Mdabyét

## Introduction

Mdabyét is a resident of Strawberry and Former Senior Deputy of strawberry sheriff's office. She identifies as a member of the Potawatomi tribe. She spends most of her time wandering between the Big Valley and Tumbleweed.

## Biography

Mdabyét spent most of her childhood life growing up in a tribe in northern Michigan until conflict broke out between emerging french settlers and the native populations. She was part of a small band that were relocated to the west and broke away from the reservation lands to forcefully carve their own path into the world.

Her early interactions were extremely hostile towards outsiders, riding up on hunters who were spotted dragging animals across the ground wantonly or those who harassed the wild horses. There were rumors of a native also attacking coaches and travelers along rivers with the ferocity of a wild animal.

Eventually she had surfaced in strawberry and applied to be a deputy. This had caused some conflict with those who traveled with her, causing shunning and strife. This is a point of continued conflict and shame for her, but the legitimacy of the badge and ability to punish those who harmed the land and animals outweighed the disapproval of her own people.

Her early deputy days were mostly spent patrolling around strawberry with little incident and watching over the lands and the big valley. Once the sheriff of blackwater went the frontier she started to patrol regularly down to assist with the larger town.

### The Mask

During a bank robbery in BlackWater the Del Lobos took a deputy hostage and held him at gun point. Mdabyét was at a distance watching the exchange when one of the outlaws, Asesino broke away running into the construction yard where she was concealed and the two came to a stand off with guns pointed. The two aimed down each other and a stray shot from a civilian attempting to help resulted in her being shot in the side of the face.

She started to wear a painted skull mask to conceal the scarring on her face since the incident.

### The Ring

One of the state bounties brought into the Strawberry bounty hunters guild resulted in Mdabyét being left alone with a woman who had murdered 7 of her husbands with a poison pillbox ring that contained arsenic. Before being brought to the firing squad the convicted woman tossed it into the deputy's hands telling her to keep it as a memento, she'd get some use out of it too eventually.

### The Badge

After observing multiple instances of corruption and cruelty as well as taking part in shedding blood while wearing the badge she could no longer justify wearing it with a good conscience. She turned in her badge to Sheriff Booth.

### The Bitter pill

After several weeks of giving up the badge she was plagued by soldier's heart and the nightmares of what she had done while wearing it. Her reoccurring nightmares about her own deeds, what she had witnessed, as well as unspecified events in her past started to drive her to regularly take laudanum. The dreamlike state of intoxication she was under lead to wandering and vagrancy, creating conflict where she went with townsfolk which sometimes lead to violent conflicts. This induced further paranoia that she was cursed in some way for her misdeeds. Misguided, malcontent, and seemingly marred by misfortune she managed one night to make eye contact with the wrong man leaving valentine and shot him down in the middle of town. The excessive amount of arrows in his chest from her sheer panic and adrenaline marked a bloody scene of gratuitous violence.

She paid the undertaker and fled the town convinced more than ever that she was irredeemable.