Smokey Sanders

## Appearance

Smokey is a large, intimidating man, standing at 6’5” and weighing 210 lbs. of pure muscle. He wears typical cowboy garbs of dark jeans with brown leather chaps held up by a brown leather belt, along with a scruffy, tight fitting, tan button down shirt, and covering it all with a dark brown coat that reaches down to his shins. He has a scraggly unkept beard and long, messy dark brown hair topped with a dark brown cowboy hat.

His clothes and body itself are basically always covered in dirt and sand, and he also carries 5 large sacks full of nen-infused sand for the use of his hatsu (one extra large across his back, three on his right-back, and one over his left butt cheek). Smokey can almost always be seen with a lit cigar in his mouth.

## Personality

While relatively soft spoken overall, Smokey enjoys shooting the shit as much as shooting his pistols. With those he considers friends, he loves boozing up, horsing around, and raising hell. But when it’s time to get down to business, he’s very serious. Unlike your typical manipulator, Smokey is not very controlling about other people’s business. It is quite the opposite in fact, as Smokey’s sole purpose in life is to seek freedom for himself and others. He considers anybody who even moderately infringes on another person’s freedom his enemy and will stop at nothing to end such practices.

While he’s generally reckless and wild, Smokey does have a mind for tactics and strategy that he uses in the most dire of circumstances when pistol whipping and hell raising simply won’t cut it.

## Backstory

Smokey grew up on a small farm outside a podunk town in a desert in the United States of Saharta. Surrounded by nothing but sand, dirt, cacti, and drunk bastards (including his father), Smokey grew up with no strong role model and one key virtue: freedom. While the people around him were largely scumbags, they didn’t follow anybody’s orders, and that’s the mindset that Smokey grew up with. He worked hard, developed essential survival skills, including sharpshooting, and left his home as early as he was able, not wanting to live under his drunk father’s roof.

However, he only managed to live as his father had; causing trouble, drinking, killing, stealing, nothing good. He only realized the error in his ways when a bar fight turned into a drunken rampage, at the end of which he had his pistols aimed at a mother shielding her little baby. He realized that his behavior was not only evil, but restrictive if other people’s freedom to live. It was time for a change. After struggling to think of his next step, Smokey remembered the one man he ever looked up to; his godfather, Jedediah Strong. So Smokey took a horse and starting riding, looking for Jedediah. When that didn’t work, he decided to follow in the man’s footsteps and become a hunter. It took a couple tries, but he finally passed the exam one his third attempt. He finally reconnected with his godfather after passing, and he learned nen from the one man he ever looked up to.

## Abilities

### Physical Stats

 Strength
 Speed
 Dexterity
 Aura
 Control
 Total

### Fighting style

Smokey is a fantastic sharpshooter, who could be world renowned if he entered any competitions for it, and he is especially known for his double quickdraw revolver volley, unleashing a barrage of bullets on his enemy. In addition, he carries a saber and knife to use in close combat. While he is not formally trained with these weapons, he does have a good sense for close quarters combat. Additionally, he has gotten in many bar fights before, and is good with his fists in a brawling manner. He also has skilled with a lasso due to his upbringing.

Combining his typical fighting style with his hatsu allows for a more versatile skill set. He primarily uses his sand for defensive purposes, but he also uses it as a source of ammo for his pistols and in other offensive forms.