Know Your Kindred - Tammy Walenski
Posted by yafka on March 23, 2008
Name: Tammy Walenski
Clan: Nosferatu
Generation: 7th
Embraced: 1950 (at age 12)
Tammy and her brother Peter lived in an abusive home. The physical and emotional pain brought on my their alcoholic parents lead the children to set the house on fire as their parents slept. The night they watched the house burn was the night they were made aware of the Nosferatu Khalid, who had been watching the house for five years and monitoring the children.
Khalid had reached the conclusion that the two kids must be Embraced to save them and to preserve their pain for eternity – for he would never change anyone who had the hope of a peaceful mortal life; only those who would be enriched by the gift of being a Nosferatu. The night of the fire sealed his decision. He brought them back to his haven and spoke softly to them. Within a few hours they accepted his gift.
Tammy and Peter lived with Khalid and he taught them their new abilities. Eventually they returned to sleep in the basement of their burned out home. The ghosts of their dead parents also inhabit the structure and now act as Tammy and Peter’s retainers. Tammy has learned to make the ghosts help them, and this has given her influence in the world of ghosts and increased Tammy’s knowledge of what goes on in the city.
Tammy and Peter have developed a powerful blood bond with each other. They can read each other’s thoughts and auras. They alternate between feeding on adults and animals. They will never harm a child and if they see a child being hurt they will go into a frenzy and attack the abuser - be it vampire or human.
Recently they have stopped hiding from other Kindred in the hopes of being included in the community. But they are too shy to ask.
- Source Chicago By Night
