oook here’s some more official stuff for my sriv rewrite. i’ll link a general plot overview here, but i’ll touch on some stuff as i explain these lol
so part of the story involves the revival of three major gangs from previous games: the rollerz, the emperors, and los carnales. these three are “back” in both stilwater and coming into steelport. i put “back” in quotes because technically none of these gangs ever left; the underlying themes of my rewrite is the larger criminal underworld, and while they may have lost some footing in stilwater, they still operated just fine outside of the city.
so we’ll start with the rollerz. it would perhaps be more fitting to say they’re technically the ronin, with their more direct yakuza connections, but their new leader, jamie, uses the rollerz name as a tribute to her brother, joseph price. jamie and joseph were twins, and while jamie herself was initially not interested in dealing with the shadier parts of the family trade (instead she opted for working on her own jewelry business), she ended up being roped into it later on after the death of her brother and uncle. she also was able to get donnie to return to his roots and rejoin the rollerz, despite his hesitations.
if you don’t feel like clicking on that link about jewelry, i’ll just say now that in sr1 there is a jewelry store called jamie price jewelry, and with that surname being so important, it seems like more than just a coincidence imo, so i’ve made her into an actual character. she’s out for revenge. their specific ventures are things like money laundering, drug and parts smuggling, and protection rackets.
next is lady ranja and her lieutenant king, in charge of the emperors. lady ranja is based on the character of the same name from undercover, as well as partially influenced by another cancelled game character. lady ranja has roots in stilwater, having been a part of the VK back in the 70s alongside ben and jules. things ended terribly between them all, especially with the death of angela, so ranja left stilwater and didn’t return for years.
however during the 70s she ended up getting involved w the sons of samedi and their drug racket, and it’s how that gang ended up being able to get such a strong foothold in stilwater during sr2. ranja is a capable fighter, but her silver tongue is perhaps her strongest weapon of all. she has connections all over, and grudges spanning decades, so she and the emperors are not to be taken lightly. kings only rule a kingdom, emperors rule an empire.
finally there’s the carnales. they never actually went away, as they have a large presence out of state.
so while i don’t rewrite the first two games like i do srtt and sriv, i still have some adjustments to their stories because it like it better and it flows much nicer into my rewrites. specifically, i don’t think manuel ditched luz. i think the two are actually married, but luz is stuck in stilwater to manage the drug trade through there while manuel is in colombia. luz is fine with it, but she gets lonely—thankfully she and anteros have become pretty decent friends over the years. as such, as the carnales presence steadily grows in stilwater again, they and the saints don’t really have as many problems because their leaders are on good terms. however, during my sriv rewrite, luz goes missing along with a string of other disappearances. in the meantime, one of her lieutenants, torque (another character from total control lol) is the interim leader. he’s a longtime carnales member turned brotherhood then back to carnales. he works as a bouncer in his spare time (based on the cooler, another cancelled sr project), and he wants to find luz but isn’t so trusting of the saints, suspecting they may have a hand in whatever happened to her. thus, this ends up turning the carnales fully against the saints once again.
anyway it’s almost 2:00 in the morning. i have many more thoughts but i need to sleep. i’m sorry ahead of time if there’s one billion grammatical errors in this😭😭
Ranja is the ex-military Captain of the USIF Atlas - even though she'd rather not be. In return for amnesty from her crimes as a member of the Earth military and for her voluntary surrenderrimg of sensitive Earthen information, she was provided a kushy job as the Captain of an exploratory vessel. She would much rather do just about anything than be put into another place of command, but its the only experience she has, so that's what she'll be doing for the next five years. Until then, she counts the days until she can legally quit
“I got this skull in March 2011 from an antique shop in Vienna, Austria. Showed it to several experts and organizations, such as the Institute for Tibetan and Buddhistic Studies in Vienna, the Museum of Natural History Vienna, and the Völkerkunde Museum. The Tibetan letters and most of the symbols got deciphered, but no one ever heard of a skull like that. Except one Tibetan Khenpo (Monk-Professor), who said such skulls were carved a long time ago to take a curse off a family or to guide the soul of a mislead human being on the right path.” ~ Klemens, 2011
been working on scripting some comics for the sriv rewrite; basically i want several instances of flashbacks for the antagonists just to flesh out their characters and motivations. all of them have specific, intimate connections to the past and i want a chance for them to get just as much development as the saints in this story. honestly the story of ashes to ashes is inspired by film noir, and i wanted that aspect to shine through with the narrative having flashbacks.
so these are some basic models for the comic appearances. jamie’s takes place during sr2 when she’s working as dane’s secretary. torque’s takes place pre-sr1 when he’s somewhat affiliated with the carnales but mainly just working as a bouncer; anteros is there too as this is a couple of months before he joins the saints. ranja’s takes place in the mid-1970s, right in the middle of the carnales VS vice kings conflict. angela is a crucial figure in her story, so she’s there too.
heyyyy i got some sriv rewrite voiceclaims for anyone interested. since they’re not actual characters (save for jamie and Z sorta) i wanted to show how i pretty much imagine them sounding. hopefully it helps them feel a little more real haha
volume warning; since these are all clips from varying sources the volume can be kinda all over the place. i tried my best to make them somewhat level, but the audio quality varies so. you’ve been warned
