Ishmael Benjamin

## Biography

### History

* Ishmael is born in Watertown, New York, Fredonia. His grandfather, Agnolo Benjamin (Italian-jewish) was a good friend of Ailsa Mellon Bruce, and was one of the major founders of the Avalon Foundation, which granted the family a rich fortune and a great education.

#### 1990s

* During his teens, Ishmael was invested in journalism and wanted to write news, but his father told him it would be a lot less work to own a news company then be one. So he helped his son in acquiring his degree in journalism, and gave land they owned to turn it into a talk radio studio.
* Later, Ishmael's family moved to Manhattan, to percieve a greater business, by that time his grandfather had died and his father took 74% of the fortune, since Ishmael's only uncle as 19, but this amount was still handsome.

#### Manhattan

* Ishmael had to close his station because of the moving, and started working in a pizza place called Joe's Pizza Broadway, for many years.
* Eventually, when Ishmael was 29, he met a customer whom he fell in love with her name was Kaia Meyer, at first the 2 would be a little flirty whenever she comes in, and Ishmael would sometime lower her pay amount or accept it if she can't pay full price. Sooner or later, the 2 started dating, and his girlfriend would wait for him outside Joe's so they would go out after his shift. As time goes, Ishmael was 34 and he and Kaia got married in 2018, and when they did Ishmael decided he no longer wanted to work at Joe's, since was a man now, and decided to percieve his dream in news making.
* One day, a Texan man approached Benjamin and told him that he used to love his radio station and said he was sad he stopped it, In fact the man told Ishmael his whole family used to listen to Ishmael talk on the radio.

#### New TexTime

* In early 2019, Ishmael was funded by Lindberg Inc., the parenting company of all Lindberg sub-companies, giving him 5 million farns ($21.7 million), and with it he started New TexTime News, which he named after the New York Times and Texas, to give recognition to the Texans who used to listen to him back in his 20s.
* In 2023, the mayor of new york gave recognition to NTTN, and with it came the money. In due course, Ishmael's father, Ronan Benjamin recognized NTTN, and decided to support his son, and fund the HQ of NTTN, even paying for the building's tax and bills and providing a nicer environment for the workers.
* After a while, in 2027, when Athor R. von Oldenburg was elected Prime Minister of the Saxon Empire, Ishmael quickly caught traction of that, and decided to begin releasing biased anti-Oldenburg headlines, stating his hate for Oldenburg, although it is not clear why Ishmael hated Oldenburg and released biased news about it, but because of it Oldenburg decided to invite Ishmael to chat about the matter, although Ishmael has stated, it is not his problem what they released, he's there for the money.
* When Ishmael was invited into the Saxon Empier, Oldenburg had brought him to 43th Vinter Street, Edchester, which was where the "white house" of the Saxon Empire was located (The prime minister's office). Oldenburg had discussed the matter with Ishmael and even offered him a partnership, although Ishmael was hesitant. Upon leaving, Ishmael had contacted Mayra, his personal agent and one of his news reporters, and told her to contact Ishmael's lawyers, but since he was in the Saxon Empire, he couldn't, so instead Ishmael had to purchase Viktor Lindberg as a lawyer for a while, and Lindberg had refused the partnership, so it never happened. Though that, Ishmael hadn't left the Saxon Empire, and turned it into a vacation, sadly it was way longer then a vacation, as in 2027, COVID-26 had been released and spread quickly like wildfire, stickin Ishmael in the Saxon Empire for 2 years.
* At last, Ishmael had returned to Fredonia in early 2030, and decided to turn New TexTime into something bigger, and made a studio room in the building. In early 2031, before the elections, Ishmael had interviewed Karl Dawes, about his prime ministership, and brought even more recognition to New TexTime news, as interviewing Karl brought them a lot of views, and a lot of money.