Louis Sloccumb

Father Louis Clement "Lou" Sloccumb II is the deuteragonist of *Those Who Trespass Against Us* and a supporting character in *Now and at the Hour of Our Death*.

## Louis Sloccumb

### Aliases

Lou (by most people), Father Lou (by his students and colleagues), Louser, Loucifer, Lounar Cycle, Loucas, "Lou" (in the sense of the British slang for "toilet"), Louney Bin, Louney Tunes, Lounatic, Loucky Charms, Louse Lips, Slo Poke, and Baby (by Zach)

### Relatives

Estelle Clement (mother), Louis Sloccumb I (father), Zoey Sloccumb O'Connor (older sister), Malcolm Sloccumb (younger brother), Peter Vandross (adopted son), Andrew Peterson (surrogate son, deceased)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Max Irons (current)Gabriel LaBelle (younger)

### Appears in

Those Who Trespass Against UsNow and at the Hour of Our Death

## Early Life

Lou was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on April 18, 1990. His birth was somewhat unexpected for his parents, Estelle Clement and Louis Sloccumb I, who, although aware that they had a child on the way, were unprepared for him to be born during the family of three's visit to Louis I's home city. In fact, they just *barely* made it to the hospital on time. Around this time, Estelle and Louis I had been contemplating where to plant their roots, and figured Lou deciding to pop out in Chicago was a sign. They purchased a modest old cottage in the suburbs just outside of the city, where Lou lived for the first five years of his life.

Lou's older sister, Zoey, instantly felt an urge to protect him, insisting on "taking him under her wing," giving him advice on life, love, and everything in between, no matter how much he resisted her. On his first day of kindergarten, his energetic personality caught the eye of boy next door Scottie Clifford, and the two became fast friends.

## Appearance

Lou has chestnut brown hair that he typically keeps quite short. When he was in middle school, he got frosted tips in honor of his favorite boy bands, *Backstreet Boys* and *'NSYNC*, as well as in an effort to impress girls. When confronted with the story of him doing this, he typically insists that the attempt "mostly worked," as he had consistent dates to dances like the spring fling and end-of-year bash.

His skin is "as pale as a sheet," and his eyes are a bright, almost shocking shade of green. Lou is tall and lanky, with long limbs, particularly his digits, like his fingers and toes. Before John bit him, Lou was small and stocky, utilizing his loud personality to make up for his short stature. The infection caused him to grow nearly a foot over the course of around a month.

On his face, Lou has an array of light freckles across his cheeks and nose; however, his most notable facial detail by far is his scar, a jagged white line curving from his right eye to the bottom of his nose. At first, he claims he acquired it from a bear attack his sophomore year at Ithaca. Once Zach deduced that Lou had nearly been mauled to death by their fraternity's "special guest" former president, John Walton, Lou once again fabricated a story that John had tried to scratch into his face. Despite it not being the truth, Zach reluctantly believes the tall tale. Eventually, Lou confides his insecurities to Benny, revealing that the scar comes from a splurge of self-harm when he first Turned, in which he stared into the mirror head-on and tried to cut one of his eyes out, in an attempt to keep it from changing color. He tells her that he believes the wound partially healing, rather than fully, but also instead of leading to an infection and sepsis, was his punishment from God for killing Scottie, no matter how much of an accident it was.

## Personality

Lou is charismatic above all. He loves people and wants to make them happy, to please them above everything. Others are drawn to his fun-loving nature and knack for starting a party with something as simple as a deck of cards and a handful of joints.