Sebastian Ericsson

**Sebastian Ericsson** (born the 19nth October 1999), was the Lead Cameraman and Editor of Weazel News. Previous job details include Handyman, Private Investigator and Independant Journalist. He started his journalism journey after his sister, Alexandra Drift, died in an explosion with barely any press coverage. Before he moved to LS to find his long lost brother Joy Ericsson in 2017 he lived in Sweden which explains his thick Swedish accent and Joy's lack of one. He was known to travel, report and recruit with star reporter Samuel Brown. Sebastian was portrayed by the player MiniBlade.

## Early Life

Sebastian Ericsson was born in the southern part of Sweden in a family still in its honeymoon phase. During his upbringing he acted more reserved than other kids which made his parents suspect he had autism, however out of fear they decided not to test him. He grew up in a typical suburban environment with deeply religious parents who were highly neglectful of him and his activities, prompting him to attempt to get their attention by capturing or killing small animals or insects.

At age 12 his family moved to the countryside and he started school with new interesting people. One of these interesting people was a broad-shouldered man named Björn who worked at the school as a teacher and always droned on and on about being critical of everything you see. Most of the kids just payed him no attention since they were used to him, but Sebastian thought of him as a role model. When Björn meticulously unveiled the real life conspiracy of Olof Palme's murder and how the attourneys were corrupt in the matter he couldn't believe his ears. In his perspective, what started as a simple case of "Druggie kills random man, too bad it was a politician" turned into a hunt for the truth of what really happened. Björn became Sebastian's mentor as well as his teacher during these few years that they had together and Sebastian felt more connected to him than his own father.

During his teen years Sebastian got more in tune with his family, although his dream of becoming a journalist did not wane in the slightest. At this point his sister had taken her leave to become a mechanic in LS as soon as she could. The family was in a constant state of drama over something Sebastian was completely shut off from, but when Alex left a new issue arose. The optional draft, Värnplikt, was due and Sebastian had to send in a document about health and willingness. While his mother felt that it was his choice, his father wanted him to go, and while he still felt like it would be a pain in the ass, he went to make his father proud. Turns out it wasn't that bad, he got some training and was put on the "reserve for national crises" list. After this, Sebastian managed to score an unpaid internship at the local news station Expressen which rekindled his love for journalism. It was mostly just bringing people coffee, making sure the paperpressing machines were going and watching the News Anchors work. However, it wasn't the News Anchors that caught his attention, it was the camera team. They moved in perfect synchronization, working on the text that the Anchor says, fixing with a greenscreen, operating the camera, it was magnificent, he had never seen something like that before.

A few days after he turned 18 he was contacted by his sister from LS talking about Sebastians long lost brother who lived there. Since he was old enough to move to LS he just had to. He could finally be free of boring old pine wood and go somewhere else. To find not only a career but to also find his Sister and Brother.

## Life in Blaine County

After Sebastian had moved to LS he immediatly hooked on to the military lifestyle. His experience from the Swedish draft came in handy as he was deployed in Afghanistan almost immediatly after joining. He would have to come back to LS later in his life.

### Deployment

During deplyment he would meet his future roommate, Darren Light, who he shared a bunk bed with. They served together for a small amount of time until they were brought back to San Andreas along with the rest of their unit. During deployment, Sebastian would almost bleed out from two gunshot wounds on his right leg. If Darren wasn't there to patch him and his Jeep up, he would have died for sure. This is when Darren became his best friend.

### Darren Light

Sebastian stuck to Darren like glue on paper when coming back to San Andreas. When Darren returned to Blaine County where he was born, so did Sebastian due to being afraid of depending too much on his sister and not knowing how long the chase for his long lost brother would take. Darren let him move in with him and share the rent, something new for both Darren and Sebastian. With their new home being on postal 2011, they would go out into search of jobs. Darren took a job for the San Andreas autogroup as a mechanic, unkowingly assigning himself to the same workplace as Sebastians sister.

### Work

Sebastian took work as a self-employed handyman, not believing in the big corporations that he wasn't used to seeing back home. He would eventually take up the role of Private Investigator briefly after a dream about a conspiracy theorist during a zombie apocalypse. This job didn't last long however, due to the news of his sisters death. He became an independent journalist, visiting multiple locations to try to find the truth of her death. He finally found out that a blowtorch exploded after an entire year of searching. During this time he moved to Los Santos temporarily.

### Year of Search

Sebastian was distraught over the news of his sisters death. Although he had not been very close to her, she still meant a lot to him and he had grown up with her in the same room for most of their childhoods. He wanted to find out how she died, who had killed her and why the newspapers didn't report on it as much as he would have liked. He became an independent journalist, covering several murders, deaths and accidents that got little news attention. He committed an act of vandalism after eating at a presigious restaurant, while he originally wanted to relax, a person following him and his dinner buddy turned into paranoia and them spurring each other on to commit minor crimes. He was not charged for the vandalism and petty theft due to ratting his dinner buddy out. He was probably stressed, and this is what caused him to commit these crimes.

### Weazel News

He eventually got in contact with David Hasselhoff from Weazel News and started working for them. Ever since then he started doing news stories for Weazel News, obsessed with finding the truth, but even more obsessed with getting the perfect shot. He moved back into Blaine County and reconnected with Darren Light but frequently travelled down to Los Santos to pay respects at his sisters grave, do news reports and search for his lost brother.

## Death

Before he was able to find his long lost brother in Los Santos he died a tragic death at the hands of a duo of serial killers. The murder duo sought to track him down, silence him and burn the pictures he took while out in the Paleto Forest. He died at postal 2025 after running there on foot trying to escape the killers, who had just murdered his best friend and roommate while trying to get to him.