lamb of god have mercy on us
"I was reading through that Handbook for the Recently Deceased,
it said 'live people usually ignore the strange and unusual'...
I myself am strange and unusual."
APPEARANCE: Brody is typically gender-ambiguous, it is safe to assume he is presenting male unless noted otherwise, and looks to be in his mid-teens, 5' 3", and sickly thin -- he looks starved, with sunken eyes and a gaunt face. Of late he's been wearing poor-quality, secondhand clothes that look like they've come from the Salvation Army or else straight from a Dumpster; grungey, plain, baggy clothes, no particular style. On occasion he dresses the way he prefers to, which is "so goth I shit bats". He is always wearing gloves, often cheap costume gloves. He smells faintly of gore and decay, especially if he hasn't been eating much, and wears strong perfumes to cover that and his lack of body odour. His blood has a pleasant odor but is faintly oversweet, like rotting fruit.
He is of mixed heritage -- white, Métis and Ojibwe -- and has a total of fourteen piercings (most are not on his face ... great) and a constantly shifting array of tattoos and scars. His accent is rural Southern, a mish-mash of various regions; he grew up in a couple different states. He affects a Brooklyn accent because he's afraid people will judge him for being Southern.
He does not breathe, blink, sweat, or have a beating heart, because he is dead. He is pale, usually in an unnatural way indicating makeup, but often in a way where he just looks, frankly, like a walking corpse. Your character may or may not notice what he refers to as his "Jesus bits" -- the scars on his palms, feet and sides -- either because they can smell the blood or they have a sensitivity to ... Jesusness. It's up to you, I can roll with whatever.
BACKSTORY: Rodney McAdams was in the military, which was why the McAdams family moved around quite a bit, but by the time DJ and Katie were born, they'd mostly settled in Kentucky. DJ had a fairly normal childhood, growing up poor in the south, living in trailers for most of his childhood. When he was 9, he began experiencing debilitating migraines, and was eventually hospitalized; when no medical cause for them was discerned, CPS began investigating the McAdams home for signs of abuse (and found none). Shortly after this, the family picked up and moved, to Tennessee.
DJ was twelve when he spontaneously generated bleeding scars on his hands, a cause for which could never be found. The sensational nature of his stigmata quickly attracted national attention, attention that later caused the family to move again to protect themselves and stop the harassment.
In South Carolina, DJ changed his name to Brody and gradually became more and more ~tragically goth~ the more depressed he got. When his parents caught him kissing another boy when he turned 15, they sent him to an ex-gay camp, a deeply traumatic experience he still doesn't talk about to anyone. Several months later, he ran away from home.
He spent several years in New York, alternating from place to place but very often living on the street. After years of being stalked, and then ghouled, by vampires, he was Embraced in early 2010, at a few weeks shy of eighteen. The Sabbat pack who claim him think he is connected to Cain and/or Gehenna in some way. The Camarilla just want him dead. Currently he is in hiding from both, living with fireburned in Los Angeles.
PERSONALITY: Generally a pretty sweet, friendly kid, with an alternating goofy and/or sarcastic sense of humour and a macabre streak a mile wide, Brody is nice to an extent but exhibits some hardened behaviour that indicates he's spent a lot of time homeless. He is very sarcastic, in fact, in a super juvenile way, and the older he gets, the more deadpan his humour gets. He finds it increasingly hard to connect with people when he loses more of his humanity every day. He is guarded, has a lot of secrets, and is very difficult to get close to and tends to get defensive fast. He is very afraid of intimacy and affection, has difficulty identifying and processing his emotions, and has major trust issues. He shuts people out of his life whenever things get even a little bit personal and refuses to talk about his thoughts and feelings; he's absolutely convinced that nobody cares, and he's very afraid of being hurt by having his feelings dismissed as inconsequential. Again.
He's a terrible judge of character and can't quite seem to be able to tell bad people from good; he doubts himself and his judgment, which doesn't help. He finds it easier to throw himself at people whose intentions are clearly motivated by self-interest because he can rely on them to be consistent; altruism makes him wary. Most of the people who have abused him have done so under the guise of ~looking out for his best interests~ or ~trying to help~. He is paranoid and distrusts authority figures, moody, prone to depression, self-absorbed and melodramatic in a way very typical of adolescents. Drawn to violent, unstable people because he thinks he can "fix" them (he is wrong), Brody is always looking for a challenge in this way. It's unhealthy and dangerous. He also feels as if he deserves to be treated badly, because he's internalized a lot of abuse.
While not particularly intelligent, he is creative and thoughtful. He has trouble expressing himself, his vocabulary's poor and he's crap at academic learning; his strengths really lie in socializing. He is, above all, very young, and was very young when he died -- he struggles with his identity, especially with regards to his humanity and how he identifies in terms of race and gender, and those are questions that take up a lot of his time.
ABILITIES:
Before his Embrace, Brody was more or less baseline human. He had no particular powers of his own. Post-death, he is tzimisce by Embrace, althouh most tzimisce will not claim him, uh... because he's ridiculous -- he was taught the basics of vicissitude by his sire before they separated and has muddled along figuring out more on his own, but he's not particularly good at it. (He cannot set malleable visage to be permanent, for instance, and his work on living flesh tends to be rather ham-fisted.) He can alter his appearance in minor cosmetic ways and permanently manipulate flesh and bone with his hands, and has shown signs of an emerging horrid form, a nasty, giant monster unique to the tzimisce.
Like all vampires of his canon, he is stronger, faster, more durable, and has better senses than human beings. He is predatory in nature, alternating puppyish and kittenish, and subject to frenzy under emotional duress or extreme hunger. He can be killed by beheading or immolation, while a stake to the heart will cause him to go into torpor, but will not kill him. Sunlight is deadly, holy objects will not hurt him, and he requires an invitation to enter buildings. (An hours of operation sign counts. A welcome mat doesn't. It's tricky.) He has permanent small fangs. Like all tzimisce, he is bound by certain rules of hospitality. He requires fresh, human blood on a regular basis and becomes sluggish, irritable and more prone to frenzy when he doesn't have it. He can spend vitae to heal wounds and perform feats, but the more he does, the more often he needs to feed.
LIKES:
Artists: Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, Jenny Saville, Stella Vine, Trevor Brown, Mark Ryden, John John Jesse, Audrey Kawasaki, Joshua Petker, John Santerineross
Music: A Perfect Circle, AFI, Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Cannibal Corpse, the Cruxshadows, the Cure, Depeche Mode, Dope Stars Inc, Jack Off Jill, Joy Division, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Mindless Self Indulgence, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Radiohead, Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, the Smiths, Skinny Puppy, System of a Down, Tool, VAST, VNV Nation
Movies/TV: 10 Things I Hate About You, The Addams Family, Adventure Time, Beetlejuice, But I'm a Cheerleader, Chowder, Corpse Bride, the Crow, Edward Scissorhands, Elfen Lied, Family Guy, Martyrs, the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Nightmare Before Christmas, the Oblongs, Oldboy, South Park, the Venture Brothers, Young Frankenstein
TESTIMONIALS!:
anson_greene: Sweetness shines out of every pore of you like rainbows out of a unicorn's butt. I could glue angel wings on you and hang you on my Christmas tree.
alloy_avenger: Stop being likable. It's disgusting. I want so badly to hate you.
taste_of_honey: Even your talent for talking people into confused inaction won't work all the time.
modernfae: You aren't that short or someone would have kidnapped you to be their personal pocket Brody forever
artoflabor: You are like your own personal abortion clinic.
errantknights: martel's still not positive brody is not some kind of bizarre pixie, fyi.
errantknights: You are frankly more distressing than cannibalistic orgy worship.
it said 'live people usually ignore the strange and unusual'...
I myself am strange and unusual."
APPEARANCE: Brody is typically gender-ambiguous, it is safe to assume he is presenting male unless noted otherwise, and looks to be in his mid-teens, 5' 3", and sickly thin -- he looks starved, with sunken eyes and a gaunt face. Of late he's been wearing poor-quality, secondhand clothes that look like they've come from the Salvation Army or else straight from a Dumpster; grungey, plain, baggy clothes, no particular style. On occasion he dresses the way he prefers to, which is "so goth I shit bats". He is always wearing gloves, often cheap costume gloves. He smells faintly of gore and decay, especially if he hasn't been eating much, and wears strong perfumes to cover that and his lack of body odour. His blood has a pleasant odor but is faintly oversweet, like rotting fruit.
He is of mixed heritage -- white, Métis and Ojibwe -- and has a total of fourteen piercings (most are not on his face ... great) and a constantly shifting array of tattoos and scars. His accent is rural Southern, a mish-mash of various regions; he grew up in a couple different states. He affects a Brooklyn accent because he's afraid people will judge him for being Southern.
He does not breathe, blink, sweat, or have a beating heart, because he is dead. He is pale, usually in an unnatural way indicating makeup, but often in a way where he just looks, frankly, like a walking corpse. Your character may or may not notice what he refers to as his "Jesus bits" -- the scars on his palms, feet and sides -- either because they can smell the blood or they have a sensitivity to ... Jesusness. It's up to you, I can roll with whatever.
BACKSTORY: Rodney McAdams was in the military, which was why the McAdams family moved around quite a bit, but by the time DJ and Katie were born, they'd mostly settled in Kentucky. DJ had a fairly normal childhood, growing up poor in the south, living in trailers for most of his childhood. When he was 9, he began experiencing debilitating migraines, and was eventually hospitalized; when no medical cause for them was discerned, CPS began investigating the McAdams home for signs of abuse (and found none). Shortly after this, the family picked up and moved, to Tennessee.
DJ was twelve when he spontaneously generated bleeding scars on his hands, a cause for which could never be found. The sensational nature of his stigmata quickly attracted national attention, attention that later caused the family to move again to protect themselves and stop the harassment.
In South Carolina, DJ changed his name to Brody and gradually became more and more ~tragically goth~ the more depressed he got. When his parents caught him kissing another boy when he turned 15, they sent him to an ex-gay camp, a deeply traumatic experience he still doesn't talk about to anyone. Several months later, he ran away from home.
He spent several years in New York, alternating from place to place but very often living on the street. After years of being stalked, and then ghouled, by vampires, he was Embraced in early 2010, at a few weeks shy of eighteen. The Sabbat pack who claim him think he is connected to Cain and/or Gehenna in some way. The Camarilla just want him dead. Currently he is in hiding from both, living with fireburned in Los Angeles.
PERSONALITY: Generally a pretty sweet, friendly kid, with an alternating goofy and/or sarcastic sense of humour and a macabre streak a mile wide, Brody is nice to an extent but exhibits some hardened behaviour that indicates he's spent a lot of time homeless. He is very sarcastic, in fact, in a super juvenile way, and the older he gets, the more deadpan his humour gets. He finds it increasingly hard to connect with people when he loses more of his humanity every day. He is guarded, has a lot of secrets, and is very difficult to get close to and tends to get defensive fast. He is very afraid of intimacy and affection, has difficulty identifying and processing his emotions, and has major trust issues. He shuts people out of his life whenever things get even a little bit personal and refuses to talk about his thoughts and feelings; he's absolutely convinced that nobody cares, and he's very afraid of being hurt by having his feelings dismissed as inconsequential. Again.
He's a terrible judge of character and can't quite seem to be able to tell bad people from good; he doubts himself and his judgment, which doesn't help. He finds it easier to throw himself at people whose intentions are clearly motivated by self-interest because he can rely on them to be consistent; altruism makes him wary. Most of the people who have abused him have done so under the guise of ~looking out for his best interests~ or ~trying to help~. He is paranoid and distrusts authority figures, moody, prone to depression, self-absorbed and melodramatic in a way very typical of adolescents. Drawn to violent, unstable people because he thinks he can "fix" them (he is wrong), Brody is always looking for a challenge in this way. It's unhealthy and dangerous. He also feels as if he deserves to be treated badly, because he's internalized a lot of abuse.
While not particularly intelligent, he is creative and thoughtful. He has trouble expressing himself, his vocabulary's poor and he's crap at academic learning; his strengths really lie in socializing. He is, above all, very young, and was very young when he died -- he struggles with his identity, especially with regards to his humanity and how he identifies in terms of race and gender, and those are questions that take up a lot of his time.
ABILITIES:
Before his Embrace, Brody was more or less baseline human. He had no particular powers of his own. Post-death, he is tzimisce by Embrace, althouh most tzimisce will not claim him, uh... because he's ridiculous -- he was taught the basics of vicissitude by his sire before they separated and has muddled along figuring out more on his own, but he's not particularly good at it. (He cannot set malleable visage to be permanent, for instance, and his work on living flesh tends to be rather ham-fisted.) He can alter his appearance in minor cosmetic ways and permanently manipulate flesh and bone with his hands, and has shown signs of an emerging horrid form, a nasty, giant monster unique to the tzimisce.
Like all vampires of his canon, he is stronger, faster, more durable, and has better senses than human beings. He is predatory in nature, alternating puppyish and kittenish, and subject to frenzy under emotional duress or extreme hunger. He can be killed by beheading or immolation, while a stake to the heart will cause him to go into torpor, but will not kill him. Sunlight is deadly, holy objects will not hurt him, and he requires an invitation to enter buildings. (An hours of operation sign counts. A welcome mat doesn't. It's tricky.) He has permanent small fangs. Like all tzimisce, he is bound by certain rules of hospitality. He requires fresh, human blood on a regular basis and becomes sluggish, irritable and more prone to frenzy when he doesn't have it. He can spend vitae to heal wounds and perform feats, but the more he does, the more often he needs to feed.
LIKES:
Artists: Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, Jenny Saville, Stella Vine, Trevor Brown, Mark Ryden, John John Jesse, Audrey Kawasaki, Joshua Petker, John Santerineross
Music: A Perfect Circle, AFI, Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Cannibal Corpse, the Cruxshadows, the Cure, Depeche Mode, Dope Stars Inc, Jack Off Jill, Joy Division, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Mindless Self Indulgence, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Radiohead, Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, the Smiths, Skinny Puppy, System of a Down, Tool, VAST, VNV Nation
Movies/TV: 10 Things I Hate About You, The Addams Family, Adventure Time, Beetlejuice, But I'm a Cheerleader, Chowder, Corpse Bride, the Crow, Edward Scissorhands, Elfen Lied, Family Guy, Martyrs, the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Nightmare Before Christmas, the Oblongs, Oldboy, South Park, the Venture Brothers, Young Frankenstein
TESTIMONIALS!:
anson_greene: Sweetness shines out of every pore of you like rainbows out of a unicorn's butt. I could glue angel wings on you and hang you on my Christmas tree.
alloy_avenger: Stop being likable. It's disgusting. I want so badly to hate you.
taste_of_honey: Even your talent for talking people into confused inaction won't work all the time.
modernfae: You aren't that short or someone would have kidnapped you to be their personal pocket Brody forever
artoflabor: You are like your own personal abortion clinic.
errantknights: martel's still not positive brody is not some kind of bizarre pixie, fyi.
errantknights: You are frankly more distressing than cannibalistic orgy worship.