Lucretia Saint-Saëns

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Bela Saint-Saëns (Brother)

**Lucretia Saint-Saëns** is a player character in Another Church: Smooth

Lucretia is a late-night radio DJ who runs the KFAL station. She is a half-demon who lives in the town of Third Man, Manitoba near her brother, Bela.

### Appearance

Lucretia is a 24-year old woman, tall for a human but short for a demon (6'2"), with a vaguely scrawny appearance and sharp snaggle teeth. She has naturally white hair but dyes her eyebrows black and wears mascara to hide this, and styles the hair on her head into a short, spiky hairstyle. She has deeply tanned skin and wears sunglasses indoors to hide her demon-yellow eyes. Lucretia also wears black leather gloves whenever in public, though she does remove them to wash her hands.

Lucretia has a variety of body modifications in the form of piercings, most of which she got from her wife, Arty "Effegium" Mattrick.

### Personality

Despite working a largely solitary job and being a demon, Lucretia is a highly social person who knows almost everyone in town. Her personality contrasts with that of her stand, Sister of Mercy, in that she can come off as abrasive and does not always know how to say things kindly. Because of this difficulty, she often relies on Sister of Mercy to help her talk to people, leading to awkwardness and mild dependent behavior. However, she does care deeply for the people she is fond of, and once she's close to someone and knows how to talk to them, she operates socially with ease.

Lucretia can also be tricky, taking a certain smug pleasure in conning people out of benign things. (Or, in some cases, consequential things, such as tricking Filone Bianchetti into becoming her wife.) But these streaks of bastardous behavior are leveled out by a healthy understanding of moderation and restraint.

### Abilities

#### Stand

*Main Article: Sister of Mercy*

Lucretia's stand, Sister of Mercy, can manipulate dead material into action. This can include corpses of humans or animals, but also dead plant matter if it's not so rotted that it has turned into compost. She is also sentient and can speak to ghosts, relaying that information to whoever cares to listen.

Sister of Mercy is a sentient stand, with a kind and helpful personality. She prioritizes diplomacy over menace, and takes the wishes of the dead into account when speaking with them, just as she would with a living person. As a result, she may refuse to move dead material around if the owner of that material does not consent to their body being used.

#### Demon Abilities

Being a half-demon, Lucretia operates slightly differently than the human characters. She does not require food to survive, and instead subsists on human or animal blood. Consuming too much has unwanted sexual side effects, however, and she avoids this by eating minimally, contributing to her skinny frame.

She also possesses the ability to climb and crawl on walls and ceilings in a manner akin to a spider, even while wearing gloves and shoes.

### Relationships

**Bela Saint-Saëns:** Lucretia is Bela's primary confidante, and the two of them have a very close and healthy sibling relationship. She allows him to stay over to her house regularly, and borrows his stand, Spy in the Cab, to look at things for mutual benefit.

**Filone Bianchetti:** She's bagged a wife. Although she doesn't care to enforce any kind of demonic authority on Filone, she considers it fun and sporting to flirt and verbally assert her position as husband over him, even though she doesn't make him do anything.

**Pyotor "Petya" Volkov:** A new friend and wonderful fella. Lucretia regards Petya with immediate respect and is deeply concerned with the vampire past that haunts them even now.

**Emilie Townsend:** Crazy white lady with a gun ain't as bad and scary as Lucretia was concerned about, at first. She appreciates Emilie's nerdy moxie and propensity to take very little shit from people.

**Erzabet Aksel:** Lucretia has a little crush on Aksel. Not a big one, just a little one.

### In-Game Stats

A-Rank: Athletics

B-Rank: Charisma, Performance

C-Rank: Empathy, Deception, Contacts

D-Rank: Knowledge, Survival, Physique, Resolve