Know Your Kindred – Apache Jones

Name:  Apache Jones
Clan:  Malkavian antitribu
Generation:  9th
Embrace: Probably 1890s

The man called Apache Jones was born in Ireland and worked on the railroads for several years.  He also gambled heavily and did a great deal of bare-fisted boxing.  After winning a mach against a much larger man, Jones was attacked by a vampire who Embraced him and then fled into the night.  Jones was just beginning to use his powers and get the hang of being a vampire when he got the attention of local law enforcement, who sent a posse out after him.

Jones would have been killed by them, but the Boot Hill gang rode into town just as the sun set, following his trail on a bet between Hill and Jack Dawson as to whether they would find Jones before the posse did.  Hill won the bet by killing the posse, and was so pleased with himself he offered Jones the opportunity to join them.

Over time Jones keeps getting stranger.  He used to answer to the name Walter, but now decided he’s an Apache Indian and speaks in the kind of Pidgen English dialect used by Indians in dime store novels about the wild west.  Hill tends to look at him as a mascot – a very big and dangerous mascot, but a mascot none the less.

Jones is a big man, with the personality of a cigar store Indian.  His hair is braided and he dresses in leather.  He tries to pass himself off as Indian, even though he is very much a Caucasian.  His face looks like he was in too many fights before he was Embraced.  His nose is slightly off to the right and his ears are caulifowered.  Despite his comical appearance, he is a very able gunslinger and vicious in hand-to-hand combat.  He can also directly affect the mind of his opponent.

– Source:  Tales of the Trail: Mexico, pg. 86-87