GIOVANNI, luca angelo

[luca angelo giovanni]

VALKYRIECALIFORNIA

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LUCA ANGELO GIOVANNI
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INTO THE NIGHT
DESPERATE AND BROKEN
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SO, TELL ME. WHAT'S YOUR FULL NAME?

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"my full name is luca angelo giovanni. clearly you can tell my name is italian through-and-through. luca means bringer of light, and angelo means angel. i don't have many nicknames besides i'm often called 'angel face.'"

AND HOW OLD ARE YOU?

"i am twenty six years old."

WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

"you can say i'm in business. i also am i photographer on the side"

YOU SEEING ANYONE, OR ARE YOU SINGLE?

"i am, um, married. but currently separated."

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THE SOUND OF A FIGHT
FATHER HAS SPOKEN
THE PERSONALITY

IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN SEVEN WORDS WHAT WOULD THEY BE?

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"cocky, arrogant, loose canon, smart, quick-thinking, cunning, composed."

WHAT KIND OF THINGS DO YOU LIKE?

"i like photography, painting, my family, jobs, los angeles, valkyrie, italy, fighting, women, baseball bats (ha, but not for playing if you know what i mean,) stealing things, money, poker, traveling, food, athletic activities, night time, guns, books, being a godfather, unpredictable weather, art museums, and running in the morning."

WHAT KIND OF THINGS DON'T YOU LIKE?

"i really don't like liars, non trusting friends, law enforcement, anyone against my family, most people, impossible tasks, death threats, getting ambushed, feeling helpless, working with partners, traffic, and feeling anxious."

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WERE YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES?

"soem of my strengths are being a great actor. I am quite dependable if you need me, i finish everything i start, i am also a skilled fighter in hand-to-hand combat and weaponry. an interesting fact is that i am trilingual. i speak italian, english, and spanish fluently. i have the ability to drive anything. i am also a very good photographer.

some weaknesses i have is the knack of pursuing dangerous and almost impossible jobs. i love a good challenge. i tend to leap before i look, i am mostly inconsiderate to others' feelings. the family i am really close to like my cousin violet and her son rocco. my wife, maggie, though currently separated, is probably my greatest weakness of all."

DO YOU HAVE ANY SECRETS?

"everything seems rather miniscule compared to who my family is and what they do for a living, wouldn't you say?"

WHAT ARE YOU MOST SCARED OF?

"dying? maybe. well, i think i'm most scared of losing maggie. i mean, we haven't been together for four years now, but i guess i know she's not always going to be there."

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WE WERE THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF PROMISE
WE WERE THE VICTIMS OF OURSELVES
THE HISTORY

TELL ME A LITTLE OF WHAT YOUR FAMILY IS LIKE?

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"i was brought up in a big italian family where even family friends are considered uncles, my cousins are like my siblings, and i tend to see them all day every day."

WHO ARE YOUR PARENTS?

"my father is santino giovanni, right now he is forty seven years old. right now, he still works for my uncle. my mother's mona giovanni and she is forty eight years old. she never really worked after she married my father but she told me she was a waitress."

DO YOU HAVE ANY SIBLINGS?

"i have a twin sister. her name is sienna, therefore, she is twenty six, too."

ANY OTHER RELATIVES CLOSE TO YOU?

"i have probably a million cousins. the closest i am with is violetta. we were always closer in age and we've shared a lot with each other. her son, rocco, is my godson and i'd look out for the kid until the day i die. there is also my estranged uncle, antonio "tony" who i am nt very close at all with. then there is wrynn, another cousin. "

TELL ME THE STORY OF YOUR PAST?

"my father, santino giovanni, wasn't the oldest or the youngest, he was one of the middle children. the typical middle child, the one who broke up the fights, my grandparents would go to him asking who hit who first. he was the voice of reason of the siblings. when he was twenty, he was introduced to my mother, mona wellington, an english waitress. they dated for two years before there was a big italian wedding in our family's hometown of naples, italy. one year later, sienna and i were born. they were rather young, but what giovannis didn't get married in their early twenties? my mom got homesick though. she was originally from liverpool, england and hadn't been there in quite some time and missed her family. though my father's side of the family wanted him to move to los angeles to help my grandfather in the family business, my dad first wanted to concentrate on his family, so, we moved to liverpool.

for the next fourteen years, i lived in england. though most of the giovannis were dark-haired, dark-eyed brooders, i seemed to inherit all my mother's looks. i had the blondest hair as a boy and the bluest eyes. i knew from early one i was one of 'the' giovannis from naples. when iw as young, i was pretty neutral about it, but i was really young too. however, i was still rather loyal to my family, it was how i was raised. i was eleven when my grandfather died. so, we had to go to los angeles for the funeral. my uncle fausto was the new don and he tried to convince my dad to stay in los angeles and help out. my dad was always a people-pleaser and he said to my uncle that he needed to square some things away in liverpool and my mother still wanted to stay there. my uncle gave my father three years before we had to move to los angeles. this was my first experience the power my uncle had over people. family or not, you didn't want to piss the guy off.

i went to those stereotypical english boarding school where i ended up being pretty smart and flourished academically. however, i found a great passsion for photography at school and it's something i pursued all my life. i got my first camera when i was thirteen, i ran through so much film, my parents were probably going crazy. i wanted to own my own art studio and sell my photographs. i had big dreams as a kid. it's funny thinking about them now. as i got older, i had a growing fascination with my family's history as well. the great men, the police chases, the deaths, the violence. it was like my family were their own mobster movie that would be the godfather to shame. i did love photgraphy, but i also wanted to join the family business. to my luck, not a fay after the three year anniversary of fausto telling santino the deal, all of us moved to los angeles. not just to los angeles, but we also moved into the family mansion where more of my family lived. sienna and i got close with the cousins we never really saw besides holidays and tragedies. the great thing was, we were all in the same age group too. i got really close to violetta, we shared the same passion for the arts, her niche was painting and drawing. we all went to school together too. i don't want to sound perfect, but all of us were kind of that unattainable group. some of us had friends outside of the exclusive group, but most of us just had each other. we all shared the secret about or family, it was just easier. we were the group where your last name had to be giovanni to be a part of. we joke about it now. all having better than average looks. you really couldn't see one of us without another not too far behind. however, school days weren't the same when violet was kidnapped at fifteen by the irish mob. she was brought back, but she was just different. a couple months later, she told be she was pregnant, and then proceded to tell me the entire story of what happened to her in the basement. to this day, i am the only one that knows it to it's entirety. she was scared and i somehow convinced her to tell her parents. then, i decided i had to join the family. there were too many people i had to protect, too many people that had to pay who wronged my family.

i knew a giovanni's life could be shortly lived, so i graduated school early at seventeen, and spent a year backpacking around italy and it's surrounding countries. i did always wanted to travel and knew this was one of the only times i would be able to. when i turned eighteen, i was back in los angeles and was initiated into the family officially. i'm happy to say my uncle never gave me special treatment. i had to work my way up just like everyone else. i'm not going to lie, i got really cocky. things started coming easier to me. fausto and my father was pleased, so i had a bit of an ego-boost. sometimes, it worked in my favor, sometimes i didn't. on the side, i took photographs too, my second job getting freelance jobs as a photographer for fashion editorials in magazines like vogue, harper's bazaar, and elle. it was a nice extra flow of cash, but what i did for my family was what my heart was in one hundred percent. i had become the giovanni with the angel face. you know you've made it in the mob business when between your first name and last name you had a nickname in there. luca "angel face" giovanni. i guess it was because i wasn't the typical italian giovanni. italian was what i was, but i adopted all my mother's english looks. not many people took me seriously since in the beginning, i had my heavy english accent i soon got rid of my mimicking my other cousins. as some say, i had the face of an angel. before people didn't really know my name they refered to me as the giovanni with the angel face, or don't trust the one with the angel face. thus, the nickname was born.

fasuto had me dividing a lot of time between los angeles and valkyrie. by the time i was twenty one, i was sort of the head collector in valkyrie, overseeing all the business the giovannis had in valkyrie including racketeering, gambling, weapons' dealing, and prostitution. i took my position real seriously, i was at the top of my game for a while there. until fasuto wanted to expand the business in valkyrie. he wanted to ally with the corinthos mexican drug cartel. just like the the medieval times, my own uncle was going to marry me off to juan corinthos' daughter, maggie. yeah, the same maggie that is my wife today, (you can see how this story turned out.) anyway, the funny thing was, i hated maggie in the beginning. we fought, fought, and fought all the damn time. we rarely agreed, and argued with each other just for the sake of arguing. she set my blood boiling. i don't know if i was more angry that i had to marry her or that we were both partners. i asked fausto why he was marrying off me, and due to the fact that i was twenty one, it was about high time i got married and started a family. as you can see, my family is crazy. well, maggie and my relationship was a love/hate story as old as time. she ended up getting kidnapped by a rival mexican gang and drugged. i got to her, and well, saved her. guess it was then i realized how much i loved the woman who had to be more of a loose canon than i was.

yeah, we got married. in valkyrie the spring of 2008. yeah, we still had our fights, but what woud our relationship be without them. it is insane how much i am in love with her. i never had felt about someone like that, ever. a few months later, i had pissed off one too many russians and they ordered a hit on me. i left without a word and later called her on the phone where we fought. i had to retrn to valkyrie anyway to get some things, and we had an in-person confrontation where we fought even more before i took off yet again. i moved to the east coast. fausto had me doing work out there for the next four years. i spent most of my time in boston and new york city. i worked with the gambling scene, kept low, and only went back to valkyrie a few times over the next four years for giovanni meetings, where i saw maggie. i was surprised i wasn't handed divorce papers everytime we saw each other. but, without fail, we still fought everytime i was back, then i would leave again. even if we have been separated for the past four years, i still love her. i still want to be with her, i just think i might have been gone too long. after i heard about the earthquake fasuto told me he couldn't get in contact with maggie and within a day after the earthquake happened, i was back in valkyrie."

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MAYBE THE CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL
THE EARTHQUAKE

SO, YOU KNOW THE EARTHQUAKE THAT OCCURRED ON JANUARY 7TH, 2012?

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"yes, i heard about it shortly after it happened."

WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY OF THE EARTHQUAKE? WHAT DID YOU DO?

"i was in boston. i have family in valkyrie as well as maggie is still there too. my uncle set out a private jet and i flew out there as soon as i could."

DID YOU KNOW ANYONE THAT WAS AFFECTED BY THE EARTHQUAKE?

"most of my family was there. my wife. i couldn't get in contact with her, so i was nervous.

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THROUGH BLOOD AND PAIN
THE ROLEPLAYER

NAME lainey
AGE 19
RP EXPERIENCE six, seven years.
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