Magic World: Miranda Herrera, Roller Derby Queen

Hey guys, I'm back. Hope you enjoyed the Vlogs over the last couple of days while I played my new game. I've been having a lot of fun with it, and I'll keep playing when I have time, but it's time to get back to writing. I am going to keep this somewhat short though so I can still play a little GTA 5 before getting to bed early. 

Actually, I'd had a story I thought would be good for GTA 5 way back before they had even announced it, where a retired criminal thug, (played by Sam Elliot* in my head) was living in New Austin (where Red Dead Redemption took place) in a little wooden cabin out in the middle of nowhere. He gets a call that someone like a brother or friend, or maybe enemy was killed. He's torn about whether to come back, when he hears motorcycles approaching. They're coming to get him next. (*edit-not sam neil)

So he goes to San Andreas to get back into "the game," of crime, corruption, and violence. It could just as easily be Vice City I suppose, so I'm thinking about writing it as fan fiction in that universe, or maybe I'll set it in my Magic World universe, who knows?

But now I want to move onto something I've been looking forward to for some time: My Roller Derby Queen character, Miranda Herrera. This is the kind of character that I love. Quirky, flirty, unconsciously sexual, happy, bubbly, perky, and good at what she does. If you're a Firefly fan then if I describe her as Kaylee, only less shy, more muscle, and with more scars and bruises. Oh, and pink pigtails.

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She was born in a mid-sized midwestern town, and was always a tomboy, growing up with 3 older brothers. When she went to high school, she played every sport they had for girls, basketball, soccer, volleyball, track, but was always upset that she couldn't join the football team, or wrestling team. She had always roughhoused with her brothers without any problems, and couldn't understand why it should be any different with any other boy. (This led to a tendancy to be very physical, even in casual encounters, without any sense of self consciousness, and without any intentional sexuality.)

Then when she was about seventeen she went to her first Roller Derby. She was ecstatic, elated, and enamored, at the raw physicality, and comradery, and the fact that you got to smash into people at high speed on roller skates. After her first successful derby she earned the name Butcher Knife because she "carved up" the other team. This was shortened first to Butcher, then finally to Butch.

However a few months after she turned 18 she fulfilled a promise to herself, following her brothers into the army. She finished boot camp with distinction, and when the time came chose Combat Training and Special Forces. She was accepted, and finished that training with distinction, though her instructors clearly disapproved of her "two-gun" style. She had to admit it was difficult at first, using two pistols simultaneously, but she gradually came to see it as extensions of her arms, so that she had more options when aiming. Her ability grew better and better, and soon she was hitting the same targets as those who used more conventional weapons, only she was hitting twice as often. She could also aim at 2 targets at once, however her accuracy suffered when doing this.

She served 2 tours in Afghanistan, but during the second one on a patrol her unit encountered an IED on the side of the road, and stopped to secure the area. As they patrolled, watching for civilians and terrorists alike, it happened.
Miranda stepped onto a mine. The blast was contained but she did lose the bottom part of her left leg, halfway through the calf.

However a brilliant Magical Engineer who claimed to be part of a special department, came and offered to make her a prosthetic. He came back with an enormously over sized prosthetic, which she was told to put on.

He came and went several more times, each contraption looking much smaller and lighter than the last, until finally he came back with a device that look,stump  and felt good on the "stump" of her leg

She was discharged from the Army, presented with a Purple Heart, and wanted to go straight back into Roller Derby, but wasn't sure how. But she practiced, and fell, and practiced some more, until she was able to skate on her prosthetic leg, and was eventually able to skate again.

During the Derby's off season, with her prosthetic functioning  flawlessly, to the point where almost nobody knew it was there, she was able to supplement her income as a mercenary for the Mexican government, helping to push back the gangs and take out their strongholds.

When she heard that the engineer who had given her the leg was killed, she felt she owed it to him to go and find out what happened.

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And there we go.  Fairly simple, yet hopefully entertaining.

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