Darian Ambrosia

Darian Ambrosia is a character played by Aprilcake.

## **Description**

Darian Ambrosia found a new start in Los Santos - In ways she never could have fathomed. She is outwardly friendly and gregarious, but hides any deeper feelings. She tries to lead her life by two principles: Life is change and trust is transactional.

She won't risk her former gang finding her. She considers every time she shares details about herself as a transaction, with more info increasing the cost. For new people, information about her past is at a premium. For the few remaining who know her previous names, she can't afford any clues to her new life to slip.

## **Background**

Darian was born as Valentina Di Fiore on February 19, 1996 to Maria and mafia boss Dario Di Fiore in Staunton Island, Liberty City. Maria died from unforeseen complications shortly after childbirth, leaving Dario to raise his daughter alone.

As the only child of a mafia boss, Darian learned how to keep secrets before she could tie her shoes. Their branch of the Family dealt in hits, scores, and drugs, using the proceeds to benefit their community. Her father ran the Family on two principles: Family first, and the strong give to the weak. When things were good, everybody lived large. When things were bad, the two of them struggled to keep food on the less fortunate's tables.

Darian was raised to be her father's successor since he didn't trust his underboss. He was right not to— when Darian was 18 and acting as a consigliere, the underboss ratted Dario out and he went to prison. Darian took control of the gang, but things rapidly fell apart. Soon, there was a hit on both of their heads. She visited her father one last time, and fled to Boston with as much cash and drugs as she could carry.

In Boston, she enrolled in college as Darian D'Ambrosi, Communications major and party girl, and pumped out a BFA in two years, processing her grief through parties, flings, and substance abuse. After graduation, she became a certified paralegal and fudged her way through the interview process to work at a questionable law firm. Just as Darian started to believe she could lead a normal life, her father's former associate stepped into the meeting room.

In short order she ended up back in crime, blackmailed by a gang she once considered family. The same work she'd grown up doing, with a lot less respect on her name. She made deals. She provided alibis. She laundered money. She kept her day job to get intel at the courthouse. She covered up her actions with an on-again off-again relationship with the gang leader, a former associate of her father's named Enzo Continelli. Enzo pushed her to commit harsher crimes and introduced her to the second love of her life: heroin. She became reliant on cocaine and heroin to function, pressured heavily by Enzo.

During this time, she met and became friends with Anna-Mae Harper. Anna provided her morning coffee every day and showed up at the bar every night. Darian finally cracked under the pressure and started telling Anna secrets every time they were both wasted. She didn't realize Anna remembered them until her coffees started coming with notes on the receipts. They developed a friendship as intense and short lived as her life as a civilian— what started with criminal secrets and notes about suffering sisters ended with a key to a storage unit and questions left unanswered.

A few months after Anna's sudden disappearance to Los Santos, life turned for Darian again. A deal went bad and the gang pinned it on her. When the enforcers came knocking, Darian faked her own death and fled, barely escaping with her life. She made it to Los Santos looking for a new start— as a normal civilian, Darian Ambrosia, this time. She'd get to LS, rekindle her friendship with Anna, and make it work. She'd find a group of friends like she did in college, party her worries away, and have fun until everything felt right again.

## **Life in Los Santos**

**Week 1 (10/21 - 10/24):** Darian arrives in Los Santos on October 21. She attended a Little Ducks tour where she met Lars Oni, Cayde Hunter, Meaghan, and various others. She purchased a scooter and immediately crashed it, deciding then and there to never drive it again. The following day, she found and met up with Anna-Mae Harper. Anna and Darian were together like old times, without as many secrets weighing them down. Anna mentioned her new friends Jimmy Azor and Elle Smith, and promised to introduce them. After Darian asked about drugs, Anna brought her to pick and process marijuana. Now carrying, Darian saw a tweet from Rockhard offering free bikes and made arrangements to meet him. After handing over the bike, asked if there was anything else he could help her with. Darian jokingly asked for a job at the courthouse and urged her to attend law school. Darian promised to go.

**Week 2 (10/28 - 10/31):** Anna introduced Darian to Jimmy and Elle, and they invited her to join their budding drug trafficking group. Having just escaped the Boston situation and driven to become a lawyer, Darian joined conditionally: She would help as long as she had plausible deniability. Still, she immediately supplied advice on establishing themselves as a group and negotiating with the Lost and the Yakuza.

During her second week in the city, she organized a 'Girls' Night' for their new group. Elle had to step away to handle business, Jimmy got distracted, and Darian asked Anna how things were. Anna alluded to her previous relationship with Vincent McCoy, but wouldn't explain much more. The evening fell apart. Later that same weekend, she began to struggle with the reality of her actions. Within a week, while her new friends found jobs, Darian found herself in the same position she'd left in Boston. Her new leader provided her with money and a car in exchange for her loyalty, and she took them without blinking.

To take back control of her decisions, she flirted with Cayde and invited him on a date. They talked at the mansion in Vinewood, kissed, and went to various venues in the city, eventually encountering  Rockhard, Teddy LaCroix, and Goldie at the Yellow Jack Inn. bought the group shots of absinthe and invited them to a Bitch Circle. Darian vented about how out of control she felt, as well as her frustrations with Anna's reticence. explained Fuck Thursday. After the group parted, invited Darian and Cayde to join him at a party on the roof of the marina's parking garage. Darian parts ways with Cayde, already regretting her rash decision to take him out, and arrives at the party with the EMS behind her. She finds out that has fallen from the roof and waits in Pillbox until they confirm he will be stable.

On Halloween, Darian, Elle, and Jimmy band together and try to understand the ghost Dred. Darian gets an in on working at the Vanilla Unicorn from Rory and Daisy. Darian admits to Jimmy and Elle that she has feelings for Anna, but wants to make sure she approaches the situation correctly.

**Week 3 (11/4- 11/7):** Darian interviews for the Dragon's Rest, connected by Jimmy. Yang Kai asks Darian questions about doing crime or ignoring crime while working at the restaurant, as DR is a neutral zone. The nature of the questions and Yang's intense personality cause Darian to flash back to working for Enzo. She flubs the interview and has to be convinced by Anna and later Jimmy that there isn't a hit on her. The following day, Darian is hired at the Vanilla Unicorn by Daisy Winchester and dances for the first time. For the VU's "Imposter Night" she texts and asks if she could dress as him, then chickens out and goes as Jimmy instead— including getting stencils of his tattoos. She gets Jimmy's chest tattoo permanently inked in.

Darian hooks up with Cayde again. Between an offhand comment Rick makes assuming that Darian and Cayde are dating, and Cayde using the phrase "when we make things official" she's sent into a noncommital panic. She breaks things off with Cayde, citing that she is "not the girlfriend type" and that she "can't give (him) what (he's) looking for." They part on shaky terms, and the following day, they repeatedly text each other and end up stuck in apologies, which make Darian feel guilty and more upset about the situation. She mentions it to and he agrees with her viewpoint, reminding her that she doesn't have to text him back.

After Darian breaks things off with Cayde for good, she meets up with Jimmy. Their flirtatious rapport leads to a heated moment and the agreement that they can be friends with benefits, just so long as Anna and Elle don't find out. The following day, Jimmy is kidnapped while at the clothing store with Darian and Anna.

While speaking to Lars, Teddy, and a few others at the Little Duck Touring Company, serial killer The Doc tweets about finding the "blue-haired one interesting". Unaware of his nature, Darian responds, assuming he's one of the many socially anxious people she's met in LS and encouraging him to join the group. Immediately, the entire assembled group warns her about them.

At some point, she reaches out to , and he invites her to hang out. She joins him on a fishing trip with several of her coworkers from the VU. The fishing trip is a comedy of errors, but cements as a good friend and crush for her. They bond over drugs. After the fishing trip is over, invites Darian and Adder among others back to his condo to hang out. At the condo, Darian, Sean, and use cocaine, then invite Jason and to join them for an informal Bitch Circle.

**Week 4 (11/11- 11/14):** The Scene. Relationship/break up. . Doc goes hunting. White horse.

**Week 5 (11/18- 11/21):** The Doc is taken care of. hangout. "Vacation Day". Relationship (semantically).

**Week 6 (11/25- 11/28):** The Bad Bad Weekend.

**Week 7 (12/2- 12/5):** Darian stays in treatment at the Fetty Board clinic with  Rockhard for substance abuse issues.

**Week 8 (12/9- 12/12):** Back in LS! Demolition Derby. Hired as PA, invited to move in as girlfriend. Goodbye killer gets . Falling off a roof (while definitely not engaging in vigilantism\*). Revisiting the question.

**Week 9 (12/16 - 12/19):** A answer. The Tim question, revisited. Dragon's Rest midnight snack. Everything goes right. Too busy to process emotions. Insecurity (Broker 2.0). Meets Hallelujah! A Tim answer. Finds something to invest her money in. Everything might be okay.

## Jobs

Despite holding several jobs, Darian feels she doesn't do much around the city. Here's her current selection of occupations:

**Officially:**

* Chief Justice
* Video Journalist at The Scene

**Unofficially:**

* High Priestess of the Temple of Good Vibes

## Relationships

Darian is passionate and loyal, but has a hard time trusting where she stands with others.

**Romantic Interests (Current)**

**Romantic Interests (Previous)**

* Anna-Mae Harper: The definition of "what could have been". A lifeline when she almost lost herself. A reason to survive. After everything, a friend. Darian doesn't know how to feel about Anna currently— There's been distance between them since the relationship went wrong and Anna left to find herself in Las Ventanas.
* Jimmy Azor: They tell you not to catch feelings for friends with benefits for a reason. They always knew the two of them would be a disaster. They shared a short, intense, primarily sexual relationship. After Darian confessed her feelings, Jimmy suggested the two of them date Anna and Elle. They broke up less than a day later, thanks to Darian's spur-of-the-moment decision to kiss on the cheek. Jimmy left for Las Ventanas and came back with the resolution to pursue Elle. Darian and Jimmy hardly talk now, but appear to be on civil terms.
* Jason Langston: A sweet moment. During the brief time that Darian and got together with and Jason, Darian went out of her way to hang out with Jason. They went on a "date" driving around the city and the mountains. Darian shared a little bit of her past with him, flirted with him, and kissed him. Didn't think to pursue it after things fell apart. Recently, Jason's expressed interest in reconnecting with her. Given the circumstances, Darian's unlikely to try again.
* Cayde Hunter: Someone Darian's wronged on multiple occasions. Darian asked Cayde out, flirted with him, and established a romantic connection; only to pull back, cut him off, and treat him icily since. Cayde pushed for a relationship and Darian wasn't in a spot to provide one.
* Tim Horton: A rock in the ocean. An attempt at something that went wrong. (TBC)
* Kai Sinchai: A fellow Liberty City dirtbag. They went on a date or two, caught feelings, and fell apart. (TBC)

**Friends**

(Aprilcake's note: Feel free to add yourself to or remove yourself from this list. Darian meets a lot of people and I have the memory of a goldfish.)

* Anna-Mae Harper
* Lars Oni
* George Garrison
* Tom Grizz
* May B. Angel
* Delta Spring
* Skye Blake
* Barry James
* Sean Tyne
* Rob Muratori
* Hideki Kamiyama
* Storm
* Sammie
* Myskia Rodney
* Linus Faulkner

## Quotes

* "Whatever's clever."
* "Sleep like a baby sheep!"
* "I'm not a medical professional, but..."
* "Love that for you." - or alternately - "Hate that for you."