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Jan. 12th, 2026 01:38 pm
madison daye
— original —
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Other Physical Traits.
madison is a dead woman walking. freshly replenished, she's alive for a while, but without taking life from somewhere else, she gradually rots. most of the time she still has the scars from her autopsy, sometimes the scars from her death by traffic accident. rarely, she's a blank canvas.
IC Permissions.
Background.
Madison has always suffered from a certain malaise. Never quite finding a rhythm in life, every choice seemed to steer her further into apathy. One day, twenty-seven and all out of interest for carrying on, she finally resolved to throw herself into the Thames— and got hit by a bike and then by a car after stepping out from behind a bus to cross the road on Waterloo bridge. She and the cyclist were pronounced dead at the scene.
She woke sometime later in a cold storage drawer of the Westminster Public Mortuary, naked, screaming.
Personality.
She's a tricky one to pin down. Historically whatever her parents wanted her to be, she's always been prone to perform. Perform enthusiasm, perform interest, perform pretty and passionate and perfect, or meek and mild, or whatever got her most easily through the day. These days, deceased and surrounded exclusively by strangers, suffering bouts of amnesia that wake her in beds next to dead men whose money she steals on the way out the door, playing harmless and avoiding connection is more important than ever.
Underneath it all, she's pissed, frightened, listless. She doesn't want to be here anymore. Can't fucking die.
Underneath that is her own avenging angel. The thing that ressurected her takes her over at will, vindictive and mischievous and prone to put on a show, manipulative in pursuit of a meal, willing to do whatever it needs to to keep Madison Daye alive and suffering long past her intended expiration date.
Possession and Power Set.
On death, Madison was ressurected by an unnamed entity who can take her over at will. In this new state, she's able to live in spite of her body's perpetual decay: all she has to do is take in fresh life to keep herself going.
The entity's powers over Madison's body:
- Immediate & total control
- Shutdown of conscious brain (ft. immunity to mind reading)
- Self-decay
- Self-healing
- Precise control over physical form (can create/remove wounds and scars, fortify muscles/bones/etc, interact with and override nervous system)
- Temporary superhuman capability (strength, speed, enhanced senses, etc as needed) with sufficient fuel
- Channeling the flow of life energy to the above ends
This requires the collection of life energy from other conscious beings, which can be collected in any amount through any form of contact, though the entity has behaved in such a way that Madison believes this has to be taken through sexual intimacy, violence, or consuming the source. Aware that she usually wakes up having killed people when she goes too long, she will begrudgingly take energy herself on occasion.
Madison is technically capable of all of the abilities in the above list, but other than the energy drain, hasn't figured out any of the rest. She only knows what she sees of them on her own body when she regains consciousness, and doesn't really like to think about it.
