History Characters / VampiretheMasqueradeBloodlines

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He helps save Wong Ho's daughter by providing him with the location where she is held captive, and later gives you a lead to find Barbarus. Unfortunatly for him, [[spoiler:the Tong quickly figures out he was the one who betrayed them, and soon after he gave you the information he gets assaulted by them, whch very likely results in his death]]

!!Human Antagonists

[[folder:The Society of Leopold]]

A group of catholic vampire hunters. They are the successors of the Inquisition.

[[caption-width-right:300:The male and female protagonists at character creation, for each clan. On the left, from top to bottom: [[HotBlooded Brujah]], [[TheBeastmaster Gangrel]], [[MadOracle Malkavian]] and [[LooksLikeOrlock Nosferatu]]; and on the right: [[TheBeautifulElite Toreador]], [[BloodMagic Tremere]], and [[VampiresAreRich Ventrue]].]]

* TotallyNotAWerewolf: He's not, but you can ask if he is one (provided you're not a Gangrel) after seeing him use the Protean discipline early on.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: He looks like a werewolf in his normal human form, and no humans appear to notice this.

The producer of Haunted LA, tv show investigating on the paranormal. In truth, his show is a scam- he and his crew just go to creepy locations and make up stories. Unfortunately for them, the last location they visited, an abandoned hospital, happens to contain a ''real'' supernatural creature- namely, [[spoiler:a cannibalistic vampire named Pisha]]. By the time you meet him, he is running away after seeing his entire crew slaughtered, leaving it up to you to prevent him from talking about what he saw and breaking the Masquerade...

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Pisha]] asks you to bring him back so [[spoiler:she]] can eliminate him and talk about what he witnessed. [[spoiler:While this is indeed the easiest way to complete the quest, it ''is'' possible to spare him if your Intimidation is high enough.]]

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: While the game in no way minimizes the largely negative impact on the setting, the Society always seems to target the ''least'' threatening, dangerous vampires for extermination.

* FunnySchizophrenia: The Malkavian PC is one, arguing with stop signs and being a DeadpanSnarker. The darker aspects of the condition ''are'' explored with the Voermans and the Malkavian Primogen.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: No matter how you build your character, they will know something about lockpicking. It's also probably a bad sign that when Sam finds you and wonders where you've been she automatically assumes it has something to do with drugs.

* CelibateHero: Sort of. The PC is a vampire and can't have sex like a normal person, but can seduce anyone they like with enough points in Seduction (for blood rather than sex, with the seductee left with the impression that something sexy took place).

* GutturalGrowler: Not the worst case in the game, but definitely there.

* FieryRedhead

* ThereWasADoor: To its credit, it will ''try'' to use doors whenever possible. But if it looses track of you while inside the observatory, it'll come crashing in through the ceiling the next time you see it.

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* ActionGirl: If female.

* BadassBookworm: If willing to put the points into it, to the extent that you can impress Beckett, a BadassBookworm with centuries of seniority.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Depending on the Clan. Toreador, Tremere, and Ventrue have more upper class clothing than the other four clans. Toreador and Tremere go for more casual suits, while Ventrue are white-collar personified.
* BadassLongcoat: The male Malkavian's white pimp coat. Female Toreador, Tremere, and Ventrue have some sort of elegant coat. The male Ventrue's heaviest armor is a suit, with a [[WaistcoatOfStyle vest]] and a leather ankle-length trench coat.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: All [=PCs=] count as this by virtue of being vampires if you chose to play them as good guys, but the Tremere especially stand out, since their signature ability, Thaumaturgy, involves disturbing blood spells like causing people to vomit blood uncontrollably or causing their blood to boil in order to make them explode.

* ButThouMust: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]:

** Ditto for Therese Voerman, who shrugs off your attempt at Dominate if you're playing Ventrue or Tremere.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: As a Malkavian, you're a babbling lunatic in weird clothes, yet disconcertingly competent. This competence extends all the way to the fact that if you can decipher what the PC is saying you will realize they've realized plot points before the truth is revealed. [[spoiler: A big one is that the Cab Driver is possibly Biblical Caine himself, so your character is fearful.]]

* ChickMagnet: With the right choices and/or a high enough seduction stat, the Fledgling can get the attention of Jeanette, Velvet Velour, [[DudeMagnet Romero]], Heather (though in her case this is due to her link as a ghoul), Nadia Milliner and multiple unnamed [=NCPs=]. The Clan Quest Mod even gives the opportunity to date a Kuei-Jin lady.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Most of that silliness is in fact the Malkavian knowing exactly what's going on and simply being unable to communicate it properly. Or alternatively [[MadOracle having no idea what's going on and still rattling off truths.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: The player gets a lot of options to snark in conversation. This goes double for the Nosferatu PC, whose coping mechanism for dealing with their hideous appearance seems to reside mostly in self-deprecating jokes any time a mortal react with disgust upon seeing them.
* DeathByOriginStory: Your sire. They get one line, and then the Sheriff decapitates them. And in a technical sense, you, since your character appears once and has one spoken "line" (a scream) before being turned into an undead vampire.
* DefectorFromDecadence: A Ventrue who goes Independent or Anarch.[[note]]There are plenty of Anarch Tereador, the Baron is one, for instance.[[/note]]

* DoomMagnet: Where you go, people die, even if that wasn't what you intended. An example of this you might miss is the Skyline Apartments building, where most [=PCs=] establish their second haven. If you bother to complete all the relevant side quests, with the exception of the security guard (who you can kill) and one of your neighbors (who are referenced but never actually appear) you ''are'', in some way, shape, or form, somehow involved in (or become involved in) the untimely demise of ''every single one of them'', leaving you the sole occupant of the entire apartment.
* TheDragon: The PC has the option of becoming this to Maximilian Strauss, [=LaCroix=] (though that doesn't turn out so well) or potentially Nines if you choose to throw in your lot with him and his cause. Andrei as well in the patch.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: The attitude of most of the vampires you meet ranges from polite condescension to outright insults, even as your legend grows. This is however, justified: Your age puts you at the bottom of the social ladder, you serve the blatantly unpopular [=LaCroix=], and being the unsanctioned offspring of a dead sire functionally excludes you from polite society.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: If you betray everyone by siding with Ming-Xiao, she rewards you by sparing your life when she runs the rest of the Kindred out of the city... by chaining you to the Sarcophagus and dumping it into the ocean.'' She doesn't kill you, but you'll sure wish she had.]]

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The Fledgling's abilities and skills progression do not reflect that of the tabletop game's setting. This is somewhat handwaved by several characters remarking how unexpectedly resourceful and potent they appear to be.
** Mechanically this boils down to simplified character creation and the game providing xp at an accelerated rate. The Fledgeling is also eighth generation instead of the default thirteenth (calculated from blood pool size); this is possible on tabletop, but requires a significant points investment.
* GayOption: The latest unofficial patch adds one for the player character.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: A skill that the player can excel in, especially a Brujah.

* GuileHero: If the player character is good at conversational skills, a lot of quests can be completed just by wits alone. This becomes problematic when the [[DisappointingLastLevel last two or three missions of the game]] are straight combat with limited potential for even stealth in the dungeon crawl and none at all during the boss fights - you can easily move through most of the game, barring one or two stretches, with a non-combat build, and do reasonably well until you hit that wall at the end.

* HorrifyingHero: Even if you play as the [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire nicest, most kind-hearted vampire ever]], the fact will remain you are a blood-drinking undead abomination. Especially true for the [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu]] and [[BadPowersGoodPeople Tremere]] [=PCs=].

* LightningBruiser: [[SuperSpeed Celerity]] lets Toreador and Brujah pull this off; Brujah also get SuperStrength for extra Bruiser with their Lightning.

* MrFanservice: The male Malkavian is WalkingShirtlessScene and the male Toreador a borderline {{Bishonen}},

* NobleDemon: A roleplaying choice, particularly if the player does ''anything'' to uphold the Masquerade.
* OddFriendship: You are able to cultivate quite a few of these, if you so choose.

* RainbowPimpGear: Every clan's armor include actual armor, except the Malks. The male [[CloudCuckooLander Malkavian's]] armor ''starts'' at shirtless, moves through hazmat suits and ends in a white fur coat and a Literature/CatInTheHat hat, which also has no shirt. The ''female'' Malk armor is straight-up fetish gear. All of the Nosferatu outfits are bondage gear; higher levels just add more straps and eventually a gimp mask.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Almost certainly what the final battle against [=LaCroix=] will be by the time you get to it.

* YesMan: PlayedWith if you choose to stick with [=LaCroix=] the entire way through. Getting the option to side with the prince during the ending requires you to have acted politely towards him in the past, followed his orders to a T, and be willing to either overlook or rationalise the now rather strong evidence that [[spoiler:he's sent you to your death multiple times and set you up for a fall.]] Through dialogue, you can play it in a number of ways, such as professing genuine loyalty to the man, believing him to be an [[WellIntentionedExtremist ultimately good leader whose rule the city will benefit from]], or simply sticking with [=LaCroix=] because he begins the endgame [[IFightForTheStrongestSide in the strongest position]].

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Classic ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' Garou in [[UnstoppableRage Crinos]], acting like they typically do against vampires.]]

** He will [[spoiler:dump the Ankaran Sarcophagus into the ocean in the Sabbat ending, showing that he's unwilling to try diablerizing its occupant when Sabbat vampires are largely infamous for the act.]]
** He also doesn't betray you, if you do choose to side with him.

* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler:It is a bit ambiguous if he really ''is'' Caine, progenitor of all vampires, but the player character certainly strongly suspects that he is, while the Malkavian player character believes wholeheartedly and feels the appropriate terror. Another possibility is Lucifer, who was canonically hanging around LA at the time (although it would be thematically odd since demons are never mentioned in the game).]]

* FlatCharacter: The Sheriff appears to have no character whatsoever and nobody knows anything about him: He's never seen out of sight of [=LaCroix=] and never interacts with anyone in a non-killing-them setting. He makes the other LA kindred a bit nervous as a result.

* [[NotUsingTheZWord Not Using The "V" Word]]: Notable in its aversion. He's one of the few Kindred in the game who will only ever call the Player "vampire" instead of using an euphemism. [[FridgeBrilliance This is become he has barely any contact with other vampires and their culture.]]

* {{Expy}}: His [[GutturalGrowler Guttural Growl]], brutal vigilante tendencies and facial features are reminiscent of [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]].

* ApologeticAttacker: Chunk is the PC's first obstacle during [[spoiler:their final assault on Venture Tower./spoiler]] He'll regretfully ask you to leave and not force him to use violence. Considering your ImplacableMan status at this point of the game, his threats come across as deeply ironic.

* MysteriousPast: White Wolf refuses to confirm whether the cabbie was actually Caine, saying he ''could'' have been a delusional Malkavian.

* BackupTwin: Kill him during your first encounter, and his identical twin will be manning the desk at the entrance to the [=LaCroix=] building.

* KickTheDog: His reaction to [[spoiler:Heather's death]]. It's akin to an adult being annoyed at a child who's just lost their most beloved toy.