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Bruno Bucciarati ([personal profile] libeccio) wrote2020-07-04 09:37 pm

Application to Erku

Player Info:
Name: Aia
Over 18?: yes
Contact: PMs | Discord: Aia#9124
Characters Currently In Game: --

Character Info
Name: Bruno Bucciarati
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Canon Point: post-canon (dead and revived in-game)
Age: 20
Background:
Fortunately the wiki is extensive

Personality:

Bruno Bucciarati is a hardened gangster. He has no qualms against torturing a teenager he just met to get what he wants, and he fights a vicious fight. One of the uses of his Stand, a power that's a manifestation of his soul, is to rip people apart and that is a method that Bruno uses unflinchingly against those who are in his way. As a gangster and the leader of his own squad, he has jurisdiction over the gambling, hotel and entertainment, and smuggling businesses in Naples controlled by the Passione gang.

Bruno's job often comes into conflict with his sense of righteousness. No matter how many dirty deeds he had to do, which includes extortion and murder, he has stuck to a simple sense of morality. Harming innocents is wrong. Drugs are bad. Help those in need. This, along with his amiable nature, has made him popular with the community. Young and old alike are not afraid to approach Bruno when they need help, and he does his best to do so as long as it does not conflict with his superior's orders. Of course, sometimes helping means beating up an old lady's grandson as revenge for abusing his grandmother, but that's fine. It's well-deserved.

His job's constraint on his morality has been his impetus to rise up the gang heirarchy. He handpicked a bunch of young men to be a part of his squad, treated them as friends, and immediately siezed the opportunity to pay his way up the ladder as soon as his old squad leader died. He risked his and his men's lives to deliver the gang boss's daughter to him in hopes that would give him more information about their very secretive leader, which might get him one step closer to ending the drug trade. He is ruthless in his methods, though not so much that he would force his men into situations they don't like. He's just very open and acknowledges the risks of their operations.

Necause his men are also his friends, his family. And if there's anything Bruno Bucciarati respects, it's family. He had a good relationship with his parents, especially with his father, even after they divorced. His father's death was what started his descent into criminal activity, but his father's lessons of humility and charity have kept him from falling too deep. If he could help it, he wouldn't want more people to end up like him, with their lives ruined by a drug trade gone wrong and trapped in a life of crime. That's why he initially discouraged Narancia (framed for a crime he didn't commit) from folliowing him in the gang. But his acknowledgment that some people might be in too deep to actually live a normal crimefree life is how he ended up recruiting Mista (who murdered a bunch of rapists), Abbacchio (an ex-cop who's life turned to shit after accepting a bribe) and Fugo (a child prodigy turned attempted murderer). His squad is his family, and while his job means that he will have to have them take life threatening missions, he would stick by them and protect them as much as he can.

Another key characteristic of Bruno is his resolve. He will go to great lengths to accomplish his goals, to the point that he had almost died several times, and actually successfully died twice to protect those he care for. An example of how far he would go is the time when he zipped his own heart in half just so the enemy won't be able to track him down through his heartbeat. Another is when, shortly after being brought back to life by Giorno's powers, he made it his goal to punish the Boss for trying to kill his own daughter, an innocent girl, just to protect his own identity. Bruno puts his goals above his own safety.

With all this conflict inside of him, Bruno manages to keep the face of a responsible leader. He tends to keep his own emotions bottled up, let out in bursts of rage or laughter, because he thinks that his full self is too dark for most people to handle. He also knows that his men rely on him. If he breaks, they break. If he falls, they fall. He pretty much kept himself alive through sheer force of will until he was sure that Giorno was powerful and trustworthy enough to inherit his goal of reforming the gang into a less insidious organization that profits mainly on drugs.

Of course there are times when Bruno breaks his responsible facade. He's a little weird, sometimes a little to blunt with his words, and his social graces are self-thought. He's the type of person who'd think that a girl would be alright with peeing through a zipper hole on a floor in lieu of a proper toilet. He can also walk past his men being rowdy and beating each other up, because that's just how it is in the world he grew up in.

Bruno is a gangster trying his best to stay righteous while remaining self-aware of the darkness of the criminal world he lives in. But sometimes he's also just a dumb 20 year old trying his best to lead a squad of rowdier young men so they won't lose their shine like he did.

Powers:

Stand: Sticky Fingers
Sticky Fingers is Bucciarati's Stand, a manifestation of his soul that can only be seen by other Stand users (and for the sake of this game, possibly people with psychic, magic, or similar abilities). It is a blue humanoid with the same build as Bucciarati, adorned with zippers, spikes and armor.

It grants Bruno the powers to make zippers out of nowhere, with all the functionalities a magical zipper can provide. These zippers disappear after use. Bruno has used these zippers for the following:
- to hides item in walls
- to hide himself in other items or people
- to split people (including himself) and things apart, as well as zip things together
- to extend the reach of his punches by turning his arm into a zipper

In-game, Bruno's powers would be initially nerf to his zippers only working on his own body. His zippers can not be used to remove 5A bracelets and other in-game granted items (ie the collars in the test drive).

(For the sake of addressing that "this is the taste of a liar" meme, I personally think he only did that to intimidate Giorno into talking.)

Inventory:
- his clothes
- his father's fishing net
- a body bag
- a fishing rod
- a folding survival knife
- a white handkerchief

Samples:
Test Drive: He tried to lick a prude
Test Drive: Future talk between two gangsters

Augury

Opt-In Kinks:
Anal
Bodily secretions
Body alteration
Bondage
Exhibitionism
Hands, fingers
Licking
Possessive, leaving marks
Obedience
Service
Suspension
Teasing

Opt-Out Kinks:
Branding, burning, scarring
Drug, alcohol use
Electricity
Fighting, wrestling
Gore, vore, guro
Medical play
Snuff, necrophilia
Sounding