Jimmy Irish
Jimmy Irish (born Dante Jimenez) grew up an orphan on the streets of Queens, NY after fleeing Nicaragua with his sister and mother. Separated during immigration, Dante had hardly any recollection of his family or heritage and at the age of 11 he fled the local church that had taken him in and quickly learned how to play the street, gamble, and hustle for money in order to survive. Dante scraped by for years on the street and began to flourish, earning big money from Poker games and blowing it on fast cars and gorgeous women, until one night while leaving a high stakes poker room on the Southside he was knocked unconscious from behind.
Dante awoke to realize he had been taken captive by a ruthless street gang who then gave him two choices; become a drug mule, or become a fighter in their underground club. Stripped of his belongings and identity Dante chose to fight, a choice that would haunt him for years but also give him the opportunity to break free from his captors.
The fight club was the largest in the New York underworld, with hundreds of thousands of dollars bet on each fight. The popularity came from one simple rule, the fights were to the death.
Dante rose in popularity, fight after fight, viciously ending each opponent with his bare hands, until he was given the name Jimmy Irish by his captors. Jimmy was an abbreviation of his last name Jimenez, and a homage to his South American roots, while his surname Irish was given due to his fighting ability and ritual of taking shots of whisky after each round of a fight. Numbed from the violence and torture, he welcomed his new title and would use it for the rest of his life.
During a police raid on the compound where he and the other fighters were held by the gang, Jimmy was able to escape in the midst of the chaos by stealing a nearby motorcycle and evading law enforcement. Jimmy rode for days across the country, putting hundreds of miles between himself and the city that scarred him.
Jimmy eventually arrived in Los Santos and officially changed his legal name to Jimmy Irish, he then met a local who had noticed the motorcycle and referred him to a new club called the Lost Santos MC. After receiving a text telling him of a meeting place he eagerly raced to the location where he met Lucas and Ezekial, the club's President and Vice President. Although initially unsure if he would fit in, after agreeing to live a legal and law abiding life in Los Santos he was welcomed into the club as a Prospect, eventually earning his cut and becoming a fully patched member of LSMC.
These days you can find Jimmy in the basement of Tequi-La-La gambling and drowning his sorrows in liquor, or cruising around Paleto Bay, reminiscing about where his mother and sister may be.
