Solomon Brink - Ventrue / Unaligned

Player Name: Daniel Y.

Character Name: Solomon Kenneth Brink

Clan Status:
Ventrue (1)

Notable Merits:
Lineage (1) : The Dollmakers, Purpeyors of Personal Pets
City Status (0) : Barely Acknowledged

Notable Conditions: None

Description:
Whisper-thin, the scrawny boy’s eyes move like quicksilver. His fingers fidget and twitch nervously: curling around coins, tracing along crumbling walls, threading through his dusty, golden-brown hair. Often, Brink can be seen toying with a wooden modeling figurine, posing its limbs and legs just so. The kid seems never to be comfortable sitting still, as though eager to escape his own skin - and climb into someone else’s.

Personality:
With a swift tongue and sharp mind, Solomon is keenly observant and inquisitive. Yet as his name suggests, he always seems on the brink of snapping: not snapping like a branch, but like a nun’s bloodied ruler. He is a person who measures things precisely, whose sense of security hinges on knowing. 

History:
Beneath a ghastly, harlequin patchwork of stolen memories, there is one certainty about Solomon: he always loved dolls.

Since he was a toddler, he would play with his sisters' toys, and always-always-always in secret. Solomon loved the silken texture of their hair, the soft plastic beneath his little fingers, the clothes he would cut for them from brittle paper scraps. He was utterly fascinated by his tatterdemalion creations, by the lives they lived when he wasn't watching: lives of such glamour, such escape. How he hungered for that freedom - to put on a different skin, and become a different person just by putting on new clothes. How he wished to be free from the savage banality of Hyde Park, and the unspoken truths he could never breathe. 

Over the years, his sisters left home, left him. His dad left first, then Izzy and Renee, but he stayed with mom. Him alone. Just him. Everyone else abandoned her, left her, left him, but he would not run away, would not leave her behind the picket fence. He will never leave her. Until he does.

Transformed by the Blood, he knows that he has no choice: he will create his dolls, and some will be wonderful. But some will be naughty or boring, And those will go to the attic.

Powers & Skills:
Solomon is reputed to be a Dollmaker, a blood-curdling Ventrue lineage that has offered its exquisite artwork to the Second City since the turn of the last century. Crafting raw humans into fully customized dolls, Solomon crafts human toys of the finest quality.