Team Matador Fury

The main page for Team Matador Fury comprised of Matador Fury, Jesus Curiel and Felipe Manzanares
==Quick Facts==
* Forwarded from the Mexican prison system for the Jaeger Academy's 2016 Winter semester
** Part of a sizable cohort of similar young convicts forwarded by Mexico. They were the only two to pass muster as Rangers. Some of the rest earned jobs elsewhere in the PPDC.
* Has a bumper sticker: "Jesus is my copilot" (source)
** Jesus is not amused 
** Felipe is in stitches
* Matador uses she/her/hers while the Matadors/Furies are cisgender and use he/him/his pronouns
* Her ID is 'Sí_México'
* Sponsored by Mexico, housed in the Lima Shatterdome
* Launched September 14, 2017
==Prompts==
* "Jesus is coming at 10am. Be awake and have clothes on." (source)
==Brief Biography==
Best friends Felipe Manzanares and Jesús Curiel were recruited while in high school in Laredo, Texas, to steal cars by a Mexican drug cartel.
When things get hot for them on the U.S. side of the border, they move across the river into Nuevo Laredo and work customizing stolen vehicles for use by the cartel, including armoring the cars and trucks. They're eventually arrested, charged, convicted, and sent to prison as part of a sweep by the Mexican government to demonstrate they're doing /something to fight the cartels.
Some bright spark in the government has an idea: let's use these kids as a recruiting poster for the PPDC! Lookit the opportunities for you if you drop out of the cartels and join the Corps!
Felipe and Jesus stand out: very young (18ish), highly intelligent, and have technical skills (from their work on cars)
No, they're not lying about hoping kids drop out of cartel work, they just don't expect it to work.
In the background, they're snickering because, hey, if this works, Mexico will be able to export all kinds of problematic people to other countries, seeing as they don't have a Shatterdome.
To everyone's surprise (except the guys themselves and their families), Felipe and Jesús prove quite intelligent AND Drift Compatible. Mexico has a Jaeger in need of pilots, so ....
"These guys went from the cartels to Jaeger pilots!" And the intervening legal shtuff isn't emphasized.
==Timeline & Appearances==
2017 September 14: Launches
2017 October: the Mark Launch gala; Teams Shaolin Rogue, Vulcan Specter, Matador Fury, G Danger, and Chrome Brutus attend, as well as Wei Tang Liu with Chuck Darling, Xiong and her husband, Nguyen and Dame Eadith, and Nate Barclay-Harvey
2023 November 15: A Kaiju attacks Santiago, Chile; Puma Real and Matador Fury defeat it
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