Hondo Obispo

Hondo Obispo is the brother of Mrs. Obispo and the maternal uncle of Zane Obispo.

History
Hondo was a wrestler in high school and hoped to become a professional. However he could not afford college and ended up working as a janitor at a bank.

At one point Hondo moved into his sister’s house, however he would only watch wrestling all day. He would also teach Zane wrestling moves to help him fight of bullies.

The Storm Runner
He and his friends watch wrestling while his sister is out. When Brooks arrives he lets her in. When his sister comes home he and his friends quickly tidy up the living room. He gets a scolding from his sister afterwards. He watches wrestling the next day and tells Zane he missed a great match.

While cleaning the bank with his sister, they are attacked by an Alux. He wrestles with it while his sister and nephew escape. It eventually gets away from him and he triggers an alarm and waits for the police. When the others get home, Hondo is waiting for them. The next morning he watches wrestling and tells Zane his mother is out.

He tells Zane and Brooks a giant chicken is at the door and they follow it to Ms. Cab’s house. They enter and he passes out when he finds her box of eyes. Mr. Ortiz shows up and Zane tells them about Ah-Puch and the Mayan prophecy. They quickly accept this and he offers to drive him and Brooks to their next destination. He takes tools as weapons and takes money for the trip. They learn that Ah-Puch plans to take revenge on the hero twins in Venice Beach. Brooks tries the talk him and Zane out of it, but they will not take no for an answer. Before setting out Brooks tells them the twins’ Birthday is the following day and she has an invitation.

Brooks tells him to take I-10 to Tuscan, but he misses the turn and they end up in Yuma. He drops Zane and Brooks at a fast food restaurant to order food while he gets gas. As they finish the kids tell him demons are coming towards them. They head to his truck and are confronted by doppelgängers of themselves. He takes care os his and Zane‘s copies and the two of them fight Brooks’s copies. They hit the road soon after. He drives through the night until they reach San Diego. He waves at Zane as he orders breakfast. They arrive in Venice Beach and, after negotiating for a Scarface poster, is taken by Brooks with Zane to meet with her friend Jazz. After they save Jazz from passing into a diabetic coma, he becomes concerned when Zane passes out. They take him to Jazz’s apartment upstairs and wait until he wakes up. When he wakes up and the giant discovers Zane is supernatural, he backs up Brooks’s claim of Zane being a magician. Jazz gives them formal wear that masks their worst physical qualities and a scooter to get to the twins. They reach the Beverly Hills Hotel by hitting the turbo button to narrowly avoid the police. He breaks his arm in the landing bu the clothes heal him withi minutes. They reach the third floor and Brooks tells him and Zane they will need to play a game and trade magic to get the information from the twins.

Brooks loses her invitation but gets them in anyway. She explains how the twins help make people famous in exchange for their talents. Soon after they arrive one of the twins arrives and says hello to Brooks. The twin, Jordan, takes them to Bird, the other twin, and they refuse to give up how they defeated Ah-Puch. After Zane wagers his jaguar jade in a game for their meth of defeating Ah-Puch, they accept. He reveals that he ate a meatball, and Brooks tells him the food is poisonous to humans. She explains that his enchanted clothes with stop him from dying. They reach the court and the games starts. He starts to hallucinate due to the poison and performs poorly before passing out.

As his nephew and Brooks struggle to lift him, Jazz arrives and swings Hondo over his shoulder. After they reach Jazz's boat, the giant takes him below deck. After the boat starts to get crushed, he takes Hondo and puts him in a raft. He recovers from his poisoning and is relieved to see Zane alive. He complements Jazz on his inventions and when they reach shore, set out to find the lighting striker to train Zane. The four make their way to the old meeting grounds of the five most important gods and goddesses in the Mayan pantheon and make camp.

He and Jazz come charging into battle against both the demons of Ah-Puch and Ixtab. He lures them to a tree and starts to attack them with one of Jazz's flashlights. When the gods arrive Quinn keeps him from talking and takes him and Jazz to safety with Brooks. They end up back in Jazz’s shop and he and his sister relocate to Isla Holbox, where they plan to open a surf shop and teach kids wrestling.

Appearance
Hondo is a short Hispanic man in his early twenties (although he looked seventeen) and was built like a tank with boulder-size biceps, abs of steel, and hands of iron. However despite his muscular build he was considered short.

Personality
Hondo is a lazy man who lounges around the house whenever he is out of work. However he has the well-being of others at heart, such as teaching his nephew wrestling moves.

Despite his laziness, Hondo can give his all whenever he is needed.

Trivia

 * He smokes cigars and drinks beer.
 * Hondo drives an F150.
 * Hondo does have similarities to Gabe Ugliano, except for a big difference he helps when he can.