The Basics:

Name: Lisa-Joe Hampton (Only for the last 300 years)
Alias: The Harpy, the Brujah Ha
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Pansexual
Nationality/Race: British American, Caucasian
Species: Vampire
Clan: Brujah
Generation: 7th
Sect: Anarch 
Age [actual]: 558
DOB: March 25th, 1461
Age [appearance]: 19-21

Domicile: The White Rabbit

Magical Items (if any): None

Permissions Given in reasonable Roleplay:

(Yes = you don't have to ask before acting in RP, No = you ask first)

Feeding: YES

Wounding/Cursing: YES

Killing: NO

Looks:

Hair: Lisa-Joe has long, midback length hair. Her bright red locks are a signature feature and draws attention to her. She often wears it down when going out or in the comfort of her own room. However, when bartending she ties it back or styles it in place with a lot of hair spray. She has mastered how to do a lot with it over the years, including tall Mohawks, side pony tails, a slicked down look and many more.  The actual texture of her hair is soft and decently thick. On the curly to straight spectrum her hair leans heavily towards straight. Getting it to curl is a chore. Lisa-Joe would describe her hair as her favorite physical feature. 

Eyes: Lisa-Joe has large oval shaped eyes, that are often heavily done. She wears a lot of mascara and eye liner, with eye shadow normally matching her outfit. Metallic colors are common. Her long lashes are made even more so by the mascara, and her brows are neatly arched and done each night upon rising. Her irises are honey in color, and can be both disarming and threatening when staring into them. 

Skin: Lisa-Joe has smooth, porcelain white skin. It is surprisingly firm to the touch, and doesn't blemish the way fair-skinned humans would. She looks like she got very little sun in life, with only a few freckles burred beneath a layer of foundation. Her complexion is consistent with her hair color and the two accent one another nicely. 

Face: Her face is round, with a touch of visible cheekbones giving her some form. She isn't beautiful in a traditional way, at least not in her bone structure. However, the size of her eyes, the touch of cheekbones and her general lip gives her the impression of being so when all dolled up. Like many other parts of herself, Lisa-Joe decided she was beautiful long before anyone else thought to tell her. 

Mouth: Lisa-Joe's mouth is very expressive. Her cruel snide is so different than her good hearted chuckle. Years of being undead has trained her to hide the feelings in her eyes, but her mouth is a different story. Her southern drawl makes her mouth an event of linguistic gymnastics and is generally considered one of her more seductive traits. Her mouth is of average size, and her lips are full. Her fangs are long, and so she can bite her own mouth sometimes, and has to work harder to keep others from seeing them.

Hands:  Lisa-Joe's hands are small, dainty looking, but propionate to her frame. It has been many a person's mistake to think they are actually dainty.  Her nails tend to be painted black, or other fun colors, and bracelets, rings and even glitter are sometimes adorning them. 

Frame: Lisa-Joe is 5'2 inches tall and weighs one hundred and fifteen pounds. She has a slim frame, and little height. She compensates for this by wearing heels, boots, platforms and styling her hair with a good amount of volume. Her small size is in contradiction to a large personality, with people often forgetting that she looks physically small. She was malnourished for the majority of her human life, and therefore struggled to gain weight. 

Tattoos/Distinguishing Marks: An Anarch tattoo has been erected on her upper back through magical ink. She keeps it covered around humans due to the masquerade, but wears it proudly around supernatural.  She has a water-stain birthmark on her right thigh, staring on her her flank and trailing down to mid hamstring. 

Clothing: 

Around the House:  Lisa-Joe lives at the White Rabbit, and so her work clothes and home clothes are often the same. In her private bedroom she wears everything from beautiful lengarie, to period dresses she's made, to sickening looks upstairs for the club. Private time is dress up time, and so she can often be found trying things out in front of the mirror.
Doing Errands: Lisa-Joe wears a lot of punk-rock or goth style choices, including studded leather, tight jeans, chains, and heavy makeup. She can make herself look all dolled up in a suit, but why would she? Denim and leather feel so much better.
To Bed: Lisa-Joe normally wears an oversize band shirt, panties, and combs her hair out each night. If with a special someone she has an assortment of special undergarments for such occasions. 
Out With Friends:  Lisa-Joe designs a lot of her own clothes and so normally fits the outfit to the venue. That being said, her style gears towards unconventional materials, strong color choices, and a predilection for contradiction. When out with friends, she dresses to impress, but the majority of her outfits take on the traits described above. 
On a Date: Lisa-Joe doesn't go on many dates these nights, but she tends to wear simpler clothing, and less intricite hair and makeup. If she's really into someone she tends to dress down, not feeling the need to put on as much of a show. 
Daily Accessories:  Lots of bangles and cheap jewelry. She also wears a lot of chains.
Special Accessories: She wears a pair of barbed wire earrings most night, a savage but beautiful pair. Her makeup also favors metallic colors to match them, especially her eye shadow. She also has a pair of motorcycle boots for when she wants to ride.

Gallery:



Education: Lisa-Joe learned it all from living life, and has no formal education. She learned to read on her own as a girl, and has spent hundreds of years educating herself. Even mentors have been hard to find, but a few good Brujah like the legend Tyler have taken her under their wing from time to time. 
Intelligence Level: Lisa-Joe has above average intelligence. She thinks on her feet, is organized but flexible and entertains multiple view points and perspectives. Her lack of formal education fools people into thinking she lacks intelligence, but she is often smarter than the people who underestimate her. 

Talents/Skills/Knowledges:

Talents:
Athletics: She is very fast, and plenty flexible - High Proficiency 
Hand to Hand: A renowned bar fighter who is strong as she is clever in a fight. - Expert Proficiency 
Drive: Lisa-Joe rides a motorcycle and pushes herself to do stunts - High Proficiency 
Survival: She learned this before anything else - Expert Proficiency
Larceny: Giver her a crowbar and time - Moderate Proficiency
Stealth: Better at blending into a crowd than stalking someone - Mild Proficiency

Social Skills: 
Insight: Bartenders know how to read their clients - Moderate Proficiency 
Persuasion: Can whip up a crowd, and even be inspiring - Moderate Persuasion
Etiquette: Southern charm, and entertains people for a living - High Proficiency
Intimidation: She is known for being a savage bitch who doesn't give a fuck.. -   Expert Proficiency
Subterfuge: Little white lies equal a nicer tip - Mild Proficiency 
Expression: A good public speaker, with natural charm - High Proficiency

Knowledges:
Kindred Lore: Knows some of the secrets of her clan - Mild Proficiency 
Finance: Knows enough to run her bar - Mild Proficiency
Fashion: A seamstress and designer, fashion is Lisa-Joe's main hobby - High Proficiency 
U.S. History:  Lived a fair amount of it, specialty in the south - Moderate Proficiency 
Politics: Enough to smell a politician - Mild Proficiency 
Technology: Owns a smartphone and laptop. Has anti virus software - Mild Proficiency 
Occult: Not sure how much of it is real, but can at least tell what's bullshit. - Mild Proficiency

Vampiric Disciplines:

Potence - Lisa has supernatural strength and can channel that strength into various situations. While at a base level Potence just demonstrates the overall strength of the vampire in question, Lisa has worked towards the mastery of specific techniques. At her age and level of blood potency she is beyond the basics.

A. Soaring Leap - By channeling the power of the blood, the vampire can leap to heights beyond that of a normal mortal. Lisa can leap a five story building as well as jump between roof tops with ease.

B. Prowess - Lisa-Joe can temporarily draw tremendous strength for a single activity. At her age and level of mastery this might be crushing a diamond or punching through a titanium door. After preforming such an act, Lisa-Joe is drained and needs to feed. Otherwise she becomes weak.

C. Spark of Rage -  (requires presence) Lisa-Joe can use a combination of her Potence and Presence disciplines to pull the rage of a person to the surface. This ability is often used during fights to make her opponent sloppy, or to whip up a rebellious crowd of malcontents. This technique was originated by clan Brujah, and Lisa-Joe is proud to use the technique of her people.

D. Uncanny Grip - At this more advanced level Lisa-Joe is able to burrow her fingers into any surface. The surface shows some sign of damage but allows her to climb up almost anything.

E. Fist of Cain - Lisa-Joe has achieved mastery of Potence as evidenced by her knowledge of this technique. Her strength is now at the level where supernaturals take serious damage and people are likely to come out of fights mangled. When facing her toughest fights, this ability is what helps her clinch the win or ensure she makes it out alive.

Celerity - Sometimes called "blurring" celerity is a form of supernatural speed. It is said that all vampires begin to develop this ability at some point, but those of clan Brujah study it and learn it's craft. Lisa-Joe has learned some techniques of Celerity but it is not her strongest discipline.

A. Cat's Grace - Lisa-Joe has excellent balance even when intoxicated. She can run across ledges, tightropes and other slim surfaces with ease.

B. Rapid Reflexes - Lisa-Joe can perceive actions moments before they occur and can quickly react. This ability is commonly used to dodge bullets.

C. Fleetness - The most basic form of Celerity. This ability allows Lisa-Joe to move at dizzying speeds beyond mortal perception.

D. Traversal - So great is her speed that Lisa-Joe can run across liquid surfaces as if they were solid ground as long as she moves quickly.

Presence - Lisa has what some vampires call, “The Lingering Kiss.” Presence allows Lisa-Joe to manipulate her aura in a variety of ways to create certain effects. Lisa-Joe can use this form of supernatural charisma to get information, food, or intimidate an attacker. Lisa-Joe has almost mastered Presence, knowing several techniques.

A. Awe - Lisa can make herself more physically attractive to onlookers. Those who are not sexually attracted to her would at least find her company pleasing and interesting. This effect can extend to a whole group, but not a single individual. 

B. Daunt - Lisa-Joe can reverse her pleasing aura into an intimidating one. Her warm beauty becomes cold and menacing. This can deter attackers or sublimate mortal and low level supernaturals in social situations. Older vampires would feel the weight and might think twice about attacking, but are not sublimated or feared by this effect. 

C. Dread Gaze - Lisa-Joe shows her fangs, and her eyes turn blood red as her aura sparks terror in most beings except vampires with resistance, those who are unaffected by mental powers, or vampires who are older than her. 

D. Entrancement - This ability allows Lisa-Joe to cause a single person to become obsessed and infatuated with her. Vampires struggle to resist this effect, and would be curious about her taste.

E. Summon - Lisa-Joe can call forth a person who she has previously used Presence on before. The person simply stops what they are doing and in the quickest route possible makes their way to Lisa-Joe. Useful for setting up meetings secretly, or proving your power over someone, summon can be resisted by the mentally strong.
       
Weaknesses/Limitations:

Lisa-Joe has all the standard weakness of Kindred/Vampires, but does have a few unique weaknesses worthy of mention.

1. Lisa-Joe cannot use telepathy, although can still have it forced on her by others with the power. 
2. The curse of Brujah is frenzy, and Lisa-Joe has been known to be violent, sometimes even with the people she likes. 
3. Lisa-Joe has put all her effort into her physical power and her aura, and has neglected mental skills and training. 
4. Lisa-Joe's bloodline has a rare flaw that causes animals to react aggressively towards her. They sense a predator inside her. 

Occupation:

Previous Occupation and Salary: Wanderer, trouble maker, rabble rouser. She made no money, surviving on the generosity of her feeds, and the spoils of her foes. 
Current Occupation and Salary: Owner, Head Bartender and Manager of The White Rabbit. After expenses she makes about $40,000 a year. Bar's are a tough business. 
Socioeconomic Level (then): Below the poverty line, poor.
Socioeconomic Level (now): Lower middle class

Lifestyle:

Hobbies:  Getting people wasted, Motorcycle culture, punk music, fashion design and flirting
Pastimes: Playing pool with friends, a good fight, fashion shows, music festivals, hunting for prey
Health: As a vampire, she is in perfect health all the time.
Vices: Laced blood of the downer variety, smoking, the rush of violence 

Observable Behavior: 

Speech Patterns: Lisa-Joe speaks with a thick southern accent. She specifically has a Louisiana accent, drawing out the length of her words, adding in a musical quality almost like speech singing, and a pointedness when being nasty. 

Words/Slang/Jargon: She uses a lot of old fashioned southern expressions. Examples include: 
         
            1. Bless her heart.
            2. I would just never.
            3. I do declare...
            4.  Like a duck on a june bug...
            5. Recon she's kin?

Although, she is most famous for calling people sugar, but pronouncing it as if there were no r sound. To give the phenocis sound of the word it will be written as, "Sugah."

Eye Contact: Sure, but she doesn't like that people get weird about it. 

Gait: She walks with a certain swagger in her hips, and a toughness in her shoulders.

Posture: She can be tall and poised, but she is often bent over wiping a bar down, making a drink, or leaning across the bar to gossip.

Mannerisms: Lisa-Joe is playfully melodramatic, and uses exaggerated mannerisms and gestures when socializing. 

Gestures / Quirks / Eccentricities: Lisa-Joe has a pretty hard poker face, and doesn't have many quirks or tells. When close to frenzy or under extreme anger she'll smash the shit out of any piece of destructible furniture of glass. 

Commonly Seen Holding: A rag, glasses, money from the till and tip jar.

Common Stance 1: Leaning over the bar, spilling secrets and drinks. 

Common Stance 2: Standing tall and poised, wearing an outfit she designed. 

Common Stance 3: Weight on one hip, a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other leaning up against a wall. 

Likes & Dislikes:

Favorites...
Sports: She competes in illegal motorcycle races for cash and thrills, and will watch a women's rugby league match if it's on. 
Food and Drink: Lisa-Joe is an alley cat predator, catching her feeds as they drunkenly stumble home, or turn down the wrong alleyway.
Music: Lisa-Joe enjoys heavy metal, rock, punk, weird electric music, but mostly indie rock or alternative. She books a lot of live music for the White Rabbit, and so her taste can be better understood by the acts she chooses to book in RP's. 
Movies & Shows: She's not much of a TV or movie person. She's too busy engaging with life, but the Golden Girls is nice, and she'll see a Star War with her friends. 
Books and Magazines: She reads a lot of fashion magazines, using them to inform and get tips on design. She rarely reads books, but when she does they're bad pulp thrillers. 
Sayings: See Words/Slang/Jargon

Displeased With...
Pet Peeves: People calling her Lisa, LJ, or any other shorthand version of her name. She is peeved by constant need for approval. 
Major Hang-ups: Mistreatment of the oppressed, too much order and control, or anything that attempts to bind her to social norms. 
Fears/Phobias: Lisa-Joe is afraid of her past as a human, as well as becoming the murderous beast inside her. More baseline phobia is bugs. She can crush a man to death with her bare hands, but gets up on a stool for a cockroach. 
Dislikes: The Camarilla, the Sabbat, most governments, broad strokes of capitalism 

Beliefs and Religion: 

Religion:

Lisa-Joe is an agnostic, and doesn't much care for the idea of religion. She does believe Cain was the first vampire, and that all come from his blood. This belief puts her in agreement with the Church of Cain, and the Cainite heresy. However, she has never met or worked with a person from the Church of Cain, and does not own a copy of the Book of Nod, making the shared belief more cultural and placed in history than in organized faith. She can be considered a secular humanist.  

Alignment:

Chaotic Neutral - Lisa-Joe is chaotic in the sense that she makes impulsive, spur of the moment decisions, and doesn't plan as much as act on instinct. She also believes that organized governments are a mistake, and that people should be more free to govern themselves. She couldn't tell you how that all should work though. The details are not important to her chaotic nature, only that change is better than social control.

The neutral part of her alignment is because her actions are mostly self focused. She makes her choices that best support her own needs, or the needs of the people she holds dear. She is less concerned about making the right choice, but more so about making the choice that's right for her ,or her loved ones. That said, she is not evil because she has limits on how far she's willing to go to have her needs met, and her strong sense of empathy and connectedness to humans has provided her compassion towards the suffering of others.

She isn't good because she does not make choices that are motivated by helping other people first, and doesn't feel the need to expunge evil or wickedness from the world. To her, both good and evil have their place, and she's just somone in the middle trying to carve out and eternity. 

Ethics:

Lisa Joe has a few convictions that help bring order to her personality, and provide a moral structure by which she lives her life. 

1. You will not control me.

2. Fuck with the people I love, and I will end you.

3. The man is out to dictate where we eat, shit and die. Screw that! We'll carve our own path forward. 

4. Strength is not just in the body or mind, but deep in the soul.

5. My house, my rules. Break them at your own peril.

In a general sense, Lisa-Joe values freedom, individuality and thinks there are too many forms of social control in the world, for both supernaturals and humans. She resents people trying to influence her without her knowledge and partially came to Dusk due to the lack of a tight supernatural government. She is protective of her friends, bar, and customers, and has broken many bones in their defenses. She believes that people should strive to live as their authentic selves, and that others should celebrate their diversity and self-realization. That said, she does not extend that privilege to viewpoints that actively support the oppression of other people's identifies, seeing them as the same evil as organized government. Lisa-Joe sees strength as coming from an inner place, and that while other people can fan the flames of your passions the drive ultimately lies with you. She thinks it is important to nurture your soul through meditation, dance, good friendships, and happy memories. It's her antidote for the beast. She values hospitality, and demands proper respect in her own house. She always extends the same respect to hosts in their various venues.    

Stand Up Citizen or Lawbreaker?: Lawbreaker. Fuck the man. That said, she does not participate in criminality, breaking the law when it suits her personally, but not to hurt other people or instigate insurrection. She does disapprove of organized government, and has used her vampiric abilities to organize protests and activism in the past, towing the line of various forms of radicalism. She is grounded in her actual relationships more than an ideology, and that keeps her Brujah need to rebel in check with her ability to function as a member of the community and a free citizen. 
Awareness of Supernaturals: Lisa-Joe is aware of vampires; both Kindred and Catiff, Lycans, some Demons and some Fae.

Personality:

Strongest Positive Trait: Lisa-Joe is resilient, and resolved, bouncing back from terrible atrocities stronger and strangely undisturbed. That isn't to say she doesn't have strong reactions. Her passions a re a part of that resolve. Her emotions fuel her to great heights and help her to rise above whatever challenge she's facing. Born of her own deep trauma, Lisa-Joe redefined herself as a person who could not be broken again, and ultimately repressed much of her human life. In it's place came a determined, unstable force of nature. She doesn't look back, and moves forward with an optimism alien to her experiences, but nonetheless it inspires others, and keeps her sane. 
Strongest Negative Trait:
Lisa-Joe can be hardheaded, and oppositional, letting her anger, rage and sense of injustice cloud her objective vision. This can make her a horror to work with, but also a danger to herself. She doesn't retreat from a fight she can't win. She'll punch an opponent she's losing an argument with to "win," and doesn't often express her emotions in a healthy way. That anger runs deep into her core, and if you get on her bad side she can be an absolute terror to be around. 

Character Strengths: Driven, kind, fun, good sense of humor, confident, and empathetic. 
Character Flaws: Oppositional, violent, simplistic world views, an inability to address her early trauma, and a lack of faith in most people and systems. 
Emotion or Logic?: Emotion
Generous of Stingy?: Generous, but responds to how she's treated. If you're generous with her, she will be with you, or vice versa. The person who tips well and makes polite conversation might get a free drink, but not the person who doesn't tip and is being rude to her. 
Polite or Rude?:  As a southern belle, she is very polite, but knows how to be rude if the occasion calls for it. 

Philosophy of Life:

Myers Brigs Type: ENFP - The Champion
Quirks: Lacking any specific quirks, it's fair to say she comes off a little quirky, as if one or two screws is missing. 
Sense of Humor: She has a rather bleak sense of humor. While she's being sensitive to the current pandemic, she loves a good black death joke. She also enjoys satire and shade. She also has a pretty good sense of humor about herself. She is able to laugh at her own ridiculous qualities. 
Temper: She has improved control of her temper as she's aged, and having the right people around her can help her keep it under control. However, when her rage boils over she can black out and attack in a sea of violence, the beast taking over for a few moments in frenzy. Feeding often prevents this, as does staying in touch with her humanity and close friends. 

Relationships and History:

Current...

Relationship Status: Single

Family: None living, and none she ever knew. The Anarchs are her only real family. 

Friends: Lisa-Joe has many friends, most of them Anarch Kindred, or humans who frequent her bar.  Her crew of Kindred consist of Manuel, her second in command, the abstract artist Amy, and the goofball barback Riley. All help Lisa-Joe run her bar, but also her life. She would be lost without her crew. 

Thralls: Lisa-Joe does not blood bond humans, and does not dominate them either. She also has no active blood bonds with other vampires, meaning she has no thralls in her service. 

Enemies: Lisa-Joe is a wanted criminal by the Camarilla, and considers the Sabbat her eternal enemy. On a more personal note, the Nosferatu Fat Tony is pushing in on her turf, and she's ready to strike back and defend her few blocks. 

Notable Connections: Oliva Pane (non aggression pact), Alekos the Fae (information, gossip)

Relationship with Men: She doesn't hate men, but she does think it's hard to like them. She is more interested in helping women, and will take down men if a part of that process. That said, she judges people by their actions, and likes a few men who have proven to be beyond their stereotypes. Manuel and Riley for different reasons have achieved this. Her distrust and dislike of many men is rooted in her early trauma but also the long history she's witnessed of the oppression of her gender. 

Relationship with Women: Lisa-Joe likes women a lot, and tries to hire them and empower them. She has marched with suffragettes, supported sexual and financial liberation movements, and worked to support human women's right to choose. She has used her powers to organize activisim around these issues and considers fighting for women one of the things she's most interested in doing. Her compassion for women has largely kept her violence in check, as she easily extends that compassion to people of many other oppressed groups, and to the story of the downturned. 

Relationship Skills: See social skills under Talents section.

Hometown: London

Family Background: Unknown. Lisa-Joe never knew her parents. She was told they were "bad people" by her guardian Simon. She believes that anyone capable of leaving her with Simon could not have loved, or wanted her best interests to be served. She has long stopped caring or trying to know anything about her parents or mortal family. At minimim they were likely a couple out of wedlock who dumped the baby on Simon's doorstep. 

Mother: Unknown

Father: Unknown

Siblings: She has no mortal siblings, but does belong to the bloodline of Tyler. She knows several other Brujah who shared her sire.

Birth Order: Unknown 

Extended Family: Clan Brujah, the Anarch movement 

Sire: Tyler 

Lineage: From the Line of Tyler, Brujah folk hero and legend. Also holds other great Anarch heroes like Robin Leeland, the inspiration for Robin Hood. 

History:

Early History
On a cold night in March, a baby girl was left on the doorstep of the Slaughtered Lamb public house in London England. She bore no name, no marks to identify her, and no parent to claim her. She likely would've froze to death if the owner of the public house hadn't been throwing out the rubbish. His name was Simon, and while he had no love for children - or anyone - he saw the sympathy he might obtain by taking in a poor wretch, and decided that when the baby was old enough to walk, she'd begin to work. He gave her no name, calling her only, "girl." This girl grew up quickly, and by the age of five was working in the public house as a servant. It was her primary job to collect empty steins and glasses, and wash them. When the girl refused to work, she was beaten, or starved. When she behaved, she was treated to food and warmth. Existence was misery. The girl imagined escaping when she had the time to spare a thought, but the harsh beatings and rebukes of her guardian often brought her back to task. 

When the girl was about ten years old, her guardian decided he had other purposes for her. The Slaughtered Lamb had always secretly operated as a brothel, but up to this age the girl had been left out of this part of the business. Simon began to force the girl to come to his bedchamber each night, threating that if she refused he'd turn her over to the pimp's and any man who wanted her. The girl had the same routine each day. She rose and ate if she was lucky, then she worked from opening to closing: cooking, sweeping, cleaning, serving and entertaining. Then, she'd wash the glasses, and had become so accustomed to the task that it was often when she let her mind wander to more peaceful thoughts. In the end, she always had to return to reality, her final task being in Simon's chamber. She prayed for the nights when he was too drunk or too tired. 

The girl grew into a beautiful young woman, and the patrons of the Lamb grew to think of her as much it's owner as Simon. It was around her seventieth birthday that the girl began to think of a way to remove her abuser, but also keep the Slaughtered Lamb. One night while washing the glasses, one shattered in her hand. As her blood flowed into the water, she felt a presence behind her. When she looked there was nothing, but on the counter was a bottle of poison. Next to it was a note, "Now only you can hold yourself back." The girl fixed Simon his drink, and changed into her night garb, going to the bedchamber as she had for almost her whole life. She let the fool drink, and then gloated as he died of the poison. She paid off the doctor by offering her body, and before long Simon's death was ruled a terrible accident. It was rare women owned property, but not illegal or unheard off. Simon had no family or business associates, and so as his ward inherited his business. The Slaughtered Lamb now belonged to her. 

Tyler' Offer
The woman, who now had an alias of unimportance, ran the Slaughtered Lamb well, ending it's use as a brothel and turning it into a proper inn. She found that she enjoyed entertaining and being the hostess now that her abuser was gone. There was a temporary euphoria at just being free of him, of being her own woman in an age where that was complicated and hard. Many men tried to marry her, some out of love and some who wanted a stake in the inn, but she refused them all. She remained independent and in charge, and someone important had taken notice of her rebellious nature. One night near closing a soft looking gentleman approached her at the bar. The traveler asked the woman about herself, her life, and what she wanted, and the bar-maid found herself answering honestly with no idea why. She admitted to the murder of Simon, her hatred of him for all he'd done to her, and then vowed she'd never be used like that again. This seemed to pleased the traveler, who offered her power and the chance to make good on her vow. It was explained she'd have to give up everything she had. The woman accepted and was sired into a Kindred that night. 

The man introduced himself as Tyler, and he explained that he'd brought the woman into Clan Brujah, and that the clan's purpose was to rebel against the injustices of the world and fill it with knowledge and philosophy instead. He explained that he was the one to give her the poison that killed Simon, and that she'd passed the test by bringing her abuser to justice. He told her he'd been watching her since then, and had seen as she refused the offers of marriage, of social control and binding down. She would not be shackled again, and that was why Tyler had chosen her. As a sire, Tyler lacked the opinion that it meant spending a great deal of time with his fledges, and so after presenting her at the court of Mithras under the name Joan, Tyler abandoned her. He left for some destination in Eastern Europe, telling his fledge only that she alone had to find her way in undeath. he did convey some basic trainings, such as knowledge of the Masquerade, the Camarilla, and the history of her clan. Tyler told stories of the great war, of heroes like his sire Robert Leeland. The woman decided to take the name Leeland and combined it with the one given by her sire. Leeland Joan became Joan Leeland, her first true name.  

The Back Alley Butcher

The Prince's Punishment:

Settling in South Carolina 

The Abolitionist

The End of an Era

Travels Across the South (the Kung Fu years) 

The Conclave of Chicago

Arrival in Dusk and Opening The White Rabbit

Recent History:

Lisa-Joe did not mourn the loss of King Ludwig, and closed the bar down during the hunter's sweeps to stay alive. Luckily, she'd done a good job blending in as a human, as all her fake documents helped her avoid detection or scrutiny. She reopened the bar recently, and has been trying to live a normal life. She feeds when she needs to, participates in her many hobbies and pleasures, but mostly subsists on the satisfaction of running The White Rabbit. She is hoping nobody comes to fill the power vacuum, actually finding the anarchy stabilizing and free of corruption. She has largely kept to her own social circles of other Anarchs, but has become good friends with local Fae Alekos, and has a political agreement with Toreador Olivia Pane. She sees herself as a neutral force in the city, and her bar as a haven for those who need a break from the struggles of the ancients, the demons, and the legends of the Fae.