Nino Chavez

## **Music**

**Pray for Mehdi** by Scheppsi

**Nino Song** by Paff

## **Story**

#### **Background**

A half-Italian and half-Costa Rican immigrant born into poverty, Nino Chavez found himself struggling through childhood. His father disappeared soon after his birth and his mother handed him over to the corrupt and power-hungry hands of the government just before his 2nd birthday. Several foster homes later, five-year-old Nino was dumped on the street as a sex slave working for congressman Jhek Steno, a very influential man with connections beyond the borders. After a decade of tyranny, Steno was murdered in a drive-by shooting which left his workers out to dry. In despair and with nothing, Nino began working for anyone who was able to offer him the basics of food and shelter. One day, a man known only as "X" approached him with an proposal to work on the outskirts of the country as a peach farmer. Without hesitation, Nino accepts. Several years pass.

One summer morning, a young Nino stumbled on a stash of cocaine and a handgun tucked inside of a peach crate that had been slightly wedged open. A bit taken back, he curiously walked to the loading dock where the peaches were set for shipping. He pried one of the crates open, only to find even more cocaine. One after another. Each crate he checked. More guns. More coke. X, now a father figure for Nino, is confronted and comes clean. What follows is a promotion for Nino: a new position in the organization as the "Head of Transportation". The first step into the family business, the first step into the drug trade. The beginning of the takeover.

Nino becomes smarter and tougher with each passing year, continuously learning from X. His life turned upside down, however, when X was one day found dead, his body resting peacefully in a pool of blood on his satin sheets, arms still wrapped around one of his finest women. The government had finally caught up to him. Now it was left up to Nino to continue X's legacy.

As time passed, Nino was on top of the world and known as Papi Chulo - a drug trafficking mastermind, a well-known playboy, and an international legend among degenerates. Hip hop artists produced tracks referencing him and gambling websites created caricatures of his face to draw players. It wasn’t long before he had control of 80% of the country’s drug trade and a spot on various INTERPOL watchlists. His activities soon caught up to him, but he manages to escape before the government makes their move.

On the run, he travels through numerous legal checkpoints with forged documentation, eventually escaping the country. Once a man with obscene power, living a lavish lifestyle that others could only dream of, he now finds himself in a foreign land living with the threat of deportation from the local immigration officers. Living as a civilian life and working local convenience and department stores is not easy for Nino. Aside from battling his incurable withdrawals from high-quality narcotics, he longs to regain the power and status he once relished. He knows that regaining this will not be an easy task. First, he needs money - money to start a new empire afresh.

*Reference: Nino's Backstory*

#### **Arma/TheFamilyRP/SOE**

Nino acts as the underboss of the mafia, managing who is brought into the fold. Those brought in were considered "red shirts" worker bees and worked for the family. If they perform well, they are accepted.

Nino practices law, illegally [the "illegal" info mentioned once somewhere and not confirmed].

[In Arma,] back in Silverlake Nino had beef with a biker gang and subsequently had one of his fingers chopped off, leading to Buddha's nickname for Nino "Nine-O".

[In TheFamilyRP,] after throwing a prior employee (Randall) into a meat grinder, that guy's friend identified and confronted Nino with a knife, slicing him on the neck and leaving a permanent scar.

#### **NoPixel 2.0**

After an extended period of absence from Los Santos, international embezzler/tradesman Nino Chavez returns and founds the investment company Sahara International, a front for his real business with a shadow organization. To ensure his cover and success, Nino remains incredibly calculated in the manner he reveals himself to the legal authorities – he puts on a show, letting them see only what he wants them to see. Corporation and family come first.

Through well-constructed dealings with groups and individuals in the city, Nino carefully places a foothold and foundation for high-level crime as a criminal influencer agency. Involved in all illegal markets, Nino tracks and sometimes maneuvers information along with sales of guns, drugs, weapons, valuables, materials, and more. When he can, Nino avoids strong opposition and rivalries - he promotes a well-functioning criminal underworld that can efficiently evade the prying eyes of the government. But other than Mehdi himself, who the fuck knows?

After another several month absence, Nino arrives back in Los Santos and sets in stone more members of the family - family comes first, all about the family. Anyone in the Sahara family circle is trusted. It's all about the principle, all about the word. He acquires a bar license - the purpose is the vet people in the city for future dealings and potential new lawyers for Sahara while identifying the line of the law. A lot of information is acquired as well. Secretarial assistants are tested and given progressively more trust. The concept of loansharking is planned to return and perhaps become a focus.

However, the sudden return of a past fling with blackmail is a major issue: her father is Nino's overseas accountant who controls all his assets and access to travel between countries. Despite searching in vain for this Italian woman, Nino soon loses his financial power from offshore and access to money stashed in accounts around the globe: he now finds himself landlocked in Los Santos.

#### **NoPixel 3.0**

Quite some time passes as Nino remains admitted to medical care. Finally, he emerges from Pillbox to find a weird memory wipe [soft memory reset to introduce the new server] of some sort has overtaken Los Santos. Some memories remain, but everything and most everyone seems new, except for the people who were closest to Nino. And our access to external assets has been severed, so we're broke with just $5,000 in our pocket. Time to be a serial entrepreneur, go back to his hustling roots, and navigate this new city. [Continue family-friendly Nino]

Nino generally hangs out with the Cleanbois while he gains a footing and pushes forward a multi-tiered and multi-service company, Pegasus Concierge. A hook into the meth market presents itself - will Nino throw himself into managing distribution? Yes. Soon, Nino finds himself a top meth competitor in LS. Pegasus continues to evolve, rotating through several services: eventually, burned Pegasus is transformed into essentially a honeypot with a slew of companies connected under the radar, but which cannot be explicitly tied legally. Nino finds and uses multiple avenues to clean and launder money: casino chips, crypto transactions, tow jobs and rentals, hunting trips, etc. Associated business dealings include Pegasus and umbrella companies, crypto offerings, investments, tow rentals, loan services (personal and Superior Financial), CPA for individuals and businesses, Rooster's Rest financial officer, meth distribution, Rebel Radio, shadow organization of LS (OP Financial Group), etc. Nino's connections reach from judges in the DOJ to Mr. K in CG to park rangers in the PD to Speedy in the Vagos to Bovice in Bolingbroke Penitentiary: well-connected.

## **Characteristics**

Although Nino shares multiple characteristics with IRL mobsters seen in movies and films, Mehdi has given Nino his own unique twist. The depiction of Nino points to no specific reference.

Nino's priorities are family (not blood but chosen) and business; he highly values loyalty and information. Power, control, and even money are simply by-products of Nino's efforts to protect those he considers family. Earning Nino's trust is gained only through actions and time. Operations are run to bring in profit with disregard to much anything else (give or take that though, and consider the bigger picture). He is dictator-like in managing, a strategy-focused and meticulous macro entrepreneur, and a venture capitalist. Nino does not give a fuck about societal standards of authority, is proud to wear Yeezys, and usually never hangs up the phone first. The controlled chaos that is Nino offers unpredictability and suspense. He is pompous, an asshole, and a prick. Oh, and he has a history of being a kingpin, an addiction to high-quality narcotics such as cocaine, is an avid smoker, and has multiple problems stemming from his kryptonite of some women he just wanted to use for sex. When pushed to his roots, Nino is a silver-tongued intense hustler and conman.

## **Quotes**

#### **NoPixel 2.0**

"There’s mystery around what I do, so you have to second guess yourself."

“That’s how I live my life, on the edge. You know the thing about life, right? It comes and it goes. People enter the business; they leave the business: whether dead, alive, or in pieces. Starting with a family, ending without one. And then others, well – they find themselves a group of individuals who they can trust and call brothers and sisters.”

"[Initiating Curtis] I’m asking not just your loyalty, loyalty that you have already shown not just to myself, Cassle, and JJ, loyalty to the business, loyalty and trust that not only you have placed in us but we have placed in you. I ask for that next step, for you to open the door into the fucking depths of hell that you are about to be introduced into. This is not a life that everyone is accustomed to and it is a life that brings sometimes joy, and other times some sorrow. And occasionally, sometimes it means taking actions on things you don’t always agree with. But, if you’re willing to take those actions, even if the decision does not make sense: the only thing that matters is that the decision was made. And anything regarding the business, or things that may affect the business and greater family, are brought to light and come to me, whether you think I’m gonna like it or not. Cause at the end of the day, you trust that I make the decisions that are best for everyone. Is this something you are willing to live by?" -Ep 126

"The way that I operate, it’s my word or there’s no word." -Ep 124

“You never question my decisions, and if you do, problems will arise."

"There ain’t no justice, my man, except from the justice from a bullet to the back of your head. And I don’t care if you’re wearing a goddamn badge. It doesn’t matter to me, because at the end of the day, if one of my boys gets caught doing something that’s one thing, but if you go and try to grab one of my guys, while they’re minding they’re own business, well you know what we’ve got a problem now, and I’m not going to tell you that I’m the guy who put out the hit to make sure that you’re dead in the ground and making sure something’s wrong." -Ep 124

“You, me, the other people running their crews, we only got one enemy at the end of the day, and that’s the goddamn feds.” -Ep 124

"We’ve gonna protect our own at the end of the day. But let’s come to a goddamn resolution. There’s some shit being shaken up. And right now the only thing that’s in our path is the goddamn feds.” -Ep 124

"At the end of the day, worst comes to worst, every motherfucker gonna be going against that Mission Row PD, Vinewood PD, fucking Los Santos PD – I’ll fucking blow that shit up before I am done. You feel what I’m saying? Cause they’re all our enemy.” -Ep 124

“You’re either someone I trust or someone I’m gonna kill. Killing someone depends entirely on when the right time is, you know what I mean, do they mean something, do they have value to them, and if they have no value, it’s only a matter of time.” -Ep 149

“At the end of the day, his feelings, his aspirations, were not more important than everyone else. Sometimes you gotta make the hard decision. Sometimes, you gotta cut the cancer out before it starts to spread.” -Ep 126

"[About business] But at the end of the day, it’s about keeping each other fat, healthy, and protected – no matter what. Even if that means putting down a friend. Even if you may not agree with it…” -Ep 126

"Don’t forget about the business, don’t forget about loyalty." -Ep 126

"Shit happens, shit pops off. The only thing I care about is some level of balance." -Ep 124

#### **NoPixel 3.0**

"A lot has happened to me over the last couple of years, some good, and some bad. Today, we start a new adventure, and we see where things go." -Ep 1

[On Pegasus Concierge,] "I look at this as a fucking System. A System that not only makes us money, but functionally helps every goddamn criminal organization this city has. We are a friend and partner of the biggest criminals this city has ever seen, and I say we maintain that presence. We can sit here and go up at arms with everybody, but I don’t think we need to; we can compete with them, but we don’t need to. It’s not our intent, it’s not our purpose. We have bigger fish to fry, and that’s the fucking government – the only thing that keeps us in the way of getting rich.” -Ep 11

“Old friends, new friends alike…you can never really know who to trust. Especially when trust is built on the back of a dollar bill.” -Ep 48

“One thing always stays true – the police department, the biggest gang in the city.” –Ep 67

To Harry Brown, “I want you to start becoming like a fucking boss instead of a soldier. Cause you’re a good fucking soldier but I think you could make an even better boss.” -Ep 70

“I view trust as from the standpoint of intention: if someone had the intent to be deceitful, that’s a million times worse than someone who did not intend to harm.” –Ep 85

## **The Family / Nino's Crew**

#### **NoPixel 2.0**

**SAHARA INNER CIRCLE/CORE (SI)**

**SAHARA INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY (SIA)**

**SAHARA AFFILIATES**

**SAHARA INNER CIRCLE (SI) - DECEASED**

## **WetWorks Consulting**

[Before 2.0,] drug money was transferred into the creation of WetWorks Consulting, a company which supported other businesses and sold meth. A few involved persons included Nino, Julian Santorno, Giovanni Caprioni, Lily Baker, Adrianna Brooke, Dimitri Barkov, and Randall Cage. After some time, WetWorks was sold off / liquidated (?).

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## **Sahara International**

[During 2.0,] after an extended period of absence, Nino Chavez returned to Los Santos and founded the investment company Sahara International based in the city, which manages the importation and exportation of goods, advisement and encouragement for entrepreneurs with emerging businesses for creating channels for sales, and a latter focus on loan dealings. Additionally, Sahara provided an avenue for those either facing probation or looking for a clean vocation a chance to turn their lives around should they wish: the company held the highest employment in Los Santos with well over 100 personnel at child company Cluckin' Bell. Yet, there is more than originally meets the eye – Sahara International is a shell company: a legal front and pipeline for illegal activity. The investment firm is deep in black market trading; Sahara supplies product, such as manufactured C2s, to vetted connects.

[With the approach of 3.0,] a new-age 'mafia' starts to emerge and the Sahara crew leaves the shadows they once hid in for so long. The family of Sahara are close-knit and protect each other's interests. The group, still business-savvy and focused on collecting riches, become more comfortable getting into criminal shit, even if this creates more backfires. Relationships are curated, inside and outside of the family. The identity of the group is questioned when this leads to Sahara being viewed more as a gang: the fear of Sahara's unknown power lessons as the secretiveness of Nino's family and operations evaporates.

[After the 3.0 update,] with no longer any financial backing, Sahara International soon ceases to exist, at least for now.

#### **Cluckin' Bell**

[During 2.0,] Nino acquires the chicken factory relatively soon after his return to Los Santos. A child company under Sahara International, Cluckin' Bell operates with legal documentation and active deliveries of chicken overseas for export. It becomes the largest company in the city with at one point over 100 employees. Marketing events, tours, and official training take place. Several managers are instated: Bobby "Dragon" Goodman, Allen Widemann, Bruce Nelvico, etc. Occasionally, a few chicken trucks are driven to port with not chicken, but illegal exports for the shadow organization. These deliveries are mixed in with the legal ones for obscurity. A few months go by and all mostly runs smoothly. However, the upkeep of the manual paperwork eventually proves too cumbersome to manage and the chicken company shuts down.

## **Pegasus Concierge**

[During 3.0,] Pegasus Concierge, originally a premier personal driver and security service owned by Miles Landon and Dimitri Nikola, is transformed into an effective shell company with continuously-evolving service offerings like transportation, security, loans, and accounting: the latter two don't really pan out. Services are split into the publicly-marketed and signature (think illicit shit like double blind option, scheduling assassinations, delivery of drugs and/or weapons, money laundering, etc.) for approved customers only. With enough moving profit, the illicit activity is easier to hide, and with the multiple services the company is self-sustaining on contracts alone - so an incredibly hands-off operation. Company wealth is distributed by an individual basis. The official roster list is heavily slashed for legal reasons, though personnel names removed from the papers are still considered part of the unofficial Pegasus group.

## **Shadow Organization**

[During 2.0,] upon his return to Los Santos, Nino is employed under a shadow organization – one that has strong networks throughout the international world. Run by a counsel, a high table, contracts are delivered via Terminal 33, an encrypted messaging email system. Communication transmitted per this terminal retains anonymity, save for handles, profile names created by those involved in the network. Those with accounts are all traders, buy/sell opportunities for goods and services alike. Nino is the representation for the location of Los Santos and is considered just one cog on this massive wheel. The relationship provides a mutual benefit: Nino must comply with the syndicate’s requests, but in turn, and upon favorable outcomes, receives valuable resources for distribution within the city. Keeping the secrecy of this greater power’s existence intact, even and especially from other criminal parties, is imperative for operations to continue.

[With the approach of 3.0,] Nino begins to express doubts on the reach of power of this organization.

**SHADOW ORGANIZATION**

**SHADOW ORGANIZATION - LOS SANTOS SPECIFIC**

 **Cahones** | Javier Fernandez
 **Dockworker / DW** | unknown or forgot
 **Turbo** | unknown or forgot or it's actually turbo, it's probably actually turbo