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Blonde Chanteuse

Statistics

Name: Nicolette Duchenne
Apparent Age: 25-28
Affiliation: Unreleased
Title: None
Clan: Daeva
Bloodline: none
City Status: 0
Clan Status: 0
Covenant Status: 0
Status: Alive
Public Traits: Blood Potency 1, Humanity 7, Presence 4 Striking Looks 4
Theme Song: Nina Simone: I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
Quote: It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy
Seal: None
Lineage:
Kyra Laine, Invictus - alive (Carcosa)
- Jason Hall. Circle of the Crone
  - Morgan James, Circle of the Crone
    - Charles Ellingsworth. Commissioner, Invictus

Quirks

Public Knowledge:
- She is the Childe of Kyra Laine.
- She sings under the stage name Monique at one of the nicest Jazz Clubs in Carcosa
- She is very self confident and goes after what she wants as long as it profits her in some way.
- She is warm and friendly to those she likes but is guarded.
- She has a nervous habit of click her fingernails together.
Nic's Favorite Weekend Set

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Nicolette Duchenne

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Mortal Life

French Twist

Nicolette Duchenne is the name all my friends call me by. My stage name is Monique, which is what everyone, who isn't my friend, in the city knows me by. Before you open your filthy mouth I am not a stripper. Ok so I have the body of a stripper but I am much classier than a stripper. I keep my extensive sex life private. Not that I am all that into sex but it gets me what I want. No, I am a chanteuse. For those of you that flunked French that is a singer. I work at a Jazz club in Ecclesia at night. Really there is nothing like singing Jazz and Blues. I practically worship Nina Simone. I think it was Father's mistake that he played her records so often.

See my parents wanted me to go to college and enter the political arena like them. My mother used to be an interpreter in Washington DC and my father worked in the French embassy. Neither had much power doing either job and both made a modest income, but it's all they could ever talk about. I decided from a young age that being in either line of work was extremely boring. I was a wild child, not someone who should end up sitting behind a desk all her life. I decided I would let my younger brother live up to their expectations. He seemed as infinitely dull as them. Don't get me wrong I learned a lot about the workings of politics from them, but I never saw how it would do me any good. I have a theory that my mom cheated on my dad with some Washington intern or something. I can't explain why else I would be so different from the rest of my family.

I think they had high hopes for me as high school was relatively easy for me. I excelled in choir as well as being on the drill team. I was pretty popular in school to boot. I think my parents tolerated my extracurricular activities because maybe they thought it would look good on my transcripts for college. I had no intention of going to college though. After graduating I finally told my parents my ambitions to be a singer and I could tell they were greatly disappointed. As such they only allowed me to stay living with them until I had saved enough money, from working as a waitress, to move out.

I decided I need a completely different venue to start out. I decided to move to Carcosa because it just seemed like there would be opportunities there and I wouldn't have to live in a short driving distance from my parents. They first few years were rough. I lived in da ghetto for awhile as I got used to living on my own and working on a plan of attack for how I was going to get into the biz. I worked at a call center for a cell phone company for a couple years and scraped enough lessons with a voice coach. I was mugged a few times got harassed until I got used to how to handle myself in the city. I started out singing at open mike nights at several hole in the wall Jazz clubs which suited me well as I became a more confident performer. However, I wasn't really getting noticed and I felt like I was stagnating. I soon learned that a little flirting with the right people goes a long way.

I bought myself a fewer nice outfits and clipped coupons so I could make sure I had enough money to go to the nicer clubs in town. I made the mistake of going into Sangria one night and some guys were harassing me about being a dancer there. Ok sure I knew how to dance but I don't do it for money. It was then my hero and soon to be new boss stepped in and got the fucktards to stop harassing me. He said he had seen me around particularly at blues and jazz clubs in and around the city. He swears he had even heard me sing although I think that was just a way to come on to me. Well as it turns out I did end up singing for him over and over and over that night. He took me under his wing after that. He said he had contacts, which he did, but they required cash to seal the deal. He of course paid, why not he was getting his money's worth out of me, and I didn't bother asking how much it cost him. As long as I got what I wanted, it didn't really matter. He got me some pretty nice gigs but nothing steady. He paid for everything I needed or wanted. I quit my day job. I mean why bother when I could get what I needed for only 20 minutes a day. Eventually his ability to get me jobs was not satisfactory to me.

Sure you could call it cheating, but I called it trading up. I eventually moved on to my current boss who is owner of one of the nicest Jazz clubs on the Eastern seaboard. After a few weeks of the ole huff and puff action Geoff let me fill in for the regular singer who called in sick. That would end up being the last time she would have to call in sick from the club. I became very popular very quickly. I always had a charisma that attracted crowds and kept an audiences attention especially when I sing. It's almost like an out of body experience for me. I was extremely happy being one of the headliners for the club. After a few years I knew the ins and outs of the club and was even called out of town to perform on occasion. I even performed in DC. It was a high point of my life that my parents got to see me perform. Eventually I had some informal out of town contacts and brought in some acts to the club in Carcosa from other cities. Geoff eventually let me be in charge of all the entertainment for the club and trusts my judgment in those matters. This means not only do I book acts to come in I also represent the exclusive acts to the club. All in all I get a paycheck for performing, a check for managing the club's exclusive acts and a cut of the business I bring into the club. I have Geoff so pussy whipped its a bit ridiculous but it affords me some monetary comforts as well. The club has never been so popular. I even have something of a fan. She is a pretty woman hit on me a while ago even said she had given up on men and that she recent had some rather embarrassing relations with some men. She regularly comes to see me and I admit I find it hard not to hang on her every word after my sets are over....

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