List of Sargent Hall Tenants
An incomplete list of the quirky Aware tenants who live in the apartments run by Mr Bristow.
Bug Person
Just a big clump of bugs living a normal life as a work-from-home tech support operator. Attracts bugs from all over the building.<ref>“Or they’re too far removed to be causes,” Alexander said. “Another apartment draws all the pests in the building to it. They pile up into a
roughly human shape, go through their day, boot up a laptop, work an
eight hour shift as tech support. They call an unlisted phone number at
roughly seven o’clock, watch a movie and some episodes of a TV series,
then go to bed, where they slump into a less human pile. If someone goes to the apartment and spends any time there, they often act like a host, serve food, give them the remote to choose the show to watch. They only get disgruntled if they get interrupted during their work day. They don’t get lonely if ignored, they don’t mind the company so long as it’s timely. They pay rent, pay bills, occasionally forget the rent but pay up when the reminder email comes in. They don’t need anything except deliveries of food and a twice-a-month apartment cleaning.”
“Cool,” Verona said. “What are they?”
“I don’t know,” Alexander said. </ref>
Clementine ‘Clem’ Robertjon
A Gilded Lily.
Appearance
Clementine is a woman of Asian descent, with short hair, but with an overall feminine appearance.<ref>Clementine’s hair was short and parted like a schoolboy’s, but she had a lot of feminine affectation in the choice of basic makeup, shirt, shorts, and shoe colors, and a bigger-than-average chest that would make it hard for her to be mistaken as a little boy from any distance. - excerpt from Back Away 5.5</ref> She has scars on her face, neck and arm.<ref>She also had scars. Some were a bruised purple-blue that would always stand out, and others were smaller. One by her eye, making it perpetually a bit more closed than the other, one at the side of her throat, one bad one inside the crook of her elbow. It looked like she’d been stabbed at one point, with how straight and short a line it was, on the back of her forearm. - excerpt from Back Away 5.5</ref>
Personality
Kindly. She avoids close relationships for fear of those around her getting hurt.<ref name=":0">Her disposition is kind, if troubled. She very much enjoys the company of people, but avoids maintaining any long-term relationships. Many people close to her have died, including her friends and family, or
else they’ve suffered worse fates. She earns a fair income and
alternates between periods of seclusion and times spent wandering the city, with a focus on the arts.
Clementine is well aware of the existence of Others and suspects practitioners, but has been kept from full awareness, in part because awakening her or fully revoking her Innocence would tie one to her, and none of the twenty or so practitioners who have directly or indirectly been involved with her are willing to do so when it comes to Clem Robertjon. Her existence is too fraught with hazard, and her relatively
intact survival up to this point may be owed to her Innocence. To take
away that safety net while simultaneously lashing their fortunes to hers
is not a risk any are willing to take. She remains quietly and
enthusiastically interested, frustrated, and curious and these facts should be minded. - Bonus Material: Dossiers </ref>
She has some skill at handling the supernatural but is frustrated by the fact that no-one who knows more is willing to risk satisfying her curiosity.<ref name=":0" />
She's made a career out of selling her found items to Practitioners after the community took note of her, allowing her to finally put her life in some semblance of order.<ref>The practitioner community took a hand in events after an event with a piece of currency that ‘drank’ nearby change and loose money to increase
its denomination before ‘shitting out’ (to use the assigned
practitioner’s vernacular) a sapphire and becoming a penny again. Once Clem had people to sell the items to and a bit of a listening ear, she found something of an equilibrium. She was later offered a low-cost apartment at Sargent Ave Hall. - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref>
Abilities
Clem naturally attracts Magic items to her, a pattern which has accelerated throughout her life.<ref>Note – At this stage, the progression of ‘finds’ continues to accelerate, monthly rather than seasonal. - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref> The Carmine Beast's blood boosted her power, causing her to find multiple items during her visit to Kennet.
Tools
Her apartment is full of magic items. She has a magic bracelet that can re-arrange rooms, which she uses to securely store the worst items in a room which doesn't exist.
Couch Potato
An old guy who just watches TV all day. He no longer needs to sleep or eat. Sometimes his reflection appears in other people's TVs.<ref>“Many are passive,” Nicolette said. “Some are problems, but there are residents like the old man who has fallen so deep into the pattern of watching television all day every day that he’s stopped sleeping, stopped eating, stopped using the washroom. The most hassle he causes is that another resident might see his reflection in their televisions when they’re turned off.”
“He can’t be helped?” Avery asked. “They all can’t be helped?” Alexander shook his head. “In the case of the couch potato… no. Too long gone." - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.8 </ref>
Daniel Alitzer
Appearance
30, long hair, pretty.
Abilities
Superhuman singer, dancer, manipulator, but only in short bursts; conversely can be completely terrible at those things. Possess a form of Second Sight. Highly skilled with Glamour.
Elusive Man
Has fallen partly out of reality. Hard to percieve, he lures people into investigating him to figure out what's up with them and then they disappear.<ref name=":1">“Some of them remain and are power sources. I imagine that swarm tenant is both steady income and a trickle of power. Others balance out
the other tenants. A skeptic that dulls practices around her to help
take the bite out of the worst cursed items. An elusive man to keep the
witch hunter scion’s attention without ever bearing fruit.”
“Elusive man?” Lucy asked.
[...]
“The elusive are Aware and dangerous people who fell partway through the cracks. The one here is only ever glimpsed in passing. Always uncomfortable to come across, with a twisted grin and an intense look in
his eyes. The harder you look for him, the harder he is to find. When you stop thinking about him, he can remind you he’s there. As the
brownies of the Blue Heron do, he invites people to misstep or breach the rules, unnerving them until they go looking for answers, break into his apartment or try to challenge him, and then he drags them into his apartment or locks the door to the apartment if they’re already inside, and they’re never seen again.”
“Holy crap,” Lucy said.
“He does errands for his landlord in exchange for a cut on rent. One of a few that do.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.8 </ref>
Kevin Noone
A massive jerk with an Evil Eye.
Shellie Alitzer
Daniel's sister and caretaker. A Bright Eyed woman who hunts Fae.
Appearance
27, has extensive body modifications (piercings, grafts) made with Fae-taught skill but they are mostly covered by clothing.
Ted Havens
A man who lived through a time-loop, fighting a Primeval over and over again until he triumphed. Very skilled and Karmically blessed, but unwilling to fight when unneccessary.<ref>General Notes: Alongside the Gilded Lily, one of the
most powerful and problematic people in residence at Sargent Ave Hall,
albeit for entirely different reasons. Ted is not only a man who enjoys
the benefits of being technically Innocent, but he did enter into
mortal combat with a creature larger than his hometown and strong enough
to give all but the uppermost gods pause, and drove it off for another
few centuries. The world-weary tend to have exceptional karma, either exceptionally good or bad, but almost always to a level and degree that surpasses what an ordinary person could achieve in a lifetime. Ted is one of these people, enjoying the karma of literal countless lifetimes well lived. When he does leave the complex, he does so because he believes it serves the greater good. This isn’t always or even often the case. . - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref>
Unnamed Madman
Saw something that broke him.<ref name=":2">“What’s his deal?” Lucy asked. “He’s a landlord in Ontario, and from
what my Aunt Renee says, being a landlord in Ontario is a really bad
idea. The tenant protections can make it a nightmare.”
“He keeps strange tenants. Some are complicated. A gilded lily, who
stumbles on magic items by accident on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
Many are cursed. Someone who saw something so bent and broken it drove him around the bend. A child of a witch hunter who survived the rest of
her family, who knows something is afoot in the shadows of this world. The pattern of that family seeks to wrap her up in its flows.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.8
</ref> Nicolette Belanger took some of his blood for her collection but felt bad for him and set him up with Bristow.[citation needed] He's close to his family in Winnipeg and getting therapy with the money he saves on rent living under Bristow.<ref>“I visit two of them,” Nicolette said. “Less often than I should. The boy who went mad. He’s so sweet. He has an apartment. It’s seven hundred dollars a month in Winnipeg for a one bedroom. It’s not especially nice, but with rent prices being what they are in the city, he’s paying half of what he might otherwise be spending. It’s not overly unkind, at least.”
“It might be if he’s being used,” Lucy said.
“It might be. But he’s getting therapy, with money he’s saving on rent. He’s close to family. This isn’t to excuse the landlord, but…” Nicolette shrugged with one shoulder. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.8 </ref>
Witch Hunter Girl
The daughter of some Witch Hunters. Her family is dead, but the tradition that surrounded them pushes her toward taking up their mantle.<ref name=":2" /> The Elusive Man helps to distract her tendencies to investigate without her ever catching him.<ref name=":1" />
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