Louis Santiago 2
Names: Louis Santiago 2LouisLouis Santiago TwoLouis SantiagoCousin LouisSantiago
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 3 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 3Donut bullies a drunk, hostile Louis into promising to attend the crawler meeting at the Toe.
- Ch 5Louis, a 27-year-old from Miami, crashed his mother's convertible Chevy Astro van down a stairwell into the dungeon, earning the Cloud of Exhaust spell.
- Ch 5Louis chose the Pest Control class, which shortens cooldowns of cloud spells, but he and Firas have fled fights instead of killing mobs.
- Ch 19Louis and Firas have become skilled pilots of the flying house and are returning to Hump Town to pick up Carl and Donut.
- Ch 20To leave the quadrant, the group had to hack off the top of the house to remove the stairwell closet, now guarded by Langley's men.
- Ch 20Katia assigns Louis and Firas to stay outside so Gwen doesn't flood the castle while the party is inside.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 8Louis's class changed from Pest Exterminator to Extermination Professional; Donut teases him about finding love.
- Ch 15The Dream's only target is Louis, apparently because he had Juice Box take Epitome Noflex's likeness.
- Ch 24The second dead hunter carried a photograph of Louis taken from his Facebook page.
- Ch 36Louis invented a move throwing armor onto Katia so she can grow ever larger, like Voltron.
- Ch 50Louis's Extermination Professional class has Tent the House, which spreads a potion over a wide area once every six hours.
- Ch 51Louis kills an Odious Creeper with Mordecai's weedkiller, spread from the Twister.
- Ch 68Louis built a boombox for Donut's act out of Carl's trap modules and narrates the performance.
- Ch 70Louis noticed cat-sized tunnels on the castle map and realised Ferdinand uses them, including one leading to the third-floor security room.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 13Louis is in Reykjavik, Iceland, with Katia's group, and grieves his best friend Firas.
- Ch 13Almost everyone from Louis's fifth-floor bubble, including Langley, Gwen and Firas, died on the sixth floor.
- Ch 42Louis proposes the crawlers gather for Christmas and exchange presents.
- Ch 50Louis throws a Christmas party in the saferoom and angrily insists on it, saying everyone knows the coming final phase will be terrible.
- Ch 50Louis fears Carl's eyes are getting wilder each day and that he might go insane.
- Ch 64Louis received his first player killer skulls, five from a single attack, and is unhappy about it.
- Ch 65Louis now has five player killer skulls; Li Jun also bears two new ones.
- Ch 67Louis kills the unconscious Sister Ines to spare the others player killer skulls, and is marked for death by a god.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 1Killing Sister Ines got Louis marked for death by Ysalte, until Paz killed the goddess.
- Ch 9Louis holds the unique rank of Army Air General in the Princess Posse.
- Ch 10Louis received the airship Party Planner, a Casket in the Sky stealth light bomber, from a celestial box.
- Ch 11Louis wears an enchanted Donut Holes t-shirt, a prize from Dungeon Sidekicks, that increases the range of his cloud attack.
- Ch 13Louis agrees to marry Juice Box to bond the crawlers and NPC team, sensing she is scared and in over her head.
- Ch 14Louis and Juice Box marry in a small changeling wedding, and Louis wishes his mom were there.
- Ch 30Louis flies the Party Planner, bombing a line in front of the enemy trenches to clear traps and protections.
- Ch 66Louis is shaken after being shown a video of himself with Juice Box during an interview.
- Ch 76Louis is feather-falling into the middle of the Reaver castle while being tracked by Reaver security.
- Ch 77Louis landed on the Reaver castle roof and gathered unexploded, unstable bombs while fleeing behind smoke.
- Ch 82Louis is at full health but paralyzed and bound somewhere in the Reaver castle.
- Ch 91Katia says a police officer died protecting Louis as a child, and her husband said something cruel to him at the funeral.
- Ch 92The Reavers replaced Louis's heart and lungs with mechanical parts containing pieces of Tagg, apparently preparing to replace his brain.
- Ch 96Louis receives Princess Lunette's naiad heart and lungs, with gills and an internal rebreather, and survives.
- Ch 98Louis says Juice Box left him and gave him divorce papers.
- Ch 98At Katia's request, Louis agrees to be the father of her child; Eileithyia confirms he is still human.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 5Louis, Britney and Bautista are together on a team and picked mechanical.
- Ch 17Louis, Britney and Bautista drew a neon lowrider Tahoe, came second-to-last, and the audience voted them light-up wheel spinners.
- Ch 24Louis, Britney and Bautista's team also lost two teams, putting them in danger in the next heat.
- Ch 35Louis, Britney and Bautista survived as the last team again and still lack proper tires.
- Ch 47Louis reports his team is first in its heat, with Prepotente leading overall, helped by Bodi's food buffs that speed up Eileen.
- Ch 55Louis used his key to add a gecko to his garage and found an engineer in a hidden room.
- Ch 70Louis's team came last again but gained an engineer who can steal upgrades from other cars.
- Ch 77Louis's apartment holds his mother, Lady Bird, and a fitter version of himself with a fake college graduation photo.
- Ch 81Carl thinks Louis's only realistic choice is a deal, since his gills keep him from escaping via the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Ch 83Louis and Britney are placed in the same final heat as Florin and Lucia Mar.
- Ch 88Carl regards Louis and Imani as the glue that holds the team together; Louis is to go through next.
- Ch 90Louis says he is no longer as scared as he used to be, and accepts being stuck in the Pineapple Cabaret over death.
- Ch 90Donut reminds Louis he is now a father, and that Katia is the mother of his baby.
- Ch 105Instead of reaching the Pineapple Cabaret as planned, Louis is pulled out of storage into Sheol, the fifteenth floor.
- Ch 105Louis's HUD malfunctions in Sheol: he has messages but no map or spell menus, and is warned he left the playing field without a pass.
- Ch 105In storage Louis dreamed of his disappointed mother, his neighbor Terry, and Lucinda Fremont, the cop who died saving his life.
Connections
- friend ofFiras M.
- partner ofJuice Boxengaged
- enemy ofThe Dream
- enemy ofEpitome Tagg
- ally ofKatia Grimon Katia's team
- related toThe TwisterLouis casts Tent the House from the deck of the Twister
- member ofTeam Katia
- partner ofPsamatheone-sided crush
- related toPsamatheSamantha adores Louis
- enemy ofYsalte
- enemy ofSister Ines Quiteriakilled her
- member ofPrincess PosseArmy Air General
- related toParty Plannerowns and pilots
- related toJuice Boxproposed marriage partner to seal the truce
- related toBonniecrew on the Party Planner
- related toSkarncrew on the Party Planner
- related toKatia Grimfather of her unborn child
- ally ofBritney Proskurinasame team
- ally ofDaniel Bautista 2same team
- friend ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- enemy ofLinussecondary target
- family ofLady BirdLouis's mother
- enemy ofMinus
- ally ofJurgen
- family ofKatia Grimparents of a baby together
- friend ofElle McGibbons
- related toLucinda Fremontdied taking a bullet that saved his life
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 3Rallying Hump Town's crawlers
Carl's team recruits drunk crawlers Firas and Louis and Langley's archer party for a planning meeting at the Toe.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Crawlers meet in the personal space
Carl brings the drunk Louis and Firas and the archers into the personal space to plan against the gnome fortress, while Mordecai warns everyone to be polite to the changeling prostitutes.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Mordecai forcibly sobers Louis and Firas
Fed up, Mordecai gives Louis and Firas disguised Rapid Detox potions, leaving them vomiting and unable to drink for the floor.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Break-in at the town hall
Carl, Donut, Louis and Firas teleport onto a town hall balcony, sneak downstairs and knock out the basement guards with Cloud of Exhaust, but the noise brings about 15 guards and traps them inside.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Guards revealed as changelings
The knocked-out guards revert into faceless changelings; Carl kills Changeling Principal Svern and orders Louis and Firas to kill the other.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Escape from the burning town hall
A dromedarian rocket blasts the basement door; Carl counterattacks with explosives, summons a decoy toad, and Donut teleports the group out as the town hall burns and collapses.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Hostage exchange ruse
Carl's group meets the gnome ambassador's balloon with a zombified Wynne, a fake Henrik and a fake potion, hoping to get aboard the Wasteland before it bombs Hump Town.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Return to the land quadrant
Louis and Firas fly the half-demolished house to pick up Carl and Donut and bring them down to the land quadrant, catching them up on events.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Chum bombs and the dive
From the flying house, Donut detonates chum bombs to distract the concierge sharks, then Katia becomes a diving bell and drops Carl, Tran and Vadim onto the Akula's hull.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Keeping the puppy alive
Carl sends Donut, Louis and Firas up in the Twister so Donut can heal Orthrus with Heal Critter during the storm.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Luring Orthrus out
Carl flies the drop bear while Donut heals Orthrus and casts Meat Hooks, drawing the puppy out of bubble 543 into the Lacuna toward Emberus.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Looting Quan's arm
Carl takes Quan's rings, then drags the stairwell to the All-Seeing Spleen saferoom while a secret message is nearly exposed to Louis.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Phase one extractions start
Imani launches the bubble rescues; the first group passes through the gate to Hump Town and hands it on without stealing it.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Phase three: changelings depart
Imani, Elle, Louis and Firas open a gate portal to the sixth floor, sending the changelings through with the Twister.
- Book 5 · Ch 7Donut heads off the lecture
Back in the personal space, Donut preempts Mordecai's scolding, and Carl announces a plan for a much bigger bomb before the hunters are released.
- Book 5 · Ch 8Opening the hunter boxes
Carl opens his prize boxes, gaining a cult tattoo, 595,000 gold, 34 hunter hands redeemable at the Butcher's Masquerade, and a boost to his Fear spell.
- Book 5 · Ch 15The hunters' map
Carl loots a dead Dream hunter and finds a crayon map showing how hunter groups have divided the hunting grounds and claimed crawlers, including Louis as the Dream's sole target.
- Book 5 · Ch 36Reunion in the saferoom
Carl reunites with his guildmates, who catch him up on new classes, Team Cichociemni and their own adventures.
- Book 5 · Ch 50Weedkiller prepared for the creepers
Mordecai hands out jugs of his extra-strength anti-undead weedkiller; Katia and Louis take two to attack creepers from the Twister while Carl plans spray bombs.
- Book 5 · Ch 56Planning the castle
Carl and his allies study Edgar's castle map and learn Donut's contest entries were accepted, while Prepotente heads their way with a present.
- Book 5 · Ch 63The masquerade plan
Carl posts his secret plan for the masquerade in the cookbook and his allies sign it, each adding their own stance.
- Book 5 · Ch 67Pet show begins
The masquerade pet show runs, with Gimli and Prepotente's Bianca on stage, before Louis dramatically announces Mongo's appearance.
- Book 5 · Ch 68Mongo's pet show act
Donut and Louis stage an over-the-top pet show act for Mongo, with music, smoke bombs and a moonwalk, impressing even some hunters.
- Book 5 · Ch 70Battle at the castle
Mounted elves, mantises and changelings clash outside the castle; mantises seize the Twister and the Sledge jumps to the roof with Bonnie and others.
- Book 5 · Ch 71The Twister destroyed
The Sledge crashes the Twister into the castle's guard turrets, destroying both.
- Book 6 · Ch 5Crawlers reel from the last floor
Over chat, Carl learns Britney and Louis are grieving Firas, and Tran lost his legs and his friend Gwendolyn Duet.
- Book 6 · Ch 13Opening fan boxes
Donut receives the snare card Hobbled and The Bard's Golden Throat microphone, and Carl gets a massage coupon; then Katia, Bautista and Louis visit.
- Book 6 · Ch 13Catching up with Katia's group
Katia, Bautista and Louis visit Carl and Donut, share news of their losses and squad, discuss Tserendolgor possibly joining the guild, and give Carl spare cards before both teams leave for shows.
- Book 6 · Ch 32Katia's addiction revealed
In the Desperado Club, a sick Katia apologises while Mordecai explains her four drug addictions and begins treating them with Imani.
- Book 6 · Ch 50Saferoom Christmas party
Back in the saferoom, Louis's Christmas party is in full swing; Carl objects, but after Louis's angry plea Carl joins in by offering turkeys to roast.
- Book 6 · Ch 51The benefactor box flyer
Carl opens his loot boxes alone, including a benefactor box holding a homeless-shelter flyer with a 7 AM Christmas breakfast circled, and decides he must be there.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Friends arrive in Cuba
Imani leads over twenty crawlers, including Elle, Katia, Louis and Li Jun, out of the church via a Doggie Door to help Carl with his plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 67Death of Sister Ines
Climbing to the 32nd floor, Carl knocks out the charging Sister Ines and Louis stabs her to death, drawing her patron Ysalte into the realm.
- Book 6 · Ch 68Ysalte arrives
Ysalte rises from Sister Ines's corpse, vows Louis will suffer, and attacks Samantha, whose head deflects the goddess's pickaxe.
- Book 7 · Ch 7Samantha hunts Tish
Samantha chases a woman named Tish through a college in Larracos, vowing to kill her, until Katia catches her.
- Book 7 · Ch 9Naming the pet and fixing Carl's hair
Friends argue over a name for the tummy acher while Katia regrows Carl's eyebrows and lashes with hair tonic.
- Book 7 · Ch 9Sir Rendlegore named
Louis proposes Sir Rendlegore as the tummy acher's name to honour Ren, and Carl accepts it immediately.
- Book 7 · Ch 10Tour of the Party Planner hangar
Louis takes the group up the new airship elevator to the hangar, where they examine his stealth light bomber Party Planner and discuss Faction Wars armor rules.
- Book 7 · Ch 11Donut discovers the Donut Holes shirt
Donut finds Louis wearing an enchanted Donut Holes fan club t-shirt depicting her backside and is outraged; Zev explains the merch is licensed and Donut earns nothing from it.
- Book 7 · Ch 11Meeting War Leader Arief
Leaving the college, the group meets War Leader Arief, a Semeru dwarf officer, who says the NPCs want to discuss tactics and that Juice Box wants to seal the truce by marrying Louis.
- Book 7 · Ch 12Descent through Larracos
Arief leads Carl's group down through the rings of Larracos, recruiting crawlers on the way and explaining the city, the NPCs' memories of past seasons and their raids on enemy camps.
- Book 7 · Ch 12Arrival at the Desperado Club
At the reopened Desperado Club, Donut spots a changeling bartender, and the gnoll manager Hunger Hammy greets Louis by kissing him furiously.
- Book 7 · Ch 13War council with Juice Box
In a hidden room at the Desperado Club, Juice Box shares maps and plans, explains Shanty Town and reveals Ferdinand controls her team's systems with Drick as adjutant.
- Book 7 · Ch 13Louis and Juice Box agree to marry
Coached by Donut in chat, Louis declares that he and Juice Box should marry right away and tells her he loves her.
- Book 7 · Ch 14Louis and Juice Box marry
Louis and Juice Box hold a small changeling wedding in the entrance bar, whispering private vows; the Confirmation will follow in a month. Florin then summons Carl to headquarters as recruits flood in.
- Book 7 · Ch 24Enemies prepare an early assault
Prepotente, Elle and Florin report enemy troops and tanks moving on both borders despite the ceasefire; Carl orders a code red and tells Louis to launch the bomber.
- Book 7 · Ch 27Carl heads to the southern front
Carl ejects Samantha from Party Planner via Louis, sends the eager kids and Jamal back, and leads his Personal Guard toward the naga border.
- Book 7 · Ch 28Carl prepares the counterattack
With Louis in position in Party Planner and Elle watching the enemy lines, Carl tells Tran it is their turn to strike.
- Book 7 · Ch 30Opening bombardment of the southern assault
Louis bombs the ground before the enemy trenches from the Party Planner, Elle hits an anti-air battery, and the lone trebuchet scatters Dazzlers that blast a deafening song.
- Book 7 · Ch 32Raid on the Prism headquarters
Louis flies Carl, Donut, Mongo and Rend thirty miles to the Prism castle, where they kill the guards, steal the traps and enter to confront Empress D'Nadia.
- Book 7 · Ch 40Closing the saferoom entrance
In the guildhall, the leaders decide to collapse the bait shop entrance, while Donut spends the last money on a hangar, anti-air gun and banners.
- Book 7 · Ch 59Throne room taken
Elle and Imani occupy the abandoned Blood Sultanate throne room, starting a six-hour capture timer, while Louis gasses the exterior.
- Book 7 · Ch 66Forced interview
The AI forces Carl and Katia into a live interview with Victory, Drick and Kevin about their celestial loot while Louis is distraught.
- Book 7 · Ch 69Open Hostilities begin
Operation: Ruin starts. Reaver seeker missiles target Party Planner, and Bonnie, a stowaway, shoots down the last three, while Dream artillery opens fire.
- Book 7 · Ch 70Bomb run on King's Point
Louis drops an overclocked bomb load that cracks the orc castle's shields; a long-range death ray narrowly misses Party Planner.
- Book 7 · Ch 70The orc mountain erupts
Dwarves agitate the lava tubes under King's Point; an extra orc shield builds pressure and the mountain blows its top with Party Planner too close.
- Book 7 · Ch 71Carl jumps into Reaver territory
After the eruption damages Party Planner, Carl and Samantha jump out over Reaver territory to meet Elle at the feral gate; Eris is summoned and Team Retribution seizes two throne rooms.
- Book 7 · Ch 73Boomer overrules Carl
Boomer insists Louis continue the bomb run despite the dragon; Carl apologises and makes Samantha an officer to paint the dragon for missiles.
- Book 7 · Ch 76Party Planner is destroyed
The dragon tears Party Planner in half; Louis falls toward the Reaver castle, and Carl sends Samantha to save him.
- Book 7 · Ch 82Juice Box's deal with Samantha
Carl meets Juice Box, who frantically asks about Louis; learning he is bound in the Reaver castle, she offers Samantha a new body to save him.
- Book 7 · Ch 90Setting out to rescue Louis
As cleanup proceeds in Larracos, Carl, Donut and others prepare to raid the Reaver castle to rescue Louis while Prepotente joins Li Na's hunt.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Louis rescued from the Reaver castle
Juice Box possesses Louis and teleports him out as explosive robot dogs attack; Carl pockets a frozen nuke dog and detonates No Disassembles, blowing up the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Tagg found inside Louis
Juice Box discovers the Reavers replaced Louis's heart and lungs and that Epitome Tagg is present in them, so they keep Louis unconscious.
- Book 7 · Ch 93Tagg revealed as a cyborg
Carl deduces Epitome Tagg is a cyborg like Fang who grafted himself into Louis's mechanical organs, as Tagg threatens to kill Louis if removed.
- Book 7 · Ch 94Juice Box's confession
In the medical tent, Juice Box tells Carl the Hunter Wraith's curse showed her that Louis doesn't love her; Carl insists nothing is hopeless.
- Book 7 · Ch 95Samantha's plan to save Louis
Samantha suggests transplanting Princess Lunette's golem heart and lungs into Louis, giving up her body; Juice Box takes a Fleshmancer form to operate.
- Book 7 · Ch 96Louis's transplant and Tagg's death
Mordecai, Edgar, Juice Box and others transplant Princess Lunette's organs into Louis while Donut taunts Tagg; Tagg dies and the Dream are defeated.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Katia leaves the crawl
Katia chooses pregnancy from Eileithyia, is made human again with Louis as father, is fitted with cybernetic limbs and disappears, ineligible to continue.
- Book 7 · Ch 99The crew leaves the 9th floor
Samantha is recalled from Emberus, and the remaining crawlers say goodbyes and enter the stairwell as Emberus destroys the floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 17Crawler gathering at the Lollipop
Carl and Donut join the other crawlers at the Lollipop karaoke bar and compare vehicles, results and upgrades from heat one.
- Book 8 · Ch 35Friends check in
Other crawler teams report their heat results: most won or placed, while Louis's team survived last again and Zhang fears crawler rivals conspiring.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Carl tells the group about Eris
Carl explains Eris's visit and coin in chat; friends react, and Carl proposes talking to the war mages before sharing a half-formed plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 40Interrogating Akuma
Under a draining anti-magic shield, Akuma explains reused NPCs, the dungeon framework, and that everything in the dungeon will be destroyed after this season.
- Book 8 · Ch 60Brawl at the Lollipop
Dwight's attack sparks a bar-wide fight and a fire; Imani knocks Dwight out, Mongo and Dong join in, and Louis and Britney put out the flames.
- Book 8 · Ch 62Failed garage raid on Corky
Before Carl's group can break in, Genesis and Rapture drive Corky out to the race; Porky learns Dong is involved and is furious.
- Book 8 · Ch 70Aftermath of heat five
Carl's team mourns Dong; allies check in, and Osvaldo reveals Dwight won by going over the factory instead of through it.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Farewell gathering in Hungry Eyes
About five hundred crawlers gather in Hungry Eyes as two hundred, including Bautista, Tran, Zhang and Archie, prepare to leave for the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 75Linus unmasked
Elle's tribute to her husband turns into exposing Linus as an impostor assassin; he admits Imani and Louis were his targets and faces expulsion from the dungeon.
- Book 8 · Ch 77Ad Infinitum quest
The System AI freezes the race to explain the apartments as its predictive models, reveals Minus's identity and targets, and hints at an overlooked flaw in heat seven.
- Book 8 · Ch 83Final heat lineups revealed
At the starting blocks of the final race heat, Carl sees that the heats now pit allied crawlers against each other: Chris with Imani and Elle, and Louis and Britney with Florin and Lucia Mar.
- Book 8 · Ch 84Carl's fury at the heat lineups
Carl screams at the ceiling, blaming the showrunners for setting allies against each other. Chris says he should have taken a deal, and Imani refuses to accept that.
- Book 8 · Ch 85Contingency three
Realising Pontiff's exit means a way out exists, Carl, now a dachshund, tells all crawlers facing allies to use contingency three, and the crawlers turn on the NPC racers.
- Book 8 · Ch 87Crawlers gather at the Hairpin
About thirty crawlers wait outside the Hairpin; seeing Carl as a dachshund, they all collapse laughing before he proposes robbing a casino.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Louis enters the Nothing portal
After the mimic fight, Imani reopens the wheel portal; Louis says goodbye and jumps in, and Carl swears to free those sent away.
- Book 8 · Ch 105Louis lands in Sheol
Louis emerges from storage not at the Pineapple Cabaret but in Sheol, where Britney, Pontiff and the demon Forkith revive him with a leech and subdue the werewolf Chris.
- Book 8 · Ch 105Samantha reveals her plan
Samantha messages Louis that she slipped away from Taranis and Krakaren to kill the demon mother and her son.