Name: Sal Liu
Physical Description: Sal is a tall, fresh-faced man, with brown hair and a toothy smile. He usually wears standard cowboy clothing, with a cowboy hat, duster, trousers, and boots. Due to working with animals, Sal's clothes are often caked in mud, and he always looks slightly disheveled.
Job: Cowboy
Personality: Even with his hard past, Sal is still a very positive man, and is almost always able to find an upside to any situation. At first glance, Sal would seem either stupid, or just naive. However, he has an edge of wisdom, if not intelligence. He's uncultured, and uneducated, but he tries his best to be respectful. Very, very rarely, Sal will get angry. When that happens, it's never a good sign.
Biography: The tall, nervous man stepped off of the train, carrying a small child with him, and quickly walked away from the station before he could be spotted. He walked into town, as fast as he could without looking suspicious, and found a horse for sale, buying it for the asking price without any haggling, before riding away. After riding for a while, the man eventually found a ranch, and walked in, asking the owner for a job as a ranchhand. The owner, seeing that the man was strong, and willing to work, hired him for room, board, and a few coins. The man put his son down on their bed, singing him to sleep, before heading out to work.
As the boy was growing up, the man began to teach him. The man could not read, or write, and they didn't have any money for a teacher, but he did teach him the important things. How to ride, how to shoot, how to handle a herd of cattle. Over the years, the son slowly grew, beginning to work alongside his father, earning an extra coin or two for the two of them. It was back-breaking labor, but they needed the coins, and the ranch owners were good people. Eventually, once the son was old enough to head out on his own, he began driving cattle. Handling cows takes strength, and a firm hand, but it's much more dignified then shoveling out cow pies.
Over the years, the boy began to learn more about his father, and his absent mother. His mother had died of natural causes back in the East, and his father had been forced to raise him on his own. One day, when the Succession Wars began, the Empire tried to conscript the father, and rip him away from the only family he had left. The father, seeing little other choice, made a run for it, jumping on a train to the Far West. Unfortunately, the Empire is very powerful, and they have eyes everywhere. After years and years living in the West, the Empire's thugs finally caught up to Liu.
As Sal Liu was riding into the ranch after a cattle drive, he saw a group of Imperial men dragging his father through the dirt. He quickly found the ranch's owner, asking him what was happening, and he said that the elder Liu was being arrested for draft evasion. Sal, enraged, reached for his revolver, but his father noticed his movement, and silently mouthed "Don't." The Imperial thugs took the old man away, and Sal, enraged at the family for not doing anything, rode off, looking for a new job. He became a freelance cowboy, driving cattle herds for anyone who could pay.
Now, nearly a year later, Sal's just trying to make a living. He's accepted that he'll probably never see his father again, or even find closure as to what happened to him, but he's still hoping to find something.