This Fire Burns, Always OOC

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Welcome to Chicago, Illinois.

Where the city is large, the sights are beautiful, and the streets are dangerous. Everyone has heard of the infamous South side, where the gangbangers are plenty and the violence is high. But what about the North side? Oh right, there’s the conflicts between The Family and The O’Connell’s. It’s not as violent or as random as the South Side’s violence, but it’s there, and growing more and more dangerous. Nothing had been stable, but the little stability that was there was slowly disintegrating. No one would ever be prepared for the constant fights between the two.

The History between The Family and The O’Connell’s?

Both syndicates will tell you different stories, but both being territorial and very protective of their own, are just trying to do what is right to keep their own problems in check and make sure there are no casualties in their business. The feud started when Giorgio Amato, the leader of The Family currently, was just a soldier and his father Gerard Amato was in charge. Gerard had a disagreement with Ellis O’Connell, Murphy O’Connell’s uncle, and it ended with a bullet in Ellis’ head. Gerard had shot him after Ellis had pulled his gun on him. It was just a slow starting feud, but after Murphy and Giorgio came to run their respective families.

Giorgio had married shortly after he came to be the Don of The Family, and he had two beautiful daughters. He would do anything to protect his wife and daughters, but Murphy wanted to take something away from him the way that he had had something taken from him. Murphy, having been married prior, and having children of his own, knew what to do. He ordered a hit on the whole Amato family, aside from Giorgio himself. Giorgio, however, had been spending time with his daughter’s when said hit was supposed to occur, and his wife, Elsa, was murdered.

Unable to bear the loss of his wife properly, Giorgio taught his daughters how to protect themselves and as they got older they were inducted into the family they had come to know their whole lives. Murphy, disappointed that the hit wasn’t carried out properly, did something similar with his eldest son. He trained him just as he had been trained by his family before him. And for a single purpose. To take down The Family.

The Problem?

Well, Giorgio and Murphy were similarly thinking. Each wanted to take down their “competition” and had raised up their children to do the same task. Giorgio his eldest daughter, and Murphy his eldest son. They had never anticipated what could have happened… That the two would meet and not be able to carry out orders.

Feeling a bit odd about the whole situation, Giorgio’s eldest daughter turned to her sister for help, only to find that her sister was in a similar situation with a new recruit in The Family. But where things would go from there, no one knew

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[I'll break down The Family's people in the next post. Like where they stand and who they are. Names there will be open to change, and if you want to do the O'Connell's family break down feel free.]

Here are my characters:



Nichole Amato

22|The Family|9mm Pistol: The Amato Angel

Cunning. Clever. Bright. Loyal. Protective. Impulsive. Reckless at times. Can be cold. Wears her heart on her sleeve.

Nichole is the eldest daughter of Giorgio and the late Elsa Amato. She loves her family, and The Family, with all her heart because she's always been exposed to them. She is a die-hard daddy's girl and would do anything to please him. She was 8 years old when her mother was murdered, and something in her changed. She still came off as sweet and innocent, but it was then that she felt something in her heart turn cold. Her father began teaching her and her sister self-defense, and once Nichole turned 16 she was taught to shoot a gun, and she was formally given her mother's gun. It was a 9mm pistol that gained the name "The Amato Angel," because it had been used by many Amato women, whether they married into the family or not.

She killed her first man at age 16, and it was then that her father knew that she would be the daughter who would take over The Family in his stead, but he still needed her for one more thing. To bring the O'Connell's to their knees. Murphy O'Connell especially. She has three tattoos. One on each wrist, one reading "Loyalty," and the other "Honesty." The last is a pair of angel wings on her back. Though her father wasn't thrilled with them, he doesn't mind them since most of The Family has tattoos as well.

[I feel restricted putting too much here, so I'm just going to leave this at that.]

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Damon Hart

25|The Family|Recruit|9mm Pistol, Butterfly Knives

Loyal. Honest. Smart. Charming. Patient. Cruel. Mistrusting. Sometimes Sloppy.

Damon Hart is a recruit level member of The Family. He was recruited about three months ago, and before he was in The Family, his family had always tried to get in with them, to stay in their good graces. He had been waiting for them to recruit for a long time and was brought in for his obedience to his higher ups and his overall respect to the entire family. The only real trouble with Damon was that he wasn't very much Italian, and most of The Family was at least half Italian. He learned quickly, though, that it meant nothing to Giorgio that he wasn't all Italian because he did good work, even if sometimes sloppy.

He knew that Giorgio's daughters mean the world to him, but it didn't stop him from starting to like the youngest daughter. The eldest was a little too serious for his liking after all, but Giorgio had made it clear one day that he would never let his daughters be with someone he didn't fully approve of, and Damon assumed that from his recruit status that meant him.

[Same here.]

The IC: This Fire Burns, Always

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The Family

Don: Giorgio Amato

Advisers: Antonio Speraso; Nichole Amato; Sara Amato

Captains: Erik Redford, Oliver Allatio, Paul Sanders, Giovanni White

Soldiers: Collin Stone, Dmitri Gregson, Alaric Stone, Matthew Pasel, Mark Graves, Luka Andersen

Recruits: Damon Hart, Isaac Knolls, Frederick Sanders

Relationships within The Family

Giorgio Amato [Father of Nichole and Sara Amato] : Nichole Amato [Daughter of Giorgio Amato; Sister of Sara Amato] : Sara Amato [Daughter of Giorgio Amato; Sister of Nichole Amato]

Collin Stone [Brother of Alaric Stone] : Alaric Stone [Brother of Collin Stone]

Paul Sanders [Father of Frederick Sanders] : Frederick Sanders [Son of Paul Sanders]

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The O'Connell's

The Don: Murphy O'Connell

Advisers: Jackson O'Connell, Douglas MacPherson, Reginald MacPherson

Captains: Erick Kirk, Derek Fell, George O'Donovan, Cian O'Brien

Soldiers: Hugh MacPherson, Roger O'Donovan, Timothy O'Donovan, John O'Brien, Brian Wilson, Patrick Hallow

Recruits: Gerald Wood, Derrick O'Donovan, Paul Wood

Relationships within The O'Connell's

Murphy O'Connell [Father to Jackson O'Connell] : Jackson O'Connell [Son to Murphy O'Connell]

Douglas MacPherson [Brother to Reginald MacPherson; Father to Hugh MacPherson] : Reginald MacPherson [Brother to Douglas MacPherson; Uncle to Hugh MacPherson] : Hugh MacPherson[Son to Douglas MacPherson; Nephew to Reginald MacPherson]

George O'Donovan [Father to Roger and Timothy O'Donovan; Grandfather to Derrick O'Donovan] : Roger O'Donovan [Son to George O'Donovan; Twin Brother to Timothy O'Donovan; Father to Derrick O'Donovan] : Timothy O'Donovan [Son to George O'Donovan; Twin Brother to Roger O'Donovan; Uncle to Derrick O'Donovan] : Derrick O'Donovan [Grandson to George O'Donovan; Son to Roger O'Donovan; Nephew to Timothy O'Donovan]

Cian O'Brien [Brother to John O'Brien] : John O'Brien [Brother to Cian O'Brien]

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Name: Jackson O'Connell

Alias: Jack

Weapon: Ear Daggers
-He has two ear daggers called "The Twins of Death" they both look exactly the same, and were custom made for him.
-Although he hates to use it, Jackson also keeps a revolver on him. The argument that he had with his father when his father was trying to convince him that his daggers wouldn't be enough was probably the first argument he had with his father.
Age: 26

Gender: Male

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Personality: Cunning, Protective, Deceiving, Will do anything to get what he wants

Background: Ever since he was a child, Murphy O'Connell has taught his only son his "business" in hopes that his son would grow up in his footsteps. Indeed, Jackson has grown up to be everything that his father had hoped and more. Often when Murphy needs someone "taken care of" he looks to his son for help.

It started when Jackson was a kid. His father had Jackson try many weapons to keep on his for "protection" and the two that Jackson had a liking to were the bow and ear daggers. For some reason guns felt like cheating to him. Jackson had an odd attachment to ear daggers specifically, so much so that Murphy had gone out of his way to get them custom made. Where he went to get it done? No one had bothered to ask. As Jackson had begun to practice more and more with the weapons, more people would watch him practice. He was sixteen when people really began to fear him. An attempt on his and his mother's life ended up in the assassin being brutally tortured before the Jackson finally decided to take pity on him. Unfortunately, Jackson was unable to save his mother as well. Since that day, Jackson swore vengeance on the ones he blamed for his mother's death, The Family. There was no proof of who actually hired the killer, Jackson never gave him a chance to speak. In his heart in mind, it will always be the fault of the family.

Side Note: Would you believe me if I said his original name was Nickolas? That was funny.

Name: Sara Amato

Hair Color: Blonde

Hair Style: Loose golden curls that go down to he hips.

Face: Heart shaped face

Eye Color: Dark brown doe like eyes.

Age: 20

Weapon: 9mm pistol (because I really can't think of anything else)

Personality: Sweet, sometimes too trusting, usually does as her father and sister says, kind

Background: While growing up, Sara has always looked up to her older sister. She often feels like her father loves her sister more, but she is never hurt by it. In her opinion, her sister deserves it. Sara could rarely handle something like killing someone, and the only reason why she had any weapon was because her father told her she needed it to be safe. Sarah envied the way her sister could handle her weapon and killing someone. It was something that Sara could not do, and she was always scared to admit it.

While she always felt like the second best to her father, she always thought that her older sister deserved to be the favorite. Sara simply acknowledged that she lacked the strength that her older sister had, but that was probably because her sister had grown cold since their mother died. While Sarah was upset, she couldn't find it in her to hate anyone, even if it was the killer himself. Generally, she was too loving to do so.

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The IC link is in the first post. =)

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