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'''Appearance:''' Saturnino is one fucking big Brazilian. Naturally he stands over 7 feet, in metric that is over 2 meters tall. He literally towers over all the members of the coterie. His height is matched by his bulky muscular frame. Nino weights a solid 185 kilograms, that is about 410 pounds imperial. The majority of his bulk is muscle, though over the last few years he has started to develop a bit of a paunch as he doesn't have to work so hard for his food. Saturnino looks to be just a touch past his prime, probably in his late thirties. His dark hair has yet to show any sign of turning lighter with age and his naturally swarthy complexion is further darkened by regular exposure to the sun. His face would be considered handsome in a rough, outdoors-man kind of way, but for his cold, dark, hard eyes. In actually, his features are chiseled and his hard angular jaw is covered by a short, but well groomed beard. He has a broad forehead with a thick, almost Roman nose and thick dark eyebrows. Its Nino's teeth that bother most people, as they are fairly crooked and lightly stained, this is a legacy of a childhood without a dentist, which is actually quite common among those who grew up in Rio's various shanty towns. Unlike those other Moredores, Saturnino has never had a cavity in his life, which he owes to his mostly cannibalistic diet. In public Nino wears very expensive tailored suits and handmade leather shoes. In private he has taken to wearing Brazilian military surplus. Most of his civilized touches, like his wardrobe and jewelry are hand picked by his personal assistant who lives in terror of disappointing his employer. | '''Appearance:''' Saturnino is one fucking big Brazilian. Naturally he stands over 7 feet, in metric that is over 2 meters tall. He literally towers over all the members of the coterie. His height is matched by his bulky muscular frame. Nino weights a solid 185 kilograms, that is about 410 pounds imperial. The majority of his bulk is muscle, though over the last few years he has started to develop a bit of a paunch as he doesn't have to work so hard for his food. Saturnino looks to be just a touch past his prime, probably in his late thirties. His dark hair has yet to show any sign of turning lighter with age and his naturally swarthy complexion is further darkened by regular exposure to the sun. His face would be considered handsome in a rough, outdoors-man kind of way, but for his cold, dark, hard eyes. In actually, his features are chiseled and his hard angular jaw is covered by a short, but well groomed beard. He has a broad forehead with a thick, almost Roman nose and thick dark eyebrows. Its Nino's teeth that bother most people, as they are fairly crooked and lightly stained, this is a legacy of a childhood without a dentist, which is actually quite common among those who grew up in Rio's various shanty towns. Unlike those other Moredores, Saturnino has never had a cavity in his life, which he owes to his mostly cannibalistic diet. In public Nino wears very expensive tailored suits and handmade leather shoes. In private he has taken to wearing Brazilian military surplus. Most of his civilized touches, like his wardrobe and jewelry are hand picked by his personal assistant who lives in terror of disappointing his employer. | ||
| − | '''Behavior:''' Saturnino is the primal alpha-male, one that even other alpha's fear. His nature is more akin to those of men during the Stone Age. A pure survivor with the predatory instincts of a life long hunter. He rarely speaks, preferring to watch those who come before him for weakness, which he almost always finds. Yet his technique for manipulating underlings and opponents alike is pure unadulterated intimidation. Nor is this intentional, Saturnino doesn't boast or actually threaten, rather when pressed for | + | '''Behavior:''' Saturnino is the primal alpha-male, one that even other alpha's fear. His nature is more akin to those of men during the Stone Age. A pure survivor with the predatory instincts of a life-long hunter. He rarely speaks, preferring to watch those who come before him for weakness, which he almost always finds. Yet his technique for manipulating underlings and opponents alike is pure unadulterated intimidation. Nor is this intentional, Saturnino doesn't boast or actually threaten, rather when pressed for a response to a given situation he is likely to describe his next actions in grisly detail and by the expression of his face most can tell that he is simple being honest. Then he follows through and the fact that few if any opponents have been able to physically stop him makes him frighteningly bold, such a behavior wouldn't stand long in the politically complex world of the Kindred and only works in the corrupt hothouse atmosphere of Rio de Janeiro's business world with judicious applications of hush money and extra bribes for greedy unethical police. |
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| + | Of late, this pattern of behavior has begun to change, albeit very slowly. This is almost certainly due to his adoption of a vampiric path of enlightenment, the Path of Death and the Soul taught to him by his domitor. While the changes are subtle, the perceptive can detect them. One result of this conversion is a self-corrective mechanism found among the tenets of necronomist philosophy which has forced Saturnino to contemplate his actions logically rather than giving in to wanton urge-indulgence. Self-contemplation has opened the door to self-criticism, introspection the need for a logical life free of the incessant madness that had characterized most of Nino's existence. Thus he is now more likely to contemplate all the repercussions of a violent act before pursuing that tactic. If he finds that it is still warranted, cost-effective or unavoidable, he knows how to proceed. It also means that he is less likely to act on a violent whim because he knows he needs to maintain a facade of public respectability while still having the time to perform a thorough investigation of each and every death. In essence he is now more concerned with the quality of his murders rather than the quantity of them. Illuminated by the intellectual tenets of the necronomist philosophy, Saturnino must face the fact that he has committed literally thousands of murders and that his actions may well have created more than one ghost with whom he will eventually have to contend. A most frightening thought for one who has always assumed that death was the end and that in a confrontation with the angry dead, he is ill prepared to defend himself. For what does physical strength mean to those who can walk through walls and kill you in a dream? | ||
'''History:''' Saturnino Silva was born into a poor and uneducated family of urban dwellers living on the fringes of Rio's slums, in other words, Moradores. He has dim memories of his father and mother who sold him to another family as a slave. His job was to hunt feral pets for the family meal, over time, he became frighteningly proficient at that activity. So much so, that when he was ten, he was sold again to a butcher, who gave him the unpleasant duty of digging through refuse mounds for morsels that could be made into sausage. While Saturnino quickly became proficient at this as well, the butcher beat him for the fun of doing so. When Saturnino reached adolescence, he rebelled rather spectacularly by slaughtering the butcher, chopping him up and grinding him into sausage to be sold the next day. His only regret in this, was that the butcher's death had been so quick, after all, once the deed was done, he knew he wanted to do it again. Over the last twenty years, Saturnino has killed a shocking number of people, not that he has kept track, but he does enjoy his chosen vocation. He moved from one group of Moradores to the next when he gets tired of them and he has eaten more than one group that didn't provide him with sport. He had only been with this most recent group for a few weeks and was already tiring of them, when the vampires showed up. Incidentally, he chose the last name Silva, because he liked the way it sounded when it rhymed with his first name. | '''History:''' Saturnino Silva was born into a poor and uneducated family of urban dwellers living on the fringes of Rio's slums, in other words, Moradores. He has dim memories of his father and mother who sold him to another family as a slave. His job was to hunt feral pets for the family meal, over time, he became frighteningly proficient at that activity. So much so, that when he was ten, he was sold again to a butcher, who gave him the unpleasant duty of digging through refuse mounds for morsels that could be made into sausage. While Saturnino quickly became proficient at this as well, the butcher beat him for the fun of doing so. When Saturnino reached adolescence, he rebelled rather spectacularly by slaughtering the butcher, chopping him up and grinding him into sausage to be sold the next day. His only regret in this, was that the butcher's death had been so quick, after all, once the deed was done, he knew he wanted to do it again. Over the last twenty years, Saturnino has killed a shocking number of people, not that he has kept track, but he does enjoy his chosen vocation. He moved from one group of Moradores to the next when he gets tired of them and he has eaten more than one group that didn't provide him with sport. He had only been with this most recent group for a few weeks and was already tiring of them, when the vampires showed up. Incidentally, he chose the last name Silva, because he liked the way it sounded when it rhymed with his first name. | ||
Revision as of 00:26, 23 June 2015
Sobriquet: Nino. (a diminutive of his given name and one he doesn't allow anyone but Brenda to use without exacting his pound of flesh)
Appearance: Saturnino is one fucking big Brazilian. Naturally he stands over 7 feet, in metric that is over 2 meters tall. He literally towers over all the members of the coterie. His height is matched by his bulky muscular frame. Nino weights a solid 185 kilograms, that is about 410 pounds imperial. The majority of his bulk is muscle, though over the last few years he has started to develop a bit of a paunch as he doesn't have to work so hard for his food. Saturnino looks to be just a touch past his prime, probably in his late thirties. His dark hair has yet to show any sign of turning lighter with age and his naturally swarthy complexion is further darkened by regular exposure to the sun. His face would be considered handsome in a rough, outdoors-man kind of way, but for his cold, dark, hard eyes. In actually, his features are chiseled and his hard angular jaw is covered by a short, but well groomed beard. He has a broad forehead with a thick, almost Roman nose and thick dark eyebrows. Its Nino's teeth that bother most people, as they are fairly crooked and lightly stained, this is a legacy of a childhood without a dentist, which is actually quite common among those who grew up in Rio's various shanty towns. Unlike those other Moredores, Saturnino has never had a cavity in his life, which he owes to his mostly cannibalistic diet. In public Nino wears very expensive tailored suits and handmade leather shoes. In private he has taken to wearing Brazilian military surplus. Most of his civilized touches, like his wardrobe and jewelry are hand picked by his personal assistant who lives in terror of disappointing his employer.
Behavior: Saturnino is the primal alpha-male, one that even other alpha's fear. His nature is more akin to those of men during the Stone Age. A pure survivor with the predatory instincts of a life-long hunter. He rarely speaks, preferring to watch those who come before him for weakness, which he almost always finds. Yet his technique for manipulating underlings and opponents alike is pure unadulterated intimidation. Nor is this intentional, Saturnino doesn't boast or actually threaten, rather when pressed for a response to a given situation he is likely to describe his next actions in grisly detail and by the expression of his face most can tell that he is simple being honest. Then he follows through and the fact that few if any opponents have been able to physically stop him makes him frighteningly bold, such a behavior wouldn't stand long in the politically complex world of the Kindred and only works in the corrupt hothouse atmosphere of Rio de Janeiro's business world with judicious applications of hush money and extra bribes for greedy unethical police.
Of late, this pattern of behavior has begun to change, albeit very slowly. This is almost certainly due to his adoption of a vampiric path of enlightenment, the Path of Death and the Soul taught to him by his domitor. While the changes are subtle, the perceptive can detect them. One result of this conversion is a self-corrective mechanism found among the tenets of necronomist philosophy which has forced Saturnino to contemplate his actions logically rather than giving in to wanton urge-indulgence. Self-contemplation has opened the door to self-criticism, introspection the need for a logical life free of the incessant madness that had characterized most of Nino's existence. Thus he is now more likely to contemplate all the repercussions of a violent act before pursuing that tactic. If he finds that it is still warranted, cost-effective or unavoidable, he knows how to proceed. It also means that he is less likely to act on a violent whim because he knows he needs to maintain a facade of public respectability while still having the time to perform a thorough investigation of each and every death. In essence he is now more concerned with the quality of his murders rather than the quantity of them. Illuminated by the intellectual tenets of the necronomist philosophy, Saturnino must face the fact that he has committed literally thousands of murders and that his actions may well have created more than one ghost with whom he will eventually have to contend. A most frightening thought for one who has always assumed that death was the end and that in a confrontation with the angry dead, he is ill prepared to defend himself. For what does physical strength mean to those who can walk through walls and kill you in a dream?
History: Saturnino Silva was born into a poor and uneducated family of urban dwellers living on the fringes of Rio's slums, in other words, Moradores. He has dim memories of his father and mother who sold him to another family as a slave. His job was to hunt feral pets for the family meal, over time, he became frighteningly proficient at that activity. So much so, that when he was ten, he was sold again to a butcher, who gave him the unpleasant duty of digging through refuse mounds for morsels that could be made into sausage. While Saturnino quickly became proficient at this as well, the butcher beat him for the fun of doing so. When Saturnino reached adolescence, he rebelled rather spectacularly by slaughtering the butcher, chopping him up and grinding him into sausage to be sold the next day. His only regret in this, was that the butcher's death had been so quick, after all, once the deed was done, he knew he wanted to do it again. Over the last twenty years, Saturnino has killed a shocking number of people, not that he has kept track, but he does enjoy his chosen vocation. He moved from one group of Moradores to the next when he gets tired of them and he has eaten more than one group that didn't provide him with sport. He had only been with this most recent group for a few weeks and was already tiring of them, when the vampires showed up. Incidentally, he chose the last name Silva, because he liked the way it sounded when it rhymed with his first name.
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