Nicknames: Laur, Laurie
Aliases: Jonathan
Legerdemain, Jean Nuit
Birthday: January 6th
1970
Death Day: December 8th
2000
Occupation: Occultist,
Bookstore Owner
Residence: The Vista
Rosa neighborhood in Santa Marta, CA,
United States
Height: 5'10
Build: Average
height, has a sort of stereotypical
scrawny nerd sort of build
with a soft layer of fat/soft belly and
not a lot of muscular definition. He has
long arms and legs in comparison to his
torso which makes him look taller than he
actually is.
Face Shape: Somewhere
between an oval and a diamond, his facial
features are fine and delicate with a
long straight nose.
Eye
Color/Shape: Vibrant,
unnaturally bright ocean-blue with
cat-like slitted pupils. Large but set
deep within his face with heavy, tired
looking lids and deep dark circles which
gives him a sort of permanent
resting bitch face.
Hair
Color/Style: Slate Gray.
Laurents hair is mostly straight
with a slight wave to it (2A) and usually
worn tied into a loose ponytail at the
nape of his neck. he has long, messy
bangs that usually hang in his face.
Skin
Color/Texture: Very pale
and desaturated with a distinct yellow
undertone. He has soft skin but has a lot
of small scars and marks on his hands
from various occult work he did while he
was still a mortal.
Distinguishing
Features: First off, Laurent is
prematurely gray. He also has a number of
tattoos (a tattoo of a magical circle for
protection on his back, another
protection sigil on his chest over the
heart, has a tattoo of an open eye on the
back of his neck). He also wears glasses.
Posture: Very
proper posture stands
straight up but theres that slight
hunch to his shoulders that comes from
hours bent over books and papers. He
moves very purposefully and a little bit
stiffly with quiet footsteps.
Voice: Soft and understated, with the
remnants of a Quebecois accent. Laurent
rarely raises his voice and his speech is
usually curt and clipped, possibly even
seeming rude or sarcastic at times.
Clothing
Style: Lots of blacks and
blues with some cream and charcoal. He
tends to wear comfortable clothing that
could pass for being formal in most
situations black slacks,
button-downs over v-necks, turtleneck
sweaters and cardigans. A lot of his
looks vaguely recall the 1980s when it
comes to sweater choice.
Notable
Mannerisms: Scrunches his nose
when hes thinking deeply about
something but otherwise seems to not have
a lot of particularly unique or defining
mannerisms (almost purposefully so).

Physical: Lockpicking,
breaking and entering
Social:Basic
etiquette, subterfuge/lying,
manipulation, Explaining technical
details
Talents: Calligraphy,
Poetry, Prose, getting in over his head
Knowledges: Greek,
Latin, French, currently learning German,
Masters in Psychology, Traditional Magic,
Ritual Magic, Sigilcraft, Herbalism
Hobbies: Reading,
Writing, Gardening, Cooking
Special: Basic
Nightingale abilities, some natural
magical talent (mostly lost after
becoming a vampire), spirit sight, minor
precognition

Strengths: Clever,
quick witted, tenacious, detail-oriented,
good concentration, inquisitive,
intuitive, dedicated, loyal, strong sense
of internal morals
Weaknesses: overly
curious, stubborn, too smart for his own
good, overly self-reflective, can be cold
and emotionally distant, closed off from
his emotions, rude, irritable, afraid of
intimacy, standoffish, shy, just
generally bad at people.
Goals: To gather
all the knowledge there is to be had,
especially where it concerns the occult;
to learn proper spontaneous magic
Fears: Loss of
knowledge, loss of control, true death,
what lurks beneath santa marta (but not
enough to stop researching it)
Ideals/Morals: Laurent is
willing to do almost anything to gain
knowledge but there are a few things that
disgust him and he finds morally
abhorrent like hurting children or
murder (notably he sees a
difference between killing and murder but
also tries to avoid killing people as a
general rule unless its in
self-defense)
Guiding
Philosphies: Knowledge
is Power
Sense of
Humor: Very dry and
sarcastic. Hes definitely the
person to deliver a sarcastic quip with a
totally straight face and it leaves
people wondering if he even has a sense
of humor.
Overall
Personality: Laurent is
kind of a prickly bastard. Hes
introverted and introspective and has
very little interest in being around or
talking to people. He can pretend to be
polite very well (and expects others to
behave in a similar way). He prefers
things to be well-structured and mostly
predictable, he has trouble dealing with
sudden intense changes. He seems very
distant and cold to most people
utterly focused on his work over anything
else.
-In Love: Laurent can
be kind of a dork when he actually falls
for someone and during any kind of
"courtship" he's usually
awkward and faltering, having difficulty
opening up. Once he feels like it's safe
to do so, however, his primary love
language is sharing information and
shared activities/paralell activities. He
can be really protective as well.
-Under Stress: Increasingly
erratic and irritable. Once his stress
level gets to a certain point, Laurent
mostly stops functioning as a human being
and becomes a katamari ball of stress and
anxiety.
-Alone: When Laurent
is alone, he has a bad tendency to get
really, really stuck in his own head.

Best Memory:Probably
meeting his girlfriend/actually falling
in love with her.
Worst Memory: Losing his
best friend during the summer between
Grade and Middle School.
Biggest
Accomplishment: Learning
actual magic.
Prized
Possessions: His Maker's
Grimoire.
Favorite
Colors: Slate Blue, Silver,
Navy Blue, Cream, Black, Charcoal.
Favorite
Foods:
-Mortal: Tea
(specifically Earl Grey), Coffee (black
w/sugar), lemon pound cake with icing,
maple walnut ice cream, croque monsier,
palmiers, grilled cheese, cassoulet, coq
au vin
-Blood: Literally
only feeds on "students" --
anyone who is dedicated to learning in
their life. His girlfriend.
Favorite
Scents: sage, lemon, thyme,
spruce, bergamot, mint, rain, charcoal,
ink & paper, dragon's blood,
sandalwood
Favorite
Songs: Saturn - A Turning
Page, Protege Moi - Placebo, Chopin -
Preludes, OP 28:15 Sostenuto in D Flat;
Danse Macabre in G Minor, OP 40- Camille
Saint Saens; La Campanella in G Sharp
Minor - Franz Liszt; Four Seasons:
Winter, 1st Movement for Violin - Antonio
Vivaldi
Cant
Leave Home Without: a small kit
containing basic magic supplies, his
phone, a journal, at least one protective
amulet.

Birthplace: Suburbs of
Montreal, Quebec
Childhood: Growing up,
Laurents parents were usually very
busy, both having careers that demanded a
lot of their attention. He and Louis were
often left to sort of fend for themselves
(classic latch-key kids). Being the more
shy of the twins, Laurent often relied on
Louis to make friends having few
friends that he could consider his
specifically.
At around the age of 11, while playing at
his neighbors house after school
with Louis, their friend Alex and his
younger sister Madeline, the four of them
found a oujia board and did what any
group of pre-teens would do: they turned
out the lights and used it. Unfortunately
for the twins, the house was old and the
board itself connected to a rather angry
spirit that would attach itself to Louis
and scare the hell out of the other three
children. This is what would start
Laurents interest in the occult but
it was what would happen the next summer
that would cement it as an
obsession
While playing in a local park, something
that Laurent could neither identify or
describe beyond a writhing mass of
eyes, grasping tendrils and eyes
would pluck Alex from the face of
existence not only taking the 12
year old but erasing any sign that he had
ever existed to begin with from the minds
of everyone but Laurent.
Adolescence: At thirteen,
Laurents family moved to Santa
Marta, California. Highschool was
difficult for Laurent, who had started to
go prematurely gray by the time he was 14
and was shy and bookish. He had to deal
with a lot of bullying and it cemented
his irritability.
He did, however, thanks to the unique
nature of Santa Marta (attracting the
supernatural) manage to make friends with
a Witch by the name of Martin.
Theyd also date for about a year in
secret before both decided that it just
wasnt working. However, the pair of
them were obsessed with the occult and
the presence of the Old Gods
which were present in constant whispers
in Santa Marta. This is where Laurent got
into most of the trouble he would as a
teenager breaking into abandoned
buildings looking for ghosts and signs of
the supernatural as well as getting 100%
illegal tattoos in dangerous settings
(most notably, he had his protection
sigil done by Martin in his basement
along with the eye on the back of his
neck).
Somehow, probably just due to luck,
Laurent never actually got in legal
trouble for any of the crazy shit he did
as a teen but that luck wouldnt
last.
Adulthood: In his
desperate search for occult knowledge,
Laurent would end up crossing paths with
a woman named Claudine a
Nightingale who was also an accomplished
occultist and a powerful witch in her own
right. He would end up stealing several
of her important research journals and
end up becoming her assistant
at the age of twenty-one (she normally
wouldve killed him for it but was
impressed by his dedication and natural
skill). She would keep him on as an
assistant, teaching him about the occult
and preparing him for life in the
Nightingale Court before finally turning
him in 2000.
Recent: In 2010,
Claudine would disappear suddenly
leaving behind only a note about her own
research into the thing that lurks
beneath the streets of this blighted
metropolis and pointing Laurent in
a similar direction. During his training
with Claudine, Laurent would run into
mentions of the Myriad Eyes
multiple times, especially when
researching the occult history of Santa
Marta
A phrase that he quickly came
to associate with the thing that had
taken his childhood friend.
Currently, hes running a bookstore
in Vista Rosa called Eigengrau
Books and living in an apartment
located above the store.

Family: Jean
DeFantome (Father; deceased), Emily
DeFantome (Mother), Louis DeFantome (twin
brother)
Lovers: Martin
Schwartz (former), Camellia OFriel
(current)
Friends: Isaac
Nerezza (works at his bookstore),
Claudine Legerdemain (Missing)
Enemies: ???
Other: Laci Lydia
Brighton-Lee (???)

Income: Middle-class
Residences: A two
bedroom apartment above his bookstore.
Vehicles: Black 2010
Ford Fiesta Van

Vampire the
Masquerade (20th Anniversary)
Laurent is a 10th generation Camarilla
Tremere in VtM. His Sire, Claudine
Legerdemain is still missing. Due to the
way that he was Embraced, Laurent is
thrice bound to the Pyramid.




