Now that I've thought about it, the story of KHR seems to portray that Giotto's history in the manga hardly ever mentions much about what he has done to make the Vongola so powerful and how he managed to do so well in his prime. I hope today to clear up and destroy the perspective that Vongola Primo (yes, THE Vongola Primo) is as weak and stupid as Amano portrays him to be. >( Seriously, Amano, do you really think Giotto would let Daemon Spade take that kind of role and make the Vongola stronger that ways?
Here is my theory:
Giotto is ABSOLUTELY NOT how Amano portrays him to be. AT ALL. He is considerate and thoughtful in ways, but he MOST CERTAINLY ISN'T kind for the most part. To people who side with him and help him genuinely, he may be exceptionally kind, but to anyone else? Not quite the same.
Which means...Giotto suspects and knows just about everything that goes on in his family and outside of it. And...makes me realize his actual persona--manipulative, very dark, charismatic, charming, freakishly powerful, terrifying, calm, with nerves of steel, extremely intelligent and paranoid about being backstabbed--is not what the story portrays him to be. The story might show only the known part of the history--which could really be made up to make Giotto look like a Tsuna-like person, but serious reality shows that this is absolutely not the case.
Also, he has a seriously black background of rising out of the ashes and slums as an important figure. Which means he probably did a lot of horrifying things to make the Vongola so powerful. This also means...that he may be planning on more than making the Vongola a mafia organization. He might be planning seriously on something that could uproot and destroy society as we know it. Great material for my story. ;)
Last, but not least, his wife.
Yes, the girl who he married. Chances are, given that Giotto is a scary and powerful person, he is not likely to choose any average oblivious cute girl from the street (Giotto/Kyoko fans, sorry. Giotto won't even give her a glance, really, because her skill is not useful for him, since he absolutely can do EVERYTHING she can do--manipulation, seduction--and much more). What's more, even a smart girl like Chrome or Haru won't interest him, mainly because smart girls are not that rare and he would prefer a girl who knows how to fight him on a mental level and be an equal to him.
Yes, Giotto's wife, likely, is a true equal to the man. She is not the kind of woman, though, who would be as dark as he is. She is, however, just as ambitious and just as determined to fend him off and to make her ideals work in the world. Chances are, this is where Tsuna inherits his optimism: Giotto didn't have that kind of optimism, but his wife did.
Which makes me introduce another OC here, other than Luca (Interpol boy) and Ling (a new Vongola trainer):
Beatrice Augustin. She is 1/4 Prussian (German and Scandinavian, in ways), 3/4 Italian. Her father, as a Half-Prussian man, was a military officer from the Italian government who tried to reform and strengthen the army and failed due to the stupidity and absolute corruption of the Italian aristocracy--which ended up forcing him to deport himself and his daughter to Sicily. In the meantime...his wife, who is Beatrice's mother, was a high-class spoiled beauty who simply left him and their daughter to run off with an Italian royalty class man for the sake of a more comfortable living. Beatrice, however, stayed with her father faithfully and learned to hate her mother for what she did.
From there, she learned from her father the glory that was Rome, the ideals of a long-lost civilization that had once been the light of the world. The once-beautiful-and-all-noble society that had brought hope to the people of Italy to become stronger as a nation together and to become a civilized, wonderful society of strength, honor and dignity. Through her father, Beatrice learned to love the poorer, less-privileged people of Italy and to hate the stupid, corrupt and absolutely hedonistic Italian aristocracy with a relentless passion.
She went to work in an orphanage in Sicily to feed herself and her ill father, mostly protecting and watching over the learning of the Italian poor and to find the means to bring up the undereducated children. From there, Beatrice learned to tell stories of the glory that was Rome to the children, and though she wasn't the best-looking girl at the orphanage school, this made her a favorite story-teller and favorite teacher to the kids. Her favorite tale, in particular, was the one of Spartacus, the man who freed himself by proving to become Rome's greatest and most famous Gladiator and who led a revolt and brought a legacy of believing strongly in strength and honor to the Roman society.
Her story soon became known to a young Cosa Nostra mafioso named Giotto, who chanced to walk by the area where the orphans were listening to a story told by her. The young man, impressed by her fervor and determination, happened to chance upon listening to her stories again and again, mostly to learn about history and so forth and the texts of Marcus Aurelius and the words of the famous Stoic Roman philosophers. What impressed him most, though, was that despite her humble status, Beatrice was so well-learned and so aware of history and military tactics/economic workings/and other things that he ended up asking her about her background from others.
Beatrice was startled, of course, to learn that someone from a mafia had taken interest in her stories and herself, and this prompted her to be wary and be watchful of what she told him. Unfortunately, Giotto was extremely capable of finding out the truth from those surrounding her, and pretty much soon he showed up at her doorstep to meet her face-to-face. This, of course, prompted Beatrice to be extremely cautious, for she was not someone who liked to associate herself with most mafia societies, though she absolutely hated the fact that the aristocrats living in Sicily were making a living at the expense of the poor by taxing them as heavily as they can just for their own benefit. Still, the more Giotto spoke to her, the more he seemed to want to talk to her in ways.
This, of course, prompted Beatrice to ask what Giotto was after, for she knew herself not as a great beauty. Unlike her mother, who was blonde, doe-brown-eyed and pink-cheeked as any Italian cute girl could be, she was like her father: jet-black hair, narrow dark-grey eyes and pale like fresh-fallen snow, a normal Prussian girl, only with big dreams and greater ambitions. Giotto then promptly told her: he was more interested in her intellect and her ability to reason and argue, as well as her tendency to listen and the fire in her ambitious nature. He then pointed out that, by saying that she was not what he would consider a beauty, he was quite curious as to figure out why she did not realize how pretty she was in her own way.
Beatrice was startled, then extremely bewildered and fearful, when right then Giotto began to ask whether or not she could marry him, and to this she replied that she needed time to think about it. Unfortunately, that time didn't pass for her long enough when a rival mafia member showed up and began to burn down nearby orphanages. As a result, and considering the connections that Giotto had in his mafia family (one that wasn't the Vongola, yet), Beatrice bargained with Giotto that she would be his on two conditions: 1) That the orphanage children would be protected under his family's name and 2) That her father will be protected and given a decent life. To which Giotto agreed.
Such is how I imagine Giotto and Beatrice to be like. ^^; Though...admittedly, one could say that Beatrice was almost...forced to be with him. Then again, considering Giotto's forceful, rather dangerous personality, any smart girl would stay miles away from him if they had the choice. XD
Anyways, tell me what you think, and feel free to comment here as often as you like! :D
Primal Red signing out.
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