Renee Parmedes Branvillier

Renee Paramedes Branvillier is an immortal from the Pre-Advenna Advis Tragedy. She was first introduced in the 1930s as the sixth director of development in the Nebula Pharmaceutical Sector, which was involved in research studies involving the immortals. Renee is very innocent in speech and behavior, covering up the fact that she is genuinely cold-blooded.

In the 1700s, Renee taught alchemy to Huey Laforet, Monica Campanella, and Elmer C. Albatross at Lotto Valentino's third library.

Biography
Renee is part of a previous generation of immortals, which occurred 300 years before the Advenna Avis incident. Along with fellow survivor Professor Dalton, she served as the teacher to the next generation of alchemy in Lotto Valentino's secret school during the 1700s. However she was an awful teacher who always taught the wrong things to her students on a simple whim, much to the annoyance and frustration of the school's principle and her students.

During the Prohibition, she is the director of Nebula Pharmaceuticals, which is a cover for her experiments that are even more immoral and brutal than her former student Huey Laforet's. She is first introduced with her usual bubbly exterior having a conversation with St. Germain. However when she was about to let loose some "sensitive" information, she stopped herself and said that she would have had to kill St. Germain and Carol if she had let it slip.

Later in the novels, she continues to pursue Huey attempting to reclaim Chane for a purpose, most likely for an experiment. Which puts her at odds with Claire Stanfield/Felix Walken who intends to marry Chane.

Personality
A whimsical woman, Renee showed a blatant disregard for any form of responsibility as a teacher during the 1700s. Rather than teaching any sort of proper alchemic lesson she instead preached nonsense that everyone in class saw through and as such though ill of her. Her bubbly disposition has often left others in confusion, and her antics can stretch beyond the normal levels of strangeness that Baccano! is famous for. Her typically bright temperament can make it difficult to discern whether she is serious or not towards those who have only just met her. For example, Carol thought that she was joking about murder because she said it in such a cutesy way.

She is also a klutz, often seen tripping over her own feet and falling because she has a horrible sense of balance. This makes some scientists in Nebula question her skill.

Renee can even be irresponsible and will give up easily. She was ready to abandon Chane when she was a newborn quickly, prepared to skip off without a care. The only resistance she faced was Huey, who called her too clumsy to raise a child. It's most likely she did the same thing with Leeza, her second daughter.

When she met Claire Stanfield, she claimed she was there to collect Chane, as Huey had agreed to give her one of their daughters, most likely for an experiment. Claire noticed how she bluntly referred Chane as a object and thought of Chane as part of her own body.

Underneath this bubbly and girly surface lies a woman whose actions make Huey Laforet's look humane by comparison. She is a mother who views her daughters as experiments, and her willingness to kill them without hesitation makes Renee one of the most dangerous characters to come across. She has shown high levels of treachery, a trait that is almost her second nature. She initiated a ploy to insert assassins into Alcatraz in order to steal Huey's eye, and double-crossed the Russo Family after they failed to capture the Lamia homunculi.

Relationships


Huey Laforet - Renee was Huey's alchemy teacher in the 1700's. Her relationship with him is a strange one, as she both had two children with him but also ordered the Felix Walkenses to steal one of Huey's eyes. Huey stole her right eye in return afterwards.

Chane and Leeza Laforet - Renee's daughters with Huey. Most of the series, she is heavily implied to be their mother. She confirmed her relations with Chane and Leeza personally to [Walken|Claire Stanfield] caught her breaking into the Runorata manor.

Dalton Strauss - Dalton was Renee's alchemy teacher and the headmaster of the Third Library in Lotto Valentino. He is also one of the three surviving pre-1711 immortals, along with Renee and Archangelo, before the generation of the Advenna Avis.

Archangelo - Archangelo was one of the three surviving immortals, along with Renee and Dalton. He loves her, but Renee doesn't notice his feelings towards her nor does she love him back. Archangelo knows that she could never love him but vows to protect her anyways. He is so devoted to her that he devoured most of the previous generation of immortals in order to protect Renee from the potential of being devoured.