Okay, I know she will need some fleshing out here but this is what I have so far....<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/16/Cheval2.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Cheval<br/><strong>Secret Identity:</strong>Juliette Soulie (Public)<br/><strong>Concept:</strong><em>Crime Fighting Former Criminal</em><br/><strong>Motivation:</strong><em>Protect those that can’t protect themselves</em><br/><strong>Other Aspects:</strong><br/><em>Semi-Reformed Graffiti Artist<br/>Music is my Refuge<br/>Touched by the Other Side</em><br/><br/><strong>Hero Points:</strong>14<br/><strong>Refresh: </strong>5<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Skills</strong></span><br/><strong>Fantastic (+6):</strong><br/><strong>Superb (+5):</strong>Will<br/><strong>Great (+4):</strong>Control Magic, Weapons<br/><strong>Good (+3): </strong>Physique, Accuracy<br/><strong>Fair (+2):</strong>Thief, Artificing, Stealth<br/><strong>Average (+1):</strong>Athletics, Knowledge, Notice, Contacts, Vehicles<br/><br/><strong>Stunts:</strong><em>Word on the Streets, Personal Headquarters</em><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Powers Sets</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Touched by Guinee   </strong><br/><strong>Aspect:</strong><em>“Blessed” by Baron Samedi</em><br/>Armory Summoning (Dual Weapons, Ghostly) - 6<br/>Living Séance – 2<br/>Death Speak (Haunted) – 1<br/>Life Support – 1<br/><br/><strong>Voodoo Magic</strong><br/><strong>Aspect:</strong><em>Learning the Ropes</em><br/>Sorcery (Gestures and Chanting Required) - 2<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Personal Headquarters</strong></span><br/><strong>Point Cost:</strong>5<br/><strong>Aspect:</strong><em>Abandoned Jazz Club, Father’s Ghost</em><br/><strong>Features:</strong>Quality (+3), Mystical Workshop<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Complications: </strong></span><br/><em>Has a Criminal Record<br/>Met Kalfu Wants Your Soul</em><br/><br/><strong>Physical Stress:</strong>5 Boxes<br/><strong>Mental Stress:</strong>6 Boxes<br/><strong>Mild Consequence:</strong><br/><strong>Extra Mild Consequence (Mental):</strong><br/><strong>Moderate Consequence:</strong><br/><strong>Severe Consequence:</strong><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Background:</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Supporting Cast:</strong><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Clement Soulie</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a5/Jazz-man1.jpg)</div></div>(Deceased Father – Ghost)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">“Mama” Soulie</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/80/Miriam.jpg)</div></div>(Voodoo Mambo and Grandmother)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rene Rivera</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/f7/82150435.jpg)</div></div>(Childhood Friend, Former Gang Member, Director of the Local Y)<br/><br/><strong>Rogues Gallery:</strong><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Met Kaflu</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/08/Fd34594320c33076bccfcb7742eaba44.jpg)</div></div>(Loa of the Crossroads, Master Manipulator)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Bokor</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/f3/34/69/f33469e78d0e064d4005f337408990de.jpg)</div></div>(Gang Leader) – Leader of the Bayou Voodoo Boyz - Bokor knows nothing of actual voodoo.  He uses fake mysticism and trappings to sell fear among his gang and the locals.<br/><br/>Juliette Soulie’s father made a deal with the devil.  He didn’t really believe it at the time.  He was young and brash and was not a believer like his mother.  So when he met a stranger, at the intersection of Laharpe and N. Miro in the middle of the night after the clubs had closed, offering him talent and fame for the small price of his first borns’ soul, he took the man’s offer.  Figuring the guy was a crack pot it wasn’t until he made the deal that the creeping hand of fate settled around his heart and a shiver of doubt crawled up his spin.<br/><br/>The feeling soon faded and was easily shoved aside as the young man found success in the local clubs playing sweet melodies on his horn.  Clement Soulie was soon a fixture on the local Jazz circuit and met a beautiful and lovely young woman by the name of Angelique.  Their courtship was a quick one and they were married at St. Augustine’s a few months later.  Not long after Angelique became pregnant.  Once again the sense of ill fate crept over Clement’s heart and he dreamt of the man at the crossroads for a week straight before his daughter was born.  Again the feeling passed.  His daughter was born with no complications and while willful did not appear different than any other child.<br/><br/>It wasn’t until Juliette turned twelve that it became clear something was wrong with their daughter.  Clement had quite playing Jazz and opened a club of his own near the border of Treme and the 7th Ward and his wife Angelique was now a school teacher.  The first seizure happened in the middle of recess.  Juliette’s mother was first to arrive and rushed Juliette to the hospital, but the doctors could find nothing wrong with her.  Still once she was home another seizure struck, however before they could rush her to the hospital Juliette appeared to recover though her demeanor had changed.  She grew spiteful and mischievous to the point of cruel after each seizure.  This behavior would last for a time and then she would appear to be the same kind and caring if strong willed young woman her parents had become used to.<br/><br/>Her parents were at their wits end.  Juliette was having no better of a time.  She didn’t always remember what occurred after her seizures and her behavior cost her many of her friends.  She began to feel alienated and lashed out.  She began to run with a bad crowd near her father’s jazz club and soon was in trouble with the law for petty theft and vandalism.  On Juliette’s’ eighteenth birthday her grandmother arrived at their home unannounced.  She stayed for a week, then two, then three.  She watched Juliette’s strange outbursts with a careful eye, but never with the fear Juliette’s parents did.<br/><br/>Finally she declared Juliette a cheval, someone with the ability to channel the Loa.  In Juliette’s case she appeared bound to the Lord of the Crossroads, a particularly nasty Loa named Met Kalfu.  After much questioning Clement came clean about the night he sold his daughter’s soul.  Neither he nor Angelique truly believed in Voodoo, but Angelique was at the end of her rope and Mama Soulie offered her a way to save her child from this possession.  It would not be without cost, but once again Juliette’s parents agreed without thought or understanding.<br/><br/>Juliette still doesn’t know exactly what happened that night.  Her parents and her grandmother were arguing and all she wanted to do was go out with her friends.  She felt the seizure coming on and then everything went black.  This time however she remembers talking to a man.  He was a strange man, skeletal, dressed in a tuxedo coat with long tails.  Cigar smoke wafted around him, curling around his top hat.  The man exuded a carnal nature and his eyes glittered with mirthful hunger.  He offered to protect her from the red man, the man that hid within her waiting to for her to sleep. To do so she would have to become one of his family and leave a part of herself with him to bond them together.<br/><br/>When Juliette woke her mother was dead on the floor next to her.  Her father holding her as she bled out from a bullet wound. The police said it was a random drive by.  The gangs were in an upheaval and they had simply been caught in a turf war.  Juliette fled the house confused and in pain.  That night she drank too much, smoked too much and was arrested for tagging the side of a parked police car with her friends.  This was hardly her first offense but now she was an adult and charged to the fullest extent of the law.  She was given 10 years in prison for destruction of government.<br/><br/>While in prison her father visited her from time to time.  Once Juliette had been snatched from Met Kalfu her father’s supernatural luck had taken a turn.  Gang violence over took the neighborhood containing his Jazz Club and his profits plummeted.  He had trouble paying protection money soon after and eventually the club folded.  It was about that time during her incarceration that her father stopped visiting.  He was found dead in his Jazz Club a few days later.  The police ruled it a suicide as he was hung from one of the rafters.<br/><br/>It was Juliette’s grandmother that came to visit her most often in prison.  She did her best to explain what had happened to Juliette and help her understand the deal she had struck meant for her going forward.  It wasn’t easy. Her mother and father were dead and she was separated from the one person that could help her the most.   Juliette despite what had happened wasn’t a believer, but the years in jail gave her a lot of time to think about it.  She hardly needed sleep and when she managed it she was often woken by the restless spirits that haunted the prison.  Nothing could change a person’s mind about religion like talking to the dead.<br/><br/>Her new abilities allowed her to keep out of trouble for the most part.  Sure there were problems with other inmates and Juliette found it impossible not to step in when she saw the cruel and sadistic prey on the weak, but most if the inmates knew about the strange things that happened when they messed with Juliette or the people she tried to protect and left to find easier prey to hunt.  Juliette was released after 5 years with good behavior.<br/><br/>Her father had left her the Jazz Club and the apartment above it in his will.  His luck had turned so badly that there was little else left but the club and a box of family mementos.  Juliette currently lives about the club where her father committed suicide.  His restless spirit still haunts the place and the mournful sounds of a horn can often be heard late at night.  It has managed to keep the building from becoming a homeless encampment or a crack house, but the neighborhood may as well be a part of the 7th Ward now that the gangs have moved in vying for control.  Not a night goes by that gunfire can’t be heard nearby.<br/><br/>A few nights after she was released a local street walker was getting roughed up outside of the old club by a rival pimps goons.  Unable to stand-by and let woman be hurt Juliette confronted the men.  It was that night that the extent of her abilities became apparent to her as she beat the handful of guys to within an inch of their life and sent them all to the hospital.  Since then she has taken to studying with her grandmother and learning how to control her abilities.  She doesn’t see herself as a hero, just someone trying to keep her little part of hell safe for the people that can’t protect themselves.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>