Niño di Luca

**Niño di Luca** is an Italian detective who investigates the drug trafficking within New York City. He makes his appearance at the near end of the first chapter of Joe Kicks' mini-series and serves as the second love interest within the story route. He later plays as a supporting character in Chad Williams' mini-series and playing the role as the player's brother in Giorgio's mini-series.

## Appearance

Niño is an Italian with swept curly black hair, tan skin, and a black slight facial beard. His eyes are heterochromia which is his unique feature where his right eye is brown while his left eye is green. This feature also contrasts his sister's eyes who had brown eyes. He also has a little chest hair on his chest while wearing his tank top from his main outfit.

He wore four outfits in the game as his fourth outfit is revealed in Chapter 3 within Giorgio's mini-series.

When he is on duty, he wore a reddish brown leather jacket with black tank top, blue jeans with a black belt around his waist and black Magnum combat boots. He also wears a long necklace with the sign of "Detective 1492" which is his badge showing that he is a detective. In Giorgio's mini-series during the official trailer of Chapter 2, he was not seen wearing his "Detective 1492" long necklace.

When he visits the player and Rosa at their apartment, he wears a casual outfit, a charcoal gray long sleeved v-neck shirt, gray jeans and black dress shoes.

As they made a following operation to apprehend Giorgio Maccini for drug trafficking, Niño wears a black bulletproof vest with the word "NYPD" on front, a matching black T-shirt underneath, black military cargo pants and a matching combat boots. He retains his long necklace from his main outfit and has a badge of "Detective 1492" adorned at the left side of his vest. He later wears this at the canonical bad ending in Giorgio's mini-series where he and Ashton are teaming up to apprehend both Giorgio and his right-hand man Leo after learning about his sister's deception towards them.

When he stays at his apartment and being visited by the player, we can now see more of Nino's bare muscular approach. He wore house clothes similar to Jake Stewart's; a dark blue tank top with the NYPD logo at the left side, and trousers.

## Personality

According to the player, Niño is serious and very competitive when it comes to his current mission at hand and in order to take down Giorgio Maccini and his drug trafficking business. He has an interest towards the player who eventually decided to aid him to crack down his new establishment on his casino business in East Harlem.

In Chad's story, he continues to investigate the murders around in New York including the player's brother, Francis who is a necromancer and not realizing that these murders are caused by Chad's older brother, Aiden Williams due to his obssession with power to hunt down Chad and the player who currently owns the family heirloom, The Golden Rose which happens to be a power artifact serve as a dog necklace from her.

In Giorgio's story and like Ashton Darrow, he is very concerned and worry towards his sister, the player, a former prosecutor who worked undercover as one of Giorgio's associates and became an avenger after Giorgio had murdered their grandparents. However, his concern to his sister leads him into trouble on the latter's undercover when he had contacted her from her other cellphone since she had brought two cellphones during her undercover in the Occulti. Although in both endings within the final chapter, Nino supports his sister's decisions whether she betrays their family relationship for her love to Giorgio in the non-canonical good ending or to assists her to infiltrate and apprehend Giorgio in the canonical bad ending.

## Season 1 (Joe's Route)

Niño first appears to visit the player's office for her Youth Renewal Project which she informs him about the drug trafficking including teenagers involved on drugs. He also checked on Jason's injuries sustained from getting mauled due to other teenagers are being homophobic, showing their discrimination towards LGBTQ.

In Chapter 2, he also warns the player about Giorgio Maccini who is responsible for trafficking drugs as well as establishing a new casino at East Harlem. In both endings, Niño succeeds in apprehending Giorgio and was put behind bars and disbanding the Occulti.

## Season 1 (Chad's Route)

Niño made his guest appearance in Chad Williams' mini-series as he was contacted by the player who is a necromancer living in New York to investigate the murder of her brother Francis three weeks ago. Not knowing that the murders are caused by Chad's older brother Aiden Williams, who is chasing after his brother or the player for the Golden Rose, the player's family heirloom.

## Season 1 (Giorgio's Route)

Niño made his appearance in Giorgio's mini-series and is willing to put Giorgio behind bars and to make the New Yorkers are safe. He made his appearance at the second chapter, visiting his sister at her apartment while bringing groceries and food. This also reveals the player's real default name as Giulia di Luca upon seeing her mail listed as her default alias Lucia Solace. Niño also reveals his problems on his detective work when he tried to deal the investigation about Giorgio and his mafia group, the Occulti. But ends up listening by his sister's lies since she had been working undercover on Giorgio and his mafia group as his loyal associate. Later, Niño tries to contact the player which led her to make personal accidents which is enough to distract Giorgio from exposing her ruse and her real identity and his call was hang up by the player afterwards.

In Chapter 3, he was visited by the player on his apartment.

## Trivia

* He is the first male mini-series second love interest and is also the first Carter Corp mini-series second love interest.
* He is the second Italian character to appear in Is it Love? after Giorgio Maccini.
* He is the first and only law enforcement love interest, specifically the first and only detective love interest.
* He is the third character to squint his eyes after both Viktor Bartholy and Nao Arasaka.
* He bears a near resemblance to the real-life Mexican professional wrestler, Humberto Garza Solano, better known as Angel Garza during his time at WWE NXT prior to move on the main roster in WWE.
	+ His closeness to the player referencing Angel's engagement to his real-life girlfriend who later became his spouse after he defeated Lio Rush to become the new NXT Cruiserweight champion.
	+ The only difference between the two are their physicality since Angel has no chest hairs unlike Niño.
	+ Both of their nationalities are different as Niño being Italian while Angel being Mexican.
* He bears a slight resemblance to Sohan Héka.
* During other story routes being played, his name from his dubbed icon is depicted being Nino Di Luca without the ñ.
* His SWAT outfit bears a resemblance to Carlos Oliveira in the 2020 remake version of *Resident Evil 3*.

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