Updated: 15 March 1999
Xavier/Xaviève
Unknown Generation Malkavian
''The Transexual Monster''

	Sire:	Unknown (Unknown)
	Nature:	Bon vivant
	Demeanor:	Deviant
	Humanity:	6
	Secrets:	***
	Status:	**
	Esprit:	**
	Elder Status:
	Malkavian Prestige:	***
	Verve:	****

Background:

                    Little is known about Xavier, or Xavière as he/she is called when he/she decide to wear feminine clothes.

The truth is Xavier and Xavière were an experiment of Tatiana, an experiment which went awry in the War of traditions. In the turmoil caused by the Mages' war, Xavier and Xavière; two twins Embraced by Tatiana, succeeded in fleeing their jail just before the whole burning house crumbled on the other twin Kindred Embraced by the ''Mad Mother'', reducing the whole experiment to ashes.

But they didn't escape the house: Xavière was half buried under the entry, and neither she of her twin could free her from a certain and horrible death by fire. So, in a terrible insight, the two understood they would be forever apart, unless they could join their soul. So Xavière was willingly diablerized by her twin brother.

Be it because of their Clan, some pity from a forgotten god, or even a bizarre side-effect of Diablerie, Xavière's soul appears to have survived almost completly the ritual, and Xavier's sincere invitation created the bizarre result called Xavier/Xavière: Two souls living in one Kindred body.

Since then, Xavier/Xavière was accepted in Paris by a thankful Villon, who understood almost immediately the truth about the twin auras around the Malkavian, and who aknowledged the Neonate's actions against the Hermetic Mages in the War of Traditions.

He/she then turned to the showbusiness, where his/her natural love of spectacle could express itself. Some of the most succesful and most bizarre nightclubs in France in the 20th Century was at least influenced or even simply secretly owned by the Malkavian ''Transexual''.

Destiny

                    Unknown.

Appearance:

                    The Kindred is just under medium height, with black, shoulder length hair and piercing, smiling grey eyes. As each night, no matter the style of clothing Xavier/xavière will adopt, he/she will shave almost all his body hair, and put make-up to give a youthful appearance to his face.

Xavier or Xavière don't influence the body with the same strength at the same time: When Xavier is dominant, the Kindred wears male clothes with a feminine touch: Tight fitting black leather pants, tight T-shirt, hair combed in a ponytail. When Xavière is in command, the Kindred were female clothes with a masculine touch: short pants, latex gloves, body and high spiked heels. In every case, Xavier/Xavière uses make-up to enhance his/her mysterious looks.

Role Playing:

                    Xavier/Xavière is proud, elegant, flamboyant and very caring, in a devious way. He/she likes to shock others with her games and viewpoints. In facts, he/she's the total opposite of a shy person.

Xavier/Xavière likes to seduce others, and even more if he/she can convince someone to love him/her in the appearance of the disliked sex (appearing as a female to seduce a male homosexual, or as a female to seduce a female heterosexual).

Notes:

                    Almost everyone thinks the Malkavian's madness is to have two sexes, and they easily dismisses it as the ''transexuality desease'', thus furthering their own prejudice against the transexual community. Hence the surname ''Transexual Monster''. But the truth is somewhat different. To be transexual is, at first, to live in a body of a certain sex, and to feel oneself's to be the other. Thus the mental depression (try to imagine yourself trapped in a body of the wrong sex, and imagine yourself as you understand it is for life... Wouldn't you want to revert to normal -- That is, the sex you, deep in your soul, and not in your pants, believe to be?).

Xavier/Xavière is different, for they are twin souls living in the same body, and while they share almost all their memory, sometimes... The true Malkavian madness of the Kindred is to be unable to resist indulging in any form of pleasure: Xavier/Xavière must roll Self-Control to resist. Note that pleasure includes human sexual behaviour, but also simplier and less carnal sensuality: Looking the sunrise, talking to a seducing Kindred about philosophy, etc. etc..

He/she's a lover of physical beauty, and have an exquisite collection of greek-like male and female statues, half them in devious position... She is sculping, and while she is still begining, she has some talent.

As always, Tatiana changed her features via Obfuscate to hide her true face. Xavier/Xavière never recognized her as his/her tormentor.

Actual Aim:

                    Xavier/Xavière seems to have no visible aim but continue his/her unlife of pleasure.

Rumours:

• Xavier/Xavière is a woman (False, at least physically).
• Some Tzimisce tried a mind-binding effect of Vicissitude to mold Xavier/Xavière's mind into another, alien mind (False).
• Xavier/Xavière practices Thaumaturgy (False).
• Xavier/Xavière loves the Followers of Set (False: Xavier/Xavière likes the Courtisanes Setites, and has no prejudice against the rest the Clan).

Author's Note: Xavier/Xavière was created when I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show the first time. When it would have been easy to create a Malkavian with sexual deviancy (i.e.: To the accepted norm, which tells about the validity of this ''norm'': That is, nothing), it would have been adding prejudice to a game which teaches us to be tolerant.
Untolerant people (and players?) will easily dismiss Xavier/Xavière as a Malkavian with a so-called mental desease called transexuality.
To put it bluntly: No, I don't have any prejudice to any homosexual, transexual and other out-of-norms different people (as long as they keep their actions between willing persons). We are all free to do as it pleases us as long as we don't step on other's people fundamental freedom.
And I liked The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
And I don't believe transexuality, homosexuality etc. to be mental deseases. If they were, then we would have to add ''loving to eat chocolate'', ''loving to see television'', ''loving to play Role-Playing/Storytelling Games'' to the list of ''sins'' imagined by intolerant monotheistic religions and ''sins-are-everywhere-convert-and-repent-or-you-will-burn-in-Hell'' mad priesthood.
Now, if you are shocked by my viewpoint, grow up, and when you feel this kind of easy belief, and see no realistic/scientific reason behind it, treat it as prejudice, with all the attention basic racism and other prejudice should be treated and eliminated/corrected from your own thinking process (it is called introspection).

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