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Missy stands tall at 5’10” and was never one of those girls who slouched to hide her height despite being as tall as (if not taller than) a lot of boys when she was growing up. The stress of the past few years have led to her losing a lot of weight she she’s more often described as ‘skinny’ than ‘slender’, something that she likes to pretend bothers her but it really does not since people tend to underestimate people who look like they have no muscles.. She is undeniably pretty despite this with high cheekbones, blue-gray eyes and long blonde hair that tends to be lighter the longer she spends in the sun. Like any true Aussie, she looks fabulous with a tan and likes to keep it up even if winter months.

Something that Missy is always using her glamour spells to hide is her multitude of scars. No, she is not a self-injurer; she comes from a family of Australian hunters and has been learning the family trade since she was thirteen-years-old. Her legs are the worst for some reason and she does not like people to see them even with the spells. Another thing she hides are the circles around her eyes and the redness that occasionally comes due to her lack of sleep.

Due to her “day job” as a reporter, Missy always appears in outfits that are very well put together with her make-up and hair done. She does wear simpler things when she is only staying at home, but does not like going out like that because she knows very well how much people love getting shots of people not at their best. More than once, however, there have been people who claimed to see the hilt of a dagger or handle of a gun on her person and she has laughed it off. Why would a news reporter need such things? Of course they are right – she always has a few weapons hidden somewhere on her person at any given time, even in her own home. It has led to interesting questions in the past.

Missy is, whether she likes it or not, a vampire of the Revolutionary Rose family and she has inherited all of their strengths and weaknesses (in addition to the usual vampire strengths of enhanced senses and the weaknesses of needing to feed off blood, sensitivity to the sun, weakness to silver...).
Strengths: illusionists, false detection, susceptible to amplifiers
Weaknesses: susceptible to dead zones, immune to vampires and fae-blooded, tattoos, iron, severe punishment, excessive use of illusions weakens (Missy does not have any tattoos because she is not meant to be a Rose and she doesn't suffer punishment simply because if they knew what she was, she'd be dead twice.)

Due to the Rose's extremely strict guideline for turning - which includes the need for the vampire to be a pure-blooded Russian - Missy has to pretend to be of the Sol Bloodline; a family with several similarities that she is attempting to emulate around other vampires to keep herself and her sire from being killed.

Missy has been a Hunter since she was thirteen and she is good at it. She goes specifically after vampires, without a care for their family line, and she goes after them to kill them. Not to wound, not to maim, but to kill. She is an expert shot and has perfected her own personal methods of hunting - but when she was a human they were perfect only to her and still a little below the mark of supernaturals. Now? She has the actual physical strength to back up her game and she might be able to hone her fighting skills even more. A vampiric vampire hunter - is there anything better? Don't answer that, Missy's personal answer is 'yes a human one'.

Melissa Peloe was born in Brisbane, Australia early in the morning to David and Nicole Peloe. Her parents were hard-workers (both at their day jobs as business people to their night activities of hunting) and Missy was raised to have their same outlook on life. She was close with all the members of her family, but closest with her older sister Marianne, whom she idolized. She grew up doing chores around the house when she was not involved in this or that activity – from gymnastics starting at the age of three to soccer when she was six, always physical things that would teach her the importance of being in shape. She was also enrolled in a local dojo to learn, of all things, ninjutsu which got her teased a lot at school. Good thing they did not know that she was also taught how to handle a gun when she was ten.

Life around the Peloe house would seem strange to anyone not raised in it, but Missy never thought anything of it until her thirteenth birthday. Her parents took her aside and explained everything they knew about the supernatural, focusing on vampires, along with informing her that she came from a long line of hunters dedicated to doing their best to eradicate the darker creatures with a specific focus on vampires for the wrongs they’d done to Peloe ancestors. In addition to that, her mother’s bloodline had mixed with the fae in the past, giving them abilities to use glamours that could be quite useful. Missy took to the revelation quite well and joined in more intense training sessions with Marianne with gusto, impressing her parents and uncle with her passion. They were so impressed with her progress that Missy was allowed to go on her first hunt when she was only fourteen. It was a young, newly turned vampire who had been careless in his feeding and, with quite a bit more help from her mother than she cared to admit, Missy took him down.

Her grades in school slipped after this, her interest in the supernatural world and vampires peaking, but her parents would not allow that. Peloe hunters always had a day job to keep them well and unsuspected and Missy would not break that tradition. When she was caught sneaking out of the house with Marianne to go hunting, she was grounded and disallowed from even training and sports until she brought her grades up. Slowly, Missy began to learn a balance between the regular world and the one that she preferred, developing quite an impressive skill when it came to journalism and reporting. What better way to find unusual occurrences than to be the one tracking them down? Delighted with herself for learning about a regular job that could go so well with her hunting, Missy gladly attended the Brisbane College of Australia to earn her journalism degree. It was also in college that Missy actually started to notice, and have time to act on, her desire for women – though nothing lasted that long because she simply could not tell them about where she snuck off to almost every night and why she went through clothes at such a fast rate.

After graduation, Missy moved into an apartment near to her family’s home and began working for a local broadcasting agency. It worked quite well for her and her family, and they started to pick up clues to vampires where-abouts that much quicker, which no one seemed concerned about. On a spring day in 2005, Missy decided to take her little sister, Kristen, (a surprise to the whole family who had been born when Missy was nineteen) to the park for a day, give her parents some time off. When they returned Kristen was asleep and Missy did not wake her because something seemed off. After locking Kristen inside of the car, Missy went inside the far-too quiet house, gun in hand. She found her entire family, from her father down to her next-youngest sibling, dead along with several vampires who had not been able to survive the attack on a family of hunters. Knowing that vampires could not enter homes without being invited, Missy could not help but curse her family’s pride, knowing that they would have invited them in just for the fight. There was only one thing missing – Marianne. Missy could not even think when she searched for her sister, finally finding her in the backyard on the swingset they had always played games on. It would have been easier for both of them if she were dead, because Marianne had been turned, Missy could see her fangs. Before she could even think of anything to say, Marianne looked up at her and said she was so sorry before using the sword that their father always used when he was hunting vampires to cut off her own head.

Missy burned the bodies of the vampires before calling the police. After the funeral she left Kristen in the care of an aunt on their mother’s side who had not been part of the massacre before taking her remaining cousins to track down the vampires who had done it. It took time, but they found them and got rid of every last one. Once that was done, Missy took Kristen back and left the country. They settled into New York for a time, where Missy eventually fell in with a woman by the name of Nikita. She was absolutely charmed by her and seemed to be mutual; eventually ending with the two having a closer relationship than she had ever had before... and Missy eventually discovered/accepted that Nikita was a vampire of all things. You can guess what happened then, sort of - Missy temporarily lost her mind. The two engaged in all-out war for a week until suddenly Nikita was gone and Missy was left licking her wounds; physical and mental. The physical ones healed a whole lot better excepting the one on her hand. The mental ones... let's just go with saying that Missy has not really had a relationship since, or hardly slept with anyone and those she has have been just because she's that wound up physically, or drunk. Usually a combination of both and it lends to her already building self-hatred, especially if it happened to be a guy because that is just so not her. It's pretty safe to say that yeah, she was in love with that vampire.

Knowing then that New York City was not right, Missy sent out a veritable army of resumes. Eventually they turned up an offer in a smaller place called Scarlet Oak. Deciding that she did not want to raise Kristen in a place like New York, Missy took the offer and moved to Michigan in mid-2007. Missy has yet to recover from what happened to her family, especially her sister, and then on top of that there's what happened with Nikita... and if she does not go to bed exhausted in every way then she cries herself to sleep thinking about it or other things that have happened since. Therefore, she does her best to go to bed exhausted or not go at all.

Raising Kristen has definitely left its mark on Missy. She’s become a lot more responsible about her actions and has stopped going off recklessly to hunt vampires without making sure that everything is covered first. She’s even – to her own distaste – taken on jobs for vampires to help provide the life for her sister that she thinks she deserves. Kristen, of course, has no idea about her big sister’s secret life and Missy has yet to decide if she ever wants to share it with her. Bad enough that she has had to deal with some of the people Missy’s fallen in with over the years.


POST LIGHT OF MAY:
Missy was pretty damn pissed when she found out this particular bit of news. Now her night job was going to be even harder to keep secret and people would actually be able to go to the police and report missing vampires or weres or whatever else she was hired to take out. Basically it has put a bit of a crimp in what she does and she’s had to modify some of her techniques. The fact that supernaturals are going to have the same rights as humans and vampires are now illegal to kill? So does not sit well with her. And, while she is not actually in any anti-supernatural rights groups, Missy has helped to fund a few when she is feeling particularly irritable or thinks that the vampires are getting out of hand. Like anytime she finds out about Heme or hears people talking about it. She would love to burn it right to the ground.

Only... on the first of September Missy's life changed in a drastic way - she died. It was a routine hunt, but the prey wasn't. Missy came across a Rider of War and that Rider ended her life. Thanks to her little sister the clairvoyant, there was someone ready to "save" her. While Missy was unconscious and hovering on the brink of death, Nikita Vostrikova (yes that same one) changed her into a vampire. Needless to say Missy isn't happy about this. She's doing her best to adjust to this new life and all the things it means - such as pretending to be from a different family so she and Nikita don't both lose their heads - but she's having some trouble. As if it wasn't bad enough? Her girlfriend, Jadyn, is terrified of vampires and Missy... just doesn't know what to do. About anything.


STORYLINES:
Kristen Peloe, 10, Clairvoyant
Kristen is Missy's little sister and has been under her care ever since their family got killed by vampires five years ago. Missy does her best to take care of her, but she never expected to have a kid so reliant on her and no matter how much she loves the little shiela it can be taxing and harder than anticipated. She isn't always there for gymnastics meets because she's trying to balance between both of her 'jobs' and sometimes the baby-sitter sees her more... but Missy loves Kristen more than she does herself and she's willing to do any and everything to keep her safe. Their relationship is currently strained thanks to Missy being turned while she was out trying to kill the red-eyed vampire who hurt Kristen (who saw it happening in one of her visions) not long after she explained what really happened to their family, but Missy's trying. It's just hard, but she'll keep trying. Kristen's only ten after all. Missy just hopes, deep down, that she's doing the right things because she wants Kristen to have a good life, but she can't help but think it'd be better if she was around more.
"Can you teach me to throw?
I said not today, I got a lot to do. She said that's okay
Se walked away but her smile never dimmed and she said
I'm gonna be like her."


Nikita Vostrikova, 139, Revolutionary Rose
Nikita is the vampire responsible for Missy being what she is, but to say that she's only her reluctant sire would be a lie. Missy dated Nikita for something like four months when she lived in NYC, before she let herself acknowledge that the other woman was a vampire and in a fit of disgust with herself and the other woman she shot at her. That sparked off a feud that drove them both out of the city and now... it's confusing. Missy wants to hate Nikita more than anything, and the more she realizes that she doesn't the more confused she gets. She doesn't want to, but it's obvious that she trusts her because she's left Kristen with her on multiple occasions and she sleeps just fine in her house. And when she saw Nikita with someone else... it got more confusing than ever because she thinks she felt jealous.
"If you had a heart, mine would not ache
If you had a heart, mine would not break
If you had a soul I would be whole
If you had a soul I'd give you all, I'd give you my all.


Jadyn Cole, 29, water elemental/psychic
Jadyn was someone Missy ran into at the hardware store after the first demon attack and they hit it right off, hanging out time and time again until eventually they were practically dating. And then they were dating. Jadyn is Missy's first actual relationship since Nikita and she adores the slightly crazy water elemental. She was there when Jadyn got attacked by a vampire and she promised that she would always be there to look after and protect her; and she meant it. Only Jadyn's terrified of vampires and now Missy is one... and with the complicated, confusing feelings about Nikita, Missy feels like nothing is ever going to just be simple again. Which she hates because Jadyn is amazingly good for her and she just wishes she had never been turned because then maybe everything could have been some degree of normal for her, for Jadyn, and for Kristen. Part of her is still hoping it can be.
"Like the feel of a gun staring at the sun
Like a step on the crack you give me no way back
But you still don't see, no you still don't know
I wanna pull you down and show you how you're beautiful."



MOTHER: Lynn Peloe (deceased)
FATHER: Luke Peloe Sr. (deceased)
BROTHER: Scott Peloe (deceased) and Luke Peloe Jr. (deceased)
SISTERS: Marianne Peloe (deceased) and Kristen Peloe

FRIENDS: Jon Wilkerson, Naoki Kennedy, Jadyn Cole
FOES: Eloisa Chavez

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