ooc information. remi / 28 / they / them. i operate on european time, usually nights but lurk during the day.   this blog will be trigger heavy,   because I am a fiend for horror of all genres. this is a dead dove do not eat situation when I say that this blog will contain gore, body horror, lots of blood, cannibalism mentions, torture mentions, allusions to gothic horror tropes (but never explicitly written out).   do not interact   if you support people's choice to be homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic, islamophobic, zionist, right-wing scumbags, even if you are not yourself. I want nothing to do with conservatism nor contrarianism on that point. if you follow raphael (indeath) or any of their vocal current/past friends (axel/briarwood (@gallantry) + danny (@zimwy) + ana (@goldenfanged)), block me. I want nothing to do with any of them, they make me sick. sabrina's experience. dean's experience.plotting & interactions. I do a lot better with long term interactions than I do short term ones.   it can and will take me years to respond,   and I tend to prioritise my friends when it comes to responses. the best way to get me excited for a thread is to approach me with the enthusiasm that you have for it! if you have an idea that you're excited about and want to throw it at one of my muses, absolutely go for it.   I enjoy plotting, but am more than happy to wing things.   most of the time, a general vibe or a brief few words of context is all I need to move forward.with that said, I would appreciate if, at the point of following, you would at least have an idea of the muses I have that you want to interact with. when I follow a single or multi-muse blog, I always look at ways I can interact with them and what muses they have that I want to interact with. please, if I have to read another "it's up to you" when trying to plot I might just softblock. I need something, ideas, muses, anything. UNLESS I SPECIFICALLY STATE that I will pick my muse, I need to you to give me an idea of who you want. generally when plotting I tend to give ideas of both your muses & my muses that I think could work, but I need something other than "it's up to you" in return.if I have an idea for one of my muses and yours without initiating plotting via liking / commenting on a post, I tend to just approach people with it in DMs anyway.

mains & exclusives. these are all entirely vibes based I'm not going to lie to you.   if we're friends or we've been mutuals for years,   consider yourself an unofficial main at this point. I don't have any hard exclusives, but I'm unlikely to follow back single muse blogs for characters where I have a good rapport with someone. this is all vibes based again and I'll never throw anyone aside right off the bat.shipping. as much as I try to focus on storytelling and building long lasting relationships that can cross between all kinds of shipping,   I do enjoy some romance from time to time.   all of my muses are currently open for shipping unless I make a note of it below. when it comes to shipping, I have no qualms about writing smut on the dash, I can put it under a readmore or write it on discord or fade to black, whatever my writing partner is comfortable with. I can't say it's something I do often, but it's on the table.formatting. I default to using small text and italics/bold, with the occasional double space at the start and end of my dialogue. I have a bunch of icons that I like using, but stop using them to match my partner. I adjust to whatever my writing partner's style is for the most part.   sometimes I forget people's specific rules, so just dm me gently if you need me to stop doing something for accessibility reasons.  unfollowing. PLEASE soft or hardblock me when you unfollow me. I don't care for your reasons, just have the courtesy to not make me look like an idiot if I still like your posts or send you things and we're not even mutuals. anyone who doesn't do this gets a hardblock from me in return.sex positivity. I am an incredibly sex positive person and will post sexual content on my blog on occasion.   I respect people's wants to not see that sort of thing whether they be sex repulsed / at work / any other reason,   and my smut / sexual content specific tag is pussy out on the dash for any blacklist purposes. I cannot be doing with sex negativity on my dash so if I catch wind of it in the form of a post or even a vibe I will hard block. slut shaming and the like is boring and outdated and I can't be bothered having puritans near me.

blog activity. I'm not going to lie, I have raging ADHD and despite being medicated I am impulsive to no end.   consider my activity spontaneous   because there is no way on this earth that I can outpredict myself. I'm in uni full time and have depression, so don't expect me to be here 24/7. I write as and when I want to. if you want to plot or chat or hang out when I'm not on a tumblr kick, you're free to ask for my discord.  one important rule   I have about communication is: please do not double message me if I have not previously responded to you, unless the content of the second/third/etc. message is different and you do not mind waiting for an answer. it bothers me greatly to receive multiple meaningless messages such as 'hi' or emojis without any substance. as long as you are okay with not getting a timely response then feel free to spam me all you like. but spamming me to get my attention is the fastest way to a block from me.muse key. primary ( + ). secondary ( › ). tertiary / request only ( – ).aedearly. icon border.
echoesofnemesis. textures.
cassiaslair. carrd template.
bastien lecouffe deharme. carrd artwork.
pink fang. icon artwork.

original characters.

literature.

video games.

other media.

base information.
  name:   laura barrett.
  age:   21
  gender:   cis woman
  pronouns:   she/her
  sexuality:   bisexualmeta information: vtm.
  clan:   lasombra
  disciplines:   blood sorcery, dominate, oblivion
  merits:   unbondable, beautiful
  flaws:   stigmata, aversion to holy symbolsappearance.
  face claim:   peach prc
  height:   five foot two inches
  hair:   long; dyed pink; beach waves; worn down
  casual dress:   pink dresses with matching makeup; golden jewellery; white ballet pumps
  art:   ask me to send it because i can't use imgur <3abilities.
  blood sorcery:   rituals aplenty. corrosive blood; the ability to extinguish blood from another; the ability to increase the potency of her own blood
  dominate:   able to issue both one-word and short sentence commands to others that will be undertaken without fail unless the person has a high enough willpower to resist; able to wipe and rewrite memories
  oblivion:   shadow manipulation; ability to disappear into shadow; ability to imbue the power of the shadowlands into anything she touches, necrotising ita note on shipping.
TLDR; laura cannot be in a healthy ship.

personality. on the outside laura presents as bubbly, girly and personable. she's quick to introduce herself to people and is more than willing to lend a hand to get her foot in the door with people. laura is good at understanding people and often uses this to ensure that the people around her are being honest, mostly under the guise of not being able to help them if they aren't honest with her.  at her core,   laura is manipulative and enjoys twisting people into doing things for her. she is power hungry and often cold when making decisions for a group. she has a machiavellian stance in that the ends always justify the means for her: even if they don't go to plan.  her ideals    deep down,   she's lonely, and despite forever having her mentor's soul entwined with her own, she feels as though she lacks understanding and empathy from other people. most of the time this is her own doing. both by accident and on purpose, she pushes others away in order to remain in control of every situation she puts herself in.important npc: christian biggs. the tremere that manipulated laura's every move for the first few months of her life. he kindled the flames of her desperation, forcing her to kill an innocent to prove her loyalty to him. the pair retained a toxic sensual relationship despite neither's attraction to anything but what the other could give them in other avenues. both master manipulators, it was the older that would eventually get the upper hand and begin performing a ritual that would surely spell the demise of laura and her comrades. in an attempt to stop the ritual, laura used the powers of oblivion she'd been given to necrotise his corpse. in the process however, the ritual culminated and a blast of energy pulsed from christian's body. the ritual had half-succeeded, with christian's soul finding a new body indeed, but not quite the one he had anticipated. rather than taking over the body of a methuselah salubri, his psyche had been fused with laura's, forever leaving him as a dark and chiding presence in the back of her mind from that day forward.

backstory (abridged). laura's life pre-vampirism was barely anything she'd consider worth noting. a relatively normal upbringing alongside her troublesome older brother and angelic younger sister, she was the forgotten middle child left with the expectations of being the 'better' child than her brother was. she was accepted into law school and finished her first year there without issue, though it was in the september of her second year that her entire life fell apart.kidnapped and kept in a cell for multiple days, laura was starved and desperate by the time she discovered others had been taken alongside her. other girls from her university, people she'd seen but never interacted with. at first she'd thought it a cruel joke, but that thought was soon dismissed when the girls discovered another young woman with a strange symbol carved into her -- that of a human body with a hole cut out of its middle. confused and scared, the girls attempted to free themselves from their captors only to end up directly in the centre of a ritual being performed by the cult of shalim. for their mistakes, each girl was sentenced to a fate worse than death: they were each embraced to become catalysts for the end of the world.upon waking up laura found herself in the same cell as before, although this time accompanied by yet another stranger. this girl had been bound and blindfolded, and upon inspection appeared to beg for laura to drink her dry as a sacrifice to their dark deity. despite her attempts to avoid bloodshed laura succumbed to the beast within and drained the girl, committing the first violent act of her life.  vampirism.   after being discovered by the camarilla, laura had a choice: she had to fight to live or die twice in the same night. as fresh fledglings sired by unknowns, the group had to convince the camarilla court to spare them. that night she learned of her lineage -- the lasombra -- and their former ties to 'the sabbat', learning also that a former member of the sect now resided as the head of the tremere chantry in the city, and the court's primogen. in an attempt to learn more about her blood, she approached the man and forced him to pay attention to her ambition. the tremere relented, pledging himself to the girls' survival in exchange for promise of future favours from laura herself.more to come.

base information.
  name:   nova moreno.
  age:   225
  gender:   cis woman
  pronouns:   she/her
  sexuality:   lesbianmeta information: d&d.
  level:   12
  class:   rogue
  subclass:   assassin
  weapon(s) of choice:   dual pistols, dual daggersmeta information: vtm.
  clan:   toreador
  disciplines:   auspex, celerity, presenceabilities.
  auspex:   premonitions; aura reading; heightened senses; ability to read spiritual 'footprints'; telepathy
  celerity:   able to move faster than light-speed; extremely dextrous; can catch and return projectiles mid air
  presence:   ability to read and manipulate others' emotionsappearance.
  height:   six foot three inches
  hair:   long; straight; black; worn down or in a high ponytail
  casual dress:   leather or lace; corset top; black heels
  armoured dress:   as above, add more leather
  art:   ask me to send it because i can't use imgur <3

verse: faerûn. tba.verse: baldur's gate 3. nova is not a tav. she would be an npc based in act 3 that offers additional assistance against cazador. she, despite also being a former vampire spawn treated like shit by her sire, does not particularly like astarion, but empathises with him and mostly just wants to see cazador dead. she is a vampire that hunts vampire lords (and oppressors in general, but prefers the vampiric kind).

verse: final fantasy xiv. nova was born in xak tural, but found herself longing for adventure as she came of age. after taking the first boat she could afford a ticket on, the young shetona found herself in doma. after a chance encounter with a shinobi in yanxia, she became the man's apprentice and eventually became friends with oboro and tsubame. upon the start of their pursuit of karasu, nova followed. it was here in eorzea that she found her calling: the scions of the seventh dawn. after hearing of the warrior of light's feats against the ultima weapon, she chose to join the scions as has been working closely with the warrior of light ever since.

personality. on the outside nova can be cold, even intimidating to most. she looks down at everyone that is not in her immediate circle and especially likes to make men or masc-aligned people feel uncomfortable in her presence. she presents herself as a sexual, sensual femme fatale because she knows it sells. nova is a performer. she knows what people want and moulds herself to give it to them.  at her core,   she is extremely family oriented for the found family that she has built for herself. nova cut off her birth family when she left them for greener pastures and did not once look for them while they were still alive. the family that she has accumulated -- her brothers and daughters -- are people that she would die (and kill) for. nova is a fiercely loyal person to the point where she can easily be misled by someone that she is loyal to.  her ideals   relate strongly to her will to survive, and for those she cares about to survive. all that matters to her is that she and her daughters carve out the future that they want to see.  deep down,   she struggles with maintaining her humanity. nova is a murderer. she has committed sins beyond human morality and is very aware that she is not human and thus does not abide by human morality laws. she does not even think about killing as a terrible act any more. she knows that she is irredeemable. also, she's a hypocrite! she cares so deeply about those close to her but has absolutely no qualms about taking other people's loved ones away from them.

backstory (LIFE). content warnings: allusions to sexual abuse, slavery. there are very few memories that remain with nova of her life, only that of her passion: ballet. to dance on the stage among stars had been her dream for as long as she could remember. alas, such a dream was shattered before she turned eighteen. no amount of talent could buy a person's way into one of the specialist arts schools, nor would she be allowed to continue her classes once she became an adult. she had wasted enough of her life already -- it was time to settle down.a quiet life was not for the girl, xiomara, as she was once called. she discovered a new way to dance, albeit one that garnered the opposite of prestige. hatred was spewed from the mouths of those that had once loved her, even the girl that had chosen to be her lover in secret. not even she could abide by the lascivious sin that now consumed her time.after spending months at various awful establishments she was found and recruited by a mysterious young man named dmitri. despite all outward appearances of his hedonistic club, the prince, dmitri took care of those who remained loyal to him. women, men, all in between enjoyed their safety as long as their bodies continued to serve dmitri's patrons. xiomara came to change her name to nova in these days, a stage name that followed her even beyond that -- it was what dmitri called her, and she had taken quite fondly to the man who, for all intents and purposes, had saved her.backstory (DEATH). of course, she could not enjoy the comfort of the life dmitri offered her for very long. only a few years into her tenure at the prince, a stunning woman who claimed to be dmitri's sister, annika would sweep nova off her feet. the whirlwind romance would lead to far worse things than she had experienced at the hands of cruel and hungry men.teeth. blood. screams. that is all she remembers of her turning. her will bending to annika's every whim, her mind broken after being forced to join the ranks of other poor girls who had died by the vampire's hand.it was as annika's spawn that she discovered the truth: dmitri had intended to do the deed himself, protective of her as he was. of all those that had danced for him at the prince, nova had been his favourite.my brain ran out of steam here so i'll finish this some other time BUT. dmitri saves her. she assists him in running the prince. the prince ends up being an establishment that primarily serves vampires after hours. she ends up assisting in training dmitri's spawns, three young men he had saved from the brink of death. she is free. in her own time she ends up adopting two daughters, isabella, 10, a young tiefling girl, and antoinette, 18~, a blind vampire whose 'brother' had been killed and who refused to leave nova's side after they first met.

base information.
  name:   omen
  age:   28
  gender:   agender
  pronouns:   he/him or they/them
  sexuality:   bisexualmeta information.
  level:   10
  class:   fighter
  subclass:   samurai
  weapon of choice:   katanaappearance.
  face claim:   nakamoto yuta
  height:   five foot eight inches
  hair:   short, white; often messy / tousled
  casual dress:   leather jacket without a shirt, leather trousers or black skinny jeans, boots
  armoured dress:   the exact same as his casual
  art:   ask me to send it because i can't use imgur <3

personality. on the outside he would appear as a born leader; he has been commanding others since he was sixteen and has a distinct level-headedness that makes him a good fit to lead any team. prior to its disbandment, he led an adventuring team that brought down the corrupt biotechnology corporation, serenity springs.  at his core,   he is a stubborn bastard. once omen sets his mind on something, it is very difficult to tear him away from it. his dedication to his job and to those he loves come second to none, and his duty to them is his main priority. very rarely will he admit his faults, and will deny any wrongdoing until matters have settled. in an argument he is cold, refusing to back down while also remaining calm and quiet -- almost eerily so.  his ideals   centre around being a hero and protecting those who cannot help themselves. he is extremely self-sacrificing and would rather die protecting his loved ones than to waste time thinking about a more complex solution.  deep down,   he just wants to find people that he can feel safe with. he's terrified of losing people and thus tells himself he prefers to be alone so that he doesn't have to lose anyone else.

backstory (abridged). created by the drogovas clan via a ritual to create new, artificial vampires, omen was one of the few failed attempts that survived past the ordeal. abandoned by the vampires in the streets of the azurite ward, he was found by muramasa makino, the heir to the ward's criminal organisation: the unfallen. given the name ryūnosuke, the child grew up in relative solitude due to his mother's responsibilities. he was primarily brought up by various nannies and attended the local high school as a civilian child. having been left alone for the majority of his formative years, omen gained a passion for art and eventually took up an apprenticeship with the unfallen's specialist tattoo artist. at age sixteen, omen took up his oath with the unfallen, immediately being granted his own sub unit to command at will.uhhh tldring the rest because my brain poofed out:
- he lost his fiancée which made him want to become an adventurer
- he formed a team that all decided to take down the corporation that kidnapped his fiancée -- they had their own reasons also
- said fiancée came back briefly and then died in omen's arms
- half of his team died and he abandoned the other one
-- despite having city-wide fame omen fell off the face of the earth to keep to himself and wallow in his guilt

base information.
  name:   pearl whitestar
  age:   25
  gender:   cis woman
  pronouns:   she/her
  sexuality:   bisexualmeta information.
  current campaign level:   six
  class:   fighter
  subclass:   battle master
  weapon of choice:   greatswordappearance.
  face claim:   anok yai
  height:   five foot ten inches
  hair:   long, black; styled in different manners depending on mood; often braided or straightened
  casual dress:   fashion-forward clothing, tight waisted, corseted or otherwise feminine clothing, skirts or skintight trousers, tall heels
  armoured dress:   reinforced trench coat & kevlar armour (sci-fi), half-plate (medieval)

verse: faerûn. tba.verse: baldur's gate 3. prior to the events of the game, pearl follows her main background (a noble daughter running away from her family to help those less fortunate than herself). she is a fighter that offers herself up as a mercenary to protect those who cannot protect themselves. her default would be as a tav but could also very well work as a mercenary at the emerald grove protecting the tieflings. her decisions would be made with protecting the innocent and harming as few people as possible being the priority.

personality. on the outside pearl may seem reserved and distant at a glance, but the moment one would hear her speak, the young woman's energy pervades her outward intimidation.  at her core,   pearl cares for everyone regardless of their background. she holds a lot of guilt towards harming people, but knows that people like her are needed to protect those who can't protect themselves. she is the necessary evil to ensure that the meek are not met with a fate that can be prevented.  her ideals   tend to fall around a central ideal of building a world in which everyone can thrive, and no one is left alone. despite her position as a fighter and protector, she prefers non violent action over violent action -- unless someone is openly hostile to herself or the people around her.  deep down,   pearl harbours a lot of rage. she contains a lot of hatred towards herself for her ignorance during her youth and often blames herself for contributing to the suffering of others. she visits the local fighting pits to train against her mentor, seth, or to let off steam in paid fights. she's a known fighter and has grown some rapport in the pits, and her personality within that sphere is entirely different from how she truly prefers to present herself.

backstory (abridged). pearl grew up as the niece of one of -- if not the most -- diamond city's most prolific megacorporation CEOs. whitestar industries pioneered the technology to make the New World habitable back in the days of eld, after the people of Solteria were forced to relocate after a disaster on their home world. she grew up privileged, pampered and never learned of the world outside her luxurious bubble.  university years.   once at university, everything changed for pearl. her eyes were opened to the backgrounds of those around her for the first time in her life, and she learned that her family was often the indirect cause of other people's suffering. after her first year she refused to return home, instead deciding to form a society based on providing aid to students whose families had been displaced or otherwise victimised by the megacorporations of the city. she and her best friend, a tiefling named mayhem, moved to the Jasper Ward, where Pearl then found her way into the Scarlet Guard.  The Scarlet Guard.   a humanitarian organisation that assists those who have suffered at the hands of megacorporations. pearl was recruited because of her victorious displays in the fighting pits and her willingness to aid others through the society she formed at university.

base information.
  name:   zlatan.
  age:   appears 25. actual 868.
  gender:   cis man
  pronouns:   he/him
  sexuality:   gaymeta information.
  clan:   caitiff
  disciplines:   celerity, obtenebration, protean, vicissitude
  merits:   common sense; favoured blood; inoffensive to animals; lingua franca
  flaws:   clan curse: lasombra; repulsed by garlic; fanatical devotion; word-scarredappearance.
  face claim:   n/a
  height:   five foot ten inches
  hair:   unruly; black; medium-length; straight
  casual dress:   black cassock; white collar; crucifix
  distinctive features:   red eyes; words of the book of nod in enochian etched into the skin from the back of his neck to his coccyxabilities.
  celerity:   able to move faster than light-speed
  obtenebration:   shadow manipulation; ability to summon tentacles from the abyss
  protean:   ability to see in the dark while eyes glow red; claws that grow from his fingernails
  vicissitude:   ability to change his own appearance at will; ability to mould the flesh and bones of another like clay

personality. on the outside  at his core,    his ideals    deep down,  

backstory (abridged). born in Philipoppolis in 1157

base information.
  name:   xyra
  species:   shadar-kai
  age:   appears 30s, 500+ in reality
  gender:   cis woman
  pronouns:   she/her
  sexuality:   sapphic bisexualmeta information.
  current campaign level:   eight
  class:   paladin
  subclass:   oath of vengeance
  weapon of choice:   glaiveappearance.
  face claim:   n/a
  height:   six foot ten inches
  hair:   long; straight; white; often worn in a ponytail
  casual dress:   soft leather armour, often adorned with raven feathers
  distinctive features:   shadowy markings that appear similar to tattoos at the tips of all of her extremities: ears, fingers, toes, etc., also covers her chest and neck.

verse: baldur's gate 3. xyra would be a tav or companion character with the parasite. prior to being kidnapped she was on the run from baldur's gate after having left her post as a knight under gortash. much like her original verse, she was extremely close to himverse: vampire: the masquerade. xyra is an elder lasombra who was in a complicated relationship with a camarilla prince. upon discovering their use of infernalism, xyra left the city and took it upon herself to become an inquisitor, hunting down other infernalists across the globe.

personality. on the outside xyra appears completely cold and emotionless, and that is true to a point. centuries spent in the shadowfell have dulled her to the point of near emptiness, though that is not to say she does not intend to feel things. being on the mortal plane again, she seeks out experiences that can make her remember what it feels like to truly be alive.  at her core,   xyra is loyal to a fault. it takes terrible, evil things to make her lose faith in someone that she has chosen to care about. she is however loyal above all else to her queen. despite being able to love and hate mortals after spending time around them, all pale in comparison to the deity that has shaped her existence. she is deeply devoted to the raven queen and refuses to put anything else above her faith. given her long lifespan, a single lifetime for a mortal race means nothing to her -- no matter what she gets up to on the mortal plane, her end goal is simple: to return to the raven queen what was stolen from her.  her ideals   are simple. her moral code is very neutral, based solely upon the situations presented to her. xyra does not believe in good nor evil, only action and lack of action. she will kill those who have harmed others and show no hope for redemption, she will save those who yearn to do better with their lives. every person she meets is judged very quickly according to how much harm they intend to cause her or others.  deep down,   she wishes that she could be more open and inviting. the mortals she has spent time with during her visit have shown her infinite emotions that she simply cannot find a way to feel herself. sorrow and joy are easy to understand on paper, but xyra finds each of them to be very difficult to find within herself. only a handful of times has she been able to truly feel, and mostly that has been anger. she wants to be soft, she wants to be kind, but she has absolutely no idea how.

backstory (abridged). xyra was born in the feywild centuries ago to winter court nobles, but followed the raven queen into the shadowfell long enough ago that memories of her life before that point seem more like dreams than reality. she struggles to remember who she was, and even the early days of her tenure in the shadowfell.  on the material plane,   xyra was tasked with hunting down a relic for the raven queen that belonged to the royal family of steepwind, astelar. once discovered, she was given a choice: join the royal guard or perish. of course, she took the former option in the hopes of outlasting the emperor, eventually utilising her immortal lifespan to retrieve the relic once the royal family were no more.as she ascended the ranks of the royal knights of steepwind, xyra was given a post close to the princess, alexandria. with the amount of time she spent in close proximity to the princess, xyra began to fall for her. though at first she kept her feelings to herself, it became evident that xyra's fondness for alexandria was beyond that of a bodyguard. once discovered, alexandria began to use xyra's feelings against her, feigning interest in the elf before eventually realising that xyra was perhaps the only person that knew the true alexandria, and the only person that she could trust.xyra assisted, unknowingly, in alexandria's assassination of her father, the emperor. shortly after, alexandria ascended to empress of steepwind with xyra at her side.

base information.
  name:   sylvanas windrunner.
  species:   undead elf.
  age:   appears late 20s, actually 250+
  gender:   cis woman
  pronouns:   she/her
  sexuality:   bisexualappearance.
  face claim:   n/a
  height:   six foot three inches
  hair:   long; straight; silver
  distinctive features:   blue-purple skin; long ears; red glowing eyes; black tear stains burnt into her cheeks; scar that runs from her sternum to navel -- glows faintly blueskills and abilities.
  archery & swordfighting:   by her eighteenth summer sylvanas had earned her place as a fully fledged ranger among the farstriders. from then on she would hone her skill with a bow, becoming one of (if not) the greatest amongst her family.
  magic:   though sylvanas cannot raise the dead without the aid of val'kyr, she does possess other necromantic magics. woven alongside shadow magic, she can bestow curses upon living beings that sap the strength from them and can even incapacitate them for a short time.
  banshee abilities:   as a spirit that is possessing her own body, sylvanas is able to use her powers as a banshee to briefly possess others or speak directly to them telepathically using possession-adjacent magic. when in her banshee form sylvanas appears to be semi-corporeal by becoming one with the shadows. her banshee scream is a piercing wail that is able to deafen all those who hear it, potentially incapacitating them also.

personality. on the outside
  at her core,    her ideals    deep down,  

backstory (abridged).

base information.
  name:   silas garcia.
  age:   appears 22. actual 27.
  gender:   cis man
  pronouns:   he/him
  sexuality:   bisexualmeta information.
  clan:   brujah
  disciplines:   auspex, celerity, potence, presence
  merits:   know thyself; patroller; symposium (chicago/menele specific)
  flaws:   prey exclusion: healthy mortals; [redacted] because i know other players can see thisappearance.
  face claim:   n/a
  height:   five foot eleven inches
  hair:   short, curtain bangs, light brown
  distinctive features:   various tattoos adorning his bodyabilities.
  auspex:   the ability to sense the unseen.
  celerity:   able to dodge projectiles easily; more dextrous and faster than average; can blink forwards up to 50ft at a time
  potence:   can leap further and higher than any mortal
  presence:   appears more threatening

personality. on the outside silas seems incredibly reckless and obnoxious, as most young brujah tend to. he has a tendency to speak before he thinks, often ending up getting himself into trouble that he has to argue himself out of. he is outspoken about social issues and is a loud supporter of socialist ideals. this can very easily get to the point where he berates people he deems too materialistic, and digs his heels in when he refuses to partake in activities that go against his morals.  at his core,   silas is very loyal, often to his detriment. having been brainwashed by the camarilla almost instantly as a fledgling, his primary loyalties lie with the sect. his loyalty to his clan comes second, but only those who follow the teachings of critias and by extension, menele. his loyalty can be earned on a personal level quite easily: you scratch his back and he'll scratch yours. he accepts the lasombra's plight to join the camarilla and (even despite being forced) assists them at the behest of prince kevin jackson.  his ideals   are a strong part of his personality which often come into conflict with his camarilla loyalty. one of his main ideals is sticking up for those 'beneath' him, though that is almost diametrically opposed to what he's supposed to be achieving in the camarilla. he hates authority, and yet is tightly bound on the elders' leash. silas has always wanted to be seen as an equal with his peers and will defend anyone to the point of violence. silas does not back down from a fight when he feels that he is protecting someone else from a worse fate.  deep down,   silas recognises his privileges, and tries to use them for good as best he can. there are times where he doesn't realise that he's stepping on toes or speaking for people rather than listening to what they have to say. he's a hypocrite, and he struggles to admit it. his debate skills have grown exponentially since his time in the camarilla, mostly due to menele's blood running through his veins. even when countered, silas does not back down. his mentor being a former ancient greek philosopher definitely has its benefits when it comes to the power of persuasive speaking.

backstory (LIFE). content warning for domestic abuse. silas was born to central american immigrant parents carlos & maria garcia. growing up, silas witnessed his father's abuse of his mother both verbal and physical, as well as emotional and financial. his mother worked at a laundromat and his father... occasionally came back with more than enough money to return their utilities for the next month. he grew up understanding the value of money as well as an understanding that violence was a means to cause fear. after witnessing his father's abuse towards his mother all the way into his later teen years, silas swore to protect as many people as he could from those that would attempt to cause them harm. this did lead to many an altercation with his own father from as early as when silas was ten years old, with growing degrees of success as he aged. by the time silas was eighteen and ready to leave home, he and his father were no longer on speaking terms.note: silas refuses to speak any spanish because of his family, only ever using it to address his mother. if anyone ever spoke it to him, he would ignore them completely. he is entirely white passing and is aware of his privilege because of it. extra note for sensitivity warning: silas' experience is based tangentially off my own, rest assured i'm not demonising latino families, just my own.throughout his teenage years and early twenties, silas had a turbulent relationship with his girlfriend, willow palmer. willow is almost the complete opposite of silas: she grew up with a rich, smothering family that granted her everything she could ever want. willow never knew poverty or shame in the same way that silas did. he did, however, manage to charm her in their classes together in middle school and their relationship ended up being one with both extreme highs and extreme lows. despite being terrified of becoming his father, violence was the only passion silas had ever known. although he never laid a hand on willow, his verbal and emotional abuse of willow hit its peak when they both enrolled at the same university. jealousy ran rampant through silas' mind, and the two of them had forever enjoyed pushing each other's buttons in order to elicit strong emotional reactions from one another.backstory (DEATH). ok my brain farted and i ran out of steam so the tldr is: his sire was supposed to turn him over to the sabbat but didn't and was put to final death because of it, meanwhile silas decided to ghoul willow and pissed off a toreador that was planning to embrace her, he was "adopted" by critias from the camarilla and sent to the elder's school for good camarilla kindred and essentially brainwashed into being a camarilla lapdog. he is on good terms with the sheriff of chicago, damien, and does occasional jobs for him. chicago by night chronicle specific: he's tasked alongside his coterie to assist the lasombra in joining the camarilla, and are also in the process of working out what the entity beneath chicago is, while also being threatened by a sabbat pack known as the seven fires.

base information.
  name:   alejandro carrillo.
  age:   appears 27. actual 2000+
  gender:   cis man
  pronouns:   he/him
  sexuality:   bisexual, male prefmeta information.
  clan:   toreador.
  disciplines:   auspex, celerity, fortitude, presence, proteanappearance.
  face claim:   n/a
  height:   six foot three inches
  hair:   long, dark brown
  distinctive features:   golden irisesabilities.
  auspex:   heightened senses, premonitions of the future, the ability to read a person's aura/soul, understanding of a person's deepest fear and/or desire, telepathy
  celerity:   improved balance and grace, faster and more agile than the average vampire, short distance teleportation,
  fortitude:  
  presence:  
  protean:  

personality. on the outside alejandro appears to be flamboyant and dramatic, often speaking in an accented shakespearean pentameter. it is clear that every planned interaction is imbued with a theatrical or musical flair. alejandro enjoys catching younger and older kindred alike off guard with his drama, often leaving guests with a feeling of being mocked by his antics. truly, alejandro's main goal is to both entertain and confuse his guests by forcing them to ask themselves the question: was he actually serious about all of that?  at his core,    his ideals    deep down,  

backstory (LIFE). alejandro was once a paladin who shared an oath with his brother gabriel. the two had sworn to protect not only one another, but their younger siblings and the rest of the realm via their strong reliance on one another.