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Player Characters
Dolph Sheng
Played by Matthew Dawkins
A internationally famous male model with a cold-blooded streak. He was Embraced by the Ministry and lives with his girlfriend.
- Abusive Parents: A mild example of such. They were Stage Mom types who raised him to be the biggest model he could be and now live off him financially.
- Berserk Button: Dolph has Aiden as this. He utterly loses it when Genghis feeds on Aida.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Is attempting to launch a unisex fashion line that Matthew Dawkins, his player, states is objectively terrible.
- Deadpan Snarker: Matthew Dawkins instills an incredibly dry wit and master of the putdown in Dolph.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- Diablerizes Genghis for feeding on his girlfriend.
- Goes even further when he diablerizes Brett Stryker for just talking smack about him after trying to frame him.
- Domestic Abuser: Dolph is jealous, possessive, and controlling to his girlfriend Aida. Justified as he's a Ministry vampire.
- Establishing Character Moment: Dolph Sheng does an extensive but unnecessary beauty routine in homage to American Psycho.
- Domestic Abuse: Engages in a verbal and mentally abusive version of this with Aida.
- The Fashionista: Is extremely good at wearing clothes, not so much at designing them.
- Hidden Depths: Averted with his fashion line. Dolph wants to prove that he has these but is actually completely lacking in any sort of fashion design skill.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Dolph thinks that Alan could be useful as a legbreaker. Alan is incredibly nervous, kind, and timid.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Unaware of what diablerie is.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Diablerizes Genghis in a frenzy.
- It's All About Me: Is a raging narcissist that even his attempts to be nice tend to backfire.
- Karma Houdini: Gets away scott free for committing diablerie twice and continues to mentally abuse as well as gaslight Aida.
- Manipulative Bastard: Dolph uses mind games to control his girlfriend, the people around him, and his fellow Kindred.
- Morality Pet: Aida is the only person in the world he cares about beyond himself and (maybe) his parents.
- Not Helping Your Case: Dolph cannot resist getting in people's faces when confronted with any flaw. This doesn't help him when he confronts Damien about Dolph's diablerie of Genghis.
- Rich Bastard: Exalts over other people and indulges in his superiority as well as wealth at every opportunity.
- Romantic Vampire Boy: Averted in a way that almost seems a Deconstruction of human-vampire romances.
- Sanity Slippage: Dolph slowly becomes more and more murderous throughout the campaign until he kills a second vampire via diablerie for talking smack about him.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!: How Dolph gets through life.
- The Sociopath: Shows almost all the classic signs. He's a narcissist, arrogant, superficially charming, and incapable of remorse.
- Stereotype Flip: He acts very much like a controlling arrogant Toreador. He's actually one of the Ministry (formerly known as the Followers of Set).
- Villain Protagonist: An arrogant abusive Jerkass who then gradually devolves into a multiple murderer.
Vincent Taylor
Played by Craig Austin
A poor carpenter's son turned art dealer. He was a failed artist who became very wealthy selling it instead. He was then Embraced by a Ventrue looking to gain hooks into the business.
- Berserk Button: His envy at real artists is a more subdued example than Dolph but drives him to want to ruin anyone who outshines him.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He is Blood Bound to his sire, Ms. Strauss, and thus passionately devoted to her.
- Blue Blood: Played with. Unlike most Ventrue, he was born to a working class family but remains such now among vampires.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Despite his love of art, he's not any good at making it or even recognizing what's good (just how valuable it is). He thus became a dealer because its his only talent.
- Establishing Character Moment: Vincent Taylor is humiliated by an acquaintance's enthusiasm for a newcomer and deals with his deep inadequacy as an art dealer and man about town.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Vincent despises the fact he has no talent at art beyond the ability to recognize what's valuable and negotiate for it.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Vincent does his best to be arrogant to cover up the fact he's a deeply insecure man, in part due to his Blood Bond but also due to his poor background.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Vincent doesn't mean to be arrogant and caustic but he is.
- Morality Pet:
- Vincent's father serves as his, being a single-father version of Good Parents that supported him his entire life.
- He adopts a teenage girl named Sarah and decides to mentor her.
- Morton's Fork: Either obey Ms. Strauss and cut ties with his father or go against his Regent.
- Rich Bastard: Is quite wealthy from his art business.
- Sarcasm Failure: Vincent does this with his acquaintance Claudia when he mocks Unknown's pretension.
- Terrible Artist: Was apparently one of these in life and it gnaws at him.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Vincent finally gets one over Unknown by exposing him as a plagiarist.
Alan Smythe-Winters
Played by Hjalmar Nordén
A blue-blooded aristocrat turned poor jazz pianist. He was Embraced by a Nosferatu and has struggled to maintain his relationships since.
- Abusive Parents: Alan's family is emotionally abusive and homophobic.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: His brother constantly drops hints about his homosexuality to his parents while never quite confirming it.
- Body Horror: Came with becoming a Nosferatu. Uses blood to appear normal to his boyfriend and during performances.
- Blue Blood: Alan Smythe-Winters is from an incredibly rich and powerful family. Averted in the fact he's a Nosferatu now.
- Broken Pedestal: Has this toward Dolph after he tries to frame Brett Stryker and then goes to outright murder him for no reason.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Alan's closeted nature is compared to being forced to keep The Masquerade.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Decides to retire in the country with his boyfriend.
- Establishing Character Moment: Alan Smythe-Winters is a nervous closeted gay man who has severe issues with his family as well as boyfriend.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Averted. Alan is able to keep them without ghouldom or use of his Animalism discipline.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Alan is by far the kindest and nicest of the group.
- Heroes Love Dogs: He keeps a bunch of them despite the fact that he is a vampire.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Believes that Dolph could be a great mentor to him. Dolph is incredibly ignorant of his own kind and unable to keep his mouth shut with authority figures.
- Interspecies Romance: Has a romance with a human man.
- Morality Pet: Michael is this to Alan. It is thrown into chaos by Alan revealing his true nature (and Michael not believing him).
- Vegetarian Vampire: Alan feeds primarily on zoo animals. It leaves him depressed but he channels that into his music.
Original NPCs
Jennifer Strauss
Vincent's sire and an arrogant Ventrue art critic.
- Abusive Parents: Misses no opportunity to put down Vincent.
- Jerkass: Treats Vincent like a slave and is emotionally abusive.
- Kick the Dog:
- Orders Vincent to break contact with his beloved father for no reason.
- Keeps an entire family of hunter descendants as ghouled slaves.
- Rich Bitch: Treats everyone with utter disdain and is rich as hell.
Aida Simpson
Dolph's much put-upon girlfriend and Touchstone.
- The Beautiful Elite: Averted. She's from a solidly middle class family that works for genuine blue bloods.
- Boy Meets Ghoul: Gender flipped. She's in love with Dolph and wants to be turned into a vampire.
- Domestic Abuse: Is constantly manipulated and gaslit by Dolph.
- Downer Ending: Is left alone and enslaved by Dolph, her life completely under his control.
- Interspecies Romance: Has one with Dolph as she is a human and he is a vampire.
Michael
Alan's boyfriend and a failed rocker.
- The Alcoholic: A recovering one that has been sober for a year.
- Boy Meets Ghoul: Boy meets Boy who is also a vampire.
- Cuteness Proximity: Falls prey to it when Alan uses one of their dogs against him.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Retires with Alan in the countryside at the end.
- Interspecies Romance: Has one of these with Alan.
