Fuoco Efesto

**Fuoco Efesto** is a core ally featured in *Golden Stone and Incandescent Ode of Resurrection*.

Efesto is a member of Smeraldo and by extension Fausto's team, who follows Tiziano and Fausto in their mission to bodyguard Corinna Sala. He is a gunslinger and Vision User who shoots down his opponents with the help of his Elemental-made minions.

## Appearance

Efesto is a teenager of above-average height and medium build. In contrast to the usual character design, Efesto possesses large black irises. He wears uniquely shaped headgear with a diagonal grid pattern and the front shaped like an arrow pointing downward. He is known to keep a lot of things inside his hat, particularly ammunition, as he typically prefers to keep his hands free.

Efesto's attire consists of a turtleneck crop top cashmere sweater with a design similar to his hat, tiger striped-leather pants that he uses to store his gun, a thick belt, and boots. In his first appearance, the pants lacked the tiger stripes and belt and had a loincloth. Due to the quality of the material, he likely spends the most money on clothing out of Team Fausto.

## Personality

Efesto comes off as a laid-back teenager, being one of the least serious members of Team Fausto, although not as childish as Verulo. His backstory describes him as a carefree individual, whose goal was to enjoy simple, daily, and worldly pleasures such as food or pretty girls. During idle times, Efesto can often be seen reading books or magazines. His simplicity would be mistaken as idiocy by those that did not know him well, when, in reality, he'd rather not trouble himself by thinking of complicated matters. Efesto is also one of the most sociable members of the group, regularly seen bringing random conversation subjects out of nowhere, such as asking if vegetarians would wear leather-based clothing, or if human flesh would taste bad as a result of a natural diet that includes meat.

## Abilities

**Immense Perception**: Efesto have extremely high reaction speed and perception, the feats they have done include: being able to identify the members of the train cartridge while speeding on a bullet, scouting Verde (although unsuccessfully) in a helicopter while speeding on a bullet, Number 5 blocking all three close-proximity headshots from Salsiccia in succession,

**Immense Reloading**: Efesto normally does not reload his own gun but has Pyro-made Minions Pistol reload it for him. For this, he uses a six-chamber revolver. Efesto can use any type of firearm, but a chamber allows the Pistols to reload all at once, as reloading a pistol magazine takes more time.

**Pyrokinesis**: As a Pyro Vision user. Fuoco can mimics flames and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve extremely powerful singular strikes which 'burn' their opponents, with most attacks being initiated from a high stance.

* **Pyro-made Minions Pistol**: Efesto Elemental Ability is to literally ride the bullets that Efesto fires in order to position themselves over an area (although they can hover around too), and then violently kick the bullets to change their path. Efesto's most common use of this is to rebound shots, allowing the sudden redirection of bullets to hit moving targets, strike key areas, or otherwise take his opponents by surprise by using odd and unpredictable angles.
* **Bullet Control**: The Minions' ability is to literally ride the bullets that Efesto fires in order to position themselves over an area (although they can hover around too), and then violently kick the bullets to change their path. Efesto's most common use of this is to rebound shots, allowing the sudden redirection of bullets to hit moving targets, strike key areas, or otherwise take his opponents by surprise by using odd and unpredictable angles. If all 6 of minions are on a single bullet, they have the power to split said bullet into multiple pieces when they all kick, creating multiple projectiles.

**Deflection**: Efesto also has the ability to shoot two bullets at the same time, shown when used against Pomodoro. Although unexplained, the general consensus is that a Pistol shoots a bullet from another chamber by striking the primer at the same time that Efesto fires.

**Gunmanship**: Even without his Vision, Efesto is a gifted sharpshooter. His uncanny precision with a revolver, supported by his ability to keep his cool even in the middle of a gunfight, makes him a particularly deadly individual and assassin.

## Etymology

* His name **Fuoco** means "Fire"
* His surname **Efesto** means "Hephaestus"