Corazon Marron is a hunter of the Avenger Creed.
Overview[]
Corazon is the matriarch of an extensive, fecund and decidedly shady family of Brazilian farmers. The Marrons may not be rich or well educated, but there's a damn lot of them and they're notorious for three inflexible things. One, no Marron backs down from a fight. Two, although there's plenty of bickering among the cousins, the family bands together if an "outsider" makes trouble for one of its own. Three, at least half the family income derives from growing marijuana. Anyone who disturbs the third usually runs smack dab into the first two.
The Marrons claims their family was at the forefront of a Caribbean slave revolution that ousted the white masters, and that they themselves were forces to leave the islands because of the envy and politicking of other inferior families. They're a proud bunch, and if you talk to them when they're drunk or stoned enough, they might tell you that one day they'll return to their homeland and reclaim their lost wealth.
Currently, the family doesn't have much, but they get by. They farm, they drink, they fight, and they carried on a long-time feud with the inbred Coutinho family.
One day, when Corazon and three of her sons were at the local market, three Coutinhos waltzed by, and the Marrons realized one of them was a monster that had to be destroyed.
Violence between the Marrons and the Coutinhos was never uncommon, but deaths were rare and never came three at a time. That was just the beginning. Corazon and her sons had been armed by the saints (or so she said) in order to rub the Coutinhos off the face of the Earth. Attacking by surprise, they did just that. Three Coutinho creatures and close to a dozen of their human relatives were killed in one day, and most of the few who escaped were hunted down within a week. The official verdict was a mass homicide/suicide. Said Sheriff Cristobal Marron, "You know what those Coutinho folks were like. Not to speak ill of the dead, but they weren't quite 'right."
The bank foreclosed on the Coutinho farm and the Marrons bought it, as instructed by the saints. The saints speak to Corazon almost every week, and they prepare her for the next onslaught of monsters. She knows they're coming. So do her sons. But for now, humans rule their valley.
References[]
- HTR: Hunter Book: Avenger, p. 92