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Lando from Rancho


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Orlando Mora posing with known Vagos MC prospects and affiliates.

 

 

Beginning

 

Orlando Mora was born to Eduardo and Fernanda Mora in the lower south side of Los Santos, specifically Rancho. He was born six years before his younger brother Pablo Mora. This is where he would spend most of his life, in one of the cities most dangerous environments infected with wide-scale criminal activities, drug trafficking, and a very high homicide rate. Not many opportunities are given to most of the area's residents, many young teenagers being sucked into the criminal life that shadows and plagues the area. At a young age Orlando knew that the path chosen for him by his father and mother wasn't the path he wanted to follow, and at seventeen he dropped out of school and got cliqued up with a low level street gang in the area. From small scale trafficking to break and enters, it was enough income to pick up the slack from his already failing mother and father. 

 

 

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Upbringing in Rancho

 

At a young age art and drawing to a young Orlando was nothing but a way to get through boring lectures in school. His peers always commended him for his art style and his pieces, but it was never something he seriously considered taking further. The creative freedom and expression he had with a pen helped him through many a struggle, and this would lead him deeper and deeper into his clique of homeboys from the hood. Even if it wasn't what he wanted. At first it was love for the art, however it quickly turned to the peer pressure as he began tagging for the homies, putting their name on their turf. While he was putting his clique's name on the map, this shrouded him further in the developing cancer that was this gang and brought him deeper into the fold. With the help of many key figures who had other connections to outside of the group, simple marijuana and cocaine trafficking turned into something much more insidious. Harder and nastier the product that he was told to push became, Lando having seen the first hand effects of heroin abuse in his family alone. It was hard to keep his conscious clear and continue to distribute this poison to people that lived in his own community. And eventually it was time for him to push himself out of this darkness and move onto something more positive for himself and his future, understanding just what would happen if he followed the path he was on. Of course this was seen as a stab in the back to his brothers still putting in work on the streets, but it was something that he had to do for himself. Getting out wouldn't be easy, but it was do or die after the horrors that he had already inflicted on those around him. 

 

 

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Getting Out

 

After the push away from this criminal lifestyle and drug pushing, there was only one thing left that the boy had to use going forward, his art. He applied his love for drawing and making art to the only outlet for anything of the sort, and that was ink. Beginning to work at a shop in the area, he made a steady income off of his art and tattoos, and began to seriously start putting back money into his savings. With his small, but amassed amount of wealth, now was the time to do right by himself and make his first big purchase, and a friend from the neighborhood had a used '07 Harley Davidson 883 Low. He never considered purchasing, or better yet riding a motorcycle in his lifetime, but anything was better than nothing and at this point he was very close to desperation. However, little did Orlando know that this bike would not only be a quick way to work, but a passion and then a lifestyle. A certain exhilaration came from two wheels, and the eyes that it pulled had an effect on the young man's ego, filling the streets with the loud roar of the engine felt like nothing else he'd ever experience. There was no turning back and he was instantly hooked, and this was also a perfect opportunity to meet a new circle of people and stray further away from his former life. This led him to a local 99% Motorcycle Club, one that followed AMA's(The American's Motorcycle Association) guidelines and jurisdictions. A year or two with this club and he would finally decide that the ninety nine lifestyle wasn't something that suited his interests long term, and only left him wishing for more. Once again he was drifting and searching for that thing that would keep his interest and accept the commitment he would apply.

 

Sandy Shores

 

His past beginning to haunt him, and old faces re-emerging into his life that could potentially threaten him or his family, he finally decided Rancho wasn't for him. The only thing he knew to do was go North, so he decided to pack up and move out to Blaine County, specifically the Harmony area, where he would find a cheap motel for the time being. Work now being an issue, his one and only chance at steady income was tattooing. It was something he genuinely enjoyed doing and he made a decent wage off of it. Sandy Shores' Tattoo Parlor was the answer, and he would be introduced to Joaquin 'Bandit' Delgado, Vagos Motorcycle Club President of Blaine County. Manager of the parlor, he would take on Orlando as an artist. Now employed, in a new area to call home, free from the drama of his past life and his dirty choices prior to the move, it was a new start to create a new image. Knowing Bandit was a blessing in disguise, the President began to introduce Lando to the club and get him involved with the low level hangies and prospects of the Green Nation. It would seem that he'd found his calling and hoped to be accepted into the fold.

 

Prospect

 

It didn't take long for Orlando to hit it off with the Blaine County chapter of the Vagos Motorcycle Club, getting involved and putting his name out there with the group of guys. The introduction of Bandit went a long way for the hangaround and he eventually knew each and every member of the chapter by face and name. After a good chunk of time, however sooner then most, he was thrown into a Prospect patch and officially apart of the organization at the ground floor. Becoming well liked in the clique was no issue for the kid, keeping his head down and always around to lend a helping hand and prove himself. However, months into this new phase of his life, drama found Orlando just as it always found a way to do so. This time however it was between himself, his then girlfriend and another member of the organization. With little to no warning he was out of town, state-side, on something of a soul searching journey. His life had many turns and major switch up in the span of only eight years, so it was almost expected that a small break of sorts was to be taken. It, of course, didn't last. He was back in Los Santos after a month or so, immediately back into the fold with the Vagos. He was lucky to have still been able to keep the kutte on his back, and with the help with Manuel Ayala and Vick Richards, he would do nothing but rise above his issues from before and continue on this path he had chosen.

 

 

Spoiler

 

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this thread will follow the development of Orlando Mora, and is very much a WIP.

 

 

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