Shug Dunsirn

Giovanni -x- Sizwe Ghiberti -x- Venice -x- Beirut

Sobriquet: The Voice (as in the voice of reason - respectful). Salt, a reference to his partnership with Sizwe Ghiberti (rude).

Appearance: Shug is a skinny little man. If he stood up straight, he would stand about five-foot-five inches tall. He leans forward in a persistent slouch and ducks his head, both of which are now centuries deep bad habits. Shug came to the proxy kiss and the Embrace later in life. His unkempt ginger hair is heavily shot with gray and still shows the signs of his last haircut in the latter seventeenth century, for it appears as if a bowl was applied to his head (which it was) and all the hair that stuck out beneath was trimmed away, but not with any real skill or enthusiasm. His eyes are a watery blue-gray, like an overcast sky reflected in a highland loch. The other prominent feature of his face is his nose, which splits his face in half, almost like a beak. His lips are thin and he rarely smiles, as that would show off his stained and crooked teeth. Shug looks like nothing so much as a hungover drunk after an all-night bender. He was Embraced with a couple days worth of stubble on his cheeks and chin and he cultivates a layer of thin hair on his upper lip that he calls a mustache. If given the choice, he dresses in denim work pants, an undershirt covered by a flannel cardigan with his clan designed worked into the pattern and good leather boots. When pressed, he will shave and go to mortal hair-stylists, who he dominates to compliment him on how he looks in the latest style applied to his ginger-gray mess of hair. And if he must go to Elysium, he will wear the best off-the-rack suits available and grit his teeth for hours over their cost. In short, Shug would not stand out to the mortals that saw him, an older Caucasian man with fading red hair and a sad air about him, there are literally millions of men like him walking the grimier streets of the western world.

Behavior: Shug is a difficult man to get to know, partially because he travel's so much, but more so because he trusts only his partner Sizwe. Threats and violence are part and parcel of the bounty hunter's trade, but Shug uses them with a tactical finesse that has made his team the number one retrieval service of Clan Giovanni for the last two centuries. Shug is best known for critical thinking and tactical assessment of targets. His modus operandi is simple: show the mark what he or she expects to see and come at them from an oblique angle. He doesn't enjoy making threats, inflicting pain or physical violence; they are just tools in his toolbox and his business, its good to have a big toolbox. Rather, he always has three primary goals when carrying out a job: take the fewest risks possible, capture the target quickly and ensure swift, but appropriate compensation. From Shug's point of view commerce is the single most enlightened activity that man or vampire can take up, because it forces those who wish to make a profit to live by a contract. Whether a social contract or a business contract, Shug has the highest respect for the law and he does his best to uphold the laws of men and vampires as he goes about his business. Its ironic that a bounty hunter should have these points of view, but because of his unique stance on these subjects, Shug has a good reputation with vampiric princes the world over and there are even a couple of Camarilla justicar's with his number in their Rolodex. Abundans cautela non nocet.

History: They say that it is lucky to be the seventh son of a seventh son, they lied.

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