Full Name:| Simple enough I suppose... Kole Issac Marinos Implicitly a Genovese.
Nicknames:| Usually name name is simple enough... on the streets I was called Ace
Age:| I don't lie about the fact that I'm... 24.
Gender:| Check my pants... Can't you tell I'm a guy?
Orientation:| I'm a major flirt without knowing... Heterosexual
Originally From:| No such thing as humble roots here... Chicago, Illinois
Currently Living:| Between two places Apartment in Midtown West, often in the Upper East Side however.
Occupation:| I live two lives... On the face of things he is an agent of the federal Department of Justice's Organized Crime and Gang task force, working in conjunction the FBI and local organized crime officers in the NYPD. Secretly he infiltrated the police as an informant for Jonathon Genovese to feed the family intel on the law's course of action against the family and it's business.
Likes:| I'm a pretty simple guy...
Ever since he was a child, Kole has preferred to be outside. Stories of the jungles in Africa or in South America thrilled him and his favorite movies as a child were The Jungle Book and Tarzan. Being outdoors in the fresh air outside of a city center is where he really wants to be. There is nothing better than the silence of a rural area, the whistle of crickets and a million stars in the sky. He loves the smell of fresh cut grass and cedar trees. This obviously makes Christmas one of his favorite holidays since it's an excuse to bring a real pine tree indoors. Any season suits him. He likes the heat of the summer but the fresh quality of the air in autumn of the crisp bite of winter cold suits him. He loves it all.
With a love of the outdoors comes a passion for hiking and running. Fitness has never been a goal, it's just something that Kole enjoys doing. He enjoys cycling in his free time and for a brief while he worked as a bike messenger in Manhattan and loved it until a cab sent him over the windshield of a passing vehicle. He also enjoys basketball, paintball and swimming. When it comes to sports he would far rather be playing - even football - than watching.
Food is also something loves - even the simplest plate of meat and potatoes will never be taken for granted given how often he was hungry as a child. He loves his steak. With a nice dinner comes the desire for a quiet night. He's far from a partier and his ideal night is one on his couch with his German Shepard watching action movies. He's got a sweet tooth though and has found a fondness for New York style Cheesecake and those new cake pop innovation things - not that anyone on his task force knows. He's known to also have candy in or around his person.
He enjoys music but nothing too loud. He prefers to walk or ride his bike somewhere over driving. That said, he has nothing against cars and he can appreciate the beauty of them. It's the expense of driving that turns him off to the enterprise. When it comes to reading he will if he has to but it's not something he will spend his free time on. When there's a moment to spare in his hectic life he'd much prefer relaxing or recreation. There is nothing wrong in his mind with a day spent in his boxers in bed.
He's a handyman at heart as well and is never afraid of a do it yourself project. He enjoys carpentry and time spent at the gun range. Still, he prefers solitude over crowds and being alone over being with family. He's more than happy to enjoy the company of his own thoughts though he can grow restless if he spends too much time indoors. He's not one to spend a lot of time at a desk or in front of a computer. He prefers to write down things by hand and he's one to call you even if you're texting him a message.
Dislikes:| Don't even get me started...
First and foremost he is not one for small spaces, rooms without windows or extended periods of time indoors. Kole will grow restless, agitated and uncomfortable. He prefers silence over deafening noise. He doesn't like rap, screamo or metal music. He doesn't enjoy being in clubs or discos. He feels disabled by the environment. He can't stand people who talk to no end. He prefers it when a person is blunt and to the point, no fluff involved. That said, he has no respect for those without manners or respect for authority figures. People who make a scene, are ungrateful or are extremely self centered also irritate him to no end.
Kole also avoids dancing, any sort of sport that involves skating and singing. He's not good at any of them and would rather save his dignity and not be caught doing any of them. He also doesn't like nuts - not because he's allergic but strictly for the taste. He also can't eat poptarts or fastfood at often - even the smell can make him queasy and it draws up memories of his childhood in foster care.
His experience within the program as a child turned him off to the American government. He feels the state fails the majority of Americans and as a result feels that he has no true obligation to obey every which law they command when it's to the benefit of a very rich select few. He's fine with breaking laws and has a wild streak in him in that respect. He's not afraid to piss people off and he's never been a fan of law enforcement himself - so it's ironic that he's now one of them. Bureaucratic red tape is a headache to him and he's never afraid to push protocol or the rules more generally. He likes to test people and see how far he can push them - for better or for worse.
Kole doesn't like the idea of tornadoes either and he hates rodents or bugs. He hates mosquitoes as they always seem attracted to him. He's not one for video games - though he loves his game boy precisely because he could take it outside - or a lot of TV. He's not afraid of the rain but a lot of days without sun may see him grow irritable as well. He'll be pumped up on coffee in those instances - something he loves like most people.
Lastly, he doesn't like needy women. He much prefers to have a woman be strong and independent, with enough sass to push him back a little. He doesn't like cats however, or doing dishes. Cooking is not his thing either - the simpler the better. He doesn't like driving, as was said. He also doesn't like commercialism or the flaunting of wealth for the sole purpose of expressing your richness.
Fears:| You never heard this about me...
- First, Kole fears being arrested. Death does not scare him but being locked in a concrete box for the rest of his life terrifies him.
- The idea of losing control over his own body.
- Disappointing Jonathon
- Becoming an ungrateful money-centric individual.
Secrets:| I have a to lose if any of this comes to light...
- He is ultimately on Jonathon's side and is the mole within the crime agency hunting down the Genovese family. Those within the law believe he is pretending to work on Jonathon's side.
- He believes himself to be a more worthwhile heir to the family business than Jonathon's own son. He feels more responsible and introduced into the business, more cool sand capable as well.
- He recently murdered an FBI handler who realized he was a mole.
Hobbies:| You'll often find me outdoors...anywhere with trees really.
When Kole needs to kill time, he's often sporting outside. He runs every morning through Central Park for an hour before taking his dog to run off leash where it's permitted. He spends a lot of time in the park period, playing soccer or basketball. He often isn't afraid to take Dylan Genovese with him to the boat pond either. When he's tired of the park he's often found at Coney Island Beach on the Boardwalk area. He's tried surfing and knee boarding there in the morning's too. When those areas are too packed with tourists he can be found cycling throughout New York, grabbing an excellent burger at a hole in the wall restaurant in Little Italy or spring rolls in China Town. He's social and most everywhere he goes he's a regular - a lot of restaurants know who he is. He's a loyal customer if he's served well. That said, he spends time at the policy academy and at the shooting range. He runs drills in his free time too. If it's the winter time he'll go upstate and go snowboarding. He's also inclined to spend time with the Genovese family, though his career never truly has him 100% off duty.
Talents:| I've never considered myself that great at anything...
As a small child and now especially as an adult, the only thing Kole considered himself good at was lying. He didn't have the conscience that caused him to flinch or grow flustered. He got used to lying to his father about where his mother was, about why he was bruised or had cuts on his hands and knees to his teachers. When he met Jonathon Genovese however, he wasn't good enough and the crime boss saw through him. When he confessed, Jonathon took it in stride. Honesty was rewarding with him, and it earned him a hot meal and eventually a home and a real family unlike anything he had ever had. Now as an adult his skill is the reason he was able to pass a lie detector test and become a cop and play the role that he does. Aside from that, Kole is athletic. He is a strong runner and he is very agile and adept on his feet. He has excellent hand eye coordination which makes him a quick and sure shot at the range. Outside of his career, Kole is a great carpenter and that he learned from his grandfather and shop teacher in high school. He enjoys it and construction did entice him once but it seemed so corrupt and the men who worked in it weren't good company in his mind.
Deficits:| A lot. I have my faults.
Academics has never been his strong suit. Sitting in a classroom bored him as a child and his teachers often thought he had a learning disability due to his inability focus. He's much more of a kinesthetic/tacit learner - if he has to move his hands and feet and do something along with an instructor he is much more engaged. He's never been good at skating and the only reason he can dance is because of Victoria Genovese hiring an instructor to teach both of her sons how to dance properly around the time of Charlee's cotillion. Additionally, Kole is not the most timely or organized person. He is notoriously late and he doesn't value time in the same way as most. He values cleanliness but he feels more comfortable when everything is in it's place in a mess. He's not the best dater either and while he can flirt away his time with women, he misses a lot of signals when a girl is into him. Many times he is considered to have rough manners. As much as Victoria tried to instill traditional etiquette in him, Kole is still rough around the edges - and he still prefers to eat with his hands. Kole is also much more of a people watcher than a chatterbox so idle chat can sometimes become awkward as he will withdraw from it and simply not care.
Weapons:| Bang bang goes the gun - but my firsts can do a lot of damage on their own.
Kole carries with him a Smith & Wesson Model 5906, or a Glock 22 as issued by his department. A gun is on his person at all times. He has completed his Special Weapons and Tactic training and as such is comfortable using an M4 Carbine, and a Remington Model 870 shoftgun when required to. He will often use a variety of weapons when he's at the gun range. He is more than wiling to drop a gun and use his own two hands of course.
Personality:| I'm no John Doe.
From afar he looks like a golden boy, well dressed, handsome and charming. He holds himself well and has strong posture. He is mature looking and conservative in terms of his dress. He is professional when in uniform and well kept when he's out of it. Kole always walks with a brisk pace wherever he goes. When he's on the job he's serious, and often looks like he'd brooding. Something is always on his mind, whether it's work or family related. When he's off the job he is lighthearted and looks for a laugh. He is protective of those close to him and he is ultimately a people pleaser. Like a loyal Labrador, he aims to ensure those he loves are happy and he often puts them first and over himself.
Kole smiles a lot, but upon closer inspection it's easy to see that he's damaged. He's very blunt and sharp. When he's uncomfortable he is quick to fall quiet. He chooses his words carefully whenever he's engaged in conversation. He speaks in a simple and witty tone, not afraid to mock those he knows and doesn't like that much. He's guarded around strangers yet incredibly open around those he knows. Those who know him know him well, especially the Genovese family. They know everything there is to know about his history, especially Jonathon in particular who broke through to him as a young teenager.
Loyal is the best word a person can use to describe to him. If Kole knows a person will be reliable and good to him in return, he will be close and defensive and moreover devoted to that individual. For the few he is close to, he would gladly take a bullet for. He is incredibly protective of his family, especially the Dylan Genovese and Jonathon himself. He would do anything to make them happy, and to ensure their safety, even if that means harming others and lying through his teeth on pain of treason. He is stubborn and headstrong. When his mind is set on something there is little you can do to prevent him from doing what he wants. He aims to do his best and he puts 100% into everything that he dedicates himself to.
On top of being guarded, Kole has a history of being a pathological liar to the point of believing the life he makes for himself. As a child his efforts got him into trouble and eventually with the law until he caused trouble with Jonathon Genovese and the man shook some sense into him. He can still have a punkish streak to him and it's one that shows more to the law enforcement officers that he works with than with the Genovese family. He is fearless in the face of the law and often flouts rules of procedure which has his reprimanded often. To those he isn't close to, Kole is steely and resolved. He's not afraid to mouth off those he doesn't respect. He is at the very core an emotional person and whenever anyone close to him is threatened his temper and fear for those people takes control - leading to irrational action in some cases.
History:| I was born a street rat. I will likely die one.
From the moment he was born, Kole was surrounded by hostile individuals. His father was a loanshark, a cold and cruel man who was heartless when it came to those who decided to take money from him. His mother was an exotic dancer, one who stripped for money more often than she worked in more upstanding clubs. The couple was tense, fighting more often than they got along. Yvette was a Russian immigrant, a woman toughened by her own difficult life in her homeland as a young adult, and then by the hardship of being an alien in America. Chicago was home to both of them and the two suited the grit of the city. Daniel Merideros was his father, a man in deep with the local mob syndicate. His mother was Yvette Bell. While his mother never connected herself to any one specific mob, she came to be viewed as the possession of Daniel. Though they never married, she was as bound to him as any wife.
Kole was an accident, the result of a broken condom and the use of prescription medication on top of birth control. Yvette had never been pregnant before and she had always tried to be as careful as possible. Stripping and dancing led to sexual encounters for money on various occasions. She was good at what she did until she met Daniel Merideros. He loaned money to the club she was working at and when he saw her demanded her 'services.' After a month of being his own private entertainer, Yvette got pregnant. Daniel asked her to abort it but she refused. Taking responsibility for the dancer and her feisty son, Daniel sought to shelter the two from his business. That proved impossible and as a young child Kole's home was often a violent and tumultuous place filled with shouting and swearing and an offbeat crowd of his father's clients. When he was taught his name Kole was unable to pronounce Merideros fully, and he always called himself Marinos - and it would be the last name he adopted when his parents died.
His mother would try to leave Daniel four times before she died. Yvette wanted a better life for her son, a life outside of the toxic environment of Chicago. She was in deep however, owing money to Daniel and with little savings of her own. The first time she tried to leave, Kole was four. He remembers the incident vaguely and it is perhaps his earliest memory. His mother was halfway out the front door with him in her arms when his father stormed through the door and held a gun up at the both of them, threatening her if she left with his blood, and without paying her debts. Tearfully she stumbled back inside, coddling Kole in her lap and trying to prevent him from hearing the lecture she received from his husband about her ingratitude. Kole was seven the second time and at school when his mother arrived in a flurry, taking Kole out of his class early and driving beyond city limits. They were in a restaurant and Kole was happily eating fish and chips when his father arrived and grabbed Yvette by the arm, saying simply that 'it was done.' When Kole was nine he learned what the 'it' portion of his father's words were - a coup against his mob boss that he had led, instating a new more powerful out of town mobster to the top rank. Loyalty was not something Daniel felt to anyone. He was his own man. It was when he was nine that Kole realized that his father was also a regular cheat. When he was ten his mother would bring home strange men at night - clients and boyfriends. As they weren't married it wasn't adultery but it may well have been given the way they treated each other when each affair came to light.
Kole loved his mother yet as he grew older he became to view her as weak. He wondered continuously why she didn't leave a clearly terrible situation. She appeared to him a coward, and his father was little better. He saw his father beat up on many occasions by the people he worked for. He was afraid to leave himself however, as he had no money and nowhere to go. He knew his mother's father lived somewhere in upstate New York as they had visited him once but promptly left when the man had harassed his father. He didn't know who he was though or where he was only that he existed. He had no means of getting out. Instead he go into trouble. His parents were far from good parents. Yvette would dance her nights away, well into the morning hours. Daniel would go a week without coming home. There was no money for a babysitter and as a result their method of keeping Kole in check was to lock him into his room during the day. It was like prison. He had a small TV set and would watch Disney movies on repeat all day. He would color and draw and read his books over and over. He would stage his army men. He was okay as there was an ensuite bathroom attached to his room. But often he would get hungry and had nothing to eat but a few granola bars left for him on his bed. When he started school it was better but not by much. He would often he left at the school to be picked up hours later, only to be locked in his room again. He had few friends and often felt like he didn't exist. He was seven when he climbed out his window the first time, driven by the fact that he had been on his own for twelve hours and was starving. He wandered over to the neighbor's house and asked the old woman if she could please teach him to make a sandwich. The old woman was kind enough to help him with a PB&J. When child protective services were called, his parents decided to move.
When school started, Kole became self sufficient. He got himself to and from the building and did his homework to the best of his abilities. He loved being able to play outside when he was there and gym was rapidly his favorite class. He wasn't a stand out case to many of his teachers however and he flew under the radar, quiet and complacent a lot of the time just like his mother. He was ten when he felt sick and tired of his life however, and he started to get restless. Without any money to pay for the things he needed, Kole started to steal. Whether it was food, clothes or school supplies, he figured out ways to do it all. That is until the local Walmart caught onto his game and had him arrested. He was put into juvie and worse he wasn't bailed out. When he called his parents, his father denied that he was his son. When he tried to contact his mother, she was busy entertaining a client. He was forced to serve out his sentence and the prison system was hard on him. When he was let out six months later, he was forced into additional community service and never heard the end of it. He was thirteen then. He started to get more aggravated as his parents supported him less. He started breaking into model homes and he would get into trouble again and again, arrested and accumulating a lengthy record. He started boosting cars even before he could drive at thirteen. Then everything came to a halt.
His mother was killed first. She was brutally stabbed and left to die in a hotel room just a month after Kole's fourteenth birthday in January. The killing served to ignite tensions between competing mobs and Daniel would urge his mafia man to lead a charge against those infringing on territory that wasn't theirs. Chicago erupted into violence and within three weeks Daniel would be shot in a drive by shooting as he entered the home. Kole had been in the upstairs shower when bullets rained down on the house. When he dressed and ran out to the front he was confronted with his father. He held him in his lap as he died, with Daniel's parting words being simply that he was sorry.
As an orphaned minor, Kole was sent by child services to live with his grandfather Edgar Stolosgov in Albany New York. The old man was as Russian as his daughter Yvette and more so. He was strict, keeping Kole in line with hardline rules. He had a curfew and he had to be in school or there was to be trouble. Kole went without food when he was a smartass to the old man. When he was sitting around, Edgar would pull Kole into his woodshop and teach him carpentry. Edgar was older however, and sick when he took in his grandson. Kole stayed with him for a mere eight months before he passed away in his sleep. Edgar had done everything he could to put Kole on a straighter path and he knew the man cared for him dearly as he did him. He had been taught valuable skills and in some ways again respected the law until child services placed him in another home. Then it came to the surface that his parents' murderers were left at large. The last strike against his faith in the government would come when Edgar's body was claimed by the city morgue and a letter left to him in the old man's will explained that he had been sick and had not had the insurance coverage to buy the appropriate medication to save his life. When he went into foster care, he was taken on as a means for a scumbag family to get additional coupon payments from the government. Kole was one of six kids being hosted by a family who had two of their own. He had no bed of his own and he gained little from them. The people reminded him too much of his own parents and the wife was a cruel drunk. He made the decision to flee, stealing money from the woman and claiming whatever money left to him by Edgar to take a Greyhound bus into Manhattan.
Kole didn't know why but the big city seemed to him a place of opportunity. He was fifteen then, and barely able to work but he wanted to try. Of course, when he approached a construction site and tried to lie about his age the foreman didn't buy it. Kole ran away from the man before he could be found to be a runaway. He was left to the streets and he stayed on them for six weeks, spending his nights in the subway or in homeless shelters. He did odd jobs for money before he found himself truly desperate. He wound up in the upper west side, behind a really nice restaurant. He had been trying to sleep in the alley behind it when he saw a bus boy come out and toss two bags of food scraps into the dumpster. Starving, Kole shamelessly tore through the garbage to get at whatever he could. Of course, he wasn't the quietest and when the head chef poked his head into the alley only to find a punk knee deep in their garbage, he pounced on him. Dragging him inside, he detained him in his office thinking he was a member of a rival family looking for intel on the Genovese family. In walked Jonathon who had been eating dinner with his wife at the restaurant at the time. The man was no nonsense. Kole tried to lie but he was forced to say the truth. He begged not to be taken in to the cops. He explained that he was a runaway, desperate. He explained that he was an orphan. And lastly, he added, the structure of the restaurant looked faulty. Jonathon was amused but Kole proved the faulty work by showing that the foundation was already sinking - and the building itself was only five years old.
It was an in and he didn't realize it that night. Jonathon brought him home, presenting him to his wife as a project. Victoria Genovese was at first unhappy that her husband had essentially brought home a stray. Kole sensed something in Jonathon however - he was a strong man and he was powerful. The money surprised him, but it was nothing compared to the defense Jonathon put up for him when the police did come sniffing one day, looking for a missing kid. Jonathon claimed him and he was taken in as a foster child by the Genovese. Kole was immediately at odds with the eldest son and awkward around Jonathon's very pretty daughter. He bonded with the youngest, Dylan, however and Victoria as well. He was put back in school and tutored privately to catch up. He graduated on time and found himself with a room in the house and a seat at their table. He loved them for all the opportunity they gave him. And it was upon graduation that he decided to return the favor by enrolling in the police academy and pursuing a place on the very task force that seemed to trouble Jonathon so much. If the police weren't after Kole, they often were around Jonathon. Moreover they were often speaking with Nathaniel, Jonathon's second in command. Kole was intimidated by the Genovese patriarch and as such he bonded with the crime boss' best friend more than the family. He found an idol in Nathaniel and it was Nate who broke through to him just like his grandfather had. He had an opportunity in this family. He understood the underside of the lifestyle. He was rough and more than anything willing to learn. Kole bonded with Nathaniel and through the last bit of his high school years he learned to shoot and spar. He fell back into athletics and loved it all.
When he took his position in the police academy it was a tough sell. Upon his graduation and initiation into the service he was pulled aside by a handful of agents who knew of his association. He was questioned brutally and for the course of a weekend about his affiliation, about what he knew. He convinced them of his position. He felt that he had seen many things - and he had - and he wanted to take down this family. He told them that the Genovese were too alike the same people who had killed his family years before. He lied but it rang so true and he was accepted in as their link, becoming what they felt was a triple agent: they felt that he was pretending to be an informant for the Genovese when in fact his loyalty to the family has never faltered.
As he's grown older, his passions for the family have only grown stronger. He loves them dearly and feels like they are his true family, far better parents than Yvette or Daniel ever were. He is a doting brother, and honorable son. He seeks to please them all, and he remains closest to Nathaniel after nearly a decade in their midst.
Miscellaneous:| What else is there to cover...really?
- His German Shepard Duke is a retired police dog, fully trained and adopted by Kole when he moved into his own apartment.
- Drives an olive green Toyota Tundra truck.
- Lives in his own apartment purchased for him by Victoria Genovese.