Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Louis and Firas

Two level-22 Americans found drunk in a brothel bar on the fifth floor: Louis Santiago 2, a Pest Exterminator from Miami who drove his mother's convertible van down a stairwell and got a legendary knockout spell for it, and Firas M., a Hammersmith with a level-10 Puddle Jumper. Sobered by force, they grow into a bombing crew, the party's pilots and, by the end, something like friends.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — The Scavenger's Daughter
• Chapter 4 — Old Havana
• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 21 — The warlords' table
• Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
• Chapter 25 — The crab trap
• Chapter 26 — MaeMae
• Chapter 28 — Rude-Dolph
• Chapter 30 — Four drugs
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 35 — Emergency action items
• Chapter 40 — The Book of Voodoo
• Chapter 46 — The Reminiscence Hydra
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Chapter 49 — The Shepherd's House flyer
• Chapter 50 — Homestead
• Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction
• Chapter 57 — Samantha's secret
• Chapter 61 — Three out of four
• Chapter 62 — Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Chapter 63 — The doggie door
• Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson
• Chapter 65 — Graupel
• Chapter 66 — The Missing Piece
• Chapter 67 — The Big O
• Chapter 68 — Raul's moment
• Chapter 69 — A deity has fallen
• Chapter 70 — Golden Combo
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up

Arc

Louis alone, with Juice Box beheading a viceroy at the warlords' table and sending him her love (ch. 21, ch. 22) and Samantha kissing him (ch. 48). He holds Katia's bucket (ch. 30), makes it Christmas by force — 'every time I look at you, I get scared that you're going to go insane' (ch. 48) — takes five skulls from one attack (ch. 62) and a sixth for Sister Ines so the others need not (ch. 65), and is marked for death by her goddess and outlives her (ch. 65, ch. 66, ch. 69). Carries Carl out of the FOCSA building (ch. 72).