AGE 27, immortal
HOMETOWN El Segundo, California
SPECIES Gangrel
FAMILY Rudolf and Margot Bader, parents.
LANGUAGE First Language English and Castilian Spanish
OCCUPATION Unemployed
OTHERS Identifies as an ace pansexual
Born Valentine's Day in 1978 to Rudolf and Margot Bader a small second generation French-Armenian family in central California. Deanne enjoyed a blue-collar, uneventful childhood and adolescence until moving to the Los Angeles area after college. Prior to being Embraced, Bader was a beat cop outside of Los Angeles with a bachelors in sociology and public administration under her belt. All with the goal in mind to file out in a few years and work towards her masters her life was all but planned out to the letter. Unfortunately, her tenure as an officer was cut short after only three years after an incident wherein a drug addict she had arrested left her with a thoracic spinal cord injury with a dirty knife.
After recovery and unable to continue running beats, Bader was regulated to desk work. This dead end job left her dissatisfied and embittered with a need to vent in unusual outlets. Pain killers and one night stands became routine and Bader's work suffered for it. With bills piling up and threatened with termination more than once she now a step away from turning into one of the addicts she used to scrape off the streets. Bader then settled to throw caution to the wind and have her last one night stand before getting cleaned up. This proved to be one of the worst mistakes of her life. In a dirty motel just outside the Santa Monica area, a Gangrel vampire Embraced Bader in a moment of impulse.
In vampire society the act of Embracing someone is viewed as sacrosanct so much so that it cannot be done without the approval of the local Camarilla Prince. The Camarilla being the sect of vampires from various clans who impose order on Kindred society to protect themselves from being exposed to humanity with a Prince set to maintain peace over his or her jurisdiction; usually a large city. The act of hiding themselves from the mortal world being known as "the Masquerade." The rules and thereby the Masquerade was broken when Bader had been Embraced without permission of the newly appointed Los Angeles Prince, Sebastian LaCroix.
Already there had been long-standing disquiet among the Los Angeles Kindred. Between Los Angeles having been considered a "free state" by the California Anarchs; a group of vampires who disagree with the Camarilla and believe strongly in the idea of the free-living dead and that the Masquerade is only common sense, the Camarilla arriving unannounced claiming control, the Sabbat moving in; a group of murderous, wild "classic movie villain-type" vampires that ignore the Masquerade entirely and revel in wholesale destruction and disregard for human life, and lastly the Kuei-jin; another race of Undead originating in China seeking to benefit from the chaos and take over the western seaboard for themselves. Bader being thrown into the mix made her the match on the gasoline leak.
When both Bader and her sire were brought before the Camarilla to answer for the crime of an illegal Embrace, Bader was nearly put to death until the leader of the LA Anarchs protested putting both sire and childe to death. LaCroix made the calculated risk and put Bader's sire to death but left Bader alive with the stipulation she work for him to pay the debt of being the product of a Masquerade infraction. Seeing no other options, Bader agreed to the terms and became a fledgling vampire working under the thumb of the Camarilla. Her first few nights were spent learning the ins and outs of Kindred society all the while unraveling the turmoil brewing under the California city streets.
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