[list][*][b]Name:[/b] Elizabeth Stoker, Vampire Duellist Extraordinaire
[*][b]Age:[/b] 599
[*][b]Gender:[/b] Female
[*][b]Appearance:[/b] [url=http://safebooru.org//images/3/7f68340344ce8ecaf17a4d3db79ac0349adfb437.jpg?2993]Consider the colours accurate.[/url]
[*][b]Personality:[/b] Fitting the vampire stereotype, Elizabeth is a well-heeled, elegant lady with an abundance of charm and ease in social situations, as well as a tendency to seduce anybody that catches her fancy. She also has a much goofier, distractible side, that shows up only around people she trusts; too many attempted stakings are unpleasant.
[*][b]Skills:[/b] Due to her advanced age and lack of senility, Elizabeth has picked up many skills to fit in with all the eras she's lived through. The useful ones tend to all be involved with preparation of food and looking after a house; Elizabeth is an excellent cook (even if she doesn't need to eat anything). Moreover, however, it has given her an extraordinarily long time to practise wielding a blade, as well as dealing with people using only her bare hands. Given her interest in such arts and varying attitudes throughout time, she's also adept at posing for a young man--not that she regularly bothers, now.
[*][b]Abilities:[/b] As an undead monstrosity of the night, Elizabeth is both functionally immortal and reliant on human blood to sustain said immortality and its various benefits. She is not, however, vulnerable to sunlight--at least, not any more, with advanced age giving a lot of time to understand this curse and how it works (given time, only a rudimentary understanding of magic is needed). By this point, she could reasonably be described as the perfect predator for humanity: in all ways physically superior, capable of surviving almost any mortal wound short of both decapitation and impalement and swiftly healing, and quite capable of blending in. Should things go wrong? The old standby of turning into some faster and less easily targeted animal is a useful bonus, as is talking to them.
[*][b]Equipment:[/b] Elizabeth has her sword. Whilst lacking in fancy special abilities, a two handed blade that will survive all but the most extreme forces, and is sized such that a sufficiently inhuman wielder can wield it with one hand if necessary, is extremely handy for a vampire duellist.
[*][b]Brief History:[/b] Whilst originally a quite boring, down-to-earth sort of person, being a vampire put a stop to all that. It certainly gave time to learn what really interested her (the fine art of stabbing people that didn't want to be stabbed), practise it, and generally develop an appreciation for all sorts of blades. Having to intermittently drop out of the public eye after doing well enough from fighting and gambling to build up a substantial cache was always a pain, especially towards modern times where her skills paid less.
This new tournament is the perfect ability to show off and, more importantly, deal with getting a comfortable living environment for the rest of her theoretically infinite life. And have fun.