Keith Gandor



Keith Gandor is the oldest of the Gandor brothers (being somewhere in his late twenties or early thirties) and with his two younger brothers Berga and Luck inherited the Gandor mafia family from their father. Throughout the course of the anime he never speaks and is almost always seen with a deck of cards. He met his wife-to-be Kate sometime in the mid to late 1920s when she was still a silent film pianist. It is unclear in the anime if they are married or not, since there seems to be no wedding band on his ring finger. They are, however, married in the light novels.

Personality
Keith does not show much of his personality other than the fact that he and his brothers are inseperable. He does not tolerate any wrong doings in his territory or allows drugs to be distributed due to how it could destroy lives. His actions speak louder than words due to the fact he remains mostly silent for longer periods at a time, this habit of his has rubbed off on his Great nephew Charon Walken as well, leaving the later mute on his storyline.

It is said that he loved his wife very dearly and found her once working as an organist for Silent Films, her soothing music indicates that Keith has a specific taste in music. Keith also has a very strange form of 'kindness' when punishing his enemies or insubordination, one incident leaving cards for Dallas Genoard to 'play' with during their lifetime under the Hudson River (Volume 1) to him agreeing to have Edith's hair trimmed for her percieved insuborniation. (Volume 4)

His silence can be broken however if you aggravate him well enough such as when Claire Stanfield insulted Maria Barcelito 's principles, suggesting Keith respects other's values and honor.

1930 - The Rolling Bootlegs
Keith and his brothers play a minor role in the events of the storyline, preparing to punish one of their traitorous associates when they got word of his treachery. Later on, his brothers get word that their bar was raided by the Dallas Genoard and his gang in search of two bottles that they confiscated when they were signing up to join them after Firo Prochainezo had slighted them protecting an old man named Barnes. Due to their association with the Martillo family, he and his brother participated in the celebratory party that welcomed Firo to the ranks of the Camorra. This moment was interrupted with the sudden arrival of Isaac and Miria, and they accidentally drank the Immortality elixir. Keith was present when Firo had 'eaten' Szilard Quates and saved his romantic interest Ennis, and also saw Isaac and Miria off when they were chased by the police off the city of New York. Life returned to normal, saved for the fact that they were now granted eternal life.

1931 - The Grandpunk Railroad
Keith joined the brothers along with Firo, Maiza and Ennis to Grand Central Station to meet another family member, they had called in their fourth brother, Claire Stanfield to deal with the menace caused by the Runoratta family in relation to drugs. After the train arrives with most of the protagonists with Claire not in sight,  He, Luck and Berga met with Claire outside the station when he declares his name to be gone due to his arrangements in The Flying Pussyfoot declaring the name legally dead. For now, Claire tells his older brothers to address him as Vino or Rail Tracer until he can get a legal name. He tells the brothers that he is eager to destroy their enemies for them in order to continue his search for someone he had fallen inlove with.

1932 - Drugs and Dominos

Keith and his brothers were facing large threats from the Runoratta family due to their Capo Gustavo Bagetta capitalizing in the drug trade. To counter this threat, they had requested Claire Stanfield to join the fray and put a stop the turf war that was escalating in the city with the Martillo family on neutral grounds upon their request to prevent further blood shed. This would lead the brothers to have two lovers from their organization and the Runoratta's face a dire situation, Keith's role in the story was to visit the President of the Daily Days to provide information with regards to the Runorattas. Keith and his brothers meet up eventually after they had made a deal with the Daily Days only to find Edith seeking their help and her revealing she has been hiding her boyfriend from them, which due to his association with drugs and the Runorattas, was made omerta by the brothers. Due to the fact that they refuse to kill a woman in their midst, their torture specialist Tick Jefferson proposes to cut their employee's hair instead. Edith tells them of Gustavo's plan to kill all the brothers at the Daily Days and requests the presence of Vino as payment for one of the Daily Days' staff.

Eventually the brothers corner Gustavo when he and his men have arrived to raid the Daily Days, it is revealed they told Baltoro Runoratta about Gustavo's rampage for the past few days and made agreements to spare the men of Gustavo on the condition they leave for them to take care of the ruthless mafia boss. Keith leaves while Gustavo battles Claire and the assassins he hired while Eve Genoard and Luck Gandor stay to find out more about Eve's estranged brother Dallas.

After Claire stops the turf war and Gustavo is in custody, everything returns to normal. The brothers hire Roy into their family on the condition of paying off his debts and to quit drugs permanently.