u/Rustyshackilford

Id love to keep the Player Character Lore volumes going but am running out of contributions. Os this something you guys enjoy as much as I do? Anyone have any characters to offer up? DM or post here and let's keep this rolling.

This week is Geneieve from u/candy-coloured

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Genevieve is of humble beginnings. The daughter of a barren peasant women, it was rumoured by the villagers that it was an unholy bargain that gave her life.

Believed to have been born with a rare blood condition, Genevieve was a sickly child possessing pale skin and distinctive yellow-orange eyes.

Too ailing to work the harvest, Genevieve supported her mother working in the nearby town tavern, collecting the discarded tankards of the local reprobates.

Shunned by the local townsfolk, for her wraithlike appearance, she later developed an ethereal and uncanny beauty as she came of age.

Aloof, she seemed disinterested in the scorn, and later fascination, of these leering vermin but fate had her catch the eye of the town’s feudal lord; spellbound by her strangely frightful and sickly, but eerily captivating, allure.

Promptly escorted to his fortress, the lord soon grows tired of her indifference to him, offering the finest feasts and silken attire, in return for her adoration, only to be spurned again and again. After refusing to consummate the unwilling betrothal, she is sent to a life in the dungeon in an attempt to provoke a change of heart.

Her mother is presented as a bargaining chip but she bites the lord’s face and, as the blood flows down his cheek, urges her daughter not to submit.

The mere sight of the glistening crimson ignites an infatuating thrill Genevieve has never felt before; for one fleeting moment she sees God before her mother is cut down before her.

Maddened by grief, and to the horror of the guards, Genevieve failed to resist the bewildering urge to feast upon the blood of her mother. Rejuvenated, in the blood drunk haze, she wolfishly tore out the throat of her captors and slowly made her way through the shadows to the lord’s bedchamber.

That night she bathed in the blood of her consort and won the loyalty and fear of all in the stronghold.

Word soon spread throughout the land of the blood-soaked, alabaster, warlord beauty claiming fiefdom after fiefdom. Clad in the rags of her peasantry, and the crown of her slain sire, she savours the blood of her felled foes, believing it to gift her eternal youth.

Then, one moonless night, her camp is visited by a mysterious stranger, upon jet black steed, clad in paper-thin silver armour, and bearing a blade that sang in scarlet hues.

In his hands, a gift; a regal piece graced by intricate gold-work — the black and scarlet attire of a noble bloodline.

It seems destiny has found Genevieve at last.

This week is Alicen McCombs by u/Aggressive_resort872

Alicen McCombs was an early-20-something C-B+ humanities student from a foreign academy who traveled to Yharnam to learn about the healing church while her classes were out of season and acquire Victorian-era ADHD medication. In a stroke of misfortune she was unwittingly drafted into the Hunt because she did not in fact read the contract presented to her by the minister during her blood transfusion, she never ended up getting prescribed any drugs, and now everything in the city wants to kill her assumedly because it happens to be That Time Of The Month for her and the beasts can sense the blood. Ms Mccombs quickly gets attatched to the few people not trying to see her dead and additonally unfortunately starts crushing on Alfred because she's in a near-constant state of distress and he's the first decent looking guy who's been nice to her the entire time she's been here, and her brother Gene (AKA Grumpy, because he thinks Gene is a stupid name. He was supposed to join her earlier but work held him up) eventually arrives and they go through the horrors of the hunt mostly together from then on.

Of course, having emotional support doesn't stop her from being devastated when most of her new compatriots aside from Valtr (he and the siblings start to have kind of a silly goofy very violent found family thing going on) die or otherwise suffer, and after choosing the "Honoring Wishes" ending once she realizes how bad of a hand Gehrman's been dealt she wakes up back in the clinic because she's going through a time loop via some measure of Great One influence, so she decides to do things better with the powers of hindsight- saving her friends (with the powers of compassion and also by breaking their questlines), ending the Hunter's Nightmare using jolly cooperation with the League, and trying to make sure the last people left in Yharnam stay standing by going for the Childhood's Beginning ending (and steadily repurposing the doll in the old Hunter's Workshop to serve as a person-shaped "cradle" for her eldritch squid self to inhabit and pilot like a gundam once she does.) Because if she knows needless suffering can be prevented by gods she will try her best to fix it herself.

Tl;Dr: American college student with severe ADHD goes to London for meds, does not get meds and instead learns self defense and gets too attached to the locals, becomes squid and tries to retain/recover her humanity, eventually goes off to Wales (The Lands Between) to continue her studies of culture even though she's technically already dropped out of college.

I forgot to put it in here but a funny minor sidenote is that Alicen initially doesn't know what the fuck Alfred is on about when the topic of Vilebloods first comes up, as while she's come to accept the idea that there may be horrors beyond man's comprehension in this city she draws the line at vampires. Fully just doesn't believe they exist until she meets Annalise in person.

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More to come next week. As usual comment or DM if you want your character featured.

I drive by these things all the time. Such complexity for something that seems so simple from the outside.