Rattenkonigin

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Seeming Beast Hunterheart
Court Summer Court ••••
Freehold None
Player Spider Wingate

Name: Die Rattenkönigin, Dar to a small group of friends.

Title: Our Lady of Vermin, The Ratqueen, Knight of the Black Order

Seeming: Beast

Kith: Hunterheart

Freehold: Unclear

Motley: TBD


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Under the Floorboards

Inspirations:
King Rat by China Mieville
Dar Rattenkönig (german faerie tale)
Anti-Hero comic books such as Punisher, Moon Knight, Batman
Lamorak of Arthurian Myth
71 Hour Ahmed and Death of Rats - Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Tupelo - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Singapore - Tom Waits
Dark Days Indeed - Firewater

Parkour Clip from B13
Russian Parkour

"You have plans for rats? Well I have dreams for them."

"What is a rat?"
He'd replied, "Teeth. Claws. Tail. Run. Hide. Eat. That's what a rat is."
"But now we can also say 'what is a rat?' And that means we're more than that."
"We're rats," He had argued. "We run around and squeak and steal and make more rats. That's what we're made for!"
"Who by?" -Both quotes from Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

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Look within the Walls


For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
- Edmund Spenser "An Hymne in Honour of Beautie", line 132

Mask: Youngish, Well muscled in a compact, lithe way, Konigin seldom stands fully upright as if used to a ceiling too low for her tall frame. Habitually attired in long jackets, she hides behind smoked grey sunglasses at all times and frequently covers her hands with gloves. Her manner switches from laconic amusement to abrupt brutality with little warning, the mercurial moodswings of gutter royalty, and she goes from the stillness of a waiting hunter to the constant small movements of vermin as swiftly.

Mein: The lithe muscles stand out more, like an animal constantly in a state of exertion; her ears are faintly pointed and out just a bit too far from her head. Scars of a bewildering variety - jagged ones, neat ones from blades, bite marks, places where thorns have torn away at her - cover her skin, breaking up the slightly too thick hairs on her arms. Beneath the long jacket, usually coiled around her legs if in sight at all are three rat tails. And she always smells faintly of coppery blood, fur and leather.

Notable Traits: She makes an effort to conceal a world travelers accent: a little bit from various places.

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Whispers of Vermin

I exist on the fringes in those places even the Lost have forgotten or fear to recognize exist. I live between the moments and in the shadows of the places no one else will go. I am rootless and without true home, as my children vermin hordes never have peace or stop moving. I quest for something, and I do not even know what it is I quest for.

I am Summer. I am implacable anger. I am the best and the worst of all my Vermin children. I am the Beast who protects and slays, I am the Ratcatcher who cannot be hidden from, I am the Trapbreaker who will steal from the gods and laugh, I am the Lady of Vermin, the Leader of the Swarm, die Rattenkonigin, The Ratqueen. And I am everywhere.

Konigin is a creature who seldom shares much about herself. From the occasional dropped comment and story this much is clear:
She was taken some decades back and returned in the very early 90's whereupon she joined with the Spring Court and threw herself into the lifestyle of the world traveler, always on the move to the next place, the next party, the next town over. Everywhere she went she was involved in the art scene and the promoter circuit, prefering raves and underground clubs where the bass was strong and the inhibitions low. The years slipped by and her Clarity failed her as her Wyrd grew and her responses to problems became increasingly violent and her joie de vivre faded into a grimmer and more distant attitude.

In the early part of the new millenia she abruptly switched courts from Spring to Summer and let her ties to the club and art scene fade mostly away, spending much of her free time fighting for her Court or talking to members of the Autumn court. It's said she's part of a motley that will, if the cause is right (though no one is sure what yardstick they use) will defend causes or people, even to the death, and who take grim delight in hunting down and killing the worst Oathbreakers.

And that's a task she's uniquely suited for, having been the 'Ratcatcher' for her Lord in Arcadia. Charged with hunting down escapees and killing them for trying to run back to the mortal world, she said once while deep in her drink, that not one she was sent after ever managed to escape and that most of them never did anything at all again.

In the last year or so, she's finally 'settled' as much as she ever does, maintaining semi-permanent residence in Arizona somewhere but is still as restless as the vermin she calls her children: always moving, visiting, exploring and in the meantime carrying messages back and forth between freeholds or accompanying someone as a guide or bodyguard.

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The Hordes and associates


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What the Shadows Hear

  • Just...beautiful. - Ae Lament
  • "Do I like her? I don't rightly know; I'll tell you one thing though, ain't many people I'd turn to if the shit hit the fan. If she came... I'd let her guard my back, rat or no." - Race Ardent
  • "It is greater than an incomplex chase. It is the epitome of the elucidating and ceremonious pursuit between that which scurries, and that which doesn't." - Capricious
  • "The rage of many is a swarm. It takes great strength to wield such power within a single will." - Cerannen
  • "Tail and whiskers, claw and fur, skuttle skuttle skuttle twitch. Fang and fury and snarl and cut, what a horrible bitch. At the neck, the ankle and the crotch, she bites and and scratches and gnaws. You'll blacken and choke and twist and die, wherever she sticks her claws..." - Jack Sprat
  • "Konigin, someday we will find a better meeting place than over a body." - Remy Carson
  • "Damned rats." - Gaius Arctorus
  • "Vermin? Look in the mirror before you call her that. Some vermin walk on two legs. Some fighters prefer four." - Edria Meredith
  • "The oncoming storm; dangerous beyond all measure. I hope to never have to stand in her way again; I will not survive the experience twice." - James Daniels
  • "No Shit, there I was, Naked as the day I was born with a sword in one hand and a boot in the other, Watching helplessly as this furry little person scarpered off with the rest of our clothing... And still I was hard pressed to keep from laughing because the LOOK on Gaius's face...." - Kalen Blazenheart
  • "Rats keep the truce between dogs and snakes. Rats make soldiers swear and hop up and down. Always helpful, the rats." - Nujalik
  • "We always cross paths, Konigan and I. Someday that crossing will be the ending of one of us. Until then, happy hunting, Rat." - Penelope Mal
  • "Sailors say that rats are the first to desert a sinking ship... yet she has never deserted me." - Althea Sexton
  • "She was there before, she was there after; she always turns up when you need her most of all; no platitudes, no sugar; just blunt truth and honest friendship. --Erised
  • "I'm certainly glad that I get along with Konigan. I would never want to be on her bad side." -- Pyotr Koud Hart
  • "Rattenkonigin? Ye mean Dar? Aye, I know the lass. Ye wants to know what? If she be wantin ye to know that, she be tellin ye, lubber. I suggest ye get runnin, and keep a weather eye out for the shadows." -- Mister Greenbriar
  • "Hey, Trixie? Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?" She catches the passed out girl. "See Mo? No skull trauma this time." - Rattenkonigin
  • "Never get into a foot race with this one, she will win." - Bolgra
  • "We shouldn't get along. But we do. And that should tell a person something." -- Morgana Damphair
  • "She scares the bejesus out of me." Sirius Grin
  • "Maybe if I don't move she won't see me... damn..." -- Madame Nuit
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Grafitti

  • Her sunglasses aren't required because of bad or sensitive vison but to hide something fucked up about her eyes.
  • She's known to reference very occasionally her "Good Twin" but who that is exactly is unclear.
  • She's a brutal thug who takes any excuse to murder, maim and kill to release her wrath.
  • When Konigin first came back from the Hedge she served the Spring Court and she doesn't talk about why she switched.
  • She didn't willingly leave the Spring Court for Summer, they threw her out and if Summer hadn't taken her she would have been killed.
  • For a brutal thug, she's a remarkably skilled artist specializing in stone and metal.
  • She has some sort of rivalry with members of The Praesidium and apparently delights in conning, tricking and beating it's members.
  • Despite her violent, brutal methods, she actually serves as a conscience of some sort for Jack Sprat.
  • She's disappears for weeks on end to Tomnahurich and some say she prefers the company of the Marrowmen and the fight against the Border Reavers to anything else in this world.

Played by Spider Wingate, email at AngelSamael at Gmail

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