Impossible Standard

(Mental Flaw)

Lords Over the Damned - Ventrue

Symptoms

Your character holds herself to an impossible standard, which she may never be able to meet, no matter how hard she tries. Perhaps her sire is a Lord of such repute and excellence that your character is facing the possibility of an eternity in his shadow. Perhaps her clan is so venerated (or so reviled) in the city that any deviation from their untouchable image would be considered an embarrassment, and your character faces a never-ending performance of protocol with no margin for error. Whatever the circumstances, your character learns something about her endurance when she fails to meet those impossible standards, suffers the consequences… and yet survives to try again. To gain experience from this Flaw, the consequences of failure must be substantial – being chastised by an elder probably isn’t enough, but being chastised by an elder in front of an audience of respected Kindred would suffice.

Type

Physiological