Post by Agent Lloyd Wakeman on Jun 17, 2009 21:27:06 GMT -5
Name:
Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 73
Height: 5'8
Physique: Old, decrepit
Hair: Snow white, very short. Used to be black.
Eyes: Green
Clothing description: Almost always wears a pressed, crisp black suit.
Occupation: Official: Chairman of the Board of Corambi Holdings, International; Actual: Capo dei Capi of the Syndicate
Home City: Blackwork
Housing location: #37 Florence Boulevard
Backstory:
Lawrence Scaligeri was born the youngest son of Anthony Scaligeri, the heir apparent to the Scaligeri crime family. Young Lawrence grew up in a sort of modern aristocracy, a ruthless and predatory family that grew off plundering others.
As a young capo, he proved himself a brilliant tactician and street fighter, proving instrumental in the gang war between the Blackwork Outfit, of which the Scaligeris were a member, and the Five Families of New Amsterdam. His most memorable action was when he captured a New Amsterdam capo who had turned himself over to the BCPD before protection - he and his men ambushed the squad car bringing him into the station, and were chased by the police to an old chemical plant in the Blackwork Works. In the resulting shootout, Lawrence was shot five times, but was never critically injured, and managed to escape with the capo, earning him the nickname "Lucky Larry."
The gang war ended poorly for Blackwork, with the supremacy of the Five Families in the Italo-American Mafia confirmed, and the death of Lawrence's grandfather, leaving Anthony Scaligeri in control of the family. Nevertheless, Lawrence's actions in the war had assured his rise to control the family, despite his arrest (and subsequent acquittal, in one of the biggest court cases of the decade) in 1983.
Unfortunately, by the time he got that opportunity in 1992, the Scaligeris were on their way out - as was all traditional organized crime. Supervillains were the wave of the future.
Lawrence Scaligeri had other plans.
In 1998, he convened an assembly of over three hundred organized crime leaders, and, together with ninety-nine other gangs, formed the Syndicate. Over the next twenty years, he built and defended a criminal empire the likes of which the world had never seen.
Other:
Scaligeri is both brilliant and charismatic, as well as a skilled personal fighter and tactician. His health has failed him in his old age, however - he was badly injured in an assassination attempt at sixty-five, and is currently confined to a wheelchair and dependent on an IV drip for his survival. The Council of One Hundred is currently swept with rumors that Scaligeri is suffering from cancer, and that his death could occur within the year.
Scaligeri's importance to the Syndicate cannot be overstated. He is the glue that holds it together. There is no clear successor among the Syndicate's current leadership, and his death would likely result in the largest, bloodiest gang war in history. In one of history's small ironies, the possibility of a Syndicate civil war and the resulting chaos terrifies the government so much that Scaligeri's medical treatments and security are, in fact, government-funded.
Scaligeri himself is usually friendly and well-mannered. He dislikes supers and wishes to ensure the continuation of a super-free Syndicate, but will work with them when the need arises - be it in the Syndicate's business, or in keeping rivals out and the state going.
Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 73
Height: 5'8
Physique: Old, decrepit
Hair: Snow white, very short. Used to be black.
Eyes: Green
Clothing description: Almost always wears a pressed, crisp black suit.
Occupation: Official: Chairman of the Board of Corambi Holdings, International; Actual: Capo dei Capi of the Syndicate
Home City: Blackwork
Housing location: #37 Florence Boulevard
Backstory:
Lawrence Scaligeri was born the youngest son of Anthony Scaligeri, the heir apparent to the Scaligeri crime family. Young Lawrence grew up in a sort of modern aristocracy, a ruthless and predatory family that grew off plundering others.
As a young capo, he proved himself a brilliant tactician and street fighter, proving instrumental in the gang war between the Blackwork Outfit, of which the Scaligeris were a member, and the Five Families of New Amsterdam. His most memorable action was when he captured a New Amsterdam capo who had turned himself over to the BCPD before protection - he and his men ambushed the squad car bringing him into the station, and were chased by the police to an old chemical plant in the Blackwork Works. In the resulting shootout, Lawrence was shot five times, but was never critically injured, and managed to escape with the capo, earning him the nickname "Lucky Larry."
The gang war ended poorly for Blackwork, with the supremacy of the Five Families in the Italo-American Mafia confirmed, and the death of Lawrence's grandfather, leaving Anthony Scaligeri in control of the family. Nevertheless, Lawrence's actions in the war had assured his rise to control the family, despite his arrest (and subsequent acquittal, in one of the biggest court cases of the decade) in 1983.
Unfortunately, by the time he got that opportunity in 1992, the Scaligeris were on their way out - as was all traditional organized crime. Supervillains were the wave of the future.
Lawrence Scaligeri had other plans.
In 1998, he convened an assembly of over three hundred organized crime leaders, and, together with ninety-nine other gangs, formed the Syndicate. Over the next twenty years, he built and defended a criminal empire the likes of which the world had never seen.
Other:
Scaligeri is both brilliant and charismatic, as well as a skilled personal fighter and tactician. His health has failed him in his old age, however - he was badly injured in an assassination attempt at sixty-five, and is currently confined to a wheelchair and dependent on an IV drip for his survival. The Council of One Hundred is currently swept with rumors that Scaligeri is suffering from cancer, and that his death could occur within the year.
Scaligeri's importance to the Syndicate cannot be overstated. He is the glue that holds it together. There is no clear successor among the Syndicate's current leadership, and his death would likely result in the largest, bloodiest gang war in history. In one of history's small ironies, the possibility of a Syndicate civil war and the resulting chaos terrifies the government so much that Scaligeri's medical treatments and security are, in fact, government-funded.
Scaligeri himself is usually friendly and well-mannered. He dislikes supers and wishes to ensure the continuation of a super-free Syndicate, but will work with them when the need arises - be it in the Syndicate's business, or in keeping rivals out and the state going.