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Sylvano Capobianco
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Cursebreaker
28 year old Half
Cursebreaker
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Full Name: Sylvano Bonaventura Capobianco

Nickname(s): Silver

Birthdate: 30 July 1866

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Occupation: Cursebreaker/Mafioso

Blood Status: Halfblood

Residence: Palermo, Sicily, when his brother demands The wandering belly of his ship, the Delight, most of the time Hogsmeade, for the occasional summer season

Hogwarts House: N/A

Wand: Sycamore, 11”, surprisingly swishy, hippocampus tail scale

Family:
  • Luca Capobianco; Father; d. 1884 | "Cursebreaker" / Capofamiglia
  • Chiara Capobianco nee _______; Mother | Socialite
  • Luca Capobianco II; Brother; b. 1861 | Cursebreaker
  • Sybella Capobianco; Fraternal Twin Sister; b. 1866 | Healer
Appearance
  • Ethnicity: Sicillian
  • Height: 5’10”
  • Hair: Black, bleached ruddy by long months on the sun-baked sea. He rarely bothers to cut his hair on voyages, wearing it long and loose, but trims it short when returning to polite society.
  • Eyes: Large brown eyes with a heavy line of lashes.
  • Wand Hand: Right.
  • Build and Bearing: Sylvano fancies himself something of a pirate. A romanticized pirate, of course– swaggering about the decks of a ship with not a care in the world, wind in his hair. He moves with a casual, careless lope, rocking as though still aboard a ship. He smiles near-constantly, eyes creased in a grin even when his lips lose the expression. Friendly, fun-loving, a little bit reckless, Sylvano embodies the classic adventurer with single-minded determination. He talks emphatically, all emotion and broad gestures, with a distinct Sicillian accent that he shows no sign of shaking.
  • Attire: When mingling with society and not off gallivanting with his fellow cursebreakers, Sylvano is always well-dressed. Everything cut, pinned, trimmed to perfection– and an entire season out of date. By the end of a given summer he will have updated his wardrobe to match the fashions of the year, but at the season’s start, fresh returned from delving, he has inevitably paid little and less mind to fashion.
  • Play By: Luke Pasqualino
History
  • 1866 Luca and Chiara Capobianco welcome twins Sybella and Sylvano at their estate in Sicily, Italy. With their elder brother, Luca II, they make up the future of the infamous Capobianco family.
  • 1868 The toddling Sylvano runs afoul of a particularly broody goose. The beast chases him around a lake with such persistence that he eventually stumbles and falls in. The bite of the grouchy bird leaves a mark which fades in days, but Sylvano’s fear of geese never really does.
  • 1869 Sylvano’s magic manifests in an outburst of protective rage, trapping a wild fox in the animated fruit basket it tried to steal from his twin.
  • 1873 He’s not the heir, so Sylvano’s future is largely decided for him. He will be a man of honor and a cursebreaker, protecting the Capobianco and their precious Palermo, ‘acquiring’ treasures to build the family’s fortune. He might make consigliere someday, but until then he is his brother’s pawn to play. That suits Sylvano just fine. Cursebreaking fascinates him. It’s like being a pirate, the boy explains enthusiastically to his twin after reading a particularly exciting book about something pirates really weren’t. He soon regrets that description, blaming it for Sybella’s interest in the unwomanly work of cursebreaking. Whether her interest actually stemmed from Sylvano’s stories, he never asks.
  • 1876 - 1879 Once Sylvano adjusts to being separated from his Sybella much of the time, he thrives at school. Oh, he gets into more than his fair share of trouble. Surrounding himself with a cluster of equally adventurous friends, he plays games with the rules and lands himself in detention often enough his father has to have a talk with him in his second year. He’s a bright young man, eager to learn, absorbing new information like a sponge, but he’s reckless. Competitive. Easily provoked. A hazard, his father tells him, to his sister and his brother. The warning– and the punishment that follows– stick. Sylvano doesn’t level out so much as learn the boundaries of trouble. By the beginning of his fourth year, Sylvano learns to judge which rules can be broken, and which only bent.
  • 1880 - 1884 Sylvano’s friends ask Sybella to the school dance. It’s not taht he doesn’t understand the allure of girls– he’s been eying them, too– but never his sister. His twin. He shouts and rages at his friends until the very walls of their dormitories shake, commands them to keep their hands and eyes from her. Threatens them, even, in his protective rage. All for Sybella to turn around and accept several invitations just to spite him. It takes some time for that fight to cool, but cool it does. The dance goes by without too much incident. Sylvano, eventually, forgives his friends enough to cause trouble with them again. Returns to his studies. Returns to Sybella, too, which was never really in doubt, he has ever been weak to her demands. When she demands he teach her about cursebreaking that truth still holds.
  • 1884 After the coming of age ball, Sybella is taken. Sylvano joins the family forces searching for her, and the battles that follow are his first real taste of blood. Any fear he feels is rendered irrelevant when their father is killed in the struggle.
  • 1885 The year everything changes. Luca II is named capofamiglia, causing a schism in the family with their irate uncle. Sybella is sent away to St Mungo’s in England to recover from her wounds. Sylvano is… lost. Unbound. He grieves his father in secret, avoids his brother, pines after his precious sister, and though he has always craved adventure, for the first time he simply wants to be… elsewhere. Palermo hangs like chains from his wrists. Miserable and alone, he joins an expedition with the family cursebreakers late in the year. It is the last time he spends more than a couple of weeks at a time in Palermo.
  • 1886 - 1890 Sylvano builds a reputation for recklessness, and improbable success. He is fearless (some might say self-destructive) and hungry, and the stories told about his delves garner him considerable fame. He loses himself to the common vices of a sailor. It is entirely possible a handful of bastards have been scattered about the Mediterranean and European port cities– he wouldn’t know, he rarely lands in the same port twice.
  • 1891 At the stern insistence of his brother, Sylvano returns to solid ground for the holidays. Enough gallivanting. Enough nonsense. Luca takes him off all excavations for the rest of the year and sends him to spend the height of summer with his sister in England. Sylvano enjoys Hogsmeade for a week or two, before becoming distinctly bored with lingering in one place. He doesn’t disobey, of course, but he complains about the commandment enough to annoy both Sybella and himself. He plays at courting one or two of that year’s debutantes, but makes nothing permanent of any of it. When Luca finally permits him to return to expeditions, Sylvano makes a point of not returning the following summer.
  • 1893 On the tail end of a particularly exciting expedition in search of cursed Mycenaean artifacts, which garnered considerable attention from adventure reporters, Sylvano returns to Hogsmeade for the summer with a few fresh scars and a little extra swagger. He always enjoys having new stories to tell– particularly since these above-board expeditions have become increasingly rare. Much of what Sylvano uncovers is stolen and smuggled, and thus he must watch his eager tongue.
  • 1894 A winter expedition goes badly wrong, stranding Sylvano and his team. The family does not hear from him– or any of his crew– for months.
  • 1895 At long last, Sylvano resurfaces in a letter assuring his family he remains– mostly– in one piece. He promises a return for the summer once more, but fails to elaborate on what befell him.
Personality
  • Gregarious
  • Competitive
  • Loyal
  • Protective
  • Impulsive
  • Temperamental
  • Covetous
  • Demanding
  • Obsessive
  • Footloose
Sylvano was never going to be capo with Luca around– and that was just fine by him. High-energy, easily bored, driven by an insatiable wanderlust, the demands of his brother’s life were a perfect repellent for Sylvano. His loyalty, of course, still rests with his siblings and the family name, but he was far better suited to the family business. Cursebreaking. Stealing. Smuggling. A life of danger and treasure, carried on the wind and drifting through to visit his siblings once in a blue moon. Most of the year, all Luca or Sybella know of him is the occasional, hastily scribbled letter detailing his exploits. His physical presence is reserved for holidays, and some years for the summer season. He is, after all, something of a flirt. His fellow cursebreakers know him most often as Silver. Fun-loving, dependable, considers himself invincible. He’d be an idiot, only he has a talent for pulling off things that should have gotten him killed.
Other
  • Amortentia: Salt in the wind, fresh oranges, baking bread.
  • Patronus: Fin whale
  • Boggart: A Roman goose with a particularly large tuft on its head
  • Skills:
    • A particularly adept cursebreaker, Sylvano has spent the whole of his life preparing to handle the traps and curses riddling ancient magic ruins.
    • Magic can only get a man so far on the open sea. Sylvano knows the tricks of the sea and the secrets of a sailing ship better than he knows a woman. And he does know women rather well.
    • Life in the cosca is dangerous by nature. Sylvano’s as good at hurling curses as he is at breaking them, with a nack for nasty, darker magics made necessary by the everpresent threat of the family’s enemies.
  • Occupation: Cursebreaker / Smuggler / Mafiosi
  • Sexuality: Probably bisexual
  • Quirks and vices:
    • Smokes, drinks, gambles, has been known to seek the company of prostitutes– all quietly, of course. A man in his line of work knows how to avoid the eyes of the public.
    • Sylvano never outgrew a childhood fear of geese.
    • He talks about his voyaging ship, named The Delight, sort of like a wife.
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