Profile
NAME: Deborah Green
NATURE: Capitalist. Why give it away for free when you can sell it?
DEMEANOUR: Traditionalist. The orthodox ways satisfy the Traditionalist.
This is a character made for the world of Vampire: the Masquerade, so this bio will make a lot more sense if you're familiar with that. For those unfamiliar, there are hyperlinks!
Deborah is a Nosferatu. In brief: vampires are sorted quasi-genetically into Clans, each clan has its thing (i.e. fightiness or witchcraft or being the vampire mafia), and the Nos thing is that they hit every single branch of the ugly tree. The Nos transformation from human to vampire is a particularly unpleasant experience.
She lives with a community of other Nosferatu in a spacious downtown sewer, Swiss Family Robinsoned into homes with... well, with scrap, and furniture that was thrown out by other people, and decorations that she desperately hopes don't look like they were pulled out of a wheelie bin. Occasionally a Nos puts effort into their decor, and Deborah is one of them, with middling success. She's not a good architect or handyman or interior decorator but she tries, okay?
Deborah sometimes dresses casual, but listen, what's the point of being a vampire if you can't really push the boat out with the goth-punk-fetish Looks™? Unfortunately, no matter how tailored or expensive, everything she wears seems to have all the sleek sex appeal of a burlap sack. Such is life as a Nosferatu. When she changes her appearance (see Obfuscate, below), unless she's deliberately trying to be anonymous she'll keep a few consistent details so as to be recognisable: piercings, awesome hair, the one missing or covered eye.
If vampires were office workers, she'd be the office gossip. She seems to know everyone's business, loves to give good but unsolicited advice, and kinda lives vicariously through her more cool and sexy vampire allies. Once you get down to business, though, Deborah is all about the benjamins. In vampire terms, this could mean cold hard money, or it could mean juicy secrets or a favour from a powerful individual. She has almost as much fun selling information as she does snooping to get it in the first place. And boy does she sell information. Some Nos go into this line of work out of necessity, some out of tradition, and some because they have a passion for sneaking and spying; Deborah falls into the third group, any day.
She was a Toreador's ghoul long before she was a Nosferatu's childe, and so she had to go through a period of adjustment when her dream of becoming a sexy beautiful vampire was dashed by instead becoming a gross little gremlin. How did a Nosferatu come to murder a Toreador and take his money and ghouls? Politics, man, don't even talk to me about it.
Deborah leans into the office squabbles and politicking of the Camarilla more than many other Nosferatu do, though that's hard to do well when your charisma is a big ugly zilch. For this reason, she keeps her home (relatively) clean, and never drinks blood from animals where other vampires can see her. She leans hard into the information-brokering tradition of the Nos, and isn't above holding information over someone to get what she wants, through bribery or blackmail. She's nosy, funny, vain, and an absolute whiz at 90s-era coding and hacking.
What else? Well there are a whole lot of rats in her home! This is a feature, not a bug.
History
As a human, in her early 20s, Deborah worked as a telephone switchboard operator. She was fired in the late 1970s for 1) listening to people's private conversations, and 2) caring more about how her hair looked than how punctually she turned up.
Her next job was in a dark, poky electronics store. It was a good job, but didn't feel nearly as glamorous, and she hated it until a tall dark stranger swept into her life. This stranger was an artsy fartsy vampire with an interest in the beautiful mystery of computer code. All three of the shop's employees spent the next few years enthralled to this vampire, making sure a fortune in choice electronics 'fell off the back of the van' for him. Deborah, deep in magically-created love, thought it would be so romantic for this vampire to turn her into one of his own kind: a beautiful and sensual creature of the night.
In the very early 80s, the artsy vampire was killed by a Nosferatu rival, who kept two of the ghouled employees for himself, and turned Deborah into a hideous and sexless creature of the night to teach her the lesson that life sucks.
She's been a vampire for about a decade and a half now – the current year being the early-to-mid nineties – and has slotted nicely into the traditional Nos career of computer whiz and information broker.
Vampire Power Roll Call:
1. Animalism •••. When vampire society is a bunch of backstabbing politicking disasters, sometime you just wanna say "fuck it" and hang out with animals instead. Animalism is a vampire discipline that means Deborah can summon and telepathically speak to animals, as well as calm them down if they're having a bad one. It also lets her possess them, piloting them around like furry little cars, seeing through their eyes and smelling through their noses.
2. Obfuscate ••••. An invisibility-adjacent discipline that essentially shrouds Deborah from people's minds. She's developed it far enough that that she can move around invisibly, or even vanish from sight when people are looking right at her (a puff of smoke is optional). An offshoot of this power is called Mask of a Thousand Faces, and lets Deborah change her appearance and mannerisms to imitate someone else, or just to look more like a normal human -- which, let's be real, makes hunting easier.
3. Potence •••. This is just a fancy name for super strength. She's pretty damn strong.
4. Ghouling. So when you drink a vampire's blood it's kinda highly addictive and also makes you enthralled to that vampire. People who've been enthralled in this way are called ghouls. Deborah doesn't have any human ghouls, but she does have a couple of rats. You'll recognise them as the unusually strong, loyal, and ugly ones.
