Character Mindset Music

PC: Vanessa Channing

Father Vinnie - "For Good" - Wicked Soundtrack
Brett - "Dirty Little Secret" - All American Rejects
Joseph di Stefano - "Forever" - Papa Roach
Talbot - "Teenagers" - My Chemical Romance
Amrit - "Devour" - Disturbed
Godaric - "Bleed it Out" - Linkin Park
William Dillingham - "Tears Don't Fall" - Bullet for my Valentine
House Constantine - "Indestructible" - Disturbed
Chase - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day
Lucien Sutter - "Breaking the Habit" - Linkin Park
Lucas Lazar - "I Hate Everything About You" - Three Days Grace
Alita De la Cruz - "Attack" - 30 Seconds to Mars
Pieter - "Popular" - Wicked Soundtrack
Peggy Lee - "Moon Baby" - Godsmack
Audra Jetter - "Paparazzi" - Lady Gaga
Simon Cassio - "Lords of Salem" - Rob Zombie
Corbin - "Citizen/Soldier" - 3 Doors Down

(I am adding more to here eventually. Please indicate below if you think your PC should be included.)

   

Excerpt from the book, Life, Love and Rebirth - A Biography of a Teenage Superstar

 

My name, is Vanessa Channing. I have been called many things in my life...I have been a Saint, a Sinner, a Nun and the wife of Lucifer. I have sung with the choirs of angels and danced with the ancient gods and goddesses of old in Stonehenge. I am prepared for everything, and for nothing. I have the face given to me by everyone else, and the lips made for perfection and promised words. I am Shakespeare, but I am better.

"A man wears many masks, and plays many parts upon the stage of life. I am no different. I too wear a mask, and I too play many parts."

Each movement is carefully measured and prepared. I know each step as the intricate dance that I walk. I am the past, the present and the future wrapped as one. This existence is a script in which I must memorize my lines by heart. I will not falter, lest my lines falter. I will not hesitate, lest my role become insignificant.

The Biography that you read is correct. I wear several - above all however, I am an artiste. Very few others can do what I do, and with such grace and flair as I do. Very few others can demand attention and hold it completed captivated. In the end, I am a performer however. It matters very little what *I* think. What matters is what YOU think. The roles we play are not always favorable, but they are necessary evils.

Contrary to what others believe, I am neither an air-headed neonate, nor an exceptionally well-versed elder. I am young, and I am exceptionally well-versed. I can debate antiquated topics and not break a sweat. One learns quite early on that they do not approach a role without first understanding what it means.

Now, I approach my greatest role, MY Emmy performance...

Vanessa Channing, Visionary and Modern Day Debutante of the First Estate.

Now give me my damn statue.

 

History:

Jan 19th - 1939- Born, Orlando, FL

April 15th, 1945 - First appeared in a walk-on role in a local production of Alice in Wonderland.

June 1947 - Parents move from Florida to Georgia when Vanessa is selected for a role as the face of a new cereal box.

Sept 10th, 1947 – Parents move again, this time to Cincinnati, Ohio.

April 1949 - Wins "Little Miss Ohio" beauty pageant - sweeping categories of talent, dress and presentation. Rumored to have placed dead last in the "little miss congeniality" category however.

August 1951 - Enrolls in Cincinnati School for the Arts in the vocal program.

June 1954 - Appears on a local Star Search and wins second prize in the singing competition. First prize goes to what Vanessa is quoted as later calling a "stupid ugly whore". She is likened to a young Elizabeth Taylor.

August 1954 - Vanessa appeared on local TV show with her agent and makes a huge public apology to the girl who beat her and graciously offers to take her to Disneyworld as an attempt at a public reconciliation. Girl doesn't bother to answer or return calls.

Feb 1956 - Vanessa auditions for the Mickey Mouse Club back in Florida.  She is rejected, but manages to land a position in a production of Wicked instead.  .

July 1958 - Vanessa competes in the local "Miss Pre-Teen Ohio" competition and places first, advancing to Nationals where she places second runner-up./ A much more gracious loser this time, she accepts the scholarship to Juliard and the $5000.00.  Vanessa and three friends from Juliard form "Phoenix Rising", a pop band with herself as the lead singer. The four of them have the ultimate goal of becoming "Teen Dream Queens".

Jan 1959 - Phoenix Rising opens for several notable singers.  Now young, hot and fashionable, the four girls are the “scene.”  Young Vanessa Channing ends up in rehab following a drunk driving/drug bust involving Florida and Georgia.  Vanessa returns back to the Pageant scene and enters "Ohio's Junior Miss Scholarship Competition". As part of her community service, she becomes a spokeswoman for the War against disease as well as a role-model for underprivileged youth.

February 1959 – Vanessa Smith is named Ohio’s “Junior Miss” winner and wins a scholarship to the college of her choice, as well as a shot at the National Competition.

May 1959 – Vanessa places First Runner Up at Nationals, earns a modeling contract, another scholarship, and $2000.  She is also offered a music contract, which she delays as she finishes her college entrance exams, scoring high enough to be offered admission to Princeton University.  She instead chooses to take a position as a junior spokeswoman to spread a modern message about anti-war and anti-drugs.  She accepts a position as  a Public Relations specialist for several charities, serving as facewoman, spokeswoman and speechwriter.  She also served as head organizer for several local charities and fundraisers.

December 1959 – Vanessa and some of her friends are enjoying winter vacation in the south when she is embraced following a night of drunken debauchery.  Devastated by this sudden change, Vanessa works to try to learn of her new existence.  She spends several months refusing to leave a hotel room, to the point where she is believed to be dead.  A scholarship is created in the Miss Ohio pageant in her honor.

1961 - After careful consultation with her Sire and other of her Broodmates, she chooses to petition to join the First Estate – especially after learning that she would be expected to read a lot of books while in the Movement.  Vanessa is taught the basics of Kindred knowledge and survival skills, and retains a close relationship with members of the Carthian Movement, something that many of the Invictus consider a social boon for her.  Though she is Invictus, many of the Carthians accept her as one of theirs. 

1970 – Vanessa leaves her Sire, choosing instead to focus on perfecting her blood and her social graces to become an asset to the First Estate.  She is approached by a member of the Gangrel clan who challenges her to a debate upon the role of the Invictus in the modern day world.  Well-versed in Invictus customs, Vanessa is able to easily school the elder Gangrel, who graciously takes her as his student, teaching her additional customs and proper protocols.  She learns Animalism from him as a reward for her excellent debate tactics.  The two become close allies and even lovers.

1980 – Vanessa finds her niche in the Invictus as a powerful up-and-comer who works as middle management for high powered Invictus.  Jokingly called the “Invictus of Pink,” Vanessa spends a great deal of time planning parties and mixers for the First Estate.  Notably, she tends to organize large gatherings, including seating arrangements, floral arrangements, and etiquette classes.  Though young, she is recognized as an Au Pair of note. (Gain Invictus x2)

1987 – Vanessa becomes a local ambassador to the Carthian Movement.  Because she is so young and socially adept, she spends a great deal of time being a face person for the Movement – converting several individuals to the Unconquered.  The Movement accept her as one of their own, acknowledging that she is staunchly Invictus. (Gain false Carthian 1?)

1995 – Vanessa is employed by several Invictus of note to host large galas and parties.  She spends a great deal of time perfecting techniques to show that the Invictus are the First Estate for a reason, to the point of spending time teaching younger and newer Invictus the proper protocols and procedures.  She gains fame in her role of Au Pair, and even managed to gain the attention of several alders, who take notice of her as an “up and comer.”  Though young, she is afforded * Value* within the First Estate.   (Invictus x3)

Note:  Vanessa Channing appears on the outside to be an airhead and a flake.  She rarely, if ever talks about the fact that she has a law degree, or that she can probably outdebate and out-argue anyone else.  She is outspoken, very to the point, and blunt.  She will happily inform you that your clothing does not match, and your shoes are “so last year”.  There are times however, when the tables will turn, and she will be an absolute fountain of knowledge and wisdom.  She prefers to be underestimated tough, which is a huge reason she the First Estate…you rarely, if ever suspect the flamboyant and outspoken individual to be actually smarter than you.  If the price for getting the upper hand is that a few people think you are missing a few French Fries from your Happy Meal ™…then that is a price well paid.  What matters in the end, is that your goals are accomplished, and you are the one who comes out on top.

Quotes:

Carthian Movement:  "Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion." Goethe

Invictus:  You take a mortal man and put him in control. Watch him become a god. Watch peoples heads a'roll - Megadeth, Symphony Of Destruction

Ordo Dracul:  "There is no more great men; there is only great committees." Marshal McLuhan

Circle of Crone: Almost two thousand years, and no new god! - Friedrich Nietzsche

Lancea Sanctum:  Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon

Unaligned - "Trash, all of them"

Is viewable here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhbrnscx_234j46j3c4

This PC concept has been totally picking at my mind recently. This is my attempt to put it on paper in hopes that it will just...go away.

Shadow Name: Pandora
Path: Acanthus
Order: GotV
Legacy: Bearer of the Eternal Voice

Concept: Pandora is a power behind the throne. She is quiet, shy, polite in person. But in truth, she is a potent creature who supports others in their endeavors. Caught somewhere between a black and a grey hat, she is not necessarily bad, but she is competant.

The daughter of multi-millionnaires, Pandora was brought up in the lap of luxury. She is a public figure, and easily a major stockholder in several large companies. In the financial world, a place normally dominated by men in suits, she is a force to be reckoned with. Dubbed the "Ice Queen" by mortals and mages alike, she is never one to back down from a challenge that has even close to even odds. It has been commented that she can go from cute and shy to royal bitch faster than most European cars can go from 0 to 60.

(Yes, try to guess who this goes to :) more later)

( I'll keep you, my dirty little secret )

(placing these lyrics here as a placeholder :) feel free to guess where/who they belong to!)

( Love Story )

(Crossposted to nycciangel

If my LS PC were to go Acolyte, how much status could I get?

Alternatively:

How much support could I get to go Invictus?

New Meme Idea: Using only the 7 Deadly Sins (or the 7 Holy Virtues), write memes based around PCs. PC's that are featured in those posts *should* then write 7 posts and use PCs in their post. You can choose to do 1 post with all 7, or 7 posts, or any combination.

For example, I am going to be featuring posts based around the Seven Deadly Sins.

Greed:
Gluttony:
Envy:
Wrath:
Lust:
Sloth:
Pride:

This is for all venues.

Comment this LJ with a subject and a PC and I'll craft a post around both, providing my PC's insight or perspective on the chosen topic.

-The Management

Morgan looked at the mountains of paperwork that stood before her and sighed heavily. Her department was downsizing due to economic cutbacks and she was at the top of the list for a transfer. She looked over the possible places she could be transfered to...

Washington DC
Cincinnati, OH
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA

Of the list, she far preferred to be on this side of the world. She would miss New Jersey, but part of her needed a change. In the past year, her world had changed significantly. She was far more aware of the world now...the existence of Vampires, and Werewolves and ghosts. Whatever testing she had underwent in the strange facility had changed her completely. She had become more aware now, more congnisant of the world she existed in.

Her training that she had taken part in prior to working for the government sector had become more important, as she had used that to connect her to the realization she had been given. Her studies and her works had become more perfect.

Moving would be good however...she was tired of cleaning up the vampire's messes. Perhaps she could go somewhere where vampires didn't exist...that might be useful to her...She was a brilliant scientist, a reknown epidemiologist, and one of the best city disaster planners that FEMA could hire...yet, there were less and less disasters that needed their attention since FEMA had managed to massively bungle the New Orleans effort. She was glad for once that she had been assigned to paperwork those months after cleaning up a gang violence attack in Northside Atlantic City.

Glancing down at the messages incoming, she clicked on the awaiting email that was an interview request and typed back a quick response. She had an interview on Saturday evening in Cincinnati at the new location. Perhaps that could be a worthwhile new beginning...

(OOC note: Amusingly enough, in this situation below, Vladak is really Katherine =))

( Because everything is better with music... )

I'm working on my new wiki page for my mage - feel free to add a comment if you'd like to help me out with it :)

http://mage.cam-wiki.org/index.php/Black_Lotus

Go post stuff!

Meticulous.

Each item had its place. Each movement had a reason. A flick of the wrist here meant to load the carabiner into its slot. Three bullets, one for honor, one for glory, one for success. Four guns, four knives, one shotgun. One sword at her side to represent her vow of honor.

Part of her remembered something from the past...a different world. Rook had made her remember it. Honor was personal...it wasn't defined.

Then where had her sense of honor come from? Had it been there when she took on the Mantle of the West?

She ran far and fast in the night, almost willing something to give her chase. She was angry. Her desire to see justice was almost as strong as her desire to shoot the hell out of someone.

She felt like she had been in a fog for a very long time...she barely remembered anything from her past. She remembered Sal being there, but Sal was Windbourne now. She had a name once...not Arachne...it was something else. Alice she thought...perhaps it was Alice. That name felt familiar.

She was a soldier now...a created item. She had been molded and sculpted from the Dreams into one of two. This was just a nightmare realm for them. There was something they were looking for here, something that they were supposed to acquire before heading back into the main Realm area. They just had to make their way through the distractions and the things which threatened to keep them where they were at.

She kept a watch these nights, watching it count down the seconds. Soon they could hearthstone back, but not during this instance. Not during the time they were hunting down their target. Once they found it, they could heartstone back home and rest before beginning again. She hated this realm. It was cold, and harsh...it felt scarily familiar to her, sometimes threatening to break the discipline she had learned over the years of training with Sal...with Windbourne.

She tracked the creature with careful ease, watching as it moved through the crowds changing and shifting features. He was no Nightcrawler however, and it wasn't hard to get a line on him.

Lock and load dishonorable bastard, lock, and load.

This is by request...

The return, of the infamous "Song Meme".

That's right readers...You post this to your livejournal, your readers choose their character, your character, and what song they want YOU to write.

For instance:

Spider posts to my livejournal and says - "Hey! I want you to do a post about Kincaid and DuMont to the song "Black Magic Woman". You respond, with a post :)

Why should you do this?

Because it's fun! And you get to learn all sorts of things about other people's characters...

Oh yeah - and you can post thoughts, emotions, scenes, made-up scenes...and it's open to ALL venues! You have the option to write about something in the past, or to create a scene which may or may not happen (that readers, is up to you)

Characters/Venue:

Mackenzie DuMont - Requiem
Gabrielle - Requiem
Arachne - Lost
Black Lotus - Awakening

Enjoy!

In the past few months, I've heard the terms "good for the game" thrown around a whole lot. In fact, some players who I thought were responsible have repeatedly said that things are "good for the game." Me, being a player of the Cam for several months have grown increasingly annoyed with players who use the term "good for the game" incorrectly.

Let's take a look at where this has come into effect at.

1. "Retiring your PC is good for the game"

Response: Uh..huh... Retiring my PC is good for YOUR game so you don't lose your PC when I whack it.

2. "Holding trials and force-retiring PCs because of a fu**ed up proxy is good for the game."

Response: One has to wonder what game they are playing that this is better for. It's obvious that its not good for the game - especially not when any game has both OOC and IC components. Just because you don't like a PC or PCs doesn't mean its better for the game that they are gone.

As a note, I wasn't involved in any of the trial bs, nor the retarded proxy of dumb. I have however, seen it ruin people's enjoyment of the game on all sides, and make people quit playing an already shaky venue. This is my journal, and my rant damnit.

3. "We are keeping your PC out of play because its better for the game that this occurs"

Response: Once again - I have to wonder if someone else has a different rules book. Perhaps they are playing Exhalted, or Awakening 90210: The Awakening. I'm not sure. This warrants further exploration.

4. "I hate you because you are one of THEM" or "You're on THAT side"

Response: There's sides? does that give me cookies and booze? If I invite someone to the other can I offer that? And what does "one of THEM" truly mean? "ZOMG! You're a responsible player who isn't playing a Disney knockoff!" Wow. Can I have more? Seriously...I think I did the dividing into groups in high school. If I wanted that, I'd go watch High School Musical. It has music. And dancing. I can also mute the TV.

(More rant to come, I'm going home now. This may or may not be aimed at anyone. If you think its about you, its probably not. Quit being paranoid. Flamers will be kicked with prejudice. No, not that kind of flamers. I reserve the right to be an equal opportunity hater. I'm a redhead, get over it.)

I'm currently in the process of revamping my IC Livejournal. If you want to remain on it, please post such below, and what venues you want to be on the filters for. You have one week, starting....

Now.

- The Management

She was in jeans when she walked into the room with Lukas and Jaka. Both of them were prepping for the gathering...swords were being hidden, blessed by the miracles of the Divine, all prepared to enter the gathering as ones marked for death. She was the hostess, they were guards and hunted. Casting forth a Dark Miracle upon the sword, she felt an amazing power flow through her as her blood spilled forth upon the sword that was in Lukas's hands. Shuddering slightly, she glanced around, wondering at the miracle she had just managed to set forth upon the sword that night...praying that it would not be needed. Closing her eyes, she listened as Lukas and Jaka talked of the upcoming meeting to be held in less than an hour.

The hour passed slowly as herself as she prowled the hallways, looking around for the first sign of something going wrong. There were several of her familia here, she could feel them...there were even more of her own blood present. Scarily several of them...the weight of depression was overwhelmingly thick here. She shuddered as she felt the link among them become stronger as yet another one joined the ranks. With this many Kings and Queens present, death was a likelihood to taint this gathering.

The hours passed as the time for the gathering was near. Jaka relayed a message of the location, as she easily gave an excuse to her escort as to why she had to wander off. Slipping around the corner, she deposited her cassock to the side, preparing to deal with this in a manner to which she had learned was acceptable...politically smashing the opponent.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the flash of pink hair as the three of them gathered together, allowing the shadows to draw around them. The door opened, and they slipped in, taking their seats across from the others present. Observing the others, she couldn't help but find amusement at the presence of Alita, Pennington, and another. Introductions and negotiations began slowly, with words being measured on either side.

It didn't take too long before the truth of Alita's oath was known...it was not in fact a binding Oath, but a promise made to Zane Grayson that she would take her own life if Lukas harmed another Invictus. Scowling to herself, she felt her Beast surge forward. Mentally she relayed her thoughts to Lukas, which caught like wildfire. His Beast surged forward as she felt him snap forward, heading for her. Quickly she called forth the powers of her blood in hopes of stopping him for at least a minute. Alita's quick thinking however, was what delayed Lukas...a stake flew from her hand, hitting him squarely in the chest.

Wincing at the surge of sympathy, she paused a moment and knelt down beside him, mouthing her thanks to Alita.

When Lukas was awoken again, he growled and stormed off, with Jaka close behind her. Mackenzie looked to those still present apologetically and squarely asked Alita what the price of her agreement or Oath was with Grayson. After a few moments, she responded in her polite-yet-snarky manner that it was life or death for her. That Grayson would have to tell her that her life was worth more than Lukas's, and release her from her word to him in an fashion that was honorable.

A plan began to take shape in her mind. It was dirty, backhanded, and filled with possibilities of failing. It was more of a scheme right now, but one that was perfectly crafted. Miguel had told her to start acting more like an Invictus...so she would play their petty manipulations and pray she came out ahead.

Mentally, she reminded herself that she seriously needed a vacation away from everything. The weekend had just started, and it was only Thursday!

Tomorrow night she would go to Grayson, and her plan would either succeed brilliantly, or she would end up owing a great number of boons. Either way, her cousin would be free, as would her childe.