Melone Headcanons
Ok, so here are my headcanons on La Squadra Esecuzioni’s token evil teammate and mad scientist extraordinaire, Melone!
WARNING: There is going to have disturbing stuff mentioned in there, as well as some body horror. Precede at your own risk, folks.
- His given name is Fiore, which is a unisex Italian name meaning “flower”. I was originally going to give him the surname of Fioravanti (which meant “flower blossom” in Italian), but I later discovered that there is a person with the surname “Melone” in a digitized report while I’m working at data entry so I rolled with giving him a first name instead.
- His birthdate was May 25th, 1978, making him 22 in Vento Aureo and a Gemini.
- He was born in Como, Lombardy.
- Even as a child, he has a habit of dressing in gender-neutral clothes (his favorite colors are pastel pink and lavender).
- His biological mother died giving birth to him, so he didn’t have a mother figure until he met his aunt Marguerite, who he adored greatly for being “a sage woman” in his eyes. The thing is, though, his aunt is a vile sociopath who had deliberately corrupted him into the man he is now even after she is gone.
- His asymmetrical outfit hides several hideous acid burn scars on the left shoulder, upper arm, lower hip, and upper leg.
- Once he completed the lighter test, Melone joined Passione as a low-level mook working for Polpo until he was transferred into La Squadra Esecuzioni. During this time, he was an acquaintance to a fellow low-level mook, Tiziano.
- A few days after being pierced by the Arrow via Black Sabbath, Melone’s Stand first awakened inside his body. It had to be surgically removed from his abdomen looking somewhat like an aborted chest-burster with tendril limbs and yellow eyes. It then merged with his laptop (that used to belong to his father before he was murdered) via hopping into the computer screen, making Baby Face a Bound-type Stand and giving it the appearance it has now.
- Melone doesn’t know that he has persistent mullerian duct syndrome, a sexual development disorder that affects only males. Males with this disorder have normal male reproductive organs, but they also have a uterus and fallopian tubes, which are female reproductive organs, pretty much making them pseudo-hermaphrodites (before y’all raise your hands to ask me that one particular question, no, they cannot get pregnant, I’m pretty certain they can only sire kids). His infertile womb also very much how Baby Face initially manifested inside his body. Care for some brain bleach?
- I think having Baby Face first manifesting inside his body first must’ve gave him some kind of additional ability of telling whose blood belongs to, what blood type is it, or what astrological sign they have just by either looking at the blood stain and/or licking the skin digit (on an unrelated note, I’m rather surprised that Bruno’s astrological sign has not been retconned from an Aries to a Libra in the anime, both in the Japanese version and the official English dub. Weird…).
- Melone’s favorite animal is parasitic wasps, to the point that Baby Face actually functions just like one. Once they get ahold of Melone’s desired host, Baby Face will briefly sprout out an ovipositor-like tongue to inject a chemical agent to render his victims comatose for a few minutes as its hand gripping the host absorbs their skin cells for DNA to create the homunculus.
- Originally, Melone’s Italian has gotten rather rusty by the time he returned to Italy due to living in with his aunt and cousin in Switzerland for five years. His habit of saying ‘Di Molto’ was initially the result of his rusty Italian, but after witnessing Ghiaccio going apeshit over how he said it, Melone kept his ‘Di Molto’ catchphrase out of amusement for Ghiaccio’s reactions.
- His favorite horror movie franchise is Alien due to how similar the Xenomorph species are to eusocial creatures like wasps and termites. The fact that the first film came out on his first birthday made him like it even more.
- He likes reading horoscope magazines.
- He tends to overshare some not-well known animal facts (usually disturbing ones like “snapping turtles were used to get rid of dead bodies in the Ganges River in India” and “the greater short-horned lizard squirts blood out of its eyes as a self-defense mechanism”).
- He likes to listen to synth-pop music, with his favorite band being Soft Cell.
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