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The Ottawa Awesomes
Louise Salvador
Louise Salvador
Werewolf Cop Possessed by a Demon
Appearance: Thirtysomething Haitian-Quebecoise woman. Looks exhausted. Short hair, that somehow still appears unkempt. Chain-smoker.
Personality: Hard. Boiled.
Background: Self-imposed exile or not, slumming as a beat cop in Gatineau is an exile for former Montreal Detective Louise “Lou” Salvador. I mean, where do you even get poule en sos in this town? But Lou can't give up on her last case, the one that nearly ended her career, especially when the perp broke out of prison and no one seemed to care! So she's followed that psychic con-artist called Jo-Jo Valentine to the Ottawa valley. That woman literally dredged up some unwanted family history that nearly destroyed Lou’s career, and hospitalized the better part of a precinct.Besides, being in the National Capital Region lets her keep an eye on Jo-Jo, now Janice, who has been allowed to reinvent herself, incredibly, as a local superhero, following her prison break. No one seems to care about that either, well so be it.
*GRUNT*
"She's alright. But I can definitely see why everyone hates her."
"That woman is dangerous. I don't know her angle with this rehabilitated act, but the score must be huge. And what the hell, that True North Force let her within a hundred kilometers of the Prime Minister! I should be careful what I wish for, because some potential answers just kicked down my front door..."
*GRUNT*
*GRUNT*
You see, Lou is a werewolf, though she shouldn’t be. That’s the easy part. Since Jo-Jo, she’s also come to realize that she is also possessed by a 500-year-old blood-sucking Haitian demon called a soucouyant or alternatively, a loogaroo (small world, right?). And that one and the werewolf DO NOT get along.
Lou’s mother was from Hochelaga-Maissonneuve in Montreal. Better known as HoMa, it’s gritty, dangerous, and utterly charming. Almost like Lou herself. If Lou were charming.
Her father is from Haiti – Jacmel to be precise. City of Lights. Far from the deadly political bullshit of Port-au-Prince. For Lou, this has always been the real Haiti. No wonder the tourists love it. No wonder Papa went back. He’s a professor of folklore and mythologie at Université Notre Dame D'Haïti. Little did she know that he had inadvertently left her an unwanted inheritance, as well. He’s been helping her learn to keep the soucouyant from murdering everyone she loves. Merci Papa!
Apparently, the werewolf-thing was only ever passed along through the male members of her family on her mother’s side–her uncles, her grand-père, her arrière-grand-père. And so on. Something about a family curse, flying canoes and deals with the diable.
Needless to say, Maman was relieved when she had a daughter. Less so when Lou’s lycanthropy started to manifest during her adolescence, anyway. At the time, no one knew why or how. But the pack is everything to a wolf, so after a reconciliation between Maman and her own father, Lou ended up spending all of her summers in the wilds of Northern Quebec with pépère, learning to live with her “phases.”
Before she’d learned of the soucouyant that had taken root inside her, no one understood how Lou could control when or how completely she could transform into a wolf any more than they understood how a woman could have passed along the curse along to another woman. Now it all makes more sense.
Haitian voodoo. Just when you're life couldn't get more messed up.
So here she is Gatineau, where no one asks too many questions if she misses a shift, or a really shitty guy goes missing in the bush every now and then. It’s where Lou thought no one would notice her.
More the fool, she. Because yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada came knocking on her door…
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