Editing Character:Bernardo Martinez (section)

=== Commentary ===

Once I started, Bernardo came easily, and the game system provides just enough of a skeleton to hang him on. (OtE seems to occupy a point on the continuum between Risus and Unknown Armies.) Señor Martinez is just a plain, quiet, family man… who will probably get sucked into a nasty revenge tale, or a surreal horror story where his loving daughter manipulates him into serial murders, or something even worse. There's just something about the guy that makes me think "he's bad news." <br><br>
I really should research the name to come up with something that really follows Mexican cultural conventions (or ''wherever'' he's from), and with Kenneth Hite-like layers of symbolic nuance, but this will do for now. I know a couple of people with some of those names – a favorite instructor whose family were refugees from one of Uncle Sam's foreign interventions, and a co-worker who spoke barely any English, but had a steel-trap mind and a ready grin – so I think that kind of personal resonance works well with the attitude of the game.