I haven't posted in a while so here is my I haven't posted in a while post! I wanted to throw some info about an OC into the void that I haven't posted about before, Ray! Info below the image and break!
Detective Raymond Mulder was a homicide detective in Chicago. Dedicating himself to his job left him divorced and drifting through life. Until he was brought in the Special Investigations unit where he was thrown into the world of darkness. He started to find love again with a museum curator that he would learn later was a kinfolk. One night hot on the trail of a suspected vampire implicated in a particularly horrendous murder, he and his lieutenant Arthur thought they had the man cornered. But instead all they found was an empty room and a file. Ray opened to file to find hard evidence Arthur had been working to cover the trail of vampire activity. Ray being the boy scout couldn't let it go, so he attempted to arrest Arthur, forcing a subconscious decree planted in the lieutenant to remove himself from the mortal coil.
Feeling helpless and lost, Ray left Chicago with Tav, the museum curator. She hoped she could take him back to the tribe to regroup in a manner of speaking. Unfortunately her ex-husband didn't like her bringing an outsider. In an altercation Tav's ex turned into a beast the likes of which Ray had never seen, leaving Ray with a large scar running from his collar bone to his hip. It would turn out to be a small blessing of sorts, as through unexplained means he could now feel the presence of the supernatural.
Ray was once again alone and now on the road not knowing what to do with himself so he just wandered. Finding himself in Tucson, Arizona he couldn't ignore his gut feeling and the aching scar on his body. He was once again on the trail of a vampire, only this time when he thought he had him cornered someone else had beaten him there, Joaquin Hidalgo. After a tense discussion of sussing out loyalties they joined forces. Joaquin's knowledge and hatred of vampires along with Ray's detective skills and desire to make positive change in the world made them a competent force.
Things are going as smoothly as they can for two dudes in their forties fighting vampires until they make it to Reno. Joaquin gets reunited with his sister Noa, who is a vampire, along with her friend and Joaquin's former acquaintance Nyth. Things become very complicated as Ray tries to come to terms with accepting Joaquin's sister and dealing with Nyth's manipulation.
Ray never wanted to see vampires as pure monsters. Something in him hoped they were still people in some way or like in many of the cases he handled in the CPD, they were just forced into a bad situation. Ray would learn too late that a bleeding heart only attracts the worst kinds of monsters.
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So Ray's name; I based his looks on Charlie Hunnam's character in The Gentleman and just decided to go with that character's name, Raymond because I liked it. I thought it would be funny for his last name to be Mulder because Ray actively dislikes supernatural media.
In the game I played him in it was modern nights so the big joke was he'd never seen x-files but it would always be the first topic of conversation when someone learned his name.
I think it's an interesting choice to name a Lasombra Consuela, a word so related to "Consolar"- to soothe, to console, to give solace. That is the least likely thing you will get with one of them...
Yana Juregrando - "Malkavian who truly believes she belonged in the Tremere and that she can fix it – the “strings of the universe” sent all the signs that she was destined to be in one clan, but her sire just happened to be wrong."
" I am an experiment, a toy for the universe to play with as it sees fit, intentionally set on the wrong path to see if I could right it."
A little deep dive into my feelings on that NybyNight finale and the fate of Kiếm! I recorded this video the day after we finished filming & have been saving it up for later...spoilers abound so be warned! It's been an honor ❤️🔥