Seren Maddox

**Player:** KT

**Aliases:** The Bird-Girl

**Clan:** Nosferatu

**Status:** Warrens-Mistress, Mother Duck

**Sect:** Camarilla

**Position(s):** Whip of Clan Nosferatu

**Status:** 1 (Neonate): Acknowledged, Esteemed, *Foolish*

**Merits/Flaws:** *Green Thumb, Medium*

Owner of A Perfect Mix perfumerie

Seren Maddox was born in Wales to a nurse and a schoolteacher. Of the twins, Seren was the mischievous one, while her sister Gwydion was quiet and studious. As they grew older, Gwydion became more and more interested in her education, while Seren had become quite the nihilist. Drugs, late nights, drinking, promiscuity, joyriding, theft, nothing was enough to satisfy Seren's thrills.

Finally after being arrested for shoplifting and possession of narcotics with intent to sell, Seren got to enjoy a holiday at the Queen's pleasure, locked up in jail. Eventually getting community service, Seren spent her days replanting trees and native flora along roadsides, and her nights at adult school, getting a certificate for flower arranging and taking other hobby classes.

Two of her professors took special interest in her: her botany teacher Brandon Une, and her perfumery teacher, Eleanor Montmorency. Seren went after Brandon heavily, despite him being happily and openly married. Finally giving in after months, Brandon avoided her romantic interests and instead tried to engage her outside of school with hobbies. Learning more about Seren, her nihilistic view of life, her dangerous behavior, and eventually digging out of her the fact that she planned to commit suicide at the end of the year, Brandon formulated a plan. He began to feed Seren his vitae, ghouling her to prepare her for the inevitable end.

However, Eleanor also had a plan. Brandon received the permission of the Prince to embrace Seren, and the night of, Eleanor showed up at Seren's flat, trying to lure her into her car. Seren did not trust the woman, and instead went to a nearby cafe, where Brandon met her and took her away for what would be her final living choice.

He tied her to a gurney, and warned it would hurt. She told him she loved him, he avoided an answer. Finally, Brandon did the one thing he could think to save the woman, something he had sworn he would never do, because he was not made for it, and bit her.

She screamed, for a very long time, and the blood drove him bestial. Most of her throat was gone by the time she died and he, in a panic, slit his wrist and desperately tried to squeeze it into the gaping hole that had once been her trachea. It worked, and she survived, her throat healed, but never enough for her to speak fully, not anymore. And things happened.

To experience grave pain, such as two razor sharp teeth twisted like an unholy set of drill bits ripping into your jugular and then the rest of your neck, the brain must play damage control. And sometimes, it is not fast enough, and sometimes, it breaks your mind irreparably. But, the curse will fix things the best way it can, and it did so with her, putting in pieces that weren't there before, but belonged there now.

And so, Seren survived, a "trembling, adored, tousled, bird-mad girl". She learned, both from Brandon and from his wife, also a Kindred, also a Nosferatu. They babied her, treated her as their child, and one day disappeared, leaving Seren by herself. She dwelled in those abandoned Warrens for a decade, no contact with the outside world, the only physical contact from those she hunted as prey.

Finally, she spread her wings, and left. She wandered as she was led, speaking to the air as though it answered her, planting flowers and trees as she walked, healing wounds, gaining wisdom, learning. She saw faeries as the kings of cities, she saw demons running bars, stood and argued with a sorceress who threatened to destroy her, solved mysteries for ghosts, hid from werewolves, and successfully (with the help of her dear friends) broke herself of a demonic possession. She loved and lost, grew and learned, but never once forgot that she had much to atone for in her life.

### Topside Gossip:

* The weird bird-Nos talks to ghosts. Sees them, talks to them, has conversations. If there's some sort of spooky Supernatural shit going on, go talk to her.
	+ There's a whole coterie of them: Lucrecia Melrose; Damiana Giovanni; Zora Georgieva Nikolova...
		- *#teamspookybitches*
		- Why can't THE BRONZE join?
			* CAUSE YA CREEP EM OUT, BRONZIE
* You ever seen the flowers and shit she grows? She must be using some sort of crazy fertilizer on them, cause they're always massively huge.
	+ Yeah, man, that's why there's so many ghosts around her, man, if you *know what I mean*.
* I hear her "mom" is some scary terrifying assassin. SHE says the lady is another Nos, but I hear it's an Assamite, and that the Assamite trained HER too.
	+ Bro, that's not how *anything* works.
	+ In 2018 the "orphan" adopted a childe of her own!
		- Now that z3r0 is Acknowledged, they don't have to pretend she's *adopted* anymore.
			* Not possible, Seren is a thin-blood.
			* No, not thin-blooded, just one of the thirteenth generation.
				+ Preposterous, she's Adorjan's *Whip*.
					- You're not the only one who thought she was ancilla, guy.
			* Maybe she's speaking symbolically.
				+ *"My sire, Seren"* doesn't leave a lot of room for symbolism.
		- Is this how they dodge around Thistle's pending claim to Progeny..?
			* Sent to the convent for a year, and returned with an *"adopted orphan"*...
			* *Seren Maddox* was *never* granted Right of Progeny while resident in Ash Town.
			* They also ditched Thistle and snuck through the release without her present...
* Seren can get you any information you're wanting to know... but *only* her. It'll cost you boons... and one chicken, *still alive*, preferably in a sack or pillowcase. No, that's not a joke, bring a chicken.
* Despite being a Nos, she's probably one of the most trustworthy, truthful people in this city.
* She's not scared to walk the zoo. Nobody goes to the zoo after dark, but she does. Why isn't she scared?
	+ It's cause they're DOIN' IT hahahahahaha
		- No, that's bullshit, her and the Herald are dating in secret. The Grel Primo is bearding for her.
			* They're all fucking each other, dude, get with it.
			* Of course her and the Herald are dating, how the fuck do you think she snuck her secret kid in to be Acknowledged before Thistle and the Harpies could even hear about it? And who's going to question the HERALD? Anastos? Shit, if you believe THAT one, I've got a bridge to sell you, out in Brooklyn, cheap.
* Her Primogen makes her do all the boring work for the clan while he gets to kick back and have fun
* Takes in strange and foreign wayward strays
	+ LBR here she kicks it with Xiong's kids. *#narchlover*
* She and Mitnick got into it and THAT'S why Janet's home. Seren *demanded* her back.
* You hear she shrieked in Corvyn Fathom's face one time until he had to leave Elysium?
	+ Is... is Corvyn *a Nazi?*