Post by Nina Blackmoon on Sept 19, 2015 21:06:27 GMT -5
LAS VEGAS CENSUS PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM AND RETURN BY MAIL. Nina blackmoon  BASIC INFORMATION
FREE FORM APPLICATION GHOST DOG: Nina did not enjoy her childhood. Born on the Paiute reservation just a mile north of downtown Las Vegas, she always longed to be elsewhere. Her parents were not often found to employ their parenting upon their only child as their time was occupied travelling the country in an effort to educate the country on the true ways of their people. Left to her own devices, Nina fell into the corruption that bled into the reservation and found herself falling into line with the vandals of the reservation--more or less criminals and thugs. They provided her with the thrills she felt the reservation couldn’t give her. They vandalized and antagonized just because they could. She fell in line with a faction that believed they should be in constant touch with who their ancestors were and they often went into the desert mountains behind the res and did target practice with bows and arrows and hatchets—the latter with which Nina found then that she had exceptional aim and skill. When she was a teenager, heroine became the biggest time waster among her friends. Nina didn’t have a taste for the stuff, but that didn’t stop it from affecting her. One of her “friends,” going through withdrawals before his next hit, attempted to violate her. She managed to grab hold of one of the hatchets they used for target practice and split him from one end to the other. She fled the res that night with only the clothes on her back and the hatchet in her hand. The notion that had kept her from leaving before that night--that her people disowned and disregarded anyone who left the reservation, especially to make their own fortune--didn’t mean a damn thing to her anymore. She grew accustomed to life outside of the res. Of course it wasn’t simple. She had to steal and pickpocket for her meals and housing, but it didn’t bother her. She found her sense of morality was very, very loose. She didn’t even feel remorse over that night she left the res--her only regret was that she didn’t stick around long enough to ensure that no one could recognize that boy when they found him. She found various grunt work over the years, finding that she was more drawn to physical labor than the secretarial work that seemed often associated with women. She managed to find some crews that would hire a woman for such tasks--most often found in the lower echelons of society. She became a wet woman for a local gang in Wyoming--someone who would perform any task asked of her for a price, of course. She was never opposed to using her womanly charms to help a shipment pull through quicker or to help dodge suspicion for kidnapping. She embraces her womanhood and understands the benefits of it--although, she greatly dislikes being thought of as incapable because of it. As well, she had never and will never try and hide who she is and her heritage. She proudly wears being a Native Indian, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Though, she isn’t accustomed to modernizing herself with her appearance for the sake of her work and the manipulation it requires. What she saw during those years brought upon realizations that she not only felt comfortable around violence, but enjoyed it. She doesn’t enjoy violence for the sake of violence, of course. She’s not sick. But, she does appreciate it as the one thing in her life at which she’s very skilled. One day, Nina became caught up in a gang war between the gang that had hired her for her services and an Apache reservation gang. It was no surprise that she had been brought along specifically on account of her existence as an Indian--although not Apache, they thought all Indians were the same. Still, it didn’t stop the slaughtering that began once tensions broke and insults flew. She would have been reduced to steeping in a puddle of her own blood if it wasn’t for Robert Redfeather. He was an Apache thug part of the gang who decided to help Nina and save her and whisk her away from the bloodshed. Years later he would claim that it was because she reminded him of his long deceased sister. They traveled across the country then, creating enough distance between them and the world that once employed them. Nina, while typically a lone wolf, didn’t mind Robert’s company. He often kept to himself and despite the limited number of words that passed between them a bond was formed. Most importantly, among those years, Robert trained Nina in “Ghost Dog,” the Apache combat known to him and his people. While Robert was proficient in knife fighting, he taught her the way with her hatchet--the one she had been carrying since she left her reservation and the one she still carries to this day. Eventually they arrived in New York City where they parted ways. Robert was not a city man and felt his calling elsewhere, while Nina was partial to urban areas as they reminded her less of her home. It was when she was in New York City that she met the Taurus Corporation--a big business magnet set on acquiring land across the western U.S. in the burgeoning cities. She happened across one of its business men in the corporation in a dive bar in the city when she’d gotten in a fight with a couple of men who decided they felt entitled to her ass. This Taurus man was Michael Gray, a man who would be her partner for years to come. She was introduced to Taurus on the word of Gray and hired to be his sort of body guard when he was sent out for deals. The corporation had a wide range of vision and saw the benefit of the underestimation that accompanied Nina by Michael’s side. After she had done this work successfully for a while they decided the liked her for a forward woman--the person who went out to lands they wanted to purchase before Michael made the journey himself. She was sent to rile up the buyers, make initial low offers and do everything she could to ensure they would take it or the offer Michael would eventually present them. Nina doesn’t mind being a sheep. She enjoys being the big stick--not the man carrying it. Sooner or later, Nina was sent out to Nevada--she always knew she was destined to return to Las Vegas. She has only just arrived in town and has no intention of visiting her reservation. She does, however, plan to make a killing in the city she once knew. OOC INFORMATION
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