Meet Zavier Kwon also known as The Timebomb. He is a thirty-year-old resident here in Key west. You can usually find him at Club spade where he is the owner. We hear he is Tenacious but also Vindictive.
This Pogue’s Story
Zavier Guerra was born in Miami, Florida, to his mother of Korean descent and father of Cuban descent. He was instantly thrust into a tumultuous home life, his father heavily involved in drug dealing and gang activity, while his mother tried against all odds to deal with his temperament and maintain stability for their young son. Eventually, due to a combination of stress and illness, Zavier’s mom passed away when he was ten years old, and he was left to the sole care of his father. Victor Guerra was by no means a perfect father, and decided bringing his young son into the dangerous life he led was the best way to prepare him and ultimately keep him safe.
Zavier was selling drugs on the streets of Miami by the time he was thirteen, and proved himself to be brave and capable not just to his father, but the leader of the crew as well, whom everyone simply referred to as El Tio. When his father was murdered during a job gone wrong when Zavier was only 15, he worked even harder to prove himself a valuable asset to El Tio in order to stay within the gang, now that he was without family or any place to go. The older he got, the deeper involved with the gang he became, until El Tio was calling on Zavier (who adopted the nickname Tazza) for the high-profile jobs, developing an intimate trust with the young man to the point where he had become like an adoptive father.
When he reached his twenties, Zavier came into his own and became quite arrogant, taking more risks and making executive decisions without El Tio’s acknowledgement. Eventually, he overstepped one too many times, and when the boss was fed up with his behavior, sent a hitman to get rid of him. This was how Zavier found himself with three bullets in his gut, bleeding out on the pavement below him outside his apartment in Little Havana. Through sheer luck or sheer force of will, Zavier managed to survive, but didn’t miss out on the opportunity provided to him; Tazza had to die. So, he left Miami that night, bleeding but still breathing, going so far as to pay off the necessary people to report his death on the streets of Little Havana that night. He started using his mother’s surname, Kwon, and created a new identity for himself in the Florida Keys, where he opened a tiny dive bar to serve mostly as a cover for the less-than-legal businesses he runs on the side. Though it’s been four years since his so-called death, his ultimate goal remains to get revenge on the ones who betrayed him, even if it kills him in the process