Johnny Divine is a character role-played by Jonthebroski.
General Overview[]
Johnny Divine is the leader of the Baastards MC, a motorcycle club he founded alongside several other ex-cops.
Backstory[]
Time in the PD[]
Divine spent many years in the PD and was a very respected cop during his time in the force. He was the captain in the Los Santos Police Department twice, and also the interim chief of police alongside Lance Malton. He was also the first lead of a detective unit, the Major Crimes Division. He was also a part of the Shark Rangers Unit.
Utah Undercover Operation[]
Divine took a break from the PD for a year to go undercover in Utah. While undercover, he pretended to be a Mormon and married four different separate wives that were all unaware of each other. One of these fake wives was Aurora Divine. Once the operation in Utah was over, Divine came back to Los Santos, leaving all of the wives behind.
Sanguine Undercover Operation[]
While Divine was a by-the-book cop for many years, things changed after he went on an undercover operation to gather intel on Sanguine Isle, where the heinous acts he was forced to commit such as cannibalism and murder gradually led him to becoming more and more mentally unstable. This mental instability was only exacerbated by the death of his uncle Sam Baas, the fear of his undercover identity getting found out by Yeager, and having to distance himself from the people he cared about to protect them and himself during the operation. While undercover, Divine witnessed Yeager making bomb sales to Pigeon, confirming the PD's suspicions of the island's illegal exports.
Divine worked mostly with Sam Baas for the start of the operation, but due to his death, Divine started to work with Sam Baas's closest friend Brian Knight instead. Divine shared the info he collected undercover to Brian, which would then help Brian investigate the island and form a case to possibly invade.
After coming back to Los Santos for Baas's funeral and for some brief recuperation from the mission, Divine shot Irwin Dundee for disrespecting Sam Baas's grave. Earlier that same day, Divine had a chance encounter with Yeager that lead him to believe that Yeager might suspect him as the snitch. Later, Domenic Toretti and Lance Malton gave him a deal that he will not have to be charged with the attempted murder and no one will have to know that happened until after the operation was over when he would turn himself in and be charged.
Cover Blown[]
On one fateful day, Divine went to Toretti to quit the police department, which lead to a series of unfortunate events that ended up getting Divine caught by Yeager. On his way to meet Toretti to inform him that he was quitting and that all his work is done, they got caught up in a chase trying to catch Pigeon. After the chase, Divine had an altercation with the new commissioner, Axel Justice, due to Divine feeling disrespected and devalued despite all the traumatic work he did. Following that, Divine quit the PD, feeling like he had done everything there was to do, and that now his affidavit was complete, his mission was over. Divine was now in a huge predicament because he feared that going to jail for the attempted murder would lead to him getting killed by an inmate, while pleading insanity would discredit his affidavit that detailed the crimes taking place on the island completely undoing all the progress he made.
In a spur of the moment decision following a conversation with Luka Kovacic, Divine decided the best option for himself would be to flee to Sanguine as Jaime Ruth, and hope for his life that Yeager still hadn't figured out that Jaime was Divine. Following Divine's return to Sanguine, Yeager tried a couple of methods to try and prove for certain that Jaime was Divine, from setting up fake deals to see if he'd snitch to trying to take pictures of his face, but after having no luck, the Sanguinians started to lower their suspicions of him. However, due to Carmine Costello arriving at the island and getting swiftly captured, Yeager made one last throw-away effort to attempt to prove that Jaime was Divine. Calling Toretti, Yeager asked, "You think you could send a cop to my island and I wouldn't find him?" to lure Toretti into saying something about Divine. Smartly, Toretti avoided saying anything about Divine, but it still sent Toretti into a panic to try and save Divine. Frustrated by wedding planning being delayed by Toretti worrying about Divine, Shelby Lane, who was a sergeant at the time, decided to call Yeager herself and ask "do you have Divine captured?"
Yeager then pulled Jaime into his office and gave him the chance to come clean, which he did. Yeager quickly realized how much being on the island changed Divine and how much Divine felt betrayed by the PD for so carelessly revealing his identity, and sensing an opportunity, he gave Divine a choice. Yeager told Divine he could either work for him and to put a bomb into his own neck to prevent anymore snitching, or to die. Divine chose survival.
Shortly after Divine chose to have the bomb be put in his neck and to live, the police came to the island to try to save Divine... or to kill him so that he couldn't retract the testimony in his affidavit that went against the isle. After several calls from Divine and Yeager prompting them to leave, they finally did, but not without them telling Yeager that the island's refusal to hand them over Divine, who was trying to evade the police and use Sanguine as shelter, was a technically a break of the treaty between Los Santos and Sanguine. This would eventually be the tipping point that gave Los Santos enough reason to finally declare war against Sanguine. In a panic, realizing that Divine being on the island might give them enough reason to invade, Yeager decided to take Divine back to the mainland of Los Santos and to force him into hiding and to pretend he was dead. Despite their efforts to cover it up, the police saw through their rouse and still continued their plans to invade.
While in hiding, Divine was forced to stay in a dark room for several days so that he wouldn't get spotted by the police. During this time, he allowed Yeager to cut one of his eyes out as atonement for being undercover. Eventually he was let out of this room and he briefly went to the Sanguine, where Yeager made the decision to teach Divine how to make bombs so he could continue Yeager's legacy even if Yeager was locked up for years or killed during the war. Divine went back to the mainland and stayed there in hiding while the war raged on.
On the Run and After Capture[]
For a while after the war, he was on the run from the police using the aliases Matt Damon and Fenrir. He also got a kind of wonky replacement eye in secret by some trusted doctors to hopefully blend in better when needed. During his time on the run, he blew up Paleto PD alongside Pigeon, who went by the alias Trojan. The two quickly became friends, with Pigeon being uncharacteristically willing to shot the cops to try to help Divine escape after shooting an EMS. However, during that situation, the both of them were caught. For the assumed bombing of the Paleto PD and assistance of Yeager during and after the Sanguine War, Divine served 19 years in prison with 45 years of parole.
During his parole, Divine rekindled his relationship with Aurora. He also started hanging out with Pigeon more, joining him on drops and considering him his best friend for some time. The two would also come up with lots of schemes and creative plans. He also grew closer to TJ Walker due to his connection to Yeager. Together Divine, Pigeon, and TJ all went into a blood pact so that they all would never betray each other.
Eventually, Yeager decided to give Pigeon the detonator to Divine's neck bomb, changing it from being Yeager's choice to Pigeon's choice whether or not to free Divine or to detonate him. Yeager also ordered Divine and Pigeon to "finish the job" and to get rid of Brian, which meant Divine had to attack one of Baas's closest friends. Divine, Pigeon, and Aurora completed the task despite some conflicting feelings among the group, solidifying Divine's loyalty. After a few days of thought about the detonator, Pigeon made his decision, throwing the detonator into the icy ocean, texting "Best Friend" to Divine, finally setting him free.
The Baastards MC[]
After a few more years going on the run for the attempted murder of Brian Knight and getting Yeager's bomb surgically removed, Divine founded the Baastards MC alongside several ex-cops he's close with. Some of the people that Divine knew in Utah also came to Los Santos and are now hangarounds.
Trivia[]
- His parents were killed by illegal tints.
- Was one-third of "the Tripod", which includes Domenic Toretti and Lance Malton, and he considers both of them to be like brothers.
- Got his kidney from Lauren Forcer when he had a kidney transplant.
- His blood type is O negative.
- Cheated on Lauren Forcer with Manuela Santos.
- Was formerly an alcoholic, but gave up drinking in solidarity with Aurora.
- He has gone through a lot of dietary changes over his life, from eating steak and whiskey exclusively for six years until his liver gave out on him, then to vegetarian food, white meat, and fish, back to an average diet, then to cannibalism for the undercover operation, then back to an average diet again.
- When asked who the most important people were to him by Yeager, the top four he listed were Tessa Lamb, Owen Svensen, Lance Malton, and Domenic Toretti.
Gallery[]
| Played By: Jonthebroski |
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