Lasalle
Sobriquet: Grease Monkey
Appearance: Lasalle's dark, almond shaped eyes capture the viewer's attention first, followed by her beautiful, angular face. She stands five foot, five inches tall and probably weights about a hundred and twenty pounds. Her olive complexion and midnight black hair reveal her Hispanic origins, as does her Guadalajara accent.
Behavior: In some ways, Lasalle is the stereotypical young Hispanic woman, flirtatious, quick in passions and stubbornly proud of who she is and where she comes from. But her time in the cartel revealed the finer things in life as well its its harsher realities. In truth, she is neither a loyal cartel minion, nor a faithful Catholic from a traditional Mexican family, and she most definitely isn't a beautiful Mexican girl with car grease on her face. But then again, she is, for Lasalle is loyal to an underworld sect - the Sabbat, and she fanatically places her faith in the Sabbat ritae as she fears the damnation of true darkness, all while clinging to her new family - the members of the pack and doing what she loves doing best - fixing up cars. What can be said? The girl is fast and furious.
History: Danielle Quintana was born into an impoverish family in Guadalajara, Mexico in the late 1960s. She grew up in the barrio, the youngest of several siblings she fought for whatever she needed and thus became something of a tomboy. But Guadalajara during the 1960s even tomboys have to pull their share in a poor familia and so Danielle as the youngest was required to deliver lunch to her father and uncles as they worked in the neighborhood garage. Over time, she became familiar with each tool and what it was used for and she even made money for the garage by scouting out potential junkers to salvage for parts. When as a teen she suggested that an apprenticeship, the older men of the family just laughed. Angered, Danielle took to running with a pack of amateur car thieves who stole tourista cars and chopped them for parts and in this role she excelled.
But chopping stolen cars wasn't what Danielle really wanted. As luck would have it, the chop-shop lay on the edge of cartel territory, and rarely excite the interest of the cartel's leadership, that is until it started turning a real profit. When the chop-shop burned down, the amateur crew were offered real employment working for the local cartel and as the shop's star mechanic, Danielle was thrilled. With real money, her family had to take her seriously and they did, forbidding her to continue her 'work' and lining up a potential husband for her.
Unable to reason with her parents and siblings, Danielle went to the cartel leader in the hope that he could change their minds. Don Ramon happened to belong to a family of Tlacique looking for young talent on the rise and intervened on her behalf. But it was his family's master, Moyolehuani a ancilla of the Tlacique and something of a rising star, who saw the real potential in the young woman. The decision wasn't made based on Danielle's mechanical skills or to make a young woman happy, rather it came about one night as Moyolehuani came upon Danielle as she changed out of her greasy overalls into her own clothes; Moyolehuani wasn't interested in her feminine beauty, but rather in a crescent shaped birthmark on her left shoulder-blade. Remember all that he had heard of the vampires of the Sabbat and the Camarilla, he knew the birthmark held significance and appealed to his sire for a divination on the matter. The divination revealed that Danielle would indeed serve the Tlacique well in their war against the Sabbat.
Thus, Danielle became a favorite within the cartel motor-pool and was even invited to live in Don Ramon's house. After a number of years of loyal service and maturing into a beautiful young woman, Danielle was selected to become a ghoul. While Danielle loved being a part of the cartel, even the ugly parts, she was never given a choice about being a ghoul and she struggled with it, well into the 1990s. That is when the Tlacique elders saw a perfect opportunity to infiltrate the Sabbat. Tlacique spies revealed that the Mexican Sabbat was sending a local pack from Guadalajara to Detroit. The Sabbat of Detroit would only know the pack by reputation and so the original Jaguar pack was slaughtered and a crew of highly skilled Tlacique neonates took their place.
Recent Events: Reasoning that the best way for coterie of Tlacique to pass themselves off as Sabbat was to put the those selected through the creation rites and a crash-course in all things Sabbat. In this way did Danielle achieve immortality. While this approach did indeed bind the young Jaguars together, it also changed them. For Danielle the process of being Embraced, beaten unconscious and being buried alive was traumatic, but not half so frightening as her vision of Tezcatlipoca rising from the ruins of Detroit. Her revelation of this vision only confirmed for the Tlacique elders that their strategy had been the correct one. Had Danielle revealed the rest of her vision, the Tlacique elders might well have killed her and the rest of her pack.
For Danielle, Detroit has been in many ways a return to the normal. Most of the population is poor, desperate, under educated and quite often violent. But from her first night in Detroit, Danielle realized there was something that distinguished Detroit from Guadalajara, the ever present darkness. Not just the absence of light, but a vibration within the shadows that seemed to call to her Tlacique blood and a spiritual gloaming that seemed to suck the life and warmth from the very city. To combat her fear of this otherworldly darkness, Danielle threw herself into her mission as a member of the Sabbat and perhaps succeeded a little too well.
One of her first interactions with Detroit's Sabbat came during a ritual competition between the packs of the city in a race. Three packs distinguished themselves, Los Jaguares, American Gothic and the Cadillac Boys. It was with these two packs that Danielle felt most at home and upon discovering her skills as a mechanic, both packs tried to lure her away from Los Jaguares. Before the issue could be discussed, Danielle let her heart decide as she broke from the Jaguars to become Lasalle of the Cadillac Boys.
Danielle's decision has placed her former pack in a dangerous position, forcing them to move very carefully in Detroit while trying to accomplish their mission before Lasalle / Danielle is discovered as a Tlacique rather than as a true Sabbat. For Danielle, every step she has taken has been leading her to her true home, Detroit and her true 'familia' the Cadillac Boys. In fact, she isn't really Danielle Quintana anymore, Danielle died months ago in Mexico, whereas Lasalle is very much alive and willing help save the Sabbat from the coming darkness.
Fate: Lasalle is one of several key individuals who will either save Detroit and her Sabbat citizens or she will serve as the willing vessel of the elder darkness that seeks to damn Detroit forever.
