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Krouser (Clan Gangrel)
The road as his bride, and the world
as his throne.
Description:
Krouser, as he identifies himself, is a man of mixed blessings. Through some strange
quirk, he seems at once intelligent, and animalistic, a disturbing proposition to
those who mistake Gangrel for slovenly beasts. His cat-eyes bespeak a quick wit,
yet his every move is measured, and precise. His katana is a sharp (apologies for
the pun) contrast to his turquoise and silver Navajo jewelry, and rancher's garb,
both of which he hides under a long trench. He flaunts his vampirism, and ignores
its social stigma in a manner that has infuriated philosophers of Camarilla and
Sabbat alike. Despite this, he has the bearing of a hunter, with a single chosen
prey, and little malice for any, save those who slow his chase. He has confounded
the issue even more, when asked, by referencing Metallica, proclaiming 'the road
as his bride, and the world as his throne.'
Background:
His history is equally contradictory. He does not hide his mortal life, and has
indeed even let his mortal name, Koshiri Hachii, become common knowledge among his
peers. The circumstances surrounding his embrace, and the subsequent years, however,
he hides, referring to them only abstractly, at times of happiness, and sorrow.
He is Navajo by birth, but he proclaims that the tribe cast him and his family out.
Nevertheless, he shows a fierce loyalty to their ways, displaying fluency in the
customs and language. Much to Voracia's confusion, as he has taken to referring
to her by the Navajo term Ma-e (Fox).
Character Perceptions:
Krouser is a man from the outside looking in. As a Gangrel, and a native American,
he naturally displays veiled contempt for established mannerisms of kindred and
kine society alike, dismissing it as 'Anglos, strutting their own dominance.' Still,
he abides nominally by Camarilla law, and American culture (admittedly, its underbelly),
as he is sharply opposed to the Sabbat, for undisclosed reasons. Unlike the vast
majority of kindred, Krouser defines himself as 'no less human for having received
the embrace, and no more inhuman for being a vampire.' He looks on vampirism as
less than a state of mind, and more like a fact of life. Everything around him is
either a hindrance to his goal, an aid to it, or of no consequence. Vampirism falls
into the second of that series. Politics and high society, the third, and woe betide
that which falls into the first. Much of his mannerisms come from rural territory,
or his tribe, while certain quirks and habits, often dismissed as aggressiveness
and bullying, some might recognize as Garou customs, or Garou superstition at work.
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