Simone Empire

The **Simone Empire** previously known as the **Delucci Family**, is one of the most important families in the *Blackheart* universe and the biggest crime syndicate known*.* They are often part of the major plot-lines throughout the different visual novels.

## Hierarchy

### Delucci Era

The family has a clear head figure who is ultimately takes the major decisions around the organization when needed. The rank tends to be called *Don* or *Boss*.

This position is only held by those who carry the Delucci bloodline. If the boss dies or is killed, his son is the one who takes over as leader, if there's no child to inherit the title, the rank is passed on to a cousin or uncle.

## History

### The Blackhearts fallout

Many years ago, prior to the events of *BH,* the Blackhearts (mainly Sandy and Gavano) orchestrated a plan to have their family take over the Boss' chair. Olivia Blackheart would marry Anthony's nephew Franky and Sandy would marry Tony Delucci.

Their plan didn't go as expected: Olivia was raped and seriously hurt partially due to Franky's fault once he left her at her own luck after an argument. After that Sandy and Gavano hold out on their decision of joining the family, eventually breaking their connections with the Deluccis.

### Gang war plot

Rumors spread of the Triad leader visiting the area in person alongside his daughter, when the information reached Anthony Delucci's ears he plotted a conspiracy to make his rivals, the Triad and Three Scars take each other out, leaving the zone to be primarily dominated by the Delucci Family. The plan consisted in having Jacky murdering Triad's Zhu Qhue and putting the blame on one of Three Scars members fabricating a gang war. Things didn't go as planned however, with the return of a former Delucci hitman, Sal Simone now looking to take on the family Don.

The family second-in-command Tony, goes with his men to find a memory-ridden Jacky Blackheart and restore his memories so he can once again work as an assassin for them.

Sal Simone is informed about the conspiracy by one of his former allies and current general of the family, Flowers. With this knowledge his heads to find Zhu Qhue first before the Deluccis can reach her. Although he manages to rescue her and inform the Triad boss about Anthony's plan, there's a luring treat on his trail, Jacky Blackheart has returned to his original killing self through memory reversal.

### Anthony's fallout

Sal Simone forms a temporal alliance with Sandy Blackheart due to common interest in taking the Deluccis down.

### Rise of the Simone Empire

Having both Sandy and Roland gone MIA and Marcus Mancini's lack of interest in playing that role, Sal is the sole man left that can lead the family into a new era as Don,

## Members

By the time of *Blackheart Hotel*, the Deluccis were a group of a thousand members scatter through 100 enterprises, one of these businesses was most likely **Kramer Cosmetics**.

The following is a list of all the known members inside the family.

* Delucci Era
* Simone Era

### Generals

* Flowers (Third general, also handles the finances)

### Hit-men and thugs

* Jacky (*formerly*)
* Tony Delucci **†** (*also second in command*)
* Asha
* Donny **†**
* Donny's Boss
* Marcus (*formerly,* previous to his hitman work he was driver for the family)
* Lilith (*formerly*)
* Stanley

### Other positions

* Vance (Head Guardian and other businesses)
* Eric Kramer (informant) **†**
* Sierra (medical matters including the memory erasure procedure)
* Linda (bookkeeping) **†**
* Doctor Washington (Doctor, medical matters)

### Unknown

People who have worked for the family but their roles in it is never specified or are simply associated to the Deluccis by either blood or family connections.

* Franky Delucci
* Terry Delucci **†**
* Rachel Verica **†**
* Tony's cousin

### Unknown

* Zhu Qhue
* Vance
* Asha

## Trivia

* Throughout a couple of scenes in *BH*, the name is wrongly spelled as Delucchi.
* Gavano Blackheart is said to be the only member of his family to get close to become a true Delucci.