Name: Lara Rivkin Occupation: Owner & Dancer at The Satin Cabaret (Aurora) Age: Appears 27, actually 96 Sexuality: Bisexual Species: Vampire Clan/Pack/Coven?: Clan Kanemaru Hometown: New York, NY Relationship Status: Single Personality Traits: Perceptive, Intelligent, Spontaneous, Gossipy, Judgemental, Stubborn
Biography
Much of Lara’s young life was colored by the economic distress and deflation known now as The Great Depression. While her family were fairly well off before the stock market crash, afterwards in the chaos and uncertainty - they had to struggle much like everyone else. Lara, of course, didn’t understand much of the upset in her young life - and only much later when they were still building up their life from the ground up did she truly understand how much they had to sacrifice to give her a better life.
From then on, her parents were much more frugal in their way of life, which meant living in an area of town that none of them were used to, public schooling, and her brother getting a job as soon as he was able to help provide for the rest of them. Things upended once more when Daniel was drafted to fight in a war none of them truly understood the scope of, again, until much later.
The next few years was filled with ups and downs and struggles to make it through. Lara’s parents wanted nothing more than for her to find a nice man, settle down, and give them grand children. Life, apparently, had other plans.
In 1955, Lara thought for sure that she was running out of time to give her parents what they wanted from her. The men she dated were never the right one, and it was only when she found Ray that she thought she might have finally found the one. A few dates, a few nights out on the town, and her parents absolutely adoring him were all she needed to know that she was finally taking a step in the right direction.
She didn’t care about ‘saving’ herself for marriage, and so offered to spend the night with him at his apartment. So what if her friends were scandalized? It wasn’t as if she hadn’t done it before.
Except with Ray, he took advantage of her vulnerable position and left her covered in a pool of her own blood - his own leaving a tang of iron at the back of her throat.
The mistake cost her life. But it also gave her decades more.
She let her family believe she was well and truly gone, following Ray across the country to seek him out and make him realize what he’d done to her. In the 70s, she gave up on that goal, finding that with her appearance of youth - she could learn much more about the changing times. Protests lit the world on fire, wars were fought, and Lara embraced the new growing sex-positive sentiment.
She watched as history played out before her, watched as things she lived through became nothing more than a distant memory of people who would grow gray and wrinkled. Now, in Port Leiry - she works at the Satin Cabaret, enjoying the gift that Ray gave her, but also still wondering if he realizes exactly what he did for her or to her.
Wanted Plots
SIRE (0/1); A man who goes by the name 'Ray'. Lara and her sire dated for a brief period of time in the early 1950s before he turned her. Open to this being a good platonic or fun antagonistic relationship!
CLAN FAMILY; People in Clan Kanemaru who Lara may or may not get along with. She's loud and outspoken, and doesn't mind sticking her nose in things.
CLIENTS/CUSTOMERS; Any and all regulars who visit The Satin Cabaret to see Lara dance. This could lead to something more involved!


















