Character Development

Backstory:

Antonio Corral grew up in a small village in Southern Mexico, where drug lords were having a giant turf war spreading throughout the southern part of the hemisphere and traveling north. His mother and grandmother were devout Catholics and he spent much of his childhood learning the teachings of Jesus Christ, Heaven and Salvation.

On the Day of the Dead, Antonio went with his father and brother to the Dia De Los Muertos festival and wore a paper mache skull mask and brown cloak. As his town came to visit the cemetery to give offerings to their ancestors, a large gang of criminals broke their way into the homes of the villagers to steal their goods and spill blood in order to gain the favor of Santa Muerte (the personification of death as a woman who is associated with healing, protection, and dark miracles). Upon returning to his grandmother's house, the criminals brutally murdered his family. Helpless to save any of them, he witnessed his father get beheaded with a machete, his sister and mother raped and stabbed, his brother gunned down, and his grandmother die with a Rosary in her hand. Antonio was shot in the heart with one of his father's revolvers.

Upon his death, he was met with Miclan, the Aztec god of the Underworld. Miclan offered him a chance to live again and become stronger and faster than any man. In exchange, Antonio would pledge his allegiance to Miclan and offer him the souls of wicked men as a tribute to the Realm of the Dead. However, this would also condemn his own soul to be bound to the Underworld in both life and death, thus forever giving up a chance for salvation.

Antonio wears a wide brim black hat, heavy black body armor, a tattered brown poncho (the cloak from the night he died), and a new skull mask given to him by Miclan as a symbol of fear and death. Therefore, he was henceforth known as Xibalba (a mesoamerican word meaning "place of fear and death").

Xibalba found the gang that killed his family in a warehouse near a cocaine farm. In their hideout, he recovered his fathers twin revolvers and his brothers machete (stolen and used to decapitate his father). He kills all the gang members as both a tribute to his new master, and to avenge his family. He then retrieves his grandmothers rosary and wears it to honor her.

He travels throughout all of Mexico and the Americas for violent gang members, drug dealers, rapists, murderers, and anyone he deems to have a wicked soul.

List of Attributes:

• brooding
• religious
• strong
• resilient
• magic
• dark
• violent
• conflicted
• vengeful
• skilled
• focused
• strategist
• servant
• fighter
• tall

Toll booth scenario:

Xibalba is driving a car and is stopped at a tollbooth. It comes as no surprise that he does not have any money. Seeing as how he has no actual job and has no need for money (supernatural stamina makes it so he does not need food or rest). A line begins to form behind him and he can hear people in the back honking and cursing at him. As a result, he gets out of the car. Slowly. He turns around and stares at the car directly behind him. He walks towards the window and sees a mother and her two children. She looks up at him in fear and her children begin to cry. He continues to walk to the next car. The people sitting in this car are a husband and wife, both senior citizens and have a handicapped parking pass dangling in the windshield. He continues to move on. The next car has the one individual who was clearly being aggressive. He had tattoos running up his arms and neck, plugs in his ears, and was accompanied by a scantily dressed woman with bloodshot eyes and stained teeth. The man stares at him for a moment. He then quickly reaches for his glove compartment, and Xibalba does not give him a chance to take out whatever is in there. He punches through the car window, grabs the man by his shirt collar, and pulls him up to see him eye to eye. He then whispers, "Toll booth. Fee. Now." The man quickly takes out his wallet and hands it to Xibalba who then drops him. Xibalba walks back to his car, pays the fee, throws the wallet out of the window, and drives on.