serena neamhain WAS BORN ON THE TWENTIETH 0F MARCH TO TWO WEALTHY ENTREPENUERS, garrett and saoirse. THE TWO WERE WEDDED SHORTLY AFTER COLLEGE AND HAD CONCEIVED A SON, WHOM THEY WOULD GO ON TO NAME seamus. FOUR YEARS LATER, THE COUPLE DECIDED THEY WANTED ANOTHER CHILD AND CROSSED THEIR FINGERS FOR A DAUGHTER THAT WOULD HELP TAME THE CRAZINESS IN THE HOUSEHOLD. WHEN serena WAS BORN, Garrett and saoirse WERE THRILLED TO SHOW seamus HIS NEW BABY SISTER, BUT WHILE THE neamhainâS WERE ECSTATIC OVER HAVING A GIRL, THEY WERE QUICKLY OVERWHELMED AND TAKEN ABACK FROM serenaâS PRESENCE. AS IT TURNED OUT, UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM, serena WAS WILDER THAN HER BROTHER.
serena WAS A WHIRLWIND OF MISCHIEF AND DRAMA, BUT DESPITE THE REBELLION THAT INFESTED IN HER FROM HER EARLY ADOLESCENCE, SHE WAS JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY GIRL. IT WAS, PERHAPS, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE LIKED HER. UNLIKE HER OLDER BROTHER, serena WAS EASILY APPROACHABLE AND COULD BEFRIEND ANYONE WITHOUT A MOMENTâS NOTICE. OF COURSE, BEING THE YOUNGER SIBLING HAD ITS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES AS WELL. SEAMUS EVENTUALLY MELLOWED OUT AND BECAME THE QUIET ONE, WHEREAS SERENA ONLY CONTINUED TO GROW MORE BRASH AND OUTGOING. DESPITE THEIR DIFFERENCES, THE TWO SIBLINGS GOT ALONG SPLENDIDLY. HOWEVER, AS THE YEARS WENT ON AND SHE GREW INTO A TEENAGER, THERE WAS A VERY DRASTIC CHANGE IN THEIR DYNAMICS. SEAMUS BECAME MORE OVERPROTECTIVE AND OVERBEARING AS HE WATCHED HIS SISTERâS POPULARITY BLOSSOM. NOT OBLIVIOUS TO HIS DEMEANOR, SERENA QUICKLY MADE THE CONNECTION TO HER BROTHERâS BEHAVIOR AND HER OWN DEVELOPING, FEMININE APPEARANCE. IT WAS ENOUGH TO CAUSE A DRIFT BETWEEN THEM, WHICH WOULD INEVITABLY LEAD SEAMUS DOWN A VERY DARK AND DESTRUCTIVE PATH.
SERENA WAS ALREADY SOMEWHAT OF A CELEBRITY AMONGST HER PEERS BY THE TIME SHE ENTERED HER FRESHMEN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, PARTLY DUE TO HER PARENTSâ WEALTH AND SUCCESS. AND WHILE SHE HAD NO PROBLEMS DISCUSSING HER FAMILY LIFE AND BOASTING ABOUT HER LAVISH LIFESTYLE, SEAMUS TOOK A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT APPROACH AND AVOIDED ANY CONVERSATIONS THAT FOCUSED ON THE TOPIC OF RELATIONSHIPS AND FINANCES â SOMETHING HIS SISTER WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND; AT LEAST NOT UNTIL SHE WAS MUCH OLDER AND BECAME THE HEIR TO THEIR PARENTSâ FORTUNE AND LEGACY. IT WAS ALSO SOMETHING THAT LANDED SEAMUS WITH A REPUTATION OF BEING COLD AND PRETENTIOUS, WHICH WASNâT HALF FALSE. WITH GARRETT AND saoirse CONSTANTLY WORKING, THE TWO SIBLINGS WERE LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. THE LACK OF AFFECTION FROM THEIR PARENTS DIDNâT BOTHER SERENA SO MUCH, CONSIDERING SHE WAS COMPENSATED BY LARGE SUMS OF CASH TO DO WITH AS SHE PLEASED. THE ABSENCE OF THEIR PRESENCE DID SEEM TO BOTHER SEAMUS MORE THAN HEâD CARE TO ADMIT, HOWEVER; THAT COUPLED WITH THE FACT THAT HE HAD TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF A PARENT HIMSELF AND JUGGLE HIS PERSONAL LIFE WITH HIS SCHOOL LIFE. TO DEAL WITH ALL THE PRESSURE, SEAMUS TOOK TO A LIFE OF DRUGS THAT HE HID WELL FROM HIS PARENTS SINCE THEY WERE HARDLY AROUND ANYWAYS.
BY THE TIME SERENA WAS SIXTEEN, SEAMUS HAD SPIRALED SO FAR OUT OF CONTROL THAT HE HAD REACHED THE POINT OF NO RETURN. SHE WAS ONLY IN HER SPRING SEMESTER OF HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THE COPS SHOWED UP, ASKING THE neamhainâS TO COME DOWN TO THE STATION TO IDENTIFY SEAMUSâS BODY. THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER FROM OVERDOSE WAS ENOUGH TO SHAMBLE THE VERY FOUNDATION OF THE neamhain HOUSEHOLD. IT DIDNâT TAKE LONG AFTER THAT FOR GARRETT AND saoirse TO âSTEP DOWNâ FROM THEIR BUSINESS, EACH OF THEM BLAMING THE OTHER FOR WHAT HAD BECOME OF THEIR SON AND FOR WHAT THEIR SON COULDâVE BEEN. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER WAS, THEY WERE AFRAID AND COULDNâT RISK GETTING CAUGHT AND EXPOSING THEIR âBUSINESSâ FOR WHAT IT TRULY WAS. saoirse WAS SO DISTRAUGHT OVER THE LOSS OF HER SON THAT SHE EVENTUALLY BECAME UNINTERESTED IN CONTINUING HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER DAUGHTER, DECIDING TO DUMP HER ON TO GARRETT INSTEAD. GARRETT, NOW IN A FINANCIALLY INFERIOR STATE, STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN ORDER WITHIN HIS OWN ORGANIZATION AND BECAME SO SLOPPY IN HIS WORK THAT SERENA INADVERDENTLY STUMBLED ACROSS THE TRUTH BEHIND HER PARENTâS âBUSINESSâ ALTOGETHER. FEELING GUILTY FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAD TRANSPIRED AND SEEING AS HOW HER FATHER TRULY DID CARE ABOUT HER, ESPECIALLY WITH HIS RECENT EFFORTS TO SUPPORT AND MAKE A LIVING FOR THEM, SERENA TOOK IT UPON HERSELF TO ENTER AND JOIN HER PARENTS IN THEIR LIVES OF CRIME RUNNING AN UNDERGROUND CRIME SYNDICATE. ON THE SIDE, SHE LEARNED HOW TO PICKPOCKET UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS WITHOUT THEM KNOWING ABOUT IT. OF COURSE, HER BEAUTY ALSO HELPED SERVE AS THE PERFECT DISTRACTION. IT WASNâT MUCH, BUT AT THE TIME, EVEN THAT SMALL OF A CONTRIBUTION WAS ENOUGH. EVENTUALLY, SERENA USED STEALING AND THE ACT OF SEDUCING AS A COPING MECHANISM AND BEGAN TO RACK UP A REPUTATION FOR HERSELF. THIS WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD HER TO BECOMING THE MOB BOSS, USING HER FAMILYâS FORTUNE TO OPEN HER OWN bar and music venue in which she used as the base of operations for their underground crime syndicate.
BY HER SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, SERENA FOUND HERSELF SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO HAD ONLY CARED ABOUT HER BECAUSE OF HER STATUS, GENEROSITY AND MATERIALISTIC THINGS. DESPITE EVERYTHING, SHE WAS STILL INVITED TO SOCIAL GATHERINGS HOSTED BY HER PEERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO SHE CHEERLEADED AND DID GYMNASTICS WITH, AND WOULD OFTEN USE PARTIES AS A DISTRACTION TO THE TRAUMATIC EVENTS THAT HAD OCCURRED TO HER AND HER HOME LIFE. once she turned eighteen, she decided to travel and start a band of her own. eventually, SHE MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO with her bandmates SO THAT SHE COULD START ALL OVER AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYONE KNOWING ABOUT HER TRAGIC PAST. SERENA DECIDED TO PURSUE A DEGREE IN BUSINESS, HOPING TO FOLLOW IN HER PARENTSâ FOOTSTEPS BY MAKING AN EMPIRE FOR HERSELF.
serena WAS A WHIRLWIND OF MISCHIEF AND DRAMA, BUT DESPITE THE REBELLION THAT INFESTED IN HER FROM HER EARLY ADOLESCENCE, SHE WAS JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY GIRL. IT WAS, PERHAPS, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE LIKED HER. UNLIKE HER OLDER BROTHER, serena WAS EASILY APPROACHABLE AND COULD BEFRIEND ANYONE WITHOUT A MOMENTâS NOTICE. OF COURSE, BEING THE YOUNGER SIBLING HAD ITS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES AS WELL. SEAMUS EVENTUALLY MELLOWED OUT AND BECAME THE QUIET ONE, WHEREAS SERENA ONLY CONTINUED TO GROW MORE BRASH AND OUTGOING. DESPITE THEIR DIFFERENCES, THE TWO SIBLINGS GOT ALONG SPLENDIDLY. HOWEVER, AS THE YEARS WENT ON AND SHE GREW INTO A TEENAGER, THERE WAS A VERY DRASTIC CHANGE IN THEIR DYNAMICS. SEAMUS BECAME MORE OVERPROTECTIVE AND OVERBEARING AS HE WATCHED HIS SISTERâS POPULARITY BLOSSOM. NOT OBLIVIOUS TO HIS DEMEANOR, SERENA QUICKLY MADE THE CONNECTION TO HER BROTHERâS BEHAVIOR AND HER OWN DEVELOPING, FEMININE APPEARANCE. IT WAS ENOUGH TO CAUSE A DRIFT BETWEEN THEM, WHICH WOULD INEVITABLY LEAD SEAMUS DOWN A VERY DARK AND DESTRUCTIVE PATH.
SERENA WAS ALREADY SOMEWHAT OF A CELEBRITY AMONGST HER PEERS BY THE TIME SHE ENTERED HER FRESHMEN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, PARTLY DUE TO HER PARENTSâ WEALTH AND SUCCESS. AND WHILE SHE HAD NO PROBLEMS DISCUSSING HER FAMILY LIFE AND BOASTING ABOUT HER LAVISH LIFESTYLE, SEAMUS TOOK A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT APPROACH AND AVOIDED ANY CONVERSATIONS THAT FOCUSED ON THE TOPIC OF RELATIONSHIPS AND FINANCES â SOMETHING HIS SISTER WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND; AT LEAST NOT UNTIL SHE WAS MUCH OLDER AND BECAME THE HEIR TO THEIR PARENTSâ FORTUNE AND LEGACY. IT WAS ALSO SOMETHING THAT LANDED SEAMUS WITH A REPUTATION OF BEING COLD AND PRETENTIOUS, WHICH WASNâT HALF FALSE. WITH GARRETT AND saoirse CONSTANTLY WORKING, THE TWO SIBLINGS WERE LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. THE LACK OF AFFECTION FROM THEIR PARENTS DIDNâT BOTHER SERENA SO MUCH, CONSIDERING SHE WAS COMPENSATED BY LARGE SUMS OF CASH TO DO WITH AS SHE PLEASED. THE ABSENCE OF THEIR PRESENCE DID SEEM TO BOTHER SEAMUS MORE THAN HEâD CARE TO ADMIT, HOWEVER; THAT COUPLED WITH THE FACT THAT HE HAD TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF A PARENT HIMSELF AND JUGGLE HIS PERSONAL LIFE WITH HIS SCHOOL LIFE. TO DEAL WITH ALL THE PRESSURE, SEAMUS TOOK TO A LIFE OF DRUGS THAT HE HID WELL FROM HIS PARENTS SINCE THEY WERE HARDLY AROUND ANYWAYS.
BY THE TIME SERENA WAS SIXTEEN, SEAMUS HAD SPIRALED SO FAR OUT OF CONTROL THAT HE HAD REACHED THE POINT OF NO RETURN. SHE WAS ONLY IN HER SPRING SEMESTER OF HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THE COPS SHOWED UP, ASKING THE neamhainâS TO COME DOWN TO THE STATION TO IDENTIFY SEAMUSâS BODY. THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER FROM OVERDOSE WAS ENOUGH TO SHAMBLE THE VERY FOUNDATION OF THE neamhain HOUSEHOLD. IT DIDNâT TAKE LONG AFTER THAT FOR GARRETT AND saoirse TO âSTEP DOWNâ FROM THEIR BUSINESS, EACH OF THEM BLAMING THE OTHER FOR WHAT HAD BECOME OF THEIR SON AND FOR WHAT THEIR SON COULDâVE BEEN. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER WAS, THEY WERE AFRAID AND COULDNâT RISK GETTING CAUGHT AND EXPOSING THEIR âBUSINESSâ FOR WHAT IT TRULY WAS. saoirse WAS SO DISTRAUGHT OVER THE LOSS OF HER SON THAT SHE EVENTUALLY BECAME UNINTERESTED IN CONTINUING HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER DAUGHTER, DECIDING TO DUMP HER ON TO GARRETT INSTEAD. GARRETT, NOW IN A FINANCIALLY INFERIOR STATE, STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN ORDER WITHIN HIS OWN ORGANIZATION AND BECAME SO SLOPPY IN HIS WORK THAT SERENA INADVERDENTLY STUMBLED ACROSS THE TRUTH BEHIND HER PARENTâS âBUSINESSâ ALTOGETHER. FEELING GUILTY FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAD TRANSPIRED AND SEEING AS HOW HER FATHER TRULY DID CARE ABOUT HER, ESPECIALLY WITH HIS RECENT EFFORTS TO SUPPORT AND MAKE A LIVING FOR THEM, SERENA TOOK IT UPON HERSELF TO ENTER AND JOIN HER PARENTS IN THEIR LIVES OF CRIME RUNNING AN UNDERGROUND CRIME SYNDICATE. ON THE SIDE, SHE LEARNED HOW TO PICKPOCKET UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS WITHOUT THEM KNOWING ABOUT IT. OF COURSE, HER BEAUTY ALSO HELPED SERVE AS THE PERFECT DISTRACTION. IT WASNâT MUCH, BUT AT THE TIME, EVEN THAT SMALL OF A CONTRIBUTION WAS ENOUGH. EVENTUALLY, SERENA USED STEALING AND THE ACT OF SEDUCING AS A COPING MECHANISM AND BEGAN TO RACK UP A REPUTATION FOR HERSELF. THIS WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD HER TO BECOMING THE MOB BOSS, USING HER FAMILYâS FORTUNE TO OPEN HER OWN bar and music venue in which she used as the base of operations for their underground crime syndicate.
BY HER SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, SERENA FOUND HERSELF SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO HAD ONLY CARED ABOUT HER BECAUSE OF HER STATUS, GENEROSITY AND MATERIALISTIC THINGS. DESPITE EVERYTHING, SHE WAS STILL INVITED TO SOCIAL GATHERINGS HOSTED BY HER PEERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO SHE CHEERLEADED AND DID GYMNASTICS WITH, AND WOULD OFTEN USE PARTIES AS A DISTRACTION TO THE TRAUMATIC EVENTS THAT HAD OCCURRED TO HER AND HER HOME LIFE. once she turned eighteen, she decided to travel and start a band of her own. eventually, SHE MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO with her bandmates SO THAT SHE COULD START ALL OVER AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYONE KNOWING ABOUT HER TRAGIC PAST. SERENA DECIDED TO PURSUE A DEGREE IN BUSINESS, HOPING TO FOLLOW IN HER PARENTSâ FOOTSTEPS BY MAKING AN EMPIRE FOR HERSELF.
Siobhan McDougal was the first born child of Garrett McDougal, the patriarch of a clan of old Gaelics that resided on an island halfway between Ireland and Scotland. The clan had remained stationed there for a thousand generations. The island held the Castle Broen, the battleground for the first born McDougals to battle for the honor of leading the clan. It was a ritual as old as the clan. It was extremely important to all who reside on the island and one Siobhan only paid heed to as part of her family lore.She left her clan at an early age to travel the world. She had grown tired of life with the clan and needed an escape. She had remained away for an extended period of time and only returned when she received news that her father had died. Upon her return, the proceedings for the next ritual were already underway. She was told by her uncle, Seamus, that she was not to take part. He didn't want a woman to be clan leader and had already decided her younger brother, Bevan, would take her role in the ritual.
Siobhan took this as an affront and decided to do the ritual herself, alone. The ritual involved calling forth supernatural forces for power. She almost succeeded but her brother inadvertently interrupted her mid-ritual to disastrous effect. The forces consumed her and drug her into the Netherworld. In the Netherworld, an ancient being known as the "Crone" granted her power and a means to return to the land of the living as the Silver Banshee. [...]
BANSHEE CURSE
DEATH STARE
DEATH WAIL
FLIGHT
SOUND IMMUNITY
SOUND MANIPULATION
Superhuman Strength
TELEPORTATION
BOTH WERE IN A BAND AND CAN SING WELL.
BOTH ARE ORIGINALLY IRISH/FROM IRELAND.
FIRST NAME BEGINS WITH AN S.
BROTHERâS NAME IS THE SAME.
FATHERâS NAME IS THE SAME.
VENUE IS NAMED AFTER HER FATHERâS NAME, âBLACK BANSHEEâ
HAS A VIVACIOUS, EFFUSIVE, AND HIGHLY EXPRESSIVE PERSONALITY. SHE IS UNDYINGLY LOYAL AND QUICK TO SHOW AFFECTION FOR HER LOVED ONES, THOUGH SHE IS JUST AS QUICK TO ANGER AND SNAP â MAKING HER A WOMAN OF EXTREMES IN ALL THINGS. HER MOOD SWINGS ARE MERCURIAL TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE. SHE EXPERIENCES ALL EMOTIONS INTENSELY AND PASSIONATELY.
