Rocket Man

𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒

full name. Sullivan Riley nickname. Sully age. 46 brthday. October 3rd (Libra) hometown. Boston, Massachusetts occupation. Personal Bodyguard to Nico Caravelli affiliation. The Mob faceclaim. Idris Elba character cnspiration. Raymond Reddington (The Blacklist), Stringer Bell (The Wire), Alan Shore (Boston Legal), Elijah Mikaelson (The Originals)

𝐓𝐋;𝐃𝐑

— SULLIVAN “SULLY” RILEY spent four years in the Air Force before an explosion during deployment left him with a permanent injury to his left knee and sent him home with an honorable discharge at twenty-two. Private security work followed afterward and eventually led him to Enzo Caravelli in New York, where Sully was brought onto general detail before later becoming Nico Caravelli’s personal bodyguard and closest confidant.

𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒

Once talked a man out of shooting him simply by distracting him with a story about Havana in the nineties. nobody ever figured out whether the story was true.

He tends to remember small details about people and uses them constantly during conversations.

Loves Espresso and jazz music

Has an irrational hatred of seagulls that feels rooted in a story he refuses to explain.

Sully's big dream is to experience a rodeo before he dies. He also would like to wear an authentic cowboy hat during said experience.

Always dressed in an expensive tailored suit. Mostly for appearance, but also because they help hide the stiffness in his leg.

Prefers humor over outright threats. most of the time it works better.

Tells stories constantly. sometimes they’re relevant, sometimes they absolutely are not.

Genuinely good with people. politicians, criminals, bartenders, random old ladies at grocery stores — doesn’t matter. he knows how to talk to almost anyone.

Ends every night with an expensive cigar.

𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘

TW: violence, injury, chronic pain, death, military, warfare

Sully grew up inside Boston with parents who believed discipline mattered more than raising their voices ever would. His father spent most of Sully’s childhood in law enforcement and carried the habits of the job home with him without realizing it half the time. Structure settled naturally into the house after enough years passed. So did routine. By eighteen, the Air Force felt less like a dramatic decision and more like the direction his life had already been moving toward for years.

He stayed four years before an explosion during deployment tore through his left knee badly enough to send him home with an honorable discharge and a limp that never fully left afterward. The surgeries came first. Then physical therapy. Then the long stretch afterward where everybody else seemed more certain about Sully’s future than Sully was himself. Private security entered his life somewhere during that period through a former contact overseas and stayed there. One contract became another. Then New York. Then Enzo Caravelli.

At first Sully worked general detail alongside half a dozen other men rotating through properties, meetings, restaurants, and late nights that usually ended with blood on the floor or tempers blown apart beyond repair. Somewhere during those first months Nico took to him quickly enough that Enzo reassigned him permanently and after that the arrangement simply never changed. Years passed quietly beneath the volatility surrounding the rest of the organization. Men came and went constantly around Enzo. Sully stayed.