John Castiglia

Page note
Please leave all edits of this page to the streamer. Thank you for your understanding! - TheeJRC John Castiglia is a character role-played by TheeJRC.

Background
John was born in South Lanarkshire, Scotland as the oldest of 3 siblings. His family are wholly Scottish but are believed to have come from Sicily tens of centuries beforehand. For most of his childhood he had hoped to become a professional football (soccer) player until he was screwed over by a manager for his team, preventing him making it to a professional youth team by putting his own son in John's position as an attempt to gain his son entry to that professional youth team. He was comfortable growing up, not necessarily poor but certainly not remotely close to rich. Upon finishing secondary school, he went to college but was constantly under pressure and annoyed by many of his classmates. He couldn't hold down a job as a bartender despite multiple tries in multiple companies due to his lack of determination and his evident dislike for annoying customers. He realised that he'd have a better chance being a bouncer as it doesn't take as much brain power as memorising every drink, every price and every extra little task. His inability to hold down a job stressed him out to the extent he was more careless of maintaining one. Due to financial hardship, John decided it would be in his best interests to move to Los Santos as an attempt to make better money as he heard a lot about the gang/crime life. He had seen just how much money gangsters in Scotland were dropping in the bars he worked and wanted a part of that...just not at home.

Physical Description
John has shortish brown hair, trimmed on the back and sides and chocolate brown eyes. He is very pale skinned as a (at the very least) 4th generation Scotsman. Usually John can be seen wearing comfort clothes like hoodies/joggies or sleeved open shirts and an undershirt, with jeans and trainers. He also very much enjoys wearing suits as he believes he looks suave when he does. He usually carries a ninjalike hood (which he wears often) and he used to compliment it with a hatchet as part of his alter-ego "Hatchetman" as a means of joking with friends or protecting them when at the markets.

Personality
John is particularly introverted as evidenced by his first words to his first friends in the city (Sylvia "Sprout" Green & Arlen Menendez): "Do any of you need new friends?". He is unlikely to approach someone at the fishing spot to get a group and only got a proper job after much coaxing from Sprout. He has ADHD and struggles with controlling himself a lot of the time which people have a tendency to dislike as they pass him off as annoying. Despite this he really loves annoying Roddy Stone (a fellow member of The Redacted and is highly likely to go batshit whenever his friends are in trouble. He will drink heavily when he is stressed out or at any social event involving alcohol, opting to go for 50+ Whiskys nearly every time.

The Redacted (Feb 2022 - Present)
On the 20th of February 2022, John Castiglia enlisted Pact Nicely to The Redacted after outlining his desire to move on to doing bigger crimes and believing that Pact was an integral part to the potential success of said crimes, thus beginning the new group. The Redacted grew in numbers the next day as John contacted six more people to potentially join, half of which agreed (Roddy Stone, Semlina Thaysa and Samuel Dennis). The other three who did not agree to join did not say no, only that at the moment they have other things to deal with or need to have a think about it. Since then only five more recruits have been accrued (Sophia McMoo, Sebastian Von Di'Quad, Joshua Norris, Ellie Nite & Gianna Rosato) with more seemingly on the horizon.

The Redacted aim to get money they believe they are owed due to the small amount of money that market folk got when working booths and were initially also set up to protect others at the market from would be kidnappers/thieves prior to the markets becoming no more.

Pre Relationship with Gianna Rosato (April 2022 - May 2022)
John first met Gianna when she walked through the doors of Maldini's to ask where she could buy cigarettes and John suggested she check a 24/7 store, it would only be a few days before they had their next encounter. John had been winding up his fellow countryman CJ Walker at work in Maldini's (where all three of them worked) when she defended CJ out of the blue despite no indication that CJ and Gianna were dating by threatening to "kill" John in a joking manner. Gianna and CJ were pretty distant, CJ had been disappearing to places without inviting her and was making promises he couldn't keep.

Suki Wright was looking to move out of North Rockford and so wanted to sell the house she and John lived at to John to be the main owner. John had overheard CJ and Gianna talking about getting a place one day and offered them a potential room in his house when Suki moved out, they liked the idea and agreed to go forward with it should Suki be able to sell John the house, which she wasn't, stopping that idea in its tracks. Two days passed by when CJ told Gianna they would go on a date to the casino but he would go for a nap beforehand, he did not return from his nap and gave no information to Gianna. CJ had skipped town and at some point during the night, out in Paleto, Gianna got stranded with her car having no fuel. She would ask on Twatter for help and John responded that he would come and pick her up, totally changing her view on John as a person. In the time between CJ's departure and next message to Gianna, Gianna's flirty nature and John's willingness to play along resulted in people shipping them together despite the knowledge CJ could come back at any point. A further three days had passed when CJ finally messaged Gianna, he let her know that he was back in Scotland and would be back soon (CJ did not return) with no apologies and also no sympathy for the messages Gianna had sent him about problems she had been having whilst he was away. John and Gianna slowly started hanging out more with John showing her around the city more, helping her learn more about the city and their workplace. John was very quickly falling for Gianna but knew it would be considered wrong.

One day when a big group of around 12 Maldini's employees congregated outside of Maldini's and were having a dance and talk, John tried to talk on multiple occasions but was interrupted every time much to John's chagrin. John got up and left in his car to go and hand in his work receipts but knew he wanted Gianna to be with him, he just didn't want to drag her away from her other friends. He was unaware that Gianna watched him the entire time before he left, wanting to spend time with him, not the group. They started texting back and forth and Gianna sympathised with John after finding out how difficult he finds it with a bad memory due to brain damage and ADHD, she let him know that she wanted to spend time with him and so he went to pick her up. John took her to the Lighthouse at Grapeseed and they sat and spoke about what was going on in their lives, they then spent the next few hours together just driving around. Just before a tsunami hit the area, John confessed to Gianna that he liked her and understood if the feelings weren't reciprocated as she was in a relationship. Gianna informed John that she liked him too and if CJ "fucked up" he's in.

Quotes

 * "Happenin"
 * "Cetch"
 * "S'all good"
 * "Yeeee"
 * "Heh?"
 * "Fuck that local"

Trivia

 * John has been in a relationship with Gianna Rosato since 12th May 2022, they have two houses in North Rockford and a Coquette D-10 together.
 * John and Gianna have two adopted sons together Chris Hail (deceased) and Andrew Buckle
 * John's closest friends are Sylvia "Sprout" Green, DJ Cooper & Suki Wright
 * Although not around often he considers Yusuf Ramzee to be someone he is always looking to impress
 * The first person that John spoke to in the city was Phueng Madee (although he could not hear her)
 * He is constantly trying to get the "family chain" worn by a lot of his friends associated with Otto's Autos, the longer he goes without, he believes he can't be trusted and isn't seen as family
 * His first proper friends in the city were Sprout and Arlen Menendez
 * His first crime was committed on his second day in the city when he was taken chopping with Arlen Menendez
 * On his first day working at Maldini's he was set on fire by Brick James which in turn also set Maggie Gunn on fire
 * He has a 100% success rate with bank robberies (1 from 1)