Derrick Trudeaux

Derrick while looking only 13, has been Kindred for over 20 years. With a mop of blond hair, blue eyes, and a waifish frame, he continues to be one of the most physically potent Kindred in the Portland/Vancouver area. He has recently won the Brujah primogen, and as such is the youngest Kindred in the history of Portland/Vancouver to take primogenship.
While he is Malkavian, he never was able to learn most of the clan disciplines  very well. Immediately after his embrace he found the unholy strength of Vigor came easiest to him. Derrick is physically minded, and clever, but lacks the skills to socially outmaneuver older more established kindred.
Derrick was a gangbanger, he grew up in a particularly bad part of New Orleans, and this has influenced him greatly. His family life was typical for children in this situation, his father drank a lot, and his mother worked all day to support the three of them. His father, when drunk was physically and verbally abusive to both him and his mother.
This drove him to leave the house, and witnessing that lead him to run with friends other children would have shunned. From a young age, to escape his house, he ran with a few older kids. He was treated as a little kid too big for his britches. As he got older, so did the kids he hung out with. The activities changed. Around 12, he really started getting into things (Note: This is not atypical for children in these situations, with thugs even younger, sadly) that were no good. He had been getting into fights when he was younger, but now with the advent of real gang life, he was getting into scrapes almost every other day. He was, however, particularly fast, having honed this skill from running from his drunken father, or away from bigger kids looking to rough him up.
He learned to throw a good punch, really fast. He scuffled with his father later on, when he felt he could defend himself, sometimes to success, most of the time he was beat, his father being stronger than he. This lead him to try and bulk up as best he could, making him stronger than the average kid his age. He was still average height and scrawny, however. His gang life introduced him to knives, and while he got pretty good at using it. He slashed a few rival gang members, but he had never caused serious harm. He knows how to wield an average knife pretty effectively.
Derrick has sired two other Kindred, the young Travis, and younger Ryan. Ryan was what some consider a "pity-fuck" after Derrick frenzied and slew Ryan's family. Travis? was sired as a companion for Ryan, Derrick fearing Ryan? being unable to relate to the physically older Kindred. Ryan? was 11 when he was embraced, and Travis? was 14.
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