Roman Bellic

> *"Let's go bowling"* - Roman's famous quote.
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**Roman Bellic** is a character and the deuteragonist of JANTSUU’s Living in Liberty City series.

## Appearance

Roman looks a little older, despite being in his 30s by 2008. He also has a heavy build, mostly due to him being chubby. He has long hair, which is slicked off to his left, creating an elegant looking hairstyle and a goatee. He wears at least two outfits: mostly a brown and white tracksuit jacket, brown chinos, and black loafers, and a black with yellow patterned shirt, beige khakis, and black loafers.

## Personality

Roman is mainly a kind(ish) but nervous individual. He is afraid to stand up for himself and is hesitant in going along with his cousin's plans. However, he is willing to bond and help his cousin, despite their banter and hostility. He is also cocky when he actually performs something well. He may also be blaming, as for example, despite Niko totalling his car by accident, he blames him for his car's destruction. He also likes to joke a lot. Mainly, to certain characters, such as Niko and Michael De Santa, he is annoying.

## Biography

### Living In Liberty City

While Niko is walking around eating peanuts, Roman approaches him and yells his name in excitement. After an almost argumental conversation, they decide to try and get along. Roman then rides with Niko in Niko’s car to Niko’s apartment in South Bohan. While on the way, Roman asks him if he has ever been with two women at once, which Niko confirms. Roman then either jokes or tells that he now knows that Niko is not gay, which annoys Niko and causes him to hit him when he sarcastically said “hit me”. After settling down, they arrive at Niko’s apartment. Soon, after Niko was done telling his story about him in the war, he says that it is boring, which he soon leaves after insulting him. Later on in the episode, he exits his apartment in Alderney City and he finds Niko in a box in the street, who was being transported around by the Fat Biker in his Rancher pickup, which Roman laughs, thinking that Niko was doing drugs. Soon after their at first argumental but soon a little bit friendly reunion, they both go into Roman’s apartment, where Niko decides to stay for a while as his apartment got flooded due to a broken sink faucet. Soon, Niko asks if Roman wants to go drinking with him like back in their old days. Roman accepts the offer and they take Roman’s car. Along the way, they get into another argument, which causes Niko to kick Roman out of his own car and abandon him in Westdyke after he has insulted him. After a long walk back to the apartment, he arrives, where Niko is still angry at him for his insult earlier. They exchange angry words to each other before Roman walks off to his bed. Soon after a night of rest, Niko takes off from Roman’s apartment to pursue the Cluckin’ Bell Chicken man, who woke him up while Roman was sleeping. After Niko’s failed attempt to catch and kill the Cluckin’ Bell Chicken man, he returns back to the apartment, where Niko asks once again if Roman wants to go out for a drink, to which, Roman accepts once again. They head to a bar in Steinway, Dukes in Liberty City. While they were there, Roman insults Niko once more, which causes him to storm out in anger. Soon after, Niko was hit by a semi-truck. Roman runs to where Niko is, only to find that he is being helped by paramedics.

### Living In Liberty City 2

After Niko was taken to the hospital in Schottler, he stays there for a long time along with his friends while Niko was in a coma. Most of them leave except Roman himself. He slept on his chair while Niko was still out. After waiting way too long, he gave up and left, which then, Niko reawakens not so long afterwards. After Niko has left the hospital and stole a taxi cab to drive back to Roman’s, the two cousins reunite once again, with Roman happy that Niko is well. After a long while, Niko and Roman go to the Maisonette 9, where Roman has failed many times to flirt with women. As Roman was causing trouble in the club, he was thrown out while Niko was still inside, dancing with a girl. Soon, Niko comes out with her and they go to her apartment, where she offers Niko to come in. Nike was about to turn the offer down, but Roman pushes him to go in. After waiting outside for Niko, he sees him run out of the apartment building. After Niko and Roman talk about the situation, they dismiss it and they walk along. They encounter the video game store, where they want a cool game called “Modern Killstreaks: Lag Ops” (a Call of Duty parody with GTA 4 gameplay). Unfortunately, they don’t have enough cash as it costs $100. Then, they decide to rob a store for the money. They target a clothing store called Modo. Roman remains in his car while Niko does the robbing. After the cashier is screaming loudly and Niko shoots him dead, Niko comes out after robbing the register and Roman drives further down, which trips Niko as he was getting in and he backs up too far that he hits Niko with the car door. Soon, he gets in and they drive away. Soon, the cops find them and they pursue the Bellic cousins. Soon, Niko gets out somewhere and attempts to escape on foot while Roman continues to try and escape the cops in his car. They split up and Niko loses the cops after a on-foot pursuit. Roman also evades the police soon afterwards. After reuniting, they drive up to the video store, where they finally buy the game and they head back to Roman’s place. Then, they set up the game and they play against many players. After a long and fun game, their connection was interrupted, which then, Niko and Roman decide to stop playing the game. As Roman is inspecting his oven, Niko asks if he can borrow his car, to which Roman confirms. After Niko has returned, he is shocked by Niko’s news that his car got totaled while he was out due to an accident. Roman and Niko then argue once again while Roman was inspecting his totaled car. He then calls Niko an “asshole” before going to bed after his car blew up. Soon, Niko once again takes off from Roman’s apartment while he was asleep. Later, while Niko was chasing the Fat Biker, Roman calls him to ask if he wants to go bowling. Niko declines, saying that he is busy. Roman is then disappointed by this and then he walks towards his kitchen. After this, he never reappears after the ending.

### The Fall Of Liberty City Heroes

He appears in the end in his apartment as he receives a text from Niko, saying that in San Andreas, he has everything like mansion, sports cars, and more. However, this is fake as Niko is really broke in San Andreas, but this tricks Roman into driving to the airport and hopping onto a plane to San Andreas. It is not known what becomes of Roman afterwards, but it is heavily implied that he made it to San Andreas.

### Niko and Roman singing - Fame or Shame

The two cousins take the stage in Fame or Shame, where they sing lies about their cab business. Soon, Lazlow Jones, the host, insults the Bellic cousins, which angers Niko. Roman watches as Niko beat Lazlow up, with Trevor watching and cheering from home.

### Roman meets Michael's family

He enters the De Santa residence, where he awkwardly meets Michael and his family. Eventually, Roman offers Michael to go bowling with him, which he reluctantly agrees and the two leave.

## Relationships

### Niko Bellic

The two are cousins. Throughout the Living In Liberty City series, the two argue constantly and annoy each other a lot. But despite this, the two love each other deep down as they each only have each other for relatives in America. In The Fall Of Liberty City Heroes, Niko plays a prank on Roman, making him fall for it and causing him to take a plane to San Andreas. In Fame or Shame, the two of them enjoy singing about their cab business together.

### Michael De Santa

Roman intruded on his property and entered his house without consent, somewhat creating awkwardness and slight hostility towards each other. After an awkward conversation between the two and Michael's family, the two decide to go bowling together. Through this, Michael never found out Roman was Michael's enemy, Niko's cousin, and that Roman never found out that Niko and Michael fought and became enemies.

## Vehicle

Roman drives a dirty Black Esperanto that is fitted with taxi accessories. After Niko has borrowed it in the second episode, it was totaled after being in an accident and it later explodes. It reappears in The Fall Of Liberty City Heroes, which may suggest that Roman bought another car.

## Trivia

* He does not live in Alderney City in the real storyline of the game. Instead, he lived in Broker until his apartment was burnt down. He then lives in South Bohan until he decides to buy a penthouse in Algonquin.
	+ By *Grand Theft Auto V*, he likely moved back to Broker.
* He has a girlfriend, later wife named Mallorie Bardas in the real storyline of the game. She, however, was never seen or mentioned in the series.
	+ It is possible that the two separated or JANTSUU forgot to add her to the series.
* In the real storyline, he has only committed one or two crimes, and that was illegal gambling and harboring a fugitive.
	+ He constantly gets involved in secretive gambling games.
* In the real storyline of the game, him and Niko usually get along well and they don’t really trade insults much.
* Just like in the real storyline, he gets bored of Niko’s war stories, however he actually expresses that it is boring in the LILC while in the main game, he falls asleep after Niko has finished, both which Niko is angered by.
* In the main game, he owns a cab service company, where he has his workers drive people around town.
* Like in ’The Ballad of Gay Tony’, he goes to the Maisonette 9. However in the main game, he is never thrown out for bad behavior like in the series.
* He is 31 years old in 2008 as confirmed on the GTA Wiki.
	+ By *Grand Theft Auto*, it is likely that he is 36, considering the year is 2013, 5 years after *IV*.
* In the storyline, depending on Niko’s choice between getting revenge or taking by a deal, Roman will be killed in a failed assassination if Niko takes the Deal but he will survive if Revenge is chosen.
	+ However, since Niko says “Happy Birthday, Roman” on his Lifeinvader page in *Grand Theft Auto V*, it can be assumed Roman’s survival is canonical.

## Sources

* https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Roman\_Bellic