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Welcome to Once Upon a Time in El Paso - [Adult Freeform Western]

01:48, 29th March 2024 (GMT+0)

Zhao Jin

Name: Maggie

Real Name: Zhao Jia

Occupation: Maggie's only recently arrived in town and is trying desperately to stay. She's looking for work, and willing to do manual labor, clean, do laundry, or even prostitute herself out if it came down to it.

Age: 19

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Sexual Style: More submissive than dominant, not above romance if it ever found her.

Sexual Likes: Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Seduction

Sexual Dislikes: Body fluids and bathroom stuff, humiliation, severe pain.

Residence: I'm going to go with she has a little bit of money from wages she'd saved that were provided by the railway company she had worked for, but not enough to sustain food and lodging for more than a week or two. So, I'd like to start in a hotel and see where things go from there?

Description: Maggie is definitely Asian. She stands at 5'0" and weighs around 110 pounds. Her eyes are dark brown, and her black hair is coarse and cut short. While it's obvious that she is female, she lacks the feminine curvature of most Caucasians. Her breasts are small and nearly flat, her hips are straight, and her overall frame can best be described as willowy. She usually dresses in wool pants, a sweat stained white cotton long sleeve shirt, and threadbare slippers.

Height: 5'0"
Weight: 110 Lbs.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Dark brown

Personality: Maggie is a quiet, reserved seeming individual. She battles with cultural expectations and not knowing as much English as she would like, since she's a foreigner in this land. She's very polite, would probably prove loyal to those who might employ her, and smiles easily enough. She doesn't go out of her way to engage others in conversation, but is a respectful listener.

Skills: While she is fluent in spoken Chinese, she has only a passing understanding of basic English, knows a few phrases in Spanish, and even knows a few Irish words. Her greatest skill is knowing how to safely handle and work with explosives. She understands the basic concept of adding and subtracting, knows how to cook, and knows how to sew.

History/Background: Zhao Jia was born in the Qilong Prefecture of China. Her mother died while giving birth, and she has no siblings. Her father owned a fireworks factory, and she was brought there as early as the age of three by her father to work. Because of the size of her hands and fingers, she was first tasked with cleaning the inside of canisters and tubes, but as she grew she was indoctrinated further and further into the safe handling black powder and fashioning explosives in the factory setting. When she was 15, her father became ill and quickly passed away. Because she was female, she was unable to own property or even reap the benefits of its sale to competitors upon his passing. The money and she went to extended family who welcomed the influx of wealth but did not wish to have anything to do with her. As luck would have it for them, a Chinese entrepreneur who was recruiting labor force for the burgeoning railway expansion of America became aware of her specific skill in handling black powder, and knew that she would be a sure sell to just about any rail company. He approached the family and offered a deal, which they quickly agreed to, in which they allowed her to go to America to work and they would receive a one time compensation bonus for doing so. Basically sold by her own family, she found herself on a steamship of other Chinese immigrants bound for San Francisco.

Upon arrival, she was brought to several railway foremen who were looking for workers for their respective companies, and introduced as Maggie since her real name was mostly unimportant and an effort to pronounce for the non-Chinese speaking men. Speaking zero English herself, she could only watch with a complete lack of understanding as the Chinese businessman spoke with the white men in English, but they all seemed to be very interested in what was being said. Upon conclusion of the business, the Chinese businessman came up to her and told her she now belonged to a man he pointed to and was shoved along in his direction. She and a cadre of other Chinese immigrants that were also recruited by that foreman were led to a train to board that was bound for a labor camp working a new line. At the time, she knew she was going to be doing work, but what it was specifically or that it was for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company would elude her for a short time.

Upon arrival at the camp, she discovered that she would be living in what amounted to a tent city in the middle of a desert with hundreds of other laborers for the company. The main labor force consisted of Chinese, but there were also German, Irish, and Spanish interspersed throughout. She further discovered that she was working for a company that was using its labor force as what basically amounted as slave labor. She would be paid nominal fees that were about a third of what others got paid, but learned that she also had to pay for food and lodging. So, the pittance she made was almost immediately returned, which practically forced her to stay with the company to survive in the foreign world she now found herself within.

Because of her skill with handling black power, she was pressed into the dangerous job of being a sapper who tunneled and cleared rock with nitroglycerin and dynamite. While unfamiliar with the ordinance specifically, she had learned enough respect for black powder through her years of handling it that she learned quickly, was safe, and did well at the job. While the job was good because it was easier than carrying sacks of spikes, digging trenches with picks, lugging wooden beams used as underlay for tracks, and other back breaking labor, what she truly benefited from was working with the crew she did. She was the only girl on it sure, but she was also the only Chinese on it as well. She worked with several men of different ethnicity and began to slowly pick up English for purely survival reasons at first, but then through enjoyment of learning a new language. She also picked up Spanish phrases (many of them crude, but a few more useful basic phrases), and even Irish words (definitely all crude and swears). As they blasted their way across the desert in a race against another railroad company called Texas and Pacific she learned, she was able to save a minimal portion of her wages.

She grew spooked with her job when one of the crew managed to blow themselves up when he mishandled nitroglycerin. The foremen grew tired of her reluctance to work as any useful part of the crew, despite them being her friends, and decided to punish her. They cut her wages further and put her on water detail in an effort to drive her back into a sapper mentality through sheer exhaustion from manual labor. For sixteen hours a day, she walked up and down the line of toiling men while carrying buckets of water for them to drink from. She really realized how good she had it at night though. She was no longer with the sapping crew, so had to tent with the general labor force. The sapping crew was tight-knit, having to literally survive through cooperation, but the labor force seemed to be truly unwashed and savage almost. She grew tired of having to fend off unwelcome wandering hands and foul smelling breath of men who would try to take advantage of her in the darkness. Fed up with it all, she bundled all of her worldly belongings and the scant amount of money she had managed to save and fled into the night.