Bruno Bencivenga

Image of Bruno in Artbreeder

### Family

Paolo Bucciarati (father, deceased), Angelina Del Re (mother, alive), Ceci Mariposa (half-sister, deceased)

### Namesake

Bruno: German name meaning "brown", in reference to Bruno Bucciarati.Paolo: Italian variation of Paul, meaning "small, humble", in reference to the original Paolo Bucciarati.Bencivenga: Italian surname, meaning "welcome"

**Bruno Bencivenga** is a minor posthumous character and son of Paolo Bucciarati as well as the half-brother of Ceci Mariposa in Fate of Zephyr. In Vento Aureo, Bruno is Bruno Bucciarati.

The only son of Paolo and Angelina Del Re, Bruno decided to stay with Paolo after his parents divorced and tried to help his father with the family business while also providing emotional support for his father. When Paolo rode his boat out for drug dealers posing as tourists to trade drugs, Bruno went against Paolo's orders to stay on shore and hid in the boat before being shot trying to protect his father. The medical treatment and Paolo's retaliation when the drug dealers attempted to kill his son later on led him to join Passione in order to protect Bruno and pay off medical debt. As one of Team Bucciarati's punishment for their supposed role in The Incident, Bruno was killed during surgery with his passing excused as merely a medical mistake. Ceci's attempt to find Bruno also led her to to join the team shortly after.

Bruno's death served as motivation for Paolo and his team to defect from Passione. As a means to be accepted by Paolo, Ceci also tried to pose herself as a replacement for Bruno.

## Appearance

Bruno is a teenager and appears to have a slim build. Like the original Bruno when he was younger, he sports a black haired bob with bangs and wears a white shirt with blue overalls. He is often wearing brown work boots, due to his willingness to work with his father whenever he can. According to his mother, he always had callouses on his fingers and palms as a result of working with his father.

During his hospital stay, he appears to wear a simple white hospital tunic and pants with blue accents, and his body appeared to be thinner due to the effects of medical treatment. He also has various machines attached to him over the years, varying from a simple IV to multiple connections.

## Personality

Despite his age, Bruno is shown to be relatively mature, respecting and upholds several values he believed in- even as a young boy. He deeply cares for his family, but especially his father, who he looked up to as an honest, good man despite his emotional distance and human errors. When his parents decided to divorce, Bruno strongly stood his ground to stay with his father, believing that his father didn't deserve to be alone and knowing his mother had been unhappy with her marriage and, while not aware of the situation between his parents, knew that the marriage was hurting her the most.

Bruno is naturally kind and is dedicated to taking the most honorable course of action, even if he puts his life at risk, which is shown when Bruno was shot by drug dealers in order to save his father from harm. During his long hospital stay, Bruno tried his best to hide any pain and suffering he feels from Paolo whenever he can, not wanting his father to further worry about him despite the injuries he sustained, and keeping snide comments and insults he hears about his father to himself- even when hearing the comments causes him to cry in his sleep when they become too much.

Bruno is also well aware of his father's involvement in the mafia and knew that Passione is allowing his family to be protected and paying his treatment. He is well aware that his health is merely a bargaining chip that could be used against the family at any time- something that Paolo tried to keep his son ignorant of and failed to see earlier. Bruno spent the rest of his remaining life mentally preparing himself for the day that he would either be permanently incapacitated or killed under the guise of botched medical treatment in order to keep his father in line or punish him for whatever reason necessary, but kept a cheery mood when he is with his father to avoid him from further worrying. Despite knowing this truth and able to see Passione as merely a criminal syndicate pretending to be good and knowing his impending fate, he finds his father's decision to join the mafia as a means to provide for his family honorable.