One of my pet projects is a fantasy mystery series, set in a Tolkien-esque world called Maranatha. As it's written, Maranatha is very much a parody of the real world and real life in general. For example, the local alchemist and apothecary has a lot of the same situations you'd expect of a pharmacy or a chemistry lab. Wizards are the equivalents of scholars and scientists, and Necromancers in particular are students of Thanotology and Necrology, perhaps working as morticians or coroners.
For those unfamiliar with fantasy-type settings, a Necromancer is a brand of wizard who works primarily with death and dead stuff, e.g: reanimated dead such as skeletons and zombies, spells which affect life force, etc. Generally, it's not a well-regarded occupation within the work it's portrayed, and Maranatha is no exception. I mean, who wants to hang around someone who thinks about death all day?...
... Never mind, moving on.
So, within the backstory of Maranatha, which centers around a nameless traveler (known as the Sojourner) travelling between towns and gathering a fellowship of people as he goes, one of the recurring characters is Brianna the Necrophile, Brianna the Thanophile, Brianna the Depraved and Brianna the [Insert unflattering title here]. The gist of her character, as the title should suggest by now, is that she is a necrophiliac.
If you have the stomach to continue reading after that last sentence, rest assured you will be rewarded with the image of a hot, mid-twenties-age nubile woman with D-cup breasts and excellent hips and long dark golden hair and bright green eyes..... being thrusted by a zombie.
Boring Character Stuff:
Important fact about Brianna as a character, she is ageless. Sort of undead, but also sort of alive. Thanks to a romantic partnership with a necromancer, her body's natural regenerative properties (the same properties that allow the human body to recover from any wound) have been drastically improved to the point where she is immortal. But if you think this a good thing, then you've obviously never had sex.
The backstory of the character starts when she was 16, the daughter of some noble rich person who doesn't really matter. She is bored, lonely, unhappy with her life even though it's luxurious, it's still boring and lonely (think Jasmine from 'Aladdin'). One day, while at the apothecary, she meets a tall, handsome type. Intrigued, she follows him home, which is pretty far outside of town, to a little cottage.
They meet, he's apprehensive that there's someone there, since he usually spends most of his time alone, but he's still polite and a gentleman and eventually offers her tea. And then he talks about his life's ambition. to become a Lich. In order to really explain the concept of a lich, I'd have to write whole separate entry, so I'll just let wikipedia do it for me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich
Yes, this polite gentleman is a necromancer, and Brianna has the hots for him. And, he's fantastic in bed, as she quickly finds out after coming on to him. For months, she travels to his cottage almost every day to get a bit more lovin' from the guy. Eventually, he also develops a stronger attraction to her, in that as an outcast of society, he is lucky to have someone who actually wants to spend time with him. Brianna of course, finds him exciting.
Eventually, he does acheive his goal of becoming a lich, gives up necromancy and becomes a farmer, and Brianna runs off with him. They continue their escapades. He doesn't grow anymore at this point, being undead. She does, but at a much slower rate than normal. For years, they live happily.
Until some douche-bag Paladin comes along and "frees his soul" while they were climaxing. This resulted in Brianna gaining immortality and insatiable libido that no living man could quench.
So, she lives as a hermit, stealing bodies from graveyards and morgues to become zombie sex slaves (she did pick up a few tricks from her former lover), replaced when they decay so far that essential parts no longer remain attached. It's a grotesque existence, indeed.
Rooted to the character is a high sense of morality: she won't kill to satisfy her needs. To protect herself, or maybe even the town she's stealing bodies from, yes she'll not hesitate to get her hands bloody. Then she'll use the body for her own purposes, but never in cold blood. This seemingly out-of-place moral stems from the pain of losing her own lover, a fate she considers worse than death and would not wish on anybody.
Her relevance to the plot of Maranatha? Well, she's a recurring character. She'll occasionally cross paths with the Sojourner and his party as they travel and assist them with whatever they need assistance with. Or, the Sojourner's group will be enlisted by the townspeople to drive her out (actually, that's first arc I have her involved in). She's not really a villain, just.. well, sexually depraved. And she's not really a hero because she's... well, sexually depraved.
Still, this is one of my favorite characters and one of the most prolific recurring characters in the whole Maranatha mythology. If I ever get the backing and the budget to do Maranatha as a series, everyone who's read this post will probably be thinking "oh crap."
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