
The Park is Nice	December 3rd, 2021	Roland and Susan banter. Susan lets Roland fall onto his own back. What fun!
Security SNAFUs	November 14th, 2021	Resurrection induced security issues cause some problems for Susan.
ANOTHER Spider-Man	November 13th, 2021	Spider boys get together with Susan and hang out over pizza.
Scrapyard Rendezvous	November 10th, 2021	Gwen discovers Demona's been brought back to life! And...also that her van is gone...
Of Mice and Susans	November 8th, 2021	No description
On Life and Death	November 8th, 2021	Susan goes to her teacher with a change of life and asks for more.
Demona-tizing	November 7th, 2021	Demona/Susan shows Peter the results of an EXTREME makeover.
Culinary conversations.	October 30th, 2021	Demona runs into Viv who is getting in some preparation for the holidays. They have a chat about high tech costumes.
Homelessness is for the living...	October 29th, 2021	Demona clenses her qi in Mairin's apartment. The breath of life takes that opportunity to bring her to life.
Not Quite Fully Alive	October 26th, 2021	Demona confuses GIRL entrance scanners and Cyborg asks her out for coffee...eventually.
Sacrifice of the Dead	October 25th, 2021	Demona prays in desperation. Inari sends Saeko to listen to her request. A sacrifice is made, and a breath of life is given.
Security Issues	October 25th, 2021	After a few surprising revelations during the security screening, Demona receives a tour and firmly expresses her desire to be part of G.I.R.L.
A Changing of Seasons	October 23rd, 2021	Ivy and Demona meet and mingle, and Ivy finds someone to check in on the biodome when she's not around. Friendship is growing!
Once again, Saturday in the Park	October 23rd, 2021	Two young women meet and think up a business plan.
Seeing Through Spider-Comm Eyes	October 22nd, 2021	Demona gets her own Spider-Comm rig and gets a taste of the network.
Mairin the workaholic	October 22nd, 2021	Mairin got a lesson in self care, and promissed Demona she'd practice it.
A Stroll in the Park	October 21st, 2021	Demona receives an invitation to visit GIRL HQ.
A place to belong	October 20th, 2021	Demona is invited to meet the Shredder and talk. No seriously, they just talk!
Post Van-operation Down-time	October 19th, 2021	Demona told Mairin about her mysterious new magic teacher.
Epic Van of Destiny	October 19th, 2021	Mairin shows off her robot moth and Gwen helps she and Demona install a reactor in Demona's van.
Part Of Your World	October 18th, 2021	Stephen gets a student! Demona gets a teacher.
Updates and Progress	October 17th, 2021	Mairin and Demona caught up and discoverd some interesting facts about their new reactor.
Scrappy Dojo Discourse	October 15th, 2021	Ghost Spider damages Demona's van. Demona can't get qi in a clean scrap yard. Spider-Man gets her somewhere safe.
Step 1 in How to Build a Cat	October 14th, 2021	Mairin and Demona decided on aname for their cat, and Demona gets to practice drawing.
Let the Right One In (Again)	October 13th, 2021	Peter shows the lab to Demona, and has a little chat with her.
Mairin needs to vent!	October 13th, 2021	Mairin and Demona had a heart to heart and Mairin shared her plans for her new private project.
In Christa's office	October 12th, 2021	Mairin and Demona had a heart-to-heart and encouraged each other
The friend of my friend is my enemy	October 12th, 2021	Nettie and Mairin clash over letting Demona into the shop, ending with Mairin leaving with her friend to avoid any more conflict.
Recruiting a friend	October 11th, 2021	Mairin offerd Demona a job, but it looks like they're going to need to jump through some hoops to make it happen.
No Business Like Show Business	October 11th, 2021	Thomas meets Demona. Mairin is repulsed by Thomas.
Paths Crossing at 150 Feet Up	October 10th, 2021	Demona meets Spider-Man and a lot of sharing is done.
Research with a friend	October 9th, 2021	Mairin explained her training to Demona and got some tips on how to better focus her will.
Random Tech Help	October 8th, 2021	A couple strangers spend a few minutes getting to know each other in the park.
Coney Island Red Hots	October 8th, 2021	Peter Parker meets a fellow tech enthusiast...and a vampiress. And oddly, not his first.
Wowing the Sophmores	October 8th, 2021	Demona showed off her van but had a somewhat tense encounter with a nosy student reporter
A (First) Day in the Park	October 8th, 2021	Jessica meets a nice person in the park, aka Demona. They both survive the encounter.
Meeting at Columbia	October 7th, 2021	Mairin met a potential student who just happens to be as eager to play with robots as she is. They headed into the Engineering building to talk shop.
The Engineer, the Student and the Castle	October 7th, 2021	Mairin learned about Demoona's van and invited her to show it off at the University.
Silence Discourse	October 6th, 2021	Demona is tasked with fixing a thing for Quiet and Bando fails to catch a squirrel.
An evening in the zoo.	October 5th, 2021	Advice is given

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