Althea Churchill

Age: 25
Race: Human
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 127
Eye color: Dark green
Hair color/length/condition: Dirty blond/mid-upper back/wavy, soft, semi-thick
Complexion: Tan
Frame: Womanly build, hourglass, muscular
Family: A brother back in New York who sells guns--Hector Churchill
Others: She has a scar on her left arm where she was wounded during a gun fight in Dodge City. Another scar is concealed by her hair on the back of her neck where a man took a knife to her in a saloon in NY. She has a small, very light birthmark on her right shoulder blade.
Weapons: One .45 holstered on each hip, one with a black grip and the other with a white one. She has a knife concealed in her boot that's serrated on either side of the blade.
Clothing: Depends, but generally brown leather cowgirl pants that hug her tightly, leather boots with spurs, a loose, white, plain blouse, a brown leather jacket with leather "strings" that dangle from the bottom of the sleeves and a cowboy hat that matches her outfit.

~~Her mother died during childbirth and her sheriff father raised her the only way that he could: a gunslinging tomboy. When she was 5 years old he started teaching her the rules about gun fighting--as he was a gunslinger before he became a sheriff-- and taught her all about the anatomy of guns. The first gun she ever used was a Smith & Wesson's .45, her daddy's favorite. After a few years of training from her father, her aim was perfect and her draw was quick for a 9 year old. At age 10 she went with her father to work one day and a gun fight broke out on the street. Having developed her father's love for justice she drew the .45 he had given to her that year on her birthday and aimed it at the man who started the unfair fight. Althea, a young girl of 10, pulled the trigger.
~~The man went down but another replaced him, a man who happened to be her "victim's" brother. Althea's father stepped up behind her and drew his gun, but was more intent on getting his daughter out of the way. He wasn't fast enough and aiming wildly, the man shot her father through his windpipe, killing him instantly. . .
She had always felt guilty for her mother's death, and then she felt guilty for her father's death, as well. Determined to make them proud of her, she sought out an old gunslinging friend of her father's to raise her up and teach her more about gun fighting. Her father had been known simply as "Church" when he was a gun fighter, and he was the best gun fighter of his time. Her mother, Althea had been told, was very proud of her father. If Althea became the best gunslinger of her time, she knew that her mother and father would be proud of her. So for 7 years she stayed with her father's friend, getting a good education of other things at the same time. By the time she was 17 she was quicker than anyone in NY, and determined to see justice. She left the old man and headed for Dodge City, where on her first day a crazy man(Diego Cortez) opened fire on her. She won, granting him death in the end only because he wanted it. She's law without a badge.

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