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== The Player Character ==

=== The Player Character/The Fledgling ===

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Guile Hero]]

* [[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.

* [[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 ==

 

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.

 

* [[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 Sounds Deep]]: [[Steve Blum]] doing what Steve Blum does best.

* [[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.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Suffers an impressive one when you meet him for the second time.

 

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Unlike a lot of examples, her impeccable manners are little more than a launch-pad for a lot of racial slurs.

* [[Chinese Girl]]: And proud of it.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: To a lesser extent than LaCroix, but only just.

* [[Combat Tentacles]]: In her battle form.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]

* [[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.

* [[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".

 

{{quote|''We Chang Brothers accept your life graciously...''}}

 

* [[Battle Couple]]

* [[Co-Dragons]]: To Ming Xiao, probably.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Blade Brother.

 

 

{{quote|''I consider myself a seeker of reluctant information; "scholar" sounds like ''academia-'' ugh!''}}

 

A legendary Gangrel scholar [[Shrouded in Myth]], visiting Los Angeles to inspect the Ankaran Sarcophagus.

 

* [[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'''.

{{quote|It's not that I don't love walking into the heart of danger to curry favor with the local magistrate of the hour, but... actually, that's exactly it.}}

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: [[Hope Spot|He refuses to believe in Cain and the Antedeluvians]].

* [[Gentleman and a Scholar|Gentleman And A Seeker of Reluctant Information]]

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: His role in the game.

* [[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.

* [[Wolverine Publicity]]

 

{{quote|''Real terror is not the sight of death: it is the fear of death. What is the fear of death? Terror of the unknown. Is it these eyes you peer into? No, I am not the unknown. You and I are closer kin than you and it were...''}}

 

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...

 

* [[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.

* [[Meaningful Rename]]: After her lover.

* [[Necromancer]]

* [[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...

 

{{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}}

 

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

 

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.

* [[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".

* [[Vigilante Man]]: Thought of becoming one of these following the end of his rampage.

 

 

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[Waif Prophet]]: Rosa.

 

 

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

 

 

{{quote|''Anything for ''you''...''}}

 

 

* [[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.

* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Pretty much her entire existence revolves around this once she becomes your ghoul.

* [[Ill Girl]]: How you meet her.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** [[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.

 

{{quote|''I can get anything anyone wants at any time. You could say it's my calling. '[[My Greatest Failure|Til the Astrolite]], there wasn't anything I couldn't handle... well, back east, some shit went down, Big Apple, can't go back. I hate L.A., but whaddaya gonna do?''}}

 

* [[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.

* [[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.

{{quote|''(On LaCroix)'' Just so you understand, my loyalties are all but written in blood, so my opinion of the guy is moot.}}

* [[The Scrounger]]: You could say he has a talent for it. Need a weapon? Mercurio can get it for you, given some time.

 

{{quote|''Far as I know, I'm the only person around Hollywood who considers marksmanship an art.''}}

 

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).

 

* [[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.

* [[Innuendo Backfire]]: You can help him defend the graveyard from zombies, or you can bring him a prostitute. If sufficiently attractive, you can even, ah, help him yourself.

* [[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:

{{quote|Where are my manners? Thanks for letting the rotting animated corpses out to chew on the flesh of the living, so I could spend all of ''my'' pre-dawn hours cleaning up decaying flesh and half-eaten dog carcasses. Really made my night.}}

 

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.

 

* [[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.

* [[The Renfield]]

* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Oh ''man''!"

 

{{quote|''Here again? What's the matter? Can't bring yourself to tear into the neck of some quote-unquote "innocent?" All that blood out there, and you have to buy the prepackaged stuff!''}}

 

 

* [[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.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A dark example, needless to say.

* [[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:

{{quote|Start breathing, you corpse: I already fell for that act once, and that's how I came to end up here.}}

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: After freeing poor Lily from his torture chamber, you can threaten to drain him of all his blood unless he agrees to sell more bloodpacks to you. And ''God'', it's satisfying.

** 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.

{{quote|Guns make people cocky; they never appreciate what a skilled hand married to a knife can do. All you have to do is get close enough to cut off the trigger finger... or their face.}}

* [[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.

 

 

{{quote|'' Everybody comes in here's got to have to a shot - house rules: inhibition's the first thing to go. Two more of these, and you'll be telling me your nastiest, dirtiest stories; I am your Beat Priestess, and it's time to confess.''}}

 

 

* [[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).

* [[Kick the Dog]]: You can also accept Boris' proposal and kill her instead, but you'll lose Humanity.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Normally educated and soft spoken, she drops one regarding Boris.

 

A Japanese demon hunter who runs a noodle shop in Chinatown, currently hunting for the demon who murdered her Sensei.

 

* [[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.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: White top, cute face, black miniskirt and possible panty shot? Hell yeah!

 

{{quote|''As you burn, tell them it was Gunfeld Bach who sent your damned soul to that lake of fire! All agents of Satan shall return to whence they came!''}}

 

* [[BFG]]: Takes you on with a powerful sniper rifle.

* [[Church Militant]]: Member of one.

* [[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.

* [[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 with Fire]]: Sets fire to the whole {{spoiler|Grout Mansion}} with you still inside, forcing you to run away. Quickly!

* [[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.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Apparently, LaCroix murdered both his father and his grandfather.

 

 

** 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]].

* [[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.

* [[Nice Guy]]: He's just so adorably earnest.

 

A dealer of prosthetics and medical supplies living out of a basement studio in Santa Monic. He's actually a serial killer.

 

* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: He attacks you with a mutilated arm. Probably his own.

* [[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.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Under that cheerful, smiling exterior is a merciless killer with a fetish for amputation.

 

{{quote|''You and your kind may play mortals for weaklings and fools, and that may be fitting for some... but you underestimate '''me'''...''}}

 

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.

{{quote|You have shown considerable mental and physical accumen... and I'm quite perplexed as to how something that should be ''dead'' can possess such strong survival skills.}}

* [[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.

 

 

* [[Fat and Proud]]: The Malkavian will even call him "Fatman" without Larry so much as reacting.

* [[Jive Turkey]]

 

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.]]

 

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: A [[Commissar Cap]].

* [[No Indoor Voice]]

 

 

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.

* [[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.

* [[Youkai]]: He's modeled after the Samebito, a shark demon.

 

{{quote|''... There is something in this store for everyone...'' Everyone'' gets what they deserve...''}}

 

 

* [[All Powerful Bystander]]: Implied. Nobody knows exactly ''what'' he is, but he certainly isn't harmed by being shot at.

* [[Bazaar of the Bizarre]]: His shop.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A very, ''very'' creepy example.

* [[Companion Cube]]: Cheerfully treats Lin's disembodied eyeballs as though they're still attached to their owner.

{{quote|Hello, Lin. Do you like it here?}}

* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: A speciality of his.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Implies that some of his customers pay for his wares with their souls.

* [[Eye Scream]]: "Eye Gouge Hell..."

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: One blue, the other yellow

** [[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.

 

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.

* [[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.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: To bludgeoning damage.