Coco

**Consuela Elena Ramona Comprisi**, or "**Coco**" for short, is a Lasombra active in New York. She currently holds domain over the *Sterling Hotel* in the borough of Manhattan.

## Biography

Before the Embrace, Coco was the owner and CEO of an international shipping company called *CPO*. Her wealth and influence is likely what attracted the attention of her sire Renato in the first place, but like most Lasombra, he reportedly saw fit to dismantle Coco's empire from the ground up as a sort of "ritual hazing" in preparation for the Embrace. Coco appears not to bear her sire any ill will for it - indeed, surviving Renato's gauntlet and becoming Kindred through her sheer determination is a point of pride for her.

Coco, much like her clanmate Julia Sowinski, found life as a vampire to be yet another uphill battle, as under Prince Hellene Panhard she and Renato both existed in New York on a "probationary basis". Renato attempted to remedy this by conscripting Coco into a coterie formed by his colleague James Rafferty, but this proved less than ideal. Coco actively chaffed against many of her new coterie-mates, culminating their rather spectacular implosion within Raffety's private suite at the *Sterling Hotel*. During the ensuing fight, she even went so far as to unleash the power of Oblivion upon Rafferty's childe Khalida, crippling one of her arms.

In the aftermath, Renato dissolved his partnership with Rafferty and claimed his hotel by way of recompense, giving it over to Coco to run.

## Character Information

* **Predator Type:** Bagger- This Kindred prefers to drink procured cold blood to feeding from a live victim.
	+ Predator Pool: Intelligence + Streetwise.
* **Specialties:**
* **Clan Bane:** Distorted Image- The broken souls of Lasombra vampires are halfway drawn into the Abyss. All reflections and recordings distort, flicker, or become transparent (though this does not conceal their identity with any certainty). Microphones have the same difficulty with the vampire's voice as cameras have with their image, touch technology becomes unresponsive at best, and their anomalous nature makes it harder to avoid electronic detection systems. With effort they may overcome this difficulty but it’s as if they exist on a slightly different frequency to other beings, flickering in and out of light. Many Lasombra have attendants to handle technology for them, but a few strange beasts manage without.
* **Clan Compulsion:** Ruthlessness- To the Lasombra, failure is not an option. Their Blood urges them to increasingly ruthless measures when the Beast flares and they are faced with failure. The next action they fail after suffering this Compulsion causes all rolls to receive a penalty until a future attempt at the same action succeeds.
* **Advantages and Flaws:**
	+ Feeding Merit: Iron Gullet (•••) From predator type
	+ Enemy Flaw: (••) From predator type-Either someone believes you owe them, or there is another reason you keep off the streets.

#### Disciplines

* Dominate (•)
	+ Level 1: Cloud Memory, Compel
* Oblivion (••)
	+ Level 1 : Oblivion's Sight,Shadow Cloak
	+ Level 2: Arms of Ahriman
* Potence (•)
	+ Level 1: Soaring Leap

## Trivia

* Coco is the player character of actress Cynthia Marie, a member of the main cast live-play chronicle *Vampire: The Masquerade: New York By Night*. Cynthia previously portrayed Baron Nelli G in the preceding live-play chronicle *Vampire: The Masquerade: L.A. By Night*, making it the second time she's appeared as a member of the show's main cast.