Keira Priest
The Iron
Jaymes & Evelyn Ticon, the last heads of the Ticon family before their murder and its collapse
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To flesh out the history of the (now deceased/otherwise dispersed) Ticon family
- Image Credit: Pinterest (unable to find original source; model is T.R Pescod), Deviantart
- Links: The Ticon family reunites for the first time in years, the second reunion, the mystery of who betrayed the Ticons is solved
- Company Submission: N/A
- Organization Name: Ticon Family Mafia
- Classification: Family, crime organization
- Loyalties: Themselves
- Organization Symbol: The Ticons had no official symbol beyond the various graffiti tags used to mark their territory. However, there was one thing they were notorious for: killing all but one member of a family as a statement, and sending the necessary funds to pay for the funerals of the deceased.
- Description: A crime family that originated on Corellia, intended to flesh out the Corellian underworld and its history.
- Headquarters: Coronet City, Corellia; Blue Sector
- Realm: Corellia [HQ]
- Domain: Blue Sector (see above), vied for control with Stargo. Relationship with the local populace was neutral, the majority avoided them on principle due to their reputation.
- Notable Assets: Controlled multiple warehouses/safehouses across the planet when they still ruled.
- Hierarchy: Within the Ticon family, there existed no definitively stated chain-of-command. Jaymes was the last head of the family before his murder and its inevitable collapse, and thusly was the leading individual. His wife, Evelyn, served in a secondary capacity, taking over operations when it became necessary. Elsewise there were a number of hired guns and affiliated gangs and smaller syndicates that worked for and/or beneath the family, ultimately as subordinates of a certain capacity.
- Membership: Other than Jaymes and his wife, they had seven children together. Aside from the main family, there were a vast amount of criminals that worked beneath them, a number that is nearly impossible to estimate due to the time since their collapse. Loyalty was a necessity of the family, and it had to be proven through whatever means were deemed appropriate, though it wasn't explicitly necessary if one was a low-level member of the organization only running petty crimes.
- Influence: Blue Sector, controlled roughly half of the territory within it.
- Climate: At the end of the day, the Ticons were a family, and it was that Jaymes emphasized. If you were in good with them, had proven your loyalty and done your own work, you were treated no different than the rest of them. Despite their outside reputation the Ticons were friendly so long as you were on the inside, and complied with the present leadership and their intentions and ultimate goals. However, this could just as quickly turn on a dime if you betrayed their trust.
- Reputation: The majority of those within Coronet City knew of the Ticons before their fall, and were well aware of the power and sway they held. Outsiders were justifiably wary of the family, avoiding interaction at all costs for what was their own safety and ultimate well-being. It was considered unwise to mess with the family, as they had cops, lawyers, and judges in their back pocket, with the majority of their strength coming from their control over corrupt officials.
- Rules: Being a crime family, there weren't many strict rules one had to follow. Moreover, the ones that did exist were largely unspoken. Loyalty was at the top, as was respect for oneself, their associates, and the Ticon family as well. Furthermore, when one made a commitment to the Ticons they were expected to follow through with it, regardless of the costs. The rest were minor and/or common sense, such as don't fraternize with law enforcement, don't incriminate yourself or your associates, etc.
- Doctrines: There was no specific doctrine any one member or associate of the Ticon family followed; however there were a few individual ones worth mentioning. A few of those more old-fashioned Corellians among their numbers adhered to the old Corellian mythologies in some way, shape, or form, though none of them were ever explicitly religious. More important than this, however, is the fact that the language of Old Corellian was kept alive among the main family and passed down through the generations, taught to all of the children by Jaymes, and Jaymes by his parents, and so on and so forth across the family line.
- Goals: The goals of the Ticon family were simple: expand their own territory and various criminal enterprises while taking over that of the opposition and making sure that they remain on top in the constant tumultuary that encompasses the underworld.
- Previous family heads (see historical information)
- Jaymes Ticon (father, deceased)
- Evelyn Ticon (mother, deceased)
- Colap Ticon (eldest brother)
- Dani Ticon (eldest sister)
- Harlin Ticon (middle sister)
- Diego Ticon (middle brother)
- Keira Ticon (Verd) (middle sister)
- Nikola Ticon (youngest brother)
- Tabitha Ticon (youngest sister)
- Soulfire Ticon (cousin)
- Lisa Ticon (cousin)
- Various other cousins.
- Various gangs and syndicates that operated within the families territory, now believed to be deceased and/or dispersed.
The Ticons were not originally the crime family that spanned the Corellian underworld. Rather, they were a loosely affiliated family of smugglers and gun runners that made their living by ducking under the nose of the law and getting contraband through checkpoints most found impossible. It was what they were good at, and they knew it. Most every day they brought in a pretty penny from this or that odd job, becoming both more successful and notorious as time wore on. They knew what they were doing, and that was what made them dangerous. That, and their ambition.
Because eventually, small smuggling operations weren’t enough. Like all criminals, they wanted more. And so they made it a point to settle on Corellia, instating their smuggling ring on their home planet and beginning to make a permanent home in Coronet City and allowing word of their name to spread. Like all small crime rings they had their squabbles with law enforcement, not having the money to pay them off, but they persisted. After all, it was what they were good at. Corellians were anything if not fiercely stubborn, and the Ticons were dedicated.
A new generation brought about an entirely new era of criminals, and with them ushered in new practices. The head of the family at this point was Val Ticon, Jaymes’ grandfather. It had been seventeen years since the entirety of the old smuggling ring died off, leaving an entirely new band of delinquents. And this one was far more ruthless and brutal than the last. There is a saying oft attributed to the family in the present day, “Don’t let someone else pay for your funeral.” It is with Val and the family he led that such a thing originated.
While the family was well-established at this point, they lacked any real sway to begin a true criminal dynasty. That was what Val planned to change. And so originated the practice of killing all but one member of a family, and then sending the necessary funds to pay for the funerals of the deceased. It was an establishing move, one meant to demonstrate the capabilities of the family and display just how inadequate those rivals and enemies were. It did well to establish some kind of fear associated with the family name, marking them as a legitimate power in the Corellian underworld.
Cerra Ticon was the head of the family before Jaymes took control, and the same practice that had began under Val was continued with her reign. By the time she took over as head of the family it wasn’t a necessary evil, but it remained established so as to ensure a future for the Ticon family. It was an instrument of fear rather than necessity, but just as it had done with Val it served to get the message across: don’t mess with us. Under her rule the Ticons were nigh untouchable, providing what she wished to be as safe a future as possible for children of a criminal dynasty. But, like many crime lords of such a caliber, she was granted an untimely death.
Next we come to Jaymes Ticon, the last head of the family and one of few children willing to take control once his mother passed. In comparison to his predecessors his rule was far tamer, and even in his younger days he refused to fall to the brutality of his mother and grandfather. The streets of Corellia ran less wild with him at the head, as he believed in negotiation before any sort of drastic action. While not a peaceable man by any means, he did not resort to large-scale violence unless it became necessary.
The fall of the family was something none of them could have predicted, but was something perhaps inevitable. Jaymes and Evelyn were murdered in their own home, gunned down by a mercenary hired by none other than Zev Stargo himself. It was with their passing that the criminal dynasty collapsed, their children slowly going their separate ways until none of them remained on Corellia. Each of them is well-aware of their own legacy, but none has the will to do anything to restore the family to what it once was in its prime.
While their name is far from as notorious as it once was decades ago, if the surname Ticon is spoken in the right parts of Coronet City it will either earn you violence or a friend, depending on to whom you speak.
