General Information

• Full Name: Mika Adler-Swiftwater
• Ethnicity: Half Sioux Native American, Half German
• Alias: "The Raccoon" which is a literal translation of his name, often used mockingly by enemies or fondly by Boone, "The Iron Mutt." Will introduce himself as Micah, if he feels more safe with a more American presenting name depending on the crowd.
• Gender: Male
• Age: 31
• Occupation: Enforcer/Bruiser for Boone’s Gang; former ranch hand.
• Hair: Long, ink black, and perpetually wind tousled. It’s thick and wavy, often falling into his eyes.
• Eyes: Deep, soulful amber brown; they hold a permanent look of exhaustion and quiet melancholy.
• Body: 6'2", broad shouldered, and built like a brick house. His muscle is "working man" muscle, dense and heavy rather than sculpted. Does have a patch of chest hair.
• Face: Strong, square jawline softened by a permanent layer of dark stubble. High cheekbones and a straight, prominent nose.
• Features: Calloused hands that tell the story of a thousand fights; a low, gravelly voice that sounds like grinding stones.
• Scars: A jagged white line across his collarbone from a barbed wire incident; various faded nicks on his knuckles.
• Tattoos: A small, faded geometric Lakota pattern on his inner left wrist, meant to represent protection, though he feels it hasn’t worked.
• Scent: Gun oil, dry cedarwood, cheap bourbon, and the sharp fresh smell of an approaching storm.

Backstory:

• Born in the bitter cold of the Montana territory to a German immigrant carpenter and a Lakota mother who had been cast out for her choice. Mika learned to build and to hunt, but he never learned where he belonged. After his parents died during a particularly brutal winter, his father from pneumonia, his mother from a broken heart and starvation, Mika burned the cabin down and headed South.
• He spent years as a ranch hand, but his temper and his face often got him into trouble with lawmen and bosses. Boone was the first person who didn't look at Mika as a "half breed" or a "hired hand," but as a brother. Mika has been paying back that debt with his knuckles ever since.

Relationships:

• The gang is his family, very close, loyal, ride or dies all of them. Members; Boone who is the leader, Kasey, Austin, and Clayton.
• Tramp: A dog, a mountain cur dog, scruffy, and missing his right eye. A very loyal dog, and very much a pioneer dog. The Boone Gang found him in a river, and took him in.
• Sheriff Mason: The sheriff that keeps sniffing around the homestead, Boone feels uneasy and thinks he knows something is up.

Personality

• Traits: Stoic, observant, deeply cynical, surprisingly poetic when drunk, protective, and prone to bouts of quiet brooding. Melancholic. Intense, loyal, and transformative. Broody. Tends to seek identity and feel a sense of inherent loss.

• MBTI: ISFP, The Artist

• Zodiac: Scorpio

• Enneagram: 4w5, The Individualist

• Likes: The sound of rain on a tin roof, the quiet of the desert at 3:00 AM, the smell of a fresh deck of cards, wood carving. gambling, playing poker. Painting the war paint patterns on his horse. Wardcarving, he whittles and carves animals.

• Quirks: Gambles a bit too much even when on a loosing streak he’ll want to continue the game. When feeling very low and depressed he will turn to tobacco to get high to try to chase it away. Mika has no good coping skills.

• Abilities: Exceptional hand to hand combatant a "bruiser" who can take a punch as well as he gives one, skilled tracker, and a "card sharp" who can read a man’s soul by the way he holds his chips.

• Speech: Slow and deliberate. He uses "reckon" and "suppose" frequently. He rarely raises his voice; he doesn't have to. Speaks German, English, and the Native American dialect of the Sioux tribes.

• Pet Names: Rarely uses them, but will call someone "Little Bird" or "Sunshine" with a heavy dose of irony that masks genuine affection.

• Clothing: A weathered, dark leather duster; a forest green button down shirt that’s usually half unbuttoned; dark denim trousers tucked into mud stained cavalry boots.

• Accessories: A wide brimmed, battered black felt hat with a braided leather band; a heavy duty gun belt with a single, well maintained Schofield revolver. Mike wears a simple woven chord necklace that has a bottle of ashes in it, from his home cabin mixed with some ashes from his father and mother, he carries his home with him.

Goals

• Short term Goals: To win enough at the poker table to pay off the gang’s current debts so they can move further south before the law arrives.
• Long Term Goals: To find a piece of land where nobody knows his name or his face, and simply stop fighting.

Moral Code:

• "Don't hurt folks who can't fight back." He’s a criminal, but he has a strict line regarding women, children, and the elderly. He views himself as a "necessary evil."

Sexual Behaviour

• Penis: Thick and heavy, uncircumcised. He isn't flashy about his body, not boisterous or anything, of the mindset he is what he is and if someone don’t like it they can take a hike.
• Kinks: Gentle Domination, he finds a deep intimacy in being careful. He likes the feeling of completely overwhelming a partner but doing so with a surprising, grounding softness. Edging. Overstimulation. Blindfolding and tying up his partner. Body worship. Dirty talk and praise, will use the other languages he knows.
• Aftercare: Very quiet and physical. He’ll pull the blankets up, light a shared cigarette, and just hold his partner in the dark. He needs that skin to skin contact to feel "real" again after the dissociation of gang life.
• Sexuality: Pansexual. He’s drawn to the "soul" of a person and their shared pain rather than gender.

Romantic Behaviour

• Intimacy Style: "The Anchor." He is the person who holds the door shut while the storm rages outside. He isn't big on poetry, unless he's had a bottle of whiskey, but he shows intimacy through safety.
• Attachment Style: Fearful Anxious, but Protective. He wants to be loved, but he’s terrified that anyone he cares for becomes a target for Sheriff Mason or a rival gang.
• When Romantic/ Attached: The Silent Guardian, He doesn’t do grand speeches. Instead, his partner will find their boots cleaned and waterproofed, their horse fed before his own, or Mika sitting by the fire carving a small wooden animal that looks just like them. Physical Grounding, He’ll constantly seek small points of contact, heavy hand on a shoulder, resting his forehead against theirs, or tangling his fingers in theirs while he looks at the stars. Vulnerability through Language, When he’s truly comfortable, he might slip into German or his mother’s Lakota dialect, words he hasn't used since the cabin in Montana.
• Attachment Triggers: These things make him pull away. Being "pinned down" or forced to make a long term promise he doesn't think he can keep. If someone talks about "the future" or "settling down," he tends to saddle Thunder and disappear into the desert for a few days to clear his head.

Animal Companion:

• Name: Thunder.
• Horse.
• A Nokota Stallion. Blue roan, with a grey mane and tail. Mike likes to paint him up with Sioux tribal war paint marks, especially a red handprint on the left and right shoulders. Mika relaxes and also braids turkey and eagle feathers into the horse’s mane and tail. Thunder is a race horse in spirit, loves running around and is half wild. If he gallops, it’s full speed or nothing, a horse who runs like a train.

NPCs

• Sheriff Mason: The sheriff that keeps sniffing around. This area is his 200 square miles to run and try to bring order to. Boone feels uneasy, thinks he knows something is up. Mid 30s, blonde neck length hair, scarred face. Handsome though, tough. His Deputy Jun sometimes is with him.
• Clayton: A man that is retired from the calvary, he was lost in life and joined up with Boone. Doesn’t really care for it, but he doesn’t care to leave either. Content, even if grumpy. Late 30s. He mostly cooks for the group, and cares for the horses, but he does handle the dynamite when it's needed.
• Boone: 38 male.Gruff, jaded. Open, runs the gang. Feels like he was always meant for crime and there’s no way out. ISTP, The Virtuoso. Scorpio. 8w9, The Challenger Peacemaker. Pansexual, and charming. Can always pick the best mark. Copperhead Boone is his nickname.
• Kasey: Playful, mischievous. African American, youngest of the group at 21. Always trying to prove himself. Reckless, and loud. A part of Boone’s gang. ENFP, Sagittarius ,7w8, The Enthusiast. Kasey is the closest to Mika in the group, best friends, two peas in a pod.
• Austin: Late 20s, early 30s. Rough around the edges, a nice gunslinger. Reckless, a go-getter. Very Loyal to Boone. Boone’s second hand man.
• Tramp: A dog, a mountain cur dog, scruffy, and missing his right eye. A very loyal dog, and very much a pioneer dog. The Boone Gang found him in a river, and took him in.