(giuseppe maggio, he/him + cismale, 26) | well of course youโve heard of (lorenzo aleotti), right? they are a (grad) student living in (linacre) taking (chemistry) at rye university, and as per the blinds, they are like (a golden crucifix on a thick chain pressed between sinnerโs lips, crisp white lab coats marred with a touch of red lipstick smeared at the collar, a gentlemanโs agreement over a handful of prescription pills), but that may just be because they know (redacted).
tw: drug mention (like a lot of it)
Lorenzo is the second son of Lucia Aleottiโ the head of the Menarini Pharmaceutical Group, better known as the wicked Italian big pharma. Itโs a family dynasty passed down through the first born; an archaic tradition that one wouldโve hoped would end with his mother. Heโs an Irish twin, his brother born just 10 months before himโ but those ten months are enough to place him solidly in second place.
He shouldโve been the next in line, he has the teeth for it (everyone says the second son is the more deadly one) but itโs not how things are done. His older brother is soft; which is just a polite way to say heโs weak-willed, complacent. In the shadows, Enzo grew into something crooked, something vile in thousand dollar suits. He left Europe for school, coming to Rye to make something new for himself, to invent a new self instead of idly accepting the small space heโs meant to fill.
He studies chemistry because he likes itโ reactions and formation of substance, how everything can transform into something new under the right circumstance. How the science was not about the living but it could be born and die, be built up and broken down. Itโs a bit of a clichรฉ, and Aleotti heading into chemistry, but he has a natural affinity for it.
Itโs not the polite grad student, leading highly praised labs and tutorials, receiving top grades and writing innovative papers that has made his true mark on the campus. Itโs that not so secret other self that prowls the campus after hours, when academic matters are put to rest and a dirtier sort of work begins.
Enzo, who started an empire to whet his teeth. Enzo, who is unafraid. He began his business in freshman year, ideas fresh and product skimmed from the top of Menarini shipments into the city. Heโd killed all small business halfway through freshman year, reinventing the drug scene in Rye to be a better representation of corporate Americaโ one nation under Lorenzo Aleotti. He sells only on the rare occasion now, he leaves the dirty work up to townies and the occasional ambitious rich kid who wants to try a hobby that makes them feel edgy, but the lions share of profit goes to him. He manages them the same way he manages the network heโs growing in New York City, like the hand of Godโ unseen, making invisible, noticeable moves to keep them all in line.
He knows a truth that his brother or his mother will never know, who gained their place through something as easy as inheritanceโ the ugliness of conquest. How no legacy is every built without blood. Heโs cold, which is worse than cruel. He takes and scorches the earth before him. Heโs not afraid to do the work, to spill his own blood if he has toโ ambition, the ruthless persistence of it, the endless pursuit of becoming the better brother that keeps him lean and hungry. Though he doesnโt shy from it, he doesnโt enjoy it. Brutality is ugliness, and he likes to keep his hands clean. He likes the image of himself as above the violence and the pettiness of his buyers and the users, all signs of a fucked up god complex for sure.
However, heโs honest about who and what he isโ no grand delusions for the shadowed second son. He knows his ambition is dangerous, and will one day come at a cost. He knows he covets that what he canโt have in all things; he wants to be first, he wants to be on top. Itโs not about being lovedโ he doesnโt want something as flimsy as adoration, as wavering as affection. Enzo who loves people for what they could give himโ the rich for their influence, connections, wealth. The poor for their tightly clenched dollars, their labour, easy distribution of his supply chain.
However, heโs not unlikable. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, and he can slip into a persona a little more comforting, even a little tender. The nature of his work requires that duality, grad student teaching tutorials by day, burgeoning king pin by night. Heโs charming, in the way a snakes rattle soothes a prey animal before teeth sink in. He has no patience for peacocks or ego or playing the game unless it benefits him, and holds little interest in entertaining weak or insecure people.
Heโs expanded into events as well, hosting fight club where he collects bets on select fighters, his associates selling party favours to the crowd.
tldr; Enzo is a bastard, but heโs that bastard. Most of the drugs on campus (the good ones at least) have come through on his careful supply train. The second son set to inherit nothing, he came to Rye to make his own kind of legacy. Heโs known professionally as a decent TA and an excellent chemistry student, but outside of that heโs a ruthless businessman who few would cross.
wc: clients, people whoโve crossed him, exes that he couldnโt love enough, students in his labs, fighters in fight club, potentially otherย โsmall business ownersโ who heโs squashing like a bug ! anything really I would love it all


















