Squalo Vecellio

**Squalo Vecellio** (スクアーロ ヴェチェッリオ *Sukuāro Vu~echerrio*) is a foreign affairs mafioso living with his family in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan, who works as a pet store employee by day. He is the husband of Tiziano Vecellio, the adoptive father of Gregory Vecellio and the User of the Stand Clash.

## Squalo

### Alias

Shark Boy
Soldato Vecellio
Mr. Vecellio

## Profile

### Age

26 (at death) (may change)
46 (current) (will change accordingly if above changes)

### Occupation

Mafioso (Foreign Affairs)
Pet Store Employee (Day/Cover Job)

## Favourites

### Hobbies

swimming, fish related things, cooking, spending time with his family

## Appearance, Biology and Identity

### Hairstyle

Curly/wavy hair draped in sections over headband

### Scars

Several various ones, notably a large one on his torso.

## Psychology

### Likes

sharks, fish, the beach, watching kids' shows, having a family

### Dislikes

Some aeroplanes, people who threaten his family, staying still, needing help (in a fight or otherwise)

### Mental Health Issues

Most likely ADHD-C, possibly also ASD, either way, definitely PTSD

## Settings and Dates

### C.O.D

Semi-gored and shot to death by Aerosmith

## Relationships

### Family

The youngest of a fairly large family, most of whom still think he’s dead.

### Siblings

He’s the youngest of several, including Nutrice, Tigre, Balena, Mako, and his only brother Limone

## Affiliations

### Allies

The Urban Deathgrinds (criminal associates in Detroit)

## Metadata

### Work

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo (canon)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Starlit Labyrinth

### Voice/Voiced by

Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese), Ryan Colt Levy (English)

### Fandom

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (canon character)

## Appearance

Squalo is a slim but well-built man, with lightly scarred and freckled tan skin. He has slightly curly, somewhat wavy orange hair draped in sections over a large, dark blue headband. He has sharp blue eyes and teeth reminiscent of that of a shark. His typical outfit consists of a short-sleeved dark blue jumpsuit with lighter pinstripes, sandals (whenever it's warm enough for them), black gloves and three black armbands by the wrist on each arm. He often wears a black jacket over his outfit due to Detroit’s cold weather. On his left hand, he wears a wedding ring. He has many small, hardly-noticeable scars, but has a large, curved one on his torso.

## Personality

Squalo is known for being impulsive, hot-headed and aggressive. In a fight, he is ruthless and determined, but he can be very brash and has developed a tendency to take a hit or throw himself into the line of fire to protect Tiziano. He is incredibly driven by his emotions and quick to anger. Getting angry tends to be what he defaults to in emotional distress, partially because he has a very hard time with expressing things like sadness and confusion in a better way, the former especially, as he doesn't like to cry and hates to be seen crying by anyone. He is prone to panic when situations become too out of his control, and panic tends to be his other default response to stressors alongside anger.

He is incredibly protective and somewhat territorial of his family, but not possessive, concerned about their wellbeing before he thinks of his own. He's a deeply devoted husband and father. He isn't viewed as very intelligent, but this is not because he's *un*intelligent so much as it is because he acts without thinking and doesn't always use common sense. He is, however, more than capable of critical thinking, when given the chance. He gets incredibly stressed when not understanding something he's trying to learn, as it makes him feel inadequate. Tends to seek some sort of approval. Although he's quick to anger, hot-headed and gets violent when angry, he's learnt enough control over himself to particularly keep himself from speaking or acting with anger towards Gregory, and, now, Stella.

Although he may let his anger slip and snap at Tiziano, Tiziano knows better than to take it personally, and gently calms Squalo down when it happens. Obviously, his anger is almost never actually *directed* at his family, but he has a hard time expressing certain feelings in healthy ways, possibly as some kind of form of emotional redundancy/repression. He can have trouble focusing on things, but will also hyperfixate on certain other things often. And, with his agitatable nature in mind, he also gets excited easily, being a high-energy person in general, good and bad.

## History

Everything before and after the events of the show are 100% made up and fanon

### **Backstory/Early Life**

Squalo was born as the youngest of a mid-sized family by the coast of Naples. Due to his mother's neglectful and sometimes violent tendencies, and his father's frequent absence as a result of his marine job, Squalo was mostly raised by his older siblings. He was raised by his siblings more than his parents, and by his father more than his mother, despite his mother actually being around more. She seemed to find some particular problem with Squalo specifically, and all but completely refused to care for him after a certain point.

His father, when around, would genuinely try to care for and raise him, but it was his father who strengthened the idea that had already been present for him; that he shouldn't cry, because boys and men don’t cry. The idea this mutated into was that he shouldn't cry *or* feel sad, or, at the least, shouldn't *express* sadness to others, and this led to him instead expressing anger and getting violent when he didn't know how to express sadness or even other confusing emotions.

As a child, it was somewhat common for him to get into fights with other kids and even older kids and teenagers. The main reason he had much control at all was the guidance of his older siblings, who taught him to be functioning at the very least. But despite this, it was also his family that strengthened his violent tendencies, as nearly every one of his siblings suffered similar emotional disregulations as he did, and fights by impulse were a common occurrence in the household. He struggled educationally as a result of his violent tendencies and his focus issues, and instead fell into pseudo-delinquency, barely scraping through even primary school.

When he was around eight, things started to change when he met a boy who struck him with feelings he didn't understand, and, as with all feelings that confused him, Squalo reacted in anger and tried to fight the boy. Ultimately, this led to them becoming incredibly close, best friends, and the boy was Squalo's *only* real friend aside from his siblings. He supported Squalo both educationally and every so often in his delinquency as partners in crime. And when they eventually begun to hang out in free time, Squalo would get into the habit of all but dragging him down to the beach by his house to hang out there. The boy was the only kid who would ever see Squalo cry, at least without getting in a fight about it.

However, the boy eventually moved away, and they lost contact entirely, and Squalo fell back into his antisocial behaviour. He eventually ended up joining Passione when he was a young teenager, where he would by chance reunite with his lost childhood friend. This friend was Tiziano, who would recognise Squalo the same as Squalo recognised him. And they gravitated towards each other, working as partners in the organisation, partners in crime, just as close as they'd been as kids. And then, becoming a bit closer, as lovers.

(Stay tuned for possible changes)

### **Events of the Show**

Just check this out, at least for now. But, like, spoilers, obviously.

### **Universe Cat Drowning (2001, Venice)**

Following their death, purportedly sometime between a week and a month later, Tiziano and Squalo both found themselves alive in Venice where they had died. Squalo awoke after Tiziano, having been moved by him to a more secluded area away from the plaza so as not to rouse suspicion. Both were aware of having died, and neither had had an understanding of what had occurred, nor how it had occurred. With Tiziano having mentioned that upon first coming to consciousness, he'd heard nothing but someone's brisk and loudly punctuated apology and the chatter of the people on the street that mostly drowned it out, they were left with very little context to the situation. When the shock wore off and the full comprehension of the events set in, Squalo suffered a massive emotional breakdown, sobbing whilst Tiziano held and reassured him.

### **Re-Integration**

Having been dead for some time, and having died rather publicly in a busy street surrounded by people, it became necessary for Squalo and Tiziano to lie low for some time. This involved changing their appearance and creating new identities, so as not to draw suspicion to the fact that they were very much alive, despite having been very much dead. They managed to re-integrate into Passione. Due to their death, they of course lost their ranks as Elite Guards, and instead re-integrated as Soldati.

By the time the dust settled, they were living together, and supposedly putting more focus into living a more 'domestic' quality of life. They continued to work and live together, and, inferably, maintain their romantic relationship over the span of a few years. Eventually, Squalo decided to try and gather up the emotional courage to propose to Tiziano, who, much to his surprise, had planned to propose to *him*. Due to various reasons, their engagement lasted quite some time before they actually married. When they did, Squalo took Tiziano's last name.

### **Gregory and Stella**

In 2017, Tiziano and Squalo adopted their son, Gregory, nine years old at the time. Not wanting their child to be too close to the danger that came with being directly involved with Passione, they wound up moving to America around that time, remaining involved with the mafia, but keeping the epicentre away by instead starting handling foreign affairs. Squalo would get a job as a pet store/aquarium employee as a cover.

Cautious to Gregory's anxiety, trauma and lack of trust, Squalo still had a difficult time getting Gregory to warm up to him. As Squalo's hot-headed and impulsive nature could be overwhelming, Gregory tended to gravitate moreso towards Tiziano and avoid Squalo somewhat, finding it hard to trust him. This, however, changed significantly when an incident occurred in which he had to protect Gregory, which lead to him being seen as a source of safety and helped Gregory to get more comfortable around him.

Some time after Gregory had settled in and gotten comfortable with his new parents, Squalo began trying to learn sign language for the sake of communicating with Gregory better, and refused to give up for the sake of what he perceived as being a good father. Later in the year, during the summer, would be the first time Squalo would see Stella, whom Gregory had taken to interacting with and occasionally giving food to. However, when he tried to approach her, she fled. Despite this, over time, Squalo and Tiziano would hear more and more about Stella- who had become Gregory's best friend despite their limited interaction, and would often visit him outside their house, often fleeing whenever she saw Squalo or Tiziano.

It got to a point where they were able to approach and talk with Stella, but she was still very reserved around them compared to around Gregory, this being due to how her foster father treated her. The moment Squalo heard of how her foster father acted, he was already upset. The first time he had to *meet* the man, he attained a visceral hatred of him, the urge to act violent thinly held back by knowing what position it'd leave Stella in if her foster father died, and by Tiziano's rationality. Regardless, they took a liking to Stella and offered her shelter and food should she need it, though she rarely made use of the offer even when it was clear she was in poor condition.

## Skills

### Stats

#### **Physical Strength**

Squalo is generally pretty physically strong, especially in upper body strength, at least partially as a result of doing a lot of swimming and staying active.

#### **Mental Strength**

Squalo is incredibly driven by his emotions and can be manipulated by it, but it's also worth noting that he's incredibly stubborn and doesn't give up no matter what.

#### **Reflexes**

Squalo has fairly good reflexes and reacts quickly and often violently when startled/stressed.

#### **Endurance**

Squalo is able to take a significant amount of damage, somewhat due to his lean muscular structure, but mostly due to adrenaline, perseverance, and pure spite.

#### **Speed**

Squalo has mostly average speed on land, but very fast in short bursts or on an adrenaline rush. Fast swimmer.

#### **Technique**

Squalo generally follows Tiziano's lead and isn't particularly good at coming up with strategies on his own, though he tries to mimic the way Tiziano strategises if he has to.

#### **Cooperativeness**

Squalo is incredibly cooperative, considering that he almost always only works with Tiziano. However, this can present one issue: he's not the *best* at working together with anyone else. Of course, he *can* work with some others, depending on who, but he's at his most efficient and most comfortable working with Tiziano.

#### **Self-Control**

Tiziano *is* his self-control. Squalo is incredibly impulsive and tends to struggle to reign himself in without outside intervention.

#### **Intelligence**

Squalo isn't the brightest, but he's not *stupid.* Though he may be a bit lacking in knowledge and act without using common sense, he is capable of extremely critical thought processes when not panicking. He also dropped out of high school

#### **Stamina**

Squalo has relatively average stamina, though under certain conditions, he can have increased starmina.

### Skillset

* **Swimming:** Naturally, Squalo has rather exceptional swimming capabilities above and underwater, and is very fast in the water.
	+ It’s often joked that he has gills somewhere and/or is capable of breathing underwater. This is, of course, little more than a joke, but he can, at the least, remain underwater for an extensive amount of time, possibly due to his Stand.
	+ Doesn't wear goggles. just opens his eyes in the water. this doesn't seem to bother him whatsoever
* **Shark-like Teeth:** Squalo possesses a mouth of shark-like teeth. Good for biting.
* **Adrenaline:** Although this is a normal occurrence in most every human, Squalo seems to find it especially easy to get an adrenaline rush and is sometimes prone to such, which is good, until it's not and he crashes.
* **Physical Strength:** Squalo's advanced upper body strength, combined with his brash and stubborn nature and how easily he can get a rush of adrenaline, is an advantage in a fight, especially if he gets close enough to punch someone.
* **Learned Multilingual:** Squalo is natively Italian, and as such, Italian is his mother tongue, but he has also learnt English to near-fluency, despite tending to have some trouble reading it when there are too many words. He’s also surprisingly fluent in Japanese. He also uses sign language, mostly for the sake of his son.
* **Specific Fixation Knowledge:** Fish and sharks especially. He’s got extensive knowledge of biology in general— but especially marine biology.
* **Driving:** please for the love of god be careful
* **Sailing and Fishing:** Squalo, having grown up with/around fishers and sailors, has knowledge in both areas and uses them rather well when applicable.
* Also, although it might be coincidental, fish seem to like him.

## Trivia

* i like to think he has a good singing voice but only tiziano knows.
* used to smoke as a teen but quit pretty soon after getting close with Tiziano again, allegedly because cigarette smoke would cover up the smell of Tiziano’s shampoo. Tiziano doesn't— or at least didn’t for the longest time—know that he was a smoker.
* didn’t know he was gay for a while and had a few girlfriends, but they didn’t really last… surprisingly, most of his exes actually separated with him on good terms.
	+ Actually learnt Japanese from one of his exes, a long-term exchange student from Japan; a Gyaru girl from Japan called 'Suki', who ended up being the only girl that he ever directly asked out. She was the longest relationship he'd held with a girl, and they broke off on a mutual understanding before her return to Japan. They remain friends to this day, as Suki was still in Japan when Squalo died, and never received news of it.
* He is noted to have nightmares about tiziano and his deaths, losing tiziano and/or his kids, and dolphins.
	+ steps into the koi pond\* so basically

1. ↑ *“I don’t know how or why, but time has passed since then. Weeks, perhaps even months, I am to believe."*