Updated: 15 March 1999
La Taupe
11th Generation Common
(The Mole)

	Sire:	Childeric (1871)
	Nature:	Childe
	Demeanor:	Loner
	Humanity:	5
	Secrets:	****
	Status:	**
	Esprit:
	Elder Status:
	Nosferatu Prestige:	**

Background:

                    Of all the Nosferatu, La Taupe is among the most successful. He was a young boy who had been victim of poliomelite, and who was caught in the middle of the 1871 Commune, and one night, was mortally wounded.

But the young boy didn't know his destiny was monitored: Elle had charmed the little boy and used him as a messenger, and she had seen him fall when the bullet entered his head. To her surprise, Childeric appeared.
                    ''I can give him the love you never showed to the boy...''
                    ''You monster, what do you know of love...''
                    ''Love is sacrifice, love is shared and never to be denied. You used him... I know it, because I know him since years...''
                    ''What?...''
                    ''All the messages, each night... For you...''
                    ''You crawling leper, you spied me!...''
                    ''No... He would not permit it, and I would not hurt his feelings... He loved you more than anything, and you silently mocked him, and used him... Now he is dying because of you...''
                    ''He died because he was incautious...''
                    ''He was incautious because you haunted his thoughts... Even now he begs for but a smile from you, but you will let him die...''
Elle was surprised, and looked at the boy. He was deformed, and she was slightly revulsed by his appearance. The fight was coming back to the place, and she had to make a choice now.
                    ''So you pity him? Do you pity him enough to give him your monstrous immortality? Perhaps it is better for him to die now... Or perhaps not... You claim to understand him, so I let you the choice... I trust you will do the right choice.''
After that, she disappeared. What she never knew is that albeit dying, the boy had heard her, and if he survived his wounds, if he suffered almost a week and lost his vision, the physical agony he suffered was nothing compared to his love spurned. Somehow, he died that night...

Since then, La Taupe, as he was called, haunted the Catacombs, his heart broken. He found a slight reason to survive, among other monsters who had lived similar stories because of their appearance. Because he lost his eyes in the Embrace, La Taupe became more proficient with Auspex than his other clanmates, and he used it at the advantage of the Clan.

But still, he can't resist, some nights, to spy on his beloved. And he found that even a blind monster cry blood tears...

Destiny

                    Unknown.

Appearance:

                    La Taupe's appearance is similar to the grey aliens of X-Files fans. His skin is grey, and he has no body hair. He is slim, his tendons visible while his muscles appear to have receded. His head suffered the most from the Embrace. While he know have no trace of the bullet wound, his cranium grew over his eye sockets, thus preventing him from seeing anything.

La Taupe usually wear dark grey robes, hiding his monstrous feature under the shadow of a hood.

Role Playing:

                    La Taupe is sad, or almost excited. Sad when he thinks about his lost love, and about the fact no one will ever love him, and almost excited when he dreams about being a beautiful prince and charming Elle. For sure, she must have some trace of love for him, and she would have saved him if she could had. But Childeric always reminds him she didn't even turned her head back when she fled in the night...

Notes:

                    La Taupe learnt Auspex from his Sire, and while some powers are lost to him, he can still enhance his senses, feel the emotions inprinted in objects and even scan the mind of those he detects via his other senses.

Recently, La Taupe learnt the Astral Form power (Auspex *****), and so, could see from afar his beloved Elle...

Actual Aim:

                    To win back Elle's love. To be normal again.

Rumours:

• You can hear someone talking in the penthouse of a building from your hidding place in the Catacombs (False, but almost true!).
• You're one of the Nosferatu most reliable sources (True).

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