Haruhiko Del Lupo

Haruhiko Del Lupo (Sicilian: 晴彦 デル 狼, "Haruhiko Del Lupo"), also known as O' Munaciello (from the name of a Yokai from Italian myths), or, by the Gothamites, the Spaghetti Cyborg, is a violent anti-hero based in Catania, Italy.
He lives in the 2040s, contemporary to Batman Beyond, though he only came to the Gotham occasionally, to meet his friend Radon Todd and kill international criminals connected to the Kurai Shinjitsu Cult, which was born from various factions including a splinter faction of the League of Assassins.
== Personality (and speech pattern) ==
Due to his trauma, O'Munaciello is asocial and socially awkward, and his very few friendships are almost all either short-term or toxic, apart from the long-distance one with Radon Todd. He's a gamer and spends hours on his computer. 
In his native language, he's got a weird, formal speech pattern, which shows his distorted nature. To refer to himself, Haruhiko often speaks in third person and uses the pronoun Ipso, a future Italian Keigo pronoun akin to Japanese "Jibun", which is used to describe detachment and formality, and occasionally describes even his enemies as "Voi" (Japanese "Anata") rather than "Tu" (Japanese "Kimi" or "Omae"). He often bows when meeting people (common in Sicilia and Japan but very weird to do in Gotham), apologizes a lot by saying "Mi scusimasenno" (the -masu negative form of "scusarsi", absent in modern Italian because European languages are unique for lacking -masu forms), and talks in Keigo forms such as Nasagliare un'O-zione (nasagliare being a future Italian form of Nasaru, a Japanese Keigo verb which doesn't have an analogue in European languages), for instance he says Nasaglio oazioni violente rather than agisco violentemente to mean "I act violently", to the point that, when speaking English due to being in Gotham, he talks very little due to English's lack of Keigo forms making him scared of speaking too impolitely and offending the one he's talking to. He never uses -kun or -chan honorifics, only -san and -sama. Uniquely, whenever talking about Bruce Wayne, Haruhiko calls him Niguruma Shigemi, reading the Kanji characters of Bruce's name (荷車 茂) as if they were Japanese. 
He's a follower of Futurism, the philosophic and artistic movement (which can be seen as half-fascist and half-anarchist) established by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Which means he's a strong believer in technology, war, nationalism and imperialism, but also a socialist, a hater of the Catholic Church, and an anti-monarchic. 
He admires the retired Red Hood, Jason Todd, to the point of having bought two guns identical to his, and has got a long-distance friendship with his son Radon Todd, who he considers his only real friend as he feels both have been through enough sickness to understand each other.
He sees himself as more of a cyber abomination made to protect people and punish evil, than a man. He has no qualms about killing, or even bombing buildings or using his hacking capabilities to track down criminals through their smartphones.
Haruhiko sees violence as a tool necessary for revolution and the law as shit made by those who are in power for themselves. Haruhiko believes he must create a great nation for his people, at the cost of many murders. Hatred for the status quo is to Haruhiko what moves history, not any sort of love, and war "is the sole hygiene of the world" (quoting Marinetti).
His opinion of the late Bruce Wayne and the image of Batman as a hero who doesn't kill is strictly negative: Haruhiko sees it as incapable of doing anything really subversive of the order. "Batman may protect, but he cannot change".
Haruhiko thinks destroying the Kurai Shinjitsu cult makes him feel more human.
Haruhiko rarely works together with other people, but occasionally he's part of the Italian superhero team Sanguinis Effusione, along with Lintver (Sofia Tani), Dottor Balanzone (Fumio Balanzone), Vulcanus (Edoardo Ueno), Phobos and Deimos, Alice Delle Meraviglie (Alice Tamura), Fata Danzante (Asia Yamato) and Croce di Ferro (Ryoko Fossati). 
== Backstory ==
Son of Cariberto Del Lupo and Gertrude Niccoli-Del Lupo in Catania, Sicilia: he was the older brother of Kaori Del Lupo and the younger brother of Bastianazzo Del Lupo, Haruhiko del Lupo grew up as a rather normal child at first. 
Until Cariberto lost his job due to the Covid Pandemic and the rising costs of energy due to the green transition, while both Bastianazzo was in college, Haruhiko was 15 in high school, and the Del Lupos suddenly had to suffer through poverty and sacrifices and the Del Lupos were evicted from their house due to not being able to pay the mutuo (house mortgage) and as such got evicted and were forced to retire their children from college. At that point, Cariberto mysteriously won at Superenalotto and made millions of euros, which he used to buy the house back and have Bastianazzo return to study for his master's degree (laurea magistrale, how do you call that in the USA?). Bastianazzo, but not Haruhiko. 
This was because Cariberto received not only the check, but also a message, revealing that the Superenalotto extraction was rigged in his favor, in exchange of giving their little daughter Kaori to be adopted by a certain Anzalone: there was a bomb in the foundations of their home, and, if 30 days passed without any of their sons being sent to Anzalone, their home would be destroyed. 
As the contract stated "any of their sons" rather than "Kaori", Haruhiko turned himself in and went to meet Anzalone in place of Kaori. 
Said Anzalone was actually the cult known as Kurai Shinjitsu, led by the Emperor of Japan in person. The Kurai Shinjitsu used Haruhiko as part of their experimentation of alien artifacts and turned him into a Bishamonten Cyborg. 
As such, after many years of traumas and having been reduced to a machine, Haruhiko focused on the last shard of his self, his personality having been reduced to an extreme hatred of the Kurai Shinjitsu. 
== Trivia ==
* Haruhiko is often mistaken for Japanese when he's in Gotham or outside Italy, and even in Italy itself he's occasionally mistaken for one. He's one of the few non-Japanese people who refer to the late Bruce Wayne as "Shigemi Niguruma".
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