Vito Andolini

Born in Sicily in 1884. Now 39, Vito lives in a run-down apartment in Monte Carlo.

Aside from being a con artist who masquerades as a magician, an alcoholic, a gambling addict, and an otherwise immoral man, Vito can also use illusions to charm and sway people’s hearts when he decides to get serious.

Vito is loath to speak of the days he spent as part of a certain criminal organization, and lives in fear of his pursuers even now. Vito’s actions often reveal his caring nature, such as how kind he is to Luca (despite occasionally teasing him) and how he passes the ketchup to Matthew whenever they eat.

In combat, Vito uses no guns or blades. Instead, he has the ability to copy the special moves of enemies he encounters by visualizing them through his carbon-copy illusions.

## Purgatory Entry

*Despite being Sariel's first recruit due to his impeccable marksmanship, Vito now serves as the Hellhounders' resident black sheep due to his refusal to undergo the doctor's malice transfusions and become a "monster" like the rest of his allies.*

## Bio

### Malice and Madness

In the side story, Malice and Madness, we find out how Vito ended up with the Hellhounders and the story of how their bombing mission on Wall and Broad Street went terribly wrong, is told. This story is loosely based on the real-life Wall Street Bombings.

Before World War I, Vito worked in the circus performing all accross Europe. During the war he ended up in Genoa, Italy and he eventually made his way to Monte Carlo, Monaco. During this time, he worked up a gambling addiction and lost a lot of money on dice, cards, baccarat, horse races etc. He was also robbed and cheated by his lover at the time. This caused him to lose all his friends and even led him to start picking out of rubbish bins. Eventually, he also tried cheating at gambling, making him a wanted man and assassins were sent out by his enemies to kill him.

On February 14, 1919, Vito was planning to make an end to all his misery by jumping off a cliff in Monte Carlo. Right on time, Sariel, who was working at the casino at the time, came climbing up the cliff and struck up a conversation with Vito. Sariel, who was intruiged by Vito's special charisma and uncommon elegance, persuaded Vito to join the Hellhounders. He also dealt with Vito's assassins by killing them.

In early 1920, Vito came over to the United States through an immigration station on Ellis island along with Sariel, Franz and Darya. All had false identities. Through the help of Sariel, Vito quickly became an American citizen.

On September 16, 1920 the Hellhounders gathered at their headquarters, the still-in-construction New York Curb Exchange, where they carried out a bombing mission on Wall and Broad street and were planning to execute A. Mitchell Palmer and John Edgar Hoover. Vito was supposed to assassinate them by sniping them down with a pharrago, a creature designed by Dr. Eugene, made out of malice. It can expel a long, thick, airborne stinger than can fly up to 50 miles unobstructed.

After the bomb went off, killing dozens of people, Vito made the shot to kill Palmer, but strange powers prevented the shot from hitting him. Not soon after, he was transported to New York's underground tunnels, where a demonic cult, through Lydia Lidell Mathers, planned to convert Vito to its servant. Lydia was doing this under the command of a satanic entity called Vaxyl, who seeked human damnation and full control of the world. They also controlled Palmer, which explained why he couldn't get struck down by Vito's shot.

Unable to locate Vito, the Hellhounders searched for him by using Darya's spiders. Once they found him, they descended down into the tunnels to rescue him. Here they had to fight off Vaxyl's puppets, Davis and Ramses, and also killed Lydia. In the end, Dr. Eugene managed to kill Vaxyl thanks to his technology and Vito was rescued. After the events, Sariel ordered Vito to go look for Palmer. However, having moral objections to the innocent lives lost that day and continued pressure from Sariel to get malice injections, Vito decided to run away, leaving the Hellhounders behind for good.

## Design

Vito was revealed as in update to the Penny Blood/Armed Fantasia double kickstarter on September 14th, 2022. In this update, three colour concepts for him were presented, and a vote was cast for the fan favorite to be used in the game, with the winner to be announced later. It was anounced a day later that design C was the winner.

## Gallery

### Penny Blood: Hellbound

Placeholder art for how he appears in Penny Blood: Hellbound.
## Trivia

* Vito's name and backstory are loosely a reference to the eponymous "Godfather" from the novels and movies of the same name.
"Vito Corleone" (or "*Don Corleone*" as he is better known) was born "Vito Andolini", a Sicilian immigrant who goes on to build a Mafia empire. He was famously portrayed by both Marlon Brando as an older man, and later Robert De Nero in his younger days.