Harker, Lucy Anti-Hero/Villain
Real Name: Lucille "Lucy" Harker.
Occupation: Vampire hunter, former retail store clerk, former wartime nurse.
Identity: Lucy Harker does not use a dual identity; she is not believed by the public to be a relative of characters from Stoker's novel, nor is the public (nor most of the vampire hunters!) aware that she is a dhampir.
Legal Status: Citizen of the United Kingdom with no criminal record.
Other Aliases: "The Bloody Nightingale", Edith Harker, Evelyn Harker.
Place of Birth: London, England.
Marital Status: Single.
Known Relatives: Jonathan Harker (father, presented as great-great-grandfather, deceased); Mina Murray Harker (mother, presented as great-great-grandmother, believed deceased); Quincey John Arthur Abraham Harker (brother, presented as great-grandfather, deceased); Arthur Holmwood, Jonathan "Jack" Seward, Abraham van Helsing (godfathers, deceased).
Group Affiliation: Van Helsing's band of vampire hunters; secret ally of Dracula; former member of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments during WWI.
Base of Operations: Mobile, formerly London, England, United Kingdom.
First Post-Reboot Appearance: DRACULA UNLEASHED #1.
Origin: DRACULA UNLEASHED ANNUAL #1, tale 3.
History: Everyone who has ever read Dracula by Bram Stoker or has watched any of the film adaptations (Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version is often hailed as the one closest to the novel) knows the story of Jonathan Harker, his wife Mina, and their interactions with the vampire lord Dracula. As part of his seduction of Mina, Dracula fed her some of his blood, the effects of which were put into remission with Dracula's later death. While most who read the novel know that a year after the events depicted the Harkers had a son they named Quincey, after Quincey Morris, their friend who died in battle with Dracula, few know that the Harkers had another child five years later, a daughter they named after Mina's childhood friend Lucy, Dracula's first "bride" in England. Unknown to the Harkers or their friends, Dracula had recently been revived in his Romanian castle, which had reactivated the residual vampire blood still in Mina's body. This blood was then passed on to Lucy in the womb, turning her into a dhampir (a kind of half-vampire that can develop many of the vampire's powers as they get older).
Even from an early age, Lucy Harker was physically stronger than her parents and brother, although she quickly learned to keep her strength in check as to not scare her parents and their friends. However, Lucy's vampiric heritage did not fully surface until she became a nurse during World War I. Near the end of the War, despite her young age (five years younger than most wartime nurses sent to the front lines), Lucy volunteered to assist a field hospital near the Western front, along the border between France and Germany. It was there that the smell of blood (and unknown to her the presence of Dracula himself near the lines) caused her to break down and, exhibiting fangs for the first time in her life, kill a wounded soldier by sinking her teeth into his body and drinking his blood. She continued her killing streak by feeding on the wounded a few at a time until one day she was discovered by the head nurse at the field hospital, a Serbian who had suspected a vampire was among them. Before the head nurse could stake her from behind, the nurse herself was caught by Dracula, who had also heard rumors of the "Bloody Nightingale". To Dracula's surprise and amusement, Lucy insisted on killing the head nurse herself. Dracula himself was intrigued that one of the Harkers' children had turned out a dhampir, and unlike other dhampirs he'd encountered seemed to enjoy her vampire-like existence.
Lucy trained in her dhampiric abilities under Dracula's tutelage until the end of the War, at which point she returned to England, just in time for her father's funeral.
Lucy's exploits between then and the present are unknown. At some point she joined forces with the descendants of her godfather, Abraham van Helsing, claiming to be a descendant of her brother. Over the decades, she worked with the van Helsing clan of hunters to eliminate hundreds of vampires, all the while secretly working with Dracula to systematically lure the various van Helsing heirs into ambushes, slowly helping the vampire lord eliminate the line. After each ambush, she and Dracula would then use their vampiric hypnotic abilities to give her a cover story for surviving; usually they'd leave one of the other hunters involved alive as well and hypnotized to support the cover story. Sometimes she'd use the situation to fake her own death; she'd wait a few years, killing several of van Helsing's hunters until none were left who recognized her, and with a change of a first name rejoined the group. Very recently, she led one of the last van Helsings, Adam van Helsing, into an ambush, where she personally killed him by sinking her fangs into him and draining his blood, stating she'd never liked him.
Adam was soon replaced in the hunter network by the latest van Helsing, Rachel, who Lucy and others believed to be the last of the line. (Unknown to all but Rachel, a branch of the van Helsing family relocated to New York City and changed their last name to Heller in order to hide from Dracula and other vampires who sought to eliminate their line.) She has also recently met and begun to work closely with a pair of vampire hunters who themselves have vampiric traits: fellow dhampir Blade and vampire private investigator Hannibal King, both of whom have sensed that Lucy is not entirely who she claims to be. How these relationships will evolve over time remains to be seen, especially when her duplicity is ultimately revealed.
Age: 113, claims to be 22, physically 20.
Height: 5' 4".
Weight: 115 lbs.
Eyes: Brown.
Hair: Brown.
Uniform: None.
Strength Level: Due to her dhampiric nature, Lucy possesses superhuman strength, considered the equivalent of "ten men"; with her build, this enables her to lift (press) roughly 1,600 lbs.
Known Superhuman Powers: As a dhampir, Lucy Harker possesses most of the strengths of a true vampire while being immune to most of the vampire's weaknesses. She possesses enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, and durability, and possesses a vampire's enhanced senses. She is able to extend her teeth into fangs and form her fingers into sharp claws.
Lucy is effectively immortal, having stopped physically aging in her early 20s. She ages at a normal rate if she fails to feed on blood for several years, but returns to her normal age upon feeding. Presumably if she doesn't feed on blood for six or more decades she will die naturally of old age, but she is understandably unwilling to test this hypothesis. She is also able to regrow severed body parts like arms and legs as well as recover from most injuries in under a minute.
Unlike Blade, the only other dhampir she is aware of, Lucy is able to take the form of a large bat or turn into mist, much like normal vampires. She is also able to take the form of a large brown wolf. Also unlike Blade, she is able to hypnotize people who gaze into her eyes at will. She attributes these to her embracing her vampiric nature, as opposed to Blade who strives to suppress his.
Other Abilities: Lucy is a skilled actress, being able to maintain her cover and convince most of her vampire-hunting comrades of her being simply a highly-skilled fighter. She is also a skilled pilot, skilled at piloting small private airplanes, helicopters, and motorboats, and driving automobiles and motorcycles.
Lucy is also skilled at hand to hand combat, primarily using a wooden stake and her father's kukri when not using her claws and fangs. Under Dracula's tutelage, she has become a skilled hypnotist.
She is also multilingual, being able to flawlessly converse in and read/write Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Latin, Romanian, and Turkish.
Weapons and Paraphernalia: Lucy is known to wield a number of stakes, knives, and other weapons as needed. Her primary weapon, however, is her father's kukri (the same one he used to help defeat Dracula in the early 1890s).
1,140 points
| ST: 14/32 [40*] | HP: 14 [0] | Speed: 7.00 [0] |
| DX: 14 [80] | Will: 14 [10] | Move: 7/21 [0] |
| IQ: 12 [40] | Per: 14 [10] | |
| HT: 14 [40] | FP: 14 [0] | SM: 0 |
| Dmg: 1d/2d (3d+1/6d-1) | BL: 39 lbs. (205 lbs.) | |
| Dodge: 14 | Parry: 16 | DR: 0 |
Languages: Dutch (Native) [4†]; English (Native) (Native Language) [0]; French (Native) [4†]; German (Native) [4†]; Greek (Accented) [2†]; Latin (Native) [4†]; Romanian (Accented) [2†]; Turkish (Accented) [2†].
Cultural Familiarities: Eastern European [1]; Western (Native) [0].
Advantages: Alternate Form (Large Bat, Wolf) [30]; Appearance (Attractive) [4]; Catfall [10]; Claws (Sharp Claws) (Switchable,+10%) [6]; Discriminatory Hearing [15]; Discriminatory Smell [15]; Discriminatory Taste [10]; Enhanced Dodge +3 [45]; Enhanced Move (Ground) 1.5 (Move 21/42 mph) [30]; Enhanced Parry (All Parries) +3 [30]; Enhanced ST +18 (Costs 1 FP, -5%) [138]; Enhanced Time Sense [45]; Filter Lungs [5]; Injury Tolerance (Diffuse) (Misty, -40%) [60]; Language Talent [10]; Leech 1d/sec (Follow-Up: Bite, +0%; Heals FP (FP or HP), +60%) [60]; Mind Control (Conditioning, +50%; Rationalization, +20%; Sense-Based (Target's Vision and Hearing), -15%) [78]; Night Vision 7 [7]; Regeneration (Very Fast: 1 HP/sec) [100]; Regrowth [40]; Smooth Operator 3 [45]; Super Jump 2 [20]; Teeth (Sharp Teeth) (Switchable, +10%) [2]; Unaging [15].
Perks: Weapon Bond (Father's Kukri) [1].
Disadvantages: Compulsive Murderer (12) [-15]; Dependency (Blood; Yearly; Illegal) (Aging, +30%) [-1]; Secret (Murderous Dhampir; Possible Death) [-30]; Sense of Duty (Dracula) [-2]; Uncontrollable Appetite (Blood) (15) [-7].
Quirks: Amoral [-1]; Attentive [-1]; Not Until My First Cup! [-1]; Prefers to Use Vampiric Powers When Unlikely to be Caught [-1]; Villain-Worshipper (Dracula) [-1].
Skills: Acting (A) IQ+4 [4] – 16‡; Boating/TL8 (Motorboat) (A) DX-1 [1] – 13; Body Language (A) Per+0 [2] – 14; Brawling (E) DX+4 [12] – 18; Chemistry/TL8 (H) IQ-1 [1] – 11 [2]; Detect Lies (H) Per+3 [4] – 17‡; Diagnosis/TL6 (H) IQ-1 [2] – 11; Diplomacy (H) IQ+1 [1] – 13‡; Driving/TL8 (Automobile) (A) DX-1 [1] – 13; Driving/TL8 (Motorcycle) (A) DX-1 [1] – 13; Escape (H) DX+0 [4] – 14; Fast-Talk (A) IQ+4 [4] – 16‡; First Aid/TL8 (E) IQ+0 [1] – 12; Forced Entry (E) DX+0 [1] – 14; Hidden Lore (Vampires) (A) IQ+2 [8] – 14; Housekeeping (E) IQ+0 [2] – 12; Hynotism (H) IQ+2 [12] – 14; Intimidation (A) Will+4 [4] – 18‡; Knife (E) DX+4 [12] – 18; Navigation/TL8 (Air) (A) IQ+0 [2] – 12; Navigation/TL8 (Sea) (A) IQ+0 [2] – 12; Observation (A) Per+0 [2] – 14; Occultism (A) IQ+2 [8] – 14; Piloting/TL8 (Helicopter) (A) DX-1 [1] – 13; Piloting/TL8 (Light Airplane) (A) DX-1 [1] – 13; Professional Skill (Nurse) (A) IQ+0 [2] – 12; Savoir-Faire (High Society) (E) IQ+4 [2] – 16‡; Savoir-Faire (Military) (E) IQ+3 [1] – 15‡; Sex Appeal (Human) (A) HT+4 [2] – 18‡#; Stealth (A) DX+2 [8] – 16; Streetwise (A) IQ+4 [4] – 16‡; Wrestling (A) DX+4 [16] – 18.
Techniques: Neck Bite (Brawling) (H) def+3 [4] – 16; Stake to the Heart (Knife) (H) def+3 [4] – 16.
Starting Spending Money: $3,950 (20% of Starting Wealth, minus the cost of her kukri)
* Includes +18 from Enhanced ST.
† Includes +1 level from Language Talent.
‡ Includes +3 from Smooth Operator.
# Includes +1 from Appearance.
Role-Playing Notes:
Among the vampire hunters, Lucy is a courageous and caring young woman who is bound to the others by their ancestors' friendships and hardships, considering them as part of her own extended family. She even gets along with Blade, which is something the others in the group struggle to do.
However, that has recently been revealed as just an act! The true Lucy is a cunning apex predator who delights in her abilities and the taste of blood. She has betrayed the hunters many times in the past, particularly luring members of the van Helsing family into ambushes by powerful vampires, and is credited with killing Rachel van Helsing's cousin Adam herself.
Despite her misgivings, Lucy has come to actually like Rachel, which may (will) lead to some conflict later when the details of Adam's death inevitably come to light.
| BRAWLING | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TL | Weapon | Damage | Reach | Parry | Cost | Weight | ST | Notes |
| 8 | Brawling Punch | 1d cr/cut cr | C | 16 | – | – | 14 | |
| – Enhanced ST | 3d+3 cr/cut | C | 16 | 32 | ||||
| 8 | Brawling Kick | 1d+1 cr/cut | C, 1 | n/a | – | – | 14 | |
| – Enhanced ST | 3d+4 cr/cut | C, 1 | n/a | – | – | 32 | ||
| 8 | Brawling Bite | 1d cut | C | n/a | – | – | 14 | |
| – Enhanced ST | 3d+3 cut | C | n/a | – | – | 32 | – | |
| follow-up | 1d HP/sec | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| KNIFE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TL | Weapon | Damage | Reach | Parry | Cost | Weight | ST | Notes |
| 2 | Kukri | 2d cut | C, 1 | 16 | $50 | 1.5 | 7 | [1] |
| – Enhanced ST | 4d-1 cut | C, 1 | 16 | 7 | ||||
| or | 1d imp | C | 16 | 7 | ||||
| – Enhanced ST | 2d imp | C | 16 | 7 | ||||
Notes:
[1] Fine quality.
Design Notes:
1. Lucy Harker started as a rename of the old Tomb of Dracula character Edith Harker. Edith in the comics was a bit character, the daughter of Quincy Harker (himself the actual son of Jonathan and Mina from Stoker's novel; it was the '70s, and Quincy was an old man, confined to a wheelchair), but after a handful of appearances she was turned into a vampire and summarily staked by her father. I'm also increasing the official number of generations between the Harkers from Stoker's novel and their "descendant" Lucy.
2. Leech is built as 4/sec, which using the dice+adds adjustments becomes 1d/sec.