Jeremy the Vampire
Jeremy Quinn, The Vampire[edit]
Look - Smouldering
Eyes - Hungry
Origin - Newly Reborn
Stats:
Hot 2
Cold 1
Volatile -1
Dark -1 (3 if using Marked For The Hunt)
Moves:
The Feeding – You feed on hot blood, direct from the source. If this is the first time they’ve ever been fed upon, you both mark experience. When you feed, choose two: • You heal 1 Harm • You take 1 Forward • They definitely don’t die
Marked for the Hunt – Feeding on someone establishes a preternatural bond. From that point forward, whenever you Gaze Into The Abyss concerning their whereabouts or well-being, roll as if you had Dark 3.
Sex Move: When you deny someone sexually, gain a String on them. When you have sex with someone, lose all Strings on them.
Strings:
1. You’re beautiful. Gain a String on everyone.
2. Someone once saved your unlife. They gain 2 Strings on you
Darkest Self: Everyone is your pawn, your plaything. You hurt them and make them vulnerable, for sport – like a cat does with a mouse. Maybe you’ll even drain them dry, though you’ll certainly take your time first. You escape your Darkest Self when you’re put in your rightful place, by someone more powerful than you.
Backstory (draft):
The Quinn family have been in Frost Point almost since its founding, and were once influential and prosperous. That hasn't been the case for a long time. With each generation, the name's prestige fades a little more, and Jeremy's parents are barely clinging to their middle class status. Both employees of the local courthouse and living outside their means, everything they do is about maintaining the appearance of being comfortably well-off, despite the truth that they are flat broke. This status anxiety is exacerbated by Jeremy's paternal grandmother, whose obsession with recreating the glory of the 'good old days' pushes her son and daughter-in-law to distraction. Their preoccupation with their place in the community leads them to neglect their only child, who has grown up knowing he can get away with a great deal of things by exploiting his parents' absenteeism.
Jeremy has grown up a bit of a tearaway, his parents taking a permissive approach to him for most things. He has, for the most part, kept just off the precipice of getting in serious trouble, but he has often enjoyed flirting with the line, and he has thought nothing of sneaking out at night to go drinking, or taking a cavalier attitude to driving in order to impress. Until recently, he has very rarely had to face the consequences of his actions. However, becoming a vampire by accident has changed his life from one of mindless indulgence into one of having to always be in control.
Jeremy is now pretty sure, after much contemplation, that he was turned into a vampire by a charismatic older man he met at a LGBT+ club a few weeks into the new semester, who spiked his drink, took him home and then threw him out rather abruptly in the morning. Jeremy woke up with a weird hunger churning inside him. The morning light felt irritating as he walked home, still distracted by his gnawing stomach and his confusion about what had happened in the chunk of time missing from his memory. As the days went on and the hunger grew more urgent, he became aware that something was deeply wrong, and when he finally caved in and fed on a random stranger four nights after his 'turning', he realised exactly what he now was.
Since then, no normal food has satiated him, and he’s felt less comfortable with direct sunlight than before. He used to live for days out with friends, but now he wears shades a lot and avoids being outside for long periods. He holds off as long as he can bear before feeding, conflicted by the fact it simultaneously excites and repulses him, and he tries to keep his hunting quick, quiet, and in the dead of night, pursuing strangers down dark alleyways as they stumble home drunk or high.
He has tried to find the home of his creator since it happened, but to no avail.
The new Jeremy is now walking in two worlds. The one where he feels afraid and vulnerable, now knowing what being preyed on and used feels like, wanting to reject his new monstrousness, to control it as much as possible, and the one where he feels enticingly powerful, and his hunger rules all.
