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Player Information

Player: mimi
Contact: pinkwestood @ discord | fuels
Invitation OR characters played: Newt
Are you over 18?: Yes


Character Information

Character: Bruno Bucciarati
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure | Golden Wind: End of series post Bruno's death
Age: 20
History: Here
Possessions: His entire outfit, hair accessories.
Weapon: n/a

Powers/Abilities:

In the world of JJBA, there are individuals born with the capacity to summon stands and there are individuals who gained the ability to do so through the use of a stand arrow. Stands are the manifestation of its users energy and personality, through the form of a humanoid or symbolic figure. Bruno is one of the many individuals in the series who gained this ability through the use of a stand arrow. His stand is named Sticky Fingers and has a humanoid appearance. Through the use of his stand, Bruno is able to do a number of things that manifest in the form of a zippered pocket or zipper chain. Some of those abilities are:

» The ability to create zippers on any and all surfaces including on humans, and the ability to open and close them at will.
» The ability to store things within these pockets created, including himself and objects/liquids of all kinds.
» The ability to transfer from one location to the next through the creation of these pockets throughout various surfaces.
» The ability to turn any part of his body or his stand's into a zipper and pocket, or pocket. An example is Bruno's stand turning its arm into a zipper chain, allowing it to punch an enemy from affair/shooting its arm forward. Another was when Bruno was inflicted with an aging chemical (as in this stand was able to turn people old through a chemical they released) and he was able to turn every single part of his body into a pocket/zipper to prevent him from dying.
» The ability to repair certain body parts. Bruno is shown to approach individuals in his squad who lost a limb, touching them and allowing them to reattach the limb with no remaining zipper on them. This seems to mostly work on fresh wounds/injuries.

Sticky Fingers is one of the many stands who is unable to speak, only crying out Ari, Ari, Ari during battle use. One rather strange Bruno happens to have that isn't correlated with stand abilities, is his ability to determine if someone is lying by tasting their sweat.

In regards to his powers and the high failure rate, my biggest nerf would be to not allow him to travel/remain in his zippered pockets like he used to. If he attempted to use it, he will 8/10 times be trapped in the wall of the surface he was using, unable to get out until his stand power broke. Naturally any healing/returning of limbs to other people either won't work or will require him to be near them and his zipper would be visible. Additionally, while I still want his stand to be able to appear and be visible to other stand users/individuals who can see ghosts/spirits, it won't be able to turn parts of its body into a zipper.

Application Questions

Who is the most important person in their life and why? What might be different if this person hadn't been around?

Throughout the course of Golden Wind, Bruno is shown to have several people in his life that he views as important or dear to him. Every member of his squad within the mafia is an outcast of society, rejected, whether inflicted upon themselves or by the situation they were born in. His kind, nurturing, and emotional intelligence allows him to see the real person beneath the role they take on, and he is shown to truly bring these people to their full potential. Everyone he knows and cares for is viewed by him with a deep appreciation, understanding their physical, emotional, and even childish wants. An example is Mista, who is terrified of the number four due to the Japanese superstition behind it (despite them being Italian); instead of making fun of him, Bruno accommodates this little phobia by avoiding it when in his proximity. He's also shown to take an almost maternal role with the people in his life, adopting Trish Una (a girl he'd been tasked with protecting and bringing her to her father, the head of the mafia) when he found out her father wanted to kill her. He risked life and limb for a girl he owed nothing to, even dying in the process technically (Giorno was able to revive his soul within his body through the use of his own powers, but as the series went on, Bruno's body began decaying/falling apart). Additionally, as a high ranking member of his mafia, even before he became capo, the people of his area felt safe enough to approach him for favors, and he is shown to have an incredible and trust worthy relationship with them.

However despite him having many people in his life that he truly cares for and even outright loves in his own way, the one person I truly feel has come to be Bruno's most important person is Giorno Giovanna. They first met in 2001 when Giorno was suspected of causing the death of Leaky-Eye Luca a fellow member of Passione. Bruno came to interrogate and kill Giorno in revenge, despite him not personally caring for the man. The two get into a fight that nearly left Bruno dead, but Giorno ended up sparing his life due to Bruno's beliefs and morals, with the two coming to a mutual understanding. The respect and appreciation born from their mutual understanding that they were both good people in the roles of gangsters, led to Bruno guiding and helping Giorno infiltrate Passione for his own goals.

The two throughout the series are shown to have each other's backs— anytime any other member of Bruno's squadra called into question Bruno's decision to allow Giorno to join them, he'd defend him and assure them he had complete faith in the younger man. Additionally as the series progresses and Giorno has 'saved' Bruno from death twice, Bruno feels comfortable only confiding in Giorno about his imminent death as the other noticed his decaying body. Bruno knew this was too much to ask of Giorno but that he only did it because he knew that Giorno could be trusted and could handle this truth. At the end of the series, Bruno is shown to be dying as his soul escaped Diavolo's (his boss and Trish's father, a stand ability caused everyone's souls/bodies to be switched at this point). As his soul moved onto the after life, he left Giorno a few parting words: "I'm leaving the rest up to you Giorno. I was reborn, thanks to you. This is what true happiness is, this is how it should be, don't worry." These are the most impactful and passionate words Bruno has ever spoken towards anyone, showing that any fears and worries he had about his outcome were quelled by Giorno.

If Giorno had not been around, whether he succeeded in killing Bruno during their first encounter or if they had never met, I believe Bruno would have not gone through with sacrificing his life for Trish or would have betrayed Passione for her sake. He would have continued on with his own personal goal of eradicating drug sale within the organization as he would have felt he couldn't have passed this goal onto anyone else. The reason he brought Giorno in, was okay with dying was because he knew the other could be trusted to handle his goals and dreams. This does speak about how Bruno might not be living for much else other than on-going revenge and this controversial goal, but clearly without Giorno in his life, he would not have taken on bigger and more noble goals.

Is there an event in your character's life that they'd do differently? How so and why?

If there is an event in Bruno's life that he'd do differently would absolutely be the affair involving bringing Trish Una to her father. He'd been tasked with his first assignment as capo to bring Diavalo's daughter to him (the mysterious head of the mafia), under the belief he was protecting this girl from being kidnapped and harmed by other members of Passione for the sake of getting on Diavalo's good side. He was under the understanding that he was bringing her to be reunited with a man who loved her and did not know about her prior to her mother's death; that she was in good hands and would be taken care of. Upon bringing her to the boss and seeing him attempting to kill her, he took it upon himself to protect her.

With this information at hand, Bruno wouldn't have brought her at all and would have straight up just protected her from anyone and everyone coming at her, even if it meant betraying his gang and putting his own life at risk. This is something he does regardless, so the result of this affair would just mean he would have done it sooner to spare her the troubles of being smuggled to her father in secret.

What's the greatest challenge you foresee your character facing in the setting? How might this impact their ability to adapt and in what ways will they confront this challenge?

I believe one of the greatest challenges Bruno might face in an environment like this is the lack of laws and rules. Despite being in the mafia, a capo of all things, Bruno is a man who strongly believes in rules and morality. The main reason he joined the mafia was because his father had been a witness to a drug deal and was nearly beaten to death to silence him. Bruno saw the way the police were bought out by the mafia, unable or refusing to do anything to prosecute the men who assaulted his father despite Bruno knowing who they were and where to find them. This event deeply changed and affected the kind of person he was, forcing him to mature and grow up faster than he needed. Seeing as the law was unwilling to even protect his father, Bruno decided to be his father's body guard while he was in a coma, and murdered the men who came back to the hospital to finish the job.

Almost immediately Bruno joined the mafia with an intent to bring change, end the sale of drugs to children and to end these types of assaults on regular civilians. I can see him bringing this belief to the game and its people, trying his best to become a type of leader of peace and unity among people. This would lead to him being in constant conflict with characters/events that would push him to go outside of his morals, even stirring him to act violently to impose them. He's shown to even downright be willing to die for his beliefs through his relationship with Trish Una— the daughter of his boss who tried to kill her. Bruno ended up rescuing her and devoting his life to killing his own boss to protect Trish.

What's the easiest thing you foresee your character adapting to in the setting?

One of the easiest things for Bruno to adapt to is uncertainty and instability. The events of the series are shown to take place in the span of one entire week more or less, and Bruno is shown to be quite adept at just going with the flow and accepting changes in his life. To begin with, at the start of the series Bruno is shown to have hunted Giorno down for killing a fellow member of Passione and while Bruno did not like nor care for the man, and he was not a member of his squadra, he sought revenge on his sake due to mafia rules and hierarchy. After a battle and revelation of Giorno's wishes, he immediately took him in under his wing and introduced him to the other members of his squad. Almost within a day his capo Polpo was found dead, and Bruno took the gang on a hunt for his treasure, which led to him being promoted to capo. Immediately after he was informed his first task as capo was delivering the mysterious head boss his recently found daughter. In less than a week later, Bruno is on death's door after having to betray his boss. Other ridiculous things went down because it is truly Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and the week ended in his death.

Despite the true insanity he had been put through in the series, Bruno took everything in stride and even left Giorno with a parting note that this was always meant to be, he cannot fight fate as his soul was transformed, and that everything will be alright. He did not accomplish his true goals, but he was not upset nor struggled with all of these changes to his life. Overall Bruno's nurturing, guiding, and inviting personality makes him more inclined to be open to this kind of setting, focusing on others and their needs to allow him to be fulfilled and feel comfortable with this situation.

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