<b>Name: </b>Zyana Meghan Rivers<br/><b>Gender:</b>Female<br/><b>Clan:</b>Brujah<br/><b>Status:</b>Whip<br/><b>Birthdate:</b>09/27/1975<br/><b>Apparent Age:</b>22<br/><b>RIP:</b>1997<br/><b>Occupation:</b>Alternative, pinup, rockabilly, cheesecake and latex model/Photographer<br/><b>Ethnicity:</b>Caucasian (American)<br/><br/><b>Personality:</b>Zyana is bold, spontaneous and passionate for life. She hides her emotional scars well and people rarely see the soft, shy girl underneath that tough exterior. Meghan was taught all the social niceties but she never uses them. She hates hypocrisy and prefers to tell you what's what to your face. She is one for the immediate spotlight as well as the "aftermath" of it. She likes having her picture taken for people to admire later on and she will also hop on stage to dance and sing along with the band.<br/><i>Trait 1:</i>Brazen<br/><i>Trait 2:</i>Spontaneous<br/><i>Trait 3:</i>Rebellious<br/><i>Trait 4:</i>Passionate<br/><i>Trait 5:</i>Feisty<br/><br/><b>Appearance:</b><br/><div class="bbImageWrapper lazyload js-lbImage" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-single-image="1" data-src="/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.gr-assets.com%2Fimages%2FS%2Fphoto.goodreads.com%2Fhostedimages%2F1379798114i%2F636112._SY540_.jpg&amp;hash=067788bc89b42ef36025c83fc22315db" title="636112._SY540_.jpg">
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</div><br/><i>Height:</i>5'7"<br/><i>Weight:</i>120lbs<br/><i>Hair colour:</i>raven black<br/><i>Skin colour:</i>pale; tattooed<br/><i>Eyes:</i>mahogany brown<br/><i>Body type:</i>slim; yoga toned<br/><i>Pitch of voice:</i>deep; sultry; husky<br/><br/><b>Weaknesses:</b>family ties; semi-fame; spoiled; thrill-seeker; Colton Jenkins.<br/><b>Strengths:</b>creative; artistic; wealthy.<br/><br/><b>Brief Biography/History:</b><br/>»<i>Before Embrace:</i>Zyana Meghan (she goes by either) was born into the ridiculously affluent Rivers family who control numerous casinos in Vegas. Her parents fought constantly, their screaming matches waking the young girl up several times a week. Her mother committed suicide when Zyana was nine years old. This left a grieving and materially over-indulgent but emotionally absent father and widow of three children: Meghan and her two younger sisters. Zyana found it ironic that her father grieved for her mother since she found him partially responsible for her demise. When she was a teenager, she would often throw it in his face before storming out--only to be dragged back into the house by her bodyguards. Needless to say, Meghan grew up to be a rebellious and defiant young woman, forever refusing to follow her father's rules, never dating the boys her father approved of nor dressing and behaving the way he wanted her to. Her tattoos threw him into a fit of rage for months and when he threatened to ground her for life, Zyana went out and got more.<br/>It didn't take long for Meghan to realize that her father's casinos were dealing with some pretty underhanded s*** and not only did the Rivers cheat in the gambling business, they were also heavily invested in the boxing tournaments that were controlled by the mob and they had many a corrupt cop that took a cut from the Rivers fund. Zyana saw Vegas as her oyster and her father's money and name as her get out of jail free card. She never paid much mind to the dangers of being the Rivers heir which caused huge tensions between her and her father who found that short of tying her up and keeping her locked in the basement, there was no way to control her.<br/>Meghan found her passion for photography and photo shoots around the age of eighteen. She was drunk one night with a few girlfriends at a hotel owned by her father and they decided to dress up, pose and take pictures of each other. She realized that she loved hamming it up in front of the camera and she enjoyed breaking other girls' shells and having them feel good about themselves in front of the lens as well. Luckily for her, Zyana never needed to make a living out of her hobby and so she rarely shot professional models. Rather, she would offer to take pictures of regular girls who would gladly pay what little she charged in order to feel better about themselves. Throughout the next few years, Meghan would branch out and shoot professional models but these were few and far between.<br/>Zyana's father was relieved to see his daughter find a hobby that she was passionate about and more importantly that kept her out of trouble. For her nineteenth birthday, he built her a studio for her to work in. Meghan eventually grew out of her rebellion and by the time she was twenty, she and her father began to get along and family meals and holidays were relatively peaceful. Her hobby certainly helped Zyana to find her source of relaxation and she used it to deal with the hurt of losing her mother to suicide by creating alternative beauty where there was once pain.<br/>One night as she worked in her studio, developing portraits from the day's clients, she answered the door to one of her father's newest bodyguards (even though she always insisted she never needed them) who told her that he was assigned to her. Before she could tell him that she did not expect her bodyguards to sleep inside her home, he tackled her and changed her life forever.<br/>»<i>After Embrace:</i>Meghan's embrace was such a huge shock and eye-opener for her. She had always thought of herself as untouchable, almost as if no one would<i>dare</i>to harm her because, well... she always had Daddy's protection. How wrong she was. She fought the revelation and her new status for days, refusing to feed properly until her sire finally tied her up and left her in a room with an open window, threatening her that he would leave her there. He left a human in the room with her, telling her that if she drank, she would become strong enough to break her bonds and escape the sun. Zyana held out until thirty minutes before dawn when she proceeded to drink the human almost to the point of her death and broke her chains. It was at that moment that Meghan realized<i>this</i>father she had to listen to for he would let her die if she misbehaved badly enough.<br/>Zyana was introduced to Vegas's Kindred society where her clan ruled at the top, controlling the rest of the vampires mob style. She found it ironic that not much had changed from the way her father ruled his little kingdom--except<i>she</i>was no longer the heiress. Meghan continued her hobby as a photographer and model because her sire's reason for embracing her was for none other than her name and family fortune. He cared little for what she did with her own time so long as she did not breach the masquerade. Her "brother" Colton Jenkins, on the other hand, had different ideas. Given the responsibility of teaching his "sister" the ways of the Vegas Brujah (as well as Camarilla law and the masquerade to a certain extent), they often butted heads simply because Zyana had no interest in becoming a cog in the well-oiled Brujah machine. She saw the wheelings and dealings of the mob mentality of her clan as no different from how her father ran his empire and Colton's insistence reminded her of the overbearing presence of her father, causing Meghan to rebel against him like she had done as a teenager to her real parent.<br/>Her sire allowed her to keep in contact with her family for many years but in 2010, he unexpectedly told her that she was to inform her father she was moving. She was now thirty-five in her father's eyes but of course she still looked twenty-two. This would have been a problem but with the application of Presence, her father was easily convinced and Zyana reluctantly left Vegas, the Brujah paradise, for the rowdy and politically shaky city of Atlanta to search out Christian Wright, the Primogen of her clanmates in the deep south. Christian named Meghan Whip in the hopes of forging a strong alliance with the Brujah in Vegas but he never informs her about the politics of their clan in Atlanta nor what is discussed at council meetings. Zyana is perfectly fine with this: she had never been one for politics, preferring to settle conflicts physically and confrontationally.<br/><br/><b>Reason for Embrace:</b>Her sire wanted influence over the casinos, mob connections and police control that the Rivers have access to in order to further cement his own hold on Vegas. Shortly after he embraced Meghan, he made sure that she convinced her father to give<i>everything</i>to her, both legal and illegal heritages. Although Zyana's father had already planned to leave everything to his firstborn, he had not actually written out the will yet. This changed once her sire became involved from behind the scenes.<br/><br/><b>Goals:</b>Meghan wants to return to Vegas eventually and reclaim control of her father's holdings currently held by her sire which are rightfully hers.<br/><br/><b>Relationship Status:</b>Single<br/><br/><b>Biggest Fear:</b>her family being murdered because of her.<br/><br/><b>Weapons:</b>brass knuckles (she keeps these on her person at all times).<br/><br/><b>Fighting Skills:</b>Zyana never officially trained as a human but once she was embraced, her newfound super strength and speed brought about an interest in kicking a**. She has experience in kickboxing, wrestling and other mixed martial arts. Vegas Kindred host events similar to Fight Night but between vampires. Combatants are required to cease and desist when their opponent is incapacitated; however, there have been rare occasions where some have gone too far....<br/><br/><b>Other:</b>You can call her Zyana or you can call her Meghan, but don't<i>ever</i>call her Meg.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center">***​</div><br/>Vamp Fight Night.<br/><br/>Literally the best thing about being undead so far.<br/><br/>It was an event special to Vegas, which fortunately was where she was born and would probably die—again—so as a member of this fine city, Zyana Meghan Rivers saw it as her right to partake in activities her sire and blood brother<i>might</i>disapprove of. But what they didn’t know couldn’t hurt her, right? As a fully introduced neonate into kindred society, the Brujah was now legal and protected under Camarilla law. So long as she abided by it, neither Marcos nor Colton could have her head. That was, if this guy didn’t take it first.<br/><br/>He was easily six inches taller than her and maybe fifty pounds heavier, but with her new disciplines, he wasn’t necessarily stronger. She had Potence too, which took the female disadvantage almost completely out of the physical equation. Against an average male, she’d have been his equal, but this fucker seemed like he had trained as a human, which meant his extra “natural” strength added up against hers. Even so: she’d take her chances—and she<i>was</i>.<br/><br/>With no professional training other than the random kickboxing class she had attended while still human, Zyana had only her instincts and natural fighting spirit to help her win the match—and it wasn’t going very well. She had already taken quite a beating, but it wasn’t anything a little blood couldn’t heal. Careful not to spend too much during the match (in case she was incapacitated with one blow), Meghan was now sporting a bruising chin and purple circle on her thigh. Nothing had been broken—yet. She had gotten lucky when she swung an upper cut into her opponent’s face within the first minute, which had resulted in a broken nose, but other than that, she hadn’t landed any resounding blows. Three minutes and thirty-nine seconds had passed, which left a little more than a minute until half-time. Thank fuck she no longer got winded.<br/><br/>Standing on one edge of the ring, Zyana watched her opponent as she debated how best to deal some damage. He charged her from the other side and suddenly, with the help of Celerity, turned right. She attempted to do the same, but she wasn’t quick enough. He was on her before she knew where he’d come from and as she stumbled, he grabbed her arm. And yanked downward.<br/><br/><i>C-craaa-k. </i><br/><br/>Meghan screamed.<br/><br/>It was broken.