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Player Information

Name: Christy

Contact: swagu

Were you in Hunters’ Game? No

Were you invited? Yes!

Second character? n/a

I have read the rules and understand the activity requirements: Yes

Character Information

Name: Clyde Barrow
Canon: Me & the Devil Blues
Age: 21

(Brief) Canon Description Here is a wiki to prove that it's legit, but it's a rather obscure manga, so! Me & the Devil Blues is a fictionalized story about the mythology behind blues legend Robert Johnson. The manga takes place in 1930s Mississippi, following RJ, who suddenly gains incredible music prowess and leaves his hometown to travel around the South with his musical companion "Ike," who is strongly implied to be the Devil. In one town, he catches a white man's attention and is essentially kidnapped by him so that he can use RJ's music as a distraction while he robs houses. This is, of course, Clyde. Together, they get caught up in strange mysteries and plots in true Southern Gothic horror fashion!!

Personality/Background
In terms of background, there's very little actually explained in the manga about Clyde's life other than the fact that he's in a relationship with a girl named Bonnie. Which, in case it didn't ring a bell, is because, yes, he's that Clyde. I'm assuming that his background pretty much matches up with his historical counterpart, since Me & the Devil Blues is a historical manga.

Clyde is the classic 1930s gangster. He's got good looks, a charming, amiable personality, and, of course, he's completely insane. On the surface, Clyde is a perfectly friendly Southern gentleman. He's amiable and conversational, and for growing up as little more than white trash, he's intelligent and clever. He's the kind of person that has a sharp eye for opportunity in any form and will gladly take it. He makes friends fairly easily, and though he wouldn't count most of them as meaning much, once he has decided to view someone as an ally, he's surprisingly loyal to them. Yet to anyone else, he's a snake with a bad temper. To save himself, he'd sacrifice someone without question, and once wronged, he doesn't forget it easily. He will often try and exact revenge if he can, and even if he can't... He might try anyways. It's in his temper and bloodlust that he looses the veneer of cool calm, instead becoming a laughing psychopath that delights in his revenge. Though of course, it takes something extreme to crack that friendly exterior to expose the more raw bloodlust underneath.

Plot Information

Motivations
Clyde, as you could expect from that little personality blurb, doesn't exactly need much in terms of motivation. Generally speaking, his largest motivation is self-preservation. If it would save himself, he'd kill someone without hesitation, or let them get killed. He would attempt to incapacitate them first, but it wouldn't take much to push him into straight murder. As he says in the series, "I'll kill anybody who gets in my way."

Another big motivator is revenge, since Clyde has a pretty nasty temper. After being knocked out by some farmers, Clyde pursues them and gets caught in a big mystery pretty much solely because they messed with him and he couldn't let that stand. When he does catch up with them, he beats them senseless, and likely would have killed them if he hadn't gotten interrupted by the local sheriff.

And finally, his third motivator is the least frequent, but no less important. When someone earns Clyde's respect, he's surprisingly loyal. He's definitely willing to fight and kill for someone who has earned his respect. He can be reluctant at times if this interferes with that first motivator, but hey, shit happens.

Memory Loss
Clyde will lose his memory of who Bonnie is. Being rather obsessive, not being able to remember who she is would be more than enough to motivate him to participate. He won't remember her name, face, or much of anything about her, just that he loves her and became a mobster for her. He'll also remember the tune that RJ played (Bonnie's Blues), but of course not the name of it or anything else. It'll just be what comes to mind for him when he tries to remember who she is.

Skills
Clyde is your standard human from a world that's analogous to ours, so he has no supernatural or otherworldly skills. He's a very good shot and works very well with improvised weapons (such as a coke bottle, haha), and is also generally just good in a fight. He has very good reflexes and is able to read situations quite well, which helps him come out of even a gunfight where he was unarmed without injury. He's clever and has a silver tongue, which helps him convince people to listen to his side of things, but he's not the best straight-up manipulator. Otherwise, he has basic survival skills that would be needed when you're traveling alone in the 1930s, such as building a fire and camping in the woods.

Items
Nothing, basically! There's nothing Clyde needs, but if it's of interest, he usually carries a Colt M1911 pistol with him.

Murder Mystery
After a confrontation with another character, Clyde takes it upon himself to teach them a lesson. The character in question is someone with a rather similar personality, proud and headstrong, so after some heated exchanges of words and maybe a fistfight that Clyde lost, he can't let it go. He thinks that he has to teach them not to fuck with Clyde Barrow.

He wouldn't exactly be subtle, and considering the fact that it came from an argument, that precedent alone would probably be enough to put a lot of suspcision on him. But Clyde would wait until the victim was alone and relatively vulnerable. He would follow them out towards the pond if they were inclined to take a walk on their own, or encourage them to take a walk with him on the pretense of making amends. When satisfied that they were alone, Clyde would shoot the victim if a gun was avaliable (once, in the head), or simply beat them in the head with a blunt instrument like a heavy glass bottle if not. And in classic mob style, he'd weight the body with rocks if possible and throw it in the pond.

The largest clues would be circumstantial, since it was prompted by an argument, and possibly a third party seeing them leave together. It wouldn't exactly be the most subtle murder, but Clyde doesn't exactly... care... The weapon could be a clue too, since it could be found in an out of the way place, though it would be buried.

Plot Involvement

I would be okay with my character being a ‘designated killer’ Yes

I would be okay with my character being chosen as the Mastermind No