I appreciate all your opinions and completely understand your feelings about the family issue, as I have founded a lineage myself. Unfortunately, I have only been able to watch from the sideline for the past 2 years, as I was killed off 3 games in for OOC reasons, and I continue to mentor the line as best I can.
Regardless, I have been without a character since January and have been without inspiration for some time. I have never been part of a bloodline before, so I began pouring through the books and came upon a bloodline whose personal style interested me. This was the Sangiovanni. I liked the loyalty to family, clan, and covenant. The hitch however, is that I didn't wish to be identified and stereotyped by my local players as a Sangiovanni, particularly given the supposed canon responses of other Kindred ostracizing the bloodline. As well as the typical Camarilla responses of "Hey, we can use your ghouls for part (a) of the plan, and my wonky powers for part (b).", or "If you're a San Giovanni, aren't you supposed to be like this...", or portraying my character to others as some over-sexed necrophile without the possibility of simply having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses. My original idea was to be a part of the mortal family who was embraced by the family, but reading the Haven section of the bloodline write-up on pg. 68 of Bloodlines: The Chosen, I didn't want to be a pure Italian from Venice. So I looked at the section that says, "Anyone who bears both the Sangiovanni blood and name is welcome there, but the family is infamous for turning away or simply destroying 'double bloods' -- members of the bloodline who are not verifiable members of the family -- who show up on their doorstep." That looked like a viable option that would still allow me to create a character concept I was interested in playing. The write-up also talks about American Sangiovanni on page 67, thus I also saw that as an option. To try and solve issues with metagaming or stereotyping, and possibly the 'double blood' concept I simply wished to assume a second identity in public. Though I could still be a faithful Sangiovanni, who supports the family above all else. The other issue I still have however, is that I don't go to open IRC games and I don't really do private IRC scenes frequently. I didn't want to make others feel like I was trying to become a Sangiovanni just for the Cattiveria discipline, and I don't appreciate the mass reprimand. If anyone is still willing to talk to me (constructively) about creating a Sangiovanni, I'm still interested, whether it's in family or avusing for whatever reason. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Sangiovanni Wiki can be found at www.san-giovanni.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ooc-sangiovanni" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ooc-sangiovanni?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
