Scathach Scarlett

Scathach Scarlett is a major character from the My Three Wives are Beautiful Vampires novel. Scathach is hailed as the "strongest female vampire", and is one of the current five Vampire Counts as well as one of the original four Countesses recognized by Vlad Tepes. She is Ruby's biological mother and Victor's master. After certain events, Scathach developed romantic interest for Victor but remains oblivious and in denial about it.

Physical description
She is 186 CM tall, with long red hair, emerald green eyes, a curvaceous body, an H-cup breasts with no visible signs of sagging, and big legs. She is very similar in appearance to her daughter Ruby but has a mature look and has a toned physique befitting of a warrior woman.

Personality and traits
Scathach is a very spartan woman. She grew up in an era where wars are rampant, as a consequence, many of her belief and methods remain old fashioned and sometimes barbaric.

She loves to train more than anything and appreciates people with great potential, she would often accept great talents to be her disciple in order to hone their abilities to the fullest. In contrast, Scathach hates cowards and indolent people. She gets excited whenever she sees a prospect for a fight but is quick to feel disgust whenever the opponent surrenders without even put up resistance.

Despite her spartan ways, Scathach still has a motherly side, proof when she adopted four daughters. She is overprotective of her daughters and would even destroy an entire country if one of her daughters were harmed. However, she does push them to train hard despite her training's 'brutal' nature.

After spending time with Victor, Scathach became more intimate with the former and has even developed romantic affection for him. Victor possessed all the qualities that she liked in a man, as a result, Scathach slowly became obsessed with him, much to the distress of Ruby.

She can also be prone to extreme bouts of jealousy as proof when she destroyed several walls and trees upon learning of Victor's date with Violet. However, a few soothing words from Victor is quick to placate her.

In the past, Scathach was more cautious, but after she realized that sge got so much stronger than the beings in this world, she stopped worrying. After all, she doubts there is anyne who could challenge her.

Additionally, at the rate that Scathach aged, her patience for things decreased, and she no longer had the patience to deal with things like the witches' or demons' games. Because of that, she usually resorted to force directly, as a faithful follower of the saying. 'force solves all problems'.

Early life
Scathach was born over 2000 years ago when the world was plagued by constant wars. Sometime later, she met Vlad and became close to him, akin to a daughter, and is subsequently proclaimed by the latter as one of the first four Vampire Counts.

However, 1000 years ago, Vlad trapped her using Clan Alioth's power in a horrible world for 20 years because she was too uncontrollable, and Vlad didn't want her to get involved in his war plans. This event served to distance Scathach from the king.

She would then begin to adopt vampire children through the years, starting with Siena, Lacus and then Pepper. Twenty one years prior to the start of the story, she decided to have her own biological daughter, and like any normal vampire noblewomen, she decided to kidnap a suitable vampire with powers compatible to her own. She raped the vampire for months until she got pregnant and even opted to marry him through the vampire ritual to achieve a greater result. After Ruby was conceived, she then killed her husband because for her, he was a boring man, a man without potential, a man who doesn't train, but her main reason was boredom. He wasn't like her, he didn't want the same goals as her, and from the beginning, she weren't interested in him; she just took him because he had 'powers' that matched her own power. In short, he was a tool and since he fulfilled his purpose, she eliminated him.

The Awakening
Scathach first meet Victor when the former was informed by Luna about Ruby's apparent marriage to an unknown vampire. Upon their meeting, Scathach expressed her disapproval of Victor and threatens to kill him in order to separate him form Ruby. However, Victor's words and audacious attitude impresses Scathach and she quickly gives them her approval, but soon after, decides to take Victor as her newest disciple and quickly abducts him.

Vampire Society
Upon their arrival on Nightingale, Scathach trained Victor alone for six months. During those six months, she and Victor spent countless hours honing his foundations to the fullest, they even slept and took baths together. Victor then offered his blood to Scathach to satiate her bloodlust, and soon, they started regularly feeding on each other's blood.

At the end of Victor's six months long training, Scathach took Victor and the rest of her family with her to a game between Clan Horseman and Clan Rider. During the match, Victor expressed his intention to join, which Scathach responds to by pulling some connections to let her disciple join and demonstrate everything he learnt during their training. Needless to say, Victor dominated the heirs of the two clans.

After Victor's outstanding performance in the arena game, Vlad called for Victor, and Scathach accompanied him to the king's castle. During the meeting with the vampire king, Victor greatly impressed Vlad and as a result, Vlad offered to make Victor the newest Vampire Count. He then tried to entice him by permitting him to marry another Countess, something that was normally forbidden. This proposal from the king thrilled Scathach, and she practically forced Victor to accept. Hence, a new Vampire Count was proclaimed that day after thousands of years.

A New Pillar
When news of the new Count reached every corners of the supernatural world, assassins were then sent to Scathach's mansion, but they were intercepted by Victor, and the two then proceeded to weed out information from the trespassers. After acquiring the information, Scathach and Victor proceeded to annihilate two entire noble vampire clans.

Several months later, during the match between Natashia and Niklaus, Scathach witnessed Victor's interference and observed how Victor and Ruby seemed to look older, and she quickly deduced that Vlad must have trapped them inside a realm, like he did to her in the past. This enraged Scathach, and three days later, she delivered the decapitated heads of Vlad's grandchildren to him. Before departing, Scathach threatens Vlad to never involve her family in his schemes again, or she might become one of his enemies.

Skills and abilities

 * Cryokinesis: Scathach has an innate ability to generate and manipulate ice and cold air. When she was young, it was stated that she could only create a block of ice using her powers. But due to the environment she was born in and the countless wars that plagued her era, she trained ceaselessly to hone her abilities to it's utmost potential. Now her ice abilities are a known hallmark of Clan Scarlett and is renowned as one of the most powerful abilities among the vampire communities.


 * Weapons Master: Scathach is a battle maniac and a perfectionist, as such she has mastered every possible weapon for combat that could possibly exist. Her first and most favored weapon however is the spear.


 * Vampire Count Form: like all older vampires, she has her own Vampire Count Transformation however, she has yet to be seen assuming this form.

Etymology
The name Scathach literally translates to "shadowy" or "shady", where scath means "shadow" or "shade" and -ach is the suffix. However, the etymological meaning also slightly differs from English: "shade" actually means a form of protection or shield, so Scathach means "the one who protects".

The correct pronunciation of Scathach in Irish is skah-hahk. The way you pronounce Scathach is similar to saying "sky hawk", but with two differences. First, instead of a final "Y" in "sky" you pronounce an "ah" sound while exhaling the "h". Second, instead of the central "aw" sound in "hawk", you pronounce an "ah", while remembering to exhale the "h".

Trivia

 * Scathach's character was inspired by Esdeath from the Akame ga Kill! manga and anime series.
 * Scathach is one of the author's favorite female characters that he enjoy writing about.
 * Scathach once met Jesus and sought to train him due to his great potential
 * Ruby once said that every man that tried to propose to her, had their entire families annihilated by Scathach.
 * Scathach once found a hybrid in the past, and fooled by the hybrid stories, she drank its blood. It was one of the things she regret the most in her life, as she felt like she was eating garbage.
 * Scathach is a real figure in Irish mythology, whom the character was based on. She is a legendary woman warrior and martial artist in the Ulster Cycle. Scathach trained the hero Cú Chulainn so that he can become worthy enough to marry Emer, as well as the one who bestowed the spear Gáe Bulg to him.