In the year 1771, much of the civilized world was still settling down from chaos; Britain had recently defeated France in the Carnatic Wars to become the dominant foreign power in India. It was here that Simone Muldoon was born to a merchant of the British India Company, spending the first thirteen years of her life in Pondicherry before the family moved back overseas to their native England. She never gave her poor father a rest, for as he was worrying about important things like finances and the ever-shifting struggle for colonial power, she grew up stubbornly repelling all efforts to educate her into a nice, proper young lady.
Fashion was the touchiest subject. It only became worse right around the turn of the century, when the aftermath of the French revolution caused everybody to suddenly decide that tightly-laced corsets and other hoity-toity aristocratic garments were out. It was really too bad, since for Simone, corsets were actually preferable to this newfangled Regency style. By no means would she allow herself to be forced into a gown with monstrously lacy/puffy sleeves and a flowery, billowing skirt; it was demeaning. When her maid tried to jam a gigantic straw hat onto her head, it was the last straw. She tore herself away and ran out of the house.
…And became completely lost. Frightened and homesick, she soon bumped into a strange, shadowy man who offered to let her stay at his residence overnight so that he could guide her home when morning broke. Like the headstrong, naive girl she was, she accepted. But, of course, she never went home. Underneath the folds of clothing, the man turned out to have a rather ugly, wrinkly face and pointy canines. After performing a toothy exchange of blood, he buried her body in a shallow grave far away from where he lived; she clawed her way out overnight. As she'd been abandoned by her sire, she had nobody to guide her or keep the surging of feral instincts in check. A pair of luckless lovers were the first two victims she claimed and drained.
As her senses came flooding back, an exhilaration and headiness came over her like nothing she'd experienced; she felt good. Reentering the greater London area, she tried to break into the first townhouse she saw, already lusting for more blood. Unfortunately, it was here that she learned firsthand of the 'no entry without invitation' rule. Frustrated, she withdrew, instead haunting dark waysides and preying off unsuspecting travelers that way. It wasn't long before she grew bored of this and decided to sightsee Europe, something she could never have done as a wealthy, human maiden traveling alone. Her path eventually took her over the English Channel to Belgium, where she wooed a young man of means named Paul Mortier, using him as a way to gain entrance - invitation - to an extravagant ball in Brussels. The young vampire not only crashed the party but killed everybody present, including Mortier. The event was covered up and blamed on the Dutch, feeding the resentment that would lead to the revolution a few decades later.
In the years that followed, she continued cutting a bloody swathe through Europe without having any real method to the madness. She fought, killed, stalked, and sired pretty much as she pleased, making appearances in France, The Netherlands, Savoy, and what was then the Austrian Empire. Turmoil caused by political upheaval and famine across Europe mid-century caused her to decide to board a French ship for America in 1848, joining the immigration explosion of the time in order to look for healthier prey overseas. While working to rid herself of her pesky British accent, she continued moving immediately after she arrived, slowly winding her way westward towards the Pacific.
The lives and times of the American Wild West fascinated her, and it wasn't long before she fell into the stereotypical actions of robbing stagecoaches, frequenting bars, and brawling over drink under the guise of a frontierswoman. Under the alias Joanne Lowe- "Rattlesnake Jo"- she brushed paths with the likes of Annie Oakley and Pearl Hart, keeping up her rowdy activities from the mid-to-late 1800s. Chicago- the fastest-growing city of the time- was her next stop, which is where she remained during the Prohibition. She fell for a mobster after a first meeting at a speakeasy, only to promptly drain him later after she realized she was to be used as nothing more than sexual stress relief. A half-demon named Julian Tiggs watched and witnessed the murder, and after he introduced himself as such, the two struck up a relationship. It turned out to be a very handy one for Simone, since as a non-vampire, Julian could invite her into all sorts of places she normally wouldn't be able to enter. Occupants of orphanages, group homes, and other types of private residences all met bloody ends thanks to the workings of this duo. She repaid this favor in small ways, mostly in the forms of companionship and verbal encouragement whenever he tried to pull off killings in her presence. Once, however, she managed to acquire for him a six-shot revolver (knowing his love of guns), and quite a nice one.
When Julian voiced his intent to go to New York, she agreed to accompany him there, where they stayed for the early part of the 30's. Unfortunately their happiness didn't last long after this; when she discovered him flirting with Texas Guinan, his new employer, she drained the other woman out of spite and disappeared. Right out of the country. She resurfaced in Cuba a few months after the September 4, 1933 military coup where Céspedes was overthrown as president, adding to this bloody, chaotic environment by snatching up victims in the middle of the night. The members of one governmental faction or another were inevitably blamed, causing Simone no end of amusement. When a local vampire hunter recognized what was really happening, hunted her down, and nearly succeeded in staking her, she drained him and bailed, leaving both corpse and the confused countryside behind.
By the time she re-entered the states via Florida, it wasn't long before World War II was imminent. Simone rode out the war right where she was, staying at the residence of a female vampire that she herself sired, and was rewarded in the post-war years by taking advantage of the subsequent population surge in that state. In order to teach her protege how to be a proper vampire, the two completely obliterated a small town close to the Keys of about one hundred and fifty people. What they could not enter, they destroyed or burned. Satisfied both by the meal and by her student, Simone left soon after this to pursue opportunities elsewhere.
She managed to keep herself fully occupied, capitalizing on the fear that was the pattern of the next few decades and finding easy opportunities for hunting amidst the civil rights riots that began in the 60's. However, she actually participated in the second-wave feminism that swept through the country starting at around the same time. While women like Betty Friedan founded protest organizations and wrote books, she took a notably more violent approach, burning down the houses of men with any sort of reputation for chauvinism - or simply draining them. On top of all this rode the overlap of the Vietnam War. After it was over, there were many veterans who returned only to become combinations of homeless, raving, addicted to things, and unwanted. Simone 'helped out' by cleaning the streets of some of these men who had no place else to go, either eating them plain or siring them to infuse new purpose into their lives.
When the excitement of all these events had worn down, she resumed traveling aimlessly from place to place, often sticking to the larger cities when she could. One of the habits that she developed during this time was that of posing as a hitchhiker and then attacking the driver once they had stopped at the destination. She progressively worked her way westward again in this way, one car at a time. Eventually, she wound up on the opposite coast once more and settled down in Los Angeles in late 1995, attracted by the shiny lights of the movie industry and the promise of crowds of victims. It's worked out nicely for her thus far, and she has shown no intentions of leaving.
