Lawrence Hardgrove

Summary
Lawrence Hardgrove is the former leader of the San Francisco and Sacrameto Factions, Father of Amanda Hardgrove, and mentor for Ejido and Fred.

Personality
Lawrence is a stoic, strong and silent type former leader and soldier with an inner melancholy and ability to see through other's lies. Lawrence is shown to be incredibly melancholic and has buried it for decades now, with Amanda's mother and Lawrence's wife dying to cancer when Amanda was just a toddler. As well as suffering from grief and humiliation from losing a duel with Sergio Hernandez, the worst gunsman in all of the southwest, and eventually his faction being reduced from the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Sacramento to just Sacramento and being forced to give up his leadership to his at the time, 19 year old daughter.

Lawrence has a quite literal inability to feel fear. When he was first shot in the eye, during his surgery damage was done to his frontal lobe and caused him to be physically unable to feel fear. This has gotten in the way of him literally not knowing when to stop and being cocky and arrogant at times. This extends to a large amount of visible pain tolerance, being able to describe an injury in gruesome detail to himself and saying that often his injuries hurt awfully, but refusing to show it in both a sense of stubbornness and wanting to annoy his enemy.

In his younger days ten years ago, he was much more confident and cocky, trusting his quickdraw too much and thinking he was the best marksman in the world. Overtime as he was humiliated by losing near everything, he grew to be a much more stoic and silent, dangerous person.

Having spent time in Vietnam, he was already a soldier at heart by the time of becoming mayor of San Francisco, and then leader of it after the United States collapsed. He is an extremely dangerous individual with a vast knowledge of weapons, battle plans, tactics, and so on.

Lawrence holds his honor above many things, and disagrees with having Deana turn over Ian and Linda Redelley, even in disbelief of himself that he's agreeing with Deana. He hates to admit it, but Sergio had every right to have taken San Francisco from Lawrence, even going as far as to say that not only did he deserve it, Sergio showed him mercy. Fred seems to have rubbed off on Lawrence, as when Lawrence was in the Las Vegas jail he briefly messed with Sergio Cortes by asking him to speak up over and over to annoy him. When Ian Redelley and Lawrence confront each other, Lawrence calls a man he can only describe as his brother a hypocrite, as his main motivation against Napoleon is him having humiliated Lawrence in the war, but Ian had previously taken the San Diego Faction from Chester Locke.

Lawrence cares deeply for his daughter and thus an extention to children in general, allowing Ejido and Lawrence to have some sort of mutual understanding. Lawrence is shown to be more than willing to give his life to save others and in most common his daughter, Amanda Hardgrove. Even giving his life before telling any information on the whereabouts of anybody important within the Sacramento faction.

If trying to intimade othes, he will flat out lie through his teeth, even going as far as to lie to Sergio Cortes about doing stitches on his eye using a pen and twine, something possible but painful.

Lawrence was described as a leader on the same level on Chester Locke, when it came to the safety and well being of his civilians he put it over his own life, and was even merciful to the looters of Sacramento, only incorporating it into the San Francisco faction but refusing to kill any of the raiders, even the ones that wanted to kill him.