Misty Laker

Misty Laker is a character role-played by bagelEm.
==Background==
=== Early Life ===
Misty was raised in the sleepy village of Great Lissenden, located in the South East of England. Misty was raised by Joanna and Eric Laker and lived with them and her older sister Marina for all her adolescence. Her father was absent for much of Misty’s childhood, taking many ‘business trips’ overseas. To this day, Misty still doesn’t know what her father does for a living.
Misty was home-schooled her whole life, despite how much she begged her mother to go to a real school but was always denied. Misty’s only solace was her sister Marina, while she was a bit older than Misty, they were closer than anything.
Marina and their mother did not get along, constantly fighting but things blew up in the Laker household when Marina began dating an employee of their father. Marina and her boyfriend left to move to America when Misty was fourteen. Before she left Marina left Misty a burner phone so they could keep in contact.
While Misty was lonely without her sister, she got by and bottled up her resentment towards her parents as she blamed them for Marina leaving. A few years later Misty’s mother found the burner phone and destroyed it. Misty confronted her mother, who first reacted calmly about this, however halfway through the argument her Mother struck her across the face. Misty left home that night.
After leaving home Misty started living independently. She got work as a Barista and began renting a room. Independence was strange, Misty was so used to being coddled that she found she didn’t know many of the basics of taking care of herself. After just a few months Misty fell ill. When her parents found out about this, they insisted she moved home. Misty deliberated on this for a while and begrudgingly agreed.
Things were stable as Misty got better but when she began contacting her sister again she was pressured by her parents to stop. Misty decided that she didn’t want to let her parents come between her and her sister again so moved out again.
One summer Misty suddenly stopped hearing from her sister. Misty grew suspicious and reached out to Marina’s boyfriend who claimed not to have seen her in months, despite her sister telling her that they were still together just a few weeks back. Misty reached out to her parents who claimed to have not heard from her since she moved to America. It was five weeks until Misty heard news of her sister. She had been found dead; cause of death unknown.
No one had answers, her parents and the police eventually claimed it was an overdose, however Misty never believed this. Misty didn’t know what to do with herself. Her parents tried reaching out but she brushed them off.
Misty tried pulling herself out of this depression, but she never seemed to quite make it out completely. She decided she needed a complete change of scenery, so she did what her sister did when she was around the same age and move to America, more specifically, Los Santos.
=== Life in Los Santos ===
In Los Santos Misty didn’t quite know what do with herself but it was there where she met the love of her life: Jack. Misty and Jack instantly clicked and were soon dating.
Misty had a variety of jobs working at restaurants, as a mechanic and even owning her own farmers market stall. She dabbled in crime but it wasn’t really for her.
Life was good in Los Santos until Jack left – and never came back. Misty tried to keep herself from falling apart but couldn’t help but think the worst. She tried distracting herself, even getting a job as EMS but she decided she had to leave and find Jack.
While looking for him in Australia she did not have the proper paperwork and was told to leave. As she was arranging her exit from Australia she met a charismatic hippie who convinced her to join him and his crew on a travelling boat. Misty enjoyed herself for a while but noticed some strange things going on around her on the boat. Slowly Misty realised she wasn’t on a boat with a jolly band of hippies but a new age pirate cult. When they noticed Misty was trying to leave they tied her up and put her in the hold until she wanted to be more compliant.
Misty struggled but managed to break free while most of the others were high. She jumped overboard while the ship was near Los Santos and washed up on Vespucci Beach, unconscious and nearly drowned. When Misty woke back up in her hospital bed she struggled to remember what had happened to her – her mind blocking it out due to trauma. Misty soon recovered now with an extreme aversion to the water.
==5 Year Recap==
Misty had left Los Santos long before it all collapsed. While Misty was still reeling from her run in with the new age pirate cult and recovering from her broken heart, she received an email from her paternal grandmother who wanted to reconnect with her estranged granddaughter. Misty was hesitant but decided to go for it and she was glad she did. She took the quiet life in Sweden well, working at a local café and studying online. She never quite managed to learn much Swedish but she got by just fine.
It took Misty over a year to be comfortable with dipping her toes into the water but four years in she was completely comfortable being close to the water, able to take walks regularly on a nearby beach. While in Sweden Misty began studying meteorology and was accepted into an internship programme at a nearby weather station. The day before she was due to start, she was taking a walk along the coast when she spotted a familiar boat. Before she could start running, she was knocked on the head and when she came around she was back on that boat.
Misty tried escaping but it was no use. She decided the best way to get out was to play pretend until she could sneak off. It took three months of her playing the role of a loyal cult member before she managed to take a lifeboat and get away. It was 37 hours before Misty hit land, just as she was beginning to run out of food and water. As she hit the shore, she realised she recognised the place, what are the chances she’d end up in Los Santos after all this time?