James Haze

James Haze is a character role-played by madbush.

General Description
James "Jim" Haze is a Swiss-born man who has lived in the city of Los Santos for many years now. With a huge knowledge of the law, James was one of the longest and most active senior attorneys in the city until he retired. Outside of law, James is the owner of Greener Pastures, co-owner and CFO of UwU Café, partial owner of Sinful Exotics and also the owner of the Law Firm, Canis Minor. He is also further involved in many businesses in Los Santos. Outside of business, James is often seen enjoying his secret passion for street racing as a member of Yokai. Typically, James can be seen wearing his signature black bowler hat, though recently he has begun to wear this less and less.

2021-2022
James moved to the city of Los Santos in March 2021 and began working on joining the law profession. He was eventually successful and after months of work, he become an attorney. Using this to his advantage, James began creating business connections and eventually met Ash Ketchup, who he helped to create UwU Café. He also began creating tight, legally-binding contracts which he used to successfully sue Harry Brown on behalf of the Tuner Shop. With UwU Café up and running, James created his own farming business, Greener Pastures to run alongside it. Towards the end of the year, James was ocean dumped by members of Cerberus after a misunderstanding regarding his ability to continue working with Betta Life Pharmaceuticals. Thankfully he survived, but suffered temporary memory loss as a result.

2022-2023
James had a great start to 2022 when he was once again ocean dumped by members of Cerberus, this time after being shot by Lang Buddha when a meeting about purchasing Burger Shot took an unfortunate turn. Eddie Marshall and Mary Mushkin soon after caused James to sigh when they both were arrested and the Tuner Shop was raided. He used his law knowledge to battle against Kyle Pred and Brian Knight in the interrogation room and eventually get both of his clients free. Outside of law, his friendship began to bloom with Seaside to the point where he requested to join. However, after months of waiting and internal affairs brewing, James decided to not pursue this further and instead put his effort into racing. Eventually, he approached Mary Mushkin, the leader of Yokai, about joining the street-racing crew. She accepted and Shingiin was created.

2023-2024
After the new year, James began to take on more of a leadership role within Yokai, allowing him to organise events such as the Fox Hunts as well as take on a mikomi of his own. James also began to show his association with Yokai more publicly by wearing his thermal katana and other gear around the city while remaining a law-abiding attorney. This display made James a target by certain PD members who wanted to have him disbarred, however, this public association allowed James to be a go-between when an officer decided to illegally return a racing dongle to Mary Mushkin that had been confiscated in a raid.

The criminal charges he faced from this, as well as the declining state of the DOJ, began to wear heavily on James' demeanour as an attorney, leading him to set plans in motion for retirement from the law. Before retiring, he became the legal advisor for Mayor Sexton Cohen. He also had an important meeting with Yeager Demonblood. Using his business and law backgrounds, he established two new businesses, Sinful Exotics and Canis Minor. At the end of the mayoral term, James finally took the leap and turned in his bar license, ready to begin a new life free from the constraints of being an attorney. After leaving the Department of Justice, James began engaging with more powerful individuals in the city and even helped boost Greener Pastures by getting the business some local farm plots. Yokai began to show cracks as well, with several members of the racing crew leaving, which brought other members' loyalties into question. To help bring the group back together, James decided to organise the 3rd Fox Hunt.

Law-Related

 * James created a contract between Igor Skovacic and Shane Powers for the transfer of Hayes Auto Body Repairs.
 * After Dean Gullberry decided to bomb the PD Prom in 2022, James defended Dean in court and helped save him from the death penalty.
 * James defended Octavio Stenberg in court, relating to the MRL. James got the initial hearing to be a mistrial, however, in January 2023, the PD appealed this and the court case was rescheduled.
 * When Capped Tarranova was caught for weapons trafficking, James and Grace Daniels represented him in court. Unfortunately, the court case did not go as hoped, as Capped was convicted of the charges.
 * In June 2023, James defended RLI in court against Alex Suarez, who had the help of Grace Daniels and Maya Mahmoud. Abdul AlRahim also took part in the case, acting as James' paralegal. The pair, in the end, won the case against Suarez.
 * Also in June 2023, James and Andi Jones, both asked at the last minute, defended Gary Gripps in court. He was being charged with many murders as well as Serial Assaults and Killings. He was found guilty of the murders (which he stated he was guilty of), however, the pair got him off of SA&K.
 * When Sexton Cohen became the mayor of Los Santos, James became the mayor's Legal Counsel. He pushed to create two new legislations in his term as an advisor. The Primary Aviation Act and the Respecting Peoples Grievances (RPG) Act.
 * His last job as a senior attorney was helping Mary Mushkin to get an expungement. After a long wait from the DOJ, an expungement hearing, with Judge Nathaniel Greyson, was eventually had where James helped Mary to start the expungement process.

Crime-Related

 * After handing in his bar licence, the first crime James took part in was a boost for a B-Class Komacho. Emberlynn McKale and Lara VanDusk completed the hacks, with James and Anna Jørgensen running interference. It was a successful boost with no police presence, with Lara scratching it for her own personal use afterwards.
 * One evening in mid-October 2023, Violet Snowe let James try cooking meth. He was successful and found out his strain is 671-Badger.

Business-Related

 * Towards the end of August 2023, and with the help Dave Campbell, Lara VanDusk, Kate Myles and Emberlynn McKale, dirt and lumber were transferred down from Paleto to the roof of the UwU Café so that farming plots could be built there for the use of Greener Pastures.

In South America

 * Whilst visiting South America, James ran Globe Oil, a highly successful oil company which would supply many gas stations with petrol. James owns several cars and even a house or two and seems very well-off. He sometimes will mention to others about taking his private jet to South America. James has also been known to cook meth in South America, with the strain name 265-alpaca.

Trivia

 * Before moving to the city, James worked as an underwear model. However, after an altercation with a murder kitty's teeth and his left glute, James left the career and went into law.
 * For the past five generations, all the males in James' family have been given the first name James. This is why some of his earliest friends in the city call him Jim Haze rather than James Haze.
 * James' face is featured on the mural inside of UwU Café.
 * James was one of the 1st to purchase an oil pump.
 * James was the 1st civilian to own a legal class 2 license,
 * James features in the official music video Casino by Paff.
 * So far, James has only been raided twice. The first time was when he handed back his legal class-2, and the second time was when Brian Knight raided him to find the BigM dongle.
 * Even indoors and in the dark, James is always seen wearing sunglasses.
 * James has gifted several vehicles to people in the city, most recently gifting Lara VanDusk a 65 Mustang.

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