NAME: Rabi FAMILY: Monacello RANK: Contabile AGE: 20 SIGN: Sagittarius LIKES: lamb vindaloo, green tea, matched tea sets, the legend of the willow pattern, good films, bad films, action films, foreign films, late-night talk shows, reading for fun and profit, white gloves, romantic gestures, learning from the best, proper etiquette, red roses, loud music. DISLIKES: rude people
| Rabi doesn't remember much about his early life. He lived in a reasonably-sized house with his mother and father and there were always fresh flowers in the house. Such small details, bland and meaningless, are all he carries with him, since they have so little bearing on his life. At the age of nine he was kidnapped from his home by the caporegime of a rival family, and so began his new life.
Tyki Mikk kept the child in a basement, reasonably furnished, with shelves of books on three sides of the room, and a cot on the fourth. Every day he was brought upstairs for lunch with the caporegime, where they would discuss what Rabi had read in his books, and Tyki would teach him something new. If Rabi learned it quickly enough, he was allowed to stay in the drawing room and finish his meal. If not, he was sent back to the basement. Being a quick boy, with an eager mind, it didn't take Rabi long to learn which side his bread was buttered on.
Or at least, to learn which tricks would earn him buttered bread.
As a result of his unique education, Rabi is unusually intellectual, though since being freed from the basement he's done everything he can to flush the poetry out of his head. At any rate, he tends to keep most of what he knows to himself. If they want to think he's an idiot, that's fine too. It's sometimes even advantageous.
Rabi keeps mostly to himself; being raised solely at Tyki's side, he missed out on the opportunity to make his own friends, and instead devoted himself to navigating the difficult waters of the caporegime's many mood swings. He'd be lonely, if he weren't so busy trying to keep his left eye intact after Tyki helped him lose the right one.
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