Marco Mancini

Marco at the age of 43.

Marco Mancini was born to Serafina Mancini in 1975, there he learned the basics of cooking from his mother, and moved to America in 1997, he worked as a chef up until the Seven Hour War, Marco had wandered through the streets of City-18 for three years until he came across the idea of opening a restaurant. There he opened up "The Slice of Italy." It had become a popular hangout place in City-18 leading up to a transfer to the Industrial-Sector of City-17, in 2015, there Marco had re-opened The Slice, and continued its operation until he started working for a shipping syndicate, shipping items to Anti-Citizens in the sewers, this continued on for a year until his eventual transfer to City-24.

Once in City-24, life had seemed normal for Marco, up until he encountered 'The Chaplain' as he is known, the two were on the verge of killing each other, when Azaizel Hellsing, had begun an uprising in City-24, forcing the then captive Marco to move to the Outlands...

## Biography

Marco Mancini was born to Serafina Mancini, in 1975 Naples Italy, Marco was the eldest by six years. Marco's childhood was relatively unremarkable, his mother taught him cooking, which he excelled at. His family lived in a Naples for several years before moving to Sicily, before finally immigrating to America. Marco having learnt some English during his time in Italy, allowed him to continue learning the language as he stepped into High-School life in New York City. Marcos was a delinquent as a High-School student, often getting in trouble, however he did graduate, and although not going to college, he did get a job as a chef in a local Italian restaurant within Queens.

Marco's life as a chef continued for a few years until 1998, The Black Mesa incident sent the world into chaos as Marco's Job closed and he was out of work, Marco had nowhere else to go at this time, and returned home to help out in the house with his family, that is until The Combine occupation began, the Combine came through destroying everything they could, eventually beggining the construction of a massive Citadel within the Center of New-York.

Ten years following the invasion, Marco found himself within the streets of City-18, low on cash, low on morale, Marco had nowhere to go and no one to come to, that is until he came up with the idea to open a restaurant called, The Slice of Italy. The Slice of Italy opened Marco to a whole set of new ventures, meeting one of his oldest friends, Seth Putnam, and although The Slice of Italy was short-lived and a simple business in City-18, that would change shortly with Marcos transfer to City-17's Industrial Sector. In the Industrial Sector, he met Shoji Takamura and David Rourke, there they started a large scale shipping Syndicate which helped deliver supplies to the Resistance, this venture lasted for two years before Marco was betrayed by one of his own, and that day he and Rourke decided to split up and burn down The Slice leaving nothing left. They went into City-24, there Marco had re-opened The Slice as well as a bar known as Marco's Place close to The Chill Corner, a local friend, and allies bar. Things went well for Marco in City-24, however, things began to change as Chaplain 512, otherwise known as The Chaplain entered Marcos life, tormenting him mentally as much as he could throughout Marco's stay in City-24, until coming to a head during an interrogation which resulted in Marco's arm nearly being cut off, and The Chaplain with incorrect information, he, however, decided to plant a bug on Marco where he could be tracked constantly by The Chaplain, and figure out the location of The Lodge. Marco was aware of this and decided to remove the bug, and although it now guaranteed that Marco is a suspect to be killed by The Combine, he didn't care and continued his journey, meeting up with The Lodge members, and becoming a member shortly after.(W.I.P