Adora Cooper

Emily Smith

* Mother (Adopted)

Berry McCaulkiner

* Brother (Blood Related)

Candy Valentine

* Sister in law

Jeremy Han

* Brother (Adopted)

Xander Smith

* Brother (Adopted)

**Adora Cooper** is a character role-played by RudedogsPrincess.

## General Information

Adora Cooper is a traumatized and tortured soul with an overly trusting expectation that her situation always has to get better. Looking through candy colored glasses, Adora sees the world as a place with only "a few bad people." Despite the hardships she has experienced or the warnings of everyone around her, Adora still believes that most people can be trusted and the world isn't that bad. Her mostly pacifistic views and strict morals often leave her in harms way forcing those around her to pull their hair out in frustration in regards to her safety. It is common to see her accompanied with someone rather than alone as she is seen to be "protected at any cost," and her family has a rule that she can never be alone. (She often rebels against this rule.)

## Childhood

Adora grew up with her older brother Berry McCaulkiner. Their parents often didn't get along explaining why Adora got her mothers last name and her brother got her fathers. An odd compromise but that's what the relationship was full of. For the first 6 years of Adora's life she thought her father was the average business man, eventually she would learn that he was part of a mafia. A vivid memory Adora still recalls to this day is coming down the stairs late a night to investigate a sound. Through the railing of the stairs she would find her father in the kitchen cleaning guns, that's when Adora first realized something was off about her dad. A year later Adora and her older brother heard their parents arguing louder than usual, their mother screaming about not wanting her kids to grow up with expectations of violence, drugs, and money as a way to run their lives. A few days later, Adora and Berry were taken from their home by child protective services. Shortly after they'd learn their mother went missing that night of the argument and that their father was being arrested. Within the foster system Berry promised to always be there for her but as the universe is kind it is also cruel. The system had separated them not long after. Adora recalls the memory of being picked up and carried back into the house as her brother was put into a car. Screaming, crying and kicking this memory would be ingrained into her mind as her first experience with abandonment.

Adora was fostered by an average boring family, nothing extraordinary or interesting. This family was almost too perfect and lead her to have a completely normal uneventful life until Highschool. On a cold afternoon Adora ran into her brother at a local coffee shop, from that moment they began to catch up and he promised to never leave her again.

## Adventures in Las Venturas (out of state)

Adora's brother eventually moved to Las Venturas and she followed soon after for the fear of never seeing him again. When she arrived he was nearly as absent as their father had been, always leaving her behind and going out to do things he wouldn't bother to tell her about. Eventually on a long drive through the woods, she convinced her brother to confess what he really had been doing in Los Santos. It turned out he was in a gang called The Gentlemen, doing anything from drug sales, to robbing banks.

Throughout her time in Las Venturas, her brother made it clear that she was to be protected, earning the trust of the gang by covering for them and eventually co owning the mechanic shop they used as legal cover. Adora would learn anything and everything there is to know about crime, and who was in which gang. Even going as far as to upgrading and painting cars for them to use on jobs. Adora was known throughout the city as someone not to touch. She was protected by the two most dangerous gangs in the city.

While working the mechanic shop she would fall in love with a man named Mike Hunt, it was her first ever relationship and established how she thought love was supposed to be. Being in love with a gang member and being surrounded by them she thought this was the normal way of life. She remained clean to cover for anyone and everyone she cared for. Storage's in her name, being paid off weekly to keep using her name, and a stable mechanic job. Adora and her family were on top of the world until Karen came along. That's when they had to leave it all behind.

## Stalked

When Karen Brooks came into town she was only seen as a little old lady obsessing over God. Eventually her obsessions would become more serious. Karen had many different agendas, and unfortunately Adora became one of her focuses.

Adora became the victim of Karen's delusions, claiming she was "The Black Haired Angel." A prophecy Karen swore to be true, that Adora's blood was pure, too pure for the world even. Her plan became to capture Adora, and use her blood to purify the city of Los Santos. Unintentionally Adora had become the poster child for purity in this woman's eyes. No tattoos, no swearing, no violence, and far too kind.

Karen would watch from a distance most times, admiring Adora in silence, until she got restless. Karen began contacting her family members, most specifically Adora's older brother Berry. Karen saw them as polar opposites, seeing the blue haired boy as the devil, keeping the angel from her grasp.

Karen's stalking started to go as far as, roaming around the outside perimeters of Adora's home, leaving messages in blood above her front door asking for the angels forgiveness, and leaving tattoos she carved out of victims on Adora's doorstep.

After multiple failed attempts to get close to Adora, Karen began to go with drastic measures. Spreading her ideas of the angel and plan to purify Los Santos, slowly accumulating a cult for this purpose. Somewhere along the line, there was either a mis translation, or Karen's ideas evolved, because Adora was getting hunted by these cult members, insisting all their sins would be forgiven if they could have her blood. A few close calls, and some horrible instances of actually getting caught, led her family to start extreme measures of protection. Adora couldn't trust anyone or anything, they were always watching.

Adora had started accepting she may never truly be alone, and most likely never free.

## Las Venturas (Relocation)

The family relocated once more, Adora more than ever under their protection. She was expected to always be on a radio frequency, accompanied by someone, and to let people know where she was. Essentially Adora was a prisoner in her own life, but she knew it was necessary for her protection. Regardless of all the terror in her life, she was still far too trusting and naive towards most people in the world. Surely not everyone was as crazy as Karen, it was an anomaly to Adora.

Adora was married to Mike Hunt for 3 days before he left without word. Their last conversation was an argument, and he went radio silent in all forms for months. Adora waited a few months and got now word from her husband, eventually leaving her to evaluate the state of their relationship. With some thinking and advice from those close to her, including her mother, she came to the conclusion that overall the relationship wasn't healthy, and she couldn't continue this relationship without support from her partner. Adora sent the divorce papers with a heavy heart, and went through the process of changing her surname back to Cooper.

Later she would fall in love with the leader of a gang called 838. His name was Benny Blanco, and he considered their dynamic as Yin and Yang. He was a rather dark personality, softened by the lighter presence of Adora. Together they would also adopt three kids named, Chad, Rob and Angel. They were also part of 838 but would slowly all vanish in time as well, following the downfall of their relationship. Benny became violent and less like the person she had fallen in love with, it was apparent the demons inside of him were something Adora couldn't save, and for her own safety and his sanity, they parted ways, causing him to move on to the girl he promised her not to worry about.

At this point her family had been running a gang called Valkyrie, with some changes to leadership and the ship sinking, Adora was handed a spot in leadership to try and save the dying gang. Her sister Nabi Ahn, had been co - leader but took a leave from the city, leaving their mother struggling to hold authority. Adora was already a trusted and established member of the gang as their legal cover, but her insight led her into filling the shoes of her sister. However, Adora hadn't realized how taxing gang life could be.

## Gang Life

Valkyrie sadly never got to become as great as Adora and her family had hoped. When Nabi stepped down, Jordan Porter and Adora were pulled into higher ranking positions along side Adora's mother Emily Smith. Adora never actually went on jobs, but she had the knowledge of other gangs in the city, most notably 838 due to being so close to their leader, as well as being surrounded by criminals in her day to day life. Adora knew where to go and what was needed for jobs, so her position was more of an advisory role, to help keep jobs and the gang running smoothly.

With her clean record, Adora was also able to supply the gang and a few select others with guns. She'd buy guns and get the serial numbers scratched before handing them out. For the most part, the gang agreed that Adora wouldn't wear the flag but eventually to keep others from messing with her they eventually gave Adora her own flag and for the first time Adora repped gang colors.

No matter how hard they all tried, unfortunately the gang couldn't keep up with the politics of gang life and eventually was forced to disband. As heartbroken as Adora felt, she felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders.

## Los Santos

Adora and her family moved once more hoping for a fresh start. She flew in with her boyfriend Reggie hoping for a peaceful life away from the tormentors of her past. Life was slow and peaceful for quite sometime, her mother easily established herself into a new gang and all was going well. soon enough getting herself a job at JNR and making some new friends while re uniting with old ones. However, moving on is never so easy. Adora found herself getting stalked once more, however by someone far worse than Karen.

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## Torture

Adora became victim to a lot of hateful and sadistic acts. She would learn Karen had two sons. Andy and Jimmy Brooks. Each having their own disdain for her but Andy being the worst. For all of Adora's life she had been heavily protected by her family, rarely anyone could even lay a hand on her, but unfortunately she got blind sided by someone she trusted and found herself in the hands of Andy Brooks. He made it his goal to prove Adora's impurity to his mother, by trying his best to break her. He also saw it as his mission to teach her the lesson that she is not untouchable and most famously the quote "Actions Have Consequences". Every instance with Andy would deteriorate Adora's mental state further, as he knew exactly how to get into her head and psychologically ruin her. Adora would have her back cut into by Andy brooks, insisting he was giving her the wings his mother was so sure Adora had. He'd carve the letter "A" into her back, along with re opening the wing carvings each time he saw her. Andy would make it a point to break her hands, wrists, fingers and ankles at each instance. Andy had also stitched her mouth shut at one point, due to her begging him to stop torturing her step dad. One night he would go as far as to slit her throat, as the heat from the police was becoming too much and he wanted to silence her. Andy Brooks also attempted an execution of her sister Nabi, in an attempt to give Adora some fight back, by killing her in front of her. Luckily Andy had failed that time, but he wouldn't remain a failure for long.

Jimmy Brooks at first was the least violent son. He had his own hatred for Adora that she would never understand. All Adora knew was that he wanted forgiveness for hurting her in the past and she wasn't willing to give it. This resulted in Jimmy's hatred growing further and leading him to wanting her dead. Adora was taken to be executed at one point, but talked him down when she brought up the things Andy had done. After Jimmy found out the things his brother had done to a family member of hers, he was willing to let her go. Adora made the difficult choice in the moment that she couldn't just let him leave. Not after all the pain he's put her through. Adora shot someone for the first time that night, it was only one bullet, right into the back. She ran right after but he swiftly turned around gunning her down. Adora knew she had made a mistake, but for once she had at least done something.

Adora would soon be followed by Jimmy's personal cult. These members would target anyone close to her to try and ruin her further mentally. Painting the image that it was her fault everyone was getting hurt in the first place. She would be kidnapped many more times, suffering injuries such as, a punctured lung, broken hands, broken ankle, shattered knee cap, broken elbow, and multiple GSW's on occasion. She had also been waterboarded with gasoline and had to watch one of her brothers be set on fire.

Adora's body aches at a nearly constant rate from the injuries. Scars can heal but the mental toll is more than Adora can form into words. Many people make light of it all and joke about her frequent hospital visits but she feels the memory is torture on it's own, and it may never be over. Adora only admits it to few, but she feels she has been conditioned by Andy and all those that have harmed her. The lessons drilled into her brain and the fear etched into her very soul.

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