Daphne Rudko

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Name: Daphne Rudko
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Grade: 9th
Extra Curricular Activity: N/A
School: Barry Coleson High

Appearance: Daphne stands at a height of about 5'2", and possesses a thin, almost sickly looking frame, which is probably due to her past illness which she has long since recovered from. Her form is rather plain, as are the clothes she usually wears. Often she is seen wearing rather casual attire that hangs someone loosely around her stick-like form. Her pale complexion, in combination with her scrawny appearance, tends to give others the impression that she is physically weak and fragile. Her dark blonde hair is cropped short, close to her chin, with a fringe framing her pale face. As for her facial features, Daphne possesses a small, round face with large grey eyes, thin eyebrows, a small button nose, and small lips. It is her face that gives her the appearance of a child. However, her eyes, though large and rounded, are slightly downcast and framed by unarched eyebrows, making her appear sullen and closed. She has a rather androgynous looking appearance, due to her slight frame and plain-looking facial features.

Various bruises and scars linger as a result of a history of endless abuse, though her face appears unscathed save for the faint remnants of a bruise under her right eye. They are quite visible, for Daphne had never seen any point in concealing them.

Biography: Ever since a very early age, Daphne has lived her childhood life close to death. Being born premature, the adults who cared for her were convinced that she would never live past her first year, yet her parents struggled as hard as they could and spent as much as was possible to support their sickly child. Thankfully, she managed to survive, perhaps by a miracle, as was remarked by one of the doctors who surveyed her health. However, as a growing child, Daphne had always sensed resentment from her parents, who had gotten themselves in and out of debt in an endless cycle simply so that their daughter could at least survive infancy.

This feeling seemed to intensify when Daphne was diagnosed with active tuberculosis. Due to the fact that her parents were already in debt after spending so much trying to keep their prematurely-born daughter alive, they were reluctant to treat Daphne immediately. Eventually, they did bring Daphne to the hospital to be treated. By then, Daphne, already suffering from poor health, was once again on the verge of death. It took Daphne nearly a year to completely recover, and as a result, she was forced to miss a year of her grade school education. Though Daphne eventually recovered, she remained plagued by her poor health and weakness. As the family struggled to bring themselves out of financial debt, constantly cutting corners and barely earning enough to make the most essential of ends meet, the resentment from her parents continued to grow into hatred. Eventually, it came to the point where they began to physically abuse Daphne, blaming them for all of their financial problems. While Daphne was fully aware of this hatred, she kept quiet, silently accepting this as something all parents did.

Throughout her grade school life, everyone seemed to ignore and avoid her, seeing her as plain and dull. She responded in turn by keeping to herself, always sitting in her own corner, engaging in solitary activities such as reading books on history. Once 4th grade started, she suddenly found quickly herself becoming targetted by a clique of girls, who simply saw her as a means of a power trip. Daphne took everything that was being thrown at her in a passive silence, complying to their whims, always being treated though she were a means of stress relief. After all, she never retaliated. She never told on them. She remained as passive as ever. Thus, the bullying continued until she entered 7th grade, and it was around that time when things began to cross the line. The bullying girls became increasingly violent, approaching the point where they were verbally threatening the life of the fragile Daphne. As a result, Daphne finally panicked in fear, for it was only now that she truly felt that her life was in danger. The following occasion the girls began their attack, Daphne lashed out out of fear for her life.

In the end, the leader of the girls had fallen dead, her throat cut by a knife and her forehead smashed in with a heavy rock. Daphne was immediately arrested and taken by police for questioning. However, it was quickly concluded that Daphne was only acting out of self defense, and also, due to her age, she was acquitted. In any case, Daphne now had a reputation among her fellow students as a murderer. As a result, students came to fear her, and avoided her even more out of fear. On the bright side, no one ever bulled Daphne again. Then again, she would always be treated like an alien or a monster. But as always, Daphne accepted this. After all, it wasn't as though anyone wanted to talk to her in the first place. Even as a junior highschooler, she was nortorious for the incident, for there are some who had heard faint rumors of a well planned and conspired murder.

But the abuse did not end there. Though Daphne's health gradually improved as she grew into her pre-teen years, her relations with her parents only worsened. Her father, an alcoholic, began to sexually abuse her as she entered junior high school while her mother simply turned a blind eye. By this time, humanity in Daphne's eyes became an ugly parasite on the world that was cruel and abusive by nature. After all, the history of humanity as she had spent reading of on her own was for the most part accounts of massacre after massacre: humans killing and hurting humans for their own pride and beliefs. Daphne's view on humans had transformed into something that was warped and cruel. After all, the countless occassions of abuse she had been forced to put up with was proof enough: humans were cruel by nature. As far as Daphne was concerned, the desire to abuse and feed off of the misery of others was a very human, voluntary feeling.

That said, Daphne was convinced that she had absolutely no need to feel remorse, after she had stabbed both of her parents with a paring knife as they slept. Although she was not in touch with society, she read the news. Murders and casess of violence in all forms imagineable happened everyday, committed by humans, inflicted upon humans. What was so shocking about that?

Daphne was let off yet again, due to her age, and due to the fact that she had supplied sufficient evidence that she was simply 'defending herself'. It fascinated her, to jump through loopholes in the law and get away with killing someone. It was further proof after all, that human morality was irrelevant.

None of Daphne's relatives were willing to adopt her after the incident, and it probably did not help that it was hardly the first time she had killed someone. She was sent to the community orphanage, where she continued to be alienated, as she always had.

"But what's the point in complaining? After all, that was life. Ladies and gentlemen, children of the world, this is humanity at its finest."

Other: Due to her extremely passive nature, Daphne had never experienced any cases of extreme emotion, other than fear. Once she feels afraid, she will not hesitate to lash out, believing that she can only escape by killing the second-party. She is a solitary character, quiet and closed-hearted, unwilling to trust others. Given that she has a weak and childlike, innocent appearance, others may be inclined to believe that she is helpless. Though she tends to exhaust easily due to her weak health, all of this seems to be irrelevant once adrenaline kicks in. She will lash out at anyone and everyone should she become afraid, but that would only occur should she feel her life is in danger. (Then again, it is SOTF, after all. Her life will constantly be in danger.)

Though she has become jaded with the world since an early age, she is actually honest at heart. Having not known any sort of love at all, she knows not how to hate. However, after all she has been through, she has developed a strong, resilient will to live, though she has lost all hope and faith in humanity. Trust is now an alien concept to her. To her, mankind is more than capable of willingly killing others out of their own greed and selfishness(SOTF itself is simply further proof of the fact). All they are to her are parasites, more than ready to take all they can from her, an easy target. However, if there was anything Daphne had a strong hold on, it would definately be her own life. After all...Daphne realizes that even she, herself, is only human.

Number: Girls 15

The above biography is as written by LadyMakaze. No edits or alterations to the author's original work have been made.

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Designated Weapon: Paring Knife
Conclusions: What a complete and utter drama story...(heh). Daphne'll probably get a kick out of her weapon, seeing how it was the same type of knife that she used to kill her parents. I don't really see anyone really teaming up with her...as I see it, she's just a lifeless doll, really, and the fact she won't really trust might be her downfall. Rather wildcard, really. Might be a contender, depending on how she deals with having that weapon, of all things.

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• Girls #15 - GAME START
  
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An interesting character, funny how her views on life mirror those of myself and a friend of mine *laughs*. Ironic death too, as soon as she finds people that'll let her live, she gets blasted by Jason Andrews.- Slayer

Daphne was actually one of my favorite villain characters, even though she was somewhat short-lived. She was one of the more... evolved, I guess... "evil" characters. She had reasons for what she did. I think that's why Glenn sparing her life was quite the momentous occassion... he was probably the first person to ever show the girl compassion. Then, her life ending seconds later added icing to the cake. It's like... she realized the error of her ways only to be gunned down by someone just like her. Bravo, Maka. - Megami