Giada Bedrosian

'''“I’ve been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want. Power is being told you’re not loved and not being destroyed by it." - Madonna'''

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Physical Appearance
5'9" (179cm). 125 lbs (57 kg). Long to the waist chocolate brown hair. She does occasionally wear it up at work. Light colored skin that may appear tanned due to spray tan. Denim blue eyes that appear sometimes near black. Scars, healed puncture wounds and a large scar of a healed wound across her midsection. She is thin but somewhat muscular. Picture available [*].

Personality
Giada's beauty is equaled by her cleverness, which she has in abundance. A true protégée of her sire, Winter, she is a gifted manipulator who knows how to maneuver her way in the living and undead world. Giada's strength is in her ability to win the minds and loyalties of people, which can be a threat to those who rival her family. She demonstrates her formidable skill in her work at the clinic as head doctor, posing as a caretaker and kind soul who just wants to heal and make people well as well as her manipulation of her vampire associates by turning a blind eye to their dark impulses.

Giada possesses the tact and politeness and can exude the behavior and courtesies expected of a lady from a different time - while still privately engaging in underbelly intrigues to increase her family's power. While not completely a femme fatal, she is willing to use sex as a weapon to seduce those she needs but Giada tends to work within the social standards of "proper" femininity. She adeptly turns them to her favor, to orchestrate political machinations from behind the scenes. Giada's ultimate goal is to gain power - either by becoming Prince which she has obtained [**] or being in close proximity to the Prince - but unlike many others, her machinations are not motivated by devious power lust or a claim to the succession but simply a desire to secure her family in a place of influence where they could direct political affairs in their favor.

Although Giada has developed many different facades depending on who she is trying to manipulate, she does genuinely have a good heart, compassion, and empathy. Giada has loving relationships with all her family members: she loves her brother, Kulvotherinmaar, although their relationship can be rocky at times. She shares an extraordinarily strong bond with her sire, Winter, sharing his acuity for manipulation and political maneuvering and love science and the medical arts. Though she has developed many facades to sway the opinions of others in her favor, she is extremely loyal to her family, true friends, and coterie and goes to great lengths to keep them safe.

Connected Characters

 * Sire: Winter (Mateo Mendoza) [Ares.Afterthought]. Known associate [**].
 * Siblings: Kulvothreinmaar. Hospital Administrator [*]

Powers and Abilities

 * Supernatural Powers
 * Absorption (of characteristics and/or life-details of the victim through their blood)
 * Accelerated healing
 * Blush of life
 * Celerity
 * Domination (compulsion)
 * Immortality
 * Immunity to asphyxiation and drowning, diseases and poisons (and the inability to become intoxicated by substances)
 * Sense acuity
 * Sire bond telepathy
 * Super strength
 * Domination II
 * Blood Manipulation
 * Empathy and Amplification
 * Formal Degrees or previous education
 * Attended New England Female Medical College, Boston Massachusetts 1852 Under the name Elizabeth Bohannan
 * Worked with Woman's Central Relief Association and the United States Sanitary Commission as a nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Under name Elizabeth Bohannan
 * Attended the London School of Medicine for Women, 1881 under name Elizabeth Bedrosian
 * Photo appears of a woman who looks like Giada in historical photos of St. Joseph State Hospital and St. Joseph "Sisters" hospital in Saint Joseph, Missouri, early 1900s. Name on photos is Lizzy Stewart. [**]
 * MD, Yale Medical School 2013. Under Giada Bedrosian [*]
 * Residency, The University of Kansas Medical Center 2013-2019 under Giada Bedrosian [*]

History
Giada Elizabeth Bedrosian was born Fidelity Elizabeth Bohannon née Stewart on November 7th 1754 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was a merchant, owning a small house in the town proper where Giada and her family were staying. She is the second youngest of 9 brothers and sisters. She was married to John Bohannon, also a merchant, in May 1772 and lived with her family. She had two sons, Elijah and Samuel.

She was witness to many of the dramatic events leading up to the beginning of the American Revolution with the Siege of Boston. In June 1775, the British seized Bunker and Breed's Hills. It was in this siege that Giada would be severely injured when a building toppled due to cannon fire at the battle of Bunker and Breed Hill and would be partially healed and then turned to a vampire by a doctor that she came to know as Winter.

He used his blood to heal most of the damage, keeping her alive for many days in the hopes to return her to her family but before she could be fully healed, the large wound on her stomach became fatal and she was turned by Winter. She still bears some of the scars from this injury today even after her transformation to a vampire. Winter taught her the medical knowledge he had and they traveled for many years where she worked as a midwife and skilled healer and he a doctor.

In 1823, while traveling in Europe, Winter and Giada's relationship grew tumultuous. She craved more exciting living in London and was unhappy in the countryside. Winter's expectations of Giada became too much and after another evening of fights, Winter informed her that he could find a stable boy to train to become a better doctor than herself. A day or so later, Winter came home with Kulvo, her blood sibling.

The competition and sudden sibling rivalry soured the relationship immediately but bolstered Giada's ambitions to prove herself. She continued her studies and eventually returned to Boston, attending the New England Female Medical College, Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 under the name Elizabeth Bohannan. This pleased her sire and the bond between Winter and Giada returned to it's normal state of her being the favored child while Kulvo was left in the cold. Giada remained in America during the 1860's and 1870's, working as a nurse and physician, moving out west to the frontier while also helping her sire in any business he required her for, including sending money she had earned to use against Kulvo and his actions.

In 1880, Giada joined the coterie again in London and studied at London School of Medicine for Women under name Elizabeth Lewis. She worked at Mile End Old Town Infirmary and met a man named Sebastian Bedrosian.This man, a human, she would find out was a hunter tracking her. Reluctantly at first, she began a relationship with him when he saved her life. The romance, eventually lead to them deciding to leave Europe and return to America. Due to the belief that things were better between their relationship, Gia confided in her brother, Kulvo of her intentions. She did not know that Sebastian had also warned Kulvo of their intention and on the night that they were to leave, Kulvo brutally killed her lover in while she was forced to watch. This event caused a near permanent rift of Kulvo and Giada's relationship and Giada to return to America, quitting all contact for many years.

She took positions of nurse or doctor where she saw fit, using the name Lizzy Stewart[***], Elizabeth Bedrosian[***], Eliza Bedrosian[***], or Ella Bedrosian[***]. There is some photographic evidence of a woman who looks like Giada who worked at St. Joseph's (aka Sister's Hospital) in Saint Joseph, Missouri in early 1900s. In early 2000, Giada began going as her current name. Most recently she is listed as having an MD from Yale Medical School and had her residency from KU Med. Her medical background is Emergency Medicine and Trauma.

In late 2019, Giada began running the Clifton Forge Medical Clinic. Due to demands on her time, financial issues and the need for a person with a more business minded outlook, she took the risk to track down and find her brother, Kulvo, asking him to come to Clifton Forge. He took over ownership of the clinic as administrator.[*]. A short while later, Winter also came to live in Clifton Forge and joined the staff of the clinic as a doctor.

Other Information

 * No current criminal record.
 * Has stocks and works with StemCyte, Inc, a global cord blood therapeutics company that provides both public donation and family storage for US parents. StemCyte participates in the US network of public cord blood banks operated by NMDP. In addition, StemCyte operates the National Cord Blood Bank of Taiwan, whose units are also listed with NMDP.[*]
 * Unnamed owner of a company named Vitalant (formerly Blood Systems Inc.) a nonprofit organization that collects blood from volunteer donors and provides blood, blood products and services across the United States. It was founded in 1943 as the Salt River Valley Blood Bank in Phoenix, Arizona. [***]
 * Legal name is Giada Elizabeth Bedrosian [**]. Social security cards with the name Giada Bedrosian appear only once since 1970 [***].