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Carmen Fandango

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Carmen Fandango

Position: archeologist/informant.

Age: 23. DOB:  June 7th                                                                 
Height: 5’7 Weight: can’t say because I lost a bet

Family: Adoptive father Diego.                                                    
Fighting style: Grim style card throwing. Weapons: special thin metal playing cards.

Likes: gambling, puzzles, riddles, and challenges.                            
Dislikes: stupid people and anything she considers boring.

Nickname: Seductive Gambler Bounties: 77,000,000

Personality: Calm and cunning, Carmen is someone who respects intelligence. She loves mental challenges especially with other people. She is a whimsical liar, skilled in twisting the truth and stringing others along (especially handsome men). While manipulative she doesn’t use others out of malice she just loves to lie and play mind games, usually seeking a challenge. As a gambler she loves to make bets and rarely turns one down, she does however always think before placing a bet. Carmen is kind of a chronic gambler but this isn’t really a problem for her as she is good at it.

Appearance: She has caramel skin and brown hair which she wears long. She is often wearing an open black trench coat, a purple short sleeve shirt, red velvet gloves, skin tight blue jeans and black high heels. She also wears glasses.

History: Carmen was born as a servant to a wealthy family; however at the age of five before she was actually made to work she was given to famous casino owner. It turns the family head was in great debt to the infamous Diego Fandango and while the he could have taken a great deal of money he decided to take her instead. During their discussion Diego spotted young Carmen out of the corner of his eye watching from the hall, on a whim he gave her a pair of dice to play with while he and the wealthy man talked, as she played with them he noticed the girl rolled lucky seven five times in a row. It was with that he took an interest in the young girl and decided to take her as seeing he didn’t really want the rich man’s property anyway.

Diego pretty much adopted the girl on a whim; saying that he has wanted an heir, someone to teach his best tricks and pass on his knowledge to. He couldn’t have kids of his own due to the fact that he wasn’t really looking for a wife as well as due to medical reasons. Deciding to make a gamble on this girl as he took her to his casino and home, while his employees were a bit surprised by this move they weren’t shocked as the man was known for making big decisions spontaneously. Some questioned bringing in such a young girl into their questionable world but no one was ever really sure what Diego was thinking half the time. Also it did seem that he cared about the girl so the employees and gamblers just went with it and accepted the girl as part of the family.

Carmen spent most of her life in that casino being raised by the owner and its patriots. As she grew and learned from the place and her adoptive father, she would after play the games with just about everyone. The major things her father taught her were how to be cunning, how to play cards and how to cheat without getting caught. With Diego life was just one big mind game, full of numerous puzzles to solve and tricks to learn. He was a bit of an odd one but he was an interesting man none the less. It is easy to see how Carmen developed over the years as raised by highly experienced gamblers, con men and various tricksters. Deciding to see if she could handle it Diego eventually taught Carmen his special fighting style at age 13. His weapons were a deck of very special playing cards; they were constructed of a thin magnetic metal. The cards are also pretty sharp so they usually wore gloves when practicing with them. Not only are the cards a good throwing weapon but they could magnetically link up in different shapes depending on the user, the more cards connected in the form the stronger they were. For example they could magnetically link together in the form of a shield and by the number of cards in the shield could easily deflect cannon fire.    

As time passed she grew to be one of the most accomplish gamblers at the casino as well as a master of mind games and cards. However tough times became apparent as many wealthy people who lost a good deal of their fortune to the shady place began to make reports of robbery and swindling at the facility. While at first the complaints were ignored stating no evidence of such accusations over time more influential members of society began getting screwed over and as such the marines acted. However at first a captain and few members came to intimidate the owner but this ended rather badly from them as Diego easily and quickly dealt with them and sent them running. However he anticipated violent retribution from the marines, he quickly fired all of the employees and gave them an equal share of the large earnings of the casino leaving each with a small fortune.  Carmen didn’t want the leave her home and father’s greatest treasure, however Diego gave Carmen his deck and told her that she was his greatest gamble and that he hit the jackpot with her. She left her beloved father and mentor in the empty casino as he awaited what was in store for him. The next day Diego was arrested and the casino was torn down. Carmen left to roam the world doing what she did best, gambling and playing the great game called life.
Last but not least the information specialist, she deals with the acquisition of information through gambling. Didn't want to have an archeologist as that might seem like too much like copying the original. I wanted to post this yesterday but I got sidetracked when my folks came to visit. Please give me you're final opinion on my character and crew in general. I hope to have a few chapters done around December or January.
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Awesome crew, they are well detailed and sound just like characters that I would expect to appear in One Piece!^^