In 2006, we started an RP based on House, as you know. That November, the fourth then-member of our little contingent was playing the non-canon older half-brother of Chase. She wanted him to be gay and wanted me to play Michael 1.0's boyfriend. At the time, I'd been watching lots of Rescue Me, so I decided to use Mike Lombardi and named him Johnny. Then I came up with the last name Corlioni (which is pretty much made-up). She laughed and went, "He has to be Mafia." So he...sort of was. (That version of Johnny had quit the business.)
Except I'm also a true-crime nerd and know a fair amount about the Mafia. Johnny as he was then (and is now, for that matter) would not function within a Mafia structure. He'd end up dead or killing everyone. And he always had a huge family--his very first thread involves a call from his mother in which his father is with a mistress--so I figured that could be a basis. David, from the start, was also involved, as was Nicoletta. But Johnny is the main reason the family cannot be part of a Mafia family.
And they can't be their own Mafia family because there are the Five Families in New York. I'd already planned, when crime started coming up, to use the existing families, and there are, firmly, five. Then there's the fact of the Commission, which regulates (to an extent) the New York Mafia. The Corlionis would not abide by outside regulation. At the time, David and Nic were the two in charge of the business, and there is no way Nic or David would go for that. They'd blow the Commission up.
All that meant they had to be a crime family, and a crime family in the sense that it's run by the blood family, and could not be Mafia. And they had to be based in New York because they always were. So the business came to be that way. (And then we added the legit side, just to complicate things.)
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In 2006, we started an RP based on House, as you know. That November, the fourth then-member of our little contingent was playing the non-canon older half-brother of Chase. She wanted him to be gay and wanted me to play Michael 1.0's boyfriend. At the time, I'd been watching lots of Rescue Me, so I decided to use Mike Lombardi and named him Johnny. Then I came up with the last name Corlioni (which is pretty much made-up). She laughed and went, "He has to be Mafia." So he...sort of was. (That version of Johnny had quit the business.)
Except I'm also a true-crime nerd and know a fair amount about the Mafia. Johnny as he was then (and is now, for that matter) would not function within a Mafia structure. He'd end up dead or killing everyone. And he always had a huge family--his very first thread involves a call from his mother in which his father is with a mistress--so I figured that could be a basis. David, from the start, was also involved, as was Nicoletta. But Johnny is the main reason the family cannot be part of a Mafia family.
And they can't be their own Mafia family because there are the Five Families in New York. I'd already planned, when crime started coming up, to use the existing families, and there are, firmly, five. Then there's the fact of the Commission, which regulates (to an extent) the New York Mafia. The Corlionis would not abide by outside regulation. At the time, David and Nic were the two in charge of the business, and there is no way Nic or David would go for that. They'd blow the Commission up.
All that meant they had to be a crime family, and a crime family in the sense that it's run by the blood family, and could not be Mafia. And they had to be based in New York because they always were. So the business came to be that way. (And then we added the legit side, just to complicate things.)