Moonlight

So, if any of you have seen the TV Moonlight, you know the insperation for this piece. I was soooo in love with that show and was devistated when it was cancelled! Anyway... For my art class my Senior year of Highschool we had to create our own comic book charater. A little before I had to come up with my idea I had a dream with some of the charaters in it... as well as my PERFECT comic book hero :) so I had to addapt it to fit. this was the one based on Moonlight and if I can find the one I changed the most to make it my own I will put it up too. (All charaters from Moonlight belong to CBS, I make no claim!)
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Name: Renee McHale
Date of Birth: June 26, 1982
Current Age: 25
Height: 5’ 10”
Weight: 150
Hair: Dark brown with red tint
Eyes: A mixture of gray green and blue
Species: Human
Occupation: Full time collage student, part time vamp slayer



Renee McHale was born into a normal family. When she was four her parents had two more children, twins Nathan Lucas and Nicole Lee. She lived a seemingly normal and boring life in a small suburb of L.A. Being smart, she retained a 4.0 GPA all through school. She was extremely close to her to siblings and always looking out for them.

During her senior year of high school she started dating Connor O’Haley, a new student. He was a nice boy and fit in well with her tight-nit family. She and Connor both were accepted to L.A. State University. Her family was excited to get the news and her sister was envious. As a freshman, Nicole was already planning out the collage career and modifying her high school courses. Nathan, however, was her polar opposite. While Nicole was studying and doing extra curricular activities, Nathan was sailing through his basic courses and playing sports. Renee loved them both and brought up the good points of both paths.

Soon graduation came and Renee graduated as salutatorian of her class. And so plans were made for the following school year. It seemed life would go on in this normal pattern. Little did they know that in just two weeks into the summer, their lives would be drastically changed.

One summer night Connor’s car pulled up in the drive. Renee’s mother told her to go out and invite Conner to have dinner with them. When Renee reached his car Connor got out. He seemed to be acting strange to her, as if he was not sure of himself. Suspiciously he kept glancing at Renee and the quickly looking away. She thought little of this and invited him in for dinner. As they sat down at the table Connor said little. When a plate was placed in front of him he took one bite and stared at the rest.

During the course of the meal Nathan preceded to tell Connor about how he had to get stitches in his arm the day before. Nathan looked up to Connor like a big brother and expected him to be impressed like he normally would have been. However Connor seemed to be somewhere else and said simply “cool”. It was then the rest of the family noticed Connors odd behavior. Nicole was watching him intently watching him when she accidentally cut her finger. The fresh blood drew Connors attention and his normally brown eyes turned misty blue. He lunged across the table at Nicole causing most of the table to scream. Renee placed her self between her sister and her deranged boyfriend. During all of this Nathan fell back in his chair. He stood up and wiped some blood from his arm. He had broken a stitch. Connor flew at the boy who was standing alone. Renee tried her hardest to pull Connor from Nathan but she could do noting. Connor bit Nathan’s neck drained his blood. When Connor was done he left the body looking as if a dog and attacked it and turned on the rest of the family. Renee held Nicole firmly behind her as Connor took a step towards them. But just then the door flew open and a shoot rang out.

Standing in the doorway was a man of about thirty with wavy dark hair. A sharp hiss rang out and Connor blew out the door past the man. The man turned and was gone.

Renee followed the men as quickly as she could but was soon lost on an unfamiliarly street. She stopped for breath and a hand flew over her mouth from behind her. Everything went dark. She woke in a strange place with a bright light shinning on her. A man spoke to her in a reassuring voice. He told her about what happened and about vampires. He explained that Connor was a newly turned vamp who had gone rough. She was returned home.

The next day she wrote the collage explaining that a family tragedy would force her out of town and to take all of her freshman courses over the internet. She said she would return to attend her classes her sophomore year. She told her parents none of this but left for what they thought was collage at the end of the summer. In reality she had started to spin the lies that would become her life. She disappeared that year and no one heard a word from her, but her class work was always on time.

When school started the next year her friends who attended L.A. State were surprised to find the new sophomore lean and muscular. She had dropped a lot of wait and gained huge amounts of muscle. The once shy and academic girl now put some of the schools most devoted athletes to shame. However, she still remained extremely smart.

She majored in psychiatry and biophysics and graduated with honors. No one knew who she really was.

The year she had spent away was spent training her-self. She was now a powerful and skilled vamp slayer. And she was for hire. She put herself through collage on the wages she earned but she did not always enjoy her work. Thought she hated vamps, those were all she could work with because no one else knew they existed. She held no loyalties and often gave her services to the highest bidder.

Her most frequent employer was a vamp by the name of Lance. Apparently he was from a very wealthy and prominent family in France. She worked for him about a hundred times before she met him. When she finally did meet him he left a lasting impression. He had one jet black eye. She wondered why he had chose now to finally meet her and she found that it was because this was some what of a ‘family’ matter for him. He wanted her to kill a vamp who had been turned by his sister. This vamps name was Mick St. John.

She set out to find this vamp and learned he lived near her home in the busy city of L.A. She was hot on his trail and let no sing of hers. She was ready for him. She decided to take him on a brisk night in June. He was walking home to his apartment on a deserted street when she found him. He smelt the air and she knew he had sensed her. She stepped out of the shadows and into the moonlight and stopped in her tracks. Standing in front of her was the man that had stood in the doorway of her home nearly four years ago. The man who had saved the rest of her family after Nathan’s murder. She could tell he recognized her too.

His voice was kind and familiar when he asked who she was. Her response was that of the story of her brother’s death. It ended with the statement of her being the human he saved. They formally introduced them selves and entered his apartment. There he told her the story of tracking Connor down and killing him. This brought her closer and that night she went home and called Lance, telling him that for reasons unrelated to his assignment she could no long be of service and was retiring from the slaying business.
Lance left the agreement with no hard feelings.

Over the next few years Mick told her a lot of things about him self and she in turn shared with him. She never told him she had been sent as his executioner.

One day Mic called her in need of her help. He asked her about a former employer by the name Lance. She was sure he had found out about her job to kill him and refused to answer his questions. She showed up at Mick’s house the next day, to find him human. She learned about the temporary cure and a royal family in France. Lance’s family. Mick also told her about it being Lance’s fault Connor was turned and had gone rough.

This new information made her mad. She now blamed Lance for Nathan’s death. She owed him a visit. She promised Mick she would help find Lance and help Mick in research for a permanent cure.

With this promise she made another one. To kill the man responsible for her brother’s death.