Viktor Velázquez the V

Viktor is the fifth of his name as the kingpin of crime in
the Dead Gentlemen mafia. The group has branches in nearly all the major cities
of the UK and boasts complete control of the drug and illegal arms trades in
Slotham and the nearby cities. 
== Background ==
===Viktors I - IV===
The crime organisation of the Dead Gentlemen was first started by Viktor the I,
beginning small but gradually growing and infecting more and more areas like a
tumour. Viktor II inherited the ‘business’ on his father’s death (heart
problems) but only controlled it very briefly as he also died when he
experienced severe heart problems, that is he was shot through the chest by his
wife, Olivia Redthorn, who was in league with his brother Vincent. Vincent took
the name Viktor (a family tradition for the head of the house to be named
Viktor) and became Viktor the III but his control over the organisation was
poor and so he was also murdered by Olivia (who had become his wife) supported
by some of the organisation heads.
This then lead to a short period of internal
war over the control of the mafia between Olivia and her allies and the
youngest brother Valentine and his allies. Valentine being the youngest and
shortest of a ruthless family had typically developed a superiority complex and
a vicious mind that lead to him not only winning the conflict over control but
entirely eliminating all the opposition.
Under his control, now called Viktor
IV, the mafia not only recovered from the deterioration it had experienced over
the previous decade or so but underwent aggressive expansion under his control.
Any traces of potential threat from the Barons (the title given to regional
coordinators) resulted in the baron in question along with his men being wiped
out and it became apparent that crossing the Dead Gentlemen mafia was even more
suicidal than it had ever been before.
Eventually Viktor the IV died from heart failure like his
great-grandfather. His son, who’s first name was actually Viktor, became Viktor
the V.
===Viktor V===
Like his father Viktor the V is short but to compensate he
wears women’s high leather boots (with heels) and long leather coats along with
either a suit or women’s clothes with his long hair greased back. Obviously no
one questions his fashion choices or his occasional sporting of makeup and those
that do soon cease to make comments- it’s hard to make comments with the heel
of a boot pushing on your throat. His age isn’t easy to determine just by
looking at him but he’s in his 30s as is his wife Nadine Bishop, the daughter
of a rival mafia who betrayed her father for Viktor. She prefers to wear men’s
clothes and wears her hair short at all times.
The main drug he sells is a powerful hallucinogenic for
outrageous prices, he is also known to be a loan shark and an arms dealer and
he enforces his control partly through his own private men and mercenaries such
as the SGA. His private men are elite by gangster standards and throughout the
history of the mafia the men (and women) chosen were always nobodies- people
who should be dead or shouldn’t exist, or never existed as far as the
authorities knew, hence the name Dead Gentlemen. There is no discrimination
amongst the ranks of these ‘troops’ and people of any ethnicity or gender can
be members and so residents of Slotham and other cities are always wary that
anyone they meet could in fact just be an alias of a Dead Gentleman- those that
cross them or the mafia are seldom seen intact again.
== Trivia ==
The naming of the head of the family as Viktor was a
tradition the family had maintained for many generations. The first born son
was always called Viktor but if for whatever reason they did not pass the
‘title’ of head of the family onto their offspring, the next of kin would take
the name Viktor in place of their original name (regardless if they were male
or female- there have been female Viktors in the past). The inclusion of the
numeral after the name came into effect when the mafia was set up to convey a
royal theme.
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