Persephone

Persephone -Thalía Drakengale, married Hemwood- is a player character, Sheriff of the Fief of Dublin and an elder vampire of the clan Toreador. She's Aidan's Sire and is the one in charge of keeping the laws of the Camarilla enforced, usually acting as judge and jury to her own criteria. Has already served three different Princes and is a vampire of renown between her fellow Kindred.

## Persephone

### Sire

Anatole Hemwood (allegedly)Marlene Szilagy

## Biological information

### Relatives

Damokles Drakengale (grandfather)Xue (sister)

## Physical appearance

Persephone looks barely a couple years into her twenties and is clearly of asian ascent, although she is mixed. She favors dark and pastel colors with trendy fashion always with a goth-like vibe. Her hair is naturally black, but has found a way to keep changing it every once in a while, pink being her signature color in the last decades. She favors comfortable clothing just in case she has to pursue something or someone. She has round features and is quite small, barely over 1,50 m tall. She has two moles in her face, one over the lip and the other under the eye, both on her right side. She usually plays with them and paints them over to add a bit of distinction to her features across the ages.

She's carefully curated her physical appearence to look youthful and friendly both to mingle with Kindred and mortals alike.

## Personality

Sweet and bubbly, Persephone is known for being always very pleasant and able to lift the mood everywhere she goes. She does enjoy and reinforce that very same appearance, although underneath her cordiality she hides a very lonely and touch-starved person. She is prone to rebellious bouts just for the sake of being contrarian to expectations, but mostly because she desires the attention most of all. She's a social butterfly and she's kept the charm and skill to thrive in such an environment for more than two hundred years.

She loves novelty and technology in particular, always keeping up with whatever new inventions the mortals come up with, and she's always kept her curiosity alive. She's good with tech-y stuff and enjoys showing it off.

## Background

### Mortal years

The youngest daughter of the Drakengale household, Thalía grew up being very loved and accomodated. She had hardly known strife that their family fell into despair, their father disappearing under mysterious circumstances and winding up being raised by their grandfather, whom she idolized. After a few years and the family fortune managed with great efforts under her older sister's efforts and care -and with their grandfather's aid and contacts- they managed to stablish some sort of middle ground for the once great fortune of the Drakengales.

Thalía had always been very outspoken and outgoing, and since very young she charmed easily the people around her, So even when they weren't at their best financially, she managed to pull the attention away from it, be it from displays of outgoingness that gave the other houses something to talk about or something more benign, always spinning a story to entertain, delight and sometimes even be "the talk of the town", all to disperse any rumors about their family and let them breathe properly.

Since very young she's known the value people are willing to give her, and she exploited that to whatever she pleased and from whoever she wanted, giving her a very high confidence in her social skills since then.

A confidence that would break eventually when she struck a contract with the Hemwood family.

### First contact with Kindred

With the family's financial struggles also came other more pressing matters: both heiresses were women, and they were rapidly approaching a certain age where the rumors would take an unsavory turn, accusations of witchcraft and a long list of fingers pointing and calling for the obvious resolution. The fortune was taking a lot of time to soar because the household was being managed by women.

Iffed by the insinuations that for many had become fact, Thalía took matters on her hands further, investigating properly and deep into their society to find the mightiest and best prospects for them to shake of any rumors about their wealth and their performance in society.

Thus, she found the Hemwoods. One of the oldest families around, with tendrils of influence in many places in society. Ones that had been interested in helping refloat their fortune a long time ago but had been rejected out of pride. Retaking that very same thread, Thalía was determined to pull in the ones who would shut down everyone else immediately if she managed to string a good deal with them.

Just her luck that her overconfidence was the right thing to catch their eyes and fangs. Anatole was more than glad to offer his hand to the woman who had been so entertaining that last decade, stirring the pot constantly and never knowing when to give up.

Having managed to make a deal with the Hemwoods -and a very profitable one at that- Thalía had married herself to one of the biggest fortunes in Germany spite her sister's concern and her grandfather's protests. Her enthusiasm quickly infected the household and she raked popularity quickly between the family and the service, which Thalía enjoyed greatly as she slowly took over the many tasks a woman of her now position was expected to. Her husband Anatole took her everywhere, her bubbly and infectious personality taking society like a wirldwind, helped by the unnatural charm the couple irradiated, making them the very lives of the parties they attended, the deals they closed or the balls they hosted.

Becoming an obsession and a possesion for the Hemwoods was quite more than she had bargained for.

### Embrace

The Embrace was not supposed to happen. Once the infatuation Anatole had with his young and peppy wife passed, he was to discard her with ease, as he had done many times before. However instead of disappearing, it only grew with time, and Anatole became obsessed with the idea that anyone would take his possesion, as many more Kindred started to pay attention to Thalía, taking the very same interest he had on her.

Being the social butterfly she was, Thalía paid no mind to such rumor, for even if she wasn't in love with her husband as expected, she had a deep respect for him and would honor her deal to the very end as promised. But Anatole didn't believe as much. In one of their many parties, Thalía had managed to attract the attention of the at the time Toreador primogen, who was very entertained by her, commenting how much she reminded her of her younger self. Anatole took that familiarity in a very threatening way, as days went by and the primogen had practically taken his wife under her wing to the point of considering making her a ghoul. In a desperate attempt to reclaim his "territory" and wife, Anatole killed her before the whole congregation, all Kindred present looking quite displeased by the display and the clear insult it was to their leader, a giant breach in the Masquerade that had to be rapidly contained. When they took the whole thing in control, Marlene took pity on Thalía and Embraced her, finally taking her in the society she had been taken into even without knowing about it.

## Disciplines

### Auspex

* Sense the unseen (1)
* Unerring pursuit (2)

### Presence

* Awe (1)
* Lingering kiss (2)
* True Love's Face (3)
* Summon (4)

### Dominate

* Compel(1)
* Slavish devotion (2)
* Mesmerize (2)
* The Forgetful mind (3)

### Celerity

* Rapid Reflexes (1)
* Fleetness (2)
* Traversal (3)

### Serpentis

* The eyes of the Serpent (1)
* Typhonic Maw (2)
* Skin of the Adder (3)
* Typhonic Avatar (4)