Yvette Krupinski

Victorian Age

When the semi-famous Toreador violinist Tamoszius first came to the New World, he stopped briefly in New York. Before following many of his fellow Lithuanians to Chicago (and fleeing the horrid presence of the Sabbat), Tamoszius briefly entertained the idea of staying in New York. Only a year after arriving, he Embraced Yvette, a fellow violinist to whom he had been listening through the windows of her family's Brooklyn brownstone since entering the city. New York proved not to be to Tamoszius' liking, and he fled the city, leaving his bewildered progeny behind^[2].

Aggrieved at what she had become, Yvette vanished as well, leaving her distraught family thinking that she had been murdered or kidnapped. In truth, Yvette fled to Manhattan, where she spent her nights evading Sabbat vampires and practicing her instrument, the only aspect of her mortal life that she's been able to keep hold of.

Then she made an agreement with Aimery de Methuin^[1]. She found a place near the Grand Central Terminal, part of Aimery's domain, and in return she provided him with details of Kindred passing through the station. Yvette's reports were far from enlightening - she was too self-involved to be a good observer - and Aimery was so disinterested that he frequently forgot she existed. Shortly before his defection to the Sabbat, he tried to get rid of her^[3].

Being Kindred proved too much for Yvette, and the toll it placed on her emotionally sent her into frequent torpors, from which she would rise, confused, before wandering the streets and succumbing to the cold sleep again^[2].

Kindred have come and gone through Yvette unlife. She met a few here and there, and most of them seem to enjoy her playing, but neither they nor society held much allure to her. She faced every night alone, even when she had taken lovers, and it wouldn't be long again before she slipped into torpor again.

Modern Nights

Yvette is the Kindred who rescued Ecaterina from destruction during the chaos of the Black Hand's assasination attempt on her unlife. She had followed a group of Cainites to their Palla Grande and watched as events unfolded, rushing in to drag the fallen bishop to safety. She doesn't know why she did this, but she suspects it was to spare the Cainite (whose name she didn't even know, let alone that she was a bishop) from and unpleasant end, a surprising act of empathy on Yvette's part. Only Yvette's disassociation with Kindred society keeps her from being anywhere that she might recognize Katherine as Ecaterina, but she would certainly remember the face were she to see it.

While stalking Grand Central Terminal one night for sustenance, Yvette saw a man whom she immediately fell in love with. She tried to entice him with her music but it turned out that the man was deaf. Crushed - left without a method by which to express herself to the one person who suddenly mattered, Yvette returned to her haven, where she sank into torpor again^[3].

She arose recently, after the city had shifted from Sabbat to Camarilla dominance (not that she noticed). Following visions she received in her slumber, she traced her paramour's movements to a run-down apartment in Queens. After a little research, she found out his name was Leonard, but she remains at loss for how to approach him.