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== ''Playable Characters'' ==

{{quote|''No one tells '''me''' what to do! Well, actually everyone does, but this is my chance to get even!''}}

== ''Non-Player Characters'' ==

{{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.''}}

** 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.

* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Very much believes himself to be in this position. The Anarchs hate him, the Camarilla treats him like a joke, his position hangs by a thread, and the only person he can actually throw his weight against is, well, ''you''. So he does.

* [[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.

* {{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,) he gets what he wanted in the first place; if you survive, he gets whatever he wanted out of the mission you completed. [[Spanner in the Works|If you choose to oppose him, you shoot these plans all to hell.]]

{{quote|''True power lies not in wealth, but in the things it affords you.''}}

*** 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.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Although, most of his villainy is restricted to [[Offscreen Villainy|behind-the-scenes details]]...

* [[Camp]]: He has extremely theatrical mannerisms to the point where one may suspect animation glitching.

{{quote|Are you now ready to prove your loyalty to the 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.

* [[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 with a Body]]: As Chiropteran Behemoth he can toss ''people'' at you.

* [[No Name Given]]

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: He becomes a massive chiropteran [[Department of Redundancy Department|bat-creature]].

* [[You Killed My Father]]: The PC may have this motivation when dealing with the Sheriff.

{{quote|''By the clack-smack cracking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. I don't remember seeing you on the guest list for the dinner party; we're having a wrap party for the Misfits about forty years late. Cast and crew only, boss...''}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]]

* [[Troll]]

* [[Verbal Tic]]: He ends just about every sentence with "Boss."

* [[Younger Than They Look]]/[[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: If his backstory is true, Gary is probably no more than 70–80 years old (and if he worked in ''The Misfits'' while still alive, his embrace happened 40 years ago at most). Despite this he's ''way'' more cynical and politically savvy than many LA vampires several times his age.

{{quote|''I am confident no cure for my condition or that of my beloved wife lies within our figurative minds, waiting to be unlocked by the correct combination of memories recovered from our childhoods. And I am'' most ''certain it has nothing to do with the relationship between myself, [[Oedipus Complex|my parents]] and my... [[Freud Was Right|genitals]]. Sorry, [[Sigmund Freud|Sigmund]], but I choose to stay my course. In time, too, may'' your ''star fade and disappear...''}}