Character Sketches

🌹MARIA ROSSETTI

Age: 18 (at story start)

Role: Youngest Rossetti child, sister, daughter, protected soul

Core Traits: Compassionate, intuitive, loyal, quietly brave

Maria Rossetti was the kind of girl the world should’ve protected.

But it didn’t.

The youngest in the Rossetti family, Maria grew up surrounded by a name that carried both weight and whispers. But within the high walls of their home, she lived in a softer world — one filled with her mother’s quiet strength and her brother Luciano’s laughter. Her father, once the family’s anchor, had died years ago. His absence shaped her childhood like a missing piece — silently, constantly.

In that silence, Maria learned to listen. To the creak of the old floorboards, to her mother’s heavy footsteps, to the way her brother hid grief behind a grin. She became someone who noticed everything but spoke little. Empathy came naturally to her. She had a gift for comforting without trying, for holding the broken pieces of others as if they were her own.

She spent afternoons in the sunroom reading poetry, tending to half-wilted plants, writing letters she never sent. She never liked loud rooms or sharp voices. She found beauty in cracked teacups and second chances. When her brother bruised his knuckles training, she sat beside him with a damp cloth and stories instead of scolding. She never tried to fix the world — just tried to understand it.

Maria had dreams. Not grand ones — small, achingly human ones. She wanted to open a flower shop one day, write books under a different name, maybe paint a mural on the wall of their old home. She imagined a life full of light, not power.

But grief never really left her. Her father’s death had carved something hollow in her — a kind of ache she carried in her silences. She never talked about it much, but sometimes, when she sat alone at night, the tears came quiet and slow. She missed him in ways even she didn’t understand.

Still, Maria smiled. Still, she hoped. Still, she loved deeply and without fear.

That’s who she was — before the world asked her to be something else.

Before she had to become her own shield.

Before the girl made of softness had to decide what she would become when all that remained was fire.

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🥀 SALVATORE DELUCCA

Age: 20 (at story start)

Role: DeLucca heir, strategist, reluctant leader

Core Traits: Calculated, protective, deeply loyal, quietly burdened

Salvatore DeLucca walks into a room like he already knows who will betray him.

He doesn’t speak much, but when he does — people listen. Not out of fear, but because there’s something in his voice that sounds like it’s been carved from stone and fire both.

Raised in the shadow of a ruthless father and a mother who ruled with poise but not warmth, Salvatore learned young that power comes at the cost of peace. He was never allowed softness. His lessons were blood-soaked, his teachers merciless. Yet somewhere along the way, he taught himself restraint — not weakness, but something deeper: the art of holding chaos in one hand and keeping the other open for those he loves.

He doesn’t romanticize loyalty. To Salvatore, it’s not something you give — it’s something you bleed for.

He doesn’t forgive easily. Not because he’s cold, but because he’s been burned too many times.

He’s the kind of man who would rather stand alone than ask for help — not out of pride, but because he doesn’t want others to carry what he does. He makes decisions no man should make alone, and yet, he does — every day. Because someone has to.

What sets Salvatore apart is this:

He isn’t hungry for the crown.

He wears it because if it ever falls into the wrong hands, it won’t just break nations — it’ll destroy the people he swore to protect.

Still, there’s a part of him untouched by strategy and war. A quiet corner of his soul where memories live — of laughter long gone, of things he once wanted for himself. Of a softer future that never came.

Salvatore doesn’t show love the way others do. He teaches someone how to shoot, not because he wants them to fight — but because he needs them to survive. He stays awake when everyone else sleeps, not out of insomnia, but protection.

And when he lets someone in?

He’ll burn the whole world to keep them safe.

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☀️ LUCIANO ROSSETTI

Age: 22

Role: Maria’s older brother — beloved protector, early mafia foot soldier

Core Traits: Fiercely loyal, emotionally grounded, sharp-minded, quietly dangerous

Luciano Rossetti was born into a poor but tight-knit Italian household, but the moment their father died, he became more than just a brother to Maria — he became the man of the house. A role he didn’t ask for, but one he never walked away from.

On the surface, Luciano was easy to love. He had a lopsided grin, called Maria “kiddo” even though she hated it, and could make anyone laugh in the middle of a storm. But beneath that warmth, he had the kind of quiet steel that made people listen when he spoke. He was sharp — the kind of sharp that could read a room, sense danger, and still smile through it.

By 17, Luciano had stepped into the underworld — not for power, not for pride, but to protect what little family he had left. He started running messages, earning respect in back rooms, and learning the rules of a world that would never offer second chances. He didn’t speak of what he did. But sometimes he came home with bruised knuckles and eyes that didn’t match his smile. And Maria always knew.

Still, he never let the blood touch her.

He kept her out of it. Taught her how to lie, how to blend in, how to be invisible when it mattered — but never told her why.

Luciano was the kind of mafia soldier everyone underestimated because he still carried groceries for old women and kissed his sister on the forehead. But he was rising fast — too fast. And in a world where ambition is a threat, his loyalty wasn’t enough.

To Maria, Luciano was everything.

Her brother. Her compass. The only one who could still make the world feel like home.

And the day he was taken?

It wasn’t just the blood that broke her.

It was that the one person who protected her from the fire —

was thrown into it first.

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🕊️ Maria’s Mother — ELENA ROSSETTI

Role: Widow, mother of Maria and Luciano

Core Traits: Gentle, grieving, spiritual, quietly observant

Elena Rossetti was never built for war — but she lived through one. A soft-spoken woman with calloused hands and sorrow-lined eyes, she raised her children with lullabies, warmth, and a stubborn belief that goodness still existed in the world. Her life was built around simple routines: feeding birds at dawn, praying at dusk, humming while she cooked. She never asked for more than peace.

But when her husband died and Luciano stepped into danger, Elena began fading. Grief hollowed her out, leaving behind a ghost of the mother she once was. Still, she watched — always watched — especially Maria. She knew the change was coming before anyone else did. She tried to stop it, begged for softness to stay. But she was powerless against the weight of blood.

Elena’s strength was never loud. It was in the way she still set a place at the table for those who would never return. In the way she whispered prayers even when no one listened. She was the last flicker of the old life.

And when that flicker went out, the girl she’d raised was already gone.

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👑 Salvatore’s Father — EMILIO DELUCCA

Role: Don of the DeLucca family, head of the old mafia

Core Traits: Regal, commanding, traditional, ruthless

Emilio DeLucca is the embodiment of old-school power. The kind of man who commands silence just by entering a room. His suits are always tailored, his words always calculated, and his patience — razor-thin. He believes in legacy, loyalty, and laws written in blood. Emotion is weakness. Hesitation is betrayal. Family is everything.

To Salvatore, Emilio was more legend than father — a towering presence who expected greatness, not affection. He didn’t raise a son. He forged an heir. And though he rarely praised Salvatore, his approval was the highest currency in their house. He believed in respect earned through fear and legacy secured through violence.

But beneath the armor, Emilio is also a dying breed — a man watching his empire evolve in ways he doesn’t fully trust. He values order over chaos, family over outsiders, and views every softness as a crack in the crown.

His influence on Salvatore is undeniable. And the shadows he casts will follow even into the next generation.

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🌹 Salvatore’s Mother — ISABELLA DELUCCA

Role: The Don’s wife, Salvatore’s mother

Core Traits: Elegant, calculating, socially astute, cold when needed

Isabella DeLucca is a woman of poise — always polished, never ruffled, the perfect hostess with a mind sharper than any knife at the table. While Emilio ruled with brute power, Isabella ruled with influence. She didn’t raise her voice — she didn’t need to. She moved pieces with a glance.

To the world, she was the quiet power behind the Don. To her son, she was a teacher in disguise — instructing him in etiquette, emotional control, diplomacy. Her love was conditional, precise. She expected perfection. And failure was always met with silence, never comfort.

Isabella rarely showed affection, but her pride in Salvatore was deep — even if she never admitted it aloud. Her love was strategic, but it was still real in its own strange, cold way.

If Emilio made Salvatore a warrior, Isabella made him a king.

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