Thread: A tale of two star crossed lovers (Zajawa&BBVD)

Name Giordano Paolo Marco Vitale Nicknames Jordie, Jord, The Butcher, Mr. Vitale. Age 25 Height 182 cm Weight 127 kg Hobbies Killing, playing the piano Loves Fighting, alcohol, Killing, and playing the piano. Hates Basically everybody. The Mafia, a network of organized-crime groups based in Italy and America, evolved over centuries in Sicily, an island ruled until the mid-19th century by a long line of foreign invaders. Sicilians banded together in groups to protect themselves and carry out their own justice. In Sicily, the term mafioso, or Mafia member, initially had no criminal connotations and was used to refer to a person who was suspicious of central authority. By the 19th century, some of these groups emerged as private armies, or mafie, who extorted protection money from landowners and eventually became the violent criminal organization known today as the Sicilian Mafia. The American Mafia, which rose to power in the 1920s, is a separate entity from the Mafia in Italy, although they share such traditions as omerta, a code of conduct and loyalty. Although its precise origins are unknown, the term Mafia came from a Sicilian-Arabic slang expression that means acting as a protector against the arrogance of the powerful, according to Selwyn Raab, author of Five Families The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of Americas Most Powerful Mafia Empires. Raab notes that until the 19th century, the word mafioso did not refer to someone who was a criminal, but rather a person who was suspicious of central authority. In the 1860s, a play called I Mafiusi Della Vicaria Heroes of the Penitentiary, about a group of inmates at a Sicilian prison who maintained their own hierarchy and rituals, toured Italy and helped popularize the term Mafia in the Italian language. In 1861, Sicily became a province of recently unified Italy. However, chaos and crime reigned across the island as the fledgling Italian government tried to establish itself. In the 1870s, Roman officials even asked Sicilian Mafia clans to help them by going after dangerous, independent criminal bands in exchange, officials would look the other way as the Mafia continued its protection shakedowns of landowners. The government believed this arrangement would be temporary, lasting just long enough for Rome to gain control instead, the Mafia clans expanded their criminal activities and further entrenched themselves in Sicilian politics and the economy. The Mafia became adept at political corruption and intimidated people to vote for certain candidates, who were in turn beholden to the Mafia. Even the Catholic Church was involved with Mafia clans during this period, according to Raab, who notes that the church relied on Mafiosi to monitor its massive property holdings in Sicily and keep tenant farmers in line. In order to further strengthen themselves, Sicilian clans began conducting initiation ceremonies in which new members pledged secret oaths of loyalty. Of chief importance to the clans was omerta, an all-important code of conduct reflecting the ancient Sicilian belief that a person should never go to government authorities to seek justice for a crime and never cooperate with authorities investigating any wrongdoing. It was the meeting between the Sicilians and Italians which then created what would become the forefather to the modern day father day Mafia however as the years went on the two clans began hating each other more and more as the day passed and the two became separate entities with different leaders. By Eighteen-ninety the time came where all the Sicilian crime families decided that instead of having wars between them they were going to unite under one leader who was going to be referred to as Capo Dei Capi Which loosely translates to Boss of all Bosses. And so the word went out that only the strongest, most powerful man could become this leader. Everyone tried wanting to be crowned the first Capo Dei Capi however one man stood above all else when it came to taking the Sicilian family to a new level of violence and respect that man was a forty-year-old man named Pietro Vitale who soon came to be known as Capo Dei Capi' in Italy or Boss of Bosses in America. Pietro ruled with an iron fist and all under him respected him and those who were against him feared him due to his violence and anger, as well as his intelligence, having been a soldier in his youth. This lasted for years with no one stupid enough to challenge the power of the newly formed Vitale Family that was until the early Nineteen-twenties when Prime Minister Benito Mussolini came to power and launched a brutal crackdown on mobsters, who he viewed as a threat to his Fascist regime. This is when Pietro moved his family to America. This is where the long legacy of the Vitale family roots had started however now that had been centuries ago yet the Vitale family still survived in Paolo Marcus Vitale leading the Vitale family in the new century. Present Day Years had passed and Giordano was now twenty-five the same age his father had been when he took over the Sicilian Mafia and turned it into the Vitale Family Crime Organization in his short life he had already made a name for himself within the Vitaly Family Crime Organization. And he was also following in his fathers legacy of being angry, volatile, no bullshit kind of man who was not afraid to kill you without a second thought. Giordano was known by a multitude of variations of his name such as Jordy or J but was most known by another nickname, one that when spoke sent shivers down the spine of anyone who heard it. Giordano 'Il Macellaio The Butcher' Vitale. From the time that Giordano was eight he was already showing signs of joining the family business, having beaten a boy in the schoolyard for making fun of his fathers accent so badly that the boy nearly died, by the time he was twelve his father was already sending him to run numbers, park cars for the made men and also serving the food and drinks to his fathers guests whenever they'd have their weekly card games. By the age of sixteen, he had dropped out of school and became a full-time enforcer for his father's group doing hits and even beatings whenever the time came. By eighteen he had already been made showing that he was a loyal member of the Vitales and then also became the youngest Capo Captain of his own crew. Every eye in the Vitale Crime family was on Giordano who wasn't living in the shadows of his father like most of the other Vitale children. Hell only two really showed any promise in the organization which was Giordano and his twin sister Lotradiam who had received the nickname Bellissima Morte Beautiful Death and the two worked together as Co-Capo's both of them were spitting images of each other in the way they went about things, truly they were the children of the Devil himself. Both were good looking and turned heads wherever they went but both were not afraid to stab you where you stood either, neither of them had any fear and it was said that their hearts were black and ice ran through their veins. Known as the Twins of Chaos by all members of the five Italian families of New York even they were afraid of the Sicilian twins and their father. Even with as fearless as the five families, they refused to get on the bad side of the Twins of Chaos or their father the Devil. Hearing the phone ringing Giordano Jordie Vitale answered his phone Jordie speaking. Lotradiam's sad voice came over the phone Jordie dad's been murdered by Marco Delgado she said softly. The family elders have spoken you are the new Head of this family. You need to come to your new office all the heads of this fmaily are waiting for you without even saying goodbye she hung up the phone. With that said, Jordie jumped up getting into his car and drove to his families home. --Across town-- Christopher Delgado walked into Marco's office. He was Marco's older brother and the underboss of the Delgado family he was upset with Marco's choice to kill the most powerful Don in the modern age. Marco what the hell were you thinking. You fucking killed Paolo the Devil Vitale do you not understand the hell you brought upon our family. You're playing with fire that is going to bite us in the ass. Especially since you parade your daughter around how do you know she won't be attacked next he asked slamming his hand on his brother's table.