The Sanguine State

So, which race would you choose?


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  • Name: Jeanne Claudette Richard
    Age: 56 (Embraced in 2022, at 28)
    Sex: Male
    Race: Vampire
    Subfaction: The Restoration Movement
    Appearance:
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    Biography: Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a little girl named Jeanne. Jeanne and her family lived in the city now known as the Sanguine Capitol, with Jeanne reaching adulthood around the time the Blood Bank began its slow rise to power. However, despite the great upheavals that began taking place around that time, Jeanne was too busy with school to keep up with all the goings-on in the world. You see, Jeanne had always wanted to help other people, ever since she was a little girl. Being the compassionate person she was, a profession within the medical field seemed like a logical step for the young woman.

    Unfortunately, the Richard family weren’t the richest of families, and Jeanne’s parents were in no position to put her through medical school, still having to take care of her younger siblings. So, having no other options available to her, Jeanne, now 22 years old, took up the world’s oldest profession to help pay for her tuition. Initially, everything went swimmingly, and Jeanne was making good money acting as a girlfriend for hire for lonely older men, as unappealing as the job was. However, all good things must come to an end sooner or later, and that is exactly what happened once Jeanne met Jonas Albrecht Mueller. Jonas was, to put it plain and simple, a pimp, and a very good one at that.

    He was so good, in fact, that he managed to convince Jeanne to stop working as an independent escort and begin working for him. Jeanne, charmed by his polite manners and seemingly-good nature, accepted his offer without a second thought about any ulterior motive he might have. Unknown to Jeanne at that time, Jonas was a vampire working for the Blood Bank corporation, and one of those responsible for furthering the spread of Vampirism by releasing the so-called “immortality potions” onto the streets. Jeanne had no idea about her employer’s actions, or the fact that he was one of the living dead. After all, vampires were nothing but myths and fairytales, right?

    In fact, by the time the world began its descent into chaos and disorder, Jeanne was not only involved in a seemingly-romantic relationship with Jonas, but was also hooked on heavily-dosed amounts of the vampire’s blood, which she saw as a new synthetic drug. All thoughts of helping others and finishing medical school had completely left her mind, leaving only her love and adulation of Jonas behind. Thus began six long years of misery and abuse for Jeanne, who, in her thralldom-induced state of love, refused to defend herself from Jonas’ abuses. Jonas’ control over her, however, came to a sudden and abrupt end when Jeanne, after receiving her weekly dose of special sauce, shut down completely, culminating in a quick and painful “death” as a result of rapid organ failure. She was only 28. Jonas’ reaction was simple and uncaring: dump her in an alley and forget about her.

    Unbeknownst to her erstwhile lover, Jeanne (le gasp) wasn’t dead. For the first time in a long time, she felt free, albeit a freedom gained at the cost of her humanity. Regardless of whether or not she was still her old self, she still felt emotions, and now? Now, she was mad as hell at the man who’d stolen her dreams away from her, stolen any shred of dignity, and finally, stole her humanity from her. However, try as she might, Jeanne was unable to find Jonas and take her vengeance upon him, and it was as if he’d vanished off the face of the earth.

    For the next 20 years, as the Sanguine State was established and its new world order grew in power, Jeanne found herself alone in the world, angry and disenfranchised, with no direction in unlife. That is, until she met Reuben Schoonraad, who changed her entire view on unlife. Reuben, who’d been embraced early on during the rise of the Blood Bank, espoused an ideology in which the strong rule over the weak, reminiscent of a medieval fiefdom. This struck a chord within Jeanne’s disenfranchised soul. As she became more engrossed with the ideology, her lust for power and control over her fellow man grew. However, like all great movements, there must be a martyr for the cause.

    Sadly, that martyr turned out to be Reuben himself, who tragically died after Jeanne stabbed him in the back...repeatedly. After all, Reuben had always preached that the strongest survived, and it seemed that he wasn’t as strong as he thought he was. Shortly thereafter, Jeanne joined up with the Restoration Movement, seeing it as the best faction to further her own goals.

    Motivation: Jeanne sees herself as the successor to Reuben’s legacy, and is determined to spread his teachings to those she deems worthy of serving under her as vassals in the feudal state she hopes to establish once the Sanguine State is toppled.

    Standard Traits:
    • Charm
    • Levitation
    • Diplomat
    • First-Aid Training
    • Leadership Ribbon I

    Custom Traits:
    • Faelike: Jeanne is a creature of elegance, poise, and desire, a fact that she exploits to her utmost advantage. She moves with the practiced gait of a noblewoman, drawing the eyes of men to her like flies drawn to honey. However, her preternatural speed and beauty have resulted in her possessing a rather frail constitution, in comparison to other vampires.
    Signature: Yaddayaddayaddayadda, I agree. Cordially yours, Zed.

  • Name: Sir Francis Callahan
    Appearance:
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    Source Image by PE-Travers
    Age: 28
    Sex: Male
    Race: Vampire
    Subfaction: Restoration Movement
    Biography: Francis Callahan may not look like much to most, but to Jeanne, he’s proof that her ideology works. She found him in the Outskirts, just another gangbanger roughing up the poor for fun and profit, and has turned him into her personal bodyguard, the archetypal knight to her queen. Born to a lowly vamp whore and one of her numerous johns, Francis learned quickly that the path to success in the Outskirts was paved with bloody bodies. Fortunately for him, Francis was gifted with a natural penchant for all things criminal, and soon found himself involved in various criminal activities, mostly ones involving violence. By the time he was a man, he’d murdered, raped, and assaulted his way up the criminal ladder.

    Francis, however, held much loftier ambitions than just being your average Outskirts hoodlum. Mind you, these ambitions mainly involved being the top dog of all top dogs, but they were still his ambitions. His ambition, as well as his criminal expertise and his penchant for violence, were perfect for Jeanne’s first convert. She needed someone to be the iron fist to her velvet glove, and while Francis wasn’t entirely so sure of her cause, she soon convinced him otherwise. He became her protector and occasional lover, and before long, she’d filled his head full of the idea that she was his queen, and he was her loyal sir knight. Now, he fights for the reward of his queen’s adulation and her promise of titles and power once the Rebellion topples the Sanguine State.

    Noteworthy Skillsets: Francis loves his guns. Oh, how he loves his guns. Shotguns, SMGs, Rifles, you name it, he’s used them (or at least, shitty illegal knockoffs) in some capacity or another due to his former life in the Outskirts as a gangbanger. Other than his love of all things ballistic, Francis is handy when harsh words turn to broken bottles and bloody knuckles, and his vampiric strength and senses give him that little OOMPH that is always appreciated in a fight. (Light Munitions, Heavy Munitions, CQC, and Enhanced Senses)
 
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*Reads over Zed's sheet.*

Comrade Zed said:
*looks at picture amd rereads backstory.*

Hiding a secret weapon, are we?
 
I'm still trying to figure out if Zed just hasn't noticed.
It's intentional.
She's mtf trans, she's had the surgery, she's done the hormone replacement therapy and all of that, but she's still biologically a male, having the sex chromosomes of a male.
Remember, guys, Gender =/= Sex.
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You see, I would argue that still changes her biological sex.

Here me out: Gender refers to the non-biological associations of male-ness and female-ness. They are socially constructed, etc etc. My personwl belief is that your character is now a woman. She both possesses the social conditioning of a woman (gender) as well as the physical, biological traits of a woman. (sex)

Put simply, it would be rude and unfair, quite frankly incorrect to go to a post-op transgendered woman and say 'You are a man.' In that regards, they are not a man, but a woman. That same truth surrounds your character: I would never call them a male, thus they are best identified as female.

Disclaimer: This is of course my view. I consider myself a liberal panda and I define sex amd gender in ways that I know others have disagreed with in the past. No offence is meant if it is caused.
 
Hello, local transgender here.

The CS asks for biological gender, not social or physical. Therefore, it feels as if the 'gender of the chromosomes' or whatever seems to be the one it's asking for, and therefore 'male' would be the one given because XY. I assume. Despite operations that change the physical form, the chromosomes are likely the same. I guess. I'm not fully aware of how that would work in this setting.

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Also I mean, for reasons of medical stuff, as XY and XX people respond differently to different things, that'd also still be male. But again, this really comes down to which gender exactly did Brovo want. It feels like biological, to me, is still asking for male, even if pretty much every other way of it would be justifiably female.

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Alternatively, a compromise for the meanwhiles! "XY Female" ... would that even be an accurate term? I dunno. I'm going to stop talking in here now.

And then the Elendra awkwardly scuttled away
 
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This was brought up in Skype and Brovo said that surgery wouldn't change the biological sex, thus male (probably referring the the XY chromosomes, as Elly suggested)
EDIT: Also, I imagine it wasn't brought up in the bio or anything because it's the kind of thing where once it's mentioned, people assume it's the defining trait of the character.
 
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This was brought up in Skype and Brovo said that surgery wouldn't change the biological sex, thus male (probably referring the the XY chromosomes, as Elly suggested)
EDIT: Also, I imagine it wasn't brought up in the bio or anything because it's the kind of thing where once it's mentioned, people assume it's the defining trait of the character.
Actually, I asked Zed about the bio thing and he said that there's no mention of it and it's made to sound as if she was always female because it's her own retelling of it. So sort of a mix of unreliable narrator and self-editing history at work there.
 
Actually, I asked Zed about the bio thing and he said that there's no mention of it and it's made to sound as if she was always female because it's her own retelling of it. So sort of a mix of unreliable narrator and self-editing history at work there.
The two of you are both correct.
It's written specifically as a sort of unreliable narrator because most of the time, people see it and assume it's the defining trait of the character.
 
Gee it's almost like Zed put effort into it and thus I approved it behind closed doors. ;)

I'm heading out for a while, for private matters. I'll be back tonight to do reviews and IC info unveiling.
 
Marvelous, I look forward to this great unveiling and I must say I find the cast very well-developed.
 
Marvelous, I look forward to this great unveiling and I must say I find the cast very well-developed.
There's quite a bit of variety, yes, though I suspect three will die before the end of the first mission. One of em' because the player will likely abandon ship, two because the players seem like they'll get a bit too cocky and bite off more than they can chew.

Not gonna say which three... Buuut... It's probably for the best that I give everybody a quick idea of what to do.

#1: There are dice rolls involved in actions to prevent GM bias from killing your characters, or saving them. (I do sometimes say "fuck the dice" if it results in a TPK, but it does make things more interesting this way.) Dice however are never applied to diplomacy: So if you come up with a stirring speech or a cunning bribery, it won't arbitrarily fail because the Dice Gods decided to have your character suddenly become a drooling Neanderthal.

#2: You get dice bonuses to defense for taking cover, falling back, choosing to do "reactionary" tactics (ie: Taking cover and then saying "I will fire at X enemies if they come into range/threaten Y"), and so on. If you know an enemy will charge you, you can try to plan out an evasion ahead of time. I usually give "tells" for this with powerful enemies, like a lycanthrope lieutenant might eye you from across the room before charging. Key word: "Might", don't always rely on the GM (moi) to give you warnings.

#3: You get dice bonuses to offense for taking time to aim at individual targets, flanking targets, and using the appropriate weaponry for the job. (ex: Sniper rifle at point blank range? Unwise. Shotgun at long range? Equally unwise.) You can chain expected actions for a bonus: If you get out of direct line of sight of an enemy inside an adjacent room, you can expect the enemy to follow, and thus predicatively state "when the enemy enters the room I will shoot them".

#4: Teamwork always results in bonuses. This is to encourage interaction between players: If Jimmy and Johnny both attack the same target, that one target is going to have a harder time dealing with both of them as it's two against one. Simultaneously, if you're heavily outnumbered, you may want to consider falling back. This applies towards everything, from defense to offense, even to diplomacy in a limited way.

#5: As part of the "eliminate bias" duty, as the GM I will enforce characters taking wounds. On the other hand, I leave it up to the player to decide how their character reacts to such wounds. For example: Lets say your character gets shot in the shoulder. I'll be the one to state that he gets shot, but unless it's explicitly a debilitating wound, you can still use that limb, and it's up to you to play out how the character will deal with the pain and injury. This is mostly so I can force your character to grow as a person and occasionally rely on others to cover them while they fall back to someone with nanites. (Or in the case of Lycanthropes: "Gimmie a couple minutes guys, HHNNNGGGGG, okay, all good, I feel better now. ROAR!")

If you have further questions, feel free to ask @Tempest or @Kadaeux they've been in my RP's long enough to know the ropes.
 
At last! Finally, all those years of turn-based strategy games will pay off!

I am very keen to see how this system works in practice, given the nature of all the characters there definitely need to be things in place to encourage thoughtful actions and behavior.
 
HOPEFULLY I will be attempting to play my character they way I first invisioned him. Not very Strong in any way but clever. Trying as hard as he can to finish his mission without getting into a firefight he would probably lose in.


EDIT: ALso I havn't posted while in the OOC Making sure you are aware that I am still interested and Alive. HELLO PEOPLE I DON"T KNOW YOU ARE ALL VERY SMART AND I ENJOY READING WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!
 
You see, I would argue that still changes her biological sex.

Here me out: Gender refers to the non-biological associations of male-ness and female-ness. They are socially constructed, etc etc. My personwl belief is that your character is now a woman. She both possesses the social conditioning of a woman (gender) as well as the physical, biological traits of a woman. (sex)

Put simply, it would be rude and unfair, quite frankly incorrect to go to a post-op transgendered woman and say 'You are a man.' In that regards, they are not a man, but a woman. That same truth surrounds your character: I would never call them a male, thus they are best identified as female.

Disclaimer: This is of course my view. I consider myself a liberal panda and I define sex amd gender in ways that I know others have disagreed with in the past. No offence is meant if it is caused.
Naturally socially it'd be impolite to say that.

But if you're speaking about their biological gender the person would not be incorrect to say it, but quite correct. Regardless of the alteration the surgery caused genetically they remain male.
 
Naturally socially it'd be impolite to say that.

But if you're speaking about their biological gender the person would not be incorrect to say it, but quite correct. Regardless of the alteration the surgery caused genetically they remain male.
I would just like to point out that I know almost nothing about the subject therefor I have no opinion on the matter. I would also like to sya how respectful everyone is on this sight. OH we have a disagreement? Lets handle it in a peaceful manner then give each other likes when we are done. I never see anyone fight on this site, or if I do it is more sarcasm and jokes then anything else. ITS STRANGE.
 
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