”We ain’t living, we’re surviving. By the skin of our teeth, that’s what it’s all about. Surviving” - Hank Grimm
Name:
Henry Wayne Grimm
Nicknames:
Old Man Grimm
Pop
Mr Moustache
Age:
74
Gender:
Male
Sexuality:
Heterosexual
Occupation:
Owner of Redwater Ranch
Sheriff of Gatling (Formerly)
US Army Corporal (Formerly)
Appearance & Personality:
Hank Grimm could not look any more of a rancher if he tried. Tall, lanky with a sun kissed but weathered complexion and the greatest mustache on the planet, he is the quintessential country man. He has a deep voice resonant voice with a silky southern drawl that kills everyone into a false sense of security. His once dark hair has completely greyed to the point of white but this only adds to the air of authority and wisdom that Hank carries around with him. He dresses simply in old faded Levi’s, cowboy boots and a long sleeve shirt or flannel. He saves his ten gallon hat for special occasions of course.
The patriarch of the Grimm dynasty is a rancher through and through. He was born on the ranch and knows full well he will most likely die on it. He is a hard working man with an unwavering dedication to his chosen craft. In spite of his advanced years, Hank has always been the first one up and the last one to call it a day. He is known for his strict disciplinarian style with his children, which he believes builds character. That said he is devoted to his brood just as much as he is to his farm. Nothing much else matters bar his beloved wife.
An army veteran and former lawman; Hank has spent the better part of his life trying to hide from many of the atrocities that he witnessed and possibly committed during the war. He doesn’t talk about those days bar a few mumbles and groans in his sleep. Those days still haunt him and very much a big factor in his way of life. He is not a great people person and is well know for being a cantankerous old man to pretty much everyone he meets.
History:
Henry Wayne Grimm is a Gatling boy born and bred. He came into this world during the 1944 Gatling Stampede, one of if not the biggest event of the town calendar. He was born in the barn of Redwater Ranch like his daddy and his daddy’s daddy before him and has spent most of his life in the mud and the dust of the family farm. A studious child, Hank always had bigger dreams than life on the ranch. He was a big lover of the spooky tales of Gatling and wanted to write a book about them all. When his head wasn’t buried in a book. young Henry of course was helping around the farm, at least that was until he was drafted.
Much of Hank’s formative years were spent over in Vietnam, fighting in a war he didn’t believe in but so full of pride that he was unable to stop fighting. Whilst in ‘Nam, Hank would lose much of his innocence, his heart hardening swiftly to stone. It was really the only way he could truly cope. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to get back to his old life and so joined the Gatling Sheriff's department in order to join another war, the only way he could feel secure.
By this point, Gatling had become a hot commodity and both legitimate and not so legitimate businesses made the small farming town a target for purchase. For the next several years, Hank and his deputies acted as a vigilante force against the offcomers before a bullet to the face nearly cost him everything. It was while in the hospital recovering that Hank met his beloved Sadie. The two’s courtship was fast and soon enough she was living at Redwater with Hank and pregnant with the first of their children.
Hank has spent the last thirty something years toiling at the ranch. It was never his dream but a fear of the outside world forced his hand. Now he lives and breathes for the farm. Recently things have took a turn however, the criminal element is back in Gatling and his loving wife has passed away. Hank is alone on an island with no life raft in sight.
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”Seize the day; Wallow in the night. Sounds about right to me” - Dusty Grimm
Name:
Dustin Henry Grimm
Nicknames:
Dusty
Boozy
Pretty Boy
Age:
28
Gender:
Male
Sexuality:
Heterosexual
Occupation:
Ranch Hand at Redwater Ranch
Touring Musician
USAF Airman (Formerly)
Appearance & Personality:
When one looks upon the face of Dustin Grimm the truth is immediate, he is a handsome bastard. With chestnut brown hair, neat facial hair and piercing blue eyes, he is the the picture perfect representation of the American cowboy. Standing around 6’2 and sharing his father's lean physique, when he wants to be Dusty is a strong worker on the farm and even better at the bad stuff that the family don’t talk about openly. His style of dress is simple; jeans, boots and a flannel shirt often accompanied by his Levi jacket and stetson.
Dusty is devastatingly charming; with a rattlesnake smile that has got him through many a tough time and into many of Gatlings single ladies beds and sometimes even the married ones. For the most part he is happy go lucky and carefree and shares much of his old mans drive. When something needs to be done that may or may not be breaking the law, it is usually Dustin that does the deeds. He has an almost unearthly ability to switch off his conscience and do what needs to be done.
He is completely enamoured with his music and often will disappear from town for months on end to travel with nothing but a guitar and a book of country songs. He is a wanderer and he always has been.
Like his father before him, Dustin served in the army, having done several tours in Iraq before being discharged. Ever since leaving he has struggled to find his place in world, instead finding life at the bottom of a bottle. Dusty is by his own admission, a high functioning alcoholic. He is very rarely seen without a drink in his hand but has managed to find a balance that it rarely affects his personal life, so far that is anyway but it’s really only a matter of time before it catches up with him and he knows that.
History:
Dustin Grimm is a middle child of the large Grimm family and coincidently shares a birthday with his father, Hank. Dusty was always close to his mother Sadie, often spending any free time he had away from the farm singing with her at church or taking care of his younger siblings whilst strumming his guitar. Dusty was always a free spirited youngster and spent a lot time getting into some scrapes and trouble much to the chagrin of his sheriff father.
At eighteen, Dusty like most Grimm men went to serve his country. A pilot in the Air Force, he completed several tours in Iraq before being discharged on medical grounds. The war had very much taken a heavy toll on Dusty and he found his solace in a bottle of rye and on the strings of his guitar. Soon after, he began touring as a session musician, hooking up with bands to lend a guitar and and occasionally open their shows. It wasn’t a celebrity lifestyle but it was enough for Dusty. It was steady but fast and it kept him out of trouble, for the most part.
Upon his return home, Dustin got his first true glimpse of the dark side of ranching when a local gang took umbrage with the Grimm clan. Taking advantage of the local urban legend, the gang beat up one of the younger Grimms, Gordon and killed one their cattle, placing its head with the broken youngster ala Jamie Goode. In a town like Gatling which is almost lost to time and justice never prevails, the Grimms took matters into their own hands with Dusty at the forefront; strangling one of the gang with his bullwhip. From that moment onward if something dirty needed done, Dustin was the one knee deep in the dirt.
When he’s not touring, Dusty likes to help out at the farm when he can however even when he’s useful his behaviour puts him at odds with his father and with the recent death of his mother the mediator, things will only get worse before they get better.
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