Rosemary ' Baby Daddy? Supernatural Scarface? Faust of the Marigny

Trigger warning: this post focuses on rape and demons. Read at your own risk.

I was reading the news this morning when a couple of stories caught my eye. The first was about a series of rapes and robberies around the Marigny. There have been several instances of a masked man breaking into homes (squeezing through burglar bars at that, which seems to me should require supernatural assistance, given how close those things are to each other) and raping the occupants and robbing them. I won't go into much detail out of respect for the victims, but I will point out that though there have been several similar events in recent weeks, the police and media haven't really touched on it and when they do, they deny the connection. Why? It's no big secret that the police are under Mayor Landrieu's influence. Probably the media too. So why would be want to keep this hushed?

Demons.

Allow me to explain.

These break-ins are being covered up, so probably something supernatural or paranormal in nature is happening. Likely it's demons, given that the hush may be coming from city hall and given the mayor and his family's recent rise to power and influence from humble beginnings, I'm going to assume it's a deal with the devil. The Landrieu family made a deal with the devil for power and influence and that same demon is making a pact with someone else.  Someone whose actions may either draw attention to the demon connection and take down the Landrieu family or would draw the attentions of exorcists, who would send the demon back to Hrll, and take with it the Landrieu's source of power.

So what does our mystery demon summoner want that connects him to the rapes and Landrieu? What do most people want? Love and money. But this is a demon we are talking about here. Demons are corruptors by nature. What is corrupted love and money? Rape and theft. In making a pact with a demon a man has already damned himself but this allows the demon to introduce additional misery and tragedy into the world. The sort of horror that that makes good people, people like the victims, lose faith in the goodness in the world. Makes good people fear, makes them mistrust, makes them hate. Those who deal with demons have their own damnation coming by virtue of giving demons power over our world for selfish reasons. But with that power, demons increase misery which turns goods people bad. Turns love and plenty to rape and theft.

Which brings us to the article that brought all of this to my attention: an unidentified man recently has been reported as breaking into homes and stealing copper pipes. Big deal. People steal copper all the time. It's valuable. But get this. He's been doing it at about the same time as the rapist. And he's been acting nearby. Even has a similar physical description. So is he stealing the copper for the money? After all, I mentioned or perpetrator was into demons for love and money, right?

Not this copper.  No. Copper historically had been viewed as a symbol/charm for love, wealth, and prosperity. Love and money. See the connection now? Most people don't realize this, but the kinds of demons who make deals aren't all-powerful. They are limited in what they know and what they can do. If you summon the wrong demon, you either won't get good results on what you want because they don't know what they are doing, or you will pay a lot more because the demon needs to broker a favor with another demon to get the job done,  driving up the price.

Our demon summoner is smart (or at least thinks he is. If he were smart, he wouldn't be summoning demons). He used copper in his summoning to ensure he got a demon who worked with love and money. He must have low balled the demon or given a pretty nasty insult, because of how badly the demon seems to have twisted his wish, usually pretty bad business to so blatantly undermine the customer's intent. Djinn don't even twist wishes that badly. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the guy wished for kids and this is the demon's cruel joke. Arrested, disgraced, and hated by mother and child. Or perhaps the demon is doing some of his own business on the side, using this guy's twisted wish to bring literal demon spawn into the world should any of these assault victims bear children.

Meanwhile, Landrieu plays it all like it's nothing to concern ourselves about because he knows when the demon goes, so does his power base.

So be mindful if you are out in the Marigny. There's a devil on the loose out there and a powerful man who doesn't want anyone to know about it.

Stay safe and Stay Strange!
-Steve