Ananke generally do not embrace lightly. The most commonly chosen mortals to embrace are those naturally gifted with psychic abilities or other supernatural powers. Many Ananke have embraced serial killers and fascists to encourage their reign of terror to last eternally. Some Ananke choose to embrace to spread their own specific type of madness like a contagious disease. Occasionally an Ananke might embrace particularly a loyal follower to keep them as a clan asset eternally. Very rarely, especially in remote cults with dwindling numbers, the embrace may be done out of necessity to simply keep the bloodline from ending and the traditions of the cult alive.
The Ananke clan is composed of individuals who are able to mask their insanity behind a veneer of normalcy. Unlike typical Malkavians, who are unable to hide their madness, Ananke members are often psychopaths and sociopaths who can seamlessly blend into society. They hold careers that provide them with access to death and the macabre, such as police officers, morticians, and doctors. These professions not only facilitate their murderous tendencies but also enable them to cover up their tracks efficiently. When choosing mortals to embrace into the clan, the Ananke seek out individuals who exhibit traits of psychopathy and sociopathy, as well as those with a natural aptitude for or interest in the occult and divination. Potential recruits are rigorously tested for their ability to maintain composure and rationality while engaging in the clan’s dark practices. Only those who can demonstrate a perfect balance of sanity and madness are deemed worthy of the Embrace.
If a clan member believes that a mortal would be a strong asset to the clan they will be considered, but they must have a powerful constitution to withstand the Embrace and its Kiss of Madness. Almost instantly after being embraced, a former-mortal will experience a surge of dementation inside their mind as their thoughts become twisted and entangled into the Tapestry. This moment can last anywhere from hours to weeks, and is excruciatingly painful and draining to the newly-embraced vampire, and because of this not every fledgeling will survive the Kiss of their Sire. Some Sires will be more sympathetic and stay with their new fledgeling to help them survive turning - others may be more callous and leave them to fend for themselves as their first test of clan worthiness. Those who have their Sire or another handler to help care for them during this time are far more likely to survive the Embrace. Some unlucky Ananke-to-be have ended their unlife, accidentally or intentionally, due to the effects of the Kiss of Madness.
Like 'true' Malkavians, the Ananke's Embrace is the Kiss of Madness. This means that somewhere deep inside their psyche, the Kiss will seek out even the thinnest thread of potential insanity that lays dormant inside the mortal and amplify it a thousand-fold. Any mortal will not be able to prevent or resist their mind becoming twisted thru the Kiss, no matter how sane and stable they may have been before, nor how strong of body or mind. Unique to Malkavian bloodlines, the Kiss of Madness in particular will inflict the fledgeling with not just their own insanity, but also whatever individual madness their Sire has as well. This is what makes the Kiss so torturous - two huge cracks form inside their mind at the same time, shattering their reality, and they're left to somehow sort and pick up the pieces. Sometimes this horrendous event triggers additional types of madness to occur, leading some newly-turned Ananke to be nearly unrecognizable from their former selves.
When the Kiss finally ends with a fledgeling Ananke, barely clinging to unlife, they will feel themselves suddenly "snap" back to lucidity after what feels like an unending nightmare. As if out of nowhere they feel at least partially in control of the madness, able to push it back into the dark recesses of their mind for now, enough to quiet the voices and focus on something else. The new Ananke will find themselves utterly ravenous, with the hunger a mortal would experience after a week without food. It might feel so intense and painful that it's as if they have never eaten anything before, and in a way that's true. Their immortal body is now craving blood and they will begin hunting like an animal for their first meal. Usually they just grab whatever small creature they find first - a squirrel, a dog from someone's yard. This first meal is one that comes with a wave of new sensations and emotions, overwhelming the Ananke to the point of compulsively collecting some part from the kill as a trophy.
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