ALESSANDRO RIVA -- ARBITRATION

[Alessandro Riva]

ALESSANDRO RIVA

" You'll never be alone
When darkness comes I'll light the night with stars "

• Name: Alessandro Riva.
• Nickname: Aless, Papa, Boss
• Sex: Male
• Birthdate: October 17th
• Age:: 37
• Nationality: Italian
• True Name: Arbitration
• True Name Location: Scrawled across his lower/mid back in Gabrielle font.
• Type: Sacrifice
• Affiliaton: Septimal Moon - but is neither student, nor voice. He is a benefactor of the school
• Height: 5'10
• Weight: 149.
• Hair: Alessandro's hair is a object of envy from others. While he initially grew it out because he lost a bet, Alessandro loves his hair long. Soft locks of thick red hair to about the middle of his back. The strands around his ears tend to be highly uncooperative in general, but he is often seen sporting a long ponytail to contain his hair. He's going gray in some areas, but he tends to pull these hairs before anybody notices them.
• Eyes: the color of red wine.
• Outfit: Alessandro is usually seen wearing formal or semi-formal clothes and his usual outfit for semi-formal are usually a pair of black dress pants and a white-button up shirt as well as a black overshirt. Formal attire is usually a suit and a tie.
• Ears: Of course not. He is almost 40.
• Sexual Orientation: Celinosexual - he's never really shown a preference for any other person or sex besides Celino. However, gender doesn't really matter to him, so one may consider him pansexual.

• Personality:
  +Charismatic – For all that Alessandro is, the one thing that makes him such an effective mafia boss is the amount of charisma he holds. He’s simply a people person and attracts both the best of people and the worst of people. People usually take what he says to heart because he knows what he’s talking about and often, he is seen as a beacon of good advice and general charm. He is outspoken in his firm beliefs and likes doing the right thing.
  
  +Caring – Alessandro is quite the caring individual, for a mafia boss that is. He has his moments; however, everything he does is for the better for his family. He goes to great lengths to make sure they are happy. Along with this is a habit of picking up stray children from the streets. He opens his heart and his arms to them, no matter their circumstances or their pasts. He wipes their slates clean. They’re not who they once were, they’re his children. No matter what they’ve done or who they once were. That doesn't matter to him. People change.
  
  +Honest – Despite being a mafia boss, Alessandro works as honestly as he possibly can. He doesn't want to be feared. He’d rather be a boss who’s subordinates adore him, rather than one to be feared because if he’s feared…when push comes to shove, his subordinates will not stand by his side and he knows that fully.
  
  +Protective - Alessandro is known to be rather protective of everything that he feels needs to be protected and should be protected. Sometimes, he might come off as a little bit overprotective...but this is just how he is. He hates seeing other people hurt and would rather himself be hurt then them. He would do anything to make sure his family was safe.
  
  +Trusting- Alessandro can often come off as too trusting sometimes. He is always willing to give somebody the benefit of the doubt, or a second chance...even if it means it's at the expense of his health. However, anybody who has wronged his family will never be given a second chance. They'll wind up six-feet under.
  
  -Flamboyant – He can come off as rather flamboyant when he wishes. As he often refers to Celino, his best friend, lover, and bodyguard, as the “mommy” of his family. This is all an act, though. When push comes to shove, the flamboyance melts away, leaving the boss of the Riva family in its place. He doesn’t try to let the fact that the mafia is indeed a dark business affect him at all. It is what it is.
  
  -Lazy – Alessandro likes attempting to avoid work in any way he can. He usually has Celino to keep him in line on this, however, he often goes out of his way to avoid it. It eventually gets done, however, it gets done at the very last second unless somebody forces him do it. Actually, he seems to do more work to avoid the work than actually sitting down to do it.
  
  -Introverted - More often than not, Alessandro keeps all his emotions bottled with in. A mafia boss should remain calm and collected, no matter what is happening. It could be the death of him if he panics at the wrong time. Because of this, Alessandro can sometimes come off of cold and uncaring, however, the exact opposite is true. He has to remain calm. Celino is more than just a very close subordinate, Celino is the only one he has ever broken down in front of. He wants to keep it that way
  
  -Easily Stressed - Alessandro is not known to handle stress well. In fact, more of then note, he is known to stress himself sick with worry or just all the stress having to be the head of mafia family. He doesn't like seeing other people worry about him, so he'd rather keep any of his own problems a secret.
  
  -Claustrophobic - Alessandro spent weeks locked in a dark cellar when he was kidnapped because of this, Alessandro has a deep hatred for dark and enclosed spaces. He doesn't just hate them, however. He's afraid of being locked away again like he had been. If he finds himself in a really enclosed space, he begins to panic.
  
  
  History: Alessandro was born and raised to be the next boss of the Riva family. The eldest son of the previous boss, the family was his inheritance. He never really cared to have the family though, but he diligently worked as his mother, the previous boss of family, told him too. He didn't know his father very well at all, he had perished shortly after the birth of their third son in the middle of a turf war. 
  
  Alessandro's mother was heart broken, but as she had always taught it, it was never wise to let the emotions get the best of you and she mulled through it with apparent ease, although she had never remarried afterwards and the entire mafia family, included the blood relatives of the boss knew that his death had deeply wounded her. She died when Alessandro was seventeen, supposedly of a broken heart. At seventeen..he felt that he wasn't near ready enough to take over, but he did with his best friend, Celino Arcoh, who had decided from a young age that Alessandro was somebody he had to protect no matter the circumstance at his side. Celino was three years his elder and was severing in the United States marine corp at the time, getting the training he knew he would need to protect Alessandro from the other families.
  
  Alessandro had two younger brothers, twins, who had always hated the fact he was going to be the next don. When he took over the family, that was the last straw. They plotted with a rival family of the Riva's to have Alessandro kidnapped and then killed at their leisure. They waited until Celino was away on a special ops mission with the Marine corp before the rival family and the brothers took action - attacking their own family and having their brother kidnapped. It took them two years for their plan to be enacted, but they finally would have what they wanted.
  
  They spent the weeks after the kidnapping of their brother settling things with the Riva family, taking over as well as becoming a subordinate family to the family they had allied with, as was the deal. Alessandro spent these weeks wallowing in some cellar, wondering what had driven his brothers to betray him like they had. He had never done anything to warrant anything like that...
  
  When Celino returned, he heard that Alessandro was dead, taken out by a Rival family. He knew it wasn't true. Alessandro had always been worried that somebody in his family was plotted against him, he had never guessed it would be his own brothers though. Using what he had learned being in the Marine corp since he was eighteen, he hunted down Alessandro.
  
  It took them a few days, but Alessandro, still weakened by weeks as a prisoner, didn't want to wait any longer for his brothers to continue warping the Riva away from their path of being an honorable mafia family, like it had been in his mother's time. The two planned out a coup, with Celino calling in a favor from the marine corp. They executed the coup just a week after Alessandro had been rescued. A successful one. Alessandro, being the kind man he had always been, spared the lives of his brothers - much to the distaste of Celino.
  
  The weeks he'd spent as a prisoner...he'd never once told anybody what had happened to him. The state that Celino had found him in, it didn't take much to figure out that he'd be beaten, starved and raped.
  
  The next few months were spent fixing the mistakes his brothers had made during their time as boss, as well as recovering from his ordeall. However, he never really trusted them again. A year later, one his twentieth birthday, the brothers struck for a second time, making yet another attempt on the young man's life. This time, they wouldn't leave him to die somewhere. They would kill him outright.
  
  Celino had accepted Alessandro's decision to spare them once, but he wouldn't a second time. In the resulting firefight with that same rival family they had allied with before, Celino took them both out as well as the boss of the rival family. Alessandro mourned for his brothers, but knew it had to be done and never blamed Celino for what he had done.
  
  A couple more years passed, the mafia world was rather dull and quiet compared to the first few years of his leadership of the Riva, the Riva's were as strong as ever. It was something that hadn't happened in awhile, a turf war with another family that had risen to power in the previous months. A fight broke out amongst the two families.
  
  After the other family had fled, Alessandro came across an injured child of the family. His kind-hearted nature made him take her to the hospital where he figured out she was the grandchild of the current boss of that family. He tried to contact them to inform them he had their daughter and was willing to return her without a problem, but she was denied.
  
  Alessandro took her in, adopting her as his own child. Shortly after, Alessandro also adopted another child. A young boy he picked up off the streets after catching him trying to steal his wallet.
• RP Sample:

• Your Name: Risa
• Timezone: Eastern, but I'm usually an night owl.
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[b]UNDERTAKER RIDDLE[/b] - [i]Dante Farnese[/i] - ALESSANDRO RIVA[/ code]
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