Serina Fox

==Introduction==
Serina Belle Fox is a registered nurse (RN) at Pillbox Hill Medical Center. Serina came to Los Santos from Las Venturas with her boyfriend, Morgan James, looking for work and a "fresh start" after some traumatic events in the city caused a "change of scenery" to be necessary for her physical and mental health.
==Appearance==
Serina is a short and slender young lady with a toned build from tirelessly focusing on a healthy, active lifestyle. She is genetically afflicted with albinism, leaving her almost colorless with pale skin, silvery eyes, and long white hair that she usually keeps in pigtails or pinned up in a bun while she works. She claims that her mother loved to keep her hair long, so she refuses to cut it unless absolutely necessary. When outdoors, she is usually wearing sunglasses to protect her sun-sensitive eyes. At work, she wears regular glasses for reading. 
After moving to Las Venturas and letting her personal style branch out with her newfound independence from her strict parents in the big city, Serina became a bit of an ink addict, collecting various tattoos with skull and rose themes tied to them as well as her very obvious tribal style butterfly tattoo on the right side of her neck.
Due to a severe injury, Serina has noticeable scarring on her left leg from corrective surgery to fix damaged muscles and tendons. Usually this leg is covered with a supportive brace.
==Biography==
=== History ===
Serina was born January 11th, 1999, in the small town of New Hope, Pennsylvania to a strict pair of parents and a massive family tree full of public servants. Whether it was politics, police, medical, or army, the Fox family had always been a family that served the people as pillars of their community. Her father, the chief of the local police and an army veteran, raised his children with a strict set of rules and regulations so his children would follow in their family's footsteps and become exemplary citizens. Her mother, a rather popular brain surgeon at the local hospital, was the more health-conscious parent that stressed a healthy mind and healthy body on them, first and foremost, before anything else. This upbringing created Serina's straight-laced behavior and her desire to join the medical field. She chose to become a nurse as soon as she graduated from high school, while her elder sister chose to become a geologist.
A tragedy in the family was what solidified her choice. She was almost through her internship at the same hospital her mother worked at when her grandfather, an old Air Force veteran and the patriarch of the family that she admired, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and his health declined rapidly. He could no longer care for himself at home. Instead of letting him be sent to a nursing home, she gave up her internship and chose to become his at-home nurse for a year until he passed. Watching him waste away was the hardest thing she had experienced to date, but she did not regret her decision. It only strengthened her resolve to ease the suffering of the general public. However, she did not feel like she was living up to her full potential. There were bigger cities with short-staffed and short-supplied hospitals that needed her skills more. It was time to spread her wings and find her place in the world...so, she ended up traveling to Las Venturas. 
=== Las Venturas ===
The big city was a massive change for the small town girl. Growing up in a town where it was safe enough to leave your door unlocked during the day left her unprepared for the crime-ridden streets of Las Venturas, and she learned that the hard way. The young nurse became a hostage for a jewelry store robbery just once, and that was enough for her to start looking over her shoulder more often than she was ever used to. Thankfully, knowledge and protection came in the form of Morgan James, a security guard she had met at a family-owned Italian restaurant. The two became acquainted and chatted occasionally over text messages, but it was only when he came to her aid after the police recovered her from the jewelry store did the two start bonding. He confessed to her...allegedly...about his dealings with the crime family that owned the restaurant he worked for and his own experiences with the scumbags of Las Venturas to educate her, as well as spending his nights and days chasing away the fear and paranoia this fresh trauma had wrought upon her. Soon enough, the playful banter became an actual relationship. She was now getting settled in to city life with her new boyfriend, landing herself a job at the local hospital and even starting a side job as a yoga instructor.
==== Alice ====
However, that wasn't going to be the last time her life was at risk. A few months in to her stay in Las Venturas with her nursing career blooming in the busy hospital, she ended up catching the eye of a lady by the name of Alice Walker. The two met on social media and then a few times in person, becoming fast friends. Something wasn't quite right about Alice, but she never managed to actually put her finger on it until it was too late. Alice started exhibiting disturbing behavior one afternoon while the two girls were spending time together and Serina insisted on going home due to needing to be up early for a work shift, making sure to text Morgan about it before she promised him she was heading home. Alice insisted that she show her something before she dropped her off at her apartment, however, to which the nurse readily agreed to avoid upsetting her. It was here that Alice took her to an abandoned sawmill, attacked her, and then abducted her.
Her "friend" had become unstable and was suffering from delusions, thinking that Serina was in love with her and was faking her relationship with Morgan. Alice then texted the biker herself, making up a story that Serina was dumping him and the two were currently "on a date". He caught on to the ruse quickly, calling her back and using conversation clues to figure out where Alice had taken her before launching a rescue mission with his best friend, Julius Kilbride. Morgan shot Alice, though the rescue party and Serina did not come out unscathed. Alice had damaged an already healing leg injury from a parachuting accident on the nurse, and the two boys ended up being stabbed multiple times by the maddened girl before they brought her down. Paramedics recovered Julius while Serina left Alice for dead and saved Morgan, causing long term muscle and tendon damage to her leg.
This incident was what drove them to leave Las Venturas behind to get away from the lingering memories, and to avoid the potential backlash if the murder was uncovered.
=== Los Santos ===
== Personality ==
With her strict upbringing clashing with the compassionate nature of a medical professional, Serina's morals ended up in a bit of a balanced "grey area". While she is a law abiding citizen herself and has a strong hatred for the violent and greedy criminals of the city, she has a much more accepting demeanor when it comes to criminals who are just "trying to get by with the skills they have" or do "bad things for good reasons" as she puts it. She believes in looking past ones' outward actions and searching for the morality in the cause behind it. While oftentimes trying to find the "good in others" does bite her in the ass more times than she'd like to admit, she refuses to let go of this ideal. Her experiences have started to temper this behavior, however, constantly watching for warning signs and keeping most strangers at arm's length to avoid getting burned again. This leads some people to think she's a bit on the paranoid side.
Serina takes her nursing vows to "do no harm" very seriously and applies those words to everyday life. While she's more than happy to do a few bare-fisted sparring rounds at the local gym, she refuses to carry weapons on her person, much to the chagrin of her significant other. However, she more often than not will risk her own health and safety for others like many other health professionals, also much to his chagrin!
She typically keeps a rather cheerful and positive personality, but her line of work and life experiences has left her more of a realist than an optimist. 
Cleverness is something she has proven to be in abundance of. After coming into the city, she fell into the habit of being an unsuspecting observer of suspicious activity. Her "deceptively nonthreatening" demeanor (as she calls it) often leads to people being less on-guard and attentive around her, leading to loose lips and eyebrow-raising actions. On more than one occasion, these little "observations" get fed to the police to aid in their work, or they are fed to Morgan to keep him informed on the happenings in the city so he's just a little bit safer when he's up to no good. 
== Quotes ==
"Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. That's all you can really do." - Serina Fox
"You're...not what people expect you to be." - Morgan James
== Fun Facts ==
* Her health habits are taken to a bit of an extreme, even for a nurse.
* Yoga is her favorite pastime, to strengthen her mind and body all at once.
* The odd spelling of the Fox childrens' first names comes from their mother's taste in "odd" spelling for names. Her love of Disney characters created their middle names.
* She has a grey tabby cat named Cheshire. She adopted the cat when the previous owner, Alice, was killed. The cat was left abandoned in the woman's apartment after her demise. The cat, much like his previous owner, adores Serina and attacks everyone else on sight, especially Morgan.
* Despite being albino, Serina is a very active and outdoors-loving person. She has confirmed that her mother swears it is a blessing and a curse to have a sun-sensitive daughter that loves being outdoors so much.
*She is fluent in ASL, a language she picked up specifically to communicate with her deaf and mute patients.
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