Baba Yaga

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Aliases: none Status: Supporting

Baba Yaga is the bassist of El Cucuy and the Nightmares, found in the green room with headphones on, head down, hair loose, fingers dancing across a traveler bass. He looks “exactly like Keanu Reeves if Keanu had wandered into a Slavic legend and never left.”

Description

Head down, hair loose, lost in the music. He communicates mostly through his instrument and the occasional muttered aside, radiating pre-show focus while the green room parties around him.

Role in Volume 01

In El Cucuy and the Nightmares, Homeboy points at him mid-introduction and announces, “That’s Keanu Reeves.” El Cucuy corrects him: “That’s Baba Yaga, but close enough.” When the plan to smoke the PTSDream comes up, Baba Yaga is the one who mutters, “There was that one time,” referring to the band getting drunk before a performance. “We don’t talk about that,” El Cucuy snaps. He smokes his share of the PTSDream with the rest of the band, plays the show, and closes the night lounging at the penthouse afterparty.

Relationships

• El Cucuy: his frontman; shuts down the “one time” story fast.
• La Llorona, Krampus, Nixie: his bandmates.

Notes

• The “one time” remains the band’s only acknowledged pre-show intoxication, and nobody elaborates.