Name: Carmen Maria Martinez, Paloma Negra

Age: 20

Gender: female

Appearance
5'2 with a curvy build she has long wavy deep brown hair, dark brown eyes and olive skin that reflect her mixed heritage of Spanish, Apache, and black or commonly called back then, a mulatta.

Occupations: Rancher: She grew up on a large ranch in Armadillo, daughter of the cook. She learned ranch and kitchen work but has a love of music.
Entertainer: At 16 she started performing in the nearby ranches and towns, singing popular tunes in English and Spanish songs while playing the guitar.
Sneak: She became adept at stealth and sneaking while living with the Del Lobos.

Weapon preference: Knives

Assets
A dun mustang stallion named Criollo, M1892 Colt .38 double action revolver, 1892 Winchester lever action rifle .38 caliber. These are weapons stolen by the Del Lobos from a US Army shipment, which she then stole. A thin bladed skinning knife in her boot, a Bowie knife on her belt. She prefers to dress like a woman but will wear pants if she has access to them and needs them.

Personality: Quiet, watchful, and once a spirited joyful young woman. Her time with the Del Lobos made her reserved and wary. She is naturally kind and empathetic but has learned to distrust.

History: (WIP) She was taken by the Del Lobos when one of their captains took a shine to her, seeing her performance and beauty. Basically a prisoner, she made the best of a bad situation and learned to fit into the outlaw group but she never gave up on escape or prisoner. Her captor is Juan Luis Villanueva, aka El Rey de Rio. He is head of the Del Lobos of the Smuggler's Cove and a wanted man for murder and robbery.

During the raid on the ranch by the Del Lobos, which was to steal horses and rob the rancher of his silver, he was murdered as was her mother. Her mother tried to keep the men from taking her and was shot through the chest. The image still haunts Carmen and no matter how tame El Rey and his Del Lobos think she is, she would like nothing more than to cut all their throats.

Additional Info

Her captivity is unnoticed by the law but if someone managed to get to El Rey she would be looking for rescue.

Name Leo “Cockroach” Velez (Cucaracha)

Age 22 (1875)

Gender Male

Appearance Leo stands 5’ 9” tall, weighing 170 Lbs. He has long black hair and often wears a small black mustache. Leo has a six-inch scar on his chest from a knife fight as well as a few smaller scars lower on his torso. The half breed Comanche and Mexican wears black stone washed denim trousers, a black jacket, black vest and white shirt. Occasionally he wears a decorative red ascot. He wears bent rail boots, tan in color and a black sombrero or a short-brimmed gambler. Whichever hat he is wearing, you will always see two eagle’s feathers tucked into the hat band to remind him of where he came from.



Occupations
Since leaving the reservation, Leo has worked as a ranch hand, bounty hunter and outlaw. He will do whatever he needs to survive. He can play the guitar, singing any number of culturally Mexican songs.

Assets
Leo rides a painted black and white Mustang named “Carlotta”, complete with a saddle, saddlebags, sleeping roll, rope, canteen, guitar, a small amount of food in his bags, a gun belt with one holster, gun oil, cleaning rag, buck knife, eight throwing knives, silver pocket watch and chain, 150 rounds of .45 ammo, $48.26 in cash and an old Schofield Caliber .45 revolver (1869). This pistol is older than him, but it works and is well maintained. For hunting, he prefers his hand made (Native) “Sky-dog” horse bow with 25 arrows.

Personality
Leo is apathetic to the problems of the white man/gringo. He would sooner shoot a man than give him the time of day. If someone helps him, he is indebted to that man for life and would do what he can to help him. Leo is out for himself but does have a softer side if one is able to dig deep enough. Once befriended, he is your champion for life. Leo thrills on excitement. The more dangerous a situation, the more motivated he is to jump in and have at it. He is not educated, but knows how to track, hunt and fish. Leo couldn’t tell you what two plus two equaled nor can he read.

History
Leo has a Mexican father and a Comanche mother. He lived on the reservation for most of his life and has learned to speak Comanche “The language of the people” (fluent), Spanish (fluent) and English (90%). He grew up with the culture of both heritages and learned English because he had to. He learned to play the guitar as a young boy, singing several old Mexican songs. Leo’s mother considered her baby a little lion and named him Leo for the constellation named for a Lion. As a boy, he was always bold, eager and willing to get into a fight or trouble. Carlotta worried herself to death about her little Leo.

When Leo, who is also known as “Cockroach” or “Cucaracha” was 15, he left the reservation. He wandered looking for work taking a job as a ranch hand where he learned to shoot and eventually acquired the old Schofield pistol and holster. He practiced with his pistol trying to be the quickest draw and most accurate in the south. He likened himself to the moniker of “Pistolero”, but that nickname never stuck. Leo is a fanatic about keeping his weapon clean. It is important and he wants to take care of it.

At the age of 17, Leo, the Cockroach killed a fellow ranch hand he had worked with simply because the gringo made an offensive remark. He called him a “damn spic”. Leo didn’t like the comment so he drew his sidearm and unleashed a salvo of three rounds into the man’s chest, dropping him to the dusty soil. Leo stole the rancher’s horse and saddle and took off, never looking back.

He left that world behind and never looked back. Leo arrived in Armadillo where he was able to sell himself off as a bounty hunter. He worked for the local law in Armadillo, Blackwater and Strawberry. He eventually got himself a real horse, the painted Palomino he named for his mother, “Carlotta”.

At age 20, Leo took on a bounty of three of the Del Lobo gang members; Juan Cardillo, Pablo Jimenez and Jose “Paco” Lopez. He learned they were hiding out in Gaptooth Ridge west of Armadillo. As it turns out, Leo ran into them on the road near Benedict Pass. After confronting the desperados, Leo shot and killed Cardillo and Jimenez. Paco Lopez took a bit longer. It turned into a fist fight and then a knife fight. Leo sustained a non-fatal injury to his chest which left a scar, but Paco was dead. He tied the corpses onto the three men’s horses, tethered them together and hauled them back to the sheriff of Armadillo. He received a nice hefty purse for his troubles.

Over the next few years, Leo robbed stagecoaches, played poker, traveled through West Elizabeth, New Hanover, Amberino and Lemoyne. He hated the Murfreebrood most of all, taking pleasure killing those inbred fools whenever possible. Occasionally, Leo robbed random riders on a road, but preferred to kill them outright so they could not identify him to deputies later. In all of his escapades, Leo was able to evade the law, capture or even let anyone identify who he was. As he has collected bounties on known criminals, there are of yet, no bounties on him.

Ultimately, the half breed Mexican-Indian made his way back to Armadillo, where the sheriff was more than happy to give him more work if he was interested. He met a man named, John Stone, hailing from Chicago. Leo had never heard of Chicago, but accepted the man for who he was, a fellow bounty hunter. The pair had worked a bounty once, but that was it. They were familiar with one another. Leo had no intentions of killing this man…yet. Maybe he would make a bien amigo.

Additional Info
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Personal story arc prepared
Members of the Del Lobo gang are searching for Leo Velez. They want to hang him up for killing their brothers. Paco Lopez was actually a lieutenant of the Del Lobo gang. Leo has no fear for the outlaw gang and will more than happily send them to their graves when they appear. He does on occasion look over his shoulder to see if they might be getting close. Leo knows that if he finds and kills Alejandro Diego Rivera Lopez, a Los Lobos lieutenant, also known by the nickname, “El Pachuco” or “The Gangster” the gang will stop chasing him. By killing El Pachuco, Leo will finally be rid of Del Lobos.

Theme Song
“In Hell, I’ll be in Good Company” by The Dead South