Fiona Bandera

Fiona Bandera is a character role-played by ShiniCocoPuff

## Description

Fiona is a former informant who is placed in Los Santos in the witness protect program, after an unsuccessful hit was placed on her during a major crimes trial back in Chicago, Illinois. She is now learning how to become self-sufficient and letting her past go, in order to protect herself, and continue living out her life.

## Background Information

Fiona was born Maria de Jesus Garcia in Saltillo, Mexico. She was the youngest of six children. She has two sisters, Juanita and Alejandra, and three brothers, Jose, Miguel and Francisco. When she was five years old, the family was suddenly uprooted, and they stayed hidden in Chihuahua, Mexico, until their paperwork came though to migrate to the United States. To this day, Fiona does not know what event had occurred, but she assumes someone in the family crossed on of the local gangs.

While growing up in the US, she saw her brothers Jose and Francisco get involved with gangs in the Chicago area. This put her family in a bind, as the two boys were pretty open about what they were doing. Fiona adored her big brother Jose, as he always protected her when she needed, but she started to have conflicting feelings, as she was not okay with the lifestyle he had chosen.

Her path took an unexpected turn, when she was 19, when she was hanging out with Jose for a late birthday celebration. During their day out, Jose said he need to stop off somewhere to grab something from a friend. What she didn't know, is that he was performing a hit. Unfortunately for Jose, there was a cop nearby that heard the shots, and a high speed chase ensued. After he was caught, Fiona had to fight to prove her innocence with the officers, telling them she had no idea what her brother was doing. The police knew that Francisco was also an involved gang member, and wanted to take this gang down. With enough pressure from the force, and a "promise" to reduce Jose's time in prison, they convinced her to become an informant to take down the gang.

Unfortunately, she had to compromise her own morals in order to infiltrate and get the information she needed. Since her network started to branch out, the police used her to be an informant for other criminal activity. She help them to catch a notorious crime boss in the greater area, Chaz "Smokey" Levi. While awaiting trial, Chaz learned that it was Fiona that sold him out, and ordered a hit on her, before she could testify. Luckily enough for Fiona, the attempted hit was unsuccessful, but the police decided to retire her as an informant, and place her in the witness protect program after Chaz's trial.

She changed her name from Maria to Fiona Bandera, dyed her medium brown hair black, and started using blue colored contacts to change her appearance. The police gave her everything she needed for her identity, and shipped her off on a one way flight to Los Santos.

## Jobs

Police Officer - Los Santos Police Department

## Trivia

* Even though she knows Spanish, she refuses to speak it, or act like she understands it, as part of her starting a new life.
* She carries a "lucky" rabbit's foot, that Jose gave her when they were younger. It's the only tie to her past she snuck past the feds, in order to keep with her always.