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Player Characters
Jamison Keen
Played by: Jerry Holkins
A snooty Nosferatu gentleman thief with a taste for fine clothes and larceny.- Author Avatar: According to this comic
, Jamison is actually how Jerry wishes he was. - Cool House: Jamison Keen creates an elaborate lair in a former Masonic lodge. This includes velvet curtains and what amounts to an actual moat around the place.
- Hidden Depths: Jamison apparently was a lounge singer and friend of the Rat Pack during his mortal years.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Despite the Nosferatu curse, he chooses to live in the most luxurious accommodations and wear the best suits.
- Mercy Kill: Jamison sees the act of him draining Betty's not-long-for-this-world Meat Shield dry as this — the Kiss of the Vampire effectively anesthetized him in his final moments. The justification holds up, causing him not to gain a Stain on his Humanity in the mechanics of the game.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Jamison never uses two words when seventeen will do according to his player. They're also all of an eloquent intellectual level.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Jamison is one of these despite the fact that he's a Nosferatu, as is Tacoma's Sergei. The two quickly bond over their shared dapperness.
- Wicked Cultured: Wears only the nicest suits and lives in a Masonic lodge despite being a Nosferatu. He also adopts a polite, almost Edwardian demeanor.
Tom Hollandaise
Played by: Mike Krahulik
A recently-Embraced Toreador tattoo artist and junk food addict who hates being a vampire.
- Acrofatic: Tom is a Toreador with Celerity and a bit on the chunky side.
- Dumb Muscle: Tom is very clearly a dumbass, barely paying any attention to anything going on around him and caring only about his limited interests. He is, however, very fast.
- Naïve Newcomer: Tom is very newly embraced, and is the trigger for many an exposition dump. Amanda is pretty new to the vampire scene as well, but while she hides it better than Tom does at first, Tom adapts more quickly to the cynicism and brutality of the night.
- Skewed Priorities:
- Tom spends much of season one trying to figure out a way to consume chilli as a vampire. He succeeds by mixing it with blood and holding it down long enough to taste it.
- Tom hates being a vampire because he can't keep any new tattoos for more than a night.
- Super-Senses: Tom uses Super-Hearing to listen in on a private conversation between Mr Drew and Fiorenza, learning that the Camarilla don't expect the coterie to survive and Fiorenza would in fact rather never hear from Betty again.
- Super-Reflexes: Tom has them, as an early manifestation of the Toreadors' clan Discipline of Celerity.
- Too Dumb to Live: Tom casually tells a doctor doing an examination of him that he's a vampire and shows off his fangs.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Tom has an addiction to two-dollar nachos, Oreo milkshakes, and other cheap junk food that has survived the Embrace — thwarted by the fact that he can no longer hold down food anymore, which now tastes like ashes anyway. He eventually manages to centrifuge blood and Taco Bell together.
Betty Lancaster
Played by: Jasmine Bhullar
A Lasombra, former Prohibition bootlegger that serves as group's leader.- Broken Pedestal: Betty has the fear that Tom will develop this to her and Jamsion when he discovers to what lengths both of them are willing to go in order to survive.
- Casting a Shadow: Betty summons shadows around her to intimidate, including a crawling, undulating mass of shadowy hands.
- Kiss of the Vampire: Subverted with Betty; the reason for her 'Bagger' tendencies is that she hates the intimacy which comes with the Kiss, and prefers blood bags purchased on the black market.
- Happily Married: Betty and her mortal husband, at least according to her.
- Hates Being Touched: Betty is a rare vampire who loathes drinking directly from a vessel, after so many years spent drinking bagged blood.
- Hidden Depths: Keeps her mortal husband and son's clothes in her house as a monument to them.
- Human Shield: How Betty manages to survive the Falling Chandelier of Doom: grabbing a hapless waiter and ducking underneath him.
- Interrogation by Vandalism: Betty gets Mr Drew to talk by threatening to let her blood-red lipstick have an intimate meeting with his brilliant white jacket.
- Moral Myopia: Betty is fully capable of murder but finds it wrong to be a loose woman or overly forward about sharing blood. This is even the reason for her Bagger tendencies as she hates the intimacy that comes with the Kiss.
- Morality Pet: Betty's Touchstone is her mortal husband that she wishes to remain faithful to.
- Nausea Dissonance: Betty reacts to Tom eating doughnuts (while on a Thin Blood drug) with horrific disgust. Everyone else is just fascinated.
- Team Mom: Betty serves as this to the group, being a much older Kindred who is still a bit on the naive side.
- Token Evil Teammate: Betty is by far the most ruthless and dangerous member of the coterie, killing humans and targets when they interfere.
- Underestimating Badassery: Betty thinks that Fiorenza is a Sheriff back in Seattle. Lore-wise, she's actually close to the Inner Council of the Ventrue and one of the most powerful vampires in the world.
Enrique "Rico" Suarez
Played by: Luis Carazo
A Seattle Brujah that agrees to show them the ropes.- Ambadassador: Is the coterie member most interested in trying to reach peaceful accommodations with their opponent. Also, fully capable of whooping ass way more than the rest of the coterie.
- Bisexual Vampire: Enrique is a siren who seduces both sexes to feed upon them.
- The Casanova: Episode 3 of season 2, introduces Enrique's predator type as we discover he's a Siren and prefers to lure both men as well as women into his arms for feeding. Then he just leaves them propped up against trees or whatever.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Enrique uses his Dominate powers, unusual for a Brujah, to affect the memories of mortals he feeds on.
- Romantic Vampire Boy: Rico has much more of this vibe than the rest of the cast, engaging in Siren feeding with both sexes.
Former Player Characters
Amanda Booker
Played by: Dora Litterell
A Tremere daddy's girl and eternal student, mistaken by the coterie for a savant and expert on the occult.
- Blood Magic: Amanda possesses the latter as a Tremere, but it rarely comes up.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Despite being a Daddy's Girl Amanda is sitting on a whole lot of daddy issues, which only increase after she discovers that he is a ghoul and was probably the main reason she was embraced in the first place. She finally manages to call him out on some of these in the final episode.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Betty intending to murder a security guard with a straw because she didn't want to use her fangs.
- Court Mage: This is Amanda's new role after Gravenstein promotes her in the final episode, with him explicitly calling her his court wizard.
- Dumb Blonde: Averted with Amanda. Despite looking like a stereotypical Valley Girl college student, she has multiple academic specialties.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: After spending the night at Antony Giovanni's mansion — alone, in a separate room — Amanda can't get anyone to believe that they didn't sleep together. Word travels fast among vampires, and it becomes a Running Gag, with Volkov and even Gravenstein asking her if it's true.
- Is There a Doctor in the House?: Amanda screams this after her father is seriously wounded during the attack on the Elysium. Luckily for her, Kennedy does have medical training and is able to provide some assistance.
- Master of None: A character trait for Amanda — she's an eternal student, hopping from one subject to another but never finishing her degrees. The other characters are unaware of this (though the players are), and thanks to some lucky rolls, mistake her for an Omnidisciplinary Scientist. Mechanically, she's more of a Jack of All Trades, and she genuinely does possess a number of useful, albeit niche, specialties which come up on several occasions. She is quite an Inept Mage for a Tremere, however, and knows almost nothing about her clan's signature Discipline of Blood Sorcery, though she tries to fake it.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Amanda has this reaction after they unleash the Nosferatu Elder on a bunch of Anarchs.
- Noodle Incident: The circumstances surrounding Amanda's Embrace. There are some indications that she had no idea the changes were going to be permanent, and her father implies that he though that the one being turned would be him.
- Oh, Crap!: Amanda and her father have a simultaneous one after they run into each other in Elysium.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Amanda loves cranberry vodkas as well as maraschino cherries, neither of which she can enjoy anymore.
NPCs
Gravenstein
Played by: Jason Carl
The former prince of Tacoma and a Nosferatu of considerable power. Later, he becomes Prince again.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: While the offer is very generous, Gravenstein makes it clear that his promotion of the coterie in the final episode is this.
- Author Avatar: Was one of Jason Carl's PCs during the early days of Vampire: The Masquerade.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Despite being a Daddy's Girl Amanda is sitting on a whole lot of daddy issues, which only increase after she discovers that he is a ghoul and was probably the main reason she was embraced in the first place. She finally manages to call him out on some of these in the final episode.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Gravenstein is a master at this as Kindred are capable of taking a lot more punishment than normal humans.
- Big Bad: Gravenstein, the former Nosferatu Prince of Tacoma, is set up to be this. And then subverted in the final episode, when the coterie decide to side with him and he rewards them handsomely in return.
- Cool Old Guy: Gravenstein is a hundred years old and the most formidable vampire the player characters meet in Season 1.
- Human Popsicle: Prince Gravenstein, on the other hand, is properly in torpor and staked. For most of season one, it's unclear who did it to him. In the final episode it's revealed he had it done to himself in the midst of what seemed like Gehenna, the vampire apocalypse, to ride it out and see if things settled down.
- Lightning Bruiser: Prince Gravenstein's mastery of Potence makes him inhumanly strong, and he carves his way through a room full of younger vampires in under a minute. Betty compares him to a Cuisinart someone once gave her for Christmas.
- Offered the Crown: Gravenstein is not actively gunning for the title of Prince, but also doesn't turn down the title when the coterie present it to him on a silver platter.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Gravenstein is considered this as he was a "murderous bastard" but "fair," in contrast to the influential but unscrupulous Ventrue Kendrick.
