Mr Hobbes

Personal Information

Appearance

Mr Hobbes sinewy muscles belie an inhuman strength. His posture is commonly bent and animal like. Bestial cold eyes stare forth from behind the human flesh mask he always wears. Around his neck he wears a string of mementos from past victims. His clothes are water logged, blood stained and fetid. He regular appears to be listening intently at unheard noises and anyone who spends time in conversation with him will feel the caress of ghostly hands.

Personality

To the court Mr Hobbes appears predatory, short with words and to the point. His voice is guttural and cold. However, a beastly temper dwells just below the surface and Mr Hobbes is not afraid to let it come out.
To his covenant mates Mr Hobbes is a philosophical ascetic, always willing to discuss the occult and his eugenic theories.
To his clan mates he's a concerned patriarchal protector, loyal and infinitely accepting.
To his prey he is a nightmare made flesh.
To the kine he is the source of many an urban myth and ghost story and a reason not to stray alone at night.

Information Known by Kindred Society

Mr Hobbes is the Priscus of the Nosferatu Clan of Sydney and member of the Ordo Dracul. He lives in the catacombs beneath the city with the rest of his clan. He is a dangerous individual.

Timeline - Unless otherwise stated, this information is not commonly known IC

1853 - Caleb Hobbes is born in Hull City, England
1861 - Is sent to work the coal mines
1870 - Seeking an escape from a life of drudgery in the mines takes part in illegal catch wrestling bouts for money
1874 - After taking a dive decides to skip town to avoid criminal retribution. Jumps a ship heading for the gold fields of Australia
1875 - 1877 - Blown way off course the ship runs aground against an island in the Lesser Antilles. With dwindling food and no rescue in site the crew resorts to cannibalism. Full and strong, Caleb makes a raft and travels to one of the main islands where he stays with the Carib people. He takes part in their customs with great enthusiasm, takes a wife and has a child. It is the happiest time of his life and he almost pushes the darkness of his past out of his mind. However an unknown Noctuku who lived on the island, embraced him, and in a fit of rage he killed his wife and child. From that moment on his wife would be by his side as a ghost. He would never see his child again which damaged his mental health. Eventually a merchant vessel came to the island which he boarded and returned to France with it.
1878 until 1914 - takes advantage of the new more liberal France under the Belle Epoque to score easy meals and cheap entertainment. However, pressure from the strongly Invictus/Lance kindred court forces him to flee Northward where he finds himself caught up in the beginnings of the great war.
1914 - 1916 - He wanders the killing fields aimlessly preying on dying soldiers and giving himself over to the beast.
1917 - Whilst bunking down in a monastery in ???? he meets a kindred monk who introduces him to a set of practices to calm his beast and unbeknownst to Caleb gives him his first taste of the Ordo Dracul.
1918 - Sees out the rest of the war under the tutelage of the monk who doesn't realise that Caleb harbours a dark and neverending hunger
1919 - After his dark secret was revealed to the monk, Mr Hobbes flees into the foot hills of the Carpathian Mountains where he feeds off the peasants whilst living in caves and watching constantly for the monk.
1921 - Caleb is caught in the act of cannibalism by a band of dragons who threw him into a pit in their lair in a misguided effort to "cure" him of his curse.
1923 - The Monk finds him in their lair and bargains for Calebs freedom. Mad with rage, fear and hunger, Caleb destroys the dragons and the monk too once released.
1924 - 1945 - This time is all but lost to Caleb as he was little more than an animal at this stage, living moment to moment and preying on human and neonate alike. What is known is that towards the end of the war, Caleb found himself fleeing east across europe, being hunted in turn by the Allies, Nazis and then by the Russians.
1947 - He crosses the water into Alaska on a fishing boat.
1951 - Whilst lairing in the woods next to a logging camp he comes across Kohana. They have an epic battle, each trading advantage. Before one or the other can finish, the loggers come across the pair and while killing the loggers they recognise a kindred spirit amongst them.
????Moves to Australia
???? Founds The Clan with ????. They see an immediate influx of adoptees.
???? - Asks to be put into Torpor by members of The Clan as he is losing touch with the last vestiges of his humanity.
???? - Wakes from his Torpor with a new lease on unlife. Claims head of the Nosferatu of Sydney.

Recent History

2013

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Lineage

Mr Hobbes is one of the founders of The Clan

Quotes

Quotes By

• "Go ahead and wear the suit. Walk amongst them. But never forget what you are. Because THEY wont." Addressing Ferdinand Wolfe from his Sepulcher.

• "I......must......sleep" Mr Hobbes before being put into Torpor by The Clan

Quotes About

• "My connection with humans is only skin deep, what I shared with them has long rotted away. I am truly the wolf in sheep clothing and when you tear the skin away you can still tell us apart. You know this well <pauses and looks around> and certainly disprove the idea that you are what you eat." One of the first exchanges between Mr Hobbes and Ferdinand Wolfe.

• "If a man really pisses me off, you know, questions me honour or somethin', I'll make his life a livin' hell by doing all the classic stuff like killin' his wife an kids or what not. But if he truly gets under me skin and I mean truly... I dunno like takes something that's mine, then shit just got real an I'm gonna get Mr Hobbes on his ass. I will guarantee you that that cunt will never even dream of leaving his house again, even if his fucking house was on fire and my friend it will be!' - Sawyer

• "He's the bestest and most dreamy vampire ever" - Kohana

Inspirations and Soundtrack

'they float, Georgie, and when you’re down here with me, you’ll float, too–'

IT, by Stephen King

PELOQUIN : He's not Nightbreed. He's Natural.
BOONE : No! I've killed people, I'm like you, that's why I'm here...
PELOQUIN : Shut the fuck up. You're meat.
KINSKI : If we eat him we break the law.
BOONE : My God... My God, it's true...
PELOQUIN : Of course it's true. Everything's true... God's an astronaut. Oz is over the rainbow. And Midian's where the monsters live. And you came to die.
BOONE : I didn't... didn't come to die. I came to be with you, I'm one of you.
PELOQUIN : No. Sorry. I can smell innocence at fifty yards.
BOONE : I've killed people. Fifteen people.
PELOQUIN : Who told you that?
BOONE : What do you mean?
PELOQUIN : He lied, asshole. He lied. You're Normal. And that means you're meat .... for the beast.
KINSKI : We mustn't. It's the law.
PELOQUIN: Fuck the law! I want meat!

Night Breed Part 3, by Clive Barker's

'If you die first, I am definitely going to eat you, but the question is, if I die, what are you going to do? Bon appétit... Eat or die.'

Ravenous

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Reference

Member Information
Player:	Gareth
Number:	2009050005
Domain:	Sydney