BRIGITTE DE LA CROIX
SCION OF BARON SAMEDI
Brigitte De La Croix was born in New Orleans, LA, of a maryaj loa between
Baron Samedi and a mortal serviteur named Aimée. Brigitte’s father was a constant
presence in her life, often visiting her in dreams or riding a horse. Regardless, B
although her childhood was odd, she didn’t grow up in a broken R
home like many of her fellows. Her mother married a mortal I
funeral director named Jack De La Croix when Brigitte was five, G
but this was not unusual. Baron Samedi had many wives, after all,
and demanded Aimée’s attention only a few days a month. In fact, I
Brigitte’s stepfather’s occupation intrigued the girl, and when she T
was old enough, she went to work for him. She only drove the hearse T
at first, but she later learned the embalmer’s art, for which she has a E
natural talent.
Two other talents she inherited from her father were the ability to
smoke and drink more than anyone on the Mississippi Delta—talents D
she exploited during her off hours in various bars and pool halls in E
the Big Easy. After a long bender, Brigitte returned home to find her
parents dead and the funeral home overrun with zombies. Thanks to L
a timely Visitation from her father and the Birthright he provided her,
Brigitte was able to fight her way to the man responsible, a twisted bocor
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attempting to use the recent unrest in the Underworld to his advantage.
She sent him straight to Guinee, gaining a handful of his zombies for her C
own, but the battle burned her home to the ground. R
Taking only the clothes on her back and the zombies in the family hearse, O
Brigitte hit the road. Following the advice of her father, she’s been traveling the
South, putting the dead back where they belong and fighting weirder things
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besides. She’s only recently joined up with her Band after a misadventure at X
Georgia’s Etowah Indian Mounds.
Brigitte is a long and lanky woman with eyes the color of grave soil, skin like
dark chocolate and curly black hair. She typically favors black vests, jeans, denim
shorts, miniskirts, fishnets and the occasional swallowtail coat, all accented in
purple. Regardless of her other accoutrements, she always wears her black top hat
and a pair of cheap sunglasses missing one lens, with the veve for Baron Samedi
etched on the remaining lens. When she’s out to make an impression, be it on
other Scions or titanspawn, she paints her face to resemble a skull. Invariably,
Brigitte carries with her a pack of cigarettes, her custom pool cue (which doubles
as a coco macaque) and a bottle of Captain Morgan’s. She travels in a tricked-out
1941 Cadillac hearse.
Roleplaying Hints: You are a sultry woman with a tomboy streak. You
like to drink and shoot pool and brawl and make love—always to excess, rarely
simultaneously. Those who are put off by your morbid dress are usually won
over by your gregarious, balls-out nature. As someone who’s well aware of both
how short life is and how long death is, you live every moment like it might be
your last, which with the Titans free and the dead roaming the World, might
well be true.
Birthrights: Brigitte’s top hat allows her to channel the Darkness Purview.
Her ghede glasses allow her to channel the Death and Health Purviews. Her
(coco macaque/pool cue) allows her to channel the Psychopomp and Earth
purviews. She can also use it to summon her zombie followers up out of the
ground. When necessary, Brigitte can sometimes summon one of her father’s
retinue, the ghede, to offer his advice.
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