Salata Mista/Introduction

### Family

Unnamed adoptive mother and father (alive), Unnamed biological mother and father (deceased)

### Namesake

Jongin: Korean name meaning "to spread kindness".Nico: Greek for "people of victory". Byun: Korean surname meaning "hurried". Smith: English surname meaning "one who works in metal".

**Salata Mista** is a member of Team Bucciarati and a minor antagonist in Fate of Zephyr. In Vento Aureo, Salata Mista is Guido Mista of Bruno Bucciarati's team and became third-in-command of Passione in Purple Haze:Feedback.

A Korean adoptee raised in a militaristic commune, he ran away from home and attempted to start anew in Naples, Italy posing as an exchange student. Salata tried to enjoy a simple, unassuming life to hide his past and avoid deportation when he was charged with murder after attempting to save a woman who was being assaulted. Before he could be deported, Paolo Bucciarati got him acquitted and offered a position in Passione, leading him to join Team #99. He was the first to join Paolo in defecting and was close to Lucifer despite having to work with him as punishment for The Incident. He ultimately dies at the hands of Zura Grattachecca, who was a close friend prior to the events of The Incident, with the help of Ghiaccio Francescon. It is revealed that he appeared in Zura's sand hallucination saying he will guide her to find what she has lost before.

Salata is a natural-born Stand user of Love Shot, which allows him to transform any liquid he touches into a loaded hand gun.

## Appearance

Salata is a teenager of above-average height and medium build. Like Mista, possesses large black irises and dark hair. He is Korean, sharing physical traits from his ethnicity.

Most of Salata's face is obscured by a red ski mask that has the same diagonal grid pattern as Mista's hat. The mask is cut out to reveals his eyes and mouth and removing the mask reveals he has black hair. Salata sports a three-piece suit that also matches the pattern of Mista's outfit, with the jacket having his red and blue pattern and his pants having black and white tiger stripes. His vest is transparent and his pocket square on the left side matches his ski mask. Salata also sports over-the-knee black boots accented with red and white. His jacket is often tied around his waist to show off his arms.

Due to Salata's past and experience with guns, he developed tinnitus and uses earphones to listen to music as often as he can, finding catharsis when doing so. The wires of the earphones are tucked into his suit and connected to a music player, which he strapped behind his back and concealed with his vest. Music is often played loudly wherever he goes.

## Personality

To his peers outside of Team Bucciarati, he appears to be a laidback and care-free individual who likes the simple things in life. He is rather sociable and nonchalant when speaking, often speaking highly of the peers he respects the most. To the younger members, he is a great mentor who is motivating but tough when need be.

Salata is revealed to be a germaphobe, detesting anything visibly dirty and refusing to touch anything that he deemed as such. This goes as far as him begrudingly using dirty water such as mud for his Stand when he has no other choice. Due to his upbringing, he also detests the cold.

## Abilities

### Stand

Love Shot is a far-range Stand that exists as a hand gun made of water-based liquid. When fired, the water within the gun turns into bullets, which turns back into water after it stops moving. This allowed the user to use the gun without leaving evidence such as bullet shells.

Once the water runs out, usually based on how many rounds the gun can hold, the gun itself disappears and cannot be reused. It is revealed that only liquid that the user can hold in a liquid state can only be used. Temperature can affect whether the gun can be made, as seen when Salata realized he couldn't create a gun out of a frozen puddle or when the ratio between soil and water of a mud puddle leaned more towards soil, thus making it impossible for him to create a weapon.

### Marksmanship

Due to his past growing up with active and veteran US soldiers, especially those that had served in the Korean war, Salata grew up learning how to load, shoot, and disarm various types of guns at rapid speed. The strict upbringing led him to be a great marksman, able to hit his target at even far distances and able to mentally calculate his aim quickly to consider aspects such as angle and wind direction.

However, years of training to shoot also caused him to develop tinnitus, which he eases by listening to music loudly.