Ghiaccio Francescon

* Introduction
* Gallery
* History
* Trivia

### Namesake

Ghiaccio: Italian for "ice".Ariana: Latin name meaning "most holy". Francescon: Medieval surname meaning "Frenchman". Bianco: Italian for "white".

### Family

Unnamed father (alive),Unnamed mother (deceased), Unnamed step-father (deceased), Amadeo Müller (half-brother, unknown)

### Status

Alive

Ghiaccio Francescon is a minor character in Fate of Zephyr. In Vento Aureo, Ghiaccio is the same character of La Squadra Esecuzioni.

Former childhood friends with competitive rival Zura Grattachecca and the younger half-sibling of Amadeo Müller, he adopted his current name and transitioned from female to male after witnessing his step-father's death at the hands of his friend and running away from home afterwards. He ends up in contact with Passione as the syndicate's go-to car repairer, running his successful car mechanic business in both Naples and Venice, and is reunited with Zura after years of no direct contact with her.

He is also a natural-born Stand user of **White Album**, and is shown using his abilities from afar when helping Giorno Giovanna and Zura fight against Salata Mista.

## Appearance

Ghiaccio is a man of below-average height and slim to medium build. He has light blue curled hair that are styled as spirals on his head, similar to the original Ghiaccio, and wears a pair of thick-rimmed red glasses due to his near-sightedness. When adjusted, the curls reveal his blond roots, indicating that his hair is dyed. When stressed or zoned into his work, the glasses appeared skewed, and he often fixes them when feeling anxious. As a mechanic, he wears a dark blue one-piece pantsuit with pockets filled with small tools and pieces for cars. The suit shows signs of wear and tear, and the top is tied at the waist, exposing a white, fitted t-shirt underneath. He also sports brown leather gloves, which can be adjusted to be fingerless by hooking the fingers onto the back of his hand, and red work boots that resembles the sneakers worn by the original Ghiaccio. He wears a daisy-shaped pendant as a hair-clip, which matches with Zura's necklace.

Prior to his transition, Ghiaccio appeared as an average height female with a slim build. Due to being unaware of his identity as a male, Ghiaccio is often seen wearing baggy sweat clothes to hide his figure when he was younger and sports a straight blond bob, revealed to straighted to hide his natural curls. The daisy-shaped pendant was worn around his neck before it was later converted into a hair-clip.

## Personality

Ghiaccio is proud and confident, having develop a more assertive nature after his escape. He is also prone to fits and has a short temper, mostly stemming from how he can finally express his opinions openly than before but also due to the effects of testosterone he now takes. To those he completely trust, he is the most open and willing to do what he can to help them and willing to devote himself to those who he thinks genuinely cares for them. Unlike the original Ghiaccio, he is not as confrontational, preferring to work behind the scenes, but willing to pick battles when his emotions get to him. This was especially seen when he didn't hesitate to help Zura out behind the scenes of her fight against Salata regardless of his own safety but remaining hidden once the deed was done; a while later he was also seen in a background frame later on berating an another driver that seemed to have crashed into his red car as the rest of The Hitman Team, unaware of the scene behind them, approaches St Mark's Basilica.

As a child, Ghiaccio was meek and shy, less confident than now, making it difficult for him to make new friends and trust strangers, as well as stand up against his step-father's abuse, and has trouble expressing his emotions due to fear of retaliation. He is most open to those he completely trust, like Zura, and was often obsequious due to believing that he had to constantly submit to avoid further harm. This caused him to be wrongly assumed to be complicit, as it contributed to the falling out he had with his half-brother in his life- an event that still haunts him to this day. He grew up fearing his step-father and seeking his approval in order to avoid further harm or punishment. He grew up despising his presentation as female, unaware that he identified stronger as a man, and openly expressed his distain for it to his friend when he could until he began his transition. However, he is willing to wear clothes and care for items that bring much significance to him regardless, as he is seen wearing the daisy shaped pendant hair clip even after he transitioned and defended his choice of wearing it openly despite his profession and presentation as male.

As a car fanatic, Zura stated how she fondly remembered Ghiaccio talking about different car models he saw whenever he had to travel out of Italy for training as well as occasional sketches he drew on napkins that represented designs he came up with. However, Ghiaccio refused to talk about them whenever his step-father is present, and hides his drawings while denying him from drawing it when questioned by anyone but Zura. Ghiaccio also has a fixation on languages, like the original Ghiaccio and Amadeo, both Italian and foreign ones, due to frequently traveling around in order to train as a figure skater, and became a linguaphile and polyglot as a result; at one point tried to learn Äynu and Arabic for his friend but was forced to stop due to his step-father's Islamaphobic sentiments. He mentioned to Zura that he considered being a foreign language teacher of some kind but refused to bring it up out of fear that his step-father would punish him for pursuing anything else but being an Olypmic figure skating, and now uses his ability to pick up languages to gain more clients for his mechanic business. Unlike his brother, his fixation is more on the language systems regarding grammar, structure, and literary history, as he was introduced as Ghiaccio to Fate of Zephyr ranting while driving towards Venezia stating the same "Venezia rant" used by the original Ghiaccio.

## Abilities

### Stand

White Album, like the original Stand, is a white suit that protects its user from harm and giving him the potent ability to freeze everything and dramatically decrease the temperature of anything Ghiaccio touches- dropping as low as -100°C easily and -215°C when using his ability "Gently Weeps". Like the original Stand, his ability also drains the most power, as he is seen slumped in the alley after activating the Stand to help Zura and Giorno.

Its head bears two short cones, positioned somewhat like cat ears. It has a spiral on its forehead, which along with its cheeks pushes a clear visor that reveals his face up to his eyes. When worn, Ghiaccio's glasses disappear, and the visors serve as his vision. Its feet stand on long blades, in the style of ice speed skates, which references Ghiaccio's past desire to pursue that sport as a child over figure skating. The suit is purposely shaped to minimize the effects of drag. Like the original suit, it also has a small opening at the back of his neck allowing air flow and allows Ghiaccio to breathe under water for longer periods of time than the average human lung. Unlike the original suit, it lacks a tail, but instead has a long white belt around its waist tied in the back so that strap resembles a tail.

Ghiaccio can also precisely control his powers and natural precision himself, as seen how he froze the liquid falling down before Salata can grab it despite Ghiaccio being at a far distance and using his Stand to do it by throwing a frozen rock at the liquid in order to activate the freezing process. One can figure out that he is near when snow unexpectedly falls from the sky, although not from the clouds above, alongside a noticeable decrease in temperatures.

### **High Language Learning Aptitude**

As a result of frequently traveling for his figure skating training, Ghiaccio developed a natural talent for learning languages quickly and considers himself a polyglot. The ability to do so contributes to his ability to think quickly and access situations via inductive and deductive reasonings, but also his passion for language in general. Despite being meek and shy growing up, Ghiaccio frequently learns from overhearing conversations and secretly reading grammatical books and dictionaries under the pretense to help communicate with his coaches better, secretly practicing his accent and grammar by watching foreign films and movies. As of now, Ghiaccio is fluent in German, French, Russian, Korean, Mandarin, and Finnish, and can speak at a conversational level in many other languages. However, he is not able to read and write at the same level as the languages he is fluent in. He can also sign basic LIS, using it mostly to communicate with his Deaf staff.

Initially, Ghiaccio used his language ability to disguise himself as a migrant worker to blend in with other immigrants in order to remain hidden. He would later use his language skills to help gain a large clientele of customers that speak those languages, earning a reputation in the tourism industry for his ability to translate and interpret his clients' needs without much of a language barrier compromising communication. Being able to communicate in these languages often also allows him to speak fluently, to the point where many have mistaken him as a native in the language he is speaking in, and often rub elbows with wealthier clientele from outside of Italy. Although he is able to speak certain languages as if he was fully fluent, some languages cause him to speak with a slight accent, which could be heard if listened to carefully.

## References

* *I, Tonya* trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZQ5DfSAAc
* Mista And Giorno vs. Ghiaccio (1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-f7CwgAO2c

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 Ghiaccio Francescon was born female and went by the name Ariana Bianco until he transitioned. Until he was reunited with Zura Grattachecca, she only knew him by his birth name and referred to him as such.

## Life Prior to Leaving Home

It is unknown who Ghiaccio's mother was, beyond her being a wealthy divorcee and often commented to resemble Ghiaccio. Prior to Ghiaccio's biological father's death, she was married to a different man and had Ghiaccio's older half-brother Amadeo Müller before divorcing him.

Ghiaccio was raised by his step-father, a former track and field child athlete forced into retirement due to injury who eventually became a fitness coach before marrying Ghiaccio's late mother. Unbeknownst to his step-father's abusive behavior, his mother gave him full custody after she passed from terminal illness, believing that Ghiaccio and Amadeo will be well cared for. However his step-father decided to push both children into becoming child athletes themselves as a means of living vicariously though them; Amadeo was put into swimming while Ghiaccio was put into figure skating. Ghiaccio was placed into that sport due to his step-father's belief that it was a feminine enough sport that suited his gender at the time and refused to have either children change their passions or explore other interests. Ghiaccio grew to loathe his training, as he not only hated the environment established in figure skating but also how it conflicted with his gender identity. On top of that, the constant comparison and competition between him and his half-brother was constant despite the two being in different sports. The strict regime of training was harsh and his step-father was proven to be abusive to the two of them, albeit more physically abusive to Amadeo in public due Ghiaccio's gender at the time. However, Ghiaccio was still subjugated to some physical abuse in private, especially away from Amadeo's sight, but more emotional harm was done to him than his brother.

It was revealed that Ghiaccio was often threatened to do better to avoid his own brother from being further abused with seemingly no reason, and Ghiaccio grew up to be quiet and complicit to avoid further abuse against his half-brother and himself. This led to the two siblings to further drift apart, with Ghiaccio being seen as the favorite child due to his quietness and natural athletic ability; Amadeo eventually ran away from home as a result, which the step-father actually knew will happen but allowed it to be done. Ghiaccio attempted to follow Amadeo but it led to an argument that severed the two brothers' ties completely, with Amadeo falsely accusing his younger sibling for being the favorite and wishing the other was never born. Ghiaccio's treatment from his step-father slightly improved, as the latter saw Amadeo as a "bad influence" and tried to persuade Ghiaccio that Amadeo's departure was a positive for the family, but Ghiaccio gradually became more abused as time passed on. To this day, Ghiaccio has tried to reach out to his older brother, but has received no word from him and is not aware of his brother's involvement with Dr. Dolcio or Passione.

Ghiaccio met Zura when both were 6 and 5 years old respectively while training in Moscow for the summer. As it was Zura's first time alone in the city, Ghiaccio decided to try and introduce himself as a means of getting to know her. The two became quick friends, often giggling with each other during practice and developed a close bond despite eventually becoming each other's rivals. Despite his father discouraging him from making friends, Ghiaccio and Zura became very close to where Ghiaccio expressed his interest in cars and learning languages. However, due to fear of retaliation and believing that she would end up not being close anymore if he told the truth, he didn't disclose the abuse and problems he was facing at home to her. Ghiaccio was discouraged from spending time with anyone outside of the family but secretly spent time with Zura under pretenses of training. He told Zura of his step-father forbidding him from making friends, but Zura assumed it was merely strict parenting. At the same time, Ghiaccio fears telling her the truth due to how much influence his step-father also had in the sports world and not being sure where to go if he is able to get away from him and his abuse. Oftentimes, the stepfather attempted to put a wedge between the two by convincing Ghiaccio that not beating his friends will lead to the end of his career.

In desperation of getting Ghiaccio on the Olympic team for figure skating, he planned an attack against Zura by hiring some men to break her legs when she left the ice skating rink after a session of training without being caught. While Zura's leg was broken, the men were caught and told by the step-father to say Ghiaccio was the mastermind. Hearing of Zura's injuries and later that he was responsible for it, Ghiaccio was heartbroken for losing his only friend and being unable to explain why he wasn't the one who hurt her while not knowing who was behind the event. Ghiaccio felt lost and upset with losing Zura, wondering what else he could due as the abuse became more obvious and apparent and being unable to defend himself from the accusations as his step-father was leading the blame. Zura's injuries were publicized and sensationalized, with the media painting Ghiaccio as the villain and the failure of the attack led to Ghiaccio being banned from figuring skating on the Olypmic team and later on from competing in other figure skating competitions. Zura, initially unaware that Ghiaccio had no role in the matter, publicly shamed him and severed their friendship as a result.

The ban and media scrutiny led his step-father to abuse him further, more physically than emotionally, and one of the abuses was caught in a locker room by Zura when she was attempting to confront Ghiaccio one last time; she ended up hiding in a locker and witnessing the reality of what Ghiaccio had to face all those years. As a result, Zura attempted to break into the family home a few months later in order to help Ghiaccio sneak out. Unbeknownst to Zura before she finally snuck in, Ghiaccio was in the middle of his step-father's violent outburst, which the latter finally confessed that he was the one that set up the attack and put the blame on Ghiaccio as a result. In anger, Ghiaccio finally stood up against his step-father for the first time and screamed at him about his wrongdoings and wanting to leave. After realizing that he spoke out, Ghiaccio feared for himself and ran upstairs to prepare running away and locking his room to avoid his step-father from stopping him. His step-father was ready to confront his child and "punish" him for insubordination when Zura was caught sneaking in. Ghiaccio was desperately trying to pack before his step-father would come up when he hears a fight breaking out downstairs and Zura's voice. After much hesitation after hearing silence downstairs, he slowly walked down and noticed Zura was inside his house. He confronted her, wearing his backpack full of items and a white hoodie and jeans to conceal his identity, and stood in shock to see his step-father beaten to death.

Zura went on to explain that she saw what happened in the locker room when she witnessed what Ghiaccio's step-father did and wanted to help Ghiaccio run away from home. However, she was caught and killed his step-father in a panic, and Ghiaccio said he heard everything Zura said while she did it. He tried to apologize for having Zura kill his step-father for his sake, but Zura justified her actions by saying she wanted Ghiaccio to live a life free from expectations and fear. By giving him some of her money she planned on giving him prior and packing whatever remaining items they could in his backpack, she ordered Ghiaccio to start a new life away from Naples and avoid contacting her again; she stated that she was willing to give up her own freedom to give him the freedom he deserved all those years. Ghiaccio initially refused to no longer see her again, but Zura insisted as police sirens were heard in the distance. The two tearfully bid each other goodbye before Ghiaccio exited through a back door and managed to escape the chaos of the police surrounding his home and arresting Zura. As he walked away from the scene, he briefly turned to look back and Zura getting dragged into a police car with handcuffs. The two briefly looked at each other as they parted ways.

Ghiaccio kept Zura's word to not contact her and live his life the way he wanted, only reuniting with her years later at Giorno Giovanna's request. Zura built a fake memorial of her friend under the belief that she regretted supposedly killing Ghiaccio and visits it often to maintain her order of stopping contact with him while still seeing his face. He hears of Zura's arrest, her confession of killing both him and his step-father, and the crime scene she created to resemble that. He wonders how she was able to convince the legal system despite conflicting facts of the crime the media reports.

## Life as Ghiaccio

After running away, Ghiaccio decided to experiment with himself as well as carve a new identity to remain in hiding. He decided to transition into becoming a male and cut his hair as a result, although retaining some length due to its curliness.

Ghiaccio worked as a migrant worker under various names to aid with summer harvests and tourisms. He pretended to be a non-Italian foreigner who was fluent in various languages as a means to get by while staying under the radar; most commonly, he referred himself as Иван Иванович (Ivan Ivanovich), Tauno Tavallinen, and Jean Dupont. During one of his hours, he was helping out a nearby mechanic shop owner with carrying some items to his store and that led Ghiaccio to receive a job offer as a janitor for the struggling business. However, his passion for cars was eventually known and the owner decided to teach Ghiaccio how to perform basic routine work for a cheaper wage and helped the business grow from struggling to success. The old mechanic shop owner, who only knew Ghiaccio as male, decided to officially adopt him as a son, supposedly signing his papers to make him an Italian citizen, and gave him the shop as part of Ghiaccio's inheritance. The two of them shared a loving father-son bond, one that Ghiaccio yearned to have prior to leaving his home, and Ghiaccio became known as the mechanic shop owner's son and business partner before becoming an owner himself.

Initially, he went by Juan Rosso while working in the mechanic shop, though he kept his racial identity ambiguous and spoke with a slight "accent" to avoid further suspicion; the accent was seemingly fixed after years of working in the shop, although he occasionally "lets it slip". He eventually chose the name Ghiaccio, mainly to appear as if he was under mafia protection, but also after the previous workers would nickname him as that due to his standoff-ish nature and ironically having a hot, short temper (as a result, he was constantly told to "cool it", "chill out", etc.) towards things that anger him. The staff eventually would only call him Ghiaccio, as it was a memorable nickname, and newer staff would only know him as such. Ghiaccio looked at names to go by before deciding to stick with his current name while adopting his late mother's maiden name as his new last name, and eventually "confessed" that his real last name was Francescon. He eventually became known in the business as a mid-range mechanic that is often sought out from non-Italian speaking customers and tourists. As a business owner, Ghiaccio oversees his workers and ensures that his business is done fairly and earned a reputation for doing so; he also became known as one of the youngest business owners in the local mechanic industry.

His success ultimately led him to rub elbows with mafia groups, mainly Passione, yet he is often in their good graces due to frequently fixing their vehicles and providing intel when he has any to share. It is through his shop that he ended up being familiar with Giorno and ultimately reunited with his best friend.

## Encounter in Venezia

Unbeknownst to Giorno, Zura, and Salata Mista, Ghiaccio was in business in Venezia when he noticed Zura as their car was driven off the bridge. Upon seeing Salata's abilities to use water to create his weapons, Ghiaccio hid behind a nearby building to freeze various puddles that were on the ground from the rain a few hours ago that was going to be used by Salata to create a weapon to shoot Zura.

Giorno noticed the situation and used the distraction to take down Salata and ultimately kill him with Zura's help. Zura herself commented on why the puddles that Salata slipped on were frozen despite the weather being warm this time of year. Both her and Giorno were initially wary of a potential enemy Stand user that would have caused the bizarre action out of malice and attempted to leave quickly when snow was shown falling from the sky. Zura mentioned again that it was the middle of spring and the weather report in Venezia that she saw on the train stated that it wouldn't be cold enough to even have snow in their presence. Ghiaccio is seen walking away from the scene briskly and the snow disappears.

He is later seen in the background yelling at a driver that crashed into him while team make their way to St. Mark's Campanile. However, no one on the team noticed him or the scene.

## Reunion with Zura

Despite wanting to keep his word, Giorno eventually convinced him to visit Passione's headquarters and face Zura for the first time in years. This led to Giorno to bribe the government enough to alter Ghiaccio's legal documentations so that it appeared that he had been born male his entire life and never died, erasing his previous life as Ariana Bianco as a result and having him appear to be born as Ghiaccio Francescon when asked what his legal name should be now. Zura, who was unaware of Giorno's plan, to angrily confront him after witnessing funeral employees remove Ariana's memorial under his orders.

When Zura stormed into her office, she was caught by surprise to find Ghiaccio standing in the same room. Ghiaccio initially apologized for reaching out to her, even though she stated that they were to cut off contact for his safety and apologized for making her go through what she went through for his freedom, but instead was met with a long embrace from his friend. The two had an emotional reunion overseen by Giorno, who explained that he used his position as Don of Passione to clear Zura's name completely from any murder as well as ensure that Ghiaccio was now his own person and recognized by his current identity instead of his old one. Although Giorno offered to pay for Ghiaccio's full transition, the latter declined, saying that he is able to afford it himself but took the offer to be referred to reputable, trustworthy doctors for the procedure and be subsidized for treatments. Zura and Ghiaccio continued to remain friends, and Ghiaccio often used his position to provide her with information for Passione while he continued to work as a mechanic.

## Comparison to the Original Ghiaccio

The relationship between Zura and Ghiaccio as well as Ghiaccio's childhood and relationship with Amadeo is similar to the original Ghiaccio's backstory. Ghiaccio as a trans man is also shared with the original Ghiaccio's backstory as well.

The difference lies with the event that led to Ghiaccio being blacklisted and elements of his childhood. Unlike Fate of Zephyr, the original Ghiaccio's friend was another competition rival with no further background and she was able to continue with her skating career despite the attack; neither are also on speaking turns or had remained in contact since. The attack aligned more with the actual 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan and the story ended with the original Ghiaccio attempting suicide shortly after the events before he encountered by Risotto Nero. While Ghiaccio was able to escape his step-father with the help of Zura, the original Ghiaccio actually ran away after screaming at his step-father and escaped so. At the same time, there was no references to sexual abuse with the original Ghiaccio while the other was implied.

Both Ghiaccio and the original share the same half-brother Amadeo, later known as Secco. It is implied that Ghiaccio eventually knew what happened to his half-brother while the original is said to not know and still attempt to reach out to him.

* The names Иван Иванович, Tauno Tavallinen, Jean Dupont, and Mario Rossi are known as placeholder names in the languages they are based on. Due to Ghiaccio's ability to speak various languages, he used these names to commonly pass himself as Russian, Finnish, and French respectively.
* Initially, Ghiaccio's new name for both Fate of Zephyr and the original was difficult to choose before the name Ghiaccio would remain in the end.
	+ In both cases, the name Ghiaccio was given to the two by people that both Ghiaccio and the original Ghiaccio look up to; the former looked up to his superiors at work while the latter was given the name by the original Risotto Nero.
* The surname Francescon is actually Venetian-based. The characteristic of a Venetian surname consist of the name ending in *asso*, *ato*, *ati*, l, n, r, or on. Examples include Brombal, Meneghin, and Vazzoler.