Buford is about 6'2", and a solid 225 lbs. He's not soft, not cut, but country strong. He has dirty blond hair, and grey-blue eyes. He wears his hair in a buzz-cut, but sports a thick beard and mustache most of the time. He tends to wear camouflage, jeans, and white tee shirts when not in his blues. Worn combat boots complete his ensemble.
He is armed most of the time with a shoulder holster, with his main piece, and a ankle holster with a small throw down pistol.
History
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I've got my mutant powers spent... biggest challenge, as all the gumshoe I've played up to now haven't had these, and getting the right balance was tough.
My concept is a Louisiana Redneck, Named Buford Devereaux, whose father kept a pack of bloodhounds used by the local Parrish sheriffs department for tracking things. When he was old enough, he went along on the hunts, and at sometime realized that he could smell what the hounds could smell... in fact better, sometimes he put them back on the trail... of course he kept this to himself. What a freak.
As his teen years progressed he became the best hunter in the Parrish, in fact probably the state. He seemed to be able to sneak up on anything, and never missed what he shot at. He joined the local sheriffs department as soon as he was old enough, as the hours left him time for hunting and fishing... and keeping an eye of Lillian Fetch, his Uber-hot next door neighbor. "What did she see in that rat faced Tommy Gunner anyway". Finally, his obsession with "keeping an eye on her" created trouble. When Tommy caught him "observing" her house one night, and called in the authorities, his father, and the sheriff decided it might be wise to get him away from home for a while.
Sheriff Bates called in a favor from a detective friend of his in the Detroit PD, and got Buford a job on the Detroit PD. He'd been here a year now, and specialized in undercover stake-outs. In addition, he was a member of the SWAT team, when they needed a sniper.
Morning Routine
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Buford had always been an early riser, as that's when the best hunting and fishing are, and that remains the case. Never a big believer in exercising (Promising baseball player, but not that interested, so quit when 14). Buford usually gets up just after sunrise, and usually doesn't need his alarm to do so... unless he was out late the night before having a few with the boys. He then leaves his small studio apartment downtown, and stops at the McDonald's on the corner for a quick breakfast burrito. He then walks to nearby Grand Circus Park, and finds a quiet place to read the morning paper, and feed the pigeons, before jumping on the SMART, to the station.
If winter conditions keep this from happening, he usually just reads his paper in the McDonald's always taking a seat looking out over the street. If things are really bad he just finds a quiet office in the Station, and spends the night there.
Complications
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Buford is pretty disarming in a "Good ole boy" type of way, and the fact that he is still "raising hell buddies" with several of them, on the weekends off, keeps them from being to envious. He did use his powers of observation to quickly ascend the ranks in Detroit, and the family connection didn't hurt anything. Mostly he used his acute observation skills to save a couple of lives, and catch a couple of long outstanding baddies.
There is one problem though. There is another current detective named Olivia DeJesus who seems to have a problem with Buford. He was only being a southern gentleman when he held open the door for her, and motioned "Ladies First", but she took it a sexist, and has had a chip on her shoulder ever since. When he quickly ascended to Detective (After she had worked 9 years for the same), it only added fuel to the fire. It is doubly frustrating because he kind of has a "thing" for the fiery female officer.
As far as he knows he hasn't used his sniper abilities to take out any fellow mutants. He's only been called on once since coming to Detroit, and it was to take out a Drug Kingpin's lackey. Several times he used these abilities in his home Parrish, and several surrounding ones, but as far as he knows none of these were mutants... Though that "Earthworm" killer in Baton Rogue might have been. He was never told.
