Raccoon Korleone
Raccoon Korleone (a.k.a. "Hand of the Korleone")
Raccoon is a Kenku, raised from a hatchling by The Korleone Family. He has black/dark blue feathers with a silver raccoon-pattern around his eyes, and the mark of the Korleone Family on his left shoulder. Slender even for a Kenku, he stands at 4' 0" and 90 lbs. Exiled by the Korleone family, Raccoon is currently on the run, desperately seeking a way to rejoin them. His current whereabouts and activities are unknown.
Physical Description
Body Features
Typical Kenku features, height and weight.
Facial Features
Raccoon has silver feathering around his eyes, creating a raccoon mask-like pattern.
Physical quirks
Raccoon is tremendously fidgety. He is also jumpy, starting at the slightest noise or surprise.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Raccoon's is a story fraught with tragedy. Raccoon was raised by The Korleone Family, a Kenku mafia family based out of the sewers in High Keldan. The Korleones were founded by Vito Korleone (a Kenku who stole the name from a dead mobster he'd heard about). Vito adopted Raccoon as a hatchling and raised him as his own, as he did all the Kenku in the mafia. The mafia quickly became Raccoon's family, with everyone helping to raise him and teach him the ways of a thief. As Raccoon's skills improved, he graduated into bigger and better jobs, and eventually he began learning the ways of an assassin. Unfortunately, things went south, fast. On his last assignment, his first fielding as an assassin, Raccoon accidentally killed his allies, and a simple job turned into a massacre in High Keldan. He had broken from the plan, which was nothing new for Raccoon, but this time he had gotten himself spotted. When his family tried to intervene to finish the job and subsequently save Raccoon, Raccoon shot an arrow into his closest friend, Snake. He also shot a doppelgänger named Frederico, thinking him the mission target. Both Korleones died on the spot, and the real target escaped.
Over time, the Family has changed leadership, with the current leader being Michael Korleone. Needless to say, Michael was furious over the botched mission. He had originally planned to keep Raccoon alive and in the guild. However, true to his current run of bad timing and misjudgment, Raccoon snuck into Michael's office to try and plead for mercy and saw Michael in his doppelgänger form. Adding insult to injury, Michael was just then crafting plans that could possibly spell the end of the Family. Enraged, Michael intended to kill him, but out of the last shred of mercy he had in him, Michael spared Raccoon. He gave Raccoon a chance to escape. Raccoon barely managed to flee High Keldan with his life, even as the entire mafia descended upon him.
Raccoon no longer has any contact with The Korleone Family. Any effort to reach out to them would very likely result in them hunting him down and slaughtering him. Raccoon knows this, but his total self-identification as a Korleone was so fundamental that he couldn't not constantly plan and make efforts to rejoin the Family. Sadly, this internal dissonance, combined with Raccoon constantly rerunning the memories of the failed mission, and his fear of Michael's plans for the Family all led to Raccoon suffering from mental destabilization. This state has led to Raccoon's compounding desperation to rejoin his Family and tell them the truth about Michael. Raccoon's most recent effort to rejoin his Family may have been the proverbial straw that truly broke his sanity. Not much is known about the event; speculation includes a clairvoyance spell and a fey apple. What is certain is that Raccoon's mind is truly shattered. His intelligence and skills all seem to still be intact, but his thoughts are consumed with the conviction that powerful enemies are tracking him, and that Michael's agents are everywhere.
Raccoon still craves more than anything to be with his family again. Currently, Michael is still hunting for Raccoon under the guise of exacting revenge for Frederico and Snake; in reality, Michael seeks to keep his own secrets. Raccoon is still not welcome in High Keldan and has no known supportive contacts in that region.
Education
The entirety of Raccoon's education consists of The Korleone Family training methods and objectives, which are centered around the shadowy skills needed to further the Korleones' agendas.
Employment
Raccoon is currently unemployed, and is very likely unemployable due to his current mental state.
Mental Trauma
Raccoon suffers from a total loss of sanity: he suffers from continuously recurring visions of the slaughter of his friends; from being ejected from his Family; and from severe paranoia. There may also be a magical component to his madness stemming from the event with the clairvoyance spell and the fey apple.
Intellectual Characteristics
Raccoon has always been highly impulsive. He is now also extremely paranoid, untrusting of everyone and everything, always ready to pull a poisoned blade on someone.
Morality & Philosophy
Mentally shattered or not, Raccoon's one fundamental philosophy is easily summed up: Family is everything. His morality follows this; Raccoon can justify absolutely any act as long as it leads to the betterment of The Family.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Raccoon is primarily motivated by his desire to reenter his "family", the Korleone Mafia. His secondary desire, then, is to ensure the safety of his family, which may include exposing Michael Korleone. Raccoon's third motivation is clearing his own name with the family.
Personality Quirks
Raccoon has suffered a complete psychotic break from reality, and thus may exhibit all manner of quirks and unusual mannerisms (even for a Kenku).
Social
Contacts & Relations
Nala, the Goliath alchemist of Sananon.
Family Ties
The Family of Korleone, currently banished, but trying to get back in good favor.
Social Aptitude
Raccoon has a full working knowledge of etiquette, but he chooses to utilize none of it. Due to his current mental state, Raccoon may not be able to function "normally" for length of time, if at all.
Hobbies & Pets
Personal passion for poison crafting & practicing thievery.
Speech
As a Kenku, Raccoon can mimic any sound or speech that he hears. However, he chooses to mimic only non-speech sounds.
Wealth & Financial state
Currently, flush with platinum and gold
Alignment
Chaotic Neutral
Current Location
Year of Birth
1906
39 Years old
Circumstances of Birth
Hatched and raised by the Theives Guild of High Keldan
Birthplace
High Keldan, Kelden.
Children
Current Residence
Unkown
Gender
Male
Eyes
Deep Purple
Hair
Black Feathers with a royal blue tint. Around his eyes he has feathers forming into a raccoon-like mask.
Height
4'0"
Weight
90lbs
Quotes & Catchphrases
"SQUACK!"
Aligned Organization
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