Name: Melissa Crofter
Generation: 6th
Appearance:
Clan: Toreador
Disciplines: Presence, Celerity, Auspex
Personality: Melissa is an artist, a musician, and a connoisseur of both. She enjoys getting to use her creative impulses and seeing what others both kine and kindred have created. She is a dreamer and her head is firmly fixed in the clouds most of the time. She likes to style herself as a visionary instead and has all sorts of plans for beautification changes to the world and Los Angeles now.
Melissa is easy to get along with if she is not bored. But if she is bored she never has the patience for conversations. There are days when she goes about lost in her music and imagination for hours at a time. Even though she is a bit airy she has a strong presence and her beauty, vision, and artistic skill draw others to her.
Biography: Melissa was a young woman in Annapolis Maryland in the 1790s. She was a gifted musician and singer and her favorite instrument was the harp. She did not come from a wealthy family and so when a wealthy man offered to be her patron she accepted without thinking. He wooed her with praises and rewards that swept her off her feet and into his arms in a storm that she did not understand.
Then he embraced her and Melissa’s mortal life was over. Her sire was kind to her and his attraction had not faded when she became one of the kindred. He was her guide in navigating the world of the kindred. She loved the world of seductive shadows and inhuman beauty and she was happier with her new life than she ever was before.
Her sire was killed in a Sabbat attack on the city and she was left adrift. Melissa had not been on her own before but the city was full of contacts she had made through her sire’s influence. She did okay by herself until she left the city with some companions. She planned to tour the world but only toured part of it. Melissa spent time in Greece and Italy before coming back to the States.
She found Annapolis stale and moved looking for a place she could make fit her vision. She wanted a clean slate and she picked a city in central California named Burbank. Melissa ended up in charge because no one else wanted a territory so close to the Anarchs of Los Angeles.
When the Camarilla installed LaCroix in Los Angeles she knew it was going to end badly. When the situation exploded she patted herself on the back and waited for the dust to settle. Melissa has always longed to be in control of a cultural center and she sees this as her chance. She left behind a loyal follower to be regent in Burbank and has moved into Los Angeles as the new and official Camarilla Prince.