Delilah

Delilah is the leader of the dusk born (Thin Bloods) that reside in The Valley. She is the owner of an ocean themed night club called The Deep that acts as a safe haven for many local dusk born. Originally a dusk born with the rare ability to withstand direct sunlight, things changed for her though the combination of her position in the L.A. Thin blood community, Carver's meddling and the L.A. Camarilla’s stance on thin bloods which lead her to diablerize a Camarilla Tremere.

Delilah is played by Mica Burton.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Originally a Dusk Born with the ability to withstand some amount of direct sunlight. The extent of her resistance to the sun is never fully stated but she was able to withstand it enough to have a daily routine of doing morning yoga on the beach at sunrise without any ill effects. This is not inherent to all dusk born, who like lower generation kindred are physically damaged by sunlight, and was the reason that many considered her their leader. This ability indicates that she is a day drinker, which is a thin blood only merit were sunlight inhibits all effects and abilities of being kindred except Hunger for the duration of exposure to direct sunlight rather than causing extreme physical damage.

Delilah is the owner of an ocean themed night club in The Valley called The Deep, which also acts as safe space for local dusk born. Her right hand is another dusk born named Blake who acts as the head of her club's security. It is never stated what clan her sire was, as like many dusk born she never knew them. Very little information about her life prior to her embrace is known. It can be assumed that prior to her embrace Delihal was already the owner of her night club based on The Deep's success in The Valley during season 4. It may have been her club's local success that drew her sire to embrace her in the first place. Based on her first appearance, Delilah has likely been a dusk born for a few years as it seems she is more settled into her unlife then Annabelle upon their first meeting (4x01). Though this is hard to tell as her ability to withstand sunlight meant that she did not suffer all of the same psychological issues and existential crisis that most other newly embraced kindred experience regardless of their generation. Issues she struggles with post diablerie in season 5.

## **Relationships**

### L.A. Thin Bloods

Considered by many as their leader in an almost prophetic way due to her being a dusk born with the Day Drinker merit that gave her the ability to be unharmed by even direct sunlight. This position as leader was one she seemed have placed upon her due to her resistance to sunlight rather than by her choosing.She does try her best in her role, even though she is rather young and inexperienced when it comes to kindred society. While she retains her position of leadership after deablorizing an unknown Camarilla Tremere to become a Tremere, her view on thin bloods seems to have take a drastically negative shift. This may be in part due to her having some regrets about becoming a Tremere as she lost her ability to withstand sunlight.

#### Blake

Another former dusk born turned tremere who is her loyal right hand man who acts as head of The Deep’s security.

### Anarchs

#### Annabelle

Seemingly a first real exposure to the other kind for both of them. They are similar in the fact they are in leadership roles that they are very young to hold.

#### The Weird Sisters

After their first meeting she becomes close friends with Kyoko. After diablorie all three sisters are said to be helping her to adjust to being a Tremere.

#### Victor Temple

The Undisputed Baron of The Valley who overseas the domain her club resides in. He tries to provide mentorship and protection from the Camarilla bounty placed on Thin Bloods. He also refuses to give up her information or her clubs location to the Prince.

#### Carver

Due to his meddling Delilah becomes aware that thin bloods can deablorize lower generation kindred to lower their generation and become a full blooded kindred. Though as always Carver is more forthcoming with information about the benefits while providing very little information on the extremely risk of the act of diablerie. The biggest risk he "forgets" to mention to her is the risk that the soul of the kindred who was diablerized may instead destroy the soul of the deablorist and take over their body.

## **Character Information**

* **Predator Type**:
	+ Specialty
	+ Flaw: (••)
* **Clan Bane**: Tremere cannot Blood Bond other Kindred, but they can be bound by Kindred from another clan. A Tremere can bind ghouls and mortals, but the vitae must be drunk an additional number of times equal to Bane Severity for the bond to form.
	+ Former bane Thin-bloods in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition cannot usually learn Disciplines the normal way; instead they need to drink blood with a special resonance to get the ability to use one temporarily. Additionally thin-bloods are capable of learning Thin-Blood Alchemy to create formulae, counterfeiting normal Disciplines or creating whole new effects.
* **Advantages and Flaws**
	+ Day Drinker-(Former merit) A thin blood only merit, though not universal to all thin bloods. Sunlight halves your health track (rounded up), but otherwise simply removes your vampiric abilities including all disciplines and health benefits. You still suffer from Hunger and do require sleep at some point. Most importantly even extended exposure to direct sunlight does not cause any physical damage to those few who possessing this merit.

### Disciplines

#### *Tremere(Post-diablerie)*

* (•)Auspex

* (•)Dominate
* (•)Thaumaturgy

### Possessions

Night Club called The Deep

Tesla (season 5)

## **Trivia**

* The name Delilah is an ancient name that means “delicate” in both Hebrew and Arabic.
* One of the most well known Delilah’s is from the biblical story of Samson and Delilah. In the story Samson is a man with unnatural strength but the source of his strength is a mystery. His love interest Delilah is bribed to find the source of this power and remove it so he can be arrested. She finds that Samson is granted his strength by God on the one condition he never cuts his hair. After finding this out Delilah secretly cuts Samsons hair while he is sleeping causing him to lose his strength and be captured by the Philistines.
* Her outfit in Season 4 episode 1 is reminiscent of outfits worn by Wednesday Addams from the Addams family.