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Shot Gun Opera

Lock and Load

Created on 2007-12-20 03:53:30 (#14497406), last updated 2009-04-24

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Name:	Firo Prochainezo
Location:	(states/regions/territories)

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[The City]

NAME: Firo Prochainezo
SERIES: Baccano!
AREA OF RESIDENCE: Lower Manhattan
INBOX: See here
HISTORY:
     Life had been rough for the boy since the beginning, having grown up in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, losing first his father and then his mother at the age of 9. The young Italian/American boy stuck it out as best he could, a natural survivor, streetwise in a city where those smarts made all the difference of who walked and who was wiped across the floor. Firo Prochainezo was found and taken in by the Martillo Family, a branch of the Camorra. While mafia business had all but gone underground within the past years, they still thrived in the shadows of New York, still pulling strings, still struggling to keep a grip on territory. It was in this setting that Firo made a name for himself, learning what he could learn, taking what was laid before him and not looking back. As a young adult not yet crossed into his second decade of years, Firo was promoted within the Camorra, in particular becoming a representative of the Martillo Family under the watchful eye of Maiza Avaro.

     It was around this time that many things were happening and soon converged upon each other. A long time rival of Maiza's made his appearance, buried secrets suddenly exposed. More than hundreds of years older than any normal human being, Maiza Avaro and Szilard Quates were revealed to be Immortals, gifted with the elixir of life by a demon they had summoned into being centuries back, a group of ambitious alchemists aboard a galleon headed for the new world. Szilard had been working all this time to recreate the liquour of immortality, and had finally succeeded. Unfortunately, the majority of the finished products were destroyed in a fire, and the two bottles that had been preserved escaped from Quates' grasp, changing hands between many a mafia lord before finding its way into the serving glasses of the Camorras and their close associates.

     Szilard arrived too late to recover the elixir, but he was not so put off as to attempt to absorb Maiza, as the only way to destroy the Immortals was for another Immortal to 'eat' them, absorbing their being into themselves. During Szilard's face off with Maiza, Firo was given a crash course in the existence of immortals by Szilard's homunculus, Ennis. Perhaps due to the unspoken feelings he had developed for the girl, as well as Ennis's desire to be something more than just a servant, that boundaries of trust were overcome and she betrayed her master, telling Firo how to annihilate Szilard. This was only after finding out that the Camorras had partaken of the immortal elixir accidentally, a fact that Szilard had missed after he had thought to have gunned most of them down. In a last desperate attempt to ensure his survival, Szilard Quates made a lunge for Firo to try taking down the sudden new threat. His effort was nullified by the boy's sharp knife, and before the man could properly regenerate, Firo's hand settled upon the old man's head with the unvoiced command, 'Eat.'

     With Szilard defeated, the Camorras rejoiced at their newfound immortality, and Firo freed Ennis of the power he gained from Szilard in being able to control her as a homunculus. The shy but fond looks he gave the girl were not unnoticed by Maiza, whom after briefly distressing about the newly spread curse of immortality, silently decided that perhaps this would be all right...

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