Cameron
- Sabbat -x- Lasombra -x- The Forsaken
Sobriquet: Cameron
Appearance: A thin and stooped little man, with a receding hairline and pronounced widow's peak. Cameron prefers old suits and wide ties. He would look right at home on the set of T.V. show about a 1980s accounting agency, but only as a background character. In a crowd, Cameron is barely noticeable, that is both his curse and a strength he has yet to learn to exploit.
Behavior: Unused to the burdens of leadership, Cameron is afraid to take any steps without authorization from above him in the Sabbat hierarchy. While his hesitancy is a weakness that could in all likelihood get him or the pack killed, he is justified in his fear of the powers-that-be that stand above him in Chicago. The other members of the Forsaken are starting to look down on Cameron for his hesitancy, and while he is petrified of what might happen should he fail as pack leader, he has managed thus far to keep his fears hidden from the pack.
History: Cameron was born, literally, on the streets of New York City. He grew up on the dirty streets of Mott Haven in the Southern Bronx. His mother, a local prostitute, abandoned him when a out-of-town John offered to take her with him to the warmer weather and sun of Miami, she never looked back. At the time, Cameron was only seven and alone on the streets, he quickly took to dumpster diving to survive. Luckily for him, a local pickpocket found him instead of the many chicken-hawks that lurked in the area. Gregor was already a old man, with no family and a long history of petty theft, he took Cameron under his wing and taught him everything he knew. Sadly, the old man only lived a few years more and once again Cameron was on the streets alone.
A quarter century passed and Cameron remained a fixture of New York City, he had moved on from Mott Haven, first to Queens and then Brooklyn. But it seemed like he was destined to live his life and die just as Gregor had, a petty thief. Then, out of the blue or perhaps it was the black, someone more powerful made a crucial decision for him. Molita was the leader of a New York City pack called La Lanza (the spear, as in the Spear of Destiny) and a Lasombra looking to expand her pack and progeny. She chose Cameron after he picked her pocket, of course she beat him nearly to death, but to her surprise, he didn't die, which is when she decided to Embrace him.
After the Embrace, La Lanza put Cameron through the sect's horrible Creation Rites. Somehow he managed to dig his way out of his grave, arising to the surface maddened by the lust for existence -- much to the surprise of his captors, who had not expected him to rise at all. In the years following his selection as cannon-fodder, Cameron has further surprised his fellow Sabbat by surviving everything the world of darkness has thus far thrown at him, up to and including the destruction of his original pack in a mission to Pennsylvania gone sideways. When he returned to New York in 1992, he was given command of a pack of misfits and told to go to Chicago where he would participate in the takeover of the Windy City.
When the newly christened Forsaken arrived in Chicago, Cameron was worried that they would immediately be thrown into the thick of a hastily planned siege. But to his surprise, the Sabbat leadership in the person of Wendy Wade assigned the pack to settling in, keeping a very low profile and made vague promises about sharing the sect's grandiose plans with Cameron when the "time was right". Ten years have passed, and Wade has treated Cameron and the Forsaken like mushrooms, that is -- kept them in the dark and fed them shit. Under normal circumstances this would have caused friction, but Cameron was perfectly happy with the status quo, which permitted him authority and prestige without any real risk.
Unfortunately, those circumstances changed suddenly in the early summer of 2003, when the Forsaken were summoned to a meeting with Wendy Wade and a Sabbat scout from New York. After introductions and pleasantries were dispensed with, Dr.Hall revealed that in the course of his duties in the Big Apple, he had come into possession of valuable and time sensitive information that could lead to the destruction of a Camarilla elder of Chicago. Wendy Wade made it clear that the Sabbat leadership of Chicago saw this a opportunity and the Forsaken were being assigned to aid Dr.Hall in the Wild Hunt of the Malkavian elder Maureen O'Leery.
While displeased with this turn of events, Cameron put on a 'good' face and played along with the plan. Of course, the 'plan' lasted for about thirty seconds after the pack breached O'Leery's haven at the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center and then all hell broke loose. O'Leery caught up with Cameron while he was in shadow-form. To this night, Cameron still doesn't know how she found him or what happened next, one minute he was bypassing her traps and then the crazy old-lady was talking to him, whispering shit into his mind and then everything went black. When he next became aware, the pack had penetrated into O'Leery's inner sanctum and her progeny were closing in, despite his fear, he did everything he could and in the end someone else snatched away O'Leery and drank the crazy old-lady dry. The pack's search led them to the Sheriff's haven and his unconscious form lying next to her corpse. Right then and there, Cameron made the decision to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by spinning the diablerie of O'Leery and Sheriff as a planned outcome of his overall plan, while this strategy has largely succeeded, it did have one unforeseen and unpleasant outcome, the pack gave Dr.Hall the spoils of Sheriff's generation despite Cameron's plan to diablerize the Sheriff himself.
Recent Events: Cameron has been tasked with keeping Dr. Hall 'alive' at all costs. The Sabbat leadership of Chicago suggested taking Dr.Hall and the pack and getting out of town for a while. So, uncertain as to where to go, Cameron has settled on Montreal as a 'safe' destination, but he isn't in a hurry to get there, believing that as soon as the pack settles somewhere he will be challenged to monomancy. His strategy is simple, stay on the run and away from Chicago, keep the pack preoccupied with new scenery and find a way to eliminate the good doctor without taking the blame for his destruction. Cameron isn't aware that he is still under the influence of Maureen O'Leery's powerful, mind altering suggestion and that his actions aren't really his own, but his relatively powerful vinculum to Dr.Hall is creating internal conflict within Cameron as he tries to sort out the 'correct' course of action.
