Mauricio Armando

Name: Mauricio Armando
Nicknames: Mauri, Mr Macademia
Species: Crocodile
Occupation: Drug lord working in the southern half of the city
Appearance: Mauricio is Crocodile of considerable stature and slightly overweight, with cream scales and blue eyes which burn with a passion for his work. He always wears a floral shirt and wears cargo pants and sandals. When talking to other organised crime members, he wears a longer pair of jeans and suede shoes but he continues to wear is green and red floral Hawaiian shirt.
Personality traits
Likes
His allies – Mauricio holds a strong trust in everyone who he lets into his friendship circles and as a result he tends to get very close to them, always willing for a laugh and a copious amount of alcohol.
Money - the greatest motivation for Mauricio in his life as it is why he became a drug lord and while he won’t do anything ridiculous in the name of coin he will push himself incredibly far in order to get it.
Latin music- not much calms his nerves apart form a helping of alcohol than the soothing sounds of Latin music of which his mother played bountifully when he was a child before her passing, it helps him remember her in a way.
Dislikes
Lies – a lie to a usual person would upset them but usually they would blow it off after a short while but due to his love of money a lie to mauri feels more like an attack on his character and as such he will hold no qualms in teaching them a lesson.
Entitlement – a person who feels entitled and is owed more than what society has given them annoys mauri more than anything else and will shut them up. Sometimes he tries to talk to them about why they’re not entitled but it usually happens in such a talked down to manner that they just blow him off as being an asshole. Big mistake.
 
Personality
Mauri is a jolly, upbeat and generally good-willed crocodile but at the same time he is also ruthless and determined to complete whatever goal he set his sights on, which most of the time involves making a profit. It cannot be understated that the primary goal in mauri’s life is to make as much money as possible and stomp out any and all competition which usually involves their “disappearance” just to make sure he doesn’t miss out on any monetary opportunities since at his heart mauri is a cutthroat business man dead-set on monopolising as many drug markets as a man can. An alliance with mauri as a friend simply requires buying his drinks and be willing to keep his operations a secret however if you wish to work with him as a fellow cartel member it’s the equivalent of a blood pact. From the perspective of his friends he is an incredibly gentle and upbeat man with a heavy sense of social responsibility despite his trade but to his rivals he is an intense force to reckon with. One slip up with him on your bad side and you’re as good as dead.
 
History
The reason mauri has such a determined business mind-set and an undying love of money is because he was brought up in the slums of soleanna where barely anyone had enough money to buy a loaf of bread and a bottle of water, due to this and an intense feeling of despair from the dingy alleyways, smelling gutters and derelict housing many people felt like the world owed them more than they were willing to pay out, as such a heavy sense of entitlement was born in mauri engraved into his soul by his parents and surroundings.
This attitude lasted for an incredibly long time until he was 17 when he left the slums one day in order to steal some food for his parents until he accidentally bumped into a highly-paid business man, the moment he saw the man he thought he found the perpetrator of all the damn-fall of his family and neighbours and so he ranted and raved, got the angriest he had ever been in his life up until that point until the man said one statement which transformed his life “You are entitled to nothing you little shit, you want something done you get off your ass. Life aint about hand-outs and if you would realise that mabey you wouldn’t be living in squalor”.
These words hit mauri like a truck and at first he was insulted but after a time he realised that those were the exact words he was waiting for his entire life, to finally validate the little voice in his head. From that day forward he started looking for a job in the less run down part of the slums and eventually found one cleaning up dishes at a local restaurant, after a week of working his ass off, he finally got his first pay check and from that point onwards he devoted himself to becoming a pillar of authentic success no matter what. Move on after a few years of school and going from job to job he ended up in the pharmaceutical company since he thought that it would be the best way for him to move up a career ladder and at first he enjoyed it but after a while the daily grind started to get to him a bit too much and he slowly found himself in a rut with what felt like no escape.
That was until he met Konran Sonzai who at first seemed normal up until he noticed that we was buy an awfully large amount of a certain relaxant called macamedusa and curious as to what he was doing with it he followed him outside one day to find that they were being sold as halluginegetics to the highest bidder. This at first terrified him but for a second time he found validation for the tiny little noise in the back of his head and he was struck with an idea. He knew that relaxant worked by distilling the berries and then mixing them into a drink, with that in mind he brought a box of berries and set to work on how to best bring out their hallucinegetic properties and after working tireless nights and at one point almost caving in since it appear that he was once again in a rut, he hit gold.
He learned that by instead of distilling the berries he dried them out and then concentrated them into a paste, its properties of hallucinations came out more than distilling them and from that he began selling the paste and it sold like hotcakes. He made more money than he had ever dreamed of and that was the start of his drug lord career.
Powers
Being a crocodile, mauri is incredibly strong to the point that he can lift a small car for a good 10 seconds, along with this he has thick scales along his back which makes it hard for him to get stabbed but it doesn’t do much in the way of preventing blunt trauma and does very little when being shot at. He has trained on the streets in a very grapple heavy manner, preferring to toss his enemy around in his hands or jaws rather than using any strikes but the ones he does have are incredibly strong. His main weapon of choice outside of the obvious firearms is that he possesses pronged knuckle dusters with tiny balls at the end of them that he fills with cyanide. You see the macamedusa berries also contain small amounts of cyanide which while in small quantities is fine, eating more than a grape box full of them in one sitting however will cause death from cyanide poisoning, mauri capitalises on this by using the left over cyanide to poison his knuckle dusters for quick takeout’s. The scariest part about mauri’s arsenal however are the amount of booby traps that he keeps around his lair, these range from simple annoyances such as mouse traps and unturned pins that go into people’s feet to sticking C4 to the underside of his car which he offers as constalation for any denied terms and conditions and then blows them up when they take it. He has also been known to lay a few grenades and pistols in his desk in case things get hairy.
Strengths
Immense Strength – as stated previously, mauri is capable of lifting a car for 10 seconds but he is also capable of smashing up desks and pulling doors off his hinges. When he is angry however he has the potential to push a car over rather than merely lift it (lifting a car would be in the same way as to.
A tenacious spirit – mauri is a very driven and motivated individual who will stop at nothing in order to achieve his goals and while as said previous he won’t do something completely overboard he will go to some surprising lengths.
Botany – Mauri is an expert botanist, capable of making any kind of drugs he needs in a similar way to homeopathy whether that be a salve for a papercut or his premier halluginegetics; Macadamia paste.
Weaknesses
Stupid – Mauri is the least intelligent out of everyone his group of allies and can easily be fooled if cash is involved. Easily mislead and the first to hope when things look even slightly better, this makes him quite gullible. In short while he is book smart his common sense isn’t the sharpest.
Slow – While mauri can easily hit like a truck due to his size he is also incredibly slow which makes him a prime target for gun fire which would probably kill him if not for his naturally thick crocodile skin which has taken its beatings in the past. This skin of course cannot last long, only giving him a few more seconds in fire at the very least.
A terrible driver - mauri cannot drive to save his life and quiet often he almost crashes into oncoming traffic or even the sides of the road and local businesses.