Malkavian Madnesses

For all those people who want to play a Malkavian with an interesting dementia, here's a list of disturbing/amusing/interesting insanities which various people have come up with. Yes, some of them are just for fun Malkavians. Yes, some of these will create fluffy Malkavians. Yes, some of them are quite frightening. Deal with it.

Some derangements with commentary

Some more derangements

Some good sample dementias, from dr. deagol

Some ideas derived from a psych textbook

A list of phobias

Story ideas from Thomas Ligotti (easily turned into derangements)

Malkavian Dementia; for more, check out a good abnormal psychology reference, such as the DSM-IV or a college-level text...
• Blood-based and Kindred-specific Derangements
• Clan confusion
• Clan-swapping
• Complete Distraction
• Fantasy
• Gay
• "I am the only real person..." Very scary.
• Identify
• A Malkavian who doesn't believe he's a vampire
• Manic-Depressive
• Neuroses
• No emotion
• Obsessed with the proper way of doing things
• Obsessive...and Mortal Terror
• People are always talking about the Malk...
• A psychological hypochondriac
• Reality is Slipping
• Reverse hallucinations
• A severe religious fanatic
• A Malkavian (preferably with Mask of 1,000 faces and/or embraced as a child) who goes around finding role models, and patterning herself after them until she finds another role model.
• A Malkavian who thinks he's one of the other clans (or switches about).
• A Malkavian who doesn't believe he exists at all.
• A Malkavian who thinks he's Kirk, from Star Trek, and talks...in great, dramatic...pauses, like this...one...
• A Malkavian who believes that the world is a sitcom, and he is star. The constant asides to the audience really confuse people.
• nymphomaniac
• thinks that whenever a mosquito comes near, he/she must protect it, as it is a fellow misunderstood little pranking thorn in some tremere/ventrue-like humans side
• believes he/she is allergic to grass or something similar, though he/she isn't obviously, but he she has a mental allergy and reacts as though the devil is chasing him/her when near the grass(or other allergic item)
• he/she thinks they are a tremere elder
• he/she is convinced he/she is the main character in the mouth of madness and goes around trying to foil the demons and Sutter Cane all the time.
• Thinks she's the Prince of any city she visits, and has a couple of Dominated ghoul retainers to vouch for her.
• The world is a commercial, and he is the voice-over announcer.
• Rolls dice to decide what to do.
• Actively searches for UFO's. Says she's trying to get home.
• Group dementia: Five Malks think they are all the same person, and refuse to acknowledge the existance of the other four.
• Pair dementia: Two Malks both have multiple personalities. However, they share personalities. So when Malk 1 switches from persona A to persona B, Malk 2 (who was persona B) switches to persona A.
• One Malk. Four personas. When he switches, the persona is "frozen". Example: Malk is currently persona B, in a conversation about cars. He says "So, what do you think about the Maz..." and switches to persona D. He runs out and goes on a vandalizing spree, wondering how he got where he is. Hours, and several personas, later he switches back to B. "...da Miata? Hey! Where'd you go? And where am I?" ... you get the idea...
• Stuttering: This is technically a brain based problem, and heaps fun to roleplay.
• Compulsive Dancing: You must dance everywhere. Don't walk, dance. When sitting down, tap your feet constantly.
• Fear of Change. Interpret as you will.
• The end of the world is coming. Tomorrow.
• Fear of commitment. Refuse to commit to anything. Ever. If anyone tries to force you to commit run from the room screaming. Pulling a gun on them is a nice touch.
• As far as fantasy goes, I like a character in a disney cartoon, like, every five minutes or whenever alone you break into song. Duets if possible.
• A Malkavian who thinks he is the biblical Caine.
• A Malkavian who does everything backwards! Walks backwards eats backwards dress up backward (shoes first!) Thinks backwards, accomplishes goals backwards, lives backwards.
• a malk who has 2 personalities....one who is an obsessive hunter/FBI type guy, constantly hunting for Harry.... and Harry...who could be innocent, or evil, or just coincidentaly clumsy.
• a malk who suffers from delusions of (oh i don't know) suckiness, he calls himself The Sane Malkavian ("grumble. i couldn't gt life right, and now i can't even get death right!) whose obsession is FINDING a derangement.
• He has a photographic memory and is obsessive about his hobby: movies. He watches every movie he can get in to see. He's learned languages from these and many of the things he does and says are from movies (he often slips into different characters until he finds his way out of them).
• The character watches one episode of the Twilight Zone a week... he then becomes afraid of whatever was the main scary thing in the show. This is much like identify only the Character remains himself and just identifies with the conflict. His fear changes with every episode of the Twilight Zone he watches. Any tv show could be substituted, I just like the Twilight Zone.
• The character believes he is Peter Pan once he learns that he is immortal. He has a faerie friend named Tinkerbell and a group of Ghoul retainers whom he refers to as the Lost Boys. Whoever his major enemies are, he refers to as the pirates and the leader he refers to as Captain Hook. This is also much like identify.
• Short Attention Span: Primogen meeting getting boring? Why not toss out some of your disciplines! Show those dull boneheads what it means to have fun! (Always be active. Always.)
• Illusion Dependant: You learned chimerstry, or it came to you naturally. Now you have your own little world. Why not share that world with everybody else?
• Consider character X (a malk). Now let X have no less then 2 disjoint personalities (PM & PF). One of these personalities (PM) is a pyromaniac who derives pleasure /solely/ from watching something burn. Now consider the second personality PF. PF is pyrophobic and will stop at nothing to flee from a fire depending upon it's size. (i.e. candle => scream ::: bonfire => begin running/flying at top spead and will not stop until at least a few k's away.) Now for the fun part. Otherwise PF is pretty normal and should usually be played. Now the trigger for PF->PM is when PF gets really bored (perhaps locked in the cupboard as a tyke) and the switch for PM is when he gets reallllly excited. (Which as you recall, is only when he starts a fire.) Whether PF knows about PM and/or the trigger is optional; but might even make it more interesting as PF desperately tries to stay interested (lest he becomes bored.)