Name: Arianna Santa Nicknames: Ari, Santa Age: 17 Gender: Female Nationality: American Species: Vampire Type: Made

Family: Mother; Pearl Redding. Siblings; Dezi, Bianca and a half-brother Pike. Position in School: Junior Type of Student: Regular Residence: Thornfield Hall Roommate: -- Soulmate: Reid Halliwell

For seventeen she comes off very sensual. She's got lots of hips and a generous sized chest and a tiny waist that gives her a sexy hourglass shape. Add her hip length long golden blonde hair and you have one knock-out vampire to whom could almost be seen when cleaned up as angelic in appearance. Arianna's uniforms are usually tattered, torn, stained with blood but have become more typical, although worn loosely. She is trying to dress more teenage and less black-on-tight-black, although you won't see her in anything cutie-like just yet.

Arianna constantly struggles to keep her emotions and vampire tendencies balanced. She is learning to control her urges by thought process and understanding rather than immediately turning to violence, trauma, and angry split decisions. Her anchor to herself is in her soulmate, Reid. Without him she'd revert into her former self who didn't care about hiding her vampirism and would be locked up on a regular basis for her behavior. Now, Arianna is trying to allow the human she was before her turning to come out from underneath. She is far from perfect and makes mistakes constantly and gets frustrated very easily.

Arianna understands her vampire abilities and uses them in everyday situations without a thought. She's confident in her strength and tends to be fearless when it comes to physical-ended problems. She moves through the motions with an ease that is almost shocking because it comes from her. When around her soulmate she can be tender, quiet, and easily persuaded to try and do normal everyday things. Taunting and words are nothing to her and she has learned how to walk away from simple frustrations.

While she tries, Arianna is prone to flipping without a seconds notice. She relies heavily on Reid and if he isn't around she has problems understanding that everyone counts as a human being and she can't just ignore them. She's misunderstood, alone, and carries a lot of past baggage that when brought up make her more moody and violent. While she doesn't get into trouble often, Reid is a sore spot with her as he is aging and a witch and she is forever seventeen. Emotional more than she ever has or will be, Arianna struggles to accept what she is.

Arianna's mother was a Witch running from a huge debt owed to the vampires of the Night World. Arianna and her two siblings never knew that their mother was a Witch or that they carried her abilities within their blood and were raised by their father. It wasn't until Pearl came barging in the middle of the night and taking the three of them that everything changed. She took them to a safe home of a friend who was a Witch living with her Lamia boyfriend. Here, Arianna was introduced to her half-brother, Pike, that she never knew existed. He was a talented and trained Witch hoping to join Circle Daybreak. A troublemaker he tried to spell his half-siblings to do things for him.

After three months of fighting and utter chaos, Bianca (the youngest sibling) wandered to the wrong end of town. The vampires who were after their mother took her and made an example of her, leaving her to die from blood loss in an alley. Arianna, however, had found her and probably saved her life, but in the process pissed off the vampires who decided to make an even bigger statement. They took her, tortured, raped, and abused her in a thousand different ways before turning her and then promptly leaving her on her mothers doorstep. Her mother locked her in the basement until she made her change, but Arianna didn't come back normally. She was violent from having been tortured and she killed her mothers friend before leaving and finding those who hurt her and killing them as well. Her family used spells together to find her, and off she went to Ashwood Academy to be trained and watched over.

After a year of practically being locked up, Arianna was assigned a tutor for her studies. Her tutor, a witch, who after an argument she bit and realized he was her soulmate. The two have been together since, trying to balance out their different species and lives to be together. Through him she's learned to give up the violent normality's that her mind clings to and she's becoming whole again.