Cora Star/3.0

==Beginnings==
On Cora's first day in the city she ran into Jesse Reed and Meelo "Nex" Graves outside of the Alta Apartments where she complemented Jesse’s car. Since they noticed Cora driving a Futo, Meelo gave her a lockpick so she could acquire herself a better car. Jesse also gave Cora his number with the intention of showing her the city later.
Jesse and Cora became fast friends, helping her immensely during her first days. She expressed her main interests in boosting cars and street racing. Jesse helped her get necessary tools as well as guided her along the steps. As such they ended up spending a lot of time together and enjoyed each other's company to the point where feelings were formed. A couple days later Jesse gifted Cora her first car, vin scratched Coquette, to help her get into races. Shortly after they became a couple but decided to keep it a secret during the beginnings.
Jesse wanted to give Cora a home, and spend some time deciding whether to introduce her to the Bondi Boys MC or the Nightfall racing crew. In the end he decided it would be better suited for Cora to become part of the Nightfall. As a result she quickly became part of the overarching heist group, The FEMLY.
Cora has met many BBMC members and has gotten along with all of them. After meeting Pez Speedwagon on a few occasions Pez asked Cora if she had intentions of joining the BBMC, to which she replied that she has no intention at the moment. Biggest reason being her relationship with Jesse, as Jesse didn’t want to date another club member to a point where he said he would break up with Cora had she ever become part of BBMC.
Over time, Cora’s and Jesse’s relationship started to become harder and harder. Jesse’s commitment to the club, combined with a personal rule he had for her to never come near Vespucci nor the club, as part of Jesse’s wish to keep his personal and club life separate, strained their relationship. As a result they had barely seen each other and started to grow apart. Towards the end of January 2022, Cora and Jesse broke up, with the final straw being Cora trading the Lamborghini Murcielago she owned for her dream car, Nissan Silvia S15. A result of the growing issue of communication between them that caused breaking Jesse’s trust to Cora.
Shortly after The FEMLY dissolved, every member started to find their own way forward. Both of these events showed Cora who her real friends were, as she was left with nothing. After some time, no longer restricted by her relationship with Jesse, she tried to become a BBMC hangaround. However, the day before she told Jordan Lee she was ready to join, the club had put a moratorium on adding new hangarounds to the club. Later she was told this was bad BBMC communications, as an exception would most likely have been made for her. 
==Seaside==
With BBMC doors seemingly closed, Cora again started to hang out more with Bodhi Mack and Joaquin "JJ" Jimenes, and eventually, by being included in jobs, with other Seaside members. Slowly but surely she showed her skills and became friends with all of them. Cora and Bodhi started dating, leading up to them becoming official on April 7th, 2022. When Bodhi asked whether or not she wanted to become Seaside, Cora said that she loved hanging around the group and that she is keen to. But to not repeat the mistake of her being viewed and treated as “just a girlfriend”, she wanted to earn that by herself.
On May 11th, 2022, Cora was invited into Seaside as an associate, meaning she would be considered family to Seaside and be able to wear a Seaside bandana (the flag). Her blood-in began with her being cuffed, blindfolded and transported to the oil rig. As a Seaside tradition, everyone gave a speech about Cora. Cora’s last task to earn her flag was to swim back to the beach. Cora made it almost there before she was attacked by a shark. Other Seaside members saved her and she was given her flag by Bodhi.
Only a few days after Cora became part of Seaside, she showed her commitment and skills in her first gang wars with R.U.S.T and The Mandem. With Reggie Might's return to criminal life, Seaside started looking into doing meth runs. As a proven driver, Cora was chosen to be the lead driver for them. Seaside did 6 runs, all of them successful. Cora lead drove for 5 of them. The one where Cora was an interference driver, she and Ivan Samarsky played a big role by diverting the attention by engaging in a shootout with police. 
On September 27th, 2022, Cora became Seaside’s full member with the gang's rank restructure. Becoming a full member meant no free passage out and being more included in Seaside’s business. All associates had been given a last choice to leave or stay for life. Nobody chose to leave. Days later, it would all fall apart. Seaside was dealing with Michael Simone's kidnapping, which led to his (faked) death. Emotions were high and fuses short. On Oct. 3rd, second-in-command Ash Ketchup was caught by the PD cooking meth with Hydra, and while she was in prison for 3 years, tensions rose between the leaders. Upon being released, she called a meeting and announced she was leaving Seaside. Everyone present in the meeting tried to stop Ash from making this decision, albeit unsuccessfully.
Cora was devastated by this news, as Ash had confided in her a lot and they shared similar problems in the group. Following dayhad a big talk with Cora, because Cora was one of the most informed about Ash as she confided with her a lot, sharing similar problems. Cora had previously been shut down by the leaders, had her opinions invalidated or ridiculed and overall had felt out of place in Seaside. Many council members, starting with Karl "KJ" Johnny Black, took Cora aside for one-on-one conversations to convince her that Seaside cared and supported her, and promised to start working towards bettering the group together.
In November 2022, for the one-year anniversary of Seaside’s creation, they celebrated with a Seaside Olympics hosted by JJ. After the closing ceremony, everyone from Seaside moved to the penthouse, where Council members held speeches. Benji called Cora forward and as a gift gave her a Seaside chain. Unfortunately the problems that Ash had Cora had commiserated about did not improve. In a meeting with Benji and Reggie about her relationship with Bondi Boy Finley Milton, Benji threatened to kill her if she ever left Seaside and start a war with BBMC if she joined them. The tension between the two groups led Finn to break up with Cora. Secretly he also hoped that this would help her chances at joining BBMC if she ever decided to leave Seaside.
Finally, on March 7th, 2023, Cora asked to be blooded-out of Seaside. Cora explained to JJ and KJ she did not mesh well with hte new people who had joined the gang. Cora was tired of the constant gang wars and didn't want to have to shoot people she cared about in a conflict. She also felt like Seaside had regained the Southside mentaliy they had tried to shed when the original members left the Vagos. She had trouble seeing some people as family and said she shouldn’t stay for only a few members. JJ could not bear to shoot Cora, so simply stabbed and ocean dumped her. He also secretly called 911 to ensure she was found by EMS. When Ash was told Cora was blooded out, she said, "I'm not surprised, she should have escaped back when I did."
== Life In BBMC ==
Cora's dream of becoming BBMC was renewed by a change in leadership to Prime Minister Barry Benson. After being gone from Seaside for nearly two months, she was invited to complete a Hangaround Challenge, which she did in part by driving for a meth run. Cora was accepted as a Hangaround on the 28th of April 2023. Her jacket was Antonio Rodrigues, which was switched to Finn after Antonio left the club and was blooded out. This did not deter Cora, as she had been watching the BBMC's journey for two years by this point and knew the club better than many of the new members. On the 8th of June 2023, she successfully earned her jacket and was promoted to Prospect. She was officially promoted to a full Patched Member on the 30th of September 2023.
==Prism==
===Prism invitation===
Prism invitation
After the disbanding of the governing entity for the racing scene, known as the Midnight Club, many racing crews began to form. Biggest being Nightfall, Yokai and Vendetta. The disbanding of Nightfall started when Adam "AP" Peterson and Octavio "Goofy" Stenberg left to Redline, leaving one of the best drivers Anna "Lilac" Jørgensen without any crew. After many talks Anna and Jesus Antonio Lopez Contreras (aka Souls) formed Prism on December 23rd, 2021.
First people invited to the newly formed crew were Gumbus "Spoiler" McGoo and Cora. Cora got her invitation from Anna on January 1st, 2022, which she did not accept right away taking her time to think.
Cora accepted the invitation on January 8th, 2022.
===Murcielago incident===
Murcielago incident
After Cora missed her chance to get, at the time, the last Nissan Silvia S15 from Tuner Shop, an opportunity for another S class car presented itself. Lamborghini Murcielago got restocked in PDM. Car that Jesse was on the interest list for months.
With help of Victor Fittipaldi, Jesse was chosen as a lucky buyer. However due to financial reasons Cora and Jesse decided that the car will be in Cora’s name. Cora took over full financial responsibility for the car, getting the money by selling her Elegy and taking a $1M loan.
Both Cora and Jesse saw the Lamborghini Murcielago more as an investment with intention to flip it later down the line.
After only a week of owning the car, Cora got offered a 3 way deal between her, Mayumi Himura and Mary Mushkin. A trade where Mayumi would sell her Nissan Silvia S15 to Mary for $1.3M, so she could convert her Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R. Mary would then trade the Nissan Silvia S15 for Cora’s Lamborghini Murcielago. Mayumi was keen to do this trade even though she had an offer of $1.7M from another source, because of the possibility of Cora getting her dream car.
Although Cora took full financial responsibility for the Lamborghini, it was still Jesse’s connections that got her the car. With that in mind she contacted Jesse about the deal, unfortunately Jesse was fully preoccupied with war against Mandem and hastily told Cora to not sell the car any lower than $1.8M.
Cora, under pressure, feeling the deal is a one time offer, agreed and traded the Lamborghini Murcielago for the Nissan Silvia S15 from Mary. Mary gave Cora $200k on top of the car.
Before Cora could talk to Jesse, Jesse got told about the deal from Adam "AP" Peterson and Victor Fittipaldi. A lot of information unknown to Cora quickly came to light. PDM did not want the car to end up in Mary’s hands. Victor agreed to sell the car to Cora instead of Jesse because of his trust in Jesse as he was not supposed to do that. With this Victor lost his trust in Jesse and by extension closed business endeavors for BBMC.
When Cora finally got the chance to talk with Jesse, his mind was already set and with his trust in Cora broken, he broke up with her.
===Cora and Finn===
Cora and Finn
Friendship between Cora and Finley "Finn" Milton was formed through their whole time in the city. Helping each other, supporting each other, Cora and Finn formed an unbreakable bond through times where both of them scrambled money to make it through the next day.
Finn helped Cora immensely to keep her mental together during one of her biggest hardships, following her break up with Bodhi combined with Seaside’s hard times with Michael Simone’s kidnapping and Ash Ketchup leaving.
In these times Cora had various feelings and problems with Seaside and Finn once again helped her fight her demons. By doing so close intimate feelings began to form between them. However Cora nor Finn were ready for such relationship, yet. Having to sort their feelings and emotions, as well as facing problems and fears from Cora’s previous relationship with Jesse.
Working through the issues Finn had officially asked Cora out and they became a couple on October 10th, 2022.
Over time Finn's desire to put more time into the club, becoming high command and overall ambitions in the club grew. With that Cora started seeing same things that killed her relationship with Jesse. Realizing the relationship cannot work out in the long run as she cannot see herself always being the second choice and multiple other reasons on both sides, Cora and Finn broke up on January 21st, 2023.
Cora does still care about Finn, considering him best friend and wanting the best for him. However now knowing the best for him, is not them being a couple.
===Leaving Prism===
Leaving Prism
For a very long time Cora was the only Prism member in her timezone which led to her having doubts about her place in the crew. However feeling absolute loyalty to Anna "Lilac" Jørgensen, because of their long time friendship and Lilac being one of the few people that did not abandon Cora at her absolute lowest, Cora was unable to leave.
When one of the newer recruits, Darren "Praia" Creasy, got caught for the first time, he made a crucial mistake while being interrogated. He did let police go through his phone and as a result he unintentionally leaked a document containing information about MRL (underground racing league). With this Cora’s and multiple other racers identities and affiliations were burned. When Lilac informed Cora about the situation and more so about Praia’s lack of punishment, Cora’s doubts begin to grow again. Cora had discussions with Kassandra Kage and Jesus Antonio Lopez Contreras (aka Souls) about her feelings and her thoughts of leaving. However before Cora could make her decision Yokai demanded Praia’s head. After a long discussion Lilac was given an ultimatum to either hand Praia over for torture or Yokai would hunt him down and do whatever they felt like. Being pressured, Lilac made the decision to hand Praia over. Decision that Cora heavily disagreed with and especially with her not being included in the decision making. Nevertheless the crew talked it out and bonded together.
Alas nothing lasts forever. As the crew did not spend much time together outside of racing and meetings the bond started to fade away and more examples of clashing personalities began to show. Cora talked with Clay "Cayde" Alderson about her problems to see how he sees things. Unfortunately Cayde mostly agreed with Cora. The problems being: crew having more of a coworkers vibe rather than close friends, not hanging out together, crew not having much of an appeal for free agents, free agents joining other crews before Prism can make their decision, and more.
Cora started to distance herself and her feelings were strengthen since not even at races she was approached by the crew. Resulting in her making the decision. On January 28th, 2023, Cora had a difficult talk with Lilac where she announced her leaving the crew.
Even tho Cora’s reasons for leaving were more than valid she felt absolutely horrible. Feeling as if she abandoned Lilac, as if she abandoned the crew she was supposed to build and overall feeling horrible for Lilac.
Cora still very much cares about Prism and wishes only the best for them, just with her problems becoming more apparent and not having any attachments to good chunk of members she could not make herself remain part of it.
==Gallery==
CoraStarPatched.png|thumb|Cora Patched
CoraRacingFox.png|thumb|Cora Fox
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CorasCliffhanger.png|thumb|Cora Cliffhanger
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CoraStarandAshKetchup.jpg|thumb|Cora and Ash
Cora Sean Beach.png|Cora Sean Beach
Cora Kuttes.png|thumb|Cora Kuttes
CoraBlueLeatherFit.png|thumb|Cora Blue Leather Fit
Cora canal house roof.png|thumb|Cora Canal House
CoraHouse.png|thumb|Cora House
CoraRedlineFit.png|thumb|Cora Redline Fit
Cora chain 1.png|thumb|Cora Chain
CoraSunsetJacket.png|thumb|Cora Sunset Jacket
Cora irish at ivan wedding.png|thumb|Cora Irish at Ivan Wedding
Redline Cora.jpg|thumb|Redline Cora
CoraStarSeasideFlag.jpg|thumb|Cora Seaside Flag
Cora lilac spain.png|thumb|Cora and Lilac Spain
Cora x elegy.jpg|thumb|Cora Elegy
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==Trivia==
*Cora’s state ID is 25858
*Phone dongle alias: Star