Madame
Madame Iria Martina Rubio
Written by: Null Kit
I must concede, when it was time to create this article I considered making peace with whatever gods might be watching idly and apathetically above, having personally witnessed the fates of those who The Pack consider 'snitches'. Imagine my surprise when the venerable founder herself not only tolerated the creation of this article, but even invited me into the inner parlours of her cartel's domain to "set records straight". I chose not to comment on the corpse in the corner at that moment. The woman claims her full name to be Madame Iria Martina Rubio, simply going by the humble monicker of 'Madame' to mere morals such as us. She is the founder of the succinctly named Pack, and her leadership of it is undisputed despite being in her sixties, positively ancient by Ork standards. In contrast to the cartels of her peers, Madame prefers to lead like a glacier: Slow, cautious, but with an unbreakable foundation and utterly unstoppable when it moves. Make no mistake: Madame might not be the augmented killing-machines that make up her subordinates, but I consider her to be the most dangerous pertson in the cartel by a wide margin.Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Owing to the fact that Madame is in her sixties and still held together by more than sheer willpower would lead me to the reasonable conclusion that she is in fact one of the orks fortunate enough to be blessed with a human-average lifespan. Much I can only conjecture as Madame takes patient confidentiality serious and I'm certainly not going to be the one to breach that.
Superficialy, I can at least be certain that Madame is of an acceptable physical condition for an Ork in her late-middle age, with the only visible anomalies being a single cybereye, numerous scars on the visible portions of her skin and a limp severe enough to warrant having a deployable wheelchair within convenient distance when on a long outing.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Much of Madame's formative years lie intwined with that of the Cartels she served in and whose destructions she survived. Her parents, Juan and Naira, were nought but a pair of hired thugs for whatever small-time crew would hire them, and Madame's early life was one rife with hardships, both from the instability of a criminal family and from the anti-Ork bigotry that would leave her with scars from the very moment of goblinization.
Madame wanted more than what her parents were content with, deriding them as "living and dying like vermin". Her affiliations with the ghost cartels of the time were mercurial and opportunistic, sowing favors and attaining assets while they existed, then dissapearing the moment the cartel was destroyed or absorbed by the growing Aztlan and Aztechnology. Madame herself never took a position of leadership in any of these criminal trysts and was content with being the woman behind the man, noting down every inspired move she saw and learning from the fatal mistakes of others from a position of relative safety.
Fragmentary data exists showing many of these affiliations to be romantic in nature, but Madame herself refuses to comment.Madame's last affiliation to the cartel of another's leadership was in 2065 to Los Decas, a deep-underground cartel whose stubborn refusal to change any of its decades-old traditions would lead to its downfall from inside and out, with Aztlan enroaching on what little territories it refused to surrender and traitorous splinter-factions forming en-masse from Loas Decas leadership refusing to change with the times. Madame herself spearheaded one of those splinter-factions, in a shocking change from her usual routine of being part of the furniture untiil the last second. In 2069, Madame cashed almost every favor she had accrued within Los Decas to ally herself with the similarly overlooked ork and troll wives and daughters of the cartel's leadership, crossing the north border with a lion's share of the cartel's assets and a veritable brigade of angry, goblinized women as the foundation for a brand new syndicate to be formed in the relatively quiet Raleigh area of the CAS. To this day, Madame rules her territory from the luxurious parlour in the apartment-bloc her subordinates have claimed as their exlusive territory, only leaving for high profile negotiations or for a pleasant evening feeding pidgeons in the park. We await with bated breath to see where her ambitions take us all.
Education
Madame claims to have an impressive pedigree in terms of education, listing off a multitude of private schools and upscale colleges from across the Aztlan area. My personal research can only find her name linked with a public elementary school, along with multiple citations for poor attendance. Read that as you will.
Employment
"Self employed."
Accomplishments & Achievements
From abandoning a violent cartel with half their families and getting away with it to conning three rival gang-leaders into comitting group-suicide, Madame's list of accomplishments is as long as it is unsettling to read in one sitting. Ask her yourself, if you don't believe me.
Failures & Embarrassments
None that I feel safe writing about.
Morality & Philosophy
Madame's sense of morality is myopic and ruthless, but at least consistant. She considers her subordinates and everything they own to be her property to do with as she pleases, but takes any attack on them to be an attack on herself.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Madame's stated motivations are understandably that of power and influence, but also boasts a desire to "improve the chances of female orks and trolls in the underworld." I have little reason to doubt either claim.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Madame's talent in the cartel-don's mainstays of manipulation, opportunism and planning cannot be understated, having directly acquired everything she has of this writing with nothing more than words and presence. In spite of this however, her mobility needs have proportionately limited her personal combat-capabilities and scope of her actions to a reasonably local area.
Year of Birth
2020
60 Years old
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Econo-Flats, Raleigh NC
Pronouns
She/Her
Eyes
Grey, one prosthetic
Hair
White as snow, hanging in cobweb like strands
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Tanned
Height
5'4''
Weight
175 lbs
Aligned Organization
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