Idlae - Rhiannon

"I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it for him."
"I'll become a little sister he could have been proud of."
"Goodbyes don't have to be forever."

[Name]
Rhiannon Oak
[Nicknames]
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[Age]
21 (birthday May 14)
[Gender]
Female
[Partner]
Needs one. Preferably male who will look after this stupidass girl.
[Height]
5'9''
[Weight]
140 lbs
[Place of Birth]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
[Ethnicity]
Half Irish, half American
[Inventory]
- bags of salt
- lighter fluid
- shotgun (has a good aim)
- rock salt shots
- lighter
[Vehicle]
2004 Nissan Pathfinder (belonged to her brother and so was already fitted with weapons hiding spots too bad she has no weapons right now since she had to give up her rifle when she transferred to the SPN universe)


[Personality]

cold / distant / bitter / blunt / determined / worships her brother
Rhiannon has never been the easiest person to get along with. From a young age, she refused contact with any person who wasn't her brother - she wouldn't even talk to anyone unless he encouraged her to. Extremely possessive of her brother, she drove away most of his friends and didn't want to make any of her own.
She places little value on her own life - she has never cared if she got hurt. Her pain tolerance is high to the point of her not even noticing she's injured - until she passes out or can't move anymore, since her body is really no different from anyone's. Additionally, she is somewhat self-defeating in that she will put herself into situations she knows she cannot win alone, and at times hates herself hates herself for how she treated her beloved brother.
She apparently once had a softer, kinder side, but after her brother's death, that side was hidden far far far far far beneath an ice-cold exterior of bitterness and distrust. While Rhiannon can occasionally admit to a grudging respect for someone, any kinder emotions are hard to evoke.
She practically worships her dead brother and will do anything to be more like him. Her feelings towards him are complicated. She claims that she is 'saving all the people her brother is now unable to' rather than doing this for her own sake or because she actually cares about the people she's helping.
She despises poltergeists and any form of spirit, seeing them as her arch-enemies as it was one of their kind that took Teige from her. 

[Biography]

Rhiannon was born to an Irish mother and an American father in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a dentist, was kind and hard-working, while her mother was doting and loving to their little girl. While not exactly what you could call well-off, they were comfortable enough.

As a child, she never tried to stop herself from getting injured - she was constantly wounded, partly through childish clumsiness, but mostly through carelessness and unconcern for her safety. Her parents were at their wit's end trying to work out what they could do to help their child, who was becoming a danger to herself. Luckily, there seemed to be one cure - Rhiannon's older brother, Teige.

Teige was five years older than Rhiannon and if Rhiannon was the family's black sheep, he was the golden boy. Rhiannon and Teige were close from the moment Rhiannon could walk, and she rarely left his side, quickly becoming an almost-fanatic devotee.

At first her parents thought it was a normal sibling relationship, but it quickly became apparent that Rhiannon's extremely possessive nature was causing trouble for both of them. Rhiannon was disinterested by anything that didn't involve Teige, and also wouldn't let him do his own thing or hang out with friends. When they tried to separate Rhiannon from Teige, she started to deliberately get hurt. Teige, the loving and kind older brother, didn't want to see his sister hurt, and so did what he could to keep her calm - even though it made him miserable.

When she turned 12, Rhiannon started to realise how her actions hurt her precious Teige, but she couldn't help it. She tried her best to be less possessive, and Teige was able to make friends and live a more normal life for the first time in years. Rhiannon, however, became sad and lonely - but never once deliberately hurt herself again, having seen how it worried her brother. A cruel irony - she wanted to be happy and be with him, but she also wanted him to be happy, and was pained to realise that while he loved her, Teige was much happier with friends his own age.

That same year while exploring an abandoned building near their home, Rhiannon and Teige were attacked by a poltergeist. By this stage Rhiannon was habitually sullen and angry when not with her brother, and despite being with him she allowed the thing to attack and injure her. Teige managed to get the two of them out of there with quick thinking, bravery, and a lot of luck. They never told anyone what they'd seen - no-one would have believed them, not even their parents.

But 17 year old Teige did some research and discovered what it was, and with yet more luck, they were able to find the remains, salt them, and burn them. After this experience, and realising that more monsters were out there, Teige could not return to a normal life. He graduated high school at just barely 18, and began to travel America in search of other supernatural beings, trying to help as many people as he could.

Needless to say, Rhiannon was not at all happy with the idea of her brother going off permanently without her and did everything to be allowed to go as well. Their parents, who believed Teige was travelling and would do his uni degree externally (distance ed type thing), obviously refused to let Rhiannon go - she was only 13, after all, and it wouldn't be rational to let a 13 year old go off. In the ensuing argument, Rhiannon ran off into the storm outside and in her terror of the storm she was bumped by a car, resulting in her being stuck in hospital for a few days. Teige left for his travels after saying goodbye to her.

After Teige left, Rhiannon became even more miserable and alone since she didn't a single other friend, and now she couldn't even look forward to spending time with her brother when he was around. Instead she lived with the hope of joining her brother after school, and hunting with him - no-one could interfere with that, surely.

But three years later, when Rhiannon was 16, her parents received a call to say that the 20 year old Teige had died in a house fire in San Diego. Rhiannon was shattered - for a month she barely ate, refused to go to school, and spent most of her time lying on Teige's bed, staring at the wall. Several months later, a passing hunter appeared at their house, claiming to be one of Teige's "traveler friends". He told Rhiannon in secret that Teige had been hunting a poltergeist, which had killed him just before Teige's salt-n-burn technique had worked. Rhiannon swore then and there to eliminate every poltergeist that she saw, no matter what, and avenge Teige. Revenge for her beloved brother became her sole motive for living.

Two years later her parents finally let her move out, by which stage Rhiannon's need for vengeance and her loneliness had formed her into a bitter person. She left without a backwards glance. Her first years of hunting were painful, full of mistakes and narrow evasions, with more injuries than she could count - not that she cared. But Rhiannon refused to stop and refused to wait. She was carrying on Teige's work - taking up his shield to protect others. It seemed the only thing she was good for.

It has been five years since Teige died, and not a day goes past that she doesn't think of him. Each year on his birthday, she lights a candle for him and lets it burn until it is spent.

[Tl;dr version] A normal childhood; she idolised and was very possessive of her older brother Teige, only relaxing slightly when she became old enough to realise the annoyance it was to him. When she was 12 and Teige 17, they discovered and managed to kill a poltergeist. Shortly after this her brother became a hunter, leaving her behind. When she was 16, he was killed by another poltergeist, and that was what made Rhiannon take up arms in his name when she finally finished school.

[Likes]
- her brother, Teige
- people who act like they're her older brother
- weaponry
- destroying poltergeists
- secretly likes people who thank her for doing her job
- winter
- wearing her brother's clothes
- instrumental music (not a fan of singing)
- heavy weaponry (really wants to own an assault rifle)
[Dislikes]
- thunderstorms
- most animals
- moronic people, people who won't listen to her when she's trying to tell them that that thing is actually dangerous
- poltergeists
- overly talkative people
- wasting her time chasing things that turn out not to be supernatural at all
- poltergeists
- painkillers
- having to research how to kill something; luckily she found /some/ of her brother's notes or she would just be dead already
- poltergeists
- spirits and ghosts
- everything else

[Extra]

- she has a vendetta against poltergeists and will literally go states out of her way to investigate even the slightest rumour of one. And if she finds one, she will do whatever necessary to destroy it, even at great risk to herself.
- she knows nothing about demons, neither her or her brother ever having encountered one before.
- her apparent "dislike" of thunderstorms is hiding a pathological fear. She is terrified of both thunder and lightning, and tends to curl up into small terrified balls during storms.
- she is ambidextrous, but was born left-handed.
- she wears that black armband (you can't really see it past the salt but it's there on her left arm) with any outfit, no matter what. It is a tribute to her brother and is made out of one of the coats they found i his car. She never takes it off unless she's sleeping or showering, or changing clothes.
- painkillers tend to make her act drunk, much more than the usual person. Even generic brand ones.
- Teige's birthday was September 4. His grave marker is in Greensburg, PA.
- is the parallel life of Rhiannon Okamoto (deceased)
- wears a lot of her brothers clothes.
- secretly hopes and fears that her brother may come back as a ghost. She wants to see him again. But there is no chance of this happening.
- has a mild Irish lilt in her voice.
- Here's some music Way Out Stay Close The Hell Song Demons

Prompt 2]
Your car has broken down on the side of the road. It's a clear five miles before you find help in either direction, and it's started to rain.]]

Rhiannon threw the door of her car - well, it was almost a truck - open, but not with as much force as she would normally have dealt to something that was annoying her. It was her brother's car, after all. Not a scratch on the paint, not a dent in the bumper - as one of the few tangible things she had left of her brother, Rhiannon would never see it come to harm. She'd rather die first. Well, almost.
"Stupid little..." She popped the hood, though in reality she had no idea what she was looking for. Who knew why cars broke down anyway? It wasn't like it had happened before. Maybe it was out of gas or something. She closed the hood and checked the dial, but it was too dark to see if there was gas or not.
Thunder rumbled across the sky and Rhiannon's hand spasmed before she could stop it, causing the keys to fall into the mud below. Looking up at the grey heavens, Rhiannon's usually irritated expression hardened into something like... concern? No, it couldn't be concern. Rhiannon kicked a tyre and climbed into the back seat, locking the doors and putting the keys in the centre console. It was getting late, anyway. She curled up in the boot and tried unsuccessfully to ignore the hated sound of rain and thunder.

Y e a h wish me luck, I'll do my best!! Hopefully my stupid rude kid won't be too much trouble

Let's all be f r i e n d s!!