Orpheus Laguardia

* **Overview**
* Gallery
* Synopsis
* Relationships

> Remember, the 'me' granting you punishment is not Exterminator Lcaricia. Committing an act of pure malice and animosity, I am Regina Scheherazade, the One who Suffered.
>
> Regina to The Guilty

## Names

### Titles

* The Third Boss of Gioiello Famiglia
* The Conqueror

## Social Information

### Family

* Giamoco Laguardia (father)
* Aureliano Laguardia (nephew)
* Federico (uncle)

## Professional Information

### Luster

* Iolite
* Diamond

Orpheus Laguardia is the third-generation Boss of Gioiello Famiglia, inherited from Gioiello Secondo. He was Secondo’s son and maternal uncle of Gioiello Quarto.

## **Physical Description**

Orpheus manifests as a young man in a black suit, black collared shirt, white necktie, white stole, black coat, and black ankle boots. He has sharp aqua eyes and short, dark brown hair with a streak of white hair, double-parted bangs, and sidelocks. Due to his half-Greek ancestry, he has a more olive skin tone than other bosses.

## **Personality**

Orpheus is a solemn, austere and ruthless man best described as a "logical artist" - he was rational to a fault, yet viewed the world under a theatrical light and treated everyone as actors bounded to play their given role while he himself was the playwright who decided the script. Due to such eccentric viewpoints, he was extremely apathetic to human lives and could order anyone’s death without a single flinch in his voice. Terrifyingly analytical and calculative, he controlled everything behind the scene and made countless mafia families bow down to Gioiello on their own. His only goal was to expand Gioiello’s influence in the underworld and continued the work his father left behind. However, he was also noted to be very respected by his subordinates and have a close bond with his Guardians. Beneath his coldness hid an artistic man who was infatuated with Commedia dell'Arte, Homer, and William Shakespeare. He orchestrated his plans like a theatre director doing the casting for a play, even using theatre terms in process. When teaching Yuuma about arts and aesthetics, Renato mentions Orpheus’ definition of "beauty" is something where every component of it does its job just as they are meant to, no more and no less.

## **History**

Orpheus was born the son of Giamoco with a Greek noble lady.

Post-death, his soul is encased in the Larimar Gioiello Ring.

## **Appearances**

### Major

* Sleeping Caterpillar
* Universal Executioners' Daily Life

## **Powers and Abilities**

### Skillset

* **Multilingualism:** She has strong ability with foreign languages, especially English as Aquarius and has earned gold medals and first prizes at contests.
* **Photographic memory:**
* **Playing classical instruments:**
* **Drawing and painting:** He is a great artist and his artworks could have earned a considerable amount of money had he published them (it was a reference to Giotto di Bondone, who shares the name with Federico's inspiration).

### Abilities

* **Luster:** Andromeda is deemed a genius at swordplay and declared "the strongest swordswoman in Zodiacus" by Moned soldiers.
	+ **Iolite Luster:** He already had it as a part of the Laguardia bloodline, but combined it with the Iolite Luster he possessed and he could read neural impulses. One tale Renato told Yuuma about his ability was that Orpheus once instantly noticed the plan to murder him the moment he stepped into the room where he was about to attend a meeting with another mafia family's boss - the poisoned cup and utensils, the assassin hiding on the ceiling, the snipers from buildings away, and a bomb hidden right beneath his would-be seat - and pointed all of it out with a bored face, stating that everything was too obvious to his liking. When that boss snapped out of fear and tried to shoot him, Orpheus nonchalantly dodged all the bullets as he walked towards him and swiftly shot the other's face off before ordering his Guardians to eliminate all enemies left.
	+ **Diamond Luster:** Her favorite swordplay style. Destreza is an *extremely* difficult style centered around precisely calculating every single motion in order to completely eliminate any wasteful motion.
* **Metamorphosis Mode:** rapier, knife, scythe,...
	+ **Hyper Intuition:**

#### Weaknesses

* Actaea just One-Hit Kill creatures who rank lower than God, which means it could merely injure divine or dark beings
* Animus Meus exhausts her so much that she may collapse during the process
* Inanitas can be activated only when The Abyss is functioning, impaired her almost immediately, and requires Regina technically a month at least to regenerate her energy.

### Equipments

* Larimar Gioiello Ring: Given to him by Sepira, these rings were distributed among his Guardians, and eventually passed on to the next generations of Bosses and Guardians.
* Diamond Gioiello Ring:

## **Preferences & Hobbies**

### Likes

* Wine
* Sky

### Fears

* Fire (formerly)
* Losing loved ones

## **Etymology**

Orpheus was the name of a famed poet in Greek mythology.

## **Quotes**

* *"It's already miracle, yet a natural thing, that someone would love someone without hesitation, right? So as long as the other is fine with it, I won't mind how you express your feelings."*

## **Trivia**

* He is heavily inspired by Giotto, a character from the Shounen manga series *Katekyo Hitman Reborn!*.
* Similar to his sister Regina, he also abandoned his surname, though it's more out of necessity than his own will.
* The form he appears in the projection reflects how old he was when he first created the Gioiello, not when he died.