Bran

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind” ― Jim Morrison
==Stats==
*Name: Abraham Gaspari
*Clan: Toreador
*Generation: 9th
*Embrace Date: 1920
*Demeanor: Chameleon 
*Apparent Age: 30's
*Camarilla Status: 4
*Clan Status: 5
*Known Childer: None
*Sire: Marguerite
*Facts: Bran is a media mogul. Several television and radio stations are his puppets. He has been investigating internet media lately.
==Background==
When Abraham Garcia was a kid in New York city, he loved to tell stories. When he was thirteen he took up photography, since he had already decided to be a journalist. Bran found that he had quite a talent for photography and the camera soon became his favorite medium. He had a gift for using composition and light to evoke emotions in those who looked at his work, and could endow even the most prosaic subject with grandeur. The reporting on the violence of World War I hardened him, however, and he became at once more cynical, worldly and interested in politics.
He moved to New Orleans for a change of scenery and went to work at the Times-Picayune. There, Bran discovered that his work for the NY Times had gotten him a good reputation, and he found it easy to make friends and develop allies among the staffs of the city's various papers; he used this setup to expose corruption in government and to cover for speak-easies (he despised Prohibition).
While visiting a speakeasy that he'd helped to stay hidden, Bran ran into the Toreador Marguerite. Bran was in a fairly down mood that evening, and Marguerite (who was looking for a meal) found it easy to get the young man drunk. As she chatted with him she found out what he did for a living, and when he invited her to his place for the evening she was stunned by the quality of the photos displayed in his home. She fed on him, then spent the next few nights researching him. Marguerite needed someone who knew the growing news media well in order to control it effectively (there had been some trouble with yellow journalists prior to the war) and Bran was perfect; she used her Presence to dazzle and embrace him.
Since then Bran has run New Orleans' media more or less on his own, and has joined the Krewe of Janus because it dove-tails with his other work, and because he is attracted to Marisol. He has kept up with his photography and has won numerous regional and national awards; however, most of the other Toreador, especially his sire, refuse to consider photography an art form. They tend to treat him like a Poseur, which frustrates him no end.
Category:Camarilla
Category:Toreador
Category:Primogen