Rico Loco

Ricardo Alvarez came from a middleclass family in Guadalajara. He was frail and needed braces and glasses; he got picked on a lot, until he discovered the joys of homemade fireworks. Things that went boom brought him the admiration of the other kids and set the course of his life and undeath. College brought Ricardo to Mexico City, and like many students, he fell in with a radical leftist crowd. Having a real live bomb-maker in their group made Ricardo’s new friends feel wonderfully dangerous. Once in a while they made a statement by blowing up a billboard belonging to a corporation they disliked. The Tlatelolco massacre changed Ricardo into a more genuine radical. He did not attend the rally but some ofhis friends did, and one died. Ricardo decided to retaliate by bombing a police station.. . and his friends decided that they were not quite that radical. Ricardo found himself all alone and on the run. The Sabbat found him. His sire, a member of El Grito de Dolor, thought that the coven could use a bombthrowing revolutionary. Ricardo fell in love with Rosa-Maria Obregdn the moment they met, though he knew nothing about her, and her causes became his. RosaMaria told Ricardo about the Camarilla, the secret masters behind all the oppression in the world. As Rosa-Maria’s ghoul, Ricardo demolished or burned the havens of several Camarilla “Kindred” and a few of the coven’s enemies in other packs. That was fun, and it pleased Rosa-Maria, the most entirely wonderful creature in the universe. Eventually, Ricardo earned the Embrace and Creation Rites. Ricardo found that his Cainite existence carried blessings with its curses. The subtle shrinking and tightening of his undead body fixed his myopia just fine. He could toughen his frail body with vitae, and it kei growing tougher and tougher. Vaulderie with h packmates convinced him that he finally had compar ions who would never abandon him. He lost sex, but the he’d never had that much anyway, and gained the Ki? instead. He fought the power and got to blow shit UE Being Sabbat fucking rocked! A few years later, Ricard received an even greater honor when the Black Han dominion Teresita invited him to become a cadet. Sh honed his skills and sharpened his obsessions to mak Ricardo the laughing fanatic he is tonight. Most Sabbat think that Ricardo is out of his minc hence his common nickname. That doesn’t prevent som Sabbat from admiring him. El Grito de Dolor is proud t have him as a member, though Bishop Natalio insists th: he keep his workshop far from the communal haven. Lik Natalio, Rico Loco sees the J yhad against the Antediluviar as part and parcel with Mexico’s revolutionary struggle fc freedom and justice. If the Black Hand has one complair about Rico, it’s that when he kills an enemy he general1 leaves nothing to diablerize. Rim doesn’t care. He freely joins any faction or plot thz promises him a chance to make a big boom. Camarill; independent, Sabbat, mortal, other the target makes n difference. Rico justifiesattacksonother Sabbat on thegrounc that anyone who would become an enemy of El Grito de Dol( must have fallen from true loyalty to Sabbat ideals, but he real1 just likes the thrill of power he gets from destruction. Rico highly skilled at making and planting bombs and incendia devices. He can build a variety of remotely controlled, timed c booby-tmpped devices, but prefers to watch his explosions.

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