DATANTE

By Mike Showel (showeljm@cc.emu.edu) (24 April 1996)

Nickname

: Talons, Psycho chicks, Harpies

Appearance

They are woman, all of them. They tend to be slightly picky about the way they dress, always remaining femininely stylish and up with the trends. They all have sharp fingernail-like claws that they keep polished and painted. They are all between the ages of 16 to 25 on embracing and all have a slightly red hue to their eyes which glows brightly and unmistakeably when they frenzy.

Background

They are a totally new blood line and none are lower than tenth generation (can't take Generation higher than three). Diablerie is their only method of improving they generation. Five years ago a Malkavian, more insane than par, went out and embraced literally dozens of people before she was caught and put to Final Death. One of the three clans resulting from this, none over a couple hundred in population now, and none known by too many, are the Datantes. A cheerleader was the founder of this clan. Alone and unsure what had happened to her, she found that she was cranky just about all the time. She was embraced during her time of the month, and unfortunately, she suffered from Pre-menstrual Syndrome. To her misfortune, she developed a derangement that had her feeling the effects of PMS all the time. She embraced her cheerleader friends the way she was embraced, and they in turn embraced cheerleaders from all over the city of Philadelphia. The head cheerleader decided that they would have one purpose in the world: to wipe out all men, and empower all women, and to simply have the right to be totally pissed. This is their derangement. They will obey no man, and if the man persists they may frenzy.

Disciplines

Potence, PMS, and Celerity. (All start with a level of PMS.)

Clan requirements

Almost all are blonde. They normally are high in physical, with a social as second (appearance), and the mental as last. They are all women who were wronged by men during life and are all between the ages of 16 and 25.

Society

Most datantes act like pissed of preppy cheerleaders. The few Datantes out there socialize like pack rats. They usually meet in bathrooms or actually hold their mettings over the phone using a party line. They gossip more than anything else, but they always plot against men. The datantes are naturally cruel to men, and are pretty much down right sadistic at times. When they use their clan discipline, all men should be afraid, and when they frenzy, they not only attack the cause of their frenzy, but won't calm down untill all men in their sight are dead. If any man tries to aproach them in their frenzy, he adds three rounds to her frenzy after all men have vanished from her sight. When a Datante uses the maximum level of their PMS discipline they don't look much like they used to at all, but that's explained in later levels.

To gain prestige a Datante must kill a man using all levels of PMS. This man must be someone hated by all women, and a womanizer. Depending on this man's crimes against women, prestige is given. This causes many Datantes to speedily learn PMS first. Some Datantes still are attracted to men, or at least a specific type of man. This guy must be totally for women's right, and be totally oblivous to the Datantes' normal hatred of men. This man must perform some great act on the behalf of woman as well. If a vampire, he must also must be either Brujah or Gangrel; the other clans they cannot stand. The man finally, must be willing to let the Datante do everything herself, and must be willing to let her defend him instead of him trying defend the "weak helpless lady." Most often, the Datante is a better fighter anyway. If all these requirements are satisfied, then the Datante will not include him in her perceptions of men. To her he won't be a man, just a person she loves, as men are these bad things, not even human, which must be destroyed sooner or later. When she frenzies, she won't view him as a man, so he will be safe.

The Datantes do not know all the laws of the masquerade. They do not care about diablerie. They simply won't do it to each other, to the sisterhood. They do not care about princes, or the Camarilla, and only care about protecting the masquerade near their territory. They do not care about telling a female human about the Datantes, since this is allways done before they embrace a willing human female. They have their own laws however.

1. If your a man, you die.
2. If you are a "good man," never mind, you still die.
3. If you hurt a woman, and are a man, you die. . . slowly.
4. If you hurt a woman and are a woman, then you are hurt really badly so that you learn not to harm your sister.
5. If you are a woman who cannot handle your mate, your mate dies.
6. If any clan wages war against the datantes, none shall be spared.
7. If a Datante sees a woman being attacked by a man, and doesn't assist her, she will be killed.
8. If a Datante is wronged by a man, she must quest to kill him, or else she will be killed
9. If a man rapes a woman, he mus be killed, and all his male relatives must be castrated. His female children must sadly not be allowed to live as they may produce males that may repeat his actions.
10. When the clan of the Datantes are large enough, they must all participate in the extinction of man, and at the end, live off the blood of animals, as the normal human race will cease to exist.

Clan weakness

All Datantes other than the common derangement they suffer, are easy to frenzy. I mean easy. They have a difficulty roll 3 higher than listed, to avoid frenzy.