Mateo

Voice Actor: Siddhartha Minhas

### Likes

fighting, kindness, stormy weather, daydreaming, sticking his 😂😂😂in things, and meat of questionable origin

### Dislikes

crowded rooms, cheating, disobedience, and seafood

### Affiliated with:

MafiaSergio

Eira

Lucien (formerly)

Allegra

Ophelia

Kazue

Nanako (formerly)

Mateo is a dateable character in *Dead Wishes*.

Mateo is a mafioso who runs a street gang of homeless minors in his spare time. He is friendly and protective of his pack but also highly manipulative and short-tempered. He is devoted to serving his mysterious and ever-hungry Master.

## Appearance

Mateo is a tall young man with gray eyes and fluffy red hair tied in a ponytail. He wears a long red scarf and a white button up shirt tucked into gray pants.

## Personality

Mateo's excitable personality either endears him to or grates on other characters. He loves to make people laugh and faces most situations with a smile. He seems to have trouble relating to others.

Mateo can also become explosively angry and violent. His world is divided into "innocents" -- plants and animals, and "lumps of meat" -- the irredeemable human populous. He has no qualms with torturing and killing most anyone.

## Relationships

### Sergio Drucci

As the leader of the mafia, Sergio is Mateo's boss. Sergio often rages at Mateo for being unreliable and insubordinate. Mateo claims to be afraid of him.

### Eira Merlo

Eira is Mateo's coworker. They often clash because Mateo likes to goof off on the job. She is highly suspicious of Mateo and joined the mafia to keep an eye on him.

### Allegra Campana

After Mateo discovered that Allegra and Ophelia killed a man, he swore secrecy in exchange for their assistance. He harasses Allegra regularly, demanding she brings him corpses to feed to his Master. Allegra is both frustrated by and afraid of him.

### Ophelia

After Mateo discovered that Allegra and Ophelia killed a man, he swore secrecy in exchange for their assistance. Ophelia happily keeps up her end of the deal, providing Mateo with fresh kills for his Master. She hates when he says gross things.

### Nanako Ueno

Mateo used to train under Nanako, who always thought he was strange. After Mateo suddenly left the program and her sister Kazue's illness worsened, Nanako grew suspicious of him and asked Eira to gather more information on him.

### Kazue Saitou

While Mateo was training with Nanako, he grew close to her sister Kazue. When he learned Kazue wanted to see her late husband again, Mateo showed her his Master. He left the training program shortly after, but Kazue continues to visit him late at night. On Mateo's route, Kazue becomes extremely jealous after meeting MC and considers Mateo to be dead to her for loving someone else.

### Antoine and Eloise

The siblings are part of Mateo's gang. Like the other children, they look up to and obey him.

These characters were designed by a Kickstarter supporter, the same supporter who designed Eden, a side character from Allegra's campaign.

## Trivia

* Mateo is the youngest dateable character in *Dead Wishes*.
* Mateo means *gift of God.*
	+ VIOLET says his name is a joke.

* Mateo's theme is called "Garbage."
* He claims to not understand erotic asphyxiation unless he's doing the choking.
* Mateo's character flower is the spider lily, or the "resurrection lily," mainly for its common association with death in Japanese folklore, and for being a plant that is able to grow and thrive in a variety of conditions. The spider lily is also a nod to Mateo's "master."

## Gallery

Dumpster Diving w Mateo <3Mateo Full Sprite
## Sources

1. ↑ https://violetstudiogames.tumblr.com/post/182087018237