Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

== Ghouls ==

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

 

** [[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?''}}

 

* [[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.

 

* [[Shout-Out]]: To Knock of ''Nosferatu.''

 

{{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!''}}

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]: A very unnerving set, too.

* [[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.}}

{{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.}}

* [[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]] - resulting in a ''very'' excited Vandal.

* [[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.

* [[The Social Darwinist]]: He has great respect for vampires who embrace the Beast and "feed upon the weak."

 

== Humans ==