Richard Gaylord

> "Say hello to Dick"
>
> -Richard Gaylord

Richard Gaylord is a former military sharpshooter, that pisses in jars and is Diamond Weeds Sniper TF2.

## Background

Dick was born in Shellharbour, New South Wales on October 23, 1836 to Archibald and Catherine Gaylord. In 1840, at the age of four his father (who was a respected kangaroo fighter)  was killed after he started a fight with a kangaroo who killed and teabagged his fathers corpse which caused his whole bloodline to be disgraced. After his fathers death he was sent to america with his mother where they started a new life in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Over the next ten years his life couldn't get any better. His mother had to resort to whoring herself to make money so Dick had to stay at home alone. One day when he was fourteen his mother hadn't come home yet so he went out looking for her. After a few hours of looking he found her with her dying with a stab wound in her chest, she told him about a locked box under her bed, told him to open it and gave him the key then fucking died. He brought her corpse to the local graveyard and buried her. He went home and opened the box and inside was a large machete that belonged to his father, he picked it up and attached it to his belt.

The next ten years weren't any easier. When he was sixteen his house was robbed but he managed to defend it with the machete. When he was twenty he was in town when he got mugged but he managed to fend off the man by simply saying “You call that a knife?” and pulling out his machete “now this is a knife!” causing the man to run away in fear. By the time he was twenty-four he was done with life but he knew that he needed to keep going so he could bring respect back to the name Gaylord.

In 1861 he left his house to check his mail. He arrives at the post office and opens his mailbox and takes the letters out and quickly sifts through them, he notices that one of the letters is from the U.S. military, he quickly opens the letter and reads it, it tells him that he's been drafted for the union and to report to the train station in Cincinnati by June 30th. He runs back to his house and grabs his fathers machete and then heads to the train station and boards the first train to Cincinnati. After a few hours he reaches Cincinnati and exits the train. As he leaves he's greeted by a large group of men and a man standing on a box who then starts talking and telling everyone that he's going to call out last names and that when your name is called to raise your hand and to shout “present”, the man slowly starts going down the list of names. After all the names are called he tells everyone to get on the train that's heading towards West Elizabeth.

When they arrived in West Elizabeth the next day they were all put into different regiments, Dick was put in the 3rd U.S. Sharpshooters regiment and was given a Sharps rifle, a Navy Revolver and a Litchfield Repeater, Hes then told to go practice shooting them. After a month of training has become extremely good at shooting and is sent out to fight under general Jeremiah Slate. A few years later he's fighting in Scarlett Meadows when he sees that Jeremiah had been struck by a cannon ball and had lost his leg, Dick dropped his gun and rushed through enemy fire over to where he is and picks him up and carries him over to the field hospital. As Dick’s leaving the hospital he realizes that he lost his Sharps so he goes back out using his Litchfield, after a few hours he enters a destroyed church and finds a confederate sniper, so he crouches down and kills him with his machete, takes his Whitworth rifle and its ammo and takes a sniping position.

A few days later he goes back to the hospital and finds Jeremiah who thanks him for saving his life and that when this is all over to meet him in Oregon. A year later the war ends and Dick is sent back to his home in Chillicothe where he finds that it had been burnt down, now homeless Dick heads to Oregon to meet with Jeremiah. Over the next two days Dick would ride from Ohio to Oregon, once he arrives he starts looking around for Jeremiah