Bio

1) Character Name: Solace Nylan
2) Alias: None so far
3) Age: 22
4) Faction: The good guys.  She refuses to call anyone a Scoobie.
5) Alignment: Good
6) Occupation: None, save for saving the world on occasion.
7) Species: Human (Slayer)
8) Background: At the age of three, Solace was abandoned on the steps of an Orphanage run by the Catholic church in south Boston. By the age of five, she had been adopted, oddly enough, by a single man. Wallace Nylan. Her childhood for the first few years with her new father was odd, but welcomed. A good stable home, full of books and music..and strangely enough, medieval weaponry. She never thought twice about the Fencing lessons, the archery tournaments, and the gymnastics training her father signed her up for and often, even taught himself. It wasn't until she hit her adolescent years that things were explained. She was trained, all those years for a great, and tragic destiny. On her 14th birthday her father, or more correctly, her watcher, explained that Solace was a Potential. On that night, he took her on her first hunt. She was a natural. There was a feral viciousness about her when she hunted that night...and every night there after. It wasn't until her 17th year that she was activated as a full Slayer. It wasn't until several years later that she found that her call to active duty had been, almost a fluke. Faith, who had been put in a coma after a vicious fight with Buffy, had at some point, flat lined long enough for the spell set in place so long ago to activate the next slayer. Guess ancient magics weren't really counting on the miracles of modern medicine. Throughout her childhood, Wally and Solace moved frequently. They had lived in nearly every habitable country, for at least a brief while, before she was called to active duty. It bred in the Slayer an odd sense of culture, a love of art and music, and a respect for humankind. But at the same time, it distanced her from the very people she cared for. A loner by nature, the constant moves only enhanced the self-sufficient, and independent nature of the Slayer. Shortly before her 21st birthday, Solace and her watcher moved one final time together, to Africa. It was there the Slayer was dealt the deepest blow she'd ever felt. She lost her watcher, and her father in a random hunt, no different than the millions before. In the loss of her father figure, she also lost a bit of herself, (and the little contact that she and her watcher shared with the Council). She spent two weeks, Hunting, becoming something feral and wild, in search of the demon that killed her father...it was that act, more brutal and so removed from her human self, that drew her back to her senses, and the modernized world. Marked with ink and scars, blood and memories, she returned to find a new council and a new game board for the war between good and evil.
9) Personality: Solace is a study in contrasts. On one level, she is proof that the system works. She was found as an early potential, and trained well. She is, essentially a one woman demon-destroyer. On the other hand, her upbringing has distanced her from the normal rights and trials of childhood and growth. She had no friends as a child, no place to truly call home. Where she excels in martial abilities, she has little experience in simply being social. She is supremely confident in her skills as a Slayer, nearly over-confident at times and has a tendency to reject offered help, even when she knows she needs it. Slaying has become personal for her. She is the Hunter, but at the same times, wants nothing more than to be normal. She is gruff, and at times, off-putting. Brutally honest, and sharp tongued. But she is not uncaring. She has a deeply spiritual side that she hides fiercely from even those closest to her, and she rarely speaks of her past life, particularly Africa. She is deeply loyal to those who work to break through the walls she puts up. At this time in her life, Solace is seeking a way to find the happy medium between being the Slayer, and being a normal woman with a normal life.
10) Powers: Super human strength, speed, agility, occasional premonitions or dream visions, regeneration
11) Skills: Aside from Slayer stuff, Solace is a fairly accomplished musician and tattoo artist (though she isn't formally trained. Slayers just don't have time to apprentice in Tattoo parlors...plus, you don't find too many of those in the middle of the jungle). She can also tap a mean beer. Solace was home schooled by her watcher through her childhood, so she's got a solid educational background, but has no college level experience or schooling.