Sebastian Ainsworth de Villain - Gangrel

Player Name: Nick Pritchard    

Character Name: Sebastian Ainsworth de Villain

Gangrel Status: 0

Invictus Status: 0

Chicago Status: 0

Notable Merits: None

Notable Flaws: None

Description -
A serious looking man standing 6' 3" with blond hair and blue-grey eyes.  He looks like a man broken by the world, and appears to be carrying around an enormous amount of weight.  

Personality -
Sebastian can be described simply as stoic.  The incredible loss he recently had, has tempered his mood from the previous playboy demeanor he used to carry, replaced by bouts of melancholia and ill temper.  Unknown to the population at large, Sebastian still hears the voices of his family.  They speak to him constantly, providing direction or derision.  Even he doesn't know if they're real, or if he's connected to his dead family on a much deeper level.

History -
Sebastian started his life with the Villain family in 1901 when Lucien and Dove stole away to the Americas.  For the better part of the 20th century, he served as the family driver and groundskeeper.  As the eldest thrall in the family's employee, Lucien negotiated Sebastian's embrace into the Gangrel clan.  Though he spent some time claiming to be Mehket, he quickly became a paragon of the House and the Invictus.  His eventual claim of being Gangrel came as no surprise to the populace, but allowed him to expand the influence of the family into the other clans.  It was a calculated risk that eventually paid off.

Sebastian was quickly recognized as a Groom of animals, and inducted into the Knighthood of the Dark Horse, a loose organization of knights dedicated to rapid response to Invictus threats.  In 2008, while the city was suffering under Carthian control, Sebastian led the Invictus in a coup of the city of Muncie, becoming it's Prince and driving the Carthian's from power.  That night someone snuck onto the Villain estate and burned the manor house to the ground, presumedly with the family inside.  Little did the city know, but the family had planned the whole event.  The city could not stand the rule of the Carthian's another day, nor would it accept the rule of the Villain's again.  So the Villain's removed them both.  

Sebastian returned to Muncie to take his rightful place as Prince of the city.  He put laws into place, solidified his power base, and ultimately was on his way toward gentrifying the city, when the Ball State clock tower exploded.  The exact details of how the tower fell were never really determined, but the amount of attention it's felling brought some unwelcome visitors to the city.  Sebastian fled along with several other members of the city, leaving behind everything.  The resultant retreat cost him more than he'd care to admit.  All of the power, the money, the houses, the cars, everything that made Sebastian, Sebastian, crumbled overnight.  The thing that laid Sebastian low though, was the complete and utter loss of his family.  Again the circumstances surrounding their loss are hazy, but their deaths crushed him.

He now wanders the streets of Chicago, a vagrant and trespasser in one of the true bastions of Invictus power.  A power that he no longer belongs to, for the conquered have no place among the mighty Invictus.

Powers & Skills -
He's an incredibly skilled hunter.   He is well known for his skill with animals, though he displays no affinity for Animalism.  Perhaps his most striking aptitude is with the discipline of Protean, he is truly a master of the discipline.