Itās an hour before I have to get up for work and I canāt sleep so hereās some character thoughts.
- His name was actually a total coincidence, the relationship with Luz was not.
I had kinda played the SR games in reverse order growing up, and didnāt get to the first two and the reboot until my Junior-Senior years of high school. So I played 3 -> 4 -> GOOH -> 2 -> 1 -> Reboot, and didnāt know Angelo Lopez as a character had existed by the time I made the Saintsā Angelo Vasquez-Castro. Luz was unexpectedly my favorite character, and truthfully I believed she deserved better in the SR storyline (or at least a better model in 2.. it looks nothing like herš), so I decided to write her in with the Saintsā Angelo, since I didnāt have any story for him at that point and he was just a character concept att.
- He drives the same car in every game, from 1 -> Reboot.
We love consistency in this household. Plus the Hammerhead is really just a classic, itās hard to be beat.
Angelo originally buys the car off his elderly landlord, who wasnāt using it cause she just couldnāt get it to run. Eventually he works on it for her and she actually sells it to him for cheap, a gift really since she canāt use it anymore.
( I realize I never really mention her as a character, but sheās the initial mentor figure in his life since his parents.. werenāt exactly around⦠iykyk. Plus this was before Julius and The Saints, so he was very young.)
- Heās very much a doom and gloom type of character.
Nothing about his backstory is happy. Iāll make a separate post for it since it does need trigger warnings, but to put it blankly, Angeloās life is pretty much hell until he gets with the Saints. Really drives home the whole betrayal thing with Julius, and exactly how reliant he is on Luz in their relationship. Strong guy, but so brittle mentally.
- Jacqueline plays the role of good cop whenever Angeloās around in the first and second games.
This is especially considering her age and personality at the time. Sheās about 17 when Angelo finally lets her work for the Saints, and 21 when she seizes leadership after his death.
In a way, Angelo didnāt prevent at all the one thing he was trying to. (Allowing Jackie to revolve her life around the Saints. They both joined at the same age, but Jackie had been heavily restricted as to where she could help, whereas Angelo was immediately getting into shootouts with VK on day one.)
- Jackie begins to realize that gang life isnāt all that great after Carlosā death.
First, her best friend dies, and then her brother only a year later. 2009 was a rough year for Jackie. She didnāt have time to grieve, she couldnāt show the Saints exactly how much of her was breaking. Of course, Gat took control of the Saints when Angelo was murdered, but it wasnāt exactly in his mind to stay the sole leader of them for long.
A few months have passed, Jackie finally takes over with the help of Johnny, and after a few years of getting acclimated to her new life, the events of Saints Row: The Third play out.
(But again itās just another rewrite cause Gat is there LOL)
Again tho, I do have an alternate timeline where Angelo lives, him and Luz stay together, Jackieās happy, Yareli (AngeLuz daughter) is in Santo Ileso, blah blah blah. Iāll get into that later lol