Madam Louv

Madam Louv is a wealthy sperm whale who has lost a valuable artifact, the one that can be seen acting up behind Scypho's back. She can usually be seen bracketed by her two squid bodyguards and traveling in a luxury watercar.
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== Description ==
Dressed like a flapper from the Roaring Twenties, Madam Louv's character is based on the sperm whale. She's wearing a dark blue dress with feathery fringes at the bottom hem and around the collar. Her head is decorated with a tiara with a sunburst, and she has a lone feather attached to her snout.
== Madam Louv's bodyguards ==
Despite the fact that sperm whales and giant squid are mortal enemies, Madam Louv's bodyguards are, in fact, based on the giant squid. They dress to impress, sporting red jackets and black ties, with their arms neatly arrayed beneath them. They even wear cool shades, but due to the limitation of having no ears, they resort to using tape to secure the arms of the sunglasses to their heads. They are susceptible to jellyfish venom.
== Gallery ==
== Biography ==
=== Chapter 1 ===
Madam Louv first appears immediately following the Light Tower's announcement about the Golden key competition. Standing with her bodyguards near her parked watercar, she spots Scypho with the Mirror standing on the other side of the mob that's rushing after Pezci. He tries to hide, but she pursues him anyway. The Mirror, apparently in a panic, is spewing oranges and leaving a trail for the whale and her squid to easily follow.The Game Begins The alerts and the storm itself distract Scypho, and Madam Louv is able to catch up with him, her and her bodyguards holding onto the oranges that led them to him. She rants at him, calling him an "artifact nicking pillock", and boasting that she has eyes all over the city. She claims it was just a matter of time before she caught him.
Her bodyguards move in, but Scypho — as a creature based on the black sea nettle — uses his stinging tentacles to take them out of play. He tries to slide past her, probably thinking she was helpless, but she reaches out and grabs him by a tentacle. He demands she let him go, but she refuses, calling him a peasant. He tries stinging her, but she laughs at him and tells him she's wearing anti-jellyfish sting gloves. He screams at her that they're about to get wrecked by a death storm, and she snarls back that if he hands over the staff, then maybe they'll both escape. He calls her witch and denies her, then she takes a blow to the head from a large blue barrel of some gray-green liquid tossed by the approaching maelstrom. The impact causes her to release her grip on his tentacle. Her bodyguards determine it's no longer safe there and tell her they need to leave. They grab her armpits and tow her away, even as she calls them fools, claiming she had him. Watching him give her a sardonic two-finger salute, she screams out one last curse.Nice Timing Madam Louv and her bodyguards are seen by Scypho escaping the city shortly after he and Pezci escape themselves.Maelstrom Round 2!
=== Chapter 2 ===
Cruising away from the disaster area the city has become, Madam Louv approaches the trench that has Pezci stumped and is holding back Scypho. He sees the watercar before she sees him, and he pulls Pezci down the side of the trench wall, attempting to hide from the whale. Pezci's brief yelp when he surprised her was enough, and the Madam stops the 'car and scans her surroundings, trying to find the source. The younger-seeming guard speaks up, assuring her it was just the currents, but she disagrees. He continues to argue with her, trying to sooth and divert the angry whale. Pezci is unable to contain her hysteria any longer and she lets go a wail at being exposed to the depths of the trench, alerting Madam Louv to their presence. The Mirror takes steps, and extruding a hi-tech waterjet engine, it takes them away. The Madam punches the water and says "Let's get 'em!"We RIDE The Mirror takes the two wanderers up into the air above the ocean waves, but that doesn't deter the Madam. She launches herself into the air from beneath them, and she takes the Mirror in her jaws, driving them all back down into the gurgling water. Growling, she pulls at Scypho by his collar, trying to break his grip on the Mirror's shaft. Clearly winning, she shouts his name in his face, and he sheepishly offers to sell it back to her for three billion dollars. Her unspoken response is to rip the Mirror from his hands.
Now that she has regained possession of the Mirror, she holds it up before her face, and with a smug look she primps and pats her hair. The Mirror, displeased to be in her possession, extrudes a monstrous pair of fanged jaws with a viciously barbed tongue, and it begins snapping at her face. Holding it away with both hands, the dismayed whale lets the Mirror slip from her hands and slide towards the abyss, chomping and hissing. All three cry out "No!", though for different reasons. Madam Louv and Scypho dive and give chase, while Pezci races to the rocks. Scypho gets to the Mirror first, but a tentacle from the depths reaches up a takes hold of the Mirror. Scypho fights back and Madam arrives to help. She argues with him about his qualities as an employee, and he argues back about her qualities as a boss. The Mirror gets fed up and turns into a blowtorch, eliciting a scream from the owner of the tentacle when it gets burned.The Mirror!
The tentacle withdraws and Madam Louv and her bodyguard flinch away from the flaming Mirror, leaving Scypho in sole possession once again, and he uses the Mirror to hold Madam Louv and company at bay. To Pezci's horror, the lone tentacle is replaced with a veritable forest of waving tentacles, pushing the whale and her guards back even farther. One tentacle smacks the Mirror from Scypho's hands, leaving the Mirror to its own devices. It grows a pair of wings and flies for the rocks, with Scypho swimming in the same direction. Scypho arrives ahead of the Mirror, but a suckered arm grabs Scypho by his tentacles and tries pulling him down.Tentacle Nonsense When Pezci moves to help, the Mirror, just arriving, turns over and attaches to Pezci's head with a giant blue remora's sucker. With Scypho out of play, Madam Louv moves to recover the Mirror once again, but unfortunately, it's stuck firmly to Pezci's head. Determined to regain 'her' mirror, she shakes the Mirror hard, then she pries at it, pulling Pezci's shoulder and the Mirror's shaft. She hadn't gotten anywhere with it, when Scypho finally defeats his opponent and comes over the rim with blood in his eye. He finds the Madam beating on the nearly unconscious Pezci instead. Using his elbow, he one-shots her in the head, stunning her and taking possession of Pezci and the Mirror. As he goes to swim away, the forest of tentacles curl up then slam down, surrounding Madam Louv and her bodyguards, leaving Scypho trying gently to free Pezci. The rest of the giant worm comes raging over the lip of the trench, and Scypho decides its a good time to retreat, taking Pezci, still connected to the Mirror with him.
"You blobbin', snolly, good for nothin', vagabond, scumbag!" Madam Louv screams, cornered and helpless in the face of the monster. "This ain't the end, ya hear? I will find youuuuuu!"
Scypho laughs quietly as he swims away.The Final Struggle
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