IDV Mafia AU Ask Blog

Fortunately - or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it - there is only a single family that controls what happens within the city. It is said that not a single thing happens that the DeRoss Family is not aware of, yet they rarely intervene. At least, they don’t intervene directly. They tend to send their Hunters to do their dirty work for them: taking, giving, threatening, and killing whoever the family commands them to. They say at the very top sits the Baron, a man with incredible power and influence. The Baron is a mysterious figure with not even a handful of people knowing what he looks like. Most, if not all, say he doesn’t even exist. But then who is the one pulling all of the strings?

The city never sleeps, as they say. Ask away!

However, if you are wanting groups, there are some that are more obvious than others. For example, there is the Dry Umbrella, the church, the theater, the artists, and the Daily Deduction - and of course the Mafia itself. Are there more groups than these? Of course there are, but those have yet to be discovered.

“But, if you want me to actually tell you, I honestly don’t know. I only just got in the city, so getting assigned a role would be kind of weird.”

The local church is a welcoming place where all kinds of people come to relieve themselves of their sins. At least, that’s what they say. Others say that the place is haunted by a ghost that only shows up in the dead of night and disappears before the crack of dawn. Sister Ann doesn’t like those rumors at all.

“Nothing at the moment. Just taking a little rest...”

“Ooo! What about the Dry Umbrella and its owners? That’d be fun! Okay, so there’s a local tea shop ran by these two really lanky guys. I heard that they sell juice there, but who doesn’t, right? I don’t know their relationship to each other but they’re really close! Anyways, I have a sneaking suspicion that they’re part of the main mafia family! I even sent someone to go snoop around for me. I warned him to be really careful because they might actually be dangerous!”

Leo Beck is honestly just a miserable man. He drinks all day before disappearing all night and coming back in the morning to drink even more at the DU. Besides drinking himself into a numbed stupor, he stares at this old picture constantly. Nobody’s brave enough to approach him, let alone ask what’s in the photograph. Poor thing.

Ah? And who would you be referring to, if I might ask?

“But if you are in desperate need of protection, I know of a man who’d be willing to take you on. He goes by the name of Naib Subedar. If you want contact, i can give him a call for you - no charge.”

Many say that the two are merely good friends that like to play around. Others say something completely different. All that anyone knows is that the Cowboy Casanova can be seen attempting to woo the bartender whenever he has the time.

He will tell you that he was a great explorer before he came to the city, but whether that is true or not doesn’t matter. Nowadays, Kurt Frank is a simple journalist for the Daily Deduction, the main newspaper in the city. He can be seen gathering scoops of juicy gossip and new around town, though who’s to say that he doesn’t spice up some of the blander stories with a bit of make-believe?

Kevin Alonso is a rather gung-ho individual who ends up in Miss Emily’s care almost every week. He’s known around for being a flirt, though not many have actually seen him with a woman romantically. 

Naib Subedar, a man with little known about him, just like everyone else in the city. He says that he was a soldier in the war, never mentioning which war, and that he came to the city to escape that life. He mostly hangs around his acquaintance’s office. Lord knows what he does there, but you can’t possibly stay in one place forever, can you?

(Thank you for the ask! Of course Jose would be in the au! I love him to death and I’ve been waiting for somebody to ask for him!)