Hello!

This is my first time playing an actual campaign. I've played VTMB and more recently the text game Parliament of Knives, falling in love with the setting all over again, especially the way they portray Malkavians, their route being genuinely my favorite.

Suffice to say, I was interested in playing one. for my bane, we are flavoring it as my character sensing and absorbing the emotions of those around her (with the Insight to match), and when the bane triggers it's because they got too overwhelming.

I wanted something light to work with, one to avoid harmful depictions of neurodivergence, being neurodivergent myself (from my brief browsing of the subreddit, the word Malkavian seems to always evoke the dreaded discourse), but also because she has only recently been turned and had no sire to guide her.

My worries are less if this fits the lore (if my DM says it's fine that's all I care about) and more related to balance, I can't help but feel like her bane should be more explicit and noticeable, and that I might be slightly circumventing the stigma that Malkavians have. Given that this is my first time actually playing, I wanted to see what you guys think about it.