Arvin Buckley

Arvin Buckley is a character role-played by TolerLive.

Overview (Pre-Los Santos Backstory)
As a kid, Arvin Buckley fully believed in his parent's quaint way of life. He did have some interactions outside of his family. A friend down the east side of the creek they lived on named Daryl. Daryl and Arvin were inseparable as young kids. They did classic redneck children things like play in the mud, drive tractors through the woods to knock over stupid trees, and of course they played with matches! Daryl used to talk to Arvin about how he had an older cousin living over in the big city of Los Santos. One day when the cousin was visiting, Arvin asked him what it was like living in a city! A real city! Daryl's cousin handed him a twenty dollar bill and told him that "in the big city, this shit is what you live off of. Not rabbit stews, washing your own clothes by hand, or playing in the mud!". That exchange hit Arvin's imagination, and began to peak his initial interest in leaving his home to eventually explore a new lifestyle. And he held onto that twenty dollar bill throughout all his younger years.

A few years later when Arvin turned 17, a bad storm had come to his little town. His mother told him it was 'nuthin to worry about, but she was very wrong. Arvin and Daryl spent the storm hanging out by the creek between their two houses, and during an unfortunate bout of heavy rain and an impressive bolt of lightning, a large willow tree had collapsed on top of Daryl, immediately killing him. Arvin didn't quite know how to process that day. But he carried that day with him for the rest of his life. And ever since that day Arvin began thinking about leaving his homestead. But he didn't for some time yet.

When Arvin was 28 both of his parents died. Or left. He was never really sure which it was. But he woke up one day and they were gone, so it didn't really matter to him which it was. Gone is gone. That afternoon he sat in his small dining room drinking an old bottle of moonshine that his family made years back. He got completely wasted and in his drunken stupor he accidently uncovered that old twenty dollar bill he had forgotten about in a trunk under the side table. He took a moment just looking at the bill. Memories of Daryl came back to him. Memories of playing in that old creek near the house. Memories of Dary's cousin telling stories about the big city. Arvin took one last drink of the moonshine, dropped the bottle on the floor, and packed his backpack. There was nothing left for him here. It was time to put the memories of this place behind him. It was time to start a new life. He was moving to Los Santos.

Overview (Los Santos)
Arvin spent most of his first day in Los Santos learning the way around the city. Upon leaving his apartment for the first time, he met and made friends with Chloe Waldorf, who helped him get his bearings around the city and buy his first Bycycle. Chloe offered to find him a job behind the camera at Weazel News, but Arvin decided to go run some deliveries for some pocket change for a bit before deciding on if he wanted to work for a news station.

After doing a few deliveries on his first day, Arvin was kidnapped by two unknown woman who appeared to look like humanoid Insects. They used him as a hostage during a convenience store robbery, and after this frightening introduction into the city of Los Santos, Arvin decided he needed a simple and "safe" job to work for a while. Later that day Arvin met a man in a clown outfit known as "Twinkles", and the two of them became friends while Twinkles was waiting for an interview at the UwU Café. During Twinkles interview, Ash Ketchup offered Arvin a job as well, which he gladly accepted.

Trivia

 * Arvin arrived in Los Santos on December 23rd, 2021.
 * Arvin's state ID is 29945.
 * The first person Arvin met in the city was a man named Torben.
 * Arvin is a lifelong Moonshine fan.
 * Arvin's favourite colour is teal, despite usually wearing a majority of Black colored clothes and a Blue denim jacket.
 * Arvin is role-played by TolerLive, who Occasionally dresses/roleplays in-character as Arvin on his actual twitch interactions.