Fabrizio Cardo

Mick Lauer (English)

Apichat Samutkhiri (Thai)

**Fabrizio Cardo** is a core ally featured in *Golden Ocean*.

Cardo is one of the members of Team Galliard and by extension Smeraldo. He is a former police officer who took bribes and was subsequently thrown out, only to be recruited. He accompanies Galliard and Tiziano Terro on their mission to protect Vittoria Diletta.

Cardo is a Vision User but mainly uses his Electro Vision with Chronological Rebroadcasting ability to support the group through its investigative ability.

## Appearance

Cardo is a tall man of slim build. On his head is a serrated headpiece that acts as a headband. He keeps long, light hair, dividing into spikes that angle outwards or upwards at their ends, being shoulder-length in his first appearance and growing longer until halfway down his torso. He also wears a dark shade of lipstick, though in the anime it is depicted as a light purple.

He wears a long, dark, lapel-less overcoat with laces that cross his bare chest, dark bell-bottomed pants, and black shoes. The buckle of his belt bears a silver/gold insignia of the letter "C".

When he was younger, during his service as a police officer, his hair was trimmed short in a crew cut hairstyle, and he was not shown in anything other than a standard Italian police uniform.

## Personality

As a police officer, Cardo wanted to keep the streets safe and vowed to give his life in the pursuit of justice. However, the high crime rate among the citizens, their ungratefulness, and the many criminals who bribed their way out of punishment eroded his sense of justice and he began to accept bribes, telling himself that he was still keeping the peace in the city. However, when he failed to properly arrest the same man who bribed him because he feared he would be discovered as a corrupt cop, Cardo had to see his partner in the police being fatally shot to save him. Stripped of his rank and moreover openly confronting that he was a criminal like any other, Cardo became depressive and eventually joined Smeraldo, only feeling at peace when with the righteous Fausto Galliard.

Cardo is highly dedicated to the mission of his group, aiming to absolve himself of or forget his past mistake, and also does so as a way to keep his mind off the memory. Cardo is said to have given up on life after the incident that ended his career, only able to give his body as a 'soldier' type in order to further his superiors' goals. In addition, he considers his ability to fulfill a given mission to be a source of honor and pride. As such, he prioritizes the completion of a mission before the life of his allies, and shows a readiness to leave Viola to his fate. During the fight with Specchio, he easily severs his right hand in order to get key to Tiziano, accepting impending death almost immediately before Tiziano saves him.

## Abilities

**Electrokinesis**: As a Electro Vision user. Cardo can that mimics lightning, specifically swift strikes and movements akin to lightning ripping through the sky, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve utilizing blinding speeds and immensely fast attacks to overwhelm the enemy in an instant.

* **Chronological Rebroadcasting**: Cardo Elemental Ability is retrocognition; in particular the ability to reenact or to "replay" past events with utmost precision, allowing Cardo to freely investigate events. This Ability' can transform into a lookalike of any person of Cardo's choosing and then reenact that person's past actions and speech. Moody Blues has a digital timer on its forehead which indicates the point in time it is reenacting.