Kobi Lefrevre

### Alias/Nickname

Full Name: Korrina Belinda Dumass-Lefrevre. Has been called "Kobi" since grade school.

## Family

### Siblings

Kevin (1975), Katrina (1977), Kaitlynn (1977), Korbin (1979), Kelvin (1981), Kory (1984), Keegan (1986), Kayla (1987), Kerry (1989), Konnor (1989)

## Introduction

Kobi is an artistic soul who wears her heart on her sleeve. Won't let you cut her hair.

## Biography

Born the youngest child in a family of 11 kids in rural northern Saskatchewan, Korrina grew up working on her family's farm and dreaming of being somewhere else. Although she never felt unloved or unwanted, being the youngest in such a large family, especially when you become an aunt before you even start school, meant a lack of attention when needed and too much of it when unwanted. By the time she entered grade school in the small town they lived in, her siblings had left enough of an impression on the staff that she was tarred with the same brush as her brothers and sisters pasts. Spirited as she was, she set out to break those molds and be judged by her own actions, not those of whom she shares blood and lineage.

At the age of 10, she met her best friend Lance the day he started school after moving to town. Lance was different than everyone in class - no one else shared her interests in writing, music and art until they met. They instantly became inseparable. It was Lance who gave her the nickname Kobi - squashing the first syllables of her first name and middle name together. It was she who decided to spell it with an I, giving her the opportunity to dot it with a star in her signature from the age of 12 onward.

One of the key things that made Lance different from all the other kids in school though, was that he was gay. He first came out to Kobi at the age of 14. Kobi, who had pretty much guessed that early on, was both happy he felt comfortable enough to talk to her about it, but sad - if she admitted it, she had loved him from shortly after they became friends and knew he loved her back, just not that way. Still, she kept that to herself as well as Lance's secret, as his parents had already shown discrimination towards homosexuality in media and he was worried they'd disown him. From that point forward, at least for his parents', Kobi let them think she was his girlfriend.

That lead them to getting married after high school, before moving to Vancouver for university. Kobi did it to help Lance, and to get rid of the last name she had been teased for having all throughout school (Dumass is pronounced doo-mass but the kids called her dumb-ass). Lance did it to keep his folks from disowning him. It was, for the most part, a great partnership - it helped the two of them build their credit, forge a life, and assist each other - but it was extremely hard on Kobi. She essentially had her dream - married to a man she loved, working towards her Masters of Theater degree, living in a vibrant and bustling city of possibilities - yet it felt like a play that had too many scenes and no script. After finishing her degree, she found herself bar tending to make ends meet and Lance, who had been trying to hide it from Kobi, had found the man of his dreams while playing guitar at those same bars she worked at.

In early 2018, Lance's dad died after a bout of ill health. Later that same year, his mother passed away from heart failure. With no one alive to continue the ruse for, Kobi approached Lance with what she knew - he was seeing someone else (which wasn't against what they had agreed to - they both walked into their marriage knowing that intimacy wasn't going to be a thing), and that if he wanted to be with him, then they should work towards tying up their partnership so that Lance could forge ahead with John, whom he had been seeing for the last 4 years (Kobi surprised Lance with the exact date they met - she introduced them). It took a few years - John ended up moving into their apartment with them for a while, which didn't really help but Kobi never complained - and 6 months after her and Lance divorced in 2021, she stood in Lance and John's wedding, even "giving" Lance away in the ceremony, which was a small gathering of close friends and family performed near the beach on the BC coast. While they were out on their honeymoon, Kobi packed her stuff, put most into storage, and on an impulsive whim, bought a one way plane ticket on a seat sale to Los Santos. There, she hoped, she'd be able to start her life again, this time - for herself.