Regina

> "*Could you* please *stop looking at me as if I grew a second head? It's honestly very uncouth*"
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Regina Hargreaves is a player character, an Ancilla belonging to clan Malkavian. She is a seer and a protegeé of the elder Toreador Marlene.

## Regina Hargreaves

### Nicknames

Gina
Regie

Cassandra

### Occupation

Maid (former)
Governess (former)

Nurse (former)

Inventor

History blogger

## Physical appearance

Regina looks like a young woman in her early twenties, and likes to dresses with blouses and long skirts, modest but pretty and enough of a good quality to convey an image of cleanliness and elegance. She loves the extravagant looks some on the Elysium get, but she doesn't fancy herself good enough to fill a dress like that. She has long, poofy black hair in ringlets that she loves to tie with a ribbon on the back of her head, marking her petite factions, brown eyes and a dark complexion peppered with freckles.

## Personality

Regina usually displays in public a peppy, even if well mannered attitude; her histrionics and penchant for dramatism makes her pass as a Toreador very seamlessly. She is also quite energetic and passionate when it comes to the things she puts her interest in, which are many, sometimes on a very unhealthy, obsessive way. Even if she initially comes out as chaotic and colourful, she is also a creature of contrasts, as she abhors disorder and dirty spaces, and she is not very gregarious either, avoiding people often because "they get in the way" of her general wellbeing. In fact, as she doesn't often leaves spaces she feels as safe, she prefers to contact people via mail or text messages, sometimes even the old fashion way of letters.

She is loyal to a fault, and is very upset when she disappoints somebody she likes, accidentally or not. She also pushes people away from her very often, as she sometimes deems it "for the best", given her erratic nature. She dislikes very much being judged for being a Malkavian, as if they all were cut from the same cloth, and doesn't like when people bring that out of nowhere.

## Background

### Mortal years

Regina comes from a family of South African immigrants in Scotland, previously slaves and servants to a well established British family that ran away. Even if they lived in squalor, and were often looked down by people, they were happy. She had a twin brother called Erik that was very close to her, even if they couldn't be more different from each other and bickered constantly.

As they were poor, Erik and Regina had taken plenty of jobs since they were very young to support their family. She was at first someone who collected rubbish and clutter to make trinkets out of it and sell them later, even if they never sold well. Later, when she was a little older, she landed a job as a maid on an accomodated home, and she could gain a bit more to send back home. Regina, always inventive and resourceful and very quick on her feet, gained popularity among the service, and some years later, as a teen, she was asked to serve in a bigger manor who belonged to a young count. And that was when her life started to change drastically.

### First Contact with Kindred

The Count's name was Bartholomew Higgs, the only son of Count Higgs. Even if he was an orphan, he had never been taken out of his home; he was rumored to have a very strange disease in which the sun damaged him and he would always wake up at night on a very moody way. Regina was warned about the young Count's peculiarities and his eccentric, difficult character, but she wasn't offput by it. On the contrary, she was intrigued to see why Bartholomew had turned out to be the way he had been, and she accepted to be his governess, much to the surprise of everyone else.

Over time, the young Count (who wasn't so young, even if he didn't look older than being eleven years old) took a liking on the peppy governess, and he started to became obsessed with her. To the point he didn't like others to steal the time she could dedicate him, not even her own family. Erik was starting to be very concerned about the place his twin sister was working in, even if she always claimed she was alright, so he formulated a plan to get her out. That didn't work out well, as Regina felt bad abandoning the young master, and Bartholomew became enraged upon hearing it, taking his fury upon Erik and making him suffer for trying to take her away from him, slowly draining the sanity from him.

Of course, Regina was oblivious of what was truly going on, as she was fending herself off from possible suitors that she didn't fancy as well; she had a debt of gratitude with her master because he was helping her a great deal about that. Finally, as a birthday "gift", and to reward her years of service to him, Bartholomew granted his final boon to the young governess: the Embrace.

### The Embrace

It was after the Embrace that problems started to show. Bartholomew, even if still obsessed with Regina, had started berating her, labeling her "messy" and "useless" and claiming she wasn't able to do anything right if it wasn't for him. Regina started to believe that wholeheartedly, doubt seeping in her heart and making her more dependant to her Sire, as the whole goal of it was for her not ever leaving his side. But even so, visions had started to come to the young Malkavian, and it wasn't long enough for her to learn that the young master had been deceiving her all that time. Even more, when she learned what had truly happened to her twin brother, having been seeped out of his own sanity, she finally snapped out. Out of desperation and hopelessness, seeing that he was truly out of all hope, she put him out of his misery, and even tried to Embrace him as well, but she failed due not knowing fully how the process worked.

In her fury, she decided to put an end to the farce her life had become, and one night the whole service but her had been sent away due to vacation, she set the Higgs mansion on fire - with her Sire inside it, and escaped. Never looked back, and never put a foot inside Scotland again, due to fear of being discovered for her crime and having a Blood Hunt set against her. Still on these nights, she is haunted by some of the memories; others, her mind have blocked out.

## Skills and Flaws

Regina is jack of all trades, master of none. She is very knowledgable about many things, like medicine and modern technology, and is always passionate for learning more, hoping to even develop some inventions of her own. She is very crafty, and apart from tinkering, she loves writing, cleaning, embroidering and making little accesories for her or her favorite people to wear. She is quite inventive and resourceful and has quick thinking, so she knows how to get out of tight situations often.

Like most Malkavians, Regina is valued for her clairvoyance, even if she has a peculiarity: she, also, receives visions of past events, and sometimes she gets them confused with the future, so even if the visions are clear enough, she fears they might not be true.

Her principal derangement is imposter syndrome; she believes she is in the place of someone else more capable than her, and it will be only a matter of time until she is discovered and kicked out. That is why she had a wide variation of jobs in her mortal life and the one as a vampire, because she doesn't believe she is good enough in any of them nor she deserves to be in any kind of favoring position, and switches as soon as she finds something else she could excel at. The only thing she really thinks she is good at is with her visions, and even those she finds unreliable at best and misleading at worst, because she has mixed visions of the past and future and sometimes she isn't able to tell which is which.

She has also developed a mild form of agoraphobia which has got her confined in one haven for two whole decades. Nowadays she has gotten better, as she has changed her residence to the Elysium and mingled with people inside them, but she still can't get outside for longer than thirty minutes, and in her worst days she is unable to leave her room. As a result of her derangements, she has obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, which show especially when she is in disarray.

## Disciplines

#### Auspex

* Heightened Senses (1)
* Sense the Unseen (1)
* Premonitions (2)
* Unerring Pursuit (2)
* Scry the Soul (3)
* Share the Senses (3)
* Spirit's Touch (4)
* Clairvoyance (5)

#### Dominate

* Cloud Memory (1)
* Compel (1)
* Dementation (2)

#### Obfuscate

* Cloak of Shadows (1)
* Ventriloquism (2)
* Unseen Passage (2)

## Relationships

### Erik

Due to the trauma of seeing her brother devoid of his intellect and his will to live, Regina has mostly blocked all memories of him that came after her Embrace. She knows he is long dead, and recalling anything from him is painful to her, but even so, she wholeheartedly believes he is with her the whole time, even if in spirit - worst of all, she might be right in more ways than she thinks. She carries with her a locket with a lock of his hair inside, one of the few things she has with her from her past.

### Bartholomew

Regina has mixed feelings for her Sire, both of pity on his eternal childhood fate and contempt for having deceived her. She is wracked with guilt for having betrayed him, even if she couldn't handle the whole situation with him anymore. She thinks he has met his Final Death on the fire at the mansion, but she isn't entirely sure, and sometimes, visions of him berating her haunt her, not knowing if they are from her past or they are a future event she has not foreseen yet.

### Euphemia

Regina met Euphemia when the latter was still a mortal, back on the trenches of World War II, when they were both serving as nurses. Obviously they only met on the night shifts, and Regina had aided her a great deal about the uses of medicine, even covering for a few amateurish mishaps of hers. Euphemia had always felt grateful for the young Malkavian, never questioning her oddities or why she only appeared at night, became fast friends, and when she was Embraced by Alexander Krohn on an act of mercy, she decided to return the favors to her friend, smuggling her out with the Ventrue when Regina was attacked by some stray Inquisition agents. As they were destined for Dublin, Euphemia vouched out for her to her Sire, and Regina was always thankful for that, even if she decides to not take the privileges of her aid for granted and stay back in the shadows.

### Marlene

The young Malkavian has heard a myriad of stories about the Toreador Primogen, either by word of mouth or her visions alone, and has her quite idealized. Ever since she had heard about her multiple prowesses she has a newfound admiration for her, and once she has enough insight about her circumstances and life, as well on the uses of the World Wide Web, she goes out of the way to purchase an ancient letter directed to her that was about to be auctioned online, and tells Marlene about it, for it belongs to her. That grants her a favored treatment from the Elder, as well as a change of residence. Regina is very overwhelmed and happy about it, and she swears allegiance to Marlene from now on, who treats her as if she was one of her Childer even. She still is ruminating about what means to have been noticed by such a powerful individual who happens to also be her personal idol.

### Aidan

Regina has interacted a few times with Aidan, although never in person, as she hasn't felt strong enough to go out of her way to meet him and him was heavily disencouraged on her part to do so. She believes him a true wildcard, one that will bring the winds of change with him, for better or worse, and whether he likes it or not. She have had some interesting conversations with him about medicine and mental health, and let him know that their clans aren't so different since they are exposed to derangement easier via their passions or their life experiences.