Arnaud

Paris -P- Toreador

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Sobriquet: Arnoud

Appearance:

Hair: brown

Height: 1m68

Apparent Age: 15

Eyes: brown

Weight: 60Kg

Behavior:

History: Arnaud was an obscure dressmaker apprentice who worked for a cynical and jealous master. Soon, his talent was recognized by the clientelle, and the master hid the young boy, telling him his works were almost, but that he needed to work more... The young, well fed, but closed in a chamber, could only agree.

The problem is that his art attracted the attention of the Kindred. At first, a Ventrue (who would disappear later in the 1789 revolution) took the master as his ghoul, and made the Toreador jealous. It was Villon, at Beatrix's demand, who investigated, and found how the master created his art. Villon appeared to the young Arnaud, and told him he would free him if he could create in secret ten dresses in less than one month. Of course, the teenager, charmed by the stranger, worked hard to create the dresses. And of course, Villon knew that so little time for so much work would only let him make less-than-creative clothes.

In the end of the month, Villon came back, and saw the ten set of clothes, and even in so little time, they had some trace of imagination in them. Villon took him from the grasp of the master, and took him to Beatrix. The Ventrue, oblivious of the true identity of the boy, never reacted when Villon, asked the right to Embrace him, some even gossiping about the homosexual tendancies of the ex-Anarch, who visibly felt in love with a fifteen year-old teen.

The Toreador only smiled, criticizing the newly fashioned clothes of the Ventrue, done à la va vite, with inspiration but little regard for those who would wear them. The Ventrue first thought it was typical Toreador jealousy, but asked their ghouled fashion-master... Arnaud saw with a perverse pleasure his master destroyed as he had to explain his masters how he had enslaved the boy and taken all the merits. Since that time, the Ventrue started to lose the track of fashion...

Arnaud, now feeling powerful, and masterless, began to alternate periods of furious creations and periods of lazyness, where he could indulge in his repressed hobby: Seducing female mortals into his bed (and under his fangs!), thus acquiring a confortable herd.

But during the revolution, he met Francesca. The Lasombra Antitribu Elder was hiding from the Sabbat. It was love at first sight. For Francesca, Arnaud was refreshing by his apparent youth, which shone even in his Toreador soul. For Arnaud, Francesca was older than he, fascinating, beautiful, and perhaps, excited his Oedipus Complex...

As Francesca was searching for protection, he offered his, and even his Sire's, François Villon. Villon didn't seem overhappy to see a Lasombra asking him protection. In fact, just because she was Lasombra, and had been Sabbat, he would have ordered her destroyed at once. But his Childe was deeply in love with her so he accepted, to the condition Francesca would remain hidden, and would not interfere in Paris' affairs, and to the condition she would reveal all she knew about the Sabbat ways. So the raven-haired Francesca became the blonde Carla.

But after less than a century, Arnaud had grow up. Francesca, while still beautiful and friendly, was not fascinating anymore. And her mastery of Obtenebration made the Arnaud shiver. And last but not least, Arnaud was feeling attracted to other female Kindred.

Until the begining of the 1980's years, he kept his wishes to himself, knowing both Francesca and Villon would highly disapprove. But he was but a Toreador, and Loving the same person for two centuries was too much for anyone with a sane mind.

It is whispered in the dark corners of the Cour the chaste Arnaud was now hunting. And his first victim could have well been Elle, for a brief but passionate week. Since then, while Arnaud still keeps the appearance, and Carla keeps her anger to herself. But lately, Arnaud seemed interested in a Bâtarde called Catherine. This Cinderella's love affairs are unknown, and her exact relation with Arnaud are no much more known. But the fact Carla remains most of the time at home (of course, she avoids mirrors!), while Arnaud continues to frequent the Cour doesn't help stopping the gossip..

Recent Events: Arnaud is a very important Kindred of Paris as he is not called the Grand Couturier for nothing: The greatest chef d'oeuvres in the Art of Fashion were created by him, and somtimes even adapted by mortal creators to appear in the world fashion. Some Toreador like to say the most beautiful models in the world are not the most famous, but are kept by Arnaud as his Herd (the famous were rejected because of flaws...). In the same way, he is the Keeper of the Elysium, and most probably the first Kindred officially seen by any vampire arriving in Paris. Last but not least, he is the master of the parisian Atrium, the Club Elysée, in one of the most famous avenues of the world: The Champs Elysées.

His relation with Francesca is cooling, as he looks for the change the Lasombra Elder, despite her italian passion, can't offer to him. While he still loves her, it is more in a friendly way than in the passionate way Francesca would like him to feel... But such is the Toreador way...

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