CICILY BOUDREAUX

Real Name: Cicily Boudreaux

Class: Human magic-user

Occupation: Housewife

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Absalom Boudreaux (husband), Luci Boudreaux (adopted daughter)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City

First Appearance: Batman: Harvest Breed #1 (November, 2000)

Powers: Cicily was versed in the occult, and knew a spell to open up the gates of Hell.

History: (Batman: Harvest Breed #1) - Luci was the daughter of a shaman born during the Vietnam War. The shaman met army medic Absalom Boudreaux and his fellow soldier Broussard. She gifted Absalom with her power to heal wounds, but her curse to see how those she healed would die. She predicted Broussard that he would die by being decapitated at her hands, and when Absalom told his friend he tried to prevent the prophecy by killing her. She decapitated him in self defense, and gave her child Luci to Absalom. Absolom and his wife Cicily were unable to have children, so he had some strings pulled and adopted her. Luci studied magic, and had a precognition about a string of murders in Gotham City, with the victims sacrificed with their hearts ripped out. No one was ever convicted, but young Luci and her family were ostracized, and Luci branded mentally unfit. With the Wayne Foundation's help she was remanded into the custody of her parents. Seven years later three men were murdered in the same fashion. Batman went to Luci for guidance. She knew he was Bruce Wayne, and her occult studies told her the killer was performing a ritual to open up the gates of Hell to gain supreme power. Two more would be targeted for murder, with the locations of the victim's drawing a cross across Gotham. She knew Batman feared his nightmares, and told him he was acting as a barrier between Hell and Earth, but with three murders committed the netherworld was cracked open, and demons would plague Gotham. Batman mapped out possible locations where the murder would strike, and reported to Commissioner Gordon, who sent his men to the Robinson Art Museum while Batman patrolled Gotham's elevated railroad. Batman saved a woman from being murdered by a demon on the train, but Gordon reported that his men were murdered at the museum. Batman interviewed huongong Mizizi, who told him to map a crippled cross, and Gordon worried that Batman was behaving more erratically and violently. After another consult with Luci Batman realized the last victim would be killed at the Gotham Cathedral. He found Luci's parents there, with Cicily, the killer, trying to sacrifice her husband Absalom. She despised that her husband and adopted daughter both possessed power, and reasoned that if she gained her own supernatural abilities they could be a family again. Batman saved Absalom, and a demon emerged from Hell to claim Cicily's soul. Luci astral projected to the church, destroying the demon with the pureness of her soul, but she couldn't save her mother, although she assured her soul's escape from Hell.

Comments: Created by George Pratt.