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Rafael Rodrigo Machado is a character featured in The Walking Dead: Return to Woodbury.
Pre-Apocalypse
Location Unknown
Rafael was a soldier, a drug dealer and a pilot working for the biggest cartels in USA. Rafael never considered himself an outlaw or a "junkie", he thought of himself as a delivery man and that he was above everyone else in the cartel.
Sometime before the outbreak, he was imprisoned for ten years for not wanting to snitch on the cartels.
Post-Apocalypse
Ile De La Lumiére
Since the outbreak, Rafael had stayed in a prison located in a island near Cuba due to his senctence. He stayed there for five solid years alone, until a strom hits the island. As a former pilot, he barely manages to escape the flood with an arsenal of weapons. Rafael almost manages to get to the States, but his ride runs out of juice, making it drop in to the water and sink. Rafael makes it out with the guns and swins to the mainland.
Rafael encounters the dead, or "hungries" as he prefers to call them. He then discovers how they die, although he heard prison guards yell "only the head" during early dies.
Rafael encounters David Stern, and saves his life from walkers. The two establish a friendship, and later on discover Norma's body on a draft. They save her life and continue their journey to Woodbury.
Death
Killed By
Rafael is killed by Spencer-Lee after being shot in to the gut, while saving David. Spencer-Lee hangs his body in to a crane, Rafael turining in to a zombie.
Relationship
David Stern
The two established a great relationship within a week. They got along even though they had somewhat a languange barrier. David appreciated Rafael for saving his life after Spencer-Lee kills the young man, which makes him furious.