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About.
About.
Name Michelangelo Salucci
Nickname Angelo
Age 33
From Long Beach, New York Occupation Salucci Family underboss
Power Reality distortion Sexuality Gay PB Luca Marinelli
From Long Beach, New York Occupation Salucci Family underboss
Power Reality distortion Sexuality Gay PB Luca Marinelli
tl;dr Your typical ultraviolent, extremely vain asshole son of a mafia boss vying for attention from his dismissive, cruel father, except he has the added ability of having powers bestowed upon him by a demon. Officially, he uses his powers to psychologically torture people who get on the wrong side of the family. Unofficially, it also comes in handy in other ways: his younger brother Ludovico, his father’s favourite, was set up to take over as don of the family — until Angelo killed him. Ever since then he’s been using his powers to erase Ludo from the memories of everyone who ever knew him, effectively rendering him nonexistent, to firm up his position as his father’s sole heir.
Moodboard Versace dress shirts and loafers, blowing smoke in your face deliberately, extensive hand gestures when talking, lazy Italian in a dialect you can barely understand, a perennial jaw clench, excessive levels of jewellery, 'is he gay or just Italian', beating the shit out of someone for almost no reason at all, debilitating anger issues but it's fine it just means he's a man, divorced but we don't talk about that, Never Had A Boyfriend™, bloody knuckles from punching walls, shirt unbuttoned like halfway down his chest, seeking power at all costs but no idea what to do when he gets it, pay attention to meeeeeee, homophobic homosexual
First impressions.
Reputation The Salucci family is quite well known in many circles. They're not quite Corleone-level: Don Gio is known by other criminal families, but his reputation is closer towards fear than respect. Angelo's general reputation is as Gio's attack dog, a thug with a hair-trigger temper and a penchant for violence, who's beaten people to a pulp with very little prompting or reason. It's also fairly well-known that Angelo has some kind of illusion-based power, but not the exact details.
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Visual Angelo's just a little above average height at 5'11". He's very reedy, with a narrow waist and wider shoulders, and muscles a little on the wiry side. He keeps his hair long-ish and usually swept back off his face like so, and is mostly clean-shaven except for a moustache, although sometimes he goes a few days without shaving.
Notable features He has a dark mole on the right side of his face, and a raised scar on his right cheekbone. For those who can tell this kind of thing about scars, it's quite obvious that it healed badly.
Fashion He has quite an expensive taste, with a penchant for Versace, baroque-patterned silk shirts, fitted cigarette-style pants, and loafers (no socks, he's a reprobate). He has a Cartier watch. He also wears quite a lot of jewellery. Necklaces: a crucifix, a set of rosary beads, an Our Lady of Guadalupe pendant, and a plain silver chain. Rings: a plain gold signet ring on his right little finger, a St Michael the Archangel ring on his left index finger, and an ouroboros ring on his right ring finger. He also wears a gold hoop earring in his left ear.
Temperament Very difficult to please. He has a very thin temper which can break at any moment, for apparently no reason, and he resorts to violence and extreme displays of anger faster than most people expect. If he's not actively angry, he's at least very sullen, usually quite negative.
Aural Very strong Long Island accent. He's not afraid to shout, and he gesticulates a lot while he's talking, doing various things with his hands and fingers for emphasis.
Power.
Angelo is able to distort the way a person (including himself) interacts with and perceives their own reality, which is admittedly kind of overpowered, but he's only managed to get good at a few very discrete things. He really doesn't know the extent of his powers, and can develop new branches in an instant (i.e. a moment of threat where he acts on instinct) or simply by trying hard enough to will something to happen.
Illusion generation Creating realistic illusory experiences for another person
Angelo can make other people experience short, intense bursts of extremely complex illusion, for example, he can make someone believe they're covered in bugs or being slashed by a thousand tiny razorblades. These illusions cause a lot of mental distress and often physical pain in their targets, and though people mostly come out of it physically unscathed, there have been occasions where a mind has believed in the illusion so strongly that the body was physically injured in some way. This is Angelo's main strength when it comes to his powers, and for a long time it was the only thing he thought he was capable of doing with them. They don't necessarily have to be torture-related, but it's all he's done for so long that it's like exercising a muscle he didn't know he had to do anything with an illusion besides this.
Memory manipulation Altering, erasing and rewriting someone else's memories
Angelo can press into someone's memories, looking for something specific, and erase it. He's not very practiced at it, and he usually tends to go storming into someone's mind with very little care. He's pretty much exclusively used this to erase his brother from the memories of the people who knew him, although he also uses it to erase his own face from the memories of any men he has one night stands with. A memory that has been manipulated by Angelo is often very fuzzy and unclear and gives a general 'sense' of what he wants you to remember, rather than a crystal clear image of it. If he's removing a specific person or object from a memory, concentrating hard on the memory in your head, you might be able to notice a distinct blur where that person or object once was.
Regarding Ludo specifically, it's possible to know of him and that he disappeared suddenly, not that long ago — Angelo's power works on an individual basis, so although his memory manipulations have thus far proven to be permanent, he has to do it person by person, memory by memory. Someone who's had no interaction with Angelo but knows of the Salucci family by reputation would therefore still believe Ludo exists.
Self-defence Warping his own reality to protect himself from injury or discomfort
This is a really vague one since he's only just starting to figure it out, but Angelo can use his powers to warp his own reality in order to defend himself from something. For example, he could light a candle and 'warp' the flame out of his reality, and hold his hand above the flame without burning himself. To anyone else watching, it would look as if he was impervious to the flame, but it's really just that the flame doesn't exist for him. He's also used this power to stop himself from choking to death on smoke from a fire, by warping the smoke out of his reality. It takes an awful lot of mental effort to keep this kind of thing up and he would never be able to make himself fully impervious to anything; it relies on mental fortitude and quick reactions, and any distraction would bring him out of it instantly.
The Family.
The Salucci crime family is an organised crime group operating in New York, currently headed by Don Giovanni Salucci. Until the early 1900s, it was known as the Passerini family, until its don was killed by a Salucci, at which point the Saluccis took over the Passerinis' operations and began to expand from there. The Saluccis have a reputation for violence as well as a history of inter-familial bloodshed. They're fiercely protective of their territory and criminal interests, which primarily consist of racketeering, distribution of illegal drugs and firearms, and gambling. The family's legitimate front started out with restaurants, but they currently also own several five-star hotels throughout New York, and one in Miami, where they're hoping to expand further.
Dramatis personae.
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Giovanni "Gio" Salucci
Relation Father
Age 69
Role Don
PB Carlo Cecchi
Rumours that Gio killed his own father to secure his current position as head of the family are as-yet unproven, but widely believed.
Romola Salucci
Relation Mother
Age 54
Role Lawyer
PB Ronit Elkabetz
A retired defence lawyer, although she still practices for the Saluccis. Not a particularly caring mother, but she values family above all else.
Ludovico "Ludo" Salucci
Relation Brother
Age 26 – deceased
PB Tom Schilling
Not that anybody remembers he existed in the first place, but when they did, Ludo was their favourite. Level-headed, intelligent, and charming.
Carlo de Palma
Age 48
Role Consigliere
PB Stephen Dillane
Was Ludo's godfather. Often butts heads with Angelo: Carlo's been suggesting a transition to legitimacy, which Angelo disagrees with.
Victoria Perrone
Relation Ex-wife
Age 33
Job Surgeon
PB Jennifer Connelly
Vic and Angelo spent most of their four-year marriage arguing with each other and sleeping with other people, both too stubborn to call divorce.
Eulalia "Eula" Salucci
Relation Daughter, maybe
Age 8
PB Dafne Keen
Born while Vic and Angelo were still together, but neither of them are sure who her father is, so Angelo has decided to assume it's not him.
TIMELINE.
INFO DUMP.
POLITICS.
» the battaglias.
FAMILY.
» gio
How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have?
angelo surprisingly does not actually think very deeply about his father that much, because when he does the cracks start to show and he literally cannot handle that so he just doesn't. in angelo's stupid head his dad is: judge jury and executioner; incapable of doing anything wrong; always right; the final word on a subject. and his whole life is about trying to get his dad to give him 1 iota of praise so like if anyone gets in the way of that then they are the problem, which is a REALLY hard thing to get out of because he's been living his whole life like this. even when the excuses for his dad are getting thinner and thinner angelo just will NOT budge on it because it's one of those things where it's like, if he pulls out that jenga block then the whole tower falls and there's some self-preservation part of him that just won't do it, even if he has a viable alternate support system. it's not about finding something new to replace his father, it's about the retrospective damage it would deal him to make these pertinent realisations at this point in his life.
all in all he has a very childish view of his dad which is why he acts without much logic when it comes to him. on this one subject he's still in that mindset of like, when you think your parents can do no wrong to you, before you realise that your parents are just as fallible as anyone else.
» ludo
their relationship is not super negative all the time – although angelo is a huge bully and he's always picking at ludo's perceived weaknesses and trying to hurt his feelings all the time (and then getting annoyed when ludo's feelings are indeed hurt and he expresses that instead of just shutting the fuck up), he is capable of conducting a non-aggressive conversation with him. like, sometimes.
» grandpa raul
» eula
» romola
Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?
romola has like no interest in being a caring mother to either of her kids and because angelo is also a little bit cold it means that they ... have nothing much to do around each other. the only reason angelo is super ride or die for her really is because, lmao, he is italian and it's that like natural momma's boy instinct, like "i HAVE to love my mother." he respects her a lot but because she's not the centre of his stupid universe like his dad is he's sometimes a little bit more critical of her. romola and ludo were close but it was mostly because ludo put a lot of effort into making that happen. while gio gave angelo a lot of his worst traits though i think romola is responsible for a few of his slightly less poisonous ones, like, she's the one who gave him his self confidence (OR...EXTREME VANITY..IF YOU WANT TO BE JUDGEMENTAL ABOUT IT)
POWERS.
no subject
ANGELO.
no subject
the one long-distance travel method he actually can stomach is trains; for some reason he doesn't get sick on a train, and he usually likes travelling places by train whenever possible.
no subject
» wardrobe
when he wants to dress casually or for very hot weather, he'll usually dress like normal but with chinos and looser shirts in cottons and linens. he never ever ever wears t-shirts or jeans; he's literally never worn either of those items before in his life, even when he was a kid and his mom was dressing him.
» name
» hall of shame
PB milo ventimiglia AGE 18 WHEN summer 2007 HOW LONG 1 month
- italian, car mechanic, sweetest boy award for being the world's sweetest boy
- met angelo on the side of a road in italy when they were both 18
- helped angelo replace a punctured tire and invited him to visit his hometown of positano
- valentino's english was bad and angelo's italian was also not great but that did not stop them
- one intense month-long relationship later, angelo ditched him and broke his heart, womp womp
PB clive owen AGE 42 WHEN 2010 HOW LONG 3 months
- former deputy manager of l'ultima cena, one of the restaurants angelo nominally manages, but nathan was the one actually doing the work
- extreme case of hatefucking since nathan thought angelo was a spoiled brat and resented being subordinate to a 21 year old, And Yet
- fired and blacklisted by angelo """out of spite""", now he is a food critic for a local newspaper
PB daniel day-lewis AGE 62 WHEN 2012-2013 HOW LONG 14 months
- relatively famous english-french haute couture fashion designer, met at a salucci hotel
- oliver was frankly obsessed with angelo, they didn't get along at all but he considered him an inspiration and liked to have him around and take pics/draw him
- super patronising and bitchy, but he designed a whole line of clothes inspired by angelo and also made him a few bespoke pieces so angelo put up with his shit until he got bored
PB matthew modine AGE 55 WHEN 2014 HOW LONG 4 months
- a journalist and friend of angelo's father who owed him for unspecified reasons and would sometimes write shittalky articles about gio's business enemies as a favour
- a pretty nice guy all things considered! he wanted angelo to leave the family business behind and do something else with his life
- james cut it off after angelo threw a tantrum over something and tossed a plate at him, but they still run into each other sometimes and are politely cordial
PB dermot mulroney AGE 48 WHEN 2015-2016 HOW LONG 1 steamy night
- vic's first divorce lawyer
- pretty reputable dude aside from when he did a big mistake by sleeping with his client's then-husband, he has no idea what the fuck happened there and he still questions it to this day
- vic had to get another lawyer after he told her there was A Conflict Of Interest and couldn't look angelo in the eye, and angelo himself wouldn't stop smiling at her like the cat that got the cream
» cars
he also is actually really into cars; not in a practical way, he doesn't know or care much how they work and he has basically no practical skills with a car, but he knows About cars and could have a reasonable discussion about like, Car Stats. i will just not ever write him doing this because i personally don't know anything about them