Destiny
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Aliases: Miss Smith Status: Supporting
Destiny, Chino’s morenita, a beautiful, fit African American woman, is the ex-girlfriend whose breakup opens The Cursed Joint of Bayankala and whose jealousy detonates its middle act. She ended it because the relationship wasn’t going anywhere and she refused to get stuck with an ambitious pothead. Lose the privilege of her first name and she’ll have you address her as Miss Smith.
Description
Destiny arrives the way she does everything: at full volume, with backup: three friends in sweatpants and hoodies “like some kind of low-effort hit squad.” She’s commanding, quick to fury, and certain of what she’s seeing, which is usually the problem. Her speech runs on “Nah uh!” and righteous indignation.
Role in Volume 01
She appears in exactly one story and nearly burns it down. The Cursed Joint of Bayankala opens on Chino moping over her photograph; then she walks into King Taco with her crew, clocks her ex across a booth from a woman he can’t explain, and goes off: this is where they had their first date, is this the bitch he was cheating with, don’t “babe” her, they’re over. The truth (“this is Homeboy”) convinces no one; Chino’s warning about whose PTSD she’s about to trigger lands no better. She jabs a finger into Homegirl’s chest. Homegirl snaps it backward. What follows is the volume’s most elaborate set piece, rendered as security camera footage: Destiny’s crew swarms, Homegirl fights all four of them off (elbow to a temple, knees to ribs, a guillotine choke that puts Destiny out cold) while Chino eats his way through their table’s food and steals Homegirl’s tacos mid-fight. It ends with Homegirl ripping the weave off Destiny’s last standing friend and Chino eating everything.
The Adventures: Volume 02
- Tequila Homegirl: Spotted at King Taco with her cousin Chris; calls Homegirl a skank and storms out when Chris asks Homegirl out.
Relationships
- Chino: ex; dumped him, then caught him (apparently) moved on within the day.
- Her three friends: unnamed backup chorus; all end up on the floor.
- Homegirl: one-meal nemesis.
Notes
- “You keep my name out yo mouth! You address me as Miss Smith. You understand?”
- Unrelated to Sarah Yazzie, Chino’s girlfriend from Uncle Rob’s Time Portal.