Donald Love

Donald Love is a character in the GTA series that serves as one of the main characters in GTA: Liberty City Stories and GTA III. And he had bit parts in GTA: Vice City.

Donald is a millionaire real estate mogul from Grand Theft Auto III" and in "Grand Theft Auto Vice City" which is also the disciple of Ävery Carrington, who reappears in Liberty City Stories. It is interesting to note that Love resides and works in another skyscraper in the game, as opposed to the smaller "Love Media" building several blocks away in GTA III (although one mission involves delivering a vehicle to the latter's garage). Donald's current residence is under construction, which he is busy overseeing when Toni meets with him during several pre-mission cut scenes.

Following the killing of incumbent Liberty City mayor R. C. Hole (ordered by Salvatore Leone), Love seizes the chance to run in the mayoral race, using his deep pockets to rig the election. Salvatore is bent on getting "his" candidate in office so he can take control of City Hall. Both candidates are backed by two different Mafia syndicates; O'Donovan by the Forelli family, and Love by the Leone family.

Toni meets with Donald at his building, where he is overseeing the construction of the tower while practicing how to dance and orders him on his first mission to recover a body on its way to the pathology labs. Donald has popularity on his side with Toni going in a Bandwagon to voting areas with saying slogans that put down O'Donovan and supporting Love, but O'Donovan's Mafia associates are rigging the ballots to give themselves an edge. Donald orders Toni to kill O'Donovan's campaigners and incineration of their ballot machines, who have a lock on the youth vote and are protected by gunmen. Despite his efforts, the voting polls are still neck-and neck. Making matters worse, Donald cannot make any more public appearances in fear of a Forelli family assassination. Donald resorts to making Toni stealing some of the uncounted ballots and replacing them with some of his own, using Toni to hijack the ballot cars.

Following this, O'Donovan's men uncover evidence of Love's ties to Salvatore Leone. Love's political career stands at a knife's edge; he orders Toni to get to the docks and steal the evidence from the Forelli family (and some Sindacco family) members guarding it. When Toni arrives back at Donald's office, a news report blares that Donald Love has been linked to Toni, widely known as a top Leone family associate. Donald's image is damaged beyond repair and O'Donovan wins the race. Donald drops his usually-cordial demeanor and erupts, saying he's been bankrupted by the campaign and blaming Toni for everything.

Later on, Toni receives a panicked phone call from Donald Love in Shoreside Vale, who is living out of a flophouse in Shoreside Vale. Literally down to his last dime, Donald is an unshaven mess. Toni is content to leave him to rot, but Donald promises him a cut of something "really big." He arranges the killing of his former mentor Avery Carrington, who is arriving in Liberty City with valuable development plans under his arm. While leaving Francis International Airport with Colombian Cartel escorts, Avery is slain and his plans are stolen by Toni. The reporter Ned Burner witnesses this and is about to go public; Love orders him killed as well.

Donald still needs prime development property to make the deal go through; he selects the highly-populated Fort Staunton (Little Italy) area for "demolition." Toni pays demolitions expert 8-Ball to rig a van full of explosives and uses the Porter Tunnel (which is under construction) to access an abandoned subway station beneath Fort Staunton. He plants the bombs and they explode all at once, leveling the entire district.

His fortune rebuilt, Love moves into the biggest mansion in Shoreside Vale. The Cartel members who were providing security for Avery decide to blackmail Love in exchange for keeping quiet. Love is forced to flee town after Toni massacres the Cartel's force and leaves the corpses and wrecked cars in his garden. The mansion is abandoned and falls into Cartel hands (which remains so up to GTA III). This act of hostility by the Cartel is suggested to be the origins of Donald's subsequent grudge against the gang later on.

Villanous Acts
Although he normally represents Donald as a friend of the protagonist and has never been an antagonist, often macabre use trends during the game. While GTA III only vaguely alludes to his macabre trends, in GTA: Liberty City Stories sheds some light on his true personality. He really will do anything to make money even with the murder of his mentor who is Avery Carrington, and well as he orders Toni to kill Ned Burner, it finally takes the bodies to eat. It even knows which refers to necrophilic tendencies. In one scene we see that is eating a human torso. But one of his most evil moments is when he orders Toni to an atomic bomb in Fort Staunton Staunton Island that finally explodes, presumably killing thousands. This also explains the existence of the construction site in GTA III. Probably, Donald Love is one of the characters in the GTA series has committed more atrocities, following other characters almost as bad as Ray Bulgarin and Catherine.