Bella Lundi

Bella Lundi is a Moros Silver Ladder from Chicago, Illinois.

Overview

Quote: "It's not that I'm especially fond of violence. I just love guns."

When Carlotta was little, her daddy called her his "Princess," and he gave her whatever she wanted - kittens, a pony, a playhouse that looked like a castle and anything else that caught her fancy of the moment. As she grew older, she realized that her life was very different from that of other girls her age. For one thing, she didn't go to school like other kids. Her teachers came to her. She also never went "out" to play. Friends whom her family approved would come to her house and her father's big friends, Rudy and Gioppo, would keep an eye on them as they played in her house or on the lawn of their three-story house in Brooklyn.

Eventually she figured it out, and asked her mother for confirmation. Her mother reluctantly told her what Carlotta had feared. Her father and all the other men in the family were not just "businessmen," but leaders of organized crime. She didn't need to ask exactly what her father did; she'd seen enough crime shows on television to make an educated guess.

Though she had always thought of the law as the "good guys" and crime lords as "bad guys," she couldn't find it in herself to hate the father who was so good to her. Or the uncles and grown cousins that brought her presents and joked about marrying her when she grew up. (She soon realized they weren't joking.)

She received her high school diploma as a homeschooled student and begged her parents to send her to college somewhere out of state. She wanted a chance at a "normal life" before she married someone her father picked out for her. Her father finally agreed to send her to the University of Chicago, on the condition that she take Rudy and Gioppo with her to keep an eye on her and that she stay with her Uncle Theo's family and take a good look at his oldest son, Vincent.

Carlotta agreed and soon found herself enrolled in the University of Chicago and staying with her Aunt Stella and Uncle Theo in a townhouse two blocks from the campus. She majored in economics with a minor in history and went on chaperoned dates with Vincent, who was also a U of C student and a business major.

She decided that she could do a lot worse than Vincent, who treated her like spun glass and offered to teach her how to use a gun. Carlotta Awakened unexpectedly on the firing range between the report of her pistol and her awareness of the bullet striking its target. Though no time had passed in the physical world, Carlotta traveled in spirit to the realm of Stygia and stood before the Watchtower of the Lead Coin, where she realized that her life was intimately connected with the business of death and violence. She chose the shadow name Bella Lundi, the name of her favorite doll, and waited for a teacher.

Soon she was approached by Eleagia, who had somehow won the approval of Carlotta's aunt and uncle. Carlotta joined the Castle cabal and soon became an expert in security and "protection." Her fiancé, Vincent, helps smooth the cabal's road in dealing with certain parts of Chicago's underworld. He is unaware that Carlotta has influenced his thoughts and secured his loyalty through the practice of her magic.

Description

Carlotta manages to combine the utter self-confidence of an indulged only child with an innocent fragility that invokes a protective impulse in almost everyone she meets. She speaks with only a slight trace of a Brooklyn accent, but her voice is low and pleasing. She has developed a love of guns that borders on obsession, as if she has finally come to terms with the violence inherent in her family and decided to embrace it - in principle at least. As a mage, she is decisive and impulsive, though she always has the safety and protection of her cabal at heart.

Her Nimbus is gunmetal gray with dark red, blood-colored sparks of light snapping off from it at random moments.

Stats

Dedicated Magical Tool: Bone dagger
Real Name: Carlotta Lucia Belioni
Path: Moros
Order: Silver Ladder
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 2
Physical Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 2, Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics (Economics) 3, Computer (Spread Sheets) 3, Investigation (Financial Research) 4, Occult (Italian Folklore) 2
Physical Skills: Athletics (Cardiovascular) 2, Brawl 2, Drive (At Speed) 4, Firearms (Target Shooting) 4, Larceny (Security Systems) 3, Weaponry (Objects on Hand) 3
Social Skills: Intimidation (Badgering) 3, *Persuasion (Childlike) 2, Socialize (Informal Gatherings) 3
Merits: Allies (Bodyguards) 3, Contacts (Criminal Underground), Hallow 3, High Speech, Library (Shared) (Faerie Lore, Finance, History: Chicago, Law, Magic Lore), Resources 3, Sanctum: Size (Shared)
Willpower: 5
Wisdom: 5
Virtue: Faith
Vice: Greed
Initiative: 7
Defense: 3
Speed: 12
Health: 8
Gnosis: 2
Arcana: Death 2, Matter 2, Prime 1
Rotes: Death - Shadow Sculpting, Entropic Guard; Matter - Dark Matter, Steel Windows; Prime - Dispel Magic
Manna/per turn: 11/2
Weapons/Attacks:
Armor: 2 ("Entropic Guard," Death **)

References

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