Armando Alighieri

"*With my accent there are three things people think of. One is beer, Oktoberfest and the like. Tiring but tame. Then there’s my country’s troubled and well-known past. And finally there’s cannibalism. That one is more recent.*"
— Armando, about Germany.
**Armando Alighieri** is an inmate at San Hill. Notably, Armando is a transfer from another facility, despite this he is still classed as one of The March Nine.

## **Appearance**

He is blond haired and pale skinned with prominent scarring over his eyes. When he is not wearing the two-piece standard issue uniform, his back bears 6 neat lines of scars, from the top of the curve of the shoulder down to the small of the back.

## **Personality**

Aloof and uninvolved with the lives of other inmates, Armando seems to stay off the radar and evade notice. He has peculiar habits, particularly involving his food where it has been observed he cuts it neatly and in some sort of order.

He appears to be very calm and collected, though he claims to occasionally lose control. While it takes some going, his temper is sudden and appears out of nowhere. This was exemplified in a group effort to clean the canteen where he lost his temper to a CO, and towards other cellmates, most notably Blaze.

Armando has started to show more signs of possessiveness and territoriality, potentially caused by his frequency in solitary confinement and prior experiences with cellmates.

While not immediately obvious, he does have a tendency to lie, whether big or small. This is both habitual and a key part of his manipulative nature.

## **Life in San Hill**

### Season One

Transferred from another facility, Armando is one of the inmates with the most experience of prison life under his belt. He came from a life in solitary in his old facility and shows some signs of having trouble adjusting to life in general population among the other inmates of San Hill.

He mostly keeps to himself and appears to simply want to serve out his sentence and stay out of trouble, though it is unknown if he will remain this way. This is mostly due to the fact that as a result of prior instances of dosobedience in his previous facility, his initial sentence of 15 years was stretched to 20. This is in the process of being contested but is unknown where this is in the system.

After Syrus Norwood was sent to solitary for the second time, he formed something of an alliance with Della Prince and Blaze, discussing the former's suspicions on who may have potentially gotten Syrus sent into solitary. Despite this alliance not lasting, he still retains a distrust of Jason Zharkov.

He has thus far evaded trouble and kept to himself but gradually he becomes more involved. Although only one real interaction, he found some common ground with Sanders through a shared Catholic childhood and it was the first time he mentioned the facility in Fresno, California where he was originally placed before his transfer.

He has a one-off fling with Maxie Tanaka. It was a ruse to see if he was a snitch in light of what had happened to Syrus. He came to the conclusion the man was not capable of it.

His involvement with Blaze is purely a practical one. For the most part it is one of his sole positive interactions in the facility. Despite finding her useful, later as a way to get rid of any contraband he had stowed away, he gradually felt that her usefulness was starting to become less so. When she came to his defense in the canteen during the clean up, they shared the same punishment from the former warden, 2 weeks in their cell with only bread and water. This put a strain on his tolerance of her as he noted her inability to take the punishment.

He lost his job role as electrician.

### Season Two

He was released from his punishment early in an agreement with the new warden, Soren White. In return for good behaviour and early release, he was offered the temporary position of cleaning the henhouse in the psych part of the facility. He ends up doing four days more than required until he stops going, unaware it was meant as a one off.

He finds his temper harder to manage as a result of the punishment given earlier. After an argument with Blaze in the yard, he is later shocked and angered to discover that his lover Brick was injured in an attack outside the facility. Instantly suspecting Blaze and her gang, he decides to instigate his revenge.

As part of this plan, he has procured some heavy duty sleeping tablets from Sprinkles.

He has regained his job role as electrician for the moment.

## **Relationships**

### Romantic

* Brick
* Maxie Tanaka (Briefly)