Violante Vaquero

Violante Vaquero

Biological
Full name:	Violante Vaquero
Born:
Birthplace:	Damcyan
Sex:	Female
Race:	Human
Hair:	Black
Eyes:	Brown
Height:
Weight:
Personal
Marital Status:
Family/Relationships:	Fara Somers (college suitemate), Denise Pascale (college suitemate), Kamiko Kurita (college roommate)
Religion:	Tahranist, but not a good one
Title:
Nicknames:	Comrade Vaquero, Vee
Hobbies:	Building/Overhauling/Repairing/Maintaining her hovercraft, the Velocity; tango dancing
Known skills:	Mechanical engineering, smuggling
Favorite color:
Inspiration:
Motto:	"Ride or die."

Violante Vaquero is a gifted mechanic from Damcyan who is studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Albrook, where she happens to be one of Fara Somers' suitemates in the dorms. She is leading something of double life, as she is part of the Damcyan Revolutionary Army and often smuggles things to them on her hovercraft by way of the Albrook portal cluster. Her gift for mechanical engineering has made her an invaluable supporting member of Fara's team of Albrook heroes (comprised of The Shield, Roxanne and Osprey).

Her various smuggling activities often cause her to run afoul of some of the Web's crime syndicates, in particular the Fabulian Triads, who take none too kindly to her running guns on "their" turf. She is a wanted criminal in Fabul, as all members of the Damcyan Revolutionary Army are branded as terrorists.

Violante has a quite large extended family, but most of them are living in Fabul-occupied Damcyan. Sometimes she sneaks a family member out, but most of them are reluctant to leave her home.

City of Heroes

The events of Episode 2 begin in earnest when Osprey and Fara rescue Violante from a Triad ambush. In the process, Violante learns that Fara is the Mana Knight, and then asks Fara and Osprey to come with her on a smuggling run into Damcyan. Hillarity (and a battle against a KN mecha and an ancient frog-esper) ensue.

Throughout the first season, Violante continues helping the heroes. She develops an especially close friendship with Terry Shale, and often assists him in maintaining and repairing the Shield's Seraphim power armor. Her involvement with the team culminates in Episode 10, when she is asked by Rycar Mountbatten to fill-in as engineer aboard the Iceni on a mission to stop the rogue Grand Army General, Conn Guitierrez.

WHO IS THE SPY?

Violante is a smuggler, and is pretty good at it, which means she has some talent for deception. She is also a communist, and so potentially has a reason to find herself at odds with virtually everyone else on the team. Could she have betrayed them to the Master of Mana?...