[OOC] War of Ambitions

[Zmerr]

If you'd prefer not to play him, I could. I think he's a good character and the story could benefit from him.

[Blubaron45]

Sure, I'd think you'd make a good Russian Mobster :D

I'm still new to RP so I won't try to play too many characters. If you think he would benefit the story, that's cool you should do it. I'm going to go to bed, so I'll be back later, good night.

One thing before I go, I will be going to LA tomorrow so I'll won't be back for about 8-12 hours.

[Zmerr]

That's fine. I'm headed to bed myself. I probably won't have the IC up for another few days.We need more players.

[Partisan]

Since we then have a Russian in the mix, and I love Russia(ns), do you think it'd be a problem if I went Russian?

[Sturmgewehr]

Name: Kevin James
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Personality: Overall a very nice and respectful person but also has a few bad traits. For example he is impulsive and gets upset quite easily, he has a bad mouth and curses alot and also has a very high level of disrespect when it comes to the law(cops, feds etc.) especially now that they prohibited alcohol. But if you can get past all of these, you will see that he's quite a charm, especially with the ladies.
Bio: Born and raised in New York, Kevin grew up with just his father, who was an officer in the US Army. His mother died after giving birth to him. Her death beying the result of some complications. At the age of 17, Kevin joined the army himself after a series of discussions with his father. He fought in World War 1 out of which he came out alive. His father however, didn't have the same fate as he lost his life in it. After returning from the war, Kevin quit the army and got himself a day job as a mechanic, especially since he liked cars and knew some stuff about them. As time passed, he and the owner created quite a bond becoming very good friends. Nowadays Kevin owns the car shop, after the owner died of leucemia. In the eyes of society, Kevin is a war hero, owner of his own business and an overall established person. However Kevin has his roots deep in the underground world. He's been working for years for Scottish mobster Scott "Skip" Morris. At first he started downlow as he was just a simple soldier and muscle but eventually raised to the rank of enforcer, mostly due to his military background, hard work and loyalty.
Appearance:

[Zmerr]

Partisan said
Since we then have a Russian in the mix, and I love Russia(ns), do you think it'd be a problem if I went Russian?

Not at all. Go for it.

Sturmgewehr said
Kevin James Male 29 Overall a very nice and respectful person but also has a few bad traits. For example he is impulsive and gets upset quite easily, he has a bad mouth and curses alot and also has a very high level of disrespect when it comes to the law(cops, feds etc.) especially now that they prohibited alcohol. But if you can get past all of these, you will see that he's quite a charm, especially with the ladies. Born and raised in New York, Kevin grew up with just his father, who was an officer in the US Army. His mother died after giving birth to him. Her death beying the result of some complications. At the age of 17, Kevin joined the army himself after a series of discussions with his father. He fought in World War 1 out of which he came out alive. His father however, didn't have the same fate as he lost his life in it. After returning from the war, Kevin quit the army and got himself a day job as a mechanic, especially since he liked cars and knew some stuff about them. As time passed, he and the owner created quite a bond becoming very good friends. Nowadays Kevin owns the car shop, after the owner died of leucemia. In the eyes of society, Kevin is a war hero, owner of his own business and an overall established person. However Kevin has his roots deep in the underground world. He's been working for years for Scottish mobster Scott "Skip" Morris. At first he started downlow as he was just a simple soldier and muscle but eventually raised to the rank of enforcer, mostly due to his military background, hard work and loyalty.

Sounds good to me :)

[Voltus_Ventus]

Name: Enzo Tuscini
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Personality: Polite, Respectful and Humble, he tried not to be a rude person, however that changes when he is fighting, becoming dominant and large in battle yet eerily calm, making his gang and the others know that he is no pushover. He is quite the smiler, not a grin or a mad face breaking lip curl but a small smile, making him quite sociable, even in the most uncomfortable situations, even if his smile drops he would never show negative attitude.
Bio: Born to two relatively poor parents he is a second generation Italian in America, his parents being the first generation, making the trip over to the New World in a the steamy guts of a cramped, trans-atlantic liner. Born in 1891, he was raised in the suburban sprawl, exposed to it's grey, gritty glory. His parents never did have enough money to give him a proper education, opting to send him to much cheaper night school, surrounded by people in their 30-40s trying to pick up education while they still have time he learnt that there were some problems in society. Instead of going of to normal 'day school' he and his father along with some other Italians piled into the back of truck and were driven to the farms on the outskirts of town, working long days under the sun to earn a Dime between us a week, which was enough -barely. After graduating school Enzo persued a career in law enforcment, becoming a police officer at 20, about a year later in 1912 while walking the streets his partner Ed was shot, he knew him since night school, though he was a good 20 years older he was as fit as Enzo, claiming that the farm air back west made him strong, though the stories annoyed him at the time, Enzo grew to miss them after the shooting of his friend. A few months afterwards he was given the opportunity by the FBI to find the killer who had apparently been part of the Opium black market, after landing the ass in prison for life the Feds were impressed with his work and offered him a deal he couldn't refuse, working under cover and job after job brought him to where he is now, deep undercover in the clockworks of an Italian Alchohol cartel, The Bracco's. Though not as a thug, which he thought he would be but as a chauffeud, driving people around and making pleasant conversation.
Appearance:

[Zmerr]

Sounds good to me. I'll add him to the list when you finish him.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Zmerr said
Sounds good to me. I'll add him to the list when you finish him.

Done!

[StarCatcher]

Name: Annalisa Cavallo
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Personality: Annalisa comes off as charming, soft spoken, and polite to those who don't know her. Underneath that fascade is a completely different person- she is in reality quite hostile and manipulative. She is generally cold and strong- willed, and can turn on anyone in an instant for any given reason. She doesn't like being told what to do, and will purposely do things she shouldn't just to spite people. The only time that the charming side comes out to people who know her is when she wants something- and she'll do anything to get what she wants.
Info: Annalisa's parents came over to America from Italy shortly before she was born. Her parents, Dante and Giovanna, had done relatively well in their native country, and decided that they wanted to have a shot in America. She was lucky to grow up in a middle class home in Brooklyn, but the one thing that wasn't right was the fact that her father had joined the Mafia. It didn't directly affect her until 1915 when her parents were executed by members of a rival family. Then, in 1918, shortly after she got engaged, her fiancé was killed. Now she is out to try and avenge the deaths of the people she loved, because she doubts anyone else will.
Appearance: Annalisa is about 5'3 with a curvy figure. Her skin is slightly tanned and radiant. Her face is rounded with large round sky blue eyes with golden flecks within them. Her nose is turned up slightly, and her lips are plump with a natural pinkish tint to them. Her chocolate- colored hair is soft, thick and slightly wavy, it goes down to her shoulders, but usually is pulled up in a tight bun. She usually wears dresses, but occasionally wears men's suits, as she feels it puts her on the same playing level as them.

[Zmerr]

Voltus_Ventus said
Done!

Put him up. Thanks!

StarCatcher said
Name: Annalisa CavalloGender: Female Age: 24Personality: Annalisa comes off as charming, soft spoken, and polite to those who don't know her. Underneath that fascade is a completely different person- she is in reality quite hostile and manipulative. She is generally cold and strong- willed, and can turn on anyone in an instant for any given reason. She doesn't like being told what to do, and will purposely do things she shouldn't just to spite people. The only time that the charming side comes out to people who know her is when she wants something- and she'll do anything to get what she wants.Info: Annalisa's parents came over to America from Italy shortly before she was born. Her parents, Dante and Giovanna, had done relatively well in their native country, and decided that they wanted to have a shot in America. She was lucky to grow up in a middle class home in Brooklyn, but the one thing that wasn't right was the fact that her father had joined the Mafia. It didn't directly affect her until 1915 when her parents were executed by members of a rival family. Then, in 1918, shortly after she got engaged, her fiancé was killed. Now she is out to try and avenge the deaths of the people she loved, because she doubts anyone else will.Appearance: Annalisa is about 5'3 with a curvy figure. Her skin is slightly tanned and radiant. Her face is rounded with large round sky blue eyes with golden flecks within them. Her nose is turned up slightly, and her lips are plump with a natural pinkish tint to them. Her chocolate- colored hair is soft, thick and slightly wavy, it goes down to her shoulders, but usually is pulled up in a tight bun. She usually wears dresses, but occasionally wears men's suits, as she feels it puts her on the same playing level as them.

You're good. :)

[Partisan]

Federal Bureau of Investigation - classified files
Do NOT distribute. For trusted eyes only. To be kept in a locked room, preferably the filing area.

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Personal information

Full name: Grigoriy Pavlov Zaburdaajev.
Gender: Male.
Age: 28
Appearance:

picture taken by undercover fed.

Personality: Grigoriy is known amongst his friends and fellow Russians for his aggressive tendencies. He angers quickly and believes that violence is a solution to anything - something enforced by most of the Russians. The only ones in the organization that use wits and smarts to achieve anything are the higher ups. And even they know that violence is a solution to everything... but that doesn't say much at the costs. Grigoriy has spent a lot of time in Russian hospitals, which are not the best you'll find in the world. He has many scars lining his body, which is all that is left of the aggressiveness that he has.

He believes in brotherhood, family and protecting your comrades. These are values instilled into him by the communist leaders. They are good values Grigoriy finds. He often wonders why Americans are so anti communist - they could learn something from the red ones. However he also marvels at the American way of doing things, earning money and the general freedom. This clashes heavily with his idea that people, given enough freedom, will mess up one way or the other as America has shown that this isn't the case.

His values in life, bratva, sem'y and comrades, are what compell him to send home money he earns to his poor father and mother, who have been a victim of the communist system. He also urged his parents to convince young Russians to come to America and earn money for their parents - it would benefit the country.

Biography: Grigoriy was born on the outskirts of Moskva, or as the Western people know it, Moscow. He was born in a poor family, and like many before him he got into the criminal circuit because there was no other means to sustain himself. Everyone else had forsaken them in favor of themselves, so Grigoriy and his friends took it upon himself to earn their daily keep. All that was left was the bratva, the sem'y.

Due to reasons such as having trouble keeping up the profit with their activities he moved to the US. Here, he hopes to earn more money and send back a profitable sum to his parents so they can set up their own shop as they are still young enough. Silently Grigoriy dreams of a nice and quiet life in the outskirts of his hometown Moskva, and to set up his own little café and serve drinks and food to his guests. Sadly this life is likely not laid away for Grigoriy.

[Partisan]

Ghirardelli said
during prohibition, police forces such as Chicago and New York were full of officers taking bribes and pay-offs by mobsters, to either look the other way, fix arrests, court orders or give up information on witnesses.So you could have local police force characters on the take, or conflicted with the urge to take a bribe. or you could even have a mob member on the police force.

Building on this, law enforcement officers had the shittiest wage ever - you could make more money as dockworker basically. I think it's cause of the way they rank up so to say.. you get money based on rank and to get a higher rank you require a few years of work. So head of the PD will earn a shit tonne of money while the actual officers to detectives earned the littlest, shittiest wage ever.

Lets just say that if a mobster or a citizen with darker motives offered them 10 dollars, that was quite a sum of dollars considering you could buy a full evening meal for your family for about 40-50 cents.

So naturally FEDs would be less inclined to take a bribe - they already earn a good sum of money and they generally hired the good ''idealistic'' kind of person that wanted to hunt criminals because they felt that they were bad guys. Police officers cared less, and just wanted money to sustain their family.

Later on the PD started hiring more idealistic people and gave them better wages based off a pay-by-caught criminal basis I believe. I could be wrong but this is what I remember.

[Ghirardelli]

yep, that pretty much sums it up, good work Partisan.

[Partisan]

Haha, I could very well be wrong as I haven't read up on it in a while and might've got some ''facts'' twisted up. :P

[Zmerr]

Partisan said
Grigoriy Pavlov Zaburdaajev. Male. 28 Grigoriy is known amongst his friends and fellow Russians for his aggressive tendencies. He angers quickly and believes that violence is a solution to anything - something enforced by most of the Russians. The only ones in the organization that use wits and smarts to achieve anything are the higher ups. And even they know that violence is a solution to everything... but that doesn't say much at the costs. Grigoriy has spent a lot of time in Russian hospitals, which are not the best you'll find in the world. He has many scars lining his body, which is all that is left of the aggressiveness that he has. He believes in brotherhood, family and protecting your comrades. These are values instilled into him by the communist leaders. They are good values Grigoriy finds. He often wonders why Americans are so anti communist - they could learn something from the red ones. However he also marvels at the American way of doing things, earning money and the general freedom. This clashes heavily with his idea that people, given enough freedom, will mess up one way or the other as America has shown that this isn't the case.His values in life, bratva, sem'y and comrades, are what compell him to send home money he earns to his poor father and mother, who have been a victim of the communist system. He also urged his parents to convince young Russians to come to America and earn money for their parents - it would benefit the country. Grigoriy was born on the outskirts of Moskva, or as the Western people know it, Moscow. He was born in a poor family, and like many before him he got into the criminal circuit because there was no other means to sustain himself. Everyone else had forsaken them in favor of themselves, so Grigoriy and his friends took it upon himself to earn their daily keep. All that was left was the bratva, the sem'y. Due to reasons such as having trouble keeping up the profit with their activities he moved to the US. Here, he hopes to earn more money and send back a profitable sum to his parents so they can set up their own shop as they are still young enough. Silently Grigoriy dreams of a nice and quiet life in the outskirts of his hometown Moskva, and to set up his own little café and serve drinks and food to his guests. Sadly this life is likely not laid away for Grigoriy.

You're good *thumbs up* :)

[Partisan]

Cool, thanks! ETA on the IC?

[Zmerr]

I'll have something up before I go to bed tonight. I just need to get some work done and think about it a little.

[Partisan]

Very well. If you wish for help, insight or suggestions make sure to PM me. I'm basically bored as hell almost always. :P

[StarCatcher]

Okay! Take your time.