Bruno Buccellati (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
liarflavor) wrote2015-03-07 08:18 pm
liarflavor) wrote2015-03-07 08:18 pm
haven app
big vento spoilers what are you doing here if you dont wanna be spoiled
Name: Danni
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reenact, purewhiteglastonbury@gmail.com, khajixda @ AIM (in order of preference)
Other Characters Played: also apping Travis Touchdown in this round.
Requested apartment: n/a
Character Name: Bruno Buccellati
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Part V: Vento Aureo
Canon Point: After his first encounter with King Crimson.
Background/History: Jojo Wiki
Personality:
this is enough right
ok no but really
When Bruno Buccellati's parents divorced, he was given a choice. He could either remain with his father in the small fishing village that was his hometown, or leave with his mother and receive a more formal and high-quality education in the city. To both of their surprise, he decided to stay with his father-- not because he didn't care for his mother, or because he didn't want that opportunity, but because he knew that his father needed him more. His mother would forget about her former life and flourish in the city; his father, set in his ways, would grow old, weary, and lonely without the company of his son. Bruno knew this at seven years old.
It is this innate sense of compassion and empathy that has and always will define Bruno. Be it his family by blood or the band of misfits he's taken for a family in Passione, he'll stop at nothing to ensure he's doing the best he can for those that he loves. His mother noted that this inclination to kindness at the expense of himself would be his undoing, and it very much is: if Bruno's getting hurt or getting into any sort of trouble, it's almost certainly because he was trying to look out for someone else in the first place. Of course, this inherently kind nature's at odds with his status as a capo in Passione, but it's also worth noting that the reason he's involved with the gang at all is a result of this self-sacrificing tendency, too. When Bruno's father was at the wrong place at the wrong time and witnessed a drug deal, he ended up hospitalized after an "accident". A twelve-year-old Bruno hid under his father's hospital bed and killed the two men who came to finish the job, which obligated him to later join Passione as a means of protection for them both. He's always putting others before himself, even if he has to take drastic measures to do so.
It's not a huge surprise, then, that he has very little sense of self-preservation, and very little sense of caring for his own wants and needs, to the point that he literally refuses to die simply because he'd rather not force his team to carry on without their leader. This is equal parts kindness and duty:
- TOO NICE FOR HIS OWN GOOD BRUNO PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
- has like zero sense of self preservation BRUNO PLEASE?
- legitimately supportive of his babies
- fairly straight-laced and moral/just (by his own definition of it anyway)
- driven and determined; leadership
- very good at putting up a front: always looks either serious or TASTE OF A LIAR (link to above point)
- bbbbut has a lot of feelings. so many feelings
Abilities/Powers:
In the Jojo universe, certain individuals are gifted with the power of a 'Stand'. While one can be born with a Stand, it's also possible to induce a Stand by stabbing a person with a Stand Arrow, which is made from a bit of rock harvested from a certain meteorite that unleashes their evolutionary potential. (It's weird, I know.) People stabbed by an Arrow typically die, but if they're considered 'worthy' enough, they're granted with a Stand. Coincidentally, this was how the former head of Bruno's division of Passione chose his new members: if they're stabbed by an Arrow and pass the 'test' by coming out alive, they're in.
That said, Stands are psychic projections of one's spiritual power and are typically vaguely humanoid-shaped, even if this isn't a hard rule (Stands that are suits, animals, hair, and so on). Stands are invisible to non-Stand users, but for the purposes of the game, anyone with a reasonable degree of supernatural ability will be able to spot it. There's exceptions, but Stands typically don't have personalities and follow the will and commands of their users alone. Stands can affect physical objects or beings, but a Stand itself cannot be damaged by anything other than a Stand (and again, for the purposes of the game I'm amending that to anything spiritual). Any damage done to a Stand will also be suffered by its user: for example, if another Stand punches Bruno's stand in the gut, Bruno gets punched in the gut, and if Bruno's stand loses a limb, Bruno loses that same limb in turn. Expanding upon that, while there are also a few exceptions, if a Stand user is defeated or killed, their Stand's effects will typically dissipate. Until the next time they activate their Stand, that is.
Bruno's Stand is called Sticky Fingers, after the Rolling Stones album because Hirohiko Araki loves his music references. It looks like this: in other words, it's a muscular, blue, zippery humanoid. Simply put, Sticky Fingers makes zippers. At Bruno's command, it puts a functioning zipper down on anything it touches, human or no. Only Bruno can control the size, placement, and when the zipper opens and closes-- the material around the zipper also becomes pliable enough to actually use a zipper on.
I realize that zipper powers sound totally ridiculous (it ain't a 'bizarre adventure' for nothing), but with Bruno's creativity, this ability can get to be very, very useful. Here are some of the ways that he's used Sticky Fingers in canon:
Defensive/Etc:
Bruno can place a zipper down on a floor or a wall and go through it, regardless of the material that the surface is made of, creating convenient passageways when normal doors aren't available. Sides of brick buildings, bottoms of boats, the insides of underground pipes, whatever.
Following that same principle, Bruno can open up a zipper to make not only an opening, but a space. In effect, he can create pocket dimensions inside objects that only he can open and close; he can control the size of the space, as well. He's done things like hiding millions of yen in the wall of a urinal (ask Araki why they're using yen in Italy, idk), hiding inside people to sneak away from an enemy, and, uh... using his own face like a glorified purse.
He can also use zippers/the dimension inside zippers for transport and for catching falls; he can open up a zipper beneath him to absorb the impact or hang onto the zipper pull then close the zipper to create a speedier ride.
Bruno can attach things to each other with zippers, whether they were originally connected or not: he's able to reattach severed limbs, though the fix is strictly a temporary one due to the nature of his Stand's ability.
Bruno can unzip parts of himself to dodge attacks-- i.e., splitting his head into two halves with a zipper to avoid a punch to the face.
Offensive:
Most notably, Bruno can unzip people into pieces that he can reassemble (or not). So long as he doesn't deactivate his Stand (or unzip anything for too long, which I'll get into later), the pieces are all still perfectly healthy and functional-- he unzipped an enemy's head to decommission him while keeping him alive for questioning. If he DOES deactivate his Stand, however... say goodbye to your bits and pieces.
Bruno can also unzip internal organs. He's only ever done this to himself in canon, but I assume it's possible for him to inflict this upon an enemy as well. Like unzipping the more commonplace bits of people, the organs will still function, but the longer he keeps the organ unzipped, the longer it deteriorates until it finally ceases. In canon, he used this to prevent detection by unzipping himself to pieces, silencing his heartbeat and effectively putting all of his vital organs on hold until the threat had passed.
Bruno can partially unzip a limb and extend the zipper end-to-end to increase his range. This makes for really long punches that extend beyond the normal reach of Sticky Fingers, though the delicate attachment to the rest of his body likely makes the arm itself weaker and easier to detach. He can also use this in combination with a zipper-created passage to sneak his arm through it and take someone by surprise.
He can also split objects in half and rapidly rejoin them-- for example, forcibly closing a metal beam around an enemy to close them inside the two halves like a vice.
And finally, like most other Stands in JJBA, Sticky Fingers can be used for more conventional purposes... such as punching things really really fast.
The list goes on, and Bruno can and will use Sticky Fingers however he thinks will help. As long as he's putting down a zipper. Finally, compared to other Stands, Sticky Fingers is excellent in terms of speed and strength, but it has a poor range: Bruno needs to be within 2 meters of the zipper for it to remain active, and he must touch the object or surface he creates a zipper on. Objects Bruno leaves inside a Sticky Fingers-created space, however, can remain in that pocket dimension even after he's not around-- please see the 6 million yen hidden in the urinal.
Stands aside... from his canon point, Bruno is physically dead. Though his body had been restored by ally Giorno Giovanna, he'd bled out and died before Giorno did so. As Giorno's lifegiving power can't fully resurrect beings, he's technically a very slowly-decaying corpse. If Bruno can feel pain, it's highly dulled, as is his sense of touch; if he bleeds at all, it'll be a markedly smaller amount than one would expect from a normal living human, seeing as what blood he had left after getting a hole punched in him is likely already coagulating inside his walking corpse. (Ew.)
Items/Weapons:
Sample Entry: ( short thread from haventest, and if that isn't enough-- )
[There's no communicator malfunctions here: when the video flicks on, he's seated, all proper and composed, inside his apartment's common area.]
I've been here for roughly two weeks, and there's been no sign of escape becoming an option thus far.
[His brow furrows, and he continues:] I won't accept that, but at the same time, it's important to consider practicality in a situation like this. What do we know about Yao? What do we know about their organization, their resources, anything and everything?
Sample Entry Two: At least two paragraphs in third person/prose format, please. A link to a previous log or thread with the character is also acceptable. All links must be one year old or less. Samples submitted may not be in the form of a "where am I" intro, as these are hard to judge characterization from. All other scenarios are welcome.
Name: Danni
Contact Info:
Other Characters Played: also apping Travis Touchdown in this round.
Requested apartment: n/a
Character Name: Bruno Buccellati
Canon: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Part V: Vento Aureo
Canon Point: After his first encounter with King Crimson.
Background/History: Jojo Wiki
Personality:
this is enough right
ok no but really
When Bruno Buccellati's parents divorced, he was given a choice. He could either remain with his father in the small fishing village that was his hometown, or leave with his mother and receive a more formal and high-quality education in the city. To both of their surprise, he decided to stay with his father-- not because he didn't care for his mother, or because he didn't want that opportunity, but because he knew that his father needed him more. His mother would forget about her former life and flourish in the city; his father, set in his ways, would grow old, weary, and lonely without the company of his son. Bruno knew this at seven years old.
It is this innate sense of compassion and empathy that has and always will define Bruno. Be it his family by blood or the band of misfits he's taken for a family in Passione, he'll stop at nothing to ensure he's doing the best he can for those that he loves. His mother noted that this inclination to kindness at the expense of himself would be his undoing, and it very much is: if Bruno's getting hurt or getting into any sort of trouble, it's almost certainly because he was trying to look out for someone else in the first place. Of course, this inherently kind nature's at odds with his status as a capo in Passione, but it's also worth noting that the reason he's involved with the gang at all is a result of this self-sacrificing tendency, too. When Bruno's father was at the wrong place at the wrong time and witnessed a drug deal, he ended up hospitalized after an "accident". A twelve-year-old Bruno hid under his father's hospital bed and killed the two men who came to finish the job, which obligated him to later join Passione as a means of protection for them both. He's always putting others before himself, even if he has to take drastic measures to do so.
It's not a huge surprise, then, that he has very little sense of self-preservation, and very little sense of caring for his own wants and needs, to the point that he literally refuses to die simply because he'd rather not force his team to carry on without their leader. This is equal parts kindness and duty:
- TOO NICE FOR HIS OWN GOOD BRUNO PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
- has like zero sense of self preservation BRUNO PLEASE?
- legitimately supportive of his babies
- fairly straight-laced and moral/just (by his own definition of it anyway)
- driven and determined; leadership
- very good at putting up a front: always looks either serious or TASTE OF A LIAR (link to above point)
- bbbbut has a lot of feelings. so many feelings
Abilities/Powers:
In the Jojo universe, certain individuals are gifted with the power of a 'Stand'. While one can be born with a Stand, it's also possible to induce a Stand by stabbing a person with a Stand Arrow, which is made from a bit of rock harvested from a certain meteorite that unleashes their evolutionary potential. (It's weird, I know.) People stabbed by an Arrow typically die, but if they're considered 'worthy' enough, they're granted with a Stand. Coincidentally, this was how the former head of Bruno's division of Passione chose his new members: if they're stabbed by an Arrow and pass the 'test' by coming out alive, they're in.
That said, Stands are psychic projections of one's spiritual power and are typically vaguely humanoid-shaped, even if this isn't a hard rule (Stands that are suits, animals, hair, and so on). Stands are invisible to non-Stand users, but for the purposes of the game, anyone with a reasonable degree of supernatural ability will be able to spot it. There's exceptions, but Stands typically don't have personalities and follow the will and commands of their users alone. Stands can affect physical objects or beings, but a Stand itself cannot be damaged by anything other than a Stand (and again, for the purposes of the game I'm amending that to anything spiritual). Any damage done to a Stand will also be suffered by its user: for example, if another Stand punches Bruno's stand in the gut, Bruno gets punched in the gut, and if Bruno's stand loses a limb, Bruno loses that same limb in turn. Expanding upon that, while there are also a few exceptions, if a Stand user is defeated or killed, their Stand's effects will typically dissipate. Until the next time they activate their Stand, that is.
Bruno's Stand is called Sticky Fingers, after the Rolling Stones album because Hirohiko Araki loves his music references. It looks like this: in other words, it's a muscular, blue, zippery humanoid. Simply put, Sticky Fingers makes zippers. At Bruno's command, it puts a functioning zipper down on anything it touches, human or no. Only Bruno can control the size, placement, and when the zipper opens and closes-- the material around the zipper also becomes pliable enough to actually use a zipper on.
I realize that zipper powers sound totally ridiculous (it ain't a 'bizarre adventure' for nothing), but with Bruno's creativity, this ability can get to be very, very useful. Here are some of the ways that he's used Sticky Fingers in canon:
Defensive/Etc:
Offensive:
The list goes on, and Bruno can and will use Sticky Fingers however he thinks will help. As long as he's putting down a zipper. Finally, compared to other Stands, Sticky Fingers is excellent in terms of speed and strength, but it has a poor range: Bruno needs to be within 2 meters of the zipper for it to remain active, and he must touch the object or surface he creates a zipper on. Objects Bruno leaves inside a Sticky Fingers-created space, however, can remain in that pocket dimension even after he's not around-- please see the 6 million yen hidden in the urinal.
Stands aside... from his canon point, Bruno is physically dead. Though his body had been restored by ally Giorno Giovanna, he'd bled out and died before Giorno did so. As Giorno's lifegiving power can't fully resurrect beings, he's technically a very slowly-decaying corpse. If Bruno can feel pain, it's highly dulled, as is his sense of touch; if he bleeds at all, it'll be a markedly smaller amount than one would expect from a normal living human, seeing as what blood he had left after getting a hole punched in him is likely already coagulating inside his walking corpse. (Ew.)
Items/Weapons:
Sample Entry: ( short thread from haventest, and if that isn't enough-- )
[There's no communicator malfunctions here: when the video flicks on, he's seated, all proper and composed, inside his apartment's common area.]
I've been here for roughly two weeks, and there's been no sign of escape becoming an option thus far.
[His brow furrows, and he continues:] I won't accept that, but at the same time, it's important to consider practicality in a situation like this. What do we know about Yao? What do we know about their organization, their resources, anything and everything?
Sample Entry Two: At least two paragraphs in third person/prose format, please. A link to a previous log or thread with the character is also acceptable. All links must be one year old or less. Samples submitted may not be in the form of a "where am I" intro, as these are hard to judge characterization from. All other scenarios are welcome.