Name:Malice N. Wonderland Tradition: Nephandi (Widderslainte)

Social: Charisma (4) Manipulation (4) Appearance (3)

Mental: Perception (4) Intelligence (3) Wits (3)

Character: Nature-Avant Garde Demeanor-Creep Show Essence-Dyanmic

Skills: Disguise(2) Drive (1) Firearms(1) Melee(2) Haggling(3) High Ritual(3) Meditation(2) Music(4) Networking(2) Performance(4) Photography(4)

Knowledge: Academics(3) Anthropology(2) Art History(3) Law(2) Linguistics(3) Literature(3) Media(3) Psychology(2) Alchemy(2) Astrology(2) Cosmology(3) Enigmas(2) Occult(3) Infernal lore(3) Sabbat lore(2) Underworld lore(3)

Backgrounds:Allies(4) Avatar(3) Influence(1) Library(2) Mentor(3) Node(1) Resources(4) Contacts(4)

Arete:3 Willpower:7

Merits:Unshockable,Blasé, Enchanting voice, Entertainment ties, Media ties, arts community ties, Theater, Lawyer,

Flaws:Repulsive to animals,Sadistic,Sensation Junkie,Vainglorious,Thirst for innocence, Deathsight,Bizarre hunger (human flesh)

Other Notes:Malice's Infernal investments are as follows: Luciferian Charm (reduce all social diff's by 4) Shameful sight (enables the Infernalist to divine a targets most shameful secret with a successful per+occult roll.)

Appearance:Middling tall with wide brown eyes that seem to see everything. Malice has shorn off his blond hair down to a quarter inch. Malice is extremely and unhealthily thin. There is not an ounce of fat on him. Malice often adorns himself with piercing of an extreme nature. he has only just started tattooing. he has a sharp hawklike nose and thin lips.

Clothing Tendencies:When performing, Malice will try on any kind of clothing and carry it off. when relaxing, he'll generally opt for butt less chaps and a black vest with no shirt.

Known to: Certain art obsessed supernaturals, has created a cozy professional relationship with the inimitable Jayne Jonestown (C.F. Children of the Night) who occasionally plays the theater when he's in town. is trying to create a similar relationship with Masaki Keiko (C.F. Devil Tigers)

Ongoing Projects:Always at work on some artistic project or another. 

Circle and Influence:Is beginning to create a major stir in the media and in the Art world as a kind of eminence grise for jaded artistic sensibilities.He is beginning to find fans among Toreador and Toreador Antitribu.

House:Possesses a huge loft style apartment which is decorated with fluorescent paint and black lights. can be extremely disorienting. The apartment has lots of mirrors and also has a storage freezer which used to belong to Jeffrey Dauhmer. (this freezer is a node) Has 2-6 people(of varying species) crashing in it at any given time.

Library:Possesses a middling sized library in his studio. This library is devoted to psychology,anthropology, religious texts and other more esoteric texts. Some of these are trapped.

Mentor:Montreche

Quintessence source:aside from his freezer, is working on ways to harvest Quintessence from his patrons. thankfully he does not possess the necessary knowledge of Prime... yet.

Magickal style :Rarely acts openly. things just seem to go wrong around him.(helped along by Entropy and Mind of course) While working in his theater will often allow the props to do most of the work. has learned the art of short term magickal items made with Prime 2 and exploits this ruthlessly. If things get ugly, he will likely step into a nearby mirror and then your really going to be in trouble.

Story:

His real name is Andre Stiles. His father was a wealthy corporate VP and his mother was a sculptor. Born a Widderslainte, his parents were more or less doomed. His father began beating his mother and kept at it until one night she lured him into a walk in kiln. Sentence to 2nd degree murder, she took her own life in prison. Andre began destroying the lives of his aunts and uncles until he was approached by an Ecstatic Barrabi named Montreche.

Montreche was looking for an apprentice, he found an extremely apt pupil in Andre. Andre had had artistic talent all of his life but no focus. One trip through the Cauls changed all that. Andre found the beauty of the Wyrm and made it his life's work to try to bring it to the world. he found that the Art world was just jaded enough to dive into the hole he was digging, with both feet.

Rechristened Malice N. Wonderland, He opened a theater with the proceeds of his trustfund. This Theater became known as the First Church of the Immaculate Nightmare. The Church offered an outlet for strange, terrifying,and just plain unsettling acts to perform and the jaded and deviant types in the Art world eat it up. The Church is divided into the Theater proper which features Nightly readings from the Satanic bible and ritual theater performances which feature sacrifices,live sex acts, and even less savory activities. Selected acts from the Midnight circus, the Jim Rose freak show, Jayne Jonestown, and others have all performed here.

The theater also boasts a picture gallery which has hosted a number of horrific opening. Many times, Malice has taken these photos himself and gives a dissertation on the subjects on their opening night in the theater with a slide projector. The series "Predators" was a smash featuring pictures of child vampires and other less savory beasts.

He's working on a new series entitled "Grand Exit" which features photos of beautiful suicides.(the fact that he drives some of these people to their ritualized suicides is entirely incidental.) Malice also dabbles in environmental art with such pieces as "The Preservation of Baby Grace Blue" which recreates an artistically rendered serial killing. The Exit of the theater is also an environmental piece called "Alimentary Canal" and it's not altogether surprising that occasionally, people disappear in there. There are funhouse mirrors everywhere within the theater.

Malice's work is designed to highlight the beauty of the horrific, incite nightmares, and to cause the viewer to at least consider turning away from the light for the pleasures the darkness holds. He's even started a new feature involving improvisational theater using audience members with enspelled masks that cause the wearer to lose all inhibitions. In public, He is a firebrand for the art world and civil right that allow him to continue. In private, he's cool and erudite, witty, and willing to admit that he's simply using the concept of evil as a hue for a much larger canvas. at least that's what he admits to reporters.

In his true private life, Malice is a deviant of the first water. He is an Infernalist and enjoys it with gusto. (he swears that he will paint the ceiling of Hell one day.) He also is a devoted hedonist who experiments with every kind of drug or sexual combination. Only his closest confidants (Read:slaves) know of his taste for human flesh.

His next big piece is another environmental which he refers to as "Forsaken Paradise" which is an actual guided tour of Hell designed to drive patrons slightly mad.

Story Uses:

Scumbag too well defended to kill: Malice rarely goes out of his way to harm other people. They are more than willing to prostrate themselves before him for their own reasons. as such, Malice rarely needs to mess with other mages if he does not feel he needs to. Thus, Malice is going to be a hard nut to crack if some enemy mage stumbles onto his unsavory nature and decides to put an end to his depredations. Bearding him in his lair or home is not a good idea, he's usually surrounded by an entourage when out and about, and those attacking him on other fronts will find that his lawyer is very talented. Clear minded mages will also realize that killing him will make him a cult legend. Sucks to be you.

Colorful Ally/Patron: If you happen to be a Toreador or Toreador Antitribu then odds are fairly good that you might run across this man. The thing that will really get to you about him is that he's a really good artist and totally uninterested in becoming a vampire. But he's usually willing to help if asked and appreciates those who can really appreciate his art. Oh, he might ask a favor or two himself down the road...

Source of your demise: It's entirely possible that if you're playing a wraith that this fiend might have driven you to your doom simply in order to take your picture. This situation is not helped by the fact that Malice possesses Deathsight and can see you coming, so spying on him closely is right out. Hopefully you can find somebody to help.