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oh to be an arrogant camorrista running through a museum in a pristine three-piece suit and a shit ton of hair gel, hearing the assassin i wronged come after me with resounding gunfires, the halls echoing with screams of my employees
a masterlist for mafia / organized crime related characters ( or with existing verses . ) reblog & tag : character , OC or franchise , & blog type ( solo / multimuse )
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&. edits of santino d’antonio › 01/?
mutuals may reblog!
im what the victorians would call a “vile, ill-tempered and thoroughly wretched little creature”
♔ — YOUR GREEK LOVE IS BAD EROS.
all eros types are organized around ascent , seeking to supplant their status as " human , all too human " . eros types are ideational and cerebral lovers who experience a continual drive towards making the most of their capabilities in order to realize the highest stage of accomplishment that it is possible for them to attain in life . by continually searching out self - improvement , and by being intensely self - critical about anything too mundane in their personalities , most eros types strive to achieve an otherworldly , icon - like facade whereby they will indeed be seen as something " more than human " ; indeed as giving off the impression of having ascended " beyond the human condition " and onto something quasi - divine , like the socratic seeker on the one hand , or the nietzschean overman on the other .
as for bad eros , when beset by preoccupations with competency and worth , there is always the temptation to replace the true ascent towards fairness and justice with more immediate manifestations of superiority , such as bossy , authoritative , and entitled behavior , even in cases where there may not be much in the way of genuine underlying qualities to warrant such posturing . by tending to your own need for superiority before tending to concerns over what is actually fair and good , the icon - like facade of an ' ascended ' individual is achieved at the expense of those principles of impartial justice and intellectual honesty that you would otherwise like to claim for yourself . hence , instead of embarking on the long and tortuous quest to hone your abilities for the long run , you default to manifesting a superior persona here and now , and you tend to do so regardless of whether this haughtiness is justified or not .
your journey towards good eros most likely involves a relinquishment of your preoccupation with self - worth as well as the realization that the value of individuals is not so much intrinsic as it is determined by their actual contributions over time . abstracting from your usual trepidations , one pattern that is likely to register with you is that your haughtiness tends to have an especially easy time coming to the fore whenever your self - image is threatened . in other words , that this conceit is not simply a static trait of yours , but an adaptation formed to cope with feelings of low self - esteem and the nagging suspicion that you are at root inferior . distressing sentiments that you have responded to by developing an outer persona that values power because , deep down , you feel powerless yourself .
“ i’m not doing this for us. i’m doing it for them. ”
♔ misc sentences — selectively accepting. @boogyslcyer.
i’m doing it for them . ah ... the dead wife and the dead puppy . a sad story , indeed , perhaps as infamous as the baba yaga himself at this point , though hardly a reason worth his time . santino isn’t one to admit to his own ignorance , but he can’t help but wonder ... dead wife and dead puppy ... why is it that john continues to fight for them ? he says he’s not back , but that’s a lie . a man who was happily retired wouldn’t have jumped so quickly at the chance to raze the bratva to the ground . wouldn’t have killed eighty men in his attempt at convincing himself he wanted more . ( no life , no wife , no home ) ... for a man like john wick , vengence is all he has .
the camorristi takes a second to watch the other before he dignifies him with a response , taking in the whole of his suit , the placement of his hands , the tension in his shoulders , and lastly , perhaps most briefly , the ire in his face . no . for all his worth , santino doesn’t get the appeal of a life outside the system , but he understands that the dead wife and dead puppy mean something . they’re nothing more than flesh rotting in the ground , and yet they hold a power over lo spettro that he can’t help but envy . it’s a conclusion that makes his jaw work , mouth carving out a line , and he finally exhales .
❛ so long as it gets done , john . ❜
&. santino + his avoidance of getting his own hands dirty .
if you’ve started plotting with me or have read anything on this blog within the past few days , you probably noticed how i like to joke about santino having other people do almost everything for him . and , yeah , it’s mostly to take the piss out of him for being a spoiled brat , but i just want to take a moment to emphasis that him having any kind of hired help has nothing to do with incompetency on his part and everything to do with his elitism , arrogance , and wealth . as shown in canon ( both film and deleted scenes ) , santino knows how to throw a punch . he may not be especially graceful about it and he may not be able to hold his own for very long , especially against those who are more skilled than he , but he knows enough to where he’s more likely to break the other guy’s nose than his own hand . he can shoot a gun and he can handle most high powered weaponry . he’s not a master marksman but he can hit his intended target with at least 70% accuracy and not get thrown by the kickback .
basically , what i mean to say is that santino is not an infant unable to defend or take care of himself , he’s a ruthless and hardened gangster who has a legion of death’s emissaries at his beck and call . he’s a prince of the system ; he might have been raised with a silver spoon in his mouth , but he’s known death and danger since he was a child , has had it hanging over his head and feeding on his insecurities , his thoughts , his weaknesses , turning him into another power - hungry vulture , picking at the slow - dying flesh of humanity . the son of a tyrant , of vultures before him , in a kingdom built on drugs , feuds , and blood ; santino d’antonio was born a monster to a family of monsters , of course he knows how to handle himself . his father made sure of that . santino has no problem stepping in and delivering his own personal touch , but he is a man of efficiency , of status and money and respect , and in the end , he’s just as comfortable sitting in his pagini and watching as his minions raze kingdoms to the ground as he would be to deliver the killing blow himself .
I ask myself 48 times a day “am I being dramatic? Is this #toomuch?” the answer is always yes of course
misc sentences.
“ sometimes i just wonder if they had a reason. ”
“ well, i’m their spawn alright. ”
“ i only know the rumors, nothing else. ”
“ i don’t know who i am, where i’m from or anything — ”
“ sometimes it feels like i’m not even a person. ”
“ people tell me they were amazing people, but honestly, i’m not so sure. ”
“ tales of vodka and cigarettes, that’s where it’s at. ”
“ i have my mother’s temper and my father’s good looks. ”
“ i guess you could say i have a talent for getting myself into trouble. ”
“ you’re my heartbreaker. ”
“ those who live will see. ”
“ maybe they don’t even exist anymore. ”
“ maybe there’s hope. ”
“ maybe i’m just not worth the extra thought. ”
“ everything i knew is now a lie. ”
“ i was dumb enough to believe them. i was dumb, really dumb. ”
“ as if you know everything. ”
“ you’re a tumor that i can’t cut out. ”
“ everywhere i go the memory of you haunts me. ”
“ i was fine until you waltzed your way back into my life!”
“ gimme the lighter. ”
“ let’s soak this snitch and set’em on fire. ”
“ he died in order to protect you. ”
“ he wanted to get close to me, and then — well. ”
“ i had it all planned out, but sometimes things just don’t work out. ”
“ i heard that there’s some dirty business going on there. ”
“ a man of many talents, that one. ”
“ they have your fingerprints. ”
“ you know what’s coming for you. ”
“ you again — what are you doing here!? ”
“ you’re playing with fire here. ”
“ this round of russian roulette isn’t working well for you. ”
“ man, heaven will be delightful. ”
“ you’re going down whether you want or not. ”
“ may i have this dance? ”
“ you’re a mess and you’re in the way. ”
“ you have heard about them, right? ”
“ have you ever heard the rumor of _____? ”
“ those people — they are not something you want to associate with. ”
“ those vile creatures? dear god no. ”
“ we’re a crowd of misfits alright, but misfits with a mind of their own. ”
“ isn’t she/he/they gorgeous? ”
“ careful of that one, she’s got a silver tongue that’ll make you hurt. ”
“ heard she was a ___________ before she got here. ”
“ what’s the matter? never had vodka before? ”
“ what are you doing !? ”
“ you can’t do this ! ”
“ come back ! ”
“ i won’t let you do this to us ! ”
“ where were you ?! ”
“ where are you going !?”
“ keep running! don’t look back!”
“ i’ll distract them! ”
“ they’re coming — run !”
“ just — run! run, now! ”
“ they — want everything we know — i’ll — ”
“ don’t you dare sacrifice yourself for this, it’s not worth it! ”
“ i’m not doing this for us. i’m doing it for them. ”
“ i know who you are. i know everything about you. ”
“ it’s useless. ”
“ you’re… ”
“ they won’t ever catch me. i’ll be gone before they know it. ”
“ they’ll — never see me again. ”
“ you — you’re back — ”
“ they couldn’t keep up with me after all. ”
endless john wick scenes (2/?) ↪ Take it back. Take it back? Take it back. A marker is no small thing, John. For a man to grant a marker to another is to bind a soul to a blood oath. Find someone else.
a study on the reoccuring significance of art in JW2 and how it particularly relates to santino .
01. the scene with santino standing in front of the statue of ercole e lica ( hercules and lichas ) by antonio canova . sculpted between 1795 to 1815 , it depicts a moment in the story of hercules' death . it’s a story of betrayal , revenge played out via a murderous rage and hasty agreements made with the wrong people which eventually come back to bite hercules in the ass . like !!! they’re not even being subtle here . santino’s standing in front of a statue of a guy known for completing impossible tasks , surrounded by a pantheon of twelve gods watching as said guy kills a man he percieved to betray him . what beautiful foreshadowing .
02. when john meets santino in the gallery , he’s sitting in front of la battaglia di custoza ( the battle of custoza ) by giovanni fattori , painted in 1880 . it depicts the first battle of the third italian war of independence , where the kingdom of italy tried to seize back control of venetia from the austrians and reunite the italian peninsula . in the simplest terms , even though the italian army was almost double the size of the embedded austrian forces in venetia , they still got their asses kicked and never really recovered from the loss , resulting in them being pretty much ineffective during the rest of the austro-prussian war . aside from the tamer “ santino’s starting an italian civil war by killing his sister ” comparison , it tells the story of john and santino’s feud : how santino shouldn’t have assumed he’d win just because he had the superior forces , and how even though he was taking what was rightfully his ( i.e. making john fulfill the blood marker , despite the less than noble situation ) , it's no guarantee of victory and you run the risk of embarrassing yourself and getting your ass kicked if you don't know what you're doing .
03. another big painting seenin the museum was bersaglieri a dogali ( battle at dogali ) by michele cammarano . it depicts another crushing italian military defeat which in turn lead to two italo-ethiopian wars . the story the painting makes is that trying to establish a colony in ethiopia via military force ( in santino’s case , his trying to establish a foothold in new york ) wasn't all that clever . throughout their whole museum exchange , john and santino are surrounded by gigantic billboard-sized reminders that attempting to reunify or expand italian territory by force of arms is a bad idea .
04. when winston is warning santino about having stabbed the devil , he’s framed with a towering effigy of kali , the many-armed hindu goddess . kali is often refered to as the goddess of death and violence, however , she is also a goddess of liberation . for john , he’d just been free of santino’s blood oath and therefor liberated from any obligations to the little shithead . for santino , this only further foreshadows death of the illusory self-centered reality he’s crafted , as it begins to crumble around him as john tears it down brick by brick .
𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 , and forced him back into the life that he had just left . you incinerated the priest's temple . burned it to the ground . now he's free of the marker , WHAT DO YOU THINK HE’LL DO ? he had a glimpse of the other side and he embraced it . but you , signor d'antonio ... 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐦 . ( 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 . ) / #TAUNTDEVIL
i’m not your gay friend i’m your gay enemy
John Wick (2017)
Santino with Puppy™
