Giulio Di Bondone

> *"But the pain... is different. For some reason it even fills me with warmth. At last, I finally understood. The cause of my wavering and change. I simply wanted to do something that would make that man happy..."*
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### Aliases

Mad Dog, Don Bondone, Guardian Angel (by Gian)

### Likes

Ice cream, red, birdwatching, sweets, warmth

### Relatives

Pietro Bondone (Father)Cosimo Bondone (Grandfather)

As the 3rd ranked capo, Giulio takes charge of assassinations and raids. Although on the surface of the organization the ones responsible are Fiore corps, he handles the groundwork.

Over the course of five years, Giulio and his men have been on the front-lines and known as the best unit in the organization, strength and combat-wise. However, the actual battles are fought by only Giulio, the rest of the men under him are in charge of siege and cleanup. Merely there to secure the perimeter and clean the scene afterwards. So, in reality, It's a one-man unit. The number of men who have direct contact with Giulio and whom he trusts are only three. Each of them has around ten men under them. Giulio doesn't have a clear count of the number of associates as they're *low* Americans and he lacks interest.

Even though Giulio is a so-called 'Young master', he has made a name for himself as a hitman since his teenager days. Becoming a capo in 1930, Giulio has been renowned as "Giulio the Knifer" or "Giulio the Mad Dog."

Giulio is particularly attached to Gian; showing significant favoritism and obedience, he puts him on a high pedestal. At the beginning, Bernardo warns Gian from Giulio, noting that *"His sense of judgment shifts when it comes to you."*

## Background

Giulio was born into one of the most influential Italian families. His mother, not being from a noble family, Giulio’s grandfather, Bondone, was vocal about his dissatisfaction with her and his son's marriage. Eventually, through underhanded means, Bondone killed off both of Giulio's parents when he was a young child. Being his care-taker, Bondone treated Giulio as an outsider. Rather, like a stray kid in the Bondone family. Bondone had threatened to throw Giulio out of the family if he didn't always prove useful to him.

The way Bondone raised him had led to Giulio's peculiar tempo, immense mental instability, and developing symptoms of PTSD. The boss, Alessandro, couldn't stand the sight any longer and pulled some strings to take Giulio under his own care.

According to Giulio, his master was a very capable combatant who was far more skillful than what he could ever reach. To the point of easily evading a rifle bullet, which Giulio still faces difficulty with. She has taught him countless movements, some using knives, others with bare fists, and ones that would be useful outside of battles. Notably, the knife Giulio uses the most, is a one his master had special-designed and left for him. And despite having an armory in his hideout consisting of multiple knives, machine guns, rifles, pistols, ammunition, and necessary supplies of fighting equipment, he doesn't discard that knife. Preferring to go in battle using it.

Being alone most of his childhood, Giulio was often training in the room his master left him after she died protecting his parents. Even though he didn’t understand the meaning then, Giulio kept on tracing after the footsteps she left behind.

Twenty years ago, Giulio met Gian for the first time at a charity party hosted by Bondone in St. Rita's orphanage. Since that encounter, Giulio became infatuated with Gian as he was the only one who approached him without fear and treated him like a normal kid. From there on, Gian became Giulio's reason to live.

## Weaknesses

He doesn't deal well with harsh weather, particularly tropical climate.

## Personality

Giulio is modest, calm; has rational, and practical train of thoughtand hardly, if ever, loses his cool. He excels in hand-to-hand combat to the point of managing to break limbs bare-handed, snap necks; crush ribs, arteries, and skulls. Along with having bullet-speed that allows him to evade even bullets.

Growing up detached emotionally and entirely relying on someone else to give him orders, other than killing, Giulio failed at doing anything. Even finishing simple tasks, like dressing himself, proved to be quite a difficult choir for him. Giulio is aware of how strong he is and he holds great confidence in his abilities. Full knowingly that he’s capable of eliminating whatever threat. Thus, to Giulio, his self-worth is solely based on his ability to kill.

   On battlefield, he is calculative and sharp. Never prone to putting himself in a disadvantage. Giulio's always prepared and has quick reflexes that allows him to turn any fight in his favor, regardless of being outnumbered or out-armed. Giulio doesn't check his moves nor strain himself to pull them off. In addition to that, he manipulates his weapons as naturally as breathing with precise movement and excels in material arts.

Being born a combatant and a pro in his field, he can turn harmless tools, from pencil sharper to shards of glass, into deadly weapons. Nevertheless, Giulio's famous for his vicious knife-wielding. Preferring to go in battles with a single knife, he has an accuracy of finely tuned clockwork when snuffing out humans.

At the beginning of the story, Giulio was a *necrophiliac,* to be exact a *necromutilomaniac*. Displaying obvious wantonness and malice on battlefield besides showing concupiscence upon playing with the carnages he creates, Giulio also suffered from *renfield's syndrome*. He lacked empathy and remorse, didn't care about anyone, nor was restrained by any moral code and tended to be impulsive when his thought process was clouded. And in spite of having a detached manner of speaking, he had straight-faced glee and formidable sharpshooting.

Witnessing the brutal death of his parents at a young age, Giulio grew up only caring about the dead. His actions with corpses almost seemed as if he was caressing them. Which Gian concluded was his way of showing love. The single charm Giulio saw in humans was their dead bodies.

As his caretaker since he was a young kid, it's heavily implied his grandfather, Bondone, abused him. It being both physical and emotional abuse, he caused a rooted fear of him inside Giulio. Bondone claimed that his actions were forms of discipline. To make Giulio learn to behave and listen to his orders. However, he made Giulio feel like walking on eggshells. Unknowing which behavior may arouse his disapproval. Using fear to control Giulio's behavior, Bondone acts out of anger and a desire to assert control. He is quick to silence Giulio not allowing him to voice his thoughts and most certainly, any objections. As a result, Giulio lost his ability to make decisions for himself.

Having gone through such a strict upbringing, Giulio never got to enjoy his childhood as a kid. When it comes to Bondone, Giulio’s behavior changes 180 degrees. He expresses trouble regulating emotions and manner of speech; appears fearfully withdrawn about doing anything wrong and expecting punishment over the smallest things.

Bondone, as well, imposes on Giulio’s relationship with Gian later on, showing his hatred and dissatisfaction with Gian since he has a real influence on Giulio. Purposely ill-treating Gian in front of Giulio, Bondone ends up making it his plan to send Gian off to his death. Making it that, he not only killed Giulio's parents and his master, but also wanted to erase Gian from his life. Bondone strongly sought-after and always attempted to murder anyone of significant importance to Giulio*,* *including the Capos,* to which Giulio would never stop feeling resentful towards him for.

At times, thinking of Gian was an immediate trigger for blood to Giulio, which most likely sprouted from the invisible link connecting both. Leading to his love for Gian and blood to overlap*.* However, Giulio has always tried to suppress these thoughts, aware that they're wrong. This led to his mind perpetually being at odds with itself.

The more Giulio spent time with Gian, and the Capos, Giulio, later on, grows out of the distortion he was in due to his grandfather's influence, which was the reason he loathed himself, and develops a better grasp on his mentality and sanity. He no longer feels any urges towards blood nor corpses and learns to rely on his comrades and his own self to make decisions according to his own judgment. Further to that, Giulio admits that it's impossible for him to manage everything on his own and regrets not having trained any men under his command. In actuality, Giulio eventually displays clear empathy towards others, even strangers. Giulio’s drastic change being out of his mere desire to make Gian proud of him and reverting back to his original self — Not tainted by the sordid way of life he was forced to live through, for 23 years.

In spite of not showing it, *mainly out of his inability to express his feelings*, Giulio considers the CR:5 closest thing to home. He does admit that if he could help it, he wouldn't want to ever be separated from their side. Being involved with the Capos, Giulio learns to speak his mind on any matter and try to partake in the fun along with them, rather than fading into the background.

CR:5 are of significant importance to Giulio that when put in a helpless and excruciating situation, thinking about them was akin to his lifeline and an impetus for him to keep going.

## Trivia

* Despite being a necrophile, Giulio had no interest in morgues because the bodies are usually all shelved away and he saw nothing interesting in that.
* Giulio knew Gian the longest (twenty years*)* out of all the four capos which made him, in the beginning, deep down frustrated with the other capos for being on friendly terms with Gian and on first name basis. Even though he was the only one who had the right to.
* Loves ice cream. Even if Giulio doesn't say anything, the sparkling in his eyes and the amount of gelato he puts in his spoon per the single bite lets out how much he's enjoying himself and is in a good mood. It doesn't show on his body but Giulio tends to eat a large amount of sweets quite a lot.
* Giulio’s most ideal death is to die while protecting Gian.
* Prefers riding motorcycles rather than cars.
* His master was a close friend of his mother.
* Giulio doesn't like alcohol per se but whenever CR:5 are drinking, he'd join them.
* He's the only fighter (i:e Killer) among the Capos. Granted the name "*Mad Dog*".
* Used to feel intimidated by the capos, at first.
* According to Ivan, Giulio gets excited like a kid brimming with happiness whenever CR:5 hang out together.
* Giulio has believed all his life he will face a gruesome death.
* Was excited about CR:5 camping out together because it was the first time he ever experienced such a thing.
* Thinking about CR:5 makes Giulio happy and he sees the four of them as good guys and his friends.

## Relationships

***Giancarlo Bourbon Del Monte:*** Being tremendously impactive on his life, Gian means everything to Giulio.His words or mere presence gives Giulio warmth.

Even though he's unbeatable during combat, Giulio's mind blanks when it comes to Gian. Being his utmost priority, he's, constantly, ready to defend Gian and protect him with his own body. Not leaving any room for his mind to comprehend the situation, he moves out of reflex due to thinking things through with mere impulse. Usually, Giulio takes the attitude of a grim killer whose job is merely to support Gian in the shadows.

Giulio finds great satisfaction in the fact he can protect Gian, by himself.

***Ivan Fiore:*** At first, Giulio used to look down on Ivan due to his half-Italian roots.And to make the matter worse, Ivan's repeated attempts at suspecting and dis-estimating Gian, ticked Giulio off all the more; to the point of Giulio threatening him, at times. Regardless, as they grew closer, Giulio began to consider Ivan someone capable, quick-witted, and having a knack for financial management and work. As well as talented when it comes to preparing alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages and has a beautiful handwriting. Giulio finds Ivan's personality quite amusing but wishes he was a little less talkative.

Oftentimes, Ivan is the object of Giulio's bullying and teasing, *even when he has no good sense of humor*. Since CR:5 enjoy goading Ivan, Giulio tries to follow suit, too.

***Bernardo Ortolani:*** Giulio regards him as an attentive person even if a little sly. Handles troublesome matters such as negotiations and ledger administration in a fairly major way. In fact, Hadn't it been for Bernardo, the organization won't function as it is. Giulio displays particular interest in Bernardo's nature, nevertheless, he finds it pitiful to witness him invest a lot in movie-making and directing when he obviously doesn't have a talent for it and It's a mere cover-up for the organization. When he isn’t busy with any work, Giulio lounges at Bernardo's office to finish paperwork with him and discuss their situation.

Even though Giulio rarely talks about himself, he had told Bernardo about his childhood, which he wanted to keep a secret from even Gian. Proving that he is well comfortable and on close terms with Bernardo.

***Luchino Gregoretti:*** Due to Luchino's adequate and capable stance, Giulio holds Luchino to be someone that can be counted on. As much as he won't admit it directly, Giulio feels grateful for the fact Luchino sticks up for him in spite of his adverse situation as a capo. Though, he wishes Luchino'd rely on him and CR:5 a little more rather than handling everything on his own. Remarking that, *they're a family, even if not connected by blood or tied by the organization.*

Originally, drug-trafficking was a joint venture between Luchino and Giulio within the organization, however, as the next heir of the Bondone family, Giulio annulled his participation and cast out the family's routes and reach in the business. Leaving the entire enterprise to Luchino.

Apart from his sturdy build and passion for guns, Giulio believes Luchino lacks in physical strength and has, oftentimes, poor aiming skills which he ought work on enhancing. And that Luchino, also, tends to put on an unpleasant amount of perfume.

## Quotes

1. *"I want to throw away everything and go far away with you,"*
2. *"We shall slaughter … every last member … of the GD, along with the traitors who betrayed us."*
3. *"I. may be the Mad Dog, but ... I am just as .. no, luckier .. than you, Lucky Dog..."*
4. *"skinned so that no one.. can determine his corpse.. and.. he can decompose faster.."*
5. *"Even .. if I die, I will definitely protect Signor Gian"*
6. *"If you have any objections, then why don't you prove your strength..? Shall we? Fight using something other than words."*
7. *"I do not ... want to ... hate myself anymore.."*
8. *"I have always loved you... You were always been my pillar of support."*
9. *"Gian, as your subordinate, your shield, your blade... Please keep me by your side. I'm always gladful to give you all of me"*