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Starhue Valley: Rip AU version

 Rip was a solider devoted to The Majors cause right up until her death by Alucard. She used his cause to try and further her own ends, desperate and eager to prove to herself and especially to those that dismissed her that she was a worthy soldier and huntress. This pure desire drove her to accept being a vampire and then spending the next fifty years training and hunting to sharpen her skills with her chosen gun, a Jezail musket to the point where she could take aim and shoot down multiple targets with one shot! 

Nothing escaped her sights and she took pride in that very fact. Right up until she met Alucard on the battlefield a second time. He completely overwhelmed her senses, sending the huntress into a panic that resulted in the deaths of her crew and eventually, her own death at his hands. He impaled her to the wall by her own musket and then devoured her, claiming her soul for his very own.

Rip only knew darkness from that moment on. She was in some void with millions of other voices trying to overwhelm her and make her one of the millions. Yet, she resisted. Rip did NOT want to loose her sense of self and everything that made her.. HER. She screamed and fought against the darkness, the insanity! She remembered vaguely being forced into a battle and then burned, only to return to the void.. only the voices were less and less now.

Rip did not want to die, she wanted to live.. to survive! She threw everything she had into her desperate desire and finally, she saw a light! An end to the darkness and insanity. She emerged onto the remains of what was once London, the dawn after the battle that raged through the night caused by The Major. With pure destruction and death all around her, Rip finally realized that the destruction she so craved really looked like. It opened her eyes a little as she wandered off the battlefield, seeking to learn more about what happened and to find a place to hide during the day. 

For a time Rip wandered and learned more about the modern world. She visited battlefields but never participated in the war of humans against humans. She found there was no more artistry in war, not in modern days anyway. The more machines became involved, the less appealing it was to her.

Eventually she wandered from city to city, taking lovers for a time. But, there was always something that made her control on that unending hunger of hers slip and she'd murder a few humans and be forced to move. During her time wandering she had to come to terms with both her unending hunger.. and the fact that it was driving her to madness. The insanity and hunger seemed to go hand in hand! She fought it, tried to control it even! But, no matter what she tried...she always slipped up.

That lead her to consider isolating herself from humanity and with that in mind, she returned to Brazil. She settled in an abandoned bunker in the jungle. She fixed it up and made it her home. She worked on controlling herself. This lead to the childish and mercurial huntress becoming calmer as time passed on. As she slowly gained more control, she felt there was something missing.. something darker she couldn't explain.

Thirty years passed and she felt that darkness tug at her.. and it scared her. Rip knew that feeling! She needed to run... and so she ran.