Name: Paco Estevez || Age: 45 || Gender: Male || Status: Slabber for 8 years || FC: Sam Rockwell
Paco was taught to be a gold digger from a very early age. Not in the modern understanding of leeching off someone for finances, but actual, literal gold panning. His great-grandparents were immigrants from Spain and owned extensive property some miles out from Sacramento. The gold business was a lucrative one, and with it, Pacoâs ancestors bought a horse ranch, a school, and a church, practically taking command of the small town they lived in.Â
His grandparents had less luck, as a major earthquake destroyed much of what was the ranch and the school. Renovations took up much of their money, and by the time they broke even they owned only a fraction of the original land. Pacoâs father, of course, was bequeathed this. But instead of heeding their wise words and going into business, Paco Senior decided to pick up his grandparentsâ legacy of gold panning â despite the fact there was no more remaining gold in that area. He taught young Paco all he knew about the process, but ultimately, like the pursuits of Don Quixote, they were whimsical and useless.
Paco was left alone with his mother once Paco Senior was drafted into the Vietnam War, and returned home with a wooden leg and some piece of metal that kept rattling inside his brain. He was of no use to anyone, pretty much, so Paco and his mother kept their family afloat through their various jobs. Eventually, together they saved enough to send Paco to college in San Francisco, where he picked up the more practical fields of coding and computing.
A 24 year old Paco graduated just in time for the dot com boom, using his expertise to develop Mosaic, one of the earliest internet browsers. If you ask him, heâll tell you all about the glory days of hanging out with Jobs and Wozniak in Silicon Valley, and the decade where everything seemed possible.
His ambitions got the better of him though, as Paco became embroiled in a lengthy and cost-consuming legal battle due to a program he built and distributed, SmartSheep. It was the first Limewire, a filesharing system where anyone could share anything, with anyone else in the world. This led to problems with the FBI, CIA, and of course, RIAA, as people not only shared buttloads of pirated music, but also classified information about the government. Overnight, Paco became a hybrid of Sean Parker and Edward Snowden, with governments calling for his extradition and music artists publicly protesting his file sharing platform.
His company shut down and in the deep throes of a drug addiction, it didnât take long for Paco to become homeless and penniless. He drifted about San Francisco for the next decade, living here and there, doing crap jobs for small pay. His longest stable stint was living with a Thai masseuse (also at one point his fiancĂ© and the love of his life) for five years before she too threw him out after he was caught with a stripper from the club he worked at as bartender and bouncer. It didnât take him long after couch surfing with friends to hear about Slab City, and bartering his way from a car, to an RV, to a fully decked out taco truck, he runs the beloved Pacoâs Tacos everyone knows and salivates over.
Lost a toe to a gator fly-fishing off the coast of Louisiana. The story of how he lost his toe changes from day to day if asked, of course.
He has a âtriggerâ song, and it is Escape by Rupert Holmes. He has a very, very bad reaction to the song, which varies every time. Play with caution.
Treats Chardonnay like a daughter, since he was there when her mother left the kid. Sheâs been growing up under his watchful eye ever since, although unbeknownst to her, of course.
Avoids dentists like the plague, likes to boast that he has a cavity in every one of his teeth, but will do nothing to fix them.
Has a trophy from a street dancing competition from Palm Springs. Expert executor of the robot, the worm, and the wave.Â
