Nino Falcone

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### Other Physical Attributes

Tattoos all over his body along with a phoenix rising from the flames on his back.

**Nino Falcone** (born March 9, 2004) is a main character in the *Camorra Chronicles*. He is the current Consigliere of the Las Vegas Camorra. He is the son of Benedetto and Nera Falcone, and brother to Remo, Savio, Adamo and the half brother of Ryan Trevisan. He marries Kiara Vitiello in order to create an alliance and peace with the New York Famiglia and is the father of Alessio and Massimo Falcone.

## Physical Description

Nino has dark hair long enough for a short ponytail and is covered with tattoos, like a skull swallowing a knife and his brothers', sons' and wife's names. He also has an immaculately trimmed beard. He is the only one of his brothers with grey eyes instead of dark brown.

## Personality

Nino is quiet and reserved, seen as ruthless because he appears to show no emotions. He has trouble expressing his emotions as he has suppressed them for many years. This in return makes his marriage to Kiara difficult in the beginning, as he talks about how he can treat Kiara as if he is a loving husband but it is just an emotion and gesture he can flip on and off. It is later on that Kiara is finally able to break his emotional barrier.

Nino is an incredibly stoic man. Even when regaining his emotions, he hardly shows them, his lips only twitching with amusement for the most part or his eyes expressing his feelings. Mostly around Kiara but sometimes his brothers he has genuine chuckles and smiles. The ice to Remo's fire, Nino is cold, logical, and dangerously intelligent. He has a good ear for music and absolutely perfect memory with people's names and faces. With Kiara and the kids he is loving and gentle.

While he originally called his unknown future wife a chess piece, Nino immediately said she was part of the family and demanded she be protected and treated like family. Even before growing to love her he cared about her comfort and safety and grew to enjoy spending time with her and starting to trust her.

Though a vicious killer in his own right, Nino is notably not blood-thirsty or sadistic. He tortures for information or punishment less so than he does for personal enjoyment like his brothers or other male main characters (with the exception being when someone hurts or threatens someone he loves). In the first half of *By Fate I Conquer*, Nino was repeatedly against war as he saw it as unnecessary. Even after regaining emotions, Nino remains cold and logical and also has trouble reading other people. It also took him time to love Alessio due to his problems getting attached, though he did care for him and was immediately willing to pay his life down for him. In *Twisted Bonds*, he mentions that his feelings towards his half-brother Growl border on indifferent. He is far less full of anger and hate, in fact, his cold logic and problems with emotions make him arguably not feel anger or hate all that much with a few significant exceptions.

While not exactly arrogant, Nino is aware of his intelligence and skills, stating multiple times in his narration he doesn't trust the Camorra doctors to do a better job than him and knows he's best a looking at and understanding statistics. When Kiara asks if there's anything he isn't good at he replies that there are a few.

Nino's overall lack of bloodthirstiness or general over-aggressiveness makes him seem a bit more thoughtful and gentleman like despite his problems understanding others and general lack of compassion. A few instances are when he pulls out a chair for Serafina during her first breakfast as a non-captive and when he allows CJ to go home early, cuts her slack for smoking despite the strict non-smoking rule in the SugarTrap and says she can take money for a taxi outside of the cash register rather than using her own.

He is protective and possessive of Kiara. Though he arguably had no emotions at all before Kiara, he had a strong bond with his brothers who despite his issues with emotions and love he loved and cared for. Nino is also patient with Adamo and most people, never losing his temper and only saying harsh words to Adamo after his mother's attack as he had no patience to spare after that. His mother was his weakness due to the emotional trauma it burdened him with. Nino also informs Kiara before they start trying for a baby he had emotional deficits as a kid, got overwhelmed with crowds, and preferred to spend hours solving math problems.

Like Remo, he has few morals but is a family man and disapproves of hurting innocents. He saw no problem with his romancers manipulating women into working as sex slaves but has never sexually assaulted one nor would he ever do so. He occasionally shows a sense of humor like making a Harry Potter reference to Kiara and finding it amusing when she teases him. Like his brothers, Luca and Dante he despises child abuse, especially regarding sexual assault as showcased by Kiara and Dinara's pasts.

## Family

Nino is the second oldest of four brothers. Remo (two years older), Savio (five years younger) and Adamo (8 years younger) He is married to Kiara, with whom he has two children, Alessio and Massimo.

## Born in Blood

### Bound by Love

Nino is first mentioned and seen briefly in *Bound by Love*. He is 15 at the time and with Remo as he goes to seek the Famiglia's alliance when they take over the Camorra. He is perched over as a sniper and threatens to kill Luca's wife Aria.

## Camorra Chronicles

### Twisted Emotions

The Falcones plan to retaliate against the Outfit following an attack on Camorra territory in *Twisted Loyalties*. In order to prevent the Outfit from seeking support from the Famiglia, the Falcones decide to form an alliance with the Famiglia. Nino is chosen to marry Kiara Vitiello, the cousin of the Famiglia Capo Luca Vitiello to seal the alliance.

The wedding is a tense affair and when it is time for the bedding, Nino finds out that Kiara was sexually assaulted by her uncle Durant when she was younger. Nino and Remo torture and kill him and at the bloody sheets ceremony the following day, it is Durant’s body that is presented.

At first, Nino and Kiara agree that he should see other women to take care of his needs given her past and tension and fear around men in general. Eventually, Kiara lets him know that she has changed her mind and tentatively the two begin to explore a physical relationship together. Nino is very mindful to take small steps to help Kiara deal with her trauma. He also insists that she should learn how to defend herself and teaches her how to use a gun as well as dealing with physical fights.

Nino knows that Kiara craves more than what he offers and says that he can simulate feelings if she wants him to. After first telling him no, Kiara changes her mind and asks him to simulate feelings. However, at some point, Nino begins to feel real feelings again. Initially, this is a very overwhelming experience but he realizes that it is worth it and is glad that Kiara brought them out of him.

It was revealed that when Nino was eight years old, his mother went insane and tried to kill her sons and kill herself. She slit his wrists and gave Savio sleeping pills. She tried to hurt Remo but he fought her off. She decided to leave him alone and set the cabin out in the Rockies on fire so they would die. He began ripping the curtains off, burning himself, while Nera kept trying to fight him and cut his face multiple times. He managed to throw a lamp and break a window and save his brothers, helping Nino jump out who broke his leg from the fall. Remo took Savio in his arms and broke his elbow and shoulder trying to break Savio's fall.

Help comes and they get Nera Falcone out, who was pregnant with Adamo. Adamo is born via C-section.

### Twisted Bonds

Nino and Kiara have settled into married life and eventually decide to try for a baby. They try to conceive for many months without any results which weights down heavily on Kiara. With the arrival of Serafina and her and Remo’s twins, the house is full of life and it is impossible to notice how good Kiara is with children. After a doctor’s appointment, it is confirmed that one of Kiara’s Fallopian tubes is blocked likely due to rape or an untreated sexually transmitted disease. However, there is still a chance that they could have a biological child even though it is much harder.

At the Sugar Trap, Remo and Nino find a baby in the dumpster out back and after Remo’s blessing, they take him to the hospital and decide to adopt him. Kiara settles into life as a mother perfectly and the baby is named Alessio at Kiara’s suggestion. When asked by Kiara what he sees when he looks at their son, Nino responds that he sees her happiness and love in him and Alessio’s need for protection just like Kiara had been in need of protection when they first married. He says that this is why he will come to love their son too.

Following the escape of Nino’s mother, Nera Falcone, she uses Kiara to lure the brothers back to the mansion. There she, with the help of her accomplices, threatens to burn Kiara and Alessio (both drenched in gasoline) if they don’t comply with her commands. She says she has to kill them to end it all. Overpowered and fearing for the safety of his wife and son, Nino complies with her demands, as do his brothers Remo and Savio. However, before Nera can kill them she is attacked by Adamo and the brothers make swift work of disarming her accomplices. She is then killed and Camorra doctors are called to tend to their wounds. As they are getting stitched and cleaned up, Kiara reveals that she is pregnant.

Kiara wants a natural birth and gives birth at home with the help of Serafina, Nino, and a doula. Since she named Alessio, Nino is tasked with finding a name for their newborn. Their son is named Massimo Falcone.

## Appearances

* *Bound by Love* (mentioned only)
* *Bound by the Past*
* *Twisted Loyalties*
* *Twisted Emotions* (protagonist)
* *Twisted Pride*
* *Twisted Bonds* (protagonist)
* *Twisted Hearts*
* *Twisted Cravings*
* *By Fate I Conquer*

## Trivia

* He is the second oldest of four brothers. Remo (two years older), Savio (five years younger), and Adamo (8 years younger).
* Nino's favorite food is Kiara's cooking, especially her lasagna and her Melanzane alla Parmigiana.
* His hobbies are swimming, playing the piano with Kiara, and reading non-fiction books.
* For Valentine's day 2023 Nino got Kiara n antique piano from the Renaissance because Kiara loves old pianos

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cora Reilly's 01/06/2021 Newsletter
2. ↑ Cora Reilly's 02/14/2023 Newsletter