Markus Manfred

## Background Information

Mark Smith, now Markus Manfred, grew up a normal life for a person obsessed with racing to the outside world. Growing up obsessed with the Italian car brand Pagani he would do anything to get his hands on the Pagani Huayra. Secretly there was one thing he loved just as much. One thing that would get him closer to acquiring his dream car. That thing was studying different criminals in history. He wasn’t just obsessed with studying what they did, but he wanted to be like them. He wanted to steal millions. There was one in particular he wanted to model his style after. That criminal went by the alias: The Bank Busta. After coming to realization of what he wanted to do, he wanted to be known as the next Bank Busta. He completely immersed himself in learning everything about coding and hacking. He had become the ultimate hacker, the master coder. During his studies he found out that he was actually adopted. His parents hid this from him, and he wanted answers. He found out his real dad was a now famous and deceased icon in society named Carl Manfred. After he confronted his parents about the situation they found out about his passion for criminals and hacking and kicked out of the house as a teen. They didn’t want to be involved with him anymore. After being kicked out, he moved across seas to Los Santos, and changed his name from Mark Smith to Markus Manfred, the name of his dad by blood. This is where he wanted to start his life of crime, and he also heard that every now and then Los Santos gets cars imported from Italy. This made him want to test his luck on Pagani being one of those. He started by stealing vehicles right when he arrived, never getting caught. Wanting to feel the adrenaline rush of a life of crime he would always speed by cops just to start and chase then escape them.

Then one day his luck ran out when a local gave up their own life and drove head on into Markus. He was then caught by Jhomar Deguerra. Charged with his first major crime Markus thought through what went wrong. This only pushed him on even further as he started to rob stores. Many store robberies later and Markus was getting tired of those low paying store robberies. He got in contact with a mechanic named Jerome Washington. He was the contact Markus had for the bank materials required to rob the banks. Markus took up an alter ego (The Green Goblin) named by the first hostage he ever took, Justin Time, a news reporter. Markus wanted to get his name out there so he called him anonymously and then met him masked and took him as hostage. Successfully robbing the bank solo now Markus had to escape the cops. Unfortunately Markus did not come prepared. Thinking he could get the job done in a local car he was caught quickly by Walker Runner and the LSPD. He vowed never to make that mistake again. Now in crippling debt, his contact with Jerome lost he didn't know what to do. Fortunately for Markus he was contacted by some mysterious people. He met with them at their house and was ordered to pay a fee of 3k to join. They knew he was in debt and the only way to get that money was to rob a store. Markus knew they were judging his worth. He made quick work of the store and swiftly brought back the money. He was now in the family, aka  The Mafia. The man who recruited him was known as Vincent Ferrari. Markus was taken under his wing. He thinks that he was scouted for his masterful hacking skills. A little later Markus’ life has consisted of going on a spree of bank robberies, easily hacking into the banks almost every time, and almost never getting caught. Markus has truly become the bank busta he wanted to become, and currently spends his time robbing banks with Vince and some other members, street racing, and hoping his dream car gets imported to Los Santos.