FAMILY RECORDS:
VAN ALEN
A formerly prominent New York family whose influence and largesse was instrumental in the founding of modern-day
Manhattan, the Van Alen name was once synonymous with power, privilege, and patronage. But the family fortune has been dwindling for many years, now reduced to a few real estate holdings and nothing more.
SCHUYLER VAN ALEN
Half-blood
Birth Name: Schuyler Theodora Elizabeth Van Alen Chase
Origin: September 1, 1992, New York, New York
Known Past Lives: None: she is Dimidium Cognatus (halfhuman, half-vampire), the first and only one of her kind.
Bondmate: None. Schuyler is a trueborn new spirit with no heavenly past.
Assigned Human Conduit: Oliver Hazard-Perry
List of Human Familiars: Oliver Hazard-Perry, no others
Physical Characteristics:
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5’7”
Schuyler is the only daughter born to immortal mother, Allegra
Van Alen (Gabrielle, the Uncorrupted) and mortal father, Stephen Chase, her mother’s only human familiar. The Van
Alens were once one of the community’s wealthiest and most illustrious families, but fell on hard times when Allegra broke her blood bond to her brother Charles (Michael, Pure of Heart).
Home is a shabby mansion on 101st Street and Riverside
Drive. Other Van Alen holdings include a Nantucket compound, and a pied-à-terre in Paris (currently rented to visiting tourists).
Schuyler was born premature, and as a baby was perpetually underweight. Her pediatrician noted that she did not speak until her fourth birthday, when she suddenly began using whole sentences. Her primary caretaker, Cordelia Van Alen, her maternal grandmother, refused to allow speech therapy, insisting that her granddaughter was perfectly capable of speaking and would do so when she was ready.
School reports from Duchesne indicate that Schuyler was a quiet and thoughtful child, socially awkward, and if not for her best friend and human Conduit, Oliver Hazard-Perry, would have been a complete outcast. She excelled in Language Arts and Applied Arts, and was once honored by the faculty for diligence in her studies.
According to medical records from the Committee physician, Dr. Patricia Hazard, Schuyler’s half-blood heritage means she has many powers that vampires her age do not, but also that her mixed blood makes her weaker and her
Transformation to vampire unstable. Her immortality is in question due to her human progenitor.
Schuyler’s birth was a flagrant violation of the Code on her mother’s part, and the Conclave has not yet come to a formal decision on her fate. Because it is said that the daughter of
Gabrielle will bring the Blue Bloods the salvation they seek, Schuyler has been allowed to live. For now.
Schuyler Van Alen spends most of her time alone; she has a fondness for museums and long walks in Central Park, and made it a habit to revisit her comatose mother in the hospital every Sunday.
The following is a report from a Repository intern currently enrolled in Duchesne:
Intern Report #101
Schuyler Van Alen dresses like a nineteenth-century street urchin in thriftstore castoffs, but was recently tapped to be a model by New York’s top agency during a casting call held at school. She gives the impression of being short of stature yet is in fact slightly taller than average. Her best friend, Oliver, calls her Sky, and according to a poem written in his diary (filched from his locker and scanned while subject was in class):
Her blue-black hair falls in curtains
Surrounding a delicate heart-shaped face
Blue eyes set deep in a pale, almost ivory complexion
Stunning
Beautiful
Schuyler
Even those not so enamored will grudgingly accede that she is attractive. The beginnings of her
Transformation came right on schedule in her fifteenth year, with the discovery of the sangre azul on her forearms. Duly inducted into the Committee during the first semester of her sophomore year, she has displayed questionable judgment in the process of her Transformation. Her attendance at Committee meetings is inconsistent, and she recently performed the Sacred Kiss with her human Conduit, in a flagrant violation of Committee rules. According to Dr.
Hazard, she had no other choice but to do so or she would have succumbed to a sickness and the loss of consciousness that felled her mother.
Intern Report #202
While retiring in nature, Schuyler displays an unerring ability to attract the attention of the opposite sex. She was spotted dancing with Jack Force at the fall Informals, and rumors have it that her infatuation with Duchesne’s most handsome and popular student may be returned. During the after-party at the
Four Hundred Ball, she was spotted kissing a fellow masked reveler. Conflicting reports have the boy in question as Oliver Hazard-Perry, Kingsley Martin, or the most likely candidate, Jack Force.
Intern Report #303
Schuyler’s infatuation/relationship with Jack Force appears to have grown since she was ordered to move to the Forces’ town house after her adoption by her uncle, Charles Force. Several interns have confirmed sightings of Schuyler and Jack entering a residential building on Perry Street separately but within minutes of the other (real estate records show apartment 10 N. titled to the Benjamin Force Trust).
From a page from Schuyler’s journal:
“To love Jack is to ruin him, to risk his very life. His eventual bonding with Mimi is law, it is life and death. I must leave him. I cannot keep doing this to Oliver, who loves me so much and whom I love as well. I cannot live with the guilt anymore. I have to say good-bye.”
(Renfield’s notes continued)
Schuyler Van Alen was put to a Committee hearing after the events in Rio, where Regis Lawrence Van Alen was murdered. She has been on the run for a year since the trial, but we can assume she returned to New York, as she was spotted at the bonding ceremony of Madeleine (Mimi) and Benjamin (