June 12th, 2011
May 13th, 2011
December 15th, 2009
Name: Giuseppe Vitale
Age: 31 [July 19, 1895]
Physical description: Giuseppe has dark brown hair, blue eyes, and is about 5'11. He has dark skin, tends towards a 5 o'clock shadow. A pronounced chin, thin lips, and a large nose.
Character traits: Giuseppe is stubborn, ambitious, determined and ruthless. Despite this, he has a code of honor that restricts him from taking any action against women or children. All his fights are man to man, man against man. Women and children are sacrosanct.
Family: Giuseppe's widowed. His wife died birthing their fifth child. His mother is mostly raising his two surviving children.
Occupation: Mob boss, nominal business owner of an antique store
Brief history: Giuseppe was born in New York. Technically, he was born on Ellis Island, since the Doctors kept his mother there at the hospital until he was born. His family lived in New York until Giuseppe was 8 when they moved to Chicago. Giuseppe got a sixth grade eduction before dropping out at 12 when his father died to help support his mother an little brother. He worked at various places before getting a job running for a local gang leader; messages, information. He slowly worked his way up, marrying at 17 and being a made man at 19. He got an antique store when he was 25, a nice cover for his business as an underboss by now. His wife, Eliana didn't get to appreciate it for very long before she died when he was 26, leaving him with 2 children. His mother was already living with them, but she took over most of the child rearing. In 1926 the boss he'd worked for since he was 12 died and his son took over.
Giuseppe thinks the son is a moron and more than that, dangerous. He's carving out his own territory from a dozen different gangs, sure he could handle it better. He's trying to take over and funnily enough, he's doing a good job.
Age: 31 [July 19, 1895]
Physical description: Giuseppe has dark brown hair, blue eyes, and is about 5'11. He has dark skin, tends towards a 5 o'clock shadow. A pronounced chin, thin lips, and a large nose.
Character traits: Giuseppe is stubborn, ambitious, determined and ruthless. Despite this, he has a code of honor that restricts him from taking any action against women or children. All his fights are man to man, man against man. Women and children are sacrosanct.
Family: Giuseppe's widowed. His wife died birthing their fifth child. His mother is mostly raising his two surviving children.
Occupation: Mob boss, nominal business owner of an antique store
Brief history: Giuseppe was born in New York. Technically, he was born on Ellis Island, since the Doctors kept his mother there at the hospital until he was born. His family lived in New York until Giuseppe was 8 when they moved to Chicago. Giuseppe got a sixth grade eduction before dropping out at 12 when his father died to help support his mother an little brother. He worked at various places before getting a job running for a local gang leader; messages, information. He slowly worked his way up, marrying at 17 and being a made man at 19. He got an antique store when he was 25, a nice cover for his business as an underboss by now. His wife, Eliana didn't get to appreciate it for very long before she died when he was 26, leaving him with 2 children. His mother was already living with them, but she took over most of the child rearing. In 1926 the boss he'd worked for since he was 12 died and his son took over.
Giuseppe thinks the son is a moron and more than that, dangerous. He's carving out his own territory from a dozen different gangs, sure he could handle it better. He's trying to take over and funnily enough, he's doing a good job.
June 18th, 2009
April 25th, 2009
April 23rd, 2009
Before the X
Charles Xavier is a 37 year old philanthropist. He taught at New York University for 10 years before publicly announcing he was starting his own college preparatory school. The class sizes would be small and -importantly- invitation only. He spent a year preparing his mansion in upstate New York to become a school. In late March he sent invitations all over to join his school. But only to very special young people. all the people who received a letter from Charles Xavier were mutants, found with his machine, Cerebro. It's the first week of Charles Xavier's school for the Gifted- the first week ever. He invited no siblings, no one who had ever met. Everyone would be fresh to each other and to him.
We're set up to be a way to explore familiar characters as students; all generations together.
March 9th, 2009
February 1st, 2009
January 23rd, 2009
January 15th, 2009
"Listen to me, Joker. I'm not like you. I'm nothing like you. I know what I do and I know why I do it. YOU- You are, clinically speaking a whack-job. But I know a secret. A good one."
"Looooooves me a secret. Do tell."
"You're not nearly as crazy as you'd like us all to believe or even as crazy as you'd like to believe. It just makes it easier to justify every sick, monstrous thing you've ever done when you play the part of the mad clown. You're crazy, Bubba. But you ain't *that* crazy. ...Look at that. I wiped a smile off of Joker's face. I have been waiting a loooooooooong time for that."
"Looooooves me a secret. Do tell."
"You're not nearly as crazy as you'd like us all to believe or even as crazy as you'd like to believe. It just makes it easier to justify every sick, monstrous thing you've ever done when you play the part of the mad clown. You're crazy, Bubba. But you ain't *that* crazy. ...Look at that. I wiped a smile off of Joker's face. I have been waiting a loooooooooong time for that."