Holland Via

## *Early Life:*

Holland Via grew up in the streets of Vice City where drugs and prostitution run rampant. Inspired as a young teenager, Holland always wanted to help try to clean up the city, so he decided to move to a city called Forged City to try his luck at becoming a part time Police Officer to help clean up the city from all the drugs and guns that were being dealt throughout the city. After spending about 3 months during training through phases 1 - 3, Holland meets an eccentric individual by the name of B.J. Cobbledick. While during phase 4 training, Holland sees B.J. quite often and manage to become friends. After spending 1 month in his phase 4 training and witnessing many robberies, shootouts, and murders, Holland becomes overwhelmed with anxiety, mild paranoia, and acute schizophrenia. While struggling with his mental health, Holland resigns from the LSPD and decides to spend some time with his friend B.J. to try and help cope with his issues. After spending quite some time with B.J., he convinces Holland that he should try the life of a criminal because his mental issues would help him on the streets with dealing drugs and robbing banks. After spending 3 months with B.J., Holland found that he actually enjoyed the life of a criminal and he became quite good at selling drugs without being caught by police. Holland got his nickname "Mr. Bubblegum" from the multiple vehicles he had that were painted bubblegum pink and bubblegum blue as well as his clothing style which sported a pink button down with rolled sleeves, light blue jeans, and pink Timberlands.

## *Current Life:*

Hearing about the death of a loved one, Holland flies back to his home Vice City to spend time with his family for about 2-3 years. After Holland's 2-3 year hiatus, Holland tries to fly back to Forged City to meet back with his friend B.J. to find that the city had been abandoned. Unable to find a way to get ahold of B.J., Holland looks for a new city to start fresh in, hoping to find his one good friend. That's when he found that a place called Diamond City was having a $100,000 start-up check to anyone that moved there. Holland figured that would be more than enough to start a new life for him and booked the first possible flight he could. Shortly after flying into the city, Holland gets everything he needs to get his new life started: a drivers license, a vehicle, a weapons license, and a job at the Downtown Cab Company as a taxi driver. Spending a week as as a taxi driver, Holland finds out about how to grow weed and decides to start a side hustle as a drug dealer. Unfortunately for him, all he knew was how to grow weed, so his target customer was at a small volume. After making about $50,000 selling weed and robbing gas stations, Holland managed to evade having a record on his name. While in the new city, Holland sported a blue Los Santos varsity jacket and blue Timberlands, Holland managed to catch the attention of the *55th Street Crips*. Never really being affiliated with a gang before, Holland accepts their invite into joining their gang. The 55th Street Crips show Holland what they do in the city, who they're cool with, and who they're not.