Gordon Cake
London / Ventrue / Knights of the World Tree
Appearance: A burly, athletic man in his late forties. Gordon has a short coif of wavy black hair, brown eyes, and a few well-placed scars.
Background: When a child's name is Gordon Cake, he is either the goat or the alpha on the playground. Gordon's father, a veteran of Normandy Beach, ensured that he had the skills to be the alpha. His mother ensured that he had the mindset to use the position without abusing it. Gordon grew into a star athlete and ladies man before volunteering for England's armed forces himself.
Sergeant Cake had a long and distinguished career, but found himself discharged without a pension at the end of England's civil war. Without much else experience, he gravitated toward security work, and thus found himself the leader of a small platoon of soldiers working "aggressive security" for a retired politician who was supposed to be dead, Thorton Bryant. When Thorton joined forces with a band of fellow "reformists," some of whom were extremely shady, Mr. Cake found himself desperately trying to integrate their various security forces into an effective whole. So it was that he was inside the group's abandoned factory fortress coordinating troop movements the night that most of the combined force was massacred in what the group's leaders considered a resounding victory. The next night, he was inducted into greater mysteries as the group decided it needed more useful expendables.
