Crudel Martinez

## General Background

Crudel Ortiz was born and raised in Juarez, Mexico. Crudel grew up with both his parents, his twin brother, EZ, and his older brother, Julio. When Crudel was 8 years old, his family decided to cross the border to get away from all the crime and start a new life in Los Santos. It wasn't easy for his family to cross over since they were coming illegally. While in the midst of finally crossing the border, his family gets caught by border patrol and to help his family get away, his father tries to fight them while telling his family to run. Crudel’s mom picked him and his brothers up and started running in the opposite direction. From a far distance Crudel could hear gun shots followed by silence. They finally make it to Los Santos but without their father they are lost and alone. They spend a few days in a shelter where they meet other families in the same predicament as them. There they meet a kid who would always be alone and didn't seem to have any parents or guardians.Crudel’s twin, Ez approaches the kid and asks for his name and if he had any parents. The kid lets him know that his name is Zaiden and that he had lost his parents due to border patrol. Ez introduces their mom to Zaiden and lets her know about his situation. Understanding his situation, their mom decided to take Zaiden under her wing and adopt him.

Growing up in Los Santos was hard for Crudel and his family. His mom had to take multiple jobs just to make sure they could get by. Since she was always busy with work,Crudel and his brothers were always left alone. Crudel was considered the baby and the angel of the family. He never got in trouble and did everything he could to help his mom around the house. Crudel always knew his twin brother was a bit rebellious and sly so it didn't come to any surprise when he noticed that Ez would sneak off at night. He cares a lot for his family and didn't want to worry his mom so he never bothered to go and check on whatever Ez was doing. One night he did notice that Julio had gone after Ez to see what he was doing late at night and when they came home they informed him and Zaiden of the things that Ez was doing. They were able to convince the goody two-shoes of Crudel to go and chop cars with them.

After chopping cars for 3 years with his brothers, Ez came home with a hacking laptop and convinced his brother to rob a bank with him. While doing their first ever bank robbery, they were able to get some distance from the cops but while trying to drive back to their safe space, their car breaks down in an alleyway. Arguing with each other for not bringing a repair kit and blaming each other for the car breaking down, they see a girl with white hair getting into a 4 door car further down the alleyway and they run up to her, asking for a ride. Startled, the girl said yes and told them to hurry into the car. The boys asked the girl for her name and what she was doing in the alleyway. She introduces herself as Ava and that she actually just stole the car to take it to a chop location in the southside. The boys start to hang with Ava more and would help her with chop and bring her to do jobs with them. They introduce Ava to their mother and find out that Ava is currently living alone and has no family in Los Santos. Their mother, just like for Zaiden, came to love Ava as her own and decided to adopt Ava into their little family.