Dre Ryder

**BackStory**

This is the story of Dre Ryder ,

Born on a cold spring day the sun was shining but the bitter north air whistled through the maternity bay. Slightly ajar window wind was howling through the room. *It's kind of fitting to the life of Dre Ryder so far* .

His warm appearance and approachable personality hides the cold depths that runs through his soul. Some would say "it's not his fault , it's how he was raised". That statement is not far from the truth.

As a young boy being bullied not only in school by teachers making fun of his dirty clothes and beaten up footwear , *which gave Dre his disrespect for authority through his life. F*rom his peers that would push him so far with constant bullying, would eventually in Dre's life lead him to now.

Dre's Father from an Irish family of travellers , bare knuckle fighters and gun/drug dealers. Dre's father would drink all day and while in his drunken state would tell Dre stories of his families history. All the criminal underground organisation that occurred. *As if a young boy would need to hear these bedtime stories at that age.* These stories had Dre looking up to the wrong people from an early age.

Dre idolised his father and his family and was doomed to follow in there footsteps.

Dre's Mother was a Jamaican drug lords daughter that was at war with his fathers family. She was cut off from her family when she fell pregnant with Dre.

Growing up Dre spent his youth listening to his mother cry while rocking him to sleep. Mumbling about how her parents abandoned her , yet she cried the tears of mourn as if she missed them with all her heart. He felt the hurt through her chest while she held him close rocking him to sleep. *This would later in life have huge impact on his decisions.*

When hitting teenage years Dre would work for his family , spend time in his uncles gym and become a hardened boxer . *Not hardened through training or strength but from emotion.* All that hurt and pain he felt growing up he wound take out on his opponents in the ring. Other trainers would refuse to let they're fighters get into the ring with Dre as they feared for what could happen.

His reputation was known throughout the streets and would indeed gain the respect that came with this reputation.

When Dre was alone, he would look himself in the mirror and hate what he sees staring back at. He knew he could not let that fear out for others to see and be disrespected . His life now was on a spiral of false ignorance , that of someone who hides behind reputation . He had to be the person people thought he was to protect his own vulnerabilities. Indeed this would lead him to make the biggest mistake of his life.

When at the age of 17 Dre was sentenced to 10 years in prison for man slaughter. It was a mistake that will haunt Dre for rest of his life. Cut off and hunted by his father and his mothers family and reason why Dre runs away to Los Santos to start a new life.

While trafficking guns and drugs for his uncle , the police was tipped off where and when it would happen. Dre found himself in a chase for his life. He knew that on the Docks of Liverpool he would have the best chance to evade the pursuit and would head towards his destination. He calls his Uncle to set up a meet other side of the River Mersey, the Birkenhead Docks. Dre's Uncle only had one person that could get there in time, Dre's Mother.

Dre's Mother who was visiting friends over there rushed to the shores of Birkenhead Docks to help her son.

The route was set and the plan to send the vehicle off the docks of Liverpool and swim across to Birkenhead . All looked well as Dre took the final strokes to shore but as he came from the freezing cold waters with the wind howling through the rigs of near by ships , a spotlight glowing right upon his mother who was screaming "Nooo". There was Police Vehicles pulled up at the destination. Dre's Mother in cuffs and frog men emerging from the water.

Behind him 2 officers in frog suits stepped out onto the rocky shore. Dre with nothing left to do but to try get back into the water lunged at one of the Frogmen and disarmed him and took the first shot at the other officer. Nerves and panic got too much for Dre and the shot passed by the officer and impacted straight into his own Mothers chest. *Dre dropped to the rocks at the same moment his mothers lifeless body slumped.*

With the cold wind whistling and howling, Dre could hear and feel them same sounds and feelings he got from his mother as a child.

During prison Dre would meet some people who where being held by British Government that were from Los Santos. They offered Dre a place to stay and work once he got out of Jail. After serving 5 years of his sentence was granted parole. Dre being hunted would skip the country with only a pocket full of cash and fly to Los Santos.

Escaping his family and his mothers family who now knew of there daughters death. Dre now on his own with only a pocket full of cash will have to find his associates he met in prison over the years.

Today Dre with all the pain and hurt looks into a mirror and does not shed any tears. does not feel fear and has no emotion. All he sees looking back is a false reputation that now no one cares about. A lifeless soul with nobody but himself.

Can Dre find himself again. Can Dre be who he wants to be without people giving him this false reputation back again. Can Dre find his friends he met in jail. What can Dre become when he has nothing left to lose. Only the future will map this out but he does have dreams and aspirations. From all them years alone in his cell clinging on to hope and promise are all he has left. Whether them dreams and aspirations come to life will be determined by the friends he makes.

Could these Dreams come true? If those around him lead him astray is highly unlikely, but with the right people around him special things could happen. Let's wait and see.....