MbN-Bianca Torres
Bianca Torres is the daughter of a prominent anti-cartel, anti-drug politician. Due to political unrest in Mexico, the Torres family moved constantly and always had a complement of protection details around every family member, but property damage, theft, and death threats still occasionally got through. While growing up, Bianca had moments of anger towards her father for risking their family's safety, but she knew what he stood for were just causes. With a bit of emotional maturity, she began holding the cartels singularly responsible for not being able to live a normal life.
Joaquín Cortez, a friend of Bianca's father, first took notice of her, as her headstrong personality, ambitious nature, and a bit of her appearance, reminded him of his own late daughter. He, too, had a disdain for criminal kingpins and their gangs, but had the benefit of eternity to try to dismantle them. Thinking Bianca would be a great boon to his cause and in return, his gift/curse would aid her in her own endeavors, he began grooming her for Kindred life with promises of time, power, and his teachings. The Embrace happened during the autumn of her 29th year in 1966.
She adjusted to most of Kindred customs after a while, but with Mexico being unsafe, especially for a fledgeling, Bianca moved to Las Vegas. She chose the destination due to its close proximity to home and because of Sin City's nightlife, it made for easier survival on her own. While there, she met Ben Carig whom she haunted the streets with, feeling a kinship with him due to their shared hatred of organized crime. Vegas was definitely safer, but what she didn't expect was the anti-immigrant sentiment that was starting to gain momentum among the kine. Realizing she had abandoned one bad situation for another, she returned home after a year.
In the mid 1980s, when violence and crime in Mexico was becoming unbearable due to an economic crisis and narcotics trafficking, she moved further north than Vegas to take refuge while seeking to avoid anti-Mexican sentiment. Feeling safer with a large Mexican-American population, she ended up in Chicago, posing as a poli-sci grad student at the University of Chicago where she first met Mitch Golsteen.
During the first Obama years, things were starting to look up. There was a little more stability with Mexican-American relations, including a joint effort between the two for counternarcotics. Several cartels were disbanded. The feelings of hope and optimism may have been amplified due to where she was living at the time, but having been homesick for years and finally feeling safe enough to do so, at long last, she returned to Mexico, despite the bittersweetness of outliving her family.
Time being cyclical in nature, Mexico was facing yet another era of political unrest in the mid 2010s. The tyrant the Americans were on course to elect into office in 2016 was promising to make things difficult on both sides of the border, so Bianca quickly applied for refugee status which was luckily granted in 2018. Cortez knew the Kindred society in Milwaukee was suffering, so using Bianca's legal status as a catalyst, he sent her on a mission to Wisconsin.
Having lived in fear of, and technically died for political matters, Bianca is a staunch supporter of upholding the Masquerade and with it, the Camarilla. She's appalled at the current status of Milwaukee and hopes her mission will right it.
In 1943, young 6-year old Bianca was assigned a protection detail because her family was a target for criminal activities due to her father's career. Thomas Davenport, a 32-year old American man who was given a 4-F from Selective Service during the WWII draft and thus went into the private sector, was her assigned agent. He and the other agents assigned to the Torreses were very much a part of the family. Thomas was practically Bianca's second father, which benefited them both as Bianca's father was rarely around due to work and Thomas was estranged from his wife, thus separated from his own daughter back in America.
Thomas was kept in the employ of the Torreses for several years. He visited his family occasionally, but remained living in separate countries. The glue that bonded him and his wife back together came in the form of a first grandson in 1954. It was serendipitous timing as Bianca was just about to begin attending university in a safer city, so her father was already considering terminating her protection detail. It was around this time that Cortez came into her life as well.
When Bianca fled to Chicago in 1986, she came across Jackson Davenport, Thomas' grandson, who, at 32, was the spitting image of Thomas that she remembered. As a true testament to being a "chip off the old block", Jackson enlisted in the marines at the age of 18 and after completing his military career, went into the secret service. The two became close friends, though they parted ways for a few years when Bianca moved back to Mexico.
In 2018, Jackson is still an active agent at 64 years old, though Bianca, still appearing to be in her late 20s, had to pass herself off as her own "descendant". The two still share a tight bond, though parts of it feel similar to the familial tie young Bianca and Thomas had decades ago.
