Concept: Shot Caller of one of the local sets.
AKA: Almost no one uses his full name. Even a few of his boy in his set don't know his last name. Mostly they just call him "T" Sometimes, "Capital T"
Desc: He’s not huge or crazy muscled up. He’s about average height. He’s on the lean side with his musculature tending to be pretty wiry. He’s got some prison ink. A dusting of tear-drops on his cheekbones. He’s got eyes that will bore straight through your bullshit. He keeps his hair short so no one can grab it in a fight. He’s got some bullet and knife wounds. Scars from where his father beat him. He has a presence that stage actors would kill for. He moves slowly because people get the fuck out of his way. He talks little. His boys say much of what he needs them to say.
History: Tyronne was an accident and it was compounded by the fact that his momma died from giving birth to him. His father never cared much for him and took it out on him until Uncle Joe made him stop. Tyronne wasn’t good in school, (He’s a bit dyslexic) and his home life was a shambles.
But from adversity can spring greatness. Tyronne joined up with the gang down his block. He started like any kid as a runner and a lookout. But he found his ability to read people had him moving up in the crew, Soon he was the head of the crew, (And one night his old man just disappeared, least, that’s what I heard...) and as he moved up in the organization, his boys recognized that he was level-headed, smart, and apparently made of pure fucking iron inside and out. Some people speculate that he might be a "Principled Psychopath" That may be, but it's certainly also true, that Ty figured out early, if he was going to survive, that he was going to have to get hard and go hard every day of his life. So far...It hasn't failed him yet.
Attitude: “Yo. I’m only going to say this once. We can be friends. We can even be a family of a sort. But this life...It’s not about family. It’s not about friends. It’s not about respect. It’s not about anarchy or any other bullshit like that. It’s about business. You act like a professional. You goin to get treated like one. You act like a dumbass...Well. You better hope the cops get you first.”
Skills: Tyronne Is ridiculous in at least facet of his life. He has 5 dots of resolve and 4 dots of composure. He's also likely to have Indomitable and Iron Will as merits. For a man who doesn’t say much, he also has a decent spread of social dots, Mostly to intimidate, or to sniff out bullshit. Tyronne is a natural lie detector and has scarily accurate people radar. He’s not eloquent or anything like that. He’ll say exactly just enough and nothing more.
On the mental side, aside from his crazy high Resolve, he's nothing special. He isn't well educated and he doesn't think particularly fast. (Although THOROUGH is another story entirely.) He may have a dot of Occult, and some dots in Streetwise of course. He'll know his local area like the back of his hand.
Physically, He a little better than average, but not a beast in any one realm. and He'll be a good all-around combatant, but not specced out to be dangerous in any one thing particularly. He might have dots of Ethics of the Professional. He doesn't believe in killing someone by going off half-cocked.
Gear: He’s likely to have 2 Mac10’s on his person so that he can hose an assailant down with bullets and then bail. He carries two phones, One for business. One for personal things. Both are set to vibrate. He has an ugly looking, but razor keen knife. He uses it almost exclusively for intimidating people. It's only been used for real once. On his Father...Which he'll likely tell you if he feels the need to show it to you for any reason.
Home: He moves around a bit as you might imagine but he's usually in and around the Washington Heights area. He's got a couple of little boltholes and usually one place that he thinks of as his "Pad" He likes that to be above a regular business that he and his boys don't regularly patronize. That way if he sees Cops or other gangs in the vicinity they might miss his spot.
Circle: He's going to have some solid retainer dots for the boys closest to him. He'll have allies with other criminal gangs if they've got some sort of business thing going. and he'll have dots of staff for the dealers and runners that answer to him and his set.
On the mental side, aside from his crazy high Resolve, he's nothing special. He isn't well educated and he doesn't think particularly fast. (Although THOROUGH is another story entirely.) He may have a dot of Occult, and some dots in Streetwise of course. He'll know his local area like the back of his hand.
Physically, He a little better than average, but not a beast in any one realm. and He'll be a good all-around combatant, but not specced out to be dangerous in any one thing particularly. He might have dots of Ethics of the Professional. He doesn't believe in killing someone by going off half-cocked.
Gear: He’s likely to have 2 Mac10’s on his person so that he can hose an assailant down with bullets and then bail. He carries two phones, One for business. One for personal things. Both are set to vibrate. He has an ugly looking, but razor keen knife. He uses it almost exclusively for intimidating people. It's only been used for real once. On his Father...Which he'll likely tell you if he feels the need to show it to you for any reason.
Home: He moves around a bit as you might imagine but he's usually in and around the Washington Heights area. He's got a couple of little boltholes and usually one place that he thinks of as his "Pad" He likes that to be above a regular business that he and his boys don't regularly patronize. That way if he sees Cops or other gangs in the vicinity they might miss his spot.
Circle: He's going to have some solid retainer dots for the boys closest to him. He'll have allies with other criminal gangs if they've got some sort of business thing going. and he'll have dots of staff for the dealers and runners that answer to him and his set.
Story Uses:
“See. the way I look at it, disorganized crime is the natural enemy of organized crime. So if I see those bitches down here again. It’s goin to get red.”
Tyronne’s organization runs like a top. crank and crack production and distribution, A string of hoes, some guns on the side, but nothing major...some sports book. Protection rackets even. Don’t even have to threaten people. If folks know that Ty is keeping an eye on a place...that place is as good as insured. Most other people are scared of him. And that’s because he NEVER EVER goes off half-cocked. He assesses. He makes a plan. and then, when the time is right, the hammer comes down on the asshole in question, and no one is able to do a thing to stop it. He’s even taken a page from the Mob’s playbook by offering Contract Enforcement. The basic idea is, Two groups of criminal make a contract and if either side welshes on their end of it, biblical vengeance comes down on the welsher. Now, Mafia history is rife with the contract enforcer getting paid off by the welshing side...but Tyronne don’t play that. He knows that if word got out that he took a side for money, no one would trust his word again...
And Tyronne is a man of his word.
Don’t mistake it for a virtue.
“I don’t know who those dudes are...But it is ON.”
Tyronne knows about the supernatural. He’s seen a lot on the street. Learned a lot from other people. Paid off a few people with more book learning than him to tell him stuff. Even dated that girl Aja from down the club who said she was studying the voodou.
Tyronne keeps his eyes open and his mouth shut. He never meets new people alone and he’s got signals worked out with his boys in case something goes wrong. For the most part, his gang, and to a degree, his legend keeps him pretty well insulated from ending up in someone’s pocket. But you never know when someone is going to get froggy and succeed, or get froggy and fail spectacularly. It is known that at least one vampire tried to put the whammy on Tyronne only to have Tyronne go, "Nah dawg I ain't gonna do that...Yo, Percy. Grease this fool!" One thing is for sure, anybody trying to roll into Tyronne’s hood is going to have to be super stealthy, or he’ll be called 3 times before they get there.
Connections:
* Charlie "Pay attention to what the old man tells you.And thank him..."
* Ezekiel Stubbs "One of the few dudes that I don't ever want to fuck with. That white boy's crazy."
* Jamal Cooper "You see him. You tell him I'm coming. Then you call me. dig?"
* Marcus Williams " I would rather have him on the inside of the tent pissing out, than on the outside pissing in. I'm told he's pretty slick, but ain't nobody can't be got.
* Santos Martinez "Dude has balls so big, he needs a wheelbarrow. I admire his brains."
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