Ghiaccio Francescon/Introduction

### Namesake

Ghiaccio: Italian for "ice".Ariana: Latin name meaning "most holy". Francescon: Medieval surname meaning "Frenchman". Bianco: Italian for "white".

### Family

Unnamed father (alive),Unnamed mother (deceased), Unnamed step-father (deceased), Amadeo Müller (half-brother, unknown)

### Status

Alive

Ghiaccio Francescon is a minor character in Fate of Zephyr. In Vento Aureo, Ghiaccio is the same character of La Squadra Esecuzioni.

Former childhood friends with competitive rival Zura Grattachecca and the younger half-sibling of Amadeo Müller, he adopted his current name and transitioned from female to male after witnessing his step-father's death at the hands of his friend and running away from home afterwards. He ends up in contact with Passione as the syndicate's go-to car repairer, running his successful car mechanic business in both Naples and Venice, and is reunited with Zura after years of no direct contact with her.

He is also a natural-born Stand user of **White Album**, and is shown using his abilities from afar when helping Giorno Giovanna and Zura fight against Salata Mista.

## Appearance

Ghiaccio is a man of below-average height and slim to medium build. He has light blue curled hair that are styled as spirals on his head, similar to the original Ghiaccio, and wears a pair of thick-rimmed red glasses due to his near-sightedness. When adjusted, the curls reveal his blond roots, indicating that his hair is dyed. When stressed or zoned into his work, the glasses appeared skewed, and he often fixes them when feeling anxious. As a mechanic, he wears a dark blue one-piece pantsuit with pockets filled with small tools and pieces for cars. The suit shows signs of wear and tear, and the top is tied at the waist, exposing a white, fitted t-shirt underneath. He also sports brown leather gloves, which can be adjusted to be fingerless by hooking the fingers onto the back of his hand, and red work boots that resembles the sneakers worn by the original Ghiaccio. He wears a daisy-shaped pendant as a hair-clip, which matches with Zura's necklace.

Prior to his transition, Ghiaccio appeared as an average height female with a slim build. Due to being unaware of his identity as a male, Ghiaccio is often seen wearing baggy sweat clothes to hide his figure when he was younger and sports a straight blond bob, revealed to straighted to hide his natural curls. The daisy-shaped pendant was worn around his neck before it was later converted into a hair-clip.

## Personality

Ghiaccio is proud and confident, having develop a more assertive nature after his escape. He is also prone to fits and has a short temper, mostly stemming from how he can finally express his opinions openly than before but also due to the effects of testosterone he now takes. To those he completely trust, he is the most open and willing to do what he can to help them and willing to devote himself to those who he thinks genuinely cares for them. Unlike the original Ghiaccio, he is not as confrontational, preferring to work behind the scenes, but willing to pick battles when his emotions get to him. This was especially seen when he didn't hesitate to help Zura out behind the scenes of her fight against Salata regardless of his own safety but remaining hidden once the deed was done; a while later he was also seen in a background frame later on berating an another driver that seemed to have crashed into his red car as the rest of The Hitman Team, unaware of the scene behind them, approaches St Mark's Basilica.

As a child, Ghiaccio was meek and shy, less confident than now, making it difficult for him to make new friends and trust strangers, as well as stand up against his step-father's abuse, and has trouble expressing his emotions due to fear of retaliation. He is most open to those he completely trust, like Zura, and was often obsequious due to believing that he had to constantly submit to avoid further harm. This caused him to be wrongly assumed to be complicit, as it contributed to the falling out he had with his half-brother in his life- an event that still haunts him to this day. He grew up fearing his step-father and seeking his approval in order to avoid further harm or punishment. He grew up despising his presentation as female, unaware that he identified stronger as a man, and openly expressed his distain for it to his friend when he could until he began his transition. However, he is willing to wear clothes and care for items that bring much significance to him regardless, as he is seen wearing the daisy shaped pendant hair clip even after he transitioned and defended his choice of wearing it openly despite his profession and presentation as male.

As a car fanatic, Zura stated how she fondly remembered Ghiaccio talking about different car models he saw whenever he had to travel out of Italy for training as well as occasional sketches he drew on napkins that represented designs he came up with. However, Ghiaccio refused to talk about them whenever his step-father is present, and hides his drawings while denying him from drawing it when questioned by anyone but Zura. Ghiaccio also has a fixation on languages, like the original Ghiaccio and Amadeo, both Italian and foreign ones, due to frequently traveling around in order to train as a figure skater, and became a linguaphile and polyglot as a result; at one point tried to learn Äynu and Arabic for his friend but was forced to stop due to his step-father's Islamaphobic sentiments. He mentioned to Zura that he considered being a foreign language teacher of some kind but refused to bring it up out of fear that his step-father would punish him for pursuing anything else but being an Olypmic figure skating, and now uses his ability to pick up languages to gain more clients for his mechanic business. Unlike his brother, his fixation is more on the language systems regarding grammar, structure, and literary history, as he was introduced as Ghiaccio to Fate of Zephyr ranting while driving towards Venezia stating the same "Venezia rant" used by the original Ghiaccio.

## Abilities

### Stand

White Album, like the original Stand, is a white suit that protects its user from harm and giving him the potent ability to freeze everything and dramatically decrease the temperature of anything Ghiaccio touches- dropping as low as -100°C easily and -215°C when using his ability "Gently Weeps". Like the original Stand, his ability also drains the most power, as he is seen slumped in the alley after activating the Stand to help Zura and Giorno.

Its head bears two short cones, positioned somewhat like cat ears. It has a spiral on its forehead, which along with its cheeks pushes a clear visor that reveals his face up to his eyes. When worn, Ghiaccio's glasses disappear, and the visors serve as his vision. Its feet stand on long blades, in the style of ice speed skates, which references Ghiaccio's past desire to pursue that sport as a child over figure skating. The suit is purposely shaped to minimize the effects of drag. Like the original suit, it also has a small opening at the back of his neck allowing air flow and allows Ghiaccio to breathe under water for longer periods of time than the average human lung. Unlike the original suit, it lacks a tail, but instead has a long white belt around its waist tied in the back so that strap resembles a tail.

Ghiaccio can also precisely control his powers and natural precision himself, as seen how he froze the liquid falling down before Salata can grab it despite Ghiaccio being at a far distance and using his Stand to do it by throwing a frozen rock at the liquid in order to activate the freezing process. One can figure out that he is near when snow unexpectedly falls from the sky, although not from the clouds above, alongside a noticeable decrease in temperatures.

### **High Language Learning Aptitude**

As a result of frequently traveling for his figure skating training, Ghiaccio developed a natural talent for learning languages quickly and considers himself a polyglot. The ability to do so contributes to his ability to think quickly and access situations via inductive and deductive reasonings, but also his passion for language in general. Despite being meek and shy growing up, Ghiaccio frequently learns from overhearing conversations and secretly reading grammatical books and dictionaries under the pretense to help communicate with his coaches better, secretly practicing his accent and grammar by watching foreign films and movies. As of now, Ghiaccio is fluent in German, French, Russian, Korean, Mandarin, and Finnish, and can speak at a conversational level in many other languages. However, he is not able to read and write at the same level as the languages he is fluent in. He can also sign basic LIS, using it mostly to communicate with his Deaf staff.

Initially, Ghiaccio used his language ability to disguise himself as a migrant worker to blend in with other immigrants in order to remain hidden. He would later use his language skills to help gain a large clientele of customers that speak those languages, earning a reputation in the tourism industry for his ability to translate and interpret his clients' needs without much of a language barrier compromising communication. Being able to communicate in these languages often also allows him to speak fluently, to the point where many have mistaken him as a native in the language he is speaking in, and often rub elbows with wealthier clientele from outside of Italy. Although he is able to speak certain languages as if he was fully fluent, some languages cause him to speak with a slight accent, which could be heard if listened to carefully.

## References

* *I, Tonya* trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZQ5DfSAAc
* Mista And Giorno vs. Ghiaccio (1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-f7CwgAO2c

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