Hanamatsu, Toreador Primogen

[zamara]

Name: Hanamatsu ("enduring flower")
Nick Names or Alias: Masami ("gracious beauty")
Age: 352
Aesthetic Age: 16
Gender: Female
Sexual Preferances: Bi-Sexual
LClan: Toreador
If Other..:

Sect: Camarilla
If Independant Faction..:

Rank: Primogen
Generation: 8th
Powers (Disciplines):

Auspex ***** *
Presence *****
Celerity ***
Obfuscate ***
Dominate **

Deformities:

Derangement(s):

Misc.:

*Iron Will
*Can eat and drink human food

Hanamatsu is a master of various traditional Japanese dance styles. However, she also knows some about kendo (Japanese sword fighting) and tessenjutsu (a martial art in which fans are used), admiring both for their artistry.

Appearance:

Is very young in appearance. She has been 16 for so long that it is rather annoying her, so she will often makeup her face to look more mature. Other than that, her eyes are blue (a clue to her Dutch ancestry--though she'll never admit it) and her hair is black. She is of average height (though she was rather tall in feudal Japan).

Fashion Sense/Style:

Alternates between the bleeding edge of fashion and traditional Japanese kimono (old kimono hand-dyed and worth tens of thousands of dollars each, not the cheap knockoffs of today). To disguise her youthful appearance (which sometimes embarrasses her because few will take her seriously), she will often put white makeup on her face in the traditional style of the geisha. She will sometimes have ornaments and flowers in her hair.

Personality:

Creative and sensual. She is less fickle than other Toreadors (though that doesn't say much) and has a keen mind that finds beauty in theoretical physics and higher math in addition to the traditional arts of painting, poetry, dance, etc. She is an active person who does not like to sit still. (Which is why she still does dance performances even today.) She is rather impatient (especially with her dance students and other underlings).

Physical-Strength: 6
Intelligence: 13
Speed: 10
Leadership: 10
Melee: 12
Unarmed: 7
Ranged: 5
History:

1658 - 1674

Sato Masami was born in 1658 to the half-gaijin (half-white) daughter of a minor noblewoman and a Dutch trader. She was born into poverty, scorned by the community for her "dirty blood." Still, through it all, she had her mother to tell her she was beautiful. She grew obsessed with her beauty. If no one would ever like her, then they would envy her.


1675 :
She became a prostitute at the age of sixteen to support her ailing mother. But during the next year, everything would change when a Dutchman found her family and called her mother "daughter." This terrified Masami, as the man looked no older than 20--young enough to be her mother's son.

The Dutchman, Jan, was a vampire. He offered to make both women immortal as a way of atoning for abandoning his wife and daughter so long ago.

Masami's mother refused and attacked the vampire with a cooking knife. He killed her, and in the heat of the moment, made Masami a vampire by force.

When she awoke, she drained a farmer dry. Upon regaining her senses, she spat at her maker and swore to kill him for murdering her mother. Jan left, never to return, and Masami traveled Japan to start a new life.


1797-1935:

Bored of her role as a tayuu-oiran (high class prostitute), she decided to embrace the new "geisha" artistic movement. Slowly but surely, young women were learning the drums and shamisen, and even dance, and performing them in front of audiences. The idea of women artists was a scandalous one, and Masami embraced it. After a hundred years of life, she was itching for a way to make her mark on the world.

Masami was one of the first female geisha. She took the name Hanako (flower girl) and learned the art of dancing. Her traditional white makeup kept her unaging face concealed for over a decade, when she faked her death and masqueraded as her protege, Hanasumi (refined flower). She continued in this tradition throughout the years, taking occasional breaks from the "Hana" line of geisha to allay suspicion.

Along the way, she helped create the Inoue school of dance (having known the original Inoue), a style that would grow famous as a geisha trademark.


1936:

After the carnage of World War I and recent militarization of Japanese society, Masami grew concerned. Once again, she became a geisha (Hanaoko -- honorable flower), hoping to woo the men in power so that she could learn just how much trouble Japan was in (and to stop it, if she could).

But the war happened, and with it, the atomic bomb. The sheer destruction of it horrified her, vampire though she was. (The very idea of radiation makes her squeamish to this day--she has no idea if it has effected her in some way. Though she was not close to Hiroshima or Nagasaki at the time, she fed on some people whose blood had a strange taint to it...)

After existing listlessly for a few decades in postwar Japan, she decided to leave. Some fellow vampires convinced her to go to Europe, then America, following various trends of the art world. Masami was skeptical of America at first, but as she studied the artists, dancers, and writers of this new land, she grew more sympathetic.


Present Day:

She now lives in New York, seeing it as a shining center of the art world. She still has a geisha alter-ego (Hanamidori, green flower) that she uses to dance publicly, but she has chosen a new name for the vampires of New York to call her by--Hanamatsu, the flower that will never die.

It was by this name that she made a name for herself in Toreador society, putting on art shows and opening a dance school in New York. She also arranged for two of her ghouls, both martial artists, to train other Toreadors to appreciate a new form of art.

After these students had altercations with some arrogant Brujah--and triumphed, no less--Hanamatsu attracted the notice of other Toreador elders. Eventually, when the Toreador primogen stepped down (he wanted a century to pen his "magnum opus"), she was voted the new primogen.

Most Toreador seemed pleased with her work, though she is very new to the task. There is some controversy about her love of the martial arts, which is seen by some as "militant." But she has seen many wars and knows the dangers of complacency. She hopes that the Toreador do not fall into the same trap as her beloved pre-war Japan.

[Iota]

you'll have to talk to Ironwolf, he already has a toreador primogen WIP

[zamara]

Just PMed him, thanks. :-)

[Kiala]

[IronWolf]

I believe Iota has asked you to expand on how Hanamatsu
became Primogen, so I'll wait to hear from you on that. :]

[IronWolf]

THOU HAST BEEN

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