Vivian Winthrop
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Alder Rebecca Childers, Player
- Alder Morgan Coulter, Interpreter and Speaker
Known History
For those who have been in Atlanta longer than thirty years, remember Vivian not as simply Madam Vivian Winthrop but instead as Priscus Vivian Winthrop of Clan Daeva. Before her torpor under fairly mysterious circumstances in 1973, Vivian was a fixture on the Atlanta social scene. She threw parties with regularity and it was well known that she had ambitions to become Mistress of Elysium but for whatever reason, usually some Daeva drama, she never did so.
For those who have lived in Atlanta for less than thirty years, they likely have never heard of Vivian.
Before Atlanta
Vivian is the sort of girl who grew up with ambitions. Her parents encouraged them. They were social climbers themselves and saw Vivian’s accomplishments as just an extension of their own. When Vivian made an advantage marriage with a local plantation owner he was measured not by his looks or kindness but by the number of slaves he owned.
And he was not a handsome or kind man. His time was spent in business and in taking his pleasure with the female slaves while Vivian spent hers planning parties and consorting with people she probably shouldn’t. One of those was Randall Marks. A handsome gambler, Marks swept her off her feet and they began a torrid affair she didn’t even bother hiding from her husband.
The affair he probably wouldn’t have cared about but the public humiliation he did. He challenged Marks to a duel just after dark and met his death at a thrust from the vampire’s rapier. After her husband’s death, Vivian didn’t even pause in her affair to mourn her husband so deeply enthralled she was by the Toreador. The passion only waned after Marks took too much blood one night and embraced Vivian instead of just replacing it.
Like a usual Daeva embrace, the passion dulled and was replaced instead with lessons. Vivian started her way into the Invictus and their relationship changed from lovers to sire-childe. Time progressed and Vivian was released into society on her own. The night following her Manumission she was given a party in celebration. The night after that she was inducted into the Toreador bloodline in a similar fashion.
For thirty more years she stayed by her sire’s side entertaining and being entertained. When Civil War loomed on the horizon Vivian slipped into voluntary torpor. Her body was watched over by the Steward in Savannah until after the war was over then she was allowed to awake. With several of the Invictus giving her flack for being a coward for sleeping through the war, Vivian packed up and moved to the emerging city of Atlanta.