mars amuro, a gunslinger working at a circus alongside multiple other people
bottom is an older drawing of her
she works alongside a lot of my friends ocs but a few ocs I own that she works alongside include Cammy and Kammie, the twins:
(side note kammie is the annoyed one in the drawing)
and nikki (who i don't have any drawings of)
they all have varying roles within the circus, and very rarely interact with each other.
Rushtail was born on the Mossy Cliffs [20’s Island] to an upper class family with a long history and ties to the vampiric mafia. As a child he was unwanted. The youngest son to a large family that did not need him. He was not partial to violence or blood and was deemed useless at best, and a liability at worst. In his later teen years he fell in with a bad crowd himself, partially due to the already established ‘friendships’ of his family, and partially due to the company he himself kept. He was a partier, drinker, gambler, drug-user, and pretty much a part of whatever other time-passing pleasure he could get his paws on. While still the black sheep of the family in terms of participation in the more deadly side of their business, they allowed, and sometimes encouraged, this behavior as it fit together with the front of their own gambling halls and clubs. He was the pretty face to their operation.
But with the crackdown from Governor Patspy on their vampiric support, the family lost a lot. Money, property, and most of all, protection. They are struggling to uphold their gaudy way of life, and Rush was only a drain on their funds now that he was just an addict with a face that didn’t belong to anything they could market. But while much of their network was dead, imprisoned, or in the wind, the family saw one last chance to secure their position, and get rid of some dead weight.
Within the criminal underbelly of the Mossy Cliffs one vampire still held onto a lot of sway and power. Her name was /////// And Rushtail had happened to catch her eye.
The family makes a deal with her, where they promise her Rush in marriage, in exchange for protection and support. A guarantee at regaining their own wealth and status. Rush is forced through withdrawals, cleaned up, and told that he belongs to Her now.
The man is washed up, struggling, and in no position to complain, so he does not fight this new stage in his life. He is married to ///////, and for the first time in his life, his family is happy with him.
But /////// is is a harsh partner, and she abuses Rushtail. His home life is now the worst it has been since he was a child and living with his family, when he could not escape the abuse by running to the clubs or gambling halls. He deteriorates quickly. A year passes, and he is a shadow of himself, barely recognizing his reflection past scars, bites, and bruises.
He does not know what finally broke him. But when he breaks, he shatters.
Rush cannot remember exactly what happened, but one moment /////// Is is sinking her teeth into his neck, and the next he is standing above her corpse with a bloodied hammer, her face unrecognizable where it has been smashed to pieces. He runs.
He has little he can truly call his own, but he still has the money from the wedding stashed away, a mocking inheritance the family handed over once he had finally ‘done something worthwhile for them’, so he takes it and flees. Hiding away is hard with the connections his family has, and with //////. Dead, and Rush as the obvious culprit, they now possess even more power and friends who will hunt him down and kill him. Rush uses his tiny fortune to put together a new identity, with just enough to purchase one ticket on a blimp to one of the farthest islands away from Mossy Cliffs: Spectra Falls [50’s Island].
Russell Byrd is running from a past that has turned him into someone he hates. He has no skills, no money, and a desperate need to never let himself feel helpless again.
He finds himself at a shelter on Spectra Falls, and there he slowly gets himself back on his feet, teaching himself self-defense and promising himself that he will always be able to fight back. He finds solace in firearms, a nostalgia from some of the few happy memories from his childhood before he had been deemed worthless, when a cousin or Auntie would teach him how to shoot. He also befriends some of the volunteer medics at the shelter, who work at a nearby hospital. He convinces them to teach him first aid and some healing skills in their spare time, hoping that one day, maybe he can finally leave his past completely behind and become a doctor.
Common attributes/symbols: His large red scarf is a comfort item, as is his large coat (he likes to cover the evidence of scarring and healed vampire bites)
Common activities/hobbies: He is twitchy and paranoid, but enjoys cleaning and working on his pistols
Additional stuff: The epitome of ‘I attract people due to my weird and off-putting rizz’
