Name: Sierra Melgar, a.k.a "Vaquero Letal"
Gender: Male.
Age: 26.
Vault Role: Everything. An executioner, sharpshooter . . . and always eyed suspiciously when slaves go "missing" from the vault.
Appearance:
At a glance, Sierra doesn't look like the "Lethal Cowboy" to the untrained eye. He's 5'11 in height, with a deceptively small frame that has thrown off many of the people he has fought in pitched knife fights . . . or bar brawls . . . or just general fist-fights. He has a tanned complexion, with a smooth and slime jaw-line that is accented by light, dark brown scruff, and a surprisingly well-trimmed goatee. Yet one thing that betrays him are his eyes: sparkling green emeralds that somehow manage to look through you, around you, and at you all at once in a very
chilling fashion. The rest of his hair, which is that same dark brown color, is kept tied back in a pony-tail that reaches the base of his neck.
Along with all of that, he sports several scars. Most are things that he doesn't care much about, brushing them off with the fact that the people who gave them to him are dead, and so it doesn't matter how he got them. However, there are three bullet wounds which he seems to have grate reverence for. The first seems almost like it's not even there: a line near his temple that's barely noticeable save for a slight difference in color from the rest of his skin. The second is on the inside of his left thigh: a nasty patch of that same change of color. The third is located on the left of his stomach just on the outside of his lung: a clean through-and-through shot from something about the size of a 9mm handgun. Those are three wounds that he refuses to talk about to anybody, save his
closest friends and companions.
Equipment:
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The "Assassin Suit"
- 4x bottles of purified water.
- 4x Stimpaks.
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Authority glasses.
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Desperado cowboy hat.
- 1x .357, lever-action scoped rifle.
- 1x .40-07 Gov't. hunting revolver, with scope.
- 1x 9mm pistol.
- 1x Bowie knife.
- Elida's necklace.
- Caetano's rosary.
Brief Bio:
Sierra's life is the story of a good gone horribly bad. He and his younger brother Caetano, and his older sister Elida were the only surviving members of their family out of six children and their two parents. Raiders had killed their family and the three of them were left to wonder the Mexican desert with nobody to support them. However, not all was lost. They came across a town named "Iglesia de las Hermanas Blancas", or the "Church of the White Sisters". It was refuge for lonely wanderers that was known betters as "Casa Blanca" by many of it's inhabitants. The church there, which was the name-sake of the town, took the three children in, and the nuns there began to raise them. It seemed like they were on the road to a good, Catholic up-bringing, and that they would be able to live happily ever after as if it were all just some sort of fairy-tale for the three orphans.
It wouldn't be.
At the age of fourteen, Sierra made it clear to his sister Elida (who was now seventeen and on her way to becoming a nun) that he felt he wanted to help the town out. She suggested that he pursue becoming a member of the church. Feeling that wasn't "hands-on" enough for him, he saved up his caps, bought a simple bolt-action rifle, and took a job in the town watch . . . which was mostly just shooting at wild animals who got too close to the town and scavenging for food. Well it turned out that he was actually an incredibly good shot. So good, in fact, that word of him started to spread, and by the age of seventeen he was known as a "gunslinger prodigy". Unfortunately, a group of raiders caught word of this, and decided that they would see just how good the young gunman actually was. So when he was eighteen years old, they attacked the town while he was out hunting for food, and when he and the rest of the scavenging party returned: they found it fully in raider hands. Quickly capturing and killing his fellow scavengers, their leader challenged him to a duel to the death.
He accepted, under one condition: if he won then he, his brother, his sister, and all the others were free to leave. The raiders agreed, however, there is little honor amongst thieves. When Sierra won, gunning their leader down in the street, they gave him the key to the church where the few survivors were being held, and watched as he ushered them all out. As they began heading north, the first shot was fired. Being at the back of the group, it was aimed for Sierra, and made a long line on his temple that can still be seen today. Whirling around, he was going to try covering them with his rifle, but the second round hit him in the stomach. Just then, a roar of gunfire opened up. A .40-07 tore through his thigh and brought him to the ground entirely. As the last of the screams faded, the raiders moved on. Amongst the dead were Caetano (now seventeen, and a member of the church) and Elida (who had been twenty and
well on her way to being a nun) were amongst the dead. He took Caetano's rosary (which he had made for him two years ago) and Elida's cross necklace to remember them by over the next several years.
Then he started killing. Determined that the wastes were full of nothing but scum, he determined to be the scummiest of the whole bunch. He became known as "Vaquero Letal", the "Lethal Cowboy". He started heading north, through the Mojave, and eventually he reached the New York area. There, he got in working with a slave-running raider gang as a sharpshooter and general hatchet man. So now the cigarette smoking, hard, and bitter Mexican gunman uses his particular talents to keep the slaves in line. Occasionally, he "chooses" one of the girls for his own, and rumors abound over why it is that the girls simply . . . disappear.