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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 592801" data-attributes="member: 1194">hmmm....  there's that freaky vampire "sire" and "childer" thing coming up again.Honestly, it kinda creeps me out (personally now) how Vampires use this parochial or matriarchal life structure, throwing away their mortal coil and clinging to their Sire like a parent.But I guess that's kind of the way it is in vampiredom.   ?All the things I've read have vampires "aching" to Embrace someone that piques their curousity, or revives their imagination, or turns them on, or makes them feel again after being dead for so long (dead in MANY ways <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).As for Nikolai, the 6-months-as-a-vampire makes sense, power-wise (since he's new, but been acquiring as much power as possible in 6 months : he'll have 5 Discipline points probably).But character-wise, it would make sense that he'd have been a vampire for probably 10 years at least.See, the general idea of the character is as a Tragic Character, who was physical (a bodyguard), and much in love when Tragedy entered his life in the form of a deranged Vampire of old (a corrupted Toreador who snuffs out True Love whenever he experiences that wretched rare human gift).This tragedy changes Nikolai, so that his only thought is Revenge.He scours the world, changing himself, becoming an Academic, trying to find power in ancient texts and Rituals and magic, eventually falling in with a vampire hunting group of humans (the rare humans who actually know they exist).He views all vampires as a scourge on humanity, by extension hating them, projecting his hatred of The-One-Vampire-that-slew-his-love (a.k.a. The Monster).Over the years of Hunting, he begins to see that no human force will be able to be Strong enough to present a credible threat to The Monster.So he is approached by an exotic book-dealer (his Sire), and offered the means by which to destroy The Monster by becoming that which he hates the most.Classic tragi-drama, no? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />After becoming Embraced, his only thought is acquiring enough Power to kill The Monster.Now this desire for revenge and power has not been without cost.He has slowly lost the True Memory of his Humanity and his Love for HIS Victoria (while my wife plays Vychtorya, I made Nikolai's love be named Victoria : they do not know each other, and will not become "an item" : I'm planning in the future for Vychtorya to help spark the memory of Nik's Victoria, and hopefully be the catalyst for him to claw back to being closer to a Human).So at this point in his life, he's a rather nasty, amoral, do-anything kind of guy. Though his motives are basically pure, the means by which he acquires the power could be rather grisly. Thus he has rather low Humanity score, but over the course of the Chronicle, would become more Human if he can be reminded of what Love was like.So that's why it'd be cool if he had been a Vampire for awhile, having been steeped in evil and selfishness for years before turning back to The Light, but that's cool if I condense it to 6 months of decrepitness...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I'll be posting my character and the "answer sheet" shortly (tomorrow at the latest, hopefully).edit: if anyone has a good name for The Monster, I'm all ears.The Heartstealer, or The HeartKiller... something like that -  he's a legendary, quasi-mythic vampire that's been around for centuries thats even a Mystery to the vampire community.</blockquote>

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