Bruce Miner

Bruce Miner is one of the protagonist vampires from the novela, A Hunger like Fire, written by Greg Stolze in the Vampire: The Requiem setting. He is a Nosferatu vampire, victim of an illegal rush embrace created during the ban of embraces carried on by Maxwell in the city of Chicago. He was thus abandoned and left to defend on its own as his sire did not want to take responsibility for his mistake.

Background

Bruce was an alcoholic mortal that met a "weird dude" at a bar. What he remembers is his pale face, his putrid smell and insects crawling over his suit. Then fire, pure fire. The feeling of being burning. The rest of his memory of that night is foggy and the following night, he woke up wrapped up in plastic hidden in a locker somewhere. His body covered in deformities and with an insatiable hunger.

He is married to Nina and has a daughter called Brooke. In his fear, he manages to get home and notice people are freaked out by his appearance to the point some think he was wearing a Halloween mask. When he finally gets home, he is able to have a shower and look himself in the mirror, when he realizes in horror of his monstrous appearance. He first thinks he might have some sort of sickness. Sadly, later on, his hunger after waking up made him lose control and attack his wife and daughter when they get back home. During the fight, he attacks Nina and Brooke hits him in order to save her mother from the attack. Bruce turns around, grabs her, and feeds. This causes Brooke to have to be hospitalized. Nina covers for him by saying it was an animal, with the understanding that he leave their lives forever. This was the turning point for them, and he is forced abandon the family and go live in the streets where he is taken by a coterie of outcast kindred.

References

• VTR: A Hunger Like Fire ^{[citation needed]}