Klepto Jackson

## **Description**

Klepto Jackson is a character on the NoPixel public Green server played by Shaneplaysvidya

## **Backstory**

Klepto (Real name “Karl”) Jackson is a 35 year old ex-spy for the Australian Secret Service (ASS). He worked at the agency for 10 years, and spent most of his time investigating and assassinating members of "The Bleeding Sands".

Up until his time working for the agency, Klepto had a fairly uneventful life. His parents both died of natural causes during his early 20s, and he met his wife Anna during school. When he was 23 years old they were married, and their son Max was born at 24. Both of them think he was an iron miner, and that he died in an accidental dynamite explosion. It eats him up inside that he can’t see his family any more and that he has to keep them in the dark, but he believes it is the best way to keep them safe from any members of the Bleeding Sands who may still be looking for him, or ways to get to him.

The Bleeding sands were an anti-government, “mob-like” terrorist organization who were based in the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory of Australia. Klepto (Living as “Karl” at the time) and his two brothers, Jason and David all worked in the Australian Secret Service (ASS), planning and completing missions to eliminate leaders of the Bleeding Sands organisation in an effort to destabilise them without bringing any war to the public of Australia.

Jason was the ‘brains’ of the trio, and wrote all the plans for the missions. David was the medic who was around to patch people up in case anything went sideways, and Klepto was the spy who would execute the plans to remove key members of the Bleeding Sands.

The brothers were quite effective at completing their missions, and other than rumours, the bleeding sands had no idea that Klepto or his brothers existed. The only proof that they existed was that key figures of the bleeding sands would turn up unexplainably dead on occasion. The trio of brothers had worked together for 10 years until one day things went wrong on what seemed to be an otherwise routine mission. Klepto was sneaking through the Bleeding Sands compound looking for his target, which was oddly marked only as a room in his briefing.

When he entered the room, he found a room full of heavily emaciated prisoners in chains, and propaganda images being projected on the walls of the room. Klepto realized that the target was the prisoners who were clearly being held against their will by the Bleeding Sands. Klepto was shocked at this revelation, as the whole idea of the operation being run against the Bleeding Sands was to take out the people at the top in order to minimize lives lost while toppling their organization. Klepto turned his back on the mission and tried to retreat from the compound instead but as his mind was scattered after realizing that his brother Jason had planned the missions that intended him to kill the prisoners, he was sloppy, and was spotted.

The alarm was raised, and the compound went into full alert searching for Klepto. Klepto’s brothers were both outside the compound at a distance and had noticed the alarm. David rushed into the compound looking to save his brother. As he noticed Klepto and tried to get his attention he also brought the attention of one of the Bleeding Sands members, and was shot as Klepto watched. Jason had decided instead to head for Klepto’s trailer to steal his truck and save himself instead, leaving both of his brothers behind to die.

When Klepto watched David get shot in the Bleeding Sands compound he believed his brother had been killed and used David’s distraction as an opportunity to escape. When he arrived at his trailer in hopes of escaping, he noticed Jason in the middle of trying to break into his trailer. At this moment, a wire trap rigged to a grenade exploded at Klepto’s door, killing Jason and knocking Klepto unconscious.

Unbeknownst to Klepto, David had survived the gunshots and managed to escape the compound with his wounds. David made his way to Klepto’s trailer and discovered the aftermath of the grenade trap. Jason's body was in pieces, and Klepto was unconscious, and bleeding heavily, but he was still breathing. David patched up Klepto as best he could and dragged his body to a nearby airfield where he was able to load him onto a cargo plane headed for los santos without alerting the pilot. After getting this done, David did eventually die of his wounds. He had not performed any medicine on himself as he knew from his training that he was not going to make it either way.

Klepto awoke at the Zancudo airfield in the city of LS with no memory of how he arrived. All he remembers is the mission going south, and watching the death of both of his brothers. Upon waking in the city of LS and being questioned by an angry military official, he decided to use the name “Klepto” out of guilt for still being alive while knowing that his brothers had died, and out of fear that the Bleeding Sands could track him down if he were to use his real name. Klepto was expecting to be imprisoned, but the official let out an exasperated sigh and raised his hand to stop Klepto’s panicked explanation. Telling him to “Just get the fuck out of here, you shouldn’t be on this premises”.

Klepto has a lot of guilt for what happened to his brothers, and has nightmares where he hears them blaming him for everything that happened and hating him for it. He’ll sometimes hear his brothers pushing him to take certain actions as the “Angel and Devil” on his shoulders. David being the angel, and Jason being the devil. Klepto believes this is real but it’s purely just his mind trying to make sense of what happened as a side effect of his PTSD. Since he believes this really is his brothers speaking to him, and he is vehemently loyal to his family he will often act on what his “brothers” recommend and will struggle internally if the recommendations clash.

Klepto has looked a little into what happened back in Australia and has discovered from obituaries that he and his brothers had a joint funeral. The government couldn’t find Kleptos body but found a ton of his blood on site and believed he had died and was eaten by the wildlife. So he is considered dead by everyone he knew in Australia, including his wife and son. Klepto regrets this, but has decided that it is for the best - as his family believing he is dead makes it even more believable to the Bleeding Sands if they are still looking for him.

## **Joining the Lost**

Klepto spent much of his early days running dodo deliveries, robbing houses, and chopping cars for materials that he would sell to mechanic shops in the city.

While doing some of this work he met his first real friend in the city, "Nick Steele". Nick intended on only doing legal work while in the city, but Klepto convinced him to come along on house robberies and chop jobs by telling him that they were just helping some friends move house, or that they were just doing recycling work for the state and turning unwanted cars into scrap metal, and it *definitely* wasn't anything illegal.

One day, while working with Nick the two were getting food at burger shot and were on the conversation of finding legal work for Nick. A man by the name of Chris Formage had overheard the conversation and decided to interview Klepto and Nick to work for his new dispensary business. Both were taken on to work for the new business and started working shifts at the farmers markets for the business.