Monique Delacroix

Monique Delacroix is a Senior Legionnaire with the rank of Major General, serving in the prominent Legionnaire Squad known as Nosferatu.

Monique is a member of the Delacroix family of Vitesh, a family largely consisting of Shamans and Mages with a deep mystical significance, famous for their unique practices and connection to the Fey.

History
Monique was born into the Delacroix family of the Viteshan Domain, though more accurately the Delacroix could be described as a collection of various unrelated families, bound together by ancient tradition. The Delacroix since time long ago served as a bridge to the supernatural side of nature in Vitesh, serving as important seers and influential mystic figures in the land. Monique's homeland of Vitesh was experiencing a period of peace, prosperity, and growth at the time of her birth, allowing her a tranquil childhood, and she herself would be seen as a girl with great promise in her family.

In her young teenage years, Monique would undergo the Ginen ritual of the Delacroix, a process that would bring her to the brink of death and back in order to bind her to a mystical fey-like creature known as a Loa. Though practically all the Loa that had been summoned by the ritual as of late had been peaceful, in reflection of the state of the domain itself, Monique's was anything but. Marinette, the Loa bound to Monique, was a Loa of rage and rebellion, and one that alarmed the elders of the Delacroix. To them it seemed as if Marinette had arrived as a warning, a warning of terrible calamity to come.

The elders began making their preparations, and began positioning Monique to eventually enter the royal guard of the Viteshan Domain, to try and ensure that her and Marinette could prevent whatever disaster had been warned of. In her later teens, Monique would enter the Viteshan military academy, beginning her training to enter the royal guard. A childhood friend of Monique's, Andre Delacroix, would accompany her, having trained hard to join her so that she wouldn't have to be alone.

For a time, the academy was going well for Monique and Andre, until part way through their training program, when Monique fell pregnant with his child. Monique had to drop out of the academy, breaking the plans that had been set by the elders of the Delacroix. The elders directed their anger to Andre, who could only do his best to promise he would graduate himself and fulfill the role they had envisioned for Monique. The Delacroix would regardless bar him from seeing Monique and their future child, and banish him from the family, though he would go on to do just as he said he would.

Monique would focus on raising her child for the coming years, as Andre worked as a member of the royal guard. Early on Monique and Andre simply ignored the orders of the elders, and continued to be together, but as years passed his visits grew more and more infrequent for reasons unknown to Monique. Around when their daughter Lucille had reached the age of 5 and Monique was in her early 20s, Monique decided she would join the Legion now that she was unable to join the royal guard alongside Andre.

Monique would quickly climb the ranks within the Legion over the coming years, displaying a high degree of skill and competence, and soon joined the Legionnaire squad known as Nosferatu, who had recently returned from a several year long expedition. Back home in Vitesh, despite the fact that no calamity had yet come the elders of the Delacroix were still convinced it would, and would rush Lucille into the ritual at the age of 9. The result would be a Loa of even more sinister origins than Monique's own, all but confirming their suspicions true.

As the years passed Andre's visits became scarcer and scarcer, and the sense of guilt he carried that had been becoming more obvious only worsened after Lucille's ritual. Eventually Lucille herself would join the Continental Academy, hoping to join the Legion just like Monique. She would go on to graduate successfully, but to the sorrow of her mother would end up isolating herself, and joining Sentry soon after graduation. Monique would carry on as a member of Nosferatu, eventually even being given the honor of being promoted to Major General, a Senior Legionnaire.

Back home the loved and respected King of Vitesh would die, being replaced by his cruel son, in which many suspected was an assassination. And not soon after in the year following came the Rot, the disaster that the Delacroix elders had predicted years and years earlier. The entire Viteshan Domain was devastated, the lush forests laid to ruin leaving naught but a barren wasteland in its place, and nine in ten of the Viteshan population perishing. Monique would do her best to assist her homeland, saving as many as she could manage, but little could be done. Her former partner Andre would never be seen again, Monique had no idea if he died in the disaster or if he simply fled in shame. In a silver lining, Monique's daughter Lucille would be coaxed out of Sentry shortly after witnessing the destruction of her homeland, and restore her relationship with her mother.

Abilities

 * Spiritual Energy Manipulation
 * Champion Physicals

Ginen
Full Ginen Explanation 

In short, Ginen is an ancient form of supernatural power developed by the people of the Viteshan Domain, and currently practiced by the Delacroix family. Members of the family undergo an arduous ritual in which they are taken to the brink of death, that when completed links them to a blackened fey-like existence known as a Loa. Marinette - Monique's personal Loa is known as Marinette, taking the form of a dark black owl with unnatural flame-like glowing eyes. Marinette is a dangerous spirit of fiery rage and bitterness, that one less skilled than Monique could not ever hope to control. Though feared and resented by many, Marinette is not only a spirit of rage but also one of justice and rebellion, a side that Monique hopes to display.


 * Nature's Wrath - Monique is able to harness Marinette's affinity for rage in order to draw upon and temporarily control the wrathful power of the spirits of nature around her, allowing Monique to conjure and manipulate terrifying calamities. Essentially, Monique is able to manifest natural disasters and weather on a minimized level, although her current surroundings greatly influence the strength and scale of these calamities. Because her ability relies heavily on borrowing the power of the natural spirits in her vicinity, Monique could theoretically conjure a wave in a desert, though it would be much weaker than if she were to try and conjure a sandstorm instead, and vice versa.
 * Environment Manipulation - Beyond her larger scale offensive powers with Nature's Wrath, Monique is able to manipulate the natural environment around her at a smaller scale as well, using her spiritual energy to influence things such as the plants or elements around her.
 * Danger Sense - Because of Monique's connection to Marinette, and the anger of spirits around her, she has a keen, practically precognitive sense for danger and harm.

Spirit Manifestation
The power to manifest the inherent nature of one's own spirit in order to bring about supernatural power, coming in different forms dependent on the user.

Wyldfire - Harnessing her own spirit, Monique is able to generate Wyldfire, a unique green flame that is able to bring about life. Wyldfire possesses immense healing properties, though it would likely be more apt to say life-generating properties, seemingly replacing damaged or lost tissue rather than restoring it. Beyond just healing, Wyldfire if spread on the ground can even turn barren land to lush greenery.