Deck: Mantel
Jeu Name: Lion
Dejah grew up in Purity Vale, Oregon and lived very comfortably. Her father, River Chamott was the mayor, the people adored her family, but she didn’t really. She grew bored with getting everything she wanted and knew about what was really going in behind the smiles and fake laughter of the citizens. Drugs, sex trafficking, shootings, missing persons were happening and everyone seemed oblivious. Even Maxine, her one and true weakness.
Maxine was one who introduced her to Elohim and explained that their instant spark and attraction to each other wasn’t strange or to be taken sexually. It was spiritual, pure and quite lovely. Dejah wasn’t fond of Christianity or Christians in general and the only reason she followed Maxine to the church was to protect her from the “fake” Christians that she knew were hiding in the community. Dejah could count on her fingers how many times she saved Maxine from bad people who wanted to harm her. Dejah was never the push over type and despite her gentle face and calm decorum, she was a ill tempered, selfish and vicious when anyone threatened her, her loved ones or Maxine specifically.
She prided herself for being Maxine’s protector in the shadows and was bent on protecting Maxine from everyone, even if that person had to be herself. In the year 2024, something terrible took place and shook Dejah so badly, she questioned if she could remain Maxine’s soulmate. When she dared to ask her father about what was being said and the trial that seemed to be all Purity Vale could talk about, something happened to her after Maxine’s court date. She went to meet a strange man, who claimed he was going to take Maxine away and warned her not to interfere. She didn’t listen. Although things were rough between them at that time, she still loved Maxine and didn’t want anyone to hurt her. She met the man and he had a client with him. The client saw the fire in Dejah’s eyes and thought she could be of use to their cause, so he offered Dejah Blue Crystal and told if she took it, she would stronger than the average person and nothing would harm her. Not stabs, not bullets, not poison, for the Blue Crystal would coat her insides and enhance her muscle mass and increase her adrenaline levels.
Dejah liked the sound of this and the idea of being able to protect anyone without issue. Dejah took the Blue Crystal and immediately everything went black after that. She doesn’t remember what happened, only that when the fogged clear, she was looking at the men and the client, the one with a face mask dressed in a rainbow themed robe with grey in one of the stripes, applauded her for what she had done. Dejah, confused, looked around and then saw a dead man on the floor and also took note that his blood was on her body, face and the front of her chest. Before Dejah would ask them who the man was, why she was holding a gun that she knew she used on the deceased, the man wearing a green formal suit spoke up and told her the man on her floor was a Jack and had to be put down and that he was pleased with her actions.
Her told her his name and that he was her King and she was going to be his new Jack. Dejah blinked slowly, no expression her face as she was told that she basically murdered a man and not just any man, a Jack. She asked what all the terms meant and why he deserved to die. Her King briefly explained that he and his former Jack, were part of a secret crime society known as Le Jeu. At that point, he cut off the conversation and ordered Dejah to follow him and his client. She didn’t think anything of it, didn’t question him. She took the gun and left the mansion, walked a while into the woods until she and the men came to a helicopter. They got in it and Dejah hasn’t returned to Purity Vale ever since. Her King took her to the main base to live and it was there, he introduced her to the Trump Council, explained that she was his new Jack and a player of Le Jeu.
Shortly after she was declared a Jack of her King’s Deck, Mantel, she was taught how to conduct herself as a Jack and how to fight using her fists, feet and weapons, primary guns and knives. In the year 2025, her King was murdered the Folding Deck Alliance and when she learned about this, she was simply told no one, not even Kings or Queens are allowed to harm or eliminate Jacks. Jacks have immunity in Le Jeu and her King knew this. As Jack, she didn’t know this policy, but that was on her King. The Jacks informed Dejah that he should of taught her that policy and where she was a Jack, they pitied her ignorance. His elimination wasn’t personal, but rules were rules and she had no choice was accept what happened. With her King dead, Dejah became the Queen of Purity Vale Oregon and Paris France, the only acquired Territories that Mantel owned.
As Mantel’s Queen, she rightly inherited her late King’s Territories, but Dejah didn’t want Purity Vale Oregon. Anytime she thought it, it made her head hurt and she would become ill for no reason. It was almost as if the name of the location was connected to her and her body was trying—no it as forcing her to remember something very important. Dejah put up with those annoying symptoms for a while, but in the end she couldn’t handle it. If just thinking a that Territory was making her sick, she didn’t need it. Besides, it was located across a ocean and she didn’t want to bother with flying going over there to fight a Le Jeu player who dared to challenge her for it.
Without remorse, Dejah willingly forfeited the Territory in the United States back to the Trump Council and told them she would only focus on France and claiming Territories within France and nothing else. She hired a Joker and continued to train under his guidance. The late King died too soon and she still had so much to learn about Le Jeu. Luckily, Bull, her First and only Joker, understood the rules of Le Jeu quite well and as long as she had the euros to keep him, he fully intended to stick around and help her Deck dominate France.
⚡Fun Fact: Dejah Chamott is the Christian version of Chloe Price from Life Is Strange.
