Giacomo

Giacomo
Portrayed by Justin Baldoni
Statistics
Fullname	Giacomo Alfonso DiCosta
Birthday	October 10, 1918
Species	Vampire
Age	86 (28)
Height	5'9"
Weight	160
Eyes	Dark Brown
Hair	Black
Occupation	Mobster

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Claim to Fame

Giacomo or "G" was once a gangster in the golden age of the Mafia in New York. Due to his background he is quite capable of working a bureaucracy in someone's favor as well as finding those things and persons that have disappeared for one reason or another. He can often be found loaning money to those desperate, at quite the interest rate, of course. Known as a ruthless pit bull for hire.

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Biography

• 1918 Born in Sicily
• 1925 Moved to New York
• 1933 At age of 15, gets involved with la Cosa Nostra
• 1936 At 18, becomes one of the drivers for Frank Costello, then consigliere to Capo di tutti Capi, Lucky Luciano
• 1941 'Made' at the young age of 23 with Costello's sponsorship
• 1946 exposed at age of 28, goes on the lamb, turned same year in Cadillac Lounge in downtown Cleveland
• 1946-1982 Long string of vampiric debauchery with maker, utilizing protection schemes, occasional wetwork job
• 1982-1986 GRID then HIV/AIDS makes Giacomo regain some of his empathy for humanity, blood borne illness makes maker worried about contamination. After long argument, maker leaves Giacomo, though never released him from their bonds.
• 1986-2005 G bounces from city to city, staying for a few years, running a basic protection scheme to keep himself living at his expected level of income, his newest city to be Dallas, Texas.

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Character Details

Personality

Giacomo's life has led him to have a rather unique outlook and value system. Due to his upbringing and his role with organized crime, he tends to buck authority of a more orderly type. Since his conversion to a vampire, however, he has viewed that as his replacement for the Family, proving loyal to this Sheriffs, Kings, and Queens he has lived under. He is fiercely loyal of those persons and groups he has sworn allegiance to. He doesn't hesitate to use violence and is certainly capable of cruelty, but must justify its use in his head before it is implemented. He isn't too happy about the choice of other vampires to expose the entire group, as he thinks it has led to more scrutiny than necessary.

He's fairly cocky in reference to his own skills, that coming with the bravado bred into him with the mob and the general superiority complex that most Vampires hold. At this point, G views his violent ways simply as a means to support himself in his other pursuits. Towards humans, he has a supportive, if patronizing view in an academic sense, but tends to be a bit more abusive in practice. The other supernaturals he has a strong tendency to be skeptical of or even hostile to, as he views them as competitors to his "family's" dominance.

On a personal level, G is a smooth talker and extremely forward. Rather than dress up what he is trying to express, he'll go right to the point, truthful or not. He often indulges in more hedonistic things, given dancing, drinking, and men, generally a simultaneous combination of the three.

Skills and Abilities

Languages:
Giacomo is fluent in English from living in America, in Italian from his family and original neighborhood, and Spanish having been taught by his maker of Spanish origin.

Violence:
From his days on the streets of New York in the Mafia as well as continued criminal activity, Giacomo is well versed in hand-to-hand fighting, knife, gun, and explosive usage, as well as torture techniques. Most of these are unnecessary due to his Vampiric strength and speed, though he still maintains them.

Intimidation/Persuasion:
Giacomo has become rather skilled at the arts of intimidation, persuasion, and bartering, as his criminal background requires such skills to be prevalent.

Tracking/Information Gathering:
Casing a place to be robbed, tailing someone attempting to flee, and finding where things reside are essential arts for the enterprising criminal, and Giacomo has been doing them for quite some time.

Resourceful:
Even on a shoestring budget or cut off from all support, G generally finds a way out of it. Having lived inside of gang wars, on the streets, and traveling from state to state, he knows who to talk to, where to find some cash, and above all else: how to survive.

Vampiric Abilities:
Due to his conversion to a Vampire, Giacomo has superior strength, speed, regeneration, and doesn't need to breathe. He can also glamour humans for some mind control/mind wiping.

Weaknesses

Vampiric Weaknesses:
Due to his conversion to a Vampire, Giacomo is severely injured and/or incapacitated by silver, killed with a wooden stake to the heart, begins to disintegrate in sunlight, and must sleep during the day.

Unholy:

While most vampires dismiss the weakness to crosses to the movies, this isn't the case for Giacomo. Whether a harm "inherited" from his maker or simply from his background, Giacomo cannot effectively deal with religion, especially Catholic ritual. For instance, if a cross is thrust at him, he will extend his fangs against his own will and recoil, and they will cause pain and sear him on physical contact. He also feels severely uncomfortable in places that have been sanctified (churches, certain graveyards), and unless driven by survival instinct, will avoid them at all costs. He also cannot bring himself to seriously harm or feed upon clergy.

Bullish:
G has never been one to shy away from a fight, verbal or physical and this has gotten him in trouble at many times in both of his lives. He has a strong tendency to act before thinking.

Loyalty:
If G swears an oath of allegiance to something, it sticks. He is fiercely loyal, even to his own detriment. He continues to treat his Vampiric superiors in the royalty as he did in la Cosa Nostra, kicking up a cut of his earnings as if it were required of him like taxes. While this ingratiates him with many officials, it can also lead him to be used.

Obsessive:
When decided on something, G will rarely give up. Be it with someone he is interested in, someone who slighted him, or an end goal, he tends to lose sight of the big picture in lieu of petty differences.

Habits

Possessions:
Odd for a Vampire, Giacomo continues to carry human weapons, leftovers from his time in the mob. He carries an original M1911 with a concealed carry permit registered in Texas. He also carries a simple buck knife. Stashed away are various (illegally posessed) hanguns, and a Tommy gun. He has lead, silver and wood bullets in his possession, the second two he special ordered, probably from the same manufacturers that supply the Fellowship of the Sun's private army. He also has silver restraints for the occasional needed restraint of a fellow creature of the night.
Security:
Giacomo learned the lesson of the more gregarious and outlandish mob officials. Due to his severe vulnerability during the day, he does not advertise where he lives, for fear of fire or exposure. Anyone asking for a mailing address gets a PO Box which he never opens himself, but pays someone to bring it to him. In fact, despite his monetary holdings, he prefers to hold multiple small apartments and storage spaces as well-armed safehouses. If he wishes to take someone home, he prefers a nice hotel. His paranoia makes him a rather difficult person to find, his leases paid for with cash and registered under aliases.

Business

For those who aren't familiar with how the Mafia makes most of its cash, Giacomo is a classic case. A protection racket is the foundation for most of those operating in the form of Cosa Nostra. One causes harm to an organization or person and then promise protection from that harm for a regular cost. G frequently does this to criminal groups themselves, as they cannot seek the common authority of the police for protection, and they lack the skill or knowledge to truly deal with a Vampire.

He also loans money at exorbitant rates to the desperate, often ensuring that the debtor never climbs out of the debt, but just continues to pay interest on the principle. Think of the minimum payment on a credit card.

The final (regular) layer of his work are 'jobs.' These can entail all sorts of things, but it more or less entails as G being a Vamp thief and mercenary for hire. While he doesn't care much for human authority, he is fiercely in compliance with Vampire law and will not break its Laws, chief among them being to slay another Vampire without approval from the hierarchy.

Traditionally, when the police become aware of him or if the Vampire authority wear of the risks of permitting such work, he has shifted to another Kingship. However, this tends to take many years, if ever, and he operated with near immunity in California.

He does not have much need for violence in his work, as the sheer intimidation factor of a flash of fangs, a glamour or an exhibition of his speed or strength tend to do the job for him. That said, when there is wetwork to be done, G prefers to use human weapons to do the job so the authorities do not suspect a Vampire.

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Relationships

Vampires

Name	Relation	Notes
Isobel	Sheriff	Allegiance, fealty, and gifts. She's the Boss.
Marius	Whip	He's crude and cruel. They don't mesh yet.

Two-Natured

Name	Relation	Notes
<Name>	<Relation>	<Description>

Psychics

Name	Relation	Notes
Josephine	Random Run in	Found out her secret. Uh-oh.

Witches

Name	Relation	Notes
<Name>	<Relation>	<Description>

Nondescript Meatbags

Name	Relation	Notes
Steve	Met at a bar	Giacomo wants to cruelly kill this man and suck him dry.

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Character Gallery

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Logs

August

• 17 Aug 2010 12:21 — Gifts of Fealty (giacomo isobel marius)
• 26 Aug 2010 13:27 — Beat It (giacomo marius ronnie)

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