Painters Leader

Marcel Ribera, also known as “The Painter” and earlier as plumber or Cortes, as he is preferred to be called.

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Official/original
Name: Marcel Ribera [ The Painter]
Gender: male
D.O.B. [unknown. 10.10. ....] ~29 years
Nationality: Mixed blood of primarly spanish origin
Profession: Leader of Painters gang and head of Primera Camorra.
Professional points: -/-
Respect Points: -/-
Merit points: -/-
Traits & skills: -/-
Height: 189 cm
Eye colour: cherry, reddish brown
Hair colour: Dark brown. Almost black
Bodybuild: Sporty, agile
Additional details about appearence:
After one accident during the race, in which Murcielago was heavily injured, Marcel will often paint his right half of face with tearmark on serious race days- similar to the one that Murcielago has. Marcel also has a tattoo on his back and piercing in his right eyebrow.
Personality:
Generous, just, principal and somewhat impartial. He goes wide on both ends. If he does good things, he does it with all of his heart, if he goes on bad end, his cruelty can seem to be endless. But anytime it will be well deserved.  Marcel seems to be truly coldblooded and steady. He reveres traditions deeply and will follow them inexorably
Cattery:
Cat Yard:
Shedus, that belong to your character:
Murcielago 13371
Link to points tracker:
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Biography: [OV version]

   There is still very little trustworthy information about this person. Firstly, until recently, this carioca was listed as deceased. It is believed, that Marcel Ribera is, in fact, a high ranked member of a criminal group that specializes in firearm and drug trading, It was deliberately called as Primera Camorra. Since Marcel was a high ranked gang member, he managed to stay in the shadows for a long time.

    Until one incident that, at first, had nothing to do with drug cartel business of interest.  In one southern US town, close to the Mexican border, a horrifying murder of 11 people took place. The bloody massacre was executed by local unlicensed tradesman, who was invited to do plumber's work in neighbour’s house. In the middle of the day, Marcel Ribera, as witnesses say, took a break for lunch and went over the road to neighbours house. A family party was being held for the house owners recently graduated middle son.  Somehow, the plumber, who was also well known by many in that town,  managed to kill all eleven adults that were present in the house and backyard.
    The police found him still in the house and upon arriving on the scene, he was painting the interior of the house with the blood of his most recent victims. All of people were killed with astonishing cruelty, and only two of guests were killed with gun. It was reported that Marcel Ribera was not trying to resist police. In fact, he was caught on scene because one of the youngest children (a 6 year old boy) had run to the neighbor's house up the street and told them that the plumber killed people in his house.
    Marcel was thought to have suffered from severe insanity, therefore he was not put into jail, but he was brought to a psychiatric clinic instead. He spent several months there before investigators realized the shocking truth about the identity of this insane plumber; Marcel Ribera was high ranked drug dealer from Primera Camorra cartel.
    All this smelled like a story that was created by another psychotic person rather than actually being truth. Marcel was very well known by almost everybody in that town, as he had lived there peacefully for several years. And everyone who knew him referred to him as a kind, trustful, polite and very skilled worker, who could do basically everything imaginable in the house or garden. Everyone knew that he was not a legal worker, yet the quality of his work and low price made him a precious neighbour to have. He specialized especially on old houses, which had systems that were far from modern standards. The incident, of course,, came as a shock to the people of town.

    After a year of being through treatment in the psychiatric hospital, Marcel, as was believed, met gruesome fate as and everyone in that hospital did - huge fire happened and took lives of many patients and doctors. Consequently, Marcel was listed as deceased. However, just recently, new information was found concerning a person, very similar to Marcel Ribera, was spotted near Rockport. It grabbed the attention of police as this doubtful sighting along coincided with the raise of drug trade in the area. Furthermore, the drugs found were similar to the ones found only near the southern border.

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Biography: [OoB version]

Marcel is one really tough and (as it is believed) old vampire. He is the head of the Camorra Vampire Clan from beginning of XXth century, and he is still kicking.  His secret, probably, is that he stays low and out of any clashes between bloodsucking keen. Being a shaman, or if you wish, sorcerer during his life, he is extremely skilled in voodoo magic and knows heck of a lot about this world. This is probably why he is such a calm and content person on his good days.
    He is also not afraid to get into contact with people, and he thrives in human society.
He holds to the position, that vampires, at least those of Camorra clan, failed to become “ good ancestors” and join the army of guiding spirits and are pretty capable and must help their living human descendents in every way possible.  However, they cannot reveal their vampire nature since is against vampire laws and it can turn out to be dangerous for both the human and the vampire.
    Marcel, obviously, does not treat human kind as cattle or a fresh and easy meal, yet that belief does not stand in his way when he’s up to have some bloody lunch. Marcel choses white people of European and especially Britain origin as his common victim, and so do other members of clan. That also partially explains in Mezza, Ripley Park and other poor districts such a low rate of mysterious deaths among mulatto and criollo people.  Camorra protects its own living people, sp other vampires who would dare to snatch a lunch from these chosen people risk to answer to before Camorra as if they’d kill another vampire.
    But blood, of course, is no panacea. Black sheep among people, protected by Camorra, are killed without any doubts or mercy.  Also, you heard all those city legends about real witches? They do exist, really. All those true magicians are, in fact, Camorra vampires, who are up to share some knowledge and power with ordinary people.  Marcel does such kind of things too.
    You would think why would rich, honorable vampire head would need to work as a tradesman? He offers his services to his people by checking and keeping their houses safe from evil spirits and other nasty stuff. Marcel is your classic good neighbour whom you'll easily trust to leave keys or even own children to look after. Well, at least  until you know his true nature. And I’m not just talking about vampirism… Being a head of drug cartel is not considered in our society as thing of which you can be proud of.  Everyone knows that Cortez or Painter is the head of the Cartel, but no one among ordinary people have seen his face.  Marcel does not like to get his hands dirty and tries to keep his identity unrevealed.  He is a really quiet vampire that (usually) does not go to wage bloody massacre, but he still follows all of the traditions and rituals; but he does has days filled with murders and baths of blood Though that’s not his daily routine. He prefers to execute low profile hunts with as little noise as possible. He even bothers about getting rid of bodies properly… Needless to say that sometimes Murcielago helps him with that frequently. Marcel also loves sheduracing and those animals in all, and because of it, it is often a way for him to rush his blood.