Susannah Dean

Susannah Dean, wife of Eddie Dean, was the only female member of Roland Deschain’s American ka-tet. Born Odetta Holmes, she was the daughter of the wealthy black dentist and inventor Dan Holmes, and so was the sole heir to the Holmes Dental Industries fortune.
At the age of five, Odetta was hit on the head by a brick dropped out of a window by the psychopath Jack Mort and slipped into a coma. After this traumatic event, Odetta’s personality fragmented and she became two women—Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker. At first Detta had little waking time, but all that changed on August 19, 1959, when Jack Mort once again entered Susannah’s life. On that fateful day, Mort pushed Odetta/Detta in front of an approaching A train at Christopher Street Station and Odetta’s legs were amputated just above the knee. After the accident, angry Detta controlled a larger portion of Odetta’s life.

Although Odetta and Detta shared a body, they were very different women. While Odetta was a soft-spoken, educated woman and a Civil Rights Activist, Detta was a street-wise, angry individual whose rage against white oppression often took dangerous and violent forms. For years, Detta and Odetta lived separate lives, each unaware of the existence of the other. They were finally forced to face each other by Roland, who entered their shared mind in the where and when of 1964, New York, and brought them (complete with wheelchair) into Mid-World. It was on the shores of Mid-World’s Western Sea that the stronger and more vibrant personality of Susannah Dean—gunslinger and Warrior of the White—came into being.
 
But unfortunately for Susannah, her susceptibility to multiple personality disorder made her an easy target for the sinister servants of the Crimson King, who wanted to use her to destroy Roland. At the beginning of Wolves of the Calla, we discovered that Susannah was pregnant, but also that the child she carried was not human at all, but a demon-whelp. Not only was Susannah pregnant with a monster destined to destroy her dinh Roland, but her body contained yet another personality. This one was named Mia, a word which in High Speech means mother.

Unlike Susannah’s previous personalities, Mia was not a fragment of Susannah’s psyche but an invading spirit that had made a Faustian pact with the forces of the Outer Dark in order to become incarnate and bear a child. At the end of Wolves of the Calla, Mia hijacked Susannah’s body so that she could transport her to the Dixie Pig and then on to Fedic, where she hoped to birth her evil offspring.

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