Razi Massoud

Clan	Child of Haqim
Position	None
Status	1
Domain	Twin Cities, MN
Coterie	None
Society	{{{Society}}}
Path	Humanity 0000
Player	Lin McP

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Overview

Vague character reference... player pic to come soon!

Alias(es): Razi
Real Name: not publicly known
Apparent Age: very early 20's
Concept: Keeper of the Masquerade/Priest on the Battlefield

Physical description: Razi looks like a shorter, athletically-curvy woman with dark auburn hair and grey eyes. Going on appearance, she's a mix between Spanish, North African/Arabic, and Eastern European, but her accent is decidedly Turkish. Her taste in clothing is cosmopolitan but demure.

Appearance: 3

Detailed Status:

• Acknowledged by Prince Mustafa of Istanbul, Turkey

(CoH Only: Aspirant Sister of Dragons)

Character Information

Quiet and curious, Razi is almost never without a small notebook and her string of glass prayer beads, which see several dozen turns over the course of any gather night. When such has come up in conversation, she states she is trained as a Rabba and is willing to speak with whomever needs her services. However, she prefers to listen to the conversation than be the focus of it. When at gathering, she actively tries to be helpful in whatever situation she finds herself in. In less-than-friendly situations, she acts protective of those around her, doing her best to get non-combatants out of dangerous areas and end confrontations as quickly and amicably as possible.

Known History

Razi first showed up within the Camarilla many years ago in Istanbul, joining her family members in Prince Mustafa's court and seeking Acknowledgement. She remained there until March of 2011, when she relocated to the Twin Cities to escape the "Arab Spring" discontent. Initially, she was seen mostly with other Children of Haqim, such as Prince Morgan Wynn Howell and clanmates from the Winona and La Crosse domains. Her Probationary sect standing was removed by Justicar Maris Streck in early-mid June after an official visit to Cardiff, and she began working more closely with the other residents on several different matters.

After taking part in a large hunt in nearby St. Cloud (a former Anarch territory that had been overtaken by the Sabbat), she has been seen to stay much closer to Court. At present, she is helping one of the local Nosferatu with a newly-arrived Samedi who has come under the Accounting.

Coterie

I think not.

Allies

Children of Haqim (by no means an exhaustive list): Prince Morgan Wynn Howell Saif Al'Din Alex Gray Samuel Draco Rashon Warren Jones Prince Rothgar Jacob Nazarene Archon Takashi Archon Al-Jhavad Archon Rishi Massoud Primogen Reva Massoud Rani Massoud Olivia Reed Brannon Felix Alabastor (deceased)

A few others she gets along reasonably well with: Primogen Sylphain Delille (Toreador) Whip Maeve Cahill (Toreador, whereabouts unknown) James Carlson (Toreador) Primogen Tiago Rangel (Brujah) Whip Lillian McCoy (Brujah) Daja (Brujah) Scourge Alexei Semago (Brujah) Harpy Rachel Violet Eiken (Ventrue) Keeper Nekoj Kustic (Ventrue) Joseph Hanover (Ventrue) Seneschal Digger (Nosferatu) Primogen Jack (Nosferatu) Whip Ophelia (Nosferatu) Warren Berret (Samedi)

Enemies

None that she really knows of, although she's understandably watchful of the Tremere.

The Massoud Family

Grandsire: Rohan Massoud Sire: Rishi Massoud, Archon to the Ventrue Justicar Lucinde Broodmates: Unknown Childer: Unknown

Rohan's Broodmates: Unknown Rishi's Broodmates: Reva Massoud Nadja Vadoma Lovel Reva's Childer: Rani Massoud Rashne Massoud

Character Inspirations

[As a player, I like to put up plenty of stuff so that other people might come across something they can use ;) ]

• Gulseren, my Research Methods professor from Turkey
• My good friend Wren, who's Jewish and Puerto Rican: "...both at the same time."
  • In LARP terms, Wren's like a real-life Zio!, but as a straight woman with less glitter. I kid you not.
• Delenn, G'Kar, Lyta Alexander, and the Rangers from Babylon 5
• Tex, Church and Grif from Red vs. Blue
• The Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Billy Covington from Air America (we've come to the conclusion that Rishi is Gene Ryack)
• Spike Spiegel and Ed from Cowboy Bebop and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Knockin' on Heaven's Door)
• Samurai Champloo
• Tali'Zorah and Thane Krios from the Mass Effect game series
• Door and Hunter from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
• Jewish Folktales; selected and retold by Pinhas Sadeh
• Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural; selected and retold by Howard Schwartz, Illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
• The abundance of cultural tidbits and folk music I've picked up on over the years
• That darned military upbringing of mine...
• My personal interests in history, religion, spirituality, environmental studies, and politics

Soundtrack

Memory: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Learning to Fly Stance Punks- No Boy No Cry Lauryn Hill- Everything is Everything Janis Joplin- A Woman Left Lonely Green Day- 21 Guns The Replacements- Can't Hardly Wait [Demo Version] Led Zeppelin- Kashmir Frou Frou- Breathe In Linkin Park- Waiting for the End Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower The Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter Moby- Extreme Ways Gogol Bordello- My Companjera The Seatbelts- MUSAWE (feat. Hassan Bohmide) Asian Kung-Fu Generation- Blue Train Tupac Shakur- Changes NOFX- We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows ZZ Top- La Grange Ellen McLain- Cara Mia (Portal 2 Turret Opera) DJ Dain- That Long Train Ride (aka Path of Borealis) Jackson Browne- Doctor My Eyes

System: Collective Soul- Run The Guess Who- Hand Me Down World The Velvet Underground- Who Loves the Sun Lily Allen- Not Fair Breaking Benjamin- What Lies Beneath Seether- Master of Disaster Victor Borge and Sahan Arzruni- (Liszt) Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 Pink Floyd- On the Turning Away Wizo- R.A.F. Sight-Trance: Yoko Kanno- Smile Stephen Malinowski- (Debussy) Arabesque no. 1 Lemon Jelly- A Tune for Jack Nujabes- Kumomi The Seatbelts- Fingers Garmarna- Paso The Seatbelts- Wo Qui Non Coin (feat. Aoi Tada) Frou Frou- Let Go Lemon Jelly- Nice Weather for Ducks The Seatbelts- 3.14 (feat. Aoi Tada) The Seatbelts- Green Bird (feat. Gabriela Robin)

Quotes

"Why don't you let me drive? My car is much less... noticeable, yes." - said to some clanmates about to go "patrolling" in a bright yellow, pimped-out Hummer

"Perhaps a joke would help you cheer up: two rabbis walk into a deli, one turns to the other and says, 'hey, did ya hear the one about us?'" -said to a nervous ghoul at gather

"...wait, so the glittery one used to be Prince?" -on first learning about then-Archon Zio! during his last visit to the Twin Cities

Mrs. Priscilla Howell: "So Digger, what task did you give the Children of Haqim to do?"
Seneschal Digger: "Oh... I didn't give them one..."
Priscilla: "Why not?"
Digger: "Well, they're not exactly... um, they don't..."
Razi, smiling: "It's alright Seneschal, you may say whatever is on your mind- I promise I will not be offended."

(CoH Only) "The exchange of knowledge is itself a shield against our enemies in times like this."

Prince Berith: "... and that stuff's just the beginning of all the crap we've got to deal with."
Razi: "Things that would require the 'patience of Job.'"
Berith: "Oh, don't get me started on that guy!"

Rumors

• She's a seer and an oracle.
• Harpy Eiken only likes her because of her Sire.
• Razi talks in Yiddish when she's having a bad day.
  • Will speak a little Yiddish if asked, but warns they don't really speak it in Israel.
• Before his death, she followed Felix Alabastor around wherever he went in the Twin Cities.
• She doesn't get the whole "all Assamites are Muslim" thing.
  • Confused the Seneschal, who thought she was Muslim, and had to promise him none of her Clan-mates wanted to kill her for her religion or vice-versa.
• Oh yeah, she's Rishi's kid alright... she just needs something to trigger his kind of crazy.
• Razi and Jacob Nazarene really need to meet each other. It will either be awesome or some piece of reality will spontaneously disappear.
• Razi is a "cleaner" for the Assamites of the Twin Cities. She does the wet-work Morgan can't do himself.
• Considers herself a continual failure, which is why she's so forgiving to everyone around her.
• Occasionally puts on a lingerie strip-show when she's alone at her place, just so she can watch at gather to see which Nosferatu was spying on her.