Teresa Tarcare

Teresa Tarcare
Clan:	Ventrue
Covenant:	Carthian Movement
Born/Embraced:	1905/1978
City:	Brisbane
Player:	user:Skyelark
Storyteller:	VST Storyteller Name

Sire: Hazard

Notable Traits: It's odd, She speaks with an accent until she starts yelling.

Information Known by Kindred Society

History in Brief

• 1905-1923 - Born and raised, fell in love then lost it all
• 1923-1928 - Traded around in mortal underground
• 1928-1978 - Ghouled Hell
• 1978-Present - Moved to Brisbane with her Sire

Extended History

• 1905 - born In Bournemouth in Dorset, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain.

• 1905-1923- Raised by her parents, Mary and Deacon Tarcare.

Teresa's childhood was largely uneventful, Her mother an actress would often take her young daughter to her rehearsals. Submerged into the life of glitz & glamour Teresa wanted desperately to become a performer when she grew up. While Mary practiced her lines in theatres that shared space with burlesque shows on the weekend, A young Teresa would sneak away from her mother to watch the women practice. Slowly over the years Teresa's intention of becoming a actor shifted to becoming a Burlesque star. To her surprise Mary encouraged her daughter to take up the life, providing it was what made her happy.

While in her late teens a young man working as a bouncer at the club she worked at caught her eye and her his, It was not long until the pair became engaged & started making plans to move to America so that they could make a new life. And live out the "American Dream." Teresa also saw it as a chance for her to go and work at Minsky's Burlesque as that's where all the big stars started out nowadays. However Teresa and her love never got the chance to live happy ever after. After her final show while Teresa waited outside smoking her cigars she saw her lover talking with known gangsters when all of a sudden he shoots a man. To her horror one of the party saw her watching the scene unfold and she was grabbed before she could get away. Her fiancé was able to save her life, in the form of sending her to the black market.

• 1923 - 1928 Traded around in mortal underground

For five years Teresa was traded from one underground club to another, passing through different countries undetected by authorities, The first few months was the hardest for her, always hoping that the new person she was traded to was her fiancé coming to rescue her from her new life. Unfortunately for her he never came and as the years passed her hope was crushed by the constant torment, beatings and physical and sexual abuse.

• 1928 - 1978 Ghouled hell

One evening at an auction where Teresa was up for sale, a tall unusual gentlemen pursued her and that's when her life took an unusual twist. The dark gentlemen turned out to be an vampire who dealt extensively in the human trafficking buying those who he believed would be suitable to become ghouls with the potential of being childer. The dark gentleman cleaned her up got her dancing again and started showing her off in private clubs. Because of her talent other vampires wanted to have her as their trophy and for that reason she was Ghouled for close to 50years being passed up the chain as a gift to high status vampires. On the arm of such vampires Teresa learned the mob lifestyle, being respected for her beauty and brains. Just when she thought her life had turned out for the best her boss was removed landing her back where she started. However this time she didn't end up in caring arms, she found herself in a small nest somewhere in Russia. One filled with insane cruel vampires she was forced into full slavery with daily beatings left half dead barely able to function, until one day one of the vampires in the nest having had enough of the abuse at the hands of the others embraced her.

• 1978 - Present

Moved to Australia shortly after her embrace with her sire. She lands in Sydney to find the place in the middle of the Brood Incursion. She meets a nomadic Carthian and they head up to Brisbane to escape, the Carthian heads back to Sydney once the Brood threat passes.

• 1979 - she quickly immersed herself in the Mob underworld and soon took over the entertainment industry. She now works for the Russian Mob boss in Brisbane.

Lineage

Teresa Tarcare is the head of her once strong family House Tarcare, The young venture house once had quite the number of prominent court holders residing in sydney and her home city of brisbane. However over the recent months the majority of her childer have been killed off. wWile Teresas Sire Hazard has recently traveled abroad leaving only a small handful surviving in Brisbane.

Almost all of Teresa's family have been killed in recent months. Deceased

• Dr. Alina Yaga
• Eddie Chandler
• Charles Boxer

Remaining childer/grandchilder

• Lucy
• Arwen Chandler

Quotes

"I am unsure why I allow hazard to stick around, perhaps its the connection we have, the bond that we developed all those years ago, or maybe just maybe, its that I have a touch of Stockholm syndrome." Teresa talking about her sire.

"Its not like I want to control everyone.." "Yes it is Teresa, you just don't use your powers to do it." "That's right, I don't force you to do what I want" - Charles Volmark and Teresa talking about the use of blood powers

Quotes About

"She works for the Russian Mob right? But what is it that she does?" - Various mortals on her position in the Mob.

"Reliable. By which I mean you can rely on her to ruin you utterly if you fuck with what's hers." - Anthony Desmond

"Teresa may be the perfect Keeper. Certainly I know no other in this domain who has confronted so personally, so viscerally, a world in which violence was ubiquitous. She may draw on that to make the abolition of violence a personal crusade, or to show us we are all amateurs in its practice. Either way she has my utmost confidence and support." - Prince Tybalt on the Keeper of Elysium

"Teresa? Wonderful lass. She throws the most exquisite parties with only the best buffets, don't you know?" Tobias Mol after a recent visit to Brisbane

Rumors

• The world always seems to bore Teresa, she never seems to stay focused for too long esp in meetings.
  • • When she starts to pay attention things are sure to go south for somebody soon....
• She seems to have an inability to let things go...including her childer.

OOC Information

Member Information
Player:	[mailto: Skyelark]
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Domain:	[[Brisbane]]