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[b][color=a48aa5]Name:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc] Eva[/color]
[b][color=a48aa5]Age:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc] 300+ (Appears late 20s.)[/color]
[b][color=a48aa5]Species:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc] Kindred [/color]
[b][color=a48aa5]Powers:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc] Auspex, Celerity, Presence, Dominate, Fortitude, Thaumaturgy [/color]
[b][color=a48aa5]Clan:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc] Toreador[/color]
[b][color=a48aa5]Generation:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc] 5th through diablerie.[/color]

[b][color=a48aa5]Biography:[/color][/b] 

[color=#cccccc]A descendant of the lost Mayan tribes, daughter to a tribal shaman father who dabbled in tranditional magic and healing arts. Eva has never gone into detail about what happened, but to those closest to her she has mentioned that she watched her childhood home burn as the sun set on her childhood. It wasn't long after that the Spanish took her from a field of fruit trees. They demanded navigation and translation, to say nothing of what else men demand of young women. But after her family's demise in shadow and fire, the child Eva was at the time just could do nothing else but play along with the Spanish. 

By the time she snapped out of it, she was on a ship at sea. Eva rallied others taken from the lands around her home, and eventually they escaped even as the Spanish ship burnt and sank. The details of the story remain fuzzy to her, but she remembers being the only one to make it to land. She remembers watching three others she escaped with drown in the black warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. She wound up on what would become Galveston Island, where she stayed at a local coastal fort of earth and timber. The men were little kinder there than the Spanish had been, and Eva moved on quickly. 

Eva falls in with several local tribes, and it's through them she learns of other Spanish moving through the territory only but a year after leaving Galveston Island, headed North. The Spanish are shocked to meet a woman who can speak local tongues, foreign tongues, and enough of their own Spanish to understand. Though the Spanish notes that the "native woman" was initially shy and hesitant, she presented a unique boon to ther expedition, and the leaders of the Portola expedition decided they were better off with her. After swearing that no one would be allowed to hurt her, Eva began her role as the go-between for the Spanish with the natives they encountered on their way to California. 

In California Eva has a direct hand in establishing Spanish mission communities all over southern California, but most notably San Diego and Los Angeles. This fact plays an immense role in Eva's control over the Free States, as her influence can literally be traced back to the origins of many cities. Her first meeting with the Kindred of the area was a trick of fate, more than a planned and plotted event. She was traveling with a Spanish friar when a wind storm forced them to the nearest settlement: the rancho of Don Sebastian Juan Dominguez, unaware of 5th Generation Toreador on the run Christopher Houghton. 

As was his custom, Houghton would develop a crush. Both from Eva's power of presence and personality, from her charm, but of the stories she told--of her escape, of her survival, of her helping the Spanish to setup so much of California already. As the night went long the two talked of what could be made of the valleys they overlooked in moonlight now. Of what could be; it was there, that night, that the original idea of Los Angeles was conceived. Before the sun rose, Houghton embraced Eva, convinced she was his missing piece. While others close to Christopher would come and go, Eva would stay with him, the mother figure he never had, and never had to fear. 

Los Angeles grew into a major city, and before long the Kindred duo were looking for other outlets. Neither is sure who was first, Christopher or Eva, but they both agree that once the other introduced them to motion pictures...that was it. They had found their new calling. Los Angeles and it's surrounding areas they would leave to lieutenants and mortal pawns, stepping in when needed, but from then on the majority of their attention was on this new artform. It was on "Hollywoodland"--or Hollywood, as Eva famously shortened it one evening. What followed was the Golden Age of Hollywood. 

In the mid-1900s the Anarchs came. Christopher fell for some of the Anarchs, had soured on his childe, the Camarilla Prince Don Sebastian. So the Don fell, and the Anarchs set up a Free State--completely unaware of the Kindred powers that were already supporting them from the shadows. Of a sort, anyway; quite frankly at the time Eva didn't care. The Anarchs, the Free State? That nonsense belonged to Christopher, as far as Eva was concerned. Where he became distracted from Hollywood, Eva only doubled her efforts, becoming hyperactive in her involvement with the day to day, and long term, operations of Hollywood. Her only distraction was in the early 70s--and that was thanks to the exploding porn film industry in Van Nuys, well within her LA domain. 

Eventually Christopher's paranoia and aggression got the better of him. When Los Angeles turned to war after lupine and kindred alike went after Don Sebastian, Christopher came dangerously close to exposing himself--and by extension Eva. It created the first squabble between the two since the earliest days of Hollywood. Instead of heal and move on, the divisions only deepened. After the incident elder Kindred in LA began to die, and a new series of violence errupted. This time Christopher went public, and declared himself Baron of Los Angeles. 

It was betrayal and violation to Eva. Their secrecy was their bond, and he had finally violated it due to no reason other than his own paranoia and madness. When Christopher attacked her own Coterie and friends, Eva was forced to act. The Kindred Civil War of the Free States began, and ended only when Eva diablerized Christopher Houghton. Forced with a decision of letting chaos break out or assert her dominance of Los Angeles, Eva refused to step forward. While the Kid and her's power base is consolidated by her and her's, their doesn't seem to be a plan by Eva to do anything with all that influence and power. 

Eva has currently taken on the persona of a recent model turned 12th Generation Toreador, and can be found in all manner of havens and hangouts across the Los Angeles area. From bars in Santa Monica to hotel lobbies along Beverely Hills to house parties in the Valley. Some have noted her beauty, but some others have dismissed her as just another pretty face in a town full of pretty faces. This way no one seems to mind having her around, even if no one seems to pay her much more than token attention for brief periods, leaving her to reflect on the images and voices suddenly filling her head, whispering to her through blood and ages about Gehenna, and about him.

While Eva floats around LA incognito her Coterie remains vigilant. Each of it's members had taken governance of one aspect of Eva's dominion or another, and in her absence they have simply kept doing what it is they have always done: Mateo, the sole survivor of the LA Tremere Chantry, works LA County and state officials and keeps tabs on the magical side of things. Andre, a once upon a time LA gangster turned US Marine turned LA Brujah does what he's always done best; act as force modifier for Eva with several of LA's largest gangs secretly in his pocket along with the private security that can be seen in a few of Eva's properties around LA but most notably have turned Catalina Island into a fortress. Rachel, a former Camarilla Ventrue and before that former lawyer, runs much of the business empire under Eva as well as monitoring a network of spies and informants. Yanci, thought to be Eva's lone childer, manages Hollywood in the absence of both the Kid and now Eva. 

Each member of the Coterie have stepped up into larger roles, though each is aware of what Eva is up to, though not always the exact details. There are even hints that there may be another one or two of the Coterie still hiding in Los Angeles. [/color]

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[hider=Yanci Carolina]

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[center] Toreador | 7th Generation [/center]

The product of Catholic abuse on a native woman. Raised in captivity for much of her young life under the control of a twisted Priest. After her mother snapped and attacked that twisted Priest, Yanci's young life began to spiral out of control. The Priest killed her mother and began a long series of "punishments" for Yanci to answer for the "crimes" of her dead mother. When some of the other older women at the Mission tried to step in, the blood shed only continued. The violence and blood had broken something in the Priest, and that would leave Yanci in a cell for most a year before the Spanish gave way to the Mexican, and the Mexican caught up with the little Mission in what would one day be known as Southern California. 

Eva came with the Mexicans, and the Mexicans were happy to let Eva deal with Yanci and the old women of the Mission. When the Mexicans and Eva departed the Priest was dead, Yanci and the old women of the Mission directed to a nearby Rancho for shelter and employment. They stayed at the Mission until a few years later when Yanci would see Eva again, this time under moonlight and after burying the last of the old women. Yanci's life ended, and her unlife began. What followed was as gentle a beginning into the Kindred existence as Yanci can imagine their being. California was wide open and easy pickings for Kindred, and there were few enough of them back them. While Eva would stay at the Rancho of Don Sebastian with Christopher for long stretches of time, Yanci would learn to roam farther and farther.

She began, then, to lay the groundwork of a network of contacts from every level of society within California. Yanci's young unlife was filled with connecting people and groups, both natives and outsiders, and the girl would blush if the full scope of her role in bringing about the United States into California was known. The right whisper, the right connection, the right amount of trust with the right people; Yanci was a natural at networking and working those networks of people for desirable outcomes. She became invaluable to her sire and grandsire once the duo conceived the artistic vision of what they would tongue-in-cheek refer to as "the City of Angels." 

When the duo started their second great project, Hollywood, Yanci was tested like never before. Hollywood was people and networks, but these people were different than the Californians Yanci was used to. Though it took her years and years at Eva's elbow, Yanci finally began to learn what it took to achieve similar results in Hollywood. Though various humans can claim to have created it, the field of Talent Management, managing Hollywood talent in such a way to optimize their talent and studio investment, was very much so the first Talent Manager in Hollywood. By then Eva was already talking about a global movie making effort. Though Christopher Houghton disagreed, Eva began to receive visiting Toreador from other parts of the world, most notably Italy, creating a back channel of establishment Kindred from Europe and a new avenue for Yanci.

She would spend much of the decades after WWII mostly based in Italy with filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, watching American films at the time and trying to guess which ones the Kid had influenced and which ones Eva had influenced. After a few years the difference between the two began to be as wide as a Michael Bay film and a Quentin Tarantino film of modern nights. In the late 60s Yanci would return to Hollywood, finding a very different kind of situation than before. The Kid and Eva's working relationship had frayed to the point where the Kid withdraw from Hollywood and began attaching himself to various Anarch Barons and Princes and the kind of Kindred politics that went in the face of everything he and Eva, and by some extension Yanci, had been building all the years together. 

It was artistic betrayal in favor of Kindred politics, and the original sin that would lead to Eva diablerizing Christopher the Kid. Soon after the Coterie became a thing with the addition of the Ventrue Rachel and the Brujah Andre. When Mateo, the Tremere, joined them later it felt as if he had always been part of their little group. The Coterie grew closer and and more directly involved in the power structures of LA and SoCal over the next 50 years, as Christopher the Kid grew less and less connected to reality, let alone managing affairs. When his madness had fully manifested the Coterie acted in self defense, and Eva ended it. 

The resulting fallout has seen each member of the Coterie not Eva work overtime to keep all the plates spinning. Yanci finds herself managing Hollywood like she once managed golden age studio stars. She's busy, but if there's any part of SoCal life that is insulated from the current chaos it's the glitz, glamour, and money of Hollywood. 

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[hider=Andre]

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[center] Brujah | 9th Generation [/center]

A young black man who had a life not unlike other black Brujah that originated in the United States at the time; a former slave turned soldier in the American Civil War. Andre reckons it has something to do with the nature of the American Civil War; the kind of bloodshed and violence rarely seen in the history of the planet. While he would only later learn of the Kindred manipulations during the Civil War, nothing about the conflict felt "right" or "just" to him during those living days. It was only after Andre and a handful of his remaining black unit protecting a vital supply line from a Confederate attack, a heroic effort that would lead many a Union officer to see black troops as more than manual labor, that life would begin to get weird for him.

His unit was the only real family he'd ever had; the other slaves he'd been raised with were as bad as they were good, more than happy to snitch on you or blame you for something they done if it meant you got whipped and they got extra food. In the war his unit looked out for each other, even their white officer wasn't no bad man, and did what he could do for them before he was injured. Although their unit would be reinforced, their was always another Confederate charge on the supply line. The Confederates enjoyed fast, mounted, attacks. Andre, in particular, had gotten good at spotting them early. Some joked he could sense 'em, that he could sense any coming fight. 

It was in the middle of the night that Andre would be embraced by his sire. Andre would lose his sire in the mountains of Tennessee, presumed dead after coming into conflict with Garou. He would drift south, from smuggler's cove to mining camp to hunting lodge, always dragging along the edge of society until he would finally submit to curiosity and enter into the city of New Orleans. It was in New Orleans that Andre would come into contact with Crispus Attucks and begin his training as a spy, though Andre's natural talents were always with fighting and small unit tactics. Through Attucks he would be introduced to Jeremy MacNeil and Marguerite Foccart, and would eventually follow the former when they heard of anarch uprisings out West. 

In Los Angeles Andre found a home. Though Jeremy and Marguerite would get swept up in their dramas, Andre found himself happy to embed himself into black communities; something the two white Europeans who looked like characters off a romance novel cover could never do. He would then find ways to ingratiate himself to other minority communities, from Mexican to Asian. He sparked up an interest in martial arts, but left it at idle interest at the time while he began to see what was becoming of minority communities and how they were isolating in their own neighborhoods. Like how his Union army unit had become a family, so too would the minority community gangs become a combat family. 

After WWII Andre began to cultivate the gangs of LA, while other Brujah worried about revolts and Kindred politics, Andre kept his focus and began to expand his operation by taking in returning WWII G.I.'s and their new training/knowledge hard earned on the battle field. Andre began paying attention to nearby military bases, and in shadowing a military training exercise out of curiosity, he would run right into the Toreador Yanci. The girl talked him out of any conflict; she was no threat unless he harmed her. Andre made a joke about not being scared of a Kid. Yanci invited him to Malibu, where he would meet Yanci's sire, Eva. 

Eva and Andre spent days talking about Los Angeles, what would become of it. Eva envisioned a day when the gangs and minorities would get their Hollywood spotlight. Andre laughed off the idea almost immediately, but the Toreador's vision was so strong, so fleshed out, that after the week was over at her beach house even he had to admit it sounded possible. With a shake of hands, the two decided to join forces. While Jeremy tolerated, maybe even liked the Kid a bit, Eva gave MacNeil a wide berth. Over time Andre left MacNeil's camp and joined Eva's, quick to point out to his former traveling companion that Eva was not the Kid, and the gulf between them was widening. 

In the late 20th century, Eva's ideas of minority spotlight became a reality. Rodney King changed the entire equation, and by the time rap game began to explode, Andre was already doing what he could to keep the gangs sharp but the bloodshed from inflicting too much damage for their own cause. During the 80s he had garnered an interest in Private Military, and was able spend time learning new training and tactics and weapons, himself. With Eva's money the two would begin several PMC companies through puppets and ghouls, the final layers to a "combat network" that reaches from street gangs to PMC units as well armed and trained as most Special Forces units in the world. One of these units is visible from time to time on Catalina Island, and it's believed they control the local police on the island, as reports indicate it's nearly impossible for a Kindred to get on the island and remain there without being isolated and ejected by the police, or if it comes to it, the unmarked commandos in black. 

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[hider=Rachel]
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[center] Ventrue | 9th Generation [/center]

Rachel Fields very much remembers her life. She had a happy childhood and a privileged upper middle class upbringing. She excelled academically and at first considered she may make her life in the field of analytics. It was a trick of fate that saw her witness a race crime and decide to seek a more proactive career, rather than something as reactrive as data analysis despite her love of math. It wasn't until college at Harvard that she realized she could largely do both: she could become a lawyer and litigate for various analytics firms. Shortly after graduation she assisted in the creation a predictive model for mid-level consumer markets.

From that point on, Rachel was tracked. She liked to dress in "timeless" modern fashions. She composed herself very honorably, and was determined to make a productive mark on the world to further society, not to drain from it. She quick witted, intelligent, and even natured. Between her law degree and her specialty in analytics, there was even greater interest in the girl. The first interest she got after her law school graduation was as a legal assistant with the NSA, helping to navigate complex agreements by the NSA and tech firms within the MIT atmosphere.

Then one night it all changed. She entered her loft apartment and found people in fancy corporate clothing waiting for her patiently. There was something about them Rachel never did like, but something in the back of her mind told her to keep it quiet, to listen and determine from the information and facts what the best course of action was. Her visitors were amused yet had no patience for her to say yay or nay; they required her expertise and contacts. The Ventrue elders present allowed the Ventrue's, and by extension the Camarilla's, chief analytics mind Thaddeus Carter embrace the girl. Though newer he was more accomplished than many Kindred far older and was of the blood of Hardstadt.

Thus began a beautiful work partnership. The predictive models the two created from Camarilla data and intelligence have helped the Camarilla immensely in North America and all over the world. The more they worked, the more renown Thaddeus and Rachel found themselves achieving. They wrote the new playbook on how the Sabbat operated and how best to beat them back. As much as Thaddeus seemed to appreciate the favor given to him by Ventrue elders, Rachel found herself not caring. If Camarilla and Sabbat had been dancing this dance for as long as they had been, Rachel failed to see how even a "new playbook" would end the conflict. She wasn't interested in that dance. 

Out of appreciation for their partnership Thaddeus supported Rachel when she asked to leave. The Clan decided for her it would be best if she relocated to Vancouver and assisted the Prince there. Rachel gained a profound education in Lupine/Kindred relations during her time in Vancouver, although she found the Ventrue Primogen in the city to be tiresome, and eventually she simply left for Seattle without any permission from those above her in the Clan. While Alec Cross and she got along famously and the relationship allowed Rachel to get close to tech giants like Apple and Google and Facebook, she spent more than a few years in Silicon Valley before meeting a Kindred that seemed unlike any she had ever met before.

The Kindred was a model, or a sorceress, it was hard for even a mind trained as well as Rachel's to follow the vague story and at times confusing, or conflicting, details of the story. Yet never once did Rachel find herself doubting the words of the Kindred woman she had met. When several Hollywood movie stars appeared at the hotel bar Rachel had met the Kindred woman at and the stars instantly went to greet this mystery Kindred woman, Rachel's curiosity forced her to ask plainly: Who are you? What are you?

In her time with the Ventrue and Camarilla, and it's rigid structures, a Kindred like this woman seemed surreal. So by the time she got the story of the woman, from early California to early Los Angeles to Hollywood, and a name, Eva, Rachel had decided where she wanted to be and what she wanted to do. Rachel would visit Eva in Los Angeles, and immediately begin helping the woman by assessing her legal staff and seeing where they could improve. High upon Catalina Island where they watched the sailboats in the waters just off the island look like twinkling stars in the night's sky Rachel and Eva spoke about Hollywood, and it's future with the very tech giants Rachel had just spent years getting to know and working with here and there.

Although Rachel informed Clan Ventrue of her intentions, she has never heard back from them. When she has it has been non-responses, committing to neither casting her out of the Clan or giving her any kind of permission. The most they've done is express disappointment in her choices, and extend to her that they have confidence that she is not going to divulge any sensitive information she may have from her time working with her sire and their project regarding the Sabbat. As such Rachel occupies an immensely bizarre position with Clan Ventrue: someone with intimate knowledge that walked away from the path the Clan put her on and yet has been allowed to simply keep walking. 

Some suspect this really is because of what Rachel might know. Others suspect it's because of the high profile relationships with Kindred and Kine of North America that she's developed. The wisest, however, point to one relationship in particular: Eva. The Camarilla, and especially the Ventrue, have long acknowledged Hollywood's role in maintaining the Masquerade. They have an appreciation for the great works that have been done, and especially keeping with the Traditions. Yet no elder is fool enough to think for a second the Camarilla doesn't wish they could add Eva, or her works, to the selection of tools at their disposal. Perhaps Rachel is a way to do that. Prehaps Rachel is really more of a Camarilla spy than a wandering Ventrue. 

Maybe time will tell.

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[hider=Mateo]

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[center] Tremere | 10th Generation [/center]

One of the few survivors of the Los Angeles Chantry since he was not present at the time of the mystery attack upon it that took nearly all members of the Tremere Chantry. Since nothing was taken or destroyed the sudden dissappearace of the other members of the Chantry left a mystery that Mateo tried to investigate, but either he simply lacked the knowledge or there were precious few traces left of the killer or killers to be investigated. Although Clan Tremere itself was hesitant to send in any help since the Free State already had a reputation, had already taken the lives of many Tremere, and was descending into violence even as Mateo reached out. 

Mateo found himself reaching out to Anarch leaders for any assistance, but they either played coy or didn't care. Only after asking around did someone appear to him; three someones. They sat down at a table he had sequestered himself to in the back corner of a dive bar Mateo had grown to favor. Just sat down like they belonged, as affable and charming as any Kindred he had ever seen. Two women and a man, and almost immediately they introduced themselves: Yanci, Rachel, Andre. They knew who attacked his Chantry, but in telling him, they explained, they would have to tell him the whole story. 

That was the evening Mateo became one of the few Kindred in the world to know about the truth of Los Angeles and Hollywood, about Christopher and Eva. 

Mateo is the childer of Lucas Halton, a 9th Generation Tremere and the former Prince of Houston. A 7th Circle High Apprentice at the time of the attack on the Los Angeles Chantry, Mateo spent much of his life in Mexico as a son, brother, and medical student at various universities. It was traveling in Texas when Mateo sat in on several 'mystical parlors' on Galveston Island, and there he first met Lucas. They spent much of the evening making sarcastic commentary at the expense of the 'mystical' charade they were bearing witness to that evening. Lucas would talk Mateo into staying on Galveston Island, sparking a friendship that would culminate in Lucas embracing Mateo a year later. 

Mateo's initial unlife was difficult, and he would find many of his fellow new Apprentices committing suicide as they struggled with the cold reality and hard demands of Clan Tremere. But Mateo had both intellect, talent, and enough interpersonal skills to survive until he found his footing. From there he became even more of a devoted academic in unlife as he was in life, being allowed access to various paths of Thaumaturgy to see which he had the most aptitude and talent for. Much of his unlife remained the paths and his study of them until he was promoted a few times, Lucas calling on Mateo to assist in the guiding of what would become one of the largest cities in North America with Houston. 

At the loss of his sire, Mateo was asked to transfer to the Los Angeles Chantry. A dangerous proposition, it was explained to him, given the nature of the Free State and the fact that the Los Angeles Chantry had to exist as an "unofficial" chantry. Mateo was happy to have a new role after the loss of his sire, and soon settled in just fine at the Los Angeles Chantry. It took him longer than he would have liked to settle into the city, he found it far more unpredictable than Houston and South Texas. Mateo was pleased that the Tremere of the LA Chantry were mostly open-handed with knowledge and encouraging. 

The sudden attack broke blood bonds, such as they had been broken when his sire was lost. Mateo felt too alone, too isolated, in the wake of the attack. When the three Kindred sat themselves down as his back corner bar table, it was a mixture of dread and hope he had felt. The trio offered him a place to stay, a safe house of theirs they could let him borrow for as long as he needed. The large male, Andre, assisted Mateo in relocating many of the Chantry's secrets to a secure location. Andre invited him to meet the other member of their coterie, and Mateo agreed. Far up in the Hollywood Hills, behind a white stucco wall and black gates, on a canyon road that winded this way and that for miles, they arrived at a large house that seemed to Mateo to be all glass walls.

He met her in front of one of those walls of glass; the one in the massive, sprawling, sitting room with the sunken floor and the Hollywood style. Then and there was Mateo finally confronted with the bare truth: there would be no justice for his Chantry. They would not move on the Kindred behind the attack, they as a group were too close to offending party, and doing so would incite the kind of conflict that could easily break the Masquerade. All Eva could offer him were answers and friendship, and one day, she promised, justice. Mateo thanked her and left that night. He would return in following nights, spending time with the mystery Hollywood coterie. It was a high, though the coterie worked to influence and control Los Angeles and Hollywood with an impressive dedication they were fun, they were kind even to their ghouls. 

It was bizarre. It wasn't long before Mateo found himself smiling more, and enjoying conversations that lasted all night. When Mateo made the decision to leave Clan Tremere it was because he had found a new belonging in the mystery coterie of Hollywood. Mateo and Eva's friendship would deepen greatly as he began to teach her Thaumaturgy, their library of artifacts and knowledge growing in time. Mateo would even be taught a few things himself; the Path of Technomancy would become an obsession and specialization of his, giving Mateo a new role in the city. The Free State had become a haven for hacktivist former Tremere, and now Mateo had the resources and network to keep track on all the various coteries and cells in and around the city. 

Mateo stood with the coterie as Eva came into conflict with Kid, and was there as he saw Eva give the Kid final death and the Tremere of the LA Chantry some measure of justice. 

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[hider=Gwendalyn Vance]

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Mortal Actress | 24 Years Old[/center]

While it's hard to tell exactly what her position is within the group, one thing is clear: Gwnedalyn Vance is a mortal member of the clique. In true Hollywood fashion, Gwendalyn Vance started out as a small town girl lost in a small town, go nowhere kind of life. Though her parents were, more or less, loving and well adjusted, nothing would stop their daughter from her dreams of Hollywood. After graduating high school, and majoring in Drama at a nearby small private college in the Pacific Northwest, Gwendalyn took her old Honda and made the trek to Hollywood. 

It took her a little less than a month to get attention, even if it wasn't the kind of attention she was hoping for. At a party held by industry wanna-bes and grifters, Gwendalyn was drugged by a 'producer' in film, really a YouTuber trying to make the jump to online porn videos. Gwendalyn was so far gone, she doesn't remember walking out into Echo Park traffic, or nearly being killed by a passing car. When the wanna-be tried to drag her out of the street, telling concerned pedestrians to calm down, he was her boyfriend and she was a drug addict, it was either chance or fate that Eva caught a glance of the girl when passing by.

From that moment, on, the connection between Gwendalyn and the elder Kindred was intense. The most impressive thing to Eva about the girl? Gwendalyn refused any Hollywood favors. She wanted to audition on her own, she wanted to scrap and claw to every unspeaking extra in a bad commercial part she could get, with hopes and dreams for more one day. Ironic that a struggling, working actress that also works as a waitress would become so close to the Kindred that created and run Hollywood from the shadows. 

In time Gwendalyn came to know what Eva was, and to meet the rest of the Coterie. When Eva entered torpor after diablerie of Christopher Houghton, Gwendalyn stayed in touch with the group, and from time to time still saw them. She got a speaking role in a failed pilot a year later, the cruel sting of the pilot getting passed on by Netflix stung, it was recently awakened Eva who appeared to comfort the girl. In their first evening together in too long a time, Gwendalyn offered herself to Eva...not sexually, but as a meal. Though initially reluctant, Eva admitted Gwendalyn was very much her 'type': a serious artist at heart and a great beauty. Since that night Gwendalyn has become Eva's favorite mortal, and they don't go a week without seeing each other. 

Ghoul, blood doll, is hard to tell. Eva seemed intent on embracing the girl, before Gehenna, and now it's anyone's guess what the fates have in store for the girl in the end times. 

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