Cassio Montagna/Introduction

### Namesake

Cassio: Italian for "hollow", in reference to "Othello" character Michael Cassio.Alessandro: Italian variation of Alexander, meaning "warrior". Montagna: Italian surname meaning "mountain".

### Family

Francesco di Aiello (older twin brother, deceased), Unnamed mother (deceased), Unnamed father (unknown, possibly alive)

### Status

Dead

Cassio Montagna is a member of The Hitman Team and a core ally in Fate of Zephyr.

The younger twin brother of Francesco di Aiello, he grew up in his brother's shadows before witnessing and avenging the latter's untimely death by killing their mother. He later worked as a former underground street fighter before joining the team. Cassio is also a mentor figure for Taehyung Pescatore and serves as an unofficial third-in-command for the team before following Giorno and Olio Nero in their mission to bodyguard Gigi Una. He ultimately sacrificed his life to help them identify Father Diavolo, being the first member to join Olio in the mission to defeat the boss.

Cassio is a natural-born Stand user of Polyphia, which he uses to reverse the flow of anything he touches.

## Appearance

Cassio is a young man of average height and has a slim build. He has short wavy blond hair with dark brown roots, revealing that he dyed his hair to be blond, that he wears loosely as a short mullet and sports a pair of simple studded black earrings. Cassio's body is covered in black tattoos from his neck to his hands and feet, and he sports a slight gap between his two upper front teeth like his brother.

As a fan of luxury custom items, Cassio wears a custom made silk button up that he commissioned to create from Gucci. The shirt is buttoned half-way to reveal a simple golden pendant necklace and some of his chest tattoos, and the design consisted of various flora in shades of red and other warmer tones, which also matches with his shoes. Like his brother, the pendant necklace with the letter C, although it is much smaller than the former. Cassio wears simple bright yellow slacks, matching Prosciutto's inner shirt, and no-show black socks, which can be seen when his shoe was removed as he was dodging an attack from Angello. Occasionally, his shirt is rolled up messily, revealing his arm tattoos. He is also shown with black painted nails cut short.

Cassio looked identical to his twin brother when they were younger and had full blond hair. They would begin to look different as years of overworking and drug abuse eventually got the best of Francesco's health and appearance while Cassio was able to develop without his health being as compromised. Cassio ended up being taller than his brother as a result and his hair eventually developed into being brown.

It is believed that Cassio covers himself in tattoos to hide scars he received from his experience as a street fighter. Prior to his time with the team, Cassio was more muscular and often fought shirtless and wearing plain black joggers and matching sneakers. He often wore brass knuckles around his fingers. Prior to joining the team, he kept his hair short to avoid opponents from grabbing him by the hair, and only started growing it when he was accepted into the Hitman Team. When not fighting, he wears a matching black hoodie over his body.

## Personality

Similar to Olio, Cassio presents himself as a serious, cold man who prioritizes the completion of a mission above all else, and avoids showing signs of stress or panic when the situation is against his favor. However, he is also known to have a dry sense of humor, which often takes his team by surprise even today, and will act nonchalant outside of work when he is around Olio and Zura.

Compared to Olio and Zura, he is considered to be the most composed and level-headed. With a competitively sharp memory compared to Olio, Cassio often uses it to keep track of tasks that need to be performed and follows them specifically, preferring step-by-step processes over seeing the big picture due to childhood experiences. As a result, he becomes irritated and annoyed when plans do not go as expected, as seen when he angrily yelled at Anita Cicchetti for going after Olio even though it was planned that only Olio would go in. Preferring step-by-step processes means that also only does what needs to be done- finding any changes to his plans as a hindrance to him.

However, Cassio is also as violent and sadistic when it came to taunting those he believed deserved to be insulted.

ISFP: Pragmatic, Observant, Aloof, Practical, Prepared, Cool

## Abilities

### Stand

Polyphia is a short-ranged Stand who's main ability involves reversing the flow of an object's placement or state as well as creating a hallucinogenic mist that appears if Cassio is rendered unconscious or too injured to fight and causes anyone who inhales it to hallucinate into madness. The latter's level of madness depends on the victim's intuition.

Because of its ability to reverse, it can also be used to recollect evidence supposedly destroyed or moved, so long as the remains are intact enough for Cassio to predict the general sense of what it should have been; a blank torn piece of paper would be more difficult to decipher than a broken window that is still standing. The complexity of the flow can also affect energy, as it can be draining to Cassio if the original placement goes back years, is a complex system of mechanics, or an object is already disintegrated into dust.

### Street Fighting Experience

Cassio was trained in MMA and boxing after his encounter with a fighting gym prior to his brother's death. Experiences in underground street fighting rings helped him develop his skills to incorporate other fighting styles like Brazilian jiu-jitsu as well as incorporate illegal moves. As a result, Cassio is also experienced in self-defense, able to disarm opponents when necessary in order to gain the upper hand.

His preferred weaponry is brass knuckles that was gifted to him by his first mentor but he prefers to fight with no weapons at all.

## References

* "40 Oz" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3o-l1LVNgw
* "OD" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHcAi2FPrTM
* Tim Henson's interview on Guitar Villains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g\_tDsiGDhLE

Tim Henson's appearance used as inspiration for Cassio's appearance.Tim Henson during his "Blonde Era" used as inspiration for Cassio's hair and in reference to Prosciutto.
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