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MARAVILLIANS - THE GREEN LIGHT GANG A group of street gangs emerged in the East Los Santos area during the 1930s, it was later known that these gangs were "Maravillas". The Maravillas consists of several gangs across East Los Santos, such as Ford Maravilla, Gage Maravilla, Lopez Maravilla, El Hoyo Maravilla, Arizona Maravilla, and many more to count. The the late early 90s, the Mexican Mafia also known as La eMe began taxing Mexican-American street gangs, most gangs fell in order but for the ones who didn't felt serious consequences. The Maravilla gangs in East Los Santos were one of the few gangs who did not fall in line with the Mexican Mafia tax. It is said that when asked to pay the tax to the Mexican Mafia, Lopez Maravilla were being charged for something in South Los Santos that they had nothing to do with. So, Lopez refused to pay the tax, which revolved to a greenlight on the Lopez Maravilla. Shortly after, all of Maravilla Varrios were greenlit by the Mexican Mafia. Sometime in the late 1990s, all Maravilla factions preformed a truce to defend themselves against the Mexican Mafia. Things were getting deadly on the streets, and in the Los Santos County Jail, also known as the Twins Tower Correctional Facility, or "The Twins". It's said that the greenlit was ONLY acknowledged in the streets, and county jail, not prison. While in the county jail, things were getting bad, so bad that the City Of Los Santos had placed Maravilla in their own module, away from Surenos. About a few years later, in the early to late 2000s, the greenlit was taken off of Maravilla. Although the blood that was shed behind it can never be forgiven. Nowadays, Maravilla involved themselves with the Mexican Mafia, although it is still stated that the Mexican Mafia and some Maravilla factions maintain a shaky relationship. Some factions within the Maravillas have grown since the greenlight was lifted. While others have shrunk, some are even presented as "Defunct" which is another way of saying something is not active anymore, or "dead". Ford Maravilla's turf has since shrunken, and they're now at beef with neighboring Maravilla gangs, such as Fraser Maravilla, and Marianna Maravilla. Some say this beef sparked from backdoors, while others may say it's because Ford is trying to take territory from the two. Although we may never know what's the real meaning behind it. A COLD SUMMER - JEFFERY "CRITTER" VALDEZ Around 9PM on a June night, a Los Santos Deputy responded to a 911 call about a shooting. When they arrived to the area, they found Jeffery Valdez, a documented gang member from Ford Maravilla. Jeffery suffered from five gunshot wounds, two to the chest, one to the cheek, and two to the face. Jeffery's injuries were fatal, and Law Enforcement knew he wasn't going to make it. Jeffery was then pronounced deceased on the scene, and transported to the Los Santos Morgue. Law Enforcement reported that they had found a .45 caliber handgun not too far away from the scene. When a dummy test was preformed, it was proved that this was the gun used. After tracing the fingerprints, they'd found that a Michael Jefferson was responsible for this murder. But by time they'd gotten to Michael, he had fleed the state. Warrants were placed for Michael's arrest, and he was found in a abandoned barbershop in Arizona. Michael was then charged with Jeffery's murder, which he pled not gulity. Michael was put on trial, and they also found a cigarette with his DNA on it close to Jeffery's death-site. This dug Michael a deeper grave, and his lawyer even told him to take a plea. Michael still fought the case, eventually losing. The Los Santos Police Department department threw the book at Michael, and gave him life in the San Andreas Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Later rumors suspected that this was a gang-related shooting. But others said this was more personal. Jeffery had recently been involved in a spring of drug-deals, and some said his product was being stepped-on, also known as laced. Michael's older sister was a drug addict, and she'd recently been pronounced deceased after purchasing drugs from Jeffery, he denied that he'd sold drugs to Michael's sister, and only knew her from hanging around the neighborhood. Many suspected that Jeffery was murdered in revenge of Michael's sister. CURRENT DAY FORD MARAVILLA Nowadays, Ford Maravilla is slowly climbing back to it's reputation. With the Mexican Mafia greenlight, and Los Santos gang injunctions, it won't be easy. And they know it. Kids as young as age 12 are getting recruiting into East Los Santos gangs, although it's heavily frowned upon. Ford Maravilla now /functions/ in a small area of El Burro, mainly Fudge Lane, alongside neighboring Maravilla, and Sureno factions, such as Gage Maravilla, ES Lott 13, Krazy Ass Mexikans 13, Arizona Maravilla, Lil East Los 13, and more. Although these gangs are quite larger than Ford in numbers, Ford Maravilla has still maintained it's reputation.

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Crystal Park, it's a haven for the downtrodden—people discarded by society, ex-cons searching for a fresh start, women doing whatever it takes to survive, and those battling addiction living out of cars and vans on the final cusp of homelessness. This is not a gang, it is a community. CK permissions are not required, and you are free to join or become affiliated with the various factions that pop-up around East Los Santos. Unrealistic portrayal can lead to being asked to move your character out of the community. We advise members to limit confrontations and drama to verbal disputes and the occasional fistfight, keeping physical altercations non-lethal. Using weapons should be viewed as something extreme and heavily consequential as it is in real life. Killing characters over things such as petty-theft, losing a fight, or relationships is heavily frowned upon.

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"ÀRD-THIREAN FEARG" The Highlanders Motorcycle Club is a 1%’er MC originating from Vancouver, Canada, and was formed in 1991 by the late Devon “Big Lad Harry” Harlow, a second-generation immigrant from Scotland whose father and heritage became the main inspiration for the club’s future aesthetics. During his leadership period, the Club had become relatively loose allies with the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club, and as such, their colors would to some extent reflect that. They managed, however, to stand their ground as an independent club, a stance that was soon challenged by the brewing conflict that would inevitably lead into the Quebec Biker War. During this period, the Highlanders would do what they could to assist the Alliance in a minor capacity with efforts and services regarding lodgings, financial support, and open communication lines. However, a consequence of this would be the tension that would grow between the HMC and the Hell’s Angels. This animosity naturally started to dissipate between 1999 and today, after the Rock Machine Alliance was left damaged after many arrests and the truce was formed. In 2009, Big Lad Harry was shot and killed by law enforcement. He was later succeeded by his son Lance “Bags” Harlow, whose ambitions looked beyond the Canadian borders. Throughout Bags’ leadership, the club has established itself throughout a few charters, mainly across the western coast of North America, except for Halifax, a place culturally similar to Vancouver and the UK, branching out from Southampton as far as into Scotland itself. Primarily, the club has only ever expanded into the United States, but there are exceptions. As the club seniority had roots in the UK, many members, American, Canadian, or otherwise, had friends and family overseas in Southampton, Glasgow, and Belfast. In 2012, Eugene Hutchinson took over as the Tucson, AZ, Chapter President. During this time, the cabinet itself was almost entirely restructured, Kallen Lyons now the Vice President and Maloney Sharp being the Sergeant at Arms. This year would also mark the first appearance of the “Highlanders Ass-Kickers Crew,” a distinction now granted to branches of members serving or had served time in prison for crimes committed on behalf of the club. Hutch and Sharp’s approach to running the chapter was much more iron-fisted than it used to be, and the Club’s violence, bloodshed, and rampant drug abuse continued to grow out of control, an altercation eventually erupted internally, splitting the chapter almost entirely in two. At the conflict’s climax, a decision was made by several ambitious members to transfer to the Oceanbound charter, the Highlanders equivalent of Nomad, to ride out with a pack and look for new grounds to establish themselves on. These members eventually found themselves further out west to potentially settle another oceanside charter. OCEANBOUND While the “Oceanbound” charters of the Highlanders were still reasonably shared across the US, especially along the western coastline, the most critical migration in the Club’s history would be the infamous split from the Tucson chapter. Before this, Big Lad Harry had already had ideas of expansion into the US. Portland was one of the first charters established in the US due to a meeting between him and a group of American nationals that had previously passed through Vancouver for a bike show and a swap meet. Through this connection, he managed to plan out the Portland charter with some of his cabinet members, a few patches, and the American nationals. At this time, the Oceanbound charter started to grow, and while the Portland charter served as the staging ground for the continuous American expansion, Big Lad Harry wanted to establish another on Canadian soil. However, during the Halifax charter establishment in 2009, he died, and it, therefore, fell on “Bags” Harlow, his son, to continue his work. The first significant action Bags took to create a route from Halifax to the United Kingdom. They had friends and supporters overseas, primarily consistent with connections they had established in the past, who set up their Southampton charter. Before the UK migration continued, however, Bags decided to put the American chapter to work by expanding into Tucson in 2012. As soon as the Tuscon, AZ, charter was established, he considered America to be more or less settled to their own devices as the UK chapter started to grow, eventually leading to a charter in both Glasgow and Belfast. During the course of the American chapter’s establishment, a tedious, inter-club conflict in the Tucson charter would culminate into several of their members splitting off west as Oceanbound members. This charter would be founded on a different set of core values from Sharp’s and Hutch’s vision, instead of focusing on its core values during its conception rather than the at-any-cost money and power grabbing that was fuelled by the pair’s consistent substance abuse. THE CLUB The history of the Club is draped in violence and bloodshed, seeing a spike in criminal activity between 2012 and 2020. As to stand out from this history, and to earn their way back into the good graces of the community and the scene, these members have made conscious efforts to hold themselves to a higher standard, in an attempt to tackle their issues and conflicts in a manner smarter than what has been done in the past. Pride, however, is a major characteristic for the club, and it’s most often Pride that causes issues for them. Throughout the decades, traditions and aspects of their lifestyle are still fairly mysterious to the public. Some aspects of their Club, and the way they organize and orient themselves, have ceremonial characteristics similar to pagan and celtic culture, undoubtedly traditions that have lived on since the Club’s conception in the early nineties. The qualities they seek in future members, however, have remained widely the same. Above all else, the club values integrity, strength, and commitment, promising freedom and liberty to those who make it into their tightly knit Brotherhood. Additionally, by how the club has been established through these traditions and aspects, it naturally draws people of commonwealth ties and foreign roots, even if the procedure of becoming part of the club itself is strict due to the rules set around nationalities. Their split from AZ was a catalyst for change. The ambitions of the members splitting off fed into the growing need to reinvent themselves into something different and something truer to their way of life than what Hutch and Sharp had twisted it into. Maintaining that vision is perhaps the greatest challenge the Club will ever face, and only time will tell if their efforts will pay off, or all be for nothing. THE EAST SAINTS While the migration itself was hectic, the Oceanbound charter continued their ride further west and towards the coast, finally finding themselves in a sprawling cesspit of sex, drugs, and crime; San Andreas, for all of its beauty, bears resemblance to that of chaos. Considering the ambitions of the currently nomadic members, it proved itself to be a feeding ground for personal development and integrity. Ultimately, all choices settle them into the east side of Los Santos, now commonly known to them as the East Saints, their territory. Through the establishment of the East Saints charter, they have a chance to follow their vision, in an effort to keep their charter, and their Club, alive. OOC INFORMATION 1. Our faction wants to greatly emphasize on providing a believable, fun experience, aiming to provide quality roleplay for all members and all other parties who roleplay with us, including criminal and non-criminal factions. 2. While still a one-percenter faction, we seek to portray a club that focuses more on the communal aspects of the culture, bringing the party to the people in a fun, inclusive manner. In this, we seek to treat the illegal aspects of our Club as more of a side-business, though still recognizing its importance as a narrative factor to our Club and to the development of our Club, in-character and out-of-character. 3. We love the idea of having a relationship with other factions, especially other MC factions, whether these are hostile or friendly, anything that contributes to having a great time. That being said, we are not here to conquer, maim, and destroy other factions at the minor whim. We’re not here to Deathmatch. What happens in-character, happens in-character, but we strive to create and assist with a narrative that’s fun and enjoyable for as many as possible. 4. A great deal of information in the lore is fictitious. This is done to allow for a more malleable narrative that is easier to write and easier to implement regarding the faction. While maintaining a good portrayal of our faction as a motorcycle Club is important to us, we don’t want to sacrifice fun and the liberty of shaping it as we go along for the sake of absolute realism. The portrayal is essential, but not to the point of elitism, as we find this to be, in most cases, incredibly toxic. As always, for additional inquiries or questions, you may have about the faction, feel free to message either Quinn Maddox @Framebox or Ewan Carpenter @Karner