Etienne Vespucci

A Priest from the Church of Eve, Father Vespucci was once a devout man to the teachings of God, even becoming a Special Grade Executor for the church at one point in his youth.

a priest who studied proper theology at the Church, but his mindset shows some similarities to that of Grigori Rasputin. He is a charming man who uses his words to get what he wants without the person being aware.

Though his presence within the church is a silent yet kind man who spreads wisdom and comfort, deep inside he is feels none of those things. He feels nothing outside of the emotions expected by his Goddess and the members of the Cardinal.

However this leads him to believe that something is wrong with him. He cannot express love or joy, he cannot feel anger that isn’t there. So how can he spread emotions and wisdom that is alien to him?

That is until he was assigned the case known as the Masquerade Murders–a gruesome scene set in a ballroom of Uberto Perspero who was found shot dead in his ballroom. Following this murder, he came to know a woman by the name of Manon Vaillancort who was a key to the answers he’s been seeking. Entertaining the idea that what brings him the most joy is something the church would not accept. That he cannot find pleasure within his own misery, and insists on finding it in someone else.

In his mind, Etienne can only think of The Red Death. The things he wanted to do to this murderer. The misery they’ll face upon seeing his face and knowing their death is near. When fighting Manon in the old church ruins in Chatham, Etienne finally finds pleasure in this fight. The opportunity to fight and kill this criminal while feeling the wraith of Eve setting out to punish this evil. Once Manon escaped, he found himself shuddering at how he close he was to feeling something. He felt joy and pleasure all at once, and it left him fiending for more.

After the fight, Etienne finds himself thinking of the red death, and yet finding more time to spend with Manon. Slowly feeling another emotion that he hadn’t felt before. Love. He was slowly falling in love with Manon, and while though it doesn’t go against his duties, there was something wrong about loving this woman. Something forbidden that he knows he shouldn’t have. Manon is a Witch, and she goes against everything he believes. Everything he was taught, she was purposely lying and poisoning him.

Yet he loved her still.

Manon as a woman awakens his primal urges that makes him want to claim her. He nearly had his way with her when he found out she was Madame De Morte Rouge.