Federico/Relationships

## Relatives

### Regina

As Regina is the only left family member of him, he is quite protective of her, and he used to struggle mentally for years since he believed she died due to his faults. He respects Regina and her opinion greatly even to his last moments. Though he generally acts mature, he still shows some of his more childish side around her and seeks from her a sense of comfort and protection. He spent most of his childhood with her more than with their parents, so he learned a lot from her and was clingy towards her. When he himself became a father, he applied many of Regina's ways of educating him to his parenting, which he believed had raised him into a respectable person.

He already knew about Regina's immortality even though she desperately tried to hide it, but decided to never mention it until the day she offered to impersonate him and fake his death. However, he didn't know Regina's plan would involve burning herself to the point of disfigurement since she deliberately hid it from him, or else he would never agree to let her be hurt.

### Giamoco

Prior to moving to Japan, he chose his cousin Giamoco as successor and didn't seem to regret it even when he was the one responsible for Gioiello's fall from grace. It's revealed to be the traitor's plan, and while Federico acknowledged that, he was too exhausted to even protest.

### Aozora Yuuma

Even though as a spirit of the Ring, he isn't supposed to have awareness and free will anymore, Yuuma's strong wish for peace responds to his lingering individual will inside the Ring and helps his soul rise up as Federico himself. Because of that, he holds Yuuma in high regard and gives the boy assistance in various ways possible, including bestowing his inheritance upon him.

## Guardians

### Gerardo

Having been with each other since childhood, Federico has always seen Gerardo as a dear friend and not a servant. They were accompanied by each other from morning to midnight, and Federico often tried to sneak upper-class food to Gerardo knowing the latter's diet - as a servant of a falling noble household - usually consisted of stale bread and sloppy soup. When the massacre happened, it was thanks to Gerardo that Federico could survive the tragedy and manage to blend in with the common life once they ran away, which he remembers and always expresses his gratitude for even years after. Together, both of them placed the building block for the vigilante group that would one day become the Gioiello family.

He was apologetic about having to leave Gerardo behind in Italy and cut ties with him to lead his new life in Japan. When they meet together again as spirits bound by the Rings, he is upset when he learns that Gerardo committed suicide once Federico died his actual death, and asks him not to prove his loyalty by doing stuffs like that ever again.

### Santiego

Federico doesn't judge Santiego for his past, understanding that it was just an accident, and wishes to have Santiego's strength aiding him during his quest to bring peace. Although he himself is apathetic to God's existence, he is respectful towards Santiego's belief. After knowing each other for a while, he comes to see the priest like a fatherly figure he had lacked in his childhood, and sometimes drops all of his formality to behave like a child seeking attention from their dad around Santiego.

### Fulmineo Borghese

Fulmineo is the one person Federico doesn't mind *not* being polite and proper with. The affection he holds for Fulmineo can be described as "tough love"; he doesn't even hesitate to drag the younger by the collar into the battlefield when Fulmineo behaves like a spoiled kid he is or tries to avoid his duty as a Guardian, as long as he can grow up into a responsible adult. While he may be strict at times, Federico loves Fulmineo as much as other Guardians, and he only wants the best for him - which Fulmineo gradually understands and returns the favor with utmost loyalty.

He had met and talked to Fulmineo before in a night ball, but neither of them remembered each other as it was just an exchange of courtesy, and after all his sister Regina was the one who did most of the talking.

### Antonio

While their approach to their ideal was vastly different, both were welcoming towards each other's and knew how to combine their methods for the most satisfying result. He has incredible trust in Antonio and allows the founding of the Intelligence Division, which later becomes External Advisor Division (DCE), so that Antonio can contribute to the family efficiently in his own way without feeling bound to Gioiello's moral code and made to do what he isn't good at.

### Desmond

Both used to be great friends, with Desmond respecting him for founding a vigilante organization from scratch.