Tell Me About Your Characters

[propergoffick]

Forget about the pages of rules and the handfuls of dice. Close the book, turn out the lights, and tell me a story about dark desires and relentless hunger. Tell me about a vampire: about her talents and her weaknesses, and you tell me what kind of challenges she faces, what rewards or perils come her way.
-- Vampire: the Masquerade (Revised)

 

Since we're all new here: let's do what used to be not the done thing at all, when I was a lad. Tell me about your characters! Open your hatch and disgorge that nourishing vampire tea.

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[eternal_life_sentence]

Hello! I'm one of the recent tumblr immigrants (I was/am CleverMird over there)


Like @sluggybunny, I have way too many OCs, most of whom are characters for the VtM fan comic I'm developing. I'll stick with the major comic characters at this point, though, or we'll be here all night :P


Haruko Setoyama (Ventrue)- All she ever wanted was to follow her father into the family profession- yakuza boss. But the patriarchal nature of the family and her lack of subtlety about her ambitions got her sent on the dead-end job of trying to expand into the US, where her operations both angered and impressed the local Ventrue primogen. Now she has a new ladder to climb, and a course of revenge set against the sire who used her boyfriend to sate her post-embrace frenzy.

Luke Parsons (Tremere)- Born and raised in small-town Mississippi, Luke was Embraced in Vegas where he was using his photographic memory and talent for pattern recognition to win poker games. Recently released from his sire, the Pyramid has sent him to continue his studies under the local regent, in hopes those skills can be turned to Thaumaturgy instead. A good person at heart, Luke is more than a little disturbed by all the sketchy stuff his clan is up to, but is also intrigued by blood magic and the secrets it holds, as well as the chance to finally make something of his life (even if that only comes after his death)

Connor Clancy (Brujah)- A fresh Embrace, less than 3 years of unlife under his belt. The childe of the local Anarch baron, Connor is as dedicated to helping the movement as he once was to studying and preserving Irish culture and language, even as he deals with the growing realities of unlife, including an ever-worsening political situation in the city, an unrequited attraction to his sire, and the looming shadow of the Beast

Mallory "Mal" Hobbs (Toreador antitribu)- Genius and math prodigy, turned cynical, burnt-out grad student fed up with humanity. Actually searched out the Sabbat after finding clues to their existence and willingly threw herself in their path to be Embraced and transcend her mortality. The unlife of a shovelhead wasn't all it cracked up to be, but she adapted, found herself a good pack to run with, and now must make a choice- to hang on to the last shreds of her old life, or abandon them entirely and loose herself in the malestrom that is the Sword of Caine?

[propergoffick]

An interesting crew! I like the scholarly Brujah tradition manifesting itself in Connor (who seems like a good lad), I always like to see Tremere from non-spoopy backgrounds (people always forget that two out of three Tremere Disciplines are to do with MIND WHAMMY and they look for smart people, not just edgy Wiccans), and - well, I've always liked the name "Mallory" anyway, even before you bolt it on to a willing convert to the Sabbat cause. I wonder how you're planning on depicting that final fall/rise into True Sabbat status - it's not something the game itself has done particularly well.

[eternal_life_sentence]

Thank you! It seriously made my day to see people interested in my characters :) I'm still working on Mal's storyline, trying to figure out how to pace it out across the broader workings of the Sabbat within the plot, as well as the precise mechanics of what goes down. I've been way more focused on the Camarilla plotlines recently


On the subject of Tremere: I 100% agree with you. The way I've always seen it, you can teach Hermetic symbols, ritual preparation, and Latin vocabulary. What you *can't* teach is intelligence, ambition, drive, or loyalty. Get someone with the right personality, and you can indoctrinate them into the rest. Especially since not all Tremere are straight thaumaturgists anyway, anymore than all Giovanni are straight necromancers.

[mckelly]

They all sound absolutely precious. Luke and Connor especially! I would totally be down for hearing more about their stories, and look forward to whenever this comic of yours comes to fruition.