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Brujah - What is something your OC will always fight for? What's the reason?

Etta will *always* fight for ghouls. There's just something about them that she cares deeply for their well-being. Admittedly it's likely because she sees them as "pets" but it's still sweet imo. She has two "illegally" made ghouls Tobias and Carol.

She herself might be a bit... unfair and/or cruel to them in times but the second anyone else tries to say something or raise a hand against them she shuts it down by any means necessary.

Then the situation of her coterie-mate creating a ghoul. Ted and Etta ended up on their own, some anarchs attempted to kidnap Etta. Originally they were going to leave Ted on the side of the road but Etta used her Extreme Malkavian Charm (/hj) to convince them to bring the ghoul with her.

She's just got a soft spot for them, she wants to fight for them to be treated better.

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Ministry - What's the best/ worst lie your OC have ever told? What was the reason? Was it believed?

Hooo boy, Etta did a Big Lie last session actually. She caught her Sire, Lazarus, diablerizing a younger vampire in an alleyway. She's blood bonded to him very strongly and when asked if she knew anything about it she denied denied denied. The coterie is suspicious but thanks to some good rolls they kind of brushed it off (for now, this will bite her in the ass later for SURE)

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Toreador - Describe your OCs aesthetic in the worst way possible, then tell us what it actually is.

Bargain Bin Baddie.

Odette has genuinely been such a treat for me to roleplay. It took 3-4 sessions to really get into a flow of getting into her character, it was rocky, there were a few moments I perhaps toed fish-malk territory (not a sin, just not my intention.)

I think she's the sole character of mine who is really Truly in touch with her emotions. She feels an emotion and shows it immediately, reactions to events with her are my favourite.

I have two favourite moments of her; her moment of clarity, and her stigmata

So the coterie ran into a Salubri healer, he was able to do some magical salubri fuckery and allowed her One Scene of clarity from her derangement. It was in this moment she was able to recognize her sister finally, this was such a small but tender moment of her hugging her little sister and saying "Don't let me forget you again. please." And then turning around and taking charge to help her Gangrel coterie mate with his haunting.

It shows what being embraced Malkavian and blood bonded has taken from her. Etta in life was capable, strong, able to make decisive actions, she had opinions. She was able to live that for just a singular scene, and then it was back to the fog of her derangement.

Then recently her breakdown. Etta seeing glimpses and puzzle pieces of the past that made 0 sense to her. Waking up with wounds on her body, her mattress soaked in her own vitae. Clinging to her tarot cards on her bedroom floor, begging for them to give her an answer. Begging god, begging her then-absent Sire, begging her coterie mate Liz, begging anyone who would listen. She wants more than anything to be helpful but she felt she was falling just inches short of making sense of what she had seen.

That scene was very cathartic for her, and even for me as a player. To put my entire heart into that moment and allow Etta to show this kind of vulnerability through her breakdown, her full minute stream-of-consciousness speech.

And then afterward Liz knelt beside her and took a cloth and wiped the blood from her eyes very gently and said "It's okay." and hugged her.