Heartland Orphans: Jane

My short Vampire the Requiem Chronicle, Heartland Orphans, featured a flock of Strix that killed and maimed vampires and mortals alike. Previously I revealed their past and connections. This week I present the one ‘good’ Strix: Jane, also known as the Friend.

Jane

This shadowy bird possesses corpses like people wear clothing, donning and doffing them whenever she feels like it. Though she rarely kills, she has no compunctions about stealing a dead body.

When she speaks, her voice is small and nervous. She often seems child-like or shy.

The Strix most touched by the sickness within her mother’s soul, Jane desires to be among others. She sees other vampires as kin and spends her time trying to befriend them. Of course she has never been human and so her perspective often seems alien and cold. She would have no problem murdering a threat to a friend and might not see the issue with such an action. She also doesn’t consider the consequences of leaving her ‘vessels’ lying around when she tires of them.

Vice: Kinship
Aspirations:

• Befriend a vampire
• Feed with or be fed from another vampire

Shadow Potency: 3
Attributes: Power 2, Finesse 3, Resistance 3
Skills: Athletics 2, Brawl 2, Occult 2, Socialize 2

Corpus: 5
Willpower: 6
Size: 2
Speed: 12
Defense: 3 (typically 4 in a host body)
Initiative: 6

Embodiments: Shadow Form, Possess Corpse, Possess Revenant
Dread Powers: Ambition’s Sense (spend 1 Vitae, pool Power + Finesse - target’s Composure to learn an Aspiration), Mother’s Kiss (spend 1 Vitae, roll Resistance + 5 – target’s Blood Potency to give the target a pool of dice equal to successes rolled toward supernatural powers), Kindred Disciplines 2 (Animalism 1, Majesty 2, Vigor 1), Sheep’s Clothing (hide physical decay in possessed corpses)
Vitae: 12, 3/turn

Banes: fire, sunlight, running water (can’t pass over rivers, takes lethal damage each turn immersed)

Jane can also invoke the traits of her lair when one or more of the Tilts (or those of her siblings) is already present: Maze, Darkness, or Jagged.