ℑℑ. 𝕴 𝖜𝖆𝖑𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖔𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝖚𝖕𝖔𝖓 𝖆 𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒

Name Laura Age 19/27 Born 1827

At the age of her story, Laura is a lonely and shy nineteen-year-old girl, living a quiet and sheltered life with her father, gouvernantes, and a handful of servants in their isolated Austrian castle, also known as a schloss.

Despite her mother, a Styrian lady, having died in her infancy, Laura did not lack for maternal warmth in her life, thanks to the tender care of her good-natured governess, Madame Perrodon.

Her earliest and most formative memory occurred when she was just six years of age when she woke in the middle of the night to find a strange, ethereally beautiful woman caressing her. At first, the woman’s affection soothed Laura and comforted her back to sleep — then she awoke once more, screaming at the sensation of two stabbing needles in her breast. When help came at the sound of her cries, the mysterious visitor had vanished and no evidence of puncture marks were found.

Being an only child raised in a single-parent household, Laura is used to getting what she wants, and even states by her own admission to being rather spoiled. She enjoys her life of modest luxury, but feels deeply alone and longingly wishes for companionship. She is, therefore, excited and overjoyed when Carmilla — a girl of her own age — comes to stay with her and her family, but soon finds that she is both attracted to and repulsed by her new friend. Laura spends much of her story reconciling the complex emotions Carmilla inspires within her.

Although she is enthralled by Carmilla’s physical affections and vocal admiration towards her, the other girl's secrecy and strange behavior trouble Laura who believes that true friends should be honest and open with one another.

After repeated dreams of night-time visitations, Laura begins to fall ill, and a visit from her father’s oldest friend, General Spielsdorf, reveals that the source of the illness is bites and bloodsucking from Carmilla who is actually a centuries-old vampire from an extinct aristocratic family known as the Karnsteins.

Though Laura is mostly restored to health, her lingering illness and her new ability to contemplate darker aspects of life show that Carmilla’s companionship had a lasting influence in ways that Laura does not wholly resent.

Throughout her childhood, adolescence, and into her womanhood, Laura's personality can be described as demure, kind, polite, and sensitive. She is often far too trusting for her own good, leading with altruism and naivety, even when her intellect and gut tell her otherwise. Another of Laura's most prominent personality traits is her care towards the people around her, lowborn and highborn alike. She is also shown to be a highly social individual despite having lived a largely solitary and lonesome life.

CODE BY MARWOOD