Barbara Hathaway

Barbara Hathaway is a Carmilla supporter living in L.A. She gambled a life boon with Smiling Jack and lost, as a result she is the sire of Stephen Brice.

History
She came from a middle class white picket fence background but had dreams of luxury dancing in her dreams. So started her career path early with business school and then a jump into white collar work. At first her interest in the Stock Market and wall street was passing but after a few successful trades she was hooked.

Luck was on her side for a long while and she embraced the excess of the 80s full heartedly. Cars, drugs, sexual freedom, and trips to Atlantic City. She felt confident in herself and like luck would stay on her side so went on to make plenty of high risk bets and trades. She'd lie and say you have to accept a little risk to make the big bucks but really to her it was the thrill that drew her in, it made her heart pump like nothing else.

There were a few loans she had to take out with private parties, notable being one Anderson Kord who simply asked for when the time came for her to join him on his side. She thought that was just related to marriage and she needed the money so said yes, not realizing he was a kindred who thought her high risk high reward life could pay off later.

The fast life caught up with her though, being investigated for investment fraud and broke she decided to end things on her own terms. She fling herself out of her grand office's balcony and 40 stories later was on the ground fading fast. The last thing she heard was someone reminding her of a deal.

It wasn't a great time to be a Ventrue in LA but the two stayed out of the way. Her interests were more in the mortal world anyways. That high risk lifestyle did not leave her in death and in the early 2000s due to new Camarilla presence Anderson cut her loose realizing his own bet had been bad.

On her own she was having some trouble establishing herself as respectable, she did not hold a lot of power. She decided to take on a series of bets and trades to try to gain something. For the most part she got lucky, lucky enough to by the 2010s be worth something to the Camarilla, but in the process she ended up owing an Anarch by the name of Smiling Jack a life boon after a game of cards (it was rigged).

Trivia

 * The original idea for Barbara and several story points were kindly suggested by reddit user TrustMeImLeifEricson.
 * Her feeding restriction is that the person has to be empolyed.