Supernatural Huntress

Supernatural Huntresses

Status	Extant
Related species	Human (originated as) Supernatural Hunters Medium Witch
Season(s)	The Vampire Diaries: 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 The Originals: 3 Legacies 1, 2, and 3
Distinction	Humans who possess supernatural abilities to combat vampires as a result of spells casted by witches and/or Shamans.

A Supernatural Huntress is a Female Huntress that is imbued with magical power in order to kill Supernatural Beings.

Creation[]

The first ever Huntress, was the only known daughter of one of the Five and she was not born with supernatural abilities. Upon her father's death, she sought out the Shamans for vengeance. The eight shamans bestowed upon her great power using the "tea of protection" (to ward off magic), strength and their eight lives, giving her the ability to self-resurrect upon her death. It was also demonstrated that the Huntress title can be magically transferred to another (as was seen with Bonnie).

Known Huntresses[]

Skylar Salvatore[]

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Rayna Cruz[]

Rayna Cruz was the first Supernatural Huntress operating since the 19th century. She was spelled by shamans with gifts similar to members of the Five in order avenge the death of her father by the vampire Julian. Upon trapping his soul into the Phoenix Stone, she went on to hunt other notorious vampires. Recently, she gave up the last of her eight lives, passing on it and it's powers to Bonnie Bennett to cure her from a rare form of poisoning. During the final moments she met her successor Samara Gilbert the three year old daughter of Annalise Denisa & Jeremy Gilbert, and found 11 shamans to be link their lives, and powers into Samara when she comes of age.

Mia Salvatore-Cruz[]

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Vixen's Mother[]

Vixens unnamed mother gave up her last life and granted it to Vixen, ending her life in the process. She was also given the life and power of 8 more shamans, turning Vixen into a Supernatural Huntress.

Little is actually known about Vixens Mother, though it could be assumed that she cared about Legacy and preserving the future as she gave up her life. Also it is presumable that she has killed many unnamed supernatural beings before.

Bonnie Bennett[]

Bonnie Bennett was a witch was recently made into a Supernatural Huntress. Having been the recipient of Rayna's last life, she also gained a supernatural hatred for vampires and went on to hunt her vampire friends. The spell has since been undone with the destruction of the last everlasting.

Samara Gilbert[]

In June of 2024 Samara was imbued by the power of a Supernatural Huntress and has 11 Lives by the 11 shamans found by Rayna. The reason why she was given this power was so that she could rid the world of evil supernatural beings. This is different from the ritual that was performed on her predcessor Rayna because Samara does not feel any increased hatred towards vampires or other supernatural beings. She does have internalised hatred for vampires and werewolves though she finds some of them to be good people and does not resent the entire species.

Vixen Salter[]

Vixen was imbued by the power, and title of Supernatural Huntress by seven shamans, and her mother's final life giving her 9 lives. She doesn't have that much resentment towards any supernatural creatures though if they show many sings of evil and ill intent she will attempt to end their life or find another way to incapacitate them.

Powers and Abilities[]

Enhanced Strength: Supernatural Huntresses start off possessing superior strength that makes them stronger than humans but below that of newborn vampires. That said, they are endowed by shamans to grow stronger every time they lose a life. Eventually, their strength appears to be able to match that of even the most ancient vampires in the world as Rayna was able to fight and slaughter many Strix and order members which even warranted Klaus and Darius wary. Their strength also does not falter with old age, even as an old woman, Rayna was able to restrain Bonnie with one hand while attempting to strangle her.

Enhanced Reflexes: Supernatural Huntresses possess peak-human reflexes. They have demonstrated superior reaction time to those of humans and can dodge offensive attacks and evade strikes from beings with super speed. Rayna was able to wipe out numerous members of the Strix, even catching two of them off guard and immediately killing them. She was also able to shoot several of Julian's vampires, killing them without them even being able to react. Furthermore, more immeasurable feats were produced by Samara, in which she kills Arthur Stevenson as he tries to evade her.

Immunity to Magic: A Supernatural Huntress's body becomes immune to offensive magic directed at them which seemed to be the work of the Tea of Protection. This is proven when Bonnie tried to use telekinesis on Rayna when the latter attempted to kill her, but to no avail. However, this immunity did not prevent Nora and Bonnie from using a locator spell to find her nor did it hinder a Shaman from transferring her life and abilities to Bonnie. In addition, Rayna could not track Stefan when his scar was blocked by the disruption spell placed on St. James Infirmary.
Poisonous Blood: Supernatural Huntresses possess blood that is poisonous to witches, even those that are immortal such as witch-vampire hybrids. Pills made from Rayna, Samara, Skylar, and Mia's blood were able to block a witch's power and if taken daily for a period of time it will eventually kill said witch. This fatal effect on witches appear to come from the Huntress's immunity to witchcraft.
Marking: Supernatural Huntresses possess the ability to mark their victims. Initially, this was done through the Phoenix Sword, allowing Rayna to mark vampires by stabbing them however, it was later revealed that they are also capable of imprinting vampires mentally.

Tracking: Supernatural Huntresses can sense and track down vampires who have been marked by them.
Link to Victims: Supernatural Huntresses are linked to the vampires they have marked, giving them an increased urge to find and finish them. This connection can be amplified with concentration, allowing them to see their every move, and feel their every emotion. Once they are down to their last life, anyone still marked by them will die along with them upon their last death.
Self-Resurrection: Supernatural Huntresses possess the ability to continually resurrect from the dead a depending on their total of lives, similar to users of the Gilbert Ring or almost identical to a Phoenix. Moments after their death, their body spontaneously self-combusts only to reborn from the ashes to the age when they received their abilities from the Shamans, akin to a phoenix rising from the ashes. This was achieved through the self-sacrifice of the Shamans who gave their lives to said huntress with their bodies preserved but each of their deaths cause one of them to decay.
Longevity: In each of their lives, Supernatural Huntresses age at a slower rate compared to humans, affording them an extended lifespan.

Weaknesses[]

Herbs: Certain herbs, when applied as a paste on the scars, can mask the signal that allows a Supernatural Huntress to find their marked victims.
Hunter Instinct: Some Supernatural Huntresses appear to suffer from the same supernatural urge to kill vampires as the Brotherhood of the Five. The more vampires they kill, the stronger the urge becomes. This urge is also purely based on instinct and seems to worsen with age and begins to affect the mind. As the desire to kill vampires has had a huge impact on Rayna's mental stability in which she accidentally mistakes a supermarket cashier for a vampire, whom she stakes, leading to her being confined into a secure psychiatric hospital, and she became old there.
Certain Amount of Lives: Supernatural Huntresses only possess a certain number of lives, and as such would die permanently after expending their final life.
The Darius Stone and Sword: The Darius Stone and Sword can be used to trap a Supernatural Huntress within. Due to this if they are trapped within the stone they will experience the things other supernatural beings would
Mortality: Despite their enhanced physical attributes, most Supernatural Huntresses are still human and share many of the same weaknesses as non-supernatural beings (e.g. age, decapitation, disease, heart-failure, suffocation, etc.) however the huntress becomes reborn from said death.
Link to their Shamans: Should all of the bodies of the shamans who gave them strength be destroyed, the spell that keeps them as Supernatural Huntresses would be undone and they would revert back to the state they were prior to becoming a Huntress.
Victim Connection: Supernatural Huntresses are connected to the ones they killed using the Darius Stone Sword or the Phoenix Stone Sword and are sometimes haunted by them; their minds.

Former Weaknesses[]

Doppelgänger Blood Magic: If blood from the last pair of doppelgängers are used in the Magic Purification Spell, all Supernatural Huntresses will revert back to being ordinary humans.

Tools and Weaponry[]

Despite being a force to be reckoned with, the capabilities of a supernatural huntress are not comparable to older vampires. As such, they employ the use of numerous skills and weapons to even the playing field.

They enough to put up a significant fight to the point that Klaus and Darius acknowledged them on their prowess as huntresses.

Trivia[]

Both Huntresses and Hunters were made by magic, however, only the huntress are protected against offensive magic.
They are one of the youngest supernatural species in the series.
Like Doppelgängers, the Gilbert Ring does not work on them.

Huntresses can pass their hunter powers on to someone else, using the descendant of one of the shamans that originally turned them into the huntress.

The blood of most supernatural huntresses. It is implied that this is because of their special immunity to magic.
The huntress grows stronger with each death, rivaling ancient vampires, whilst The five grow stronger with each vampire kill.
Both have hunter instincts to kill a vampire on sight, however, Rayna's could be stronger as she killed a human believing that he was a vampire, implying that her instinct is uncontrollable, mostly due to her connections with the vampires inside her stone, causing her to have an unstable persona.
- Huntresses usually do not kill Humans to get to their targets, while a member of the fives instinct was a deliberate addition to the spell, the urge to kill can impair Hunters from thinking rationally and may intentionally put innocent humans at risk for the sake of killing vampires.
Mia, Skylar, and Rayna Cruz have met the original vampire family while Samara Gilbert is a descendant of a Original Vampire.