Bella Morte

## Damiana Giovanni

*"The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it."*

## Basic Info

**Player:** Andrej

**Aliases:** Bella Morte

**Clan:** Giovanni

**Sect:** Independent

**Status:** Dona

**Camarilla Status:** 2: Dreaded, Eminent, Tolerated, *Untrustworthy*

**Xiong Rep:**2: Shaman

**Merits/Flaws**: She gives off a sort of feeling akin to a wasting disease if in very close proximity to others for too long; mortals begin to hurt, and even supernaturals begin to weaken.

## Descriptions

### Everyday Outfit:

* She has no 'everyday', it's all in her mood, as she expresses herself, be it some high-fashion goth-chic dress, or dressed down in skater shorts, a tanktop and a backward hat. She typically dresses up for functions if necessary, or throws in the face of anything and everything with her sheer attitude.

###  Battle Gear:

* She is extremely fond of shotguns of all shapes and sizes. Otherwise, whatever seems to fit the moment -- loose and flowing equipment that allows her a free range of movement, coupled with an earpiece communication device and body armor. Or, just a trench coat will suffice.

*Ignore the infirmity, embrace vice*

*"The problem with people who have no vices is that '**generally'**, you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."*

 On dealings with the Sword of Caine and the Ivory Tower

* If anyone wonders how Damiana Giovanni has survived so long given her well known (but never spoken about) proclivities and addictions, then they have never worked with her. Need to travel halfway across the world without anyone raising an eyebrow? Call Bella. Need to smuggle a questionable piece of cargo? Call Bella. She'll get the job done with that added personal touch.
* Bella seems to make her way no matter the person, no matter the place. Camarilla or Sabbat, she doesn't seem to care as long as the deal is profitable for her and her family. Some suggest it's her cunning tongue that opens doors for her with either sect. Others believe it's simply that she spends her time too high to care who she's doing business with. Either way, what kind of hypocrite would she be if she decided to start judging people for their personal choices?

*"How '**came'** any reasonable being to subject himself to such a yoke of misery; voluntarily to incur a captivity so servile, and knowingly to fetter himself with such a sevenfold chain?"*

 La Famiglia

* Her family always looks at her with a hint of dubious regard. They have seen her at her best. They have seen her at her worst. And most nights they don't know which it will be. The general kindred population might swear by her reliability, but her family knows better. Frustrating for the more distant relatives is this potential the family insists she has. After over a century, the most resentful cousins are adamant in their belief that she should have realized it by now. But there is just something about her ability to strike up a rapport with anybody that is too lucrative to dismiss.
* She knows she has to prove her worth to her family each night. Maybe that's what makes her so hungry for that next deal? Or maybe she just wants to turn a profit quickly so she has time to go on a bender? Known for disappearing nights at a time, her closest family members know which it really is. Bella is always loyal, and mostly obedient which makes her palatable for the time being. However, she has a rather fickle relationship with the family's rules.

 Smugglers, Degenerates, and Vice Peddlers

* It's always mutually beneficial when it comes to Bella. They get what they need, and she gets what she needs... which is usually a fix. No one really minds though since she knows how to grease the right palms making sure everyone is taken care of.
* There's only one rule: Don't touch her stuff. For a woman as sedate as Bella her reaction can come as quite the shock to others who attempt to get their fingers into what she considers hers. Her stock, her territory, her friends, her lovers, it doesn't matter what the culprit (at least from her perspective) tries to touch. They suddenly find themselves in a world of hurt.

*"The absence of intelligence in our eyes during sex. The wild nature of it. The release of inhibitions and the carnal language of touches and responses... We fear and repress it maybe because it is in those moments that we are deliciously reminded of what we are behind all the '**pretenses..."***

## Rumors

* *"Cunt, slut, common whore, trash..."* That's Bella's way of saying she likes you.
* When *isn't* she high on something? Some day she'll actually grow up and take it serious.
* Does it have two legs? She's fucking it.
	+ Homegirl is super into, like, shibari and cattle prods
	+ I heard she's banging like half the Council and that's how she got in.
	+ *Used* to have *a "thing"* with the Nossie Whip: it ended badly, and *that's* why she always acts extra weird around Bella.
		- Yeah dude, I saw her a couple times getting into Bella's SUV from her shop. The Grel dude's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiised.
	+ Dude, she was at The White Lion last night, that Malk stripper on her lap, the Toreador stripper pouring shots, and TWELVE OTHER STRIPPERS dancing up on her and taking the shots.
		- THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING AT THE STRIP CLUB, LITTLE PETER??!?!??!?!?!?!
			* haha dude what the fuck GHLP working for bronze so much you turned pervert lololol we're not even supposed to be about that.
			* Wasn't me, I *wish* I had Spying On Suicide Girls detail....
				+ Zora tolerates you because she's got the patience of a goddamn saint. Bella would bounce you like a ball if you annoyed her *half* as much.
* The Giovanni family doesn't actually acknowledge her existence. They just put up with her until she kills herself.
	+ A lost cause. She's barely holding on to her sanity, let alone her humanity. It's her own, personal, dark spiral into hell itself. That's why she makes everyone feel like they're dying.
		- She's a black hole for emotions. It doesn't matter, she seems to just feed off of her surroundings
	+ She keeps the respect for her Clan, *enforces* it if she has to. Do you remember that one idiot that insulted her? I haven't seen her in a while...
* Give her a reason, she'll do it.
* Die, and she'll bring you back.
* She knows too much for her own good. Whisper and she'll know it sooner or later.
* She has boons from all over the world, it doesn't matter what side of the jyhad they're on.
* She's got a sweet tooth, and it's not for anything, or anyone, healthy.
	+ She hungers for what she cannot have, for what will not hunger for her back.
* My mans saw her mans roll up down San Pablo and toss a kilo out the back of the van into somebody's backyard.
* The original *and* founding member of #teamspookybitches
	+ I hear they got jackets and even a secret handshake now.

When nothing makes sense anymore,
sometimes you just have to let go...
Sometimes you just have to be the bad guy.
Can I make it all go away?
It all ends,
it all withers.
Death has a way with us all.
Take it away, let it all burn.
Bring the light, bring the dawn.
Give me breath,
give me life.
Where death has ended its watch,
where does the line begin?
Right here. Right now.
Do you see it?
Can you feel it?
Is this the end?
Maybe it i s.
I've got infinite reasons.

IC Contact Info.

* She has a phone. Use it, abuse it, but it better damn well be worth it.
* Most of the Camarilla Court knows her or at least knows of her. Get with them.
* You got a wraith to do your bitch work? She probably already has your number.

Opinions

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* ǝɹoɟǝb sɐʍ ǝɥs nɐɥʇ ɹǝdɐǝd ʎnɐ ʇon s'ǝɥs