Hollow Ones realize that the modern world sucks, so they wrap themselves in the trappings of a more romantic time, a time when you could compose sonatas and end up buried alive. These Darklings mirror their own sense of displacement in their fixation with tragedy. Loners from the start, they set themselves further aparat with eccentric dress and sarcastic manner, create their own nightworld and piss on the trespassers.
The Gothic Orphans know pain first-hand. Most come from broken and abusive homes and learn self-survival before they leave sixth grade. Many are so screwed up their teens that when the Avatar comes calling, it seems almost mundance. Magick comes to them with little study or effort, an innate talent they often use to set up lives away from home. The street subculters offer them a chance to rebel, find shelter and earn friendship. Magick offers them power, status, and enlightenment.
This Tradition doesn't have one sphere that they call their Tradition's own. They pay full price for all spheres. Common Foci are: cheap jewelry, mail order paraphernalia, and stage magic tricks.
