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| Scene Summary • Script Summary • Trivia |
| Letter: Jean Claude to Ian II | |
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| Chronicle | Milan Chronicle New York Chronicle |
| Game Date | September 17, 2015 |
| Real Date | April 12, 2016 |
| Characters | Jean Claude Danut |
| Locations | Augustine's Palazzo Ventrue Correctional Facility |
| Previous Scene | Maeve's Journal: From Paris to DC (Jean Claude) |
| Next Scene | Contact: Jean Claude Danut (Jean Claude) |
| Content Warnings | Captivity, Death |
| Original Scene | Letter: Jean Claude to Ian II |
Letter: Jean Claude to Ian is a crossover scene from the Milan Chronicle and New York Chronicle featuring Jean Claude Danut. It depicts Jean Claude claiming to have killed Maeve Glaistig and taunting Ian Kross about his failure to save her.
Scene Summary
Jean Claude sends a letter to Ventrue Ian Kross, telling him that he is surprised that he hasn't heard from him and wants him to know that he is his friend. He taunts Ian by telling him about multiple disasters that afflicted him in Chicago, implying that he was behind each one of them.
He goes on to tell Ian that he was right to assume that he would have stolen Maeve from him, but that her faith in Ian was too strong, and describes killing Maeve and seeing her finally realize that Ian was never coming. He then tells Ian that he is happy to share his memories of Maeve with him.
Jean Claude's letter wonders why Ian never writes back to him since they are friends, and asks if Ian liked the gift he sent to him or if he should send another. He claims to be worried about maintaining their friendship.
Script Summary
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A letter from Jean Claude to Ian Kross, December 2014.
 JEAN CLAUDE: Msr. Kross, I admit I am surprised that I have not heard from you. True, we were not so very close during our time in Chicago. There may have even been instances when we found ourselves at cross-purposes. But I am afraid you misunderstand me. I am truly your friend. I have always been there for you, in spirit. When you were sent by his majesty to kill your dear friend, Chance Fields? When your rather phallic building was reduced to rubble and your assets seized? When you so skillfully persuaded Chason to relinquish Praxis? I was there. Honestly, Ian, I have been with you for so long and yet you barely took notice of me? Except, of course, when it came to our songbird. I must admit now that she is gone, you were right about me. I would have taken her from you if only I could. But her faith in you was unyielding. Did you know that she waited for you? I told her time and again that you were not coming, that you were dead, as we all thought you were. But she refused to believe me. She said that you would come for her. What love I witnessed. What devotion. What sorrow, in the end. Because it was only in the end, when she finally realized that she would die, that she knew you were not coming. I saw the hope drain from her eyes before I killed her. She had never looked more beautiful to me, than in that moment. But I share it with you, freely. As I said, we are friends, are we not? And yet you do not write back. Did you not like my gift? Should I send another? I would hate to think that I am neglecting my end of this. Jean Claude Danut |
Trivia
- Jean Claude is lying about many of his claims in this letter, taking credit for several crimes and hostile actions that he did not actually commit.
- Jean Claude is aware that Maeve is alive and in torpor in Paris, but is publicly claiming to have killed her and Octavius Sage in order to cultivate a more fearsome reputation.
- Jean Claude's story about Maeve's desperate faith in Ian to rescue her is entirely fabricated; Jean Claude did not keep her captive and she believed that Ian was dead.
- The "gift" Jean Claude refers to sending Ian is a DVD of Ian and Maeve having sex, circulated to the public by Vanessa Keasley in Chicago, but he may also mean Ian's former ghoul Evelyn Summerfield, who Jean Claude caused to be Embraced.