Angel Flores

Angel Flores is a character role-played by bye\_ez.

* KG Fit
* No Mask

## Brief Description

Angel Flores, your local flower boy and part time demon for the Kitsune Gumi. Angel is primarily concerned with taking care of his chosen family, he will go to almost any length to make sure they are cared for. You might catch him writing poetry for people he loves, giving away flowers he buys from felons, or engaging in violence and gang politics as his alter ego Akuma.

## Background

Angel Reyes is a 24-year-old, stoner and amateur artist from the South-side of Houston, Texas. Growing up, closes to the city’s Universities, his mother would take him to art museums and exhibits hosted in the University Park. From an early age he would sit in front of towering large abstract paintings and structures.

Regardless of his love of art the power of the South-side held control over the circumstances of his life. At the age of 17, Angel's best friend was killed at a park near their high school. Having a hard time dealing with the seemingly random incident, Angel opted to smoke weed and hang out with his friends instead of going to school.

Finding himself lost in getting high, he was despondent at home. His mother would say he lost his spark. He would say looking back on those years that he was "lost in the sauce of the world." Because of his truancy his acceptances to several prestigious art universities in the US were rescinded.

His parents infuriated by this, kicked him out of their house. Angel turned to selling weed and other drugs as way to pay his friends for letting him live on their couches. He worked through his grief creating graffiti murals on city buildings, and his tag became notorious in his neighborhood. Angel loved selling drugs and talking to people about love, life and spirituality often overstepping and jumping straight into personal questions. Dealing with gangs and the darker side of his occupation, Angel opted to work diligently and quickly attempting to minimize his responsibility in the maintenance of an organization that possibly hurt his childhood best friend.

Regardless, color slowly found its way back into his art and life after more than a few years of pondering the tragedy. His friends would say although he wasn’t always present in every moment you could count on him to see everything from a different perspective. He speaks in riddles at times and can never and answer a question straight, mostly giggling at himself but never not caring about the person in front of him. He believes the world is absurd and strives to absurd in his life and in his art. Now almost a decade removed from the death for his friend Angel is moving to Los Santos to see what he can make of himself, if he tries a little.

## First Flights

During Angel's first visits in Los Santos, he relied very heavily on his BMX to carry him throughout the city. As he came to Los Santos with very little in his pockets, he found himself diving dumpster diving and writing poems from time to time. Leah would be one of the first people to take Angel on a boost, as he constantly just showed up to her warehouse to kick it and chat. As a small time criminal and mostly nice guy, he made several strong connections to people in the city, including Dean Ford, Leah, Max Lancaster, and Roxy Teat.

One of Angels proudest moments was being the announcer at a Fight Night held by Dean Ford and James his roommates during this time.

## Alter Ego/Rose Vows

On a job with Rupz Lopez and Yami Kitsune, Angel fired his first shots at an other human. Torn by the violence he was willing to commit for his family, he grabbed a rose from the prison garden, stuck it in his mouth and decided he would not talk till all the petals fell as repentance for his evil. When a speechless and shaking Angel approached Rupz and Yami, Yami embraced Angel and remarked "Its Alright. One day the darkness will reach you, Akuma-Tenshi."

While observing his vow of silence, he pondered the use of violence as means of procuring safety, what it meant to be part of a yakuza, and started heavily reading the Hagakure (The book of the Samurai). It became very clear to Angel that he path that he had chosen would require a lot more effort, and violence to keep his family safe.

A few weeks after his first gunfight, he would watch, Reyna Majia and Toni Greenstone get gunned down by members of Okami, during a meeting between leadership. 5 members of KG were gunned down in the event, and Toni would be in ICU for some time after the event. The event sent Angel into a tearful rage, as he felt that his inability to speak in a crucial moment is what cause bullets to begin ringing out. As war between Okami and KG rolled on Angel would begin to complain that he wasn't feeling like himself. Unable to deal with the violence of war and his own weakness in battle, Angels mannerism during war would were drastically different from his normal demeanor. "Not Angel, I'm working." is something he would often remark to Rupz and Toni as his second personality began to take hold.

Akuma, began to form in the midst of war and grief for Angel. As a way to protect Angel from the pain of shooting and being shot at, Akuma would handle all the things that Angel could not. Primarily stressful situations where we knew he would be expected to point a gun at someone and not have to think twice about pulling the trigger. Where Angel is focused on helping people and making peoples days better, Akuma is primarily concerned with the politics of gang life, obtaining and securing his families place in the City and becoming strong enough to protect everyone he loves. Akuma speaks in a more ominous tone, often times, aiming to be clear and sharp with his language.

Triggers for Akuma include, carrying a loaded gun, Vangelicos, Bank Robberies and discussions of gang politics. Some days when Angel doesn't feel like talking Akuma is freely able to continue to do work that he sees necessary for Angel. It is yet to be seen how much of a problem Akuma will be, he has yet to be violent out of wanton aggression but his serious demeanor leave most people uncomfortable especially those who know Angel.