Behind the Veil/Characters

Aaron Rothchild
""Oh the world will sing when I am king.""

"Age: 17.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Silver Fangs.

Auspice: Ahroun

Rank: Cliath"


 * Royals Who Actually Do Something: He's 3rd in line for the throne of his house, but is just as much a warrior as any other Ahroun.
 * The Ditz: Can come across as this, but mostly because he's been kept away from human society. He's quite intelligent in actuality.

Alexys Temple
"Age: 22.

Race: Kinfolk

Tribe: Fianna"

Atlas
"Age: 23.

Race: Garou Metis

Tribe: Black Furies.

Auspice: Ragabash

Rank: Cliath"

Dennis Gao
""I'M NOT FUCKING JAPANESE MOTHERFUCKER!""

"Age: 12.

Race: Garou.

Tribe: Unknown, probably Shadow Lord or Glass Walker.

Auspice: Ahroun

Rank: Cub"


 * Accidental Murder: Like most young Garou, he killed someone when he had his First Change.
 * Cute Bruiser: Even though he's a Garou and can tear a human being in half, in his biggest form he's only six feet tall and still obviously a little kid. Just don't remind him.
 * Unstoppable Rage: Since he's only twelve and isn't great at impulse control to begin with, he's very prone to Frenzying.

Dustin "Dusty" Pinfeather
""You are living your life, young man. And finding your way to a better place. Believe me, you will look back on this as the day you found yourself. Trust in the wheel of chaos, look at the mandala of life and tell me that it isn't a beautiful thing of terrifying mystery. Do you want to go and...throw yourself at the feet of mystery in fear and subjugation, or you you wanna poke that bitch with a stick! CHOOSE THE STICK. IT'S PINK. Don't worry, brother. Coyote watches us all, and we are with him now. Man Law isn't going to lay its cold metal grips on you now. I have just escaped him, so I know its true. Yeah. Feel the power of freedom.""

"Age: 25.

Race: Kinfolk

Fera: Nuwisha"


 * Ambiguously Brown: Half-caucasian, half-Sioux, Dusty often passes himself off as being hispanic.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Even when he's sober, Dusty tends to diverge from social norms as a matter of habit.
 * Erudite Stoner: Most of the time.
 * Weirdness Coupon: When he isn't cashing them himself, his friends usually are.
 * Magical Girlfriend: Haley Blue.
 * Trickster: Dusty is purely mortal, but apparently possessed of amazing, simultaneous streaks of good and bad luck. His philosophy on life is that everyone needs a good bad example, and thus sets out to be just that.

Franz Wesson
"Age: 23.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Get of Fenris.

Auspice: Ahroun

Rank: Fostern"

Frederick Aveline
"Age: 5

Race: Garou (Lupus)

Tribe: Glass Walker

Auspice: Theurge

Rank: Cliath"


 * Playful Hacker: When he's not hanging around on /b/

Greasepaw
":"Fools rush in where fools have been before.""

"Age: 24.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Bone Gnawer.

Auspice: Ragabash

Rank: Cliath"


 * Anything That Moves
 * Defector From Decadence: Was the daughter of a Black Spiral Dancer, but fled before dancing the spiral.

Haley Blue
""Even while her van is still hemorrhaging party-goers, the Coyote can sense her natural habitat looming near: Somewhere she is not supposed to be.""

"Age: 24...ish

Race: Nuwisha

Totem: Xochipilli

Rank: 3

Pants? Those had better be for you."


 * Action Girl
 * Bottle Fairy
 * Break the Cutie: Subjected to spiritual disease, starvation, abandonment, horrific battle wounds and loads of emotional distress, the death of family, if someone could push Haley into traffic she'd have filled her 'trauma bingo' card. Oh, wait...
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Cute Bruiser: That pretty little Crow girl will put you through a wall, with a smile.
 * The Drifter: Though she often refers to herself as 'the Fixer', Haley fits this trope quite well. She can't go a week without spotting something sad or unjust and sticking around to make it right.
 * Weirdness Coupon: Cashed daily.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Cloudcuckoolander: And how.
 * Polyamory
 * Erudite Stoner
 * The Trickster: Well, duh.
 * Rapunzel Hair: Thick, butt length and still growing.
 * Godiva Hair: As of 'Tagliatelle' (a Noodle Incident all its own), Haley was revealed to have done this with Megan Burr...on a horse.
 * Good Bad Girl: Most girls don't (or they do, then they reform). Haley just does.
 * Humanity Is Infectious: Literally in at least one case. Also subverted: Haley has not only learned positive lessons, but negative ones about shame, regret and homesickness as well.
 * Obfuscating Insanity: Under the guise of her Garou alter ego, Ashkit Wiggle-in-her-Walk, Haley has used dirty limericks, impromptu acrobatics, strange beatnik poetry, non-sequiturs, reckless substance abuse and countless other wild antics to convince the whole Sept of wolves that she's out of her friggin mind. Ashkit makes the Nuwishas identical-twin-kinfolk-identity, "Haley", look normal by comparison.
 * You Can't Go Home Again: This has 'only' happened twice...maybe three times in game time, paying closer attention to her memories reveals that the count is much, much higher.

Jason Allan
""Putting a blade to one's own throat is a test of faith in yourself. Most people do not have the confidence.""

"Age: 35.

Race: Kinfolk

Tribe: Shadow Lord (formerly Silver Fang)"


 * Brains and Bondage
 * Odd Couple: Stoic, straightlaced, uptight Jason's best friend is lazy, Hollywood-loving playboy Lloyd Weston.
 * Spy Couple: With Roxanne Pavlenco.
 * Stoic Woobie

Jeanette Fisher
"Age: 19.

Race: Kinfolk

Tribe: Black Furies (Formally Shadow Lords)."

Jon Levetts
"Age: 26.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Bone Gnawer.

Auspice: Theurge

Rank: Cliath"


 * Abduction Is Love: Towards June. She kidnapped him and he's smitten with her as a result.
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Cowardly Lion
 * The Chosen Zero
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jon attempts this on the Theurges and Galliards of High Ears, but it falls short for several reasons, which also eclipse the good points he did make. He later gives another one to Luke O'Conner over his motivations for trying to stop the kin-butcher.

June Sparks
"Age: 19.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Black Fury.

Auspice: Galliard

Rank: Fostern"


 * Action Girl
 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With David Vrotos.
 * HOmance
 * Hot-Blooded
 * I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Ever since she acquired Jon, she has been oblivious on how she drives him crazy - and Haley wants to get her sweet lady kisses.

Kathleen Elizabeth ‘Stones-Secret-Eyes’ Allan nee Rothchild
""Heavy Lies the Crown...""

"Age: 30.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Silver Fangs.

Auspice: Theurge

Rank: Cliath"

The current alpha of the Archangels pack.


 * Action Girl
 * All Lesbians Want Kids: So heavily subverted: The thought of getting pregnant and childbirth terrifies Kathleen.
 * Arch Enemy: May Lawrence.
 * Cool Sword: She has a klaive, The Gleam Of Eagle's Eye, which was passed down by her ancestors and has been a very loyal friend.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Fantastic Racism: Kathleen makes no bones about hating Mages, Fera and anything else that isn't Garou, kinfolk or human, a point of view common to her tribe
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars/Every Scar Has a Story: Has her fair share of scars, including one around her neck where she was almost completely decapitated. Since they are marks of renown in Garou society, each one has a story associated with it.
 * The Beard: Jason was this to Kathleen.
 * Traumatic Haircut: After trading Jason away to May, she was kidnapped and given one of these by Roxanne.
 * Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Due to the Silver Fang flaws she occassionally suffers this when stressed or placed in overly emotional situations, blanking out completely.

Leyna Stidolph
""Only the dead know peace.""

"Age: 23.

Race: Kinfolk

Tribe: Get of Fenris."


 * Action Girl
 * Battle Couple: With Jack Raven
 * Because You Can Cope: Not only was she neglected by her mother for her true born brother, but she has been enslaved by those she loved most, left to beaten and to die in battle.
 * Sure Why Not?/ThrowItIn: The relationship with Jack started when her handler asked how carry on with a scene and his handler jokingly said "kiss him." Her response? "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!"
 * The Blacksmith: Her main skill, having opened her own forge and making high quality weapons, all of which she knows how to use.

Lloyd ‘Lens-Flare’ Westen
"Age: 23.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Glass Walker.

Auspice: Galliard

Rank: Cliath"

The omega of the Archangels and the last founding member.


 * Bi the Way
 * Character Development
 * Cowardly Lion: So very much. Despite his cowardly tendencies he has only ever fled from one fight, which resulted in Kathleen almost being decapitated.
 * That Man Is Dead: Lloyd to his “Marty Wright” persona.
 * Unfortunate Names: His original birth name was October Moonsky Rebellion.
 * Vision Quest: Taken on one by Haley to help him through a rough patch in his life.

Megan Burr
""She hated the Flock. Hated them more than she had in the past, hated them enough to forget the understated kindness she'd been recently shown. It might come back later, but when she spotted sweet little Megan, (helpful, caring Megan... selfless to a fault, here's the last twenty dollars I have please get something for yourself to eat Megan...) standing with her back against a building, red eyes, tears streaming down her face, coughing and wheezing as though she couldn't breathe properly... with NO ONE offering to help her even though she was in obvious distress and STILL trying to smile at people through it all... If her heart hadn't frozen to cold calculated hate at everything she saw it might well have broken." -Roxanne Pavlenco"

"Age: 20.

Race: Kinfolk

Tribe: Children of Gaia."


 * Buffy-Speak: Megans speech is liberally peppered with 'like' and 'totally'.
 * Granola Girl/New Age Retro Hippie: She falls somewhere in between.
 * Moe: Her wholehearted faith in people, compounded by her boundless enthusiasm, draws people in.
 * The Messiah: Megan has won over plenty of tough customers during her quest to unite the kinfolk of Los Angeles, mostly through sheer perkiness and refusal to give up on her quest to save them all.
 * When She Smiles

Roxanne Pavlenco
"She said 'darling' the way some people say 'dinner' - Warren Burke"

"Age: 27.

Race: Kinfolk

Tribe: Shadow Lords."


 * Badass Normal
 * Badass Princess
 * Battle Strip
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Cultured Badass
 * Femme Fatal
 * Hot Chick in a Badass Suit
 * It's Personal: To Kathleen Allan after the latter sold Jason to a Mage.
 * Lady of War
 * Mata Hari
 * More Deadly Than the Male: The Pavlencos and their branch families have spent centuries cultivating this in Garou and kin alike. The men are bulky, compact brutes who look like engines of destruction. The women are long-limbed, lithe and delicate seeming. The ladies tend to have more diverse training than the gentlemen do, leading them to embody this trope.
 * Spy Couple: With Jason Allan
 * Honey Trap: FOR Jason Allan
 * This Is Unforgivable!: Also to Kathleen Allan.
 * Tracking Device: Has she handed you anything, ever? Yeah, it's probably got a tracking device on it.
 * Violently Protective Girlfriend

Salome Spitting-Image
"Age: 17.

Race: Garou.

Tribe: Shadow Lord.

Auspice: Philodox.

Rank: Cliath"


 * Breath Weapon: As part of her band's act, Salome is a stunt firebreather.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: She might be an angry, loud, violent teenage alcoholic, but she's still on the side of good.
 * Everything's Better with Monkeys: Her favorite animal. "She liked monkeys because they were ten pounds of fuck-you-up in a two pound bag."
 * I Need a Freaking Drink: Often.
 * In the Blood: Exceptional amounts of Rage and being born under the half moon run in Salome's family.
 * Teen Pregnancy: Salome got pregnant at 13 and is now a distant mother (by necessity) to her little girl, Andy.

Talisa ‘Sheriff’ Shaw
""Hell hath no Fury""

"Age: 17.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Black Furies.

Auspice: Theurge

Rank: Fostern"

The current beta of the Archangels and the youngest out of the lot.


 * Berserk Button: Insulting Jeanette in her presence.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars

Warren Burke
"Age: 29.

Race: Kinfolk

Tribe: Fianna (For now)."


 * Jerkass Facade
 * Man Child
 * Disabled Snarker
 * Cool Teacher
 * Pet the Dog: His relationship with Dennis Gao.
 * It Got Worse
 * Arranged Marriage
 * Physical Scars, Psychological Scars
 * Scars Are Forever
 * Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: His ex-wife certainly fits the 'bad' side of this trope.

Deitricha Perfect-Creature
"Age: 16.

Race: Garou (Metis)

Tribe: Black Spiral Dancer.

Auspice: Ahroun

Rank: Fostern"


 * A Love to Dismember: Deitricha's 'boyfriend' Charlie is a severed head. Possibly not even from someone named Charlie.
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * Evil Is Sexy: A rather disturbing example of this trope.
 * Evil Redhead
 * Little Miss Badass

Tre
"Age: Unknown.

Race: Garou

Tribe: Black Spiral Dancer.

Auspice: Ragabash"

The head Spiral in Los Angeles. Not a very nice person.


 * Big Bad
 * Complete Monster: Comes with the territory.
 * Scarpia Ultimatum: A rare variant, Tre raped and impregnated another Spiral to guarantee that her mind would be completely focused on giving him an accurate prophecy. The Ultimatum part was that if she failed to do so he would force her to give birth to it, even if he had to rip off her arms and jaw to ensure it.

Anne Kilmartin
"Age: 24.

Race: Mage

Tradition: Nephandi.

Rank: Intiate"


 * Brother-Sister Incest: With her brother Will.
 * Villainous Incest

Cybil Ramji
"Age: 29.

Race: Mage

Tribe: Verbenna.

Rank: Disciple"


 * Deadpan Snarker: Oh so very much.

Damon Saulk
"Age: 21.

Race: Mage

Tradition: Sons of Ether.

Rank: Intiate"


 * Badass Normal: Damon isn't entirely sure he believes this whole 'magic' thing. Instead he views himself and his powers as this.
 * Cool Car: A 1972 Ford Torino, which also happens to be spiritually awakened. He calls her Ella.
 * Nice Guy

Danika Guerrero
"Age: 24.

Race: Mage

Tradition: Euthanatos.

Rank: Intiate"


 * Brother-Sister Team: Forming a rather sinister duo with her far more murderous brother, Miguel.
 * Morality Pet: To Miguel.
 * The Family That Slays Together: She does help Miguel kill people.

Lady Felica Wick
""So far as she could remember, every trip or treat Felicia had bribed their cabal to indulge in had been something else all together in the end. A fishing expedition turned out to be a dive for treasure in a sunken ship, a trip to see the castles of Europe was actually a fairly transparent plan to pillage them... the excuses for why she had never just asked her fellow mages were myriad and difficult to hold down, though in the end the Verbena had surmised that the real answer there was that the Lady Wick simply could not help herself when it came to such artifacts, and was drawn to the musty old mausoleums that hid them." - Rebekkah Lovell"

"Age: 27.

Race: Mage

Tradition: Orphan.

Rank: Intiate"


 * Action Girl
 * Adventurer Archaeologist: Unwillingly. She was raised to be respectful and careful of all artifacts and knows proper preservation techniques, which makes it all the more upsetting that she can't help but rampage through ancient temples.
 * Break the Cutie: Though 'cutie' is debatable, getting her life and personality hijacked by a video game character's constantly changing backstory has left Felicia bitter and vengeful against the people who created Lara Croft.
 * Doppelganger: If she dresses the part, she's a dead ringer for Lara Croft.
 * Berserk Button: Being compared to Lara Croft.
 * Expy: Lara Croft. Notable in the fact that this is acknowledged in story.
 * It's Okay If It's You: Though she identifies as straight, she has an 'understanding' with her cabalmate Bekkah.
 * Love Makes You Evil: For unknown reasons, Felicia was cursed to literally make this happen-any man that she has any sort of romantic relationship with inevitably tries to kill her.
 * Parental Abandonment: At fifteen, Felicia lost both parents in an airplane crash. In her twenties she found out that this was likely because a lazy writer took the easy way out while searching for a source of drama. The quest to find him and get some answers has been a driving goal ever since.

Liam Langly
"Age: 23.

Race: Mage

Tradition: Virtual Adept.

Rank: Disciple"


 * Broken Bird: After spending his whole life in the service of the Traditions, killing, interrogating enemies and leading troops Liam was gravely injured in the Umbra and left for dead by his friends. This has caused...issues.
 * Child Soldier: Raised in an academy with little in the way of friends or family, Liam was brough up to fight the Ascension War.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Though he has a rough exterior, doesn't really abide people all that well and is prone to what others might class as 'violent overreactions', Liams heart is in the right place. Underneath all the issues brought up by the Ascension War he's a really sweet, sort of maladjusted kid.

Mike Hoffman
""I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.""

"Age: 22.

Race: Mage

Tradition: Virtual Adept.

Rank: Intiate"


 * Bi the Way
 * Shout-Out: His handle, Negative Zero, is taken from Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, where it's the title of a old movie.
 * Stalker with a Crush: Towards Cybil, altough it's Played for Laughs. His idea of stealthfully tailing her includes humming his theme music.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Rebekkah Lovell
""Sometimes I consider getting you a hobbling cane and a larger collection of doilies so you're more apt to fit in. Perhaps a few geriatric cats with urinary disorders." - Felicia Wick"

"Age: 20.

Race: Mage

Tradition: Verbena.

Rank: Disciple"


 * Blind Seer: Subverted. Rebekkah is blind and does make a living as a soothsayer, she's not actually prescient. She's a cold-reader.
 * Disabled Snarker
 * Fiery Redhead: And how.
 * Green Thumb
 * Hot Witch
 * The Hecate Sisters: As a headstrong, blunt, youthful girl, Rebekkah embodies the Maiden. In her original Cabal, her Dreamspeaker Cabalmate Alejandra was the Mother and Felicia was the Crone.
 * Magical Society: The Gardeners are positive that she's going to settle down and join them any day now.
 * Man-Eating Plant: Her name is Millie.
 * Prophet Eyes: Due to her curse, Rebekkah's eyes are fixed forward and are a pale blue color.

Beauregard Le Clare
"Age: 163

Race: Vampire

Clan: Ventrue

Sect: Camarilla"


 * Annoying Younger Sibling: Technically, Beau is the younger of the two Le Clare boys. For all of his supernatural potency and might, Roy still treats him like a kid brother.
 * Vampires Are Rich: Subverted. Beauregard sleeps in the trunk of his brother's car and when they're feeling fancy, the boys rent a hotel room with really secure blinds.

Ben Honee
"Age: 48

Race: Vampire (Thin-Blood)

Clan: Catiff

Sect: Anarch"


 * The Woobie

Edward Norrington
The former prince of LA until his death.


 * Killed Off for Real
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: His player permamently left the site.

Xavier Ramos
The current Prince of LA.

Jack Raven (aka Michael Ravenholm)
"Age: 32

Race: Hunter

Creed: Avenger"


 * Ascended Extra: Originally Jack was an NPC for his player's offline games, then was brought in as a PC on the other Old World of Darkness board, but didn't see any use and was forgotten about when Behind the Veil was founded. Then he came back as an NPC again to wrap up an Aborted Arc (due to all the players involved leaving the site shortly after joining), remained an NPC when Michael was made a PC, before finally Leyna kissed him on the balcony, bringing him back to PC status.
 * Battle Couple: With Leyna.
 * Berserk Button: Do NOT threaten anyone he cares about.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Michael. The two met to kill a target, and stuck together ever since.
 * Hitman with a Heart: He started to regret the impact of some of his hits had on his victim's families and friends, and began to take contracts on people he viewed were worse than him.
 * Odd Friendship: Michael, yet again. A hitman and a firefighter.
 * Only Friend: Michael again, since Leyna's something more.
 * Self-Made Orphan: His mother died due to complications resulting from injuries his father had given her. He took the news poorly and jumped into this trope.

Jennifer O’Connell
"Age: 19

Race: Hunter

Creed: Visionary"


 * Sorry Jennifer, but your legs just don't work: Being confined to a wheelchair and being mute limits just how much Jennifer can contribute to the hunt, a fact with bothers her more than she'd care to admit.
 * The Quiet One / Elective Mute: Since the death of her parents Jennifer has stopped talking completely, communicating entirely through sign language, written notes and text-to-speach programs. Recently she's started talking again (but only a little), but only to her step-mother (although she made an exception for Ben's adopted children when the former was in danger).

Maria Perez (aka Brook Marie Sumners)
""An act against my will is not my act.""

"Age: 24.

Race: Hunter

Creed: Defender"


 * Spicy Latina
 * The Beard: For Will.

Michael Freeman
"Age: 25

Race: Hunter

Creed: Judge"


 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Jack Raven.
 * Nice Guy
 * Odd Friendship: Again with Jack. The two are radically different people, with different motivations for the hunt, but are still best friends.
 * Samaritan Syndrome: He's incapable of not offering his help to someone in need.

Will Kilmartin (aka Strangelove)
"Age: 26.

Race: Hunter

Creed: Hermit"


 * Brother-Sister Incest: With his Sister Anne, and full of Squick. Made even worse by Will going along with it because he can't say no to his sister.
 * Citizenship Marriage: With Maria.
 * Mad Oracle
 * Schrodingers Cat: The inspiration for Will's Personality comes from this.
 * Speech Impediment
 * Split Personality: There's Will and there's Strangelove, the latter of which wears a mask. Considering that his father and his sister are both Mages with a taste for Cold-Blooded Torture it's no wonder this has happened.
 * Straight Gay: Although it's difficult to nail it down due to Strangelove's insanity, Will is closest to this.

Jack Gryphon
"“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”"

"Age: 63

Race: Human"

The curator and owner of "Gryphon's Cabinet of Curiosities."


 * Eccentric Mentor - Jack is old, crazy, and occasionally powerful. But mostly old and crazy.
 * Weirdness Coupon – Whether it’s age or just charisma, Jack gets away with things he shouldn’t, like yelling at Garou and killing other people’s furniture with swords.
 * Troubled Backstory Flashback - Jack frequently recounts the loss of his wife and daughter.

Danny
The caern spirit of the High Ears sept, taking the form of a Coyote.

Ella
The spirit of Damon's car, often manifesting as a black woman with chrome teeth and nails.


 * Anthropomorphic Personification
 * Cool Car: She is one of these.

Lady of Angels
The totem spirit of the Archangels pack and the city of Los Angeles.


 * Anthropomorphic Personification
 * A Mother To Her Garou