Ben Ambrose

## Backstory

Ben Ambrose was born on the 11th June 1994, son to Tara Ambrose and Jake Kingsley. Ben was born in Melbourne, Australia. Jake was a severe alcoholic and would get violent when he would drink. Tara was an office assistant for a CEO of a large scale multinational corporation. When Ben was 7 years old, he was blaming himself heavily for what was happening at his father’s hand, one day it got extremely bad both Ben & his mother had been severely beaten by Jake, it was at that moment Ben looked around assessing his options and he looked towards the kitchen knife block and decided that the knife sitting there was his only remaining option to end all of the pain, suffering and hatred towards himself that his father causes, so he slowly stood up from the laid out position on the ground, then walked towards the kitchen counter slowly grabbing a fillet knife from the block.

Once Ben had grabbed the knife, he hid it behind his back and slowly walked up to his father, smirked slightly and swung his knife upwards, slicing his father’s chest, Ben realising he missed his target of Jake’s throat, looked up at Jake with fright in his eyes, the look on his father's face was as if that had just angered him more, Jake then swung and punched Ben in the side of the head knocking him unconscious. Tara having seen what Ben just tried to do, gained the adrenaline and strength to stand up, grab the knife on the floor next to Ben's unconscious body and stabbed Jake in the chest 3 times then dragged the knife along his jugular slicing it. Ben woke up several hours later to see his mother dragging Jake's body to their bedroom and placing him on the bed as if he was asleep. At this point Ben went to Tara to see what was happening and she told him to go pack a single suitcase of essential items that he could not live without, Ben not having a lot of possessions packed mostly clothes and a couple toys he loved. Ben climbed into the family car and waited on Tara, he looked out the windshield to see his mother setting fire to their home, she climbed in the car and said nothing. Hours later Ben was on a plane to Vice City and was told he was never to mention his life in Australia.

When Ben was 15 years old, Tara became addicted to heroin & began selling her body on the street to pay for her next hit. She would spend days away from the house, Ben believed this happened out of guilt after what happened to his father. Ben wanted to help his mother try to get off of drugs multiple times, all of which had failed severely, which lead to Ben believing that if he went to the Vice City Police Department for help, they would put her into a rehab and she would come home sober and be his mother again. Ben put a sting in place for them to catch Tara with the heroin, while high and when they did, they put her in prison instead of rehab.

Several days after Tara entered the Vice City State Penitentiary she had gotten into a fight with an inmate with a rival prostitute that she knew from before they were locked up, during the fight Tara was stabbed multiple times in the stomach with a shiv. Due to the amount of stab wounds and the location, Tara bled out in prison, leaving Ben an orphan in welfare’s care. Once Ben had heard the news that his mother was killed in prison, he fell into a deep spiral of depression and blame on himself, he ended up running away from the house he was living in and started drinking with several people he met while he was living on the streets, so at the age of 15 he was homeless & drinking. Ben was heading down a very dark road, constantly drinking, taking drugs and robbing stores around Vice City, until a man that went by the name of “Zeppelin” and was a member of the “Vice City Bikers”. Zeppelin offered Ben to take him under his wing and teach him everything he knows about crime but Ben had to give up the alcohol and drugs entirely, that was the only condition. Ben seeing a payday agreed to the condition.

While working under Zeppelin, Ben was trained in how to break into Jewellery stores without triggering alarms, how to kidnap people & most importantly to Zeppelin, how to torture people for information. Ben was forced to put all of these skills to the test on a frequent occasion, until Ben’s work crossed the path of a crew in Chicago. Ben's path crossed with them when he was forced to pick up one of their members and get information out of them which caused a bit of drama amongst both groups. A meeting was set to take place in Liberty City, where both crews would go, Zeppelin & Ben were selected from Vice City Bikers, while Ella Collins was sent from the Chicago crew to clean things up on their side. Throughout the meeting there were arguments over many things, mostly being about how Ben tortured one of their affiliates for information on rival operations.

After the meeting and everything was worked out, Ben & Ella met up privately and began chatting and realised they have more in common than they thought, it wasn’t going to be anything amazing yet but they both knew there was a connection of some sort.

Over the span of 3 years Ben & Ella became extremely close to the point they considered the other brother and sister, when you thought of Ben, you thought of Ella, they became inseparable. One day things went horribly wrong within the Vice City Bikers, the Vice President turned on Mitch Baker, shooting him in the head which caused an internal war to begin. Zeppelin caring about Ben pulled him aside and drove him to the airport as soon as all of it began, when they got to the airport Ben was given a single piece of advice “Start over, begin a new life. Be a better person than you have been. Stay out of crime.”

## First day in Los Santos

Ben's first day in Los Santos was on the 5th April 2020, within 5 minutes of entering the city he ran into a woman by the name of Chloe Grenwrick who said she pulled over to "harrass" Ben due to the doughnut hoodie he was wearing at the time. After a brief discussion, Chloe (as Ben & Chloe like to put it) kidnapped Ben and took him for a ride around the city to meet several people and introduce him to some basics. Along the way Ben & Chloe began to bond over the Little Einstein's & Chloe's car being called the little red rocket ship.

Later into the day, Chloe & Ben ran into Eddie Concord who was doing Weazel news and proceeded to give the story of how Chloe kidnapped Ben. Several days later, Chloe began introducing Ben to various safer crimes around the city that he was less likely to get caught doing.

## Issues with Grove

On the 19th June 2020, Ben was picked up at Alta parking garage by 2 people in masks who revealed themselves as Grove Street Family members. They proceeded to take Ben out to a beach just off of east side near Palomino Freeway (Commonly known as murder beach) and question him as to why he hasn't paid them yet for that week even though Ben had explained he informed Oliver Walker that he was out of the state at the time and would pay them when he was back. Ben questioned them with "Is this really just over 2.5k?" to which they told him it's not about the money, it's about the respect. Then proceeded to beat him with brass knuckles. Once Medics Walker & LaCroix found Ben, they proceeded to question Ben about what caused his injuries in hypotheticals, he explained that he "slipped off a ledge and smacked my face on a rock that was green". He was later questioned by Deputy Beck and revealed basically nothing to him stating "I want to tell you but I can't."

On the 23rd June, Ben was rolling around Legion Square on his Wolfsbane, saw Grove at the Legion Square bank and had a bad feeling, so he headed to Alta and swapped into the Flash GT at which point a black motorcycle wearing a black hoodie with orange writing on the front rolled in behind him & a silver Comet SR belonging to Raith Robinson pulled in-front of Ben as he was trying to leave and got told to get out of the car or he's going to get shot, Ben without hesitation hit the gas pedal and headed to Senora Freeway, assuming the Comet SR can't keep up with the Flash GT, Ben clipped a car just near the Water treatment plant and spun, at this point Raith took the chance to start firing at Ben while he was starting his engine back up. Once the Flash was running again, Ben kept on the move, firing a couple shots out his back window towards the SR, hitting one of the front tyres of the car and causing it to swerve hard, spin and crash into the median barrier. Ben took this chance to run to Grapeseed and make calls for backup if anyone was available. Nobody was.

On the 25th June, Grove struck back on Ben and they hit hard this time. While Ben was down in the city picking up supplies for the house, for him & Rosie; Raith, Rico & Laika (Unnamed at the time) rolled up on him in a stolen Massacro, demanded Ben pull over & when he refused, they started firing rounds into the back of his minivan, striking him in the chest twice and causing the car to crash into a tree on Palomino Freeway northbound, Ben rapidly lost consciousness from blood loss, while he was out they took Ben over to the alternate wind farm and began digging a hole, at which point Raith told Laika to wake Ben up, once Ben was awake, they began questioning him about being a snitch, working with the cops and disrespecting Laika. Once they had enough of listening to Ben who didn't really have reasons for anything they were claiming he did, they made it clear that he's going in the grave, alive. Raith also made it clear to Ben that if he talks to the cops about Grove or if any of this comes back on them, it won't just be him going into the grave next time, it would be Ella as well. Once Grove left the scene Ben managed to push some of the dirt off of his face, just enough to be able to breathe at which point Medic Peoples showed up & found Ben with 2 Gunshot wounds, and extremely low vitals. The next day Ben decided he didn't want to recover in Pillbox, he wants to recover at home in Paleto with Rosie.