Corporeal Forces: 3 Strength: 4 Agility: 8

Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence: 10 Precision: 10

Celestial Forces: 5 Will: 10 Perception: 10

Word-Forces: 13

Vessel: human female/1

Skills: Artistry (writing/3, cinema/1), Dodge/3, Fighting/3, Knowledge (Horror Genre/3, Psychology/1), Large Weapon (sword)/2, Lucid Dreaming/3, Tactics/3

Role: "Christine Belknap" (horror writer)/3, Status 3

Songs: Banishing (Corporeal/1, Ethereal/3, Celestial/1), Daydreams/1, Dreams (Corporeal/1, Ethereal/3, Celestial/2), Harmony (Ethereal/1), Healing (Corporeal/1, Ethereal/2), Nightmares (Ethereal/1), Shields (All/1), Sleep (Ethereal/1), Tongues (Ethereal/1)

Attunements: Ofanite of Dreams, Mercurian of Dreams, Dream Walking, Healing Dream, Lucidity, Friend of Sleepers, Angel of the Genre of Horror

Angel of the Genre of Horror: With a Perception roll, Christine can enter the nightmare dominated by classic horror imagery and automatically yank it over to Blandine's side of the Marches… without changing the details of the nightmare. However, the tone rapidly changes from "cowering in terror" to "bravely confronting and confounding fear". Christine also knows whenever a nightmare is diabolically inspired. She will sometimes gift the latter ability.

Rites:

: Help someone confront and master his or her fears (+1 essence, +2 if the fear was originally symbolized by a traditional symbol of horror).

: Watch a classic horror flick. Slasher films don’t count, unless there's actually some artistic merit.

Usually, when an angel is presented before the Seraphim Council as a candidate for a Word, there is a period where both the candidate and her sponsored are ritually questioned. This was skipped in Christine's case: so many Superiors had decided to junk tradition and instead ask Blandine a variation of, "You want her to be the Angel of WHAT?" that, by the time the Council finally got their heads around the idea, well, things were running late.

It's not even as if Christine was originally a demon, or anything. She's just a fairly young Servitor of Dreams who spent more time on the corporeal plane than most. She's cheerful, polite, friendly … and has a deep and abiding love of horror novels, horror comics, horror movies, even those old Aurora glow in the dark model kits. She's not morbid, not gloomy, not even a potential recruit for Nightmares. But she is confusing.

How she talked Blandine into the Word isn't too clear. Christine has fairly strong, and quite articulate, views on her favorite form of entertainment, so that might have something to do with it. Besides, she was obviously handling her highly bizarre (for a Servitor of Dreams) hobby, so the concept wasn't inherently Infernal. It's also suspected that Blandine knew that having an Angel of the Genre of Horror would infuriate the Other Side, and just couldn't help herself. You think that Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?

Christine, as said above, has strong views on her Word. In her mind, Horror is a valuable, useful tool to express fears, not feed them. Humans like to be scared: it boosts various glands, keeps them on their toes, and generally cleans out some of the dark corners of the psyche. But they like being scared in ways that allows them to keep in control. Horror helps them do that by expressing some very dark emotions and anxieties in a ritualized format: mortals may shriek and scream during the process, but when it's over, it's over. Humans use horror to tame fear.

Beleth hates this sort of thing, of course: if she had her way, she'd destroy every damned movie, book or legend that narrates the doings of monsters and evil. The Princess of Nightmares relies on ignorance for her best effects: it's a truism that the absolutely worst fear of all is fear of the unknown, and even the frailest scrap of knowledge can taint an otherwise perfect tableau of misery and torment. Needless to say, Christine doesn't use her Role nearly as much as she used to; Beleth isn't quite insulted enough to take this upstart's existence personally, but Servitors of Nightmares are a constant annoyance.

Her peers don't exactly shun the Angel of the Genre of Horror, but Christine isn’t exactly close to her fellow Servitors, either. They try their best to keep an open mind, but most feel that Dreams are supposed to fight monsters from the id, not use them as weapons. Of course, angels from other Words aren't nearly as finicky. Demons from Nightmares often get a nasty surprise when they find out that the abomination they've been sent to harass can yell for help and get it… in the form of a few grinning Seraphim or Malakim of War (Michael thinks that this angel is a definite Step In The Right Direction).