So, I thought I'd look up 'Eryx' and the first couple of entries define it as a) a town in Sicily, named after b) an eponymous Greek hero and c) a French anti-tank missile. Let's see, how could a French anti-tank missile work its way into your story...
Wormwood being Satan, his election to the presidency of the US did not result in Good Things. I suspect the same will happen with the mysterious Selena.
There are plenty of hints to be mined from the last update, so unless you're misdirecting, I suspect that Mme Eryx either is the sun's daughter, or is a manifestation very closely alligned with her.
Some of the hints:
Post title: 'Monday's child...' I assume that, as in the Dutch word for that day (maandag), the 'Mon' part refers to the moon. Sun, moon... Could be opposites, but are also similar in that they are both celestial bodies with a lot of mythology behind them.
First name Selena: unless you're referring to the popular Tejano singer of the same name (murdered by the head of her own fan club in 1995, portrayed on the silver screen by Jennifer Lopez in 1997), it's most likely a derivative of Selene - Greek for the moon goddess.
Birthplace Egypt: Pharaonic Egypt was home to quite a few solar deities.
The element helium (which, thanks to your own explanation, I now know derives its name from the sun).
And then there's her speech on how helium defines her life and how she intends to shine a light on Haiti 'and the world beyond'. Why do I think that 'the world beyond' isn't merely geographical?
This reminds me a little bit of a Robert Rankin book, They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II, the B-Movie. It parallels the part in the book where Satan (as US presidential contender Wormwood) comes out of nowhere and in a few months time is swept into the White House on a wave of public adulation. Yet no-one really knows who he is, or where he came from. All of a sudden, he was just there.“it is strange how she’s all over the place so suddenly. I don’t think I’d heard of her a month ago, in fact...well, maybe two. I hadn’t heard of the Eryx Corporation either. That is a bit odd, if you think about it, how she’s just suddenly there...”
Wormwood being Satan, his election to the presidency of the US did not result in Good Things. I suspect the same will happen with the mysterious Selena.
There are plenty of hints to be mined from the last update, so unless you're misdirecting, I suspect that Mme Eryx either is the sun's daughter, or is a manifestation very closely alligned with her.
Some of the hints:
Post title: 'Monday's child...' I assume that, as in the Dutch word for that day (maandag), the 'Mon' part refers to the moon. Sun, moon... Could be opposites, but are also similar in that they are both celestial bodies with a lot of mythology behind them.
First name Selena: unless you're referring to the popular Tejano singer of the same name (murdered by the head of her own fan club in 1995, portrayed on the silver screen by Jennifer Lopez in 1997), it's most likely a derivative of Selene - Greek for the moon goddess.
Birthplace Egypt: Pharaonic Egypt was home to quite a few solar deities.
The element helium (which, thanks to your own explanation, I now know derives its name from the sun).
And then there's her speech on how helium defines her life and how she intends to shine a light on Haiti 'and the world beyond'. Why do I think that 'the world beyond' isn't merely geographical?
Nuclear holocaust?“The Eryx Corporation will shine on you all, Haitians, with the power of a million suns!”