Doc Holliday

1880s, Tombstone, Arizona

Doc coughs a lot. Sometimes blood. He has tuberculosis.

Name: John Henry “Doc” Holliday - referred to as Doc, or Doc Holliday Hair: brown, cut short on the sides while the top is a little longer and sometimes hang in front of his face if he doesn’t have a hat, standard handlebar/Hungarian mustache fit with a soul patch under his lip. Eyes: green, red around the rims Features: pale, sickly pale, sweaty from tuberculosis, pale lips, often carries around a handkerchief that he coughs into (sometimes bloody), 5’11.5”, hairy chest, veiny hands, lean but muscular Personality: a sick but swaggering Southern gentleman, very handy with his weapons but well-headed enough to know when not to use them and pick up a shot of whiskey instead. Has a thick southern drawl. three redeeming traits. One was courage; he was afraid of nothing on Earth. The second was the one commendable principal in his code of life, sterling loyalty to friends. The third was his affection for Wyatt Earp. Doc=calm, volatile, vicious, smart-aleck, fiercely loyal, cuttingly sarcastic, layered, funny, dark, brooding, flippant Clothing: Holliday is the epitome of the Old West badass; his Victorian style borders on the foppish with its colored vests and cravats, and he indulges his every vice. Has a pair of pinstripe trousers that is very narrow and the pants appear solid gray from a distance. The trousers have frogmouth front pockets, which Holliday uses for his Colt Lightning revolver (in the right side pocket) and his pocketwatch (in the left pocket). Backstory: Doc's mother, Alice McKey Holliday, died of consumption when he was 15 years old. Sadly, in all likelihood he contracted the fatal disease from her. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit. Southern gambler and skilled gunslinger seeking relief from his sickness, Tuberculosis, and becomes enemies with Johnny Ringo. He helps Wyatt and the other heroes fight the the Cowboys, which Johnny Ringo is apart of. Holliday and the other first battle the Cowboys at the O. K. Corral and kill several of them. They pursue the rest of the Cowboys and kill them including their leader, Curly Bill Brocius, who meets his demise at the hands of Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia on 14 August 1851, and he became a dentist at the age of 21, earning himself the nickname "Doc". However, he was soon diagnosed with tuberculosis, the same disease which had killed his mother when he was 15, and he decided to move to the American Southwest to find more suitable weather for his condition. became a reputed gambler in Prescott, Arizona, having several confrontations over the next few years. He saved Wyatt Earp's life during his confrontation with Dave Rudabaugh in 1878, and they became lifelong friends. In 1879, Holliday joined Earp in Tombstone, where the Cochise County Cowboys spread rumors that Holliday was a stagecoach robber. Doc Holliday was not just a Southerner, but an aristocrat, the son of a Georgia Mayor, with very strict rules of conduct. He was not a well man before he got out west and he punished almost everyone because of it. He did many things that weren't in his best interest. He was actually a dentist, that was what he did for a living before he contracted tuberculosis so he had a mean streak even before he started killing people. He just gave himself up to his pleasures which were gambling, brotheling and shooting people. He was rather shy unless you insulted him. He knew Latin and he played classical piano. Notes: Without question a stone killer, an alcoholic and a whoremonger. He was known to cheat at cards. A shiftless, bagged-legged character - a killer and professional cut-throat and not a wit too refined to rob stages or even steal sheep. Doc does everything to excess – drinking, smoking, womanizing, killing, and certainly gambling – but he is the only character who can honestly say “My hypocrisy goes only so far.”