Cora

Cora (full name: Coralie Winifred Josephine Swift) is a cis female English vampire in the Chienverse.

Appearance
Cora has very pale white skin and long, almost white hair, which she wears up most of the time. She has pink eyes. She wears black gloves all the time except for bathing/swimming/washing dishes and sleeping. She prefers to wear long skirts and long jackets.

Behavior
Coralie has a flirtatious personality and likes making people uncomfortable with her sexuality. She dresses in a very stereotypically feminine manner and loves all things frilly and pink. However, she is also an avid reader, and also enjoys things like hiking and blogging. Cora may or may not have more than 5,000 Tumblr followers.

History
Cora was very sickly as a child and young adult due to her ocuocutaneous albinism. She coult not go outside and even brief exposure to sunlight caused awful sunburns, temporary blindness, and lasting vision damage. So she was kind of used to the avoiding sunlight thing when she met a mysterious stranger on a (minder-disapproved, parasol-covered, black-clothing) stroll one day. The rest was history.

Meli turned Cora sometime in the Victorian era, probably around the 1860s or '70s. Cora never felt at home within the relatively strict moral codes of, well, most of the 19th and 20th centuries, so she and Meli more or less withdrew from society and lived with a small group of human-exclusionist Londoner vampires.

She and Meli lived in England for a long time, perhaps a hundred years after Cora's turning (i.e., well into the 1960s or '70s.) Around the 1920s, they met two vampires looking for answers about a lost love. Cora was absolutely thrilled with the romantic story the two vampires told and agreed to help them in whatever way she could. She may or may not have done experiments on corpses during this time.

Cora was absolutely relieved when the 1960s swung round-- free love, flowers, and girls ''everywhere? Sign me up.'' However, the exclusionary practices of Second-wave feminism infuriated her, so she quickly withdrew from the movement. Back to square one, it would seem.

Trivia

 * Cora likes long skirts and jackets because they swish when she twirls.
 * If Cora didn't have vampirism, she would have optic nerve hypoplasia and nystagmus as symptoms of her albinism. Her vampirism causes strengthened vision, so these symptoms cancel out and leave her with vision that would be good for a human, but isn't very impressive for a vampire.
 * Her associated color is pink.