Cora Star

Cora Star is a character role-played by ms_star.

General Description
Cora Star is a Patched Member for the Bondi Boys MC. Previously she was a Full Member of Seaside.

Personality
Cora Star is a street racer who is a crazy, emotional as well as extremely loyal and selfless woman. She feeds off the energy of others and can become stressed because of it. However even with this flaw she has proven to be reliable in any situation.

It is hard for people to gain Cora’s trust and even harder for her to open up to them. As such Cora is very selective about people she calls friends and even more so family.

Background
Much of Cora’s history is unknown as she doesn’t trust, nor open up to people easily.

Cora’s dad was killed while she was young. She associates his death with him being in a gang which resulted in her being reluctant to become part of one for a long time.

Cora was part of a heist racing crew whose downfall began with letting in a new guy that ultimately snitched on the group. A mistake that led to a lot of people dying. A mistake that Cora never forgave herself. As a result she became doubtful of new people, observing even the smallest things to not make the same mistake again. After that it was not possible for Cora to stay and she fled to Los Santos.

Beginnings
On Cora's first day in the city she ran into Jesse Reed and Meelo "Nex" Graves outside of the Alta Apartments where she complemented Jesse’s car. Since they noticed Cora driving a Futo, Meelo gave her a lockpick so she could acquire herself a better car. Jesse also gave Cora his number with the intention of showing her the city later.

Jesse and Cora became fast friends, helping her immensely during her first days. She expressed her main interests in boosting cars and street racing. Jesse helped her get necessary tools as well as guided her along the steps. As such they ended up spending a lot of time together and enjoyed each other's company to the point where feelings were formed. A couple days later Jesse gifted Cora her first car, vin scratched Coquette, to help her get into races. Shortly after they became a couple but decided to keep it a secret during the beginnings.

Jesse wanted to give Cora a home, and spend some time deciding whether to introduce her to the Bondi Boys MC or the Nightfall racing crew. In the end he decided it would be better suited for Cora to become part of the Nightfall. As a result she quickly became part of the overarching heist group, The FEMLY.

Cora has met many BBMC members and has gotten along with all of them. After meeting Pez Speedwagon on a few occasions Pez asked Cora if she had intentions of joining the BBMC, to which she replied that she has no intention at the moment. Biggest reason being her relationship with Jesse, as Jesse didn’t want to date another club member to a point where he said he would break up with Cora had she ever become part of BBMC.

Over time, Cora’s and Jesse’s relationship started to become harder and harder. Jesse’s commitment to the club, combined with a personal rule he had for her to never come near Vespucci nor the club, as part of Jesse’s wish to keep his personal and club life separate, strained their relationship. As a result they had barely seen each other and started to grow apart. Towards the end of January 2022, Cora and Jesse broke up, with the final straw being Cora trading the Lamborghini Murcielago she owned for her dream car, Nissan Silvia S15. A result of the growing issue of communication between them that caused breaking Jesse’s trust to Cora.

Shortly after The FEMLY dissolved, every member started to find their own way forward. Both of these events showed Cora who her real friends were, as she was left with nothing. After some time, no longer restricted by her relationship with Jesse, she tried to become a BBMC hangaround. However, the day before she told Jordan Lee she was ready to join, the club had put a moratorium on adding new hangarounds to the club. Later she was told this was bad BBMC communications, as an exception would most likely have been made for her.

Seaside
With BBMC doors seemingly closed, Cora again started to hang out more with Bodhi Mack and Joaquin "JJ" Jimenes, and eventually, by being included in jobs, with other Seaside members. Slowly but surely she showed her skills and became friends with all of them. Cora and Bodhi started dating, leading up to them becoming official on April 7th, 2022. When Bodhi asked whether or not she wanted to become Seaside, Cora said that she loved hanging around the group and that she is keen to. But to not repeat the mistake of her being viewed and treated as “just a girlfriend”, she wanted to earn that by herself.

On May 11th, 2022, Cora was invited into Seaside as an associate, meaning she would be considered family to Seaside and be able to wear a Seaside bandana (the flag). Her blood-in began with her being cuffed, blindfolded and transported to the oil rig. As a Seaside tradition, everyone gave a speech about Cora. Cora’s last task to earn her flag was to swim back to the beach. Cora made it almost there before she was attacked by a shark. Other Seaside members saved her and she was given her flag by Bodhi.

Only a few days after Cora became part of Seaside, she showed her commitment and skills in her first gang wars with R.U.S.T and The Mandem. With Reggie Might's return to criminal life, Seaside started looking into doing meth runs. As a proven driver, Cora was chosen to be the lead driver for them. Seaside did 6 runs, all of them successful. Cora lead drove for 5 of them. The one where Cora was an interference driver, she and Ivan Samarsky played a big role by diverting the attention by engaging in a shootout with police.

On September 27th, 2022, Cora became Seaside’s full member with the gang's rank restructure. Becoming a full member meant no free passage out and being more included in Seaside’s business. All associates had been given a last choice to leave or stay for life. Nobody chose to leave. Days later, it would all fall apart. Seaside was dealing with Michael Simone's kidnapping, which led to his (faked) death. Emotions were high and fuses short. On Oct. 3rd, second-in-command Ash Ketchup was caught by the PD cooking meth with Hydra, and while she was in prison for 3 years, tensions rose between the leaders. Upon being released, she called a meeting and announced she was leaving Seaside. Everyone present in the meeting tried to stop Ash from making this decision, albeit unsuccessfully.

Cora was devastated by this news, as Ash had confided in her a lot and they shared similar problems in the group. Following dayhad a big talk with Cora, because Cora was one of the most informed about Ash as she confided with her a lot, sharing similar problems. Cora had previously been shut down by the leaders, had her opinions invalidated or ridiculed and overall had felt out of place in Seaside. Many council members, starting with Karl "KJ" Johnny Black, took Cora aside for one-on-one conversations to convince her that Seaside cared and supported her, and promised to start working towards bettering the group together.

In November 2022, for the one-year anniversary of Seaside’s creation, they celebrated with a Seaside Olympics hosted by JJ. After the closing ceremony, everyone from Seaside moved to the penthouse, where Council members held speeches. Benji called Cora forward and as a gift gave her a Seaside chain. Unfortunately the problems that Ash had Cora had commiserated about did not improve. In a meeting with Benji and Reggie about her relationship with Bondi Boy Finley Milton, Benji threatened to kill her if she ever left Seaside and start a war with BBMC if she joined them. The tension between the two groups led Finn to break up with Cora. Secretly he also hoped that this would help her chances at joining BBMC if she ever decided to leave Seaside.

Finally, on March 7th, 2023, Cora asked to be blooded-out of Seaside. Cora explained to JJ and KJ she did not mesh well with hte new people who had joined the gang. Cora was tired of the constant gang wars and didn't want to have to shoot people she cared about in a conflict. She also felt like Seaside had regained the Southside mentaliy they had tried to shed when the original members left the Vagos. She had trouble seeing some people as family and said she shouldn’t stay for only a few members. JJ could not bear to shoot Cora, so simply stabbed and ocean dumped her. He also secretly called 911 to ensure she was found by EMS. When Ash was told Cora was blooded out, she said, "I'm not surprised, she should have escaped back when I did."

Life In BBMC
Cora's dream of becoming BBMC was renewed by a change in leadership to Prime Minister Barry Benson. After being gone from Seaside for nearly two months, she was invited to complete a Hangaround Challenge, which she did in part by driving for a meth run. Cora was accepted as a Hangaround on the 28th of April 2023. Her jacket was Antonio Rodrigues, which was switched to Finn after Antonio left the club and was blooded out. This did not deter Cora, as she had been watching the BBMC's journey for two years by this point and knew the club better than many of the new members. On the 8th of June 2023, she successfully earned her jacket and was promoted to Prospect. She was officially promoted to a full Patched Member on the 30th of September 2023.

Trivia

 * Cora’s state ID is 25858
 * Phone dongle alias: Star