Gloria Singleton

**Gloria Singleton** is a member of The Silver Bandits, a group of legendary thieves. She serves as their Mission Control, Hacker, and when needed Demolition Expert. She is registered as an Insurgent by the American Syndicate of Heroes.

## History

### Early and Adolescent Life

Gloria Singleton grew up in Cedarville, New Jersey. Her father was a technician and owned his own company, her mother worked at a Wal-Mart. She has one sister, Estelle, who is two years younger than her. The two didn't get along well as children due to their radically different personalities. As a child she excelled with computers and STEM programs, earning a scholarship to Stanford University where she planned to study computer sciences. She came out as trans when she was 17, her parents having a middling response. While they weren't accepting of her choice to transition, they still continued to support her financially through college. Estelle on the other hand was very supportive and the two developed a much closer relationship afterwards.

While at Stanford, Gloria struggled to fit in and felt like an outcast. After facing harassment from a collection of frat boys on campus, Gloria struck back by hacking into the frat house's server and revealing incriminating information about the entire house from sexual misconduct to search history on porn sites. After making the information public, Gloria was soon found out and expelled from the school.

Not wanting to move back home, Gloria continued her studies at a City College in Fresno, CA while working at a café part-time. She found ways to make money through hacking via bug bounty programs and freelance work.

### Joining The Silver Bandits

After graduating, Gloria moved to Los Angeles to live with Estelle, who had moved to LA in the hopes of becoming an actress. The two shared an apartment as Gloria found work as a penetration tester and Estelle struggled to find work as an actress.

While Gloria's work seems to go well for awhile, she is laid off after two years and struggles to find work afterwards. It's Estelle who finds her work next as she overhears two fellow tenants, Raphael and Spencer, discuss a need for someone with tech skills for a job. Without knowing the context, she immediately recommends Gloria, saying she's in need of work and is a very skilled coder and hacker.

Taking her up on the offer, Raphael meets Gloria and explains the job, revealing what he's doing is robbing an art gallery. Gloria almost immediately rejects the idea, even as Raphael claims that the people who are selling the art in question are only doing so to get a tax break, explaining that they fudged the price of the art for the sake of taxes. Gloria still rejects the idea, saying she won't go to prison.

However, after doing research about the art seller and discovering him to be a the owner of the tech company that just laid her off. She agrees to the job and almost immediately takes over the operation having already done all the research independently and come up with a flawless plan to rob the gallery.

With her guidance, Raphael was able to successfully rob the gallery completely clean. After getting an impressive payout, Gloria agrees to join The Silver Bandits.

### Recruiting Leonardo

After joining the crew, Gloria quickly took over the operation and began to make plans to improve Raphael's skill as the "master of disguise" the original Silver Bandit was. Seeing that Raphael is hardly convincing in most of his roles, she commissions the help of an acting coach she knows through her sister, Leonardo Napier.

Raphael ends up liking Leonardo much more than expected and after going out for drinks, drunkenly invites him to help out on his next heist. Gloria is upset by this idea but when the heist goes surprisingly well thanks to Leonardo and he agrees to join the crew fulltime (without anyone asking him) they just let it happen, seeing his value as both an accent improv actor and "the muscle" when needed.