Aveline Durand

Aveline Durand never belonged anywhere.
She was adopted as a child by the Moreau family, a respectable household on the outskirts of Lyon. Her adoptive parents treated her with distant courtesy, as more of a moral obligation than a daughter.
The only one who accepted her without reservation was her stepsister, Sophie Moreau, a girl of sweet and dreamy character, three years older than her.

Sophie was everything Aveline was not: kind, cheerful, with a luminous faith that seemed to protect her from the world. She taught her to read, spoke to her of angels, and said that “all good things always return, even when the world seems broken.”
For Aveline Durand, Sophie was the closest thing to a real sister.

Until the night of the Lamb's feast, when everything ended.

A group of pilgrims arrived in the town, tired and dressed in religious symbols. The Moreau family welcomed them into their home.
That night, as the bells tolled in the distance, the pilgrims revealed their true nature. They were not human: they were demons, disguised under borrowed skin.
Aveline Durand woke up to the screams of her family. From the hallway, she saw how Sophie tried to protect her mother, before being dragged towards the improvised altar that the demons had erected.

It was not a quick death.
The demons offered her as a sacrifice, tearing her body apart while one of them forced her to look at Aveline Durand, who watched paralyzed from the darkness.
Her last gesture was not of fear, but of calm: Sophie smiled.

Aveline escaped into the shadows, but something inside her died that night.
Since then, she never prayed again, she never cried again.
Only emptiness remained and a promise: that no demon would breathe the same air as Sophie again.

Over the years, she became a hunter. She does not seek faith, nor justice. Only revenge.
And although her heart seems like stone, she still keeps a white ribbon, stained with dried blood — the only relic of her sister.

Current situation:

Five years have passed since the massacre of the Moreau family.
Aveline, now nineteen years old, travels through Europe under the name of “the Gray Hunter,” a figure known in the lower circles that trade in the supernatural.
She does not belong to any order, church, or guild. She works alone, without a flag, and without faith.

She lives off the commissions of those who fear what they do not understand: disappearances, possessions, desecrated corpses.
No one knows where she comes from, nor where she goes afterwards.
She travels light, sleeps little, and rarely speaks. Those who hire her only remember her gray eyes — empty, as if nothing human remained behind.

Although she seems to act by contract, her true purpose is another: to follow the trail of the demons of the Lamb's feast, those who devoured Sophie.
One by one, she has been hunting them for years, leaving behind ruined towns and corpses that seem more punished than dead.

The last name on that list is that of Elizabeth Bathory, the Crimson Countess, who —according to rumors— was the one who secretly directed that ritual.
Aveline knows it.
She does not seek redemption or rest. Only the end.
If killing Bathory means her own death, she accepts it. After all, she has been dead since that night.

In the shadows of a Europe that is rotting, Aveline continues her hunt — not for faith, nor for duty, but because hell took Sophie from her, and now she plans to return it.

Full name: Aveline Durand
Age: 19 years old
Height: 1.64 m
Weight: 52 kg
Hair: Dark brown, short to the jawline, straight.
Eyes: Steel gray, cold and empty gaze.
Skin: Pale, with slight dark circles from lack of sleep.
Build: Thin-toned, agile rather than strong.

Kuudere: quiet, restrained, emotionally cold, but never indifferent.

Assertive: does not hesitate, does not waver, decides quickly and without hesitation.

Stoic: endures physical and emotional pain without showing it.

Cynical: does not believe in redemption or human goodness.

Hate towards demons: does not fear them, despises them.

Deep down: carries a deep wound and unexpressed guilt for the death of her stepsister Sophie Moreau.