birdie

      Above almost everything else, Birdie has always wanted to be liked, to be loved, even, by the right people and for the right things. She's got a quick wit and a pleasant sense of humor on top of her supernaturally good voice, which she uses to charm people that interest her as much as she can. While in life this left her running in circles, chasing her own ambitions and other's approval, in death she's chasing connection of all kinds from the stage -- fans, friends, lovers. When she doesn't find it, or it sours, she can (usually) just move on to another city to try again.
      It means that she'll be the one that's always up for a good time, flirtatious and entertaining, willing and able to hand out sympathies but constantly existing in a space where she's performing for an audience and waiting for the applause. It also means she can be sullen and manipulative, consciously or not, in an attempt to keep the attention and keep it positive even when she's fucked up. And, when she's really fucked up, she has no reservations about being petty and vindictive if she can justify it to herself.
      While she has a difficult time now making those connections with humans because of her general disconnect from life after so many decades, her trouble with Kindred has always been that those relationships are plagued by ego, politics, and paranoia.
      Her most consistent loyalty in death is to the Sisters of her bloodline, the Daughters of Cacophony, and to music. Regardless of any other problems or goals of her own, she will prioritize her Sisters, and she will sing almost compulsively. Sometimes even when the situation doesn't call for it.

      At first glance, Birdie is pretty but unassuming. Dark hair with blunt bangs, simple and vintage-ish clothes, average height.
      Her hair usually has braids, large plaits or smaller ones pulling her hair back from her face. Maybe the occasional headband fashioned to look like daisies, for the hippie aesthetic of it all. She prefers long, dangling earrings, simple clothes that have the distinct look of being 'vintage,' and through a modern lens might be called 'twee.' For performances, she's in dresses and tights with her hair up. For everyday, it's much more casual -- jeans or slacks, boots, button ups and blouses and old t-shirts she's picked up throughout her life.
      Given that she's dead, though, some might notice she's paler than she ought to be even though she covers it with makeup when she can and can use Blush of Life when that's not enough. Sometimes her movements are unnatural -- too quick, or too still. Other times she'll hum a shapeless tune to herself.

      For the mundane, she has an exceptional mezzo-soprano singing voice, and she can play guitar and piano. But she's not exactly mundane.
      Birdie is a vampire, and that comes with many of the usual tropes: Immortality, to a point; the ability to supernaturally heal herself; the need to drink blood; will absolutely catch fire and die in the sun; etc. (See here for all the details.) Vampires also have Disciplines that are typically specific to their clan or bloodline, and Birdie's main discipline is Melpominee. These powers are specifically tied to her voice and cannot be duplicated or broadcast electronically. Birdie's particular skill-set in this discipline includes things like throwing her voice (both to anywhere within sight, and to a single person she is familiar with wherever they are regardless of distance), projecting a feeling in her audience through song, or mesmerizing them, and potentially driving someone mad with it.

Melpominee: The Missing Voice; Phantom Speaker; Toreador's Bane; Madrigal

Presence: Awe; Dread Gaze; Entrancement

Fortitude: Resilience; Unswayable Mind; Toughness