Édouard Chenier

### Significant Other(s)

* Talita Salazar (off-and-on again girlfriend, deeply in love with, mother of Sasha)
* Anna Louzan (ex-girlfriend)

> “No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”
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> ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
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**Édouard Apollinaire Chenier** is the youngest child and only son between Ruby Chenier and her ex-husband, and has an older sister named Pearl.

He is the father of Sasha through his current partner Talita Salazar, he is also helping her raise Lita's son from a previous relationship.

## Appearance

Édouard is a tall young man with high cheekbones, and thin slanted eyes. Édouard favored comfortable clothing for everyday wear and usually wore nicer clothing for dates. His favorite pieces were a button-down shirt paired with a sweater.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Mystiokinesis** - Édouard is a halfblooded hereditary warlock, and possessed the unique and sometimes deadly magic of necromancy.
	+ **Potion Making** - Édouard can create potions: substances with magical properties such as enhancing physical and mental abilities, healing, granting powers, changing shape, or bewitching someone depending on the kind of potion that is made.
		- **Alchemy** - He was a talented enough potion making enough to study Alchemy in college.
	+ **Necromancy** - Édouard can manipulate and summon the dead especially spirits and undead corpses. He is even able to control those that are partially undead or dying to some extent.
		- **Sensitivity to Death** - Édouard can sense death as it happens or when it is coming; when a person close to him dies, it comes as a ringing in the ears. In addition to that, he has a deep knowledge of the Underworld and knows when a person's life is being judged in the Underworld.
	+ **Party Inducement** - Édouard has the ability to induce others to enter a spontaneous celebration. Édouard can also make party-goers party forever without leaving them tired or in a constant never-ending state of celebration. His trigger is when he pops out his right dimple. According to his sister Pearl, he naturally developed this as a desperate positive counterpart to his true magic.

### Possessions

* **Samedi** - Édouard wand is named Samedi named after Baron Samedi, it is 13" inches and made up of swamp maple, possessing the core of rougarou hair.

## Etymology

* Édouard is the French form of Edward means "rich guard", derived from the Old English elements *ead* "wealth, fortune" and *weard* "guard". This was the name of several Anglo-Saxon kings, the last being Saint Edward the Confessor shortly before the Norman Conquest in the 11th century.
* Apollinaire is the French form of Apollinaris which is the Ancient Greek name derived from the name of the god Apollo is from the Greek *Ἀπόλλων (Apollon)*, which is of unknown meaning, though perhaps related to the Indo-European root \**apelo-* meaning "strength". Another theory states that Apollo can be equated with Appaliunas, an Anatolian god whose name possibly means "father lion" or "father light". The Greeks later associated Apollo's name with the Greek verb *ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi)* meaning "to destroy".
	+ It was adopted as a surname by the Polish French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), who based it on his Polish middle name Apolinary.
* Chenier indicated one who lived in an oak wood or near a conspicuous oak tree, derived from Old French *chesne* "oak" (Late Latin *caxinus*). In some cases, it may be from a Louisiana dialectical term referring to "an area of shrub oak growing in sandy soil" (i.e., "beach ridge, usually composed of sand-sized material resting on clay or mud. Chenier is the term for the oak tree belts that mark the distribution of the ridges in the Mississippi Delta region").

## Trivia

* Édouard is of French Creole, Cajun, Indigenous Colombian, Indigenous Dominican, and Arawak descent.
* He speaks French fluently.
* He practices Voodoo.
* He plays the saxophone very well.
* Édouard is allergic to cashews.
* Édouard's favorite meal is a fried catfish po'boy with garlic fries.
	+ His second favorite meal is Jamaican pumpkin soup with elotes.
* Édouard like mint or Earl Grey tea. He also like's coffee with a little bit of sugar in it.
* His favorite artists are Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran, Jay-Z, Billie Holiday, Thundercat, Mac Miller, Norah Jones, Mahalia and Ari Lennox.
* During his Halloween Party, he dressed up as a zombie.
* Édouard talks in his sleep, strangely about sheep shearing techniques.