Pino Beneviento

* Disguise
* True Form

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**Pino Beneviento** 「ベネビエント・ピノ *Pino Benebiento*」 is 1st Class Junior Magic Knight of Clover Kingdom's Black Bull squad. In his first appearance, he posed as Pino Beneviento, a puppet maker who escaped from the Spade Kingdom several years after the Zogratis siblings took over. He however, eventually revealed to be the animated form of a puppet Zenon used to play with during his childhood,

## Appearance

* Disguise
* True Form

In his disguise "Pino Beneviento", he appears as a highly attractive young man with a well-muscled build. Pino has dark orange hair which is swept outwards and green eyes. He wears a long white sleeve shirt with buttons that are always undone and black pants with the suspenders down. He wears black sandals and black bracelets around his ankles. On his left wrist are two brown bands.

In his true form, Pino appears as a wooden puppet of small stature, with pointed teeth and a long nose. His green eyes are surrounded by a black iris and his hair turns red. Like the elves, his ears become pointed.
He wears a green tunic with buttons and pins and beige baggy trousers. His shoes run pointedly upwards.

## Personality

At the beginning of the story, Pino appears as a cheeky person who likes to play tricks on others. To others, he appears outwardly friendly and has an approachable and charismatic aura. However, this is only a role he has built up for himself.

As time goes on, it becomes clear that Pino is only pretending to show feelings in the hope that one day he will actually be able to "feel" them.Because he is a puppet, he cannot understand feelings even through Megicula's curse. His ultimate goal is to become a human being like his friends.

## Background

    Pinocchio started out as a puppet made by Dante as a birthday present for Zenon, when he was a child. Over the years the puppet became the only friend that Zenon had. After an incident Zenon abandoned the puppet as it gave him painful memories, until he completely forgot about the puppet.

A few years later, Vanica Zogratis becomes the host of Megicula. Wanting to test the limits of her new magic, Vanica made the puppet her new test subject. After several futile attempts, Megicula manages to bring the puppet to life through his Curse-Warding Magic. Although Pinocchio was able to walk and talk independently,as well as use magic, he lacked the ability to eat, feel and understand emotions and sleep.

After the Dark Triad takes over the Spade Kingdom, Pinocchio was made a special Dark Disciple whose sole purpose was to track down and kill rebels. Turing this time he was often abused by other Dark Disciples, beating him with their magic and threatened to use him as firewood. After killing an entire village of rebels, he eventually gained free will and became tired of the killing and abuse. Which resulted in his escape.

Not knowing what to do due to the lack of orders being given to him, which is why he just ran in one direction. Later on, he was found by an elderly woman who brought him to her home and took care of him. Because he had always been treated badly during his time with the Dark Triad, he was shocked by the woman's kind behaviour. The two spent several weeks together until Pinocchio had to flee because he was wanted. As a farewell, the older woman gave Pinocchio a special ring and a grimoire and told him to seek safety in the Clover Kingdom.

Some time later he was recruited by the captain of the Black Bull Yami Sukehiro.

## Battle Prowess

### Magic

* **Doll Magic:** Pino uses this magic attribute to to take control of anything, including Spirits, except for humans.

 Tree Soldier
 Stone Golem
 Haunted Carpet
 Roman Artillery
 Rotten Tree
 Hollow Armor
 Headcracker Doll

* Tree Soldiers
* Haunted Carpet
* Stone Golem
* Roman Artillery
* Rotten Tree
* Headcracker Doll
* Doll Play
* Hollow Armor
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* **Curse Magic:** This form of magic allows him to include additional lasting effects to spells.

* Voodoo Doll
1/1
### Abilities

* **Immunity to Pain**: In line with his nature as a puppet and a nonliving thing, his body feels no pain, which, according to him, makes it impossible for him to lose in a fight.
* **Puppet physic:** Because he is a puppet, he does not age, does not need to eat and does not need to sleep. Furthermore, he cannot have children and reproduce. At the same time, because he is made of wood, he is sensitive to fire, which makes him easily flammable.
* **Lying Game:** This is one of the curses Vanica has put on him to keep an eye on him and so that he can't hide anything from her. Should he start lying, his nose will grow. While he is in his disguise, he gets hiccups if he lies.
* **Vengeful Servant:** Another curse put on him. With it, Vanica can take control of Pinocchio's body. At the same time, Vanica can see where he is and speak to him telepathically. She used the spell before the spade attack so that Pinocchio , together with Lolopechka, could fight by her side.

### Equipment

* **Grimoire**: Pino wields a three-leaf clover grimoire that he uses to amplify his doll-based magics.
* **Saw Blade:** During his time as dark disciple and executioner Pinocchio wielded 2 saw-like swords. After he left his position, he left the swords in the Spade Kingdom.
* **Phantasmagoria Ring:** Donna Beneviento gave Pinocchio a magic ring as a farewell gift, which gave him the ability to change his appearance into that of a human being.

Pinocchio's saw bladesPinocchio's magic ring
## Notable Quotes

* **"I'm the one who pulls your strings!"** 「私はあなたのひもを引っ張る人です！」*Watashi wa anata no himo o hipparu hitodesu!*
* **"Shut up! I'm not a puppet! There are no strings attach on me!** 「黙れ！私は人形ではない！私には紐が付いていない！*`Damare! Watashi wa ningyōde wanai! Watashiniha himo ga tsuite inai!*
* **"If I defeat you, Megicula will make me human!!!"** 「私があなたを倒すと、メギキュラは私を人間にします!!!」*Watashi ga anata o taosu to, megikyura wa watashi o ningen ni shimasu! ! !*
* '*"I just wanted to be human...was that too much?" **「私はただ人間になりたかったのです...それは多すぎましたか？」*****`Watashi wa tada ningen ni naritakatta nodesu... Sore wa ō sugimashita ka?**

## Trivia

* His concept was largely inspired by the Story Pinocchio.
* After Donna's death, he took her last name, as she was like a mother to him.
	+ His last name is a reference to the Character Donna Beneviento in the Game *"Resident Evil -Village",* who is also a puppeteer.