Ramiro Ventura

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Father **Ramiro Ventura** is an alcoholic priest. A firm believer in God and what the church stands for, he is drawn into the world of otherworldly creatures to save a daughter he never knew he had, and decides to team up with Elvis Infante, Nancy Gama, and Enriqueta Infante in order to save her.

## History

### Looking for Elvis Infante's help

One day, Ramiro went out for a run. Upon his return, he asked Felipe, the man in charge of a construction going on in his Church, if there were plans to get it over with by the end of the month, but gets doesn't get the affirmative response he was looking for. He went downstairs to check in on the construction and was told a hole was opened by the earthquakes, but nobody knew what was inside.

Later, after taking a shower, Ramiro got a call telling him his former love Lucía Cruz was in critical condition. He made it to the hospital and fell asleep in the room until Lucía woke up. When she did, Ramiro also woke up and was told to find the daughter he never knew he had: Mariana. He was told this as Lucía gave her final breath. Ramiro, in shock, tried asking police officers for help, but they mocked him, so he stormed off until a nurse stopped him and told him that her brother could help him find his daughter, as what had taken her wasn't human, but Ramiro wasn't quite convinced.

In another attempt at finding his daughter, Ramiro visited Cardinal Morelo, but was once again denied immediate help, so he stormed off again. As he headed back to church, he was stopped by diablero Elvis Infante. Ramiro told him he was not interested, but Elvis tried getting his point across, and gave him his card so Ramiro could call him later. As he gave Lucía's funeral mass, he told his public that there were demons among them and that something needed to be done about it. He called Elvis only to find out the latter was already in the church. Elvis demanded a lot of money, so Ramiro took the church's chalice and prayed God would forgive him.

They moved by train, which Ramiro didn't like. They got off and walked into a small store, where Elvis explained that Song would appraise their demon. Ramiro was shocked by the demon appraisal process when a dead rat was brought to life by the demon. Ramiro was convinced everything he had seen was a trick because God would never allow demons to take children, which Elvis laughed at.

As they walked, Ramiro told Elvis that Lucía was the only woman he had ever been with until they were stopped by Elvis' nieces. Ramiro didn't say anything, but was surprised by the exchange. Ramiro also denied Elvis' request for money until he could guarantee he could find his daughter and was told that for that, they'd have to pick up Nancy first.

They got on a taxi to the psychiatric ward Nancy was being held in. Elvis told him that Nancy would really help them out, when all of a sudden she jumped in front of the appalled priest. Once the demon that was possessing Nancy left, she fainted and a reluctant Ramiro helped carry her inside the cab. Ramiro went to Elvis' home where everyone was preparing for dinner. Ramiro, desperate, asked why they weren't looking for his daughter, but was told it was better for everyone to get some rest before they set out to look for her.

### Negotiation with El Indio

Ramiro and the rest of the group went to Lucía's house to look for clues as to where Mariana had been taken by the demon. When Keta heard a phone ringing, Ramiro took it from her and answered, but it was too late. The call had been from Mariana.

Ramiro went with Nancy and Elvis to El Indio's hideout. In there, he asked Nancy what people were doing. Nancy told him people watched demons fight each other through crystals where they could see the demon in its natural form. Once they made it to El Indio's room, they asked for information on the whereabouts of Mariana and the demon that took her. Isaac soon got tired of them and pointed a gun at Ramiro and Elvis, eventually ordering for Ramiro to be kicked out of the hideout.

Ramiro eventually climbed back inside the hideout. He saw many demons and heard a little girl's voice, so he decided to follow it. He made it to the girl's voice and unlocked the cell where who he thought Mariana was, was being kept only to find out it was really a lot of demons. With no time to close the cell, Ramiro started running until he eventually made it to the main fighting center, where everybody was at. He called for Elvis' help and started a commotion. Ramiro escaped along with Nancy while Elvis stole his car back, meeting Ramiro and Nancy at the exit.

Once in the car, Ramiro, Nancy, and Elvis went to the morgue where Keta told them Lucía's body was being kept. At the morgue, Ramiro eventually saw the body they were looking at was not Lucía's. Asking who it was, Ventura and the rest soon realized it was another woman who had the same mark that was left on Lucía's body.

### Finding out about priests and women

Worried that Lucía's body was missing, Nancy told Ventura to brace himself, as things would only get even more weird for him from that point forward. As he and the group walked up to Elvis and Keta's house, Ramiro was soon forced to run along with his group when Elvis' nieces started shooting at them. He got into Elvis' car and the escaped to his church when they were unable to think of any other place that would be safe.

In his church, Ramiro asked Elvis and Keta to stop beating around the bush and tell him who Mayakén is. He was taken aback when Elvis told him he was Keta's child, but also suggested finding Mariana would be easier, as she had been taken three days ago, while Mayakén had been missing for eight years. Then he suggested they could act like police and interrogate families whose children were attacked to look for clues. Since Elvis thought it was a good idea, Ramiro went along with Nancy and Keta to look for answers with Ana Paula's family, the person whose body they'd seen at the morgue. When the group got there, Ramiro was not well received, since the person who had gotten Ana Paula pregnant was a priest. Ramiro got defensive and even held the man who attacked him in a choke hold position.

After the encounter, Ramiro went to have lunch with Nancy and Keta, where he realized the man who might have more information on more women who had babies with priests was. He told Keta his plan to meet with Cardinal Morelo, so she gave him a truth serum she made herself. When he got to Cardinal Morelo's place, he insisted on drinking when Morelo asked him if he wanted to consume alcohol again. After drinking a large amount of the bottle, Ramiro asked him about Lucía. The Cardinal told him he was better off without her, when Ramiro gave him the shot dosed with truth serum. Once Morelo was affected by the truth serum, Ramiro asked him for the list he was revealed had names of the women he was looking for. When he had the information, he drunk called Keta and told her he had the information before meeting up with her and Nancy at a restaurant and throwing up.

Ramiro, Keta, and Nancy chose to look for more kids, so they could prevent more attacks and find out all the children that were stolen were born in February 2. They ended up at Margarita Ramírez's house, where the demon attacked a little while after they got there. Ramiro tried helping fight the demon, but was hit hard and sent back. After Elvis fought the demon and got stuck in a tree, Ramiro went with the group when they discovered Elvis had a claw, which meant they could now summon the demon.

### Witnessing an arcane incantation

After helping Elvis, Ramiro got into the car along with the rest of the group and Margarita and her child. When they got to Elvis' house, they had dinner, where Elvis explained that Nancy would have to be a vessel for the demon, which she agreed to do. Ramiro was told by the young woman that she was doing it so they could find his daughter. When Ramiro asked what he needed to do, Elvis told him he'll need to pray. As they prepared everything, Ramiro noticed this was the first time he had seen Elvis scared, and Nancy explained that Elvis is going to force a demon to come to them, while she only invited them, subsequently focusing on her music after talking closely for a bit.

As the incantation was ready to begin, Nancy told everyone, including Ramiro to not look so worried. Before they got started, Ramiro was told about the circles needed, and that he needed to stay outside the circle. When the spell was complete, the demon left Wences' body, who was tormenting the children and Mamá Chabela and went into Nancy's. It first appeared not to work, but they soon realized it did. The demon stood up, and Keta and Elvis tried getting information out of it with incantations. Ramiro was also tempted by the demon, who told him his girlfriend, referring to Nancy was dead, and that his daughter would also die if he didn't leave the circle; Elvis instructed him not to do so. However, he was scared by the demon and jumped back when it lunged at him, leaving the circle. However, Elvis managed to hold the demon with a rope and asked Ramiro to get a cork when Keta to threw him a bottle. However, Elvis ended up using a neighbor's finger.

Back in Elvis' house, Ramiro was hurried by Elvis, who urged him to carry Nancy and put her in a big bucket of ice. After being injected with adrenaline, Ramiro and the rest were told by Nancy they were up against a powerful diablera who had two more children kidnapped. A while later when looking at the demon's bottle, he realized it had left and so had Margarita and her child. He told Elvis, who immediately understood the demon had been called back and had taken the mother and young boy with it.