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Name: Jedidiah (Jed) Houston. Mostly known as Houston.

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Appearance:Houston has medium brown hair with premature streaks of gray at his temples and in his straight, stern eyebrows. He has a strong jaw covered in seemingly permanent stubble, and and equally impressive build - Tall and stocky, a decent combination. He tends to wear a simple neckerchief, to cover the scar where someone tried to slit his throat.

Personality: Houston is, unsurprisingly, very serious when it comes to working, or fighting, or anything that his life may depend on. He is rather mistrustful of pretty young women, as it was a pretty young woman who gave him the scar on his throat. Despite that, he is fairly slow to anger, which would surprise some, but makes perfect sense to Houston. Why pick fights, after all, when he's been in too many scraps already? However, this being said, once a good brawl has started, he loves jumping into the fun. Despite all this, he has a very soft attitude towards children, especially.

History: Houston was actually born inside a jail, and grew up accordingly; pacts, feuds, alliances, betrayal and fights were a natural way of things. He already knew how to fight, how to stay alive, and how to think on his feet when he was little older than six. When he was fifteen, his mother was released from jail, and him with her, whereupon she kicked him out of her life; she would have enough trouble feeding herself, let alone a nearly grown boy. After all, she could always resort to whorehouses for employment; he could not.

So, after picking the pockets of the wrong people, he found himself in the stockade with other thieves, who took him in. He later found that they were not just thieves, but murderers, mercenaries, and a fully functioning gang. He rose quickly through their ranks, and was soon entangled in a world of gang politics. When he was just over twenty, he fell in with a young woman who, although he didn't know it, was a member of a rival gang, and was trying to kill him. She almost succeeded, but he managed to shoot her before she could successfully cut his throat. At twenty five, right before Mr. Roland found him, the same rival gang found him, mugged him, and left him for dead in the gutter. But that's where Roland comes in.

Crimes: Thievery (major and minor), murder, and gang involvement.

Up for Love: Yes

Other: Like I said, he's never gotten over the woman he loved trying to kill him. So, he really gets uneasy if any female person tries to get on his good side. He also likes a good cigar, which has given his deep voice a slightly rough quality.