The Ravenous.

The nickname “The Ravenous” started as a cruel joke among classmates after she once devoured an entire 900-page grimoire in one all-nighter and then seduced the entire debate team “just to see if knowledge tasted better on skin.”

Seraphina “Sera” VanHelsing - The Ravenous

Age: 24

Ethnic Origin: Norwegian-Icelandic with a distant Sami maternal line (explains the near-white platinum hair and ice-blue eyes that seem to shift under certain light; the family tree is full of “old blood” legends that locals still whisper about).

Studies: Dual Master’s candidate in Comparative Mythology & Occult Semiotics at a reclusive private university hidden in the Pacific Northwest rainforests. Thesis title: “The Devouring Archetype: From Fenrir to Modern Succubi – Hunger as Transcendence.”

Job: Part-time Rare Books Archivist at the university’s restricted collection (after-hours access only) and anonymous author of underground dark-romance erotica published under the pen name “Ravynne Vale.”

Background: Born in a wind-bitten fishing village above the Arctic Circle where the sun barely rises in winter. At sixteen her entire family vanished during a “research expedition” into an uncharted glacier cave; the only trace was a single journal page stained with what looked like teeth marks. Sera was shipped to distant American relatives who never spoke of it. She now believes the cave contained something ancient and starving — and that it followed her. The nickname “The Ravenous” started as a cruel joke among classmates after she once devoured an entire 900-page grimoire in one all-nighter and then seduced the entire debate team “just to see if knowledge tasted better on skin.” She kept the name. It fits.