Sophie+Parker



Sophie Parker grew up in the swamp lands near Coochie Brake, Louisiana. Born in 1920s to a carpenter father and a mother who took in laundry and sewing, she was the youngest of six children, and the only one interested in keeping the cabin she grew up in after the death of her parents.

Sophie attended school until the sixth grade and then quit in order to take on the unconventional job, at the time, of working with her father. From her paternal grandmother she also learned about the local plant and animal life and the uses of potions and charms, along with the craft of making moonshine.

Though she had several romantic entanglements, Sophie never married and yet became a single mother in her 40s to her only child, Josephine. To this day she has never disclosed the name of Josephine’s father.

When it was found that her granddaughter, Bastienne, was a mutant she quickly took her in and “raised” her. Though her concept of raising a preteen was to let her run wild in the wilderness and offer sage advice when it was needed.

Currently in her 80s she can still be found traipsing about the swamps. It is rumored that she is a local practitioner of witchcraft or voodoo, and she does nothing to dissuade the talk, going to far as to make a meager living selling charms and potions to tourists and those desperate enough for something they do not have.

In the summer of 2011, she aided her granddaughter Bastienne in communicating with a voodoo spirit in order to gain advantages so that she would be able to protect others. In reality, she used the spirit of the Egyptian goddess Bastet instead of Baron Semedi, as she told the girl. Later that fall, it was discovered that the woman planted "seeds" in her unborn granddaughters making them the perfect hosts for Bastet and Sekhmet. The old woman was really a priestess in Clan Akkaba, a cult who worships the first mutant, Apocalypse. She pushed Sekhmet (her granddaughter Georgie) to put the plan in place to raise their Lord to ascend and rule earth. Bastet did not agree that Evan (the clone of Apocalypse) was ready and that Sophie was pushing him to his own destruction. The two fought and Bastet ended up killing the woman, saying it was the only way to protect Evan.