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C H I C A G O | ILLINOIS

You wake up in Chicago, pull back the curtain and you KNOW where you are. You could be nowhere else. You are in a big, brash, muscular, broad shouldered motherfuckin’ city. A metropolis, completely non-neurotic, ever-moving, big hearted but cold blooded machine with millions of moving parts — a beast that will, if disrespected or not taken seriously, roll over you without remorse. -Anthony Bourdan

TASK 001: CHARACTER PLAYLIST  — 

FOUR Songs that describe your characters past, personality, present or just who they are

— burning pile / mother mother : [all my money's been a long time spent / on my drugs, on my rent / on my saving philosophy / it goes, one in the bank and the rest for me] — the chemicals / garbage ft. brain aubert : [i'll do anything you ask me to / heaven, i need your heaven / i can't wait till the moment that I surrender to / the chemicals] — everything goes dark / the hoosiers : [it's not gonna matter what you chose / it's too late when everything goes dark] — born dark / holy wars : [baby i was born dark / full of holes in my heart / riding on the high of pain]

THREE Songs they listen to on repeat

— (don’t fear) the reaper / blue oyster cult — the show’s about to begin / brmc  — you’re not here / mary elizabeth mcgylnn

TWO Songs that describe a connection

— family / mother mother : [they might be crazy, but they is my family / you fuck with them you fuck with me ] — hey pretty / poe : [hey pretty / don't you wanna take a ride with me / through my world?]

ONE Song that helped you get muse for them

I thought I was going to be super organized by making a new blog to corral the posts about my potential Blood Kingdom boy...and then realized that it takes a while for new blogs to show up in tags. Whoops.

SO, here he is! His name is Alp Yavuz, and he’s an ex-Army mechanic and applicant for the Weapon skeleton. His bio is here, and if you want, you can check out the rest of his blog at @greasemonkeyyavuz .

FOUR Songs that describe your character’s past, personality, present or just who they are

1 | SWEET GRASS COUNTY LINE | Dave Stamey | home in Montana

this country is a friend of mine, its voice is the voice that I hear, and when time leaves me behind, I won’t mind if it leaves me right here

2 | YOU SHOULD BE HERE | Cole Swindell | after Jimmy’s death

they say now you're in a better place, and I would be too if I could see your face

3 | SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW | Zac Brown Band | drinking and distraction

rides the high that tears him down, hates himself and loves the crowd

4 | EARTHBOUND | The Accidentals | gang life

i'm a switchblade renegade, i'm not stand up, i’ve got lies down to the core, i'm a carnivore, i will never be earthbound

THREE Songs they listen to on repeat

5 | RIO | Kyle Park | Red

every trail, every turn, every lesson i learned, i followed his heart and his soul, so i go, i just go wherever rio goes

6 | BANDITO GOLD | Red Steagall | good horses

bandito gold, think of all the mighty rivers we have crossed and all the mountains we have climbed, bandito gold, think of all the outlaw bands that we’ve captured single-handed in our minds

7 | BUCKAROO MAN | Dave Stamey

my spurs they don’t ring much, i never did sing much, but i’m a sure-enough buckaroo man

TWO Songs that describe a connection

8 | LONG TRIP ALONE | Dierks Bentley | the paradox

so maybe you could walk with me a while, and maybe i could rest beneath your smile, everybody stumbles sometimes and needs a hand to hold

9 | BROTHER | Needtobreathe ft. Gavin DeGraw | the doctor

brother let me be your fortress when the night winds are driving on, be the one to light the way, bring you home

ONE Song that helped you get muse for them

10 | A SOLDIER’S MEMOIR | Joe Bachman | PTSD

my mama says i look the same as I did before I left, but if she could see inside of me it would scare her to death

BONUS | EASTWOOD | Brad Paisley

*slaps roof of car*

the cataclysmic: zephyr jackson - kovali underboss, 39, co-owner of purgatory.

Ye ol’ zeph here is from Northern Ireland, born to one of the many respected members of the IRA and his mother who did little more than take up a spot beside his father and claim she was a natural when it came to being a mother. not true, then again she certainly could have been worse.

Something was always a little off about him, a little too interested in what his dad was doing behind closed doors and a little too intent on listening in on everything that he shouldn’t have. It led to him knowing more than he was meant to and figuring out that he wanted what his dad had and.. well, more, even if he had to take it somehow.

after slowly convincing his dad that he was ready to find out about the business and that he wanted in, no matter what the cost, he was shown the ropes and tacked himself in with some hitters in the organization

low and behold, ya boy ended up murdering both his parents in cold blood and taking everything his dad had built up for himself, pinning the murders on another even though it was v clear that Zeph was the one behind it. He won’t hide it if he’s ever asked, and tbh he’s pretty impressed by anyone who’s willing enough to even bring it up most of the time. 

With enough respect and fear built up, he solidified himself within the IRA and looked to expanding, to which he looked directly to a man as twisted as he was; Rafal Kovali. After a little bit of peddling product, Rafal agreed to the alliance on the premise that Zephyr stuck around for the take over of Chicago and he’s been here ever since, doing Rafal’s bidding and enjoying every single fucking minute of it. 

He’s.. not a great guy.. like at all, but he’s got some amiable qualities. It’s not completely unknown for him to take certain people under his wing. Aka The Phoenix (sera) and also The Prospect, but they’re the kinds of people who find out more than most that there’s pretty much nothing that Zeph won’t willingly do himself before he asks anyone else to do it for him. 

He’s got a lot of plans, terrible.. horrible plans, but he’s patient af and doesn’t have a huge temper or anything so a lot of the time it’s pretty impossible to see the point that he just.. snaps. He’ll smile while breaking necks just ‘cause

doesn’t trust anyone, literally. even if he does trust you -- he doesn’t, don’t believe the few minutes of softness he could show just because he has a pretty smile, he’s probably already planned out how he’d get rid of you if you got in his way.

connects: he could use people he’s known since he got to chicago, whether that’s an amicable or not.. preferably not. i’m so fucking down. one night stands that went horribly wrong are always my fav. people he’s gone up against that either still feel some kind of way about that; maybe we’re all pissed since they’re both still standing. people within the kovali that he doesn’t trust --- people in the faction that.. he does trust. people trying to push his buttons and failing miserably bc what buttons. maybe someone who doesn’t really know who he is? they know the name but have never really seen the face before.. honestly, i’m down for any kind of crazy fucking shit you could throw at me from left field.

secondly.. the paradox; monica “nic” pelletier, 28, exotic dancer. Unaffiliated, but in debt to the Faction

baby girl here was abandoned by her mother on the doorstep of a church when she was nine months old, nobody in the church wanted her so she ended up in the system for a while until she landed with the Pelletier family who were, exactly what every foster kid wants in an adoptive family tbh.

except, something just never clicked for her and she never felt at home in her home. it was always just like, staying over at that weird cousin’s house that you didn’t really know much about but had to visit every summer. anyway; queue the child rebelling.

she swan dived into bad crowds, bad choices and a terrible outlook on life and who she was as a person, but something about her never really looked as defeatist as she felt and part of her made it easy to believe that she was actually enjoying the life she had to the people around her. Jokes on them, she was ready for the void super early on

Met The Traitor (Julian) in school and that swept her up like some bullshit OG fairy tale nobody asked for. It was toxic and fucking euphoric and they’ve been on and off again for most of the time they’ve known each other until more recently.

Found out the hard way that she’s a sucker for a good high and very quickly became addicted to anything illicit that she could ingest just to numb herself a little longer. this got her really tied up with the mad scientist and a whole lot of Faction members that she really shouldn’t have.

was given a full ride to some fancy ass art school and purely out of spite, since it was everything her adoptive parents wanted for her, she tore up the offer and waltzed right on into the nearest stripclub and landed herself a job working the bar for a while, until her boss was looking for a quick fill in after firing a girl and honestly, she’s never looked back. loves her job; doesn’t for one second feel any ounce of regret for it. center of attention and the ability to refuse it at the same time? goldmine. 

But, working the stage didn’t pay quite enough to double back the debt she’d racked up from her addiction and eventually the Faction and the people she owed the money to started asking her to do random, small jobs. e.g petty theft, break and enter. It led to a B&E turned assault, which ended in a high speed chase in which she lost control of the car and plowed headfirst into a railing, killed three of her friends in the back and when she woke up, trapped in the car --- julian was gone, had left her for dead cause he didn’t want to be caught and lost his the power he’d gained within the faction.

skip forward and ya girl has been bailed out of jail, but that’s not the last of it. The casanova has found out that she’s a fucking wreck and forced her to do his bidding... in becoming the “other woman” in The Senator’s marriage and started a whole new shit fuck situation for her there.

connections; people who knew the three friends who died in the accident, i’m potentially putting in connections for her brothers when the OC’s become plausible but her brothers friends are always good. People she’s borrowed money from to pay some of her debt, one night stands, ex friends and people who don’t agree with the life she doesn’t seem to care about changing, i’d love someone who was a target for a job the Faction put her up to; a robbery or even something as little as a distraction. people who encourage her shitty decisions too much.

i’m honestly just here to fuck shit up and be fucked up by everyone. i’m talking replies that are too long and screaming into the dead of night about how the FUCK i’m gonna reply to some bullshit ass crazy shit. 

Sera Karan / 30 / Capo / Kovali / Co-Owner of Purgatory

Born and bred in a small fishing village on the cape between Turkey and the Grecian Islands, she was the eldest of six children in a very poor family.

Twelve years ago, her parents basically sold Sera and her sister Azra (The Forgotten) to a mail order brides company, however it turned out to actually be a Kovali operation.

Upon arriving in Chicago, she and her sister worked in a brothel for about 6 months before they were separated when Azra was taken to a new one opening up across the city. Both girls just assumed the other died at some point bc the conditions were so rough.

Sera lashed out as a result of being separated from her only family and attacked a guard in front of Zephyr (The Cataclysmic) who was already a high ranking member of the Kovali and making rounds at the time.

He saw potential in her and offered her freedom, basically pulled her out of the situation to take her under his wing as his second and has always kept her close ever since. 

She’s worked her way up through the Kovali quite fluidly, both in an effort to make Zephyr proud and because there is nothing else for her other than this new life.

Has absolutely no idea that her younger sister is still alive, it’s information which Zephyr, The Coward, and eventually Cassidy (The Survivor) will all be keeping from her for their own various reasons.

Julian Sigara | 30 | Faction | Chicago Port Manager

Lived in the shadow of his brother for the longest time, really tried his best to break out of it and please his father

Horribly failed at that multiple times, which resulted in him going off the deep end and falling into all sorts of trouble

In his journey down the rabbit hole, he came up with the maniacal plan to kill his brother in order to get back at his father. Succeeded in this and now sits as the Sigara representative for the faction.

Big ole cockroach of a person and will do anything to further his own means (this includes leaving an S.O for dead), which includes gently feeding info the Kovali incase the faction falls apart. 

Emilia Kovali | 25 | Kovali | NU Med Student & Volunteer EMT

Youngest of the Kovali siblings. Rafal Kovali decided to try and keep her out of the business, so she was barred from really knowing what was going on in the family.

Sneaking suspicions about the truth really came to be when she found someone locked up in her father’s study, bruised and bloody. Because she’s sometimes governed too much by emotion, she ended up helping them escape. Turns out she freed the Illegitimate (y i k e s)

Friendly and kind so as long as you don’t disrespect her family or anyone close to her. Classic Chaotic Good, “I can handle it myself” kind of gal. Hates sitting around idle and somehow always has a coffee in her hand, which might explain her disastrous sleeping patterns. 

Works as a volunteer EMT, so she’s seen a couple of the grizzly things the city has to offer... which oddly enough were usually committed at the hands of her family.