Secco

* Introduction
* Gallery
* History
* Trivia

### Namesake

Amadeo: Italian name, meaning "lover of God". Secco: Italian word for "dry". Müller: German surname, meaning "miller".

### Family

Unnamed father (alive),Unnamed mother (deceased), Unnamed step-father (deceased), Ghiaccio Francescon (half-brother, alive)

### Occupation

Swimmer (former), The Special Unit member

### Status

Unknown

Secco is a member of The Special Unit and a minor antagonist in Fate of Zephyr. In Vento Aureo, he is Secco of L' Unità speciale.

The older half-brother of Ghiaccio Francescon and born **Amadeo Müller**, he was a former child athlete in swimming before he ran away from home and eventually came into the care of his former physician Dr. Dolcio. As a result, he became a Passione mafioso and served as his former doctor's right hand man. Secco gained a reputation within his inner circle as a bizarre pet of sorts to Dr. Dolcio, but the real dynamic of their relationship is revealed to be the opposite and hiding his real personality. It is unknown what happened to him at the end of Fate of Zephyr beyond being injured and defeated by Olio Nero and leaving Rome with his doctor via a garbage truck.

He is also a natural-born Stand user of The Rising Tied, able to swim and manipulate dirt as if it was water and formerly using it to help improve his swimming abilities when he was training for the Olympics.

## Appearance

Secco, like the original, is mostly seen wearing his Stand and has an athletic build. He is revealed to also have crooked teeth and blue eyes.

Without his Stand, Secco appears similar to his half-brother Ghiaccio Francescon. He identifies as German and Italian, sharing physical traits from both sides of his family and sometimes covered in dust from the dirt he interacts with. Like his brother, Secco also has curly hair that used to be blond and eventually dyed. However, Secco's hair is revealed to be teal blue and much messier than his half-brother. He is often seen wearing a white and blue hospital scrub stained in dried blood and a surgical mask hiding half his face in the early years of him joining Passione. When fighting Olio, he wears his Stand around his body similar to Oasis but takes off the top part of his Stand to reveal his head once he heard that Dr. Dolcio is dead.

Secco also carries around a camcorder, which he uses to record heinous suffering and related crimes for Dr. Dolcio.

## Personality

To the outside world, very little is known about Secco; not even Father Diavolo has any concrete information regarding his past. The most any one knew was that he shared the same warped mind and thoughts on spreading suffering with Dr. Doccio Ciocolatta that led them to be partners, something that was heavily implied when Secco interacted with his rivals during his years as a swimmer.

To Dr. Doccio, he obeys his commands and acts as if he were a pet. Oftentimes, he communicates to Dr. Doccio in grunts and gestures that expresses his current emotions and thoughts. Those outside of their relationship believe that he is merely a loyal subordinate to his partner. However, the dynamic is revealed to be rather opposite. The seemingly submissive and childish behavior that Secco exhibits are merely an act to trick Dr. Doccio into believing that the other was the stronger and smarter one, even openly insulting Dr. Doccio after hearing about his death. Afterwards, his true personality is shown to be more malevolent, curious, and prideful, showing off a much higher intellect and understanding than his persona as well as an ability to speak at length and analyze. This was especially the case where it was revealed that the idea of slicing Sorbetto actually came from Secco himself.

Like his brother, Secco appeared to have some sort of fixation on languages, notably word structure and manipulation, as seen when he commented how the words "purgatory" and "cat" can be used together in multiple languages regarding a joke asking where cats go when they die.

## Abilities

### Stand

The Rising Tied is a wearable Stand similar to that of Oasis.

### L.I.S. Abilities

Although not apparent to others when Secco was introduced, Olio was able to deduce that Secco's behavior of communicating with grunts and gestures is actually him signing in Italian Sign Language. It is unknown when Secco actually learned L.I.S. and who he learned it from, but he often uses it to communicate with Dr. Doccio to secretly communicate with others without making noises and when he feels non-verbal.

This is most apparent when Secco, like the original Secco, reacted to the loud sounds of the streets by becoming non-verbal and frantically signing to express his displeasure of noises and his confusion as a result.

## References

* Earth Bending reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUhyyGOx9Gk

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* Secco being the half-brother to Ghiaccio Francescon came from the theory that the original Secco may have been related to the original Ghiaccio in some way.
	+ Both have a fixation for language and have Stands that function as body suits. Both also appear to have experience with some sort of athletic sport, with Secco showing a talent for swimming.
	+ Secco is also portrayed in fan artwork without his suit having similarly blue, curly hair.
* The pun that Secco uses is a play on the words purgatory and cat that works in English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Hindi.
	+ It is unknown whether Secco himself is fluent or has any level of familiarity of the languages mentioned besides Italian and some English. However, it can be speculated that he got to know about this pun due to frequently traveling around the world as a child athlete.
	+ The pun itself asks "Where do cats go when they die?" and the answer is very similar in variation. (English: purr-gatory / purr-cat-tory, Spanish: pur-gato-rio, Italian: pur-gatto-rio, French: pur-chat-toire, Portuguese: pur-gató-rio, Hindi: Purr-lok)
* The use of sugar cubes can be connected to how cocoa paste, the pure chocolate made from cocoa beans, could only become the chocolate sweet many know it as once processed sugar is added into the paste.