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always a classic

This screenshot thread's been open in relation to Dominick Cannone's development in Los Santos, everything relating his day-to-day business is going to be posted on here. The main objective of this project is to create a coherent and persisting storyline.

Dominick Cannone is the product of Los Santos' dirty environment. We're talking about somebody who grew up in a world that had everything from Blockbusters, the VHS, walkmans, frosted tips and spiked hair, to cigar-friendly restaurants, illegal slot machines and uncut coke; pretty different from how we know it today. Cannone got to see all these things, until he did not, anymore: he got sentenced to a nine-year-stint in prison before he turned twenty. Dominick's been shuttled from one place to another since he was a kid, changing residency every couple of years, mostly going from one rental house to another in South Side and South Central Los Santos. A troublesome kid he was, nothing that couldn't get straightened out sooner or later people thought, "people" was wrong. Sometimes it's just a bad apple. He started like every wild kid starts, first, he sold pot to smoke his share for free, then, seeing how many dollar bills were passing through his hands, sold pot to buy more pot. Cannone's always done his share of dirt alone, having contacts with nobody apart from suppliers and customers, there never were any partners; that was until he decided to expand his range of clientele. At the age of seventeen, he was making more than what both his parents were making monthly, but that was not enough, and when a friend of his, Isaac, a Puerto Rican guy, offered him to be partners in the cocaine business, he jumped right aboard. They were living the fast life, making more money than they could count without having their hands cramping and spending almost all their profits on hookers, cars and the coke they were snorting. At one point, Dominick moved out of his house and wound up living in yet another rental house along with his business partner, turning it into their operation base. Even though they were spending a shit-ton of money, they were still making profits, but in that kind of game, nobody is to be trusted, especially when there's cocaine in the mix. Paranoia and intrusive thoughts were eating the both of them from the inside out, they couldn't bear all the bullshit the junkies hit them up with, nor the house raids. Dominick and Isaac started accusing each other for all the shit that was coming back to them on a daily basis until one night their neighbors heard a compilation of shots coming from their apartment. The cops were dying for this, and as they were called, they rushed to the Vespucci rented apartment: they found Isaac, dead, lying in a pool of blood with a loaded pistol right by himself, and Dominick comforting his girlfriend Virginia, who was petrified, speechless; the murder weapon was never found. The Fifth of June 2010, is the day Dominick Cannone was brought in by the Los Santos Police Department, he was later sentenced to nine years in a federal prison on involuntary manslaughter charges after Virginia Speranza, Dominick's girlfriend, testified in the trial. Dominick Cannone was released five years ago, in 2019, since then there’s been a total void as for his criminal activity, and all of his activities, apart from a contract he signed with a local construction business in 2021.

I'm noticing everybody, every race, every form of criminal organization, can move to Los Santos from overseas/another part of the US (for whatever reason). Now, the first question which springs to mind is: why is solely LCN not allowed to move/operate in LS? The same reasoning applies to spawning Cosa Nostra inductees: you can't. But why is a vor v zakone allowed to spring up, out of the blue? (I'm not going against that decision, I'm merely stating that the same opportunity should be given to LCN roleplayers, as well, at this point.)

I believe I said it multiple times, but I'll repeat myself: out of all the people I've talked to, nobody had in mind to portray a big crime family. Talking to Copa, too, we shared ideas, you can ask him. What I'm actually planning to bring here, on the server, is a weak, shady presence of LCN remnants. Chuckles left a few links of sources talking about LCN presence on the West Coast, check that out, if it helps. And as per the 1970s suit-wearing made guys, unfortunately I don't know what or who you are referring to.

I could make the same point, replacing Cosa Nostra with Russian OCGs. I'm not here to make a scene or to get in any back and forth with people, I just don't care. I thought there were some things that had to be said. I think no restriction (except for the one about portraying a big family) would hold up, being LCN crews pretty much volatiles anyway. And I couldn't care less about people roleplaying FAIM, I just pointed out that's not an LA native organization. PS: FAIM does not roleplay in neither the places you mentioned.