Bardou



Only half-civilized, Bardou has ended up in the group of Cynthia and her protectors. They're known to be skilled in creating and controlling Hellhounds, and to maintain 4 of them - a pair of pitbulls, a panther, and an alligator. Bardou doesn't use a last name, and will say nothing about their mortal family except that they were swamp hillbillies, and they don't miss 'em.

Personal Information
Default Appearance: Bardou appears to be about 5'8" tall, wiry and androgynous, maybe 20, and has heavily freckled light skin, dark-hazel eyes, and straight dirty-blond hair with deep green streaks to past their shoulders. They wear jeans and plain tees nearly exclusively, a pair of basic Vans in the city and a pair of duckboots in the swamp, and wear their hair either loose or in a simple ponytail. Their only ornament is a pendant made of a quartz crystal set into an empty bullet casing, hung on a length of ball-chain. There's something deeply feral in their eyes, equal parts skittish and predatory [Obvious Predator]. Long, thin scars run down the outside of each of their forearms.

However, Bardou is skilled enough with Vicissitude to appear however they choose, changing their gender presentation, apparent age, coloring, height, build, and even voice as suits their immediate needs with no more than a moment's thought. They've shown the ability to mimic the appearance and voice of others. The marks on the outside of their forearms aren't really scars at all, but hidden openings where bone blades can swing out from their wrists [Bonecraft modification: Body Weaponry].

Zulo Form: When Bardou uses Horrid Form, their arms and legs elongate and thin into a shape as much feline as human, with a thick tail to provide balance given their newly digitigrade feet. Their fingers extend to be claws as long and cruel as any Gangrel's, and chitinous spikes grow from hip and shoulder, the peak of the long ankle-bones, the forearm where the armblades are in their normal shape, and along their spine from neck to tail-tip. Their face distorts into an almost canine maw full of dagger-sharp teeth, the head crowned impossibly with horns. The entire surface of their skin is covered with a seamless mix of crocodilian scales and chitin, all in shades of the same swamp green that they've taken to using in their hair lately.... but their eyes are now glowing golden with slit pupils, and their hair a flowing mane of green and dark gold. They're also intimidating as fuck, and pushing 8 feet tall even in their half-crouched ready stance. [Charisma focus: Opponents whose current Willpower is less than Bardou's, including NPCs with no Willpower rating, suffer a -2 penalty when attacking them with Melee- or Brawl-based powers.]

Personality: Bardou has quite clearly never really learned how to be a normal human being; they talk to animals in barks and growls and sniff the air like it's perfectly normal behavior, but act uneasy around crowds. Their speech patterns and badly-spelled scrawl betray a severe educational deficit. They're fiercely protective toward Cynthia and Amita, however, and for their sake are at least trying to act more human.

Hellcritters
All Hellhounds - or as Bardou refers to them when not talking about solely dogs, "Hellcritters" - are animal ghouls who have been further modified with Vicissitude.

Crusher and Killer are a pair of over-muscled but well-behaved male pitbulls who accompany Bardou nearly everywhere. Besides the unusual but plausible muscles, they have a mutation that doesn't normally show - their jaws can open much further than normal, revealing extra teeth.

Ghost is a Carolina panther who Bardou usually only brings on missions in the swamp or other wild areas. While she appears fairly normal - when you can see her at all, as like most of her species, she's rather skittish and very stealthy - she's even more flexible than felines normally are, capable of squirming out of nearly any grip.

Log is a large alligator with even heavier plating on his back than normal. Bardou only ever brings him along for missions in the swamp or sewers, though he resides in a culvert outside the House of Nyx's place.

Timeline

 * Circa 1970-73: born to REDACTED
 * circa 1990: runs off to live in the deep Everglades alone
 * Circa 2009-12: found by Theodosius Granitely of the Koldun and Embraced, but ends up Caitiff, and is handed off to Bishop Veru's pack.
 * Within the year: initiated as True Sabbat
 * 2015: Follows Alicia Cortez and Veru in defecting to the Camarilla
 * 2016: Flees Miami with them
 * 2020: Defects to the Anarchs with Veru
 * 2021: Returns to Miami with Veru
 * Early 2022: Forms the House of Nyx with Cynthia, the three Fury Sisters, Amita, and Emily.

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