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widenessofthesea) wrote2014-06-17 10:43 am
widenessofthesea) wrote2014-06-17 10:43 am
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Player's Name: Carly
Are you over 16? yy
Characters Played Here: none
Character: Grace Yi
Series/Canon: Vampire: the Requiem/New World of Darkness... sort of. Specifically, it's an adaptation of the setting where as far as anyone knows, vampires are the only supernatural creatures that exist, and where, on the eve of their secret world government announcing their existence to the world at large, a group of sort-of evolved vampires known as Predators (or, to each other, Titans) caused a sort of apocalypse by destroying the world's communication infrastructure and razing many major cities.
From When? July 2014, about a month after arriving in San Francisco.
History: Grace Yi was born Du Miaoshan in Nanjing in the mid 19th-century. Fleeing the city as the Taiping Rebellion was effectively crushed by the Qing regime and its European allies, she was caught by a foreign soldier while trying to flee under cover of night. The soldier turned out to be a vampire—an Inquisitor of their foremost religion, the Lancea Sactum—and, amused by her attempt to fight to protect her family, brought her back to France with him, where she would spend ten years as his unwilling servant and apprentice. She was kept under control via the vinculum—the artificial love and loyalty spawned from drinking a vampire's blood—and was only freed when, by grace or chance, Sophia Virga, a wandering vampire, found her, and used ancient magic to free her of her bindings. Miaoshan took up the sword her tormentors had taught her to use and put it to them, and, along with Sophia, fled France.
It turned out that Sophia was a member of an ancient organization of called the Sept that believed, in contrast to the Lancea Sanctum, that the vampiric "messiah", Longinus, was not an envoy of the true God at all, but of the flawed creator, the Demiurge, and that rather than being monsters as they were created, vampires should fight against their natures and do good, protect humanity, and seek wisdom—or Gnosis. This really spoke to Miaoshan, who had been an ambitious young woman who wanted to improve the world, and after some time traveling with Sophia and fighting the good fight, she requested the Embrace and to become a full member of the Sept.
Her further travels took her to America, where she settled in Los Angeles, and ensconced herself within the Ordo Dracul, an order of vampire scientists and occultists who sought to overcome the limitations and difficulties of their condition. When the Weeping Plague came in the early 20th century, Grace found herself rising to a position of leadership as elder vampires succumbed to the wasting disease. After its end, she was formally Sworn to the Mysteries, the Ordo's policy-setting wing.
She took some time off to travel again for a decade—both visiting Ordo academies and Sept strongholds in the American southwest and in Central and South America. It was on these travels that she encountered a teenager named Iris, while investigating the involvement of the Lancea Sanctum at an Indian boarding school called St. Daniel's. Horrified at the conditions and the abuses upon the school's charges, she asked Iris, one of the oldest students, to evacuate the other students and take what they could carry, and set the school alight. Iris returned alone to help as Grace fought the last survivor, and rather than return to her family like the other children, asked to travel with Grace.
While Grace initially refused to embrace her new charge, Iris, especially after spending time with other Sept members, became fully immersed in their theology and ideals. Once Iris came of age, she could not really say she was too young, and, after all, Grace had made the same choice. Iris became a vampire, and Grace eventually left her with a mentor who could teach her how to work the Sept's miracles as she continued to travel, though they kept in contact.
Grace would return to Los Angeles, and immerse herself in politics there, befriending the power couple that had come to rule the city in her absence. Some time later another young woman came to her attention—a girl named Paula Ruíz, who she met at a church event. Paula had recently had a number of misfortunes befall her family, which Grace realized were the workings of a local member of the Lancea Sanctum, who intended to punish the big-dreaming Paula back into what he thought was her "natural" role. Grace paid for her college education and law school in another city while she wore down and destroyed Paula's tormentor.
Eventually Paula would discover Grace's true nature, and Grace became more and more interested in the idea of embracing her as well. She presented the idea to Paula, who was receptive. Of course, Grace wanted to make sure that her second childe was well-prepared for the challenges ahead, particularly the moral ones. Unfortunately, she went a little overboard in trying to make sure Paula was prepared, which drove a wedge between them. The relationship ultimately ended after a failed test of an experimental technique drove Paula to extreme distress. Paula declared that she hated her, and ran away.
Horrified that her well-meaning actions had led to this, Grace took her problems to the Ordo Dracul's Confessor. The Confessor told her that she had indeed done wrong, but that if she sought redemption, and was willing to pour her all into it, there might be a way to find it. The Confessor, Eleanor, was a member of a secret society within the Order called the Sworn of the Ladder, dedicated to doing the greatest good for all and seeking a state of advanced enlightenment. Grace, of course, signed right up, and put all her effort toward improving the state of her immortal soul.
Grace, always one to keep up with the cultural zeitgeist, continued to engage in vampiric politics, particularly as, over time, the world's vampires began talking seriously about revealing themselves to the world. She felt this would be a great thing—more accountability for vampires, and being able to exist as a part of society, rather than apart. However, just as the decision was about to be made, Los Angeles elected as their new Prince a candidate who was not only anti-Masquerade drop, but also a Bishop of the Lancea Sanctum. Concerned for the future of the city, Grace called Iris and asked her and her mentor to come up in case something needed to be done.
The Masquerade drop did not happen as planned—though not because of the Prince-Elect. Communications all around the world suddenly went dead as vampires attempted to reveal themselves, and satellites rained from the sky in flaming pieces, devastating the world's major population centers—Los Angeles included. They would discover later that a group of supposedly evolved vampires, known as Predators, had interfered with the Masquerade drop for their own mysterious reasons.
The Sept, hoping to curb the influence of vampires over the world in its vulnerable state, founded a group called the Order of the White Rose—ostensibly a charity outreach group—to partner with other vampire hunter organizations that had sprung up in the city.
In the meantime, Grace came to befriend a new young vampire in the Ordo Dracul named Grace Choi, who was very concerned with maintaining her connection to her humanity for a very good reason—namely, she was possessed by her sire, Elizabeth Braddock, who had forced young Grace to eat her soul. Through her, Grace and Iris also befriended Simon Davis, who, despite being a member of a politically fascist coterie, was actually a kindly, gentle soul.
Grace and Simon would end up helping Iris and Grace search for Sam, a child vampire who Iris had recently encountered who had turned out to be her biological mother's childe. Sam, who was practically feral, had little sense of morality, and they had been able to do very little to increase it; she had run away from Iris in the chaos following the attempted Masquerade drop, and Iris worried about her. However, it turned out that Sam had been "uplifted" into a Predator, and calmly explained what that meant as she drained Iris of her emotions. Grace eventually dragged Iris away to rest up. They discovered that Simon also had some unusual emotion powers of his own, when he attempted to make Iris happy; it turned out he was the "sycophant", similar to a vampire's ghoul, to another Predator named Gale.
However, their friendship would be tested; Sam had done harm to members of the Ordo's human staff, and partially because of that, some of the other members of the Ordo decided that they could use her to solve Grace Choi's possession—by convincing Braddock to possess Sam instead. They succeeded—and then Sam was killed by James D'Stato, a notoriously violent vampire who happened to be on the scene, also. When Iris discovered this, she was furious; while she condemned the things Sam had done, she also felt strong familial love for her.
Grace saw Iris leaning dangerously toward a dark path, and did her best to dissuade her from it, assuring her that she knew it was within her to make the right choice. She also asked Iris's lover, Evening Star (who had also, in fact, gone from vampire to Predator recently) to try and turn Iris from vengeance. However, it was ultimately a vampire named Jack, Grace Choi and Simon's other blood-sibling, who really turned the tide; he had, recently, been seeking vengeance of his own and gotten it—but not really liked what he found. Iris did reconcile to an extent with Grace Choi, who she had largely blamed for Sam's death.
Meanwhile, Grace, also concerned that the rest of the Ordo Dracul would do something so ethically dubious without consulting her first, decided to do something that would really make other vampires think about the consequences of their actions—which is to say, drop the Masquerade her own way. She, with Iris and Jack's help, started distributing flyers explaining the existence of vampires. This caused a lot of alarm among vampires, but also incensed the most powerful Predator in the city, Claudette, who had been running an experiment to see what would happen if the Predators dropped their own masquerade, and saw Grace as interfering.
However, the Ordo Dracul had been preparing to fight her—one among their number, Samantha Moon, had previously been one of Claudette's living experiments, and they had used some of her unique properties to develop a scientific method to combat Predators. Grace Choi, Simon, Iris and Jack jumped into the fray to protect Grace, while Grace and Evening Star remained at a memorial Iris had built for Sam and imbued with the spirit of Charity, and worked to bring people together to finally properly grieve in the aftermath of the disaster and fostering community spirit.
Of course, Grace could not stay; she had actually intended to die for dropping the Masquerade, but realized that many people still depended on her. Remembering that Grace Choi and Simon had planned to flee to San Francisco, she gathered up the wounded Iris and Jack, and along with Evening Star, set out that direction.
They have recently settled there, and started building their new (un)lives. However, Grace is still lying low, since word travels relatively fast, still, especially now that communications are being rebuilt, and her friends worry about her safety. A six-month trip to do some volunteer work seems like just the thing, doesn't it?
Personality: Grace's optimism is maybe her defining characteristic; despite all the terrible things she has seen and experienced (and done) throughout her many years, she still believes that things will ultimately turn out good so long as good people work for it, and that while the basic nature of the world, is by her theology, flawed, it may yet have the potential to become something wonderful, and be all the greater for it. Things that take work are always more satisfying than things that come easily, in her mind.
As might be evident, Grace is quietly but very strongly religious, in her odd way. She considers it to have saved her—after all, were it not for Sophia, she thinks she would not be a very good person today. Though, in some ways, she believes so strongly because the faith of the Sept aligns so strongly with her own ideals—to elevate the world to a more enlightened state and foster peace and harmony where evil cannot grow. She has said that if she found out the foundation that her faith was built on was completely false, she would continue as she had—because she believes that regardless, their goal is a worthy one.
The fact that she has been allowed to seek her own redemption had quite the effect on her; prior to that point, she was quicker to judge others for their misdeeds. She is still quite certain that there are those who will do more harm than good to the greater picture, and should be removed for the good of the people around them—the only thing she regrets about the St. Daniel's massacre is that it was necessary—but now she is more willing to reach out a hand to those who might be willing to seek a different path. We all make mistakes from time to time; what matters, she thinks, is whether we are able to learn from them and whether we are willing to change for the sake of ourselves and others. It was for that reason that she offered Grace Choi admission into the Sworn of the Ladder even at her unusually young age; she knows how much it can help to know that someone believes you can be better than you are.
She values highly the concept of free will and an individual's right to determine their own destiny insofar as it does not harm others. Her experiences as a thrall of another vampire left her with a serious revulsion toward things she terms "mind control", such as the vinculum and the disciplines of Majesty and Dominate, and the Sept's agreement with her in their official stance on the issue only solidified her feelings there. When another vampire she had taken on as a student, Eve, began casually using Majesty, she became very ill at ease; she does not, generally, even enjoy being in the same room as someone using powers along those lines.
On the other hand, while Grace finds influencing others with supernatural powers to be horrifying and evil, she has a tendency to believe she knows best for others and may go overboard in her efforts to help them—see her falling-out with Paula Ruiz. She's become significantly more self-aware about this in recent years (particularly in recent months, now that she no longer feels drawn to her vices by the Daeva curse), and does her best to rein in her impulses, but she can still be a little opinionated and overbearing on topics she's passionate about.
She also does like to be seen as a mentor and a solid rock to lean on to others—she's glad when others feel they can depend on her. She's very family-oriented, and tends to take on a mothering role in social groups—in contrast to the usual sexy Daeva stereotype, she shows her love entirely platonically. If she considers you family—whether it's biological, by blood, or by choice, she is pretty much willing to die for you and will go out of her way to make sure you have whatever you need.
As a result she tends to hide her own strong feelings and struggles—partly because she doesn't want to ruin her image as The Together One, and partly because she doesn't want anyone to feel like they have to go out of their way to help her. Sharing her own feelings does not come easily to her; at one point, Sam, after becoming a Predator, remarked that she was not so different from them, in her stoicism. Grace, however, feels differently; it's not that she doesn't feel, it's just that she's not very good at expressing herself, and defaults to putting up a calm front. (She actually greatly admires people like Iris, who wear their hearts on their sleeves and are quick to love or anger or call for action—Grace will readily admit that she has often been too cautious in her dealings with others. Patience and temperance are virtues, but less so when they are born of fear.)
Why do you think your character would work in this setting? Grace is a benevolent, helpful soul, who enjoys volunteering, and is someone who is very, very interested in the nature of the universe and what else is out there. She's also something of a sociologist, so she's always interested in meeting people from other places and cultures and hearing about their perspectives. As she's always kept up with the times and lived in many different places, adapting will be no problem at all.
Plus, she's a little bit prideful, even still, and hearing that she has exactly the qualities they're looking for is a little appealing. (Just a smidge.) That, and, well, her friends keep telling her that she ought to lie low for a while; six months on another planet ought to be enough for things to blow over from the Masquerade drop, right? They'll be all right without her for that long, she's sure. Six months is barely any time at all! (At least it is when you're 160+ years old, anyway.) And all the things she could learn while she's there! She's sure this will be a lovely experience and absolutely nothing will go wrong, and everything will be fine when she comes back.
What will your character do for work? Grace is primarily an academic, and aside from the usual subjects can teach several languages—English, Spanish, Chinese. (She also speaks French, but doesn't speak it unless she has to.) She is also reasonably handy with tools, and unnaturally strong for someone her size. She also can teach yoga, tai chi, and self-defense classes.
Inventory: Mostly a big bag full of books, mostly in the category of philosophy, sociology and religion—though there's a handful of sci-fi books in there, too. She'll also bring a few changes of clothes (mostly all-black, since that's basically all she owns, plus the all-white set), a yoga mat, her boxing hand wraps, a few notebooks and pens, and her flower crown. (The flower crown is very important.)
Samples:
Third-Person Sample: Grace Y. visits Grace C. and finds out the extent of her bad reputation
First-Person Sample: "You make it sound like unlife is just going to be an eternal battle." "It's because it is."
Are you over 16? yy
Characters Played Here: none
Character: Grace Yi
Series/Canon: Vampire: the Requiem/New World of Darkness... sort of. Specifically, it's an adaptation of the setting where as far as anyone knows, vampires are the only supernatural creatures that exist, and where, on the eve of their secret world government announcing their existence to the world at large, a group of sort-of evolved vampires known as Predators (or, to each other, Titans) caused a sort of apocalypse by destroying the world's communication infrastructure and razing many major cities.
From When? July 2014, about a month after arriving in San Francisco.
History: Grace Yi was born Du Miaoshan in Nanjing in the mid 19th-century. Fleeing the city as the Taiping Rebellion was effectively crushed by the Qing regime and its European allies, she was caught by a foreign soldier while trying to flee under cover of night. The soldier turned out to be a vampire—an Inquisitor of their foremost religion, the Lancea Sactum—and, amused by her attempt to fight to protect her family, brought her back to France with him, where she would spend ten years as his unwilling servant and apprentice. She was kept under control via the vinculum—the artificial love and loyalty spawned from drinking a vampire's blood—and was only freed when, by grace or chance, Sophia Virga, a wandering vampire, found her, and used ancient magic to free her of her bindings. Miaoshan took up the sword her tormentors had taught her to use and put it to them, and, along with Sophia, fled France.
It turned out that Sophia was a member of an ancient organization of called the Sept that believed, in contrast to the Lancea Sanctum, that the vampiric "messiah", Longinus, was not an envoy of the true God at all, but of the flawed creator, the Demiurge, and that rather than being monsters as they were created, vampires should fight against their natures and do good, protect humanity, and seek wisdom—or Gnosis. This really spoke to Miaoshan, who had been an ambitious young woman who wanted to improve the world, and after some time traveling with Sophia and fighting the good fight, she requested the Embrace and to become a full member of the Sept.
Her further travels took her to America, where she settled in Los Angeles, and ensconced herself within the Ordo Dracul, an order of vampire scientists and occultists who sought to overcome the limitations and difficulties of their condition. When the Weeping Plague came in the early 20th century, Grace found herself rising to a position of leadership as elder vampires succumbed to the wasting disease. After its end, she was formally Sworn to the Mysteries, the Ordo's policy-setting wing.
She took some time off to travel again for a decade—both visiting Ordo academies and Sept strongholds in the American southwest and in Central and South America. It was on these travels that she encountered a teenager named Iris, while investigating the involvement of the Lancea Sanctum at an Indian boarding school called St. Daniel's. Horrified at the conditions and the abuses upon the school's charges, she asked Iris, one of the oldest students, to evacuate the other students and take what they could carry, and set the school alight. Iris returned alone to help as Grace fought the last survivor, and rather than return to her family like the other children, asked to travel with Grace.
While Grace initially refused to embrace her new charge, Iris, especially after spending time with other Sept members, became fully immersed in their theology and ideals. Once Iris came of age, she could not really say she was too young, and, after all, Grace had made the same choice. Iris became a vampire, and Grace eventually left her with a mentor who could teach her how to work the Sept's miracles as she continued to travel, though they kept in contact.
Grace would return to Los Angeles, and immerse herself in politics there, befriending the power couple that had come to rule the city in her absence. Some time later another young woman came to her attention—a girl named Paula Ruíz, who she met at a church event. Paula had recently had a number of misfortunes befall her family, which Grace realized were the workings of a local member of the Lancea Sanctum, who intended to punish the big-dreaming Paula back into what he thought was her "natural" role. Grace paid for her college education and law school in another city while she wore down and destroyed Paula's tormentor.
Eventually Paula would discover Grace's true nature, and Grace became more and more interested in the idea of embracing her as well. She presented the idea to Paula, who was receptive. Of course, Grace wanted to make sure that her second childe was well-prepared for the challenges ahead, particularly the moral ones. Unfortunately, she went a little overboard in trying to make sure Paula was prepared, which drove a wedge between them. The relationship ultimately ended after a failed test of an experimental technique drove Paula to extreme distress. Paula declared that she hated her, and ran away.
Horrified that her well-meaning actions had led to this, Grace took her problems to the Ordo Dracul's Confessor. The Confessor told her that she had indeed done wrong, but that if she sought redemption, and was willing to pour her all into it, there might be a way to find it. The Confessor, Eleanor, was a member of a secret society within the Order called the Sworn of the Ladder, dedicated to doing the greatest good for all and seeking a state of advanced enlightenment. Grace, of course, signed right up, and put all her effort toward improving the state of her immortal soul.
Grace, always one to keep up with the cultural zeitgeist, continued to engage in vampiric politics, particularly as, over time, the world's vampires began talking seriously about revealing themselves to the world. She felt this would be a great thing—more accountability for vampires, and being able to exist as a part of society, rather than apart. However, just as the decision was about to be made, Los Angeles elected as their new Prince a candidate who was not only anti-Masquerade drop, but also a Bishop of the Lancea Sanctum. Concerned for the future of the city, Grace called Iris and asked her and her mentor to come up in case something needed to be done.
The Masquerade drop did not happen as planned—though not because of the Prince-Elect. Communications all around the world suddenly went dead as vampires attempted to reveal themselves, and satellites rained from the sky in flaming pieces, devastating the world's major population centers—Los Angeles included. They would discover later that a group of supposedly evolved vampires, known as Predators, had interfered with the Masquerade drop for their own mysterious reasons.
The Sept, hoping to curb the influence of vampires over the world in its vulnerable state, founded a group called the Order of the White Rose—ostensibly a charity outreach group—to partner with other vampire hunter organizations that had sprung up in the city.
In the meantime, Grace came to befriend a new young vampire in the Ordo Dracul named Grace Choi, who was very concerned with maintaining her connection to her humanity for a very good reason—namely, she was possessed by her sire, Elizabeth Braddock, who had forced young Grace to eat her soul. Through her, Grace and Iris also befriended Simon Davis, who, despite being a member of a politically fascist coterie, was actually a kindly, gentle soul.
Grace and Simon would end up helping Iris and Grace search for Sam, a child vampire who Iris had recently encountered who had turned out to be her biological mother's childe. Sam, who was practically feral, had little sense of morality, and they had been able to do very little to increase it; she had run away from Iris in the chaos following the attempted Masquerade drop, and Iris worried about her. However, it turned out that Sam had been "uplifted" into a Predator, and calmly explained what that meant as she drained Iris of her emotions. Grace eventually dragged Iris away to rest up. They discovered that Simon also had some unusual emotion powers of his own, when he attempted to make Iris happy; it turned out he was the "sycophant", similar to a vampire's ghoul, to another Predator named Gale.
However, their friendship would be tested; Sam had done harm to members of the Ordo's human staff, and partially because of that, some of the other members of the Ordo decided that they could use her to solve Grace Choi's possession—by convincing Braddock to possess Sam instead. They succeeded—and then Sam was killed by James D'Stato, a notoriously violent vampire who happened to be on the scene, also. When Iris discovered this, she was furious; while she condemned the things Sam had done, she also felt strong familial love for her.
Grace saw Iris leaning dangerously toward a dark path, and did her best to dissuade her from it, assuring her that she knew it was within her to make the right choice. She also asked Iris's lover, Evening Star (who had also, in fact, gone from vampire to Predator recently) to try and turn Iris from vengeance. However, it was ultimately a vampire named Jack, Grace Choi and Simon's other blood-sibling, who really turned the tide; he had, recently, been seeking vengeance of his own and gotten it—but not really liked what he found. Iris did reconcile to an extent with Grace Choi, who she had largely blamed for Sam's death.
Meanwhile, Grace, also concerned that the rest of the Ordo Dracul would do something so ethically dubious without consulting her first, decided to do something that would really make other vampires think about the consequences of their actions—which is to say, drop the Masquerade her own way. She, with Iris and Jack's help, started distributing flyers explaining the existence of vampires. This caused a lot of alarm among vampires, but also incensed the most powerful Predator in the city, Claudette, who had been running an experiment to see what would happen if the Predators dropped their own masquerade, and saw Grace as interfering.
However, the Ordo Dracul had been preparing to fight her—one among their number, Samantha Moon, had previously been one of Claudette's living experiments, and they had used some of her unique properties to develop a scientific method to combat Predators. Grace Choi, Simon, Iris and Jack jumped into the fray to protect Grace, while Grace and Evening Star remained at a memorial Iris had built for Sam and imbued with the spirit of Charity, and worked to bring people together to finally properly grieve in the aftermath of the disaster and fostering community spirit.
Of course, Grace could not stay; she had actually intended to die for dropping the Masquerade, but realized that many people still depended on her. Remembering that Grace Choi and Simon had planned to flee to San Francisco, she gathered up the wounded Iris and Jack, and along with Evening Star, set out that direction.
They have recently settled there, and started building their new (un)lives. However, Grace is still lying low, since word travels relatively fast, still, especially now that communications are being rebuilt, and her friends worry about her safety. A six-month trip to do some volunteer work seems like just the thing, doesn't it?
Personality: Grace's optimism is maybe her defining characteristic; despite all the terrible things she has seen and experienced (and done) throughout her many years, she still believes that things will ultimately turn out good so long as good people work for it, and that while the basic nature of the world, is by her theology, flawed, it may yet have the potential to become something wonderful, and be all the greater for it. Things that take work are always more satisfying than things that come easily, in her mind.
As might be evident, Grace is quietly but very strongly religious, in her odd way. She considers it to have saved her—after all, were it not for Sophia, she thinks she would not be a very good person today. Though, in some ways, she believes so strongly because the faith of the Sept aligns so strongly with her own ideals—to elevate the world to a more enlightened state and foster peace and harmony where evil cannot grow. She has said that if she found out the foundation that her faith was built on was completely false, she would continue as she had—because she believes that regardless, their goal is a worthy one.
The fact that she has been allowed to seek her own redemption had quite the effect on her; prior to that point, she was quicker to judge others for their misdeeds. She is still quite certain that there are those who will do more harm than good to the greater picture, and should be removed for the good of the people around them—the only thing she regrets about the St. Daniel's massacre is that it was necessary—but now she is more willing to reach out a hand to those who might be willing to seek a different path. We all make mistakes from time to time; what matters, she thinks, is whether we are able to learn from them and whether we are willing to change for the sake of ourselves and others. It was for that reason that she offered Grace Choi admission into the Sworn of the Ladder even at her unusually young age; she knows how much it can help to know that someone believes you can be better than you are.
She values highly the concept of free will and an individual's right to determine their own destiny insofar as it does not harm others. Her experiences as a thrall of another vampire left her with a serious revulsion toward things she terms "mind control", such as the vinculum and the disciplines of Majesty and Dominate, and the Sept's agreement with her in their official stance on the issue only solidified her feelings there. When another vampire she had taken on as a student, Eve, began casually using Majesty, she became very ill at ease; she does not, generally, even enjoy being in the same room as someone using powers along those lines.
On the other hand, while Grace finds influencing others with supernatural powers to be horrifying and evil, she has a tendency to believe she knows best for others and may go overboard in her efforts to help them—see her falling-out with Paula Ruiz. She's become significantly more self-aware about this in recent years (particularly in recent months, now that she no longer feels drawn to her vices by the Daeva curse), and does her best to rein in her impulses, but she can still be a little opinionated and overbearing on topics she's passionate about.
She also does like to be seen as a mentor and a solid rock to lean on to others—she's glad when others feel they can depend on her. She's very family-oriented, and tends to take on a mothering role in social groups—in contrast to the usual sexy Daeva stereotype, she shows her love entirely platonically. If she considers you family—whether it's biological, by blood, or by choice, she is pretty much willing to die for you and will go out of her way to make sure you have whatever you need.
As a result she tends to hide her own strong feelings and struggles—partly because she doesn't want to ruin her image as The Together One, and partly because she doesn't want anyone to feel like they have to go out of their way to help her. Sharing her own feelings does not come easily to her; at one point, Sam, after becoming a Predator, remarked that she was not so different from them, in her stoicism. Grace, however, feels differently; it's not that she doesn't feel, it's just that she's not very good at expressing herself, and defaults to putting up a calm front. (She actually greatly admires people like Iris, who wear their hearts on their sleeves and are quick to love or anger or call for action—Grace will readily admit that she has often been too cautious in her dealings with others. Patience and temperance are virtues, but less so when they are born of fear.)
Why do you think your character would work in this setting? Grace is a benevolent, helpful soul, who enjoys volunteering, and is someone who is very, very interested in the nature of the universe and what else is out there. She's also something of a sociologist, so she's always interested in meeting people from other places and cultures and hearing about their perspectives. As she's always kept up with the times and lived in many different places, adapting will be no problem at all.
Plus, she's a little bit prideful, even still, and hearing that she has exactly the qualities they're looking for is a little appealing. (Just a smidge.) That, and, well, her friends keep telling her that she ought to lie low for a while; six months on another planet ought to be enough for things to blow over from the Masquerade drop, right? They'll be all right without her for that long, she's sure. Six months is barely any time at all! (At least it is when you're 160+ years old, anyway.) And all the things she could learn while she's there! She's sure this will be a lovely experience and absolutely nothing will go wrong, and everything will be fine when she comes back.
What will your character do for work? Grace is primarily an academic, and aside from the usual subjects can teach several languages—English, Spanish, Chinese. (She also speaks French, but doesn't speak it unless she has to.) She is also reasonably handy with tools, and unnaturally strong for someone her size. She also can teach yoga, tai chi, and self-defense classes.
Inventory: Mostly a big bag full of books, mostly in the category of philosophy, sociology and religion—though there's a handful of sci-fi books in there, too. She'll also bring a few changes of clothes (mostly all-black, since that's basically all she owns, plus the all-white set), a yoga mat, her boxing hand wraps, a few notebooks and pens, and her flower crown. (The flower crown is very important.)
Samples:
Third-Person Sample: Grace Y. visits Grace C. and finds out the extent of her bad reputation
First-Person Sample: "You make it sound like unlife is just going to be an eternal battle." "It's because it is."