#ada&fran oc

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Alright! I updated my PXZ3 character wishlist a bit

I've been debating with myself for a bit: I'm thinking of making Kazuya a pair unit with Jun instead, and make Reina the solo unit

The Resonance of Fate trio are in the list, but I've been thinking about their chances of returning in PXZ3. They've been prominent characters in the 1st and 2nd games but I don't know if they'll ever return or not in a possible 3rd game.

And lastly, the new OCs. I've been wanting to develop them a bit for now, including their personalities, names, and designs

Here's a catch: Can I draw? Yes! I can draw! But do I know how to draw humans? No...I've drawn humans before, but they're less than stellar 😭

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INFO POST

This is an in-character rp blog run by @styxnbones for my Vampire The Masquerade characters: Adaline and Francesca. Adaline is a Harbinger who was embraced during the great depression specifically to be molded into a perfect host for Francesca, the wraith of a long dead Cappadocian. As such she wears, or rather is, an Obsidian Mask. She is also a member of the Sabbat, but in typical Harbinger fashion- it's more as a means to an end than something she's really committed to ideologically. She has no fixed location, but she does insist on walking everywhere.

I run these two using a hybrid of v5/v20/wraith20 rules, along with a bunch of guidelines I made up for myself about how exactly the Obsidian Mask works. Other meta information can be found on my main under #ada&fran oc.

To distinguish who's typing/talking: Adaline is like this, and Francesca is like this.

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Harriet Kaski

Fierce woman caught in the middle of a conspiracy in 1940s Los Angeles (LA Noire OC).

Full name: Harriet Loviisa Kaski

Name meaning: Home ruler (Harriet), Renowned warrior (Loviisa, Finnish version of name Louise), An area of a forest reserved for slash-and-burn agriculture (Kaski)

Nicknames: Hattie, Ettie, Hertta (by family and friends with Finnish background), Tuittu (by soldiers and fellow lottas during Continuation War), Nightingale (by Stefan Bekowsky), Hetty (Jack Kelso)

Gender: Female (she/her)

Age: 29 (in 1947)

Birthday/Zodiac: May 5th 1918 (Taurus)

Height: 5′4′’-5′5′’ / 164 cm

MBTI: ENFJ (I just give up with this, apparently I keep creating same personality type no matter what is different with them xD)

Sexuality: polyamorous demisexual

Favourite colour: Teal & yellow

Likes: reading, accountability, her family & friends, trains, dancing, singing, corvids

Dislikes: misogyny and its affects on her, showing weakness (herself), dishonesty, arrogance, Roy Earle

Major Arcana: The Hanged Man

UPRIGHT: pause, surrender, letting go, new perspectives

REVERSED: delays, resistance, stalling, indecision

Minor Arcana: Queen of Wands

UPRIGHT: courage, independence, social butterfly, determination

REVERSED: self-respect, self-confidence, introverted, re-establish sense of self

Family:

Johannes Kaski (father, alive), relationship: close

Elina Kaski, née Nurmi, prev. Gren (mother, alive), relationship: close

Olavi Kaski (older brother, alive), relationship: very close

Laura Gaines, née Kaski (younger sister, alive), relationship: close

Frans Nurmi, prev. Gren (maternal grandfather, alive), relationship: before strained, nowadays respectful

Matilda Nurmi, prev. Gren, née Salakari (maternal grandmother, alive), relationship: before strained, nowadays respectful

Tuomas Nurmi, prev. Gren (maternal uncle, alive), relationship: close

Otto Kaski (paternal grandfather, deceased), relationship: before distant, nowadays familiar

Loviisa Kaski, née Haapalainen (paternal grandmother, alive), relationship: before distant, nowadays familiar

Onni Kaski (paternal uncle, alive), relationship: before distant, nowadays familiar

Väinö Kaski (paternal uncle, alive), relationship: before distant, nowadays familiar

Saima Vehkalahti, née Kaski (paternal aunt, alive), relationship: before distant, nowadays familiar

Friends:

Walter Pesonen (created by @katinlieko​): childhood neighbours and Harriet’s first friend (since they were infants), they are very close even as adults

Esther Pesonen (created by @katinlieko​): childhood neighbours and pals (Harriet sees her as an extra little sister), as adults they become very close friends

Harold Caldwell: classmates since 1st grade, become friends during elementary school with friendly rivalry and stay close ever since

Hank Merrill: classmates since 1st grade, become actual friends during middle school, relationship is very close until 1939

Ralph Dunn: Walter’s classmate, Harriet befriends her during middle school when she becomes regular part of Walter’s friend group, don’t keep contact with each other after high school, but they find each other after WW2 and become close friends

Stefan Bekowsky: meets him at a dance hall when she’s there with her siblings to celebrate the ending of Continuation War, they see each other later on several occasions and start to hang out, become close friends in time

Elsa Lichtmann: meets her by chance at LA Public Library after returning from Finland, they get to know each other and become close friends

Lou Buchwalter: gets acquainted with him through Elsa, close friends afterwards

Sarah Harding (created by me): workmate and later a friend

Ada Robbins (created by me): workmate and later a friend

Personality: Extrovert, outspoken, hotblooded, lively, patient (except when “dealing with idiots”), hard-working and passionate. Harriet has always been rather wild “for a girl” according to standards of the time. She is brave, and as a child she wanted to do things that were considered being for the boys, like climbing trees, playing football and using slingshot. Enthusiastic and curious, Harriet enjoys new experiences and loves reading everything she gets her hands on. Enjoys singing and dancing, and is talented in both.

Harriet’s sense of duty and justice are strong, and she isn’t afraid of speaking up or acting if she thinks something is wrong. Harriet is outgoing even as an adult, but becomes more reserved after her experiences at war. Despite of her fiery nature, Harriet is very kind and has a tender side, that she shows especially if she finds someone worthy of it (aka you’re not an asshole). Harriet stays calm even in dire situations, is extremely resourceful and has impeccable survival skills, especially after her years in Finland. She is also loyal and will do anything to protect her loved ones and fight for what is right in her opinion.

Appearance: Bodytype pear/A. Oval-shaped face. Almond-shaped, dark blue eyes. Long, straight, blonde hair. Always does some kind of hairdo, except when she’s at home alone. Wears light makeup at work and when going out.

Harriet’s skin tone is fair with neutral undertones. She tans rather easily, but needs to be careful to avoid sunburns. Harriet has a button nose. She has “resting bitch face”, but smiles quite often. Her walking style is rather determined, and she almost looks like she’s marching - sure way to have people making way to her despite of her gender. xD

History:

Harriet is the middle child of Finnish immigrant parents (originated from North Ostrobothnia) and the first member of her family who was born in United States. Her father, Johannes, is a carpenter, and her mother, Elina, is an elementary school teacher. Their marriage is nonconformist; Elina is the daughter of an influental businessman, but still wanted to marry a man from lower social class, who on top of that is the youngest son of his parents.  Elina’s parents were against the marriage, but Elina didn’t give in and said the wedding will happen, with or without their blessing. Despite the rebellous background of their love story, Johannes’ and Elina’s marriage is a happy one.

Harriet’s parents decided to leave Finland in 1914, when they grew tired of Russification of Finland, with their 2-year-old son, Olavi. Like many fellow Finns at the time, they started a long journey to the land of promises, United States of America, in hopes of getting a better future there. During their travels they met and befriended another married couple, Harry and Edith Pesonen, who originated from North Karelia. Once the group got to the United States, unlike the most Finnish immigrants, they decided to try their luck in Los Angeles. Families Kaski and Pesonen became neighbours after Johannes managed to build both of their houses with the help of some volunteers.

Harriet was born four years later in a sauna Johannes had built to his family’s new home. Only help Elina had was her own husband and a midwife. Olavi was overjoyed for getting a little sister, and Harry and Edith Pesonen became Harriet’s godparents. Tho the Spanish flu pandemic casted a shadow on their happiness, to their luck no one from their immediate circle got infected. The Kaski family reached its final form when Olavi and Harriet got a little sister, Laura, in 1920.

Harriet also befriends the children of family Pesonen, Walter and Esther. Thanks to their neighbours, Harriet’s family has a small Finnish community far from home. They all speak Finnish with each other to maintain their skills in it. The family also stays in contact with their relatives in Finland via letters, and Elina’s younger brother, Tuomas, who as an adult takes over their father’s business and expands it outside Europe, is able to visit his sister’s family every now and then. That way Harriet knows at least one of her relatives outside of letters and some photographs.

At school Harriet is a gifted student, one of the tops of her class, thanks to being hard-working and curious child. Sometimes she gets into trouble because of her temper, forthrightness, “improper interests” (meaning activities reserved for boys during the era) and tendency to defend others and herself from bullies, sometimes with her fists. Some teachers hate her for that, but she does too well at school to get into more serious trouble than detentions, and enough teachers love her, so they defend her when they can. Harriet is also very fascinated of Finland and its culture and wants to learn everything about it, whether it is from books in LA Public Library, stories from her parents or things her Finnish relatives send over to them.

Education is very important for Kaski family, especially for Johannes, who wasn’t able to go to school for more than 4 years. He wants his children to have better chances than him and make sure they can educate themselves as much as they want. Unfortunately The Great Depression occurs when Harriet is preteen and it affects her future; her parents don’t lose their jobs, but money they were saving for the upper education for their daughters go up with smoke during that time to keep the family fed and clothed. Olavi is so much older than his siblings that the depression doesn’t affect to his education. Harriet must give up for her dreams to become a historian, and settles for becoming a secretary after high school, due to her being skillfull at typewriting and shorthand.

Harriet’s world changes drastically in 1939; Europe is becoming restless and Soviet Union keeps pressuring Finland into giving up some areas and renting a military base in Hanko, but Finland doesn’t agree. Kaski family fears, that if a war breaks out, small countries like Finland would be caught in the middle. Olavi announces that he wants to travel to Finland and join their army as a volunteer based on his dual nationality - if a war starts in Finland, he wants to help his birth country as much as he can. Harriet, who doesn’t want to be away from her brother, and wants to do something meaningful in her life, decides to join him. She intends to try and join Lotta Svärd organisation. Begrudingly Johannes and Elina let them leave, but talk Laura out of it, so they wouldn’t need to worry about all of their children.

In summer 1939 Harriet and Olavi start their journey to Finland. Olavi starts in the army and Harriet gets accepted to Lotta Svärd (thanks to her dual nationality and speaking Finnish perfectly). They are both nervous, because this is their first time being apart from their family and for Harriet it is her first time in her parents’ home country. Also meeting their relatives the first time either for a long time or ever is an experience for them. Everyone gives them a warm welcome, though, even their maternal grandparents who have in time come to terms with their daughter’s choice of a spouse.

Unfortunately Harriet’s and Olavi’s instincts are right, and Winter War starts on November 30th when Soviet Union attacks Finland. Olavi and Harriet are sent together at the front of Kuhmo along with their draftee and lotta cousins (a couple of their female cousins joined Lotta Svärd too). Harriet works as an air surveillance lotta which is one of the most dangerous jobs a lotta could do during wartime. Instead of leaving Finland after Winter War ends, Harriet and Olavi decide to stay, in order to actually experience the country in time of peace and getting to know their extended family better (plus preparing for possibility of another war).

The peace lasts only for a year, and the Continuation War starts in summer 1941. During the Interim Peace Harriet has trained herself to become a “communications lotta” (can work as a telephone operator, is able to use radio transmitters and - receivers, transcripts messages and reports etc.). Some time after the beginning of the war an officer arrives to Harriet’s post and asks for lotta volunteers to join his group close to the front. Harriet volunteers herself and ends up working at a top secret unit for the rest of the time. During this time she is taught to use a gun (despite of Lotta Svärd rule to not allow lottas to carry arms), because even lottas in that unit would be in danger. Unlike in Winter War, Finland didn’t send men from the same town to same divisions during Continuation War, so Harriet gets separated from Olavi and doesn’t see him for 1,5 years.

Harriet’s war ends after three long years when she hears that her brother has been seriously wounded during the Battle of Tali-Ihantala. She resigns from Lotta Svärd and travels to a war hospital where Olavi is being kept. She stays at his bedside for a few agonising days before to her relief she learns her brother will survive. Olavi has lost his left eye, so he won’t be sent to the front anymore, and after he is realeased from the hospital, the siblings decide to take the risk and start a dangerous journey back to their home. By some miracle they manage to get back without any mishaps (Atlantic Ocean was occupied by German submarines so travelling across it was very risky).

Harriet and Olavi arrive back in Los Angeles at the end of August in 1944. Lots of things have changed, themselves included. Some of their friends have joined the USA’s war efforts in Pacific theatre, so even though Harriet doesn’t need to fear for her life anymore, she still worries for her loved ones she hasn’t seen in many years. She tries her best to settle back in her birth country, which culture is so much different from Finland’s. After a few months Harriet gets a job as a judicial secretary at Spring Street Courthouse, as a first woman in the courthouse’s history.

When the World War 2 finally ends, and those who survived finally are able to return home, nothing is like it used to be. Trying her best to adjust to her new life and live with her traumas and rekindle the relationships with her friends she hasn’t seen in a long time, Harriet also manages to get to know some new people. In time, she will also cross paths with some detectives of the LAPD, and gets dragged into a mess that may cost her everything she holds dear...

Five facts:

Harriet is trilingual; she learnt Finnish, Swedish and English from birth (her mother is half Finland-Swede, meaning Elina’s other parents’ mother tongue is Swedish)

loves murder and ghost stories, and has been fascinated by them since she was a child

sometimes stands in for her friend Elsa at Blue Room

befriended some crows as a child, and nowadays a whole kin of crows in Harriet’s neighbourhood knows her and gives her presents

is a decent boxer thanks to her brother

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VtM Sabbat OCs

Minerva; they/he; 7th gen Malkavian Antitribu; Path of (it's complicated); Black Hand Emissary in SI-Occupied Montreal; ductus of The Pantheon; experiences reality in triplicate and decided to be a catboy about it.

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Liber; he/him; 11th gen Ventrue Antitribu; Path of Cathari; former Seneschal of Ottawa, now Minerva's bf in SI-Occupied Montreal with The Pantheon; memory issues georg. Based on the protagonist of Parliament of Knives and the Ventrue Enforcer from Bloodhunt

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Peona; she/they; 10th gen Tzimisce; Path of Cathari; priest to The Pantheon; childe of The Rose; tattoo artist and functional Archbishop of SI-Occupied Montreal.

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Pluto (Silas McAllister); he/him; 10th gen Lasombra; Path of Caine; member of The Pantheon Pack; little lad lasombra.

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Adaline, The Obsidian Mask & Francesca Faustina Fioranti; she/her for both; 8th gen Harbinger/Hecata and the even older wraith of a former Cappadocian/Harbinger; Path of Death and the Soul; recently awoken from a 7 year torpor under the Atlantic

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Caleb Quincey; he/him; 9th gen Gangrel Antitribu; Path of Harmony; 100 year dirt nap champion, anarch impersonator, and former ductus of The Prowlers. Based loosely on Caleb from the cult classic Build Engine fps, BLOOD (1997). (My character for the C@M Good Intentions chronicle)

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Niko Rakoczy; she/he; 9th gen Tzimisce (former Obertus revenant); Path of Death and the Soul; ductus of The Last Nail; likes to watch anarchs like bugs under a magnifying glass.

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i need skeleta to drop so i can make another harbinger oc based on a ghost song- i feel it in my bones that something this on this album is gonna have the perfect vibes

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have i finished the character sheets? no but i made another picrew <3

she gets a lil moldy a lil algaey when she naps underwater

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blorbo bingo for fran&ada 👉🏻👈🏻🥺

note quite bingo bc i dont think they'd be very good for biting itd be like sinking ur teeth into wet paper towel. also the "canon doesnt exist" is bc i think its more fun if obsidian mask lets fran keep her wto sheet while also using ada's vtm one and having all the necromancy rituals shes wants. yes it'd be overpowered as a player character but thats why i'm not going to use them as one. mark my fucking words tho the next time i run a vtm chronicle im 100% using ada and fran as stcs

anyways i looove my murder girlies ty for askin abt them

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10, 24, 25 for ada&fran

YES THE GIRLIES

10. What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

I'm not gonna lie, I don't really like AUs very much so I don't really think about them. At most, I'll dabble with canon divergence or fix it type things, but that is basically straying into the next question's territory. But, with rpg characters specifically I do think it can be fun to think about how I would stat them out in other systems, so I'll say this: Adaline as an Undying warlock with Francesca as her Lich patron, pact of the Blade with a crowbar as her weapon. Francesca teaches her the secrets of necromancy and Adaline quests to destroy the Lich that took over her home town (who also happens to be Fran's awful ex) while slowly becoming undead herself.

24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

I always like thinking about what a kindred's life would have been like if they hadn't been embraced. Francesca would have miraculously survived the plague, become even more committed in her faith than she already was, and likely gone on to be an Abbess- consequently losing the free time to pursue her study of medicine in any serious capacity, and fading into obscurity after her eventual death. Adaline on the other hand, would have finished her degree and almost certainly served as a doctor during WWII kicking off what I like to think would actually have been a historically notable career. She'd probably have her own wiki page with an edit history a mile long going back and forth on whether it should be mentioned that she might have been into women.

25. What is your favorite thing about your OC?

There's so much I love abt Ada and Fran but I'm gonna be real: They were a character design before anything else and I really do think the way they look Fucks Hardcore like there is constantly a corner of my brain that is just perpetually rotating this image

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@septipelagic <- new rp blog bc i have Hecata Disease and now i've got a Diseased Hecata

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so obviously adaline's hair is not natural. like no one actually has purple hair down to their ankles yk. benefits of rolling w the sabbat is tzim besties wanting to practice vicissitude, and benefits of already looking freaky is it can't get much worse.

But. i think that because the tzim that did her hair was Not very experienced, that the roots are arranged like how dolls have those clumps of strands stuck through little holes so it gives the Illusion of volume w/o having to poke in every hair individually.

idk just a fun little thought i had

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Got any promthean characters?

ever heard of only of the fan games for wod, like zombie the coil, princess the hopeful, etc?

1. nah, i have the pdf for it knocking around but it never really caught my interest enough to make a character. i actually don't have any fully non-vampire wod characters at all (outside of like npcs for stuff ive st'd for). even francesca, my one technically wto character, is the wraith of a cappadocian and is currently full-time possessing a harbinger.

2. i have heard of the fan games too, tho i've never really looked at them much either. one of my friends was is a princess the hopeful game, but thats abt as closely in promity to it as ive gotten

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24 26 30 for Harper Fran AND Ada!

Harper: 24. Do they easily dispose of bodies? Well they wouldn't make a very good scourge if they had problems getting rid of bodies, now would they. Whatever they don't eat gets ashed with necromancy :)

26. Do they want to become human again or are they fine as a kindred? I think if you asked them, they'd say that of course they want to be human again so they don't have to struggle with their beast anymore. BUT! If they're being honest- no, they'd never want to go back now that they are even more painfully aware of the power gap between humans and kindred. Also, the part of them that is still bonded with Lia would never let them chose to be human again because it would be forsaking the gift she gave them.

30. Do they have a clan that they do particularly like? In the Camarilla- Ventrue, since they've been trying to lowkey cosplay as one for a while now. They think the clan of kings epitomizes what a good cammie should look like, and they are trying so so so hard to be that. Other than that- any of the other smaller bloodlines that got absorbed by the Giovanni to form the Hecata. Harbingers especially, since they have the most reason to hate the Giovanni.

Francesca: 24. Do they easily dispose of bodies? Once again, of course- though unlike Harper she doesn't eat them. If they aren't needed for anything else, then she just ashes them with necromancy.

26. Do they want to become human again or are they fine as a kindred? Well. Pseudo-kindred. But I think Fran would only accept being returned to human life if she was guaranteed to do it as a mage. Otherwise, she's put so much effort to get where she is now it would feel like a waste.

30. Do they have a clan that they do particularly like? The Lamia, for sentimental reasons, and she has a healthy respect for the Lasombra and the Nosferatu since she sees them as generally the most pragmatic.

Adaline: 24. Do they easily dispose of bodies? Same as Fran, though Ada will take every opportunity to watch a body rot for as long as she can- or infest it with disease and plant it somewhere to catalogue the effects on it's environment.

26. Do they want to become human again or are they fine as a kindred? If Ada chose to be human again, it would be purely so she could experience another embrace and get to feel the sensation of Death with her eyes open this time.

30. Do they have a clan that they do particularly like? Ada loooooooves Gangrel, though they tend not to like her back once they get to know her. Her and Fran spent a while in a pack of Mariners and Ada still thinks of it fondly, even though they eventually kicked her out for polluting their waters.

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playlist for the new girlies btw

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its a good thing i love making character sheets cause these bitches collectively have FIVE