Ezio Romano

* Introduction
* Gallery
* History
* Trivia

### Family

Unnamed father and mother (alive), Vittoria Shelley (wife, deceased), Marsala (sister, alive)

### Occupation

Software Engineer (former), Serial Killer

### Status

Dead

Ezio Romano is a minor character in Fate of Zephyr and older brother of Marsala. In Vento Aureo, Ezio is Melone of La Squadra Esecuzioni.

A former Ph.D student in Bioinformatics turned serial killer after the death of his wife Vittoria Shelley, Ezio became notorious for killing women and experimenting on their bodies to hopefully recreate what his late wife had been working on and bring her back as a result, and was on the run from Passione when he encountered Anita Cicchetti. Using his Stand against her led to the two of them fusing together into a bizarre symbiotic relationship and Anita becoming a new member of The Hitman Team.

It is unknown when and how he received his stand **Babyface**, but both he and his Stand were ultimately fused into Anita and the Stand became TROYBOI.

## Appearance

Ezio appears to be a young, slim man of average height. Like the original Melone, he has long purple hair but tied in a half up-do and wears a body tight suit that ends mid-thigh. The suit is hollowed out in the chest and hips area, with buckles attaching both sides of the cut-outs. It also has purple concentric circle motifs decorated throughout the outfit and matching knee length boots and gloves. Unlike the original design, Ezio does not wear a mask but is missing a right eye related to the death of his wife. Underneath his gloves is a simple wedding ring from his past marriage.

Prior to Ezio's change in career, he appeared to have shorter hair and sported wearing a light purple short-sleeved button up and khaki slacks when he was a Ph.D student. He also appeared to be wearing thick rimmed purple glasses.

## Personality

A professional at heart, Ezio presents himself as both polite and callous. Soft-spoken and studious, Ezio tends to focus in on whatever he sets himself to do, often times ignoring societal norms or others when zoning into his current passion. Having a knack for deductive reasoning, he is able to quickly figure out and plan his actions while inferring about his potential victims.

According to his peers, he is known to be a loving and doting husband. It was commonly said that he adored his wife, not just for her beauty but her intelligence, and supported her endeavors when she was met with criticism for her dissertation. As a result of his wife's death, Ezio ends up being more insane and is revealed to have a more lecherous side; these cause him to view women more like potential tools to be used for his experiments, despite presenting himself as chivalrous at first. As a result of his indifference and constant killing of women caused by his Stand, he gained a reputation as serial killer who also gains pleasure trying to use his Stand, often hopeful for its success but nonchalant when it "fails", and talking to himself or to his wife about the observations he sees when using his Stand. Unabashedly ambitious, his behavior is often seen as unhinged and unsettling to those around him. Like the original Melone, he will act jovially when circumstances match or exceed his expectations, and retained his catchphrase "Di Molto!"

However, he is revealed to have a sympathetic side, when he made a brief comment expressing his condolences to Anita's loss after seeing her clutch onto her old wedding band. Despite being estranged from his family, he is very close to his sister, influencing Anita's emotions towards Marsala as a result.

## Abilities

### Stand

Babyface is a remote stand that can create autonomous long-range humanoid Stands, known as Juniors, to do its user's bidding. These Juniors are created through Babyface via artificially insemination of women Ezio deemed as ideal surrogates; the procedure is unknown beyond it being painless and leaving no traces of its presence on the woman. However, the obedience and skills of the Juniors vary based on its learning curve, which varies depending on environment and the surrogate chosen, effecting its growth as well. As a result, its growth also takes a lot of time and energy to oversee and cultivate to ensure a successful Junior. Communication between the user and the Junior is done through Babyface's user interface as a simple command line that serves as a chat-box.

The use of quickly growing humanoids to do the user's bidding is passed on to TROYBOI. However, Babyface is unable to create more than three Juniors at a time, oftentimes only creating 1 and leaving the ability to create more by chance, and requires extensive training and communication. As a result of the extended period needed to train and teach as well as focus on less humanoids, Juniors are more sentient and intelligent compared to Anita's homunculi and able to make their own decisions based on what they've learned.

### Higher Education and Knowledge

As a child, Ezio is naturally intelligent and able to deduce situations quickly, which allowed him to excel during his career and education at a young age. Ezio's education led him to be educated in both academics and cultures that he picked up from years of studying abroad in various places and working in the industry for years and gained a reputation as a fast learner. He is shown to be fluent in French, Latin, Greek, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi, although the last three are more at a conversational level, and has expert knowledge regarding Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, and related fields.

Like the original Melone, he is also well-versed in the pseudoscience of various cultures, despite presenting himself as a non-believer in the public eye.

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 Ezio was the oldest child of two professional academics who expected their son to follow a similar career path. However, his family considered him to be their only child after Marsala decided to pursue a career in art instead, but later consider both nonexistent after Ezio became a killer.

## Before Encountering Anita

As a result of being raised strictly academically, Ezio became an alumni at the Polytechnic University of Milan for a double major degree in Computer Information Systems and Bioinformatics. He was eventually accepted into the university's doctorate program a few years later. Between his acceptance and obtaining his degree, he worked professionally in Turin, ultimately meeting his former wife Vittoria Shelly while at a work function. The two of them fell in love over shared interests in the computer sector and both were accepted into the same doctorate program at the same time. Records showed that Ezio's work focused on using machine learning and bioinformatics for cancer detection, while his wife focused on artificially creating life using artificial intelligence and biotechnology.

According to rumors surrounding Ezio, the relationship was disapproved by his parents due to Vittoria's academic background as a first-generation graduate who transferred from an unknown community college in America to Italy. Nonetheless, the two eloped and began their doctorate programs overseeing their projects. They planned on having children after they both graduate.

### Downfall into Insanity and Crime

A tragic accident in one of the university's labs led to the death of his late wife and believed to have fueled Ezio's decent into madness, fueling more rumors that he actually murdered his wife. However, speculations reveal that Vittoria's death was organized by the university's officials and local government due to her project being too controversial, and Ezio's madness began with him collecting evidence of such. However, he seemed to have disappeared from the public eye soon as he was labeled a person-of-interest. It is also revealed that the tragic accident caused Ezio's eye to be injured and other injuries contributed to his own infertility.

## After Anita's Death

It is unknown what happened to Ezio after Anita disappeared.

## Comparison to the Original Melone

Ezio's backstory up to his descent into further madness shares the same backstory with the original Melone, as both were former Ph.D. students driven to madness due to their beloved's death and their Stands being a manifestation of said beloved's research.

While the original Melone was ultimately found by La Squadra Esecuzioni, stopped his experimentation, and encountered Anita years later during Vento Aureo, Ezio did not join any syndicate or group- working independently as a serial killer to continue experimentation and encountered Anita before Fate of Zephyr. It is also unknown what Ezio did to Anita that led him and Babyface to be fused into her or whether Ezio truly died when. At the same time, Ezio is revealed to have some family connections to Anita and implied to have admired her in childhood, but forgotten about it when they finally met, while the original Melone never encountered her until Vento Aureo and did not know her. Ezio Romano/Trivia