With our modest cast! Well, modest for now.

To clarify: these are separated out in post-Chapter analyses so if you're up to date, you can just get the whole shebang in one post, while if you're not, you can use an earlier one to avoid spoilers! That's the idea, anyway.

Jaquelin “Jaq” Lehrer: Jaq’s never been a big fan of slowing down. When she was little, that just meant she was hard to get dressed before bolting out of the door or tended to get lost when unattended for even a second in department stores. In middle and high school, it meant she tended to fall deeply and rapidly, go way too far way too fast, and watching her relationships dissolve when she realized she didn’t really know the person she’d gotten into bed with. However, since late high school and all throughout college so far, it means she’s deeply interested in politics. To her, every other way to affect the things you don’t like seems achingly tedious. Even with all the waiting and schmoozing and back door dealing, if you want to get something done, you can’t just ask people to listen to you. You have to make them. Jaq took this to heart when applying at Workwick College, studying social sciences and volunteering on local campaigns that caught her interest. Between her focus on bettering her future and her … we’ll say intense demeanor when engaging people in disagreements, Jaq is well-known on campus, if not necessarily well-liked. While most people do enough, between her being pretty, progressive, and naturally charming, the people who she does rub the wrong way tend to feel very strongly about that. Between her extremely diverse ethnic background, pansexuality, and just being a woman, you can imagine the kind of flak these people give her, especially anonymously online or in places they can leave a message without being seen. While this kind of thing deeply bothers her, she tries to not let it get to her or feel too afraid. After all, if she wants to be president some day, a lot worse than that is going to be directed at her. If only she knew.

Jaq’s best friend is her roommate, Eva Tejada, a fellow sophomore she met in prospective tours. The two kept in touch due to being members of some of the same activist groups, though Eva has a notably more anarchic edge than Jaq and less faith the system even CAN be used for good. Eva has a tendency to get herself into trouble willingly, which sometimes frustrates Jaq and sometimes wakes up a protective side to her that hates seeing her friend in potential danger just for standing up against injustice. It was Jaq’s idea to rush Kappa Beta Gamma, Eva mostly coming along thanks to her powerful feelings tied up in Jaq and kind of wanting to see what a train wreck it would be. Train wreck-ness peaked when Jaq vanished from the party last night, entranced by a beautiful stranger who’d struck up conversation with her. After determining if she was a good choice, this stranger put her in a daze and sired her for unknown, but assuredly sinister, reasons. She then left Jaq, dead and waiting to rise, in the shower she and Eva shared with their suitemates. Jaq is a fairly tall girl at 5’8”, her figure slim and athletic, though one couldn’t really call her physical powerful, and with lightly-tanned skin that always seems positively flush with enthusiasm. She cares enough about staying in shape, but getting ripped has never been her priority. While her bustline is fairly modest, she’s considered to have very striking, hazel eyes, an infectious smile, and tremendous presence in conversation. She wears her hair long, to about the middle of her back, though she binds it in a ponytail pretty much whenever she’s going to classes, working out, or researching to keep it out of her eyes or from getting caught in things. While she’s never had an eye for style, she knows it’s important in politics and has let Eva teach her a lot in that regard, though she still refers to the more zeitgeist-attuned Latina for the final word in those matters. She tends to prefer t-shirts and jeans for functionality and efficiency, but sticks to blacks and whites to avoid matching issues when the occasion is more formal or social. Since being sired, Jaq has manifested a few anomalous traits seen in the Kindred, notably being both unable to form or be bound by blood bonds despite the exceptional Generation of her sire (and, by extension, her). That said, she is not a Caitiff and, in fact, has tremendous untapped potential with her Clan’s signature Discipline … not that she knows how to use or what it is just yet.

Category: Vampire

Generation: ?

Clan/Bloodline: ?

Disciplines: ?

Known Allies:

*Eva Tejada (best friend, roommate)

Known Enemies:

*Atlee Paige (president of Kappa Beta Gamma)

Eva Tejada: Eva Tejada is a rabble-rouser, a rascal, and a rebel. Her mother fought tooth and nail to get across the border when she was just a teenager, while her father was a deeply-outspoken anti-war demonstrator until his suicide while imprisoned for aiding and abetting a fugitive in their escape of policy custody when Eva was just eight. Her mother never believed it was suicide, and Eva has some strong doubts there as well. The man her father helped, Sterling Jones, was caught a month after her father’s and died in county holding before a trial could determine whether or not he was guilty of the of a state trooper. The exact method was … vague. Needless to say, Eva’s fostered a profound disrespect for authority. While often reckless, she is also intelligent, charismatic, and extremely nimble, all things that have assisted her in staying out of jail despite having taken part in many demonstrations of questionable legality. She’s pursuing a law degree at Workwick, trudging through her undergrad material with her eyes sharply focused on being able to put an ability to practice law to work in favor of activist movements campaigning for human rights and justice. Some find her to be irritating in her work, but frankly, she’s not doing it for those people. Her canniness and similar politics with parallel approaches to Jaq is exactly what lead to them getting along in the first place, and Eva especially appreciates it when most of her friends at school are either through volunteer groups (and thus not with much time to socialize with her as a person) or when someone from her hometown is passing through Northwoods. Eva has misgivings about rushing Kappa Beta Gamma, especially after hearing stories about Atlee Paige, the chapter president. She is especially nervous after the party last night, where Jaq got into a conflict on the morality of prostitution with Atlee and made a very persuasive case for the pro argument. While not something Eva would normally get a bad feeling about, the looks she caught Atlee giving Jaq when she thought no one was watching her were venomous and a level of intense she was used to seeing in riot police waiting to get the go-ahead to crack protesters’ skulls. If the rumors about what an evil mastermind Atlee is are even a little true, she’s worried her less-savvy best friend may not see it coming until it’s too late. Eva was especially worried when Jaq disappeared late into the night, not able to find her at all and staying up until, well, this very second, only getting back to their room a few minutes ago to see if she ended up there. Some of this is friendship. Some of this is an extremely serious crush she’s had on Jaq since she met her, but is far too afraid of the consequences of revealing. Eva is petite, cute as a button, and with light brown skin that perfectly accentuates her dark eyes. Her hair is naturally brunette, though a darker shade than it is now with her blonde highlights in, dipping just past her shoulderblades. While her chest would be considered VERY small on someone of an average height, it’s simply about average for her, which is something she has no problem with whatsoever. While tremendously confident about her body and sexuality, Eva is deeply intimidated by genuine romance and tends to go long stretches of commitment broken with equally long stretches of nothing at all. She is, however, far more confident in her wardrobe choices than Jaq. White, oranges, and yellows make up the lion’s share of her colors, usually in daring tops and shorts that fit Northwoods warm weather and even moreso in her native Miami. She is, as of yet, completely blind to the supernatural and focused entirely on real-world events.

Category: Human

Known Allies:

*Jaquelin Lehrer (best friend, crush, roommate)

Known Enemies:

*Jonathan Kralik (freshman in same major, white nationalist, frequent opposition at demonstrations)

*Atlee Paige (Kappa president, suspected complete and total sociopath trying to hurt her girl)