J.W. the Lonesome Ranger

==  J.W. the Lonesome Ranger==

Background
Having a face only a waffle iron could love, J.W. is, naturally, a bit of a loner. Although he is a good man (and undeniably loyal to those who show him kindness), his meager social skills are rivaled only by his natural tendency to avoid bathing far more than is normal for a grown human male. This makes him slightly less than popular with the general population of, well, pretty much everywhere. And that suits him just fine, he'd just as soon skip the company picnic anyway.

His behavior stems not only from his unlikable visage, but an unpleasant incident that occurred in his youth. When he was 8, an orc horde marched through his village, taking special care to slay every living thing. After murdering his parents, his siblings, his neighbors and his pet badger in front of him, the orc chief took a long look at young J.W., pointed, and spoke something in his crude, guttural language. The chief then marched his orc warband to the next village.

J.W. did not understand what the orc chief said, but he did phonetically memorize the words. He retreated into the nearby woods, and over the years taught himself not only survival skills (including stealth & bowhunting), but also strove to learn Orcish, gleaning bits and pieces from whatever he could gather. Years later, he would finally decipher what the orc chief said: "Let him live. He's almost as ugly as we are."

With a sense of renewed purpose, he made it his mission to gain sufficient strength to face and challenge that orc chieftain, and make him rue the day he called J.W. "ugly."

Journals
The journals of J.W. the Lonesome Ranger