The Masquerade

A female Ghoul with neat dark hair and eyes lined to emphasize their intent focus. She wears structured dresses in deep jewel tones like garnet, obsidian, and amethyst with subtle gothic flourishes. She carries an aura of cool elegance and a faint scent of clove, aged leather, and lavender.

Natalie is calm, capable, and always present, yet beneath her collected surface lies a woman tightly coiled, perceptive, loyal, and dangerous. She understands the complex politics of the Kindred world and balances devotion with self-preservation, walking a fine line between love and madness.

Before the Kiss of Vitae, Natalie was a high-end hospitality consultant and self-trained perfumer with a niche following among the city’s elite. She specialized in crafting atmospheres — experiences that lived in scent, texture, tone. One night, a woman named Bronwyn entered her life like a hallucination in velvet and silence. Bronwyn offered Natalie more than employment: she offered a deeper truth, fractured and spiraling. Since becoming Bronwyn’s ghoul, Natalie has served as her anchor, assistant, and sometimes interpreter to the outside world. In private, Natalie sees more than she should. Despite this, Natalie stays, bound by blood, fascination, and perhaps a love she doesn’t dare name. She is perceptive, loyal, and dangerous in her own right, understanding Kindred politics better than many neonates and knowing when to vanish into shadows or deliver veiled threats over a glass of absinthe.