Questionable Questing

I'm liking your passion for direct historical reference as a source of twists

And a lot of the smaller local faiths and occults, believe in demons. Although their less an organized hierarchy and eternal war like in more Christian traditions and more evil or malevolent spirits that appear if you don't follow certain traditions or you deliberately disturb them. I'll make sure to look up some local beliefs from the Temne people to make sure though.

Although there was a lot of Portuguese missionaries in the region at the time as well, so its not entirely out of the question they decided to go with a Christian Demon to kill Charlie since they figured their from the same parthenon so it has to work.

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I like a lot

Mix of Christian and local mixing?

Something that's actually still incredibly common in huge chunks of Africa. Same with Islam as well, which actually creates a lot of tension as a lot of Iman's from the Middle East don't consider them real.

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The hentai dream of a hot devoted mommy to do whatever lust says do

Amen

And so how does the journalist get drawn into Charlie

He falls in love with her. lol. But on a deeper level she represents all the things he's running from and hates. She's a noble, an industrialist, an imperialist, yet she's nice. She says thank you to her staff, she lets a random Journalist hover over her shoulder as she tours all her factories because she accidentally broke his camera. She openly includes her black bodyguard in her decision making.

It's the contradiction about Charlie that draws him in, and the two have a moment where they both get drunk while talking about politics and she openly and freely admits everything he believes in and has to hide. She's a devil hiding an angel.

She's an idealized god mother queen

The glory of empire paired with sincere passionate love

Exactly and no matter his morals, the Journalist can't help but get sucked in too. lol.

So why does Charlie take to him

Clussy

That's a tad odd

The same morals that she's unknowingly going to corrupt. Or as she puts it, "Have you ever considered that a man who doesn't mind that his woman has an opinion and thinks wealth or skin color doesn't make you inherently superior is in incredibly short supply."