Welcome to History + Relationships
I’ve opened this thread so that there is a clearer and open understanding of relationships, rivalry and what has already transpired so that everyone remains on the same page and doesn’t find themselves reading about a ship and furrowing their brow like, “Wait… what?? Aren’t their fathers like, worst enemies?”
This is also a place where you can discuss collaborative ideas that tie characters together.
We encourage going against the grain and disobeying peers and siblings [clearly].
Current Standing Family Contentions
→The Bates family and the Zaire family←
Alliance est. 1997
Conflict est. 2006
Gotti and Andres shared common interests from the jump. Before life was dictated by city standing and stimulant swaps, cash drops, the two were regular friends. They hit bars together, spent nights sloshed with strippers and followed the usual prologue of friendship. When Andres’ family back home clued him into Escobarian capital, he shared the idea with Gotti who had already dipped his toes in white waters and capitalized on it before, solo. The motions were subsidiary before the business mates decided they had to learn to trust others so that the enterprise could expand, especially with children on the way. A team of off-branch relatives was formed, then came the warehouses.
Gotti’s first son was born into hand-me-down’s. Gunner, into occasional department store luxury alongside Andres’ first born, Cristobel. When little Julia and Senna came along, bonafide cocaine convenience labeled them drug lord divas. Simone, the last of Gotti’s lineage, was put straight through private schools. So you could say that business was booming.
The families grew together, even had a timeshare in Maui where they spent a lot of holidays by and large. While Dominic was sort of a lone wolf, Cristobel and Gunner were carbon copies of their fathers, down to the consonance and motive. Julia and Senna only occasionally hung out, but still were considerably close as neither girls had much of a clique. A little known fact to both families, though, was that Senna and Gunner were low key close friends.
A day prior to a joint work ‘sabbatical’ for Gotti and Andres, they were tying up loose ends and preparing to leave a lab in the hands of their sons. Dominic, having long opted out of paraphernalia, naturally handed the opportunity off to Gunner who accepted eagerly. He and Cristobel in fact, waited eagerly together for hours for a call that never came. When they showed up to the warehouse, the Zaire family Camaro was parked, untouched, with neither Andres or Gotti anywhere in sight. Kilos on kilos of product were missing, as though the place had been ransacked.
They held onto hope for a few days, but naturally the tide was churning between families on the premise of suspicion and mutiny. Gotti eventually resurfaced, no explanation given to the Zaire’s he once had parties, barbecues and probity with. But he did - however, reach out to Gunner, and only Gunner, before falling off the grid completely.
Whatever secrecy was being kept under a rug and subsequently Gunner’s heavy boot had Bel at his throat in no time. At just eighteen years old, and having spent the extent of their natural lives by each other’s side, Gunner and Bel suddenly operated on the fifth column. The families separated with fevered hostility. Bel’s side of the trade was larger and consequently enveloped total control over what was once a Z&B operation. This rendered Gunner slightly jilted but not desperate, his father is said to have left a shot in the arm somewhere in Queens so that his loved ones would always be provided for. Rumor has it that it’s some meth lab - but y’know, people talk.
Hush Hush:
Gunner and Senna remain in contact to this day, close friends regardless of bad blood, unbeknownst to anyone. Bel and Julia have had an ongoing affair since before she graduated high school, which proves to be a poorly maintained secret as per Julia’s outbursts when Bel messes around with other women. Only a matter of time before Gunner finds out.
→The Zaire family and the Yakuza clan←
Conflict est. 1989
WIP WIP WIP
→The Bates family and the Yakuza clan←
Conflict est. 1975
Alliance est. 2014
What warranted bloodshed in disco days was far more than present day irritation over a spilt vodka and cranberry. The American family was by no means started by Gotti, nor ended by any of his offspring. So by the time an age-old turf war fell into Gotti’s hands, it was certainly not the first inkling of dealings with the ruthless Yakuza. Their lineage had spread over decades, even said to date back to the early 1700’s. The Yakuza came from corners of Japan, near and far, then ultimately went transnational as an indestructible crime syndicate.
Their cold-blooded killing went farther than what was authorized. At a time, they’d taken out more than half of Gotti’s clientele to prove a point. Besieged incoming shipments. Gotti, having maintained a kingpin status while putting out more blow than a Narco in the Colombian amazon, found their presence repulsive to say the least. He frequently cleared out clubs or received thousands of bullet holes in his own during the stretch of heat riding on narcotic monopoly between both generations. Yakuza’s notoriety was violence. Not drugs. They were more a stock of hired hands, quiet assassins and thieves than drug dealers. Make no mistake in any of this - the Yakuza are lapdogs to none.
Naturally, treaties don’t come easy. Or at all, especially with the Yakuza. But having settled on a common enemy more than 35 years down the line, Dominic, the eldest Bates son, decided to take a step forward and sign off on a union with them in spite of what his family advised. The agreement was simple, seize control over the west side, stay out of each other’s affairs and families [you know, don’t go fucking anyone’s sister], exchange necessary information on cartel, operations, and take down Bel’s administration one piece at a time.
Hush Hush:
Being that a former member of the Yakuza is secretly affiliated with Bel as his personal torpedo [no one knows aside from the girl in question and Bel at this point in time] we foresee this being a major percussion.
I’ve opened this thread so that there is a clearer and open understanding of relationships, rivalry and what has already transpired so that everyone remains on the same page and doesn’t find themselves reading about a ship and furrowing their brow like, “Wait… what?? Aren’t their fathers like, worst enemies?”
This is also a place where you can discuss collaborative ideas that tie characters together.
We encourage going against the grain and disobeying peers and siblings [clearly].
Current Standing Family Contentions
→The Bates family and the Zaire family←
Alliance est. 1997
Conflict est. 2006
Gotti and Andres shared common interests from the jump. Before life was dictated by city standing and stimulant swaps, cash drops, the two were regular friends. They hit bars together, spent nights sloshed with strippers and followed the usual prologue of friendship. When Andres’ family back home clued him into Escobarian capital, he shared the idea with Gotti who had already dipped his toes in white waters and capitalized on it before, solo. The motions were subsidiary before the business mates decided they had to learn to trust others so that the enterprise could expand, especially with children on the way. A team of off-branch relatives was formed, then came the warehouses.
Gotti’s first son was born into hand-me-down’s. Gunner, into occasional department store luxury alongside Andres’ first born, Cristobel. When little Julia and Senna came along, bonafide cocaine convenience labeled them drug lord divas. Simone, the last of Gotti’s lineage, was put straight through private schools. So you could say that business was booming.
The families grew together, even had a timeshare in Maui where they spent a lot of holidays by and large. While Dominic was sort of a lone wolf, Cristobel and Gunner were carbon copies of their fathers, down to the consonance and motive. Julia and Senna only occasionally hung out, but still were considerably close as neither girls had much of a clique. A little known fact to both families, though, was that Senna and Gunner were low key close friends.
A day prior to a joint work ‘sabbatical’ for Gotti and Andres, they were tying up loose ends and preparing to leave a lab in the hands of their sons. Dominic, having long opted out of paraphernalia, naturally handed the opportunity off to Gunner who accepted eagerly. He and Cristobel in fact, waited eagerly together for hours for a call that never came. When they showed up to the warehouse, the Zaire family Camaro was parked, untouched, with neither Andres or Gotti anywhere in sight. Kilos on kilos of product were missing, as though the place had been ransacked.
They held onto hope for a few days, but naturally the tide was churning between families on the premise of suspicion and mutiny. Gotti eventually resurfaced, no explanation given to the Zaire’s he once had parties, barbecues and probity with. But he did - however, reach out to Gunner, and only Gunner, before falling off the grid completely.
Whatever secrecy was being kept under a rug and subsequently Gunner’s heavy boot had Bel at his throat in no time. At just eighteen years old, and having spent the extent of their natural lives by each other’s side, Gunner and Bel suddenly operated on the fifth column. The families separated with fevered hostility. Bel’s side of the trade was larger and consequently enveloped total control over what was once a Z&B operation. This rendered Gunner slightly jilted but not desperate, his father is said to have left a shot in the arm somewhere in Queens so that his loved ones would always be provided for. Rumor has it that it’s some meth lab - but y’know, people talk.
Hush Hush:
Gunner and Senna remain in contact to this day, close friends regardless of bad blood, unbeknownst to anyone. Bel and Julia have had an ongoing affair since before she graduated high school, which proves to be a poorly maintained secret as per Julia’s outbursts when Bel messes around with other women. Only a matter of time before Gunner finds out.
→The Zaire family and the Yakuza clan←
Conflict est. 1989
WIP WIP WIP
→The Bates family and the Yakuza clan←
Conflict est. 1975
Alliance est. 2014
What warranted bloodshed in disco days was far more than present day irritation over a spilt vodka and cranberry. The American family was by no means started by Gotti, nor ended by any of his offspring. So by the time an age-old turf war fell into Gotti’s hands, it was certainly not the first inkling of dealings with the ruthless Yakuza. Their lineage had spread over decades, even said to date back to the early 1700’s. The Yakuza came from corners of Japan, near and far, then ultimately went transnational as an indestructible crime syndicate.
Their cold-blooded killing went farther than what was authorized. At a time, they’d taken out more than half of Gotti’s clientele to prove a point. Besieged incoming shipments. Gotti, having maintained a kingpin status while putting out more blow than a Narco in the Colombian amazon, found their presence repulsive to say the least. He frequently cleared out clubs or received thousands of bullet holes in his own during the stretch of heat riding on narcotic monopoly between both generations. Yakuza’s notoriety was violence. Not drugs. They were more a stock of hired hands, quiet assassins and thieves than drug dealers. Make no mistake in any of this - the Yakuza are lapdogs to none.
Naturally, treaties don’t come easy. Or at all, especially with the Yakuza. But having settled on a common enemy more than 35 years down the line, Dominic, the eldest Bates son, decided to take a step forward and sign off on a union with them in spite of what his family advised. The agreement was simple, seize control over the west side, stay out of each other’s affairs and families [you know, don’t go fucking anyone’s sister], exchange necessary information on cartel, operations, and take down Bel’s administration one piece at a time.
Hush Hush:
