Riccardo Inigo Dell'Agnello

Capt. Riccardo Inigo Lombardi Dell'Agnello (born 23 February 2030) is an Italian airline pilot of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, as one of the first officers of the airline's fleet of Airbus A350. He is considered to be one of Institut Le Rosey's brightest students, and became acquainted with Veronika Aleina Verano due to their older sisters being close friends and classmates during their time at the said school, and ultimately entered in a relationship. However, Veronika broke up with him as she considered that he deserved someone better than her. They later reunited when both of them attended a mutual friend's wedding after almost six years.
He is the deuteragonist of Contrails, the second spin-off story of the FLIGHT series, alongside Veronika Aleina Verano, who served as the story's protagonist and later his wife.
== Biography ==
=== Background ===
Inigo was born on 23 February 2030 at Florence, Tuscany, Italy as part of the affluent Dell'Agnello family. His father, Riccardo Elio Dell'Agnello, came from a long line of wine producers, owning vast lands in the region; while his mother, Bianca Maria Lombardi was a celebrated operatic soprano before marrying into the family, who also came from a noble Italian line. Since the marriage of his parents and the birth of his older sister, Vanessa Clarice Dell'Agnello, in 2027, his mother decided to leave the spotlight to focus in tending the house and the family.
According to him, he didn't actually grow up in a welcoming and warm family as he was abused as a child by both parents in times that led to his trauma and intention to be a pilot, using such career as a way to escape from his family and break away. An incident as a child had his mother, as he wasn't able to finish his food, tied him on his chair and threatened him with a knife; and his father would hit him, his sister and his mother in times of anger. He grew up with scars and bruises that were covered up as a child, and was often bullied in school for being short and timid.
His paternal grandparents, however, found out about the atrocities of both parents toward him and Vanessa, leading for them to take the two away when he was ten years old. During such time that their grandparents urged the two of them to take a college degree that they would both love than just the tending of the winery, which they've been grown up to. It resulted then for his sister to be a doctor, and for his intentions to strengthen in pursing his interest with aeronautics. After almost two years, their grandparents allowed them to return to their parents; however, it had been recommended that the children were to enter boarding school abroad.
=== Institut Le Rosey ===
At the age of twelve, on September 2042, Inigo entered Institut Le Rosey as a seventh grader, along with Vanessa as a ninth grader. Ever since the start, he was regarded as one of the school's brightest student, and had shown great promises as he was gifted in mathematics and science. Being away from Italy made him focus with his studies, resulting for him to stay in campus even during the holidays. As an additional present, his paternal grandparents purchased a nearby house from the campus and settled there during the holidays to ensure a welcoming family for him and his older sister. Their parents were also welcomed to stay, but under the watchful eyes of their grandparents. According to Inigo, the physical abuse he experienced then stopped as his mother tried to be attentive and guilty of her actions toward him and his sister from the past, and his father would awkwardly try being a paternal figure. Either way, he mentioned that he couldn't easily forgive them for tainting his childhood in such a way.
When he was on his tenth grade, on September 2045, he became acquainted with Veronika Aleina Verano, a newly transferred student and a junior of his. Veronika was Vanessa's close friend's younger sister that ultimately led for them to get to know one another. Gradually, the two became infatuated and fell in love, and became a couple
When he was on his tenth grade, on September 2045, he became acquainted with Veronika Aleina Verano, a newly transferred student and a junior of his. Veronika was his older sister's close friend's younger sister that ultimately led for them to get to know one another. Gradually, the two of them became infatuated and fell in love with one another, and became a couple five months later.
=== Aviation ===
After graduating from Institut Le Rosey in 2048, Inigo entered Technical University of Munich with an undergraduate degree of Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. Additionally, during the weekends or whenever university wasn't at all hectic, he would often come along with his grandparents' close friends around the area for him to opt some free flight trainings. As when he was in Le Rosey, Inigo was also regarded as an excellent student at the university that many of his professors noticed his great passion with aviation. However, just a year later, Veronika decided to break up with him with the reason that she wasn't worthy of him and he deserved someone better. He tried patching up things with her but she stood firm with her decision, leading for Inigo to instead focus with building his own career. He graduated with distinction in 2051; at the same time that his cadet pilot scholarship had been accepted by Deutsche Lufthansa AG, and he immediately started his flight training with European Flight Academy, the said airline's core flying school.
Despite being focused with his flight training, he crossed paths with a fellow cadet pilot, Annalise Iller. The two immediately became friends, and later became lovers a year later. It took another year before the two became intimate with one another due to the fact that Inigo couldn't forget Veronika at all. However, just at the end of their core flying phase, the two of them broke up after Annalise gave him a pregnancy scare as a prank. Ultimately, the two of them separated ways as he was prompted to be part of the few lucky cadets to immediately be trained as an Airbus A350 first officer, while Annalise and the others as an Airbus A320 first officer. By the end of 2053, Inigo was released to the line.
=== Reunion with Veronika ===
Working as an Airbus A350 first officer of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Inigo, having full control of his life, managed to acquire private lands of his own in Germany (Frankfurt and Berlin), France (Annecy) and Switzerland. Over time, he also personally inherited lands from his paternal grandparents, aside from those already named to him by his parents, and there were only a few times that he would be visiting them when his schedule somehow were cleared. However, he usually visited Italy for his older sister, who've been an accomplished pediatrician, his brother-in-law and his nephew, whom he doted on a lot.
On December 2054, he received an invitation for the wedding of a close friend from Institut Le Rosey, and was informed that Veronika was also expected to attend. They once again reunited for the said destination wedding at Switzerland.
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