Auntie Poulet

Background

Auntie Poulet is the elderly matriarch of the Haitian gang in Little Haiti. She practices voodoo, runs a share of the local drug trade and is surrounded by armed Haitian men at all times. She is engaged in a long feud with the Cubans for control of the neighborhood.

Her shack in Little Haiti serves as her base, and she uses voodoo rituals and potions to command loyalty. While the Cubans fight with bravado, the Haitians under Auntie Poulet rely on numbers, discipline and the drug factory that funds their operations.

She is rarely seen outside her shack.

Events of GTA Vice City

• After Tommy Vercetti starts working for the Cubans, Auntie Poulet invites him to her shack and gives him a potion. Under its influence, Tommy agrees to work for her.
• In Juju Scramble, Tommy collects three stashes around Little Haiti while police and SWAT teams chase him.
• In Bombs Away!, she drugs Tommy again and sends him to a Top Fun van, where he flies RC Baron planes to bomb Cuban drug boats on Starfish Island.
• In Dirty Lickin's, Tommy climbs a roof with a sniper rifle and picks off Cuban gang members, including late-arriving armed reinforcements, so the Haitians win a street fight. Afterward Auntie Poulet tells Tommy she no longer needs him.
• After Tommy finishes her missions, he returns to Umberto Robina. In Trojan Voodoo he destroys the Haitian drug factory, a severe blow to Auntie Poulet's operation.
• Avery Carrington's mission Two Bit Hit, in which Tommy kills a new Haitian leader at a funeral while dressed as a Cuban, also deepens the war between her gang and the Cubans.

Personality

Auntie Poulet speaks softly and mysteriously, but she is manipulative and dangerous, using drugs and superstition to bend people to her will. She is protective of her gang and ruthless toward the Cubans.

She never threatens Tommy directly; instead, she lets her potions do the work, and she treats him with a grandmotherly warmth that hides how thoroughly she is using him. When she no longer needs him, she simply lets him go.

Relationships

• Umberto Robina: her rival in the gang war.
• Tommy Vercetti: a temporary, drugged employee who eventually destroys her drug factory for the Cubans.
• The Haitian gang: her loyal followers, who turn hostile to Tommy after Trojan Voodoo.

Trivia

• "Poulet" is the French word for chicken.
• After Trojan Voodoo, the Haitian gang turns hostile to Tommy.
• Her three missions show off different styles of gameplay: a chase, a remote-controlled bombing run and a sniper mission.
• She is one of the few mission givers in the game who controls Tommy through drugs rather than money.