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Moving on to the less mortal inhabitants dwelling in the city of Eagle Crest, allow me to introduce you to Teena Longsworthe, the founding member of the group of reapers to which Dawn gets recruited.

Born an average human girl in England in 1833, Teena had an incredibly difficult start. In 1838, her father, the only family she had, was killed saving her from a mining accident. Unable to find support in a world where the poor weren't exactly top priority, least of all a "filthy street urchin", Teena had to learn how to survive in the Victorian underground fast. After years of eating out of the trash and picking pockets, she became a reclusive, quiet girl who insisted she didn't need anyone's help. That all changed in 1850, when she crossed paths with a mysterious woman from the States named Grace MacKenneth. On a mission to stop some hidden evil, Grace ended up taking the girl under her wing. It was the first real kindness Teena was ever given for free, and it changed her for the better. She looked up to Grace as the mother she never had, and when it came time for Grace to move on, Teena teamed up with the few people Grace taught her to trust in order to safeguard the people from supernatural threats.

Teena became an extremely powerful witch, studying magic lore from old Celtic and Nordic sources stretching back to the days of Arthur. Her efforts even crossed paths with the blooming new occult organization, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Sadly, her childhood as a coal miner cut her adult life short, and no amount of magic can prolong death forever. But she felt she still had a duty to fulfill, so she crafted an afterlife of her own as a specter, kept tied to the material realm by her beloved husband. As she learned in her studies, the supernatural only exists through the power of human belief, and so her husband served as the conduit who would keep her memory, and thus her specter, alive. In 1888, however, he too died, and Teena had to find a replacement fast to keep her connection to the mortal realm. Since then, she's recruited a small roster of dead folk as new reapers, and their living loved ones as their conduits to keep them all tethered. This same process would need to be repeated across decades for them to fulfill their purposes, eventually leading to the recruitment of one Dawn Hewlett.

The Teena that Dawn would be dragged away against her will by, however, was an old and bitter spirit. Teena had only one other reunion with Grace, but it did not go well. Seeing what Teena had become and the magical methods she employed, Grace chastised the girl for doing what their enemies were doing, if for different reasons. The two did not part on good terms, and feeling like she lost her surrogate mother, Teena resigned herself and her team to run away to Eagle Crest and be nothing more than passive reapers, not interfering in the lives of men, only their deaths. She is quick to anger, and not especially talkative, much to Dawn's detriment as she struggles to come to terms with what she's been turned into. Unless she can find some common ground…

Design notes, obviously I took a dip into my comfort zone and dolled her up in a tattered Victorian gown, appropriate for any self-respecting haunt. I wanted the layers to somewhat echo the form of a human skeleton, most clearly in the torso. It's not perfect, and I can definitely say there's room for improvement, but as it stands I'm happy with it. Color and texture wise, she hits the same bullet points I touched on in Dawn's sheet. Chalk white, ghostly outline of former flesh, etc. Although Teena is the only one actually capable of transforming back into a more human form at will, at which point her dress is basically the same but without the wear and tear, and shaded entirely black. Gotta keep that Victorian fashion trending into the modern day, afterall.

Description
Moving on to the less mortal inhabitants dwelling in the city of Eagle Crest, allow me to introduce you to Teena Longsworthe, the founding member of the group of reapers to which Dawn gets recruited.

Born an average human girl in England in 1833, Teena had an incredibly difficult start. In 1838, her father, the only family she had, was killed saving her from a mining accident. Unable to find support in a world where the poor weren't exactly top priority, least of all a "filthy street urchin", Teena had to learn how to survive in the Victorian underground fast. After years of eating out of the trash and picking pockets, she became a reclusive, quiet girl who insisted she didn't need anyone's help. That all changed in 1850, when she crossed paths with a mysterious woman from the States named Grace MacKenneth. On a mission to stop some hidden evil, Grace ended up taking the girl under her wing. It was the first real kindness Teena was ever given for free, and it changed her for the better. She looked up to Grace as the mother she never had, and when it came time for Grace to move on, Teena teamed up with the few people Grace taught her to trust in order to safeguard the people from supernatural threats.

Teena became an extremely powerful witch, studying magic lore from old Celtic and Nordic sources stretching back to the days of Arthur. Her efforts even crossed paths with the blooming new occult organization, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Sadly, her childhood as a coal miner cut her adult life short, and no amount of magic can prolong death forever. But she felt she still had a duty to fulfill, so she crafted an afterlife of her own as a specter, kept tied to the material realm by her beloved husband. As she learned in her studies, the supernatural only exists through the power of human belief, and so her husband served as the conduit who would keep her memory, and thus her specter, alive. In 1888, however, he too died, and Teena had to find a replacement fast to keep her connection to the mortal realm. Since then, she's recruited a small roster of dead folk as new reapers, and their living loved ones as their conduits to keep them all tethered. This same process would need to be repeated across decades for them to fulfill their purposes, eventually leading to the recruitment of one Dawn Hewlett.

The Teena that Dawn would be dragged away against her will by, however, was an old and bitter spirit. Teena had only one other reunion with Grace, but it did not go well. Seeing what Teena had become and the magical methods she employed, Grace chastised the girl for doing what their enemies were doing, if for different reasons. The two did not part on good terms, and feeling like she lost her surrogate mother, Teena resigned herself and her team to run away to Eagle Crest and be nothing more than passive reapers, not interfering in the lives of men, only their deaths. She is quick to anger, and not especially talkative, much to Dawn's detriment as she struggles to come to terms with what she's been turned into. Unless she can find some common ground…

Design notes, obviously I took a dip into my comfort zone and dolled her up in a tattered Victorian gown, appropriate for any self-respecting haunt. I wanted the layers to somewhat echo the form of a human skeleton, most clearly in the torso. It's not perfect, and I can definitely say there's room for improvement, but as it stands I'm happy with it. Color and texture wise, she hits the same bullet points I touched on in Dawn's sheet. Chalk white, ghostly outline of former flesh, etc. Although Teena is the only one actually capable of transforming back into a more human form at will, at which point her dress is basically the same but without the wear and tear, and shaded entirely black. Gotta keep that Victorian fashion trending into the modern day, afterall.