Dominique Omar, also known by his deed-name 'Death-In-Word', is a Silver Fang ragabash located in the Midwest.
Dominique Omar is one of the signature characters of the Shattered Nation sourcebook.
Biography[]
The son of a wealthy Black family in Boston, Dominique enjoyed life as a trust fund twink new to New York and its many pleasures. Once described by an ex as a deeply unserious person, he always felt that was accurate. Nothing in the world justified distraction from its many joys.
His First Change is something of a blur to Dominique. He was coming home from a party, high as a kite. There was some sort of incident, maybe even a fight. Blood. Death. But the memories are fragmentary, and the Silver Fangs who came to see him the next day assured him nobody was seriously hurt. One of them had sustained injuries, but that’s not so bad when you heal like a werewolf. Dominique decided to believe them on this and everything else they told him about the Garou. It was easier than trying to find out what really happened. What he had done. The motivations of his new tribemates were obvious: They wanted to find new, young, sophisticated, and wealthy werewolves who could sustain the traditions of the tribe. In Dominique, they felt they had found just such a person.
In many ways, they were not wrong. Dominique enjoyed the richness of tradition among the Fangs, even if becoming a werewolf was a blow to his self-image. He didn’t relish the idea of being a towering hirsute monster and preferred either homid or lupus. He liked the attention his beauty got him at parties, flirting with every man he took a fancy to. Seeing himself in the mirror in glabro for the first time was a nightmare.
After his Rite of Passage, Dominique found that he really enjoyed being a ragabash. It gave him license to be as catty as he liked, cutting down the mighty and the powerful of his own tribe as well as of others. Sometimes, his tribemates wonder whose side he is on, but at least his commitment to fighting the Wyrm is not in question. Dominique tends to describe the Wyrm and all it represents as just ugly and unattractive.
Shortly after his Rite of Passage, Dominique was taken at the behest of his tribal elders to the final concolation of the Garou Nation, the one in which the Stargazers departed and in which the Nation's collapse was concluded. Despite wishing to leave partway through after seeing the disaster it had shaped up to be, Dominique remained to witness King Albrecht's Renewal Circle due to his driver wishing to stay to the end.
Quotes[]
| “ | I’ve been called conceited, vain, self-important. I must confess, all this flattery is doing wonders for my self-esteem. Some of us are just better than others. A Red Talon brute kills with claws. The only thing I need is a word. | ” |
| — Regarding himself | ||
| “ | She is a coward! Just an embarrassment. I cannot imagine why we tolerate someone like her. She’s too dumb to use words like pacifist, but that’s what she is. Showing her throat to the Wyrm. Ugh. | ” |
| — Regarding Little Sister | ||
| “ | You’re going to accuse me of being disloyal to my tribe, aren’t you? But the thing is... I’ve seen them fight. And I don’t mind telling you, they were pure poetry in motion, destroying fomori flesh as if they’d had a choreographer on call. | ” |
| — Regarding the Korányi sisters | ||
| “ | I saw one of his shows in New York. Just a tiny venue and really not my kind of a scene. A naked man screaming deliriously on stage while the rest of the band looks like they’re trying to murder their instruments. One thing I’m certain of is that I prefer this guy to be standing there between me and the Wyrm! | ” |
| — Regarding Shiro | ||
| “ | Come on! Being a werewolf doesn’t mean you have to be a brute! I know for a fact that wolf-born Garou are every bit as smart as the rest of us. They have no excuse to keep sniffing each other’s butts or whatever it is that they do. | ” |
| — Regarding Low Growl | ||
| “ | “You won’t believe the moot I attended last weekend. Some of those young packs are full of Garou so dumb, I don’t know how they tie their shoelaces. Maybe they just go barefoot. I don’t know. On the first day, they got drunk and went on a rampage in the town. Two got arrested. Then the site of the moot was raided by the cops because someone was firing illegal fireworks. Couple of the ahroun tried to fight the cops and then we had to stop it before someone got killed. Just a complete disaster!” | ” |