Therese Voerman

Therese Voerman
Alias	Jeanette Voerman
Gender	Female
Clan	Malkavian
Generation	6th
Sire	Jacob
Childer	Jeanette Voerman
Allegiance	Camarilla
Rank	Baron of Santa Monica
Actor	Grey DeLisle-Griffin Whitney Moore

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Jeanette: Your city? Last time I looked it was called Santa Monica, not Stuck-up Bitch. Therese: So vulgar. I can't even look at you sometimes, you jezebel. Jeanette: Oh, Therese, you really do paint a flattering portrait of me with your turn-of-the-century barbs. I always assumed you could do nothing but look down on me. Therese: Just the sight of you - the sight of that wicked, painted pout concealing that dirty, diseased mind. Sin! You have no shame. Jeanette (laughs): Let she who is without sin, cast the fierce tone. Therese: Go ahead and mock me. You pull your pranks, make fun of my ways. It suits you. You're just one big joke. Jeanette: upset, Don't you call me that! Therese: Should I start calling a duck a pig as well? Jeanette: I'm your sister! How can you treat me like this? (sound of door closing) Therese: That's it, Jeanette. Run away from the truth. I'll take care of everything, as always.

”

Therese Voerman is a Malkavian with Dissociative Identity Disorder who is the Baron of Santa Monica and owner of The Asylum nightclub.

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Therese Voerman

Biography

Early life

Therese's exact age is unknown, but Jeanette mentions their last sunrise as being over two lifetimes ago. Therese was a little girl when she first showed signs of mental illness, namely dissociative identity disorder, which came in the form of an alter called Jeanette. Therese states that she and Jeanette did get along at one point, mainly because she didn't have many friends due to her father never allowing her out, saying that she would get hurt in the outside world – as a result, Jeanette was the only one who was there for her and they would create their own fantasy world which they would rule over.

Therese's only other known relation from her time alive was her father who would molest her. Therese blames Jeanette for his depression, saying that her bad behavior was tormenting him. Therese simply saw this as her being a good and obedient daughter, and she was convinced her father loved her.

Therese's father died later on; Therese says their father killed himself because Jeanette was a bad daughter and tormented their father with her promiscuity, while Jeanette claims that their father came home drunk one evening and mistook Jeanette for Therese and began molesting her instead. Therese caught them together and shot him in a jealous rage, "blowing his mind all over the silly clown wallpaper".

The police found out about his death and figured one of her personalities had killed their father. It is heavily implied Therese was placed in a mental institution, where they briefly suppressed Jeanette from her mind, and she must have remained at the institute until young adulthood. Jeanette mentions an escape, claiming the first thing Therese did was find Jeanette. It is likely she is talking about her Embrace by an unknown Malkavian, which may have brought about Jeanette's return as Malkavian blood is inherently insane.

“	Once, I was pursuing activities out in the City of Angels. I met such a beauty. Despite my age, she was attracted to me! I never saw one so vivacious, yet such delicate depths, my lad. Such delicate depths. She called me “daddy”. She’s Baron of Santa Monica, now. Such a delight. Esau had to go and ruin it by Embracing her sister.	”
	— Jacob

Events of Bloodlines

Therese rose to power in Los Angeles as the Baron of Santa Monica and as a successful businesswoman. Her base of operations and her primary business source was the Asylum, a nightclub in her barony. She ran through finances and business side of things, while Jeanette lured in patrons for the club.

When the Camarilla became a presence in Santa Monica once again under Prince LaCroix, Therese sought to ally herself with him and the Camarilla. Jeanette favored the Anarchs and was in direct contact with Smiling Jack.

Therese had invested in many new business ventures, one of which Bertram Tung and Jeanette ruined for her, causing a feud between her and Tung, causing the latter to go into hiding. One of her most promising investments was the Ocean House Hotel, opened in the early 20th Century and was a popular destination for vacationers until an insane guest decapitated his wife and children while staying there. The scandal hurt business, and the Ocean House was subsequently abandoned.

Later, the ghostly presence of the wife haunting the building scared off the workers, fouling Therese's renovation plans for the hotel. The protagonist is tasked with retrieving a personal artifact from the site to exorcise the spirit, which they can give to either sister; to Therese so that her employees can resume their work, or to Jeanette to throw it away.

Afterwards, Jeanette manipulates the protagonist into ruining another of Therese's businesses, Gallery Noir, an art gallery in which Therese was to host a charity event for the many influential Santa Monicans. The paintings therein, depicting Caine and are to be slashed, and optionally, they can steal the charity box.

Upon returning, Therese is furious over the destruction of her event and claims to seek reconciliation with Jeanette and tasks the protagonist to meet her at the Surfside Diner which turns out to be a setup by the sister that received the pendant. After dispatching the gang, the phone at the back of the diner rings and it is hinter at that Jeanette is in danger, urging the protagonist to return to the Asylum. There, Therese and Jeanette are competing for control over the host body holding a gun.

Subsequent events

Canonically, during the events surrounding the Ankaran Sarcophagus, Jeanette and Therese came to an accord: they'd work together, but maintain the public appearance of near-violent disagreement in order to confound their opponents.

Therese maintained control over Santa Monica's Asylum, briefly rebranding it as "The New Asylum," while Jeanette opened a second location in Hollywood. The popularity of both locations continued to rise, and the Asylum franchise has gone international.

Quests

• Explosive Beginning
• The Ghost Haunts At Midnight
• Slashterpiece
• Bad Blood
• Sibling Rivalry

Trivia

• Therese is voiced by Grey DeLisle in VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines , was portrayed by Elizabeth Goedde in MET: Mind's Eye Theatre: Vampire: The Masquerade, p. 55 and VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition, p. 394 , and by Whitney Moore on VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade: L.A. By Night .
• Note that, although Jeanette has complete heterochromia or uses colored contacts (each eye is a different color), both of Therese's eyes are blue.
• Therese says of her sister that "her business skills are approximate to those of a four-year-old with a one dollar bill in a five-and-dime." Five-and-dimes were variety stores from the early-to-mid 20th century, where most items would be sold for between 5 and 10 cents. They're equivalent of what we'd call dollar stores in the modern era. A modern interpretation might be "a four-year-old with a ten dollar bill in a dollar store."
• Therese Voerman is master to the insufferable ghoul Vandal Cleaver (head of the S.M.M.C. blood bank).
• Therese's name probably comes from "Millicent and Therese," the second story of the 1975 horror film Trilogy of Terror. Karen Black portrays two sisters: Millicent, a repressed brunette, and Therese, a seductive blonde. Millicent endeavors to kill Therese and succeeds, but both sisters end up dead, as they were both alternate personalities of the same person. Therese had slept with her father and killed her mother, and Millicent was an alter constructed to cope with the horror of her actions. Her father's recent death had triggered the murder attempt as a form of suicide. While the Therese of this story does more closely resemble Bloodlines Jeanette, it does support the idea that Therese is the host.
• Although there are a number of theories about which sister was the original and who was formed when, Brian Mitsoda explained: Several people have figured this out from the dialogue, but what it boils down to is, Therese was isolated and sexually abused from a very young age. To deal with this trauma and her seclusion, she developed a "sister". Later, she would use the Jeanette personality to behave in a manner not fitting the obedient daughter side that was Therese. After the murder of her father, she was institutionalized. Therese was already suffering from the disorder when she was embraced, but with the Malk blood, the Jeanette personality is so fully developed and so intertwined with Therese's psyche that neither can be considered the dominant personality, and the Jeanette side is no less real than Therese, and neither realizes that the other exists within the same body.
• In the book Beckett's Jyhad Diary, it is heavily implied that Jacob/Esau -- another Malkavian with an alter -- is the sire of Therese/Jeanette Voerman. Jacob claims that he Embraced one sister while Esau Embraced the other, while Therese implies that she Embraced her own sister.

Gallery

Therese in the Asylum

The two sisters Jeanette and Therese standing next to a man, presumably their father

Therese in her office

the Tourette Incident

The Voermans (Elizabeth Goedde)
VTM: Mind's Eye Theatre: Vampire: The Masquerade

References

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• VTM: Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines
• VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade: L.A. By Night
  • 1x08: Who Can You Trust
  • 2x03: Gentle Manners
  • 2x04: Teardrop
  • 2x06: The Warning
  • 3x05: Play the Devil
  • 3x07: Hollywood Ending
• VTM: Anarch