Nome completo: Pascale Contessa
Appears in: Il Viaggio dove?! |
BACKSTORY
Youth and Crime
Pascale was born in New York the 25th of December in 1967 from a family of Italian origins, together with his identical twin. He will pass a troubled youth, soon ending up an orphan.
The young Pascale docilely follows his twin Elias in the criminal plans he fabricates in order to survive and get richer in their conditions, without even asking questions. His brother's plans become increasingly more elaborate and, twenty years later, the twins have gained enough contacts and experiences to stay at the head of a small criminal empire named La Boulé (a name inspired by an aristocratic government body that existed in the Ancient Greece).
Their two best friends are also part of this organization: one of them takes care of safety of the twins, predisponendo misure di sicurezza e guardie, and the other takes care of acting as a safe link with the criminal underworld, guaranteeing footholds and clean negotiations. The final push that brings La Boulé to success is the adhesion of the Picciotti brothers, thugs with a certain reputation in the slums, whom Pascale knows by offering Genna Picciotti a candy at the metro station; from there their popularity increases exponentially, allowing them to recruit new members which give stability to the organization and make it more efficient.
The twins decide at this point to present themselves as a single person to gain a certain advantage over the enemies and strengthen their authority, which no longer has to be "shared" between two people but directed towards a single Boss (who apparently had the gift of ubiquity, meh) able to solve in a very short time any problem La Boulé was facing (two heads are better than one, yup).
Pascale takes the opportunity to disappear behind the shadow of his brother, savoring the power without having to feel the weight of its responsibility. From a very young age most of his life is contaminated by the "dark side" of the Big Apple, but since he never gets his hands dirty directly hurting someone he doesn't really realize how much he and his brother are really harming other human beings. His life changes when he personally witnesses the kidnapping of the family of a rival boss, with the killing of the trusted men who were there to protect the enemy's wife and daughter.
Shocked, he changes his life and begins to give up on missions, withdrawing into himself. Elias tries to help him and gives him the opportunity to recover by totally taking the command of the organization onto himself (secretly pleased with the acquired power, but saddened by the condition of his twin). Pascale is at his lowest and risking depression when, hoping to uplift him, his twin entrusts him with a very simple (and kind of useless) assignment: he will have to observe a place where it's said that unusual things happen, the Black Cat.
Pascale accepts, nodding like a drooling zombie, and goes there... that's how he gets to know Hyerasolem Bora, a woman employed there, which he sees as beautiful and full of life.
Love And A New Life
His useless duty suddenly becomes very dear to him: he spends everyday at the Black Cat, always ordering a strawberry milkshake and chatting with the most cantankerous waitress of the staff that mercilessly keeps treating him like a doormat. When he starts leaving generous tips, though, Girasolemma (it's Hyerasolem that meanwhile has changed her name)
becomes all sugars and spices, and starts to harbor a sincere feeling for the client: they've fallen in love.
Pascale takes advantage of his own power to change identity, adopting the family name from his mother's side, and achieves to get away from the Bulé and get engaged with Girasolemma. His brother is upset over it, but even if full of disappointment he lets him go, wishing him well.
The ex-waitress immediately ditches her job in favor of not doing anything all day, so that for our Pascale, on the long run, would have been much more convenient - financially speaking - marrying a Ferrari made of Rolex watches.
He's careful to erase every information about his past he can find (thing that's pretty easy for him, since he was often basking in his "ghost identity" behind his brother). He marries Girasolemma and they move together to Baltimore, Maryland. They will have a baby, Vampirella, which is affected by albinism, which will awaken in him all of the possible fatherly instinct.
He will become passionate about My Little Pony watching them with his little daughter, recognizing himself in Fluttershy, but over time he will stop watching them because he no longer has the "excuse" of having a little girl to watch them with (even if every now and then he'll give a peek at the new series, come on, give a man a break).
Trivia:
• He has a super strong tendency to be exploited and his personality is in general pretty mild and submissive, so the only reason he managed to stay at the head of the Bulé for so long is his incredible talent for acting: he imitated his brother with such skill that even in pretty stressful situations he could have reacted almost exactly like him.
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Despite him being an incredible actor, he often rejects his own talent because he hates lying: he sometimes finds himself telling the truth even in a nagging way to the people around him, stubbornly saying everyday which color are his socks. He can't lie if he doesn't empathize with his brother.
• Finance doesn't catch him having a much higher income than he should because he has a childhood friend who protects him from among the revenue authorities.
| Likes | Dislikes |
| ❤ My Little Pony | 💔 Lying |
| ❤ Fluttershy | 💔 Taking important decisions |
| ❤ Comfortable socks | 💔 Carrots |
| ❤ The color brown | 💔 His past |
| ❤ Being a doormat | 💔 Cold food |
| ❤ Aggressive people | 💔 Being alone |
| ❤ Being a father | 💔 Violence |
| ❤ Peace | |
| ❤ The (presumed) love of his wife |
| Physical | - Aim with a weapon (good) - Bearing pain (very good) - Holding back the urge to urinate (very good/excellent) - Drinking many milkshakes (excellente) | ||
| Language | - US English (very good in written and spoken, excellent in comprehension) - Italian (very good in written and spoken, excellent in comprehension) - Ancient Greek (beginner) - French (disaster) | ||
| Musical |
- Singing (good)
- Playing harmonica (good) | ||
| Magical | -None | ||
| Miscellanea |
- Cooking (good)
- Distinguish fake bills from real ones (good/very good)
- Keeping secrets (very good/excellent) - Taking decisions (very good) - Being servile (very good/excellent) - Hiding his own tears (disaster) - Administering money (very good) - Taking care of his own health (beginner) - Acting (very good/excellent) - Patience (excellent) |
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