#devany kesserly

they’re from a game called Hunt Showdown, it’s an extraction shooter in a horror western setting where some entity called the Sculptor has taken over an area in New Orleans and is essentially corrupting every living thing (see: shambling zombies everywhere, giant spiders made out of a bunch of people, some dude made out of bugs, headless dudes that see through leeches coming out of their body etc.)

there’s a secret organization called the American Hunters Association which deals with the occult and supernatural and they went in to contain the situation and banish the bigger monsters, but the whole event attract the outside attention and there are rich benefactors vying for a piece of those monsters as trophies (and who knows what else) so there were a bunch of bounty hunters and money desperate, or people with something to prove, going in besides the Association and fighting over the, which has been dubbed as the Hunt

The three ‘cowboys’ I posted are my own OCs that are all in some way involved in the Hunt but ngl I haven’t really ironed out all their lore 🏃‍♀️

▫️ Amarante Montandon’s father was a Hunter of the Association who went in for the Hunt but never returned home, had left her in the care of their close neighbor. Amie ran away and went looking for him but soon after stepping foot in the city of New Orleans she was snatched up and put on a train to the Bayou with a bunch of other orphans, where Sheriff Hardin was using them as fodder to cull the monster population with the promise of reward if they returned with trophies, only to then shoot them himself if they survived (x, x)

Amie was of the few that survived, both the monsters and Hardin, and ran back into the Bayou where she scrapped by on her own for a while, before she ran into Hardin again who after a standoff and a brief talk of the Association and her father he offered to make her his Deputy, which more out of necessity for survival more than anything, she accepted - while she doesn’t trust him nor like him, she has come to be one of the more reliable of the Lawful Pact in the Bayou

▫️The Tracker AKA Eleanor Callahan was from a family of Wolfers (wolf hunters) in Colorado where she was one of their best trackers even from an early age, until she got tired of that life and ran off. She quickly fell in with the bad sort, briefly joining various gangs and robbing and scamming people in the city. Eventually she wronged the wrong people, joined a gang only to run away with their stockpile of money which of course they did not take lightly and chased her down tirelessly - they caught up to her in the Bayou and beat her within an inch of her life, leaving her for dead.

She was left in an area affected by the Sculptor and in her death roes was attracted to one of the rifts which are “punctures between worlds”, she was subsequently healed by it to a degree but was left visually impaired, only being able to see a short distance in front of her in black and white but also being able to see other rifts a great distance away, a kin to the Dark Sight the Hunters use, though they were required to use a special serum to acquire that ability.

She was later found and picked up by Felis and the Bone Doctor, Hunters of the Primal Pact and she ended up joining them in the Hunt, putting her newfound ability and her knowledge as a tracker to use.

▫️ Devany Kesserly honestly has very little lore at the moment, all she has right now is that she was killed during the Hunt by being shot and then drowning in the swamp, she was revived via necromancy on the spot by a Hunter named Gar, who was part of the Drowned Pact, Hunters who had also drowned and were revived by the will of some witch - Devany not being revived by the witch herself did not become part of the Pact, but she did end up with the ability to heal when in contact with water, even heavy rain