Daddy Bouchon

"As little by little the bird does build its nest - how much more is the world of man to fear in the knowing mine is to be fashioned the grandest nest in all creation? ...all of marrow for sprigs, and the hearts of wicked men for a foundation."

- Daddy Bouchon

ORIGIN

"Daddy Bouchon" is just one of many monickers by which this ever capricious Trinidadian spirit-being is known - all of them once fondly given by a now increasingly neglectful population of locals. Having manifested in the physical on and off for a period of just under 400 years (in the Caribbean counting), his latest form taken is that of Cleyton Olivera - a smalltime-going on-bigtime crime lord who racketeered local businesses and ran guns and marijuana out of neighbouring Venezuela up until the time of his death, gunned down following a raw deal with crooked law-enforcement officers in the (in)famous Laventille district of Port-of-Spain, the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago - and whom, perhaps on account of the world-wide rising darkness, now has become Daddy's most malicious and unrepentantly evil incarnation to date.

GOALS/PHILOSOPHY

Originally a deity belonging to the mostly extinct pantheon of what is now more obscure folklore than fervent religion, his function as a god was largely one protective of his land and people - although he was always thought of as being particularly mercurial and pernicious in his worship, temperemental to a fault and notoriously difficult to please. Today he has seemingly manifested himself as more of an avenger type, with the agenda of exacting a profound level of what he cryptically refers to as "pan-African vengeance" on the ruling white establishment of the world - both the known and the secret one - hauntingly instigated towards this cause by the enigmatic "Jumbee" - souls of the African dead - for crimes done unto them in life. His newfound ambitions thus all seem centered around himself as being a sort of belligerent savior and hegemonic messiah of "family" - by which he apparently means the Black race of human beings as a whole.

Any more fleeting interests of Daddy Bouchon's are unknown as of yet - but it is assumed that he either does not let any such distractions dictate the course of his existence, or that he is simply incapable of allowing them to do so.

PERSONALITY

Now megalomaniacal with homocidal tendencies, he has somehow grown exceptionally grudgeful and malevolent as of his latest incarnation - speculated by the secret societies to either simply be in unfortunate keeping with the dark times at hand, or to somehow be the result of pre-dispositions kept by Olivera himself in life.



FACTION ALIGNMENT

Daddy Bouchon is an otherwordly entity unaligned to any government or other unnatural separation of people as could be imagined by mankind. His allegiances among men are apparently solely determined by blood matter - and due to the very nature of his existence originally being that of a protective west-African deity, it is speculated that they lie with all people of similar African descent... wherever they may be found in the world today.

RESIDENCE

Limited in his apocalyptic agenda only by the physical space within which he is able to manifest himself at any given time, Bouchon has apparently become a permanent fixture to the Darkside district of Ealdwych, London with his latest human embodiment in the form of Olivera - somehow irrevocably attached to the local Creole population, to whom he remains a major vocal point of superstitious dread to this day. The legend of his lurking presence serves as a constant reminder of the dangers of the Darkside night to residents and visitors alike... deterring to most - hauntingly enticing to a brave few.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

The full extent of Bouchon's powers remain unknown, as no one has yet lived to testify to them all - but his potential for causing supernatural bedlam should out of caution be assumed to be near limitless until then. His more docile abilities, however, appear to predominantly include the so-called "ghost whisperer" type affinities - such as ancestral communication - and anomalous cognition and telepathic projectioning, as well. A calling card trick of his involves a specialized form of libanomancy - where he prophesies and predicts through the divination of smoke rising from his lit cigars - although curiously, this only ever works if they're Cuban-made...

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION



Olivera's body - now Bouchon's vessel of physical existence and sole link to the material world, rendered incorruptible to the passage of time since it's possession - was 34 years of age at the time of his death.

Olivera was slightly on the tall side, with a slim build only hinting at his natural athleticism, and strongly developed facial features. He had an intense blue-black complexion, and a prominent underbite. He commonly reeked of cigar smoke, and had a serious penchant for black leather attire of any kind.

TELL-TALE SIGNS

Persistent encounters with certain avatar-like beings have all been positively associated with an imminent Daddy Bouchon manifestation. These have been recorded to include - but are presumed not to be limited to - the following:

The Hyena Man: Severe and intimidating, this one-armed man is always seen as only just barely being able to constraint an enormous, bloodthirsty hyena - muzzled and kept at a leash by his side.

The Amazons: Female warriors native to colonial-era Africa, as deadly as they are beautiful.

John Crow: A drowned plantation worker hungry to repay the living in kind for his cruel demise.

Big Daddy: The shadow cast by his fedora is so great that it blots out any immediate light, and the rolling mists of smoke blown from his giant cigar is enough to send you into a feverish haze... but this towering figure is apparently mostly docile.

Great King Shango: The legendary warrior-king come to free his people by the edge of his wicked weaponry.