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CHARACTER INFO

FULL NAME: Alistair Grout
INTRODUCES HIMSELF AS: Alistair Grout, plus Dr if it's relevant
ACTUAL DOCTORATE: extremely out of date
CANON: Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines
CANON POINT: mid-1960s. Long before the game, well after joining the Camarilla.

AGE: about 125 years dead.
APPARENT AGE: a badly-aged mid-30s
GENDER: male
NATIONALITY: english
SPECIES: vampire (/kindred/Cainite)
APPARENT SPECIES: human, but feel free to clock him as a vampire if your character would be able

☾ VISUAL:
→ rapidly-moving amber eyes
→ shoulder-length chestnut hair that can be neat if it bothers (it often doesn't bother)
→ pale like a guy who doesn't get a lot of sun (imagine that)
→ but not visibly corpselike unless stated otherwise
→ about 5'9" and of middling build: not a beanpole, not a beefcake
→ wearing old-fashioned or timeless clothes: waistcoats, greatcoats, tweed suits, muted browns and greys

☾ AURAL:
→ received-pronunciation english, carefully enunciated
→ usually dry and dispassionate
→ unless he gets very excited, in which case he becomes real hammy

☾ WEIRD VAMPIRE DETAILS:
→ smell: he doesn't perspire and his body doesn't have any metabolising micro-organisms, so he doesn't really have a scent. vampires are like tofu in that they just kinda smell like their environment. and blood. if you get right up in his face, he also smells faintly of blood.
→ wounds: if he gets wounded, he won't bleed unless he consciously forces it to happen.
→ signs of life: he can force himself to breathe, force his heart to beat, circulate blood through his skin, and so on, in order to appear alive. he'll be doing that for the foreseeable future. but it's a god damn hassle. if he's not actively making this happen, his heartbeat stops, his blood sinks, and he becomes much more visibly a corpse.
→ temperature: his breath is cool, and doesn't steam in cold air. Likewise his skin is room temperature unless he's very recently fed from a person.

☾ ABILITIES:
→ the usual vampire nonsense: immortality, vitality, super-healing, a strong sun allergy
→ can turn people into vampires or ghouls
→ aura-viewing and limited mind control (permissions post)
→ clairaudience – disembodied voices sometimes give him knowledge (also on the permissions post)
→ psychometry – by touching an object and going into a trance, he can glimpse details about its last owner
→ he can vanish and walk around unseen by the naked eye (based on mental obfuscation, not invisibility, so your character may be immune)
→ he can make people see his face as a different person's. if he rolls well, it can be a different specific person's. (not shapeshifting, just more mental obfuscation, so again you might be immune)
→ he has literally eaten a thesaurus

☾ NOT ACTUALLY A VAMPIRE SOLUTION:
→ crosses, holy water, and garlic are not gonna help you. he does in fact appear on film and in mirrors. single bullets (ie from a handgun) will do some limited damage, but aren't too hard to heal from so long as he's fed.

☾ ACTUALLY DEFINITELY A VAMPIRE SOLUTION:
→ fire and sunlight are bad news bears. weapons such as blades, shotguns or machine guns, and anything else that causes massive physical trauma can absolutely be lethal. magic is pretty good too. a stake to the heart will paralyse him. decapitation will be the last thing he ever experiences.

 
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