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Santino Galletti
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I'm Santino, the underboss here. I swear to fucking god if you mention 'The Godfather' around me because of my name I'm gonna kill you."
Santino Galletti is the son and only child of the Godfather Lazzaro Galletti in the Lammergeier Syndicate, next in line after the eventual retirement/death of his father. He currently works (loosely) as the resident Underboss/Capo Bastone. Being 19, he doesn't have many responsibilities yet and has growing up to do before he can take the role seriously. He's a first generation American, him being born in the US with his father being an Italian/Sicilian immigrant. His syndicate alias is "Baby Bird".
Arrogant, short-tempered, and irritable, Santino was born into his role of Underboss with an ego inflated to match. He spends most of his time flaunting his inherited money and power with material goods, especially to win over others. Though because of his generally awful personality, the people he meets and calls his friends or even lovers only stay with him because of the money he's willing to spend with them. He prides himself on being a womanizer, both resenting women as a whole and chasing them down because he caught feelings for them in a short timespan. Even if he does hate them, it doesn't stop him from chasing their attention for his own social gain and satisfaction. Santino says that women treat him like an item, but truthfully his attitude is what repels them once they start to see his true colors past his fortune.
Though despite all that, behind closed doors, he’s actually a pretty quiet and reserved person. Only when he’s surrounded by people does it seem that his ego takes center stage. He flips between wanting to be around people and craving their approval, to not wanting to be in contact with anyone for an extended amount of time alone. He has an inferiority complex and believes being an asshole to people somehow will solve the issue. After all, if you’re only ever a closed book, no one can see your true and vulnerable emotions deep down. And no one loves closed off jerks more than women and their bad boys, it seems! And he wonders why he can’t keep a steady relationship… He has a prickly exterior with soft insides, but he never dares to show that fact to anyone except his mother and Aurelio.
He believes that as the next Godfather, he'll change the entire structure of the syndicate as soon as he takes over. He talks a big game but in the end, he's too young and inexperienced to understand how things work. And deep down, maybe he doesn’t particularly want to be Godfather, at least not now. But when he does become Godfather, he reassures people that he definitely will make a positive impact. Though he’s not really sure how, yet.
Others in the syndicate don't particularly... Like him. He acts like a brat a lot of the time and always assumes things will go his way, and most times they do. He uses his status and fortune to buy his way out of everything, never learning from his mistakes because of his father's lenience. No one will actually say how they feel about him to his face because of fear of repercussions if he told his father. Others around him just hope that he becomes more mature with age. Despite his edginess, deep down he fears disappointing his father, and preemptively carries the burden of being his only child and failure of a son; especially considering the circumstances of his conception making him practically a miracle baby. It all just reinforces that he’ll never be as great of a leader as those before him.
He has a particular distaste for Valentine, who also openly hates him. Neither of them know what started their rivalry, but it continues to burn on in the years they've known each-other. Santino usually takes the route of making jabs at his appearance and relationship to Aurelio, but not directly to his face. He's secretly afraid of agitating him in fear that Valentine will retaliate with his similar short-temper, only ever making remarks at him when Aurelio is around to control him. Secretly, part of why he hates Valentine is the fact that he has someone who cares about him much more than his own father cares about himself. Seeing him get unconditional familial-type love and devotion from Boss rubs salt into his wounds when he feels a disconnect from his own father.
For the time being, he’s living out his teenage rebellion years making poor decisions before he has to hunker down and accept responsibilities beyond his own comprehension.
Voice claim: Yuri Lowenthal
Image song: Elephant - Tame Impala
Memes/edits/etc. page - includes all characters in his verse
Meme playlist (videos that remind me of him)
He was created on September 2nd, 2020.
Why does no one ever look at my good traits? What, do I only ever fuck up in their eyes? I do PLENTY of good things. Like, er... Listen, it takes me a while to think.
Generous --- Temperamental
Headstrong --- Materialistic
Persistent --- Close-minded
STRENGTH / PERCEPTION / ENDURANCE / INTELLECT / DEXTERITY
Likes
- Expensive clothing, silk and leather
- Women (?)
- Being in control
- Attention
- Clams, seafood
- Arancini
- Bucatini all'Amatriciana
- Gelato
- Red wine
Dislikes
- Valentine
- Women (??)
- Being talked down to, especially because of his age
- His alias
- His father's bird
- Being called "Sonny"
- Being pat on the head, as well as his hair being ruffled
Fears
- Valentine (for his unpredictability), though he'll never tell you that
- Spiders, insects
- Birds inside buildings, real ones or not (superstition)
- Children
Hobbies
- Shadowing other syndicate members to learn more from them; both for information on others, and actual practical job skills
- Learning how to cook, with his mother as his teacher
- Drag racing
- Gambling, illegally of course
- Basically anything his father doesn't approve of
OTHER
- He calls his father "Padre" and his mother "Mama".
- Santino's father named him after the character in The Godfather. He still refuses to watch it because its "old." Also because he has an inkling of an idea that it won't be flattering, and maybe something else happens to that character...
- Unlike his father he can't speak Italian, only knowing some basics even with his father insisting he learns more.
- He isn't a "made man". He believes others should do the dirty work for him in that regard. Or is it also a fear of his?
- He still drinks alcohol despite being under the age limit. He also started pretty young due to heritage tradition.
- He had his ears pierced as a baby. Because of that, he was mistaken as a girl until he entered toddler age. A lot of the people around him refuse to let that go and use it to tease him.
- He considers his birthmark his biggest charm point.
- His voice gets higher when he's angry.
What, looking to learn some of my deep, dark secrets? ...That was sarcasm.
[ Father ]
"...Padre. It won't happen again."
They have a somewhat estranged relationship. Santino wishes he was more like an actual father to him. It's complicated.
[ Mother ]
"Mama, Padre's being a bit of an ass right now. Can you like... Talk to your husband, or something."
He's a certified mama's boy. He's the closest to her out of anyone else in his life, but he still keeps his walls up about a lot of his emotions.
[ Padre's right hand man ]
"Hey. Your freak's been looking for you. Go find him before he chews a hole in your furniture."
One of the few people who're genuinely nice to him. He doesn't really mind being around him-- just so long as he doesn't offer his "old man advice". Aurelio saves him from being blamed or punished more times than he should.
[ Annoyance ]
"Can you PLEASE be a little quieter? Jesus."
Camilo's too high energy and positive for him. All attempts to train him are shot down with a cutting remark. He recognizes he's harmless, though.
[ Rival ]
"Back off, cyclops. I'm not in the mood to fight you over petty shit."
Santino hates him. Valentine hates him. It's mutual, but in different ways. Valentine claims it's him possibly being bigoted, when really it's a few different reasons-- ones he doesn't want to open up about. Truthfully, one of the reasons is that he's bitterly jealous over Valentine and Aurelio's close relationship and wishes he was that close to someone, too.
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