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OC lore posting 😏👍(<- deranged)

Rivera Molina is Domingo Molina's younger brother. Growing up, he was acquainted with his brother's friend Nacho Varga though he was personally closer with Jesse Pinkman (who he knew through his cousin, Emilio Koyama).

Rivera was a directionless adult; Like with his brother, his father shot down his future aspirations in favor of encouraging him to take over the family business. When Domingo quit working at Tampico Furniture so did Rivera, who opted to work at Los Pollos Hermanos instead to make ends meet. When Domingo got involved in the cartel drug trade Rivera followed suit, becoming a low level seller.

Rivera developed a nasty meth addiction which worsened his already existing paranoia and caused him to often dip into the stock he was supposed to be selling for Tuco. Just by coincidence, another dealer entered the bathroom before closing time as Rivera was cleaning it and Rivera, in a panic because he thought he was about to be shaken down or attacked for the missing money, stabbed him to death.

Seeing an opportunity to get a new pawn on his board, Gus Fring stepped in: With his connections it was easy to make the body disappear and erase any connections to Rivera. Gus also gave him enough cash to make up for the missing drugs. From then on Rivera acted under Gus' will as a mole within the Salamanca's drug trade, being forcibly weaned off drugs and becoming more deeply entrenched in the criminal world.

It's kind of hilarious that both Rivera and Domingo become moles, family trait

I was gonna go a bit into Gus' manipulation of Rivera and how he reacts to and changes as a result but this is ALREADY too long. Maybe another time.....