History
Michelle Marie Maer was born in Berlin, Germany into a wealthy family that stayed affluent and untouched throughout WW2 by Questionable Means
She remained ignorant to many social and political issues throughout her youth, enjoyed a spoiled life of luxury and opportunities
Her family’s wealth was impacted harshly by the building of the Berlin Wall, opening her eyes to the injustice of the world for the first time
Became more invested in civil rights, began to campaign and protest, despite her father’s discouragement. She was stupid and entitled but thought she was doing the right thing
During one of the demonstrations in 1962, a couple of men targeted her when they noticed her nice jewelry. The mugging went wrong, and her throat was slashed
Dying in an abandoned shop, she was found by a vampire named Monika, who turned her and promptly suggested into playing the part of her “daughter”
Monika was a sick woman, but Michelle was thankful for her life and helpless against the suggestion
Michelle was not the only replacement for this woman’s long-dead children. She was introduced to a “brother” named Klaus, who was strange and unwelcoming in private, and would only refer to her as “Sieben”, informing her she was the woman’s seventh attempt at recreating a daughter
Around Monika, he was the definition of a perfect brother. Michelle did her best to make do with the new dynamic, in some ways losing her own sanity in the process as she coped with the sudden loss of her family and life of luxury
It was not all bad, aside from Monika’s imposing control and constant invasion of privacy, she was never neglected and was taught how to control herself early on
Things got bad when she developed an ability that was a danger to herself and her family
An evening of boredom and loneliness resulted in the conjuration of a small cat made entirely of flame
Cue panic, bloodlust, and a small fire in her room that was only barely put out before it turned them all to ash
Monika promptly banned Michelle from practicing this new and terrifying ability, but on nights she was able to slip away, she practiced conjuring the cat from several hundred feet away, eventually able to control its movements and size
Monika began to distrust Michelle, accusing her of conspiring to kill her
Such accusations grew in intensity when Klaus suddenly made his exit in 1966, Monika’s paranoia skyrocketing
The next five years were full of metal and sometimes physical abuse, but Monika never pushed Michelle too far, knowing what she might be capable of if she lost her cool and control over her flammable magic companion
In 1971, a fight between the two women over the addition of a replacement for Klaus nearly cost both of them their lives when Michelle lost control over her ability, and the cat combusted into an explosion of that ashed the newly turned vampire
Monika, furious, disowned Michelle and drove her out, turning her out into a world that had changed significantly while she’d been caught up in a delusion
Adjustment was difficult, but Michelle was adaptable
She made no attempt to contact her family, suggestions still in place preventing her from caring
So she forged a life for herself, taking her immortality as an opportunity to live a life unrestrained by anyone
She lived in Munich, Paris, Milan, Madrid, London… never staying in one place for too long, but always eager to absorb the world and the culture, determined never to grow out of touch again
But it was a very lonely existence, a young girl robbed of her family. Friends came, but they were hard to keep, some even falling victim to her monstrous nature
Then The Internet
She became enriched in it, spending her waking hours deeply submerged in the world wide web, finding that she could make friends from all over the world without ever having to tell them her age or show them her face
It helped her expand her travels, too, eventually drawing her outside of Europe, through Asia, then eventually America, picking up jobs and doing what was needed to secure housing and, most importantly, WiFi
She lived in LA for a time, where in 2015 she was introduced to the platform of Twitch, where people from everywhere with common interests could tune in to interact live
She fell in love, and in 2016, she began her career with the handle Sieben_Sünden, playing any and every video game recommended to her, live every evening for hours and hours at a time
Eventually, she amassed a sizable community of fans, most of which were international, given her nocturnal schedule, and somewhere along the way she adopted the nickname “Seven”, deciding it was poetic in some strange way
In 2021, Seven grew bored of LA, and struck out to experience the chilly mountainous culture of Colorado