Erica Slaughter
Erica Slaughter is a young hunter that is dedicated to destroying Tulpas, imaginative monsters that manifest through fear and terror of the mind and prey on young children. She is a member of a secret order known as the Knights of Saint George although despite the formality of the order Erica herself is more of a loner and a bit of rebel.
Overview[]
Erica's exact origins are not quite clear but what is known is that her family was killed by a Tulpa that only she could see while the others could not. She was later adopted by the Knights of Saint George and became one of their fiercest and most capable agents. The reason she was able to see these unseen malevolent forces is due a strange mark along her temple.
While its full nature is uncertain it has been obliquely implied that this mark grants her the ability to see these monsters. The mark also gave her eyes an odd unnatural color, a bright forest green to be exact, something that is shared with other members of House Slaughter and a stuffed animal totem that houses a demonic spirit along with a stylistic death mask and crest tattoo.
Description[]
Erica herself is somewhat emotionally distant but not entirely disconnected. Due to experience she is fully aware that she is not on a rescue mission, for the children that have gone missing will be found dead and disemboweled regardless. She will wade through small corpses to finish the task at hand and so it is a job that requires a certain level of detachment. Otherwise, one would more than likely shatter at the sight of a mutilated child.
Characters like Hellboy and John Constantine, whom both had a run-in with Erica, have noted the "dead" and "emotionless" look into her eyes with Erica sharing the same mutual sentiment since the three have had their fair share of nightmarish experiences. Despite her detached nature, she has a short-fuse and can be quite agitated, especially towards her superiors when she is not given proper or full information about an upcoming task but is a compassionate humanitarian at heart, although one that does not wish to have close ties with anyone.