Father Chase
In the current era, the name Baby Chase is heard less and less. It gives way, in quiet and humorless tones, to a single title: Father. Father Chase crosses the Gator like a well-groomed specter of the old order, dressed with such precision that everyone present is meant to understand that appearance itself is a form of control. Those who meet Father describe the smile first, then the quiet sitting behind it, and finally the sickening sense of having been read too fast to be safe.
Father keeps the Dolls, the elite service network of the Gator, and is the architect of the doctrine that turned service into a weapon. The strength of the figure lies in making devotion look graceful, and beneath that composed surface is a mind formed by measured violence and ritual, convinced that serving is the purest form of power precisely because the one who serves decides who is sheltered and who is dropped from the table. In a city where most broadcast their strength through spectacle or money, Father built a reputation on something colder: the understanding that real control tends to walk into a room offering a hand well before it ever draws a knife.
The figure who became Father was once Baby Chase, the trophy wife who rose to a powerful Board seat in six months and built the all-female force then known as Baby's Dolls. That story survives now only in whispers, kept alive by those who recall Aysea as it was before the war.
Father keeps the Dolls, the elite service network of the Gator, and is the architect of the doctrine that turned service into a weapon. The strength of the figure lies in making devotion look graceful, and beneath that composed surface is a mind formed by measured violence and ritual, convinced that serving is the purest form of power precisely because the one who serves decides who is sheltered and who is dropped from the table. In a city where most broadcast their strength through spectacle or money, Father built a reputation on something colder: the understanding that real control tends to walk into a room offering a hand well before it ever draws a knife.
The figure who became Father was once Baby Chase, the trophy wife who rose to a powerful Board seat in six months and built the all-female force then known as Baby's Dolls. That story survives now only in whispers, kept alive by those who recall Aysea as it was before the war.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Baby Leonard married Grant Chase, a prominent Board member, after catching his attention during one of his slumming expeditions outside the Gator's elite circles. For a year she played the trophy wife, confined to the luxury suites and idle pleasures of the city's premier hotel-casino. When she grew bored and asked for responsibilities, her husband placed her in charge of decorating the Gator. The assignment was meant to be harmless busywork.
She restructured the decor from top to bottom while quietly building alliances with staff and cultivating new clients. When the old security detail complained that her design changes interfered with their sight lines, she brought the matter to the Board, had the entire team dismissed, and installed herself as head of security. The force she assembled, initially co-ed, became the exclusively female Baby's Dolls. The entire trajectory from trophy wife to one of the most powerful Board members in Aysea took six months. She has two teenage children, one boy and one girl, and a husband of fifteen years who still does not fully understand what happened.
The Division War did not unseat Baby. It transformed the figure. Baby came through the war still holding the group now known simply as the Dolls, but the way the founder was spoken of changed. The name Baby Chase thinned in open use, replaced in reverent, humorless tones by the title Father, and the Dolls widened past their all-female origins into a closed order shaped around that devotion. Rumor holds that Baby once ran with an organized guild of contract killers before breaking away with its methods and philosophy, and the discipline of the present Dolls lends the story a weight it can never quite confirm. Whoever Baby Leonard was, the Stack now knows only Father Chase.
She restructured the decor from top to bottom while quietly building alliances with staff and cultivating new clients. When the old security detail complained that her design changes interfered with their sight lines, she brought the matter to the Board, had the entire team dismissed, and installed herself as head of security. The force she assembled, initially co-ed, became the exclusively female Baby's Dolls. The entire trajectory from trophy wife to one of the most powerful Board members in Aysea took six months. She has two teenage children, one boy and one girl, and a husband of fifteen years who still does not fully understand what happened.
The Division War did not unseat Baby. It transformed the figure. Baby came through the war still holding the group now known simply as the Dolls, but the way the founder was spoken of changed. The name Baby Chase thinned in open use, replaced in reverent, humorless tones by the title Father, and the Dolls widened past their all-female origins into a closed order shaped around that devotion. Rumor holds that Baby once ran with an organized guild of contract killers before breaking away with its methods and philosophy, and the discipline of the present Dolls lends the story a weight it can never quite confirm. Whoever Baby Leonard was, the Stack now knows only Father Chase.
Children
