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THEMIS DATABASE: BARBARA GOMEZ
BARBARA GOMEZ
BIOMETRICS
FULL NAME: Barbara Gomez
KNOWN ALIASES AND TITLES: The Golden Hand of the Daywalker
DATE OF BIRTH: June 4, 1994
AGE: 68
NATIONALITY: Filipino-Spanish
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Because she is a vampire, Barbara will always look like she is eighteen years old.
HUNTER DOSSIER
CLASS: Vampire (Daeva, Toreador Bloodline)
HOME COMPACT/CONSPIRACY: Netsach
RANK: Inquisitor
POSITIONS HELD:
AFFILIATED COMPACTS/CONSPIRACIES:
OTHER AFFILIATED GROUPS:
TACTICAL DESIGNATION: Front Liner, Liaison, Administrator
FAVORED WEAPONS: Katars
COMBAT ASSESSMENT: Extremely aggressive, close-ranged fighter that relies on her speed and her abilities to keep her enemies completely off-balance. Actually works best, however, off the battlefield.
HISTORY
Barbara was the only daughter of a Filipino senator. Prior to her Embrace, she lived her life oblivious to the fact that her mother was nothing but a trophy wife to her father, and her father was completely uninterested in anything beyond accumulating wealth and looking for a new and younger woman to marry. Barbara herself had her own issues to deal with: she had, at that point, built herself to become the perfect socialite on the belief that being empty-headed and beautiful was the only way that she would ever be able to be accepted to other people.
Christopher Rivera, a Toreador, took advantage of Barbara’s naiveté and desperate need to be loved. He Embraced the girl, and – in the hopes of cutting her loose from her family and making her completely dependent on him – brought her, hungry and overwhelmed by her vampiric nature, back home. Riley Falner ended up intervening at this point, and stopped Barbara from feeding on her own father. He then pulled the girl away, and brought her into the Methuselah.
Barbie was assigned to Wolf’s Choice, and attempted, to the best of her abilities, to balance her night classes with the day engagements that her companions in the blade occupied themselves with. A little after she and the rest of Wolf’s Choice captured Christopher and had him subjected to the Daywalker’s breed of vampiric justice, she learned that losing her had brought her parents together, and they had never given up hope that their daughter was alive even as Anino worked towards making sure that they would never find Barbara again. Thankfully, when Barbara finally mustered up the courage to show them what had happened to her, her parents were only too happy to have their daughter back.
When Netsach split away from the Methuselah and became its own conspiracy, Barbara followed her blade mates to Netsach without hesitation: she wanted to be with them, and she also wanted to remain close to Riley, the vampire that had become her surrogate father figure. She involved herself with the activities of Ordo Daywalker, and excelled in every task that was thrown her way. It was not too long before she became a Hound, and was later named Riley’s Golden Hand, the vampire who spoke with his authority. Her first assignment as the Golden Hand of the Daywalker was to keep the Masquerade in the months before Operation Nyx intact, and rally any willing Kindred to Netsach’s cause.
During this period, Barbara found herself interacting with Alejandro Raura, a vampire that had once been an enemy of the Methuselah’s and of Netsach’s. Alejandro ended up falling in love with Barbara sometime before the final fight against Nyx, but Barbara found herself unable to return his feelings.
Barbara faced the coming of the new age in 2013 and the years beyond with a lot of anxiety. Riley Falner was succumbing to the Deep Slumber; everyone she knew within her blade was busying themselves with whatever they could do in order to prepare for the Breaking of the Veil. Furthermore, she did not feel like she was entirely worthy of being the Golden Hand of the Daywalker. It took a long, heart-to-heart talk with her parents, Raura, Riley, Lex, and Marrigan to convince her that she could rise to the challenge.
Using the skills she had picked up during her first extended assignment as the Hound of the Daywalker, Barbara attempted to devote all of her energies from that point onward into diving knee-deep into Kindred politics. She used all of the powers and the influence that she had at her disposal to convince the unruly Kindred that nothing had changed, and that the Daywalker’s will was vested in her, and only in her. Beyond this, she was on the frontlines of every major anti-Grendal operation in Southeast Asia, and tried, as much as possible, to personally handle any Kindred-related matter that reached her ears. She is best known for Operation Skull’s Path, which involved establishing contact with the Elder Kindred of the Fifth World, and bringing whoever was willing into Ordo Daywalker. She and her comrades destroyed the Elders who were beyond saving, or clearly out to upset the Balance.
CURRENT STATUS
Since the Armistice at Blaece, Barbra has silenced (or completely gotten rid of) all of her detractors, and was, by far, the most powerful vampire in the Fifth World. She has recently won the Philippines’ senatorial elections, and is the first supernatural in this new age’s history to take public office.
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE
Originally, the carefree and bubbly personality that Barbie appeared to possess was nothing but a front that she had constructed in order to make herself conform to Philippine society’s expectations upon an individual of her gender and social class. Barbara had spent most of her childhood being bullied for being smart and liking books rather than boys, and – in order to avoid that – she figured that it would be best to simply ignore one’s own wishes and be capable of filling in any container that society gave to her. While she retained the cheerful disposition and the love for looking good, Barbie eventually took back the aspects of herself that she had ignored for the entirety of her teenage years: her sharp wit, her propensity to speak up at the soonest opportunity, and her desire for knowledge.
Barbara has been lucky in the sense that unlike other vampires, she has barely had to experience the agony of living one’s unlife alone and in the dark. She was allowed, on the get-go, to walk out into the sun. She came home to parents who did not bother attempting to understand the situation and focused solely on loving their daughter in the only ways that they knew how: by fully supporting her in all of her endeavors. She was surrounded by blade mates who pushed her into doing things for herself rather than other people. Because of all of this, the distance between her human self and her vampiric nature is not nearly as wide as it could be, and she has a very real motivation to stay alive and reclaim her humanity by reaching Golconda.
THREAT LEVEL
COMMENDABLE/NON-FACTOR. Riley’s absence or presence is, interestingly enough, negligible: Barbara’s actions have granted her more than enough personal clout and influence both within Kindred political circles and within today’s Vigil. Were it not for her stolid beliefs in Pax Deorum’s decrees, she would pose a formidable threat to the stability of the World of Light and World of Darkness relations.
ELIAS’ NOTES
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BIOMETRICS
FULL NAME: Barbara Gomez
KNOWN ALIASES AND TITLES: The Golden Hand of the Daywalker
DATE OF BIRTH: June 4, 1994
AGE: 68
NATIONALITY: Filipino-Spanish
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Because she is a vampire, Barbara will always look like she is eighteen years old.
HUNTER DOSSIER
CLASS: Vampire (Daeva, Toreador Bloodline)
HOME COMPACT/CONSPIRACY: Netsach
RANK: Inquisitor
POSITIONS HELD:
- Inquisitor of Behemoth, Cerberus and Maenad (Liyab; Blade: “Wolf’s Choice”)
- Hound of Ordo Daywalker (2012)
AFFILIATED COMPACTS/CONSPIRACIES:
- The Methuselah, pre-2012 (Sixth Circle, Anino; Blade: “Wolf’s Choice”)
- The Methuselah (Erinyes, the Wiseman’s Committee)
- Zangyaku (Oni-Tsukai {Ten}/Nami {Ten} of the Whisperers, Shin Yamatai)
OTHER AFFILIATED GROUPS:
- Ordo Daywalker (Golden Hand)
TACTICAL DESIGNATION: Front Liner, Liaison, Administrator
FAVORED WEAPONS: Katars
COMBAT ASSESSMENT: Extremely aggressive, close-ranged fighter that relies on her speed and her abilities to keep her enemies completely off-balance. Actually works best, however, off the battlefield.
HISTORY
Barbara was the only daughter of a Filipino senator. Prior to her Embrace, she lived her life oblivious to the fact that her mother was nothing but a trophy wife to her father, and her father was completely uninterested in anything beyond accumulating wealth and looking for a new and younger woman to marry. Barbara herself had her own issues to deal with: she had, at that point, built herself to become the perfect socialite on the belief that being empty-headed and beautiful was the only way that she would ever be able to be accepted to other people.
Christopher Rivera, a Toreador, took advantage of Barbara’s naiveté and desperate need to be loved. He Embraced the girl, and – in the hopes of cutting her loose from her family and making her completely dependent on him – brought her, hungry and overwhelmed by her vampiric nature, back home. Riley Falner ended up intervening at this point, and stopped Barbara from feeding on her own father. He then pulled the girl away, and brought her into the Methuselah.
Barbie was assigned to Wolf’s Choice, and attempted, to the best of her abilities, to balance her night classes with the day engagements that her companions in the blade occupied themselves with. A little after she and the rest of Wolf’s Choice captured Christopher and had him subjected to the Daywalker’s breed of vampiric justice, she learned that losing her had brought her parents together, and they had never given up hope that their daughter was alive even as Anino worked towards making sure that they would never find Barbara again. Thankfully, when Barbara finally mustered up the courage to show them what had happened to her, her parents were only too happy to have their daughter back.
When Netsach split away from the Methuselah and became its own conspiracy, Barbara followed her blade mates to Netsach without hesitation: she wanted to be with them, and she also wanted to remain close to Riley, the vampire that had become her surrogate father figure. She involved herself with the activities of Ordo Daywalker, and excelled in every task that was thrown her way. It was not too long before she became a Hound, and was later named Riley’s Golden Hand, the vampire who spoke with his authority. Her first assignment as the Golden Hand of the Daywalker was to keep the Masquerade in the months before Operation Nyx intact, and rally any willing Kindred to Netsach’s cause.
During this period, Barbara found herself interacting with Alejandro Raura, a vampire that had once been an enemy of the Methuselah’s and of Netsach’s. Alejandro ended up falling in love with Barbara sometime before the final fight against Nyx, but Barbara found herself unable to return his feelings.
Barbara faced the coming of the new age in 2013 and the years beyond with a lot of anxiety. Riley Falner was succumbing to the Deep Slumber; everyone she knew within her blade was busying themselves with whatever they could do in order to prepare for the Breaking of the Veil. Furthermore, she did not feel like she was entirely worthy of being the Golden Hand of the Daywalker. It took a long, heart-to-heart talk with her parents, Raura, Riley, Lex, and Marrigan to convince her that she could rise to the challenge.
Using the skills she had picked up during her first extended assignment as the Hound of the Daywalker, Barbara attempted to devote all of her energies from that point onward into diving knee-deep into Kindred politics. She used all of the powers and the influence that she had at her disposal to convince the unruly Kindred that nothing had changed, and that the Daywalker’s will was vested in her, and only in her. Beyond this, she was on the frontlines of every major anti-Grendal operation in Southeast Asia, and tried, as much as possible, to personally handle any Kindred-related matter that reached her ears. She is best known for Operation Skull’s Path, which involved establishing contact with the Elder Kindred of the Fifth World, and bringing whoever was willing into Ordo Daywalker. She and her comrades destroyed the Elders who were beyond saving, or clearly out to upset the Balance.
CURRENT STATUS
Since the Armistice at Blaece, Barbra has silenced (or completely gotten rid of) all of her detractors, and was, by far, the most powerful vampire in the Fifth World. She has recently won the Philippines’ senatorial elections, and is the first supernatural in this new age’s history to take public office.
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE
Originally, the carefree and bubbly personality that Barbie appeared to possess was nothing but a front that she had constructed in order to make herself conform to Philippine society’s expectations upon an individual of her gender and social class. Barbara had spent most of her childhood being bullied for being smart and liking books rather than boys, and – in order to avoid that – she figured that it would be best to simply ignore one’s own wishes and be capable of filling in any container that society gave to her. While she retained the cheerful disposition and the love for looking good, Barbie eventually took back the aspects of herself that she had ignored for the entirety of her teenage years: her sharp wit, her propensity to speak up at the soonest opportunity, and her desire for knowledge.
Barbara has been lucky in the sense that unlike other vampires, she has barely had to experience the agony of living one’s unlife alone and in the dark. She was allowed, on the get-go, to walk out into the sun. She came home to parents who did not bother attempting to understand the situation and focused solely on loving their daughter in the only ways that they knew how: by fully supporting her in all of her endeavors. She was surrounded by blade mates who pushed her into doing things for herself rather than other people. Because of all of this, the distance between her human self and her vampiric nature is not nearly as wide as it could be, and she has a very real motivation to stay alive and reclaim her humanity by reaching Golconda.
THREAT LEVEL
COMMENDABLE/NON-FACTOR. Riley’s absence or presence is, interestingly enough, negligible: Barbara’s actions have granted her more than enough personal clout and influence both within Kindred political circles and within today’s Vigil. Were it not for her stolid beliefs in Pax Deorum’s decrees, she would pose a formidable threat to the stability of the World of Light and World of Darkness relations.
ELIAS’ NOTES
- Approach Inquisitor Gomez re: rumors of presidential bid. It’d be a good opportunity to ask her about Raura too.
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