#1 luca gurino enjoyer

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[tommytranselo]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76901856

new year new fic old fandom. let's go baby

[charl0ttan]

aaaand my past is right behind me isnt it

[the1920sinpictures]

1910s Gallenga stenciled silk velvet evening coat. From Augusta Auctions.

[morbidology]

A Corsican Vendetta knife with a floral design. The blade reads: “Che la mia ferita sia mortale” which roughly translates to: “May all your wounds be mortal.”

[byjove]

I will suck his cock voraciously but I will never respect him

[byjove]

I will fuck him tenderly and hold him in my arms and kiss the back of his neck but if he got hit by a car in broad daylight I would laugh myself into unconsciousness instead of helping

[iwillmissourtalks]

truly anything can be good if you do enough textual analysis

[iwillmissourtalks]

fandom at its core is about asking the age old question “what if they were doing that shit on purpose” and then they weren’t

[literary-mafioso]

Gang initiation blowjob nosebleed.

[targetedknowledge]

[fuckdamn]

best thing a male character can do is be dog-coded. second best thing a male character can do is sob hysterically

[fuckdamn]

third best thing a male character can do is be a little gay about his best friend

[tommytranselo]

things i know in my heart to be true: vito would adore bruce springsteen

[tommytranselo]

i feel like carlo falcone is/was something of a car guy (i forget if there's evidence for this or if i just made it up) + the frankie potts files lists one of his nicknames as "blacktop carl" -> i'm saying was carlo into stock car racing in the 1920s and 30s?

[tommytranselo]

i'm rewatching a clip of m2 chapter 6 it's so funny seeing vito lined up next to a bunch of default model guys because everybody else has such a wide head compared to him

[tommytranselo]

well now I need to know more about ur henry and luca stuff 🙄

god, where do i begin.

some of the important context here is that i think henry was not well liked when he first joined the clemente family. given that his dad was a powerful mafioso back in sicily and a friend of the don, there’s a perception of special treatment, that henry’s gotten a good job based on connections and not on doing anything to really earn it, and also that henry thinks he’s better than everyone else. and i think henry doesn’t really do much to help his own case; he’s a cocky shit, he hates taking responsibility, he’s passive-aggressive and judgmental. so he falls in with luca, who also isn’t well-liked because he’s 1) a huge asshole and 2) short-tempered and prone to violence. it’a a rocky start; they fight a lot when they’re young, verbally and physically, but henry starts to earn luca’s respect when luca realizes he’s tougher than he looks.

if you asked either of them point blank if they liked the other, they’d both probably say no. and in a way, they still kind of hate each other. but they hang out all the time anyway, and they’ve known each other for twenty years. they’ve hurt people together, and that binds them. they’re the same kind of man, no matter how little henry wants to admit it.

they know each other better than anyone. little things, like how the other takes his steak or what kind of cigarettes he smokes or what a certain look in his eyes means. luca knows henry has a mean streak a mile wide, no matter how well he hides it from other people. henry knows luca craves clemente’s approval, that he’s thought over and over about killing him but could never bring himself to go through with it (it bothers henry, sometimes, the way clemente treats the poor bastard). they both know the other is lonely as hell. they don’t talk about it. they’re two guys who put up these huge facades, who try to act all cool and sophisticated, but they see through each other. they’re two guys who can’t be around normal people.

henry is luca’s go-to fix-it guy for when a situation really gets screwed up. henry is just about the only one who can mouth off to luca and get away with it (though even that has its limits). henry is the one who holds the end of luca’s chain, who keeps him from going totally over the edge. sometimes he doesn’t hold it tight enough. luca hates all henry’s new recruits, especially when henry seems to like them. maybe it’s jealousy, maybe it’s sadism, maybe it’s both.

henry dreams about him, sometimes, after the slaughterhouse.

[lesilence]

Henry who really didn’t want to mix his family life with the mafia one but still felt obliged to invite Alberto (and Luca)

I posted this on a wrong account but I ain’t redoing this

[lesilence]

Henry who got Luca’s cat after Luca died, couldn’t remember it’s name even if held at gunpoint so he just called it Luca.

[rathenrys]

I am the type of person to defend asshole characters so you can’t expect me to exist here and not talk about the big possibility of Luca and Henry having an actual friendship.

Before y’all call me crazy, we do have to take in account this one scene:

Also reminder that Luca doesn’t sound even that mad about Henry potentially whining, just reminding him to not pick up fights with Clemente since we all know that he’s kinda prone to violence. Not even talking about how he sounds completely calm while reminding Henry that he’s literally not able to work at the moment, which is presumably exactly the type of thing Luca would get angry about, so don’t blame me for thinking they’re actual friends 😔.

This is heading more into headcanons area, but Luca is only five years older than Henry, and since I couldn’t really find when Luca got to America (please let me know if anyone knows), we can assume that he could’ve got there when he was young too. So when Henry arrives, let’s assume that he doesn’t know shit of English and Luca who is around his age and could’ve helped Henry a lot with navigating through Empire Bay and with English. Might be a bit of wishful thinking, but it does make sense doesn’t it??

Either way, they are best friends in my head and I won’t listen to anyone who says otherwise (this is a lie if it doesn’t make sense please tell me).

[lesilence]

“i usually keep my nose out of things like that” yeah sure henry, you fucking gossip whore, that’s why you remember what was going on exactly and sound so fucking excited to rat on luca