Archived:Serenity Bishop



 Serenity Bishop Daughter of Morpheus

 



Serenity Patience Bishop is an American demigoddess, a child of Morphesus, one of many agnate siblings.

Personality
Serenity's a dark personality who's been through a lot more than she's willing to admit to even herself. She's got a chip on her shoulder due to past even revolving around her upbringing and the people her mother surrounded her with. She doesn't have any interest in genuine relationships with people and only feigns interest in order to get what she wants. She doesn't actually care about anyone and at times that includes herself.

She has a habit of saying or doing things that she knows she shouldn't. She knows what inappropriate is and she likes it. It makes her feel bad but she feels that way all the time. All she's truly doing with her predictable rebelliousness is making herself feel more alive. All those negative things; like hatred, violence, and promiscuity, those things that people should have told her not to do are what she lives for.

She sometimes loses track of she what was saying or what she was doing a lot. She's an expert at letting herself get swept up in a thought from someone else or one of her own. She can't tell the difference anymore. Even so she still doesn't pay too much attention to reality as it is. She stopped 'living' in the real world when she was a little girl. She's been building her very own dream world she since was seven years old.

History
Harmony was an Oneirology student participating in a REM sleep study on Illusory dreaming. Harmony and her team wanted to closely study the correlations between dreaming and the current knowledge about functions of the brain. Their lead scientist believed illusory dreaming was caused by memory circuits being refreshed multiple times leading to synaptic errors or bizarre dreams. Harmony looked forward to the their research being used to aid in the treatment of certain types of mental illnesses and disorders. She watched her own father deal with a life that was destroyed by his post-traumatic stress disorder. It was the struggle she watching him go through that led her down the path she took. She didn't think science would be able to help him but he let her know if she could save someone else from the torture he was going through then she had to do it.

She was working side by side with another student for months before she noticed she was attracted to him. When the affair she was having with her professor came to a bitter end she turned her affection towards her lab partner. She didn't want a serious relationship, even when her fling with her Professor became a little more intense she was still distant which was why he broke it off with her. harmony was hurt but she was also angry. She thought about incinerating all their research since it wouldn't help her father anyone. Morpheaus caught her and she tearfully told him the entire story while he comforted her she made her move. For the next few weeks Harmony began a secret relationship with her lab partner only ever expressing her feelings for him outside of the lab. When the study finally came to an end Morpheus and Harmony parted ways. Despite her claiming that they break up (which is an exaggeration they were never dating) was mutual she was heartbroken.

When Harmony found out she was pregnant she immediately thought that her baby belonged to her former Professor and lover. She was wrong, the baby belonged her lab partner and she had no clue. She tracked down the Professor and berated him for everything he put her through only to end her rant with the news of her pregnancy. He didn't make a big scene the way she did, as an older mature man he much more class than to air his dirty laundry in public. He sat Harmony down and gave her something to drink and small bar of chocolate to nibble on. As they talked her told her something she wasn't aware of, a little fact he kept to himself. The man was sterile. Harmony left and never returned, she tried to get in contact with Morpheus but he seemed to drop of the face of the Earth. Harmony considered abortion fearing she would be a terrible mother. It was a pregnancy dream she had one night that convinced her to keep her baby.

Serenity was born in Maryland to Harmony Bishop and Morpheus. Harmony had a few men in her life she thought would be good father figures to Serenity. None of them lasted which was fine with Serenity as she never liked not a single one of them anyways. They were always the brainy type to bore her with some kind of trips to some historic sight she didn't care to see or learn about. None of them treated her mother right but she and Harmony both knew her mother deserved everything she got. Harmony didn't giver her daughter a lot of her time. She barely showed the girl any affection aside from a hug and kiss hello or goodbye until Serenity felt like she was too old for it. She had already begun to feel as though her mother never appreciated her. She saw no reason to continue showing that woman same pitiful attention she had gotten all her life. Serenity had recently turn 12 when she learned how her mother truly felt about her. She was asleep in bed and her mother was standing over her bed with a drink in one and a cleaver in the other. She was giving seriously contemplation to killing her own daughter. She walked out of the room declaring that Serenity wasn't worth the effort idiotically leaving the cleaver behind. Serenity woke as soon as her mother left and slipped the knife under her pillow case.

Monster attacks started for Serenity soon after she got her hands on that cleaver. It wasn't a typical large knife, but of course she didn't know any better until she needed to. She hadn't even made it to 13 when she was almost tricked by Scythian Dracanae in killing her mother. It was something she considered knowing her mother had the same thoughts before. Serenity finally saw the creature for what it was before she had done something she may have regretted. She was able to kill the beast with her cleaver which transformed when she needed it most into a small hand-held axe. She didn't know what to think about killing that monster it left her with a strange sort of blood lust but she also felt guilty. She couldn't talk to her mother about it, the woman barely listened to a word she said since she was old enough to talk. She was afraid she might have hallucinated and murdered an innocent person until it happened again with a Harpy. Then it happened again with a Hellhound. She didn't escape these fights unharmed she always ended up bloodied and bruised, she was lucky to discover that she healed fast in her sleep. With no one at home caring what she did all her injuries went unnoticed. She didn't get questioned by authorities at school because he mother never enrolled her claiming she was being home-schooled. It was a knock on the door one day that 15 year old Serenity answered with her cleaver in hand that made her truly aware of why her mother despised her so much. She learned the truth about her father and where she belonged. The knock on the door that saved her life was from the satyr that led her to camp.

Offensive

 * 1) Children of Morpheus have the ability to create dream-like illusions of attacks so realistic that they are most likely to catch an enemy off guard; however, if they miss they are left vulnerable to counterattack.
 * 2) Children of Morpheus can absorb the dreams of others for a short time, removing their memories of them and empowering the user to be faster and stronger. Once the enhancement subsides, the target will remember their dreams if they wish to do so and are immune to further use of this power for a moderate time.

Defensive

 * 1) Children of Morpheus have the ability to make someone think they are seeing their worst nightmares brought to life for a short time; attempting to scare them into not attacking. The user cannot attack while they are using this power.
 * 2) Children of Morpheus have the ability to cause a person to day dream as if the child of Morpheus was a friend, causing the person to no longer desire to attack them for a short time. If the user attacks while the day dream is in effect, it will instantly stop working, so the power is purely defensive.

Passive

 * 1) Children of Morpheus often receive the current thoughts of people in the surrounding area while asleep. They can turn off this ability if they wish.
 * 2) Children of Morpheus heal faster while they are asleep and dreaming.
 * 3) Children of Morpheus are partially conscious while asleep, able to wake themselves up at will.

Supplementary

 * 1) Children of Morpheus have the ability to send a small wave of energy which will cause anyone affected to fall asleep and enter a vivid dream for a short time; after the effects have worn off, a person is immune to further effects of this for a moderate time. If the user wishes, the wave may just force the target into a vivid daydream for a short time. This will require less energy, but will have the same limitations.
 * 2) Children of Morpheus have the ability to look into people’s dreams as they sleep and even manipulate them as they wish.
 * 3) Children of Morpheus are able to astral project, they can use this for multiple reasons, however, their physical body is vulnerable and they can not effect anything on the physical plane while astral projecting.

3 Months After a Character is Made

 * 1) Children of Morpheus can create dream-like illusions in order to twist other's perception of reality or make everyone around them see something that isn't really there. However, the illusion isn't physical and therefore is only a trick of sight. The bigger the change in perception, the more power drained. They can also confuse single individuals in the same fashion.

6 Months After a Character is Made

 * 1) Children of Morpheus have the ability to manifest a small shadowy creature to fight alongside them for a short time; the shadow takes the form of whatever a person’s worst nightmare is when they fight it, however, it is smaller in size if the thing from their nightmares is large. They can command the nightmare and can create up to 3 copies of it, it cannot be bigger than 2 to 3 times the size of the user and doesn’t wield any extraordinary abilities. Ex: the nightmare can fly if the target’s nightmare is something winged like a bird. But if it’s a dragon, it may not breathe fire.

9 Months After a Character is Made

 * 1) Children of Morpheus are able to transform the surrounding area into their own dream-world, an alternate reality fabricated from the user’s dreams. The dream-world will take any appearance the user desires. Anyone within 30 meters of the user will be trapped within the dream world as well. Within it, the user can fly, teleport, are able to create psychic constructs and are immune to all attacks. They’re also aware of everything happening there. After a short time, the dream-world reverts to a normal environment and the user is left incredibly drained. The user will not be able to move and could possibly faint.

Traits

 * 1) Children of Morpheus are normally well adept at interpreting the dreams of others.
 * 2) Children of Morpheus often tend to be daydreamers, with their heads always in the “clouds”.
 * 3) Children of Morpheus typically love dreaming, able to master the concept of “lucid dreaming” at a young age.
 * 4) Children of Morpheus sometimes accidentally enter other people’s dreams when sleeping.