Roadhog: Hotel Problems

Name: Maiko Rutledge

Code Name: Roadhog

Nationality: Australian

Age: 49 years old

Appearance: Roadhog stands 7 ft 3 in (230 cm) tall, and is a slightly overweight and muscular Australian woman with greyed hair tied into a ponytail atop her head, dirt on her skin, and a pig-themed engine tattoo on her stomach that reads "Wild Hog Power", with her protruding navel forming the pig's snout. Her outfit consists of unbuckled camouflage overalls with a knee pad on her right leg featuring a skull decoration, steel toe boots with the left toe protruding in a spike, and shoulder pads over her upper torso to cover her breasts. The right shoulder has a spiked tire pauldron with a yellow armor piece. Both forearms have wraps around them, with the hand covered by a spiked fingerless glove with wrist guard, while she wears rings on her left hand. Roadhog wears a license plate as a belt buckle, with the text reading "ROADR8GE".

Attached to her belt buckle is a large spool of chain attached to her hook that she uses to pull people towards her yellow scrap metal double barrel shotgun.

Under her mask she keeps her most guarded secret, her face. Her face has a torn off bit of flesh on the right side of her lip that exposes the inside of her mouth and shows her canine teeth that grew into what looks like three inch boar tusks. Her nose looks slightly smushed like a pigs snout.

Personality: She’s an odd character, while most people won’t get close to her due to fear she isn’t a very horrifying woman when people get to know her, she tends to keep quiet due to her mask muffling her already gravely voice. She can have a tender soft spot for the few friends she has, but she also likes to keep her peace intact and will promptly leave or make people leave if she’s getting annoyed by them.

Her average day consists of checking on Junkrat, grabbing her lunch from the cafeteria, taking it back to her room to eat, lounging in the common area, going to advanced and basic training, working out, meditating in the shower, then getting naked and sleeping in her bed.

Quirks: As a hulking behemoth of woman she tends to freak people out with her stature so most new recruits or seasoned veterans won’t get near her.

Her disfigurement makes it much harder for her to breathe so she has a constant growling wheeze and requires yellow canisters that she smashes into her masks filter intake to clear up.

She has a small collection of Pachimari plushies in her room and tends to keep a small one in her back pocket.

She also likes ice cream but she tends to eat alone.

Before sleeping she’ll casually take off her clothes to get comfortable, but she hesitates before taking her mask off if she hasn’t locked her door.

She snores deeply enough to make her chest rumble.

Her bed is larger than average and has just one pillow and one large thick comforter for her to sleep in.

Backstory: Maiko Rutledge lived in the Australian Outback in the period after the Omnic Crisis. The government of Australia, in an effort to make peace with the omnics, allowed them to take possession of the omnium and the territory around it, displacing the human residents. Maiko and other angry humans formed the Australian Liberation Front (ALF) to strike against the omnium and the omnics that resided around it. In the end, the ALF overloaded the fusion core, destroying the omnium and turning the Outback into a radioactive wasteland, severely disfiguring Maiko's face. Maiko donned a mask and took to the broken highways on her chopper, forsaking her humanity little by little until she became a ruthless killer. She has since joined up with Junkrat as her bodyguard, in exchange for half of whatever treasure the ex-Junker knows the location of. After the two were exiled from Junkertown by the Junker Queen for causing a string of problems for her, Roadhog and Junkrat decide to get back at her. They embarked on an international crime spree and became wanted criminals in many countries. Once their worldwide heist was complete, they returned to Junkertown with their loot to use to get back at the Junker Queen, but Junkrat blows their cover at the entrance, leaving them with nothing but a cart of goods, useless disguises, and a ticking explosive.

After getting a pardon from Overwatch they became freelance agents and went “clean”. Although Maiko still keeps her silent and gruff demeanor about her she has made friends with most of the Overwatch team, but she still prefers to be silent or keep to herself in her own barracks. But to her, being a “hero” isn’t so bad.