David Blanchett

Clan	Toreador
Position	None
Status	2
Domain	Atlanta, GA
Coterie	I'm not in a coterie.
Society	{{{Society}}}
Path	Humanity 000
Player	Roddy

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Overview

Davy and Sybil together soon after their wedding, a perfect picture of Kindred bliss.

Alias(es): Davy, Lips

Real Name: David Blanchett

Apparent Age: Early 30s

Concept: Mad Musician

Physical description: Davy is just below average height, swarthy with a perpetual smirk. His attire started out as jeans and button-up shirt with an M&M tie (the blue one, playing the sax). Now it's extremely dependent upon his mood. Davy has been seen in everything from full suit and tie to a bizarre black shirt that looks like something from the Hubble Telescope.

Detailed Status:

• Acknowledged by Prince Alex Silverson of Birmingham, Alabama
• Ardent by Prince Jericho Fenix of East St. Louis

Toreador Prestige (Toreador Only):

• Loyal
• Devil's Bane on the Saxophone
  • Granted for winning a musical duel
• Talented Composer
• Talented Music Theorist
• Fearless
  • Granted for fighting on the lines at the Battle of the Potomac against Hadrian's infernal hordes

Character Information

Known History

Davy, the music running through his head. (Sketch courtesy of Sean Carter)

Davy's history is peppered by compositions of incomparable beauty and mistakes of incomparable consequence. His time in Atlanta has seen him rise, fall, rise again, and fall again. He's served time as Keeper, Lesser Harpy, Whip, and Primogen. The last of those he kept for a number of years before his incomparably consequential encounter with a wizard as mad as he in Middle Georgia.

He is none-too-popular these days in Georgia, or even amongst large swaths of his clan. Of course, he's lucky to still walk the nights having broken the First Tradition in as spectacular a manner as he did. Between demons, supremely Elder Malkavians, and mad mages, Davy's next "project" may very well be his last.

Of course, all of this has to be worth it, doesn't it? His musical skills are second-to-none. He has performed on his saxophone for many a luminary of the Camarilla (and the courts of other supernatural denizens of Atlanta, it is rumored!) and his compositions have brought blood tears to the eyes of hardened killers. If Davy has gone mad (and he most certainly has), then it has had a purpose and yielded dividends for those able to appreciate what he can do.

Of late, Davy has taken a more active and direct hand in Camarilla affairs, both local and abroad. He was granted standing by a Prince for journeying into the Shadowlands to release a key ally in the fight against a particularly nasty infernal entity; actions like that are one of many things he would have sneered at but a short time ago. He also volunteered to assist a team in taking down a pack of Sabbat stragglers, leftovers from a recent halfhearted siege. When the eyebrows when up at his volunteering, his only response was "I'm going in case you all fail."

Davy is keeping up his artistic endeavors, however, organizing a series of musical flash mobs in Atlanta for the holiday season. What he's really up to these nights, however, is anyone's guess.

Coterie

The happy couple.

I'm not in a coterie.

That said, Davy is happily married to Sybil Chandler of Baton Rouge.

Allies

• Sybil Chandler-Blanchett
• Katherine Morgan
• Simon Random
• Joshua Klein
• Amanda Desrosiers
• Lilyan Townsend
• Victor Martini
• Antonia Petrella
• Julius Cole
• Evelyn Landrake
• Janet Blackthorne
• Tatiyana Krajnik

Enemies

• Attacus Frost
• Lester Crane
• Brian Faulkner
• Lilyanna Salvatore

Sire

Not publicly known.

Childer

Davy has no publicly known childer.

Broodmates

If Davy has any broodmates, no one knows about them.

Character Inspirations

• Johnny
• Mal Reynolds
• J.E.B. Stuart
• Michael Kamen
• The Music of Erich Zann
• This
• Maximillian Cohen
• Urza Planeswalker

Soundtrack

An artistic interpretation of Davy, courtesy of J. Saltarella

On the Road...

• Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Still the Same - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• Main Street - Bob Sever and the Silver Bullet Band
• I'm a Good Ol' Rebel - Hoyt Axton (Traditional Southern)
• Honky Tonk Badonkadonk - Trace Adkins
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Into Babylon

• Guitars and Cadillacs - Dwight Yokoam
• Human - The Killers
• Disturbia - Rhianna
• The Hardest Part - Coldplay
• The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
• Away From Me - Evanescence
• More Than A Feeling - Boston

Magnum Opus

• One Last Wish (Casper Soundtrack)
• Hymn - Moby
• God Moving Over the Face of the Waters - Moby
• Transcendence - Lindsey Stirling
• Prophecy (Dune Soundtrack)
• The Beauty Underneath - Love Never Dies

Quotes

• "I'm not saying you shouldn't do business with Davy Blanchett, I'm saying that you can't handle doing business with Davy Blanchett." - a business associate to a former Prince

• "I speak proper English, not this strange dialect you seem to have picked up!" - Rachel Dubhan, to Davy

• "When one is truly dedicated to their art, all else pales in comparison. That is the essence of Clan Toreador." - Davy, to Prince Charles McMillan

• "Patterns of wind and water, falling from darkness but not into the light." - Davy, context unknown

• "Davy, do you play with your food?" - asked of Davy as he toyed with a neonate in Elysium

• "Nuance. Complication. Truth with a capital 'T.'" - Davy, on Humanity, to a very bestial Harley Draven

• "The one with the baton hears the echoes best." - Davy, to Lilyanna Salvatore

• "Blanchett? He's a snake in the grass...but I think he's on our side." Zack Burke

• "Sybil's Tremere; I would never dream of asking her to give up her magic. Why on earth should I give up mine?" - Davy, to Sigmund Brandt's request that he give up his mistresses before getting married

• "I have long maintained that Malkavians do not have the market cornered on insanity. Oh, hello Mr. Blanchett!" - Joshua Klein, as Davy walked up

Rumors

Something very much like this, indeed.

• Had all but one status stripped away.
  • Still feels like he's won.

• Had an exact duplicate made of himself.

• Davy faced the Devil in a musical duel...and won.
  • Davy is an infernalist. It turns out that duels don't always end like they do in songs.

• Some feel that Davy is completely out for himself, and doesn't care about his Clan.
  • Or any other clan for that matter. His disregard for the Masquerade will doom us all...

• Loves to talk about himself, and then his music. Ask him about the Christmas album he plans on making this year.
  • Lilyanna Salvatore refuses to play music Davy writes. She's afraid of it.

• Davy knows Necromancy, taught to him by the Baron Samedi, to whom he was introduced by Simon Random. That's how he finally got rid of the ghostly children that tailed him at Elysium...unless they were already bound to him, that is.

• Using Telepathy on Davy is inadvisable. His music dominates his thoughts, as it would dominate the mind of any to hear it in such a pure way.
  • Using Telepathy on Davy is inadvisable simply because he's crazy. You don't want that to rub off on you.
    • Davy's not "simply" crazy. He's gone utterly mad.

• Davy was trapped in another dimension.
  • It wasn't another dimension, it was an Elder Malkavian's mind.
    • The after-effects have been "interesting."

• Is now happily married to a Tremere.
  • He still very publicly has several mistresses around the globe. Wonder how the women feel about each other?

• Davy's chickens have finally come home to roost.