I love how the others Families of the Alliance treat Timoteo
He's a arrogant fool, think himself superior and controlling of even other families
Can you tell me more about their options? Don Leone and Don Alliata
The Vongola as perceived in the Mafia Land bit of the Daily Life Arc, are considered top dogs of the mafia. Being the oldest, strongest and richest mafia family.
Anyway, so they have reason to be arrogant, especially with their Special Hyper Intuition. Which uh.
Look. Intuition is defined as, let me do a quick search, thank you Merriam Webster
the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
immediate apprehension or cognition
knowledge or conviction gained by intuition
So you take this down, and super charge it and that's Hyper Intuition.
What this really boils down to is subconscious pattern recognition.
Do you pay attention to how someone walks? Not really, but you can still recognize who is coming towards you on how they walk right? Or how they knock or what they smell like and thousands of other little things. So know you know who's behind you or who's calling because they usually call you after making some posts on social media or whatever.
So therefore the wider the information and knowledge base and experiences, the better the system works.
But also as is said in fic, with it being subconscious and it is the brain processing this without cognitive oversight... you get garbage in and garbage comes out. Kinda like generative machine learning software. You can get something that's mostly right and with the inevitable cognitive bias of remembering you were mostly right again and again.. you still wanna trust it. Mostly right is still over 50% right.
In some ways, when seen in that light, Timoteo's everything and his influence on the Vongola and wider Underworld still falls in the 'still right enough to be successful as Don and Famiglia.'
His sons, on the other hand show that you really only have to be mostly wrong once.
But still the hmm wider faith in the hyper intuition is built on confirmation bias is not what I expected to be writing on this morning with this ask.
Anyway the reason that Umei and I usually break the Vongola power bloc into Vongola Alliance in fics is that various local families and so on would also like to maintain their power and authority. And at its founding, nobility still had legal power that the peasantry wouldn't. Dynastic thinking and so on gave them a leg up on Giotto, who grew up in a poverty stricken town.
So the Alliata are the Alliance Breadbasket and Giotto's initial founding family. Since he started doing his thing, as Sicily was just. On fire. Politically and in terms of public disorder.
The Vongola as The Vongola came later, with the special rings and likely a quick change in branding to avoid legal repercussions. Lying to authorities is a time honored human tradition. Clamshell piety and so on. Remember Knuckles is a priest.
This older founding gives the Alliata some historical prestige but doesn't change the fact that they have large tracts of land that needs to be worked and protected and ties up significant amounts of resources within the family from working the fields to managing the sale of crops etc.
It's not that the Alliata have no influence, but they stay in their lane and focus on defense.
They did have more influence when Nono's wife was alive as she was an Alliata...
But I don't think we've mentioned much about Don Alliata's personal opinions.
Mostly because I'm not sure which Don Alliata you're asking about.
And then we get to the Superbi.
Who are hmm. A lot more organized about their everything. By design. The Superbi who end up in charge of other Superbi are usually dynastic long-term thinkers and doers.
Because unlike the Alliata who's meant as a social safety net and local community help, the Vongola were due to special rings, charisma, charm and audacity, the shield and sword arm of the Alliata. (There's viable historical reasons on why the Varia is the House Closest to Founding Vongola and why the Alliata split off as their own thing instead of being subsumed entirely under the Vongola; Giotto's choice to demilitarize was not well accepted by the Alliata)
The Superbi were loosely related families, who were by the time of Secondo/Terzo, a lot more coherent because with the Vongola inspiring order by point of force, Sicily now was a lot more viable market and had ports. This is also when the Superbi really started organizing lineages under thematic names. And why you do kinda need the family trees, because with the addition of the animal theming, that does make knowing who's who to who a bit of a trial. Growing pains of a new system but well. It works and has long proven to have been worth it in terms of influence, curse-protection, immediate recognition etc
The Superbi famiglia as seen by Pantera's planning of the reunion market and so on, works more as a Union for those born as Superbi or those employed by Superbi.
Don Leone's vaguely respectful of what Nono Vongola's done over his tenure as Don Vongola, but that doesn't mean he can't find the man a fool. If his sons are unsuitable as an heir/Don Vongola, he can find another relative to train. Perfect be the enemy of good and so on. It's not like Don Vongola's getting younger.
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