ASIAGO BIANCHETTI
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ABOUT
"Piss is the main threat."
The local kitchen hoe. Asiago is a cranky but often smug chef in training from Naples. Where his twin brother Filone struggles to believe in himself, Asiago soars and is confident in his own abilities, but his affection for his family means that his first priority is making sure he's doing right by his mom and brother. Even so, he is plagued with issues of his own, and though he is largely successful at getting a date, he struggles to keep relationships afloat, and they often rot at the roots as a result of his total inability (or perhaps refusal) to properly commit to them.
PERSONALITY
Asiago was born to be a cook, for all the implication of temperament that implies. Smug but often earnest enough to become short-tempered and impatient, he likes showing off and is always eager to display affection through his skills by cooking for the people he loves. But all of this sit atop a deep and simmering set of troubles and worries, which he keeps hidden under a nearly-seamless veneer of competence and relatively normal, harmless behaviors, even for his profession of choice.
Consistent with all this is his propensity to be a little weak to impulsive desires, and he struggles at times to let things go once he's got his heart set on them. He's a serial casual dater who can be found on Tinder (or Grindr, or Bumble, or Scruff...) at least once a week, and though he's fastidious about keeping certain good habits (No compromising on condoms for this boy!) the larger pattern is one of chasing patchwork fulfilment in external factors instead of fixing up his own problems by biting the necessary bullet.
APPEARANCE
A 25-year-old Italian man with a smug look and a 5'10" lean build. He has straight black hair in a two-layer bob cut. He wears a double head band and gold stud earrings. His clothes are best summed up as "Renaissance Night at the Gay Discoteque", consisting of a red and brown sleeveless top with gold coins dangling on the upper chest and back, long black pants with chevron cutouts on the outer sides, brown loafers, and a nonfunctioning white belt and wrist braces with an 8 pattern on both.
DESIGN
「ATLANTIS IS CALLING」
DESCRIPTION
A humanoid stand with a teal cloth and a white netting pattern covering its head and torso. Its face is completely covered except for its eyes. It has red rope tied around its neck and its upper arms and thighs is made of a smooth material. Its lower arms and lower legs are orange and layered and has the hardness and feel of unglazed pottery. It has ball joints that look like large pink marbles.
BEHAVIOR
Atlantis Is Calling does not have a will of its own.
ABILITIES
BACKGROUND
PAST
Asiago and his twin brother Filone were raised by their mother, Rughetta, a recent widow who'd fled to southern Italy through witness protection after her husband, the twins' father, was murdered by the mob. She kept the painful detail a secret and had to work full-time to support both sons, and as a result, Filone and Asiago grew up largely with each other for comfort and support. They survived the usual struggle of youth, bullying and school troubles and loneliness, with each other to lean on, and never had to be alone as long a they had each other.
Asiago learned to cook to take some pressure off of Rughetta, seeing how draining work was for her, and he was never made to regret it as his heart was fed by having the chance to care for his family. Filone, in particular, was useless in the kitchen, and being able to look after him was something Asiago cherished.
This, of course, took a bit of an unexpected turn shortly after they turned 14. Their house was a little on the old side, prone to cracks in the walls here and creaky floorboards there. The discovery of a hole in the wall that separated his room from Filone's led to Asiago peering through, and the private moment he saw changed him in ways he'd always hate but refuse to get rid of. He'd never understood how uptight Filone was about intimacy, never really got what his deal was with refusing to even look at girls and boys he thought were cute, but Asiago knew enough, at least, to get that this was simply the way he was. And so seeing his brother, his twin, his other half, laid on his bed and caught in the throes of unabashed, desperate ecstasy, made something click deep in Asiago's head. Such beauty, such passion, and all hidden behind the eternally stressed-out boy he'd been in the trenches of teenage life with all these years?
He was in love. There was no way of getting around it. He wasn't pleased about it, but there it was, and sentiment stopped him from ever fully shooing it away.
But his love life was only one facet, and Asiago's career took him from whatever grubby kitchen would take him to a proper culinary school and eventually into nicer kitchens that paid more, where he began to climb up the ladder of skill and recognition.
He never told Filone about how he felt, about what happened. And he never told him about the hole in the wall, which he developed a nasty little habit of looking through from time to time. He knew it was wrong, but it was all he had, and so he kept it.
PRESENT
Asiago lives together with Filone and their mother, Rughetta, in the same house he grew up in. His and Filone's career have afforded the three of them a nice bit of stability and allowed Rughetta to finally begin her own career as a novelist.
Romance remains a problem. Asiago does date around, to the best of his ability. It's not purely hedonism though, of course, that does factor in just a little. He tries to find a substitute, someone who will scratch the same itch so he can finally stop chasing that first high, but they're never quite right. And maybe, perhaps, he doesn't really want to find a substitute. The thought of letting go, even though it wouldn't mean anything materially changing, is a painful stretch that Asiago's heart can't quite handle. The crush he's been sitting on has bled into his preferences, at least where men are concerned, but the shame it causes him isn't enough to stop, just as it isn't enough to stop his dirty habit of watching Filone masturbate in his room through the hole in the wall.
Despite the ugly impulses it causes, though, Asiago manages a steady façade of normalcy and the functional relationship he has with his family is positive, full of love and trust. He and Filone still get up to mischief and stupid stunts, brothers first before anything else.
DIVINE COMEDY
Asiago would do anything for his brother, including support him when his mistakes fall through. And it's proven to not be all talk when he's kidnapped alongside Filone after the latter is caught pickpocketing a mafioso. Their childhood bully, Dante, has always had an unpleasant way of seeing and picking at flaws, a skill he's only honed more in the position of power he now has with the mob.
Filone is not the only one being tormented for his crimes, and far more than theft will come to light under cruel and piercing eyes.
RELATIONSHIPS
Asiago would love to say his relationship with his brother is easy to define, that it's nothing more than how well they get along and how much fun they have together, the support they offer each other, pure and simple. But the truth is rarely pure and never simple, and Asiago has the misfortune of being interesting. He's desperately in love with Filone, despite his usual healthy disgust for incest as a concept. It's caused him issues with his romantic relationships as partners begin to sense, one by one, that he's not really committed to them, as if he's waiting for someone better. Nobody knows about this, least of all Filone.
His entire life, Asiago's mama has been there for him, and he's wanted to be there for her in kind. She's gentle and kind and works so hard, and he wants to be the best son he can be for her.
Deceased father who died before he was born. Knows next to nothing about him.
Fuck that guy. A childhood bully is best remembered like a nasty too-large bug, and Asiago largely thinks of him like one. Even knowing Dante is now dangerous, he isn't afraid, especially not with Filone by his side.
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