Updated: 03 January 1999
Marlène
10th Generation Toreador
Courtisane

	Sire:	Thibault (1905)
	Nature:	Child/Monster
	Demeanor:	Conformist/Manipulator
	Humanity:	2
	Secrets:	**
	Status:	**
	Esprit:	**
	Elder Status:
	Toreador Prestige:	**

Background:

                    Marlène was born, few minutes before her twin sister, Célène in 1882, in the northern france. Her parents, and her brothers and sisters were miners in a charcoal mine, near Lille. She would have followed them if an mining accident (Coup de Grisou) had not killed her whole family, letting her and her sister alone, two lone 12 years old girl with a pretty, if somewhat emaciated face, and beautiful voices.

They arrived in Paris to find an uncle who could help them. This uncle was somewhat rich, and sometimes gave money to her family to avoid starvation. This rich uncle was, in truth, nothing more than a pander working as a barman in a gloomy café of Paris.

But the twins were family, and so, he fed them as long as they worked for him, buying food, cleaning the room where they all slept and washing their clothes. It was at that time he discovered their true talent: He was despairing about his conscience that prevented him of using them as a prostitutes, as their pretty looks would have earned a lot of money (and he knew some perverse that would have liked to put their hands on two beautiful twins...) when he heard them singing.

He found them a café to perform, and soon some money entered their lives. But money didn't come alone.

A dark man started to frequent the little Cabaret where they performed, and started to investigate their past. Marlène even saw a brutal discussion where her uncle told the man the girls were his alone, and that he would not let them go.

The man visibly never was convinced by the uncle's sincerity, and offered him money for some time with with ''his beloved daughters''. A lot of money.

The girls were twenty-years old, and they would soon go away, letting him without the income they represented... After all he had done for them, they could at least... They owed it to him... The uncle accepted, and so, two times a week, a carriage came to take them to the mysterious man's home.

At first, he only asked them small things, like sing for him, of for his guests. They learned the man's name was Thibault. Thibault was in truth a Toreador whose creativity was decreasing, and who was trying to find new insights in forbidden pleasures, and for four weeks, subtle uses of Dominate and Presence insurred their cooperation for nothing more than be cooperativer guests (and herd) in some soirées given by the Cour. Soon, he realized, the twins were attracting the attention of the Kindred, and Thibault had to keep them with him all the time, to be sure that none would find them to have any influence over them.

The uncle had misgivings about giving his ''daughters'' to a total stranger, and asked more money to keep his mouth shut. He died, hung in his chamber, after having shut all accesses from the interior. While the police found this death suspect, they had no other way but the suicide: No one but a mouse could have exited without letting at least one access opened...

With the death of their uncle, the twins could do nothing less than succumb to the man's twisted desires. Inspired by Theti-Sheri, Thibault now explored the realms of pain and humiliation, but he needed subject with more resistance than simple Ghouls. So he asked Villon the right to Embrace them. Villon gave him the right to Embrace only one, asking him to wait some years and the increase of Paris' population.

Marlène was selected to be the first, and Célène was momentarily protected from Thibault's most twisted experiences. It was after one night at the Temple of Set, within Theti-Sheri's haven, that overcome by the torture and the humiliation, her mind suddenly broke in two parts.

Thibault was saddened by the apparent autism of Marlène, and thought about destroying her, but then, Villon, sent a letter were he gave him the right to Embrace Célène; Thibault turned his attentions to the other twin, and the night after her Embrace, was called to the Louvre, at a soirée, with his two Childer, to present them to the Kindred society.

Strangely, the same night, Marlène recovered from her apparent appathy, and was presented, with her twin, to the Kindred of Paris. Still, a Brujah called Ernian, discovered the bad treatement suffered by Malrène, and asked Villon to free her, and her twin from Thibault's influence. Thibault was outraged by this interference, and told Ernian to keep to his own affairs. Villon, seeing his gift was used to keep an herd of Kindred slaves to feed up the twisted desires of another Kindred, would have killed him if he was not Toreador, and if his Art had not moved him in the past. So Marlène and Célène were given full Kindred status and freed from Thibault's influence, while he suffered, him, a loss of Toreador Prestige.

To overcome the Blood Bond that held them in thrall to Thibault, the two sisters drank each other's Vitae for years until, powered up by their sisterly (twin) love and Vitae exchange, the Blood Bond was severed and replaced by a Blood Bond for each other.

Few years after, in the World War II, the two sister went to their separate ways. Thibault then started to suffer from horrible nightmares, as Marlène appeared from nowhere mocking his weakness and telling how she would destroy him. The fear her own Corrupted Side, awakened in the Temple of Set, make Thibault feel is both supernatural and mundane. Since then, Thibault removed himself form the Cour, waiting in fear of his Childe, jumping at each shadow flicker, at every sound.

In Mai 68', when the Anarchs and the Clan Brujah attacked Paris, Marlène and Célène went to war. The second went with the Brujah and the Anarchs, whose ideas were similar to hers. The first remained with the Toreador and the Ventrue, fighting the Anarchs and even, twice, Diablerizing Anarch and Brujah Kindred (One of them was, strangely enough, Ernian...), whose Final Death was lost in the midst of the Revolution.

Since then, she has great status among the Toreador and the Ventrue, while being considered a Camarilla's pawn by the Anarchs and the Brujah, all to the contrary of her twin sister. Still, the two still love each other.

Lately, her Corrupted Side met another Kindred with the same flaw: Juan, of the Clan Gangrel whose Corrupted Side was awakened, too. Corrupted Marlène and Corrupted Juan fell in an unholy love, and now work together. Juan once awakened, to his surprise, in the blood-soaked bed of Marlène. While he wondered how he had come to this siuation, Marlène was still, then, under the control of her Corrupted Side and so, does not remember...

The problem is that Marlène is Blood Bound to Célène, and that Juan shared, then, a True Love with his Ghoul, Tania...

Tricky situation...

Destiny

                    Unless something happens, Marlène will join the corrupted Khaibits in their fight to take over Paris.

Appearance:

Age:	92	Hair:	Blonde	Height:	1m66
Apparent Age:	23	Eyes:	Blue	Weight:	49Kg
Date of Birth:	1882	Race:	Caucasian	Sex:	Female
RIP:	1905	Nationality:	French	Esprit:	**

                    Marlène is a beautiful young woman with short golden hair, ice-blue eyes and slender silhouette. Her clothes and make-up change with her mental disposition. When she is free of the influence of the Corruption, she likes to wear white or common clothes, with light or no make-up, depending on the situation. She is then pretty, nothing more, nothing less.

But when she is under influence of her Corrupted Side, she favors dark or black clothes and heavy dark make-up enhancing her vampiric looks. She looks like a seductive Blood-doll. She even dye her hair jet black in some occasions, and sometimes wears black or fluorescent lenses just for the style. Lately, she rediscovered piercing, and has some rings in some parts of her body... Each night, a different part...

Role Playing:

                    She is normal, and in some way plain. While not uninteresting, men will overlook her among the more seductive and beautiful women she likes to be with (other Kindred, most of them Toreador). She likes to talk about music, songs, and poems, and few among those who don't have the same interests will talk with her very long.

When she is under the influence of her Corrupted Side, she takes a hyped behaviour, sometimes on the verge of frenzy, sometimes in an apparent tranquility that hide partially her cruel thoughts. Some understand how dangerous she appear, and some among them can't help but be attracted by this apparent danger... She is then able to talk about almost everything, feigning knowledge or academic interest.

Notes:

                    Marlène attracted the attention of the sentient corruption that permeated Paris, and became one of its unwilling pawns (See Chapter: Corruption).

If she can become one of the nemesises of a new cotterie of Neonates, she can became, too, a weakness of the said corruption, as she is a link that could be used to track it to its source...

Marlène, influenced by her Toreador blood as well as by the Aura of Corruption, now works to control and increase any deviant sexual business, concentrating to snuff movies with rape scenes and child pornography, which were unknown (until now) in France. Sven, the Follower of Set, still wonders at who is wandering in his business with so much creativity...

Actual Aim:

                    The normal Marlène has no real aim but enjoy herself. The corrupted marlène tries to obey the empathic commands of her corrupted master, as well as her own, sado-masochists desires...

Rumours:

• She has contact within the Sabbat (False, through it wouldn't bother her much...)
• In, secret, she is under the influence of her senses: She can avoid experiencing every form of pleasure, even the more perverses. In one word, she is an Exploiter (See Clanbook: Toreador, p29) (False, but could well be true for her Corrupted Side...)

Corruption * : Path of Phobos

                    Marlène is now able to use the Dark Thaumaturgy, as well as the Path of Phobos and the Level 1 Ritual: Spectral Mask (See Storyteller Handbook to Sabbat, p51.

                    System: See Storyteller Handbook to Sabbat, p56.

Corruption ** : Demon Armor

                    By triggering this Power, Marlène can make appear an armor wich gives an extra die to Soak Damage (even Dggravated Damage). The armor is clearly alien in appearance.

                    System: 1 Extra Die to Soak any Damage.
See Storyteller Handbook to Sabbat, p59.

Corruption *** : Razor Fingers

                    This function like the level 1 Investment: Razor Fingers.

                    System: 1 Blood Point. Aggravated Damage: Strenght+2.
See Storyteller Handbook to Sabbat, p59.

Corruption **** : Demon Armor

                    By triggering this Power, Marlène can make appear an armor wich gives an extra die to Soak Damage (even Dggravated Damage). The armor is clearly alien in appearance.

                    System: 1 Extra Die to Soak any Damage.
See Storyteller Handbook to Sabbat, p59.

Corruption ***** : Hell Skinned

                    This power functions like the 5th Level Demonic Investment Hell Skinned. By using this power, Marlène is immune to any natural-only heat or flame.

                    System: Automatic
See Storyteller Handbook to the Sabbat, p60.

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