Iris Knight

## General Information

Iris Knight is currently employed with the Blaine County Sheriff's Office as a Sergeant. Her original profession was being a lawyer, but after so much time behind the desk, she decided to take law enforcement to the streets. She moved to Los Santos in January of 2023, and became employed with the BCSO soon after.

Iris is commonly known as the "Princess Deputy." What originally started off as a joke, is now how people recognize her, especially because she always wears her purple Tiara while on duty.

## Backstory

Iris is originally from New York, New York. Iris was fresh out of Law School, and while living in the Big Apple was great for her, she wanted a change. The only reason she stayed in New York for so long was because of school. New York held plenty of good memories, but plenty of bad ones. While in her final years of Law school, Iris' parents died in a drive-by shooting, and due to her being an only child, she didn't have any immediate family to stick around for.

Iris said her goodbyes to her grandparents after she graduated Law School and decided to set out for Los Santos. While starting off in Los Santos, she provided her Bar Exam to the Department of Justice, and was brought on as a Public Defender. While she was fresh out of law school, her ability to uphold herself in the Court Room made herself quite popular. There were not many other lawyers besides the DA himself, and she was soon buried in an avalanche of court cases. Iris was soon spending all of her time in the office, and struggled to go out and make friends and explore the city as she wanted. She soon stopped taking court cases in order to try and give herself the well deserved break she needed. After taking a vacation, she found herself struggling to get back into the swing of law and accepting court cases again.

Through her variety of court cases, she met Michael Hawkins, a police officer with the Los Santos Police Department. While their relationship remained strictly work based at first, she reached out to him about what it was like in the field of Law Enforcement. Iris lost her parents to violence, so she was terrified of what could happen to her if she made switch from desk work to ground work. Iris decided to extend her break, and went on a couple of police ridealongs with Hawkins and some of his fellow coworkers. Due to her practice in law, she knew that her knowledge wouldn't fail her, but it was the physical aspect that made her nervous. After getting up close and personal with observing the life of LEOs and some encouragement from Hawkins, she put in her application to the Los Santos Police Department.

After receiving her letter of acceptance from the LSPD, Iris slowly transformed into a completely different person. The once shy and introverted lawyer that you could quite literally walk all over, transformed into a confident, extroverted, and headstrong Law Enforcement Officer. She built relationships with those in her departments, and even had some great relationships out of the LSPD. Maybe it was the uniform, or maybe it was the change in personality, but a lot of people expressed interest in Iris over time. Whether it was she would go easier on their charges, or legitimate interest, she had quite a few vying for attention. She was not quite sure how to handle flirtation, but Iris had rules for herself. The most important rule she established for herself was, no dating criminals. As a Criminal Defense Lawyer along with what happened to her parents, she knew what criminals were capable of, and she promised herself she would not open herself up to that type of hurt again.

She did good for a couple of months, before Billy Sanchez came along. Billy was a low-tier criminal, someone who only committed petty crime just to get by in life. Each time Iris had arrested him, she felt bad, but he expressed that he made mistakes, and now he has to live with them. Iris and Billy became really good friends, until their relationship turned into something more. Iris saw the good in Billy and wanted to help him change, to get his life turned around. They had a great relationship, they kept their respective lives separated while still being able to go on dates and spend time together. She would visit him at the mechanic shop he worked at, and he would bring her food on duty. They seemed to be working out well, until one day it backfired.

Iris was in Air 1 helping with a pursuit with multiple gang related interference vehicles that were associated with the city's Mafia. The encounter turned violent with Class 2 gunfire being exchanged between officers and gang members, we had to assist with Air 1. Once the gang realized Air 1 was above and shooting on them below, they returned their fire. Iris was in the back of the helicopter with the door open so she could fire from it, and her pilot was trying to reposition for a better angle. During this repositioning, Iris was exposed, and she was shot from the helicopter. She fell onto the roof below, and from there, her life would change. Iris entered a 3 day coma, where doctors had to do facial reconstruction surgery on her face, and input a metal ladder with screws in her back to help fix the injuries from her fall. It was a scary 3 days because doctors did know if she would wake up, let alone walk again. Billy was notified of Iris' condition, and when she woke up she had to explain what happened. When Iris explained the first thing Billy said to her was "That was you?" Which led to a conversation that would shatter her heart. Billy had joined the mafia without telling Iris both for his safety, and hers. He was a part of the firefight between the Mafia and LEOs. Billy was the one that shot her. Billy almost killed her. Instead of apologizing and trying to fix his ways, Billy left Iris in pursuance of gang life, leaving her with a shattered heart.

After she went through physical therapy, and recovered from multiple surgeries from the accident, Iris flew back home to New York. She needed a break away from everything in Los Santos while she was on medical leave. Once she was cleared to resume her daily life, she knew she wasn't ready to go back to being an LEO, so she decided to continue her mission in life of helping people while helping manage a hospital. She climb the ranks, and became a well respected medical professional. She continued to work to build back up her strength, and eventually she was good again. The one thing that remained was a scar on her face, which was her constant reminder of what had happened to her. Eventually after so much time away, Hawkins convinced her to come back to Los Santos. he had moved to the Blaine County Sheriff's Office, and the city was entirely different with new people, new departments, and potentially a better life. Iris was nervous, but she knew being an LEO is where her heart belonged, and while she still had trauma to work through, she set back out for Los Santos once again.

## Los Santos

Once Iris arrived to Los Santos, she stayed relatively under the radar. She didn’t know very many people, and she didn’t do many things, until applications opened for the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office. The timing was impeccable, as Hawkins was encouraging her to finally apply to get back to being an LEO. Iris submitted her application, and to her surprise, she was accepted. After receiving her acceptance letter and scheduling her interview, she used her free time to do ridealongs with other LEOs. All of the progress she once made? Was now gone. This is the first time she is back in the field since being on medical leave, with an entirely new department. She was back to being the shy and introverted person she once was, and frankly she was terrified to be back

The biggest obstacle with Iris is that she felt like she had to prove herself to herself. After being interviewed and accepted to the department, she attended academy and was once again, a Probationary Officer. This position was all to familiar to her as it wasn’t her first time being a probie, but this time it was different. She had to prove herself to her Field Training Officer’s, but she also felt like she was in competition with herself, her past self, from before the accident. While she made decent acquaintances with her FTOs and had a few people she was comfortable with within the department, she mainly kept to herself and would only clock on duty if she could ride with Hawkins or Ashford. Quite frankly, despite being pushed past probationary phase, she still didn’t believe in herself and in her ability to be as good as an LEO as she once was

### New Beginnings

As time went on, Iris made new friends and became more comfortable with those in the department and working by herself. She rarely ever spent time off duty because Iris has the “off-duty curse” which is basically every time she goes off duty alone, something bad happens to her. That being said, she spent a lot of time working and not a lot of time elsewhere. Throughout her time as probationary and as a regular deputy, she became really close with Camryn Michael, which at the time he was the undersheriff. He was the open person besides Hawkins and Ashford that knew more than base level things about Iris and he became the command member she trusted

## Relationships

When Iris moved to Los Santos, she only knew two people, Michael Hawkins and Opal Ashford. Michael Hawkins is her best friend and like her older brother. Iris left being a lawyer because he was the one to convince her that she could be great as a cop on the streets. They have moved from department to department together until they settled on the Blaine County Sheriff's Office in Los Santos. Hawkins and Iris may not get to see each other all that often, but it can be said that they are both bad influences on each other. If you catch these two on patrol together, you know you're in for some mischief and a good time.

Opal Ashford and Iris go way back, and Iris feels responsible for taking care of Opal due to their history together. Iris treats Opal as if she is her little sister and is constantly helping guide her through issues on the job, and issues throughout life. Iris knows Opal looks up to her, and always tries to push Opal to be the best person and LEO that she can be.

After getting used to her new life in Los Santos and breaking out of her shell, Iris has made a variety of friends in multiple departments. Zach Gray unknowingly helped her break out of this shell when he was the one that trained her for co-pilot for her Air 1 certification. Iris and Zach became close, which led to Zach introducing her to Maddie Wisteria and James (Jay) O'Ryan. Zach and Iris were inseparable, and became closer than friends, and he grew to be an extremely important person in her life. Jay and Maddie were there for her to help navigate her thoughts and feelings for Zach, and that caused them to grow closer to Iris. After some time and realization, Zach told Iris it was better off for them to remain friends, but he still means the world to Iris. While Iris met Jay and Maddie through Zach, she has also developed her own relationship with each of them, growing close to both of them in her own way.

Ever since the break up with Zach, Iris slowly distanced herself from Jay and Maddie as she continued to grow within the Sheriff's Office. Iris found her niche for training staff, and began to excel. Iris began to focus herself on work, rather than any potential relationships. During this time, Iris became extremely close with Sam Woods. Sam was Iris' rock throughout this time, and he was the one that truly believed in her. She attributes most of her success to Sam as if it wasn't for him pushing her, she would have never made it to where she is today.

After a series of flings, and heartbreak, Iris had given up on love. That was until someone came in and changed her world. Bobby Fischer. Both of them had just recently gotten out of relationships, and were just hanging out as old time friends. Bobby ended up winning Iris over, and they started dating. This posed challenges as Bobby had recently joined training staff, and she became his direct supervisor. That changed absolutely nothing between them though, and their relationship continued to thrive. They each found something in each other, that both had previously lost hope for. One thing led to another, and they were engaged, and planning a Wedding. December 9th, 2023, Iris and Bobby ended up getting married, and are continuing to live out their story.

## Work

Currently Sergeant of Training Staff and Assistant K9 Lead at the Blaine County Sheriff's Office.