Sigrid Lova Von Verbindungen

Pending finalisation: may be slightly altered
==Personal Information==
====Personality====
Sigrid is an extroverted young woman, she is a fitness freak who spends too much time online and has a tendency to speak in texting slang or verbalize emojis. She enjoys company but struggles to hold friendships due to her tactless and blunt manner. She is a dedicated hard worker with a forward-thinking mindset who is content in the present and not the type to try and reach above her station. She has great respect for authority and endeavors to help people in these positions with more mundane responsibilities such as maintaining connections and community. Perhaps this is an expression of her sire’s bloodline despite her young age, or perhaps he chose her because she exhibited such traits.
====Mortal World====
Sigrid was born in 1994 to drug-addict parents in Germany, she and her brother were forced into the foster care system early enough that she remembers little of her life with her parents. Her twin brother Kendrick and her managed to stay together for the majority of their time in the system only being fostered in separate homes a few times before being brought back together. She led a regular life, high school, and university for computer sciences. She met her sire Laurent when she was working at a 24-hour cafe as a barista as a part-time job, he always came in at night for a coffee before work he would say. Since the place was always slow at night she often engaged him in conversation.  She apologizes for her lack of a filter and he reassures her that he’d rather know what a person thinking than not know if they’re targeting you. She got him to open up about the argument he’s been having with his brother. Albeit a heavily censored version of the truth that didn’t include vampires, family politics or assassinations. After he asks her if she has siblings she vaguely tells of her brother. Not long after Kendrick didn’t return home one day when expected. She decided to go to his workplace to check if he was working overtime since he was notorious for forgetting to charge his phone, what with his nose always in a book. Kendrick had been found by Fritz and embraced, fritz hoped to get both the siblings before Laurent could, but Frauke warned him and he got to Sigrid first both twins were unwillingly embraced that night by the brothers.
==Information Known by Kindred Society==
Was embraced five years ago
Has been a member of the Invictus for the last five years
Belongs to the Von Verbindugen family’s younger generation
-–Mekeht--
She is from Germany so other players may not automatically be aware, but below is common information any Mekeht would fine if they went looking:
The Von Verbindugen family is a close-knit isolationist family many of their members not even showing up to court and their childer not being released traditionally until their first century and given very little freedom or allowance to socialize until they're released. They are a strong established Invictus family and no members have been known to join other covenants.
--Invictus--
She is from Germany so other players may not automatically be aware, but below is common information any Invictus would fine if they went looking:
Her family among Invictus may be known for her grandsire Eloisa who murdered her entire brood and sire when they attempted to betray and leave the Invictus. Or at least that’s her side of the story, but the evidence she provided was compelling.
Her house the Verbindungen is strange for its propensity to kin slaying which while not one of their traditions happens too often to not call it one at this point compared to most other houses which consider kin killing sacrigilous known kin slayers have been abided positions of authority in this house.
Sigird’s generation of the family is currently engaged in a succession battle that has rendered six brood/ cousins dead. It could be assumed that her appearance in Naples is her throwing in the towel in said battle. 
Her sires broodmate Emil Von Verbindugen is an Invictus diplomat who travels frequently and members may have met him briefly or at least heard of him.
==Lineage==
Family tradition:
This family/house has developed the tradition of forming strong family units to try and prevent the younger members from usurping the elders, thinking that they would stay content in their place longer if they would inherit it eventually. They looked to the strong family ties of the Deava and through to mimic a similar structure. However as a Mekeht family this did not work particularly well, eventually they decided to take full blooded siblings and continued to raise them as such. Thus began the tradition of embracing entire mortal sibling sets to help foster this mentality, the effectiveness of this strategy... is debatable. Depending on the prince and laws at the time they would often disguise this by claiming the children were unrelated and/or sired by different members of the family. This has caused a few close-call masquerade breaches in the past however the family has gotten very good at keeping up with modern technology to prevent such disturbances from them poaching entire family lines as it is not uncommon for these kindred to grow up and poach from their mortal family again. This lends to the extended family being quite prolific, many drifting too far from the main line to bare the name.
The family tradition of this house can be traced back to Katinka Verbindugen, not much is known about her other than she was a family child and embraced a pair of twins to begin the tradition. The eldest of these two Schwanhild is the only elder of this family unaccounted for while the house believe he is still alive out there somewhere, if he is they have no clue where he may be. Typically only the heir will embrace and their entire brood will act as sire to the children often taking one each under their wing in an attempt to prevent the family from getting too big. Or in the case of death of the sire the second would takeover.
extended recorded family lineage: 
Verbindugen Family Generation	Name 	Date of embrace	Date of death	Sire's Name	
1 	Katinka 	890 	1160 	N/A 	
2 	Schwanhild 	1040 	N/A 	Katinka 	
2 	Mina 	1040 	1920 	Katinka 	
3 	Aurel 	1240 	1590 	Schwanhild 	
3 	Leni 	1240 	1783 	Schwanhild 	
3 	Gisa 	1240 	1853 	Schwanhild 	
3 	Reino 	1240 	1689 	Schwanhild 	
4 	Dierk 	1373 	1790 	Aurel 	
4 	Seppel 	1373 	1740 	Aurel 	
5 	Anicho 	1474 	1960 	Dierk 	
5 	Waldo 	1474 	1830 	Dierk 	
5 	Fedde 	1498 	1826 	Dierk 	
5 	Margareta 	1498 	1523 	Dierk 	
6 	Eloisa 	1524 	N/A 	Anicho 	
6 	Lammert 	1524 	1960 	Anicho 	
6 	Theresia 	1524 	N/A 	Anicho 	
6 	Agna 	1524 	1960 	Anicho 	
6 	Heinrich 	1540 	1960 	Anicho 	
6 	Waltz 	1540 	1960 	Anicho 	
7 	Laurent 	1720 	N/A 	Eloisa 	
7 	Fritz 	1780 	N/A 	Eloisa 	
7 	Frauke 	1780 	N/A 	Eloisa 	
7 	Emil 	1780 	N/A 	Eloisa 	
7 	Sybille 	2014 	N/A 	Eloisa 	
7 	Didi 	1795 	1960 	Heinrich 	
7 	Amalric 	1795 	1960 	Heinrich 	
8 	Arnold 	1920 	1995 	Laurent 	
8 	Clara 	1920 	1995 	Laurent 	
8 	Dietfried 	1920 	1995 	Laurent 	
8 	Edith 	1920 	1995 	Laurent 	
8 	Klaus 	2015 	N/A 	Laurent 	
8 	Sigrid (Me)	2019 	N/A 	Laurent 	
8 	Nikolaus 	2022 	N/A 	Laurent 	
8 	Walburga 	1995 	N/A 	Fritz 	
8 	Walter 	2015 	N/A 	Fritz 	
8 	Kendric 	2019 	N/A 	Fritz 	
8 	Anneliese 	N/a 	1995 	Fritz 	
8 	Bertha 	N/A 	1995 	Fritz 	
8 	Valerie 	2022 	N/A 	Frauke 	
8 	Isold 	1920 	1960 	Didi 	
8 	Jochem 	1920 	1960 	Didi 	
8 	Alwin 	1920 	1960 	Didi 	
==Immediate Kin==
Key: Coloured dots in the top right corner of portraits denote mortal blood relation. Don’t worry about it.
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==Information on Family Members==
=== Eloisa: ===
The matriarch of the family, has no living siblings except Theresia who left Europe to get away from the blood politics. Sire of Laurent, Fritz, Fauke, Emil and Sybille. During the assassination conflict, Eloisa put her foot down forcing Laurent and Fritz to under oath swear to never harm each other or their childer. Laurent grew bitter as he had not assassinated Fritz’s children. Fritz was displeased as after he did assassinate his brother's children wrongfully in revenge he now had to employ much more subtle methods.
=== Laurent: ===
As a mortal, he was an only child and as such he should not have been sired by Eloisa, however, he managed to charm her and during a fling she sired him. It didn't last long after he was embraced. He’s ambitious, charismatic, scheming, goal driven and has little regard for other’s wants. He after being released from Eloisa immediately had a dispute with her when he as the eldest decided to avus in Lynxs. In the end she conceded his point that if they encouraged the childer to make the family/ house their web that it would prevent the kin killing that has tarnished their family line. He was the Sire of a set of four siblings who all died under mysterious circumstances. He has had to restart with the new generation putting his children at a lower blood potency than his sibling's children, which he is not pleased about since as per tradition Fritz should not have sired at all. Laurent is resentful of his sire for siding with Fritz, despite her siding with him for the inheritance he has always felt sidelined for Fritz and his siblings. Laurent is now planning to assassinate his mother and take over the family. He just needs to strengthen his position first and probably find a way to get rid of Fritz. His current bid to become more powerful is to become the prince, he does not have the support to achieve this yet so he’s playing the long game. Ingratiating himself to all the clans and covenants. 
As he is a member of the lynxs to whom his family is his web he has become incredibly controlling and possessive going so far as to regularly erase their memories because he becomes paralyzed ta the thought that one may leave his reach. Laurent is never seen with at least one of his childer at his side. He erased Sigrid’s memory of an event that happened in the previous year and told her that she did not need to know the truth, this led to her becoming disillusioned with him and running away. Klaus and Nikolas are both unaware of why she left, but both have beef with their sire as well due to being forbidden from seeing their siblings outside of court and forbidden from spending significant time with them there. However it is doubtful he will allow them to hold such negative feeling towards him for long, or for her to stay away for long, for now hes waiting, expecting her to make her own way back after she realizes how difficult the world is.
=== Fritz: ===
Second child embraced by Eloisa he is the oldest of his set of four siblings. Fritz is bitter that his position as the head of their generation was stolen by Laurent. His oldest daughter was one of a set of triplets, however, Walburga’s sisters died as mortals before he embraced them in an accident. While this genuinely was an accident Fritz never believed it to be so, he suspected Laurent was trying to destabilize his power base by preventing him from getting a full sibling set. This suspicion would later lead to Fritz organizing the assassination of Laurents original four childer in revenge so his childe would be older and considered for the inheritance. When Laurent tried to rebuild his family unit to prevent this Fritz embraced the siblings of Klaus and Sigrid before Laurent could get to them. Unable to outright assassinate he relied on politics trying to get others to do the dirty work without him ever doing anything. He orchestrated situations to force the children to make decisions that would drop their humanity hoping to force them to drauger and force the court's hand into dealing with them so he wouldn't be complicit. This was allowable by the deal they made. His first attempt was embracing the siblings hoping to cause their humanity to drop by seeing their sibling torn from them. Unfortunately, disputing his bloodline's traditions was not how it worked, but it did indeed succeed in infuriating Laurent into attacking him and breaking their oath partially for which he was heavily punished. So he did it again the next time.
=== Frauke: ===
The third childer of Eloisa and her favorite, the keeper of her secrets, her confidant, spymaster and watcher when she goes into torpor. Despite this as the third child she is not considered for succession due to Eloisa’s old-fashioned nature. When Laurent tried a third time to embrace a sibling set with Nikoaus, Frauke embraced the boy’s sister and Frauke told her brothers she would continue to do so and as such they should stop destabilizing the family with their petty squabbles.
=== Emil: ===
Fritz and Fraukes brother, he’s conflict avoidant and a veritable doormat around his family. Outside, however, he’s politically savvy and good at reading people. He scored himself a position as an Invictus ambassador, so he is rarely in Germany and makes his returns brief to stay out of the family drama, but frequent enough that his sire doesn't feel threatened by his absences and attacks him.
=== Sybille ===
The youngest daughter of Eloise, Sybille has only been a kindred for 10 years and as such is the baby of the family and never heard the end of it. Her siblings were quite surprised when Eloise brought her home one day saying she was from the same mortal family as them. Eloise embraced her because she was orphaned in a plane crash and Eloise has kept an eye on the mortal family her children came from and decided to bring her in instead of leaving her to the system.
=== Klaus ===
Klaus as a mortal had abusive parents he and his brother were overly codependent. He took on the caregiver role for Walter but emulated the tough love he learnt from his parents. While he had the best intentions his brother grew to hate him and think he was a part of the problem. Walter  brother was embraced by Fritz and felt like he was finally free of his abusive parents and sibling as despite Fritz's hatred of Laurent he is a good father and role model since he doesn't show his worst traits to his children. Klaus however went from one abusive home to another. At first, it seemed like heaven, but quickly he started learning that all the gifts had strings and expectations mounted too high. Laurent forbade him from contacting his brother as "he was Fritz's son now. Not your brother." Sigrid was forced to endure the overbearing affection her brother cast over her as a substitute for his missing brother, this relationship was better than his relationship with Walter. He learnt more towards overprotective feeling her fragile rather than aggressive, but for her, he was a poor substitute for her twin who never treated her like glass and was more likely to throw her at the dangerous thing, the coward. He was the one who first noticed something was off about Sigrid and led her to notice something was wrong. Because despite his overbearing nature he was still attentive and had her best interest at heart, she understood this and started considering him an actual brother. He helped her run away but intentionally didn't learn where she went. Laurent has on multiple occasions used oaths to correct his behaviour or memories when they stopped being convenient or agreeable. While he has yet to notice this, he does hold an irrational sense of fear towards Laurent for no apparent reason and agrees to help her escape without asking questions.
=== Nikolaus ===
Youngest son of Laurent, he and his sister were separated by Frauke stepping in and putting a stop to the sibling napping. Unlike the other two, he's still in contact with his sister and has yet to settle into the new family dynamics.
=== Walter ===
Younger brother of Klaus, Is the childer of Fritz. He has settled into the family dynamics well and wants nothing to do with his old brother. He has formed a strong sibling bond with His new sister Walburga and has tried to do the same with Kendric, but can never seem to find him, perhaps he needs to brush up on his auspex. Walters dedicated, persevering and very conscious of relationship dynamics and other’s feelings.
=== Valerie ===
The only childer of Laurent's sister was embraced to put an end to the sibling napping. She doesn't have much of a relationship with her new sire since she's always busy or with Eloise, but Walburga is hopeful that this will change with time. She's naive and idealistic, with high humanity, she has as of yet been kept out of the worst parts of kindred life and does not attend court on the regular. She keeps in contact with her brother via the internet and occasional meetings
=== Kendrick ===
is the twin brother of Sigrid, he was embraced by Fritz to prevent Laurent from getting him out of spite and for no practical reason. He's a quiet withdrawn cowardous man. When he learnt of his mekeht disciplines the first thing he did was nagg Fritz until the man taught him how to go invisible. Fritz who had until then neglected his auspex was forced to learn it to even find his son who never came out of obfuscate if he could in any way help it. Kendrick is happy in his new family but does miss his sister. Fritz never forbade him from seeing her, but it was clear Laurent had as they hadn't so much as spoken more than three sentences since they were embraced five years prior.
=== Walburga: ===
She is Fritz's eldest daughter when she found out that Fritz separated Sigrid and Kendrick she was furious. Had he learnt nothing from her losing two parts of her triplet set? The two who used to have a harmonious relationship now have stilted conversation and she refuses to speak to him unless they're in public, for which no one would know they were fighting. She strongly believes in the blood web and family cohesion and should never present anything other than a united front. They do however agree that Laurent not allowing the twins to see each other is even worse than separating the twins through differing sires. 
=== Theresia: ===
Theresia is Eloise’s last remaining sibling due to her family deciding to leave the Invictus. Eloise felt so betrayed by this of them leaving her blood web that she killed them all, during a frenzy. She's low humanity AF though. Theresa survived because she wasn't there during the frenzy and afterwards Eloise wasn't sure if she was in on it or not. Theresa fled the continent but never did leave the Invictus.
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