Leslie Irvine

Leslie Irvine is a character portrayed by JainaFRS

## General

**Leslie Irvine**, aka "Les", is a 21 year old woman from Nolensville, Tennessee. Leslie is an aspiring country singer left with little to no money, a General Business degree she's not using, a dog and a cat, a guitar that she's still learning to play and a severe case of stage fright coupled with tremendous amounts of anxiety. She's simply a woman trying to make it happen to the best of her abilities, though sometimes she wonders if she should have stayed back in Tennessee. She's currently homeless and living in her BF Surfer after being evicted and kicked out by her landlord due to her lack of finances. She works at an arcade part-time with her best friend **Joey** and gets up to a plethora of shenanigans, most of which against her will.

## Backstory

**Leslie Irvine** was born to **Jameson Irvine** and **Caitlin Irvine** on December 6th, 1963, just before her two other siblings; **Kennedy** (16) and **David** (16). Leslie was brought up in a lower class household, being the oldest of her siblings naturally a lot was expected of her, things like doing constant chores, taking care of her younger siblings needs, running errands and keeping consistently impeccable grades was few of many things she found herself doing throughout her life, breaks and rest periods far and few between and the acknowledgement whether it be of her own will or not that she is indeed a workaholic, if she isn't doing something productive with her life, she's failing, at least that's the mentality her parents have ingrained in her mind. Friends and any relationships further then that were rare for Leslie, her one best friend being a woman named Joey who she'd met upon entering Los Santos. Aside from Joey, Leslie couldn't with 100% certainty tell you what the names of her potential friends or acquaintances were, though she could mention a few of the names of some of her professors and teachers throughout the year, as most of her focus was on studying and keeping her parents happy, her own happiness often being left in the dust. Fortunately, throughout her time in education she was fortunate enough to go to schools that offered music classes, which she eagerly took up and was always a welcome calm before the storm she awaited wherever else her day took her. Leslie would maintain a 3.8 GPA throughout her time in High school and would eventually graduate.

She would only spend so many more months back at home, applying to colleges left and right, her parent's constantly pressuring for her to get a degree that would preferably get her a well paying job, to which she'd eventually go for a General Business degree upon getting accepted to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee with a scholarship, as she would never be able to afford it on her own, though she is still left with a small amount of debt as it was not all covered. She would gladly live on campus for all of two years and as well as studying General Business she would study music in a more professional environment on the campus for those two years as well. For most it may have been hell, but for Leslie it was nothing she wasn't used to, and not having two crying children to take care of became a nice change of pace for her. Throughout her time in college she would come to realize that she didn't want to come home and then she had all these desires that she desperately wanted to fulfill, such as realizing she loved to create music and yearning to become a country singer or something of the sort as she had begun to play guitar in her time at Belmont, things she was never able to realize or fulfill back home with all the pressure and noise of her day to day life, her Mother who was a stay at home mom using Leslie as a fulltime babysitter, and her Father being the breadwinner and as soon as he comes home he's done for the day, she truly had it and announced to her family that once she finished her General Business degree, she was moving to Los Santos, California. Her parents were enraged, to say the least. Her Mother and Father had a field day berating her on the phone, threat upon threat until they'd finally reached an end point. Leslie would promise to her parents that she'd use her degree to do something productive and continue to send money back home, so long as they didn't disown her, as they'd threatened many a time.

Upon entering Los Santos, Leslie would try desperately to find steady work aside from working at an arcade with her best friend Joey for all of a good chunk of months nearing a years worth of time, attempting to get into accounting, office work, anything, but to no avail, though in all honesty she hadn't been trying as hard as she'd promised her parents, focused more on attempting to produce a song to startup her singing career and hanging out with her best friend Joey and whatever strange shenanigans came their way.

## Relationships

### Los Santos

#### **Jolene 'Joey' Baker**

* Leslie's bestest of friends, well, pretty much her only friend. They met very soon after she'd moved to Los Santos and have been inseparable ever since. Joey is somewhat of a cheerleader for Leslie, and often encourages her to do whatever makes her happy. As well as being best friends, they worked in the arcade together for a good long while. They often get into mischief and often give their other "friend" **Leo**, a hard time after her rear ended "their" car.

#### **Leonardo 'Leo' Bifta**

* Leo is a challenging subject for Leslie. Their first meeting was outside of the Downtown CabCo, he drove over the curb and swerved through a couple lanes before slamming into the back of the car Leslie and Joey were driving. They had a small argument and exchanged information before going their separated ways. Little did they both know, neither Leo or Leslie owned the cars they were driving, so nothing came of their information being exchanged, other then they knew each others names. Leslie would see Leo quite a few more times since the incident and is unsure whether she dislikes him or admires him. Maybe both. Regardless, Leo still insists she was parked in the middle of the road.

#### Vincent 'Vince' Hayes

* Her best friend Joey's "good friend", as she puts it, though she suspects there's more going on there. Her prior experience with Vince has been limited to at least a handful of meetings, the first of which he called her a; "deranged lunatic".

## Gallery

Leslie working at the arcadeLeslie playing guitarLeslie and ScruffyOn the beach