Angelo Fidante
| Angelo Fidante | |
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| Social Rank | 4 |
| Fealty | Velenosa "Velenosa" is not in the list of possible values (Redrain, Valardin, Grayson, Thrax, Pravus, Lyceum, Crown) for this property.
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| House | Fidante |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 28 |
| Religion | Pantheon |
| Vocation | Noble |
| Height | 5'9" |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Eye Color | Gray-green |
| Skintone | Golden Olive |
| Family | |
| Parents | Eduardo Fidante |
| Uncles/Aunts | Agostino Fidante, Giancinta Fidante, Teonia Fidante |
| Cousins | Leo Fidante, Calista Fidante, Dante Fidante, Juliet Fidante, Baldwin Fidante |
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Description
There is a deceptive softness about many of Angelo's features: his full lips a gentle bow, his hair soft, thick dark waves of black, his eyelashes long and thick to veil the eerie pallor of his eyes. His skin is a warmly golden olive, very occasionally marked by a faint dusting of tiny dark freckles. His beard is likewise soft, goatee neatly groomed and trimmed, with a neat mustache marking his upper lip, perhaps to ensure the masculinity of features that might otherwise suggest an ambiguity. His eyes are unusual: pale in hue, with a bare hint of green to intensify their wintry gray, clear and sharp and often highly focused beneath the stark lines of his defined eyebrows. Wiry and lean, there is a subtle strength to his frame but he reaches no great height. There is an unusual mellifluous quality to his low voice, suggestive of a musicality, that makes him easy to listen to.
Personality
The uncharitable might call Angelo lazy, but it's not fair. He's not lazy. He's deeply passionate about his interests: about words, word games, philosophy and human stories. He can be intense on the subject of Tehom and the other gods. Those who don't 'get it' might call Angelo withdrawn, but he's not that either. There is a warmth behind his reserve, an alert interest that allows him to listen to others in a focused way for an extended period of time, so that he can apply his quiet wisdom to their needs. The aggressively Lycene may call Angelo prudish, but he isn't. He's just not interested in debauchery for its own sake. He can be very sensual and deeply, imaginatively romantic when he feels like it. He just prefers intimacy to wild abandon. The hot-tempered might call Angelo cold, but he's not cold; he's merely controlled, composed, and unlikely to lose his temper over an imagined slight.
Background
The son of a lesser Fidante line, first cousin to Duke Leo and Lady Calista, Angelo was born to be a superfluous son, and like many, found expectation suggested him for soldiery or the priesthood. He lacked interest in spilling blood, and he lacked the devotion of the early priestbound. As a youth, he was irresolute, frustrated, sometimes reckless. He defied expectation in every way he could think of. He eschewed parties for books. He eschewed priestly training for quiet, private meditation. He eschewed dueling and getting in people's faces by being more than ordinarily diplomatic. When assigned military tasks, he would generally find ways of fulfilling a support roll: aiding in quartermastery rather than combat, for example.
Despite the struggles of a kind of depressed and reactive teenagerhood that he mainly spent getting in the way and being discontented without particular aim, Angelo began to develop a direction despite himself. That direction became the laity. A little disturbed by the mirrormasks, perhaps because of spending too much time near the Oathlands, he nevertheless grew in his heart a fascination for the reflection and for Tehom. Spare nobleman that he is, he has flirted with becoming godsworn, but never gone through with it. He has flirted with applying mathematics to the gambling world and making extra income for the Fidantes that way, but finds that extended partygoing tires and annoys him. Maybe he'll write a book.
