Editing Jim (section)

=== Moving to Los Santos ===
At eighteen, the couple graduated high school. Jim, eager to leave his past behind, wanted to move west to Los Santos. He asked Hanae to come with him. She hesitated, afraid of defying her father. Jim reminded her firmly that it was ''her'' life—not her father's. After a heavy argument, Hanae made the choice to break contact with her family and followed Jim to Los Santos.

In the city, they bought a modest house on [[Sustancia Road]]. Jim found work as a garbage collector to support them financially while Hanae studied to become a primary school teacher. A year later, they got married.

Their wedding was very modest, attended only by a few of Jim’s colleagues and a handful of Hanae’s friends. Over the following years, Jim switched jobs frequently, working as an electrician, plumber, taxi driver, construction worker, and bike mechanic to keep their household afloat. Hanae graduated when Jim was 23, and during the period between the ages of 23 and 27, the couple tried to conceive a child.

At 25, Jim and Hanae were overjoyed to learn she was pregnant. Their daughter was born healthy, but tragedy struck three months later—she died suddenly from crib death. The loss devastated the couple. Though they never blamed each other, Jim, deep in his heart, always carried a sense of guilt over the loss. It was a wound that never fully healed.

When Jim was 28, he was working as an IT-helpdesk employee. One night, a group of masked men raided their home and violently abducted Hanae. Jim was pinned to the ground and brutally beaten. Despite the assault, he managed to fight back—kicking one of the assailants in the groin and shooting him with lightning reflexes using his pistol. He quickly shot two more intruders before rushing outside, but the van carrying Hanae had already sped off into the night.

Defeated but not broken, Jim returned inside to grab more weapons, including his signature Navy Revolver. There, he found one of the masked men still breathing. Under gunpoint and through gritted teeth, he interrogated him, eventually learning that the "target"—his wife—was being taken to a warehouse on South Shambles Street. Jim jumped into his grey Übermacht Sentinel and raced toward the location.

When he arrived, he found the warehouse, guarded by several Yakuza members already under attack by a local biker gang known as [https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lost_MC the Lost MC]. Rage consumed him. Without hesitation, Jim stormed the building and shot down every armed man he encountered. Blood and chaos surrounded him, but when he finally reached the back room—it was too late. His wife, Hanae, lay dying, a gunshot wound in her abdomen. She died in his arms. Jim was heartbroken. Something inside him snapped. A vengeance-fuelled instinct emerged. He vowed to take revenge on everyone responsible for Hanae's kidnapping and murder. He buried her at the Los Santos cemetery.