Bernard "Berny" Rango

## Early Life

Berny spent his early childhood in a abusive household with his big brother Jonathan. His father was an alcoholic and his mother was a doctor that was barely home. One night his mother came home with Bernard and Johnathan around 10pm at night, and their father forgot to pick them up from school. His mother was so angry that she confronted Berny's father and they had a huge fight resulting in Berny's mother's death. This resulted in his father being sent to jail.

## Green Beret

Soon Bernard and his brother were drafted into the us army and after gaining a few badges, they were sent to North Carolina, where they were trained with a plethora of skills, including learning how to operate advanced static and firearm weaponry including tanks and helicopters, guerrilla warfare, demolitions, paratrooping, marksmanship and survival skills. Rango and his brother would go on to receive extensive survival and combat training, later becoming a Green Beret in September of 1957. In 19██, each member of the Special Forces Green Beret underwent highly classified [REDACTED] resulting in heightened performance, both physically and mentally. During his 7 tours of duty in Vietnam, Rango had 189 confirmed close combat kills by the government earning the nick name Bloody Wolf. But he actually has [REDACTED] kills when it came to the entire war , going on to be decorated with eight Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars, four Purple Hearts, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Unfortunately during the first year of his service his brother died sacrificing himself on a mine in Vietnam to save his little brother. During his 7 tours, he met his best friend Frank Dobey. They became brothers in arms and vowed to have each others backs until they die.

## Red Hornet

After his time in Vietnam and after the war. Berny's father was let out of jail, apparently his father had enough money to pursued the judge to let him free because he was defending himself. After a few drinks Berny and his father returned home. Berny then proceeded to beat his father, Berny was so angry that they let his father free, he paralyzed the man and in a few years his father passed away due to heart failure. Berny suffers from a severe and abnormal case of PTSD. This type of PTSD has only been recorded in one other person, Frank Dobey his best friend. The case is unique in the sense that when his PTSD is triggered, there is a chance that Berny and F|rank will enter a "PTSD state". When entering a PTSD state, Berny will revert to his military personality. Ever since Berny's father's death he took pills to control it. Berny was always fond of racing, beginning his racing career pretty early in his life. He raced for a bunch of Italian sponsors around the world. He was nick named the Red Hornet. He won first place 4 times and came in second 6 times.

## Family Man

Berny fell in love with a woman called Janine, which after two years of dating they got married and had a son. Berny named his son after his brother, honoring the day his brother sacrificed himself. His wife died of cancer when his son was around 20, leaving Berny alone. They moved from North Carolina to San Andreas for a better life. His son got into a lot of illegal stuff, and when Berny turned around 61, his son left leaving a note. "Dad, I need to leave for awhile. I did some bad things and made some bad mistakes. Don't do anything stupid ya old prick."

## Personality

Berny is a nice man, he strives to be the best he can be. He doesn't like hurting people nor becoming someone that does. His time in the war has thought him valuable life lessons and a way of life. He strives to follow a strict set of principles that he set for himself. Berny regrets that he wasn't able to save his wife nor prevent his son from making the choices he did. Hence why Berny seeks constant redemption and sees son like figures in many. He tries to be a father like figure for many "Youngins" as he can. To prevent them from making mistakes that will ruin the rest of their lives. Secretly and only showed on rare occasions Berny is a alcoholic, His tolerance against alcohol might be high but once he gets drunk he can't stop. His best friend has a hatred for alcohol and Berny tries his best to not drink, but on rare occasions and after something happened that pushes Berny on the edge he will get drunk. Berny's time and training in war gave him a large set of skills that he uses in his daily life making him smart and makes it really hard to figure out what his next move is. Other than that Berny is really social and loves spending time with friends and making the best of what he has.

## Now

At 84 years old Berny is still alive and well, he hopes his son will return but for now he makes the best of life. He now lives in his old house in mirror park together with his best friends from the war, refusing to be put in a retirement home. He owns three cars. A black Kamacho that his son gifted to Berny, His old race car from his racing days and a red muscle car that he bought from R.J. Sullivan. He currently misses his son and James. Berny and Frank have a wide selection of guns in their home coming from a ammunation gift card that Berny received on Christmas. Berny doesn't like guns and only uses them as a last resort. But Berny refuses to not bring his trusty knife he named "Wolf" everywhere.