Re: [DL] casting call (Simone LaCroix) SPOILERS

[Unseenlibrarian@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/23/2001 10:03:56 AM Central Standard Time, 
oleingva@ifi.ntnu.no writes:

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>  > I've always suspected that the Baron's rather convoluted history in this
>  > respect (which I don't use in my game, where he's Simon LaCroix) came 
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>  > someone accidentally naming him Simone, being told that it was a woman's
>  > name, and doing some serious ret-conning as a result.
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>  Nope, the real story is in River o' Blood. The Baron was named Simon at
>  birth, and his twin sister's name was Simone. When he later killed her (and
>  his mother), he claimed that his body now housed both his soul and the soul
>  of his sister, so he also took her name as his.
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I think that's what  Ross meant; the River of Blood explanation sounds like a 
retcon of an earlier mistake. Frankly, I don't use it either, having decided 
pre RoB that the Baron was actually a woman who pretended to be a man; a 
second daughter of Marie Leveau, which helps explain the bitterness in the 
feud.

Phil