Nico Caron (WoD)

SchreckNet Data File

• Real/Birth Name: Nicole Katherine Caron
  
• Known Identity/Mortal Alias: Nicollete "Nico" Caron
  
• Place of Origin: Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Grand Est, France
  
• Height: 169 cm (5'5½")
  
• Occupation: Freelance Photojournalist
  
• Apparent Age: Late-20s
  
• Embraced: 2000
  
• Kindred Status: Neonate
  
• Sire: Angela Dickinson
  
• Clan: Senya (Children of the Light)
  
• Clan Status: Kóri (Daughter)
  
• Sect: Camarilla
  
• Sect Status: None
  
• Player/Type: NPC

Appearance

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Background

Nico was born in Domrémy-la-Pucelle, the village that was the birthplace of the legendary Joan of Arc, a fact of which she is quite proud and an example she sometimes likes to think of herself as following (a strong woman who was brave enough to follow her convictions no matter the cost, not the fact she was a religious nut). Her father, Thierry, was a french pilot who had served in the Armée de l'Air Française (French Air Force) and Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Never able to have a lasting relationship, he began to believe that he had lost the opportunity to marry and have children until he met Valeriya by chance in Paris and her fiery character rejuvenated him. Valeriya was born in France, but from an ethnic Russian family of White Army supporters that had fled Russia during the Revolution. They were happy together awhile, and their union led to Nico's birth, but Thierry' fate struck again and when Nico was 8 her parents split up and her mother went away with her new boyfriend. Although saddened, this just made Nico become closer to her father, who she was already close to, even going so far to say that he was like her older brother to her. When Nico was 12 her father bought her a camera as a birthday gift, and she loved it. She frequently travelled to historic areas and self-taught herself the rudiments of photography, developing a love for it. Unfortunately, shortly after the summer vacation was over, Nico witnessed her father's death in an explosion caused by a plane crash, which was believed to be caused by an undetected engine fault.

The death hit Nico hard and, although she was cared for by her grandparents, she never grew particularly close to them and learnt to be independent, moving to Paris as soon as she finished Lycée Polyvalent Pierre Et Marie Curie (Comprehensive School Pierre Et Marie Curie) to study at the École Parsons à Paris (Parsons Paris, now the Paris College of Art). She would have loved to study Photography at Parsons but this was before the digital age and, although as a French national the tuition was paid by the French Government, the costs of the course were way beyond her means, so instead, she did a degree in Fine Art, which included photography and video editing. Although she did well, she struggled financially through college, often going to the park to poach squirrel hair which she would sell to art stores (for use in creating paintbrushes) just to make ends meet. In the end, her headstrong, forthright and sarcastic personality led to too many clashes with a senior professor she disliked (as she suspected he was doing "extra curricular activities" with students) who made her life miserable, piling on more and more work which she was unable to financially cope with, causing her grades to suffer. Ultimately, this caused her to drop out of college in the final year, just a few months before she would have graduated.

She got a lucky break shortly after, however, as her eye for photography got her a job as a freelance photojournalist for La Liberté. She found herself liking photojournalism, and did well in her new career - allowing her to take a few journalism courses, which she found easy as she'd always had a natural grasp for linguistics. Her nose for a story, sheer bravado and determination to uncover the truth, thwart corruption and take a stand for those who need it led to various succesful stories - including one of corruption at the École Parsons à Paris which led to the firing of the professor that had caused her to leave, and a scathing exposé about Parisian Government corruption which gained acclaim but also got her enemies in high places. As a "reward" for her award-winning article, La Liberté conceded to send her to the Delegation for Defence Information and Communication (DICoD) training for journalists, training in survival, combat and medical skills in 1998. Shortly after she went along with the french army to report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), doing a crash course in both Albanian and Serbian language and customs in preparation. A year later she wrote an exposé about the ineptitude of Nato/UN forces in preventing the expulsion of Serbs, Gypsies and Kosovar Albanians from Kosovo, which annoyed a few people (which is, what Nico would claim, how you know you did a job right) but also got the attention of Angela Dickinson, a Clan Senya kindred and human rights lawyer for Amnesty International, working in collaboration with UNMIK. Nico saw the offer of the Embrace as a form of "big break" and validation of her success.

For the next twenty years of her Adoption period Nico remained with her sire - learning about the clan's customs, traditional languages, and how to use her new abilities to better infiltrate and expose the truth behind corruption. Her sire would use her position within Amnesty International to steer Nico onto leads (especially those that AA were not able to fight effectively) and Nico would investigate and write exposés, along with award-winning photojournalism. This led to a little too much notoriety, which made Angela feel that remaining in Kosovo could both endanger her aims with AA as well as the masquerade, and so they began moving around - spending several years at a time in different war zones and problem areas, such as in Afghanistan, doing AA work and doing exposés. Eventually, Nico's Adoption period came to an end and she decided to visit her sire's sire, who she had heard much about due to his meteoric rise from Brethren to First Among Equals in just a couple of decades since his arrival at Ashford. With her clan's rise in power and the new opportunities for power in the domain since the Sabbat Crusade a few years ago shook up and punched holes in the power structures, she thinks that there may be opportunities for her or, at least, opportunities for interesting stories.

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Personality

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Signature Equipment

TacSeven Tactical Rucksack

• Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR camera

• Canon 24-70mm lens for general-purpose use
• Canon 70-200mm telephoto lens
• Canon 16-35mm wide-angle lens
• Canon Speedlite 580EX E-TTL II Flash
• Several replacement batteries

• Canon Powershot G12 DSLR - backup/discreet camera with fixed 28-140mm (equivalent) lens.
• Huawei P30 Pro smartphone
• HP Spectre x360 15t touch Laptop
• Innocent Armor Bullet Resistant Leather Jacket (NIJ Level IIA)
• TacSeven Tactical Rucksack
• Beretta PX4 Storm (9pmm compact pistol)
• Victorinox Traveller (swiss army knife)
• Peugeot 3008 II

Signature Quotes

• [when told she speaks very good English for a French girl] "Thank you. You speak very good English for an American."
• "He had the eyes of a cocker spaniel set in a face like a deflated soufflé"
• "That fool wouldn't know Pernod from cat piss."
• "He was a pear-shaped guy with a fine display of multiple chins."

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