Franco "Il Bambino" Barbi [OUTLAST 🩻]

Franco Barbi is a man in his late 20s of average height and build, with pale skin and blue-grey eyes. His head is larger than normal and deformed, with red and irritated scars that indicate past trauma & mutilation. His dishwater-blonde hair grows in disparate patches, with the largest lock forming a lazy curl over his forehead. His eyes are droopy, and the sclera of his left eye is bright red from sustaining a hemorrhage. His front teeth poke out from his lips. His brows are tightly-set and he naturally wears a mean expression. Being a mobster, Franco wears a purple silk button-down shirt, a baggy, white pinstriped suit jacket & matching slacks, a leather belt, black leather gloves, a pair of black oxfords, and a powder-blue bowtie. He also wears a leather bandolier to store his shotgun shells, and a pacifier is tied onto it with a blue ribbon.

Franco's Weapon is an intricately-decorated sawed-off shotgun, or lupara. He likes to personify the weapon in his dialogue and will refer to it as Lupara or pacifier. Its fire is widely spread and inconsistent, but the shot can be brutal with close targets. The buckshot used in the shells are fragments of teeth taken from his victims, stinking of burnt enamel when shot. When Franco is startled, his first instinct is to fire at the source of the noise. He likes to humiliate his victims before he executes them and finds unique methods to kill with the Lupara. Possessing the Lupara is what drives Franco's want for violence-- If it's taken away from him, he'll feel emasculated. He sometimes performs phallic gestures with his gun as a taunt. When he isn't wreaking havoc or stalking the reagents, he likes to drink a disgustingly sweet breastmilk cocktail called "Wolf's Milk", and bottles of it are stashed all over the trial environment,

Being a gangster, Franco is highly territorial and aggressive, using increasingly vulgar threats and displays of physical violence to get his point across. He views almost everyone— especially the reagents— as a threat to his property and will kill to defend it. Although he can be reasoned with or bribed, his trigger-happy behavior blinds his judgment. His fragile ego also impacts his aggression, feigning hypermasculinity to compensate for his sexual inadequacy. As a result of sexual encounters with his stepmother as a teenager, he developed a humiliation fetish where being infantilized and dominated by a matriarchal figure is the only thing that can arouse him. His fetish is evident in his clothing, occasional childish comments, and attraction to women he deems “motherly”. However, he becomes defensive if he is taunted for his sexuality, responding with severe violence. Despite his drastic behavior, he is competent when it comes to utilizing the trial environment in crafty ways and operating in negotiations.

Franco Barbi was born in New Orleans' Sicilian mafia by his father, Don Salvatore Barbi, and his biological mother who he never met. Raised with crime and debauchery as the norm, he committed his first murder with the Lupara at age 10 and would become a hitman for the crime syndicate. He grew to become utterly cruel and became infamous for his disregard for human life, as well as his tendency to murder his sexual partners in vindication of his impotency. However, after being exposed to having sex with his stepmother-- Salvatore's then-wife, whose degradation was the only thing that gave Franco sexual pleasure-- his father would severely beat him before exiling him to Miami. He would become involved in CIA operations against revolutionary forces and sent to Cuba, but once he started to kill indiscriminately he would be expelled from participation. However, after witnessing a former Reagent assassinate an official, he continued to murder until he caught the attention of Murkoff, and he'd eventually be captured and taken to the Sinyala facility to become part of Project Lathe II's experimental population.

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