Mariella D'Agostino

 = Information =

∞ basics

 * NAME Mariella Lucille D'Agostino.


 * DATE OF BIRTH 17 May 1963.


 * CURRENT LOCATION New York City, New York, United States.

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 * HEIGHT 5'4 ''
 * WEIGHT 110 lbs


 * HAIR COLOUR Naturally red, dyed brunette.


 * EYE COLOUR Brown.


 * GENDER Female.


 * SEXUALITY Heterosexual.


 * MARITAL STATUS Single.

personality
<font face="Century Gothic">There are some people in the world who radiate of sexuality; Mariella D'Agostino oozes of it. Her sexuality is the forefront of her personality, dominating her attitude and dictating her every action, regardless of the circumstances. She is a woman who uses her body as a means to get what she wants most of the time, although that isn't to say she isn't clever. Quite on the contrary, Mariella is as intelligent as any woman who spent months in boot camp, years studying martial arts, and nearly ten years studying to be a nurse. All thirty-eight years she's been alive, Mariella has done practically everything she can possibly get her hands into. From drug-dealing and hustling, to sleeping with a man just to get something out of him, there is seemingly nothing she wouldn't do just for the sheer thrill of it.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Another aspect of Mariella that may strike someone is her apparent sociopathy. She gives as much concern for the well-being of most around her as one might care about an ant on the side-walk. Mariella is that woman who will chew you up and spit you out without a second thought, and she is very content in doing so. In the rare occasions that she has adhered to whatever compassion that might bubble up inside of her (occurring once in a blue moon, naturally), she has done so at her own leisure, and is quick to abandon such feelings if they compromise her in any way. Those she does care about have found that they would probably be better off without her, a feeling that her own family seems to have adopted in recent years. She has been known to sell out people she claims concern for, or kill them with her own hands if they insult or injure her at all. As considerably dangerous as she might be, there are certain moments in time where she might actually keep someone as close to her as possible.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Mariella is deceivingly aggressive for a woman her size. Standing at a mere five feet four inches, there is considerable doubt that most would see her as a threat in any way, shape or form. Although she generally keeps a cool, flirtatious attitude at all times, there's a side of her that is undoubtedly dangerous – and not only out of a sense of self-preservation, either. Mariella quite enjoys the pain and suffering of others, particularly if she is the one causing it. Most of the time, anyway; if they aren't bleeding, crying, dying, or cursing at her while doing any of those three, she has a tendency to feel more disgust than pleasure. Pitifulness isn't a word that she is altogether familiar with, and it is this trait in others that she is keen to show contempt for. There is practically no one in the world she holds any concern for, not even children.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">While everything about this particular woman screams "heartless," she is still a human being and very capable of emotions. Much as she would deny it, Mariella has fallen prey to her heart on more than one occasion, but she is the epitome of a woman scorned. In the times where she has allowed herself to slip and truly love someone, she has experienced heartbreak. First was her a father, a man whose adoration of her was repaid in kind only to die an early death. Second came Alexander Leung, a Chinese gangster twice her age but worthy of holding her heart for a time before she found herself shooting him in the head for cheating on her. One might venture to ponder whether or not a third man may hold her unrequited heart, that being Jamie Bellafonte, but their journey into such areas would be stopped short by a simple "it's a sex thing."

<font face="Georgia">history
<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">It was late in the year of 1962 that Emilio D'Agostino would rush into a small inn during a particularly nasty day just outside of Edinburgh. He was an Italian man, one of integrity and pride due to his current standing in the Esercito Italiano – which was considerably low at the time, given his age, and so he was sent to Scotland with a superior officer for obscure reasons. Needless to say, the Scottish climate wasn't treating him particularly well that entire week, and he found himself less than amused with his current predicament. It was with low spirits that he returned the greeting offered to him by one dark haired woman named Aileen Bailey.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">For the next few weeks, he stayed within the inn, awaiting further orders from his superiors and finding various means to entertain himself. He quickly discovered that Aileen possessed a humour that he appreciated more than he'd admit, and the two shared conversations in botched English that usually ended with uproariously laughter. As it turned out, Aileen was the daughter of the inn-keeper, and she was studying to become a nurse at the hospital within Glasgow. It sufficed to say that within the short time that they got to know one another, they were positively hypnotised by the other's very presence. They spent night after night together before their hurricane of a romance came to an abrupt halt upon the discovery that Aileen was pregnant.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Catholics to the bitter end, Aileen and Emilio quickly resolved to marry before either families could learn of the unexpected pregnancy – and their timing couldn't have been better. Soon after their rushed ceremony, Emilio was called to return to Rome for further exams, and he took his new wife along with him. Rome was where they lived for sometime and the city where they would welcome their first and only child together. On the 17th of May in 1963, barely eleven months after the couple met, a baby girl they named Mariella Lucille D'Agostino was born.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Unfortunately for the new family, the baby's birth only seemed to be a means to push her parents apart, though at no fault of her own. She was like any other newborn; quick to cry when hungry or in need of attention. Yet both Emilio and Aileen seemed to have very different ideas when it came to how to raise a child. Where Emilio would opt to rush to his daughter's side, Aileen would insist that she "cry it out." Where Aileen was the first to scold Mariella for wandering away in a story, Emilio was more likely to demand a search party. As a result, Mariella was doted upon and spoiled heavily by her father, while her mother was often seen as the villain of the two.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">By the time she was old enough to attend school, it was transparently clear to the couple that they were far too different from one another to remain married. They separated, and though Mariella would have given the world to remain in Italy with her father, she was instead taken to America with her mother, where they would live in San Diego with cousins of Aileen's. Mariella was beside herself; she was angry, depressed, and quicker to lash out at her mother than ever before. She had been a Daddy's Girl through and through, and not only was she not going to see him everyday, she was forced to live thousands of miles away from him. If her mother had been a villain before, she officially made it into the same ranks as Darth Vader.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">So Mariella began to rebel. Every little thing against her mother would do; from refusing to eat her dinner to intentionally staying outside past curfew, the girl did everything in her power to disobey her mother. While these actions did little more than infuriate Aileen, Mariella saw it as a form of taking control over her own life when she felt like she had none. Slowly, Aileen was becoming more and more agitated by her daughter, especially when she had become old enough to be able to sneak off of school grounds and wander the streets of San Diego alone. During her first year of junior high, Mariella began to hang out with the "wrong crowds" – goth kids and like-minded rebels that were all clearly headed for long stays in prison.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">At the age of fourteen, the Scottish-Italian girl had lost her virginity, experimented with marijuana, smoked like a chimney, and managed to give her mother new worry-induced grey strands of hair every single week. When at last Mariella was caught smoking pot on school grounds, her mother placed a collect call to her former husband to inform him she was done "raising his daughter," and that she was his responsibility now. With a one-way ticket to China in hand, Mariella was ushered onto the plane by her estranged mother, and she didn't look back twice.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Perhaps she thought her father was going to fall right back into the routine she had known years ago. She may have believed she was going to be welcomed with a shower of love and gifts, but she could not have been more wrong. While her father was certainly glad to see her, he made it abundantly clear to her that he wasn't going to put up with her "rebel without a cause" attitude. As it were, Emilio and Aileen had kept in constant contact since Mariella began acting this way, and she soon found they were quite serious about straightening her out. The teen was enrolled into a military boot camp in an undisclosed location just outside of Hong Kong.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Her stay at the boot camp was met with attitude at first, but she quickly found that she had to keep her mouth shut in order to avoid having to stay longer than she wanted. After only a few short months of being there, it seemed as though she had come to her senses, and she was welcomed back into Emilio's home with open arms. She was integrated into the lives of her step-mother – a Chinese-American woman named Bai – and her two half-siblings, Damien and Xiang. Mariella was sent to Xiamen International School, a private school where she finished her education with moderately high marks. By this time, she became prominent in speaking three languages outside of her native English and Italian; French, Cantonese Chinese and Japanese.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">The week following her eighteenth birthday, Mariella took it upon herself to make her leave from her father's house and travel to Europe. She visited her birthplace, Rome, and even explored parts of Spain and France for a time. There was nothing more exhilarating to Mariella than having the ability to be free, but it would come at a great cost. After only six months of exploring what Europe had to offer, Mariella was awakened in the dead of night by her sobbing step-mother – her father had died from a heart attack. She dropped everything to rush back to China, unwilling to believe that any of it was real. Unfortunately, it was, and the sight of Emilio D'Agostino's lifeless body rocked her to the core. A depressed Mariella had her father's body transported back to his homeland, where he would be buried next to his own parents.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">For a time, it didn't seem like she would ever snap herself out of the daze she lived in, no matter what anyone said to her. Emilio's death was something Mariella would never get over, but she was able to set aside her grief long enough to return to China and sort out her affairs with her step-mother and half-siblings. Her father had left her a staggering amount of money in his will, for which she was eternally grateful, and she used some of it to take up classes he had once deemed useless for a "girl like her." She took up study of Wing Chun and Judo, two forms of martial arts that she had admired since she was a little girl. It took up a lot of her time and focus, but when she felt she had learned all she needed, she once again embarked for Europe and resumed her exploration.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">But despite whatever money her father left, it would only last so long before Mariella found herself stranded in Italy. With no where to go (besides her father's family who barely knew her), Mariella was forced to turn to her mother for assistance. In the ten years they didn't speak, she was surprised when Aileen was willing to help her out, but for a price. She made her daughter promise she would go to university to become a nurse, like she had. At first, Mariella was beside herself in rage – and understandably so. She had only just turned twenty-four; she felt like she was five years old again and that her mother was trying to take control of her life. But she begrudgingly complied, too desperate for money and a means to survive to argue with the woman anymore.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Two years of nursing school later, Mariella had become an embittered, angry woman whose life was once again being controlled by her mother. While Aileen wanted nothing but what was best for the young woman, there was no doubt an underlying satisfaction she felt for being able to have a say in her daughter's life once more. Mariella felt trapped, and there was nothing she could do about it. It was in her third year of training as a nurse that she discovered something that would change her life forever. By humming or singing softly, she was able to what seemed like hypnotise someone into a state of calm, almost as though they were sedated. At first, of course, she thought it was mere coincidence. She did work in a hospital after all. Plenty of people were drugged up. But when it got to the point where she'd have to violently shake a doctor to make him snap out of it, she began to suspect there was something special about her. Something she was completely willing to use to her advantage.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Shortly after this discovery, she met Jamie Bellafonte, a nearly paraplegic man whose blood ran cold. Yet while at first she saw him as nothing more than pitiful, being broken the way he had been anyway, she slowly began to see him as less of a pathetic, beaten creature and more of something with great potential. She became more watchful, eager to be the nurse to go to him when it was needed, and before the week was up she had decided he was going to be her very own "project." Of course, that isn't to say it was as simple as saying "hello, I'm going to make you walk again." No, it took Mariella quite sometime before this was accomplished, but after some months and endless streams of goading from the woman, she had accomplished her goal. Once Jamie was "up and running," Mariella turned in her resignation, grabbed whatever money she could from her mother, and ran off with her former patient.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">There was no pleasure cruise, no running off to elope in Vegas, or anything of that sort whatsoever. On the contrary, the two would spend several years in one another's company. Now armed with the knowledge that her new friend was a mercenary, she took it upon herself to teach him how to move with more grace and subtlety. With her own martial arts training, she prided herself on "re-building" a mercenary whose attacks once relied on nothing but strength. As time went on, she began to see more than just potential in the man, and sexual attraction became very apparent very quickly. They quickly came to a simple agreement; casual sex, long-term training sessions now and then, and keeping tabs on one another. Shortly after this agreement, they went their separate ways. While Jamie headed to the Middle East, Mariella packed up her things and trudged back to the oriental east – more specifically, back to China.

<font face="Georgia"><font face="Century Gothic">Mariella spent a number of years in China, leaving only a few times to "check in" with Jamie. She had a grand total of five life-changing experiences during her stay in the great country; she had fallen in love, gotten engaged, killed her fiancé when she found out he was cheating on her, was targeted by his former "co-workers" that turned out to be part of a gang, and found herself buying the next ticket out of Hong Kong shortly thereafter. She moved to Tokyo, Japan for a short time, then, after some serious thinking, opted instead to once again pack up and head on back to America. This time, however, it was with every intention of joining the only person she might have been able to call a friend. Her destination was New York City, and her target was Jamie Bellafonte.

<font face="Georgia">family
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 * Emilio D'Agostino – Father, deceased.
 * Aileen Bailey – Mother, living.
 * Bai D'Agostino – Step-Mother, living.
 * Damien D'Agostino – Half-Brother, deceased.
 * Xiang D'Agostino – Half-Sister, living.

<font face="Georgia">other
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 * Jamie Bellafonte – "Friend," living. She and Jamie have a pretty simple relationship: train, sex, disappear, fight, more sex... et cetera.
 * Alexander Leung – Ex-Fiancé, deceased. He cheated on her. She killed him. It was pretty straight-forward.