Marty Banks

Marty Banks is a character role-played by omie.
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==Description==
Marty Banks was a member, founder, and King Slime" of Gulag Gang. He was a well-established criminal within Los Santos and was often seen hanging around or saving his "bestie" Jean Paul, or with fellow GG members. He was also the owner of the Vanilla Unicorn Strip Club, and the owner of the Strawberry Ave. Gas Station (X-Mart). He first gained popularity for his insane hacking skills and ability to break into banks; catching the attention of some of the biggest gangs in the city.
==Background==
Marty Banks had been dodging the IRS for years; unbeknownst to him, slowly the IRS had been catching up to him. They had been closely monitoring his criminal activities, and had pinpointed him as one of their main priority targets. As GG's criminal activity began to slow down, the IRS decided it was the perfect time to strike. Being in a gang and all, they brought a SWAT team to X-Mart, GG's home-turf, and raided the whole compound. Marty was caught and detained in the GG garage, and was sentenced to 5 years in prison for fraud. All of Marty's assets were also seized, as the IRS were able to prove they were acquired with illegally obtained money. 
However, due to knowledge of Marty's impressive hacking skills, the FIB offered him a job to serve his time under the Cyber Crime division instead of serving his time in prison. Marty accepted the job. During his time, he picked up a few new tricks, but mostly didn't care for the job; it was a better option for him than just going right back to Bolingbroke. After his 5 year sentence, Marty found himself back in a rebuilding Los Santos. He decided to keep his head down and stay away from trouble, as prison had shook him up, but it was only a matter of time until trouble found him.
==Appearance==
Marty's Outfits
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==Personality==
Marty has a boisterous yet extremely loyal personality. He is immature, rowdy, and loud at times but also becomes very serious when he needs to or is faced with intense situations. Marty tends to adopt the traits of those he hangs around with most, in a chameleon-like way such as more brass and wild when he's around Jean Paul, but more tame and shy when he's around Yuno Sykk. This can cause some people to see him as a "copy cat" but it's just the way Marty acts when he's around others for a longer period and the way his personality is. 
Some people who don't know Marty can view this in a bad light though such as Chang Gang and Mr.Kebun who have labelled Marty a "dick-rider". An example of why they view him this way is due to his close friendship with Jean Paul and when Marty would call Ramee El-Rahman frequently asking for a job at Vultur Lé Culturé.
Much like the other members of Gulag Gang, Marty is fiercely loyal to those he trusts and will protect and defend them at all costs, whether it's against a powerful gang or any member of the PD. His blind loyalty to one of the Gulag Gang members Jean Paul is explained to have stemmed from Jean Paul giving the manager role to Marty when he first met him.
==Events==
The Company
During the first few days of being in the city, Marty met a lot of familiar faces. Everyone was broke but they had the desire to get their name out so Marty, Jean Paul, Benji Ramos, Raymond Romanov, Yuno Sykk and Mickey Sinclaire decided to make a group named, The Company and pool their resources together. Company had their first meeting on 17th December, 2023 and bought the first ever crafting bench in the city.
They wanted to increase their operations so they invited Outto-Tune Tyrone few days later. The Company pulled their money together and bought the first ever property in the city for $110,000 on 26th December, 2023. At the Trailer, they met a new friend, Pickle, the cat.
They made a lot of progress, but it didn't take long for problems to arise as X told Marty and Yuno that he was going to eventually leave. Marty was okay with this as long as X was honest to the rest of the group about how he felt. Yuno went behind X's back and cryptically informed Benji about it and everyone found out not long after. Marty meet up with the members of The Company (minus X) on 30th December, 2023, as a lot of rumours had started being spread internally about the fate of The Company. The members asked Marty what was going on with X, and why he wanted to leave. Marty told them that he cannot speak for X, and together they agreed to confront him about the situation. 
A couple of hours later, when X woke up, another meeting was called, where The Company asked X, Yuno and Marty about their conversation. X decided to lie and throw Marty under the bus, claiming that Marty was making drama out of nothing. Marty couldn’t believe that he got betrayed by his day one, and was also frustrated with that fact that no one else was really confronting X. They instead left Marty out to dry. Marty stormed off from the meeting as he couldn't believe what he was witnessing. He gave his house key to OTT and walked away from The Company.
The Crow
Marty had access to one of few Crowbars in the city, so he decided to tax people to enter the Sewer. He took on the alias of "Man Guy" and worked with Ramee and Besties. He didn't like the alias so he changed it to "The Crow" with Fanny being "The Bar".
The amount of Crowbars in the city increased significantly so Marty sold his Crowbar and dropped the alias of "The Crow".
The Grey Area The 404 Casino
On 4th January, 2024, Marty had the idea of opening up a roulette table in his apartment. Marty began advertising it as 'The Grey Area', and soon after, the idea turned out to be a huge success. Marty saw an opportunity and wanted to capitalise on it by making it into an actual business. He asked Ramee to be the lawyer for said business and started gathering investments.
On 11th January, 2024, Marty had enough money to buy a house, Grove Street #21, so he shut down the casino in his apartment and hired Cydney Lune to decorate the house for the now newly named "The 404" Casino. Marty was unsatisfied with the work Ramee was doing as his lawyer, so he instead contacted Siobhan Fitzpatrick and got her on retainer.
Joining OldBois
On 24th January, 2024, Lang Buddha met Marty at the GSF Baseball Court and offered him a spot in his group, OldBois, but Marty needed some time to think. On 26th January, 2024, Marty met up with Lang and Luciano DiCenzo and accepted the offer to join the group by paying his $10,000 buy-in.
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Fallout of X and Marty
The race to complete the USB set from Suds Law Laundromat was heating up, with Marty and Jean Paul having 5/6 USBs, which started to get to them. OldBois had the final USB needed by Marty and Jean Paul, so Jean Paul wanted Marty to steal it from the group house, but he refused to do it.
On 20th February, 2024, Jean Paul had enough of waiting around and tried to set up a deal with Outto-Tune Tyrone to get the final USB, without informing Marty. As they were driving back home, Jean Paul suddenly stopped the car and told Marty, "I am going to do the smart thing...first one to the house.", so Marty understood that the USBs were gone. Marty rushed home and saw that all USBs were missing. Jean Paul was about to leave, and Marty stopped him to have a talk, but Jean Paul pulled a gun, so Marty shot him and took the USBs.
Marty, defeated after shooting his bestfriend, gave the USBs to OldBois so they can complete the set. Jean Paul, with the help of Chang Gang started pressing OldBois about the USBs but nothing could be done, as they were already turned-in. Jean Paul decided to complete the set with CG but they needed one USB, which Marty had, so he pressed him. Marty and Jean Paul argued for a bit and at the end, Jean Paul ordered Ramee El-Rahman to shoot Marty, so he did it. Marty, confused about what just happened, gave CG the USB they needed and decided to end the beef from his side.
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