Raul Tejada

Raul Alfonso Tejada is a Mestizo ghoul mechanic, gunslinger and potential companion from Mexico, imprisoned at Black Mountain in 2281.
He was voiced by .
==Biography==
Born in 2047, Raul's life has been a long and evenful one. Before the war, Raul was a young delinquent living at Hidalgo Ranch, outside Mexico City. He was a good shooter and mechanic, both of which occasionally got him in trouble with the law. However, his family mostly kept him in line.
The ranch survived the war, being far enough from Mexico City, but the stream of refugees from the cities proved difficult to deal with. The Tejada family was as accommodating as they possibly could be, but they eventually simply ran out of room and food, and had to start turning people away. Things became so violent that Raul and his father had to get their guns to drive them away. Around two dozen people returned later that night after they went to sleep, barred the doors, and set the house ablaze. Raul and Rafaela managed to escape out a window, but his parents, grandmother, two brothers, and two other sisters all died in the fire.
Raul and Rafaela ran from the ranch, whilst in pursuit by the group that attacked their home. He killed the ones that came after them, but he let the rest be, not wanting to throw his life away seeking revenge, because he had to take care of Rafaela.
Raul convinced Rafaela to go with him to Mexico City to find help, promising that she would be able to see the vaqueros (cowboys) that she loved seeing perform at shows. Not understanding the true danger of atomic detonations, the two siblings found Mexico City a radioactive ruin, though it had not been hit as hard as Washington D.C. or Bakersfield, with survivors looting to get by and already forming the first raider groups. Raul and Rafeala scavenged to survive, constantly searching for food and medicine to heal Raul's burns. On one such search, Raul stumbled upon a nivelty costume shop with an untouched Vaquero outfit inside still on the rack. He wore the costume back his camp, where Rafaela was so delighted by it that she smiled for the first time since the bombs dropped. With the costume and his gunslinging skills, Raul soon gained a reputation as "the Ghost of Mexico City", and while the attention worried him, he continued to dress as a vaquero to keep his sister happy. As his legend grew, he became more optimistic for his and Rafaela's chances, and began to carve a permanent niche for himself in Mexico City. However, tragedy would soon strike.
Radiation exposure caused Raul to become increasingly sick and weak, to the point that he was unable to continue scavenging with his sister, leading Rafaela to venture out by herself; his sickness was in fact the first stage of his transformation into a ghoul. One day, when she failed to return from a market in search of food, Raul set out to look for her and found that she had been brutally murdered, with her body so horribly mutilated that he could only identify her by a tiny scar on her knee. Raul then tracked the raiders at the market and slaughtered them all to the last man. Devastated by what his fame as a vaquero had cost him, he shunned the outfit and swore to never wear it again.
== Endings ==
Prerequisite 	Monologue
Raul dies. 	"After a long and eventful life, Raul's luck finally ran out during his time with the Courier."
Rescue Raul, but don't complete "Old School Ghoul".	"Still grappling with self-doubt over his usefulness in the face of old age, Raul was never able to find peace with himself. Eventually, he left the Mojave and assumed a new name, as he had done so many times before."
Convince Raul to become a vaquero again. 	"Invigorated by his travels with the Courier, Raul once more took up his guns in memory of his lost Rafaela. Soon after, the Mojave was filled with tales of the ghost-vaquero who hunts down those who prey on the weak."
Agree that Raul's gunslinger years are over. 	"Convinced that his time as a gunslinger was past, Raul made peace with the idea of growing old. After traveling with the Courier for a time, he retired and settled down in Outer Vegas, where he would spend his days fixing ancient machinery."
==Gallery==
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==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Raul" article on Nukapedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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