Though now in his late 50's, Manolo has changed little from his early years… in fact, he has become staple to community and to friends and allies. His father, Jesús Lopez was a hard man, but a wealthy man who also took advantage of those in less-fortunate positions. Their in-city villa was passed down from the early 18th century, and escaped riots, revolution and earthquake's remarkably. The Lopez family allied themselves with no one and preferred to offer service as a brothel from their family home. The family business served most needs of current powerful or uprising men regardless. Manolo grew up with sensuous women and sexual appetite. At puberty he had a steady stream of accommodating women. His mother used to be a working women, elevated by her father… but her addiction to Morphine ended her life when Manolo was ten, and as a result he grew only with a man's approach to women. During his teen years, Manolo's access to women, being so easy took different forms. He beat, molested and domineered women into servitude. As his father grew sick in his advanced years, Manolo took more interest in the family business, but unlike the brothel status of the Villa de Lopez, Manolo took a hard-line approach to the sexual service of women. As recruitment became difficult with word of Manolo's cruelty and poor pay, he took those innocents and entrapped them into lives of sexual slavery. His father died alone, watching his house fall into a squalor unseen in his lifetime. For the next ten years, Manolo's control over women transformed into a prostitution organization, not run from home, but from the streets. Manolo still kept relations with politicians and remembered his father's words well in that area. It kept the villa afloat, and Manolo in no need of money, but not wealthy either. Cunning instilled itself in his 30's and his business took a different turn. The eighties proved to be successful, and although over 100 of his girls were lost to either drugs, murder, or sexual disease, he prospered and began to rebuild the home and his finances. Manolo grew less interested in running the contacting and chasing of his girls and hired good men to watch his business… and with his time leveraging, his organization took shift into success. Manolo could now afford not to work, stay home and appease his sexual appetites with the excess of women. His underlings' reign of terror solidified the working girls into fear of leaving. Threat of death, maiming, disfigurement and terrorization of family enslaved them wholly. Those who grew old became servants or were merely dealt with. Now, Manolo sits out his golden years wealthy and strong in his minor power base he has built. He has no designs beyond continuing what he has wrought. Manolo is not special, he is just a cruel and isolated individual whose reign of control influences a small section of the community. appearance: Fat, stern and unflinching. His face perpetually sneering, lips down-turned in disapproval. He carries himself with the air of someone important and is never seen without two goons in tow. His dress is anything but appealing, his clothes remnants from the eighties - brown and stained white suits. He shuffles as he walks and does so with swagger. personality: Manolo is cold, because he grew up that way. He sees women as things to be used, without station or importance - no matter who they are - and treats them accordingly to his standard. To him, all women are whores, nothing better than for fucking. He has seen women broken and when they are so, their compliance to satisfy is sickening. He has killed girls on occasion, but feels nothing for his actions. game-mastering hints: Everyone is below you, and you let them know it. Speak harshly to women, if you have to speak to them at all. Talk disdainfully of others and never show weakness… because you have none. plot points: Manolo's goons made Sofia one of Manolo's girls. Manolo himself actually tested her before allowing her to 'officially' work. Her beauty made him wonder should he keep her for himself, but her attractiveness was displaced by her emaciation. Her lack of emotion was discouraging as well. However, her disappearance caused him concern. She was a good worker, and now he has heard she has been seen since leaving him. Angered he is hunting her down and plans to have her killed as an example. Manolo's services to lesser officials of the government has created shaky ties to politics, and Manolo keeps records of these dealings if he ever needs to abuse his customers into saving-action.