Marlina Matos

"'I love Mexico as if it's my own daughter. I am willing to die for it.'"Marlina Luisa Matos was a former Mexican Revolutionist. She was also the wife of Red Harlow and the mother of Moses 'Vito' Harlow. She was also a Bounty Hunter with Jack Marston and Red Harlow in 1915.

Appearence
Marlina in her youth was an attractive woman with dark brown eyes, black long hair and always wore a catholic Crucifix around her neck. She stood around 5'10.

Personality
Marlina was a wild woman in her younger years but had a deep faith into Catholicism, she always attempted to steer orphaned children into the religion. In 1914 she was forced to become a prostitute to feed her family (Whom had a failing ranch in New Austin), She would beome depressed and feel she failed her religion, changing from the wild cheery girl she was into a depressed and quiet woman. After she met Red Harlow, she became much more confident and felt happier. After Red taught her to survive in the wild and shoot weapons, she became her old self again.

When killing animals or criminals, she would place a cross over her chest and say "Dios esté contigo al final." (Translated: God be with you in the end.).

As she got older she would mellow into a kind woman who cared deeply for her family. After the birth of her first son she vowed to teach her future children in the way of Catholicism and make them better than her. Red would be found dead at the docks where he worked with the bullet of his own revolver in his chest, she would be thrown into a deep depression.

Moses was the troublemaker of her children and she constantly stressed about him and if he'd return home every night.

Biography
Marlina was born on November 12, 1888 in Chuparosa Mexico to two poor field workers and a older sister named 'Miranda. 'Her childhood was constantly watching her parents struggle and watching her sister go down the wrong path.

As she and her parents feared, Miranda would be killed in 1894 by Banditos. They decided to leave Mexico and illegally enter the United States. They would be successful and end up in Leymone where they lived in makeshift camps around the swamps. In 1895, Her father Ramón would ask the Dutch Vanderline Gang For a money loan of 1,300 American Dollars. After receiving the loan they would buy a nice home on the outskirts of Saint Denis, though they wouldn't live peacefully for long, as four years later in 1899, Arthur Morgan would break into their home and hold eleven year old Marlina and her family at gunpoint and demand money, to which Ramón told him about the secret stash in the fireplace, Morgan took it and left.

After the event, they would quickly pack and go back to Mexico at fears that Morgan would return. They went back to becoming field workers.

When Marlina turned eighteen she would begin going to a church and getting into Catholicism and becoming religious. She worked along her parents but had dreams of becoming a nun in Las Hermanas. When she turned twenty-three in 1911 a revolution would break out, she quickly would join the revolution as she saw it only right with her new religion. She would be assigned as a carriage driver and would be placed on placing explosives, she didn't see much of the revolution first hand but she was a huge asset.

In 1913 her father would move them back to America but to a small shack in the far North-West side of New Austin and would attempt to make a ranch, but it would fail as cougars and heat always killed livestock, forcing them to help Armadillo tame horses.

1914

In 1914 Marlina would see the pain and suffering her parents went through and would make the choice to become a prostitute, which she hated and found it against her religion but she did it for her family.

She would be a prostitute for two months in the small settlement of Rathskeller Fork, She was highly depressed and considered suicide several times. She began to get beat by one of her customers and told her parents, to which they scolded her for becoming a prostitute. A week later she would be beat again but it was stopped by a man with several scars on his face and wearing fur, the man threatened to shoot the customer. The Customer pulled out a knife and the man uppercutted him and disarmed him, putting the knife to his throat, the customer ran and the man threw the knife. It was revealed this man was Red Harlow and was sent there to pick her up and take her home, she felt safe around Red.

Red would begin teaching her to survive and hunt in the wild, she was a fast learner and Red was a good teacher, she would be trained to aim, shoot and hunt by Red. A month after this Red was kidnapped by Christoper Langley, So she began looking for him. She would run into Jack Marston, A friend of Red's. They would quickly befriend each other and search for Langley and his posse. They would destroy a Langley camp and find out they were holding him in Tumbleweed.

After Marlina and Jack fought their way through the Langley Posse and find Red, Marlina hugged him and he said "No time for this!" As he got out his revolver and began shooting out with Jack and Marlina. They would escape Tumbleweed and go to Armadillo for the tavern, Jack would leave shortly after arriving. Marlina began falling in love with the Outlaw who saved her.

Red would give Marlina and her parents $2,300 and began riding back to Mexico. She would follow him and eventually find him in El Presido being a Bounty Hunter. They would join together and take in several bounties and sometimes with the help of Jack Marston. In February of 1914 she was pregnant with her first child.

1918 - 1926

Red and Marlina would retire in 1918 and began moving to Leymone to start their new life. Her son, Adam Victor Harlow, was only four years old but was already advanced for his age. They all would eventually settle in Saint Denis with a one room apartment. In 1920, Red would get a job as a factory worker and Marlina would take care of their son. In 1925 it was revealed she was pregnant once again, which was a shock to the family due to Red being fifty-one years old and herself being thirty-seven, her second son Moses Vittorio Harlow was born. A year later her final child was born, a girl she named Francesca Rosaline Harlow.

1935 - 1943

As Moses was getting older he was a troublemaker and no matter how many scoldings from his father and mother, he'd continue being a mence to Saint Denis. In 1937 Red moved his family to Empire Bay in Little Italy, he got a job at the docks and Moses began loansharking with Joe Barbaro and robbing with 'Jack Yutanglos. 'In 1943, Red was found dead at the Empire Bay Docks due to drowning, the police ruling it as an accident. She was thrown back into the depression she hasn't felt in a long time.

1945- Death
She would live with Francesca while Moses was in the United States Military. *START HERE* Moses returned home and she was filled with Joy and so was Francesca. She constantly called Adam who left for Blackwater and felt happy. Moses would go back to his old ways of Crime and Marlina felt like a failure.

In 1944 she was diagnosed with lung cancer and she would physically deteriorate overtime. Moses was arrested in 1945 again for the theft of Ration Stamps and sentenced to ten years in prison (Sortened to six due to Mafia interference) She would never hear from him again. She passed away in 1947 from Cancer and would be buried at the Empire Bay Catholic Church. She never said goodbye to her sons.

Trivia

 * She was twenty-six when she met Red, while he was Fourty.
 * Jack Marston was her last true friend.
 * Moses keeps Marlina's crucifix in his possesion at all times.
 * She was attending classes in Las Hermanas in 1914 to be a nun but quit after she found out she was pregnant.