(No nonsense) Application for the "Get Violent" Video Game RPG
Name of character and game that he/she/it appears in: Carl "CJ" Johnson[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]
Powers/skills/inventory of the character: CJ has no powers, but he's a skilled driver, pilot, and marksman.
Will your character be bringing any other characters, items from their game with them?: Like the game, CJ is starting with nothing but $400 in paper and the clothes on his back.
Why have you chosen this character?: Of all the diffrent characters you play in the GTA series, CJ is the most heroic. He does dirty things, but it's all towards a good cause. He's more of a hero than Claude or Tommy Vercetti.
Can you provide any need-to-know information about your character for players with no knowledge of that character?
In 1992, Carl's mother is killed in a drive-by shooting. He returns to Los Santos for the funeral and is immediately confronted by members of C.R.A.S.H. (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums), Officers Frank Tenpenny, Eddie Pulaski and Jimmy Hernandez, a group of police officers involved in corrupt dealings. Throughout the game, C.R.A.S.H. forces Carl to work for them because if he does not, they have the power to bring harm to him and his loved ones. At the very beginning of the game, they tell Carl that they intend to frame him for the the murder of police officer Ralph Pendlebury, whom C.R.A.S.H. killed to prevent him from exposing their illegal activities.
Early in the game, Carl aids Sweet and the rest of the senior members in reviving the GSF by ridding parts of the neighborhood of crack dealers, acquiring weapons, and regaining lost gang territory. This revival ends, however, after Carl learns that his friends Ryder and Big Smoke, senior GSF members, have betrayed the gang. As CJ discovers the betrayal, Sweet is ambushed by rival Ballas gang members and wounded. CJ arrives to fight them off and likely saves his brothers life, but they are arrested by the police after the battle. Sweet is tried, convicted, and sent to prison on a life sentence. CJ, however, is released by C.R.A.S.H. into a rural area to continue to perform jobs for the team. The GSF, along with Cesar's Aztecas, fall out of prominence. Consequently, their rivals, the Ballas and Los Santos Vagos, are able to take over all of Los Santos.
After a brief stay in the Badlands (during which CJ engaged in multiple robberies of small businesses), CJ and his remaining associates headed north for San Fierro, establishing a successful vehicle chop shop and dealership while strengthening links with the local Triad, killing Ryder and disbanding the strongest drug cartel in San Fierro, the Loco Syndicate. Gaining access to Las Venturas and gaining a large stake in a successful casino/hotel, CJ rescues rapper Madd Dogg from suicidal death (when he felt apparent responsibility for what he did to him) in front of people who didn't lift a finger to help out (if anything were betting on Madd Dogg to jump or not), and meets up and works for undercover government agent Mike Toreno, who would eventually arrange for the release of Sweet from prison. After that, he had planned a new life to start from. However, with Sweet returning to the neighborhood, CJ once again, though reluctantly after pointing out that the gang was only dragging him down and since leaving he has enjoyed money and success, aids Sweet in rebuilding the GSF's dominance in the city, and witnesses a citywide riot sparked after Frank Tenpenny was acquitted of all charges in court. To wrap up all loose ends in his life, CJ would finally confront and kill Big Smoke, before pursuing Tenpenny, who would die in a car crash in front of his house. In front of the dead and broken man, CJ prepared to commit mutilation of Tenpenny's corpse with his Desert Eagle, but Kendl comes by with CJ's friends and stops him. He then leaves Tenpenny with these words: " See you around... Officer."
Sure it's a long read, but play the game, *******s!
Please provide your sample "blackout" post if your character comes from a different time to the present setting:
It was a happy ending. Tenpenny and Pulaski were dead, the Grove was back on the way up again. Ceaser proposed to Kendl, it was gonna be weird having a beaner in the family, but he was a good one. I ain't worried.
But, like I was saying, it was a happy ending. Sweet had the families back on top and I was helping Madd Dogg go platinum. In fact, that's where I was headed before the **** hit the fan.
"Where you at, CJ?"
"I'm on my way, got stuck in traffic."
Before I can hit the gas, the light cuts out all around me.
"What the ****?"
As soon as I get it out my mouth, the light comes back on and I'm sitting ass first on the sidewalk. Cops surronding me.
"L.A.P.D. Freeze!"
"What the hell is L.A. I'm from Los Santos."
That's all I can get out, as the cop pistol whips me on the head and I pass out.
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