CHILDISH
Seindorf's a famous name in San Paro. You can pretty much see the
Seindorf Building, in the downtown Financial District, from anywhere in
the city. There's another reason why people know the Seindorf name,
though, and it's not anything to do with tall buildings or all those
bronze plaques on all those public landmarks that various generations of
Seindorfs have bequeathed to the city. It's all to do with Clarissa
Seindorf, who is - regrettably, from the Seindorf family's point of view
- one of San Paro's most famous faces.
At present, the family are writing off Clarissa's unfortunate
involvement with one of San Paro's criminal gangs as ''just one of those
phases'' she goes through from time to time.
Clarissa's been through a lot of phases for someone still in her
early 20s. Expelled from several expensive Virginia Gardens private
schools for conduct unbecoming a young lady, she's since gone on to try
her hand at 'acting' (casting couch audition tapes available for
download all over SPiN), singing (not even the production skills of
Suji, backed up by the best recording facilities money could buy, could
coax anything listenable out of her weak vocals) and general
celeb-around-town. (On that last score, fashion designer Gustav Schaow
put her top of his annual San Paro's Worst Dressed list, a decision
swiftly rescinded after Charlotte & Lilith Bloodrose kidnapped all
three of his beloved English toy spaniel dogs and started mailing pieces
of one of them back to him.)
It seemed certain she would next turn to crime, especially after
Effigy magazine declared crime to be the new rock'n'roll, with a cover
that month featuring a model blatantly imitating the look of Charlotte
Bloodrose. Clarissa had already been part of the Blood Roses' travelling
court for a while, but it wasn't until she persuaded them to take her
out on a heist job with them that she realised just how high a buzz you
could get from breaking the law at a level a lot higher than her
previous drunk driving and minor drug busts.
As with her other phases, she threw herself wholeheartedly into
this one, and her family are no doubt delighted with how fast she can
strip and reload an MPG, or remotely disable a silent alarm. She's
dropped out of sight on the Havalynd club scene, but only because she's
hanging out at the Waterfront underground club scene. Officially, her
family are putting out the word that she's travelling the world doing
voluntary work for various charities, and they're expending a great deal
of money and calling in a lot of favours to keep her involvement with
the Blood Roses a secret from the press.
Which suits Jeung Bloodrose just fine. The Seindorf's sponsoring a
news blackout on reports of Blood Roses just gives them all the more
room to operate in, and helps keep the authorities off their back. To be
honest, Clarissa kind of grates on his nerves, but she does have her
uses to the organisation.
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