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Character Name: Ladd Russo
Series: Baccano! [Wikipedia]
Age: ~25
Job: Assertiveness Training
Canon: Everyone knows the good die young, and who needs 'em when your cast is stocked with the best of what the seedy underbelly of a big city can offer? Set among the sidestreets and speakeasies of the American 1930s, Baccano! glorifies and gore-ifies the Life of Crime - and if you're looking for the best of this brutal business, then you're looking for Ladd Russo, at least as far as he's concerned.
Nephew to the Don of the Russo Mafia Family, Ladd's strength, speed, size and maniacal bloodlust make him an overly-enthusiastic loose cannon, only partially reined in by vague gratitude to his uncle. Upfront and very literally in your face, Ladd loves to hear himself talk, and relates to other people by his desire and ability to kill them -- his favorite sort of person to kill is someone who thinks they wont ever be killed, but he's not picky -- though he has no interest in those who want to die. Other people aside, Ladd's a headcase -- He skips, hums, rambles and repeats himself; he states the obvious or pulls something from left field. He's even capable of the occasional burst of rational clarity, but his mood -- and conversational volume -- shifts violently, with little impetus or warning. Ladd is the coolest person he's ever met, and hates it when this position is challenged; while some of his fights end in a cease-fire, he has only lost once -- which cost him the lower half of his left arm and the top of his right ear -- after which he was arrested and sent to Alcatraz. This has not significantly impacted his enthusiasm.
Sample post:
Okay, okay, okay -- "Fuck you camp, die"! Ha ha! I love it! But so peaceful, so quiet -- surely there must be many campers in their cabins or roasting marshmallows and thinking absolutely that they're safe and sound? Quietly, quietly enjoying their summer -- heh! -- not thinking at all that they could be killed. I'll have to thank her, this Director Lady, giving me a chance like this -- I'm moved, I'm really moved! But, then, do dangerous guys like me usually get community-service parole? Ah, well. "Be assertive at them", or something, she wanted, was it? Ah, hey, they'll for sure know assertive after I've--
Oho? Ah, you're a camper, right? Did you come all the way out here just to assertively greet your new counselor and assertively let him get a look at what sort of person would be at a place like this? Haa, what luck-- I'm lucky! You're lucky! We're all--
Hey, hey, hey, did your arm just fall off? ...You wouldn't be thinking that you could try and make fun of me, would you? You wouldn't be thinking 'That guy there, he's only got one arm. There's no way a guy with one arm could be dangerous! I guess I'll just drop one of my arms right here! I guess I won't be needing more than one arm to fight!' You wouldn't be thinking 'There's no way I could be killed by a guy with only one arm!' right?!
...hey, hey, you could at least answer. Ah, well, when Ladd Russo grabs you and starts yelling at you, if you're too scared to speak, that's understandable, I won't call you a coward. But go on, assert yourself properly! Are you too scared or are you going to answer? Just hanging here drooling with your eyes unfocused going "aaahhhnnn" and "uuuuhnnnn", that's not the sort of response a person wants when they're asking you a question, you know? You might make somebody angry with a weak response like that and they might want you to answer and they might start shaking you, wanting you to answer, and they might keep shaking you and shaking you and even when your eyes roll back keep shaking you and shaking you and even when your neck is snapping and you might bite off your tongue keep shaking you and shaking you and--
--Ah. Your head fell off.
...You know, usually, when somebody loses their head, there's a lot more spurting. I mean, you should be bleeding all over. I mean, a head just falling right off without a trace of blood, that's not normal. I mean, if you're going to die, you should do it properly. I mean, you could at least twitch interestingly or something, you know, hey?
You're never going to learn to be assertive if you just go to pieces like that.
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Series: Baccano! [Wikipedia]
Age: ~25
Job: Assertiveness Training
Canon: Everyone knows the good die young, and who needs 'em when your cast is stocked with the best of what the seedy underbelly of a big city can offer? Set among the sidestreets and speakeasies of the American 1930s, Baccano! glorifies and gore-ifies the Life of Crime - and if you're looking for the best of this brutal business, then you're looking for Ladd Russo, at least as far as he's concerned.
Nephew to the Don of the Russo Mafia Family, Ladd's strength, speed, size and maniacal bloodlust make him an overly-enthusiastic loose cannon, only partially reined in by vague gratitude to his uncle. Upfront and very literally in your face, Ladd loves to hear himself talk, and relates to other people by his desire and ability to kill them -- his favorite sort of person to kill is someone who thinks they wont ever be killed, but he's not picky -- though he has no interest in those who want to die. Other people aside, Ladd's a headcase -- He skips, hums, rambles and repeats himself; he states the obvious or pulls something from left field. He's even capable of the occasional burst of rational clarity, but his mood -- and conversational volume -- shifts violently, with little impetus or warning. Ladd is the coolest person he's ever met, and hates it when this position is challenged; while some of his fights end in a cease-fire, he has only lost once -- which cost him the lower half of his left arm and the top of his right ear -- after which he was arrested and sent to Alcatraz. This has not significantly impacted his enthusiasm.
Sample post:
Okay, okay, okay -- "Fuck you camp, die"! Ha ha! I love it! But so peaceful, so quiet -- surely there must be many campers in their cabins or roasting marshmallows and thinking absolutely that they're safe and sound? Quietly, quietly enjoying their summer -- heh! -- not thinking at all that they could be killed. I'll have to thank her, this Director Lady, giving me a chance like this -- I'm moved, I'm really moved! But, then, do dangerous guys like me usually get community-service parole? Ah, well. "Be assertive at them", or something, she wanted, was it? Ah, hey, they'll for sure know assertive after I've--
Oho? Ah, you're a camper, right? Did you come all the way out here just to assertively greet your new counselor and assertively let him get a look at what sort of person would be at a place like this? Haa, what luck-- I'm lucky! You're lucky! We're all--
Hey, hey, hey, did your arm just fall off? ...You wouldn't be thinking that you could try and make fun of me, would you? You wouldn't be thinking 'That guy there, he's only got one arm. There's no way a guy with one arm could be dangerous! I guess I'll just drop one of my arms right here! I guess I won't be needing more than one arm to fight!' You wouldn't be thinking 'There's no way I could be killed by a guy with only one arm!' right?!
...hey, hey, you could at least answer. Ah, well, when Ladd Russo grabs you and starts yelling at you, if you're too scared to speak, that's understandable, I won't call you a coward. But go on, assert yourself properly! Are you too scared or are you going to answer? Just hanging here drooling with your eyes unfocused going "aaahhhnnn" and "uuuuhnnnn", that's not the sort of response a person wants when they're asking you a question, you know? You might make somebody angry with a weak response like that and they might want you to answer and they might start shaking you, wanting you to answer, and they might keep shaking you and shaking you and even when your eyes roll back keep shaking you and shaking you and even when your neck is snapping and you might bite off your tongue keep shaking you and shaking you and--
--Ah. Your head fell off.
...You know, usually, when somebody loses their head, there's a lot more spurting. I mean, you should be bleeding all over. I mean, a head just falling right off without a trace of blood, that's not normal. I mean, if you're going to die, you should do it properly. I mean, you could at least twitch interestingly or something, you know, hey?
You're never going to learn to be assertive if you just go to pieces like that.
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