Honor Mercer is the Gangrel childe of Mark Decker, Prince of Milwaukee. She is rebellious and ran away from his "care" to the city of Indianapolis.
Biography[]
Mortal Days[]
Honor has vague memories of her father. He was one of Decker’s herd, the herd he killed in a panic when Lupines ambushed him. Decker kept an eye on the fatherless family ever since, ensuring they would never want for anything. Honor’s mother worked, so Honor grew up well socialized through attending after-school activities. Mrs. Mercer employed a succession of women to help around the home but, due to her perfectionism, none of them stayed long enough to make an impression on her children.
Honor grew up relying on her elder siblings, Tom and Margie, for companionship and support. They loved to go walking and became familiar with the trails through Bong State Recreation Area and Havenwoods State Forest. When Tom left home to attend Yale, Margie and Honor continued their hiking without him. Honor was aiming for a career in conservation. She worked as a volunteer for the Ice Age Trail Alliance and hoped to pick up an internship as part of her major in Environmental Studies at Grinnell College. None of this came to fruition. Decker wanted a childe who would be a paragon of the Camarilla, to prove a Gangrel was capable of being a paragon of the Camarilla. He sought a childe to be a counterpoint to Julia Calvin who, as one of the Anubi, he had Embraced for a different purpose.
Kindred Nights[]
Honor’s sire chose her, but she didn’t choose him. She resented him, and the fact that she was no longer able to take long walks in the sunshine. Having grown up without a father or anyone to fill the role, she found it difficult to adapt to Decker’s tutelage, though she did her best, applying what she knew from her girlfriends and what she had learned in women’s studies classes to her new attempt at a father-daughter relationship. She tried to think of it as putting theory into practice, but she still hated him.
For the first year, Decker permitted Honor to have no contact with her mother or siblings, but perhaps out of sympathy or guilt, he allowed her to keep tabs on their well-being. She watched them struggle to come to terms with her disappearance, unable to comfort them for their loss. It was particularly hard on Margie, as the sisters had always been close.
Decker kept her for five years, fulfilling the Tradition of the Accounting, in order to make sure she would be a credit to him and to the Camarilla. Even before her release, she was able to observe how he ruled his domain with an iron fist. Once free from her sire’s leash, she was able to discuss politics with other Kindred and concluded that everything her sire stood for was wrong. She saw Decker as a betrayer of his clan, the oppressor of Kindred he perceived as weaker than himself. She understood he believed he was acting in the best interests of Milwaukee due to his exaggerated fear of a new Lupine invasion and the Second Inquisition, but she was certain he was wrong.
For a while, Honor hung out with Tessa, a Tremere fledgling. Tessa introduced Honor to the clubbing lifestyle many Kindred consider de rigeur. Honor never really took to this, preferring the great outdoors. She swore off clubbing altogether when one of the clientele took a video of her on his cell phone as she was feeding from a half-naked girl in the washroom.
Her political opposition to her sire combined with the utter terror of what he might do if he found out she had been caught feeding on camera forced Honor to abscond to Indiana.
Character Sheet[]
Honor Mercer
Sire: Mark Decker
Embraced: 2015 (Born 1996)
Ambition: Get out from under her sire’s thumb
Convictions: We must protect the environment; Family is vital.
Touchstones: Margie and Tom Mercer, siblings
Humanity: 7
Generation: 10th
Blood Potency: 2
Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3; Charisma 2, Manipulation 1, Composure 2; Intelligence 3, Wits 4, Resolve 3
Secondary Attributes: Health 6, Willpower 5
Skills: Athletics (Marathon) 4, Brawl 2, Drive 2, Stealth 3, Survival (Hiking) 5; Animal Ken (Fish) 3, Insight 2, Leadership 3, Persuasion 3; Academics (Environmental Studies) 4, Awareness 4, Finance (State Funding) 2, Investigation (Poaching) 2, Medicine
2, Science (Ecology) 3
Disciplines: Animalism 2, Fortitude 1, Protean 3
References[]
- VTM: Let the Streets Run Red, p. 173-176
