Vital Stats
- Divine Parent: Baron Samedi
- Pantheon: The Loa (The Voodoo Gods)
- Calling: Mortician
- Apparent Age: Mid 20s
- Height: 5'11"
- Place of Origin: New Orleans, LA, USA
- Player: NPC
Background
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, although her childhood was odd, she didn’t grow up in a broken home like many of her fellows. Her mother married a mortal funeral director named Jack De La Croix when Brigitte was five, 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, Brigitte’s stepfather’s occupation intrigued the girl, and when she was old enough, she went to work for him. She only drove the hearse at first, but she later learned the embalmer’s art, for which she has a 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 she exploited during her off hours in various bars and pool halls in the Big Easy. After a long bender, Brigitte returned home to find her parents dead and the funeral home overrun with zombies. Thanks to 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 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 own, but the battle burned her home to the ground.
Taking only the clothes on her back and the zombies in the family hearse, Brigitte hit the road. Following the advice of her father, she’s been travelling the South, putting the dead back where they belong and fighting weirder things besides. She’s only recently joined up with her Band after a misadventure at Georgia’s Etowah Indian Mounds.
Brigitte is a long and lanky woman with eyes the colour of grave soil, skin like dark chocolate and curly black hair. She typically favours 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.<ref>Justin Achilli et al, Scion: Hero, White Wolf Game Inc, 2007</ref>