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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
== The Player Character ==
=== The Player Character/The Fledgling ===
{{quote|''No one tells '''me''' what to do! Well, actually everyone does, but this is my chance to get even!''}}
* [[Action Girl]]: If female, very much so.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV or Type V.]]
* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type I or Type II.]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: An option if you play a Malkavian or character with low Humanity.
* [[Badass]]: A quality that all
** [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: At the very least.
*** [[Badass Bookworm]]: If willing to put the [[Experience Points]] into it, to the extent that your knowledge can impress Beckett, a [[Badass Bookworm]] with centuries of seniority.
*** [[Cultured Badass]]: The Toreador and Ventrue characters both present this image, and any character can be played this way with the right investment of experience points.
*** [[Badass in
* [[BFS]]: An option via Console Commands. The player character can wield the Buster Sword-esque Sheriff's sword.
* [[Blessed
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Prince LaCroix's orders are impossible to turn down, especially since he has Dominate.
* [[Celibate Hero]]/[[Really Gets Around]]: Inverted. The [[Player Character]] is a vampire and can't have sex like a normal person but can seduce anyone they like with enough points in Seduction (for blood rather than sex, with the seducee left with the impression that something sexy took place). Likewise, they can be 'celibate' and just live off rats or blood bags.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]/[[The Wonka]]: What happens if you play a Malkavian.
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Female Toreador and Ventrue wear these, and don't break a sweat swinging swords and axes in heels.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The player gets a lot of options to snark in conversation. This goes double for the Nosferatu [[Player Character]], whose coping mechanism for dealing with their hideous appearance seems to reside mostly in self-deprecating jokes any time a mortal reacts with disgust upon seeing them.
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[The Dragon]]: The
* [[Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire]]: While the [[Player Character]] is frequently put into very unsavory situations, it's quite possible to come off as a decent, reasonable person with a troublesome condition in a harsh, unreasonable world.
* [[The Grotesque]]: Pretty much guaranteed for Nosferatu protagonists.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
* [[Guile Hero]]
* [[I Was Quite
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: A standard of RPGs everywhere. Also, a [[Justified Trope]] in universe, as vampires are not intrinsically bound by human moral norms aside from [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]], so [[I Did What I Had to Do|whatever you have to do to survive is considered fair play.]]
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: With a Toreador (or better, a Brujah) at full Celerity.
* [[Made of Iron]]: The
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: With the Unofficial patch you're given a choice of backgrounds at character creation which reflect into various changes in your stats. Each clan has about six different backgrounds which are related to the clan's strengths and weaknesses.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: The Malkavian
** A notable exception is {{spoiler|Velvet Velour}}, though she also has a nickname ("doll"):
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* [[Ninja]]: One of the Malkavian options.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Amusingly, even if you play a Malkavian, you can be this. A lot of your dialogue options highlight what a severely fucked up place the Kindred world is, and the Malkavian's special awareness only makes it more obvious (to you, at least; nobody ''else'' has any idea what the hell you're babbling about).
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Almost certainly what the final battle against LaCroix will be by the time you get to it.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: If Brujah and male.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Most of the dialogues have this as an option, but playing it straight is up to the player. Unless you let your Humanity drop too much, in which case you'll have difficulties coming off as anything but this trope.
* [[Spanner in
* [[Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder]]: For LaCroix.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: You have the option to treat your Heather ghoul like shit. She will just keep fawning over you anyway because she's addicted to your blood.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Those creepy e-mails you keep getting who refer to a "pawn"? They're talking about you. The amount of people who manipulate or "move" you in this game is staggering. You can count on one hand the major characters who ''don't'', though by the end you get the option to bite back at quite a few of those manipulators.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You have a few options for it like blackmailing Lily, driving the Thin Blood vampire hunter to his death, or just randomly burning people's minds out with Dementation every chance you get.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: As with most open-ended RPGs, this is definitely an option. As long as you make a reasonable effort to keep up [[The Masquerade]], you can be as depraved as you like. And let's face it, sometimes upholding the Masquerade involves having to [[Leave No Witnesses]].
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: The [[Player Character]] gets to be Sheriff of the City in the Camarilla ending. If they side with the Anarchs, it's very likely they will be second in command to Nine's Rodriguez in his new order.
== The Camarilla ==
{{quote|''The folly of leadership is knowing that no matter what you do, behind your back, there's hundreds certain that their own solution is the sounder one and that your decision was the by-product of a whimsical dart toss. I pronounce the blast sentence, and I soak the critical fallout. I make the decisions no-one else will. Leadership... I wear the albatross'' and '' a bullseye.''}}
The Ventrue Prince of Los Angeles' Camarilla kindred, and therefore the leader of the 'new kids in town'. LaCroix is a classic Ventrue: a domineering, manipulative politician with entitlement issues and a taste for Realpolitik. It soon becomes obvious that he is on ''very'' sandy ground concerning both the Anarch and his own Camarilla "underlings", with nobody really respecting him at all. After condemning the main character's Sire to death in the opening cutscene for breaking the second tradition, he is forced to leave the PC alive when it's obvious he's got a PR nightmare on his hands. {{spoiler|He's also made an alliance with the Kuei-jin in order to eliminate the Anarchs in Los Angeles, and plans to open the Ankaran Sarcophagus to diablerise the Elder sleeping within}}.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: His sassy way of walking and [[Camp Gay|manners]] don't help anyone trying to convince some people otherwise.
* {{spoiler|[[
* [[Butt Monkey]]: ''Nobody'' likes him. If not for the Sheriff he probably would not last a day.
* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: As per his quote, he very much believes in this.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Oh so very much.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Can be surprisingly caustic at times, especially in regards to the Anarchs or a Malkavian
* [[French Jerk]]: Not really French any more, but still a colossal jerk.
* [[Immortal Immaturity]]: LaCroix is, if anything, even worse than Nines and is over twice his age. Possibly explainable due to being Ventrue.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: The Malkavian
** The Ventrue
** Gorgeous Gary, The Nosferatu Primogen, refers to him as "Prince Priss" during his introductory dialogue, and later calls him "Little Lord Flauntlacroix
* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]: In the Anarch, Independent and his own ending
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Was apparently an officer in Napoleon's army, making him at least 200+ years old.
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: This one requires [[All There in the Manual|a bit of knowledge of]] [[Old World of Darkness|the setting]], but basically, he has been sent to retake control of a section of the US the Camarilla hasn't controlled for the last hundred years, without the necessary backing to actually gain any control and lives on the Anarchs' sufferance. By Camarilla elders' standards, someone is playing a very cruel joke on him, and he's already seen the punch-line. No wonder he's so bitter.
** This also explains how he can be a Prince while unusually "young" for the office by Kindred standards. In the World of Darkness setting, you can easily find Princes who are over a thousand years old.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Dude loves to hear himself talk.
* [[Sissy Villain]]: Downplayed, but still present. For a man driven by ambition and greed, he sure hates getting his hands dirty.
* [[Surrounded
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: You'd think, especially given all the epic badassery you do for the guy, he'd wind up respecting you as at least a very useful cats paw, right? Not at all.
* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: The ''entire frigging game'' is a series of these.
* [[Vampires Are Rich]]: Lives in a condo in downtown LA, decorated with quite a lot of gilt. He's certainly not poor.
* [[Villain by Default]]: No matter how useful, how polite and understanding the player is to LaCroix, he never stops trying to get them killed.
* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: Suffers one of these because of the player character's refusal to die. It comes to a head if he opens the sarcophagus - he sees the bombs and simply laughs madly until he's incinerated}}.
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: His raison d'etre for everything he involves you with.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: After being forced to spare your life at the Camarilla meeting, LaCroix sends you on a series of increasingly impossible suicide missions. If you die (or fail, giving him an excuse to have you executed
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The Tremere Primogen and Regent, Strauss is a mysterious, unfailingly polite sorcerer often found in the Tremere chantry Downtown. Unlike many of the other Elders, he actually shows some respect to the Fledgeling. {{spoiler|He becomes the new Prince in the Camarilla ending
* [[Affably Evil]]: Although, most of his villainy is restricted to [[Offscreen Villainy|behind-the-scenes details]]...
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: So, is he black or is he [[Amazing Technicolor Population|blue]]?
** Almost certainly a caucasian European. Over 300 years without a circulatory system (especially if you're low humanity) does wonders for your (lack of) complexion.
*** Oh, true about the circulatory system; however, he does seem to have the visage of a black man, or at least a mixed race. His accent definitely has a German touch, so it is likely he is European and spoke German as his native language.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: As part of his striking "modern wizard" look.
* [[Camp]]: He has extremely theatrical mannerisms to the point where one may suspect animation glitching.
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Though not to the level of Jack.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Averted. A major part of Strauss' appeal is the fact he's the only Camarilla elder who takes you seriously.
* [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]]: Also averted. Strauss asks the same sort of favors that LaCroix does, but ''politely'', and gives suitable compensation.
** If the
** {{spoiler|Even furthermore, he is one of the only two "factions" (the other being the Anarchs/Nines) who you siding with in the endgame ''doesn't'' end up screwing you over. In fact, in his ending his first act as the new Prince is to make you his honorary right hand
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: He ''is'' a member of a House Tremere.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: A very telling one from the Malkavian
* [[Mad Scientist|Mad Sorcerer]]: He created the Gargoyle that the
* [[Man Behind the Man]]: The Malkavian run more or less says that Strauss is the real "King of the City", noting when he makes hints at ambition, "Your iron crown begins to sparkle
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: There's a very good argument Strauss is giving Prince LaCroix just enough rope to hang himself.
** Not to mention giving your
* [[Mentor]]: Slightly, especially to a Tremere.
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* [[Nice Guy]]: For a vampire, he's ridiculously polite, even refraining from blasting LaCroix's leadship of the Camarilla too harshly despite having good reason to do so.
* [[The Older Immortal]]: Older than LaCroix and a Tremere elder. His age is probably counted in centuries, and could be anything up to around 900.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: To the point that {{spoiler|he doesn't doublecross you or otherwise leads you to your downfall in his ending. In fact, his ending leaves you extremely well off as second in command of LA's Camarilla
* [[The Stoic]]: Very calm and collected, and almost impossible to anger on-screen.
==
A huge, mute kindred who follows LaCroix everywhere as his bodyguard. Wields a gargantuan sword and apparently comes from Africa. He was the one who beheaded your Sire.
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: In his bat form, he's vulnerable to bright lights
* [[The Beast Master]]: Can use Animalism, used ingame to summon two wraithwolves and a swarm of bugs.
* [[BFS]]: The Sheriff seems to wield [[Final Fantasy|Cloud's Buster Sword]].
* [[The Dragon]]: To LaCroix.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Literally so, in fact. He's mute. It's hard to tell how smart he is; he mostly seems to serve as a giant, scowling deterrent to attacking LaCroix physically.
* [[Flat Character]]: The only sure thing about him is that he's a mighty warrior who serves LaCroix. The reasons why can only be speculated...
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[Made of Iron]]: Takes a lot of punishment to bring down, in both his forms.
* [[No Name Given]]
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: He becomes a massive chiropteran [[Department of Redundancy Department|bat-creature]].
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: The Sheriff doesn't seem to fit any of the clans in the Camarilla
* [[The Speechless]]: Not even once.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: The
==
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The Nosferatu Primogen and former Hollywood star, now the sarcastic king of Hollywood's underworld. One of the most secretive members of the local Camarilla,
* [[At Least I Admit It]]: His stance towards uppity Toreador
* [[The Barnum]]: Loves playing visitors and customers like puppets, especially in {{spoiler|playing both sides of the fence in the search for the Ankaran Sarcophagus
* [[Break the Haughty]]: What he does to Imalia.
** As he was once a movie star renowned for his looks and charm, he endured this following his embrace; unlike Imalia, however, he's had the the time to adjust and eventually reinvent himself.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: While rather creepy, Gary is still the sort of Primogen who looks after his own, and he never goes back on his word with you.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: If you run a few errands for him, he will provide you with pin-up posters of several of the game's female characters.
* [[Evil Phone]]: Not [[Dark Is Not Evil|exactly evil]], but certainly startling if you forgot about Gary's promise to call you on a payphone.
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* [[Guttural Growler]]: And a rather impressive growl at that.
* [[Hearing Voices]]: Introducing himself while [[Invisibility|Obfuscated]], he pretends that he's actually a voice in your head. And when the Malkavian
* [[Knowledge Broker]]: As Nosferatu Primogen, this is guaranteed, particularly when {{spoiler|1=the LA Nosferatu decide they don't like LaCroix any more}}.
* [[Large Ham]]: In-universe. Gary purposefully overplays his own monstrosity, complete with evil chuckles and theatrics in terms of word choice and voice pitch. Or possibly he really is that way all the time. Given he used to be an actor, he probably has training at it.
* [[Lean and Mean]]: His body is very emaciated, though the "mean" part depends on the PC's interactions with him.
* [[Looks Like Orlok]]: Manages looking handsome anyway, by Nosferatu standards.
* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: When you meet him, Gary is hosting a wrap party for a production that ended over forty years ago, having dug up the actors, dressed them in formal wear and placed them around a table.
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* [[Reliable Traitor]]: Gary is the Camarilla Primogen of the LA Nosferatu. He also sells his info freely to the Camarilla's enemies, has no bones about flaunting this fact in LaCroix's face, and has no respect for LaCroix, his fellow primogen, or any members of the Camarilla whatsoever. Justified insofar that the local Nosferatu were residents of LA while it was a Free State (even the Anarchs knew better than trying to root them out), and Gary has probably gotten used to flying solo; much like Grout, he probably got saddled with the title of Primogen as a matter of seniority when the Camarilla rolled back into town.
* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: Wears a crisp white shirt, black vest and bow-tie.
* [[The Spymaster]]
* [[Stealth Expert]]: Doesn't matter how good your stats are. Gary ''will'' get the drop on you.
* [[Troll]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]: He ends just about every sentence with "Boss
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Played with. He didn't lose his career to age, but to the vampire curse, and he ''still'' looks better than most.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]/[[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: If his backstory is true, Gary is probably no more than
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The Malkavian Primogen, a former psychiatrist obsessed with finding a cure for his wife's Malkavian catatonia. Little is known of him until you're asked to inspect his mansion, whereupon you find that {{spoiler|he's been killed by Ming Xiao
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: His audiotapes.
* [[Bedlam House]]: His home.
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* [[Haunted House]]: Averted, his house is definitely scary and crawling with insane ghouls, but it is ''not'' haunted.
* [[Hearing Voices]]: The audiotapes report that his Malkavian madness appeared in the form of voices echoing from other vampires during conversation, providing him with secret details of their lives; Grout kept his composure until the voices started to speak outside of conversation, warning him about {{spoiler|1=a powerful vampire implied to be Lacroix and "his blackest crimes, both past and future"}}.
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: Grout voices frustration that he never had the chance to question his sire (or "my infector" as he calls her). Apparently an asylum inmate, she attacked and successfully Embraced him, only to be set upon by orderlies and locked in the roaming pen; by the time Grout regained consciousness, the sunrise had killed her. In the same entry, he mentions this, he bitterly notes that she'd probably be just like the "mewling wretches" that make up his current crop of test subjects.
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Illustrated beautifully when one of his test subjects gnaws off one of his own arms and escapes into the floorboards; Grout's sole concern is for the ''atrocious'' mess the subject must be making in there. In fact, the only resident of his house that seems to draw the slightest bit of sympathy from him is his wife.
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Well, he's Malkavian, he's powerful, and this is the World of Darkness. ''Someone's'' gonna be out to get him.
* [[Psycho Psychologist]]: Despite his rather calm demeanor, Grout is ''not'' someone you want treating you.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: As with all Malkavians, he's insane; however, Grout has a very slow-acting version of the Malkavian madness, going from a cold-hearted psychopath to a reclusive paranoid schizophrenic over the course of several decades.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Notes that vampires do it, theorizes as to why, then realizes he's [[Got Me Doing It|doing it too]] over the course of one diary recording.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula". The audiotapes he leaves around are similar to the ones used by Dr. Seward, and he also operates an asylum of sorts. Furthermore, his [[Love Makes You Crazy|basic motivations]]...
* [[The Spock]]: By Malkavian standards, to the point that the Ventrue diplomats that persuaded him to become Primogen hand-tailored their arguments to his "obvious infatuation with reason".
==
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A Nosferatu agent of the Camarilla in Santa Monica. Living out of an abandoned fuel tank, he can show you the way to the Sabbat storehouse, but you must first persuade Therese Voerman to call off the Feud with him. He also has a ghoul running errands for him in town.
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* [[Body Horror]]: It looks like his head is full of huge zits, about to explode. Yuuuk....
* [[The Chessmaster]]: A minor one, but he has a gambit in place to fool you into killing a local Kuei-Jin spy for him. This also serves as an introduction to the convoluted politics of Jyhad, for as Tung himself notes.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: With emphasis on the deadpan.
* [[Graceful Loser]]: If you manage to figure out that he's manipulating you, he reacts with grudging admiration, unless you're a Tremere, in which case, he'll respond with utter disgust. And if you play as a fellow Nosferatu, [[So Proud of You|he just about gives you a round of applause
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: The Malkavian calls him "Nasty Dude", which s/he probably picked up from Knox (or "Your Nastiness" or "[[Shout-Out|Your]] [[The Big Lebowski
* [[Knowledge Broker]]
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|Ugly Guy Hot Gal:]] Apparently he had an affair with Jeanette.
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A Nosferatu agent in Chinatown, he ended up getting kidnapped by the Fu Syndicate and experimented on. In order to recieve information on the whereabouts of the Ankaran Sarcophagus from Gary, you're going to have to rescue him.
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* [[Gray Eyes]]: Immediately recognizable by his silver eyes... assuming you hadn't noticed [[Looks Like Orlok|the rest of him...]]
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: For a brief period.
* [[Guttural Growler]]: Like most Nosferatu.
* [[Nice Guy]]
==
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A former master hacker, Mitnick's life actually seems to have improved as a result of his transformation into a Nosferatu, unlike Gary and Imalia. However, he still needs your help with setting up a few Schrecknet hubs around the city...
* [[The Cracker]]: As of his induction to the Nosferatu clan, he's a friendlier example than most, but still...
* [[Cursed
* [[He Knows Too Much|He Knew Too Much]]: Mitnick was Embraced after managing (after burning out three laptops) to break the encryptions on a very minor Nosferatu database.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
* [[Playful Hacker]]: What else can you call a man who once emailed all of America's nuclear missile activation codes... to the President?
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Subverted
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]: If you accept his quest offer, you're given the job of expanding said [[Sinister Surveillance]] for him.
* [[Troll]]: Implied by his dialogue when you first meet him. He still manages to be rather nice face-to-face, on the other hand.
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One of Gary's most recent Childer, Imalia used to be a world-famous model; punished for her vanity by a Nosferatu Embrace, she still hasn't gotten over her lost beauty or the fact that her place in the spotlight has been usurped. In fact, she's willing to offer quite a bit of money in exchange for any dirt on her replacement...
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Quite the prima donna in life, and still has the temper in death.
* [[Bald Woman]]: Her hair fell out as part of her curse.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: As an obvious Cleopatra (a Nosferatu embraced into the clan for being beautiful and too prideful about it), this is a given.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: What she has ended up as, due to her removal from the modelling scene and new model Tawni Sessions taking her place.
* [[Guttural Growler]]: Sounds as though she has a ''really'' nasty case of laryngitis.
* [[Punished
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Like Gary, more as a result of being undead than anything else.
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Leader of the Anarchs in Los Angeles, Nines is a Brujah freedom fighter and product of the Depression: He loathes the Camarilla and the Kuei-Jin with a passion and believes in the continued existence of the Free State LA, but is forced to tolerate the other factions because he hasn't got the manpower for an all-out war against both sides. Having lost his own Sire at a young age, he opposed your execution in the first place and also helps you out a couple of times during the story; Jack implies he has a soft spot for outcasts like the fledgling. {{spoiler|1=With your unwitting help, LaCroix and Ming Xiao manage to frame him for the murder of Grout and later the Fledgeling him/herself for Nines' (fake) death. In the Anarch ending he takes control of the city
* [[Badass]]: Nines gets to prove it twice.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Say something bad about the Anarchs, he won't speak to you for quite a long time. Also, do not mention the Camarilla while he's around, that tends to irritate him.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Who brings a ''grenade'' to a street fight? Nines does, that's who.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: He's from the 1920's and thus one of the older (but not oldest) Kindred you'll meet.
* [[Crapsack World]]: What Nines claims it is. Given it's the Old World of Darkness, he's right.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Brujah. Don't badmouth the Anarch cause in front of him.
* [[Immortal Immaturity]]: Sort of:
* [[Nice Guy]]: Unless you manage to piss him off, he usually acts in a calm, nice and helpful manner. This stands in direct contrast to the other Brujah in the game, most of them who are notably more hot-headed.
* [[Not So Different]]: From LaCroix, in the end. Just don't [[Berserk Button|imply it while he's nearby]].
* [[Rebellious Spirit]]: Seemingly a much more sane version than Damsel and Skelter have.
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A bad tempered, hot-blooded Brujah girl and one of Nines' henchmen. Is quite rude, but turns out to have a nicer persona after all, under the right circumstances.
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* [[Fan Service]]: Some of her tasteful nudes in college come back to haunt her in-game.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Very much so.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Skelter describes her as this, comparing her to an anti-Vietnam flower child. In person? Not so much.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Her relationship with the [[Player Character]].
* [[Team Mom]]: Sort of, she's the "Den Mother" of the local Anarchs.
* [[Tsundere]]: At least if the player character is a Male Anarch.
{{quote|'''Malkavian''': You are a candy heart with a "Fuck You" printed on it.}}
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A black Brujah and another of Nines' men. Conversation with him reveals him to be a Vietnam veteran.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: As a war vet with lots of experience fighting a secret war against frightening foes.
* [[The Dragon]]: To Nines.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: At first, he's quite obstructive, but he mellows out later.
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Claims explicitly to have served in Vietnam, and blames some of the stuff he saw there on the Kuei-Jin.
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Once he calms down, he's capable of speaking quite eloquently about the Blood Bond and the Masquerade. He's not a hard example of [[Warrior Poet]], but he's definitely closer to it than Damsel.
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A jovial Brujah Elder who teaches you the basics of Vampire lore and the mechanics of the World of Darkness. {{spoiler|He's actually the man behind the Ankharan Sarcophagus' arrival and its eventual fate
* [[Badass Beard]]: A holdover from his pirate days.
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Well, more like a scraggy biker uncle mentor, but still.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Always laughing, always joking, and always having the time of his life, even as he's crushing the skulls of incompetent Sabbat. He even lampshades this fact in-game.
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: He was a pirate, you know.
** No, he's not ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|that]]'' pirate named Jack. They're based on [[wikipedia:Calico Jack|the same guy]]
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Extremely clever and well-informed under his wild exterior.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Claims to think about mortals the way humans think about cows. You don't go out of your way to kill 'em, but who cares if one dies? Kinda justified in that he is about 400 years old and knows to prioritize Kindred over humans when it comes to survival, or taking into account that pirates 400 years ago didn't think much about killing. He ''is'' trying to adjust to modern times, packing heat and bathing. You know, occasionally. Given 400 more years, he might give the morality thing more consideration. Or he might not, who can say?
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Jack seems to have a specific problem with shotguns, and getting shot in the head with them, borne of experience. He'll never say what the experience was.
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* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: Not to the level of Beckett, but he ''is'' a famous background character in the ''World of Darkness''.
=== The Voerman Twins ===
The Voerman Twins make up Therese Voerman, Anarch Baroness of Santa Monica, and her sister/nemesis Jeanette, a Malkavian and owner of the Asylum nightclub. The two almost never operate alone, and fill the same character sheet. {{spoiler|Mainly because 'they' is actually a 'she'
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Subverted! {{spoiler|If you choose to end the feud between the sisters, one of the most convincing arguments you can make is that Therese and Jeanette would be twice as powerful if they joined forces
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Jeanette will flirt even with the hideous Nosferatu characters...
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'''Jeanette:''' On the inside, we're all dead meat, kitten.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Jeanette can sleep with the player character whether they're male or female.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Jeanette's coquettish intro speech is a true act of seductive overacting. [[Grey
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Of course, Jeanette.
* [[
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Therese, {{spoiler|especially if you manage to save them both}}.
* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Therese is cold, reserved and professional, while Jeanette is teasy and more emotive.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: In sharp contrast to her sister, Therese does not like the Nosferatu... but at least she has the common decency to apologise.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Jeanette.
* [[Kuudere]]: If you manage to save {{spoiler|both of her personalities}}, she becomes quite fond of you. It doesn't mean she won't hunt you down if you reveal her secret.
* [[Neutral No Longer]]: Therese curries favour with the Camarilla and is quite overt about having ambitions to leave the anarch fold. {{spoiler|If she remains alive or they merge, she eventually does. If only Jeanette is alive, she stays anarch}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Parental Incest]]: Therese and her father. In fact, it's implied that Therese developed Jeanette as a secondary personality to help her cope with the abuse... up until Therese walked in on her father and Jeanette}}...
** [[Word of God]] confirms this. Also goes to [[Shown Their Work|show their work]]: one of the game designers specifically mentioned in an interview about having researched how {{spoiler|Dissociative Identity Disorder}} develops in real life and applying it here.
* [[Perky Goth]]: Jeanette.
* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]: After witnessing her father sleeping with Jeanette, Therese "blew his mind out all over the silly clown wallpaper" with her father's shotgun
* {{spoiler|[[Split Personality]]: Therese implies she was the "original" personality who created Jeanette to deal with her father's abuse and her sheltered lifestyle. Becoming Embraced by a Malkavian may explain why it's played so extremely
** {{spoiler|[[Split Personality Takeover]]: You can ultimately convice one of the two personalities to kill the other
** {{spoiler|[[Split Personality Merge]]: ...or you can convince the two to join forces
* [[Vampires Own Nightclubs]]: The Asylum.
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The Toreador Baron of Hollywood, and the financier of just about every single major American film made in the last few decades. He helps you in your quest to find the Nosferatu.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: A [[Fanon]] theory about his relationship with his childe. Then again, being a vampire that doesn't really make much difference.
* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]: Aside from his name, he both owns a jewelry store and is in involved in the film industry (see below).
** Oh, and his possible henchman is a Golem-like gargoyle...
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Isaac claims to be behind most of the top grossing pictures in Hollywood.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: And, unlike many examples in this game, he ''looks'' rather elderly.
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Isaac is less remembered than most Kindred of the game because, very surprisingly, he doesn't have any crippling personality flaws.
* [[The Gump]]: As a vampire with considerable ties to the inner workings of Hollywood, this is pretty much expected of him. He also has a very long list of famous directors and actors he's befriended and financed over the years, and still laughs at the fact that "some studio suit lost in time" once told him that the only thing that [[Humphrey Bogart]] could be used for was [[It Will Never Catch On|moving furniture]].
* [[I Love You, Vampire Son]]: Seems to be (or have been) in love with his childe. Sadly, Ash [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|doesn't share the feeling]].
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: He has no love for the Camarilla, but he also has no problem helping you repeatedly during your quest, and supports a peaceful solution with the gargoyle problem.
* [[Ridiculously Average Guy]]: Of all the vampires in the game, he's so generic looking for a vampire you could mistake him for an ordinary middle aged human in certain lighting.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Sort of. He's not all that wicked, so more just cultured. However, it makes a rather stunning contrast to the typical Anarch.
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A former Hollywood star and Isaac's Childe, having been embraced to save him from dying of a drug overdose. By the time you meet him, he's deeply tired of his vampiric unlife, and surrounded by vampire hunters, so it's up to you to save his life. {{spoiler|No matter what you do, he gets captured by the Society of Leopold later
* [[Break the Cutie]]: When you meet him {{spoiler|in the dungeons of the Society of Leopold's base, he's been tortured with fire several times
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: He despises Isaac for Embracing him.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: "Dead Phoenix
* [[Shout-Out]]: To River Phoenix.
* [[Vampires Own Nightclubs]]: The [[Stealth Pun|Asp Hole]], a gift of his sire.
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Toreador Vampiress and owner of the Vesuvius club in Hollywood (which makes it guaranteed she's involved with Isaac somehow). Is not very interested in playing Jyhad, but provides a number of quests about maintaining the Masquerade.
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Possible and implied.
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Even more than Isaac, given how softhearted she is toward mortal and vampire alike. Probably the nicest vampire you meet in the game, unless you manage to piss her off.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Her character model moves around a lot and has a great deal of... bounce.
* [[Hooker
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Shares the role with Jeanette, particularly in the opening titles of the game. She also has the largest breasts in the game.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Her love emails are quite hammy.
* [[Stripperific]]: Well, she actually ''is'' a stripper, so...
* [[That Man Is Dead|That Woman Is Dead]]: Her response to the Malkavian inspecting her past self.
* [[Vampires Own Nightclubs]]: A stripper club, but close enough.
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A Tzimisce vampire and one of the highest-ranking members of the Sabbat. He lurks in a dilapidated mansion in the Hollywood Hills, where he crafts monsters out of junkies, runaways, illegal immigrants, thin-bloods, anyone who won't be missed, before unleashing them on the Nosferatu in order to "blind" the Camarilla.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Impeccably mannered and conversational towards the
* [[Berserk Button]]: As with most Tzimisce, Andrei loathes Tremere [[Player Characters]].
* [[Big Bad]]: Considering that he's the boss of the Sabbat in Los Angeles, he may qualify. {{spoiler|1=Along with LaCroix and Ming Xiao}}.
* [[Body Horror]]: His soldiers are hideously mutated humans, his wallpaper is made of living flesh, and quite a few of the chairs and beds seem to have faces. It all comes with being part of the Tzimisce clan. He's certainly no [[James Dean]] himself.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He's Sabbat. Denying their humanity and revelling in how 'evil'/inhuman they are practically goes with the territory.
* [[Dark Lord]]: Pretty much how Andrei views himself.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: When he's not doing things that involve murder, intrigue, or [[Body Horror]], he favorite activity seems to involve [[Crowning Moment of Funny|trolling late night radio shows.]]
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: [[Steve Blum]] doing what Steve Blum does best.
* [[Expy]]: Andrei is effectively Sascha Vykos from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]''. The only reason Andrei's ''not'' Vykos is probably because {{spoiler|the [[Player Character]] kills him near the end of the game}}.
** He's also not nearly pretty enough.
* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: When you confront him on 609 King's Way, the entire fight consists of you running around the room trying to hit him as he teleports and summons his monsters to kill you.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: A Tzimisce fleshcrafter. It goes with the territory.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: He uses his War Form for the second battle.
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Suffers an impressive one when you meet him for the second time.
== Kuei-jin ==
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Leader of the Kuei-jin vampires in Chinatown. {{spoiler|1=She's plotting with LaCroix against the Anarchs, but clearly has her own agenda}}...
* [[Affably Evil]]: Unlike a lot of examples, her impeccable manners are little more than a launch-pad for a lot of racial slurs.
* [[The Baroness]]: She enjoys tormenting people and lording her superiority, real or imagined, over them.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: With LaCroix
* {{spoiler|[[Blob Monster]]: Shapeshifts into one. Though it looks more like a giant slug with tentacles
* [[Chinese Girl]]: And proud of it.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: To a lesser extent than LaCroix, but only just.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: In her battle form.
* [[Cultural Posturing]]: And how. It's to the point where she flat-out ''lies'' about certain things Kindred and Kuei-jin actually have in common (like being burdened with an ancient guilt), just to screw with the
* [[Dark Action Girl]]
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]
* [[Dragon Lady]]: While she speaks perfect, unaccented English, she otherwise fits the bill quite accurately. With some [[Cultural Posturing]] thrown in for good measure. Unusually for this character type, she's the head of her ''own'' organization in LA, rather than serving someone else.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Her transformation into an inhuman monster.
* [[Fan Service]]: A nice poster of her bathing, though Gary admits to [[Bland-Name Product|Photochopping]] a surveillance picture of her head onto the body.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Ming Xiao considers Cainites to be horrible disgusting monsters. Which, admittedly they are, but the [[Kindred of the East]] aren't any better.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Sadly, one you cannot flirt with.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: "Mistress of Mirrors" by the Malkavian. She reacts... poorly.
* [[Mysterious Woman]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: A minor one, but converse with her as a Malkavian and her true self starts shining through when you nickname her and when you namedrop the Yama Kings in response to her posture about "silly Cainite superstitions".
* {{spoiler|[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Actually, more like you were too dangerous to let live}}.
** {{spoiler|Overlaps with [[Idiot Ball]]. A lot of player characters sided with her just because she was hot}}.
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Blade and Claw, twin Kuei-jin dispatched by Ming-Xiao to retrieve the Sarcophagus. You must fight them in the Giovanni crypt.
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* [[Battle Couple]]
* [[Co-Dragons]]: To Ming Xiao, probably.
* [[Dual Boss]]: They attack you two-on-one, and separating them is part of the challenge.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Blade Brother.
* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Claw Brother.
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A legendary Gangrel scholar [[Shrouded in Myth]], visiting Los Angeles to inspect the Ankaran Sarcophagus.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Complete with refined accent and outfit.
* [[Animorphism]]: He first shows up in his wolf form. [[Rule of Cool|Running on a train]].
* [[Badass]]
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Averted. See below.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Quite apart from his numerous exploits in Kindred legend, he's also notably one of two characters in the ''entire game'' who aren't trying to screw you over somehow. This is not an exaggeration, it's stated outright '''in the game'''.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He can snark with the best of them. It doesn't help that even when he's being serious, he still sounds like he's being sarcastic.
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* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: [[Hope Spot|He refuses to believe in Cain and the Antedeluvians]].
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Many Gangrel are [[Dumb Muscle]]. Beckett is ''not''.
* [[Gentleman and
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: His role in the game.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Averted
* [[Sarcasm Failure]]: Both types. If a Malkavian main character shares his 'theories' on Kindred origins with him, his only response is a slightly off-key "Can't say I've heard ''that'' one before...". His last conversation with you, after Beckett has had a chance to study the Sarcophagus, is a serious version.
* [[Totally Not a Werewolf]]: He's not, but you can ask if he is one (provided you're not a Gangrel).
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: He looks like a werewolf in his normal human form, and no humans appear to notice this.
** Doubly so in the fact he can turn from a wolf into a human in front of a nearby bum [[Crowning Moment of Funny|who just ignores him]].
* [[Wolverine Publicity]]
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A Nagrajara occultist found lurking in the basement of an abandoned hospital, she will trade you a number of useful items in return for rare magical artefacts. Unfortunately, if you want to gain her trust, you've got to help recapture her next victim...
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: While a very scholarly woman, she's a tough and dangerous foe in a fight, especially early on.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: All right, she just butchered a TV crew and resides in an underground room full of spare human parts in an [[Abandoned Hospital]], but come on! She's so pretty under all the gore.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: A charming deep voice, indeed.
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* [[Meaningful Rename]]: After her lover.
* [[Necromancer]]
* [[The Spock]]: Calm, cool, and fiercely intelligent. So calmly analytical, she becomes one of the few characters in the entire game who isn't startled or confused by the Malkavian
* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: She strongly advises you to leave the city after you complete her quest, as she claims to have [[Vagueness Is Coming|felt a sense of looming discord in the air]]. Of course, she's not far from truth...
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{{quote|''The doors have been opened! The seals broken! And the final steps into the abyss... the terrible mysteries of the Ninth Circle...''|Brother Kanker}}
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Brother Kanker lives in one of these, and has decorated it with the crucified body of a dead policeman for good measure.
* [[Boss Arena Idiocy]]: A clever player armed with firearms can soon figure out a way to dispatch Brother Kanker without losing health and taking advantage of the nearby exit.
* [[Brotherhood of Evil]]: Despite having female members, they act like characters out of a pulp novel.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Jezebel
* [[Disposable Sex Worker]]: Jezebel certainly thinks of her victims in this way; however, the plight of the dying prostitute you encounter is undoubtedly a tragedy, and ultimately no fault of her own.
* [[Disposable Vagrant]]: Kanker targets the homeless, branding them as "weak, sick, hopeless" and declaring them perfect vessels for his "truth
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Kanker's eyes are referred to as "piss-yellow
* [[Face of a Thug]]: Vick. Seriously, it looks like it got caught in a bear trap!
* [[Flunky Boss]]: Bishop Vick is followed by a large number of people who have been infected by the disease, and now seem very like zombies.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Bishop Vick is unique in the sense that at least he gives a reason as to why he spreads his diseases; he seems to have genuinely lost his faith in humanity and God due to his Embrace.
* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: Bishop Vick also has the Celerity discipline, letting him whisk across the room before you can land a hit on him and frustrating the hell out of melee-focused players.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Jezebel.
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* [[Religion of Evil]]: Obviously.
* [[The Vamp]]: Jezebel. Rather appropriate, that.
* [["Wake
* [[What Happened to
* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Brother Kanker, dealing Aggravated damage.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: A small-scale one in the ruined crackhouse. And they ''keep coming''. The only way to get rid of them is to kill Vick.
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A Gangrel neonate who's been murdering ex-convicts up and down Los Angeles.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: You can actually see him standing around in the Surfside Diner early in the game; while you can speak with him and (if you have auspex) see that he's a vampire, there's no guessing who he ''really'' is.
** [[But Thou Must!]]: You can probably guess he's important, though, by the fact that he's literally unkillable in that cameo appearance.
* [[Extreme Melee Revenge]]: Just about ''all'' of his victims died by these means; the fourth one was lacerated with his claws, had his head torn off, and his body impaled on exposed rebar.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Despite being referred to as a neonate, he can use his Gangrel War Form. That's a level 5 skill normally available only later in the game (unless you cheat) and after paying a lot of experience points.
** Actually, just before heading to the pier for the 1st time, a couple of police would discuss the worst thing they ever saw. One described a very vicious killing ''years'' ago. It's likely this neonate has been gaining experience all this time. What's really surprising is you can [[Curb Stomp Battle]] him anyway.
* [[Guttural Growler]]: Not the worst case in the game, but definitely there.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: It's possible to knock him into a fire, if you have a sledgehammer... or [[Super Strength|Potence]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: So, you've decided to spare him without first convincing him to let go of his [[Unstoppable Rage]]? Congratulations! You've just released a psychotic, self-righteous Beast-consumed vampire on Los Angeles. Bet the locals'll be in for some fun.
* [[No Name Given]]: Simply "The Killer".
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: His killing spree was conducted against the criminals who murdered his family.
* [[Serial Killer]]
* [[Talking the Monster
* [[Vigilante Man]]: Thought of becoming one of these following the end of his rampage.
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A group of young, high-generation vampires living under the Santa Monica Pier, all of them are outcast from mainstream vampire society and on the run from the Sabbat; as such, [[Sidequest|most of them are in need of your help]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Lily might be weak by vampiric standards and more than a little bit shy, but that just makes her Beast-induced violence all the more startling.
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: As the game continues, Rosa's predictions start making a disturbing amount of sense.
* [[
* [[Happily Ever After]]: With your help, Lily and E can successfully reconcile and escape from Santa Monica alive.
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: E initially hates Lily for Embracing him, but they reconcile following Lily's rescue.
** Lily isn't too fond of her sire, Rolf, partly for Embracing her but mostly for abandoning her in Santa Monica.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: If you're feeling in the mood for easy money, you can trick Copper into paying for a "unicorn blood transfusion" to cure his vampirism, or a "Holy Stake" to use on the "Head Vampire
* [[Mad Oracle]]: Rosa, who isn't sure of what she's talking about at the best of times, let alone her babbled prophecies.
** And the dialogue between her and a Malkavian character is amusing.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Julius}} is actually revealing Kindred's secrets to a screenwriter. {{spoiler|When you deal with him, you can decide whether to kill or spare him}}.
** Though it isn't as much of being a mole as being [[Too Dumb to Live|too oblivious]] to realize that the Masquerade is being broken. Nobody ever bothered to tell him.
* [[One-Letter Name]]: E.
* [[Speech Impediment]]: Julius has a ''terrible'' stutter.
* [[Surfer Dude]]: E, who actually came to Santa Monica for a surf tourney and ended up staying there after his Embrace.
* [[Vampire Refugee]]: Copper, who desperately wants to find a cure for his vampirism
* [[Waif Prophet]]: Rosa.
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The American branch of the infamous family of necromancers, the Giovanni are comprised of humans, ghouls, and the rare few chosen to be Embraced and made into full-fledged vampires. Decadent, opulent and messed up beyond measure, the necromancers are a force to be reconned with
* [[Affably Evil]]: From the snippets of conversation you catch, "Uncle" Bruno Giovanni seems fairly cordial, planning to Embrace and Ghoul a few of his family members to celebrate their recent success.
* [[Badass in
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: One you can mess with rather hilariously. With a high persuasion score, you can get each human member of the family to reveal their secrets. You can then betray them to each other and watch the chaos ensue.
* [[Dark Secret]]: Three of the most promising members of the family have secrets that would jeopardise their chances of being Embraced; Mira is HIV-positive, Adam's business has just gone bankrupt, and Christopher's mother had an affair. All three are prepared to pay handsomely for unveiling the secrets of the other two.
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* [[Necromancer]]: Most of the high-ranking Giovanni are Necromancers by trade. Nadia Miliner is an apprentice necromancer, and if you're taking the persuasion route, she can be talked into taking you downstairs to tour the preparations room.
* [[New Era Speech]]: Bruno gives one of these monologues at the party, though you can't hear all of it.
* [[Time Dissonance]]: During his speech, Bruno refers to the many years since he last saw his extended family as a brief period of time. That "brief period of time" included ''[[The Great Depression]]
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: It's possible to steal one of these (''The Voce Del Morte'') from the mansion's library and give it to Pisha.
* [[Torture Cellar]]: The preparations room. It also leads to a massive system of catacombs filled with zombies.
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A young woman found dying in an understaffed clinic. The only way to save her life is to feed her your blood- guaranteeing your own ghoul servant. {{spoiler|If she stays with you to the very end, she's kidnapped and brutally murdered by the Sabbat. There are patches that avoid this, but they vary by version and methods
* [[All Just a Dream]]: A Malkavian can send her off by Dementating her into thinking the time with you was all a dream. Doing so nets you ''both'' a masquerade redemption and a point of humanity.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: What she eventually becomes under your influence. This is especially apparent if you play as a Malkavian.
* [[Gainaxing]]: In her third, [[Stripperific]] outfit, she's clearly not wearing a bra.
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Pretty much her entire existence revolves around this once she becomes your ghoul.
* [[Ill Girl]]: How you meet her.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Arguably, your treatment of her can be this for you.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Heather isn't so much bisexual, probably, as she is [[Player Character|you]]-sexual.
* [[Stalker
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: You can care for her, help her, and reassure her.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can take her money, feed from her, and verbally abuse her.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Especially for high Humanity vampires, you're keeping a blood addicted sex slave in your house.
** [[Video Game Caring Potential|Yeah, but you're also giving her a safe home and you can be extremely nice and gentle to her.]] Considering that when you first met her, she was suffering alone in a hospital with broken bones, damaged organs and internal bleeding, asking for her grandmother and literally moments away from death before you saved her by giving her some of your blood, this is quite an upgrade. Even if you're a Nosferatu, living in the sewers (temporarily, hopefully) and being a grotesque monster's devoted servant doesn't seem that bad when the alternative is being ''dead''. Even as a Malk's Ghoul, Heather might seem touched in the head from now on, but really, after what landed her in the hospital in the first place, acting a little brain-damaged is a small price to pay for being able to walk away.
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LaCroix's ghoul in Santa Monica, he prides himself on being able to find just about anything for anyone, from boats to military-grade firearms. Unlike his master, he's a nice guy.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: ''Explicitly ''stated to be one of the two people you can put your trust in. However, if you decided to retrieve the astrolite from the drug dealers without killing them, you'll later find out that they suffered the full penalty for crossing him: [[Laser-Guided Karma|overdosing is a painful way to go]]. Especially if your kneecaps are on the floor next to you.
** Also, if you treat Mercurio badly during the first meeting and threaten to tell the prince about his mistake, you'll return to find him fully healed and ''very'' pissed off.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: When asking him about Jeanette, he will comment on how "she's got a body built for bedrooms" to a male character. When a female character asks him, however, he hesitates before saying "Call me old-fashioned, but I don't feel right talking about this in front of a lady."
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Uses a lot of these when injured.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: He may not look like it, but he's nearly sixty. He's also one of the only few people you can put your complete trust in.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: The Malkavian
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: For all that he has to be a fully bound ghoul, he's remarkably clear-headed about his situation. Contrast with Knox and Heather.
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* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: He's recovering from one when you first meet him.
* [[The Scrounger]]: You could say he has a talent for it. Need a weapon? Mercurio can get it for you, given some time.
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Isaac's ghoul in Hollywood, he guards the local graveyard, preventing any of the residents from leaving. You can learn a few tips about using firearms if you help him (by finding him a prostitute or by fighting the zombies back for 5 minutes).
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He keeps up his good humor despite his morbid situation.
* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Takes pride in his ability to shoot down anyone, and is a hospitable host for the player.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: He loves killing zombies, even though he admits that he wishes he could do something else with his nights sometimes.
* [[Hold the Line]]: Well, the gates of his cemetery. Defending them for him of the cemetery is probably the hardest mission of the whole game bar none. Characters without Celerity, a powerful gun or Protean need not apply.
* [[
* [[Shout-Out]]: His name's Romero, and he works with zombies...
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: If you fail the mission and the zombie hordes manage to break out, he gets pissed:
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Bertram Tung's ghoul, Knox enjoys his status as a blood-bound slave a little too much for his own good, and seems to mainly function as a smokescreen for his master's more obvious plans.
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* [[Keet]]: Knox is bouncing off the walls in just about every single scene you can meet him in.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Maybe ten minutes after you receive a lecture about hiding your vampirism from humanity, talking to Knox sees him realising what you are and refusing to shut the hell up until you remind him it's supposed to be a secret.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: It turns out he actually used to be a ''bounty hunter''
* [[The Renfield]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: To Knock of ''Nosferatu''.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Oh ''man''!"
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Therese Voerman's ghoul, Vandal runs the bloodbank in the basement of the local clinic, using his position to secure choice bloodpacks for his demanding mistress. Unfortunately, as altruism appears to be running low these days, "donations" of blood come from the clubbers, vagrants
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Apart from the techniques he uses to supply his mistress with blood, he also lets slip that he was planning to kill his coworker Phil before Lily tore his throat out.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: A very unnerving set
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A dark example, needless to say.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mocks everything he can think of, including his own miserable situation if you Dement him.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: A borderline-serial killer.
* [[I Love the Dead]]: Subverted, of all the people, [[Nightmare Fetishist|Vandal]] considers sex with a clinically dead vampire to be outright [[Even Evil Has Standards|disgusting]]. He also goes on to state that this was how Therese roped him into her service in the first place:
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* [[Kick the Son of
** If you're a Malkavian, you can also [[Mind Rape]] him to the point where he breaks down in insane laughter. And boy, does he deserve it.
* [[Knife Nut]]:
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* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: In the event that you manage to help one of his captives escape, one of the options for getting him to sell you blood again is to tell him a story of ultraviolence from your [[Multiple Choice Past]]
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Therese keeps him on a ''very'' tight leash.
* [[The Renfield]]: Unlike most, however, he's bitter, cynical, and very much aware that he's a slave. Also, though he's too cowed to dare attack a vampire, he's very dangerous to humans.
* [[Sarcastic Devotee]]: He hates Therese, but cannot disobey her.
* [[The Social Darwinist]]: He has great respect for vampires who embrace the Beast and "feed upon the weak
* [[Soft-Spoken Sadist]]: Played with. His voice is very high and soft, and he rarely yells, but most of his dialogue ''seethes'' with barely-constrained rage.
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The beautiful owner and bartender of the Confession Nightclub. Having started her club with the aid of a local [[The Mafiya|Russian Mafia]] boss, she's gotten sick and tired of paying her benefactor with sexual favours, and needs an assassin: you.
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Whenever she says "WHAT?!"
** "GET OUT OF YOUR SEATS AND ONTO THAT FLOOR, YOU WANKERS!"
* [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]]: Only the first time. After her second quest you can become co-owner of her club (and gain a costant flow of money).
* [[Gainaxing]]: Her model bounces a lot.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: The Malkavian
* [[Kick the Dog]]: You can also accept Boris' proposal and kill her instead, but you'll lose Humanity.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Flirts with her customers to sell drinks.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Normally educated and soft spoken, she drops one regarding Boris.
* [[Stripperific]]: As part of her persona, she wears a tight t-shirt with a [[Cleavage Window]] and tight cutoff jeans.
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A Japanese demon hunter who runs a noodle shop in Chinatown, currently hunting for the demon who murdered her Sensei.
* [[Action Girl]]: Indeed.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of anime clichès.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: If you're in a good relationship with her, she will appear in the Golden Temple and help you dealing with the Kuei-jin.
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: Albeit used incorrectly in some sentences.
* [[It's Personal]]: She's after the Hengeyokai Zygaena, who devoured her master.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Wields one in combat.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: White top, cute face, black miniskirt and possible panty shot? Hell yeah!
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An elite vampire hunter and Inquisitor of the Society of Leopold. He's after LaCroix, who killed his grandfather and father.
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* [[BFG]]: Takes you on with a powerful sniper rifle.
* [[Church Militant]]: Member of one.
* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Has True Faith, belief strong enough to weaken unholy creatures like
* [[Determinator]]: Has apparently hunted LaCroix for decades, across a continent no less.
* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: During the boss battle he will snipe you from far away with his gun, and if you get too close he will blind you with his [[Holy Hand Grenade|crucifix]] and will run to another location.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He has a single vertical scar across his right cheek.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: In a manner of speaking... ''you'' are the blood-drinker here, after all. Mind you, you're only going after him because he kidnapped someone.
* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: He speaks with a very audible German accent.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Wields one like all the expert Vampire Hunters.
* [[Kill It
* [[Knight Templar]]: Kidnaps and involves an innocent bystander to lure you in.
* [[Light'Em Up]]: Can use his faith to create a burst of pure light to blind you.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: After his apparent demise he stands up one more time and pull a [[Taking You with Me]]/[[Load-Bearing Boss]] on you.
* [[Vampire Hunter]]: Well, duh.
* [[Warrior Monk]]
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Apparently, LaCroix murdered both his father and his grandfather.
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A fat security guard initially assigned to guard a Santa Monica art gallery
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: Blocks the
** By persuading him, it becomes obvious Chunk [[Delusions of Eloquence|has no idea what he's talking about and is just pulling out random regulations to sound smart]].
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: He is a very silly man, in a lot of ways, and likes a lot of very strange things.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Aside from being one of the nicest characters in the game, he is also one of the few ones completely under the illusion of the masquerade.
* [[Fat Idiot]]: Bless him, Chunk is just not very bright.
* [[Good Is Impotent]]: Chunk is a sweet guy, but he's brainless, powerless and helpless in the World of Darkness.
* [[Nice Guy]]: He's just so adorably earnest.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: The man uses his security system to spy on people ''eating doughnuts''.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: During your first meeting, you can use the Malkavian's Dementation skill to make him feel like a worthless shit. Literally.
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A dealer of prosthetics and medical supplies living out of a basement studio in Santa Monic. He's actually a serial killer.
* [[Affably Evil]]: He is a genuinely bright and cheery man, right up until he's lured you into his kill room.
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Luring you into his lair wasn't his brightest move.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Along with his love of prosthetics and amputation, Gimble actually finds the Malkavian speech patterns quite charming.
* [[Serial Killer]]: Likes to cut off limbs.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Under that cheerful, smiling exterior is a merciless killer with a fetish for amputation.
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The apparent CEO of the Fu Syndicate, he's been manipulating the Chinatown Tong for his own dark purposes...
* [[Bad Boss]]/[[We Have Reserves]]: Quite happy to let the Fledgeling kill his underlings if they displease him, and even happier to use his security guards and mercenary soldiers as experimental guinea pigs.
* [[Baddie Flattery]]: Begins complimenting the Fledgeling in a very condescending way in the latter stages of the experiment.
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* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Makes the mistake of experimenting on Kindred at least twice, with disastrous effects. In the first case, the test subject is Barabus
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Lays a clever trap in Chinatown.
* {{spoiler|[[The Dragon]]:
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: He compliments you regularly while trying to kill you, but once it becomes apparent that his experiment has gone awry, it all goes out the window.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: He's studying vampires and their many weaknesses
* [[The Man Behind the Curtain]]: Up close, he's not much of a threat.
* [[No Name Given]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[Fu Manchu]].
* [[Silver Fox]]: From what little you can see of him, he clearly has white hair, and he's at least middle aged.
* [[Sinister Shades]]: That double as [[Sunglasses at Night]] and indoors.
* [[Smug Snake]]: His arrogance, to put it bluntly, is not well-founded.
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An enthusiastic black-market salesman, he operates out of the back of his truck, selling just about anything to anyone
* [[Fat and Proud]]: The Malkavian will even call him "Fatman" without Larry so much as reacting.
* [[Friend in
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Subverted
* [[Jive Turkey]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: In order to gain access to his special stock, you have to retrieve a mysterious briefcase
* [[Soul Brotha]]: Just barely avoids being a [[Jive Turkey]] too.
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The merchant in the Chinatown area, Tseng inherited his family's herbal medicine store and is more than happy to help you with good herbal remedies for all your Tong-related problems. [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|He has most definitely never been involved with the Chinese Army.]]
* [[Bad Liar]]: He is a terrible pharmacist.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]
* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|Most Certainly Is American Citizen, God Bless Allegiance Flag!]]: That uniform is from the ''herbal'' army. The things he shows you are fine herbal remedies for any ailment, such as Persistent Gangsters, and he will refill many high-calibre prescriptions. Also sells many edged or blunt herbal tools for the discerning melee customer! All of it completely lawful and legitimate and American, as he will tell you at the top of his lungs every time you ask.
* [[Nice Hat]]: A [[Commissar Cap]].
* [[No Indoor Voice]]
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A fiendish were-shark monster who preys upon the humans in Chinatown. Apparently works for the Kuei-jin, and killed Yuki's master at some point in the past.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Although not stated in game, he's a Rokea (were-shark), more correctly a Same-Bito, the eastern version of the race.
* [[Bonus Boss]]: One of the tougher examples in the game.
* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Has the greatest number of healthpoints, right after {{spoiler|Slug Ming Xiao
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Once he confronts you in the warehouse, he laughs a ''lot''.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: His name comes from the Smooth Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna Zygaena).
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: As soon as the battle begins he sheds his puny human form and takes his Warform. This also is very typical for Rokea, as most do not see the benefits of taking human form other than situations where they absolutely must.
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* [[Youkai]]: He's modeled after the Samebito, a shark demon.
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A mysterious shopkeeper in Chinatown, peddling curiosities and trinkets - most of which seem to have very morbid origins and purposes in mind. He enlists your help
* [[All Powerful Bystander]]: Implied. Nobody knows exactly ''what'' he is, but he certainly isn't harmed by being shot at.
** A Malkavian
* [[Bazaar of the Bizarre]]: His shop.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A very, ''very'' creepy example.
* [[Collector of the Strange]]: Apart from selling the profoundly weird, he also collects it
* [[Companion Cube]]: Cheerfully treats Lin's disembodied eyeballs as though they're still attached to their owner.
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* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: A speciality of his.
* [[Deal
* [[Evil Old Folks]]: ...''Probably''. It's not clear what he is exactly, but he definitely appears to be an old man, and the quests he gives you are shady, to say the least.
* [[Eye Scream]]: "Eye Gouge Hell..."
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: One blue, the other yellow
* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]]/[[Xanatos Gambit]]: Shortly after you place the Bad Luck Charm in the target's locker, said target promptly appears and gets into an argument that ends with you being forced to kill him
** [[Off the Rails]]: If you're a Malkavian or a Ventrue, you can derail this plan by mind-controlling the target into leaving as soon as he finds you. Nosferatu can also avoid violence by scaring him away.
* [[Vader Breath]]: He audibly huffs while talking to you.
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A massive stone monster created by Strauss and used as a bodyguard- up until he went rogue and hid himself inside the old Chinese theatre in Hollywood. You can be sent here by Strauss or Isaac (or both) to kill him, or convince him to work for the Anarchs.
* [[Berserk Button]]: The Gargoyle, already hostile towards Kindred, is downright infuriated by members of the Tremere clan or any mention of Strauss.
* [[Boss Arena Idiocy]]: Subverted. You think you can just go upstairs and shoot him to death from the balconies? You're in for a rude awakening
* [[The Brute]]: Kinda goes without saying.
* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Blades and bullets won't help you against him. Even armed with a blunt weapon, you need some time.
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* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: To bludgeoning damage.
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