Hypernaturals: The World.

Characters

Jessica

At the start of Naked Came the Vampire, Jessica is a 123-year-old Vampire. She was born in Northern New Mexico in the late 1800's. Her father is from Old Mexico, and her mother from Ireland. Her mother had dark hair and was possibly of Basque or continental Spanish descent. The result in Jessica is a tall, Rubenesque dark-haired woman. Early in her life, she did not like being the tallest person around. Her eventual husband, Jesus, hated that about her.

Jessica was born Maria Guadalupe Rios, and at the start of Naked Came the Vampire, in Austin she is going by Jessica Diaz. Vampires change names frequently, especially last names, but Jessica never uses her birth name.

Jessica only married Jesus to get out of the way so that her younger sister could marry for love. Hers was an arranged marriage, and it was a disaster. Jesus beat her frequently, including when she was pregnant. This ultimately caused her to miscarry, and for Jessica to decide that enough was enough. She moved East, and became a teacher, leaving behind her family, her farm, her husband, and everything she knew.

In Albuquerque, she met an interesting 'young' woman named Helen...

Helen

Born to British royalty during the war of the Roses, Helen fled when that war took a bad turn for the Spencers. Fleeing for her safety to France, Helen found some happiness in the French Court.

Over five hundred years of age, Helen is still young for a Vampire, since most Vampires live to be at least two thousand, and the only reason they do not live longer is boredom.

Helen is Bisexual, and in the French Court, she was able to find many lovers of both sexes. She is very politically minded, and down the years she has married many human men, inherited their fortunes, and invested that wisely. In France, she maintains the identity of what appears to be a series of Claremont women and controls the Claremont Estates: A large winery and stable in the Burgundy region of France.

Helen has been seriously involved, on and off, for over two hundred years with Rachel.

Helen has been in the USA for over one hundred years and is the youngest ever member of the North American Vampire Council, where Rachel is also one of the twelve on the council.

Helen loses her heart to Maria / Jessica when Jessica is still a human and stays in town to be her friend. Ultimately, Helen talks Jessica into her bed, and in a moment of passion, bites and infects her friend and lover, bringing her over.

Jessica being Heterosexual and Helen Bisexual leads to the pair of Vampires having so serious fun in the 1920's San Francisco and New York nightlife. For Jessica, the freedom to just be able to have all the power is heady. For Helen, she is with her friend and lover and making sure she does not get into TOO much trouble.

Past her 'wild oats' phase, Jessica turns her attention to never being a victim again, becomes a pilot, an MD, a Dentist, and uses her new lifespan to collect skills that are unusual for women in that time. For Jessica, it is a big 'FU' to the world of men. Men are now necessary toys. For Helen, it is this side of Jessica that she saw, and that continues to own her.

Adrian

Adrian is a nerd. A geek. He loves science fiction, comic cons, and watching superhero movies and TV shows. He is the youngest of three children, in a family of overachievers. Adrian is a freelance computer programmer and he likes it that way. Raised a free thinker, he has had an on-and-off-again relationship with Vera, but when she goes too far, he breaks up with her for the last time and goes to lick his emotional wounds at Hippy Hollow (A nude beach in Austin area). Naked, communing with nature is Adrian's way to get his head screwed back on straight. Problems seem smaller when you see how small you really are.