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{{quote|''LA's the school of hard knocks, so keep your friends close and your enemies in a barbecue pit.''}}

 

A black Brujah and another of Nines' men. Conversation with him reveals him to be a Vietnam veteran.

 

* [[The Dragon]]: To Nines.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: At first he's quite obstructive, but he mellows out later.

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.}}

 

* [[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.

* [[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]], though.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Bender from [[Futurama]].

* [[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?

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Jeanette.

* [[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}}.

* {{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.

** 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.

* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Isaac is less remembered than most Kindred of the game because, very surprisingly, he doesn't have any crippling personality flaws.

* [[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]].

* [[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.]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Has the personality of an extremely affable prostitute, and since she is a stripper, she's almost identical to the job description of the trope. The Heart Of Gold stems from her being genuinely very nice, not wanting kine or kindred to suffer on her account, and she even begs you in her intro quest not to get innocents involved and to use only as much force as absolutely necessary.

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]

* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Her love emails are quite hammy.