Eliza Ben-Zeev/Lies
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Life Eliza grew up in a small apartment just a stone's throw away from the marina in Tel Aviv, Israel, together with her rather traditional parents and her identical twin sister Yael. The sea always called to her, so it was probably no great surprise to anyone that she ended up joining the Navy. She'd always been a patriot, and the great nation of Israel needs plenty of brave men and women to defend it from foreign nations and Palestinian terrorists alike. Navy life isn't exactly safe, though. After a few years, Eliza was seriously injured in combat, and ended up being medically discharged. When she had at least recovered physically (if not psychologically), she ended up taking a few odd jobs here and there, mostly using her naval expertise to work as a harbor tour guide. It helped pass the time. Eventually she ended up moving to the States, taking up the same trade in Prospect. At some point she even fell in love, and was going to get married... but then everything went to hell. Death As it turned out, Eliza's fiance wasn't the only man that wanted her to himself. She was attractive, she was intelligent, she was a Medium - not so strange, then, that she ended up drawing the attention of a member of Clan Giovanni. They're not supposed to embrace outside of their incestuous family, of course; the necromancer in question thought he could get around that by making her marry into the family first. When she refused, the necromancer killed her fiance in front of her eyes, then Embraced her by force. The more traditional members of the Clan did not approve, though. Not at all. Before her body had even had time to cool, her Sire was a pile of ash at the hands of his own clanmates, and Eliza herself was lucky to get away at all.
She did get away, though. Confused, hungry and distraught over the death of her fiance - mere HOURS after he'd proposed to her, even - Eliza wandered away from Prospect for a time, fending for herself as she tried to come to terms with what had happened to her. She knew nothing about vampires, nothing about her heritage; she was Caitiff, clanless. Clueless. She was a quick learner, though. Some three years after her life had ended, she found herself back in Prospect once more, ready to pick up the shattered remnants of her old life. Tired of having to struggle alone, she sought out the local Camarilla and joined up with them after being introduced to the Seneschal by one of the local Brujah. She ended up spending most of her time early on with Clan Brujah, in fact; fighting alongside them, risking her unlife and on occasion even saving theirs. Eventually, as they grew closer, the local Brujah (the ones loyal to the Camarilla, at least) came to a unified decision: they formally adopted Eliza into Clan Brujah. As far as the Camarilla was concerned, she was Clanless no longer. Not everyone who was around back then still remains; Javier, who had introduced her to the Camarilla in the first place, had left town as a result of some issues with the local Tremere over the position of Sheriff. Eccentric pimp Silky Smooth had simply disappeared for reasons unknown, and nobody quite seems to know what exactly happened to blind Maricela. For a while, it seemed like the adopted ex-Clanless was now the ONLY member of Clan Brujah, not counting ghouls, anarchs and members of the Sabbat. A lonely existance... but perhaps only temporary. There's still the rest of the Camarilla, at least. |
