[The Rooks]

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everything else. For if we  honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished- but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned. 

 

 

[The Rooks]

♥ Ravyn Black ♥

 

Ravyn was born in a poor household with her twin brother to a drug addicted mother who couldn't care for herself nonetheless a set of twins. Their upbringing was rough and tragic as they cared for each other by the time they were 6 years old and moved out on their own at 13 into a cruel and harsh world.  Her and her brother did what was needed to survive as they grew up, robbing people and stores, making moves to help them eat and have a roof over their heads each and every day. 

When Ravyn decided to come to Los Santos she had reached her lowest point. She said goodbye to her brother who was now on the run for his life, and she had no one to turn to. She needed a change from her past and dove into a new life head first. Before landing in Los Santos she was constantly fighting herself, and those that were looking to destroy her. She was sexually abused and mistreated which has caused her to cloak in her hard exterior and have a smart mouth. Ravyn has gotten good at using what she has learned from being mistreated in order to obtain what she needs.

She started dancing to make ends meat and got good at that which made the money roll in quicker, as well as drug use. As she began to rise in status within the club so did her illegal activities. Within a year and a half, she bought the club and began running dirty money through it with her then boyfriend whom she rarely seen sober, or not with other women or beating the hell out of her. Things started to get sketchy in the four months following her buying the club, she was being followed and detectives showing up asking questions. It turned out that her boyfriend was using her as a fall guy and taking everything from her one beating at a time. The day she realized she needed to change was the day she woke up in ICU with fifteen busted ribs, a wired jaw, a broken eye socket and a broken arm. Her life was hanging in the balance she was told, and they found her laying on the interstate, holding on to life with everything she had.

After recovery she wanted to be on the straight and narrow and decided on the drastic change.  That quickly faded from her mind after she was introduced to the various illegal activities there were to offer in Los Santos. Not long after she settled in it did not take long before she met someone and they started dating a gang member and learned everything she needed to know from members. From there things progressed quickly and she was all in, there was no turning back now.

She later found her brother hiding away in Los Santos, she hadn’t heard from him in a very long time after she got him a safe place in Mexico to hide. She wrote him off as dead after four years. But she was glad to see and his friends alive and they welcomed her in with open arms and helped her begin to become more established and learn more tricks of the trade. The days were long and yet fun running in the streets all hours of the day. She learned more about robberies and began hitting stores frequently stacking the cash as she could.

Things started to change for her, drastically once her then boyfriend was deported, and her brother and friends joined a new family of their own. She looked into other gangs to find the right fit, but nothing seemed to feel right in any of them. She was asked a lot to come be with her family who had found a home with the Rooks, but she turned it down because she wanted to be able to make in on her own and not because of who she knew. But it finally became clear where she was supposed to be each and every day she struggled; The Rooks.

              

“Being a rook isn't about getting rich, I'm not saying you won't make money, but that shouldn't be your driving force to be here. You have to want to be part of something bigger than yourself. You have to want to build something that will last a lifetime, something that will outlast every storm that comes your way. The foundation on which the Rooks has been build is solid, formidable and unyielding. We need family that can add to that and not bend or break.”