Stepney Mob Character Masterlist
Davy Lloyd (Mob Boss, Tom Hardy)
Played by: bloodiedrhetoric
Davy Lloyd, an unpredictable, blood-spilling brute is the closest thing to a sure death. He’s a man who learned from a young age that squandering from others and getting what was needed to survive by any means necessary was the most important thing in life. If people did not give, then you took. Reared by an orphanage, it wasn’t long before Davy took to the streets instead, claiming London’s filthy streets for his own. He stole, he seduced, and most ardently he preyed collecting a ragtag team of near-starving lads, all desperate for shelter, food and security. And he offered them security. Even though he was not much older than them, it was under his influence and direction that much of a handful of London’s youth managed to get by. But getting by wasn’t enough; as crime in London increased, so did Davy’s penchance for power. For all intents and purposes, Davy is first and foremost resourceful. He sees what he needs in a man or woman, be it sex, money, or power and he takes it. There is little to no room for argument where Davy is involved. A man of pure instinct, the word ‘no’ or the pleading that one might do in hopes to spare their own life means little. The only concerns Davy has? How useful are you to him?
Vera Burton (Mob Boss, Jessica Chastain)
It takes a heavy hand to control the likes of the Stepney Mob, and an even heavier one to be a woman at the reigns — fortunately, or unfortunately if you find yourself on the receiving end of her razor sharp tongue lashings, a commanding and assertive presence has always been naturally gifted to Vera Burton. A denizen of London’s unforgiving streets and abandoned at an early age by a father who was a notorious drunkard, Vera learned that there was only one key rule to survival: adapt or die. And it’s that same moral that she’s clung to her entire life, which has lead to her rise in the Stepney Mob ranks. Vicious Vera, as she’s been so fittingly dubbed, is driven by the most primal instinct to protect what is hers at all costs. Survival is key, but she’s also keen on asserting dominance through whatever means necessary — violence, manipulation, seduction. If it keeps her alive and it keeps her in power, there’s nothing Vera won’t do to make it. She lived on the streets for so long; now, she intends to own them.
Mad Dog (Enforcer, Jason Momoa)
Picture a volcano before it's eruption. The eye of a storm that has flattened your hometown. The moment of clarity and realization of mortality as you stare into the barrel of a loaded gun. This is an explanation of Mad Dog: silent wonder, heavy weight and horror of a black night -- stretching and looming like an ancient tree, as bloody and violent as the crash of a traveler train into a stone wall. With very few words coming from his mouth, Mad Dog is a man who is likely to be seen before he is heard, but regardless of his hulking size, it is rare that he's ever seen if he doesn't wish to be. This is a practiced man of brutality; a man who finds a great amount of art in the limits that he can push into sadism, and it would be a lie to say that he feels any sort of remorse for it. Unlike some of the members of The Stepney Mob, Mad Dog has no ulterior motives; he hasn't been bought, holds no outlying loyalties and makes no friends of the people that circulate. If one needs to find him, they need only look for Davy Lloyd, and it's highly likely that Mad Dog is a few steps behind, just there over his shoulder, staring into you as you have never been peered into before. What the man lacks in intelligence he makes up for in common sense and physical skill, but what he lacks in emotional capacity is less easily remedied. Struggling with PTSD after his stint in World War I, Mad Dog has thrown himself headfirst into the world of organized crime, and while some would believe that his allegiance to the King's Army has been destroyed, Mad Dog simply believes that his talents are put to better use at the side of the reigning king of violence in East London's streets.
Andrew Riley (Enforcer, Karl Urban)
Played by: brooklynislandgirl
Penn Clarke (Money Launderer/Accountant, Ben Whishaw)
Penn Clarke wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth, no matter what his cataloged history may say about that. His story begins in poverty; child to an abusive alcohol and a devout Irish-Catholic whose life ended on the cobblestone pathway outside their rented third-story slum. The image of his success is one that was built brick by brick, lie after successive lie, and in no small part due to his aggressive intelligence and intuition that was cultivated along the way, solely for survival. Penn has erased all that was accessible of his past and has taken what he sees as a higher road, though in all reality he is just as gritty as any gangster he has ever worked for, including the infamous Sabini. He is a true pragmatist, a hustler, a charm, and above all a numerical genius with an inherent ability to blend in with whatever suits him best. His ladder-climb relies solely on his cunning way with words, his ability to display his talents seamlessly and the surprising tactfulness with which he deals with those around him. Penn is the definition of a fraud, though on paper he is the most legitimate aspect of Davy Lloyd's enterprise. His position on The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales offers him insider information, priceless connections and allows him a position of great value to the gang, and that's a position that the young accountant doesn't take lightly. The more trust he gains from the members of The Stepney Mob, the closer he gets to his first and only goal: the death of his previous employer, Sabini.
Robin Ossic (Doctor, Julian Morris)
Robin Ossic is the son of a red that unites all — blood. Blood of those slaughtered that ran across an entire country, the blood of learning the human body smeared over a smock, the blood of war choked with gunsmoke drying tacky on shaking fingers. Blood has been the constant. Robin’s first encounter with blood was of his community’s, splashed over headlines. His older brother’s life blood splattered over his cheek, Robin’s flooding his eyes as it dripped from his head. His family left Russia, fleeing the cudgels and harvesting instruments of an empire raised against them in murderous rage, and landed on the shores of country half a world away. There, his family lost their names and were given new ones: Ozik was cut away as carelessly as a rotten limb, transforming to Ossic, Rubin to Robin. A bird fleeing the jaws of wolves. And like any bird, he learned to soar. He lost himself in the halls of Columbia, waded hip deep in the slums of the Lower East End of his family’s home in New York City as he treated the poor. Then the Great War called him, and sent him back to the lands he fled, to treat the new crop of young bodies staining that cursed soil with blood. When the roaring guns ceased, the conflict in Robin’s mind began. He found himself tainted and corrupted compared to his family, even if he prayed just the same as them. Robin left, crossing the sea again to throw himself in the muck of a new battle zone: the East End of London. There his efforts to combat the sickness and maladies that waged bitter war against the most wretched of the city brought the attention of the Stepney Mob to bear upon him. The bird was finally caught in the jaws of the wolves, only this time, he doesn’t think he can run away.
Erzebeta ‘Beth’ Chakano (Wraith/Drabarne, Kristin Kreuk)
Played by: brooklynislandgirl
Twenty-One (Hitman/Contract Killer, Dawid Auguscik)
The three most frightening things about Twenty-one (as he's been dubbed by the number 21 tattooed on his cheekbone) is that, first of all, no one knows anything about him and he's mute -- whether by choice or force, it's unclear -- second, the amount of violence he uses to get messages across is by and large unnecessary, and thirdly, he can be bought. Choosing to communicate only by pen and paper, or otherwise by rude gestures and physical force, he lets his actions speak for him. What people do know and will find is that he's ruthless, without remorse or empathy, and how he doesn't care one bit about anyone, even those who show him respect. By his skill, you can tell that the ambidexterous sociopath has a military background, by way he operates and wields weapons, and that, along with the fact that he loathes to harm civilians, is about as much background as people will ever get on him -- the last person who could point him out as "Gallagher" met an unfortunate end some time ago.
King Alexander (Gunsmith, Shiloh Fernandez)
Though his father was a skilled gunsmith and armourer well known for his craft, and largely passed this craft on to his very gifted son, he was also largely abusive. When King was only thirteen years old, his father "mysteriously" died, and King vanished onto the streets of London, using his wits, cunning, and resourcefulness to get by -- up until he came upon a East Ender named Davy Lloyd who happened to be in a tight pinch, with a jammed gun and coppers hot on his heel. King essentially saved his hide fixing his gun practically on the spot, and since that moment, fourteen years old, he has been under Davy's wing, who gave him food, shelter, and a place to practice his craft. In return, King have spent the past decade as Davy Lloyd's gunsmith and armourer, and by extension, the Stepney Mob. King holds absolutely no loyalty towards the mob itself, however, but swears he'll live and die by Davy's command, who has been more of a father figure to him than his own father ever could be. To this day, King swears that murdering his father was the best thing he ever did.
Silas Loch (Apprentice, Dane DeHaan)
Charleston Huxley (Musician/Con Man, Chadwick Boseman)
Leo Skinner (Smuggler, Trevante Rhodes)
