the Zero-Zero Gang
The not!cyborgs bios as per the old west AU…so far. This is prior any research so things are subject to change as I learn shit or alter the plot. They still have their numbers as code names should they need them, and they received their number in the order Gilmore recruited them.
Dr. Isaac Gilmore
A medical doctor and inventor both. After a lucrative career and amassing a fortune in New England Gilmore decided to head out to the frontier to bring the newest scientific advancements to where it was needed most. He found a beautiful country beset by evils and decided to use his wealth to do something about it. With Ivan’s help, he began to gather a group of people to form a team that would maintain justice out west.
001 - Ivan Whisky
A genius child who was traveling with his father, Gamo. Despite his intellect, Ivan was still treated as little more than a child and none would listen when he said his father was responsible for his mother’s death and his fear for his own life. Only Gilmore listened to his troubles and obliged Ivan when he begged Gilmore to take him away. Ivan was intrigued by Gilmore’s want of justice and together the two formed the team. Ivan is Gilmore’s “Number One”.
002 - Jet Link
Jet was from a poor family in New York who traveled west to attempt to make a better life. His parents were killed in an Indian raid and Jet eventually ended up leading a group of train robbers known as the Blue Rose Gang. Gilmore found him when the gang betrayed him and left him to die by the tracks. Jet was given a choice: join Gilmore’s team or be handed over to the law. Jet gave his word to follow Gilmore for two years, after which he was free to go. Aside from fighting for justice he’s tracking the Blue Rose Gang for revenge. He has a history with Joe.
003 - Francoise Arnoul
Francoise was traveling across America with her brother Jean. When on the frontier Jean disappeared, leaving Francoise with no money or way to find him, much less return to France. Francoise is skilled in gathering and analyzing information through what she sees and hears, noticing details and patterns that others miss. This and her education caught Gilmore’s eye and he offered her a place on his team: work for him and help maintain justice and aside from the pay and a place to live, Gilmore would help her look for her brother.
004 - Albert Heinrich
A German immigrant and a war veteran, Albert was a sharpshooter and a sniper for the army before his lost his right forearm in combat. He lost his fiancée to roving bandits while he was away soon after. He spent months drowning his sorrows and picking fights in an unconscious effort to die before Gilmore offered him a place on the team. After Hilda’s senseless death, the idea of having a purpose and helping others not suffer as he did was appealing and he leapt at the chance. Gilmore makes him various prosthetics for the purpose of combat, one even capable of firing a rifle again.
005 - Geronimo Jr.
Understanding that the only way to deal with white people was with white money, Geronimo left his home in the southwest to make his fortune, as well as attempt to unite the Indian tribes. He was unlucky in his endeavor and found himself on the plains. Upon being offered the role of chief in an exploitive ‘Indian show’, Geronimo assaulted a man and fled town. Gilmore, having seen the altercation, decided he needed such a strong man on his team and followed to make him the offer. With the promise of pay and through Joe a connection to the Lakota, Geronimo accepted.
006 - Chang Chanko
Chang came to America to make a new life for himself but instead found himself forced to work on the railroads to pay off his traveling debts. He learned to use explosives when the railroad needed to pass through mountains. It was a miserable existence and he escaped as soon as he was able. He settled in a town on the prairie and attempted to work as a cook with the intent to open his own restaurant, though no one would have him. Chang’s knowledge of explosives and cooking gives him a rudimentary knowledge of chemistry, and for this Gilmore was quick to offer the dishearten man a place on his team. Chang is also the team cook, keeping the large group well fed.
007 - Great Britain
Despite his initial successes back in England, Great Britain had nothing but bad luck on his tour through America. His shows in the east did terribly and soon avenues were turning him down. With hope for better luck with the ‘culturally starved’ peoples of the frontier, he headed out west to find he was just as unwanted and could barely scrape out a living for himself. He fell to drinking and lost even that much and was soon destitute. Gilmore found him and helped him dry out before offering GB a place on the team. As an actor, GB is a master of disguise and skilled in reading people.
008 - Pyunma
Pyunma was captured and brought from his home in Africa and sold as a slave in the south. He managed to escape and fled west, hoping to make enough money as a free man to buy his way back to Africa. While wary, he took Gilmore’s offer to join the team not only for the pay but to help end such injustices that happened to him from befalling others. Pyunma often acts as tactician and his growing up in another culture and his time as a slave allows him to consider perspectives his teammates often do not have.
009 - Joe Shimamura
Why and how Joe’s mother ended up traveling alone and pregnant is unknown, but she found herself among the local Indians and stayed with them after giving birth, though she died soon after. Joe was raised among the Lakota, accepted but never feeling truly one of them, but as a half-Japanese boy raised among the Indians he would find no belonging among white men either. Eventually he left the Lakota to make his own way and ended up making a name for himself as the fastest gun in the west. It was a title he came to loathe as it gave him no more purpose or belonging than before and sent glory-seekers after him. He accepted Gilmore’s offer to join the team in hopes to put his skills to good use and maintain justice for everyone in the west. He has a history with Jet.
