

At that moment, however, Mad Dog enters the saloon. Sundown chases Pike out of the bar after he begins to harass the townspeople, aweing them with his sharpshooting skills, particularly the young Billy. As he takes as seat at the bar, he is soon accosted by Pike, a member of a vicious gang of outlaws that frequently terrorize the town, the Crazy Bunch. He stops inside the local saloon, where he is met with wariness by the townspeople. The two would tangle many times, though Sundown would always come out on top and leave Mad Dog in the dust.Īfter one of his usual duels with Mad Dog, the Sundown Kid finds himself wandering into Success, a small former gold-rush boomtown. During this time, he acquired a persistent adversary in bounty hunter Mad Dog, who sought to claim his apparent reward. To appease his guilt, he assumed his current identity as the Sundown Kid, a wanted outlaw with a bounty on his head, and wandered the desert on horseback in search of a place to die.

Eventually, his notoriety led to hometown being raided and massacred by a vengeful gang of outlaws. His legend inspired many naïve gunslingers to seek him out and challenge him in the hope of making a name for themselves. In his youth, the Kid was well-known as the fastest gun in the West. Though he travels alone, his apparent need for companionship seems to be the main reason why he hasn't killed Mad Dog, and though he is initially wary of the protagonist following him in the Final Chapter, he eventually offers to join forces. Not much is known about him besides his origin story, but it is known that he feels guilt for not being able to protect his home town.

The Sundown Kid is very reserved and stoic, a man of few words the archetypical "mysterious gunman" and "lone wolf". In the SFC version, he is depicted as a cigar smoker. Around his waist he wears two brown leather belts, with a gun holster and ammunition bandolier respectively. Under his poncho he wears a brown vest and a white shirt. He wears an old brown cowboy hat, a poncho that has a zig-zag pattern with dots, and a pair of brown chaps. He has light, long brown hair and a thin beard. Sundown appears to be in his mid-thirties to late forties. 2.3 Final Chapter: The Dominion of Hate.
