Raised by her father, a board member at Pentex Corp., Courtney has always gotten everything and anything she's ever wanted and, along the way, has learned the fine art of manipulation. She possesses all the bad girl traits and absolutely none of the merits that would allow someone to connect with her on a personal level and she absolutely loves it. Loyal to her father first, then her tribe, Courtney does as she pleases with few, if any, consequences.
Courtney is a quintessential rich bitch. Capable of niceties and absolute cruelty with little to no regard for the feelings of others. She is manipulative and conniving, used to getting her way and getting what she wants. While she is capable of this without the aid of her supernatural powers, she finds them a nice backup in tough situations. Gifted with a silver tongue and a cunning mind, Courtney is ruthless and other people mean nothing to her.
Raised by a single father after her mother passed away when she was young, Courtney has lived a wildly privileged life. She's never wanted for anything material, and while she wasn't spoiled in the way that many rich kids are by their parents, her personality gave her that disposition. Despite her family's wealth, she's attended public schools because her father wanted her to be able to blend in with all classes of people. Her father taught her discipline and how to take care of herself. After her mother passed, she did have a nanny and they had a maid, she was still taught to function like a normal person and cook, clean, and do things on her own, without someone waiting on her hand and foot.
In school, she had friends, though they were wholly superficial friendships built on bullying others and keeping other girls in line. During middle school, she met was classmates with Phoenix and Gwen and immediately butted heads with the former for not giving in to her behavior and control. This started off a feud that lasted their entire school career, especially since Courtney started going after Phoenix's then, and current, boyfriend, Kyle. In reality, she was drawn to him because he's Garou and has BSD lineage, but it presented itself to a normal person as typical female battling for a partner.
Courtney lives alone, though still shares a close relationship with her father. She has a pretty high public profile as a socialite and party girl, but she sometimes can go weeks without being seen or heard from (this is the result of a blossoming bipolar disorder gifted to her by her personal totem - it's diagnosed). She has a viciously cruel streak and, 'off camera' eagerly gives in to her BSD nature. Many people she parties with and takes home or, playing nice, offers to return them to their home, are never seen or heard from again.
Her Father - They are....uh...TOO close, to be honest. Though in public they simply appear to be a single father and his daughter who love each other very much, behind closed doors, it's a different story.
Phoenix Mulder - Rivals, at best. Arch enemies....still at best. They loathe each other, for different reasons. But the common theme is still a boy: Kyle.
Jason Kitt - Phe's brother and Courtney's occasional partner in crime. He's easy to bend, despite his bad boy nature.
Nacht - They're fuckin'. Sometimes. They don't exactly 'get along' well, but they share a whole host of similarities and personality traits of the, ah, negative sort.
Rank - Fostern
Breed - Homid
Tribe - Black Spiral Dancers
Auspice - Galliard
LEVEL 1 GIFTS
City Running - Rank 1 Homid Gift
Garou with this Gift find that moving vertically is just as easy as moving horizontally; whether they are walking along a sidewalk, climbing stairs, or scaling the side of a building, their pace doesn’t change in the slightest, nor do they tire out more rapidly. This Gift doesn’t make it any easier or less dangerous to climb in precarious circumstance — a ten-story fall is still a ten-story fall, and a sheer surface remains sheer — but the Gift does make sure that the character can climb as quickly as he walks.
Perfect Recall - Rank 1 Galliard Gift
As mentioned earlier in this chapter, Galliards often share one trait even before the Change takes them. That trait is memory. Moon-Dancers often have good heads for detail; this Gift, however, accentuates that capacity. Any Weaver-spirit can teach this Gift, which is one reason it isn’t more common.
Resist Pain - Rank 1 Black Spiral Dancer Gift
Through force of will, the Philodox is able to ignore the pain of his wounds and continue acting normally. A bear-spirit teaches this Gift.
Resist Toxin - Rank 1 Black Spiral Dancer Gift
Many Bone Gnawers learn a preternatural resistance to poisons and toxins of all kinds, doubtless due to their diet of refuse and American beer. A trash-spirit teaches this Gift.
Persuasion - Rank 1 Homid Gift
This Gift allows a homid to become more persuasive when dealing with others, in such a way that his statements and arguments are imbued with added meaning or credibility. An ancestor-spirit teaches this Gift.
Spiral-Shadow Dance - Rank 1 Black Spiral Dancer Gift
The Black Spiral Dancer learns to twine herself through the darkness, becoming swift as a scream. A variety of Banes teach this Gift.
LEVEL 2 GIFTS
Staredown - Rank 2 Homid Gift
By staring into the eyes of a human or animal, a werewolf can cause the target to flee in terror. This Gift can be used against other werewolves, but the target will freeze in place rather than flee. A ram or snake-spirit teaches this gift.
Distractions - Rank 2 Galliard Gift
The Garou can make annoying yips, yelps and howls to divert the attention of his target. A coyote-spirit teaches this Gift.
Terrify - Rank 2 Black Spiral Dancer Gift
The Dancer with this Gift is more intimidating and terrifying than normal. A sneer from her is as effective as a full-throated grown from another.
A Thousand Voices - Rank 2 Black Spiral Dancer Philodox Gift (per personal totem)
The Black Spiral Philodox can distort the sound of his own footsteps, creating a series of illusory noises. Instead of one werewolf, enemies will hear an entire pack. Howls, shadowy apparitions, footfalls and even illusory scents are all possible.
Though she is not in a pack (or is she??), she personally follows the totem of Aucol.
Aucol (Arctic Fox Kit)
Aucol is a tiny kit, small enough to fit in a person’s outstretched palms. His fur is bone-white, and his eyes are milky jade. There is always something a little wrong about his behavior; his emotions never quite fit the circumstance. At times, Aucol exhibits a childlike mischief and deviousness; at others, he displays a cold, calculated cunning. He cycles back and forth between these moods over the course of hours or even minutes. He expects his followers to outsmart their opponents, and he looks down on those who win their battles through strength rather than smarts. Therefore, his followers lag behind in Glory Renown.
Traits: Aucol teaches his followers the Gift: A Thousand Voices and gives them one Willpower Trait, as well as the Mental Trait: Creative. His followers gradually develop bipolar disorder.
Ban: Followers of Aucol may not solve a problem through sheer strength of arms unless all other options have been exhausted, or the use of strength is simply a step in a cunning plan.
Yeah, yeah, white-colored BSD's shouldn't exist at all, but she was made before I decided to have her be a werewolf so I stuck with it. She's actually a pale cream and white, but her father made sure to keep her protected when she was young.
Taylor Swift - Blank Space
Nice to meet you, where you been? / I could show you incredible things / Magic, madness, heaven, sin / Saw you there and I thought / Oh my God, look at that face / You look like my next mistake / Love's a game, want to play? / New money, suit and tie / I can read you like a magazine / Ain't it funny, rumors fly / And I know you heard about me
Recoil - Chrome
You dream of a girl with silver skin, / You dream of a girl cooled and thinned. / She's gone a bit blue around the edges. / You want a girl who sucks her thumb / When she comes, / You're just looking for a clean sleep. / She doesn't want to see you, / She wants to be seen / By the cameras, the crews / And the soft machines. / You want a girl who could suck the chrome.
Maroon 5- Animals
Maybe you think that you can hide / I can smell your scent for miles / Just like animals / Animals / Like animals-mals / Baby I'm / So what you trying to do to me / It's like we can't stop, we're enemies / But we get along when I'm inside you, eh / You're like a drug that's killing me / I cut you out entirely / But I get so high when I'm inside you /
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
I want your horror / I want your design / 'Cause you're a criminal / As long as your mine / I want your love / Love-love-love / I want your love / I want your psycho, your vertigo shtick / Want you in my rear window / Baby you're sick, I want your love / Love-love-love, I want your love / You know that I want you / And you know that I need you / I want it bad, bad romance
CocoRosie - honey or tar
I undressed you with my eyes I have / Maybe even raped you / In a dark and eerie corner of my mind / I tucked you there / And touched you in a dream last night / Pushed you aside when you entered / My thoughts at the wrong time / I have sat up upon your lap and / Saddled my thighs around your hips like ropes / I rode you on a chair and in the shower / And all the while I clung heavy to your back / My desire deeply harnessed in your spine
Recoil - Want
I want to know how it will end / I want to be sure of what it will cost / I want to strangle the stars for all they promised me / I want you to call me on your drug phone / I want to keep you alive so there is always the possibility of murder later / I want to be there when you learn the cost of desire / I want you to understand that my malevolence is just a way to win / I want the name of the ruiner / I want matches in case I have to suddenly burn / I want you to know that being kind is overrated / I want to write my secret across your sky / I want to watch you lose control / I want to watch you lose /
Gin Wigmore - Kill of the Night
I wanna taste the way that you bleed, oh / You're my kill of the night / Now you're mine / But what do I do with you, boy / I'll take your heart / To kick around as a toy / The danger is I'm dangerous / And I might just tear you apart /
The Neighborhood - Lurk
I think that I'm human / I think about God / I think of the chances / I think that I'm wrong / I think to be thoughtful / I know that I'm not / You think I'm a fake / And I know you're a fraud / I fuck 'cause I need to / I fuck when I want / I'll fuck you in love / Even though it is not / I'll fucking digest you / One kiss at a time
The Bravery - Hatefuck
If I put my hands around your wrists, would you fight them? / If I put my fingers in your mouth, would you bite them? / So many things that I would do if I had my way with you / I can keep secrets that I know that you want me / You could dig your nails into my skin and you won't stop me / You could twist and scream into the air but no one can hear you here / And there will be no tenderness, no tenderness / There will be no tenderness, no tenderness /
Meg Myers - Desire
Honey, I wanna break you /
I wanna throw you to the hounds /
Yeah I gotta hurt you, I gotta hear it from your mouth /
Boy, I wanna taste you, I wanna skin you with my tongue /
I'm gonna kill you /
I'm gonna lay you in the ground
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