Guns Blazeing
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
(YES I KNOW BLAZING IS SPELLED WRONG.)
History
Alexander hails from Scottland, coming to the rogue islands in 1993, he has worked for a bounty hunter for over thirty years. His life started out normal, no brothers or sisters and grew up in a small fishing village. His father was a fisherman and his mother kept the house. Around his teenage years he started a small gang who terrorized the surrounding towns, but after two years their tyranny was broken when a scuffle with the local police ended with many of his gang members dieing, many of them close friends. He got to work on getting an education, and at the age of twenty three he started to truly turn around by being a bounty hunter and doing odd jobs for the church.
Alexander was never a true holy man, but he did despise the unholy creatures of the night such as demons and vampires.This gave him the drive to focus his bounty hunting on demonic and unholy beings, useing things like blessed vials of acid and holy throwing knives to kill his targets, even blessed guns and bullets. But at the age of thirty he started to grow less hatred for the beings he hunted and focused more on the money aspect. After all, seven years of hunting the creatures taught Alexander how to kill them quite well, even as a mere mortal human. So in his forties he set out to rogue islands, still very much a bounty hunter. This was around the time his wife died, so he needed to get away.
His work was more active he, that was for certein. He bought a old apartment in Cap Au Diable and used it as his little stronghold, stocking all his holy equipment there.
Now he is in his fifties. And something odd happened. One of his targets, a victorian-era vampiress did not go willingly, nor did she fight...She asked to sit down and talk with him. After chatting and shareing histories, they each discovered that they both very lonely. Alexander offered her to go on a date, and she agreed. She simply paid off the person who set a bounty on her, and then met him at their location.The date went well, and for once in his life since his wife's death, things were looking up.
The Hunter
(Read Kilayox for the best description of this event) Alexander stepped into Pocket D, reading over the documents the agent had given him. It was now or never. He walked up to the top of the blue bar where his target was talking with a friend. He asked if she would come along with him and she followed, most likely out of curiosity.
Alexander led to to a unknown location and before she could fully react, he pulled out his pistol and trained it at her head. After some explanation he revealed he was there to kill her for a bounty and even gave her the orginization that he was sent by. But he thought for a few moments, how many vampires have escaped his grasp due to a stray bullet? He rethought his choice of attack and pulled out a silver throwing knife, and threw it directly at her. Unfortunately for him one of her friends rushed in and took the hit for her.
Alexander and the vampire stood toe to toe, with the help of her friend. And even though Alexander did do considerable damage to her, they somehow escaped within an inch of their life. But Alexander is only human, and in the fight he was very much badly injured, so he made his way (slowly) to the local hospital. As he limped to the emergency room he suddenly ducked into the shadows as the vampire left, most likely there to drop off her friend who he brutally attacked during the fight with a bottle of acid, burning her friend's face completely.
Alexander sat in the emergency room as the doctors healed him and gawked in disbelief at how he was still awake after the damage he had taken. Truth is, even Alexander wonders that sometimes.
The apprentice
A few days after the battle, Alexander was walking along the shore when a strange sight caught his eye. It appeared as though some infected were harraseing a small oddly dressed black woman. He sighed to himself, takeing out his rifle and casually one by one takeing out the infected. He walked down to check on the woman (whome was dressed like she was ready for saturday night fever) and he found out after some conversation that she used to be some sort of a gun slinger, most likely a merc like himself. He looked at the poor woman who he found out was also homeless and decided to give her a helping hand.
He offered a handshake and also told her that he could offer her not only a place to stay, but training. She agreed and even said she would clean around his house and cook food. But this didn't just give Alexander a house maid. It gave him a thought...There must be more people out there willing to fight under his wing.
So that day he also created something... The Silver Hunters.