Silke
| Silke | |
| Sect: | Anarch |
|---|---|
| Clan: | Ventrue (Masquerade) |
| City: | Brisbane |
| Pack/Coterie: | None |
| Title: | Baron |
| Sire: | Unknown |
| Lineage: | Unknown |
| Embraced: | Unknown |
| Generation: | Unknown |
| Player: | P. Saunders |
| Storyteller: | Brisbane VST |
Personal Information
Silke's as smooth, predatory and strangely hypnotic as a Cheshire cat, and is widely credited with having taken the Brisbane Anarchs from a non-entity at best and joke at worst to the level of genuine threat they have for the past thirty years or so been acknowledged to represent. She's challenged the authority of Princes in their own Court, made a great deal of hay about the apparent greater respect of the Anarchs for the Tradition of Elysium than the Court of Brisbane has historically observed, has earned the acknowledgement of more than one Elder, and always manages to look as slick as greased lightning doing it.
She knows how to play protocol, politics and emotions, and is that thing all hardliners of the Camarilla find the most disconcerting; a ruthless Anarch leader successfully carving firm foot and handholds into the side of the Ivory Tower.
Her exact Generation is not publicly known, but her confidence and dynamism would seem to suggest either a particularly savvy Neonate, or a very ballsy Ancilla.
Appearance
Silke's hot. There's no other term to describe it; she's not pretty, and she most certainly is not cute. She has a finely-sculpted feminine elegance that sharply contrasts with the louche masculinity of her dress and demeanour. With her short, pale blonde hair slicked wetly back from razor-sharp cheekbones, blue-grey eyes and a full, inviting mouth, she swans about in suits originally intended for a wearer, one might project, with twice her testosterone and half her balls. French cigarillos are a semi-permanent fixture, resting effortlessly between her tapered fingers - which are always moving, gesturing expansively as she holds forth on any topic you care to name - or hanging precariously from the side of her lip.
She's Dietrich, with extra damnation.
Personality
To all appearances a languid aesthete, until a situation calls for her to turn serious, Silke bleeds style and sweats arrogance. This would all be rather more intolerably obnoxious if she didn't also ooze charisma on a level that makes her unification of the Brisbane Anarchs into a fighting force at once easily understood.
Speaking with a lilting Gascon accent, she's a bitch, stone-cold, and fond of playing with people conversationally until she bores, but her Krew follow her with a loyalty born of absolute confidence, and she, in her turn, is at least partially humanised by her prioritised concern, in all things, for the welfare of her people.
Unquestionably aware and utterly in command of her own potent allure, Silke is aggressively, predatorily lesbian, and there's few Camarilla women who wouldn't feel at least a guilty stir to find themselves the focus of that smouldering gaze, with her hot breath feverishly whispering French obscenities into their ears.
Mortal World
Nothing is known of Silke's presence, if she has any, within the mortal sphere.
Themesong
- Figjam (Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me) by Butterfingers: I'm a jet-set, go-getter, but I got a vendetta; just got a death-threat over the phone - better go lay low, underground, like a bilby. Figjam! Chill, man, people wanna kill me, but I don't let that bullshit sweat me; I'm at ya mama's, if you wanna come and get me.
Information Known by Kindred Society
- A Ventrue by the nom-de-male of Florian Silke was a bushranger of some reknown and Anarch of repute throughout the North-East during the early days of the 20th Century, turning to robbing banks as the country became more gentrified throughout the roaring '20s. They then went quiet and fell off the radar around 1930. In the 1970s, Silke surfaced as a member of the Brisbane Anarch Movement, clearly directing the puppet Baron who was the then-Prince's childe as they tensely parlayed with the Court, before he withdrew, returned to the Camarilla and Silke ascended to lead the Anarchs in name. The result of the Camarilla talks was all-out war, which would last for more than ten years and claim several casualties on both sides. Throughout these events, Silke appeared to be having a wonderful time. When things calmed down in the '90s, she seamlessly returned to a cordial relationship with the local Court, even putting in appearances with her Krew, occasionally, at Court events, and easily discussing trade, and time shares on territory.
- Silke has now been the Baron of Brisbane's Anarchs for over thirty years, and has been the first Baron ever to outlast a succession of Princes, and to make them all uncomfortable.
- Silke appears to be generally irritated by the exuberances of her lieutenant, the gorgeous and apparently somewhat vacuous Brujah Lysander, but there is an evident rapport between the two that is as mysterious as it is rock-solid.
- Silke appears to be performing a peculiar dance with Armand LeBlanc, where both are simultaneously as absolutely polite and as absolutely French with each other as either can possibly be. Given that it's the great Camarilla Elder and an Anarch Baron of no small consideration, there's got to be something more than simple courtesy and countrymanship going on underneath.
- Turned up, with a small cadre of her capos, to a Justicar's Conclave. And swaggered.
Recent History
2013
- JUN - Details
- JUL - Details
- AUG - Details
- SEP - Details
- OCT - Details
- NOV - Details
- DEC - Details
Lineage
Silke - practically unheard of for a Ventrue - doesn't talk about her Sire. There's a theory going that she's a Vandal, though, which would explain LeBlanc's interest.
Not everyone's buying that she's even a Lord, though; the Toreador seem keen to claim her as one of theirs, and the Tremere are convinced she's a Brujah.
Quotes
Quotes By
"I remember you...you tried to Bloodhunt me once, didn't you? That must have been embarrassing."
- - Silke, to former Prince Jacqueline Keighley, at the Justicar's Conclave, 2013.
"The question is not who will let me, but who is going to stop me."
- - Silke, quoting Ayn Rand.
Quotes About
"Y'all think maybe those strings oughtn't ta be a li'l less obvious?"
- - Terry the Gangrel, during the '70s parleys.
"Just what this Crusade needs; Jesse f#$%ing James wearing tits, and her jacked-up army of the dispossessed."
- - a Sabbat shovelhead, 1989.
"My soul belongs to Jesus, but my arse belongs to that bitch right there."
- - an Anarch prisoner to a Camarilla contemporary who asked about his loyalty, during the war.
"...Silke, on the other hand, is an Anarch, and doing business with an Anarch is like lending money to a Gypsy; when it's time to collect the debt, they have always disappeared."
- - Giorgio Giovanni, discussing why he hadn’t bothered to give Silke a card.
"She's a tenacious little bitch, but she's a lot smarter than she looks and I'd sometimes care to admit. Showing up to the Justicar's meeting was the smartest thing she could do...she'll be a thorn in my fucking side for a long time to come."
- - Theodore Donowitz, talking to his childer about Silke, and her showing up when Xaviar was in town.
"Beatrice's problem is that she has feelings. Silke's problem is that she doesn't."
- - an unamed Anarch, around the turn of the twenty-first century.
"Silke? Look, guys, Silke's simple - not easy, maybe, but simple. You just need to control her...hey, don't look at me like that. That wasn't me volunteering. Hell, have you met me? I can't even control myself."
- - Lysander, after joining the Camarilla.
Conversations
- "Oh, you're fun. I like you."
- "And you, Silke, are not. But I like you, anyway."
- - with Brisbane's Prince Orsini, February, 2014.
- "You silly, stupid girl. Your childish outburst has brought down a dream, endangered the tenuous peace we have built here, doomed Kate, doomed me, imperiled yourself, and may have killed every last remaining Anarch in this City. And all because you could not control your emotions. C'est vraiment de ta faute."
- "Yeah, well, you broke my heart!"
- "...I used to think you were a good soldier. Now I know you are not even that."
- - with Beatrice, April, 2014.
- "Silke. I am trying. To respect. YOUR STRENGTH."
- "Respect is a whore of a word."
- - with Prince Orsini, as Anarch/Camarilla diplomacy threatens to break down, April, 2014.
Rumours
- The Elders only tolerate her because they think she'd make a Hell of a Campire, and are hoping to convert rather than have to kill her.
- It seems that time's running out on that; the word is that she'll need to be controlled or eliminated...soon.
- She makes a hobby of seducing Camarilla Toreador.
- If she's such a hardboiled bitch, then how come the Anarchs often joke, "soft as Silke"?
- It's ironic.
- Fears neither Justicars, nor Princes, but tones it down considerably around Gunderic the Vandal...interesting.
- Doesn't even smoke. She just carries a lit cigarette around so she can chivalrously offer it to people, after they meet her.
- Probably screams her own name in bed, too.
- Has thrown her leg over so many Camarilla members at this point that she's got to have a blood bond to someone. Come on, guys, shouldn't we be getting on this?
Inspirations and Soundtrack
- Le Fanu's Carmilla meets Easton Ellis' Patrick Bateman meets Palahniuk's Tyler Durden.
- Mike Carey's Lucifer: Things were either black or white. He would be himself. Or he would be nothing.
- Every-writer-in-the-damn-Vertigo-label's John Constantine: "That wasn't poker. Poker's a lot more subtle. That was chicken. And I bloody won, didn't I?"
- Disney's Captain Jack Sparrow: "Do you think he plans it all out beforehand, or just makes it up as he goes along?"
- For Your Entertainment by Adam Lambert - Vashti: Let's go, it's my show; baby, do what I say - don't trip off the glitz that I'm gonna display
- Careless Whisper by Seether - Iadro Orsini: Now who's going to dance with me?
- Then Again, Maybe Not by Kirby Crackle - Iadro for her: Hey, here's a thought, when I'm done kicking your face in, you and me grab a bite and some flirty conversation
- I Couldn't Be Your Friend by Tegan and Sara - Beatrice: Now you wanna say I was a liar, led you astray; I won't deny it, I did what I thought would be good for me. Now you wanna cry, call me a cheater, who left you to die
- The Special Two by Missy Higgins - Beatrice for her: I know I'm not deserving of your trust from you right now, but if, by chance, you change your mind, you know I will not let you down
- Hell Above Water by Curve - Theodore Donowitz: I'm the one in command, look at the state that I'm in; I really fear for my friends at everything that they have seen
- You're Going Down by Sick Puppies - Teddy for her: When my my fist hits your face and your face hits the floor, it'll have been a long time coming
- 99 Problems by Jay-Z - Lysander: If you're havin' girl problems, I feel bad for you, son
- On My Own by Three Days Grace - Kate Horton: Standing on my own, remembering the one I left at home; forget about the life I used to know, forget about the one I left alone. I need to run far away, can't go back to that place
- Powder To The People by Dance Gavin Dance - Kate for her: You threw me away, just like all the others; it's been seven days, and not a single word. Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive?
- I Will Not Go Quietly by The Whitlams - The Camarilla: I was my own man; can y'all say that?
- The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails - The Sabbat: Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees?
- Promise You Anything by Steve Earle - The Anarchs: I don't have to pretend my intentions are golden, and I don't have to tell you where we're going; feel something wild, baby, out there blowing if you follow me
Status
Silke's Anarch Rep precludes her from possessing Camarilla Status [mechanic].
Boons
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OOC Information
- Characters with a non-Gallic background assume Silke to be "French". All French characters know her to be Basque, and probably insist on the difference.
| Member Information | |
| Player: | P. Saunders |
|---|---|
| Number: | 2003100615 |
| Domain: | Brisbane |