Mothers of the children: Madina Savannah, Sendala Carmella, Cassandra Banks, Sofia James.
Other Physical Stuff: Cortez has a long scar that runs down one cheek from right above the cheekbone down to the jawline, it being one of those kinds of scars that dent inward and sinks into the flesh. His hair is slicked back and pulled into a short loosely curled ponytail, the tie in it usually matching the business suits he is known for wearing.
Cortez loves wearing his business suits and the only time he is out of them are when he is actually planning on fighting himself, when he is sleeping, when he is bathing, and if he ever goes swimming. Other than that, the style might as well be another body part. Rings, he has four of them and never takes them off unless he plans on going in the cage--- which is something he hasn't done in years. One on each middle finger, one on the pointer finger of his right hand and the last on the pinky finger of his left. All of them are gold and encrusted with diamonds, the middle one on his right hand being the bulkiest.
Depending on who he is talking to, his voice can either be cool smooth and charismatic or turn to a harsh and frightening bark which demanded obediance and submissiveness of the person he is directing his words to. He has a very slight hispanic accent and his voicetone is deep. Although his age does show some, he's aged gracefully- not too many wrinkles showing on his tan face and his body still fit enough to take on a few opponents in a row if he needed to do so.
Powers: Cortez is devoid of any mutant ability, not being a mutant himself. Instead, he has the 'powers' he had worked to get himself. Having trained and fought for most of his life, he has managed to gain a higher amount of strength, stamina, speed, and higher tolerance for pain. His reflexes are above average also, him having had to have gained those skills and improved upon them or die. While in the line of life he's in, he has learned how to intimidate quite well and to lower another person's esteem and self worth.
His other capabilities include manipulation, his being able to pretty much get someone wound around his pinky if he tries hard enough and him getting his way most of the time. Talking is definately not something that gives him a problem. Once he reels someone in, he doesn't have too much trouble either building them up or tearing them down.
History: Cortez was born in Spain and raised there until he was about twelve years old. His father was the one who got him into the cage fighting life, having brought him into it as soon as he hit fifteen. Enrique called it an initiation. A test to see if he was worthy of being called a true son. Before he pulled him into the actual fighting though, he had trained Eddy from the age of six until the age of fifteen. It wasn't until the year before his father broughthim into the cage fighting that he even found out his father's source of income or why his father came home so many times all bloodied up. It was also not until a year before he got into the actual illigal sport that he found out the true reason of his brother's death was because he had failed his initiation. At the age of fifteen the night after his irthday, Cortez won his first cage fight and earned the title of being a true son.
Eddy didn't see much of his brother while he was growing up and the times he did see him, his brother used to bully him something aweful. Earlier on, Eddy used to feel afraid of his brother but later, he felt like he had to get stronger than him. That he had to get strong enough to beat his brother when his brother went to beat on him. When Eddy found out the true cause of his brother's death, he wasn't very shocked, having been talked to about death and violence so much that it had become regular conversation. he hadn't been close to his brother anyway- not having seen much of him and having always been bullied by him when he did see him even though he was very young then.
Between the age of 15 and 20, Cortez didn't have many friends. He always got into fights not explaining why he started them but with the thought in his head that he was practicing. He never went as far as killing anyone during the 'practicing' he saved that for the real fights. He never stayed in school long- getting kicked out enou times where his parents just gave up on sending him to them. His father figured that Eddy could learn all he really neede to know from him anyway. His life mostly revolved around business and killing-- which went hand in hand. He was turning out to be much like his father.
Eddy met his wife after one of the cage fights. She had been to several of them and apparently became a fan. They had a one night fling then after she came to a month worth of other fights they eloped again but this time things were more serious. They had troubles though, her ringing up the fact that she couldn't stay due to her being a US citizen and she ended up being the one to introduce the thought of him going back with her when she went back home. She made good arguement, even going as far as working on convincing Eddy's father to agree. The concept of Eddy doing the cage fighting in the US was brought up along with the promise of him earning much more money if he did. Money was the item in the topic that won Eddy's father over.-- Money was actually one of the main reasons that the woman wanted to be Eddy's wife in the first place. That and he was a good looker and she was thrilled by the thought of being married to a killer like him.
Moving twenty years down the line-- Not much happened between twenty years before and the time then, everything pretty much stayed the same except for his sex life. He slept arouns with just about any woman who threw herself at him. He had many a mistress and although the wife was pissed- she couldn't do much about it. Cortez had moved to America taking up a fake name and getting himself a comfortable home with the money he had been bringing in from fights he have been doing himself and from the money that the cage fighters he had control of. He had become a known name in the Cage Fighting world having won plenty of fights in the past so not to be forgotten in his semi-retirement. His name started getting faded though even though he was bringing in new fighters all of the time to gamble with. He couldn't seem to get one to last long enough. That was his own fault though even if he refused to admit it.
He blamed it on his wife, her taking up too much of his time by demanding that he spend more time with her. So he devoriced her and sent her back to Spain where she came from. To him, the only women worth dealing with were his mistresses who were happy for any time he gave them and didn't demand anything.
Another seven years down the line-- Cortez had lost the fame he once had, having not won much of anything with the fighters he had been sending in and him having needed to take time in between the fighting himself to recover from wounds given. Wanting to get his name back and of corse wanting the money he used to have, he began sending the potential fighters off to his father who had offerent to train them for a fee. Just when Cortez thought he was about to have to bet against his own men, he seemed to get a delicious surprise that came in the package of a stray girl. She had the ability to remove wounds from her body and send them elsewhere.
She was skittish at first though. Refusing to talk to the point where he believed her to be a mute for the first three months. Cortez pretended to be looking out for her, gaining her trust and making himself out to be a father figure towards her. He gave her new clothes, fed her, and housed her-- pretending like he wanted nothing in return but her happiness. It was not until the forth month that she told him her name. Well, a name at least-- Trade. At that point he knew that she was reeled in far enough to net. He told her of how he used to be in Cage Fights. About the money he used to make and how he wished he could be able to make the money he used to back in his younger days.
The children that Cortez made on his many mistresses were more of his spreading his seed than his actual desire to be a father. He made sure to send them money and to visit them occasionally when he went to elope with his other women but he never formed more than a mild attatchment to the ones that are arleady running around. At the moment though, he's got a couple of his mistresses pregnant and has plans on making them go into the "family business"-- him figuring that he's getting a little old to be doing the cagefights and that by the time they can take his place and can be of use to him, he will be at the retiring age. A couple of times, he has thought about what qulity that Trade's kids would ever some out as if she had children.
He told her of all of the children he had and how they costed a lot of money to take care of and feed. How if she wanted to repay him as she seemed to want to, she would be able to do so with little effort if she were to fight for him. To Cortez's delight she agreed to fight for him and he began training her immeadiately knowing that it would seem too suspicious if she were to win without knowing how to fight. Luckily for him, she was a fast learner but he suspected that had to do with the fact that she could just send her injuries away instead of waiting for them to heal.
In her first week of the games, he was displeased with her reluctance to make the finishing attack to kill her opponent. The first couple of times, he told her gently that it was just the way things were and that she had to not think about it and just do it-- but after the fifth time, he began to yell at her and tear into her emotions to make her follow his orders. After the first week, he took her out of the fighting for a few days- using the time to warp her to a more obediant servant. He worked on her emotions, using her feelings towards him as a tool to mess with her head enough so she could be more easily manipulated.
The next time he sent her into the cage, he found that his treatment of her had made improvements in the fight. He was well aware of how this was changing her-- that it was making her addicted to the fighting and killing and at the same time more and more attatched to him. He planned on making her his only fighter and the best one out there. She became a favorite to the viewers in a short time-- them being attracted by the thought of a young woman fighting against the usually brutal looking men. Waiting to see if she would fall, waiting to see if her clothes would get damaged enough to give a peek at the body that hid benieth it. She was definately a money bringer.
That was why after a year of knowing her- he was so enraged when she came to him with the talk of wanting to quit. He pelted her with guilt trips of how he needed her to fight for him and demanding how she could just want out after he had treated her well. When she continued with trying to tell him she wanted out, he told her that if she tried to lose a match, he would kill her himself. Evidently his manipulation of her hadn't been strong enough as one morning he found her to be gone without a trace. To say the least-- he was pissed.
It was a full year later before he found her again. He knew he would run into her eventually due to knowing that she wouldn't be able to stay out of the fighting for long. He was bringing in two new fighters into a game at the docks of New York City when she came in to participate in the fights. It was when he was about to approach her that he found that she seemed to have been taken under another trainer and furious-- Cortez decided to take her back by force. This did not end well as the other man turned out to be none other than the infamous Wolverine. Not only that but Trade had become a friend of his and Wolverine seemed to have planted the seeds of self esteem and defiance in her head somehow. Between the two of them-- Cortez ended up with a broken hand and a ruined eye.
Cortez was enraged at first and thought of ways to get his ex-fighter killed off somehow-- but then the thought of breaking her into fighting for him once more came and became his goal. But-- while he had been looking for people who could finish the girl off before that decision had come along he had come across some people that were hired to kill mutants. That gave him an idea-- to not only get money out of the girl by having her fight but making her a Mutant Hunter. The people hiring didn't need to know how- just that he was getting the job done. What better way of hunting a Mutant than using one. Now only came the problem of getting her.
Personality: Cortez is a man who loves only a few things. Money, power, fame, and booty. Whenever he comes across someone he thinks of how he can get some use out of them. He has a temper but usually instead of letting it take full control of his senses, he uses it in ways to try to end up on top. The most important thing to him is his own pleasure. He will manipulate, tear down, and break those he manages to get his claws into without a second thought abotu how they may feel even if he acts like he does care. Taking advantage of people is a hobby of his and one he is not willing to give up too easily. Cortez is also territorrial-- what is his property will always be his property in his mind and he will keep it with all of his ability.
Likes: Violence, sex, money, cigars, and power.
Dislikes: Having his belongings taken from him, people telling him that he can not do something, those who come up against him, and his ex-wife for being the money grubber that she is.
Other- The reason Eddy didn't have any children with his wife is because she was sterile and refused to get any artificial means of having a child.
The way he treated women was he would manipulate them into thinking that he actually cared about them unless they didn't put out. If they didn't give him what he wanted, he would stop "wasting his time on them" and move on.
Edited by: Post Kitten at: 6/21/06 7:17 pm
Tut tut tut... remember we don't like "unknown"s (take that for nagging me into replying super fast ... mwhuahahahahaha)
History: My main concern here is the fact that there're really long blank areas. First 15 years, then 20 - what happened in that time span? His youth - what about friends, the relationship with his parents etc.? I'd really like to see some detail about the personality of young Cortez, of his outlook on life. I mean, if he's been trained since age 6, didn't that make it hard for him to be a normal kid? It might seem self-evident, but I think it'd be a good idea to actually add that (or whatever is true for him) and his own attitude towards the whole thing.
Also, did he just go "Oh well, so my father basically killed my brother..."? I'd think not... unless he had come around to Enrique's warped way of thinking.
How did he get to know the woman that became his wife? You throw her into the mix in the pop-up, oh look there she is kind of way - does that mean she meant nothing to him? Why had he married her then? Don't get me wrong, it's alright if he, say, just married her for money reasons or whatever, but please include that.
So in essence, what I'm really finding lacking is an explanation how the child Eddy, innately innocent like all kids, became that cruel, selfish man. I'm a big fan of the human factor, traceability, soundness.
That being said, it's certainly not a bad bio, by no means it is... it just needs some tweaking
~ Matt
There comes a time in everyone's life when they have to take over responsibility.
The question remains whether there is also a time when we can get rid of it again.
Re: Cortez
Right, as I told Zira, I must admit I still think there're quite large blank areas. You said there wasn't anything much worth mentioning going on, which is a little unusual considering one leap spans 20 years, but oh well...
I won't insist on you forcing yourself to come up with details for those areas if you feel you can't, but the one to comment after me might inquire about some more information anyway.
Re: Cortez
well.... i have to agree with Matt here.... if Cortez is to be a char then he needs to fill in those gaps.... especially the things like his relationship with his brother, what he thought of his father before and after his brothers death. How he met his wife.... how he treated women back then , has it changed over the years..... I dont need a day to day account of what he had for breakfast... but i still need more.
There's just somethin' wild inside me pullin' me to do things I don't understand.
I can't figure it. It's like tryin' to explai
Re: Cortez
Ok, I think it'll work like that. Gonna need Ann's ok and he's ready to rumble!
There comes a time in everyone's life when they have to take over responsibility.
The question remains whether there is also a time when we can get rid of it again.
(take that for nagging me into replying super fast ... mwhuahahahahaha)
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