Name: Oswald Leigh
Age: 27
Job/Career/Money Source: Lives off his disappeared parents inheritance.
Bio (description of your characters past, present, and future goals):
Oswald was born Aaron Leigh on May 30th 1986 to Matthew and Alicia Leigh, in Los Santos. Growing up in Paleto Bay, Oswald developed a strong fondness towards the ocean, thanks to his father's interest in ships and boats. Aboard the deck of the Ifantus, the family ship, Oswald took his first steps.
Despite belonging to the upper class of Los Santos, his family refused to move to the Vinewood Hills. Strange for a boy from his social status, Oswald was reputedly a friendly kid at school, particularly with the middle class students. A good student with fantastic grades, Oswald was usually picked as both Student of the Year by teachers and Classmate of the Year by fellow students. In 1992, his brother Joshua was born. Unlike Oswald, Joshua had average grades, and wasn't as much of an angel as Oswald was. Still, following the advice from his older brother, Joshua started to improve his behavior and his dedication to study.
Everything was going well for the Leigh family. They had money, health, two wonderful children and two loving and caring parents. Everything was going well... until one day, 13-year old Aaron Leigh arrived at his house, only to find his parents and brother missing. Aaron Leigh waited three consecutive days for his parents and his 7-year old brother. They never returned. Nobody noticed their disappearance, as Matthew was on vacations from work, and Alicia barely left her house, unless she was with her husband. It was Aaron's school teacher who called the cops after noticing his favorite student missed class for four consecutive days, with no explanation whatsoever from his parents, and with nobody picking up the phone at his house.
When the police entered the house, little Aaron was weakened from not eating or drinking anything in the past days. An investigation was ordered to find the three missing Leigh family members. A witness near Paleto Bay said he had seen their ship sail south the supposed day of their disappearance, just hours before Aaron returned from schoo. Of course, the ship never returned. One week later, the wrecked remains of Ifantus were found west of Fort Zancudo. No bodies were found inside the ship or in the vicinities of the wreckage.
Aaron Leigh thus became famous during his teenage years after the disappearance of his parents, Oscar and Matilda Leigh, in 1999, and the subsequent finding of the Ifantus wreck, near the bay of Fort Zancudo. The media drew comparisons between his family's disappearance and the disappearance of 8 Los Santos citizens that same year, believed to be perpetrated by Sandy Shores' resident Merle Abrahams, otherwise known as the Infinity Killer by the press. No proof whatsoever was found that connected the Leigh's disappearance to Abrahams' presumed murders.
After his family's disappearance, Aaron Leigh had his name changed to Oswald Leigh, hoping to keep the media away from him. Oswald returned to school one year after his family's disappearance, after intensive psychiatric care. His grades, but most importantly, his friendliness with other human beings, never returned. Leigh came back to the spotlight in 2003, after he attempted to murder Merle Abrahams during the Infinity Trials in Sandy Shores, using a crowbar hidden under his coat as a deadly weapon. Oswald was tried as an adult and pleaded guilty for first-degree attempted murder, and was sentenced to 10 years in the Bolingbroke Penitentiary, the same prison where Merle Abrahams was held in.
In 2006, Matthew, Alicia and Joshua Leigh were declared legally dead, seven years after their disappearance. Oswald Leigh as yet to visit their grave. Two years earlier, Merle Abrahams died in his prison cell after slicing his own throat. On January 4th, 2014, after completing his term at the Bolingbroke Penitentiary, Oswald Leigh was released from prison. He has inherited his parents' wealth, and asked for a red Vapid Peyote to be delivered to the prison upon leaving. Consider yourself warned.
Personality:
Losing your family at 13 can be a harsh thing to deal with. Trying to murder someone who you don't even know if he's guilty of their disappearance may be the first signs of going crazy. 10 years at the Bolingbroke Penitentiary turn any kid into a tough man. They may as well turn a crazy, yet still innocent kid, into a fully fledged psychopath. This is a man who will not think twice, if you are looking at him the wrong way, to bash your skull in with his fists. Or in the worst of cases, his crowbar, which he calls "Justice". Highly aggressive, extremely dangerous, 100% charming. Only one known weakness: he is afraid of the water now.
When asked if he would visit his parents' grave after leaving prison, Leigh answered "I think I will visit Abrahams' first."
Photograph:
. I was going to say Lucas doesn't have to make another character either since he's so new, but guess I'm a bit late.
