#I can talk about Carrie Nicky and Peter forever too tbh

[forsty]

Ooh, ok, so how did Brodie get the scars on his back? Where did he get/meet Boudicca? What is the dark history behind his gun (the red rooster one not his dad’s piece)? And just like how did he end up an outlaw? What happened to his family? Did he have siblings? Is he from England/Wales originally? (I ask because of the surname)

The scars on his back came from being whipped/flogged in prison! He was sentenced to hang, but his uncles Peter and Tate broke him outta there before that happened.

Boudicca was a gift from his closest uncle, Peter. He got stranded in a town without a horse for a short while and SOMEHOW his elusive uncle find out and somehow bought a wild horse and got it sent to wherever Brodie was at the time. She was a wild horse too so Brodie had to gentle her on his own. Straight up received a letter from his uncle going "HEY SON HEARD YOU NEED A HORSE WELL THERE'S ONE FOR YA AT THE LIVERY STABLE" and it was the most stubborn, high spirited wild mare he'd ever seen. Never really managed to tame her properly, she refuses to be ridden by anyone but him and she bites strangers who come too close.

(Jack and Jack's horse, Blondie, are the only other human and horse she will tolerate)

The red gun he stole off a soldier and later had the metals tinted red and black cause he thought it'd look really cool (he was wrong). He gained the nickname Red Rooster from outlaws and cowboys who thought he had abit of a temperament, like a rooster, and since his hair is red they started calling him red rooster. It was meant to mock him and he didn't like it. Most times it made him angrier and act up even more when people called him that. In a fit of anger he carved the name into his red gun, but regretted it later on. Eventually it stuck though and it became his nickname and outlaw alias. It became the gun he would use when doing Outlaw Stuff, and the gun he uses when his desire is to kill.

You know when he pulls out the red gun, he means BUSINESS. And it's such an ugly gun too!

He was raised in a gang (: The story of his parents and the gang his parents were in is also SO MUCH. The lore goes deep...

Basically, his father Nicky Bradshaw and his bestfriend Peter Mason met when they were kids. Peter was an orphan and eventually the two ran away together, doing petty thievery in towns and cities and so on. They met Carrie, who was the daughter of a somewhat wealthy man but she dreamt of a life with more adventure, so she ran away with Nicky and Peter... The three of them would journey together, running scams and doing thievery and things like that. Eventually they joined a gang and stayed with that gang until the end. Nicky and Carrie eventually got married (wheter this was an actual legal marriage could be discussed lol) and they had a son, Brodie.

Brodie was raised among the gang members until he was 7 when they were all ambushed by lawmen and most of them died. Nicky died in that ambush, but Brodie, Carrie, Peter and gang leader Tate managed to escape. Carrie dies two years later and Brodie is raised by Peter and Tate.

He had no siblings and his family comes from Scotland! His grandparents on his father's side was scottish immigrants. His grandparents on his mother's side I'm unsure of. Brodie was born in the US (: