Misha Standal

Misha Standal is a character role-played by Druzik.

Background
Misha Standal was born to a poor family in south-eastern Poland. His life in his home country was never easy - he grew up in a small town, with prevalent poverty caused by low wages and economic crisis. During his time in college Misha was studying engineering, trying to make ends meet working as a bartender after his classes. Money earned from his job wasn't enough and unfortunately his parents weren't able to support him. During the 3rd academic year he had to quit studies and move back to live with his parents. While the situation in the country only got worse and worse, Mish decided that it is now or never. He scraped together the last of his savings and emigrated to the US in order to start anew. The American Dream is still alive after all… right?

The Beginnings - Curbside of Hayes
After moving to Los Santos Misha had a hard time finding any solid job. He finally got hired as mechanic at Hayes Auto Body Repairs, but it wasn't enough to make a living. He helped few of his colleagues with petty crime here and there, but basically lived a civilian life. After getting to know Lucas Ortiz few times, he was invited as a legal, clean member to newly forming Curbside Crew. Unfortunately Curbside didn't even really took off the ground. After this Misha dissatisfied with illusion of American Dream left Los Santos for couple months.

Department of... Corruption?
After coming back to the city Misha stumbled upon a hiring ad for the Department of Corrections in a local prison. Earning money, making a career and helping people at the same time sounded pretty good for him.

Misha started working as a prison guard, full of ideals, wanting to help people rehabilitate and find a new way of life. Unfortunately jail turned out to be a meat grinder, crushing down his innocence and making him face real harsh truths about how hard prison life is. Slowly losing hope Misha grew distant from other guards. With time he befriended more and more prisoners, which made him question his loyalties. Misha craved a sense of belonging and acceptance and only people around him that gave him that feeling were inmates. He also developed feelings for one of the prisoners, Liisa Virtanen, passing hours upon hours sitting with her on the rooftop of the cafeteria, just talking and spending quiet time together.

A New Purpose
Misha couldn’t continue like that anymore, his emotions and feelings were slowly driving him into depression. He quit DoC, confessed his feelings to Liisa and started working towards creating some semblance of life for both of them.

To be continued...

Human Trafficking
January 2023 Misha Standal kidnapped Brick James and forced him to perform repairs on the small dock at the shore of the Alamo Sea in Sandy Shores. After the task was complete, Misha allowed Brick to call for help and surrendered himself to authorities.

Sentencing: 2 years in Bolinbroke, 2 years parole, $50,000 fine.

Trivia

 * Misha has extensive scarring around his left eye, result of being a target of Molotov-attack when he was serving as Corrections Officer in Bolingbroke Penitentiary.
 * Misha only gets new tattoos in prison