#Lou Marcano

[santademikey]

it’s been a week heres chapter five

#it’s a bit of a mess. but eh #danny burke #giorgi marcano #tommy marcano #lou marcano #sal marcano #nicki burke #vito scaletta #+ olivia and remy are mentioned a couple times but they’re not important to this chap #mafia 3 #mafia iii #santademikey’s (other) awful wip

[dalekofchaos]

#Mafia IV #Mafia 4 #Mafia Trilogy #Ennio Salieri #Marcu Morello #Felice Peppone #Leo Galante #Sal Marcano #Lou Marcano #Valerio Marcano #Lucio Marcano #Sammy Robinson

[tommytranselo]

one of the things i really appreciate about the mafia trilogy is the extent to which charisma & friendliness & love coexist with brutality & cruelty. i mention this constantly in the context of sal being a particularly well written villain but it applies across all the games. paulie being goofy and genuinely affectionate and clearly caring deeply about sam & tommy (especially in "a trip to the country" for example), but also beating the absolute shit out of people on collection duty to the point of serious permanent damage. joe being an incredibly close and loving friend to vito (not to mention henry, marty, etc) but frequently escalating violence without regret (the greasers arguably, accidentally killing leon, chapter 13) and seeming entirely unfazed about the drugs and about the idea shaking down struggling workers. henry showing clear affection toward vito & joe (sparing leo, saving joe from luca, keeping quiet in the hotel) but outside of that being incredibly coldhearted–the "only deadbeats do drugs" spiel, the gloating over killing pen, chapter 3 in general, not giving a shit about the rules by 1951. lou marcano, despite being a huge piece of shit, being locally famous and evidently incredibly charismatic. salieri's whole "benevolent boss" thing, no matter how bullshit it is. mike bruski being relatively friendly to vito at the junkyard only for joe to then describe him beating the shit out of a guy for spilling beer on his betting slip. luigi being a sweet, charming old man who used to be a feared hitman. hell, even vito beating up that guy at the docks at the beginning of ch3 because he wouldn't pay derek's bullshit barber fees, despite overall being motivated as a person largely by love (which he seems unable to express other than as "i will hurt people/be hurt for your sake"). obviously there are some total assholes like luca and clemente but they're presented as exceptions.

because that is, from what i've read at least, largely accurate to real life. of course you got some all around awful company but from what i've heard it seems like a lot of figures like luciano and lansky and capone did actually love their loved ones, and were charming and genuinely pleasant to hang out with if you were on their good side. and in order to work people over i guess you have to be. but in generally, people aren't card carrying supervillains. and it's nice seeing that they leaned into how normal and friendly these guys could come across when they weren't actively doing gangster things. it makes them scarier imo.

#mafia definitive edition #mafia 2 #mafia 3 #mafia 1 #never known anyone involved in organized crime personally (that i know of) but met some real assholes who came across friendly if they had #no reason to treat you like dirt. it was freaky finding out how awful they were to some people

[rottingmanifesto]

Some writing I did for John, just to better get a feel for his style. Can’t say I adore it but I tried! Commentary > likes. Photo credit here.

March 12

It’s humid, hot, and stinks of that fucking river in-country. New Bordeaux, Louisiana— Bourbon City, playpen of Salvatore Marcano and his family (and not just in the mob sense). If I knew Lincoln wasn’t going to burn this city to the ground, I would do it myself. The rich residents have their blood filled with Marcano’s heroin or hate and the poor ones don’t stand a damn chance at social mobility. The American Dream might as well be a nightmare to half of the residents. Southern manners my ass.

The Father’s not a big fan of me, but unfortunately for him, I’m used to it, between here and the Company. At least he’s kind enough to let me set up shop here until I can find a better place, which really isn’t saying much in a shithole of a city like this. It’s either mob-owned hotels worth ¾ of my paycheck or shitty motels in hick-controlled Hollow. But I’ve had worse. As long as it’s not another backwater hellhole, I can bear it, no matter the outcome. Until then, it’s just me and the Padre. And Lincoln, when he comes back around. (It’s not an “if”, I know that much.) And when he does, I’ll be ready.

March 27

The Padre and I agreed on a schedule to keep things running in the house. He watches Lincoln in the mornings and nights, and I take midday and late night shifts. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve fallen asleep next to Linc on those late night shifts. Need to buy more coffee. The air is always stuffy in the Padre’s house (I blame Louisianan humidity) so we open up windows sometimes. Doesn’t seem to help.

Anyway, this paperwork is a goddamn maze already. If mobsters have got one thing right, it’s their dedication to pissing off federal agents. I’d almost admire it if I wasn’t one myself.

March 30

Christ, just how many rackets does this asshole have? I’ve spent 4 days straight solely on Sal’s capos— I haven’t even had the time to look into Sal himself yet. To his credit, he sure as hell knows how to allocate resources. Then I’m here, downing the Padre’s entire fucking coffee pot pouring over tax returns from 1962. Princeton education at work.

Current findings are relatively clear at least; Lou deals with pimping and drugs, Olivia gets her highs from fucking with the Southern Union (which I’m assuming is an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, though I can’t say for certain), and Tommy does just about anything he can find. Public face, Southern charm, middle management. Haven’t had the opportunity to look into Enzo Conti yet, but records indicate he’s the least dickish of the Marcano family. For starters, he’s not a Marcano. That’s already a plus in my book.

All that’s left after the intel-phase is writing up dossiers on all these fuckers. Not hard by any means, but might as well keep it brief for Lincoln’s sake. And my own sanity.

I also found a place just out of reach of the Dixie Mafia (racist southern assholes, albeit the “normal” variety) on the other side of the Hollow. Considering how many times the Padre has told me to go fuck myself, it’s probably for the best that I get a room sooner rather than later. It’ll be nice to smoke without someone reciting Psalms two rooms over for once. Goal is to set up a tac-op center in one room and have the room next door to sleep. No promises that I’ll ever use that room, but it’s the thought that counts.

On that note, Lincoln’s condition appears to be stabilizing over the past 2 weeks. He’s still unconscious for the most part but he’s breathing regularly. I always knew he was thick-skulled. He’ll pull through. No matter how long it takes, I’ll be here.

May 15

Just picked up information that Hoover’s fairy brigade has set up shop in New Bordeaux. Headed by some guy named Jonathan Maguire, sent here from DC to deal with the little Marcano situation. Late to the party (as always). Might pay them a visit, see what intel they’ve got already.

May 18

Finally managed to install a wire into the FBI’s tac-op center and steal their files. Really professional of them to leave it unattended, but then again, I’m the uncontrollable variable in this American experiment. So far, the files are mostly what I gathered already, but the background is sure-as-hell interesting.

1934 is the stuff of local legend. The FBI cites the “official” story as just usual mob bullshit— revenge for the murder of a family member— but there’s an issue. Sal could have gotten his father off the hook for the gambling debts if he wanted. He didn’t. What he actually wanted was to take over New Bordeaux’s increasingly divided crime underbelly. So, he used his old man’s death as a rallying cry for revenge, and then took over New Bordeaux with force and fear. Reason I bring this up; he doesn’t want his son to do the same thing he did.

June 6

Goddammit.

First it’s John Kennedy, then Martin Luther, now it’s Bobby Kennedy. How much longer will this happen? The hell is this country fighting for? The fuck do we believe in? What happened to liberty and justice for all? What happened to men being created equal?

Jesus fucking Christ, I need a smoke.

Padre was nice enough to offer me a drink. At least he believes in a better America for all. Only if more priests were like that. Then maybe things wouldn’t be like this. The Father isn’t keen on violence but at least he’s not fucking spineless.

At least Lincoln didn’t have to see this shit. That’s the one positive here. The only one.

#mafia 3 #john donovan #my writing

[nevalizona]

I hate Lou SO MUCH. Like I hate all the Marcanos but there's something about him specifically so fucking gross to me. I have always felt that way, but I think his cigarette card or whatever pushed me over the limit.

#stevie.txt #text #m*fia game

[the-underworld-aes]

Because I’m on the Spectrum™...

I would post this on my art blog but what good would that do? I guess this is unofficially also a fandom blog... anyways

So! A thing I like doing is figuring out timelines, time frames, dates and fun stuff like that. And I gotta say, the timeline of events in Mafia 3 is INFURIATING! And according to THIS it’s the lead world designers preferred playthrough. I know I probably should take this with a huge grain of salt, but going by this it throws so many things out of wack (especially making Sign of the Times be the last DLC story you touch)

So, February 27th is when things kinda kick off, Lincoln’s friends and family are killed and he’s left for dead by the Marcanos.

Bullet wound takes on average 2 months at most to recover from (from mixed sources 😵)

Lincoln was still bed ridden when MLK was assassinated on April 4th. So I assume he was walking a bit after that, mid-April.

So mid April is when he was up moving around and getting things set up.

The DLC’s, despite not supposing to be in order, 1 of them has a specific date correlated with it.

The DLC stories become available after you get have all the under bosses and do that Sit Down mission.

The “Sign of the Times” DLC introduces character, Anna McGee, without getting too much into it, her death date on her grave is “June 6th 1968

So, set time or no, this implies the cult shenanigans happen immediately while Lincoln is getting into contact with Cassandra, Vito and Burke and he’s juggling them on top of this.

Must happen only in the span of a few days, not even a week.

For the rest of June, I guess Lincoln works at a more normal pace but still a lot going on at once.

For reason the only record date one of the Marcano Capo’s is Lou, and that’s in July, so I assume the Judge gets clapped early July.

That text at the bottom:

This threw me off but I realized it probably took a sec for the charges to process.

So I assume Giorgi and Sal died around mid-late September and the charges processed about it a bit later.

No one asked but since that POS in Faster Baby! Was going for reelection in Sinclair Parish, that means it was Primary Election season so that’s probably between Feb-Sep.

A lot of pumpkins in Faster Baby! Pumpkin season for south Louisiana is March, April and to mid-September.

My guess is that DLC story is somewhere in August.

No idea when Stones Unturned is supposed to take place, I would think near the end maybe cause it feels right with the events, like Donovan was probably like “Hey you’re about to finally kill Sal and his POS son, and I helped you SOOO MUCH up till then, can you do this one favor for me real quick??”. At least that’s how I see it.

So the main story ends in October. Maybe early November.

It’s so confusing, no one asked, but I just wanna make it make sense but it’s sooo compact to the point Lincoln had to like, do multiple things at once.

You know? Vito is right to ask him if he ever rests, cause I’m worried about him too. Just doing so much immediately after a head injury. I guess revenge quests are a hell of a stimulant. ALSO WHY DID THEY MAKE ANNA’S DEATH DATE JUNE 6TH? COULD HAVE AT LEAST BEEN JUNE 25TH OR SOMETHING A BIT LATER.

#no one asked #no one cares #im just typing out my frustrations #mafia 3 #mafia iii #mafia 3 definitive edition #video games #rambling #being ND is no cakewalk i tell ya #this stuff keeps me up all night

[disappointingyet]

Chee$e

Director Damian Marcano Stars Akil Gerard Williams, Lou Lyons, Yidah Leonard, Julio Prince Trinidad & Tobago/USA 2022 Language English (with subtitles) 1hr 47mins Colour 

Stylistically adventurous weed-infused Caribbean comedy

On a quick description, Chee$e could sound like either a son-of-Goodfellas tale of the drugs trade or a stoner comedy. It has flickers of both but is at heart neither. It’s a gently paced character-and-place film, aiming for a distinctive feel with look, soundtrack and language.

The narrator and protagonist is Skimma (Akil Gerard Williams), a young man living in sleepy Turtle Village, Trinidad. Skimma works a couple of jobs, one of which is in the little cheese workshop owned by Mr Otone, an incomer who has taken him under his wing.

One day, Skimma comes up with the idea of transporting weed inside blocks of cheese. As well as disguising the smell of the cannabis, this apparently has the accidental effect of making it more potent and somewhat hallucinatory.

Meanwhile, Rebecca (Yidah Leonard), daughter of formidable fish and chip shop owner Maria, tells Skimma she’s pregnant following their one awkward date. Other significant characters are Skimma’s loyal sidekick (Julio Prince), local mystic and weed cultivator Osris (Lou Lyons) and a disgraced big city cop who is looking for a major bust to get him out of the sticks.

Most of the film has a yellowy, slightly faded tint. And throughout there are subtitles that rise and drop playfully, mostly rewording what the characters are saying in ‘standard’ English but sometimes glossing their statements and – in one scene in particular – giving us what they actually mean rather what the polite, euphemistic words they are speaking.

So while it does follow the standard trajectory of a drug-trade movie, it does not have the vibe of one at all. This is a mostly woozy movie, in an appealing way.  Maybe it skirts on the edge of the locals all being eccentric and colourful, but I think it stays on the right side of that, and creates an immersive and mildly trippy worldview. What you want from a low-budget film is – generally – something distinctive, something with a character of its own. Chee$e definitely has that, and it will be fascinating to see where Damian Marcano goes from here.

I saw Chee$e at the BFI London Film Festival 2022

[ploytomdog]

Marcano family

1 giorgimarcano

2 salmarcano

3 tommymarcano

4 oliviamarcano

5 loumarcano

#giorgi marcano #sal marcano #tommy marcano #olivia marcano #lou marcano #mafia 3 #mafia iii

[taiga-saejima]

honestly it’s not a case of gray morality where the lines are blurred and you can’t see what’s morally right or wrong etc.

theyre part of the fucking kkk, they enjoy purposely targeting black people and exploiting and abusing them, even killing them

this isn’t a “uwu they did nothing wrong!!!” 

they’re fucked up people how can you not see that.

#mafia #the marcanos #sal marcano #lou marcano #giorgi marcano

[pointlookout]

👊 phoebe + lori 😌

phoebe:

honestly probably nobody. shes not the aggressive type but for the sake of the this then probably amatas dad and also stevie mack for killing jonas :( also moriarty

lori:

giorgi lol! a classique love hate relationship hehe. she squares up to him then hours later they’re making out or something (she probs needs a favour)

olivia cause she once called lori loose (basically the polite way of calling her a slut) in front of all her rich people friends and even though its true she didn’t have to say it :/ also lou cause she thinks he’s a creep. post betrayal all the marcanos end up on on her list

probably most men she serves at her job cause theyre just pervy and dont tip good most of the time

honestly i could go on she’d fight anyone within reason

#sorry this is so late i forgot what time is #ty tho <3 #ask

[jmcolt]

fmk connor aldridge sal marcano lou marcano

for personal reasons, i refuse to do anything but kill all of them with the same bullet!

[santademikey]

🦈👻🤩

for Mafia 3! (i’ve never sent an ask before so i hope this comes out right lol)

hi lovely it worked!! :)

🦈 — which character is the toughest to write?

donovan without a doubt. i think i’m starting to understand his speech patterns and shit like that but it’s still not great! he’s just so???? i can’t describe him he’s fascinating.

👻 — what is your wildest headcanon?

it’s not really wild, but i think that the marcano brothers have different mothers. especially because of the age difference between the oldest (lou) and the youngest (tommy). people can and do share the same parents with siblings much older or younger than them though. but still, idk. they’re all awful but im desperate to know more about them.

🤩 — what led to your interest in the fandom?

saw mafia 2 for sale on the xbox store, bought it and loved it. and then last summer i got covid and to make myself feel better i bought the trilogy which i fell in love with. the rest is history!

(x)

#thanks lovely!!! :)

[dalekofchaos]

Things I would change about the Mafia Trilogy

The Mafia trilogy is one of my all time favorite game series of all time, but if I could change anything about the game, this is what I would change

Mafia Definitive Edition

I would basically add in the ability to extort shops and take over and build on rackets like in The Godfather games.

Fast Travel by train/tram cars like in the original game

Keep in the Knuckles Duster

Keep in Yellow Pete

The ability to go on dates with Sarah, show a sex scene and show Tommy and Sarah's marriage and actually give names and show Tommy with his kids. I just feel like not enough was shown.

Show more of the Salieri-Morello war. I feel like not enough was shown. Sure we killed Sergio and Ghillotti and eventually Morello himself. But we never got to see the full scale war. It felt small. So my proposal see the Morello family hitting the bar and eventually Tommy, Paulie and Sam hit them back. The mission would end with Tommy, Sam and Paulie wacking Lou and Dino and torching Morello’s bar to the ground. I think this is something that should have happened cause we never got to see Lou and Dino again after the second mission and I think it would be Tommy properly paying them back for trying to kill him.

Show us Tommy Angelo's testimony against the Salieri Crime Family. Make it like the Goodfellas trial scene

Mafia 2

There is an entire cache of cut content that shows us a better game we almost got, but I'll just share a select few.

Respect & Reputation. In the beta version of the game players would experience Empire Bay differently based on the level of respect Vito gained from completing missions.

Monique. Vito's cut girlfriend that Vito could take out on dates

Fast travel via Taxi before you get made and via Limo after you get made

Gun License

Fight Club and Hound/Horse races

Side missions doing jobs for Derek, Harry and Mike

Keep in the cut content suggesting that Henry would be revealed being set up and not a rat. My two pieces of evidence. Evidence 1. Evidence 2. Also it was originally intended to have Henry be framed.

Mafia 3

Keep in the cut prologue

Replace Cassandra with Laveau or Lincoln rules the Black Mob. I feel like Cassandra had promise, but her execution was terrible and she just ended up becoming unlikable. Cassandra is hypocritical, self-righteous and endangers the people she claims to protect. She gives all this talk about protecting black people, but she endangers them the most and pretty much made New Bordeaux a ghost town in her ending. As for why Laveau? Laveau is a man of principals and honor. Black revolutionary and Black Panthers vibe. Plus the fact that Lee Everett himself voices him makes me like him all the more. I'm not sure how Laveau's ending would go, most likely New Bordeaux would've been turned into a safe haven for black people, something like that. I also like to think he could voice his own ending and say "Remember, when New Bordeaux speaks, you better listen." I feel like if Laveau was one of the underbosses, then I actually would feel conflict about choosing who to run New Bordeaux instead of just always choosing Vito. Or the simple solution is for Lincoln to recruit the survivors of the Black Mob and rule the Hollow by himself and further cements his rule by rebuilding Sammy's.

Make Agent Maguire apart of the story. My pitch is that he is on the hunt and would be leading the feds against Marcano and Lincoln respectfully. At some point, I don't know what mission, but Maguire has Lincoln right where he wants him, but chooses to let him go and his reasons were that Lincoln was the only one who did a damn thing against Marcano and thought letting him go was best for New Bordeaux as a young and foolish agent. In the documentary portion of the game, he later reveals he was wrong. It was so weird that this random FBI Agent had such a hard on for Lincoln when they never even crossed paths, so Maguire feeling guilt about letting Lincoln go would work imo

Give Lincoln a crew. Simply put advancing with Vito, Burke and Laveau or the Black Mob would give Lincoln individual crew members from The Movement/Black Mob, Italian and Irish Mobs. You can send them to accomplish the list of shit you need to do, fight with you and even send them to collect the collectibles in the district.

The ability to divide up the Bayou to give to your Underbosses. A way we could add in more earn for the Underbosses is to add in rackets in the Bayou. Enough for all 3 Underbosses

Use Signs Of The Times, Faster Baby and No Stone Unturned locations as territory to give your Underbosses. You'd be giving Sinclair Parish, the Sanitarium and the Island to your Underbosses. By doing this and the Bayou, you should have enough to give your Underbosses enough earn to unlock their perks if you are looking to keep everyone loyal and unlock everything

Cancelled Vito DLC makes it in. Not sure what the specifics of this cut DLC were or could've been, but most likely we would've found out Joe is still alive, maybe find out that Eddie was the one who was killed instead of Joe and maybe Vito would see Frankie again. Maybe it could've ended with Vito getting Joe free from Leo and killing Frank Vinci since that was cut from Mafia II. And at the end, perhaps Joe could tell Vito that Lincoln is his son and thanks his old friend for looking out for him.

#Mafia Definitive Edition #Mafia Trilogy #Mafia 2 #Mafia 3 #Tommy Angelo #Vito Scaletta #Lincoln Clay

[tommytranselo]

Ik as a fandom we talk about how scary Donavan can be. but I don't think we talk about how scary lincoln is I'm not talking about the way he kills or takes down his enemies. But the more psychological tactics he uses in game

no honestly you’re right...the very first district mission he literally hangs a dude off a ferris wheel–and then remy getting (deservedly) burnt on the cross, lou on the statue, arguably tony derazio getting thrown off the roof...and yeah those are ways he takes down enemies but they’re very public killings that are meant to send a message (especially lou–that took effort to get his body to that statue), not just to sal marcano but to everyone associated with him.  hell, even the whistling feature is something very distinct, and of course that’s partly for player convenience in a stealth based game, but deliberately baiting out enemies like that isn’t something the other protagonists do, and it sets apart his strategy.  that conversation with olivia, too, jesus.  him trying to get information out of frank pagani before he dies.

also–the fact that he goes along with donovan’s plans so readily says a lot in and of itself.  tommy and vito tended to be resistant when their friends brought up wild plans, but donovan is even crazier than paulie or joe, and not only does lincoln not flinch, he’ll go just as hard adding his own ideas.

i have to wonder where he gets all those tactics–i imagine some of it came from his military service.  reminds me of giorgi asking what the worst thing he saw was, and lincoln talking about that woman throwing her child overboard instead of a farm animal (pig i think?) when giorgi had expected “dude getting his balls shot off” or something.  the combination of seeing really fucked up shit and being creative...

#i feel like i'm not doing this ask justice bc you bring up a very good point #he's a very fascinating protagonist #ask #mafia 3 #lincoln clay

[nevalizona]

Least Favorite M*fia characters:

DE:

Paulie

ii:

Henry

Eddie

iii:

Remy Duvall

Lou

(The rest of the Marcanos but this should be a given)

Burke

Alma

MJ

#okokokok macs u'll have to tell me if i missed anyone okokokokok #clearly every1 racist in m3-- like obviously #this are characters i just really dislike on top of that other terrible shit lol #stevie.txt #text #m*fia game #its good to be a hater actually #my dumbass forgot that bitch eddie

[visual-walkthrough]

Mafia III Definitive Edition Mission Kill Uncle Lou Marcano