Fabricio Tacunan

**Fabricio Tacunan** is an antagonist throughout the series *Market of Monsters.*

## Appearance

Fabricio has grey-blue eyes and brown hair. He is missing an ear on his left side from where Monica sliced it off in Not Even Bones, book one of the Market of Monsters series. He is an aur.

## Plot

Fabricio is first introduced as someone Monica captures and brings back to her home. He is alive, unlike all the other victims.

Nita rescued Fabrico from her mother after Monica cut off his ear. He was one of the first people Nita had a conversation with in over 10 years. Nita gave Fabrico her old phone with a worn-down heart sticker and money from her college savings account to leave Peru to go to INHUP for protection from her mother.

At the end of book 1, Nita believes that Fabricio is the one who sold her to the market of monsters in the Amazon. In book 2, he continues to play the victim, not knowing that Nita now knows he sold her, but when she captures him and out, he acts confused, and by the end of book 2, it ends with Kovit torturing Fabricio to get information out of him.

In book 3, Fabricio is discovered to be the son of Alberto Tucanan, and heir to the his father's fortune, amassed by running a bank for people involved in the black market. Nita forces Frabricio to help her rob his father's bank for blackmailing information. However, Fabricio is terrified to return to Buenos Aires, where the bank is located. When they arrive in Buenos Aires, Nita and Kovit capture Alberto Tucanan, in order to gain access to the bank. Things go awry, however, when the man they captured reveals himself to not actually be Alberto Tucanan, but rather a man named Martin Ricci. We are then told Fabricio's backstory.

When Fabricio was thirteen, Ricci had Alberto Tucanan killed. Fabricio's father knew that, because of the massive fortune, if anything happened to him, Fabricio would be in danger. So he set things up so that the company couldn't run without Fabricio. Fabricio's fingerprint was necessary to run the company, and only he knew passwords that would keep systems up and running. Ricci wanted those passwords. Ricci hired a Zannie to torture the information out of Fabricio. The interrogation lasted twenty-three days, (a length of time which even horrified Kovit) but Fabricio didn't fold. On Fabricio's fourteenth birthday, Ricci gave up, holding off until Fabricio's eighteenth birthday, when a vault with information on how to reset the systems would become available. Fabricio ran away a short time before his eighteenth birthday, knowing once the vault was open he'd be killed. The reason he sold Nita is because he was desperate for money to be able to put as much distance as possible between Buenos Aires and himself.

After Nita learns that Fabricio has had access to the bank the whole time she is furious. Fabricio is now thankful that Nita has to kill Ricci. Nita hates being manipulated again, but kills Ricci anyway because he's seen too much. Fabricio Then grants Nita access to all the bank's files, and once Nita's downloaded it all, deletes it so that Nita is the only one in the world with the information. Then, fearing Nita will kill him now that she has what she wants, (which is what she was planning to do) he calls the cops. Nita and Kovit leave before they arrive.

Later, when Kovit is in the hospital after being shot by Nita's mother, Fabricio visits. He offers to pay for a top-tier lawyer to help Kovit get out of the legal mess of him being a Zannie, in exchange for Nita not killing him. Nita, in a moment of great character development, realizes that Kovit badly needs legal support, gets over her hate for Fabricio, and agrees.

Fabricio then visits Kovit. Kovit apologizes to Fabricio for torturing him, and Fabricio forgives him.