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Player Name: Indy E-mail: dizzydances@gmail.com Preferred Contact: Plurk ( @ swirlix) and Discord ( @ snowpoff#4031) Timezone: US Central Current Characters in Victory Road: Cordy | bloodyroses
Character Name: Valerie "Val" Trout Castillo Series: Original (she's a Vampire: The Masquerade NPC I made for my current game I'm the storyteller for) Timeline: After her wife's hand got ripped off by Val's idiot stepson.
Original Character Background: Okay, so I didn't really make up Val's world, so I'm just going to link y'all to the World of Darkness wiki page.
A brief rundown of some very basic concepts in the World of Darkness that we're gonna need for Val's backstory.
-The WoD is basically a grimdark urban fantasy version of the real world, with vampires, mages, fairies, werewolves, etc. I'm ignoring most of the other stuff and focusing on the vampire stuff. -Most vampires adhere to this concept called the Masquerade, where they make sure the public doesn't know vampires or other supernaturals are real. -There are three major factions in the modern Western vampire world. The first is the Camarilla, an extremely lawful and bureaucratic vampire government who believes that the Masquerade must be upheld at all costs, and that all vampires must adhere to a rigid hierarchy. Then there's the Anarchs, who rebel against the hierarchy of the Camarilla, but still mostly cling to their humanity and abide by the more common sense rules, like the Masquerade. Finally we've got the Sabbat, a completely batshit insane death cult who rebel entirely against the elder vampires, and who are also preparing for the end of the world when the ancients shall arise from their slumber and eat everyone. Yeah.
Where did vampires come from? No one knows for sure, but this is the leading theory.
Valerie Turner was born in the 1950s as the only child to a set of pretty typical white 1950s parents. She had a WWII vet father who buried himself in his work and did sweet fuck all raising his kid, and a stay at home mom who dealt with her shattered dreams with a fuckton of valium. They also had a pretty rigid set of expectations for their daughter, expectations that Val would chafe at as she grew older. Among them was the fact that Val is one of the biggest lesbians to ever walk upon God's earth, and her parents were chock full of that good old fashioned 1950s homophobia.
Val spent much of her adolescence in a super Christian girl's school, where she frequently skipped classes to do whatever the fuck she wanted, and caused a lot of problems on purpose. When she was 16 her parents had her shipped off to a conversion therapy camp for a bit, so Val set fire to one of the staff buildings and escaped.
Sadly, none of the staff were hurt or killed.
After this, Val continued to skip school and take every opportunity to rebel against her piece of shit parents before she was promptly expelled from school at the age of 17 and tossed into a mental hospital, mostly because that was what you did with marginalized people you didn't want to deal with back then.
She escaped and ran away from home, laying low until she was 18 and there was legally very little her parents could do. Unfortunately there wasn't much a high school dropout with a history like hers could do in terms of careers, so she mostly stuck with low-paying service jobs that she supplemented with petty crime and sex work. But hey, she was surviving, and that was enough.
After a couple of years surviving like this, her parents found her and, in a desperate attempt to assert their control over her, tried to get a court to forcibly take away what autonomy she had.
Val responded by murdering them, but got caught and tossed into yet another mental hospital.
This is where her life ends and simultaneously also takes a dramatic turn, because her doctor was a Malkavian.
Val's doctor, for reasons Val still isn't sure of, turned her into a vampire, then faked her death and brought her into vampire society. Val's city was a Camarilla controlled domain, and she was quickly introduced to the vampire court and introduced to her society.
Not long after, Val also began to have visions of her vampire ancestor Malkav arising from his slumber and eating every one of his descendants. It's not unusual for Malkavians to have premonitions, but just as common is for the Camarilla (at least other clans within the Camarilla) to completely write them off as the ramblings of a madman. Frustrated at this, Val talked to her sire about her visions, and the doctor basically told her to keep them to herself if she wanted to be taken seriously.
This pissed Val off because obviously an ancient vampire awakening to eat everyone is a huge problem.
Frustrated and unsure of where to go, Val's psychic intuition led her to the Sabbat. She asked to join them, and the Sabbat said they'd consider if she proved her conviction by killing her sire.
Her sire was an asshole anyway so she did it, and also drank his blood and devoured his soul.
So the Sabbat let her in.
Sabbat members usually run around in little vampire found families called packs, who are led by a ductus (who guides the pack in secular matters) and a pack priest (who advise in spiritual matters.) Val was a rank and file member in a pack with mostly LGBTQ members for about 20-25 years until she met Dolores, a notorious fighter and Sabbat war hero, at a festival for Sabbat members. Val had been feeling some friction with her pack's leadership for a while, and by the end of the festival her and Dolores had really hit it off, deciding to form a pack together by the time the festival ended.
They gathered together two other members: Billie, a recently turned vampire who was a serial killer in life, Kasia, a and Meathook, a former shovelhead. Dolores served as the ductus for a while, and up until her horrible death that I still haven't fleshed out, Kasia served as the pack's priest.
After about 3 months, Kasia died and Val was the new priest. Her and Dolores were also officially a couple a few months after this.
Then for decades they ran around causing problems for the Camarilla and Anarchs alike. Her pack became pretty infamous for all sorts of murder and other fuckery.
In 2021, Val and her pack traveled to San Antonio to scout ahead of a Sabbat invasion of the city, where they turned a middle aged human financier samed Samantha into a ghoul. Samantha ended up being killed by some Anarchs for political reasons, and a few weeks later, Dolores turned Samantha's son, Nate, into a vampire mostly because she needed a disposable vampire to go around causing problems for the Anarchs.
Which Nate is doing wonderfully, even if he fucking hates Dolores and her pack.
A few weeks after this, Val turned a college student named Aubrey into a vampire, mostly because they needed a fresh set of hands in the pack and they saw some potential in this girl.
After some more packs started to move in on the city, Val and Dolores were involved in an operation to cripple and control the local Nosferatu by kidnapping their ghouls and other informants. One of these was the best friend of my Nosferatu player, which ended in the rest of the party getting involved in a huge fight with Val's pack. I can't say anyone won, but Dolores' hand got ripped off by a frenzied Nate and Val ended up psychically tormenting three party members with their worst fear.
No one won, both groups went back home to lick their wounds, and Val sent one party member a lot of inflammatory texts for no reason.
Personality: The most important thing about Val is that she always speaks her mind in pretty much every situation, even when what she's thinking is completely bonkers by human standards (and it often is.) this is someone who lives to get a rise out of people and give a proverbial middle finger to anyone she perceives as undeserved authority or part of "the system". She did it when she was alive, and she sure as shit ain't gonna stop now that she's dead. She joined the Sabbat because she wanted to find a freak family that would take her seriously and stick it to the vampire authorities, and Val doesn't really care who gets hurt along the way. While this has some positive sides, such as her calling out a lot of bigoted bullshit, she's also internalized some bullshit herself, such as her not considering humans "people" so much as a source of food and resources. In her mind, sure, maybe she's not always right, but she sure as shit doesn't think she has anything to be ashamed about.
The other thing about Val is that she's a deeply passionate person, about pretty much anything that catches her interest. The problem is that she has very little real capacity to express this in a healthy way. She has a penchant for pranks, but pranks in her view are mostly just code for "absolute bugfuck terror stunts." she loves her wife with the capacity of a thousand suns, but they've both stabbed each other on multiple occasions and Val has openly joked about eating Dolores' vampire son. Of course Dolores also doles out her own sass and stabbings, so maybe these two were made for each other. It's by no means a healthy relationship, but they're happy? Oh my god, Val is absolutely toxic and she's down to trash and burn down everyone who even slightly annoys her.
Despite this high octane toxicity, Val's also got a deeply intellectual side. She speaks four languages, often amuses herself with philosophical debates (even if she absolutely has a smug anime pfp online) and collects texts and relics of vampiric history. She probably would have succeeded academically if she didn't drop out of high school, but I have a feeling that a traditional school environment ain't right for her anyway.
So, what can you expect from Val? If you're not human (or well, formerly not human) and used to high octane weirdness, she might actually be tolerable. Everyone else is gonna wanna get off this wild ride.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: You know what, she's not a particularly nurturing type AT ALL but let's go with breeder. She may or may not start a cute little Pokemon cult. Starter: One Espurr, please! Password: Atomic Fireball
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Some serious CW worthy stuff in the backstory section
Name: Indy
E-mail: dizzydances@gmail.com
Preferred Contact: Plurk ( @ swirlix) and Discord ( @ snowpoff#4031)
Timezone: US Central
Current Characters in Victory Road: Cordy |
Character
Name: Valerie "Val" Trout Castillo
Series: Original (she's a Vampire: The Masquerade NPC I made for my current game I'm the storyteller for)
Timeline: After her wife's hand got ripped off by Val's idiot stepson.
Original Character Background: Okay, so I didn't really make up Val's world, so I'm just going to link y'all to the World of Darkness wiki page.
A brief rundown of some very basic concepts in the World of Darkness that we're gonna need for Val's backstory.
-The WoD is basically a grimdark urban fantasy version of the real world, with vampires, mages, fairies, werewolves, etc. I'm ignoring most of the other stuff and focusing on the vampire stuff.
-Most vampires adhere to this concept called the Masquerade, where they make sure the public doesn't know vampires or other supernaturals are real.
-There are three major factions in the modern Western vampire world. The first is the Camarilla, an extremely lawful and bureaucratic vampire government who believes that the Masquerade must be upheld at all costs, and that all vampires must adhere to a rigid hierarchy. Then there's the Anarchs, who rebel against the hierarchy of the Camarilla, but still mostly cling to their humanity and abide by the more common sense rules, like the Masquerade. Finally we've got the Sabbat, a completely batshit insane death cult who rebel entirely against the elder vampires, and who are also preparing for the end of the world when the ancients shall arise from their slumber and eat everyone. Yeah.
Where did vampires come from? No one knows for sure, but this is the leading theory.
Valerie Turner was born in the 1950s as the only child to a set of pretty typical white 1950s parents. She had a WWII vet father who buried himself in his work and did sweet fuck all raising his kid, and a stay at home mom who dealt with her shattered dreams with a fuckton of valium. They also had a pretty rigid set of expectations for their daughter, expectations that Val would chafe at as she grew older. Among them was the fact that Val is one of the biggest lesbians to ever walk upon God's earth, and her parents were chock full of that good old fashioned 1950s homophobia.
Val spent much of her adolescence in a super Christian girl's school, where she frequently skipped classes to do whatever the fuck she wanted, and caused a lot of problems on purpose. When she was 16 her parents had her shipped off to a conversion therapy camp for a bit, so Val set fire to one of the staff buildings and escaped.
Sadly, none of the staff were hurt or killed.
After this, Val continued to skip school and take every opportunity to rebel against her piece of shit parents before she was promptly expelled from school at the age of 17 and tossed into a mental hospital, mostly because that was what you did with marginalized people you didn't want to deal with back then.
She escaped and ran away from home, laying low until she was 18 and there was legally very little her parents could do. Unfortunately there wasn't much a high school dropout with a history like hers could do in terms of careers, so she mostly stuck with low-paying service jobs that she supplemented with petty crime and sex work. But hey, she was surviving, and that was enough.
After a couple of years surviving like this, her parents found her and, in a desperate attempt to assert their control over her, tried to get a court to forcibly take away what autonomy she had.
Val responded by murdering them, but got caught and tossed into yet another mental hospital.
This is where her life ends and simultaneously also takes a dramatic turn, because her doctor was a Malkavian.
Val's doctor, for reasons Val still isn't sure of, turned her into a vampire, then faked her death and brought her into vampire society. Val's city was a Camarilla controlled domain, and she was quickly introduced to the vampire court and introduced to her society.
Not long after, Val also began to have visions of her vampire ancestor Malkav arising from his slumber and eating every one of his descendants. It's not unusual for Malkavians to have premonitions, but just as common is for the Camarilla (at least other clans within the Camarilla) to completely write them off as the ramblings of a madman. Frustrated at this, Val talked to her sire about her visions, and the doctor basically told her to keep them to herself if she wanted to be taken seriously.
This pissed Val off because obviously an ancient vampire awakening to eat everyone is a huge problem.
Frustrated and unsure of where to go, Val's psychic intuition led her to the Sabbat. She asked to join them, and the Sabbat said they'd consider if she proved her conviction by killing her sire.
Her sire was an asshole anyway so she did it, and also drank his blood and devoured his soul.
So the Sabbat let her in.
Sabbat members usually run around in little vampire found families called packs, who are led by a ductus (who guides the pack in secular matters) and a pack priest (who advise in spiritual matters.) Val was a rank and file member in a pack with mostly LGBTQ members for about 20-25 years until she met Dolores, a notorious fighter and Sabbat war hero, at a festival for Sabbat members. Val had been feeling some friction with her pack's leadership for a while, and by the end of the festival her and Dolores had really hit it off, deciding to form a pack together by the time the festival ended.
They gathered together two other members: Billie, a recently turned vampire who was a serial killer in life, Kasia, a and Meathook, a former shovelhead. Dolores served as the ductus for a while, and up until her horrible death that I still haven't fleshed out, Kasia served as the pack's priest.
After about 3 months, Kasia died and Val was the new priest. Her and Dolores were also officially a couple a few months after this.
Then for decades they ran around causing problems for the Camarilla and Anarchs alike. Her pack became pretty infamous for all sorts of murder and other fuckery.
In 2021, Val and her pack traveled to San Antonio to scout ahead of a Sabbat invasion of the city, where they turned a middle aged human financier samed Samantha into a ghoul. Samantha ended up being killed by some Anarchs for political reasons, and a few weeks later, Dolores turned Samantha's son, Nate, into a vampire mostly because she needed a disposable vampire to go around causing problems for the Anarchs.
Which Nate is doing wonderfully, even if he fucking hates Dolores and her pack.
A few weeks after this, Val turned a college student named Aubrey into a vampire, mostly because they needed a fresh set of hands in the pack and they saw some potential in this girl.
After some more packs started to move in on the city, Val and Dolores were involved in an operation to cripple and control the local Nosferatu by kidnapping their ghouls and other informants. One of these was the best friend of my Nosferatu player, which ended in the rest of the party getting involved in a huge fight with Val's pack. I can't say anyone won, but Dolores' hand got ripped off by a frenzied Nate and Val ended up psychically tormenting three party members with their worst fear.
No one won, both groups went back home to lick their wounds, and Val sent one party member a lot of inflammatory texts for no reason.
Personality: The most important thing about Val is that she always speaks her mind in pretty much every situation, even when what she's thinking is completely bonkers by human standards (and it often is.) this is someone who lives to get a rise out of people and give a proverbial middle finger to anyone she perceives as undeserved authority or part of "the system". She did it when she was alive, and she sure as shit ain't gonna stop now that she's dead. She joined the Sabbat because she wanted to find a freak family that would take her seriously and stick it to the vampire authorities, and Val doesn't really care who gets hurt along the way. While this has some positive sides, such as her calling out a lot of bigoted bullshit, she's also internalized some bullshit herself, such as her not considering humans "people" so much as a source of food and resources. In her mind, sure, maybe she's not always right, but she sure as shit doesn't think she has anything to be ashamed about.
The other thing about Val is that she's a deeply passionate person, about pretty much anything that catches her interest. The problem is that she has very little real capacity to express this in a healthy way. She has a penchant for pranks, but pranks in her view are mostly just code for "absolute bugfuck terror stunts." she loves her wife with the capacity of a thousand suns, but they've both stabbed each other on multiple occasions and Val has openly joked about eating Dolores' vampire son. Of course Dolores also doles out her own sass and stabbings, so maybe these two were made for each other. It's by no means a healthy relationship, but they're happy? Oh my god, Val is absolutely toxic and she's down to trash and burn down everyone who even slightly annoys her.
Despite this high octane toxicity, Val's also got a deeply intellectual side. She speaks four languages, often amuses herself with philosophical debates (even if she absolutely has a smug anime pfp online) and collects texts and relics of vampiric history. She probably would have succeeded academically if she didn't drop out of high school, but I have a feeling that a traditional school environment ain't right for her anyway.
So, what can you expect from Val? If you're not human (or well, formerly not human) and used to high octane weirdness, she might actually be tolerable. Everyone else is gonna wanna get off this wild ride.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: You know what, she's not a particularly nurturing type AT ALL but let's go with breeder. She may or may not start a cute little Pokemon cult.
Starter: One Espurr, please!
Password: Atomic Fireball
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