Let's start with three generations of horrible Giovanni:
Riccardo Giovanni - Domestic tyrant, property developer and funeral director. Charming, controlling, and quiet centre of the Kindred black market (he can fix you up with blood, temporary havens, burying the bodies, the works...). Absolutely not based on a former landlord of mine mashed up with Roger Delgado's Master.
Luciana Giovanni - Riccardo's wife and childe. Elegant, educated, somewhat erotic; necromancer, schemer and wheelchair user. For some reason I decided I really wanted to do a Shadowrun-style 'decker' character in Victorian Age Vampire and mobilise all those 'Gothic invalid' tropes but locate them in a character who wasn't Doomed To A Tragic Fate. Typically encountered via letter, wraithly manifestation, or occasional appearance at can't-miss Elysia.
Santino Giovanni - Luciana's first, chosen childe. Minor rock star and trans-sectarian spy/courier. Absolutely besotted with Luciana, absolutely hates Riccardo (to be fair, Riccardo cut out his eye, saddled him with the ghost of his rival candidate for the Embrace, and regularly sends him into horrible levels of personal danger). Here to steal your childer, seduce your ghouls, and somehow keep getting away with it.
Alistair Dunsirn - Luciana's second, not-chosen childe. Started off as a joke character, because I thought "vampire Malcolm Tucker" would be funny. People seem to like the idea that their harpy is a foul-mouthed git in a two thousand pound suit. Currently propping up a confused Toreador prince in Glasgow.
Sorcha Dunsirn - Alistair's daughter, childe, and secret shame, conceived on the night of his Embrace. Raised by revenants and turned out weird as hell. Thinblood, party girl, self-proclaimed web star, and only occasionally tortures people for alchemical reasons. Useless little drugsucker but she looks great while she's doing it.
And there are a few others:
Jennifer Pale (the 'canon' VTMB protagonist for my fic - wannabe Suicide Girl, now surprisingly effective Tremere enforcer)
Etienne Chevalier (Malkavian, mercenary, manic-depressive, made him for a TT game because the ST wanted me to "set an example" in terms of roleplaying, sadly he only saw one session and I think I might have gone a bit far)
the Reverend Hezekiah (Minister of Set, liberation theologist, the only one of these dorks I'd feel comfortable LARPing)
Adrian Royce (token Requiem character: Ventrue, 'outlaw journalist' and occasional vigilante, has a hair-trigger temper and a Carthian chip on his shoulder)
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Date: 2018-12-17 09:34 am (UTC)From:Riccardo Giovanni - Domestic tyrant, property developer and funeral director. Charming, controlling, and quiet centre of the Kindred black market (he can fix you up with blood, temporary havens, burying the bodies, the works...). Absolutely not based on a former landlord of mine mashed up with Roger Delgado's Master.
Luciana Giovanni - Riccardo's wife and childe. Elegant, educated, somewhat erotic; necromancer, schemer and wheelchair user. For some reason I decided I really wanted to do a Shadowrun-style 'decker' character in Victorian Age Vampire and mobilise all those 'Gothic invalid' tropes but locate them in a character who wasn't Doomed To A Tragic Fate. Typically encountered via letter, wraithly manifestation, or occasional appearance at can't-miss Elysia.
Santino Giovanni - Luciana's first, chosen childe. Minor rock star and trans-sectarian spy/courier. Absolutely besotted with Luciana, absolutely hates Riccardo (to be fair, Riccardo cut out his eye, saddled him with the ghost of his rival candidate for the Embrace, and regularly sends him into horrible levels of personal danger). Here to steal your childer, seduce your ghouls, and somehow keep getting away with it.
Alistair Dunsirn - Luciana's second, not-chosen childe. Started off as a joke character, because I thought "vampire Malcolm Tucker" would be funny. People seem to like the idea that their harpy is a foul-mouthed git in a two thousand pound suit. Currently propping up a confused Toreador prince in Glasgow.
Sorcha Dunsirn - Alistair's daughter, childe, and secret shame, conceived on the night of his Embrace. Raised by revenants and turned out weird as hell. Thinblood, party girl, self-proclaimed web star, and only occasionally tortures people for alchemical reasons. Useless little drugsucker but she looks great while she's doing it.
And there are a few others:
Jennifer Pale (the 'canon' VTMB protagonist for my fic - wannabe Suicide Girl, now surprisingly effective Tremere enforcer)
Etienne Chevalier (Malkavian, mercenary, manic-depressive, made him for a TT game because the ST wanted me to "set an example" in terms of roleplaying, sadly he only saw one session and I think I might have gone a bit far)
the Reverend Hezekiah (Minister of Set, liberation theologist, the only one of these dorks I'd feel comfortable LARPing)
Helena Chernyy (token Requiem character: Mekhet, university professor, pillar of the Ordo Dracul, Russian emigré)
Adrian Royce (token Requiem character: Ventrue, 'outlaw journalist' and occasional vigilante, has a hair-trigger temper and a Carthian chip on his shoulder)