ManyFaces
Devil's Advocate
Name:
Fᵣₐₙcₒᵢₛ ₘₒₙₜᵣₐₑᵤ
Incarnation of?:
Dr. Facilier, The Princess and The Frog
Age:
[COLOR= rgb(75, 0, 130)]31 years give or take, looks like it atleast, a gift from his friends[/COLOR]
Occupation in town:
He owns an Emporium of various charms among other things including bones, enchanted charms, talismans, and other oddities. He'll read your future with his Tarot cards if you're willing to pay the price. But if he deems someone worthy he might let them see the other side, a back room of sorts. Here's where all his voodoo and dark magic items are kept.
Past Life:
[COLOR= rgb(75, 0, 130)]Facilier is first seen striking a deal with a bald man who wishes to grow hair on the busy streets of New Orleans. So, Facilier makes it so by having hair grow over his entire body, frightening both civilians and the man himself, amusing Facilier to the highest degree. However, Facilier's joy is short-lived when he witnesses just how much wealth is owned by Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff, the richest man in New Orleans, as he gave a huge amount of cash to the newspaper boy after receiving the newspaper. The envious Facilier and his shadow look in disgust, knowing there must be a way to make themselves just as wealthy as Eli. Later on, Facilier overhears a waitress named Tiana and Big Daddy's daughter, Charlotte La Bouff, talking about a prince coming to town who is due to marry the latter. Facilier gets an idea from the information heard. Once Prince Naveen and his overworked valet Lawrence arrive, he takes them to his parlor to strike deals. For Naveen, the doctor promises to give all the freedom and green his heart's desire, while with Lawrence, he offers him to have the chance to be in Naveen's shoes to get a spot in the limelight for once.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(75, 0, 130)]With a handshake, the deal is complete. However, when Naveen figured Facilier meant wealth when he promised to give green, the doctor actually tricked the prince and magically transformed him into a frog and imprisoned him. As for Lawrence, he became a recruit for Facilier's plot to become incredibly wealthy and dominate New Orleans. Facilier gives Lawrence a talisman filled with Naveen's blood, which allows Lawrence to magically transform into an exact copy of the Prince, thus impersonating him. In Naveen's place, Lawrence is to marry Charlotte. Once they marry, Facilier plans to murder Big Daddy via a voodoo doll, thus having the fortune handed over to Lawrence, the heir through marriage. Together, the two villains would split the money 60-40, with Lawrence getting the smaller sum. With the La Bouff's fortune under Facilier's control, the witch doctor would become the most powerful man in the city, as money is what grants power and authority, in New Orleans. That night, at Charlotte's masquerade ball, Lawrence in disguise meets the wealthy debutante and they immediately hit it off, making Facilier's plot that much closer to completion.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(75, 0, 130)]Meanwhile, Naveen manages to escape and heads off. He soon meets Tiana, whom he believes to be a princess. However, she was merely wearing a costume in honor of the party. But following the storyline of "The Frog Prince", Naveen asks the girl to kiss him, which she reluctantly does. As a result of not actually being a princess, Tiana also becomes a frog. Furious, Tiana attacks Naveen and the two end up on the ball's dance floor, causing havoc as they escaped the party and accidentally ending up in the bayous of New Orleans. Facilier was secretly attending the ball as a clown, as well, and watched in anger as Naveen escaped. The furious witch doctor confronts Lawrence on the matter, who begins having second thoughts about the villainous scheme. Lawrence then tore off the talisman, telling Facilier to wear it instead, and casually threw it. Panicking, Facilier managed to catch the talisman before it hit the floor, warning Lawrence that he can't risk it being destroyed. Calming down, he demonstrated that his own voodoo doesn't work on himself by wearing the talisman. Facilier manages to persuade the former valet to continue going along with the plan, assuring that all will be well so long as they have Naveen's blood in the voodoo talisman. The next day, however, the blood begins to run out and Lawrence's Naveen disguise is abolished. Facilier must now ask for help from his "friends on the other side". While glaring at him, his "friends" silently ask what they would get at the bargain which Facillier nervously understood. Promising them, the souls of New Orleans' innocent citizens as payment, Facilier is given a team of shadow demon henchmen by his "friends" to go out and capture Naveen.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(75, 0, 130)]As the night of the wedding arrives, Lawrence remains hidden within the La Bouff's guest quarters alongside Facilier and his shadow, who fearfully and frustratingly laments the fact that his life is in danger should the plot fail, losing his patience with both Lawrence and the shadow demons' delays. Suddenly, the demons return, and with Naveen in their possession. Facilier captures the prince within his grasps and forcefully holds him down as Lawrence steals back the blood and stores it in the talisman, restoring the power of his disguise. The wedding ceremony occurs that night at Mardi Gras. Facilier waits in the shadows, watching closely as Lawrence and Charlotte are about to be pronounced husband and wife. With a voodoo doll of Big Daddy at hand, Facilier plans on stabbing the voodoo doll in the heart, thus killing Big Daddy and handing the fortune down to Lawrence as planned. Fortunately, Naveen escapes yet again and prevents this. The talisman is obtained by Naveen and given to his friend Ray the firefly. Facilier and the shadows chase after Ray while Naveen is being held captive by Lawrence. Ray manages to give the talisman over to Tiana, telling her she needs to keep it away from the Shadow Man. Tiana escapes with the talisman whilst Ray attacks the shadow demons to buy her time. Unfortunately, Facilier catches Ray by surprise and swats him out of the air, stunning him. Facilier then crushes Ray under his shoe, fatally wounding him. With him out of the way, the Shadow Man and his legion of demons head onward to Tiana.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(75, 0, 130)]Facilier and the shadows have Tiana cornered, soon enough. However, she threatens to destroy the talisman, prompting Facilier to quickly make an attempt to strike a deal. He tries to manipulate Tiana into handing over the talisman in exchange for granting Tiana's dreams to open a restaurant. Though Tiana was against the deal, Facilier brought up her sacrifices, as well as, the doubts people had of her before settling on the subject of Tiana's deceased father, reminding her that his dream to open a restaurant never came true, but by accepting the offer, she could make it happen. The discussion of James actually backfires on the bokor after Tiana realizes that, while her father didn't get what he wanted, he had love, and never lost sight of the fact that it was what's truly important, declaring she'll always remember the same, thus denying Facilier's deal.[/COLOR]
[COLOR= rgb(75, 0, 130)]Subsequently, Tiana attempts to destroy the talisman, but Facilier's living shadow grabs it and hands it back to the doctor. A sadistic Facilier then transforms Tiana back into a frog, before taunting her for refusing to accept his offer, and declaring that she will now spend the remainder of her life as a frog. However, Tiana manages to regain the talisman by grabbing hold of it with her elastic, frog tongue, destroying the trinket before Facilier can stop her. Upon doing so, Facilier falls into a state of immediate panic and frantically tries to recollect the pieces of the broken talisman, just as his "friends from the other side" arrive, announcing their intentions to collect the doctor's soul as punishment for his failure to repay his debt. A horrified Facilier tries to persuade his former accomplices to provide him with another opportunity to redeem himself, and makes an attempt to escape, but the spirits grab hold of his shadow, thus capturing Facilier as well, subsequently dragging him into the voodoo spirit world, where his soul will be doomed to remain for all eternity. With a flash of light, both Dr. Facilier and the spirits vanish, leaving behind only a tombstone with Facilier's name and horrified face engraved onto it, confirming the witch doctor's death.[/COLOR]
Our World:
Francois was born in New Orleans, and orphaned at a young age to be raised by his grandmother, despite her trying to be a good role model he picked up some bad habits on his own. He started out small doing parlor tricks, trying to appease the wealthy only to be cast aside. Many times he would show off some card tricks and pickpocket a few people in the process. This got him in some deep trouble when he tried to pickpocket an old woman who turned it to be a Petro Voodoo worshipper of an amulet that caught his eye and she caught him in the act. Francois tried to play it off, but she swore revenge on him for his insult. He decided to try and forget about his slip up but it wouldn't stop the old woman from going through with her revenge. Perhaps it was the old woman or maybe it was karma from his bad deeds but Francois took Ill with a bad fever suddenly. He still had so many things he wanted to do in his life, he assumed dark voodoo got him into this mess so he thought it could get him out of it too. He made a blood sacrifice to speak to the dark beings of the Loa. He owed them for his recovery and the dark magic they'd lended to him to help them get souls for them to devour. His newfound power was seen as taboo and it got him chased out of town after town after a few people went missing. He came upon Recuerdo and with a little help from his friends he settled there and even got a shop set up.
Personality:
Francois doesn't look like the kind of guy you could trust, and thinking so would be smart since he will in fact shake your hand and in the process steal your watch. He is a smooth-talker, having learned how to get out of a tight spot that might end him in hot water with the gift of a silver tongue. He's very charismatic, he knows how to talk to people the way they want to be spoken to but that doesn't necessarily mean he will. He enjoys being sarcastic and showing some passive aggressiveness when annoyed. Francois is very patient, as long as he's not deliberately being ticked off he can keep his composure. His sense of humor can be quite dark at times, he enjoys dark humor. He's a good planner but would rather manipulate someone into putting his plan to action rather than do it himself, if they fail enough he'll do it himself. He's a megalomaniac, a power hungry one in fact he'd never pass on a chance for advantage unless it was extremely pricey. He's willing to do whatever it takes to get what he wants, and he's not above murder. He can lose composure and start to panic when he's cornered and will try to offer what ever he can to save himself from the wrath of another. In rare occasions he can show kindness to another but if confronted about it he'll deny having any good intentions and move on. Overall Francois could be described as shady, seductive, greedy, smooth-talking, mysterious, charismatic, persuasive, patient, intelligent, crafty, villainous, manipulative, megalomaniacal, tricky, murderous, among other things.
Memory trigger:
The Blood Talisman he used on Prince Naveen and Lawrence
Other:
Tall, very slender, dark skin, black hair, thinly mustachioed, gap in his front teeth, purple eyes
Likes- Power, riches and wealth, dark voodoo, cards, piano, dancing, wine, manipulation
Dislikes- Owing promises to his "friends", failure, disrespect, those wealthier than he, poverty, spoiled kids, being called a fraud, debt
-Has a venomous two headed snake in the emporium name Vex and Hex
-A black cat named Lucky also roams around the emporium
-Along with various creepy animals like spiders
-He enjoys dressing like Baron Samedi and his entire wardrobe consists of dark colors
-His shadow has a mind of its own and helps Francois out
-Practices Petro Voodoo
-Still owes his friends on the other side
-Speaks fluent French
-Mama Odie is his mother or in his fake memories his grandmother his grandmother, her morals are the opposite of his pretty much.
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