Maria Campanelli

Name: Maria Campanelli Nickname: Dellamorte (Her stage name for a planned singer career), La Creatura delle Aosta (What the news called her in the Aosta Outbreak)

Species: Human (Molded Stage 4) Gender: Female

Physical Age: 18 (at death) Chronological Age: 22 (Dead for 3 years. Molded for 1 year) Birthday: 1st March Blood Type: A+ (Formerly), Black fungal ichor

Nationality: Italian Hometown: Aosta Valley Current Home: Campanelli estate in Aosta Valley (has a winery and grape vineyard).

Height: 166 cm Weight: 60 kg Body: Curvy, pear-shaped body with c-cup breasts and shapely ass, greyish skin with faint black veins all across her body Face: right purple eye and empty left eye socket. The socket has fungal threads sprouting out of it like veins. Head: Long straight black hair, usually worn in a ponytail with long sidelocks and bangs that cover her left eye, exit scar on the back of her head from when the bullet pierced her eye (covered by hair). The holes of her brain is filled in by the fungus and the threads cover all of it like blackened veins.

Outfit: White buttoned blouse with short frilled sleeves, brown vest with purple buttons, brown skirt, purple rose brooch

Items: Golden locket with family photo (when she was still alive), purple rose brooch affixed on the collar of the blouse

Personality: Maria is a Nurturing big-sister type with refined manners and a gentle demeanor. Becomes fiercely protective when witnessing injustice. Around close friends and family, reveals a playful, mischievous side full of unexpected humor and pranks. Carries herself with quiet dignity despite her circumstances

Speech and behaviour: Soft-spoken with a melodic northern Itally accent. Uses formal Italian in professional settings but switches to warm, familial tones with loved ones. She speaks with Italian words and honorifics. Prefers not to reveal her eye socket. When she's emotional or in dark places, her eye glows.

Likes: Cooking, singing, collecting and eating interesting food and ingredients, perfumes and nice scents, Cats, harmony between living and undead, Dislikes: Her eye socket getting exposed, Messiness, insects, bad smells

Occupation: Founder and Director of La Rosa della Morte (or RosaMorte), Progenitor and Head Researcher of the European Molded, Aspiring singer, part-time Waitress of Rosa Luminosa restaurant Skills: Exceptional singing voice, adept in cooking and tasting food, foraging and plant/mushroom identification, wine appreciation, diplomatic negotiation, organizational leadership Powers: Undead durability, ability to remain perfectly still, limited command and telepathy over other molded (rarely used out of respect for free will)

Family:

• Father
• Mother
• Older Brother

Bio: Maria was grew up among the rolling vineyards of Aosta Valley where her family ran both a successful winery and a small restaurant that served the local community named Rosa Luminosa. She spent her childhood helping in the kitchen, serving mainly as the waitress. She possessed an unusual talent for tasting food - just a small bite could tell her everything about a dish's quality and preparation. Maria's dream was simple: to become a famous singer and share her voice with the world.

On one fateful day, Maria was eating in a restaurant while she's visiting Tuscany. She saw two men seated on the table talking to each other whose appearance caught her attention. When she shared her interest to the men, they glanced at her attractiveness before returning to their discussion. She was about to continue her food when she was caught in a drive-by from a mafia-affiliated car meant for the seated men. Unfortunately, a revolver bullet, which was going to hit one of the men, nailed her in the eye and she died instantly. Their intended target, the seated men who revealed to be undercover police agents, was spared from death by her unwitting sacrifice and dove into the bar table to safety. The agents then chase after the shooters. The chase ended with the shooters perishing in an explosion after crashing into an oncoming truck.

Maria was laid to rest in her hometown's cemetery, dressed in a pristine white gown that her mother had been saving for her wedding day. The funeral was attended by nearly the entire town, all mourning the loss of the bright young woman whose voice had brought joy to so many family gatherings and local festivals. Her embalmed body was placed in a wooden coffin and lowered into the earth as her parents wept.

Over the following years, her body underwent the usual processes of decay. Her white dress yellowed and became brittle, her skin grew grey and sunken. Unknown to anyone, the exotic black mushroom she had taste-tested days before her death - a gift from an African pen pal - slowly spreads in her system, gradually growing its tendrils through her remains as the seasons changed above her grave, remaining dormant until the time comes.

Three years later, a nearby earthquake awakens the fungus in her body causing her to rise from her grave, the fungus resurrecting her as the first Molded of Europe. Her resurrection caused the other dead people in the cemetery she was buried in to rise as Molded due to the fungus growing underground. This event is called the Aosta Outbreak.

With the mindless, confused, and hungry bodies shambling around caused mass panic in their town that caused the authorities to lock the town down. The mushroom having time to grow in her body underground made her into a level three, giving her the personality and intelligence her lesser developed zombies lacks. She also has the ability to influence the reanimated dead by what seemed to be zombie-only telepathy.

Her arrival at the doorsteps at midnight freaked out her family, but they and their friends, decided to help her out with assisting the living survivors and controlling/stopping the reanimated horde from causing any more trouble. By some miracle, she managed to fully rein in the Molded and lift the quarantine after tense negotiations with the government and military.

One year later, she has founded her own organization dedicated for the research and advocacy for Molded people. Her organization has received international recognition and has largely integrated into Italian society. She is currently planning on expanding her operations to all of Europe.

Note:

• When Maria rose from the dead, she was a Stage 3 due to the fungus having time to grow before she was awoken but as the time passes and near the end of the quarantine, she fully regains the memories and personalities of her brain so she is currently a Stage 4.
• Maria's usual type of perfume has the notes of roses, pine trees, and snow coving up the hint of mushrooms and earthly scents of her body
• The shot that killed her was from a .357 revolver. The shot is powerful enough to fully penetrate her skull and make a hole from her eye to the back of her head.