#mafia

She is paired with Paulie Lombardo ☺️ Dove is a failing English stage actress and stage singer who finds herself in Lost Heaven in 1933. Dove was born in East London in 1904 and has dreamt of being a stage actress and stage singer since her childhood - which was often spent sneaking into prestigious London theatres to watch stage show performances and sometimes waiting outside of the theatres after the stage shows ended in a desperate hope to encounter one of her favourite stage actresses. Her parents were simple working class and never much supported her dream at all. Both her mother and father viewed her dream as unrealistic and unachievable for her and had no problem telling her as much whenever she expressed her dream to them.

The days after mother was murdered were quiet. They were spent wandering the streets and getting food and water wherever they could be found. Renato made it by easily enough–he had the smarts to be able to do so–but life on the streets quickly wore him down. It didn't help that he had to keep running from the men that had killed his mother.

They were persistent, Renato would give them that much. They seemed to be able to find him just about every other day. It forced him to be on constant watch and to never sleep in the same place twice.

Retro Monday.

From one of my old sketchbooks.

Although, not once had he met a magical Sky, but that was possibly just due to chance, seeing as Skies were pretty rare anyway and Magicals with Flames rarer still. The likelihood of a Magical with Sky Flame Potential actually activating their Flames without outside interference was infinitesimally small. So. What if Kawahira could somehow force Flame activation in a wizard with Sky Flame Potential? What if he had just one or two Flame active, magical Skies at his - quite literal -disposal, no matter how weak they might be magically? That would be the perfect back-up to hold the Sky Pacifier until Sepira's bloodline had replenished itself. And while only a very weak wizard would have the potential for truly pure Flames - strong enough to pull in Elements of the strength required to hold the positions of Arcobaleno Guardians – that person would still be a wizard and no matter how weak magically, they would still have an extended life span, giving Kawahira the breathing room he needed. Maybe he could even repeat this once or twice, give Sepira's descendents the time to possibly birth two or even three generations of Skies before Kawahira once more turned his back on the Magical World and could go back to how things were supposed to be. It was perfect. And thus, a plan had been born. A plan which had actually been pretty simple all things considered. Give one group in the world of organized crime the knowledge how to forcefully activate Flames and then get a wizard involved to develop a spell to identify those in the Magical World with Flame Potential. And then sit back and watch the chaos unfold. It had been easy. After getting all the elements of his plan in position - making sure that the technology and the information were available to the lower rungs of the criminal underworld - Kawahira had turned his attention back to important things, just letting everyone fight it out between themselves. There would always be those sufficiently unscrupulous and with enough hunger for power to simply start at the top of that list of Flame Potentials and work their way all the way to the bottom. Kawahira couldn't care less if the list and technology switched hands a few times in between, only waiting for the characteristic feeling of a powerful Sky activating their Flames. He had better things to do than worry about just who got involved or who got left behind in the inevitable struggle over the technology or information. He still had to fill the positions for the next set of Arcobaleno.

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