Ash

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Character Information
Clan:	Gangrel •••
Covenant:	Invictus •
City:	Nomad •
Player:	Sadhbh
Storyteller:	{{{s}}}

First impressions: Laughs far too much, actually seems to like people, and cracks a lot of jokes. Has a loud voice, a huge mane of red hair and penchant for manicuring her claws into pretty shades.

Information Known by Kindred Society: Has returned from a few months AWOL, resurfacing in Sydney, arriving in the door just after a huge kerfuffle erupted about a "security breach". Surely a coincidence, as must be her recent rumoured presence in Perth, where Prince Lucian (a recent thorn in her side) came to a rather sudden Final Death.

Ash is a Nomad, and takes it seriously. She’s known to have a very short fuse with people who declare themselves Nomads but are settled in one spot. She’s known to be friendly, nosey and to have a penchant for clawing things in the face when they get problematic. She works transporting goods from a to b via interesting backroads such as q, p, and z, without getting the attention they might otherwise get.

Known Sire / Childer / Grand-childer None known of. Don't ask her about her sire. Or her love life. Rumour has it they are very closely connected. OOC - Happy to discuss lineage with people, just don't have any currently!

Titles: None official, as of yet. She has been referred to, rather prophetically, as a "Harbringer of Destruction" by the now deceased Lucian of Perth . It is assumed this was affectionate, as was Lucas referring to her as "The Petting Zoo of the Apocalypse".

Currently on the car stereo.

AC/DC - If You Want Blood

Therapy? - Screamager

Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Velvet Revolver - She Builds Quick Machines

Character IC Livejournal Australian Nomads' Community on LJ. Information in generally OOC, unless stated otherwise.

Quotes

“Howya. I’m Ash.”

“Are you absolutely sure that clawing it in the face won’t help?”

After hearing Prince Wilmott declare at the Sydney Court that the venue for the evening will have to be moved as it has been bugged and is no longer safe. “A room full of vampires unsafe? Surely not. What’s the next big announcement – water is wet?”

"I wouldn't want to cause trouble. No, wait, that's wrong. I wouldn't want you to think I was causing trouble."

Getting to know her

A nomad by nature and profession, Aislinn "Ash" Quinn is friendly, good-natured and usually breath-takingly blunt. Ash claims to be Irish, and has been in Australia for just under a year. Appearing first in Melbourne, and variously wandering through Canberra, Kargoolie, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, she has become a familiar face where ever things are likely to blow up physically or socially a few moments later.

In terms of what she does, she’s a Gangrel’s Gangrel. She has been seen acting as a bodyguard to other Kindred on occasion, and gives her job as a “delivery girl”. She always has beautifully manicured claws, and a souped up jeep, stuffed to the gills with modern technology and two huge Irish Wolfhounds who have a disturbing tendency to drool on the crotches of people who wear expensive suits.

Rumours she trained them to do this, as well as the rumours that she regularly mist-forms her way out of a boring conversation, are false. Probably.

She maintains she likes a simple and peaceful life, and that it's not her fault that everywhere she goes, interesting things happen. Don’t believe her? Well, in the nine months she’s been here she’s; been attacked by zombie possums while singing karaoke; been in two exploding cars, three collapsed buildings and a shipwreck; been chased around a bunker for seven hours by hunters; had one date’s haven burn down; had a date try to take her home and torture her; had a date that vanished forever the next day (I mean, he could have just said lets just stay friends); refused the attentions of two Princes and had one wind up dead; led a mob through the sewers of Canberra hunting rogue ghouls and had someone summon Cthulu to ruin another one of her dates. And that's not counting the normal shootings, car chases and stabbings she gets through in a night at work.

She should have the life expectancy of a snowflake in a deep fat fryer but yet somehow she just keeps going, despite the omnipresent explosions and drama wherever she goes. How is it possible that someone this seemingly pleasant, socially guileless and helpful can stay afloat in the dangerous world of the Kindred, let alone as a Nomad? How can any of the Damned actually be that cheerful?

There are rumours. Some people, citing her ability to make friends and be trusted wherever she goes, say that Ash is just a new persona layered over something far older and more unpleasant, a Gangrel mask for an ancient Daeva horror. Some speak of a streak of luck that goes beyond mere co-incidence and into the bizarre, and reference Ash’s own mentions of the “gypsy curse”. Some say the loyalty of her many close friends, including Dix and Jay McKenna, is not friendship freely given but more of a guard against a horror to be controlled.

Others point out (reasonably enough) that Ash is bright and witty, doesn’t make a habit of breaking the Traditions, and helps out willingly in preserving the Masquerade and human life. And that even the most jaded and inhumane Invictus tyrant occasionally enjoy having someone who is actually cheerful in their domain. And she's also apparently a Gangrel meaning that, as she has frequently pointed out herself, “we get annoyingly bloody invulnerable after a few years”.

It’s an explanation for how she’s walked away, laughing and joking, from so many scenes of carnage without a single scratch on her, apparently still as empathic and humane as a pretty saintly human being.

It's just not a very good one.

Rumors

• She’s Unaligned again. Her “gypsy” past may be the reason that Erich Gruber is letting it be known that her apprenticeship period with the Dragons is over, and she won’t be joining into the Ordo Dracul.

• Everyone she dates winds up dead. People have started to realise this, with Cardinal Valeron Mayne Belotto asking her to take a few of the Sydney Brood out for the evening.

• Ash is bad luck, sometimes deliberately. She was responsible for luring outside and slaughtering of one “Israel” of the Carthians in Canberra, just beyond the doors of Elysium. This was somehow blamed on Marshall, a Gangrel of Melbourne, who has not been seen since.

• Ash isn't a Gangrel, but part of a Daeva bloodline that includes Ambia Pentalpha of Canberra and Britannia of Melbourne. This explains how freakishly alike they look, and the fact that have been overheard talking in some bizarre langauge and calling each other "sister".

• Ash has Kevlar underwear.

• Huntingdon apparently offered her a place of honour by his side in Brisbane. Smart cookie didn't take it up, probably because she realizes the sort of thing he had in mind probably involved her on her back with her legs over her head. Then again Huntingdon is asking his courtiers where "Lady Ash" is on a more and more frequent basis. Last thing Ash needs is some psychotic elder with a bad case of puppy love, sorry, no pun intended. Apparently he's also been asking for a "list" of "former dalliances" of "his lady", this can't be good, because he asked in his quiet voice which is oh so worse than his "big-outside-chewing-the-furniture" voice.

• Ash has offers of protection from several kindred at the recent Sydney gathering. Apparently more than one kindred was concerned her honour would be sullied by the likes of Fenris Black and Lord Huntingdon. Strangely enough Ash ditched her guardians and showed up looking radiant and in a delicious pair of heels. Almost as if she was begging for it.

• Ash was very unimpressed with the attention she received from the Elder Mekhet and Governor of Perth, Lucian, and his appetite for Apocalypse-causing Gangrel; she decided to inform him of the point by engineering his sudden, unexpected and completely unexplicable Final Death. DO NOT WANT!!

• No sire, no childer, no past, always on the move with bad luck dogging the heels of everyone who annoys her? She's got to be a bloody Bohagande, hasn't she?

• Ash is a source of strain and great displeasure between Lucian and Huntingdon. Apparently both consider Ash "theirs" whilst the pair get on well throw a red head into the mix and all hell may break loose. It is said Huntingdon flew into a rage when it was revealed that Lucian had fed from her. "He put his mouth where!" were his exact words before demolishing the accommodation thoughtfully provided by the Prince of Sydney.

• Ash isn't a Nomad; she holds territory in Melbourne and is bonded to James Morrow - why else would she defend him so vociferously in Sydney and threaten those who attempted to disrupt his already ruffled composure at the Elysium opening? The Kindred she threatened, a Sanctified Mehket, hasn't been seen since... When James was declared Prince at the Sydney gathering, Ash was right there in the back of the group supporting him.

• Ash is a Ravenscarred and probably the childe of Stahl. She certainly seems to hold him in a high level of esteem and is almost as quick to defend his honour as he is.

• Ash's constant "claws out" and Gangrel talk is a screen for her true clan. She is actually a Daeva, as can clearly been seen by her love of high heels and rock and roll singers such as Rip Wraithtamer. Jay McKenna of Melbourne is her sire.

• If Jay is her sire and Ambia and Britannia are her sisters. That makes her a Vitelion. At least this one doesn't wear crushed velvet and a corset. She's pretty enough, but doesn't think the world revolves around her and even has her head out of her ass half the time, must be a throw back.

• None of the Kindred in Ireland have ever heard of Ash Quinn.

• Ash isn't a Nomad, but an escort, "collecting" city rulers as bedtime trophies. She was very close to Lady Britannia, former ruler of Melbourne. Then she was the "bodyguard" of Britannia's successor, Erich Gruber and now she's been seen spending private time with James Morrow of Melbourne, Huntingdon of Brisbane, and being ‘’very’’ informal with Prince Wilmott of Sydney.

• She's not an escort, she's an assassin. Ash may delight the gentlemen at first meeting but ask yourself where are they now? That's right, dead or disappeared.

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  Kestrels Motorcycle Club
  Ash joined the army in WW2, masquerading as a man. It was there she learned her mechanical and driving skills and met her sire, the well known Invictus Dix of the Kestrels Motorcycle Club.

• Ash is a mad fan of burlesque theatre, which is unfortunate as she is not often welcome in most establishments. This is because she invariably ends up being more popular with the audience than the performers are, once she gets caught up in the mood.

• Ash had a mad, passionate affair with Stahl. Notice he's still alive.

• Ok, spoke too soon on that one...

• Ash and Jimmy, a Gangrel of Canberra, were very quick to connect - due to their shared love of clawing things in the face - and the two ended up running around in the sewers and all around town together, just looking for things to kill.

• Ash owns the largest private collection of shrunken heads in the Southern hemisphere. She uses them as teasing-toys to bat at like a kitty when she gets bored and belligerent. She 'harvested' and shrunk them all herself.

• Ash was involved in an all-girl Kindred pillow-fight in the Sydney abode of Baron George Francis Carlisle.

• Every time she speaks with the alder Le Vigneron she winds up owing him a boon. WTF?

• Ash has spent some time in Brisbane serving breakfast to Huntingdon. A french maid outfit was possibly involved.

• Ash has spent some time in Brisbane serving herself as breakfast to Huntingdon. A slave girl outfit was possibly involved.

• Ash and Huntingdon had a huge falling out in Brisbane. Again. Apparently he sicked his Carthian goon squad of Archons on her because she'd joined the Invictus. They worked her over but only cause she let them. Then Huntingdon storms out, they have a chat and Ash disappears for a couple of days. She's been seen since. He hasn't. I can only hope the worst has happened to him. Oh yeah, apparently Ash was delivering a package to him from Baron Carlisle, might have been something going on between the pair you know. Apparently she was one of Carlisle's bitches.

• Ash is the sire of Michael Cross.

• Ash is the childe of Michael Cross.

References

Feel free to add your comments on Ash, good or bad. Hey, the only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about. Well, that and being set on fire.

• "Hmmm, Ash? Ash? Ah yes, the Gangrel who was almost raped and Diablerised by Israel Bin Abraham - which ultimately resulted in his Final Death. In all honesty, I'd be curious to know how they ascertained his intended actions, as they never questioned him before he was killed. Fortunately, Israel was an idiot and I was about to order my Templar to kill him... so I'll have to keep the attractive young Lady in mind for when I need another fool dispatched in convenient circumstances." - Cardinal Valeron Mayne Belotto

• "At last a Euro-trash girl that not a complete bludger and actually works for her coin. People like her deserve visa - for a short time. Now if we can expire the other Tourist Kindred visas then my Requiem will be better." - Redmond Skeffington

• "Ash? Yes....where is she? I have only her best interests at heart I assure you." - Lord Huntingdon, Master of Brisbane, Daeva Elder, Unaligned.

• "Ash appears to be the first Dragon I have met that can converse and laugh without first quantifying, measuring, dissecting and hypothesizing on its nature first. I confess I will be disappointed to see her leave, for outside of Carthia she has been the first Kindred I have met who has let me feel alive once more." - Lucas, of the Ordo Dracul

• "Ash is possibly the most dangerous woman I know. Don't get me wrong, I love her to pieces, but so do explosions. That's kinda the problem. Where she goes, explosions follow, and then it's usually me and her making with the running the fuck away. No a pleasant way t' spend the evenin'." - Jay McKenna, of the Circle of the Crone

• "Yeah, she doesn't shut up, and yeah she's like she's just after a good time, but don't let that fool you - she's a tough cookie alright." - Dix, nomad of the Invictus

• "A refreshingly competant and practical creature. Minimal whining, maximum effectiveness - just the way I like it" - Erich Gruber, of the Ordo Dracul

• "Hooray. I'm a member, and a number....." - Antonio Fellini, currently on hiatus.... really.

• "No Comment. Really, what happens in my personal life is not any business of the media. Do I look like I kiss and tell?" - Rip Wraithtamer, of Bloodwych

• "Ms Quinn? Yes, I know her, I believe my driver, Charles, has an infatuation with her. He likes powerful women you see...." - James Morrow, of the Invictus

• "Ash Quinn... one of the first kindred to catch my eye when I walked into court, maybe because she was laughing so loud I couldn't help but notice her. She's friendly and, despite the fact she thinks that I'm up to something, I think she'd be a whole lot of fun to hang around with. Might be because I like clawing things in the face almost as much as she does, but I can't wait for her to return to Melbourne." - Marcus Helsing

• " Amazing. A Gangrel that has managed to master that whole thing about thinking before acting. She's pretty savvy, good to have around and has shoes to die for." - Britannia

• "Ash, like the common hedgehog, can only be defeated by one natural enemy; fast cars. Ash, like the common hedgehog, is extremely good at looking after herself. Ash, like the common hedgehog, is as cute as a button. Ash, unlike the common hedgehog, scares the bejesus out of me." - Lucinde De Béthune

• "You ever try picking up your teeth with broken fingers? Look at her like that again and you'll get that chance." - Stahl

• "Ash joined the Invictus?! ASH?! *mad gigglefits*" - Karly Finch

• "She's fun. Definitely a bint who supports shit football teams. But fun." Tommy Kennilworth

• "they iz bald, you know?" - Price Coombes

• "This particular creature is strong-natured. It should not be a slave to those wastrel masters of servitude - the invictus. Her bearing is proud and the beast within grants her foreknowledge of a hidden path belonging to true wayfarers. A way now lost to many of our younger clanmates. Florus, the Verdant One

• "Ash is a Gangrel too. Invictus though. Nomad. She is good in a fight and speaks her mind. Good value - I like her." - Dana Coombes (to her childe)

OOC Information

Player: Sadhbh Warren at sadhbh at g mail dot com

Location: Australia (currently wandering through Sydney!)