Vito Greco

Vito Greco is a character role-played by BaskinLIVE.

General Information
Vito Greco is an Senior Staff member at Maldini's and an independent criminal, he has deep Sicilian roots and Mob ties but tends to hide it and not talk about it, he has dreams of opening a Business and becoming a Business Kingpin of sorts.

The Early Years
Our story begins in Brooklyn, Vito grew up in the Slums of Brooklyn with hos Father Carmine, his Mother Sofia and a little Brother Carlo, for as long as he could remember his Father was a business oriented man and prided himself on making money to provide for his family, you see The Greco's immigrated to the United States when Vito was only 5 years old because his Father being a part of the Sicilian Mob was tasked with bringing the family to America, land of the free, home of the brave to expand their business, Vito never knew much about what his Father got up too or what he did for work all he knew was he'd spend a lot of time at the Restaurant he owned and would be out very late. As Vito got older his Father started breeding him for The Life and teaching him all the values The Family held dear.

Rags to Riches
By the time Vito was 15 he was working in his Dad's restaurant doing small jobs on the side for The Family, he was becoming quite the Earner, seeing this Vito's father began having him do bigger things such as selling cigarettes illegally for a profit, as time went on and Vito got older that slowly became his Racket and he became the top salesman for Cigarettes, Cigars, Booze, you name it he sold it, in highschool his Father introduced him to one of The Families Capo's son Billy "Slick" Salieri and asked that Vito teach him the ropes and bring him into the fold, as time went on Slick and Vito became good friends as they went to the same school together and played football together.

Vito was a Tight End for their schools football team and it was towards the end of the season and they were going to the Championship game, it was a close game and they nearly lost but Vito being the star athlete he was managed to score the killing blow of a touch down they needed right as the clock was about to run out in the fourth quarter, because of this the team had an after party and while they were drunk Slick looks at Vito and calls him Johnny T and Vito looking confused asked him why he called him that and Billy simply says in a drunken tone, Cause ya look like John Travolta, and from then on everyone at school and even The Family called him Johnny T.

Tragedy
Graduation was starting to roll around and Vito made up his mind and decided to not go to college in hopes of being made a Made Man in The Family because ya see while Vito was a star Athlete he was no bookworm and was not the brightest tool in the shed, upon telling his father this his father looked at him and for the first time he witnessed his father show some emotion and said he was proud of him.

As Vito entered adulthood him and Slick began brainstorming ideas of businesses they could open and Vito thought about a Restaurant but that was his dads thing and he didn't wanna just be another Wiseguy with a Restaurant, so they thought about it more and realized they could open a Clothing Store as they both had a sense of Fashion and Style and they could use it as a way to launder money.

Some time past and one thing lead to another and the Idea fell through and never happened, this was because one cold fall evening Billy told Vito he wanted out of the family and wanted to go legit and was sick of not living a normal life and that he was thinking of going to the Cops with everything he knew, Vito not knowing how to react was very hurt and upset and felt betrayed by his friend, he punched Billy in the face out of anger and told him to snap out of it and left, he then went to his Capo, Billy's father and hesitantly told him what had happened, Billy's father a man who was like an Uncle to Vito showed some humanity for just a second and told Vito he did the right thing and said he'd take care of it.

A week goes by and Graduation comes, on the day of their Ceremony Vito can't help but notice that Billy was not there and while that bugged him he knew that it was what it was and something needed to happen, later that day he got pulled aside by his Father and he told Vito that Billy will not be coming to his party and that "It is what it is" meaning Billy got Whacked, Vito put a stone cold face on and called Billy a disgrace and went back to his Party.

A few weeks go by and Vito gets called to his Fathers Place and is told to put something nice on, knowing what this meant Vito put on his best suit and went to his Fathers Place, as he got there he saw Billy's father he stopped Vito for a second and told him he always saw him as more of a son than Billy and told him how proud he was of him, he then lead Vito down too the Cellar, as they got down there Vito saw His Father, The Underboss, His Uncle and Consigliere of the Family as well as all the Capo's waiting for him around a table, In the center of the table there was a skull drawn on a piece of paper and a knife. In order to be admitted to the Family he had to undergo an initiation consisting of some trials of loyalty and the pricking of the lower lip with the tip of the knife: the blood from the wound soaked the skull, after the ceremony had finished they raised a glass and all had a toast.

Worry and Doubts
with his new title, reality and the pressure of everything truly began to set in and he began to question if it was all worth it, as the years went by slowly but surely the Mob was being phased out and Vito wasn't sure how much longer he had, the more and more he thought about this the more he drove himself to insanity, he started to hear Billy's voice trying to be the Voice of reason to get him to see what he saw, Vito slowly turned bitter and cold towards the family and finally sat down with his father and expressed his concerns and said what had been going on in his head for a while, his father advised Vito the be careful and know his place and warned him that he was walking down a bad path and wouldn't want him to end up like Billy and told him everything was fine and that the things happened were bigger than him and his Father, after this talk Vito felt he was right and began plotting how to get out.

The Move
Vito began looking into Los Santos as he saw it as untapped potential and thought he could maybe rehash his dreams of owning a business there, he plotted a way to justify the move there and thought back to when his Family his immigrated to America and how it was because his father had to bring business there, so he did just that, while the idea didn't thrill him he began too think they maybe he could run his own Family and be a kingpin business mogul like he always wanted, so he talked to his Father and with his blessing he knew this was something Vito had to do, so Vito in preparation gave all his Rackets to his Brother Carlo who was on the track to being Made soon and he packed his bags and got a one way flight to Los Santos and purchased an apartment.