David Martinez

> **Drugs were created to make you believe you could fly without wings.**
>
> **David Martinez**, Official Quote

David Martinez is the first main enemy of the story, the final boss of the Arc 1. He is also Boston's biggest drug baron and appears to be unstoppable. He is the first enemy that Roméo Grriatz has to kill. He owns the district DrugCity in Boston.

## Appearance

David's face is highly marked by the years, he has a lot of wrinkles and his sight is not as sharp as in the old days. He lost most of his beautiful hair and is left with a lone tuft of hair on the top of his head and a weak lashed-out crown of hair around his bald top. His eyebrows are very thick, as thick as his now grizzled mustache. Also, his teeth are as rotten as the rest of his body: he lost one or two teeth during a fight and some are replaced with gold or cavities. Yet his head is quite deformed. Since sport isn't his first concern, David has a big belly whom he's proud of despite the commentaries he heard about his late weight gain. He has large hands and stiff at that, his whole body alongside his skin is rugged and very hairy. Even though we could think otherwise, David has a strong grip despite having sluggish arms.

He's used to wear his "own style" as he says, which could mean to us a very bad taste in clothes. He basically wears anything that he finds in his wardrobe in the morning and does not care much about his look as long as he can dress himself. His style is mixing colorful clothes derived from old 70's movies and some dark clothes he maybe found at a thrift shop. However he has a huge fetish for rings, he loves them very very much. Sometimes he may not wear any because he'd be too scared that someone would steal them from him.

## Personality

David's flaw number one is his selfishness. Aside from only thinking about himself, he is also an infernal teaser. He likes drama and violence and won't hesitate to add fuel to the fire if it can entertain him. He likes to be dominant and in charge which is part of his sadist side as well as his scheming side. He also has particular sexual preferences when it comes to intercourse with weaker partners and it reveals the very violent and cruel part of his personality. However, David usually feels the loneliest. He has a lot of insecurities that built-up through the years and hides the weak part of his heart by an over violent persona that he can't erase anymore.

Unfortunately, there is one of his victims whom he shares a special link with. That victim, Stella Johnson have fallen a long time ago into the pawns of this empty demon. She revealed in him a toxic affectionate side whom craves for the feel of her skin despite disliking her from the bottom of his heart.

## Story

**Birth and Childhood**

As revealed by Nick Carter in the Chapter 38: Childhood Lack, David was born and raised in Chicago by his single father Rafael Martinez. His mother was supposedly a prostitute and left him and her son after his birth or so it says. Rafael was a huge junkie but never did any drugs in front of David during his childhood.

Despite being very poor and living in a dangerous area of the city, Rafael was never violent towards David and he tried to raise him with the little love he had left to give. David grew in an environment devoid of friends and family, his father didn't give him enough attention as he craved for. He led a very lonely life at school and at home.

**Meeting his Family**

The turning point of David's life was his eleventh birthday when he discovered (he happened to fall on a family picture in his father's drawer) that his father had countless family members whom he hid from his son. However, David may well asked (almost harassed) Rafael about their whereabouts, he never answered anything. So one day, David decided to take the lead on his own.

He managed to find the address of some of his siblings and showed up to their door with the hope of finally having a family. His innocent dream of family was then fulfilled by the siblings he met behind these doors but this faint illusion faded away quickly. He found out the businesses of his new siblings; drugs and human trafficking.

That being said, as he was overly happy to have found a family to belong to, he couldn't bring himself to push them away after all of these years without feeling "in". He decided to man up and accept their illegal jobs, he eventually fell into their hands and started to work with them not so long after. When he turned fourteen, a rumor says that he raped a girl with the help of his family yet, he was never sued for that since the victim was killed.

**Beginning of Bad Deeds**

After that, he started to turn into these beasts, hungry for money, fame and women. He left high school early and never did any studies afterwards, he managed to create his own cartel (linked to his family) and built an empire by himself and the help of a few contacts in the beginning. He chose a long time ago to make it his life.

He was used to make many big celebrations each year to scream his love for his twisted family, for an history written with blood on the back of their enemies. He started to spend unexpected amount of money in buying expensive night clubs that now wear his name, he created a whole drug and prostitution network all by himself. And then, founded his own district in Boston, **DrugCity**.

In this district, everything is owned by him. Most of his workers started by being one of his pets, either sex slaves or mere disciples, he likes to abuse his subordinate on many fields but especially the sexual one. This brand new life in control of each details of his life got to his brain.

**Father's Conditions**

In the meantime, Rafael slowly left David fading away and became too old to take care of anything, David haven't seen him since fifteen years and he was place in a facility to treat his late-discovered cancer. Nevertheless, since the departure of his father and even before, David swore to himself to never touch any drugs, he didn't want to become like his father but also, he wanted to keep being clean, for the peace of mind of Rafael.

**Meeting**

It is said that David encountered somebody before or after the rise of his business but no one truly knows who, when or why. It helped him a lot.

#### Ties with Stella Johnson

But then, David laid his eyes on what he would call "a pretty creature", it was Stella Johnson. He noticed her back and forth between various drug dealers and he took an interest in her, a twisted one. In the end, he chose to take action and met her in person. He invited her to his villa with the intention of playing with her. He proposed to her a 'fair deal': she'd have sex with him whenever he'd want in exchange of large amount of drugs instead of money as she was used to earn. The deal was sealed. They began having sex frequently at his place but the more they were seeing each other, the more David became violent and dangerous with her.

**Sexual Issues**

Later, he discovered a strange fetish for violence and submission but also a liking to toxic relationship where he would corner his victims and hate them as much as he loves them. He would have this kind of relationship with many young women including the poor Stella and was taking advantage of their weaknesses to accomplish his somber vice.

**When She Left**

The day where Stella decided to run away from him, he kidnapped Sonny Johnson her little sister and trapped her in his villa alongside ten of his men, naked and ready to rape her. Even if she wasn't that close to her sister, Stella decided to walk back to save her. It only stirred him up even more and he decided to keep her as his pet.

## Relationships

* Michael Blake - Their relationship is unknown yet Michael seems to be holding a huge grudge against him which implies that they may know each other.

* Stella Johnson - David enjoys abusing Stella and sees her as his toy. He doesn't even see her as someone that could harm him, he thinks that she is incapable of becoming a threat and rather toying with her than anything else. His twisted love-hate towards her reveals a huge mental breakdown from him as he wants to own Stella as much as he wants to harm her

* Roméo Grriatz - To David, Roméo is nothing else but another worker under his hand. He doesn't know much about him and do not suspect anything coming from him, he even chose to pull him closer to him. Just like his relation to Stella, David loves to play with Roméo (for example, when he sends him to one of his clubs to kill someone, Chapter 27: Delacra's Special Club) even though it is not as entertain as toying with Stella. He wants to harm what matters to her.

* Théo Perrier - Despite Théo wanting to kill David, it is never mentioned whether they once met each other or not but Théo's gang is one of the main threats to DrugCity and David.

* Sonny Johnson - He couldn't care less about her though her remembers what he's done to her in the past. However and surprisingly, he doesn't hold a grudge against her at all, he is rather interested in torturing his sister directly or her friends but since she doesn't show any love towards Sonny, he doesn't care about her.

* Alban Carrucci - He was one of David's enemies in business, another drug baron. He hated him.

* Joachim Delcorro - He was a regular in Delacra's Special Club but David wanted to get rid of him, we can assume that he despises him as well.

## Attempts of killing/harming

**Failed**

* Sonny Johnson (tried to gang bang)

**Succeeded**

* Stella Johnson (multiple rapes)
* Carl Horton (was sold by Stacy Cook, used to be abused with drugs)
* Alexandra (slavery)
* Philip (killed secretly)
* Carter Family (drugged and some killed)

## Trivia

* Despite his name and surname matching, he was **not inspired** from Edge Runner's David Martinez.

* David's first quote was "Drugs are the keys to the freedom of mind" but was changed by Bleakeas (Author) afterwards for the official quote because she felt like this quote wasn't strong enough to be the firt thing we know about this character.

* David's personality was somehow inspired by Lotso from Toy Story 3, especially his obstinate side when it comes to create a solid family.

* David is a ring lover (in both senses), he likes to wear as much as he can.

* It is not clearly said in the story but we can presume that David has developed romantic feelings for Stella though these feelings are toxic and unhealthy.