Recently I finished playing the Sabbat path for the Vampire the Masquerade Clan Quest Mod. Playing a female Tremere I like to think that with Victoria and Arturo at least that the Player Character gets called La Bruja (The Witch). In that kind of community some kind of characteristic nickname is inevitable. I wouldn't be surprised if Victoria is called La Serpienta.
Some nicknames for player characters of the clans I can think of are:
Nosferatu - El/La Cucuy. (Closest translation is the Boogeyman, but it's a particular creature meant to scare kids into behaving I and other Hispanic kids grew up traumatized by.)
Tremere - El Brujo/La Bruja (The Witch)
Ventrue/Toreador - El/La Fresa (Superficial and wealthy member of the upper class.)
Gangrel - El Perro/La Perra (The Dog)
Malkavian - El Loco/La Loca (The Lunatic)
Brujah - El Rebelde/La Rebelde (The Rebel)
Considering the player character no doubt ends up in a prominent position, Enforcer/Pack Priest maybe? I like the idea of a newbie Fledgling hearing an ominous title like "Oh, you need to go see La Bruja."
Though I'm very interested to hear if others have played it and thought of other nicknames.
[So, here’s the thing, just as all vampires and vampire rules differ from work to work, so does the poster boy for all vampire-dom, Dracula. So, I’m just going through some of the versions I’ve seen of the character, and what clan I think they might fall under. Also I’m a super indecisive person, so there might be updates here and there if I change my mind or add other Draculas.]
VTM- Tzimisce- So, let’s start with the one that we know for sure. The lore in Vampire says that he is Tzimisce. He’s most likely one of the older sects of them that don’t really use the flesh crafting as much as the younger counterparts seeing as he is still often depicted with what could be considered a fairly normal human appearance and and the time when he was embraced lines up with the clan before the change.
Original novel- Tzimisce- There’s not much different from this one as there was in the last one. Vampire kept him fairly close to the original character. I would say there is a slight possibility that he could be Ventrue seeing as he is a very commandeering and manner oriented person, but that could also just be his personality as well.
1931- Malkavian- I was going back and forth on a few ideas for this one, and I almost, almost went with Ventrue or even Ravnos. But, there was one thing that swayed me to think Malkavian: Renfield. Or, at least this version of him. The way that Rendield so suddenly went insane after seemingly being ghouled by Dracula reminds me a lot of the likes of Vandal in VTMB. A mortal given the curse that the supernatural can hardly handle themselves. There’s also the fact that most of Dracula’s victims show more of a dazed and foggy look to them when they are, “under his spell,” rather than just acting out of a faux sense of duty. This, I think, also leans more so toward Malkavian. As for when he turns into a bat and or wolf at Mina’s house, as well as a bat leading the carriage, I think that this could have been done with either ghouled animals, or more likely, especially if he is Malkavian or possibly even Ravnos, tricks of the mind as a means of diversion from his actual person. All that being said, I do think there would be a strong case for him being Ventrue as well.
Bram Stoker’s (1992 film) - Tzimisce (but it’s complicated)- Though he is more along the lines of those who do use flesh crafting. I also think that he has diablerized at lest a few other kindred, which does fit his violent and blood-hungry nature. We know he is Tzimisce because they confirm that he needs to rest in his native soil, is very proud of his old line heritage, and when he, “transforms,” into something else such as a wolf or bat, it is more so a wolf or bat creature, that is still man sized, and has his features like they would be from flesh crafting rather than say Gangrel animalism. The only time that we see an actual wolf representing him is when he kills and embraces Lucy. This could either be from him turning into the wolf, something that low generation, highly trained Tzimisce can do only with much effort which is why he only does so once, or is more likely the wolf that he has seemingly ghouled from earlier in the film. At the end of the night though, it would literally take at least half a book to explain all of the clans this one could possibly be, as if there was something that a vampire could possibly do, they most likely had him do it. So, the only thing I can really say is most likely Tzimisce who possibly diablerized a Gangrel (transforms into an actual wolf), a Lasombra (control of shadows, lack of reflection), and possibly a Ventrue( has supernatural means of ordering people such as the, “Don’t see me,” and, “See me now,” scenes with Mina). And, somehow he uses the thin blood abilities to turn to mist(proven to be him and not simply a trick of the mind as it interacts with Renfield) and a hoard of rodents to escape (usually bats, but rats in this case). Seeing as it is seen as impossible for a full blooded kindred to have these traits, the more likely yet still questionable answer is that at some point off screen, he struck a deal in some way with an unnamed thin blood who made it look like he has such powers. I also considered him to be Tremere, or rather Tremere adjacent seeing as he was turned vampire through ritual rather than embrace, and uses things through out the film that could be seen as Tremere rites, but other than how he got his blood this is rather flimsy as it has been proven in VTM lore that other clans can also learn at least some blood magic (as seen by Beckett using it to navigate an unfamiliar area at one point.) Side note because I talked about him in the ‘31 section: I don’t believe Renfield in this version can be indicative of Dracula being a Malkavian, as this version seems more like a ghoul suffering from withdrawals from lack of blood from his master and who is stuck in a society that doesn’t understand or believe him rather than him actually being mad. Shown when he says something along the lines of, “I’m not a madman! I’m a sane man fighting for his soul!”
Hellsing(manga/anime)- Ravnos- Dracula or Alucard in this version had me slightly scratching my head for a minute, as I couldn’t decide between Ravnos and Lasombra. But, I went with Ravnos. After looking through the bits that I had available I feel that when he turns into the shadow creatures and such it might be some of the hallucinations that Ravnos, especially in the more modern versions of Vampire, are known for. He’s most likely a very low generation seeing how much damage he can tank through and still bounce back almost immediately. It could also be thought that this is the reason that he is seemingly unstable sometimes as the start of the manga most likely takes place in 2000 (ask if curious on how I got that. It would take too long to explain here and I don’t want to have people slog through another paragraph like the one above). This is almost a year to the date of the Week of Nightmares, and one of the only reasons that he might have survived that was because he was in the hold of the Helsing Corporation, and they had the means to restrain him during this time of clan upheaval. The instability that shows in his personality and mood, something that he’s always been prone to, but has increased recently, could have been something agitated by the unrest the clan as a whole faces at the lost of their elder.
Castlevainia (mainline games and anime)- Tzimisce but fluent in Thaumaturgy- There is a LOT of slightly differing versions throughout the series, but most of them have enough similar that I just made one. I think that he’s more of a modern, flesh crafting kind. Though, I certainly think that he was certainly trained in blood magic at some point as there are plenty of times that he does rituals and the like. I debated thinking that he might have been Tremere, but there are enough things I think can disprove this. One of them being that the man is like eight feet tall. That could have been something done through flesh crafting, as well as the fact that he looks slightly different throughout the series, even in games that were in the same continuity and not reboots of some kind. This could also be from flesh crating. Something else I think he uses this ability for is to make the majority of the monsters that patrol his castle/attack the villages surrounding it. He’s had enough victims over the years that he’s most likely not short on body parts to use. I do still feel, however, that he somehow got ahold of a way to learn Thaumaturgy as there are plenty of things he does that fall more in that field more so than anything that Tzimisce can usually do; his castle being filled to the brim with magical artifacts and tomes.
No one asked but this is what I think the dads from season 1 clan would be in vtm (plus Willy)
Henry to me is the easiest to pick because he would be a Gangrel.
Ron is either a Venture or a Malkaivian who thinks they are actually a Venture (mostly based on Ron being a business man)
Glenn is a Ravnos
Darryl would be a duskborne
Now to Willy, he would either be tremere or lasombra (Tremere because from what I've seen the most people shit on and Lasombra because of their compulsion to ruthlessness)
