Rene Toussiant

## Personal Information

#### Personality

Renè is a very charismatic, charming and seductive. He is the embodiment of the Incubus. Prone to flights of fancy, he always keeps up with new trends and embraces the technological advances of the modern era.

#### Mortal World

Jean René Toussiant was born in 1899 in **Toulouse**,  Haute-Garonne in the Occitan Region (southwestern France).  His Father was Pierre Marie Toussiant a minor aristocrat and his mother was Renétte de Chateaubriand. René was the 5th childe of the marriage.  He lived up the bored aristocratic lifestyle. Indulging in drinking, whoring and parties.  He thought himself a bit of a poet, and inspired by the Decadent movement of Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire, tried his hand at poetry and the Bohemian lifestyle

René was an average poet at best, but it bought him to the attention of a particular subset of the rich and bored aristocrat society.

He was invited by his close friend Amadou Boissonade, one night in 1918, to an exclusive party weekend at a country estate Château de Caumont, 46 Km from the city.  There in a room full of music, poetry, sensual and sexual delights he met the enigmatic Claudette Liévremont.  René was instantly drawn to her like a moth to the flame, and she was equally taken by this beautiful young brash boy.  That night and the following, she showed him such delights that he had never dreamed of.  She was intoxicating and played right to his ego.  The weekend was a blur of drunken debauchery.
René hardly could keep track of what was happening, but always there was Claudette, somewhere, whispering sweet things to him and urging him to indulge his every whim.

He soon found that the Château was Claudette’s summer house, and that her and her friends had come from Paris to stay for the warm months.  As the season passed, René spent more and more time at the Château, neglecting his old pursuits for long nights of debauchery and all day sleeping.  It was there he first experiences the sensual touch of a man, and while it was not his favourite pursuit, it was fine as long as Claudette was near.  Sex with her was always amazing.  She knew just how to touch him, and when her lips kissed his skin it was like touching heaven.

Even so, he knew that Claudette, and the house held secrets.  While he was a part of the entourage, there was another wing of the house that he had only glimpsed during the night revelries, and was carefully guarded by the house staff during the day.  Even so, he never questioned why he never encountered Claudette during the times he was actually awake during daylight hours.  Not until the night he was granted access to the East Wing of the house.

Currently Rène does have a presence in the Mortal World. He is the Manager of ***The Parlour**.* The club caters to the high society, the wealthy, both new and old money.  Business men and women who fly into Naples and want some company for an evening or two. It is by no means a brothel, though a few of the more exclusive clients know that for the right price, any entertainment can be arranged. Within the walls of the club, René is the ultimate showman, and King.

His other presence is as the Vokaloid singer La$h. Initially with the band Cirque du freak, now he is pursuing a solo career.

No one knows the real world identity of La$h who always performs and gives interviews using the hologram face.

## Information Known by Kindred Society

Rene's sire is **Èmelien Derereux**, a Daeva Invictus who was immediately smitten with him. Rene would tell stories after the fact that he became Èmelien's plaything before his embrace in 1923 when they returned to Paris.

In Paris, René is introduced to Kindred society and the world of the Invictus.  He is taught by Claudette, but his Bohemian ideals are challenged by the rigidity of the Invictus.  Before his manumission begins to secretly steal out from the estate to spend time with the Crone of the city.  Knowing that he will bear the displeasure of his Sire, who at least pays lip service to the religious practices of the Lance.

Nevertheless, René persists with his pursuit of alternative spirituality, and before his manumission, declared his allegiance with the Crone. In the crone he finds his feet, but falls into the spiral of debauchery that is in his blood.

#### Timeline

* **1899 -** Born Toulousse, France
* **1918 -** Meets Claudette Liévremont, at a country estate almost 50km away from the city. The estate, Château de Caumont, is the home and current playground of Èmelien Derereux, a Daeva.After spending the summer in delights of the flesh, he is introduced to the real master of the house, Èmelien.
* **1923** As days turn to weeks, and weeks turn to years, René is finally embraced by Èmelien.
* **1925** After being schooled and trained to be an Invictus, René is released, and instead of joining his Sire and Sister, he joins the Crone.
* **1930** René embraces a childe, without permission from the Praxis. He hides the childe for a while, but they are eventually found out. The childe is killed, and René is banished from the city.
* **1930- 1940** The Dark Times
* **1940** He finds his way to Naples. There in the arms of the Crone, and one in particular, Clarisse helps him to find himself once more. He meets Fylakas of Crete.
* **1945** Becomes a Jazz Musician
* **1950** Dabbles with being a stage magician
* **1980** approaches Bella Sangiovanni with an exciting but ill thought out idea (who likes all those boring organisation things anyway) for an exclusive club. The Parlour Nightclub is born.
* **1990** He writes a graphic novel for a few years under the pen name Roni Tolliday. The novel is called Of Fate and Stone a Graphic novel about a time traveling warrior priest.   It runs for 7 years and gains quite a following.
* **1995-** He becomes the Regent of Ashes under the Praxis of Lady Baptiste de Veronese.
* **1999** - December 31st. Attends the great Fete of his Grandsire.  Witnesses the tragedy of her 'disappearance'.  Reunites briefly with his Sire and Broodmate, but due to his potion in Naples as regent, returns without any interference.
* **2009** -One night while walking on the streets, passing the time to meet a date, he finds Manon de Luca busking on the streets.  The young Daeva intrigues him, as up until now, he has only seen him in the shadow of the other Ordo Dracul.  Now he sees the Daeva in a different light, and is intrigued by the music he is making. They spend some time together and after a while they decide that forming a band would be a great idea.
* **2010** -Grizella (Ella), joins in 2010, they create *Crique du Freak*.  Each member of the band has a stage name that they use to preserve the masquerade.  All of their film clips are done with computer generated images, and all performances are done with the band playing live behind a screen while their computer avatars are projected to the audience. The mortal world has no idea that La$h is René. The mystery behind the band members actual identities has made them a bit of an internet/ viral sensation.
* **2017** - Accidentally marries Clarisse in the Crone Oestara celebrations.
* **CURRENT** - Has been quiet in kindred society but has been active within the Crone, as well as performances with Cirque du Freak.

## Lineage

#### Known Sire

Èmelien Derereux - Rene fears his Sire and the idea of the man finding him once more.

#### Known Siblings

Claudette Liévremont - Rene experiences love for Claudette, though the kind of love even he is unsure about.

## Quotes By

#### Quotes By

"We revel in the pains and triumphs of our own existence, we are part of creation, and the Dark Mother has a place for all of us in her plan. She wants us to worship her, to bring her insights to those who would listen. She wants us to experience the Pain, the ecstasy, the hunt and sacredness of this world, to experience all it has to offer"

- René while speaking about the Crone

#### Quotes About

"He is someone I am warned to be cautious of, and I shall endeavour to do so...but he does make it decidedly difficult, with his charm and outlandish compliments" - Lavinya

#### Conversations

Eurydamus to Lavinya: "My dear, Rene is a Daeva, you must expect compliments"

Lavinya: "Are they insincere?"

Eurydamus: "Of course not, but they are for design, no less"