Willa Jade (WoD)

Vital Stats

• Real/Birth Name: Kimberley Willa Gordon
  
• Known Identiy/Mortal Alias: Willa Jade
  
• Internet Alias: 0r4cL3 (Oracle)
  
• IT Specialty: Telecommunications
  
• Place of Origin: Chelsea, England, United Kingdom
  
• Height: 5'5"
  
• Occupation: JadeTech CEO
  
• Apparent Age: Early-20s
  
• Embraced: 2003
  
• Kindred Status: Neonate
  
• Sire: Clarissa Jade
  
• Clan: Senya (Oracles)
  
• Clan Status: Adoptee
  
• Sect: Camarilla
  
• Sect Status: No status
  
• Player/Type: NPC

Appearance

Jade in her typical everyday look since 2016

Naturally, Jade is a pretty but skinny girl in her early 20s with hazel-brown eyes and long, loose chestnut-coloured hair. She seems unhealthily skinny and with skin discolourations that are a side-effect of a life of heart conditions.

Although she has yet to gain sufficient control in her clan discipline to make major alterations to her appearance, she usually uses it to both give herself a more "normal" (ie non-sickly) appearance as well as to vary her hair length and style (that is, preventing it regrowing or returning to its natural form every night, allowing her to keep hairstyles with an immiation as the same general time flow of mortal hair growth). Since her sire's death she had kept her hair fairly short, typically just above shoulder length, but sometimes cut quite short, depending on her mood. She feels it is more "modern" and therefore appropriate for her appearance, and makes her look more mature. She favours light make-up that accentuates her features, typically just a little lipstick or lip gloss and some light eyeshadow/maskara - something she did even during her mortal days when attempting to use make-up to appear more "normal" and less sickly when socialising.

Jade is usually observed wearing clothing appropriate for a work environment. Even when casual, she prefers jeans and a blouse or (usually geeky) t-shirt. She self-admits to having little sense of fashion. If she is going to an event that requires it, she will plunder the Internet beforehand and determine what is reasonably fashionable enough to wear, then purchase it online. Although she has a preference for trousers and jeans, on formal occasions she quite enjoys wearing a ball gown or fashionable dress - perhaps because she feels she never got many occasions to dress glam during her mortal days, and enjoys the opportunity now. She will never be a trend-setter, however, as she relies too heavily on Google to inform her of what is currently in vogue.

When masquerading as Chantelle Taylor (see other notes) she makes her figure look a little more comely, with her hair wavy and blonde, whilst her eyes clear blue, typically with more obvious make-up designed to make her look "up for it, but not gagging for it."

Background

Mortal Life

Jade's natural look after her embrace

Jade was born Kimberley Willa Gordon in the UK and the mortal grand-neice of Clarissa Jade of Clan Senya. She was born with a rare condition: Dextocardia Situs Inversus; due to which Jade's heart was on the wrong side of her body, and this presented many heart-related problems as she grew up. Despite this, she grew courageous and strong-willed and defied her condition, achieving the Duke of Edinburgh award, but her ability to participate in physical endeavours was limited, and regular illness caused her to spend much time at home. A precocious fast learner with eidetic memory, Jade learnt much from books and the internet, and grew extrememly capable with computers which she felt allowed her to have an active online social life despite her condition.

She achieved a BSc Honours (First Class) in Computer Science from Middlesex University, and was undergoing her Masters degree when she suffered a major heart attack due to her dextocardia. Although she survived the attack, it had weakened her already-fragile heart, and a transplant was impopssible due to her condition. Her days were numbered. Unwilling to let her die, her grandmother told her a family secret - that her own sister had not died during the second world war, but had become a vampire - though she had not seen her in decades. Kimberley used her computing skills and in time managed to track down her great-aunt and begged for help. Impressed and touched by both her plight and skill, her great-aunt Embraced her, and helped her fake her own death before bringing her to her new unlife in America as Willa Jade.

Unlife

In Ashford Jade made up for lost time, completing her Masters and then achieved a D.Eng in Computer Science; following which she has worked at her sire's Jade Technology Ltd (alias: JadeTech) company, being elevated quickly to a managerial position. Whilst working for her sire, Jade's sire also trained her in the Path of Technomancy Thaumaturgy, and other secondary paths, and ensured she gained some basic martial arts training and competence with firearms. This would prove to be a wise precaution when the Sabbat Crusade struck. The infamous Opera House Massacre left Jade without a sire and mentor, and she found little solace from her Clan, with their Primogen seemingly having lost his mind in grief at the death of Clarissa Jade, who was his paramour, and most of the clan being too occupied with their own survival or insensitive to the neonate's grief. What little attention and aid they gave was often in the form of authoritarian instructions as to what the clan required her to do - or often what they objected to her doing, as during this time Willa began calling herself simply "Jade" as an homage to her sire (who likewise rarely used her first name) and grew close to various of the Malkavian clan, inclusing the Malkavian Whip AJ which who she was rumoured to have been romantically involved at one point.

The Sabbat Crusade

Jade's apearance during the Opera House Massacre

For a neonate, Jade's involvement with the events around the Sabbat Crusade are not insignificant. As stated above, Jade was at the Opera House during the famous massacre, and was one of the few survivors - allegedly due both to her sire's sacrifice to open a window for her to escape and later because of a fortuitous encounter with the autarkis Tatjana who eliminated several Sabbat who, according to Jade, "would have almost certainly killed AJ and I had the Sabbot not been in her way, and refusing to move out of it." It was later revealed that the opera house massacre was caused because of a casual slip of the tongue when Jade and AJ had mentioned earlier to some Malkavians in a social event that they were going to the Opera House for that special performance - and it turned out that one of the Malkavians had been a Sabbat double agent, and the revelation of this opportunity caused the damaging attack. The revelation of this has caused elders from several clans (notably the Toreadors and Ventrue, hit hardest by the massacre) to have Jade executed, but her Clan (and their allies supporting the clan) have defended her innocence as a unfortunate neonate mistake, and that her (and AJ's) actions after are sufficient to avoid punishment.

Although AJ is accredited as being the key kindred who helped organise the Malkavians together at his sire's bequest, and approach and convince various elders to attend secret meetings that led to the formation of the new Primogen council and election of a new Prince, Jade was a participant, contributor and motivator to all of these. In particular, helping keep AJ on track in the moments when his derangements overpowered him. She was also the person who convinced Valerie Leigh to return from exile in Vancouver, with Valerie forming one of the kindred who headhunted Grace Williams and finally ended the Sabbat Crusade - allegedly striking the killing blow. These actions are the reason why, despite her error and tragic consequences regarding the Opera House, her clan supported her and have been able to convince the other elders that she should be forgiven. This, however, has meant that she is perceived in mixed views by others - not everyone is ready to forgive and forget, even (if not especially) within her own clan who are unhappy with her overall refusal to follow clan instructions during the Crusade.

For her part, Jade has become disgruntled with her own clan. She now realises the clan was never silent and neutral, nor their Primogen incapacitated - simply she, along with all the other clan's neonates, were not on the need to know list because of the clan's authoritarian attitudes towards the role, responsibility and trust levels towards those who have not yet undergone The Becoming and given the title of Brother/Sister. She feels that this is old-school attitude which ignores the potential of those kindred embraced in the modern nights, who are more technologically capable than most elders could ever hope to be and could perhaps have made a difference, saved unlives during the Crusade and possibly aided locating the Sabbat leaders faster. The fact her clan's reaction has essentially been that she should be grateful that they are sympathetic to her loss (of her sire) and overlooking her disobedience and lack of respect for her elders' instructions during the crusade because of the eventual positive outcomes, has only fanned her discontent further. Although her clan believes Jade will eventually get over it, this disgruntlement has led to Jade forming a coterie of Kindred that are, at best, sympathetic to the Anarch Movement and, at worst, full-blown members. Either way, this is something many in her clan are now keeping an eye on.

Founding of the 1337 5kw4d

Jade's typical casual appearance around her coterie

A white-hat hacker, Jade had at times clashed with other neonates (most notably with the Neonate "1337" of Clan Nosferatu) and become frenemies of sorts with them. She decided to approach them individually, and managed to convince them that they had more in common than they realised, and together could form a power-group that could give even Camarilla elders pause; and in the short-term, mutually protect each other and assist their clans against the Sabbat Crusade.

As most of the founding members were either anarchs, anarch-sympathisers or otherwise saw benefit of joining (not least of which was not being controlled/abused by Elders), the coterie was formed under the initial alias of the D1g174L F4ng5, although this was changed later on to the present "1337 5kw4d" ("Leet Squad") after the group established ties with the Digital Draculas coterie and other Anarch Movement Hactivists, so as to not appear to have plagiarised the name idea. The initial founding members were (in order of membership):

• Willa Jade, Clan Senya. Internet ID: 0r4cL3
• 1337, Clan Nosferatu. Internet ID: 1337Kw33n
• Peter 'Garf' Garfield, Clan Brujah. Internet ID: Ȼя4ȥ¥ MØиk3¥
• Arisha Pirozhnikova, Clan Toreador. Internet ID: Ste4mG1r7

Several weeks later, two other neonates were invited into the coterie, both with less hacktivism skills, but ability or potential with different fields of computing or digital information usage:

• Evelina Astridsdotter, Clan Malkavian. Internet ID: B00kw0rm (sponsored by 0r4cL3)
• Mackenzie 'Kenzi' Dubenenko, Clan Gangrel. Gamer Tag: K4mik3nzi22 (sponsored by Ste4mG1r7)

Whilst all the members of the 1337 5kw4d who have degrees in computing-related fields have a high degree of competence in various IT disciplines, Jade is by far the one with the highest degree of computer science education and works actively in the IT field and hacktivism. She is a master coder and expert in network and media communications. This makes her a natural master hacker (she will state she does not hack - she finds errors in code or hardware that she can exploit).

Mortal Society

Jade in business attire

Willa Jade is known as the young, new CEO of Jade Technologies Ltd. Although her age is a surprise, it has been well-declared that she is the only living relative of Clarissa Jade, the previous owner, who recently died in the tragic Opera House fire. She is known to have great IT skills, and very intelligent, though inexperienced in business; and her reliance on letting the management team continue to run things like the previous owner did, helps add stability and keep the company's reputation. Willa oversees general company direction and is specifically known to be actively principally involved in areas of cybersecurity as well as software and web development and secretive special projects.

She is known to have an active online social life, though a bit of a recluse in real life. It is not public knowledge, but she operates with the online handle 0r4cL3, a self-proclaimed white-hat hacker affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivist group. 0r4cL3 has built a reputation for ruthless efficiency and the only reason she is not on an FBI list is likely that she appears to only target those who are unlikely to collaborate with the authorities on any issues 0r4cL3 has interfered with.

Alternate Identity: Chantelle Taylor

Jade as Chantelle

Although Jade is not proficient enough in her clan discipline of Apparitionem to be able to make completely alter her own appearance, and thus effectively become completely unrecognisable or immitate others, she does have the ability to alter details enough to look different enough to allay casual suspicion.

With this she has adopted the alternate identity role of Chantelle Taylor, a struggling college student. Chantelle is blonde, blue-eyed with an innocent, girl-next-door charm. Chantelle is active on seekingarrangement.com, a prolific website for young women (often gold-diggers, College students, struggling actresses, single mothers, or other women struggling financially) looking for Sugar Daddies - meeting rich, older men (often married) for discrete encounters in return for donations to help them; essentially a form of escortism. Whilst Jade has absolutely no intention of getting intimate with any of her sugar daddies, the secretive nature of it works well for her to enable Chantelle to remain anyonymous whilst gaining a herd that she call call on reliably. Whilst she certainly has no need for their donations (being richer than most of her herd) it is also useful to her to make connections with people in different industries that she (as Chantelle) can manipulate, control (Jade, via blood bonding) or coerce (as 0r4cL3, typically after gathering evidence to use for blackmail) if the need arises.

Personality

Jade's apearance circa 2016

Jade is innately a nice person. She didn't have many friends growing up due to her heart condition, but those few friends (and family) who were around her were compassionate - as were the doctors and nurses of the NHS that she dealt with regularly. This has let her see the better side of humanity and she has been fortunate to have a sire with renown high humanitas, who introduced her to the kindred unlife with care and compassion, helping Jade transition whilst keeping her own humanitas. Although death has resolved most of her own health issues, this is because she was fortunate to have had physical ailments - but the Malkavians are not so lucky, keeping or developing mental illness during their embrace; and the Nosferatu gaining physical deformities. This leads to a natural sense of compassion and sympathy for those who have disabilities or derangements - whether mortal or kindred. She is naturally kind-hearted and caring, and very loyal to her friends. She is also incredibly intelligent (some say "too smart, and knows it") and her brain is hard-wired to technological thinking, and so she naturally sees things as problems to be resolved or figured out. She is too willing to give her opinion on what she thinks, believing she and her opinions should be valued for her intellect and reason, regardless of her age as a kindred; an outlook considered cute at best by elders, if not outright laughably naive and ridiculous.

But the events of the Sabbat Crusade have changed her. Although she made it through with her humanitas and sense of compassion intact, it has been a rude awakening to the nature of kindred society - and the realisation that the Sabbat may be the enemies, but that does not mean the Camarilla, or indeed the elders of her own clan, are actually friends either. Her ability to trust, and to be willing to help others because of a sense of right and wrong, has been eroded. Some refer to it with the pun "she became Jaded".

Other Notes

Precocious

Jade is intellectually precocious, having an eidetic memory along with commensurate ability to learn things quickly, especially regarding computers and technology. Whilst she may not seem like a typical nerd as her sire has taken pains to teach Jade to be more socially capable than she once was, people are surprised at how quickly she can absorb, assume and repurpose knowledge; and her deadly efficiency with IT. She is being careful as she is still learning to play the game, and knows the consequences of losing are dire, but has already began setting her chess pieces by hacking assets, accounts and technology of elders and other kindred who'd domains or activities have riled her up, or she feels will someday intercede (or simply, just in case she needs it some day) but is cautiously doing so, relying on them underestimating her for her age, but also equally aware that she is intelligent, but not experienced in the games of the jyhad.

Oracular Ability

Due to her special bloodline, Jade has inherited her bloodline's frequent oracular ability. She can see signs and omens, but they are typically extremely cryptic and easy to miss or misinterpret (especially when they are in dreams) - but this has proven to be a potent ability in her bloodline, and she is keening on learning how to develop and interpret it.

Prey Exclusion

Due to a lifetime of living with a disability, Jade is sympathetic to the disabled and infirm and refuses to feed upon such individuals. If coerced or manipulated to do so, her anger could provoke her to frenzy.

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Signature Equipment

• Alienware Area-51 Desktop PC with 32" Dell UltraSharp Ultra HD 4K monitor
• HP Spectre x2 tablet pc
• Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone
• Sig-Sauer P229 handgun
• Pink 2004 Ford StreetKa or Jade-green Lotus Elise 111 (which belonged to her sire)

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