Man, I was totally going to use my token Deadlands character but then Krylo went and took it. Gonna go with my gravedigger.
Name: Nikolas Smith
Alias: None
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Occupation: Grave digger/A Surprising Opera Aficionado
Appearance: Nikolas is a big guy, tanned from years out in the sun. It happens when you spend years digging holes, carrying dead bodies, then filling them up again. 6'8", bulging muscles, and messy blond hair that is kept long more from neglect than a fashion statement. His clothing normally consists of slacks and a dirty shirt. He has a wide-brimmed hat that he keeps losing. More than one is probably left in a grave somewhere.
Skills: What CAN you do?
- The Size of An Outcast: Nikolas has always been big. Always. Spending years as a gravedigger only exaggerated the problem. He's strong and powerful.
- An Amazing Constitution: Whether from his thick skin, extra cartilage, or mutated growth, he's able to take a lot more damage than the normal person.
- Shovel-Fu: Nikolas has a shovel, and he's quite good at using it. Whether it's to break through rock, tear off roots, or break bone, his shovel can handle the job.
- One With Death: Nikolas has found more friendship with the dead than with the living. The living talk too much and yell too much. The dead are quiet and listen to him sing. Plus they don't mind if he puts them in chairs.
- Unknown Opera Voice: Spending years alone with nothing but piles of dead bodies and a phonograph gives one ample amounts of time to practice his singing voice.
Gear: His special grave-digging shovel and an 1880's hammer double barrel 12 gauge with a 13" barrel (sawed down to super illegal levels. Don't need to be good at shooting for this gun. Point in a general direction and say goodbye to whatever's there).
Personality: Nikolas isn't used to being around living people. Misunderstandings can and do arise. A misunderstanding is what wound him up in a cage. He can interact with humans, but mostly he'll stay quiet and to himself unless provoked otherwise.
Bio: Nikolas was born to a mother and father of no importance. One died from the consumption, the other died of alcoholism. Nikolas never seemed like a very right boy to begin with, so he was given to the digger at the local graveyard. He was honestly the only one who'd take the boy. Nikolas's childhood was filled with learning about how to dig holes 6 feet deep, 2 feet if they were criminals, and fill them back up. The exercise made him even bigger, and he got very good at the job. So good that when the gravedigger died of old age, Nikolas simply buried him and kept doing the job. Eventually, though, the loneliness began to get to the poor guy. He'd talk to the corpses he was given before burying them, which grew to him not burying some bodies at all. He'd set them on the gravestones to listen to him sing his opera or talk about the weather. If any graverobbers showed up...they ended up joining his audience. This was innocent enough until someone from the town showed up to personally bury their loved ones and saw the audience of dead bodies. They called the sheriff who came out to try and arrest Nikolas. After that failed spectacularly they had to call in the Marshalls. They finally took him down by setting fire to his house while he was sleeping and roped him up when he stumbled out of the flames. It still took an hour to bring him down. His constitution kept him alive, but it made him docile enough to drag in.
Record:
Desecration of Human Corpses
Theft of a Phonograph
Murder
Resisting Arrest
Assault on a Law Officer
Murder of a Law Officer
Assault on a Marshall
Murder of a Marshall
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I have a signature. It's a really cool one, too. It's so awesome, you'd
pull your eyes out and punch your mother. Sadly, these
rules state that my signature is just too darned
big. Too much
awesome for such a
small space. Oh well. You can still punch your mother...if you want...
Fifth and Krylo made me do it.
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