Michael was born in New Orleans in the mid-to-late 1950s to parents who thought themselves witches. Now they didn't really have any special powers. They just thought they did and like many only had their "spells" come true thru their firm belief. So they thought they'd have a special child and he'd be marked in a special way. Thus their son was born with a circular strawberry colored birthmark above his heart.

But humans have a funny way of interfering when they should just leave well enough be. Even though Michael's parents never harmed him, in fact they loved him intensely, he lacked for nothing. But humans who think that only their way was the right way will have their way in the end and a strict Baptist family, outraged that they had "Satanists" next door managed to find enough "evidence" that Michael was being "ritualistically abused" and the young boy was taken from his parents.

Michael was adopted by an even stricter Catholic family who had his "evil birthmark" surgically removed. Being as young as he was his memories of his first parents faded and he came to believe the abusive people who raised him from a cowering boy to a vicious man were his real parents. At 19 he married a little mouse of a woman whom he often beat because she had flaming red hair that he referred to as "whore's hair." And she in turn gave birth to a little girl. Merideth.

Merideth, like her father, was born with a circular strawberry-colored birthmark over her heart. She was also born with a huge birthmark, also the same red color, over the entire left hand side of her face, and flaming red hair.

Of course because of this both her father and her paternal "grandparents" thought these were signs of Satan. For they still believed that the left hand side of the body was ruled by the lord of flies. From the moment she was brought home Merideth knew nothing but pain. Her father especially delighted in burning her with cigarette especially on her unformed breasts and other "private" areas. Stating that this was the only way to keep her from growing up a slut and strumpet. One day when she was 10 years old he even set her hair on fire then claimed to the doctor she was playing with matches.

Back then it might've been easy to take the child of "witches" away but not so to take a child away from a highly respected deacon of the church. Merideth and her mother often cowered in fear.

Abuse at home wasn't the only horror she faced. Daily Merideth was taunted by the other children about her birthmarks and half-starved frame. They not only hurled insults but sometimes things even worse, mostly bags of feces from their dogs.

Merideth befriended a stray cat for awhile but because it was black her grandfather slit it's throat in front of her, saying that black cats were the devil's pet. Then he made her kneel in the blood of the cat and pray for forgiveness she didn't need.

At 13 Merideth watched in horror as her father beat her mother to death. No one did anything. It was covered up as a car accident and Merideth even came to believe that her mother lost control of the car that she wasn't allowed to drive and crashed into that wall. Now she was the sole receiver of her father's beatings.

When she reached 16 Merideth couldn't take it anymore and ran away. She did things she wasn't proud of but better that then to face her father's beatings. The men despite asking for disgusting things were so nice to her. One even held her as she cried.

She lived for two years this way and one night was nearly caught by the police. By now she had made her way to New York - a good place to hide. She ducked into an alley and hid amongst rotting garbage as the police rounded up the other girls she had been with.

The smell nearly overwhelmed her. But somehow she toughed it out for hours. Then as she finally started to get out of the dumpster she herd low laughter. The rotting smell became worse as a tall figure approached her. A passing car cast light on the beast before her and she nearly fainted from the horror.

His name when he was human was William, but as a Nosferatu he called himself Decay. A fitting name as he smelled of every rotten thing in the world. He kept Merideth for awhile as his ghoul. Using her for food when desperate, but mostly using her to bring men to him with those little skills she had learned since running away. He was, surprisingly, a rather active member of the Camarilla as he apparently knew the Prince in his mortal life. Of course Decay only was looking out for himself as was his nature.

In his own strange way Decay treated Merideth better then any man ever had and she grew to love him in a way that the blood bond between master and ghoul could never create - after all, she was repulsive too with her burn scars and birthmarks. Decay found this amusing and indulged it. It did make her all the more willing to serve, after all.

To the surprise of Decay this odd devotion manifested itself in a major way one day. A hunter had tracked the vampire down. The hunter came just between the hours of darkness and sunrise, when Decay was at his weakest. They fought but Decay was sure he would die. Suddenly Merideth appeared and tore into the hunter fiercely. Ripping at his skin with teeth and nails. A gunshot rang out but despite that Merideth continued until the hunter fell dead into the swirling waters of their sewer home. Adrenaline spent, she collapsed. Decay could smell the blood - and the scent of bowels where the bullet had penetrated. Even though he was tired and he knew the prince would be mad, Decay embraced her then and there. Even ghouls didn't have much of a chance of surviving a bullet to the intestines.

The prince was irate but still possessed enough wisdom to listen to the tail. In punishment for embracing without permission, Decay was staked, beheaded, and burned. Merideth was simply banished from New York.

Merideth is a wanderer of the world. In her short life as an immortal she's been all over Europe. Barely escaping with her life at some points because of a prince who didn't like her kind or a hunter who found her out. She's finally decided to return to America.... Just because it suits her needs.