Carrie Joyce Philips

Carrie Philips is the current leader of Trevor Philips Enterprises in Sandy Shores and the greater Blaine County area after the previous leader's not-so-graceful exit from the operation after possibly becoming disillusioned with the entire thing. She's portrayed by PropaneNightmarez.
== Apperance ==
=== Physical Apperance ===
Carrie is a 6ft 2 person, always presenting in a masculine sense. She has quite a few piercings on her face and ears and a good dress sense for someone of her calibre. She’s often dressed in a grey jacket with a camo pattern on the sleeves, a white t-shirt, grey fingerless gloves, black cargo pants and combat boots with a necklace that has a red pendant on it. Her hair is a shaggy cut in black (sometimes looks brown in the sun) with brown eyes. Her skin is tanned with a lot of freckles specifically on her face. 
=== Personality ===
Carrie is a trickster with a strong sense of humour, often using it when people are surprised she’s running TPI all on her own. She has her moments of sheer anger and sheer genius however she has a better hold on the anger than she did a few years ago. She doesn’t take shit and often refuses to give people the time of day if they’re gonna give her shit over how she runs her business or how she shouldn’t be running TPI at all. 
She’s a hard worker and that ethic has helped her bring TPI out of the shadows and back into a household name for all criminals. It wasn’t really hard at the end of the day but it proved her to a lot of people as someone they could go to and someone to not mess with. She tends to call those she can’t stand or gets annoyed by ‘slick’, ‘buddy’, ‘bud’ and ‘sweetie’. However ‘buddy’ is also used if they’re new to TPI, usually told by the tone of her voice.
== Background ==
=== Grand Theft Auto V ===
As the janitor for TPI and cashier (and janitor) for Ace Liquor, Carrie has her hands full and often doesn’t have time for herself or anything she’d like to do such as hanging out with friends. She also eventually served as ‘mission control’ for heists, such as helping out with finding out things or staying on radio for the crew. Eventually she quit in early 2014 after an argument gone wrong that resulted in a bullet lodged in her left arm and her exit from the operation.
=== Grand Theft Auto Online ===
==== 2017 ====
Carrie had been off the radar for a few years, laying low and acting as a mechanic within Los Santos. She could’ve returned back to Alderney but decided against it as to perhaps keep tabs on her own past which may have served her well after getting asked to return back to Sandy Shores, one last visit.
Or so she hoped as it turned out Trevor was making his exit from anything criminal and thought it’d be stupid to just throw away TPI so he offered it to Carrie under a set of terms:
* The revenue from the operation be split 60/40, Carrie gets 60% and Trevor gets 40%
* The name doesn’t change, it doesn’t matter if he’s not running it. It’s staying as Trevor Philips Enterprises
* Activities done by TPI have to stay illegal (minus Ace Liquor), it would be	wrong for it to suddenly go legal
Without much to go back to, Carrie caved and accepted the offer whilst mentioning she’ll stay living in Los Santos, he can take the trailer with him. Over the rest of 2017, Carrie put her time and hard earned money (as well as some stashed away from previous activities) into working on TPI which started with renovating the upstairs of Ace Liquor. 
No longer would they focus on making drugs such as methamphetamines but instead on gun smuggling and hired out work such as mercenaries, a central hub of sorts for that kind of work. Ace Liquor provided as a steady cash flow whilst renovations were underway.
==== 2018 ====
TPI retained Liquor Ace, the meth lab in Great Chaparral (although no longer used as a lab and instead as a safehouse and the Sandy Shores Airfield. Carrie started reaching out to anyone who’d be willing to work with or help her yet received naught from anyone, leading her to decided to manage it on her own which was easier said than done in all perspectives. However she managed it in thanks to an inherited strategic mind.
==== 2019 ====
2019 is when TPI went on the up and up, eventually settling a few contracts with a few people to start a steady flow of guns through the enterprise (albeit a strange name for an operation ran by one person), this allowed Carrie to sink her hooks into the arms smuggling business within Blaine County, proving herself after taking out a small time operation within the area. This re-cemented TPI as a name to be known.
==== 2020 ====
Things became steady for a while, Carrie herself offering her services as a hired gun when the cash flow dipped. Luckily due to being the leader of TPI and having proved herself, people were willing to pay a lot for her services. However she hadn’t accounted for law enforcement keeping tabs on Sandy Shores after the Union Depository heist. Around this time, she’d managed to get the warehouse back to a good state and started to use it as a workshop for all kinds of things which included working on cars, thus coming full circle. Law enforcement continued to just keep an eye on the area.
==== 2021 ====
And then the law enforcement decided to stake out the area, sending plain clothed officers into Ace Liquor with the assumption that Trevor was still running TPI however they remained oblivious when presented with cashier ‘Joyce Anderson’ who’s family had just brought out Ace Liquor (Joyce actually being Carrie who’d become aware of the LSPD trying to figure out who’s running TPI these days). Due to this, Carrie looked into hiring some muscle and eventually hiring a few residents of the desert town and running them through the story she gave a few officers.
==== 2022 ====
With the LSPD leaving the area for good, Carrie proceeded to finally start getting TPI onto it’s feet again. This attracted the ire of a few groups which included the Lost MC which lead Carrie to explain that she doesn’t want a fight and apologise for what happened in 2013. Through this, relations between the two were lessened to a more neutral standing where she explained she has no intentions to run TPI as how Trevor did and instead plans to properly run it as a hub for contract killers and gun smugglers to contact clients and to act as a mediation service for the previously mentioned.
==== 2023 ====
In 2023, Carrie hired mechanic Guy “Sledgehammer” Speed onto which she realised who’s son Sledge is yet remained positive he’d make a good hire and thus he acted as her getaway driver whilst she acted as the brains and brawns of the operation. TPI became locked in a gang war with a gang who’d rose through the ranks whilst they were getting their bearings, known only as ‘The Hatchets’ due to often using hatchets as their weapons. Their base of operations was an old bank in a now ghost town known as San Clarissa within Blaine County so Carrie and Sledge planned an attack to prove that they wouldn’t back down from a fight. TPI came out on top due to Carrie’s brains and brawns, Sledge’s driving and a help from a few hired guns. They then proceeded to take over the base to use it for their own means, using it to store funds, weapons and the like.
==== 2024 ====
As of now, TPI is still in full operation with both Carrie and Sledge running it together as Carrie eventually realised she couldn’t be everywhere at once and than Sledge is someone she could trust with the operation (now splitting the profits 40/40 (with Trevor getting 20% instead due to him not being part of TPI at all outside of name). Nothing has gone wrong so far but that might not last forever… 
== Relationship With Both Parents ==
=== Rose ===
It’s strained, especially with Carrie’s activities as a person however Rose understands partially why Carrie took over and how she really didn’t have that much of a choice. She’s at least proud of Carrie for making a name for herself even if she doesn’t approve of her child’s actions and how she did it.
=== Trevor ===
Whilst they surprisingly don’t talk much outside of Carrie stating that she’s sent his 20% of profits, he is at least proud of Carrie for taking TPI and making something out of it, especially not taking shit from any opposition. Outside of that, he appears to have totally gone guru and dropped off the map. Not that Carrie really minds, she does still resent him for making her take over TPI on her own without any help, especially with the state it was in.
== Skills and Attributes ==
=== Athletics ===
An athletic person, Carrie has done her fair share of feats against people which includes jumping onto the bonnet of a Hatchet driven car and shooting the wind-shield out. She’s also been known to push herself off a wall to kick someone down to get them in the head via a mix of athletics and strategy. It’s also incredibly handy when running towards or from something, especially if she needs to slide under or jump over something as well.
=== Aviation ===
A skilled pilot, she often uses any form of aircraft she can get her hands on to get arms across from point A to point B or just if she needs to get somewhere quickly. It comes in handy that TPI still has possession of the airfield and that she’s pretty good at stealing things.
=== Business ===
As the front runner of TPI for seven years, Carrie knows her way round the business. She picked up on a few things as janitor of TPI and cashier of AL back in 2013 which has pulled her through when handling the operation herself. She also picked up a few things when working as a mechanic in Los Santos. Her knowledge of running a business comes in handy when someone decides that she’s not good enough to run TPI as she can then prove that she’s the best choice in all of Blaine County.
=== Car Repair ===
A skilled mechanic before becoming the current leader of TPI, she’s repaired cars stolen by either her or Sledge to sell on at a higher price. She continues to act as a mechanic once getting the warehouse fully operational as Sledge has been known to get his car wrecked and she’s been known to (usually mildly, enough to stop them at least) wreck anyone’s car if she needs to stop them to steal their car and repair it later.
=== Driving ===
A skilled driver on her own merit, Carrie used to serve as the main transporter for TPI before hiring Sledgehammer to do it for her. She’s outran various issues in just a car without issue and knows her way around the area to use shortcuts to get to places quicker. Helps that she’s rarely moved.
As an off shoot, Carrie is also quite good on a motorcycle and has been known to take that as her method of transport instead of a car if she needs to weave her way through traffic and the like without issue.
=== Shooting ===
A skilled shooter, Carrie knows her surroundings and how to handle it with just a gun and nothing else, she’s learnt how to shoot a gun through living with Trevor for three years (who taught her as soon as he could). She’s a sharp shooter with a great aim, it’s a rarity she’ll be out of ammo due to often packing too much or that she’ll miss a shot but she can sometimes be sloppy if she’s stressed.
=== Strategy ===
A sharp and strategic mind, Carrie knows her way around a situation and how to get out of a situation. It’s something she’s been taught and something she’s retained as it is infinitely useful in any scenario and Carrie herself knows that as it also helps with running TPI originally just on her own without any help from anyone. The strategic thinking can be applied wherever it’s needed and Carrie knows it, from driving to fighting, it’s an unlimited skill of hers and she’s now hell-bent on teaching Sledge how to think strategically.
== Trivia ==
* This Carrie is the Carrie played in GTA Online.
* She too is unaffected by pepper spray and tear gas but uses the surprise when it doesn't work to her advantage to scare someone.
* Online Carrie’s fight style is based on how Desmond Miles fights, with a pinch of John Wick as well.
* Carrie can pull off the fence joke from the Cornetto movies (“What, you’ve never taken a shortcut before?”)
* Carrie running TPI was originally just a joking thought however it sounded too good to pass up upon more thought
* All that plays in her head is 9 to 5.
== Gallery ==
File:Omg her.png|This is the current up to date outfit for Carrie in GTA Online
File:Really is her.png|The full body drawing which her profile picture is from, it is based on her GTA O apperance
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