Carlos "Armas Dos" Villalobos

Concept: Cartel Problem Facilitator/Corpse Producer

AKA: Most of the people who know him call Señor Villalobos. Those who he considers friends call him “Dos”

Desc: Lean like a piece of jerky. Plenty of ink. Not a bit of it less than professionally done. Dresses like a businessman. Tailored jacket. Armpit rigs. Dual holders in the small of the back. Unless the job calls for him to look like he’s from the streets...In which case, he snaps back like reflex. He still wears his mother’s cross.

History: Carlos grew up in Juarez, right across the border from El Paso. The problem with border and port towns is that if you don’t control the port. Then you cannot move the drugs. The Problem was that El Chapo had just escaped from prison and was determined to put his organization back together. There was only one thing stopping him. The Juarez Gang, and the fact they’d already suborned most of the local police. So El Chapo went them one better and put money into the hands of the federal cops.  So not only do you have the Juarez gang and Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel killing one another. But you Juarez cops and federal police killing one another. So if you’re going to be a guy in El Chapo’s gang, then you’re going to have to be good at staying alive and it would help if you’re pretty good at killing people.

Carlos is PHENOMENAL at both. In a place where 1 in 6 males don’t make it past 21, it is a testament to Carlos’s skill that he is now 32.  He makes good money. Knows El Chapo personally. Owns a beautiful home. and travels all over the world.  Granted, The reason he travels is because someone got stupid, or greedy, or sometimes because the competition is stiffer than homegrown soldiers can handle. Carlos is not a soldier. he is an Assessino. And when he goes to work. he leaves a lot of hats on the ground.

Attitude: “Listen Primo. I don’t want to be here. And you don’t want me here. I already know what happened. If you talk to me...I can put in a word for you. I may still have to kill all of your boys, though.”

Skills: In the intellectual realm, He’s picked up some skills. Not a lot of academics or anything like that. A dot or two of investigation. Some streetwise. Some subterfuge.  Plentiful dots of survival with a specialty in Urban

The only thing about him intellectually that is remotely serious is that he thinks lightning fast. His wits and his Dexterity are truly gifted. On the physical front, He’s not terribly strong, and he’s got a good amount of Stamina. He’s been shot and stabbed a few times and come out fine each time. As I say, he’s crazy good with Dexterity. He juggles throwing knives. It is his only hobby. He is additionally, ambidextrous and has the gunslinger merit. Dots in Combat marksman are not out of line for him.  He is, however, utter shit at sniping, he’s not great at hand to hand, (maybe 2 dots, it’s not like he’s not been in fights.) and he’s got some dots in Weaponry with throwing knives.

Socially, He’s pretty bland. He’s not much of a talker. he hasn’t had sex with anyone who wasn’t a professional in over 10 years. He doesn’t even bother with trying to intimidate people anymore. Carlos knows what he can do. He doesn’t feel the need to come on all heavy to anyone. Many people have tried to come on all heavy to him. Most of them are dead now.  If there is anything that could be considered weird about him socially, it is that for some reason, he’s very polite. and he usually gives targets an opportunity to walk away, if it can be allowed by his bosses.

Gear: Carlos has this thing about revolvers. He had some problems with automatics in his early days. An ill-timed jam nearly cost him his life. So he carries paired 38 revolvers under his armpits and at his ankles. The two pistols in the small of his back are 45’s and if he KNOWS that he’s in for trouble, he’ll supplement his gear with an additional gunbelt with another pair of matched 45’s. Carlos has this thing about killing people who he isn’t contracted to kill and who aren’t seeking to kill him, so he loads all of his guns with Glaser slug ammo.(for greater combat precision) If he’s going into a combat situation, he’ll additionally be carrying 4 throwing knives and be wearing a leather body suit with an undercoating of ballistic ceramic scale mail. He went for this rig because it impedes his movement the least but provides decent coverage. Normally, the “Attack Suit” is also topped off with a motorcycle helmet. Even in his normal “Professional” attire, he’ll be likely to have a subtle undercoating of kevlar. Fortunately, he gets his suits tailored so he simply looks a little bulkier.

His attack suit also has multiple speed-loaders for his pistols, (which he can identify by feel) and two smoke grenades.

His normal everyday carry gear includes an iPhone, A straight razor which he keeps in his jacket pocket. He’s had a vasectomy, so he never carries condoms anymore. He usually has a sheaf of hundreds in his wallet and a stack of gift cards that are worth 500 dollars each.  It’s simply easier to keep track of expenses that way.

Home: Carlos has a sumptuous home in Juarez. He gets around these parts about once a year. Sometimes more than once. It depends on whether the local distributors are dumber, greedier, or more hapless than usual. As a result, he’s leased a small condo near the very edge of LatinTown where it borders on slightly more upscale neighborhoods. Carlos’s extremely well-forged passport indicates that he’s a corporate negotiator for a south American oil company. He does, however, get a little vain about his vehicles. While he enjoys a nice sports car back home, he vastly prefers a performance SUV. Especially for tasks that involve moving a body. Don’t misunderstand, though. That SUV will have a nitrous bottle.

Circle: The local distributors live in mortal terror of him. His legend grows. He’s like the “Bill Brasky” of cartel hitmen to them. As a result, they will do nearly anything to please him. He takes that in stride and never raises his voice. If there is anything that might get him in trouble on the social front it is that he is something of a horn-dog.  He doesn’t even really seem to have a type. Except maybe “Whore” as a type. Otherwise, Redheads, black girls, Asian twins...he’s not picky.

Story Uses:

“I begin to see that my Hermanos were not exaggerating. My apologies for this unfortunate situation. Now I’m going to have to kill you.”

Let’s face it. Carlos is not a local. He’s a problem, like Aldous Church. He comes to town every once in a while, usually on business.  If your PC’s bump into him, it’s not an accident. It’s because they’ve been muscling the drug trade in town, or trying to put it out of business.  Carlos doesn’t care which. He’ll be looking to solve the problem.

It should also be understood, that Carlos has had to deal with supernatural threats before. If it is clear that the problem the cartel is having is supernatural, he will be loaded for bear, if it is discovered in the field, he’ll break contact with the threat as best he can, make some calls, and when you see him next, he will be loaded for bear.

Connections:

* When it looked like Rick Deluca was going to jail, Carlos got the call. By the time he'd arrived in the city to handle the problem, Rick had already taken care of the rich kid. When Carlos heard the story about it. He actually smiled, congratulated both him and Pablo, and said that their solution was very cool. That night, there was much tequila and then he flew home the next afternoon.