Angelica Bellucci - Vodacce Ex-Courtesan

	Actress - Monica Bellucci

2 - How would you physically describe yourself?
Angela is a classic beauty. She is tall, slim and is fully aware just how much an impact her stunning looks can have.

3 - Do you have any recurring mannerisms?
Having trained as a courtesan from an early age she has been forced to suppress any recurring mannerisms. Giving a man a good, hard slap seems to be the one that she has most trouble keeping in check.

4 - What is your main motivation?
It used to be all about power and control. Playing the Great Game regardless of where she finds herself and who gets harmed in the process. Angelica is a judgemental person by nature and she presumed that either someone could survive the Great Game or else deserve to face the consequences.
Her current motivation is to become as good a doctor as she can be.

5 - What is your greatest strength, and weakness?
Angelica is a very driven person; this means that when she sets her mind to getting something done it will get done. She’s not averse to playing the long game and this is also her weakness. Once she sets her mind to a course of action it is very hard to dissuade her from it.

6 - What are your most and least favourite things?
All things beautiful attract her. Ugliness, crassness, showing a lack of strength of convictions and peasants in general are some of her least favourite things.

7 - What is your psychology?
Angelica was raised in an environment in which continued survival was far from a certainty. Her mother and sisters are courtesans and she has been shown examples of what happens to those that fail in the Great Game, the lucky ones die quickly. This has developed within her a survivalist mentality with little room for compromise or charity.

Recently the wife of a friend of her apparently sacrificed her life to save her husband and Angelica. This single act of selfless charity overwhelmed Angelica and drove her to trying to repay this debt to as many as she can by saving them through her knowledge and skill in medicine. Never the less, Angelica’s fatalistic mentality persists in a different form. Instead of expecting to perish in the Great Game she expects to come to a violent end in a conflict of arms. Recently she had the choice of whether to pursue the path of the healer or that of the warrior. She has chosen the former but she questions it every day.

On a general note Angelica can, and often is, extremely bitchy. It’s a natural reflex from having been a courtesan for so long. She lashes out against those who show weakness and uses words as weapons to taunt and belittle them. This is something that she is trying to change. Time will tell if she ever does so.

8 - What is your single greatest fear?
She has seen what the fate of fallen courtesans is and it terrifies her.

9 - What are your highest ambitions, and greatest love?
Angelica lover herself, men who have courted her in the past have come a distant second. A noble, honourable and kind man is something that she secretly long for, however she does not feel as if she is deserving of such a man and her caustic words would in all likelihood drive such a suitor away.

10 - What is your opinion of your country?
She loves Vodacce; there is no greater country in all of Theah.

11 - Do you have any prejudices?
She dislikes poor people, anyone who is not trying to better themselves; she despises fate witches and is not particularly fond of the Vesten or Vendel.

12 - Where do your loyalties lie?
Angelica was a very loyal courtesan. Now it is to her friends and to Izzy.

13 - Are you in love, betrothed or even married?
No, no and good heavens if only - but who would marry an ex-courtesan?

14 - What is your family like?
The Belucci family has been a family of courtesans for a number of generations. The men-folk often become hired swords and invariably have brief, meteoric rises in the Great Game before ending up as Villanova sticks. Angelica’s mother is a retired courtesan and makes living instructing aspiring courtesans. Angelica’s sister is a courtesan and was a rather successful one until Caligari island sank. She is as beautiful but more ruthless than Angelica.

Recently Angelica came across a bible with some family trees drawn in it as well as some family lineage books. From the information described in the books she suspects that her family’s origins are darker than what she was told as a child.

15 - How would your parents describe you?
Angelica’s mother is very proud of her but she would never admit it in front of her daughters. When she heard that Angelica had left Dante Caligari to become a doctor she said: “I have wasted twenty years of my life”. Angelica was never told who her father was.

16 - Are you a gentleman/woman?
Not really. She likes to be treated as a lady and ware the man that ever shows a lack of proper etiquette.

17 - How religious are you, and which church sect do you follow?
Angelica is a staunch Vaticine and goes to church on a regular basis (when she is near a Vaticine church), she also attends confession regularly although her confessions of late have not been as colourful as they used to be. Now it is more along the lines of ‘I made this error in diagnosing a wound in this peasant, his arm turned green and eventually had to be cut off’.

18 - Are you a member of a guild, gentleman’s club or secret society?
No.

19 - What do you think of sorcery?
She hates all fate witches without exception, they are in her view women imparted and dominated by Legion spawned spider intelligences that manipulate the Great Game for alien and unknown ends. Porte makes her feel nauseous and due to recent events also very melancholy.

The Ussuran shape shifting power is something that unsettles her and on a number of occasions witnessing it has made her physically ill. Angelica views the Sidhe with extreme distrust and sees Glamour as tainted. Rune magic is primitive Legion worship in her view and should she ever come across the Castilian or Eisen sorceries it is likely that she would not be well inclined towards them.

Generally she views sorcery as a tainted gift that is holding humanity back from reaching its true potential.

20 - What advice do you need to hear?
Be nice. Just try to be nice for five minutes each day. Don’t forget that this ‘being nice’ also applies to William. Oh and another thing, only Theus can say whether a soul is damned or not – do not jump to conclusions about your own.