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Mortal Life

Heather was born the youngest of 4 kids to a middle class family outside of Atlanta. She had the privilege of a suburban education and a suburban life and she took full advantage of it. Girl scouts and soft ball teams along with dance and instrument lessons that she didn't care much about, she had no knowledge of anything beyond her white picket fence world. Even the February classes on black history didn't make her think much about what life was like for anyone else. That all changed when she met Dr. Leslie, a Sociologist and feminist activist who taught a Cultural Study elective class at the local college that Heather took her junior year of high school. That was the beginning of her life as an activist.

She spent that summer in the reference section of the library where she studied the plight of the downtrodden like it was going out of style. She began the production of an e-zine titled "Living is easy" about the privileges of suburban life and it's contrast with her brothers and sisters on the other side of the tracks. She started to branch out from there, getting involved with the local Coalition for Peace and Justice, marching and demonstrating.

She worked in shelters and participated in tutoring programs. She became a big sister and donated money to the UNCF. Heather graduated high school and moved onto college where she majored in social welfare with a minor in computer science to better facilitate her participation with the CPJ.

It was there that Heather began to run with slightly more extremist groups, nothing as bad as anarchists, but serious socialists who were easily able to sway her (still dealing with the grips of the guilt she laid on her shoulders at her white privilege) to their political ideology. Imagine, the song by the Beatles, one that she'd grown up listening to became a sort of mantra for her but she realized that it was an ideal goal for a world with a severe lack of ideal conditions.

So she does what she can - creating web pages for the various social and activist causes she participates in - everything from racial equality to gay rights to feminism, if it's a cause for the downtrodden, a means to right wrongs and make the playing field level, Heather wants to be involved.

That is how she came to meet DJ.

Unlife

It seemed pretty foregone that Heather would join the Carthian Movement. She was loud, obnoxious and managed to piss off all the right people in all the right ways. How is it that she ended up with the Circle of the Crone then? Simply put she was put off to the idea of the Carthian Movement by the Carthians themselves. DJ, while an adequate instructor on Kindred life was less than amazing as a cheerleader for the Movement. Coupled with the constant arguments that Heather had with then Prefect Clementine Beaumont she found herself wanting more from her Kindred experience than just the same bullshit that she dealt with her whole mortal life. At the same time she found herself growing closer to Marissa Carisle and Carter Rails, both Crones who, while they weren't necessarily trying to recruit Heather, they certainly spent a lot of time talking to her. She'd also found in Will Ashford a friend who shared her disillusionment with the Movement.

It was with this yearning that she went to meet DJ's sire Nathan. Nathan challenged Heather, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. And when she returned from visiting she was on the fence, Carthian or Crone.

It's rather silly to say the decision was made by a slip of the cellphone, but it's also honest. Tired of being unsure Heather decided that she would just call Clementine and tell her to sign her up for the Movement. Imagine Heather's shock when instead of dialing Clementine she accidentally dialed Carter. She heard his voice in the back of her mind as she was about to stutter out an apology. There are no accidents. So to the surprise of the city Heather joined the ranks of the Circle of the Crone.

Not even a year dead Heather was released by her now estranged sire, having given up their relationship in favor of her faith. And just weeks later she rose from the Chorus to an Acolyte, Maiden with the Circle of the Crone taking her new faith with the same fervor she at one time brought to the fight for justice.

One Year Dead

Faith had always been a curious thing for Heather, one that she had decided early on to allow to grow organically. So it surprised her when her Gods came to her in the form of Catholic saints. More surprising that one of them - the God who gifted her with the ability to make Blood Stones without sacrifice of herself - was Longinus. Not the Longinus of the Lancea Sanctum to be sure but Longinus all the same. She knew that the cloak of her faith would bring her trouble, that it was dangerous but she certainly couldn't change what she believed in because it was dangerous. So for a while she kept it quiet. And for a while it worked.

In the mean time her relationship with Carter went from mentor to student to something much more. There seemed to be a mutual infatuation that Heather thought led to a mutual partial blood bond. However Carter, already bound to his childe Daphne, was acting only in light of his blood addiction. In the ferver of her relationship with Carter and the exploration of her faith Heather left the rest of the city and her friends on the way side leaving her in a very precarious position when Carter found out about her faith. Without the protection of her sire or anyone else in the city his threats on her life resounded to her very soul and she fled Atlanta and took shelter with a mentor, a woman who shared her faith.

Not a night had passed after she'd left before Heather began being visited by visions and nightmares about the city that she'd called home for her entire life and death. After weeks of the visions one thing became abundantly clear - the Gods required her return to Atlanta or she would face their severe displeasure. Obediently she returned to Atlanta, certain that Carter, now Hierophant, would kill her for what he called heresy.