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The Backstory of Javier Escuella

The Backstory of Javier Escuella

Javier Escuella was born in Nuevo Paraíso, Mexico. Javier's father was a drunkard who worked as a laborer on land owned by Allende's uncle. When he was a boy, Escuella witnessed his uncle and four other men castrated and fed to pigs because they suggested the villagers demand a fair wage. Eventually, Javier became a notorious bounty hunter and revolutionary, fighting against what he saw as a corrupt system. He ended up killing a powerful, former military man in Punta Orgullo over a woman he was in love with. Fearing that his loved ones would suffer if he remained in Mexico, Javier fled to America. However, he could not speak any English and ultimately became feeble and starved.

In 1895, while attempting to steal some chickens, Javier came across Dutch van der Linde doing the same. They both laughed, and Dutch fed and clothed Javier, offering him a spot in the Van der Linde gang. Escuella felt an immediate affinity with the gang and its ideals; he came to see the gang as his family and his true home, while especially idolising Dutch as a revolutionary paragon and becoming fiercely loyal to him. Javier functioned as a gunman for the gang and was involved in a number of robberies and various other crimes across the frontier. One notable example is a bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, which Javier robbed with Arthur and Karen. At some point, Escuella heard that his mother had died and that his sister had married. Despite deeply missing them both, he couldn't go back to Mexico because he would most likely be killed if discovered.

Sometime prior to 1899, Javier and Arthur attempted to rob a stagecoach after receiving tips from a crooked lawman in Reno, Nevada. However, they decided to let the stagecoach go when they found out that it was full of women and children. To their disappointment, that stagecoach was robbed by the O'Driscoll Boys the very next day, who had all its passengers murdered.

By 1899, the gang had fled east and ended up in the state of West Elizabeth. They had been camping outside of the town of Blackwater when Dutch caught wind of a boat carrying an immense amount of money. The gang attempted to rob the boat, but the heist went wrong when Pinkerton agents showed up. Javier witnessed Dutch murder a young mother named Heidi McCourt and participated in the huge gunfight that ensued. The gang subsequently made a desperate escape to the north, ending up in the snowy mountains of Ambarino.

Javier Escuella`nın Geçmişi

Javier Escuella, Meksika'nın Nuevo Paraíso kentinde doğdu. Javier'in babası, Agustin Allende'nin amcasının arazisinde işçi olarak çalışan bir alkolikti. Javier çocukken, amcasının ve yanındaki dört adamın köylülere adil bir ücret ödenmesini önerdikleri için hadım edilip domuzlara yem edildiklerine tanık olur. Javier büyüdüğünde, kötü şöhretli bir ödül avcısı ve devrimci olur. Yozlaştığını düşündüğü sisteme karşı savaşmaya başlar. Punta Orgullo'da, aşık olduğu bir kadın için eski bir askeri öldürür. Javier, Meksika'da kalırsa sevdiklerinin acı çekeceğini düşündüğü için Amerika'ya kaçar. Ancak, hiç İngilizce bilmediği için iş de bulamaz ve aç kalır.

1895'te Javier, bir çiftlikten tavuk çalmaya çalışırken Dutch van der Linde'in de tavuk çaldığını görür. Birbirlerine gülerler ve Dutch, Javier'i yedirip içirip, giydirerek onu Van der Linde çetesine dahil eder. Escuella, çetenin ve kendisinin ideallerinin ortak olduğunu fark ederek; çeteyi ailesi ve gerçek evi olarak görmeye başladı, özellikle de Dutch'ı büyük bir devrimci olarak görüp ona hep sadık kaldı. Javier çetenin eli silah tutan elemanlarından biri oldu ve bir dizi soygun ile diğer çeşitli suçlara bulaştı. Arthur Morgan ve Karen Jones ile birlikte Tuscon, Arizona'daki bir bankayı soymuştur.