Brook Ando

**Brook Ando** is a regular member in The Gang trademark

She is technically the newest member of the gang. She never knew this was once your (almost) average friend group. But she joined a few months before they all started going on raids. Brook doesn’t really like the raids that much. She has contemplated on leaving the gang but still only hangs out with them to escape her abusive mother.

## Backstory

(Before we continue I made the first part back in 2020 and it is very detailed so **THIS IS YOUR TRIGGER WARNING FOR A\*USIVE TOPICS)**

Brook was a pretty normal child for the first few years of her life. She was an only child and only lived with her mom, her dad was unknown. When Brook turned 5 her mom started realizing that she didn’t want a child, especially Brook. She was a normal child but apparently her mom didn’t like that. So she started yelling at Brook for everything, calling her stupid, dumb, and other things along those lines.

She suffered through three years of that. This is where things start to go downhill. Brook was taken outside by her mother. Her mom had a lighter and some lighter fluid. Brook’s 8 year old mind didn’t process what was going on at the time. A few minutes passed and her shirt is now on fire. This was just one of many of her mom’s attempts to kill her.

Now she has to live her life like this. That is getting mentally abused everyday, and even sometimes physically abused. She has many scars from her getting beat up by her mom. She constantly has bandages all over her arms. That’s usually why she’s always wearing sweatshirts, so she can cover her scars, bandages, and bruises all brought on by her mother.

She thought life couldn’t get any worse. At this point it's normal. She’s gotten used to living like this. She just lived a life full of abuse. She never was really able to express her emotions.

One day her mom pulled Brook into the kitchen with a frying pan in her hand. She was mad and decided to take all her anger out on Brook. In the blink of an eye her mom swung the frying pan with full force. She was aiming at Brook’s head too. Her plan was to knock Brook unconscious or even kill her. But that’s not what happened. Through Brook’s massive amounts of panicking she lifted her wrist, blocking the frying pan from hitting her head. That only left her with a permanently fucked up wrist.

The only reason it's permanent is because her mom wouldn’t do shit about her visibly broken wrist. Brook has told her plenty of times that her wrist is broken and her mom's response was either “Brush it off, it’ll stop hurting eventually,” or “My main plan was to kill you but that didn’t go exactly how I wanted it to end up. You’re fine,” and other responses along the lines of that.

One day she just couldn't handle it anymore and ran off to never be seen again, as a result to a breakdown caused by bottling up her feelings for too long. She had the plan to run away for a while, but never thought of doing it in full, until said breakdown. When she came back to her senses and realized what she was doing, she was already too far from home to even feel like going back. Plus part of her wanted to keep going and try to get away for good. By continuing she ran into her childhood friends, Penney and Pertrisha, who invited her to join The Gang Trademark.