Tony: I come from a relatively large family, so yes, I have several other relatives. My pops has a younger brother, Mario. Both my pops and uncle grew up in a street gang, so they're both no strangers to violence. Whilst my father grew to become head of the family, uncle Mario runs dad's shipping company, while dad runs the road repair company that er... cleans up all those crumbling highways we've got. He's also my dad's current underboss (I suspect to prevent my siblings and I from fighting over that position). I like my uncle. He's much more emotionally charged up than my pops is, and I have a lot of fond childhood memories of playing various games with him. He'd spoil me rotten, and I suspect I was always the favorite of his nephews and nieces. I'd love to see him again if possible.
I have an older brother, Victor, who's kind of rough around the edges. He was a total bully to me growing up, and he lacks business sense, pretty much eliminating him from the running for underboss. I've always gotten the indication my father would prefer me for that role someday. Victor is still family though, and has mellowed out with age, but don't ever insult the guy. I guess I'd... be OK with seeing him again... I just never had much in common with him, to be honest.
I also have a younger brother, Elio. Elio is awesome. I'm closest to him out of my siblings, and we have a lot in common, though he's also somewhat indecisive and not nearly as ambitious as my father would like, and it's this reason I suspect my father is considering me for underboss over Elio. But Elio's cool. He's only two years younger than me, and we were buddies growing up, though I sometimes had to protect him from Victor's um... rampages. I'd definitely want to see him again if I could!
Finally, I have two younger sisters, about a year apart from each other. Paola (or Paula as she prefers) is the older one, and I get along very well with her. Unfortunately, now that she's almost 20, she's become a real um... guy magnet I guess in the past few years. She knows she looks good and has become a pretty big flirt lately, which my father really doesn't approve of. She's attracting some unwanted attention, as father really doesn't want her to marry "scum." In fact, dad asked me to try and recommend one of my friends to her, but I really haven't made a decision on that one yet, thanks largely to my joining the Purifiers recently. Yeah, I'd like to see her again, but I hope she doesn't try and well... hook up with any of my new guests.
The youngest in the family is Maria Carolina (she likes going by Caroline). Caroline is, for lack of a better term... a bitch. She's not very literate or well-read, and this has made her extremely jealous of any girls I've dated, who've quite frankly made her look unsophisticated and stupid (which I hate to say, she really is compared to my type of woman). I think she's got a chip on her shoulder or something from being the youngest, but either way, every time I brought a girl to the house to meet my pops, Caroline would always pull some stupid prank on them to try and drive them off. She also seems to resent that if I do succeed dad, my family's gonna be the ones running the business in the future, and I think she kind of wants any children she may have to do that instead. She's got such an awful personality though that I'd be very surprised if she could ever land a guy for any long period of time. About the only time she's OK is if our family is being threatened. That's the funny thing about her. She LOVES bickering with us but if someone outside the family threatens us... watch out! She'll close ranks and you wouldn't even know about her arguments with us if you tried. Either way, I am NOT looking forward to seeing her again.
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Don Stracci: Augmented? Let me explain something to you. I am a businessman first and foremost. To me, augments have their uses, and the augment market is very, very lucrative. I ship parts to any buyer, and it's since become a recent addition to my shipping business. I really have no issues with augments. Money is money. It's like anything, really. Some people say augments are putting people out of work or are being used to harm others. Son, cars have been used as lethal weapons ever since they were invented. Have we gotten rid of them? No! Loss of jobs? It's creating a whole new market, just like the automobile did. Sure, I bet the horses complained when they had no more carts to pull, but last I heard, horses are still doing OK. I don't waste time worrying about the potential ill effects of something. How somebody uses something is not my business.
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Tony: My childhood? Well it was... I guess kind of average. We were very privileged growing up, and never wanted for anything. As mentioned above, Victor kind of tormented me and Elio, but it taught me how to stand up for myself and give back just as good as I got. My pops was strict, but he had his warm moments too, being affectionate when we were kids, and kind of cooling down the older we got. My mother loved us all, and spoiled us whenever she could. I think I was my dad's favorite, cause he always seemed to give me the occasional extra treat. As Victor realized he couldn't bully me as effectively the older I got, he became a bit more distant, but that didn't stop us from playing together as kids. My fondest childhood memory is when I rode icebergs with Elio in the stream behind our house. That was an adventure and then some! We got so wet, and our mother was furious with us (kept saying we could've drowned), but eh, Elio and I had a blast! It was pretty hilarious too, since our jackets were SOAKED and full of water and we were bloated beyond belief, plus the water started to freeze when we crawled out of the stream. My first words to my brother were: "Elio! I can't move!" He pretty much told me the same thing, and we just kind of had to waddle our way back up the hill to the Heights, hahah.
