cellophane soldiers (one)

[TINO AMADORE MANCINI]

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twenty six. narcotics officer. drug dealer. single. baby daddy. smart. alcoholic. druggie. broken-hearted. irresponsible. immature. easily angered. extremely charismatic and likable. somewhat of a romantic. protective. potentially violent.

this here is my first baby, tino. he's an extremely italian, handsome, and charismatic fellow. at the same time, however, he's a dirty cop. he's a narcotics officer who is a drug dealer. he drinks too much, and when he drinks he can be potentially violent. he regularly snorts cocaine and tends to still be extremely irresponsible even after the love of his life left him. he has a three-year-old daughter named alex who he is allowed to see every other week. he loves her more than anything in the world. he also loves each and every one of his six siblings of the mancini family, and is very protective of all of them.

as i said early, tino is extremely charismatic. he has a personality that attracts others and most people seem to like him. friends should come pretty easily to him because of this. he's not a mean guy, he has good intentions and wouldn't intentionally be a complete asshole. his co-workers would most likely enjoy his company (unless they know what he's up to and despise him for it), and his costumers would most likely consider him to be a reliable and likable dealer. tino doesn't necessarily discriminate against anyone - that is, unless he absolutely despises someone which would only happen if they did something to him or his family.

adding along with that, enemies wouldn't necessarily be all that common - but they are extremely possible. he can have violent outbursts at times, even at those he loves most (one of the reasons his baby mama left him). he doesn't really like to be serious. not in the sense that he is a goofball, but more so in the sense that he doesn't like to commit and settle down with his life. he would be enemies with anyone who crosses him or his family. especially boyfriends/ex-boyfriends of his two sisters. he's extremely protective over them.

as for lovers, i really don't know what to do with tino. he's still holding onto this idea that lila (his baby mama) will take him back despite the fact that she's getting married in a month. he still has the ring that he had bought to propose to her after she left him in a pathetic attempt to get her back. at the moment, he's emotionally unavailable, but (like the rest of the mancini family) he is very in touch with his sensuality. he is a sexual human being, but not in a man-whorish sort of way where he'd say anything to get in a woman's pants. thus he will sleep with women and could have a friends-with-benefits sort of deal or just an emotionless fling. i want someone to break through his walls eventually when he realizes that he has to let go of lila. once he gets over that, he'd be available for an actual relationship (but it'd take some time). it'd be nice for someone to help him despite his flaws to get over his addictions and bad habits - at the moment, he has no intentions of quitting his habits. i don't know about finals, but if you have any ideas just throw them out there.

tino is pretty awesome, if you ask me, so you should play with him >D

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[GENESIS MARCHETTE MANCINI]

babyyyyyy boyyyyyy!

genesis,

i think genesis and tino, like i already told you when you were making him, should be really close b/c they're so close in age. genesis is really open when it comes to talking about people's feelings - other than her own - but somehow, she's hypocritical when it comes to her family. she expects higher standards out of them than other people, i guess? so she'll take more shit from outsiders than she will from her own brothers and sister. she kinda feels like it's her duty to keep them all in line although she's one of the younger set of mancinis. if/when she ever found out tino deals and does drugs, she'd be upset with him (even though she smokes pot herself when she feels like it). see? she's a hypocrite with her family. lolll idek what to do with her.

but i still think she'd be really close to him. if he ever sides with the russians (even temporarily), she will be distraught and that's probably when she'll break and apologize for ever being a hypocrite with him.

cressida,

cressida will totally be his precious little sister. she's going to love him. their personalities are very much alike because cress is extremely charismatic as well, and she never meets a stranger. i could see her possibly confessing her problem with bulimia to him. she hasn't told any of her family because she thinks they would judge her even though they're all really understanding. she's still afraid to do it. i see her as bonding with tino much more than their oldest brothers because he's the closest to her age of the older siblings, and they're the most alike. also, i see her as being an amazing aunt to alex because she loves kids. cress is the type that would just automatically love babies, so i see her spoiling alex rotten. maybe, after genesis kind of freaks out on her for dating jamie - who's significantly older than her - she could run from genny's house and move in temporarily with tino? she's living in boston when her ballet company isn't busy touring, so she isn't in boston all the time, but when she is, she's been staying with gen.

konstantine,

i definitely see konstantine recruiting him for the russian bratva. i remember you said you ultimately wouldn't want him sided with the russians over the irish because the irish is where his sisters are, but i really do think konstantine's attempted recruitment of him would cause some delicious drama between tino and his sisters. plus, konstantine is an irredeemable asshole who needs some semblance of friends, and tino is charismatic enough that he might be able to get through that shell of kon's.

connor, lennox, and kahlan,

if tino is eventually going to have anything to do with the irish mob, i demand plotting with my irish babies. 8D connor is the leader of the mafia, and he's a douchebag, plain and simple. he doesn't make friends easily because he's known for being selfish, but he's lightening up a bit since he's gotten engaged to eli byrne. but, basically, if you would like for tino to eventually become involved with them at all, he'll ultimately have to go through connor since he's the one in charge. connor likes corrupting cops and perverting them to work for him, so we could do some dynamic like that.

kahlan is the second oldest of the selwyn family, and being the only girl, she was kept from their lifestyle until she was an adult and their father died. she's beautiful and very much cloistered by her brothers - especially connor, who doesn't want her to do anything with any male, period. it could be humorous if she and tino even just flirted a little because it would piss connor off so much, it would entertain me to no end. i love driving connor crazy because i'm mean. hahaha

lennox is the third eldest of the selwyns - followed by asher who is played by melon - and he's notably the calmest of all of them. he's very coolheaded and organized, and he's the official procurer for the irish mob. he 'collects' people connor is interested in, and he can be very manipulative when he wants to be. he's not slimy by any means, but he's very good at talking people into doing what he wants and giving him what he wants. he was an actor in his younger days - because he always despised the mafia and what they stood for, so he got the hell out of there when he got the chance - and he and his brother connor have an epic feud that is never-ending. they don't get along at all, but lennox remains loyal to him because of the selwyn family motto: blood above all. so lennox and tino could potentially become friends down the road, if you wanted.

i don't really know how we could plot the rest of my babies since they're kinda off in different parts of the world that is boston. phillipa is the only other one i think could possibly plot with him. she's the campaign manager for johnny giancola's mayoral campaign, and she's also a vigilante in her off time. xD if you've ever seen the tv show arrow, or even the batman movies, then you know what i mean. she made a promise to her father that she would clean up boston after he was murdered, and she has an 'alter ego' by the name of nyx who takes care of some of the crime problem around town. hee hee they could meet up when she's disguised as nyx or even as she's herself in every day life? idk, it's up to you.

[TINO AMADORE MANCINI]

TINO & GENESIS & CRESS & KONSTANTINE: (i'm putting them all together because they all somehow intertwine in my mind) yay sibling love <3 yeah i'd imagine that they'd be close. i could see her being disappointed in him for losing lila, even if she doesn't necessarily know what happened - being a psychiatrist, she could probably get the gist of it. since they grew up together, she's seen one of his outbursts without a doubt. i think the only way she'd figure out about his drug dealing, like you said before in the cbox, would be because cress would find out and tell her. there would be no way that tino would tell her on his own free will. since she's so expectant of her family, he'd almost feel pressured to do better and would hate to see/feel her disappointment in him.

now this would be where konstantine would come in. they could definitely be friends, and i could see tino affiliating himself with the russians despite the fact that the majority of his family is with the irish. so thissss will create family drama >D i can see genesis almost entirely disowning him - they probably wouldn't talk for at least a month. we can decide when she finds out about the dealing, like whether it's before or after his russian affiliation. idk what would happen next - if he'd go to the irish or stay with the russian ... who knows. he'd probably side with both at the same time xD even though they wouldn't allow that but that doesn't necessarily mean that they would knowwwww mwahaha.

okay onto where cress would be. cress is tino's "precious cargo" in a sense. she's his favorite of his siblings, even though he would never tell his other siblings that. it's not hard to see the love he has for her, so they'd probably already know, you know? i think that'd be awesome if she opened up to him ... it could be like a "don't worry you can tell me anything. if you tell me, i'll tell you something too." and that would be when he tells her about his dealing and stuff. tino would also hate jamie because he's so old, and he's protective of his little sis. he would kill him if he hurt cress, haha, or at least try to. she could definitely live with tino <3 especially after she knows about his dealing and stuff - how would she be about that, anyways? i could see her trying to help tino when she sees first hand how fucked up he is in the head - he'd drink a lot, come home late a lot, he regularly snorts coke, he's not really about weed because he doesn't like how it makes him feel. basically he's a mess, and she'd see that. she'd probably witness first hand one of his outbursts, and maybe he throws a glass or punches a wall or something (these are things that happened with lila) and then apologizes over and over again the next day.

with alex - tino is only allowed to see her once every two weeks, so maybe cress comes with him a lot of the time or at least some of the time?

i don't know if i missed anything with those three, but on to the next ones.

TINO & CONNOR & LENNOX & KAHLAN: i feel like tino wouldn't like connor all that must ... i dunno why, i just do. so i dont know what their relationship would be like. he'd probably get pissed off if connor tried to make a deal with him with his business and all - he doesn't want to be controlled by people, and he'd be giving himself over to the irish mob if he were to do that.

so basically connor thinks of kahlan as tino thinks of cressida. they could definitely flirt it up a bit - but he wouldn't be doing it in spite of connor. i don't know if you really would want to go any further with that?

i could definitely see lennox and tino being friends. especially since lennox doesn't like connor either, and so they'd get along because of that fact alone. tino is very family-over-everything as well. so they can be frieeeends <3 he'd like that he isn't affiliated with the irish mob, too.

TINO & PHILLIPA: they could be friends, too. if you wanted. we can elaborate more on this, i just have to go right now and i want to post this now soooo. yes, we shall talk about this one soon.

[LENNOX RAFFERTY SELWYN]

genesis, cressida, and konstantine,

i think the way cress could find out about the drug-dealing would be if she finally breaks down and tells tino about her bulimia, and then, like you said, he could tell her his secret as a sort of even trade-off for her telling him something so severe. cress wouldn't judge him for it, but she'd be really worried about him - especially if she does live with him for a while and sees him sniffing coke and all that. that's probably when she'd tell genesis about it.

i love the idea of family drama ensuing because of him being associated with the russians. genesis kinda gets affiliated with the irish in a backhanded sort of way. she was kidnapped by connor selwyn and forced to become his psychiatrist whenever he wants free psychiatric advice (i imagine her like the shrink on the sopranos even though i've never seen that show haha). so she hates them, but she's forced to help him or he'll kill her, blah blah blah, you knowww. then, it turns out, her boyfriend, huck, is actually related to the selwyns. he's one of the illegitimate sons of connor's/kahlan's/lennox's/asher's uncle kipper (who slept around with many women and spawned multiple offspring he doesn't even know about). so huck will eventually (well down the road from this point) become the pilot for the mafia. when that happens, genesis will more-than-likely follow suit, but we'll see how that pans out. i don't know if that will lead to her disowning tino as much as just really not wanting to be on opposite sides of the war from him. genesis isn't loyal to the mafia, even if she officially becomes a part of it, and she's really going to be there for huck if she stays. so i don't see her disowning him in that sense, but more being intensely upset that their family isn't united. does that make sense?

cressida, on the other hand, is going to join willingly, so it could certainly create tension between them since they're so close and she's so precious to him. she, obviously, wouldn't disown him either, but perhaps it could lead to the first huge fight between the two of them? him wanting to keep her safe, and her telling him he's a hypocrite for trying to keep her away from it or something? the drama between them could start when he disapproves of her dating jamie - because she's going to get pissed at genesis for the same thing - and then it could get worse when they're on opposite sides. an epic sibling rivalry forming from the very two who are the closest! i love it! as far as her living with him and seeing him doing drugs and whatnot, she'd really be more distraught about it than anything. he's her role model, the brother she loves the most, and it would tear her up to see that side of him. that could really be the first straw to lead to their future strife, followed by him disagreeing with her relationship with jamie, and then the opposite sides of the war. it will seriously be epic. i can see it. of course, they'll make amends at the end of all of it, but how epic is it to go from most cherished sibling to worst enemy? ughhh i can't even. also, yes, cress will be there with him every moment he's with alex b/c she already loves the little creature. hee hee

konstantine definitely needs friends, despite how violent and twisted he is, and i see him siding easily with tino. honestly, he would revel in the split of the mancini family (anything that causes any kind of strife in the irish mafia makes him a happy little bird). like i said, he's a douche. hahaha

connor, lennox, and kahlan,

it's perfectly understandable and believable that tino wouldn't like connor. few people do because, well, he's an asshole. considering he doesn't like being controlled, he wouldn't get along with connor at all because con is a very controlling person. he likes 'collecting' people and things, and when tino wouldn't allow him to do that, he could write him off and then go on to prevent him from contacting the irish mafia. this could aid in the ostracizing of genesis and cressida from tino too, so that would work out well.

yes, connor is intensely protective of kahlan. they are very close, and she knows more of his secrets than even his fiancee does. lennox and asher are close to her too, but not in the same way connor is. kahlan is her own person, however, and she's going to be attracted to whomever she wants to be attracted to. if she found tino attractive - which, believe me, she would - then she'd be interested in him whether connor liked it or not. she wouldn't necessarily like him simply to spite connor, but she wouldn't give in to what he wants just because he wouldn't want her to be with a guy or something. few of my characters have finals set in stone, since i like to allow them to have honest chemistry with other characters, so we could try something romantic with them if you wanted. i'm up for it, and we can see how it goes.

lennox is certainly easier to get along with than connor, although connor would argue that he's gay and that isn't true. bahahaha connor is extremely mean to lennox, but they're brothers, so they stick together. lennox is part of the irish mob, and he's high up in it because he's part of the original family, but some of his loyalties lie with himself. so, that's where i could see him becoming friends with tino. he wouldn't give a damn about what connor thinks, and ultimately, connor can't do anything to him because he would never kill his brother, and that would be the only option he could think of. bahahaaa

[TINO AMADORE MANCINI]

TINO & GENESIS & CRESS & KONSTANTINE:
the cress part is perfect <3 tino would try to hide his bad habits from her ... but you can only hide so much, you know? i imagine him like doing it in the bathroom and her opening the door not knowing he's in there and him being all O___O getoutnow.

yeah all the genesis stuff made sense. it'll be heart breaking all this family drama </3 i love it. there would be so much tension and stuff. he probably wouldn't budge on the whole mafia deal - like he wouldn't turn to the irish mob ... ever ... because he won't like connor. BUT if we do something with tino and kahlan - that will make even more drama. ahh, i'm loving it already.

cress will make him sad when she gets into the whole mafia ordeal ... it'll break his heart when they go on separate sides. i imagine that they both wouldn't necessarily want to be against each other, but they both also won't budge on how they feel about the other's decisions and such. agh, tino is the downfall of the mancini family, it seems </3 ....iloveit.... they probably would think that cress moving in with tino would be perfectly okay with their relationship and such, but that's what makes it all fall apart to start. with tino disapproving of her relationship, her not liking what she sees with his habits, him not liking her getting into the irish mafia because that's his baby girl <3 he'd probably not let her see alex after that, he wouldn't want alex to be dragged into it all. then cress would call him a hypocrite and ahh it's going to be sadly great.

then konstantine would also initially be the other start of the downfall of the mancini family because he would get him involved with the russians. tino wouldn't ever side with either mafia because he doesn't want to be tied down to anything, but i feel like something dramatic could happen - like maybe he ends up liking the russians over the irish and such. idk. on the brighter side, tino and konstantine can be friends. haha.

TINO & CONNOR & LENNOX & KAHLAN:
yessss. if he made it so tino wouldn't be allowed to be involved with the irish mafia, then he would only have the russians in a sense, and he would have a larger separation from his sisters (and potentially brothers that don't necessarily exist yet >_>) annnd on top of it, tino talking to kahlan would probably drive connor crazy, yes? i'm definitely down for some sort of romantic relationship - i'm not all that into finals either xD i think it's more dramatic when you never know if they're gonna stay together or not. you're free to do more things with the relationship xD

continuing with kahlan/tino ... they could probably talk and flirt for a little - he'd have to get over the fact that lila is getting married and will never be with him again. that could stir drama within their relationship because he'd be somewhat emotionally closed off toward her. argumentssss. but i feel kahlan would be able to bring tino out of his heartbreak and realize that there's more to life ... and he would realize it too late or just in time to keep the relationship alive. their relationship probably wouldn't be all that serious at first? sorry i feel like i'm getting way too into this haha, give me your input xDD

tino would probably consider lennox to be a friend of his - would he be the type that they would go out together and drink and such? tino being with kahlan (if we continue with that) would probably bring somewhat of a tension between them, yeah? alsdkjfdlskfj i'm excited for all of this, i can't control myself.

[NINA ANYA WORTHINGTON]

TEGAN

tegan is the prime minister of great britian's daughter and moved to boston to get away from the poisoning lifestyle that the paparazzi forced her in. i could see these two being friends, and while she does (eventually) have a final, until that moment i could see these two maybe having a friends-with-benefit situation. tegan was a wild child in london, and while she isn't as bad as she used to be, she wants to get back in the wild. although that sounded really weird...whatever haha.

NINA

nina is part of the russian mafia as one of their whores and chefs. basically, she cooks at some of their restaurants before coming home and sleeping with some of the members. if he's thinking about joining the russian mafia, then i could see her flirting with him and trying to get him to sleep with her or something like that. but if he doesn't, then i could see lena having major respect for him for not using her and maybe these two even becoming a dysfunctional relationship of some sorts.

JOHNNY

johnny recently had a drug addiction, well, still does, and is a lawyer/running for mayor. so maybe tino was the guy he went to for the drugs and they have a tight knitted relationship about everything. johnny is trying to stop, but i could see him calling tino up and asking for a little this or that on the side.

NEIL

if tino becomes part of the irish mafia, these two would meet. neil isn't really thrilled about being in the irish mafia due to family promises and stuff, but these two would get along perfectly. both are nice guys who don't really have a problem with each other so i could see them just being friendly and close for some reason. I DON'T KNOW WHY. lol (:

RHETT

rhett is on the police force, so maybe they know each other through that? rhett isn't really nice to people, so i don't think they'd be friends. and he hates connor, so if tino becomes part of the irish mafia, he would eventually hate tino for turning against him.

[LENNOX RAFFERTY SELWYN]

genesis, cressida, and konstantine,

what if the straw to break it all is something that initially goes down like this:

• cressida - and ultimately, genesis - join the irish mob.
  
• when connor figures out that tino is a drug dealer, he could approach him to join with his sister(s) because, why the hell not, amirite?
  
• then tino turns him down b/c he doesn't want to pay fealty to anyone, so to speak, and connor blacklists him, telling him if he won't work for him, then he's to have nothing to do with the irish at all.
  
• this leads to the initial ostracization of the mancinis, then konstantine steps in and poses himself as a more likable alternative (although 'likable' and konstatine in the same sentence is weird) than connor. they would be more like a partnership, a team, than what connor proposed (which would be that tino basically does whatever he says with no questions asked).
  

and then so on from there. does that sound right/good? i cannot wait for all of this. it's going to be so epic.

connor, lennox, and kahlan,

tino talking to kahlan and spending any time with her at all would piss connor off so badly, and kahlan, of course, would ignore him. lawlz yes, i completely agree with you on the finals issue. so much more fun to play it all out. hee hee

i agree that i don't see their relationship being serious at first; i really see it as a friendly sort of thing before it's anything. kahlan might recognize his struggle over lila moving on, and she'd try to help him through it even if her brother is blacklisting him. she'd recognize the tension within the mancinis instantly too, and she'd latch on to that. she believes that families should stick together as one, and she'd disagree with connor's blacklisting of him (ultimately driving that wedge between tino and his sisters). so maybe she could even start off as his link between him and cressida/genesis. she'd want him to stay connected, so she could pass messages back and forth or something until it all falls apart.

lennox and tino could totally go out together and get drinks and whatever. lennox loves gambling, so that's something they could do together if tino likes that. honestly, tino being with kahlan would probably be supported by lennox because lennox thinks connor is an asshole. he disagrees with him on most things, and he and kahlan are typically on the same side of issues. however, kahlan loves connor, and lennox really doesn't. with connor and lennox it's more of a blood ties relationship that maintains their loyalty to one another, but with kahlan and connor, she honestly loves him for what's beneath his evilness. so, lennox wouldn't have a problem in the least with kahlan dating/being friends with tino. he'd probably encourage it just because it pisses connor off. hahaa asher (melon's charrie, and their youngest brother) is the one who's the most like connor, so HE would have a problem with it, but lennox wouldn't. lawlz

i'm excited too! *dances*

[TINO AMADORE MANCINI]

TINO & GENESIS & CRESS & KONSTANTINE:
it all sounds perfect to me <3

TINO & CONNOR & LENNOX & KAHLAN:
yay! where should we start o_o i feel like kahlan and tino should meet after tino and connor meet, but when would tino and connor meet o_o? and when should lennox and tino become buddies 8D i feel like they could meet at a bar or some shit and then just hit it off (they sound like a couple xD) and then later tino finds out that lennox is connor's brother and lennox finds out that connor despises tino because tino despises connor. idk xD

TINO & TEGAN:
i say yes to friends with benefits because ashley greene is hot as fack. he'd think her britishness is adorable and he could definitely show her a "wild" time if she's reaaaally down for it. he's got all kinds of goodies if she wants to go crazy xD tino's drug of choice is coke, but if she wants to let loose every now and then. tino would be more than happy to oblige.

TINO & NINA:
hmmm i'd say for these two - tino would recognize what she's doing and therefor wouldn't sleep with her and would probably tell her to stop doing what she's doing xD he doesn't like when women aren't respected and don't give themselves some respect - i guess having two younger sisters gives him that protectiveness xD i'd say dysfunctional relationship is probably a yes because he would probably be trying to get her out of that life and she probably would get annoyed of that, yes or no?

TINO & JOHNNY:
yesssss. i could see them being somewhat of friends - as close as a drug dealer can get to his costumer that is. they'd have some insane trust in each other because tino's a cop and johnny's running for mayor - so they'd both be fucked if anyone found out about them. what is johnny trying to get off of, just curious? they could drunken, drugged up nights and just talk about sad shit and bond over that. ithinkthey'dbegoodfriends.

TINO & NEIL:
they're gonna be friends just because i love ryan gosling. they should just be magically already good friends and that's that. maybe they've known each other for awhile or something. he'd probably ask neil to keep an eye out for genesis and cressida once they get caught up in that whole mess.

TINO & RHETT:
yeah tino would probably be all </3 that rhett isn't friends with him because idk why he just would be. i'd say they probably wouldn't even ever really run into each other, and if they did it would be business. then if tino gets caught up with the irish then his job would probably be threatened because of rhett and there could be some sort of drama there?

[KAHLAN AIDEEN SELWYN]

the way i see it, connor, kahlan, and lennox can all meet tino at the same time basically. connor can hear about or see him dealing drugs, and have lennox 'fetch' him, and they could bring him to one of their hideouts/hangouts/whatever. since kahlan is one of the main players in the mafia now, she could be there (disapproving of any violence they would be doing to anyone, of course ;)). we can say that cressida has already joined them at that point, and genesis is still an unwilling addition to their team (b/c connor still kidnaps her whenever he needs a therapy session LAWLZ). so kahlan will already know that cressida and genesis are his sisters, and when tino tells connor he doesn't want to be 'ruled' by him, connor will blacklist him and disallow him from contacting the irish mob ever again *dramatic*. kahlan will then get upset that connor would cut tino off from his family like that, and she will set it up so he can see cressida (since genesis technically isn't part of them, it wouldn't be as hard for him to see her). lennox likes anyone who tells connor to kiss his ass, so lennox could track him down to a bar later and be like "good job, bro. more people need to tell connor to stfu". bahaha what do you think?