Mostly in the form of his attempt at an inspiring speech - which is, as usual, a rambling only-mostly-focused not-really-eloquent monologue.

Even more than most of what I write, I think my brain has decided Maugris just talks like that.

At least if nobody's around to interrupt him.

and then I went ahead and posted it

Otoha's just like "less talky more fighty"

Maugris does both, but despite his ranting here he really doesn't actually like fighting to kill. He'll admit it's necessary sometimes, but he doesn't like it.

I think the first time I ever explicitly had him in mind as striking to kill was somebody actively torturing innocents after having pursued him all night.

Otoha still has problems with the fact that other people have problems with killing.

It doesn't make logical sense to him but whatever.

Maugris really doesn't have a good answer. It's an instinctual thing for him (and if he knew much about psychology or biology he'd probably realize that's true for most people)

Yeah Otoha grew up with a skewed ethics system so. It's hard for him to set it to 'normal' morality.

At least he doesn't occasionally kill people just to study how they die, like the last mob enforcer Maugris had ethical conflicts with. Giovanni are weird.

No he knows very well how people die.

Giovanni are the incestuous necrophiliac necromantic vampire mafia. They're interested in specifics. I think the guy in question had to make a morality check if he prevented a death.

... Yeah.

Yeah Giovanni are special.

Maugris has a complicated relationship with the Giovanni. And that's without getting into the cannibalistic bankers.

lsdfkj nice

I think that's like a canon branch family who got adopted in. The cannibalistic Scottish bankers. The Dunsirns or whoever.

Yep.

Yeah. The Giovanni Maugris knew best were one rather rebellious main-family Giovanni, one Putanesca (the legbreaker), and one Dunsirn. The first two were over two hundred years old.

The main-family Giovanni went six months before letting him find out that she spoke English. Which was kind of impressive considering they'd already been talking for most of it (in French).

I'm not sure I've ever played with Giovanni.

I remember the Las Vegas game had a shitton of Settites.

I played him in a pretty big game that was unusual because it let all four-ish sects in - Cam, Sabbat, Anarchs, and Independents.

For a while he was part of a little cabal that had all four. Mostly because the rest of their sects were being stunningly ineffectual on their own.

(When I say "all four" I mean "one of each".)

Nice.

Yeah, it was amusing. Maugris ended up as Seneschal because he was the sanest person in any room that contained all of the Camarilla.

They got better, thankfully (he was there for two years)

Ahahaha