Crowned Fool

Child with a silver spoon in his mouth; it's handled stained with bloody finger prints. He was raised lofty above only to believe he could never fall...

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Butting Horns

    A simple text, short of 200 characters; that’s all it took. The message was simple, a place to meet, and with his rolex fastened along with his car waiting downstairs, Dane was off to meet up with no one other than Jude Castillo. The Books as Dane calls him behind his back, was the left hand man or would it be right hand man? Really the young visionary gunning for the top should know this, yet regardless Jude was the brains behind most operations. The calculator, the one who handled accounts on top of accounts, a paper pusher, the lap dog of the infamous Desmond Beaumont. Frankly Dane would feel sorry for him if he didn’t seem content, let alone efficient. As much as they two weren’t different, they shared some level of respect since both of their worlds floated between the same gravitational pull---so to speak. They both had common enemies and common goals. Both had time to make money off one another... So when Dane got the message all he saw was chance to cash in, work his way up, or at least get a free drink off of Jude.

    Thirty minutes passed by between traffic lights and congestion; it was terrible to drive through downtown on a night like this but Dane stayed patient. He focused on his phone, while his other hand nursed a glass of chardonnay. His eyes kept trying to read through the text, to see if there was picture as to why Jude was summoning him so late---while in the fashion that was so cloak and dagger. Honestly he’d expect this from Faye, but not for him. Either way the car rolled up in front of the bar, it’s neon lights glinted against the limo’s windows while he swung open the door to exit. 

        “Bosley, I’ll be here for a good hour, just circle around and don’t go far.” he spoke firmly.

     With that he entered, lending his coat to the man in the front while he moved passed a few drunk bankers and their mistresses toward Jude. The dim light shaped around his body, as he sat alone in the back corner booth. His frames hung slightly down his noise, causing Dane to smirk at how handsome he could be if he wasn’t so meek. “Castillo, my man.” he brazenly spoke while approaching, “Two shots of tequila please.” waving at the bar tender before sitting. “Long time no see....” 

( @bull-shift )

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On the Fence

    Exhaust fumes pillowed behind the parked Cadillac, twinkling lights of their city just beneath them, the night seemed quiet and calm. However Dane arranged for him and Imogen to meet on Crow’s Nest hill, a back road that few people ever crossed by let alone drove out to in the middle of the night. It was chilly that evening, the fool disguised as a king sat in the driver chair waiting for her. The young thief and him went way back, to a time that was innocent---well as innocent as their families could shield from them. Mo and Dane’s life would come to a point where their toys would be traded for the tools of the families. For Dane, his work with penmanship and perfecting the curves of other’s signatures would be come his nightly routine.  Where as for Imogen, how to weave open locks or reading up blueprints on newly minted safes would replace her time looking up make-up tutorials on youtube.

                       This was the life of a criminal; this was the life of the mob. 

   Regardless Dane and her had business, a minority lucrative one that had been fencing for awhile. The Raven Diamond was part of a tip that Dane gave Imogen, about a private collector in upstate New York. He figured it’d be an easy in and out for her, while hoping she’d like to keep the diamond---since Dane’s romantic side noted in their last email that the ring would compliment her features beautifully; yet in her nature she demanded their normally agreement of selling. Straight cut of 15% to 85%, along with a down payment of ten thousand for insurance policies. It was simply business between them, which most times he didn’t fight.

    ---Yet a noise pulled Dane’s attention to his passenger door, his left hand sliding across to his gun that was concealed inside the waist of his belt. With a smile he relaxed, “A simple text I’m here would have been nice.” he smiled, knowing she’d brush it off. “Shall we get down to things or do we have a minute to chat up?” 

( @herflamingarrows )

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Dane Romero; Mob!AU ↳ CODE NAME: H E R M E S

Dane on the street has coined the name Hermes, as his hands seem to be in everything, knows four languages, and often delivers his messages straight forward and personally. He has business in commerce, drugs, public relations, law, art, prostitution....really the list goes on. Dane’s electric taste and wanting to capitalize on everything comes from his parents abundant business ventures and connections they’ve gained over the years

Dane is older in this verse, being 24 instead of 20, and has a more mature out-look than his more egocentric cannoned self. He is still single, but not as hung up on love as he was in the canon. Lilian is still cannoned in this verse but instead of leaving him, she has died. 

In this universe Dane is still cocky, angry, and spoiled but lacks the precision and calculation as his canon self is know for. He’s impulsive, brash, arrogant, and believes he’s unstoppable. His personality is about 80% still him if I had to sum it up, but splashing a bit more fun, humor, and less shutting others out all the time. 

As for his past Dane comes from a family that is know for playing both sides of the fence---a neutral name among the universe of criminal, assassins, and mob families. Arthur Duclos, his father, is a forger, art fencer, and a good their. His name has help anyone who has the highest prices or has a favor he needs to pay off. Dane grew up admiring his father’s skill in bargaining with others, his skill with a pen and pencil, and learned that not all crime had to be violent. His mother, Delilah Duclos is an owner of a parlor bar named Lucky Rose. It’s a bar to the untrained eye but in it’s basements or upstairs in the VIP lounges it becomes trafficked for drugs, gambling, or arms deals. Duclos family were thought of bridges; pathways to other’s vices. They organized, held order, and made safer grounds for opposing sides to sell or to make plays in the crime world. 

Dane grew up learning the craft, being a fair forger and mildly good thief---but he wanted more. He wanted to find away to impact the crime world, while bending it to him. Growing up he went to college getting a degree in criminal law and public relations. Now Dane is using his mother’s connections and his father’s money, while trying slowly build his cliental at his firm to help protect, change the public’s view, and keep secrets for the mob families or criminals he deems fit.

The only family he distrust and hates are that of Beaumont. The notorious “rulers” the Kingpin, had rubbed Dane a wrong way at a young age. At 18 years old his girlfriend, Lilian Alcott, was in a wrong place at the wrong time. Finding herself in the cross fires of a shoot out between gangs---one ordered by Desmond’s father and the results was her life. From then Dane has hated Desmond and with his time at college, growing and learning, he believes he should be the next Kingpin, and with his wit and resources thinks he can take it. This has started a feud between them both while gaining exposure for Dane. Whether whomever is the “real” heir, Dane has caused a frenzy in the world causing workers and loyalties to shift, while babysitting him with out noticing. 

To say this Dane is a bit more child like is not an overestimation but he isn’t completely naive either. His aries traits are definitely still in tact, but leans to the more rash and spontaneous traits of his---the cardinal part of him wanting to blaze trails for himself. 

Sun: Aries Moon: Aries Ascending: Scoripio 

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The Zodiac Mob - Aries

Thinks they are the kingpin. Everyone lets them think they are the kingpin. Insists on driving in the flashy kingpin car. Wears an actual name tag. Constant assassination attempts on their life so Sag/Libra are always right behind them but it makes sense to let the Aries have a good time since it deflects suspicion. Makes all the media appearances, also has the bar fights with Leo.

Based on this post.