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I love your nossies! What headcannons do you have for them?

Thank you for enjoying them!! Considering I was supposed to be the Story Teller, and they were NPC's, anything I say is canon!

The... campaign never happened though. :')

My players jumped off the ship before we got anywhere fewnje.

Askè.

Born in the 1860s of the Victorian period. He’s ambitious and he is strict. He likes it when things go his way and he enjoys responsibility for just that reason. He also has his fingers in quite a bit of pies…

He was once a Ratter, a rat catcher, who started his career when he was nothing but a young boy at 9 years old, together with his brother who died from an infection after getting bitten a few times. And that career stuck to him for as long as he lived. And he was a damn good rat catcher.

Because of how the laws were back then, he provided rats to rat fighting rings in pubs who’d give him a decent sum of money for their entertainment. Any coin is a good coin when the next meal wasn't guaranteed. He had a lot of respect for rats despite that, would even breed them for some extra money if he could. For some reason, rich people found it wonderful to keep them as pets for as long as they had interesting color mutations!

Going into the sewer might not have been completely legal back then either, but he did it too, since hey! Money's money! And while he was good at his job it wasn't anything to brag too much about money-wise.

Ratters didn't exactly keep the highest position on the mortal social ladder. Considering people thought they bred more rats just to release them so they would be called over again to kill the newly released rats for an easy coin.

At ca 40 years old, he was then turned into a vampire. His Sire found him killing all of their rats as an offense big enough to anger turn him because he had unknowingly become other Vampires' go-to rat catcher for his scarily efficient work. That, and he kept going into the sewer at night, killing the rats there too.

During his vampire years, he learned to love rats even more as he learned how to use Animalism. And continued the rat breeding in full swing as they are highly valuable and great resources. Food, spies, guard dogs, company, anything one might need. His rats are bred to be immune to rat poison and are highly intelligent. So if anyone wants to get rid of their little… rat infestation they have yet to discover… they’ll need to employ harder methods of fighting them than what's on the market.

He did get a short-lived interest in the teleoperation business before its infrastructure got upgraded.

Fun fact: Askè's main inspiration was Queen Victoria's official Rat Catcher. Fun guy.

Vinjyr, an alternative spelling of Vinjar because his mom didn't think it was special enough.

Vinjyr's a Neonate, and Askè's childe.

He was a part of the foster care system after his mother decided to give up her parental rights as she realized in a moment of lucidity that she wasn't able to care for him as she was a drug addict with lots of trauma and an undiagnosed personality disorder that colored her world view, coupled with terrible physical health.

Shame that moment of lucidity didn't last for long and she would constantly demand seeing Vinjyr, while at the same time dropping supervised visitation days, came to them inebriated, etc. It evolved to stalking, her sending threats of harm towards both him and his foster parents, and a lot of other borderline, if not completely illegal things.

He moved away from his home country to stop being stalked by her to study and then get a job. He studied IT and game design, after having had it as a hobby for a while, modding games he enjoyed. Might as well cash in on it.

He met Askè there, who, in a sense turned out to become more and more as a father figure. His foster parents were fine enough but it was always a sort of alienation present that he couldn't shake off. So he ended up clinging to this new parental figure by working on ways to impress Askè.

Though he struggled to make friends, he had no family around, and few people knew him in the new country he had moved to...

So of course Askè decided that ''I like this kid, he's my son now'', and turned him after consulting the Prince about it. It was the cause of a lot of conflict and arguments in the beginning. He felt betrayed that someone he looked up to would do that to him.

But... Askè's still trying to act as a parental figure. A strict teacher, maybe, but Vinjyr kind of needs that, even if he doesn't want to admit to it.

And the Nosferatu clan actually works together to act as a proper family unit. The occasional music night where everyone brings in an instrument to play for a fun time being one example and occasion.

Askè plays the broken-down piano, Vinjyr got an accordion pushed into his arms, Yvonne (Askè's brood mate) the banjo... and so on.

It took some time before the trust was properly rebuilt again, but it did and he will privately call Askè ''dad''. It's easier to say than ''S'' words with that lisp of his. He has learned to ignore how he looks, it's not too bad once you get used to it. Weird, but it's not something he can do about.

Now he's trying to figure out where he stands in the clan, but for now, he's just following Askè's lead. Though he's constantly worried that Askè's going to getting himself into trouble from his overachieving ways.

Bad drawing is bad, but here's how they'd look as humans.

- Vinjyr's a grumpy pessimist who after finally allowing himself after the Embrace to be angry and not force optimism like he had basically all his life... took it a bit too far in the other direction and it became a bad habit to be standoffish, and low-key mean whenever he gets annoyed.

- Vinjyr is autistic.

-Askè's a more jovial kind. Realistic and strict, but good times are good times. Can't denounce them.

-The victorian period was a harsh place and he has experienced the atrocities of the poor house after his own family lost their jobs. Luckily he had his ratting job, so he didn't have to break himself apart like his family did while trying to find something else to do. But it sat a deep impression on him.

-As of now, it's no secret that he most likely will take over for the Nosferatu Primogen if something were to happen to them. He might be young but he's the most capable out of the local clan.

-He has a case of Kyphosis and the giant growth on his neck restricts his arm movement on that side some. Chronic pain, but he manages to work with it.

-Askè and Vinjyr use victorian slang with each other when they don't want humans to know what they're going on about. Sometimes it confuses younger vampires too which is a pluss.

#not art #It's a bit long fnefw #but thank you for asking about them!!

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