Lolita
Lolita was a timeship hybrid and the sole member of House Lolita, who became not only the Homeworld's War Queen but also (as Charlotte) queen of the United Kingdom and (as Lola Denison) President of the United States. She appeared in Michael Brookhaven's film Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom as Lady Wakai, and she appeared to Richard Francis Burton as Dunyazid, Lady of the Last Night.
Biography
When Lolita was only hours old, she understood what the war with the Yssgaroth "actually meant" and was able to bring it to its conclusion. (PROSE: Toy Story)
Lolita had a sister. When they picked pilots, Lolita chose "the dangerous-looking one", while her sister chose one Lolita described as "the cuckoo". Lolita didn't stay attached to her original pilot, though, instead letting him use other timeships. She had him modify her so that she could make herself humanoid.
Before the War, Lolita and her sister both discovered who the enemy would be. Lolita tried to convince her sister to become humanoid like her. (PROSE: Toy Story)
During the War, Lolita created her own Newblood House. It was called House Lolita, and she was its only member. All future places in the House were reserved for her own progeny. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat)
Lolita allied her House with House Tracolix, (PROSE: The Book of the War) and together they offered to let House Paradox rejoin the "proper" Houses on the Homeworld. Her real plan, however, was to destroy the Faction, starting with its Eleven-Day Empire. To that end, she turned on Tracolix, killing its representative and its hired army. Once she had reached an accommodation with the Empire's loa, she "swallowed" the Eleven-Day Empire into her internal dimensions. Only Cousins Justine and Eliza escaped. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire, The Shadow Play)
Michael Brookhaven's film Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom portrayed Lolita as "Lady Wakai" and showed her consumption of the Eleven-Day Empire. It is said that she killed her sister, the mother of Awaremi (who was the film's stand-in for Compassion). The film also suggested that Lolita may have been infected by the Yssgaroth taint. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Lolita attempted to use the Osirian Sutekh to get rid of the last of the Faction. (AUDIO: Body Politic) First, he destroyed their reproductive equipment in Pompeii. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust) When Anubis and the Faction tried to recreate Osiris as Horus in a remembrance tank from Cousin Eliza and Osiris's scavenged biodata, Lolita alerted Sutekh and advised him to use the information to get the Osirian Court on his side. While the Faction was distracted by their confrontation with Sutekh and the Court, Lolita slit her own wrist with a fingernail and dripped some of her own blood into the remembrance tank. (AUDIO: Body Politic) Lolita was able to channel her own weapons systems through the nascent Horus, allowing him to cripple Sutekh at their next fight. Lolita actually intended for Horus to gain the throne, so that she could use him as a puppet.
When the War King tried to sabotage Lolita's plans with his own ambassador, Lolita consumed him. With him out of the way, Lolita was able to become War Queen of the Great Houses. However, she had forgotten an important detail: before his death, the War King had given Cousin Justine a safe channel to the Homeworld. Justine sent a group of mal'akh obtained from Sutekh to attack the Council chambers. The attack was really meant as a warning, rather than a serious attempt at takeover. (AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities) The real attack came when Horus brought seven hundred Osirians to the Homeworld — who "officially," according to history, were fighting Sutekh — to deal with Lolita. Afterwards, Horus claimed to Justine that Lolita would not be a problem again. (AUDIO: Ozymandias, The Judgment of Sutekh)
Upon being inducted into Faction Paradox during a mission for the Star Chamber to rescue a book from the Mal'akh, Richard Francis Burton was told that the Woman of the Last Night could answer his questions about the Mal'akh, though she was cold and evil and often lured men to their doom by giving them exactly what they wished for. Regardless, Burton went out into the Arabian desert with only a loincloth, found a large plant, and stayed in its shadow for three days, staying awake and sustaining himself only by drinking the juice of the plant. On the third day, the fabric of spacetime tore and opened to the vortex, revealing the Lady. She gave Burton The Thousand and Second Night, telling him that she'd dealt with the Mal'akh and that they'd no longer bother the British Empire or the Eleven-Day Empire. She also threatened to feed him to her baby.
As Lola Denison, Lolita was elected by the State of Arizona into the United States Congress as a Republican, but, after being criticised for her many centrist-libertarian positions, she dropped her party affiliation and was reelected as an independent. She was picked by Presidential candidate Matt Nelson to be his Vice Presidential running mate, and she attracted tabloid attention for publicly breastfeeding her infant daughter. Dave Larsen thought she was a "feminazi". When Nelson was assassinated at his inauguration, Denison was inaugurated as President of the United States; she immediately put restrictions on the media to suppress dissent and launched "Project Caldera" to drill into Earth's caldera in the guise of looking for geothermal energy. During the election, Lolita turned the agent of a Wartime power into the Shift so he wouldn't be able to interfere with her plan. (PROSE: Head of State)
Appearance
Richard Francis Burton described the Lady of the Last Night as about thirty years old, with an "aristocratic aspect". She wore a flowing garb and a large headdress. Her skin was supernaturally pale, but her hair, lips, eyes, and garb were all pitch black.
Lola Denison was described by many American tabloids as a "glacial beauty". (PROSE: Head of State)
Behind the Scenes
- In Toy Story, Lolita says she was modified by her previous owner, who is heavily hinted to be the Master; in The Book of the War, the War King is mentioned to have self-modified his timeship in a similar way.
Character Notes by Lawrence Miles
Villainess. Aristocratic, but with no respect for tradition. Dangerous. Utterly amoral. Apparently in her thirties (though she's not human, so her actual age is open to debate). Political. Manipulative. Believes herself to be superior to most other life in the universe - as it turns out, there's a good reason for this - and regards everybody else with quiet amusement. Hard to imagine her taking anything seriously: everything she does is pre-planned, and therefore there's never any reason for concern. Gives the impression of being "untrustworthy" rather than "slimy". Doesn't really care one way or another.
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