Marcello Fiore

Basic details (to be fleshed out later):
parents were young and silly and liked to travel. They met in some little village in a foreign country where neither of them spoke the language and bonded right away. Got married not long after, and made a lil baby Marcello in no time. They traveled for a while, but then his parents ended up getting into an accident and dying. Was shuffled off to live with his grandma, who worked for this shady organization and had no use for whiny little kids, so set to work immediately on training him to be quick and clever and most importantly for a child: fucking quiet.

played tennis in middle school, learned how to snap necks in the evenings. Played flute for a little while. Shy kid, never had a lot of friends, really bookish and messy looking. Somehow managed to get through high school juggling classes, extracurriculars, and learning how to kill men with his bare hands. Went on to college for a literary degree, decided that maybe he could just sell books instead of killing people, and things were going sort of ok until he learns that his grandma went out to do a job and got Royally Fucked Up, so now she needs all kinds of surgery and even after that she's going to need a lot of homecare. Things got knocked loose that were not meant to be knocked loose. she's having memory troubles and pain problems and honestly it'd be better to just put her out of her misery, and the organization is down to do that since she isn't useful anymore, but marcello is like "nah that's my meemo and you absolutely can't do that" and they're like "lol who's gonna pay for her care tho?" long story short he ends up taking a job with them so he can pay for all her treatments.

goes back to college in between his job. meets a girl there, and by some magic his awkward self managed to get her to date him. That went on for maybe a year and a half before she decided to dump him because he didn't pay enough attention to his appearance and just sort of seemed to be lacking in confidence. He, of course, is kind of irritated by that like. he's a fucking assassin he doesn't have to look pretty and he has confidence for days fuck her. So he decides he's gonna be superficial and shitty too and learns all about makeup and hair care and gets contacts and stabs himself in the eye a lot on accident and basically becomes the shallow flower we all know and love today. Somewhere in there he also dates a coworker but that doesn't work out because by then he's already adopted this frigid bitch persona and she's just not into that.

eventually gets moved to the city on a new assignment. He's there waiting for a big target to show up, and taking on little jobs in the meantime. There are apparently a lot of people in this city who want other people to get killed? that's really rude, dudes. Gains a passing acquaintance with Beacher over their mutual appreciation for tea, but it doesn't become a Proper Friendship until Dotty shows up, because somehow Dotty makes everyone his friend and Marcello is kind of ???? but he's cool with it. Saturday comes into the picture. Saturday seems to know things about marcello's grandma, who literally nobody here knows about. that makes him a Security Threat who Needs to Be Killed. Unfortunately there's no actual signs that he's working for anyone, he just happens to have some weird contacts. Some friends on the other side, if you will. Marcello eventually figures out that oh shit he was wrong to be suspicious of this guy, but he also just spent like a month being irritated by him and now he's mad because he doesn't have a reason to be mad anymore, and he needs an outlet for his aggression because honestly he's wound really fucking tight. It's good they're great friends.