Francesco Dellamorte (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
killtheliving) wrote2013-05-27 10:14 pm
killtheliving) wrote2013-05-27 10:14 pm
OOC: Application [Fractured Reality]
Player name: Ros
Journal:killtheliving
AIM/Plurk: rosloops (plurk), pyrocornflakes (AIM)
Email: rosloops at gmail
Other characters: Summer Finn
Character name: Francesco Dellamorte
Age: late 20s, early 30s
Canon: Dellamorte Dellamore / Cemetery Man
Canon point: The end of the film, when he abruptly stops his car. Let's say he hit his head on the steering wheel and conked out.
Totem: A plastic skull fragment from his puzzle. It becomes a real skull fragment during events, thus changing the texture and weight.
Weapons: One revolver loaded with dumdum bullets and a box of ammunition.
Abilities/powers: Francesco has no special skills, save that he's an excellent marksman. He's constantly getting headshots on zombies and humans alike.
Location: The Buffalora cemetery. It's small, but it's got a great ossuary. It's a beautiful, old cemetery, with great trees, sepulchers, and a little house for the watchman of the cemetery. The gate to the cemetery reads "RESVRRECTVRIS."
Personality: As the watchman who lives on the cemetery grounds, Francesco is a deeply isolated man. He's surrounded by the dead, and his only real company is his assistant, Gnaghi, who can only utter the word "gna," so their conversations don't tend to be very illuminating. Although he's alienated from everybody in the town (save for his one friend, Franco, who he'll speak to on the phone and occasionally visit in town), Francesco doesn't seem to mind his isolated existence. He's not shown to be yearning for companionship, and he can get along just fine with people when they do show up at his cemetery. Francesco passes his time by killing zombies (returners, he calls them), reading the phone book, and putting together a skull puzzle.
Francesco is a bit of a grump. He's cynical and sarcastic, and he doesn't hold back his sometimes snide commentary. According to him, he doesn't have time for the living. His flippant attitude is likely a result of his detachment from the world at large. He's not connected to anybody, really, and he's an outcast in the town. This gives him a certain amount of freedom to just be himself without worrying about the opinions of others. He doesn't much care what others think about him, although the townsfolks' rumors of his impotence do annoy him. Other than that insult to his manhood, though, he doesn't care. Even the living dead don't really bother him. He doesn't question why they return; he only regards them with a mixture of indifference and annoyance. Killing them is part of his daily routine.
Still, although he's grouchy, sarcastic and indifferent, he does care about Gnaghi. He's fairly condescending towards him, but by the end, he realizes that Gnaghi was his best and only friend.
Dellamorte doesn't understand the difference between life and death-- to him, the dying living and the living dead are one in the same, although there are consequences for killing the former. Well, he thinks there are consequences for killing the former, but when he does eventually go on several killing sprees, he finds that there are no consequences whatsoever, which leads him to kill with increasing flippancy. At his current canon point, he can no longer distinguish between the dead and the living, and he'll casually kill people on a whim. Generally speaking, Francesco kills out of indifference, sometimes love, but never hate. His crimes are generally passionless, casual acts.
Francesco does feel passion, however, when a beautiful, grieving widow walks into his life. He falls in love with her hard and fast-- at first sight, actually-- and tries to impress her first by claiming he has a degree in biology (he doesn't), and later by telling her about the cemetery's great ossuary. He's somewhat awkward around the widow at first, which leads to strained interactions as she perceives him to be insulting, but she quickly comes around to him, and soon the two are having sex on her husband's grave (which is a terrible idea when the dead come back to life). After her death (remember: sex on your dead husband's grave is a terrible idea), he's haunted by two doppelgängers of her (the mayor's aide and a prostitute), who each claim to love and then spurn him, driving Dellamorte to desperate acts, first to impress her, then later to kill her.
Since his grip on reality is tenuous at best by the end of the film, he'll take to Limbo fairly easily. He won't question its strangeness-- he comes from a world where nobody questions strange happenings-- and will likely be at risk for losing himself in the dream. He may be prone to casual acts of violence at first, killing with flippancy (especially once he learns that people can't really die in Limbo) until his means to murder are taken away from him.
History: Little is known about Francesco Dellamorte's early life. Although at one point he claims to have a degree in biology, in truth he's only ever read two books-- one, which he didn't finish, and the other is the phone book, which he considers a classic. Other than that, there are no hints as to what his life was like before the start of the film. Francesco is the watchman of the Buffalora Cemetery, where the dead have been rising again as flesh eating zombies seven days after burial. Given his flippant nature about the dead rising, it can be assumed that the dead have been rising for quite some time-- long enough for him to be used to it, anyway. He lives on the cemetery grounds with his mentally handicapped assistant Gnaghi, who can only communicate using the sound "gna." His only other friend is Franco, a municipal clerk with whom he usually speaks over the phone. Occasionally, he'll go see Franco in person, but for the most part, Dellamorte lives an isolated existence. His routine suddenly changes when a beautiful widow comes into his life.
Wiki link for more info.
3rd person sample: N/A
1st person sample: [Let's say this is a while after his arrival, in which he shot some unnamed somebody (a projection, maybe?), because that's just how Francesco rolls at this point.] This is it, end of the road. I always wondered if there was a world beyond Buffalora. I half-thought it didn't exist. I suppose it still might not. This is in my head, after all.
Well. It's no stranger than Buffalora.
I'm sorry about the girl I shot. [He's not. He sounds as if he couldn't care less.] She'll be fine, I'm sure.
Journal:
killthelivingAIM/Plurk: rosloops (plurk), pyrocornflakes (AIM)
Email: rosloops at gmail
Other characters: Summer Finn
Character name: Francesco Dellamorte
Age: late 20s, early 30s
Canon: Dellamorte Dellamore / Cemetery Man
Canon point: The end of the film, when he abruptly stops his car. Let's say he hit his head on the steering wheel and conked out.
Totem: A plastic skull fragment from his puzzle. It becomes a real skull fragment during events, thus changing the texture and weight.
Weapons: One revolver loaded with dumdum bullets and a box of ammunition.
Abilities/powers: Francesco has no special skills, save that he's an excellent marksman. He's constantly getting headshots on zombies and humans alike.
Location: The Buffalora cemetery. It's small, but it's got a great ossuary. It's a beautiful, old cemetery, with great trees, sepulchers, and a little house for the watchman of the cemetery. The gate to the cemetery reads "RESVRRECTVRIS."
Personality: As the watchman who lives on the cemetery grounds, Francesco is a deeply isolated man. He's surrounded by the dead, and his only real company is his assistant, Gnaghi, who can only utter the word "gna," so their conversations don't tend to be very illuminating. Although he's alienated from everybody in the town (save for his one friend, Franco, who he'll speak to on the phone and occasionally visit in town), Francesco doesn't seem to mind his isolated existence. He's not shown to be yearning for companionship, and he can get along just fine with people when they do show up at his cemetery. Francesco passes his time by killing zombies (returners, he calls them), reading the phone book, and putting together a skull puzzle.
Francesco is a bit of a grump. He's cynical and sarcastic, and he doesn't hold back his sometimes snide commentary. According to him, he doesn't have time for the living. His flippant attitude is likely a result of his detachment from the world at large. He's not connected to anybody, really, and he's an outcast in the town. This gives him a certain amount of freedom to just be himself without worrying about the opinions of others. He doesn't much care what others think about him, although the townsfolks' rumors of his impotence do annoy him. Other than that insult to his manhood, though, he doesn't care. Even the living dead don't really bother him. He doesn't question why they return; he only regards them with a mixture of indifference and annoyance. Killing them is part of his daily routine.
Still, although he's grouchy, sarcastic and indifferent, he does care about Gnaghi. He's fairly condescending towards him, but by the end, he realizes that Gnaghi was his best and only friend.
Dellamorte doesn't understand the difference between life and death-- to him, the dying living and the living dead are one in the same, although there are consequences for killing the former. Well, he thinks there are consequences for killing the former, but when he does eventually go on several killing sprees, he finds that there are no consequences whatsoever, which leads him to kill with increasing flippancy. At his current canon point, he can no longer distinguish between the dead and the living, and he'll casually kill people on a whim. Generally speaking, Francesco kills out of indifference, sometimes love, but never hate. His crimes are generally passionless, casual acts.
Francesco does feel passion, however, when a beautiful, grieving widow walks into his life. He falls in love with her hard and fast-- at first sight, actually-- and tries to impress her first by claiming he has a degree in biology (he doesn't), and later by telling her about the cemetery's great ossuary. He's somewhat awkward around the widow at first, which leads to strained interactions as she perceives him to be insulting, but she quickly comes around to him, and soon the two are having sex on her husband's grave (which is a terrible idea when the dead come back to life). After her death (remember: sex on your dead husband's grave is a terrible idea), he's haunted by two doppelgängers of her (the mayor's aide and a prostitute), who each claim to love and then spurn him, driving Dellamorte to desperate acts, first to impress her, then later to kill her.
Since his grip on reality is tenuous at best by the end of the film, he'll take to Limbo fairly easily. He won't question its strangeness-- he comes from a world where nobody questions strange happenings-- and will likely be at risk for losing himself in the dream. He may be prone to casual acts of violence at first, killing with flippancy (especially once he learns that people can't really die in Limbo) until his means to murder are taken away from him.
History: Little is known about Francesco Dellamorte's early life. Although at one point he claims to have a degree in biology, in truth he's only ever read two books-- one, which he didn't finish, and the other is the phone book, which he considers a classic. Other than that, there are no hints as to what his life was like before the start of the film. Francesco is the watchman of the Buffalora Cemetery, where the dead have been rising again as flesh eating zombies seven days after burial. Given his flippant nature about the dead rising, it can be assumed that the dead have been rising for quite some time-- long enough for him to be used to it, anyway. He lives on the cemetery grounds with his mentally handicapped assistant Gnaghi, who can only communicate using the sound "gna." His only other friend is Franco, a municipal clerk with whom he usually speaks over the phone. Occasionally, he'll go see Franco in person, but for the most part, Dellamorte lives an isolated existence. His routine suddenly changes when a beautiful widow comes into his life.
Wiki link for more info.
3rd person sample: N/A
1st person sample: [Let's say this is a while after his arrival, in which he shot some unnamed somebody (a projection, maybe?), because that's just how Francesco rolls at this point.] This is it, end of the road. I always wondered if there was a world beyond Buffalora. I half-thought it didn't exist. I suppose it still might not. This is in my head, after all.
Well. It's no stranger than Buffalora.
I'm sorry about the girl I shot. [He's not. He sounds as if he couldn't care less.] She'll be fine, I'm sure.