Character Creation

ATTEMPT #2 AT CHARACTER CREATION LETS GO

Heres some stuff I wrote in my previous attempt (that you can't see, because it didn't work out super well)

PREVIOUSLY ON

Introducing drawing a graph

We also need to create something called the Relationship Map for regular character creation, I imagine it's more important for regular (non-solo) Vampire, but lets see if we can make something like that.

(Side note: This took two-ish days to make. Lets hope we get a lot of use out of it.)

Forced Homestuck Reference

Your name is HOPE EMERSON. As was not previously mentioned your birthday is SOME TIME IN THE 1950s. You are being recruited by A SMALL PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTOR as a GENERAL SECURITY ANALYST due to your PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS. You taught yourself to HANDLE FIREARMS after an incident related to BEING A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL. You find the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX morally neutral, and are NOT ADVERSE to contributing to it. You enjoy LONG DRIVES, FIDDLING WITH TECHNOLOGY, and MAINTAINING YOUR FIREARMS.

Trying to fill in a section

It is, 2ish days later I think. Lets see what we can do here.

Convictions are human values you attempt to uphold that prevent a vampire from giving in to the beast completely. I don't know exactly why coming up with something here is giving me so much trouble, so lets just, skip that and come back to it in a bit. I think it might be that I've not fleshed Hope out enough yet in my head.

ATTEMPT #2

Okay heres the plan

I'm going to try and write a few details about Hope (I'm keeping the name, I think it's cute) and then we're going to try and take that and turn it into a character sheet.

UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION ABOUT A PERSON

Your name is Hope Emerson. You were born on the 24th of August, 1953. You are a citizen of the United States of America. You are a Gay Woman in a time that was (even less then now) not friendly to being gay or being a woman, unfortunately. You were born in Las Vegas during it's ascent into being a tourist trap built on ill gotten gains with more corpses then concrete in the foundations. You were an only child, but your best friend Chloe was like a big sister. The pair of you are inseparable, even as adults. You always knew you didn't like boys the same way other girls did, but didn't realize you liked girls until you were 17. When you were 18, you were the victim of a hate crime committed by a member of the mafia. This is what prompted you to join the FBI, in the hope you could help stop this happening to anyone else, least of all yourself again. As part of passing your FBI background check you were required to out yourself as a homosexual to your friends and family to ensure you could not be blackmailed with it; Your parents, Malcolm and Eva Emerson disowned you, as did most of your friends except for Chloe. At age 22 in 1975 you you have graduated FBI training and have been assigned to a task force to help unwind the mafia's control over Las Vegas with your partners Avery Roberts and Colin Dillard. In your personal life you've began to want something more and decided to try going out a bit more. There's a goth bar near by called The Afterlife that you've been meaning to check out.

OKAY LETS SEE IF WE CAN TURN THAT INTO AN ACTUAL CHARACTER

We may be playing things A Bit Loose with reality, and, how much of this story is personal vampire kink wish fulfillment. Please don't think about that too much.

Age and Generation

Although I'm not starting out with Hope being embraced, I'm planning on having them be of the 12th generation. I don't fully know what this will mean down the line, but we will see. They'll also be a fledgling to start with, naturally.

Core Character Concept

As a kindred in the game I want to play with Serena, Hope is going to essentially be a Camarilla cleaner, using their insider knowledge of how the FBI works to gain access to crime scenes and make evidence disappear. They're also going to be a bit of a Camarilla loyalist/ladder climber. For now though, FBI Agent who may be out for personal vengeance.

CHOOSE YOUR CLAN

This may be a bit of an odd decision considering I want to be a Camarilla hatchet woman, but I want to play a member of the Hecata. This may partly be because I recently watched Not A Drop To Drink recently which had a very sweet member of the Giovanni family. It may also partially be because the clan bane for clan Giovanni is The Painful Kiss, where those fed on by a Hecata don't experience the usual near-orgasmic bliss but instead feel a very great pain to the point it is too much for even some willing kine and even kindred. I like the idea of a Hecata scene queen feeding on masochists out of a gay bar.

Your Human Life

Time to fill this part out again. I would copy and paste it from my previous attempt, but Hope has changed a fair bit between them

Traits

These copied over nicely. High intelligence for being a detective, good charisma skills for later. Especially since they're going to be essentially a social stealth type.

Skills

If you've seen the netflix mini series Fear City: New York vs The Mafia, one of the FBI agents who shows up whenever they need to plant a bug in a restaurant or a mobster's home is this guy only shown in silhouette and only called 'Joe' (iirc). He's the one who gets sent in to lockpick doors or pretend to be a phone/TV technician. I'm imagining that she fills a similar role on her task force. For their specialist and professional skills I'm putting things that would be the most useful for that role, knowing how to construct a legend and how to find a way into anywhere. I'm also putting awareness in, I imagine it'd be useful for spotting evidence or hiding spots.

Life events I'm listing firearms and insight, I imagine they got really messed up after the incident with Jerry. Firearms and insight seems sort of, self explaining. Bear in mind also, Hope is partially in the FBI for personal revenge as much as a genuine belief they can make things better.

Leisure I'm putting technology, athletics and stealth. I'm imagining that Chloe got sort of into early personal computers and some of it rubbed off on Hope. Athletics and Stealth is from them spending a lot of time together chasing each other around as kids!

Beliefs

Alright, back to where we gave up yesterday.

For touchstones, I'm going with Chloe and her two team-mates. Considering they're the people they spend the most time with currently, it makes the most sense. I'm imagining that her parents will mostly just be used for drama later on.

Convictions, I'm still a bit unsure on. I know Hope definitely is trying to avoid being victimized like they were by Jerry again, but I'm not sure if they believe in actually trying to help others enough for it to be a conviction yet?

I THINK I'M DONE FOR NOW

Since we are a mortal to start with, the rest is sort of Vampire Specific? Although I need to check in tourniquet to make sure there isn't anything else.

Finalized Character Sheet

Attributes

Health-Thingy

Skills

Finalized Relationship Map

Oh Right The Character Oracle

We were supposed to fill this table in

There is a few problems of like, I don't have a sire or clan just yet. But we can fill those in with things that point to them, if that makes sense? Who knows. It's been a week since I last touched this so lets see if we can finally finish this off.