Vittoria Shelley/Introduction

### Namesake

Vittoria: Italian name meaning "victory, triumphant", in reference to Victor Frankenstein and Italian model Vittoria Ceretti. Eve: English name meaning "living", in reference to the biblical Eve. Shelley: English surname meaning "meadow's edge", in reference to author Mary Shelley.

### Family

Ezio Romano (husband, deceased), Marsala (sister-in-law, alive)

### Status

Dead

Vittoria "Tori" Shelley is a minor character in Fate of Zephyr. She is a Ph.D. student at Polytechnic University of Milan who served as Bavaroise Fugo's student professor and is the late wife of Ezio Romano.

Her controversial dissertation on human reproduction via machine learning caused a small yet influential group of conservative politicians, faculty, and mafiosos to plan her assassination in order to prevent her work from being created. Her death, which was also carried out by Bavaroise in revenge for her complicit response to the professor that attempted to seduce him, was initially ruled a tragic accident that coincidentally destroyed her research and lab assistants. Ezio attempted to collect evidence of the assassination and what remained of dissertation, but led him to be wrongly accused of murdering her and ultimately drove him to insanity.

It is her death that not only turned Ezio into a serial killer but ultimately manifested his Stand Babyface and led Anita Cicchetti to receive her Stand TROYBOI.

## Appearance

Tori appears to be a woman of average height with a slim body.

## Personality

Not much is known about Tori beyond what Ezio has described. Despite being older than him, he considered her as his equal in terms of intelligence and talent, among other things. He often described her as dedicated, determined to use her skills to help others. She is extremely passionate in her work, as seen when she vows to Ezio that her work will help revolutionize child-birth and stop women from compromising their own health to have children. Despite criticism and threats against her life that ultimately led to her death, Tori maintains a cool facade, one that is often broken down only when she is alone or with Ezio. To her assistants and students, she is well-received and favored by some of the male faculty members she often worked with.

Bavaroise has a rather critical view on her character. According to him, Tori is willing to betray anyone in order to gain what she wants or stay out of trouble. He often questions her credibility, as she gained a reputation for doing anything in order to get what she wanted or to stay out of trouble, and found her dissertation bizarre to say the least. He claims that her gender allowed her to get away with activities that should have gotten her expelled, and questioned Ezio's decision to stay with her- he was unaware of the discrimination and harassment that she faced that led to use her gender to her advantage and Tori is revealed to be rather private about that to even her husband. However, Bavaroise does acknowledge that, regardless of how she got what she wanted, that she got it anyway, and is slightly sympathetic to Ezio's grief.

Her relationship with Ezio has sparked some debate and controversy due to their age differences. According to Ezio, his parents disapprove of the relationship not only because of the age difference but Tori's academic background not meeting their expectations.

## Abilities

### Higher Education and Knowledge

Despite being a first generation college graduate, Tori became known as a Valedictorian and continued to work in the academic field even while working in the industry as a software engineer. Tori is shown to have a love for learning, something that pushed her to earn her Ph.D. and work heavily on her research.

## References

* Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFaY7r73BIs
* "Computer Scientist Explains Machine Learning in 5 Levels of Difficulty" by WIRED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q87K1WaoFI