The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
-Mohondas (Mahatma) Gandi

Well goddamnit! Ya found me! Ya weren't supposed to find me, now I gotta find another spot. Don't tell Surprise where I am, please? She makes my teeth itch, very dangerous woman. I'd really really appreciate it. I might even do ya a favor sometime in the future, though don't expect much from me, I ain't got too much to offer. And pass that little bit of info on to Surprise too, if ya would.

Guess the best place to start is kinda from the beginning. Ain't exactly the beginning cause even though I was there I didn't take much note of things. My mom keeps tellin' me that she was in labor with me for 42 hours, but I don't think ya can ever necessarily believe what your mom says about that time. Not that I'm callin' her a liar, oh no. Just sayin' that she wasn't really payin' so much attention. Yeah. Oh, my dad was a cop, too. Till he got hurt on the job and had to leave. Probably a good thing he did, he wouldn't take too well to the corruption that got found out. Too much there and he never even knew it. Guess kids ain't the only ones who don't catch on real quick. Not that I'm insultin' him or anything. That'd be dangerous. Never insult guys who know how to shoot.

Well, I grew up kinda normal, though I guess the kid of a cop can't ever be completely normal. Though the other kids try not to be so annoyin' then. School wasn't remarkable at all, didn't get attention from the girls, this face don't.. umm.. usually.. get that kinda attention. I'm happy that way, especially with people like that Nadine woman around. She'd never look at me twice and that's a good thing. Oh, school wasn't totally unremarkable, I forgot one little incident that wasn't my fault at all. Just somethin' to do with the shit they call food and some kinda weird food fight I had nothin' to do with. Not a bit. Wasn't pretty, school was shut down for a day for the cleanup and shit. Sad, ain't it?

I was 16 when I did somethin' that woulda gave my dad a stroke if he actually knew about it, but old people're clueless. I joined up with Las Aranas under Paco cause... well... I dunno. Was fun, maybe? I was bored? Wasn't nothin' to do with makin' trouble, I ain't into that. No idea why I got this nickname, either. Paco probably ran outta creative ideas, he ain't the most original guy in the world. Yeah, that's it.

Obviously, we got into and outta different kindsa trouble, though I tried to be the voice of reason each time. But these people don't listen to reason, I found that out. Especially some. Not that Dare's a bad sort or nothin' but.. no caution at all. It was a weird day when we sided with Las Panteras, coulda heard a pin drop when Paco dropped that ball. Even Taunt was quiet for a whole 10 seconds and that don't happen. But after time, and it took some real gettin' used to, we started to like workin' with each other. Some buttin' of heads and personality clashes, but Crisis has those with himself all the time anyway. Been real rough sometimes with all the shit goin' down, but it's always entertainin'. Guess I wouldn't know what to do without action goin' on somewhere around. Except havin' to do with Surprise, I can skip that kind. She needs to get a hint. Or well... a direct statement since I plain out said it more than once. Stubborn woman. I think that's about all I got for ya, ain't gonna go into too many details about things since ya get that from a lotta people. Gonna keep fightin', gonna keep gettin' in trouble more than likely. And hopefully we'll win while I'm still alive to see it. Could be a long haul but hell... I got nothin' better to do.