Shelbi Webb

Present Day Shelbibi

Aria Beqiraj - Adopted Sister

Benjamin Brown - Adopted Brother

## **Backstory**

Shelbi born into the mean streets of England, Peckham to be exact. She was born into, not the most loving household. Her father was a drunk, a man that society would call: "a dickhead" and they wouldn't be wrong. He had demons and he quietened them through a river of liquor. And once he had drank enough to quieten them, his sense went out the window. Shelbi was not an only child however, she had three brothers, all older than her. Her brothers often fought with their father, due to the fact once he was gone past his limit in alcohol, he would often become bitter and irate and would then take out those emotions onto their mother, her brothers almost always stepping in to defend her and often would end a scuffle leading their father to leave the house in a drunken stupor. This would be the usual for Shelbi growing up, up until about the age of nine, where her father would be driving Shelbi home from school one day, the stench of alcohol thick within the car. He would end up passing out behind the wheel, the car t-boning another at an intersection. Her father would die almost instantly in the collision, but would live long enough for Shelbi to witness the moment he stopped breathing. And a shard of glass shattered in the windshield would shatter, flying into Shelbi's jugular, she would be rushed to the hospital, miraculously surviving despite the severity of the injury but it causing irreparable damage to her vocal chords and causing a permanent scar on her neck later on in life, and of course, change the natural course of her life forever.

Within the next 3 years, Shelbi would recover from her injuries sustained in the car accident, both physically and mentally. She would also learn that her brothers had become involved into a large gang within the UK, spread widely throughout London. She would see them leave often late at night, see them holding knives and putting knives into their trousers before they would go out of the house. The middle brother, would be killed in gang related violence, stabbed 8 times in the stomach and kicked against the curb when Shelbi had just turned 12 a few weeks prior. This, led to a depressing domino effect of events within Shelbi's teenage years. A year later her eldest brother, would attempt to avenge their deceased brother and would succeed, however he would be arrested a few weeks later and would prove guilty in the trial of the law. Getting a life sentence for first degree murder, twenty two years.

Four years later, at the age of seventeen. Shelbi would fall in love with a girl that would work at the same Tattoo Parlour as her, however it would not end well due to Shelbi's new relations within her brother's gang and mild involvements. It would end in the two being torn apart, however at least there was a silver lining, she would be visited by a cousin. Tommy Belle, from Ireland. She would be quite fond of him and spent quite a bit of time with him, causing trouble. Around a year later, their dear mother, would become terminally ill. Cancer. This would hit Shelbi specifically hard, being closer to their mother then any of her brothers. And she would spend a lot of time with her now, due to realizing that a time limit, had sadly begun ticking. It'd take two years of ticking, but eventually the clock would strike midnight. And at the age of twenty years old, her mother would pass away with Shelbi and her last free son by her side.

The last domino to fall would be her closest brother, the youngest in trio. The one by her side when their mother passed away, would come to Shelbi, telling her he wants to leave the gang. And she would advise him to go to them and simply ask, at the beginning it went well. But two days later, when her brother and a childhood friend would get into a heated argument. Well, her brother's body was discovered in the friend's house, a single stab wound to the gut, her brother's body found crawling toward the door having bled to death in the process. Three months would go by, Shelbi waiting for the friend to be officially arrested, but that time would not come. And as such, Shelbi would find that man. And would butcher him like he did her brother. But every action comes with it's equal and opposite reaction. And that reaction was her eldest brother being paid to be killed within prison after eight years of him peacefully serving his sentence and Shelbi visiting him every month. Having nothing left, Shelbi would move to the US at the age of 21.

## **History**

Upon moving to a place called Los Santos, Shelbi would meet a man named JP, James Preacher. He would give her a ride to a mechanic shop, where she would meet Grimnir, Martin and Sammi. These three would offer her a job as a car decorator and she would accept as she needs somewhere to stay other than hotels and work. JP would then introduce Shelbi to his family, the VK, a gang that would notoriously rep orange within the city in the future to come but at this point had only recently began to blossom. She would meet the founders, Ben, Jona and Shiesty. Shelbi would spend a lot of time with JP as he would take her around, she would meet more VK, such as Daniel Swanson, who she would learn through a convenient blood test is actually a distant relative, a cousin cousin if you will. Samuel Harrison, Finn, Aria and many more. She would also meet a woman named Kaori Nya. Her and JP would begin making plans to buy a house within Mirror Park, where VK would reside. The two planned to split the pay between them and also split the living quarters equally between them, being roommates. Shelbi would begin to hang around with VK a lot, before tragedy would again begin to strike much to Shelbi's horror. Her happy-go lucky new best friend and roommate, JP. Would kill himself, driving 150mph on a highway on a specifically stormy night, she would discover his body. JP being pronounced dead on impact.

So moving forward, Shelbi would of course be in shock, blaming herself for not noticing any signs that he perhaps needed her help. But, tragedy would again strike again a day later, when another VK member and friend of hers, would die in a shooting. Frosty. Shelbi would find comfort hanging around with VK and would end up prospecting under Sam. It is during this time that Shelbi would open up about her past to Kaori and Aria a little. Kaori having prospected into VK under JP a few weeks prior to him committing suicide. She would be jumped in roughly a week after prospecting and would officially be a member of VK, around the same time as Kaori. However, to balance out the good with the bad, roughly at the same time a war would begin against another gang who donned yellow, named the Vagos. During this time Shelbi would shoot multiple cops and Vagos in various shootouts, getting shot a couple times herself but surviving of course or else it'd end here. She would be arrested once or twice during this war, causing her to be officially tied in with VK as a criminal amongst SASP.

Shelbi would begin to truly think of those in VK as her family, even her blood cousin, Tommy Belle would fly in to the city and join VK. However due to all of her buried trauma throughout her life she would begin to suffer insomnia, preventing her from sleeping much. It would be during this time that she would begin to go on night drives with her friend and leader, Ben. Where he would talk about having feelings for Aria, and she would help him muster the courage to talk to her, in which the two would begin dating. And they would also reminisce about JP, both having been very close to him before he had died. Both of them opening up to each other about their past life experiences and their feelings about stuff. But of course, one can't have nice things in Shelbi's life. And so Ben is killed. Completely shattering Aria and causing Shelbi's insomnia and trauma to only worsen, Shelbi spiralling into depression. This is when VK would then be slid on by a bunch of Russians, who one of which would shoot Shelbi three times in the chest, one of the bullets grazing Shelbi's lung, Shelbi would lose consciousness with her family around her and would be rushed to SAHA, not certain whether she'd survive.

She'd barely survive her dance with death, and awake to a text from one of her first friends in the city, Martin who had joined VK with Sammi recently. The text read, that Sammi had been killed in a drive by shortly after the shooting that occurred in Mirror Park, and that Martin was leaving the city. All Shelbi could do was weakly laugh, the world had truly broken her. This is when a man named Wilhelm Volkhardt would walk in, the director of SAHA, would walk in to her hospital room. And he would ask her four words, "How are you Shelbi?". That was all it took, Shelbi would completely break down, crying and telling the man everything that had gone wrong in her life. And he would just listen, empathetically. Eventually she would finish and he would offer her something rather unexpected, he would offer her a new chance at life. A position as a medical student under him, in SAHA. The only condition being, she had to make a promise to him, to become fully legal. She did not have to leave her family in VK, but she could not continue to commit crime or be involved in it in any shape or form.

After a week of recovery, she would be hired as a Medical Student and begin working at the hospital, learning how to patch people up and treat different kinds of injuries. It is during this she would meet some of her colleagues. Such as, Nancy Winter, Viola Shaw, Imogen Callahan, Elizabeth Knoxx. Shelbi would find a want to earn their trust and faith, working hard to do so. But at the same time her mental state would continue to decline no matter how hard she tried to right the wrongs of her past. VK would often visit her whilst she worked and she would befriend her colleagues, having many talks with Shaw about her life. Eventually, she would be promoted after working diligently to Staff Nurse. But her mental state would reach an all time low and Shelbi would make a hard, impromptu decision. She would both leave VK, and Los Santos, going back to England and staying in the countryside in an effort to find peace in her mind.

5 months later, Shelbi would decide to return to Los Santos for Christmas, visiting VK and finding that many of the old people had left and it had filled with new people she did not know at all other then a few. She would then be approached by Aria with exciting but confusing news, Ben was not dead. He had been in a coma, unbeknownst to VK. And he had woken up. Shelbi was back and so was her drive to right new and old wrongs in her life as Volkhardt inspired her to back then. She would contact Callahan about getting her job as a Staff Nurse back and would prepare to see where the road takes her.