Santiago de Cruz - The Last Vaquero in Nevada

[Pheral]

The sounds of guitar music came from the corner of a shed in the middle of nowhere, Nevada. A ghoul, wearing a sombrero, wearing his leather poncho, brandishing his engraved guitar, strummed away at his metal strings, playing a beautiful song, which even without a single lyric uttered, told a story of love. The ghoul smiled as he strummed before a man knocked on the shed's door.

"Ay, qué es lo que quieres?" The ghoul spoke, sighing as he stopped his strumming session. "This is important work I'm doing here!" 

"The deathclaws are back! We need some range down here!"

Another sigh, and the ghoul stood up, grabbing his repeater and six-iron. The tassels on his poncho glistened as he grabbed his bandolier, a bottle of absinthe, and his hatchet off the wall. "Estúpidos lagartos..." He sighed as he kicked the shed door open.

Name: Santiago de Cruz

Nicknames: Vaquero, El Paladín, Tirador de Primera

Backstory: Santiago de Cruz was a cowboy, living in Nevada when the bombs fell. His wife and children made it into a vault safely, while he was left to become a ghoul. He would wake up in the custody of Caesar's Legion, enslaved and put to work. When the First Battle of Hoover Dam began, he and a group of enslaved ghouls had planted homemade explosives in the armory tent of a nearby Legion encampment. After watching the explosion, they had escaped with the rest of the enslaved, using swords, pickaxes, and their bare hands to claw their way out of the Legion's grip. After doing so, he and the rest of the ghouls joined the NCR. He gained a position as a ranger, but was presumed dead during the Bitter Springs incident. He left for New Vegas and began a new life as a hunter and savior of the town of Caliente.

He jumped onto the pink-skinned horse he had named Pretty Girl, cocking his lever-action repeater as he tossed the shell to a group of screaming girls (or a mirage, either or). He looked down at the city of Caliente, taking a swig of the absinthe before putting it back into his holster, and pushed into the town, ready to take on whatever irradiated demon he could find.