Arnaldo

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Player: imagenashyun

Character Full Name: Arnaldo Gallo

Character In-Game Name: Arnaldo

Nickname(s): Arnie, Bad Luck Arnie, The Toad, Toady, Mr. Pie

Association(s): Formerly SI:7, Undercity, The Red Glove

Race: Forsaken

Class: Rogue

Age: 41 (32 upon death)

Sex: Male

Hair: Thinning, ragged black, long enough to almost touch his shoulders.

Eyes: Brown, now glowing a bright yellow

Weight: 100 lbs.

Height: 5'4"

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: Civilian clothing if not black garbs for sneaking around. Almost always wears a brown wide-brimmed hat.

Other: Has a very narrow skeletal frame.

Personality

Alignment: True Neutral

Arnaldo's nickname "Toad" is very appropriate to his person: jumpy, paranoid, quick to panic, subservient, slightly sycophantic, and a dirty coward. Though sweet-natured, sympathetic to the downtrodden, and patient with difficult people, his good traits are often overshadowed by his bad. He's pessimistic, possesses a depressingly low self-esteem, and prone to quick, dirty ways of coping that certainly never helped him alive let alone being undead, such as drinking (alcohol and magic potions) and gambling (prior to his death by the Scourge, add sleeping around to the mix). He's chronically under pressure and stress, resulting in a jittery fellow who can be easily provoked.

His death by the Scourge only increased his pre-existing paranoia and bad luck. Despite being undead, Arnie supposedly can still feel pain and the effects of ingestible items such as alcohol and food. All of this, tragically, is purely psychological--he faced death several times, was beaten around, kicked, shot, stabbed, fell from great heights, and so forth. Arnold un-lives everyday in absolute fear of being killed again or at least hurt in one of many horrible ways, and this is purely justified ever since he joined The Red Glove. Bad luck follows him Arnie, no matter what.

History

Arnaldo Gallo was originally from Stormwind wherein even growing up, his long chain of unfortunate events began. A failure in his apprenticeship as a cobbler, Arnie resorted to petty theft and other crimes to keep himself fed. A chance to turn his life around, however, came to be when he realized his talents in scouting and espionage can be used for good. Upon becoming an adult, Arnaldo served within SI:7 as an operative, though he remained fairly low in the ranks due to fearfulness of failure which could result in being thrown back in jail (even if it's completely unfounded). Despite of this, stress of work and life became more and more difficult to manage for this mentally unstable man. Having only been working in SI:7 for a few short years, Arnaldo was discharged due to his drinking and gambling habits. This also became the cause of his wife separating from him, leaving behind two children for Arnaldo to care for his own--Viola and Velio.

Arnaldo then left Stormwind for Lordaeron City in hopes for turning around again and to walk a more honest path... but this too turned for the worst. Before entering the city, Arnie was mugged and killed, but he was shortly resurrected by a priest named Franz Crotti. The pain and trauma of his first death was unbearable for Arnie to handle as his self-destructive habits began increasing. His behavior tragically turned for the worst when Viola, the elder child, died of starvation, resulting in Velio fleeing from his father in hopes to fend for himself. In desperation for finding his son and for one last chance to turn his life around, Arnaldo partners up with a drafted soldier, Paolo-Gianni Rossi, who also had a runaway child.

Arnie's timing couldn't get any worse. As he was staying in Lordaeron in search for Velio, The Scourge arrived to decimate the city, and Arnaldo became one of countless others to rise from undeath. Forced to become a mindless minion, Arnaldo served under the Lich King amongst the horde of undead until Arthas’ control was weakened, with Sylvanas Windrunner eventually rising as the Banshee Queen. Arnaldo then joined forces with his fellow undead until the founding of Undercity and the integration into the Horde. He then spent the rest of his days wallowing in his own misery as he provided support for the Forsaken armies.

During the campaigns against the Lich King, Arnaldo decided to idle no more. Plagued by his memories of life and the separation of his son, Arnie decided to search for old associates in hopes for a more comforting company. He met with Franz Crotti, the priest who resurrected him from his first death, and his sister, Rosalina. It turned out that these siblings have declared faction neutrality and reestablished their connections with their living friends--including folks like Paolo-Gianni Rossi, who still remembered the promise he and Arnaldo made years ago. Feeling indebted with the man who brought him back to life and the soldier whose daughter was still missing, Arnaldo swore himself to the Red Glove as a lackey and odd-job minion in all things unsavory and shady.

Even with this new company, plus memories of life plaguing him to beyond death, Arnaldo continues to struggle with his conscience as he fights against the negativity instilled from undeath. He hopes to come to terms with himself as a person if it could mean either saving him or ending his life for good... and in peace.

Skills and Abilities

Arnie is very adaptable in his skills. As a former SI:7 agent, he specializes in stealth and espionage. He is also a fair marksman and is skilled with dual-wielded daggers. As far as direct combat goes, Arnaldo works best in close quarters, often going for the weakest points of his opponent before hacking and slashing.

As typical of his class, Arnaldo utilizes agility, evasion, and deception to face his opponents, but as he is very directly combat-oriented, he doesn't usually begin the fight in the shadows. Stealth is mostly used for information-gathering and examination of his surroundings.