12th gen Tzimisce, they-them, she-her
Disciplines: Vicissitude, Auspex, Animalism
Deep into the twilight hours, the lights are on inside a Georgian regency terrace. A house, just like others on this street, four floors of white painted façade standing steady against harsh sea air.
Inside two figures stand at a table. The younger, tangle of multicoloured hair pulled back from their face, frowns in concentration as they shape their canvas; flesh they do not know the origin of nor even consider questioning. Human though, definitely. Harsh light glistens on wet muscle that twists from their ministrations. All the while the second watches. His posture is one of apparent disinterest, but they know better. This will be perfect. It must be. Raw sinew twisted to new, better, shapes, drawing out art from the mundane.
It ends as it usually does, Damyan says simply “that is enough for tonight”, they feel the usual sense of loss leaving the studio. Then it’s out onto the city streets, winding a way to where the wild things play, to the seafront where the sound of a guitar comes over the crashing waves. A little band of misfits is all here, and they are home.
Embraced too soon and by the wrong sire, Linden has gone from an isolated ghoul existence to running wild with a pack of Anarch fledgelings in a new city, 1980s Brighton (UK).
Between practicing vicissitude with Damyan, running errands for the powers-that-be, there’s just enough to drink in the night life with fellow packmates and the nerdy Tremere wannabe-Baali they’ve taken a liking to, Abaddon. They have… actual friends now(!), ones that aren’t weirded out by their special interests taxidermy, arthropods, isopods and, of course, body mods.
Vicissitude is a love language for them, helping others on their own metamorphic journey <3 Whether its giving their boyfriend claws, trading tattoos with a punk Brujah in return for him disposing of accidental kills, or settling in for a long night of mutual vicissituding with their mentor Damyan.
Their scorpion Duchess was a gift from Damyan for a rather violent and abrupt entrance into kindred existence. Some day she’ll grow big and strong…