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==The Blood Queen - Pain 6/9/12 (by Watch)==
The Blood Queen is perhaps first and foremost a Nightmare to Nightmares. 

In the First Watch she manifests as a young girl in a short dress of crimson with red ribbons in her blonde hair. Her feet and legs and arms are bare to clap and kick and dance. The soles of her feet and the palms of her hands are gleefully wet with blood that never seems to rub off on anything. [Pain 6]

In the Middle watch she becomes a woman fully grown in a sheathed red gown, red slippers, and long gloves that move and flow on her arms like blood. Her lips are the color of blood as well and her hair is chestnut brown, worn loose with a thin pair of braids making a crown around her brow and bound in back with a simple cord of red leather. [Pain 9]

In the final watch she is a white haired crone, red bones pinning her coif up in a bun, her sagging breasts exposed, and a red woolen kilt covering her nether regions. Blood flows openly from her shoulders to her fingertips and from well above her knees to her clawlike toes, and her parched thin lips are black and cracked. [Pain 12]

In all her incarnations, her eyes are black as a night without stars. When attacked, the blood from her feet flows up to cover her even as the blood from her hands and arms sweeps out to smother whoever would dare her harm.

It is whispered that in the fist watch she is the Jack's daughter, eager and full of life, while in the middle watch she is his bride, sensual and possessive, and in the last watch the mother who birthed him, demanding and cold as iron. 

''No one even whispers about what she might become during the '''Thirteenth Hour'''.''

In court it is the Blood Queen who speaks openly while the One Eyed Jack stares sternly ahead, offering neither approval nor dissent, but it is rumored he speaks into her mind and that she does not gainsay his desires.

'''Special:''' The Pain Rating of Nightmares who come within sight of the Blood Queen drops two points and remains reduced while in her presence. Only the Jack and Mistress When, (and perhaps the Keeper) are known to be immune to this effect. Inklings, for whatever reason, add one pain to their rating in her presence and tend to congregate near her unless ordered to do otherwise.