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Player Name: Indy E-mail: dizzydances@gmail.com Preferred Contact: swirlix on Plurk, snowpoff#4031 on Discord Timezone: US Central Current Characters in Victory Road: Cordy (bloodyroses), Val will be dropped soon
Character Name: Laszlo Tamasi Series: Original (NPC in a VTM chronicle I run) Timeline: Shortly before Austin road trip Canon Resource Links: Because László was created for a canon tabletop setting, I will be linking this here.
I am also copying and pasting this from Val's app.
-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.
The setting for my own game is early 2022, although László is much older, having been born in the 1880s and turned into a vampire in the 1920s.
Tamási László (if we're using the name order they're used to) was born in the early 1880s in a village in rural Hungary somewhere. I have never actually named this village, but it's a running gag in my game that no one in the party can actually pronounce this shit. Their father was the mayor, which basically just meant that the family could afford a roof that didn't leak and the ability to scrimp and save for their only child to one day afford college in the big city.
That said, László was also nonbinary as fuck, a fact that their abusive father resented deeply. It's hard to overstate how few redeeming qualities their father had, and László as a child quickly developed the essential skills of lying to avoid any sort of confrontation with their father, who they'd come to loathe and resent more with each passing day.
They had few friends as a child, but their best friend was a little girl named Aranka, who they met at the village school at around 6-7 and who they played and hung out with every time they could wrestle a moment away from their shitty ass family. Remember her name, it will be important later.
Over time their father's more physical abuse waned, mostly because their child was taller and stronger than them as an older teen/young adult.
At 17 they went to college in Budapest, and began to study medicine.
At 23 they finished their schooling and began their career as an assistant to another doctor in a hospital, which today would be akin to a med student starting their residency. This wrapped up when they were about 26 or 27.
After this, to make a long story VERY short, they married their childhood friend Aranka, who as fortune would have it was both a cis lesbian and also one of the only people on the planet to know László wasn't actually a guy. Their parents didn't approve for a variety of reasons, and while Aranka's parents eventually got over this, László's never did.
They couldn't be themselves in public, but they could at least keep each other safe. As fate would have it though, these two did eventually fall in love, and moved to Budapest where they had a family and met two other cis women who moved in with them as "renters" and Aranka's "very good friends", if you wanna read between the lines.
Things went on fairly normally for about 20 years, during which time László built up a successful medical practice and the secret polycule raised half a dozen kids together (all of whom were Aranka's, biologically speaking.) Unfortunately, things can never last, and the closer it gets to the 1930s, the worse it is to be a queer person (or really any sort of minority) in Europe.
The stress of watching one's country slowly descend into fascism started getting to László, and in the 1920s they started to do what they never thought they would, which is deliberately murder their own patients if said patients were scumbags. Weirdly, they didn't get caught by the authorities, but someone noticed.
Enter Adler (not his birth name), a vampire from clan Tzimisce who had been staking out for a potential new childe for at least a decade, and who saw some promise in a brilliant trans doctor who clearly wasn't afraid to do a few murders. László left their work that evening, but never returned home, and it was assumed they were murdered.
Over the next 10 years, László followed their abusive sire's demands as the two carried out Sabbat business all over Europe, while secretly trying to funnel money and other aid over to their human family. Their human family used this aid to flee the country, with Aranka and four of the kids making their way to America while two of the kids and the two girlfriends made it to the UK or France.
But the stress of doing this while struggling with their inner monster led to them having a mental breakdown and almost experiencing wassail, and as they struggled to recover from this, their shitty ass sire took the opportunity to remake László in his image.
They adopted a more detached, more transhumanist way of looking at their vampiric condition, accepting that they were no longer human, but also becoming more willing to do increasingly monstrous things that their human self would pale at, like human experimentation or just straight up cronenberging people into war ghouls. The sheer depth and breadth of their war crimes was nothing to be scoffed at.
Sometime in the 1940s, they and the rest of their Sabbat pack traveled to Mexico for some official business as Mexico is the sect's capital, for all intents and purposes. The sheer fuckery of what happened with Europe in the end and immediate aftermath of WWII left their pack stranded. At around this point the tattered remains of their pack also were folded into a larger pack, which is where they eventually ended up in San Antonio, Texas.
San Antonio was controlled by the Sabbat during this time, but that all changed in the 1980s when an Anarch vampire named Sophronia made a push to drive the Sabbat out, establishing herself as Baron of the city. (Vampire authority titles always use the masculine form, even if the holder is a woman.)
The Sabbat found themselves on the losing side of that war, and Laszlo along with their sire and a few other packmates found themselves accused of infernalism (basically demon pacts/worship) for political reasons in the fallout. Having never been that enthusiastic about the Sabbat's political goals, and having endured one too many abuses from their sire, they decided to just fucking kill Adler, release a kaiju science experiment on their accusers, and leave the sect.
This basically made them a wanted vampire, and as the Anarchs took over, Laszlo sought their protection. They received it, but at the cost of basically now being a hostage for the Anarchs.
Fast forward to spring 2022. They had settled in to their new life, when a letter from an old friend arrived. That's right, Aranka's back. It turns out that decades after Laszlo had "died", she moved to the US and was later, as an old lady, embraced by another vampire into clan Brujah before falling in with the Anarchs over in Austin. This is just about when San Antonio found itself in the midst of another turf war with the Sabbat, with them eager to take back what they'd lost (and also possibly kill Laszlo.)
Personality: On the surface, Laszlo seems like a perfectly personable sort of Cainite. They're polite, friendly, willing to crack a few jokes or acknowledge that they're a weird, awkward person at the heart of it all. This belies a truly fucking terrifying nature, in which, like many Tzimisce, they're willing to commit multiple war crimes as a matter of course all in the name of research or some other nebulous goal. They also take hospitality and holding to one's word very seriously, though, and will refuse to go back on their word or harm anyone they have explicitly given protection to. This seems like a weird combination of traits, but they're good at compartmentalizing like that.
On the subject of compartmentalizing, they're also trying their damndest to make a clear distinction between their pre-vampire and post-vampire self. They'll openly talk about their pre-vampire life to those who they believe won't judge them for it, but in their mind, this is also a chapter of their life that they have a level of detachment from and are now no longer part of, sort of like someone without trauma describing their high school days. This got a bit messier once Aranka was revealed to not actually be dead, but here we are.
Underneath all of this, however, is bits and pieces of their old life that somehow, by the grace of Cain the dark father, still survived the Embrace and their subsequent descent into being a fucking monster. They dote on creatures they take responsibility for, whether that creature is a ghoul or one of their custom-crafted flesh monstrosities...just as they used to be a doting parent in their mortal life. They have the same insecurities about social situations, the same weird sense of humor, the same taste in aesthetics. Sure, the embrace has made them more confident, but that might just be the weight of dysphoria having finally been lifted.
The pain of having to reconcile this with their new reality has lessened considerably than from when they were trying to abide by human morals. They no longer do, and they continue to strive to improve themselves in ways only they understand. This is probably going to be put on hold as they take the life of a Pokemon breeder and get really into the weird eugenics of EVs and IVs as a proxy for the self-improvement they sought after previously.
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Laszlo the Flesh Maestro | Original
Name: Indy
E-mail: dizzydances@gmail.com
Preferred Contact: swirlix on Plurk, snowpoff#4031 on Discord
Timezone: US Central
Current Characters in Victory Road: Cordy (
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Name: Laszlo Tamasi
Series: Original (NPC in a VTM chronicle I run)
Timeline: Shortly before Austin road trip
Canon Resource Links: Because László was created for a canon tabletop setting, I will be linking this here.
I am also copying and pasting this from Val's app.
-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.
The setting for my own game is early 2022, although László is much older, having been born in the 1880s and turned into a vampire in the 1920s.
no subject
Tamási László (if we're using the name order they're used to) was born in the early 1880s in a village in rural Hungary somewhere. I have never actually named this village, but it's a running gag in my game that no one in the party can actually pronounce this shit. Their father was the mayor, which basically just meant that the family could afford a roof that didn't leak and the ability to scrimp and save for their only child to one day afford college in the big city.
That said, László was also nonbinary as fuck, a fact that their abusive father resented deeply. It's hard to overstate how few redeeming qualities their father had, and László as a child quickly developed the essential skills of lying to avoid any sort of confrontation with their father, who they'd come to loathe and resent more with each passing day.
They had few friends as a child, but their best friend was a little girl named Aranka, who they met at the village school at around 6-7 and who they played and hung out with every time they could wrestle a moment away from their shitty ass family. Remember her name, it will be important later.
Over time their father's more physical abuse waned, mostly because their child was taller and stronger than them as an older teen/young adult.
At 17 they went to college in Budapest, and began to study medicine.
At 23 they finished their schooling and began their career as an assistant to another doctor in a hospital, which today would be akin to a med student starting their residency. This wrapped up when they were about 26 or 27.
After this, to make a long story VERY short, they married their childhood friend Aranka, who as fortune would have it was both a cis lesbian and also one of the only people on the planet to know László wasn't actually a guy. Their parents didn't approve for a variety of reasons, and while Aranka's parents eventually got over this, László's never did.
They couldn't be themselves in public, but they could at least keep each other safe. As fate would have it though, these two did eventually fall in love, and moved to Budapest where they had a family and met two other cis women who moved in with them as "renters" and Aranka's "very good friends", if you wanna read between the lines.
Things went on fairly normally for about 20 years, during which time László built up a successful medical practice and the secret polycule raised half a dozen kids together (all of whom were Aranka's, biologically speaking.) Unfortunately, things can never last, and the closer it gets to the 1930s, the worse it is to be a queer person (or really any sort of minority) in Europe.
The stress of watching one's country slowly descend into fascism started getting to László, and in the 1920s they started to do what they never thought they would, which is deliberately murder their own patients if said patients were scumbags. Weirdly, they didn't get caught by the authorities, but someone noticed.
Enter Adler (not his birth name), a vampire from clan Tzimisce who had been staking out for a potential new childe for at least a decade, and who saw some promise in a brilliant trans doctor who clearly wasn't afraid to do a few murders. László left their work that evening, but never returned home, and it was assumed they were murdered.
Over the next 10 years, László followed their abusive sire's demands as the two carried out Sabbat business all over Europe, while secretly trying to funnel money and other aid over to their human family. Their human family used this aid to flee the country, with Aranka and four of the kids making their way to America while two of the kids and the two girlfriends made it to the UK or France.
But the stress of doing this while struggling with their inner monster led to them having a mental breakdown and almost experiencing wassail, and as they struggled to recover from this, their shitty ass sire took the opportunity to remake László in his image.
They adopted a more detached, more transhumanist way of looking at their vampiric condition, accepting that they were no longer human, but also becoming more willing to do increasingly monstrous things that their human self would pale at, like human experimentation or just straight up cronenberging people into war ghouls. The sheer depth and breadth of their war crimes was nothing to be scoffed at.
Sometime in the 1940s, they and the rest of their Sabbat pack traveled to Mexico for some official business as Mexico is the sect's capital, for all intents and purposes. The sheer fuckery of what happened with Europe in the end and immediate aftermath of WWII left their pack stranded. At around this point the tattered remains of their pack also were folded into a larger pack, which is where they eventually ended up in San Antonio, Texas.
San Antonio was controlled by the Sabbat during this time, but that all changed in the 1980s when an Anarch vampire named Sophronia made a push to drive the Sabbat out, establishing herself as Baron of the city. (Vampire authority titles always use the masculine form, even if the holder is a woman.)
The Sabbat found themselves on the losing side of that war, and Laszlo along with their sire and a few other packmates found themselves accused of infernalism (basically demon pacts/worship) for political reasons in the fallout. Having never been that enthusiastic about the Sabbat's political goals, and having endured one too many abuses from their sire, they decided to just fucking kill Adler, release a kaiju science experiment on their accusers, and leave the sect.
This basically made them a wanted vampire, and as the Anarchs took over, Laszlo sought their protection. They received it, but at the cost of basically now being a hostage for the Anarchs.
Fast forward to spring 2022. They had settled in to their new life, when a letter from an old friend arrived. That's right, Aranka's back. It turns out that decades after Laszlo had "died", she moved to the US and was later, as an old lady, embraced by another vampire into clan Brujah before falling in with the Anarchs over in Austin. This is just about when San Antonio found itself in the midst of another turf war with the Sabbat, with them eager to take back what they'd lost (and also possibly kill Laszlo.)
Personality: On the surface, Laszlo seems like a perfectly personable sort of Cainite. They're polite, friendly, willing to crack a few jokes or acknowledge that they're a weird, awkward person at the heart of it all. This belies a truly fucking terrifying nature, in which, like many Tzimisce, they're willing to commit multiple war crimes as a matter of course all in the name of research or some other nebulous goal. They also take hospitality and holding to one's word very seriously, though, and will refuse to go back on their word or harm anyone they have explicitly given protection to. This seems like a weird combination of traits, but they're good at compartmentalizing like that.
On the subject of compartmentalizing, they're also trying their damndest to make a clear distinction between their pre-vampire and post-vampire self. They'll openly talk about their pre-vampire life to those who they believe won't judge them for it, but in their mind, this is also a chapter of their life that they have a level of detachment from and are now no longer part of, sort of like someone without trauma describing their high school days. This got a bit messier once Aranka was revealed to not actually be dead, but here we are.
Underneath all of this, however, is bits and pieces of their old life that somehow, by the grace of Cain the dark father, still survived the Embrace and their subsequent descent into being a fucking monster. They dote on creatures they take responsibility for, whether that creature is a ghoul or one of their custom-crafted flesh monstrosities...just as they used to be a doting parent in their mortal life. They have the same insecurities about social situations, the same weird sense of humor, the same taste in aesthetics. Sure, the embrace has made them more confident, but that might just be the weight of dysphoria having finally been lifted.
The pain of having to reconcile this with their new reality has lessened considerably than from when they were trying to abide by human morals. They no longer do, and they continue to strive to improve themselves in ways only they understand. This is probably going to be put on hold as they take the life of a Pokemon breeder and get really into the weird eugenics of EVs and IVs as a proxy for the self-improvement they sought after previously.
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Starter: Goomy
Password: Atomic Fireball
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