I'm not like them, but I can pretend"
"The sun is gone, but I have a light”
◘ Basic Info ◘
Full Name: Pandora ; Katharina Cobain
Nicknames: Pandora
prefers to just go by her own name, but she can't seem to escape the
nicknames. 'Panda' is Crowley's favourite, a play on her hair & skin
colour and her name. Sam doesn't have many nicknames for her, but Dean
has an absolute ton. Cat (a play on the phrase 'curiousity killed the
cat') and Nerd Bird are some of his favourites.
Aliases: Agent
Jamie Moriarty, Detective Inspector Marie Calander , Specialist
Vivienne Scarlett, and many others. Her aliases always seem to mimic pop
culture icons
Age: Being
created soon after Prometheus stole the fire, she is very old, older
than some of the gods. However, she was cursed to never age, keeping her
locked at age 29.
Species: Human; Immortal
Birthday: Unknown, but she celebrates her birthday on January 1st
Birthplace: Mnt. Olympus
Nationality: Greek; Olympian
Ethnicity: Greek
Languages: (in order of fluency) Greek, Latin, English, French, Japanese, German, and Spanish
Sexuality: Bisexual, though she typically leans more towards men
Blood Type: O Negative
Occupation: Pandora
has had many off-the wall jobs throughout the years, but she currently
runs a bookshop/tea store in Southern
California and does hunting as a
side job.
"The day is done, but I am having fun"
◘ Appearance ◘
Height: 5'8”
Weight:110 lbs
Bust: She has a rather small bust, 28A.
Body Type: She
would most likely be described as a 'cornet' or 'coumn' body type, with
long limbs and not many curves. She is on the thin side and has toned
arms and legs, but no impressive amount of muscle.
Complexion: Pale skin that burns easy, a fact she is not too proud of
Eyes: Pandora has large, round eyes that are a forest green colour
Hair:
Pandora has thick, curly, dark hair. It is always a bit of a mess and
seems to have a mind of its own. She usually keeps it cut short,
reaching just past her chin and about midway down her neck. When styling
it for a job, she'll either pin a section back or hairspray it away
from her face. Otherwise, she just leaves it as is when she wakes up.
Brushing it just makes it more frizzy.
Birthmark(s): N/a
Scar(s):
Many. She has multiple small battle scars and a couple large,
distinguishing scars across her back and stomach from being tortured by
Crowley. However, she has many near healed injuries. Anything that would
be normally fatal does not heal fully because when her body stopped
developing, it also stopped producing white blood cells.
Clothing Style:
Pandora has a very feminine, hipsterish sense of fashion. Her closet
consists of lots of pastels, skirts, blouses, peter pan collars, and
floral prints. She typically wears pale pink Converse sneakers with
everything.
Accessories: Unless for a case, none. When it is for a case, she has a few stable necklaces she reverts to.
Makeup: Pandora stays away from most makeup except for bright red lipstick. Beyond that she views it as too much of a hassle.
Piercings/Tattoos:
She doesn't have any piercings, and she has an anti-possesion symbol on
her right shoulder and a demon trap on her right. She figures is a
demon somehow possesses her, it would be better to trap it inside her
body and die with it rather than allow it to move from body to body.
Scent:Because of her love of incense, she usually has a strong, earthy patchouli aroma to her. Aside from this, she smells slightly of old, stale drugs. This is because the smell was never able to leave her body entirely, as she doesn't have any new skin cells. The smell stuck to these old ones and never left. This is why she always keeps a stick of incense burning-to try and hide the stench.
"I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy”
◘ Character ◘
Dominant Hand: Left Handed
Personality:Pandora
has a slightly psychopathic way about her. She is very intelligent and
witty, something she has developed over the years. However, despite this
she does not have much common sense and finds herself getting into
self-caused trouble often. This does not affect her much though, because
she seeks out danger and risks. She gets bored easy and thinks living a
wild life is the only way to satisfy it. She balences it out with
working at a quiet book shop. She has strong self-destructive tendancies
and could even be described as suicidal. This makes her ready to do
anything to protect the ones she loves and eager to take their place,
regardless of what it is.
Her sense of humour is rather
sarcastic, and the joke seems to never end for her, which gives her an
innocent, childish air about her. When she does get serious though, she
is a force to be reckoned with.
Forever the hippie, anything
other than freedom will not do. She believes strongly in being honest
and being yourself and doing what you feel is right. Pandora has a 'ask
questions first, shoot later' attitude, which the Winchesters absolutely
loathe. They believe, and rightfully so, that is too dangerous for her
to think this way and it will get her killed.
She
hates lying and liars, and will even go as far as to block anyone who
lies to her out of her life for a while. This makes her a very blunt,
honest person. However, just because she says something and means it one
day does not mean it will be true for the next.
Likes:
Pandora loves literature. She has always loved books and poetry,
especially ones about far off lands, dragons, the hole nerdy nine yards.
She views the literary works as ways to escape whatever problems she is
having at the moment, and has even been known to write a bit herself,
mostly poetry. She loves loud punk/grunge music. This often blares from
her car and plays in her shop. Candles and incense are another must. She
loves rich, earthy, woodsy smells like sandalwood and patchouli. Her
diet is strictly vegan, and she loves small berries. Packages of self
dried berries can be found in her bag at all times.
Dislikes:
The Roman and Greek deities are a never ending source of anger for
Pandora. They sit right up on the 'hate list' with cats and country
music. Other than that, Pandora is a fairly loving person and has a spot
for everything in her heart. Well, except for mothers. She has a severe
grudge against them. She doesn't like junk food, as it upsets her
stomach. She really dislikes television. She can't sit down long enough
to finish and it makes her feel brain dead.
Fears:
She has an irrational fear of the cold. She also has Auto-phobia, a
severe fear of being alone with herself. She keeps people with her at
all times because of this, even if they are complete strangers.
Bad Habits: Pandora is a heavy cigarette smoker and licks her lips when she is nervous/thinking.
"My heart is broke but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you"
◘ Relationships ◘
Family: Pandora was made out of clay to be Zeus's daughter and she had a daughter of her own, but now she has no blood.
Friends: She
views the Winchesters as good friends, but not much of anyone else. She
is scared to get close to anyone, because she knows there is a high
chance she will out live them.
Enemies: Anyone she doesn't know past a first name basis she views as an enemy.
Past Relationships: When she was first made, she was passed off to Epimetheus
and they were married. They even had a daughter. However, because she
opened the box. Epimetheus took their daughter and told everyone Pandora
had died. Again, she fell into a serious relationship with a poet from
New York in the mid-sixties. By the time the seventies had come around,
the had a son named Coriander and had plans to be married. Pandora had
also admitted to what she was and he had admitted to being a hunter.
They sought out a witch and made plans to have Pandora made mortal. The
night they met at the witch's house, a demon had possessed their son's
babysitter and then possessed her daughter. Coriander came in, possessed
by an unnamed demon, and killed the witch and Pandora's to-be husband
before killing the vessel.
Love Interest: Henry Winchester (Sam & Dean's grandfather, AU where he hasn't died)
"We'll float around and hang out on clouds, then we'll come down and have a hang-over."
◘ Biography ◘
Pandora
was made by Hephaestus out of clay to be given to Zeus as a daughter.
To spite Prometheus for his 'crimes' he gave the curious young woman
over to Epimetheus. The two were
happily married and even had a daughter, whom they ironically named
Pyrrha, meaning fire. Zeus gave them a box as a wedding gift and told
them to never open it. About a year or so after waiting, Pandora snapped
and opened to box, which released everything bad into the world. She
was so distressed that she began to sob acid tears. Epimetheus came in,
wondering what could possibly be wrong with her. Pandora explained what
had happened, and Epimetheus grabbed Pyrrha and ran, spreading the rumor
that Pandora had died. Pandora cried for weeks before re-opening to
box, letting out hope.
Zeus cursed her to live forever and
stunted her body. She would not age, would not grow, but also now had no
pulse and would never fully heal from anything, as none of her skin
would regenerate and her white blood cells had stopped. She also could
not eat anything beyond vegan, 'rabbit food', as her body was unable to
adapt to sugars and chemicals later put into food. This did not become
an evident problem until the late 19th century, early 20th when
restaurants and processed food became a big deal.
For all of the
B.C. era and the first thousand A.D. years, Pandora worked as a
'psychic', explaining she could predict the future. In reality, all she
would do was learn an obvious fact about the person. (Frail body but
enlarged, round stomach? Pregnant) and give a vague description of an
event (parent has green eyes and tanned skin? "Your child will be an
exact replica of it's maker. Raise it well and you could live
vicariously through this young one, but raise it poorly and you will see
everything you dislike about your own self bursting in a smaller
version,"). She jumped jobs every thousand years, moving from odd job to
odd job and country to county.
It wasn't until the late 1900s
that she met William Thomas Melburg, a starving poet from New York in
the late 60s. They fell in love instantly. (He walked into her hand-made
jewelry shop and it was 'love at first site') Soon they had a child and
plans to get married. One fateful August evening the two confessed
their secret identities to each other. William was actually a hunter and
Pandora was an immortal. She explained how she had been cast from
Olympus and wasn't a goddess anymore, but that she was still immortal.
William summoned a witch and demanded in one month to have her mortal.
The witch agreed, but for a small fee. Three weeks of little to know
eating and no electricity, life was hard for the family. Still, they
managed to get enough money together to pay the witch and for a baby
sitter for their son Coriander.
However, the babysitter was
possessed by a demon that had been hunting William for three years. It
jumped from the baby sitter to the seven year old boy, grabbed the shot
gun from the wall, then set out for the witch's house. Just before the
spell was finished the possessed boy shot the witch then William, then
proceeded to break his own neck and removed itself from the body. When
the witch's sister (another witch) saw what had happened, she cursed
Pandora to never have children again 'for her irresponsibility'.
After
this, Pandora went home and drank herself into oblivion. And then she
drank some more, and some more, and some more. She was actually admitted
into a hospital for suspected alcohol poisoning, but left the next day.
She got moved to Southern California and opened a book shop and vegan
cafe right under her loft in the eighties and got involved with drugs.
By 1996 she was addicted to cocaine, heroine, and various pain meds. She
had also changed her name to Katharina Cobain in fear that some hunter
would connect the dots between the familiar face since the beginning of
time paired with the name Pandora.
For months the Winchesters
visited her bookstore in search of lore books, which she kept on stock
just for them. It wasn't until after Dean got back from hell, however,
that she officially met them. She had been captured and was being
tortured by Crowley for information on Sam and/or Bobby's location, but
she had no clue. Castiel, along with the two brothers, came in and
rescued her. They took her on a hunt with them (meaning she was hand
cuffed to one of the backseats of the Impala for a week) to make sure
she wasn't another monster, though Cas regularly assured them he knew
she was good. He had seen her face before but couldn't remember where.
The hunt stripped her of her addiction. She found it gave her the same
high as the drugs, but was less expensive.
Now, she helps the Winchesters often on any hunts they have and has become a regular member of 'Team Free Will'.
"Skin the sun, fall asleep. Wish away, the soul is cheap."
◘ Extras ◘
Fun Facts:
Pandora eats a strictly vegan diet
She lives in a small loft right above her bookstore/tea cafe in Southern California
She
drives a blue 1953 Buick Skylark and three fourths of her income go
into keeping it clean and running. She is very proud of it.
She could easily recite any Shakespearean literary work
She
has a habit of clicking her tongue before starting a sentence and she
fidgets with things while thinking- a bit of a nervous tick.
She has been diagnosed with severe depression but chooses to do nothing about it.
She is an amazing cook, but a terrible baker.
Quotations:
"Just eat the rabbit food and shut up"
"It
{hunting} is like a drug. The first time is always the best, and I
continue because I always want to feel that rush, that excitement, that high
again. But it never comes. Yet I still do it. Why? Addiction. I'm
addicted to knowing, for a short period, that I matter. That I have
worth. That my never ending life isn't just taking up space and gaining
dust. I'm driven by this need to feel worthy. The only time I feel
worthy is when I am helping people. When I can't save someone in...at
least a week... I fall deep down into depression again. This is the
extreme pressure I put on myself. The self-doubt is always there though,
even when I do save somebody. It is this ever growing monster that eats
joy. I might be happy for a moment, but there is no long term effect.
If anything, things just get worse. I don't hunt because it is my
passion or I love guns. I hunt because if I don't..I might die." (When
Sam asked why she didn't just go home after that first hunting night
with them)
"My world is dark. It is not bright or sunny, just very dark."
"Okay,
boys listen up, we're gonna play a game of what ifs. Let's say I liked a
person we recently met in your family. Not saying this is true but...if
it were to be what would be you're reaction?"
"Mary Kate, Ashley (her nickname for the boys)! Hurry up!"
"Hey! Braveheart! (Dean) Why don't you shut up and be glad I'm not blaring that blonde headed Canadian from these speakers!"
Playlist (bold are her themes):
Dumb--NirvanaInto the Fire--Disturbed
Anarchy in the UK--Sex Pistols
Face Down--Emigrate
Langeweile--Feeling B
Ich Suche' Die DDR--Feeling B
Pretty Vacant--Sex Pistols
Heart-Shaped Box--Nirvana
Rape Me--Nirvana
Upside Down--Paloma Faith
Little Apple Blossom--White Stripes
Favourites:
Movie: Chicago the Musical
Musical Artist: Nirvana
Colour: Pastel pink or blue
Drink: Absolut vodka or bubble tea (vegan)
Food: Cherries
Animal: Horse
Plant: Rose
"Lesson learned, wish me luck."
"Soothe the Burn, wake me up"
