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Character Name: Anthony Soprano, Sr
Series: The Sopranos
Age: 46
From When?: After Junior shoots him in the chest in “Members Only”.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - despite the nice-guy first impression he gives, he's commited cold-blooded murder, is prone to violent rages and has often acted hugely spiteful towards his family. He's a flawed person who committed varying crimes in his life.
Item: n/a
How Long Have You Been Here?: n/a
Abilities/Powers: Tony has no supernatural powers. He's strong and he's a good shot with a gun. He's basically just a normal human guy.
Personality: If you didn't know about his job, you'd probably think Tony Soprano was just some nice friendly larger-than-life guy. He often displays a happy-go-lucky persona. He makes jokes, enjoys playing the host to some extent, and is generally a fun man to have around. However, this is often a specifically calculated move, covering his true thoughts and feelings. He almost never relaxes when anywhere less than with his immediate family or alone eating a bowl of ice-cream on the couch. He is constantly watchful of those around him, searching for ulterior motives, or people not showing respect.
When he’s with the members of his crew, or with his capos, he puts on a tough front. Everything he does gets a bit of a harder edge, or he boasts a bit more than he normally does, or jokes a little louder and a little bawdier. He tolerates good-natured joking at his expense, but if anyone takes it too far, he comes down on them hard. He knows that to tolerate that sort of thing would be to open himself for other questioning. So, though he can be quite easy-going, if you directly challenge him, he’s not going to stand for it.
One thing you have to remember with Tony Soprano is his family is the most important thing to him; that goes for both the Family and the family. Those people that he loves, he will do almost anything for. He tries to provide the best for his immediate family, and tries to support his extended Family. If he respects you, he will protect you to some extent. That doesn't mean that he does it in the best or most appropriate way, because he doesn't, but the general thought is there. The thought of his family being hurt, or leaving him for good, tears him up inside.
He views himself as a good father. He wants the best for his children, and he doesn't want them involved in the lifestyle of the mob. However, while he is loving, going to his kid's sporting games and making sure his kids have the best, he is also overprotective to the point of damaging his children. Particularly with Meadow, his overprotective nature shows through when she leaves home for college and begins to date men seriously. He alienated Meadow's first boyfriend because of his racism, wanting to protect Meadow from someone he viewed as not good enough for her.
Tony has an anxiety disorder, most likely inherited from his mother. He worries deeply about things that seem irrational. He suffers from long periods of depression, and because of his social and cultural background, he feels immense guilt and shame because of them. His upbringing causes him to see the depression as weakness. He cannot view the depression as anything other than a personal weakness and in his eyes and in his line of work, weakness is not something that's tolerated, which causes him further anxiety. This anxiety builds up until he has panic attacks, an even stronger cause for self-hatred, because the panic attacks could be seen as proof he cannot control himself. He also feels guilty and responsible when AJ's depression comes to the forefront, as he feels he passed the “rotten putrid gene” down to his son.
In a similar vein, Tony is prone to stress. He finds his job, his position as a leader and Boss incredibly demanding, often complaining about aspects of it to his therapist. The decisions he has to make to keep the Family together are very hard on him and he becomes more short tempered than usual, he has vivid dreams, major depressive episodes and compulsively over-eats. His stress is another thing he views as a personal weakness, appearing to believe that because most people are typically stressed in modern life, he shouldn't be finding it as hard as he does. (Though of course, his anxiety and depression don't allow him to see that he has a number of decisions and situations that he deals with that are anything but typical.)
Due to his upbringing, he believes that men should be stoic, stalwart and should not show their feelings, often harking back to the “strong silent type” portrayed by Gary Cooper. He views his talking with a therapist as something to be ashamed of because it does not fit with that view. With his cultural background, family values are paramount. His argumentative relationship with his anything-but-loving mother causes him endless conflict within his own mind, as one the one hand, Livia never was the maternal figure he so sorely needed, and was both needy and did not accept his help, but on the other, the son is supposed to love the mother. His traditional Italian family values oppose his own feelings towards his unloving mother and he cannot cope with the disparities. He becomes angry with her, then feels immensely guilty because of it, even though it’s almost always Livia’s own doing.
Tony's conscience is a funny thing. In his job, he is ruthless and will extort, blackmail, threaten and, if necessary, murder people in cold blood to get the things he wants done done, and feels almost no guilt doing so (though there are exceptions to that rule, usually when a member of the Family is involved, like Big Pussy and Tony Blundetto). He has a selective conscience, feeling guilt for some things, often small crimes, but fairly often feeling no remorse for worse crimes. He also keeps a number of goomahs throughout the series, and hardly ever feels guilt because he's cheating on Carmela.
Leading on from that, Tony is a hypocrite. He has a set of rules for himself and a set of rules for other people. For example, when Carmela reveals she has held an infatuation with Furio for months, though she never did anything other than fantasize about him, Tony feels betrayed and becomes furious at both her and Furio. Later, he says that if certain friends of his in Italy see Furio, he will be a dead man. However Tony himself pursues many extramarital affairs with numerous women, some also continuing for months, but when Carmela brings them up in the same argument, he brushes it off, not viewing it as the same thing at all.
Tony has a deeply jealous nature, usually displayed in a distinctly childish way. He hates other people, especially those he dislikes or sees as rivals or who have wronged him, to have what he considers as his, or something he covets. For example, when he “steals” Valentina from Ralphie. He has a petty mean streak at times, causing pain to get immediate satisfaction in the most childish way. During his separation with Carmela, we see this from him as he spitefully harasses her and bribes the kids to get them on his side. If you cross him, he can become quite small-minded and cruel until he feels you've paid your dues.
If he doesn't become petty and childish when you cross him, you might find yourself on the recieving end of his rather frightening temper. Tony has a hair-trigger fuse. He can go from being smiling and seemingly happy one moment, to instantly full of frightening rage if someone mentions or does something that particularly upsets him, often becoming physically violent and reaching for the nearest object to bludgeon the offending person with. He has killed people in these fits of rage - Ralphie Cifaretto being the obvious example, as Tony beat and strangled him to death when Ralphie was more concerned for his injured son than appeasing Tony's grief over the death of Pie-O-My. He isn't above using threats and violence to get his way.
He’s racist, and also homophobic and misogynistic, to an extent. When he’s with the guys, these traits will become more pronounced, but we actually see that he’s pretty indifferent. With Meadow’s black boyfriend, Tony acts distinctly racist, but his hostility stems from the fact that the guy is screwing his daughter, rather than a true racism; we also see Tony’s respect for Hesh, his father’s Jewish friend, and his usual attitude of indifference to those of other races. (The variety of culture and racial backgrounds of his various goomahs show this also.) When Vito Spatafore is de-closeted, Tony doesn’t see it as something to take offense to, or at least, not to the extent of the other guys, though he does recognise the other crew members’ anger and realises he must do something about it. He's also quite patriotic, which translates into paranoia over terrorism.
It may be surprising, but Tony's actually quite witty and enjoys joking around, often making references to older popular culture. He often repeats pieces of wisdom he receives from others, passing it off as his own - "Buy land, cause God isn't making any more of it.", "People go about in pity for themselves." - and he regularly uses malapropisms - "Revenge is like serving cold cuts.", "Let the past be bygones.". He isn't secure in his own intelligence, as we see him threatened by Tony Blundetto's IQ score, and Johnny Sacramoni's apparent level of intelligence. This probably stems from dropping out of college, and his general background and upbringing, especially his mother.
Despite this, he's a fairly intelligent man, and he's definitely streetwise. He's usually able to recognise, guess or infer people's motives and their next moves from their actions or attitudes. His mind is always working, and he is almost always alert. He tends to be able to find a profitable, beneficial or, at a pinch, simply satisfactory solution to any problems that he encounters in his business life or within the Family. As a rule, he's good at separating what he wants to do - his own personal feelings - from what needs to be done, and though he may not always like it, he tends to do the best thing for the good of the Family.
Another interesting thing to note is Tony has a childish love of animals and children. He gets hugely emotionally attached to animals, be it a flock of ducks who lived in his pool for a time during migration, or his (and Ralphie’s) prize racehorse Pie-O-My. He’s very overprotective of them and reacts strongly if they're hurt or killed. For example, during Christopher’s intervention, Tony only really becomes serious about the intervention (along with becoming hugely angry) after he finds out Chris had accidentally killed Adriana’s dog when he was high.
On the Barge, he will most likely be confused, angry, bemused, then somewhat accepting, in that order. That's speaking in general terms, of course, and the lucky warden who lands him as an inmate will be treated with contempt and spite until they can "prove" themselves to his satisfaction. As a good, if not entirely devout, Catholic, he'll probably view the Barge as some kind of purgatory. When he does accept it, he'll be trying to rebuild some version of our thing on the ship, with the rag-tag few guys he has to work with.
History: I was going to write it all out, but I'm too lazy and I just want this app in and done with, Madonn-! So, without further exposition, have a delicious Wiki link. c:
Sample Journal Entry: (I figure Ton's intro post? Will be something along the lines of “What the fuck?” so have a rant at the Admiral instead. It's...mainly just to show his voice, cause fff, I suck at samples.)
All due respect, but are you fuckin' kiddin' me? Madonn-- It's like a fuckin' nuthouse in here. Sure, you got your lofty position up in your control room, but the rest of us mortals on this fuckin' ship? You gotta give us a bit more respect. Who cares what shit we did back home? We're payin' for our sins. Christ, we already died, that ain't enough?
Now you listen to me. You can't just play any fuckin' games with us you feel like for chrissakes. Learn to steer, stop gettin' us stuck in these fuckin' situations, end of story. These floods? They gotta stop, you little prick.
You keep this kinda shit up, and you and me? We got a big fuckin' problem.
Sample RP: Tony had kind of gotten used to the idea that he was dead, that Uncle Jun had shot him in the chest for some stupid reason and he'd died from the wound. He'd almost gotten used to the idea that his afterlife? Happened to be on a fucking cruiseship, and he'd nearly come to terms with the fact that that ship was sailing through outer space like something out of Star Trek. Hell, he'd even almost come to grips with Ralphie fucking Cifaretto being there (a fact that nearly convinced him that the Catholic idea of hell was way off-base), with Paulie and Bobby to boot. Not that he’d spoken to them in person, just through those honest-to-God magic journals that everyone seemed to be able to see anything he’d written in.
Okay, it was weird having his living room lead into his bedroom, and it was weirder still not having Carmela's kitchen anywhere in the mix. It still felt like he was fuckin' oobatz everytime he walked out of his bedroom door and saw his big-screen instead of his staircase. And when he went from the living room to a hallway that looked like some kind of fancy hotel? Well, it was like he was drunk. And not in a good way.
A warden. That was another thing. He was supposed to have some finook assigned to keep an eye on him. Like he was a fucking criminal. Like he was some kind of danger. And this guy, whoever he turned out to be, he was supposed to get this file that had details of everything Tony had ever done. What the fuck! He hadn't been a bad person, but Christ, there were things Tony didn't want anyone else to know. There was the Family to consider, even here. Just cause he was dead, didn't mean Omertá didn't count.
He’d deal with the warden when he got assigned. Till then? He needed to figure out how to turn this shit situation to gold. His mind was working a million miles a minute and he needed someone to bounce ideas off, or at least listen to him and know what he was talking about. He was meeting Bobby and Paulie properly in half an hour in the dining hall. They had to talk.
Special Notes: My only regret, taking him from this point in canon? He still has the chip on his shoulder about Bobby and won’t take him srsly. :c
Series: The Sopranos
Age: 46
From When?: After Junior shoots him in the chest in “Members Only”.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - despite the nice-guy first impression he gives, he's commited cold-blooded murder, is prone to violent rages and has often acted hugely spiteful towards his family. He's a flawed person who committed varying crimes in his life.
Item: n/a
How Long Have You Been Here?: n/a
Abilities/Powers: Tony has no supernatural powers. He's strong and he's a good shot with a gun. He's basically just a normal human guy.
Personality: If you didn't know about his job, you'd probably think Tony Soprano was just some nice friendly larger-than-life guy. He often displays a happy-go-lucky persona. He makes jokes, enjoys playing the host to some extent, and is generally a fun man to have around. However, this is often a specifically calculated move, covering his true thoughts and feelings. He almost never relaxes when anywhere less than with his immediate family or alone eating a bowl of ice-cream on the couch. He is constantly watchful of those around him, searching for ulterior motives, or people not showing respect.
When he’s with the members of his crew, or with his capos, he puts on a tough front. Everything he does gets a bit of a harder edge, or he boasts a bit more than he normally does, or jokes a little louder and a little bawdier. He tolerates good-natured joking at his expense, but if anyone takes it too far, he comes down on them hard. He knows that to tolerate that sort of thing would be to open himself for other questioning. So, though he can be quite easy-going, if you directly challenge him, he’s not going to stand for it.
One thing you have to remember with Tony Soprano is his family is the most important thing to him; that goes for both the Family and the family. Those people that he loves, he will do almost anything for. He tries to provide the best for his immediate family, and tries to support his extended Family. If he respects you, he will protect you to some extent. That doesn't mean that he does it in the best or most appropriate way, because he doesn't, but the general thought is there. The thought of his family being hurt, or leaving him for good, tears him up inside.
He views himself as a good father. He wants the best for his children, and he doesn't want them involved in the lifestyle of the mob. However, while he is loving, going to his kid's sporting games and making sure his kids have the best, he is also overprotective to the point of damaging his children. Particularly with Meadow, his overprotective nature shows through when she leaves home for college and begins to date men seriously. He alienated Meadow's first boyfriend because of his racism, wanting to protect Meadow from someone he viewed as not good enough for her.
Tony has an anxiety disorder, most likely inherited from his mother. He worries deeply about things that seem irrational. He suffers from long periods of depression, and because of his social and cultural background, he feels immense guilt and shame because of them. His upbringing causes him to see the depression as weakness. He cannot view the depression as anything other than a personal weakness and in his eyes and in his line of work, weakness is not something that's tolerated, which causes him further anxiety. This anxiety builds up until he has panic attacks, an even stronger cause for self-hatred, because the panic attacks could be seen as proof he cannot control himself. He also feels guilty and responsible when AJ's depression comes to the forefront, as he feels he passed the “rotten putrid gene” down to his son.
In a similar vein, Tony is prone to stress. He finds his job, his position as a leader and Boss incredibly demanding, often complaining about aspects of it to his therapist. The decisions he has to make to keep the Family together are very hard on him and he becomes more short tempered than usual, he has vivid dreams, major depressive episodes and compulsively over-eats. His stress is another thing he views as a personal weakness, appearing to believe that because most people are typically stressed in modern life, he shouldn't be finding it as hard as he does. (Though of course, his anxiety and depression don't allow him to see that he has a number of decisions and situations that he deals with that are anything but typical.)
Due to his upbringing, he believes that men should be stoic, stalwart and should not show their feelings, often harking back to the “strong silent type” portrayed by Gary Cooper. He views his talking with a therapist as something to be ashamed of because it does not fit with that view. With his cultural background, family values are paramount. His argumentative relationship with his anything-but-loving mother causes him endless conflict within his own mind, as one the one hand, Livia never was the maternal figure he so sorely needed, and was both needy and did not accept his help, but on the other, the son is supposed to love the mother. His traditional Italian family values oppose his own feelings towards his unloving mother and he cannot cope with the disparities. He becomes angry with her, then feels immensely guilty because of it, even though it’s almost always Livia’s own doing.
Tony's conscience is a funny thing. In his job, he is ruthless and will extort, blackmail, threaten and, if necessary, murder people in cold blood to get the things he wants done done, and feels almost no guilt doing so (though there are exceptions to that rule, usually when a member of the Family is involved, like Big Pussy and Tony Blundetto). He has a selective conscience, feeling guilt for some things, often small crimes, but fairly often feeling no remorse for worse crimes. He also keeps a number of goomahs throughout the series, and hardly ever feels guilt because he's cheating on Carmela.
Leading on from that, Tony is a hypocrite. He has a set of rules for himself and a set of rules for other people. For example, when Carmela reveals she has held an infatuation with Furio for months, though she never did anything other than fantasize about him, Tony feels betrayed and becomes furious at both her and Furio. Later, he says that if certain friends of his in Italy see Furio, he will be a dead man. However Tony himself pursues many extramarital affairs with numerous women, some also continuing for months, but when Carmela brings them up in the same argument, he brushes it off, not viewing it as the same thing at all.
Tony has a deeply jealous nature, usually displayed in a distinctly childish way. He hates other people, especially those he dislikes or sees as rivals or who have wronged him, to have what he considers as his, or something he covets. For example, when he “steals” Valentina from Ralphie. He has a petty mean streak at times, causing pain to get immediate satisfaction in the most childish way. During his separation with Carmela, we see this from him as he spitefully harasses her and bribes the kids to get them on his side. If you cross him, he can become quite small-minded and cruel until he feels you've paid your dues.
If he doesn't become petty and childish when you cross him, you might find yourself on the recieving end of his rather frightening temper. Tony has a hair-trigger fuse. He can go from being smiling and seemingly happy one moment, to instantly full of frightening rage if someone mentions or does something that particularly upsets him, often becoming physically violent and reaching for the nearest object to bludgeon the offending person with. He has killed people in these fits of rage - Ralphie Cifaretto being the obvious example, as Tony beat and strangled him to death when Ralphie was more concerned for his injured son than appeasing Tony's grief over the death of Pie-O-My. He isn't above using threats and violence to get his way.
He’s racist, and also homophobic and misogynistic, to an extent. When he’s with the guys, these traits will become more pronounced, but we actually see that he’s pretty indifferent. With Meadow’s black boyfriend, Tony acts distinctly racist, but his hostility stems from the fact that the guy is screwing his daughter, rather than a true racism; we also see Tony’s respect for Hesh, his father’s Jewish friend, and his usual attitude of indifference to those of other races. (The variety of culture and racial backgrounds of his various goomahs show this also.) When Vito Spatafore is de-closeted, Tony doesn’t see it as something to take offense to, or at least, not to the extent of the other guys, though he does recognise the other crew members’ anger and realises he must do something about it. He's also quite patriotic, which translates into paranoia over terrorism.
It may be surprising, but Tony's actually quite witty and enjoys joking around, often making references to older popular culture. He often repeats pieces of wisdom he receives from others, passing it off as his own - "Buy land, cause God isn't making any more of it.", "People go about in pity for themselves." - and he regularly uses malapropisms - "Revenge is like serving cold cuts.", "Let the past be bygones.". He isn't secure in his own intelligence, as we see him threatened by Tony Blundetto's IQ score, and Johnny Sacramoni's apparent level of intelligence. This probably stems from dropping out of college, and his general background and upbringing, especially his mother.
Despite this, he's a fairly intelligent man, and he's definitely streetwise. He's usually able to recognise, guess or infer people's motives and their next moves from their actions or attitudes. His mind is always working, and he is almost always alert. He tends to be able to find a profitable, beneficial or, at a pinch, simply satisfactory solution to any problems that he encounters in his business life or within the Family. As a rule, he's good at separating what he wants to do - his own personal feelings - from what needs to be done, and though he may not always like it, he tends to do the best thing for the good of the Family.
Another interesting thing to note is Tony has a childish love of animals and children. He gets hugely emotionally attached to animals, be it a flock of ducks who lived in his pool for a time during migration, or his (and Ralphie’s) prize racehorse Pie-O-My. He’s very overprotective of them and reacts strongly if they're hurt or killed. For example, during Christopher’s intervention, Tony only really becomes serious about the intervention (along with becoming hugely angry) after he finds out Chris had accidentally killed Adriana’s dog when he was high.
On the Barge, he will most likely be confused, angry, bemused, then somewhat accepting, in that order. That's speaking in general terms, of course, and the lucky warden who lands him as an inmate will be treated with contempt and spite until they can "prove" themselves to his satisfaction. As a good, if not entirely devout, Catholic, he'll probably view the Barge as some kind of purgatory. When he does accept it, he'll be trying to rebuild some version of our thing on the ship, with the rag-tag few guys he has to work with.
History: I was going to write it all out, but I'm too lazy and I just want this app in and done with, Madonn-! So, without further exposition, have a delicious Wiki link. c:
Sample Journal Entry: (I figure Ton's intro post? Will be something along the lines of “What the fuck?” so have a rant at the Admiral instead. It's...mainly just to show his voice, cause fff, I suck at samples.)
All due respect, but are you fuckin' kiddin' me? Madonn-- It's like a fuckin' nuthouse in here. Sure, you got your lofty position up in your control room, but the rest of us mortals on this fuckin' ship? You gotta give us a bit more respect. Who cares what shit we did back home? We're payin' for our sins. Christ, we already died, that ain't enough?
Now you listen to me. You can't just play any fuckin' games with us you feel like for chrissakes. Learn to steer, stop gettin' us stuck in these fuckin' situations, end of story. These floods? They gotta stop, you little prick.
You keep this kinda shit up, and you and me? We got a big fuckin' problem.
Sample RP: Tony had kind of gotten used to the idea that he was dead, that Uncle Jun had shot him in the chest for some stupid reason and he'd died from the wound. He'd almost gotten used to the idea that his afterlife? Happened to be on a fucking cruiseship, and he'd nearly come to terms with the fact that that ship was sailing through outer space like something out of Star Trek. Hell, he'd even almost come to grips with Ralphie fucking Cifaretto being there (a fact that nearly convinced him that the Catholic idea of hell was way off-base), with Paulie and Bobby to boot. Not that he’d spoken to them in person, just through those honest-to-God magic journals that everyone seemed to be able to see anything he’d written in.
Okay, it was weird having his living room lead into his bedroom, and it was weirder still not having Carmela's kitchen anywhere in the mix. It still felt like he was fuckin' oobatz everytime he walked out of his bedroom door and saw his big-screen instead of his staircase. And when he went from the living room to a hallway that looked like some kind of fancy hotel? Well, it was like he was drunk. And not in a good way.
A warden. That was another thing. He was supposed to have some finook assigned to keep an eye on him. Like he was a fucking criminal. Like he was some kind of danger. And this guy, whoever he turned out to be, he was supposed to get this file that had details of everything Tony had ever done. What the fuck! He hadn't been a bad person, but Christ, there were things Tony didn't want anyone else to know. There was the Family to consider, even here. Just cause he was dead, didn't mean Omertá didn't count.
He’d deal with the warden when he got assigned. Till then? He needed to figure out how to turn this shit situation to gold. His mind was working a million miles a minute and he needed someone to bounce ideas off, or at least listen to him and know what he was talking about. He was meeting Bobby and Paulie properly in half an hour in the dining hall. They had to talk.
Special Notes: My only regret, taking him from this point in canon? He still has the chip on his shoulder about Bobby and won’t take him srsly. :c