Sevino

From OSWIKI

Height:	6'1"
Weight:	170
Birthday:	01/01/1965
Position:	Housing Development

Sevino Antonio Cavallari was born in Brooklyn into a family that was known for being ruthless. He was the 5th son of a family of 8 and the youngest child or so he thought.

As a young kid Sevino played with his brothers and sisters and learned the basics of being a good boy. When he was 5, his aunt took him on a very long trip. They ended up in Italy where his grandmother and grandfather lived. For reasons that he didn’t understand, he wasn’t allowed to go home and after a few years, he thought of his grandparent’s house as home.

Around the time he turned 6 Sevino realized that he could sometimes concentrate hard and hear people speak without seeing their lips move. He wasn’t sure if he had always been able to do it but he noticed it a lot more. He didn’t tell anyone, but he was always seemed to know just what someone needed, or say exactly what someone else was thinking. He accepted this skill easily and sometimes asked other kids if they knew what he was thinking. He realized pretty fast that he had something others didn’t.

His grandparents sent him to a good school and cared for him with his aunt like he was their own, but Sevino felt abandoned by his parents. Every time he asked about them his grandfather would yell at him and add chores to his daily routine. He was told they were bad and would suffer in hell for their sins. His life was a daily routine of working around the house and then running deliveries for his grandfather’s store. He played football (soccer) and spent summers chasing the neighborhood girls around with frogs and worms.

In the spring of the year he turned 12, out of nowhere, his father arrived and without much more than an “Sevino, son, get your things.” There was cursing, yelling, crying and furniture broken in his grandparent’s house but in the end, his father seemed to win. They left before Sevino could say good bye. His father took him to Rome while he conducted some business; Sevino tried to run away. He made it as far as the train station before his father found him. That night he was beaten so badly that the couldn’t get out of bed for two days. Sevino hated his father instantly. All questions were met with a slap until Sevino turned the skill of reading minds on his father.

What he discovered over days of reading his thoughts was a jumbled mess of ideas and events but it basically came down to three things. Sevino was a bastard child of his father’s mistress. His aunt had pleaded with them to take Sevino in and the family did but his aunt suspected that his father was going to abandon the boy or, possibly worse. She had taken him to Italy, basically kidnapping him. His father was almost pleased at first but then Sevino became worth something. The mistress who was his mother married a wealthy stock broker and an aspiring politician. Bringing Sevino back was an attempt at extortion.

This revelation rocked Sevino’s world and shifted his entire reality. He became withdrawn, angry and sullen. He had violent mood swings and lashed out at everyone. His violence begat more violence and often ended with a belt or a bloody nose. When he was brought back to New York, he was miserable and edgy all the time.

The plan to extort his mother and her new husband didn’t work. They flat out refused to pay anything for Sevino, but they did offer to take him in. Sevino’s father was opposed to the idea at first, but things changed when the family pushed him to allow his real mother to take him in.

It was not an easy road, Sevino was still very angry. He had lost control of his life because of the adults around him treating him like a pawn. He wanted to return to Italy, he wanted to see his aunt again and he was desperate for discipline. But in the months that followed, Sevino started to trust the family he had been taken into. His ability to read thoughts provided him some comfort about their intentions and his the man whose house he lived in (Jeffery) taught him a lot about the fine art of lying, and stealing for the right reasons.

Jeffrey never made it big in politics but he did hold some minor offices for the mayor. He introduced Sevino to the men who ran the city and even got him his first job as a courier in the Governor’s office. Aside from working Sevino went to public High School and occasionally got into fights, but he was able to dissolve most situations by reading minds and anticipating an attack. He was never close to anyone and love was not something he felt unless he thought about his grandparents.

When he graduated from High School, Sevino took a job with Jeffrey’s stock firm. He started at the bottom and worked his way up. Work was his diving passion. From 5 am until 9 pm on many days he would pour all his energy into work. He was noticed but more than a few firms but stayed where he was until he met Kimberly.

Kimberly Karden was the heiress to a real estate fortune. Her family had amassed wealth by buying old buildings, fixing them and selling them at huge mark ups. Sevino was infatuated with her instantly. He bought her gifts, showered her with attention and made her the center of his world. They were married when Sevino was 19 and she was 22. 6 months after they were married, their daughter was born. Briony was named for the character in the book Attonement that Kimberly loved.

As they were putting their lives together, and building a company, Sevino was approached by men who offered him a huge sum of money to give them information about a client. At first he declined, but when he thought about it again, he decided to take the money. It would help him build the company farther. But it was just the first of many such pay offs. Sevino began using his ability to read thoughts to give him a market edge with investors. He knew things before they would happen (so it seemed) or were made public and after years of suspicion, two undercover agents tried to trap him. Sevino realized who they were but during the time he was under surveillance two of his clients were murdered. It was the two clients the police suspected Sevino was getting information from and then using it to trade illegitimately. The suspicion for the murders fell on him. The reasoning was: The police were getting close to making an arrest, and he killed the two clients to keep them from talking.

He was arrested and kept in jail. A flight risk they called him. His time in prison hardened Sevino’s mind farther. He left the prison at the end of the trial when the jury came back hung, a changed man. He was colder and even more calculating. He suspected everyone of trying to frame him. Being released however meant that he had kept his seat on the exchange, and he again poured himself into business and into his daughter.

With new evidence the DA tried him again. This time the trial put massive pressure on his marriage. Kimberly was having affairs and it bothered him but he could live with it. What he couldn’t live with was the thought she produced one day while they were walking. She was talking about leaving and taking Briony. She wanted to start over. But Sevino read in her thoughts that she was going to help the DA find a way to prove he was guilty of fraud and murder. His anger was rage on the inside. He again felt abandoned by love. He calmly bought her a ticket to England and suggested she stay with friends until the third trial was over. He promised he would send Briony after school let out. He then paid someone to kill his wife.

He was the sole beneficiary to all his wife’s assets. He inherited chunks of real estate and her small business empire. Just after her death, Sevino killed another man by strangling him and throwing his body into the river. The man tried to extort money from him after Sevino paid him to steal papers from a client that Sevino knew was keeping information from him. When the man demanded a million dollars, Sevino was transported back to the days he realized that he was a tool of extortion and killed him in a rage of pure anger.

Today, Sevino has a strained relationship with his daughter. He doesn’t speak to her but he still supports her. She is his only link to the past and yet a constant reminder of something dark in his mind. She reminds him of betrayal even though he loves her. His want to make her life better than his was seems to have failed.

Sevino gave his seat on the exchange up and reconnected with his half brothers. He brought them into his new business of real estate development and preservation. He is not above collecting fees for some neighborhood “protection” but his main business is in real estate. He lives on the Upper West side of Manhattan now and runs his business from an office building midtown.

His brother Nicholas is his driver and his assistant.