Sythe

Forsythe Lambert is your typical mythology geek. She's into roleplay games, mmos, and buys at least a dozen comicbooks for every paycheck. She's spent most of her life wishing she lived in another world.
Forsythe's parents are very nice, very loving people. But they're also very normal, so Forsythe's withdrawal from society in her final year of highschool is a bit of a last straw. Not to mention her eccentricities and dislike for hanging out with other girls. So, to fix it, they've offered to pay for her entire college education--if she spends the first year at an all-girl's college and make some friends. How hard could it be, right?
Riiiiiight.


Meanwhile, down in Haydis--supernatural prison for supernatural baddies--Medusa has gotten loose. Again. And Roben is going after her.
Roben is half-not-quite-human, half-cerberus. The offspring of a damned union between Lilith, the wife of Haydin, and Cerberus, the guardian of the gate of Haydis, he is only one of many--Lilith is the type to lay eggs, and Roben's brethren number in the dozens. However, he is one of the few who are actually a benefit to society. Roben has taken up vigilante hunting.
When denizens of Haydis escape, it's up to people like Roben to track them down, and either end them or bring them back. Now, he's got to bring Medusa back. Preferably before she regains her power in the world above and begins creating new followers.
Though Roben has some difficulties moving in the world above, one of them being that half of his face is a canine skull.
So some preparations are in order.

Forsythe wasn't expecting much out of her year at girl college, and she got a lot more than she bargained for. For starters, she ended up joining a sort of cult that's more serious than she thought it was. Forsythe just thought she and some fellow myth geeks were going to sit around talking legends. But it's turned into some sort of Medusa-worshi, and Forsythe is starting to get genuinely scared--especially when snakes start behaving strangely around her. Her own pet snake Formaldehyde is getting weird--performing something like a dance in his tank at night when he thinks she's asleep.
Then things take a turn for the downright wrong. Because Medusa herself shows up, and then everything just goes to hell. A few of the girls more caught up in the cult sacrifice themselves to her, and the rest hole up in the gym with Forsythe and as many weapons they can muster. Medusa retreats into the worship chamber to digest her meals and leaves some sort of mutated serpent creatures patrolling the school grounds. Things seem to be looking up when the attractive new janitor busts in with guns ablaze and turns out to be some sort of paranormal investigator, but something's changed--for one, his face isn't human anymore.*
He gets flung into the gym during his battle with one of the serpents. It dies before it can hurt anyone, but their saviour is currently unconscious, and no one wants to help him. So Forsythe steps up to the plate to do what she can.
When Roben comes too, he's looking up into the face of a plain young woman with a very scared, yet determined look on her face. And she isn't screaming. Which is such a nice change.
Together they manage to kill Medusa and save the school, but Forsythe gets bitten in the process. When she comes to, she's waking up in an infirmiry in Haydis--in the middle of turning into a gorgon.

Roben: technically a Lilim. Offspring of Lilith and Cerberus, the guardian of the gate of Haydis. He's not ugly, per se. He just doesn't have the sort of face women are attracted to. Great body. Half dog-skull face. He possesses minor abilities in the arts, the most prominent of which is throwing fire. He's trying to get better at shapeshifting so he can possess a more humanish face. He's ruthless when it comes to hunting down escapees, and he's pretty good at it. He's developing a crush on Sythe, despite his best efforts.
(For)Sythe: once-human, now turning into a gorgon. She's actually taking it pretty well, and she's the first woman Roben's ever met(well, first person in general) who didn't totally freak out or become awkward when she saw his face. That may be because at the time she'd just seen Medusa swallow three classmates whole and then had giant snake monsters trying to kill her and everyone else. But at any rate, she continues to seem unfazed by it, which endears her to him. She's actually pretty blunt and no-nonsense, and has no problem stepping up to take charge in violent situations when no one else is around--sometimes even when Roben is around. Which totally gets him kind of hot. Sythe is sarcastic, a little bitter, and is actually easily cheered by little things--dry clothes after getting out of the rain, new comic books, Twix candybars, and Formaldehyde, who continues to dance for her in his tank at night. It doesn't creep her out as much as it used to.
Locif: An incubus, the offspring of an angel and a demon. Locif is strikingly beautiful, in a dazzling, mind-numbing kind of way that hits most people speechless when they meet him. He tends a bar in downtown Haydis, and is the closest thing Roben's had to a friend (before Sythe.) He of course catches Sythe's eye, and jealousy begins to brew in Roben. Locif, on first-impression, is a "nice guy", but can turn into a real bitch if you rub him wrong. The cheerful kind. You know, the ones that spit insults at you with genuine smiles on their faces and laugh when you flick them off. And yet, he's also involved in a deep internal struggle between his demon and angel sides. A sort of ultimate evil vs. ultimate good sort of thing.
He has nipple piercings, and he loves them.


*he's warned by his techgeek that engaging in strenuous activity will activate his baser animal instincts, which will dissolve his human glamour elixir. Activities like fighting.
Activities like getting ambushed by a horny college girl who starts making out with him and then runs away screaming when his face shifts back into half dog-skull.
Roben leads a charmed life.