Amber Freeman is a Thin-blooded from Chicago.
Biography[]
| “ | If these elders wish to rip away our right to exist then we will pave a path unseen in this Jyhad. A path through these ancient crumbling monsters right into Golconda. One like, one retweet, one upvote can and will open this door. We will be left atop the embers of history, watching the sun come over the horizon. Something they will never do again. | ” |
Mortal Days[]
Left much on her own throughout her formative years, Amber grew up like many millennials, cultivating a group of friends in chat groups and via social media. Filling the void her parents left was easy to her. Amber was a natural at the budding world of social networking and wielded it to her advantage. She began documenting her lifestyle and mentoring others in the discipline of yoga, despite having no formal training in the practice. Her charisma and perceived innocence attracted viewers and followers by the thousand, many of whom didn’t emulate Amber, but just watched, and watched, and watched.
When she finally went away to the University of Chicago, Amber had already cracked over 300,000 followers on social media under the name “ThriveHive.” Her subtle blend of “woke” style philosophy, Earth-based spirituality, and self-discipline earned her a place as a student in the new Social Media Administration track in the Communications Department. Amber began receiving offers from “green” companies looking for her approval and patronage. With just a simple promo lasting for a month’s worth of videos, she made some startups into city-wide successes. The money she earned from these endorsements helped her balance out her feel-good lifestyle with a healthy dose of partying in and around Chicago’s Rack. Despite her New Age devotion to clean living, she was still a young woman enjoying the wild scenes of the city’s nightlife. A mixture of drugs and sex helped fuel her sense of control over both herself and her surroundings, and she felt comfortable in her balance between hedonism and purity. It was something she never had at home and surely was never going to give up.
At the end of her freshman year, she was recognized for her abilities and grades, receiving scholarships from both the Bishop Blake Educational Fund and The Stewart-Freeman Fund for Young Women. It was at the reception of this second award ceremony, one her parents promised to attend but ended up missing due to last-minute “events,” that she met her eventual Mawla, Naomi Stewart.
Kindred Nights[]
Naomi wanted to know if the young woman was the real deal or just another poseur using her power for her own benefit. The young woman impressed Naomi; her convictions and power were new, exciting, and focused. Naomi, in need of an assistant with such grace and control, took Amber on as an apprentice. Naomi had no desire to offer Amber the Embrace herself, but through a deal she brokered with a Caitiff named Tim Roche, who owed her a favor, Amber received the Embrace after a night of fine dining, drinking, and sex.
After Amber realized the truth of the “date” Naomi had arranged between her and Tim, she railed and kicked out against the Ventrue and her manipulations. Naomi attempted to pacify Amber with talk of the eternity she now had to lay down a good influence for fellow Kindred and young women. Night after night came lessons in Camarilla law and power dynamics. Amber was a good student but revolted against the fact she was now Damned. She wanted to make the world a better place, not control it. Naomi desperately reassured her, but the Ventrue’s words slid off their target. Amber continued building her empire of self-help with ever more fervor, and while she accepted that Naomi wasn’t the worst of the bunch, the fledgling and her Mawla now rarely see eye to eye.
Posing as Naomi’s ghoul and changing her name to Amber Freeman, the two sometimes still visit Elysia around the city of Chicago. One such evening, a Warlock named Dr. Mortius grabbed hold of Amber. He knew of her “situation” and wished to offer possible solutions. Intrigued, Amber lied to her sire and met clandestinely with the doctor. The two combined their resources to build the Cinder Institute, all as Mortius provided Amber with copious supplies of Ashe.
Amber is now the face of the Cinder Institute and its satellite studios. While she understands taking Ashe is nothing more than consuming dead Kindred, she justifies it as poetic justice and a part of Earth’s cycle of renewal. She knows older vampires want to eradicate her ilk’s existence so she champions the use of Ashe as a spiritual road of advancement. She traveled to Bangkok under the guise of seeking a cure for her vampiric state, but truthfully, she leads her new cult in advancing her message of Golconda and freedom from the curse to other thin-bloods.
Character Sheet[]
Amber Freemam
Sire: Tim Roche
Ambition: Find a step on the path to enlightenment
Convictions: Never stop striving for wellness
Touchstones: Sandra Kowalski — Amber’s webmaster
Humanity: 8
Generation: 14th
Blood Potency: 0
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4; Charisma 3, Manipulation 2, Composure 3; Intelligence 2, Wits 2, Resolve 2
Health: 7
Willpower: 5
Skills: Athletics (Yoga) 4, Drive (City) 2; Etiquette 2, Insight 3, Leadership 3, Performance (Vlog) 3, Persuasion 3, Subterfuge 2; Academics (Communications) 2, Awareness 2, Finance 2, Medicine 1, Politics 1, Science 1, Technology (Social Media) 4
Disciplines: Thin-Blood Alchemy 4
THIN-BLOOD MERITS:
- Lifelike
- Thin-blood Alchemist
THIN-BLOOD FLAWS:
- Branded by the Camarilla
- Mortal Frailty
References[]
- VTM: Cults of the Blood Gods, p. 39-42
