Luchino Gregoretti

> *"We will prove to you –to the world– that the Boss’s decision in passing the baton to youths like us was not mistaken."*
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### Likes

Spending money, coffee with milk and sugar, women (preferably blonde with blue/green eyes), cleanliness and class, gambling

### Dislikes

Gian when he doesn’t bathe, black coffee, German guns

### Relatives

Marco Gregoretti (Father)Unnamed (Mother)

Charlene Gregoretti (Deceased Wife)

Aliche Gregoretti (Deceased Daughter)

The second highest ranked capo. Becoming an executive about five years ago, Luchino deals with drug manufacture and smuggling as well as trafficking of alcoholic beverages. Beside running an underground club, he manages businesses that thrive on high-end prostitutes. Luchino also maintains public relations as the spokesperson of the family and demonstrates CR:5's power through making donations to influential people in Daivan, trade associations, churches and so on. Doubles as an intermediary who aids undocumented immigrants in illegally entering the country and facilitates their lives.

While Bernardo is in charge of information aggregation, perusal, and negotiations, Luchino is responsible for solidifying the family's influence in the region. In spite of its illegality, Luchino has developed and expanded his line of business in a solid manner, gaining the respect of both the Italian immigrants and the citizens of Daivan.

He has the wisdom and astuteness of those above him, but Luchino never had any intention of becoming the boss, himself.

## Background

Despite, at present, having a large physique, Luchino used to have a small and frail body that could be easily mistaken as a girl's. Which was the reason why, during his childhood, his father used to dress him in women's clothes. And in an attempt to rebel against that, Luchino began training his body on a daily basis from then on.

His Godfather being Boss Alessandro, Luchino's baptismal name is Gabriel. In Catholicism, the godparents at the time of baptism are second parents and serve as guardians for their godsons throughout their lives. Therefore, for Alessandro, Luchino and his wife and daughter are a 'family' with a stronger connection to him than the famiglia of the organization.

The Gregoretti family, while not as sophisticated as the Bondones or even the Lomborsos, is nonetheless of renown prestige with long-term wealth and tight relations to the CR:5, especially given Marco's close friendship with the former Boss, Alessandro.

In consequence, Luchino was expected to join the board of directors and become a sponsor to the family, but due to the Gregoretti house eventually going bankrupt, he had little alternative but to rise through the ranks of the family and become thoroughly involved with its internal world rather than being a bystander concerned only with external matters; this caused Luchino considerable displeasure, as he found the entire life of being a mafiaso troublesome, at first.

Luchino, on the other hand, quickly grows accustomed to the underworld and commits all of his expertise and wit to the family's welfare. In a relatively short period of time, he is promoted to the capo regime.

Among the personal belongings that Luchino brought to the hotel at the beginning was a ring case with two slits, containing a small diamond ring; with the ring belonging to Luchino, and the other half remaining on the finger of his buried wife, Charlene. According to Luchino, Charlene was a Blonde, petite and fragile girl who would cry if she was bullied at school. Although she wasn't a woman with extravagant beauty nor Luchino's type, Luchino believes there will never be a women as good as Charlene and doesn't allow anyone to speak ill of her. He describes Charlene as the finest woman, the best of the best who brought happiness to his life and gave him his daughter, Aliche, whom he refers to as his angel.

Both of them died during the conflict with GD two years ago.

Luchino did and still lives with regret that he had left his wife and daughter alone without protection that day, and resents himself--believing his own foolishness and negligence to be what brought his family to their graves.

## Personality

Luchino is strong-willed, vigorous, and powerful. Could be said to be a very egocentric person and someone who marches to their own drumbeat. And even though he remains calm and collected in dire situations, Luchino is easily swayed by his own emotions, which blocks his logical thought process. Has a soft spot for courageous, weak people and oftentimes acting tentative and gentle with them. He is a man of high taste with a tendency to order people around. Which sprouts from his overconfidence in himself as well as what he perceives to be the right course of action.

He is tall, has wide shoulders and a wide back. Any little gesture of him stands out; Remarkably, his tongue peeking through his thick lips is sexually charming enough to trigger a reaction even in men.

Luchino is a representative of the old ways of the Italians. And he believes that the famiglia is of utmost importance and above everything else as familial bonds are something irreplaceable. Beside his unwavering loyalty, Luchino is well-skilled and has an extensive racket.

Though he shows great respect for boss Alessandro and Gian, *as the second generation boss,* Luchino is very cautious, never trusting of someone blindly.

Most of the times, relies on his mighty physique in battlefield. And is well-versed in all kinds of weapons. The gun Luchino uses is a test model of FN M1935 (Browning Hi-Power), which was still under development by a Canadian company. Chambered in 9×19 mm Parabellum, the pistol's capacity is dramatically larger than that of conventional practical ones; Browning could be loaded with up to 13 rounds in the standard magazine and 20 rounds in the extended magazine. At Gian's request, Luchino gave him Luger p08, which uses the same ammunition as Luchino's and as Gian reasoned: "would be effective if one of us was out of bullets since we could borrow bullets from each other."

Though he treasures his companions to a great degree and wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice himself in their stead, Luchino is very unmerciful when it comes to betrayal, *his dedication and dutiful personality leads to him being ready to dispose of any possible threat to the organization no matter how important the person was to him.*

When the situation is not playing in his favor, Luchino prioritizes checking on the other capos’ well-being and safety.

Mastering the image of a perfect man, Luchino tends to bottle up his feelings. He carries all the burdens himself as to not worry the others and pretends to have everything under control. *Luchino used to abuse drugs to an unhealthy* *extent in the past, and attempted to commit suicide a total of two times.*

* On a regular basis Luchino visits his deceased family's graves, bringing to them the flowers they loved.

## Weaknesses

* Weak-hearted, easily provoked and succumbs to his emotions in no time.
* The topic of his late wife and daughter poses the biggest trigger to Luchino’s mental instability.

## Trivia

* In spite of Luchino’s graceful image, he tends to curse in Italian a lot.
* Cares too much about one’s hygiene and outlook; which results in him often scolding Gian who's the opposite.
* Luchino is Into cosplaying and drags Gian into trying all sorts of unusual outfits.
* During college, Luchino was a part of the yacht club and a man called Weaver had a crush on him.
* When he was young he was forced to cross-dress by Marco, his father. Luchino turned to be quite the beauty and was, genuinely, believed to be a girl, making men swoon over him.
* Used to own a dog named Pup, which he was noticeably attached to.
* Luchino had met Gian four years ago, though, neither of the two remembered it.
* Likes alcohol, sweets, and is very fond of eating meat, and although not as particular about the brand name as Bernardo, he always has cigarettes in his expensive cigarette case.

## Relationships

***Giancarlo Bourbon Del Monte:*** At the beginning, Luchino thought of him as a troublesome guy and couldn't imagine him being their boss. Though, he didn't have any objections to Gian's promotion, *in opposition to Ivan*, Luchino rather soon was accepting of the idea and willing to lend Gian his help whenever needed. However, despite approving of Gian, he still had his lingering doubts. Which he got rid of later, once he realizes Gian is a man of courage and skill.

Moreover, being shown the power of Gian's Luck and saved by him, countless times, Luchino’s first impression of Gian changed and he resolved to be the one to make Gian into a splendid boss who's widely respected and venerated. Luchino decided to make up for Gian's lackings by taking it upon himself to teach him all the necessities of becoming a proper head of the respectable Italian mafia and supervise his attitude while watching over him.

Due to Gian's slacking nature, Luchino tends to nag and acts strictly with him. Regardless, there's a certain clear respect in the way he treats Gian.

Luchino is aware his happiness is short-lived and so is his time with Gian. To him death and farewells are tenfolds more painful than any hardship he would face; that’s why he resigns himself to never repeat his foolish actions and abandon those precious to him, ever again. To live while embracing his significant memories so they would never be sullied. Then die together with them when the time comes.

At one point while visiting his family's graves, Luchino thought to himself how he used to detest his fate and life. How he wanted to destroy the world that cruelly trampled on his happiness. Yet, kept failing. Living forced to accept his destiny in silence, Luchino did feel like shooting himself numerous times then. However with Gian in his life now, these feelings were diminished and the burning fire in him was dimmed.

*To him through meeting Gian, his world had changed. Describing it as if the sun and air have been altered and flipped over, Luchino says that Gian has invited him into a world where he could smile once again when he talks about his late family. A world where he doesn’t spend his nights neither with alcohol or women, but with pleasant fatigue and slumber. A world he is, sincerely, content with.*
***Bernardo Ortolani:*** The one Luchino is closest to, and much familiar with. He, oftentimes, passes by Bernardo’s office whether he has work or not; and if free, Luchino would lounge comfortably there.

The two of them appear on the same wavelength, often agreeing or joking with each other and, *ironically*, both are quite the perverts.

Sometimes Luchino notices if Bernardo's overworking himself or tired, and scolds him to take a rest.

It's difficult to get Luchino to obey orders that doesn't sit right with him and he will be quick to mutiny. *In a sense he's ticked off when the elders or anyone of no position orders him around*. Despite so, Luchino acts more willing when Bernardo is the one who asks him.

***Ivan Fiore:*** The two are complete opposites in addition to representing two forces within the family; which arises conflicts between them at certain times.

Luchino used to look down on Ivan as a half-Italian and Ivan extremely disliked Luchino's old Italians-like attitude and mindset. And although this doesn't pose as a matter of great distrust or hate, there was still a certain degree of unpleasant contradictions between the two.

In spite of being one of the five capos, Ivan having American origin and a representative of non-Italians in the organization, his loyalty is low to say the least which caused Luchino to be distrusting of him for a while. Regardless, after their escape from prison and as they, gradually, spent more time together as *CR:5,* their impressions of each other manifestly changed. It's no exaggeration to say their bond has strengthened and they regard each other as *family and important comrades, as of now.*

*Luchino does state he wouldn't allow anyone to mistreat or belittle Ivan for his Irish origins.*
Nevertheless, the two start petty fights with each other a lot of the time.

***Giulio Di Bondone:*** With an amicable relationship going between them, Luchino regards Giulio as a well-capable and reliable capo. He trusts Giulio’s fighting skills to be on a high bar beyond any of their enemies; nonetheless, Luchino gets beside himself with worry about Giulio at the rare times he gets seriously injured. Often, when the two are together, Luchino would strike up conversations with Giulio or even act friendly with him, on physical-terms. Which Giulio doesn't mind.

## Quotes

1. *"The hardships are many, but… life’s something wonderful… I know it is"*
2. *"Ever since we'd flown the coop together, we're stuck with each other for life. Well, we'll just see this through together 'til the end."*
3. *"In short, don’t pander to the Yanks, treasure both your famiglias, and enjoy life. Got that?"*
4. *"We are Cosa Nostra. Basically, we're thugs."*
5. *"We don't sow the seeds. That's a job for respectables. Instead, we feed the soil to keep the flowers from wilting, and pull out any weeds that appear... also observing the Omertà. Without our code, we’re not Cosa Nostra. That’s all there is … but that’s what’s difficult"*
6. *"it's worse to believe you've got something when you really don't"*
7. *"Imagine if we just tossed the scratch in nickels and dimes out the window of a shiny, top class car for the destitute to pick up. They'll probably do it, but they'll curse us every cent of the way."*
8. *"Just leave it to me. You watch. I'll make you the greatest Capo yet, and you'll debut on the most magnificent stage ever. You'll outclass all those chumps in the Big Apple."*