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.the mundane;
» Name: Jill
» Journal: la_belle_roo
» Contact: AIM: ninjanevermore / Email: mcgrath.jillian@gmail.com
.the myth;
» Pantheon: Judeo-Christian
» God(dess): Agrat Bat Mahlat
» Reference: wiki
» Family: {mother & father} God ; {spouse} Samael
» Played By: Adriana Lima
» Human Alias: Tessa Montague
» Human Age: 27 28
» Ability: With a name that translates out to 'daughter of illusions' or 'bringer of deception', Agrat's ability is that she's good at recognizing when someone is lying to her. Game recognizes game, as they say.
» Occupation: Model, though she picks up various other little jobs between gigs.
» History: A succubi and angel of sacred prostitution mentioned in the Zoharistic Kabbalah along with Lilith, Naamah, and Eisheth Zenunim, Agrat Bat Mahlat was one of the four queens of the demons and one of the concubines of Samael, as well as the ruler of Salamanca. A fallen angel also referred to as just Agrat, Igrat, or Iggeret with Mahathallah instead of Mahlat, she is oftentimes considered a manifestation of Lilith whose name can be translated as ‘daughter of illusions’, ‘bringer of deception’, or in some cases as ‘reward for deception’.
It is said in the Kabbalah and the school of Rashba that Agrat Bat Mahlat was the mother of the king of Demons, Asmodeus, whom she beget by mating with King David, and that it was thanks to the spiritual intervention of Hanina Ben Dosa and Rabbi Abaye that her power over humans was put to rest.
» Reincarnations: Over the course of her life Agrat Bat Mahlat has been reincarnated on a few different occasions. First reborn to a life of ease and nobility in the 16th century French courts, she married young and was unable to accomplish anything of note before her untimely passing due to the plague. Reincarnated again during the Victorian era, she gained minor prominence for the scandal of being committed to a mental institution after being caught in a compromising position with one of her husbands’ colleagues. She killed herself soon after realizing that she had been declared insane and nobody would be coming to let her free.
In her most recent life, Agrat is the third child of Marine Corp 1st Lieutenant Ethan Montague and his civilian wife Julia. Born in Brazil while her father was on a furlough, Tessa was privy to the chaotic life of a military brat. Her family moved around every few years depending on where they deployed her father to, which resulted in Tessa becoming exposed to various languages and cultures but having few steady friends outside of other military families. Between birth and the age of fourteen, she had lived on military bases in Germany, Cuba, Afghanistan, and Japan, but all that changed a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday.
Sick of the constant changes to their lifestyle and the trials of raising three kids with little to no assistance, Julia Montague had begun quietly drinking and gambling away the family funds. When he discovered that a large chunk of their mutual savings had been depleted he filed for divorce, and the resulting fallout triggered a full remembrance of Tessa’s life as Agrat Bat Mahlat. With custody of the children going to her father, the family relocated to Quantico, Virginia, where he accepted a job teaching at the Marine Corps University, but her mother chose to go back to Brazil to pursue a new life. A real daddy’s girl, Tessa considered her mothers’ actions a huge slap in the face and out of respect for her father cut off all contact with her mother from that point forward.
As her brothers had gone off to college and the Air Force respectively, it fell upon Tessa to keep her father from going off the rails and giving into the depression that ran in his family. She quietly took over the cooking and cleaning while her father handled the financial aspects of their day to day life, doing what she could to make sure that slowly but surely things got back to normal. Before her senior year of high school, Tessa ended up meeting a modeling recruiter and began working through his agency, fulfilling her aspirations of becoming a model. Upon graduating, instead of attending college, she traveled to England for a few years where she became engaged to a wealthy businessman after discovering that she was carrying his child. Though she was careful she ended up losing the baby through no fault of her own, though her fiancé blamed her and called off the engagement.
Devastated by the loss of both her child and the life that she had looked forward to, Tessa fell into a deep depression and contemplated suicide, but worked through those dark times with the help of her family. Returning to America, she continued to pick up work here and there modeling, but when her boyfriend, a bassist in an up and coming hardcore band, decided to move to Greenwich Village with his band mates she joined him. Like all good things, eventually her relationship with the musician came to an end, but by that point in time Tessa had already gotten herself situated and became so enamored with the city that she chose to stay.
» Personality: For Tessa, learning that she was once Agrat Bat Mahlat was a process that involved getting to know and accept herself for who and what she is and was. A charming and graceful girl with an infectious smile, the awakening of her more brazen, devious, and shameless side came as no surprise to her. Flirtatious practically from birth, it was relatively easy for her to realize the power her good looks and seemingly easy-going nature afforded her. Finding out that with a few sweet words (and possibly spreading her legs) she could convince men to do all sorts of things for her was like getting her very own golden ticket, except instead of opening Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory she got something far more useful.
Carefree and playful, Agrat enjoys being the center of attention and getting people to take care of her. While she’s perfectly self-sufficient, she prefers letting someone else worry about things such as money and her well-being while she devotes her attentions to having a good time and pampering herself. She rewards those who live up to her standards and help her maintain the lifestyle that she’s accustomed to by showing off her prowess in the bedroom, or wherever they happen to be when the urge strikes her. Although she was once considered an angel, most of her methods are downright dirty. However, she makes sure that anyone deigning to give her attention leaves her company feeling adored yet drained. A true succubi, she finds pleasure in the gratification of others, especially physically, and typically repays any adoration in a very personalized manner.
Insatiable in her desires, when Agrat sees someone or something she wants she refuses to let anything stand in her way. It doesn’t matter who she hurts, so long as the end result is in her favor. She feels no remorse if her actions end up destroying a marriage or even someone’s life; as far as she’s concerned it was their decision to take the bait she offered when they knew the risks. In her own selfish way, she feels that in being able to convince someone to cheat with her or similarly betray a trust she’s doing them a service; clearly they wouldn’t have done the same thing eventually whether it was with her or someone else. Not only that, but any woman who would think she’s a whore because she’s sexually confident and aggressive enough to go for what she wants could take a lesson from her - maybe if they were more willing to take control in those situations their men wouldn’t be such easy prey for the fallen angel.
Able to go from seductive and whimsical to forceful and unyielding at the drop of a hat, Agrat employs a variety of strategies in order to insure that things go her way. Despite her efforts, there are still plenty of times when things blow up in her face; an angry wife or girlfriend decides to confront her or the target she’s chosen doesn’t fall for the bait; but when that happens instead of staying around to deal with the consequences of her actions Agrat chooses to take off for greener pastures. Impulse tends to guide her choices, meaning that she might end up having to completely rebuild her network of friends and playmates, but she’s never had difficulty attracting others. She finds the whole process of reinventing herself and her social network to be like a game, and she’ll do what or whoever it takes to win.
In those times when she’s confronted by her machinations, Agrat does her best to remain calm, behaving differently depending upon the situation. When dealing with accusations from other women, she reacts in a passive aggressive manner using thinly veiled barbs and pointed comments instead of violence. If they respond with violence she’ll defend herself to the best of her abilities but attempts to avoid letting things get to that point. With men, however, she’ll go out of her way to be completely unrepentant so as to make the encounter as passionate as she can get it, wanting them to not hold back with her whatsoever. Masochistic, she believes it’s not a true fight unless she’s left with a patchwork of bruises and scrapes to remind her of what she did wrong. There’s also the potential that the resulting battle will lead to a round of angry sex, and little gets her gears turning more than the moment in which near-hatred becomes an aphrodisiac.
Her biggest weakness is her inability to leave well enough alone. A lover of drama, especially when she’s the one behind it, Agrat revels in orchestrating chaos. When she finds herself in a perfectly pleasant and settled situation she just has to ruin it somehow. She frequently ends up destroying her own happiness because she was just so damn bored with how everything was going, regardless of how badly it could work out for her. Whenever she starts feeling as though she’s getting too attached to her current victim she’ll find a way to make sure she taints them just enough to remind herself that feelings are nothing more than a hindrance getting in the way of her achieving whatever she likes without being tied down. She values her freedom and her free will almost as much as she values herself, and to that end she makes sure that every major decision she makes benefits her more than anyone else.
» Name: Jill
» Journal: la_belle_roo
» Contact: AIM: ninjanevermore / Email: mcgrath.jillian@gmail.com
.the myth;
» Pantheon: Judeo-Christian
» God(dess): Agrat Bat Mahlat
» Reference: wiki
» Family: {mother & father} God ; {spouse} Samael
» Played By: Adriana Lima
» Human Alias: Tessa Montague
» Human Age: 27 28
» Ability: With a name that translates out to 'daughter of illusions' or 'bringer of deception', Agrat's ability is that she's good at recognizing when someone is lying to her. Game recognizes game, as they say.
» Occupation: Model, though she picks up various other little jobs between gigs.
» History: A succubi and angel of sacred prostitution mentioned in the Zoharistic Kabbalah along with Lilith, Naamah, and Eisheth Zenunim, Agrat Bat Mahlat was one of the four queens of the demons and one of the concubines of Samael, as well as the ruler of Salamanca. A fallen angel also referred to as just Agrat, Igrat, or Iggeret with Mahathallah instead of Mahlat, she is oftentimes considered a manifestation of Lilith whose name can be translated as ‘daughter of illusions’, ‘bringer of deception’, or in some cases as ‘reward for deception’.
It is said in the Kabbalah and the school of Rashba that Agrat Bat Mahlat was the mother of the king of Demons, Asmodeus, whom she beget by mating with King David, and that it was thanks to the spiritual intervention of Hanina Ben Dosa and Rabbi Abaye that her power over humans was put to rest.
» Reincarnations: Over the course of her life Agrat Bat Mahlat has been reincarnated on a few different occasions. First reborn to a life of ease and nobility in the 16th century French courts, she married young and was unable to accomplish anything of note before her untimely passing due to the plague. Reincarnated again during the Victorian era, she gained minor prominence for the scandal of being committed to a mental institution after being caught in a compromising position with one of her husbands’ colleagues. She killed herself soon after realizing that she had been declared insane and nobody would be coming to let her free.
In her most recent life, Agrat is the third child of Marine Corp 1st Lieutenant Ethan Montague and his civilian wife Julia. Born in Brazil while her father was on a furlough, Tessa was privy to the chaotic life of a military brat. Her family moved around every few years depending on where they deployed her father to, which resulted in Tessa becoming exposed to various languages and cultures but having few steady friends outside of other military families. Between birth and the age of fourteen, she had lived on military bases in Germany, Cuba, Afghanistan, and Japan, but all that changed a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday.
Sick of the constant changes to their lifestyle and the trials of raising three kids with little to no assistance, Julia Montague had begun quietly drinking and gambling away the family funds. When he discovered that a large chunk of their mutual savings had been depleted he filed for divorce, and the resulting fallout triggered a full remembrance of Tessa’s life as Agrat Bat Mahlat. With custody of the children going to her father, the family relocated to Quantico, Virginia, where he accepted a job teaching at the Marine Corps University, but her mother chose to go back to Brazil to pursue a new life. A real daddy’s girl, Tessa considered her mothers’ actions a huge slap in the face and out of respect for her father cut off all contact with her mother from that point forward.
As her brothers had gone off to college and the Air Force respectively, it fell upon Tessa to keep her father from going off the rails and giving into the depression that ran in his family. She quietly took over the cooking and cleaning while her father handled the financial aspects of their day to day life, doing what she could to make sure that slowly but surely things got back to normal. Before her senior year of high school, Tessa ended up meeting a modeling recruiter and began working through his agency, fulfilling her aspirations of becoming a model. Upon graduating, instead of attending college, she traveled to England for a few years where she became engaged to a wealthy businessman after discovering that she was carrying his child. Though she was careful she ended up losing the baby through no fault of her own, though her fiancé blamed her and called off the engagement.
Devastated by the loss of both her child and the life that she had looked forward to, Tessa fell into a deep depression and contemplated suicide, but worked through those dark times with the help of her family. Returning to America, she continued to pick up work here and there modeling, but when her boyfriend, a bassist in an up and coming hardcore band, decided to move to Greenwich Village with his band mates she joined him. Like all good things, eventually her relationship with the musician came to an end, but by that point in time Tessa had already gotten herself situated and became so enamored with the city that she chose to stay.
» Personality: For Tessa, learning that she was once Agrat Bat Mahlat was a process that involved getting to know and accept herself for who and what she is and was. A charming and graceful girl with an infectious smile, the awakening of her more brazen, devious, and shameless side came as no surprise to her. Flirtatious practically from birth, it was relatively easy for her to realize the power her good looks and seemingly easy-going nature afforded her. Finding out that with a few sweet words (and possibly spreading her legs) she could convince men to do all sorts of things for her was like getting her very own golden ticket, except instead of opening Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory she got something far more useful.
Carefree and playful, Agrat enjoys being the center of attention and getting people to take care of her. While she’s perfectly self-sufficient, she prefers letting someone else worry about things such as money and her well-being while she devotes her attentions to having a good time and pampering herself. She rewards those who live up to her standards and help her maintain the lifestyle that she’s accustomed to by showing off her prowess in the bedroom, or wherever they happen to be when the urge strikes her. Although she was once considered an angel, most of her methods are downright dirty. However, she makes sure that anyone deigning to give her attention leaves her company feeling adored yet drained. A true succubi, she finds pleasure in the gratification of others, especially physically, and typically repays any adoration in a very personalized manner.
Insatiable in her desires, when Agrat sees someone or something she wants she refuses to let anything stand in her way. It doesn’t matter who she hurts, so long as the end result is in her favor. She feels no remorse if her actions end up destroying a marriage or even someone’s life; as far as she’s concerned it was their decision to take the bait she offered when they knew the risks. In her own selfish way, she feels that in being able to convince someone to cheat with her or similarly betray a trust she’s doing them a service; clearly they wouldn’t have done the same thing eventually whether it was with her or someone else. Not only that, but any woman who would think she’s a whore because she’s sexually confident and aggressive enough to go for what she wants could take a lesson from her - maybe if they were more willing to take control in those situations their men wouldn’t be such easy prey for the fallen angel.
Able to go from seductive and whimsical to forceful and unyielding at the drop of a hat, Agrat employs a variety of strategies in order to insure that things go her way. Despite her efforts, there are still plenty of times when things blow up in her face; an angry wife or girlfriend decides to confront her or the target she’s chosen doesn’t fall for the bait; but when that happens instead of staying around to deal with the consequences of her actions Agrat chooses to take off for greener pastures. Impulse tends to guide her choices, meaning that she might end up having to completely rebuild her network of friends and playmates, but she’s never had difficulty attracting others. She finds the whole process of reinventing herself and her social network to be like a game, and she’ll do what or whoever it takes to win.
In those times when she’s confronted by her machinations, Agrat does her best to remain calm, behaving differently depending upon the situation. When dealing with accusations from other women, she reacts in a passive aggressive manner using thinly veiled barbs and pointed comments instead of violence. If they respond with violence she’ll defend herself to the best of her abilities but attempts to avoid letting things get to that point. With men, however, she’ll go out of her way to be completely unrepentant so as to make the encounter as passionate as she can get it, wanting them to not hold back with her whatsoever. Masochistic, she believes it’s not a true fight unless she’s left with a patchwork of bruises and scrapes to remind her of what she did wrong. There’s also the potential that the resulting battle will lead to a round of angry sex, and little gets her gears turning more than the moment in which near-hatred becomes an aphrodisiac.
Her biggest weakness is her inability to leave well enough alone. A lover of drama, especially when she’s the one behind it, Agrat revels in orchestrating chaos. When she finds herself in a perfectly pleasant and settled situation she just has to ruin it somehow. She frequently ends up destroying her own happiness because she was just so damn bored with how everything was going, regardless of how badly it could work out for her. Whenever she starts feeling as though she’s getting too attached to her current victim she’ll find a way to make sure she taints them just enough to remind herself that feelings are nothing more than a hindrance getting in the way of her achieving whatever she likes without being tied down. She values her freedom and her free will almost as much as she values herself, and to that end she makes sure that every major decision she makes benefits her more than anyone else.