Elizabeth Thompson
Height: 5'9"Weight: 130lbs.
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Blue
Clan: Ventrue
Generation: 8th
Embrace Date: 13 November 1863
Description: Elizabeth is tall, feminine, and exquisitely beautiful. She is naturally charming, witty, and has piercing blue eyes. She is easily the center of attention wherever she goes. Elizabeth is typically Ventrue in her appearance and demeanor. She is always well dressed to the point of occasionally being overdressed. She is direct and confident, makes eye contact, and doesn't easily fall to petty jabs or barbs. When she speaks, Elizabeth has a definite London accent, but it has been tempered by her century and a half in America. Aside from her obvious schooling in social graces, Elizabeth is noteworthy in that she is able to downplay her highborn, aristocratic birth. Clearly she favors an upper class society. But given the current nature of things, Elizabeth is prepared to defend what is hers by meeting the classless and crass on their level.
Brief Bio: Elizabeth was born Elizabeth Sonya Prescott in 1829 to a union of English an French aristocracy. She was the 4rth of 7 children, and the youngest daughter. She had all of the privilege and tutoring money could buy. Elizabeth suffered an arranged marriage to a southern gentleman and plantation owner from South Carolina whose own lineage was one of proud military service in Her Majesty's Royal Navy prior to a massive land grant, settling in America.
Her husband, Theodore Thompson Jr, a volunteer commissioned as a Major and commander of a cavalry unit died early in the War of Northern Aggression. For two and a half years, Elizabeth managed the plantation, kept up appearances, and held off multiple suitors, one of which was her deceased husband's cousin, Edward. It wasn't until the Union Army sacked the plantation along with slaves that Elizabeth fled to Birmingham, Alabama where she stayed with her sister-in-law and her family. It was there that she met her eventual sire the mysterious, Scottish, Catrina Armstrong. Elizabeth was enthralled with her sire to be. Tales of the old world, classic literature, and proper etiquette suited Elizabeth nicely.
After her embrace, Elizabeth took to the mental aspects of her Agoge with style and ease. Even the social graces and customs of her clan seemed to be natural. It was the physical aspects that required time, practice, and patience. By the 1890s though, Elizabeth was an expert with a dueling pistol, a master with a fencing sword, and had developed a formidable amount of Potence, Celerity, & Fortitude. By 1910, she was a talented violinist and linguist. Elizabeth is known to be fluent in French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Latin, and German. Elizabeth is also known to keep track of kindred heraldry.
From 1895-1930, Elizabeth made El Paso her home. By 1915 she was a noteworthy Harpy and had entrenched herself in the underground production and distribution of alcohol. One of the biggest mistakes anyone ever made was to give her a Tommy Gun. She had briefly (September of 1928-June of 1929) been in a socially based coterie with Deborah NicAdams until rumors circulated the two were blood lovers and that Elizabeth was trying to learn Thaumaturgy.
When the Sabbat took El Paso, Elizabeth was one of the last to flee the city. She bounced around the western cities with brief stays but ultimately ended up in San Diego by 1940. San Diego is where Elizabeth has been ever since, and she is deeply entrenched. She has been targeted by Anarchs and Sabbat multiple times over the last 80 years and each time has been met with disastrous failure.
Elizabeth is a die hard Camarilla loyalist. Having been forced to flee her home twice already and start from scratch, Elizabeth is prepared to defend what is hers with fangs and claws if she must. She has a healthy respect for the Sabbat and nothing but contempt for the Anarchs. Elizabeth plays the kindred games very well, and it is clear that she intends to win. Despite the presence of her sire, former coterie-mate, and an abundance of ridiculously powerful Tremere, it is a poorly kept secret that Elizabeth's ambitions lead to the throne. Elizabeth does not like Riley Ishikawa and is salty over the younger, less entrenched Toreador's selection as Prince.
In addition to that, Elizabeth is weary of the presence of Giovanni, Edge, and April St.Claire. She knows who the Malkavian is, and sees April as a huge obstacle due to the strength of her blood. Edge is problematic because of her destructiveness, and the Necromancers are too desperate and prone to poor decisions. The Tremere are ironclad and unshakable, but they are at least pleasant enough and on the right side of things.
Interestingly enough, Elizabeth was acquainted with Juan Lorenzo as a mortal when her own sire was considering embracing him, and then again, when he was in El Paso on an errand for his sire as an unreleased childe. It's fascinating how far he's come. Octavia Rose, is too, an interesting character. Elizabeth would love to sit down with her and pick his brain over her Sabbat lineage because she is certain that their bloodlines have crossed paths, but also because she is an upstanding young Lasombra who has traveled the world to a much greater extent than she has.
Elizabeth is a noted siren who seems to feed exclusively on wealthy women.
Inventory:
-Elizabeth's neck, wrist, and ears are always frozen.
-Driver & Rolls Royce
-Concealed Luger pistol
-Exquisite dress
-All the latest Elysium gossip
-The Ventrue Secret Handshake so well memorized she can detect a phony a mile away.
Noteworthy Rumors:
-Elizabeth rekindled her romance with Deborah.
-Elizabeth is a lesbian.
-Elizabeth is racist and hates black people.
-Elizabeth is classist and hates poor people.
-Elizabeth likes men (and women) of mystery and learning.
-Elizabeth has influence in the Underworld.
-Elizabeth knows Blood Sorcery.
-Elizabeth is working towards a coup de'tate on Riley.
-Elizabeth is a diablerist that intends to eat the Anarchs.
ST NOTE: You'll have to forgive me. I couldn't resist. I am weak. :(