Lola Espejo

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Early Life

Lola Espejo (formerly Saturday), the younger daughter of two, was rasied by Baron and Theresa Saturday, deep in the swamplands of South Lousiana. The product of an unintended affair between Theresa Saturday and a disguised Tezcatlipoca, Lola was apparently adopted by Baron after her birth. The duplicitous activities of their divine parents were withheld from Lola and her sister, Beth, for many years, so the girls were raised as sisters. And because the exact circumstances of her birth were unknown to her until late in her teenage years, Lola also developed a solid relationship with the Baron, aware, as most of his children are, of his position in the unseen world of the Gods.

Most of Lola's childhood was spent happily, if oddly. Theresa Saturday only had the pleasure of her husband's company on Saturdays, which left most of the tiny surrounding town with the impression that she was a single mother, an image she didn't try to dissuade. Her easy personality and comforting good looks inspired the attentions of many suitors, all of whom were firmly and politely turned away. Beth, as charming and beautiful as her mother, showed similar promise, and proved quite popular through high school. Lola, on the other hand, was a more reserved child, painfully shy and content to watch people behind a mane of concealing hair. Even with her attempts to hide, Lola was visible, whether as the daughter of Theresa, the sister of Beth, or the quiet goth kid, and her reputation combined with her passivity to make the perfect target for bullies. However, Lola had a protector.

Anthony King, known mostly by the nickname "Beau," was three years Lola's senior, the varsity quarterback, and Beth's boyfriend. More importantly to Lola, he protected her from those who would tormet her, a relationship they maintained until his death. During her freshman year at Woodmere High, the attention she received from Beau, who had already been in a committed relationship with Beth for two years, ultimately did Lola more harm than good. By the time Beau graduated from high school, those whose bullying pursuits had been thwarted felt that they had to make up for missed opportunities. During a football practice in which Beau, now the assistant coach, was distracted by his charges, Lola's assailants beat and nearly raped her, stopped at the last moment by Beau's fortunate timing. Lola, who had been quietly nursing a crush on her sister's now-fiance, realized at that moment that she was hopelessly in love.

Visitation

Beth Saturday was due to marry Anthony King in the summer between Lola's sophomore and junior years of high school. By the eve of the wedding, Lola was desperate to stop her sister from making Beau untouchable. Convinced that her love was pure and right, Lola approached her future brother-in-law the night before his wedding, after he'd returned from a meagre bachelor party. Tired and slightly drunk, Beau tried repeatedly to make Lola leave, but she exhibited a persistence and forceful personality that he'd never before seen in her. Before he realized what was happening, she had wormed her way into his bed.

Seducing Beau was easier than Lola had anticipated, and she convinced herself that it served as evidence of his unspoken love for her. Her first time was everything that she hoped it would be, though she had to push away thoughts of her sister and feelings of guilt. When all was said and done, however, reality returned. Lola innocently asked Beau how he was going to break the news to Beth, wondering if he needed her support. But Beau shrugged her off, apologizing and affirming that their encounter was a one night fling, a last hurrah before he entered into a life of committment. Lola didn't have time to be upset, or to threaten him with Beth, before the woman in question showed up.

Having it in mind to sneak into her fiance's house to say a quiet good night before their wedding, Beth chose that moment to walk in. The sight that greeted her eyes was Beau, sprawled confidently naked across tousled sheets, and Lola, heartbreak plastered across her face and slouching to hide her nudity. Beth lost it, invoking powers she'd struggled to keep hidden since her father Visited her a couple of years prior. In the ensuing chaos, Beau was struck dead and revived as a corpse, and Lola was barely spirited away in time by the watchful Baron Samedi. For the first time, the Baron had a frank conversation with Lola about her parentage, informing her that, though he thought of her as his true daughter, she had been concieved by a God from Aztec myth. Depositing her in New Orleans with a handful of small gifts, the Baron told Lola to invoke the name of Tezcatlipoca when she found herself faced with life or death.

Hero

New York City

Faced with a new cynical attitude about life and love, 16 year-old Lola hitchhiked to New York City, hoping to lose herself in the crowds of such a big city. Some gut feeling told her that Beth wasn't far behind, dragging along a rotting and imprisoned Beau to torment her, but the paranoia never proved itself to be warranted. Too young to be legally employed and suddenly aware of the power her body held over men--even men as moral and good as Beau--Lola took her first stab at prostitution. She rapidly became more comfortable with her body and more adept at manipulating her potential clients, but Lola's first big break was the result of unanticipated violence. Some six months after she began her life in the alleys of the Big Apple, Lola was accosted by a john who had a taste for violence and apparently no intention to pay. Needing money to eat, with the memory of Beau fresh in her mind, Lola played along just long enough to stab the man in the back with a shard of glass that came to hand. Here, she saw the first evidence of her new power in action as the glass turned black and the nameless man bled out, giving her a surge of power she'd never before experienced.

From that point, luck was on Lola's side, and her second big break happened shortly thereafter. A few nights later, while partying at a selective club, Lola was introduced to a man named Wolfgang Vo, a new supreme court justice who had gotten properly drunk during the congratulatory celebrations. Through her own coercion and the encouragement of his colleagues, Justice Vo became the first of Lola's high profile clients, giving her enough cash for the evening to finance a proper penthouse, though he was insistent that she use it to turn her life around.

The next three years saw Lola focused on building her business as she focused on making deals with powerful clients in the political and financial worlds. She developed a reputation that suited her fine, and the occasional sacrifice to her absent father kept her going strong. While she had never spoken with Tezcatlipoca, or even attempted to contact him, she was careful to do the research that allowed her to pay him proper homage, and to quietly thank him for the favors he bestowed upon her. During her stay in New York, she heard from neither Theresa nor the Baron, and Beth stayed absent. Lola shed her childhood surname and adopted a new one, Espejo, to reflect her true heritage, and she forged false identification through her contacts to affirm her new identity.

However, Fate had other plans for Lola in the form of Scions.

For some time, though irregularly, Lola entertained a young man named Ramond, who, unknown to her, was a promising child of the Loa God Shango. Ramond, utterly charmed by the woman, fancied himself deeply in love, and shed his committments so that he might propose. However, Ramond was the backbone, the protection, of a small Band of Scions who relied on his for safety, and in deserting them for Lola's company, he assured their deaths. The sole survivor, a Scion of Ogoun name Louis, tracked Ramond and Lola down just as she denied Ramond what he wanted--though she would have been glad to continue their working relationship.

In a fury, Louis attacked, and Ramond turned his back on his partner to protect Lola. Their scuffle destroyed her penthouse and sent both men careening out of the window to the street hundreds of feet below. Now with the wrathful attention of the Loa focused on her, as well as the scrutinizing eyes of the NYPD, Lola found herself in  need of the life and death help of which Baron Samedi had spoken three years before. Packing her things and adopting yet another identity, Lola set off for Mexico.

Meeting the Band

Plotting a course to Mexico required that Lola avoid Louisiana even as she approached it, for fear of Beth and of the Loa, so it was somewhere in the Great Plains that she encountered Alejandro Dragon, a kind man who happened to be heading in the same direction. Still fleeing the police and avoiding divine attention, Lola took the good fortune of meeting a Mexican anthropologist, and they traveled together until they reached Mexico City. Through Alejandro, she learned more of her heritage, ultimately becoming suspicious that he might be a God in disguise. This suspicion saved him from any attempts at seduction, which ultimately served to help Lola. They parted ways as she went to find the ancient temple devoted to Tezcatlipoca, her obsidian dagger tucked carefully away.

Through the machinations of Fate or Tezcatlipoca, Dr. Dragon and Lola's destination wound up being the same, and as he explored the ruins, she became aware of what was needed to make contact with her father. Though Lola had intended to offer her own blood as aa sacrifice, the presence of Alejandro decided it. Taking a gamble that he was, in fact, not a God, Lola subdued the man and cut out his heart, offering the bloody relic to Tezcatlipoca, who accepted it. Finally face to face with her father, Lola asked for his protection, agreeing to work in his name. With the expectation of regular sacrifices and a devotion to her duties as a Scion of the Teotl, Tezcatlipoca agreed, and gave her a task.

A month and several dead truckers later, Lola reached Arizona, where she met Ampona Hotah, Elijah Chase, Magus, and, to her surprize, Wolfgang Vo.