The Carlton siblings
It's time to meet my Lackadaisy Ocs, the Carlton siblings!
But first, a little history about these four..
The Carlton family is a family of rum runners and brewers. Supplying speakeasies with not only imported alcohol but home brewed alcohol as well (though it cost more). The business began with Robert Carlton, who sold home brewed alcohol on the side to provide for his family. Word quickly spread of this home brewer, and soon, the Carlton brewery business began.
As time went on, Robert gained a crew of rum runners to deliver and smuggle alcohol to the many speakeasies who sought business with him. It wasn't long before his children, three sons and a daughter, joined the family business.
But alas, this type of business is never without its dangers. For this small family of brewers and rumrunners caught the attention of a dangerous gang, with a boss who had a bone to pick with Robert.
This led to an incident that resulted in the tragic death of his wife, Rosemarie, and near death of his youngest son. After this, many of Robert's crew left, and Robert sought to protect what remained of his family. Which led him to make a partnership with St Louis' most prominent bootleg operation at the time, Lackadaisy.
The partnership was successful for both Lackadaisy and the Carltons. Both provide one another with the things needed. The Carltons had the alcohol and Lackadaisy had the muscle and funds.
But in 1926, when news of Atlas's death got out, the Carlton family soon found themselves on a sinking ship as Lackadaisy slowly fell apart.
Three months later, Robert Carlton was found dead by his children. The cause of death was unclear. Though his children believed that he suffered a heart attack in the middle of the night.
His eldest son, Elias Carlton, took over the family business. Breaking ties with the now diminished Lackadaisy and partnering up with Marigold.
....now with that out of the way, let's meet the siblings!
Elias Carlton
Born: July 28, 1899
Age: 28
Elias Carlton was the firstborn son of a loving household that expected much of him. He worked hard to help out his family and was close with his younger brother, Connor. At the age of 14, Elias was encouraged by his grandfather to pursue music since he possessed great talent at the piano, but his dreams were soon quashed by the loss of his grandfather. Despite this, he continued to encourage his younger sister, Lucille, to pursue her musical ambitions.
When Prohibition came around, Elias and Connor began to engage in dangerous and illegal activity as their father began a home brewery business. Elias took on the responsibility of preparing Lucille and Anthony for these jobs, teaching them how to handle a gun and defend themselves if they were unarmed. Despite the danger of these jobs and the trauma they sometimes caused, Elias never doubted his place in the family business. He was in a loving relationship, discussing his future role in the family business, and he felt like everything was on track.
However, a seemingly simple task changed everything for Elias. As he had a date with his girlfriend, Sarah, he asked his younger brother, Anthony, to take his place helping their mother with a pickup from a shady supplier.
Elias was coming home from his date, Sarah in tow, ready to share the news of what he had asked Sarah. However, upon returning home, he noticed a commotion. The devastating news of his mother's death and Anthony's injuries, along with the revelation that Anthony was now mute because of the trauma, left Elias racked with guilt. The guilt only grew as he learned that he could have prevented all of this from happening if he hadn't asked Anthony to take his place that day.
Elias Carlton took the loss of his mother and brother's trauma to heart. In an attempt to deal with the guilt and grief he felt, he buried himself in his work. He became a reclusive and distant individual, pushing away those he cared about. His relationship with his brother, Connor, and his ex-girlfriend, Sarah, suffered as a result.
When their father passed away, Elias took over as the head of the family business. Many believed he made these decisions for his own benefit, but in reality, he was making these tough choices for his siblings.
He wanted to atone for his mistake of asking his brother to take his place on that fateful day. He hoped that by ensuring his siblings' financial security and protection, he could make it up to them. Even if it meant taking on clients or suppliers he didn't trust or like. Even if it meant his siblings would end up hating him. As long as he protected them and provided for them, that was good enough for him.
Connor Carlton
Born: September 15, 1900
Age: 26
Connor Carlton was the second eldest in the Carlton family, being born a year after Elias. The two were close, though they often bickered about minor matters. While Elias was encouraged to pursue a life outside of the simple countryside, Connor felt at ease in the quiet surroundings of their home and would often assist his mother around the farm.
Connor was a responsible young man, protecting and looking after his younger siblings, Anthony and Lucille. At the age of 19, Prohibition began, and Connor's father started the home brewery business. He did his part to help out until a hijacking went wrong, and Connor was struck by a bullet and left behind at the Carlton home. While he recovered, he began to take an interest in the brewery process and eventually became a brewer himself, working alongside one of his uncles who had joined the family business. Connor was also put in charge of finding ingredients, suppliers, and clients, which often meant traveling to the city, though he much preferred the solitude of the countryside.
After the incident, Connor and Elias's once-close bond had been affected, with Connor lashing out and blaming his brother for the loss of their mother.
Although Connor eventually apologized, having regretted what he had said after seeing how much Elias was suffering from the guilt, the bond between the two was never the same. Connor then started to consider leaving the family business behind, hoping his siblings would also agree on finding a peaceful life. However, it was too late to turn back, as by then, Anthony had already spilled blood on his hands. Though Connor resented his father for leading him and his siblings down the path of crime, he felt obligated to stay with his family and uphold the family business.
Connor still lives in the countryside with his siblings, working in the family business into the late hours of the night without complaint.
Despite it all, Connor still hopes to find a way out, to have a more peaceful life. Yet, he knows leaving will be difficult after all the crimes he and his family have committed. It won't be easy to revert to a normal way of living after everything they've done.
For now, Connor focuses his efforts on running the family business, providing for his siblings, and keeping a close watch over them, hoping to prevent any more trouble from falling into their paths once more.
Lucille Carlton
Born: October 6, 1904
Age: 22
Lucille Carlton is the third child of the Carlton family, but being the only daughter in a family of mostly boys meant she didn't quite fit the norm of the day. Still, her family gave her all the same love and attention they gave her brothers. Lucile was a spirited and energetic child, though as she grew older, her energetic nature waned as she took on a more calm and mature demeanor.
At the age of twelve, Lucille noticed how she was treated differently, seen as weak and defenseless, and this annoyed her to extent. The only people who understood and saw her true nature was her three brothers.
When Prohibition came around at the age of fifteen, Lucille wanted to help out and prove herself, but her father wanted her to work alongside her mother. After some persistence from Lucille, she was allowed to work alongside her brothers, whose jobs included hijacking shipments. Despite the danger, Lucille learned how to defend herself and handle a weapon with the help of Elias. She helped with many jobs, though things went wrong frequently and eventually led up to 'the incident'.
After the tragic loss, Lucille realized just how dangerous hijacking and other illegal jobs could be. By that point, however, it was too late to turn back from going down that path. It was also at this time that Lucille became engaged to Philip, but things took a turn for the worse as his true nature was possessive and controlling. In some cases, violent. Though her brothers urged her to break off the engagement, Lucille stayed with Philip, wanting to please his family and not wanting to let anyone down.
The day of their wedding, Lucille finally decided she could not bring herself to do it. She snuck out of the church, and her brothers waited for her outside in the car. They whisked her away, knowing they had to protect her from the inevitable fallout when her absence was discovered. She finally decided she could no longer stay with Philip after realizing the situation was irredeemable.
However, this would lead to her brothers becoming protective of Lucille. As the three felt guilt for practically allowing Lucille to go through what she did with Philip. They didn't want to risk her ending up in such a situation again.
Her brothers were doing what they thought best for her to spare her from another potential disaster with a man, but in the process, they unintentionally prevented Lucille from making new connections. As Lucille settled into her role as a singer at the Maribel hotel, word began to spread about her brothers' aggressive behavior. Guests became fearful of approaching Lucille as they feared running afoul of the brothers. This made her feel isolated, as while men admired her from afar, she became the subject of ridicule and spite by women who envied her and resented how the men admired the girl they couldn't have. This started to affect her self-esteem and self-worth, and she began to feel invisible and alone.
Yet, despite her brothers' extreme behavior, she still loves them and appreciates them for always having her back. However, she also grows tired of feeling like the odd person out and wishes her brothers would just let her be. Still, she never voices these feelings because she is always thankful and understands why they act this way, even if she wishes they wouldn't.
Anthony Carlton
Born: November 17, 1905
Age: 21
Anthony Carlton is the youngest of the Carlton siblings, born only a year after Lucille. The two shared a close bond, practically inseparable as children.
Anthony was talkative and filled with life as a child, and was very close with his mother, despite occasionally being teased by his older brothers for it. Despite the teasing, Anthony could always rely on his brothers and sister to have his back whenever it came to bullying from neighborhood kids.
When Prohibition began, Anthony was only fourteen. Despite his worries, he accompanied his siblings on hijacks. As time went on, he eventually became an effective triggerman for the family business. He developed a reputation as a bootlegger, making him a valuable asset to his family, and eventually gaining the attention of rival gangs.
One day, Anthony was asked by Elias to take his place on a job so that he could go on a date with his girlfriend. And Anthony agreed. I mean, what harm could it do?
Ultimately, this decision turned out to be a deadly mistake, as rivals aimed to kill Anthony and killed his mother in the process.
The tragic incident that brought grief to the Carlton siblings.
Despite his wounds, Anthony managed to survive. However, the trauma from seeing his mother killed right before Anthony's eyes caused him to go mute, a stark change from the talkative, upbeat person he was before.
His siblings felt deep guilt and grief over the incident, having noticed the drastic change. Anthony distanced himself from people for a while, though his bond with Lucille stayed relatively unchanged. While Anthony no longer speaks, it seems like his connection to Lucille remained mostly intact. Lucille is able to understand his thoughts and emotions through physical cues and mannerisms and remains closest to him among the other Carlton siblings, with his relationship with Elias seemingly strained. Despite all this, Anthony persists with his duties to his family.
When the Carltons began doing business with Marigold, Anthony was sent to work alongside Mordecai Heller and the Savoy siblings. Due to the fact that Anthony still lives in the countryside with Connor and Lucille, he is only sent on hijacks and hits whenever he is in town visiting Elias alongside his siblings.
During that time, Anthony has seemingly caught the attention of the Savoys, specifically Nicodeme Savoy. It is currently unclear what their intentions are.
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Oh gosh, that was a lot.
More stuff on these guys will be posted soon!
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I decided to start talking about Wick and Rocky's relationship because I like their dynamics too, I like seeing Wick scared of Rocky and Rocky being aggressive with him, which is unusual because Rocky is rarely aggressive with anyone, but of course Wick is an exception to rule
Also my mini opinion about their possible relationship, I think that if Rocky didn't have to fight for his place, then he and Wick could become friends, or at least tolerate each other a little, I also see some superficial similarities, their gentlemanly and romantic natures, and their common love for explosions (remembering the quarrymen chapter), but this is my assumption, I think that I don't understand the characters' personalities well, so I can be wrong in this assumption, something like that. So, what do you think about their relationship?
for starters, i cannot thank you enough for this ask! as i’ve said previously, i have many thoughts on these two, so it’s nice to finally be able to share some of them. although given the extent to which i think about them, i apologize in advance if this is sloppy and sort of everywhere … while i’ll try to structure things the best i can, i cannot promise i’ll succeed! but hopefully this is an enjoyable reply nonetheless.
one of my favorite things about rocky and wick’s relationship is absolutely how aggressive rocky is towards the aristocrat ; he is prone to glares and cruel jokes and borderline hissing whenever the man is within his line of sight, or can be brought to a wailing-fit over the mere mention of his name from miss m’s mouth. there is a childishness to it, but a very prominent threat as well in spite of rocky’s usual incompetence. so he goes out of his way to posture around wick, readily lying and adorning himself with the gangster drapes he so badly wants to wear, in the hopes that it intimidates … will even badmouth wick’s family and make fun of his name and rock related obsession to mitzi, and so on so forth! yet all of this is very reminiscent of schoolyard bullying rather than anything too severe, though we as the audience understand rather quickly that rocky would bash wick’s head in with a tire iron if he could. ( translation : if it wouldn’t earn the tears or hate of a certain beloved mitzi may ) and it’s all very intense despite the absence of actual violence! and i understand why many fans see this as unusual for rocky and believe that it’s only wick who makes him act so aggressively, but i’d argue it isn’t really wick at all that prompts such scary reactions from him … and that rocky is a deeply angry character who’s a.) been boiling quietly for a long, long time and b.) has turned wick into a punching bag of sorts for this inner world of resentment and hurt. basically, when he’s judging the well-to-do or poking fun, his eyes don’t look at wick and actually acknowledge him as sedgewick sable ; instead this is a being, something vague and metaphorical, who threatens to upseat rocky’s permanence in the lackadaisy and steal away his savior, and he’s had a hand in the violinist’s misfortune for a long time.
obviously, rocky doesn’t think wick robbed him of his family twice over and made him homeless, but he is channeling the fear and anguish of those events into his loathing for wick, if that makes sense? it’s easier that way -- to finally have an outlet for everything bleeding inside of you, to be able to bite and claw at something without feeling conflicted or having to take personal accountability for your own mistakes … which is something that i think rocky does struggle with to a degree. he is sort of a finger pointer! his pain has to be worth something, it has to be for someone else ; spending years homeless and losing his last bit of family was for freckle, and the scrambling of his literal brain was for mitzi, and that means he can’t ever be angry with them! well, except that he is, somewhat, but he buries it deep down instead of feeling it. with freckle there is a sense of strain between them -- an air of ‘you owe me’ from rocky to freckle as he uses freckle to appease miss m, and he constantly pokes fun at his cousin too. it’s lighter than his jabs at wick, but there’s a constant pestering, a reminder of how good freckle has it : how he’s got the mom and the house and the job and the girl most notably. i don’t think rocky is intending to come across as mean, and to his credit he hardly does! but it’s rather clear to me that some part of him, some hidden and deeply hurt part, is rather indignant about taking the fall for freckle all those years ago. which he can’t understand, because how could he? he made that choice, he decided to take accountability for something he didn’t do because he loves freckle and knows it’d be so easy to believe this family tragedy was roark’s fault ; the devilish child he was, all troublesome and too broken to properly fit anywhere. so there is a disconnect born here, where rocky can’t comprehend that he’d be angry at freckle, so instead these not so great feelings are placed elsewhere and silently boil over time. and with mitzi … i don’t think he’s angry at her per se, but there is a frustrated and desperate chorus of : why him and why not me, when i’m the one out here dying for you? which is certainly unpleasant. of course, rather than allowing those feelings to be more aimed at miss m, whom he feels unloved by, he ( again! ) represses these emotions and allows them to fester into his greatest fears and fantastical complexes. i think there is a lot of other miscellaneous anger he could have towards others too … perhaps some part of him is sore upon seeing ivy’s normal lifestyle, watching her go to university and knowing that’s been taken from him. or an ache felt when hearing stories from zib and the band and how they used to travel successfully, living as nomads, and rocky is all too reminded of his similar lifestyle and how he couldn’t make it work as effortlessly. people with immense trauma are more prone to irrational anger and jealousy, to viewing everything around them as unfair and believing it’s even more unjust that so many people get to live comfortably while they’ve suffered. a situation that gets more messy when you’re someone like rocky, a man who’s willingly made choices that have harmed himself and wants to continue on with his smiling, bumbling fool of an act. he does not want to be angry, does not want to see it within himself, i think, which leads to an accidental increase of it.
all of this is to reiterate that wick is a scapegoat for rocky and nothing more. it’s why he’s rather hypocritical whenever it concerns the man. for example, it was stated by tracy that he looks down upon wick for his excessive presence at the bar, yet he appears to enjoy hanging out with zib -- who drinks just as often! he makes fun of how all wick ever talks about is rocks, when he himself is prone to poetry rambles that people find irritating or boring, and etc etc. this is also just a human nature thing, to critique someone you heavily dislike and even going as far as to belittle things you love or do in your own day to day because you just hate them that bad! but given rocky’s willingness to befriend anyone, it more so reeks of a dehumanization element. wick is every obstacle in his way, every divine force that threatens to send him packing again, so he is equal parts unnerved by wick’s presence and angry about it. it is mostly a fear response we are seeing, an emotion that’s morphed into long held resentment and anger. so his actions are extremely defensive, with him trying to push wick far away and keep him and mitzi separate, like some sort of animal attempting to ward off a threat that’s come too close to their home. despite the loaded animosity there, this hate has hardly reached its peak … but it shall only grow more intense as things continue onward i’m afraid, since as it stands ( in the comic at least ) rocky is at an all time low … and is ten times more desperate. i’d honestly say wick has become so warped in his mind’s eye that he can only strive towards ‘winning’ over the other man, because that’s all he can see anymore. i think mitzi implying that wick willingly helped her out, the intense head injury, and rocky’s fragile emotional state is exactly what pushes him towards premeditated murder in look-see. i don’t know how people perceive that arc, but to me it’s very clear that rocky actively sought to see the deaths of wes and fish that night. going as far as to lament that he’d be, “very disappointed if ( he ) dreamed them,” and purposefully luring the marigold duo away to have freckle pick them off. while you could argue that this was a smart move, in a gangster sort of sense, there’s still no denying that rocky is oddly chipper about the whole thing and is now seeking death out ; whereas before his methods of vengeance were just, well, ruining people’s livelihood but ultimately leaving them alive. this isn’t to discredit the fact that rocky is going through something! he is in a very muddled and dark place, mentally and physically, but even tracy has said that the head injury hasn’t changed rocky’s personality -- it’s only brought things to the surface.
source : q&a with tracy .
which, yeah! makes sense! head trauma can cause a person to become a wreck emotionally ( think mood swings, irritability, etc ) but it doesn’t completely morph someone either. personality changes may occur, but it’s not like you’re being rewritten entirely, you know? and given tracy’s old statement, it’s clear that ‘personality changes’ aren’t a side effect he’s suffering from. something that adds to my beginning statement, which is that rocky is a deeply angry and troubled person, more so than fans give him any credit for.
however, to touch upon your mini opinion about these two, i actually wholeheartedly agree that rocky and wick could become friends if circumstances were different. they do in fact have many superficial similarities, but one of the more prominent things they deeply share is never really belonging in the groups they frequent. this is more overt with rocky’s character, yet wick faces it too in subtle ways. the well-to-do crowd, seen through the investors, find the gentleman to be lacking in about every place imaginable ; to them he is an obsessive freak who cares too deeply for meager rocks, something they constantly mock him for, while he’s also being noticeably set apart from the rest of them … he seems younger than the investors, more excitable, passionate, and a little less experienced, and doesn’t seem to care for money or reputation as much as them either. there is a constant rubbing between him and them, where what he enjoys is seen as wrong, such as his love for the lackadaisy and his choice in paramor, a grieving widow with extremely dangerous ties. we also know that wick doesn’t have many friends at all, with the only two he has being lacy and church ( church is listed as such on his character profile, in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way ), both of whom work for or with him. they are obliged to hang around, and while they care in varying ways, they are prone to judging him just as much. honestly, it’s not shocking that wick seeks refuge at his chosen speakeasy! but even there he is rather distant from everyone else. he doesn’t speak to zib ever in the comics, nor seems all too close with viktor, ivy, or horatio … it is merely mitzi he is close to, even if he knows of the other people who work there. and, once again, wick very obviously doesn’t fit in. he is not gangster material, could never be an atlas may replacement, much less someone who could get his paws dirty in such an active way. so he has his feet in two different worlds and doesn’t know how to fit into either of them, or which one he actually wants to fit into more. i think in many ways rocky could relate -- these are two very lonely people who wish to belong somewhere and be accepted by some group or another but go about it in all the wrong ways. wick, who is too hesitant to fully commit to what he wants and is worse off for it, and then rocky, who obsessively throws himself against what he wants until he breaks every bone in his body. they also have explosives to bond over, lol, and other miscellaneous things like their taste in women i suppose … but this potential bond adds to the tragedy of lackadaisy, where we see two people who on every level should get along but we’re burdened with the knowledge that it’s an impossibility anyway, because there’s no removing the circumstance of which they’re in.
though i like to believe that despite wick’s fear of rocky, he maintains a kindness towards him regardless. i think his worries about rocky are rather surface level … he doesn’t know the boy at all, really, and thus can’t make heads or tails of him, hence him believing the lie in balderdash. so when i’m feeling particularly self indulgent, i like imagining a world where they’re forced together and sort of ‘stuck’ together ; to which rocky finally breaks and exposes his wounds to wick, in every sense of the word, and wick finally gets him. the aggression, the possessiveness of mitzi … it is all fear and desperation and a profound sadness, things he’d sympathize with. if rocky was able to explain that he loathes wick because if he saves the lackadaisy then mitzi won’t need him anymore and that it’s not fair that wick gets to so easily fix things when rocky would give his soul for his home, for her, and how wick could render every sacrifice he’s already made for naught by smoothing things over with some greenbacks and he can’t lose this, he just can’t --! … which, well, wick is too kind of a man to be able to do anything except feel awful, even though it’s not his fault at all. here we have two people who could coexist! and they should, since rocky logically can’t do every speakeasy job ( band member, rumrunner, mitzi’s shadow, also the guy who gets the money for the hooch ) by himself, just like how wick can’t save the lackadaisy with only his cash and limited booze stash. it’d be a joint cooperation, a collaboration between them, both equally important in the grand scheme of crime’s every turning wheel … but rocky’s rage and fear won’t let him see that, and likely never will. still, in scenarios where everything ends up alright for the lackadaisy and the people involved in it ( which is not how canon will go, by the way ), i fancy wick and rocky getting better within their relationship. rocky will always be prickly and quick to upset around the other man sadly, but perhaps he could see wick in a softer kind of light. or at least understand vaguely enough that he isn’t out to get rocky, so to speak. and then maybe wick learns that pancakes soothe rocky’s ire and poorly makes them anytime he wishes to talk to the man, and other fun things like that! but you should have more confidence in your character analysis skills, because you were spot on ( at least in my eyes ) about them potentially getting along if things were different. it’s certainly a fun aspect to play around with, and is important to note when discussing their relationship so you can fully understand just how warped rocky’s perspective on things are. and how unstable and traumatized he is too, of course </3 sidenote, but i also hope that throughout everything i’ve said here, or anything i’ve said before on my blog, that my love for rocky and my own sympathy for him comes across well enough. while he’s deeply flawed and i have no qualms discussing said flaws in depth, i also don’t think of him as some insane freak who’s evil at his core or anything like that. honestly, i adore analyzing him so much as a character because of how far down his issues go! he’s very well written, i’ll say, as is wick and many of the other characters, but i digress.
once more, thank you for the ask! i’ll end this here because i fear if i don’t i’ll start going in circles, since their relationship is so vast and very important for rocky in a character sense. hopefully i shed some more light on it though! i love these two to bits and pieces and i wouldn’t be half as invested in lackadaisy if their dynamic wasn’t so monumental -- at least to me.
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-🤍 Marjorie Ford, the woman behind the smile 🩷-
Hey there!
YUP,
after the embarrassingly LONG time of two months and 19 days after the opening of this silly Tumblr blog and the introduction of Margo’s cute character on the Lackafandom scene, I FINALLY finished her character sheet for all of you sweet folk to witness my delusional fantasies of blood-streaked glamour and romance!
Why did this take me so much time?
Simple. As usual, I can’t use Ibis Paint X, and draw digitally with my smol fingers on my equally smol and silly phone.
As such an inept as I am, the background of Marjorie’s illustration is in fact NOT product of my dubious artistic skills: I downloaded it from a free stock of ‘aesthetic garden background, wallpapers and illustration’ I found on Trailsandfreedom.com .
No, I swear I am not being paid to advertise them or anything, I merely feel the urge to leave credits with my pesky moral code nagging at my conscience.
Here is the original picture, on which I then dared to add some filters to get the dull coloring I wanted.
Also, here is the original pencil sketch of Margo’s, this time proudly produced by myself only:
She’s supposed to be sporting some fancy Victorian-gothic style dress, hat and parasol to recall of Mordecai’s own elegant fashion sense. I didn’t add any gloves because at the beginning I wanted her to, like, sting herself with the rose to draw blood and symbolise the assassination business and all that jazz.
And, nada, that’s the end of my interminable poem of thought process! I hope this gave some proper insight on Margo’s otherwise mysterious character, and it it managed to entice your curiosity about her, feel free to nag me in my asks!
-GentleLass.
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