Ingrid "Candymouth" Saguaro - hired gun/outlaw

Indgrid Saguaro (a.k.a. "Candymouth" She got the name Candymouth because of the misperception that her missing teeth were due to her fondness for sweets. In fact they were knocked out in a fight.)

Ingrid is a gang leader who pulled herself up by her bootstraps, had everything taken from her by Luckner, then pulled herself up by her bootstraps again.
Villain. Harbors an intense hatred for Luckner due to his gang killing her twin brother.
If the player hires her, she will not have formed a gang yet. If the player hires Luckner, she will be leading her own gang.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Ingrid is a medium height, pale blonde woman with an athletic build. She has pale eyelashes and eyebrows with blue eyes. She would be quite conventionally beautiful if not for several factors. The whites of her eyes are yellow. Her eyelids are always slightly inflamed, swollen and pink. Her skin is often shiny with sweat, and her hair damp and clinging to her forehead. This is all the result of chronic illness which her immune system is unable to purge. In addition to this, all of her front teeth were knocked out when she was young and she now sports a set of dentures with gold teeth.

Identifying Characteristics

She has a low pitched, growly voice due to a wound to her vocal chords. She uses her voice to great effect, particularly on her underlings. (She still carries the scar on her throat.)

Physical quirks

She has a fondness for sweets though, leaving a trail of candy wrappers behind her.

Apparel & Accessories

Most of Ingrid's clothes have been taken from the bodies of dead men. She wears a black leather gambler-style cowboy hat. She is nearly always wearing lightweight body armor and several weapons. Her low cut, flared leather pants have a lace up fly. The thighs are covered with disheveled embroidery depicting skulls. The lower leg has been reinforced with additional leather and studs to render it snake-proof.
Her pistol hangs on a low-slung bandoleer gun belt around her hips. Her black leather gloves have the fingers cut off, and small metal plates riveted over her knuckles. Her long, black, drover's coat of oiled canvas is so dusty that it is a splotchy gray that almost serves as camouflage. The elbows have been capped with spiked metal plates. Additional metal plates are riveted to her upper arms and forearms. They won't stop a bullet, but look intimidating and provide some protection against cuts and blows.
Her torso is protected by an armored vest. Under this she wears a filthy linen peasant's blouse that used to be white.

Specialized Equipment

She carries an antique .303 Huot light machine gun carbine with wooden furniture and a 25 round drum magazine, a bowie knife, and a replica Remington model 1858 with fake ivory grips and heavily engraved metal.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Ingrid's parents were killed by raiders and she and her twin brother were taken as slaves. Despite the odds, they survived for several years before escaping as young teens. By that time they had both served as child soldiers (Her brother for several years but Ingrid had only recently joined their ranks.) Once on their own, they survived at first by petty crime but soon started putting together their own desperado gang.
At one point a Hummingbird Boys reconnaissance team lead by Luckner recognized Ingrid and her brother were recognized by their brands as escaped slaves. A firefight broke out, Ingrid's brother was killed, and their gang was destroyed. Ingrid was wounded, and captured, but managed to escape (albeit without any equipment). She nursed herself back to health, accumulated new equipment, and pulled a new gang together.

Morality & Philosophy

She is taciturn, stoic, and hard. She rarely engages in merriment as she believes it is vice which makes one vulnerable and stupid. She has no use for love, and rarely even indulged in sex. She always strives to maintain a steady emotional state, one where her mind is focused on her goals and the fire in her belly is well-stoked.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Ingrid is driven by demons. One demon is her intense ambition to achieve power. Despite her violent and tragic past, she does not seek power to take revenge or to ensure her own safety. She is just one of those people who loves being in charge.
Her second demon is the strong desire to exact revenge upon anyone who has crossed her.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

She is a deadly shot with nearly any firearm, as well as a skilled and ruthless leader who inspires discipline in her bandits. A brilliant tactician, she quickly grasps the the important points in any battle situation, and immediately formulates a response. She is tough as nails, with a ridiculously high tolerance for pain and suffering. When necessary, she is able to go for very long periods without food, water, or sleep, and can survive conditions of intense cold or heat with surprisingly little diminishment to her effectiveness as a warrior.
She is very strong for her size, fast, and agile. She is a skilled horse rider and vehicle driver. She has an understanding of basic vehicle repair.
She is generally thought (falsely) to be quite honorable. This is because she rarely lies, and when she does, she leaves no witnesses. As a result, anyone who knows her reputation will usually trust her word. This greatly facilitates negotiations. For example, there have been two situations in which she has stumbled into a doctor’s office deathly ill and with no money. Her treatment required expensive supplies. Both times she made a point of returning as soon as possible to pay those doctors in full for their services, plus a generous bonus payment for extending her a line of credit.

Likes & Dislikes

She distrusts complicated technologies and will always choose a slightly less effective machine if it is much simpler than the alternative. She has seen too many situations where complicated weapons jammed in the dirty conditions or were rendered unrepairable in the field due to wear and tear. She is not a technophobe, however, and will use high tech machines when the benefit outweighs what she sees as the risks.
She has an obvious weakness for the mythology of the wild west.

Virtues & Personality perks

Being recognized as a former outlaw is a lot less bad than being recognized as a former leader of a cannibal army.
Luckner bears Ingrid no ill will, and thus hiring her will not result in a dangerous enemy.
Candymouth wants to be paid 700,000 monopoly per month.

Vices & Personality flaws

If hired, she will eventually run into Luckner, recognize him as the murderer of her brother, and try to kill him. This will cause difficulties and dangers for the crew.
She will be recognized occasionally as an outlaw. This will cause difficulties and dangers for the crew.
Depending on choices the player makes, Ingrid may turn on the crew, robbing them and leaving to form a new gang.
She is slightly less skilled and less clever than Luckner.

Personality Quirks

She can read but has a very low literacy level. This can sometimes cause her to misunderstand old-world labels unless she has a literate assistant to interpret.
Despite her generally obsessive focus on efficacy, she has a strange blind spot for personal hygiene. Her hair is perpetually scraggly and unkempt. Her personal odor is not revolting, but it is not exactly fresh either. She only changes clothes often enough to avoid skin diseases.
She does not inspire intense personal loyalty, and has no real friendships. Her followers respect and fear her, and recognize that her decisions are almost always right, even when they seem doubtful, but they do not actually like her. Occasionally this can prove problematic for her.
She is not an excellent strategic thinker. Her lack of skill in considering the big picture will likely relegate her forever to the tactical level.
She might be far sighted, meaning unable to focus on things close up.

Eyes

Icy blue irises surrounded by yellow sclera, and swollen, pink eyelids.

Hair

She has white hair with no particular care or styling. It is usually pulled back into a short ponytail.

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

pale