#i did get a decent way into force of evil but i realised i wasn't giving it enough attention so it's sitting to one side for a moment

[anintelligentoctopus]

Now I'll admit I was perhaps a little overambitious, but roughly a third ain't bad

Top new-to-me noirs:

Act of Violence (1948)

Johnny Eager (1941)

The Narrow Margin (1952)

The Lineup (1958)

[r0xy-w0lf]

Introducing...

Leonardo Davis

Nickname: Leo

Age: 27

Eye colour: baby blue

Height: 6ft 2

Hair: blonde

Persona and upbringing.

Leo comes from a well to do family, born & raised in a wealthy upbringing. Due to that wealth, he's had the best education paid for by inherited riches. He uses this against his rivals, outsmarting their little minds before shooting them.

While he's a rich guy, he doesn't act like it! He'd be happy to get his hands dirty and is not just a pretty face. He goes out hunting a lot and runs into a lot of unpleasant beings and will happily take them out, guns or fists.

Parents/associates:

His father owns one of the biggest companies in Saint Denis and his mother is a former infamous outlaw turned housewife. His father and mother mostly his father) forced him into a marriage with another rich lass, but Leo wanted nothing to do with it.

When Leo was younger, his father knew a family from Ireland whom he did a lot trading and deals with. He made a friend called Ryan.

His mother was an outlaw and she knew many other gangs around the state, including coincidentally Stevie and Harrison’s father William George “Wolfgang” Carwyn. She got to know him rather well, as they did jobs together and spent a few “nights” together. Even after Leo was born, she would still go and see him or write to him as they remained close friends after their rendezvous.

His father would get paranoid, knowing full well where her mysterious trips were taking her to. He knew who she was with so he paid a gang to get rid of “Wolfgang” so his wife would love him again. As far as his mother knew, they had succeeded. The gang had failed to kill him, which Leo would be glad of in the future.

Leo saw Stevie a few times and the name “Miss Blackheart” spread across every newspaper. He made the connection as her and this “Wolfgang” fella both shared the same last name. He always thought she was a badass, young woman and knew that she would end up in a notorious gang in the future.

He would meet both of Wolfgang's offspring later on through Roxy. Little would they know of what his father tried to attempt on their father.

His mother would take Leo out for days and nights on end. She would teach him how to steal, kill and loot anyone, as a way of defending and fending for himself.

His mother eventually succumbed to her depression over how her life had panned out at the crippling grip of his father and ended her own suffering, never really coping with her trauma and her change of lifestyle. She left a pile of letters to Leo about her past, about Wolfgang, and about his father's evil schemes.

On days where it was just him and his father, it was nothing but education, being pushed to reach his full potential.

His father wanted him to follow in his footsteps and he did for the most part, but his mother's teaching’s had started to lead him into a different path.

Roxy: a quick story of how they met.

He met a young lady being harassed by a man.

Leo being extremely kind hearted and heroic, decided to step in, only to be thrown to the ground with a gun to his head. Unfortunately Leo was unarmed, so he tried to talk his way out of it

All of a sudden there was a “click” of another gun, held to the strangers head whose gun was held to his. A mysterious figure. The only word that was uttered from her mouth was “valuables”. It surprised Leo that the voice wasn't deep or male like, more so feminine. He started to look closer and realised that the mysterious figure was a woman! At this point Leo was now the one getting mugged.

The aggravated stranger decided to try and be smart and without a second look, she killed him within the blink of an eye. She removed her hood and bandana showing her face without a care in the world.

The girl ran away shouting “DEATH-RIDER! IT'S HER! SHES GONNA KILL ME!”

Leo didn’t move, because he knew that name very well, he read the newspapers frequently and knew how dangerous she was, how capable she was of killing him within an instant.

As she told him to leave, Leo got up and wanted to turn and run, but there was something about her that drew him in. There was something about the way she just let him go and the way that she gave him choice to before killing him.

He looked into her divine blue eyes and saw nothing but fearlessness and beauty.

“Your name miss?”

He pondered on her face for a moment as she looked at him curiously.

“Robinson, Miss, Robinson”.

After a moment she disappeared with only a feather left in her tracks. Leo took her parting gift and decided that he would find her once again, if it was the last thing he’d ever do.

In the meantime, he had to deal with his father. He asked his trusted friend, who was involved in nature studies to find out the breed and location of the bird. His father had arranged a meeting with the family of the daughter that he would be set to marry, but he didn’t care about some girl he felt nothing for.

He wanted Miss Robinson.

A week after his encounter with her, Leo packed a bag and set his excuse of “I’m going to hunt down a legendary buck” in stone for his father. He had gathered the research and found a reliable source as to where the feather could be located exactly…

Somewhere at the top end of Annesburg...

3 days into his search and he found absolutely nothing. He set up a decent camp site and called it quits for the night. His brain then clicked from reading research articles about Miss Robinson in the paper. No one has ever found her during the day, because she roams and robs during the night. All of the robberies and the gang attacks have taken place after sunset. He got up to the sound of gunshots… Was that her? Stupidity got the better of him and he went towards the noise, pinpointing the location of the smoke..

A a gang hideout in a small valley. He got his binoculars out and started to scan the campsite. Thinking he had found nothing but bandits, he started to move away until he noticed a wooden cage built for a wild animal. He peered for a closer look and there she was. Hogtied inside of it

He felt a sense of protectiveness to free her, but how? Everyone in camp was awake.

Slowly, he quickly but quietly assassinated each and every one of them until they were all dead. He strutted over to the cage, feeling rather good about his accomplishment. He then stopped in his tracks as he noticed that she had been beaten up abit, but it was nothing she couldn’t handle. She had gained a gunshot wound to her right arm and a knife slash to the side of her waist, which was bleeding.

“Are you ok miss?”

She looked at him and then looked away. She was racking her brain, considering every scenario of how she would escape but it seemed like he was her only one. She couldn’t just ask him to leave? Not after what he did for her. He approached her again but this time moving closer, close enough to see the face with the dim lantern that he had… and she was stunning.

“Miss?”

All of a sudden she flinched back and tried to crawl away like he was the bad guy. Why was she, the most wanted female outlaw of 5 states, so scared to be helped?

“Easy, I ain’t gonna hurt ya.”

She stopped for a minute and looked at this stranger that she gradually came to recognise and quickly tried to manipulate the situation.

“Come on! Let me go like i did you”

“No you didn’t, you were gonna kill me!”

“That bullshit! You’re alive ain’t you?”

Leo crossed his arms

“Well you’re coming back with me then, so i can stitch those wounds up.”

“Well, undo me then, you fool!”

“I will once i've got you safe and I’m still unsure after last time.”

He picked her up and placed her upright on the back of his horse,

“So what's your real name then, Miss?”

As she went to say her surname he interrupted.

“REAL name.”

“Roxanne, but you can call me Roxy”

Leo smiled contently, like he had found out some good news.

“Im Leonardo but call me Leo”

Roxy didn’t respond whatsoever.

“Where are ya taking me?”

Leo stopped the horse and thought about her question for a moment. He couldn’t take her home because his father would either kill her or give her to the law that would deal with her accordingly for the money that was on her head.

Then he remembered a small cabin in the woods not far away from home, that he used to run away to as a boy. He could leave her there while he got supplies.

“There's a cabin not far off, you’ll be be safe there until you get better”.

She look at him and laughed.

“What’s so funny?”

Roxy rolled her eyes as she tried to process how unintelligent he was coming across as.

“Do you really think that I’ll be safe right next to town in your cute little cabin!?”

“I’m an assassin, who robs little rich boys such as yourself... So why the hell would you even think about helping me?”

Again... He had to think about it, because he knew she was right, but none of that mattered. The way she made him feel. It would all be worth it to him.

Thanks to @theunholyoutlaw for helping/re-writing this for me and credit photo’s to her too!!! Thank sis! ❤️❤️❤️