Tell us about one of your characters
Ooh, this is a rare one. But just one? Let me see...
Felix Drescher, specifically his Vampire the Masquerade variant.
A vampire of Clan Nosferatu, he's a master of a vampiric skill known as Obfuscation, which allows him to look like anyone and hide in plain sight as though invisible. You see, Nosferatu aren't exactly the most beautiful of vampires, and that face you see above? That is merely his obfuscated form.
His vampiric curse manifested in thick black veins that pulse and writhe, scabs and scales covering his flesh, a plethora of scars, and vicious burn-like markings all over. Yet somehow, his true form is not the most horrid thing about this man.
You see, Felix's sire, that is, the one who turned him into a creature of the night, was a foul creature. Vain and cruel, punishment was his most favorite pastime, and torture was his most adored hobby. I won't go into detail here as much of it is far too gruesome to share without hefty warnings, but let's just say that for the first years of his unlife, and the last years of his living one were his own little slice of hell.
Somehow, his sire's demeanor didn't pass on to Felix, not at all. He vowed to never treat another as he'd been treated and swore to never turn another, nor would he ever take a Ghoul, a human bonded by blood, for personal reasons, only to protect them. He is what would be known as a Martyr among the Nosferatu, a vampire who uses his unlife to study the human condition and protect them to the best of his ability as he cannot possibly be one of them. Not anymore.
This vow in mind, the 1980s were a particularly unusual time for Felix. He was barely a few decades old at this point, but his views were still held as more important than the rivalries between one clan and another. The Nosferatu had even found himself starting up a little industrial band deep in the sewers of Berlin, where no mortal soul would dare to venture - except for one.
That would be Christian Swire, an Australian, a fellow musician, yet altogether human. This wouldn't do. He was at risk! Felix would take him from the sewers and whisk him away to a dive bar down some ratty street where the pair would inevitably get to know each other and, after many months, when Felix was absolutely sure of Christian's opinion of him, he would take him as a Ghoul, bonded by blood. How romantic, no?
The pair are nigh inseparable, even in these modern nights when Christian himself has been embraced by Clan Gangrel, more bestial vampires who retain their human visage but gain incredible animalistic abilities.
When they had first met, Felix was obfuscated into an imitation of the human he once was, albeit covered in a multitude of piercings and tattoos. Contrary to what typically happens when a Nosferatu reveals their true form, however, Christian only found himself more in awe of the creature before him, all scaly and scabbed. He actually described him as "beautiful."
I could go on but... there's an awful lot to continue with!
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