Archived-Connie Gambrell

	Member Information
Player:	P. Saunders
Number:	2003100615
Domain:	Sydney

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Personal Information

Appearance

Connie Gambrell, aka Miss Connie, aka Sister Connie, is conservatively pretty. Her long, perfectly neat dark honey-blonde hair is streaked lighter in places from the sun, but has obviously never seen the touch of dye or any styling more extreme than a monthly trim. She has a big, friendly smile, a graceful frame, large blue eyes and a propensity for simple, floaty dresses (and it's always dresses). She also has the telltale indicators of a once-tan now faded by the physical touches of the Requiem, but retains a general rosy, active effect that suggests an outdoorsy fitness. She doesn't look like a movie star, but the revelation that she was once Miss [Whatever Small Town She's From] wouldn't seem far-fetched. Observant characters may notice she wears a purity ring.
Mechanics: Blush of Health, Striking Looks 2.

Personality

Friendly, upbeat, and completely accessible, Connie Gambrell is what most people would consider "a sweetheart". She's a devout Tollisonite, and also what most people would consider "a bible-basher". She's compelling, though; there's a charisma, there, an unexpected force of personality that makes it hard to walk away when she's talking. She's the missionary who, if she showed up at your door, you would find yourself inviting inside for tea, not quite understanding how it happened. She has a soft, Louisiana drawl, and a megawatt smile, and it's a beguiling combination. She seems a little ignorant, at times, but not stupid so much as naive; her occasional comments of a startlingly racist or homophobic nature are invariably accompanied by wide-eyed conviction, sugar-sweet tones and smiles that wouldn't melt butter. If you're not Sanctified, then Connie thinks you can be saved. And she means to save you.

Mortal World

Information Known by Kindred Society

Timeline

OOC knowledge, posted for the purpose of links.

1976 - Born in Baton Rouge, LA to devout Baptists Nick Gambrell, a labourer and returned Vietnam vet, and his schoolteacher wife, Debbie.
1979 - Brother, Elijah, born.
1983 - Brother, Daniel, born.
1985 - Brother, Caleb, born.
1990 - Father is deployed to the Gulf, for Desert Storm.
1991 - Six months and five weeks later, father returns with PTSD. He takes to drinking heavily.
1993 - Connie falls in love with Jesse, a former schoolmate who joins the Marines. Jesse is deployed to Iraq as part of the peacekeeping effort; he and Connie become engaged before he leaves.
1994 - Miss Baton Rouge.
- 1994 - Jesse is KIA, when his vehicle runs over an IED. Connie is heartbroken.
1995 - Debbie diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia, at age 40. Within six months, she is dead.
- 1995 - Nick determines that his wife's death was due to vampiric predation. He withdraws his entire family into the swamps, pulls his younger sons out of school and into homeschooling, becomes far more fundamentalist in his religiosity, and becomes a Hunter. Connie assumes the role of junior mother to her brothers, and carer for her father.
1996 - Nick starts conducting daylight raids on a local vampire nest.
1997 - Local pastor visits the property, to determine why Connie hasn't been seen in town in two years. Glimpses the guerilla fortifications, and the stockpiled armoury, before Nick drives him off.
1999 - Caleb, now 15, is possessed. Due to Nick's distrust of the local Pastor, the secretly-Kindred Woodrow and Audrey are summoned to perform the exorcism. It goes wrong, and the possessed Caleb slaughters his entire family. Woodrow Embraces the 24-year-old Connie, as she lies dying.
2000 - Traveling with her new "family", Connie meets Alexi Stukov in New York. Spying the Eastern Orthodox roots of Catholicism under his Acolyte heathenry, she determines to "save" him, and makes quite a project of trying - much to Alexi's bemusement.
2001 - 2012 - Undetermined, traveling with Woodrow and Audrey.
2013 - Leaving the family unit for the first time, she undertakes a mission to Kenya to help with famine relief. In mid-December, she leaves to meet her Sire and his wife in Sydney, Australia, where they are now resident, for Christmas. For her first Court, she is entrusted to the supervision of Sister Fatimah, the Iblist. Many things occur that night, including a Praxis change from Jack Wolfe to Sawyer, and the insidious presence of a painting that seems to live, with its subject moving within. By mistakenly referring to the Governor as Prince, Connie accidentally runs afoul of Tobias Mol, who threatens to sever her hands for the offense. In addition, she befriends the sad and lonely Maker, and reconnects with Alexi - whose evident enthusiasm for refreshing their acquaintance draws the stink-eye from Fatimah.

Lineage

Known Sire

Connie is the childe of Woodrow, the Seneschal of Sydney, and regarded as a "daughter" in the family unit of himself and his wife, Audrey. They seem to dote on each other, much like a mortal nuclear family; Woodrow and Audrey are protective of Connie, often referring to her as "our little angel", and Connie clearly deeply respects both her Sire and his wife.

Known Siblings

Known Childer

Known Grand-childer

Quotes

Quotes By

"Are you ready to let Longinus into your soul? Are you ready for your true purpose? Are you ready to re-enter the Lord's plan? I said, are you ready to re-enter the Lord's plan? I can't hear you! Are you ready? I said, louder! Are. You. Ready? DEUS VULT!" - Connie, whipping up the crowd before a Bishop's sermon.

Quotes About

"Quote" - reference

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