Wozzel
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Wealthy world-traveling scholar on a quest to use her unlife to understand the meaning of human existence.
Sometimes presenting as Amelia and sometimes presenting as Albert, Wozzel has learned over the centuries that how we are perceived has a major impact on how we are treated-- and that some situations are good for pants and some times you need a skirt (with pockets!).
Playlist: "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin, "Never Say Never" from American Tail, "Learn to Do It" From Anastasia, "Portabello Road" from Bed-knobs and Broomsticks, "La Vie Boheme" from Rent, "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago, "Hakuna Matata" from Lion King, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants, "Part of Your World" from Little Mermaid, "Higitus Figitus" from The Sword in the Stone, "Sister Suffragette" from Mary Poppins, "Dancing Through Life" from Wicked, "Consequence Free" by Great Big Sea, "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" from the carousel of progress,
- 1733 - Born in England with a twin brother, to a wealthy family involved in trade, she was raised primarily by her aunt.
- 1744 - Attended school pretending to be a boy with the help of her aunt and brother
- 1751 - Pretended to be her brother in order to get advanced education
- 1752 - Was found out and pressured to get married. She ran away from an arranged marriage.
- 1753 - Pretended to be a man and got a job as a clerk with a sailing ship company. She was found out by a ventrue vampire, Robert Hatt, who was impressed with her determination and desire to learn. She became his clerk and traveled the world.
- 1763 - Robert embraced Wozzel
- 1764 - Wozzel leaves accounting early as her feeding restriction makes long sea voyages difficult. She takes up a land-based role in a port city under Elder Gunn's supervision, working with scholars and doing translation work. Wozzel also became involved in the abolition movement.
- 1763-1860 - World exploration (looking for ties)
- 1860s- Wozzel ran a book store in London
- 1893 - Wozzel moves to Chicago after attending the World Columbian Exposition.
- 1920-44 - Spent the time in Vienna smuggling people out of the area and spying
- 1946 - Opens a 'family owned' book store in Chicago
- 1978 - While visiting with her sire in Spain to help with a project, they got attacked by some sabbat and Robert was diablorized after buying time for Wozzel to escape.
- 1995 quietly bought Kroch's and Brentano's in order to prevent the grand book store from closing.
- 2012 - Renames the older family owned' book store to A and A Books .
- 2021 - Wozzel moves to Madison, WI, as Chicago temporarily became too dangerous for Wozzels.
- 2024 - Blood-hunted by Don Ariel, a Wozzel runs away.
Wozzel is an adventurer and a scholar, proficient on topics ranging from Religion and Philosophy to Anthropology and Architecture. Wozzel speaks, reads, and writes a variety of languages and dabbles in a wide range of sciences. Wozzel can sing and can draw and can fly an airplane and does all of them with joy and passion. Wozzel is deeply invested in humanity and mortal institutions.
- Wozzel has no true preference regarding what pronouns to use.
- Wozzel has no interest in relationships, only books.
- Wozzel is actually Elder Gunn's childe and is just pretending to be a neonate to avoid having to act like it.
- I heard that the reason we have airplanes, is because of Wozzel. I mean, I'm not saying that Dominate was involved. But have you seen those early flight contraptions from before the Wright Brothers.
- Wozzel regularly considers running away and pretending to be a malkavian.
- Wozzel is secretly a tremere who is extremely bad at thaumaturgy, and is just pretending to be a ventrue to avoid being mocked by other tremere.
- "Everyone Needs a Wozzel."
- "If anyone happens to comment that I am on a 'joy ride of terrorism through an Independent Alliance city,' please rest assured that, if such happens, I'll have written permission from the local Marshal."
- "I was sent here to spend a lot of boons on being petty, and in exchange my elder gave me boons to buy access to the documents I wanted. His words were along the lines of.... 'I don't care if you come home with the lost library of Alexandria as long as you get the---' well, you don't need to know that part."
Player | Rebecca Gearhart |
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Pronouns | She/Her |
MES # | US2012100174 |
Domain | IL-013-D |
Storyteller | Alex M. |