❝ [the kind of woman who could smile while shooting you in the gut and still make it feel like a kindness.]

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Some people were born with a kind heart and a steady moral compass; Dove Sixkiller was born with a sharp tongue and a quick draw. She had never saved a soul who didn’t serve her purpose, never kept a promise unless breaking it would cost her more. She didn’t lose sleep over the people she had buried, but she remembered their names, if only because it amused her to know how many ghosts she had trailing behind her.

She was raised rough, raised cruel, raised to believe that if you weren’t holding the knife, you were the one being cut open. She spent her girlhood on the wrong side of every man with a mean streak, learned early that a woman’s body was worth less than a man’s pride. But Dove wasn’t the kind of girl who stayed down when kicked. She was the kind who smiled through split lips, the kind who found herself a gun and made sure no one ever got the chance to put their hands on her again. She took to violence the way other girls took to embroidery, practiced it until it became second nature, until the weight of a revolver on her hip felt more like home than any bed ever had.

For a while, she played the game by the rules men made. She hunted bounties, dragged in men who had done worse than her (though not by much), let herself be the thing the law paid for when they wanted blood but didn’t want to dirty their hands. It was a good living, right up until she stopped caring whether the bodies she left behind had a price on their heads. Right up until she decided she liked the sound a man made when he begged her for mercy, and she liked it even better when she said no.

Now, she had a bounty on her head and not enough bullets to take down everyone who wanted her dead. She didn’t mind. It made life interesting. Made her heart pound the way it did when she pressed a knife to someone’s throat and watched the moment they realized how close they were to dying.

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-ˏˋ Dove Sixkiller ˊˎ-

⋆ 26 ⋆ ♏ ⋆ Human ⋆ Outlaw, Bounty Hunter Turned Fugitive, Notorious Backstabber ⋆

⋆ 1879

⋆ Deadwood, Dakota Territory, USA

⋆ ⚢ ⋆ non-established relationship

⋆ Undefined. Could b