Howland/Intro
First Impressions
The man should be attractive: Tall. Trim. Postured. Confident. Young. But something mars his measured appearance.
His porcelain skin is totally unblemished. It's also nearly pallid.
The penetrating stare of his unblinking, gunmetal eyes is haunting. And eerie.
The careful placement of every blonde hair and the perfect positioning of his clothing could be the result of good grooming. Or cold calculation.
The slow, considered calm of his every movement could be graceful. Or predatory.
Available History
Howland's story isn't a particularly long one. He was born in Florida, 1974, to Margaret Howland and her second husband, Teddy (she's on her fourth now). Mrs. Howland is herself the heir to a real estate fortune over a century in the making, with properties throughout the United States. The young Howland wanted for nothing during his adolescence and early adulthood: Million-dollar Bugattis, skiing in Zermatt, hard partying in Rio de Janeiro. He grew to crave the opulence, the attention, the deference, and the power which came with his high lifestyle. He struggled to engage genuinely with people, whose petty concerns, ambitions, and dramas mattered very little to him. A person was as much an accessory to Howland as his cars and clothing. With time, the gulf between Howland and his peers grew. Truthfully, he had stepped onto the road of inhumanity long before his embrace.
Howland came to his reward in 2003. He was 29 years old.
His sire, the elder Minnie Carr, was herself very young for her generation - having only been embraced in the late 1830s in what was then the Republic of Texas. Few people know why Ms. Carr chose to embrace Howland. If the man himself knows, he's not telling. For over a decade he served as his sire's companion in Phoenix but the relationship eventually soured under conditions as mysterious as his embrace. Though his departure from her domain is ultimately believed to have been amicable, the two haven't spoken since. Howland spent the next several years living in various locations throughout the American southwest. More recently he's uprooted for greener pastures in Prospect, where the vampire seems eager to establish a new power base for himself.
