Established Status: Yes. Giovanni has been established here for 5 years. During that time, he has belonged to the Company as part of their ‘Cerberus Unit’, based in Westerly.
Canon: DOGS: Bullets & Carnage
Canon Point: Chapter 65, whilst being held prisoner by Zollner Neubauten
Citizenship: Westerly, Company property
Job: Cerberus Unit operative (details in the AU history section!)
Abilities
Translated Abilites
Passive | Autonomic Regeneration: Canonly, Giovanni is able to heal almost instantly from a multitude of injuries, including direct headshots/a crushed skull, and possesses the ability to regrow limbs within minutes. However, as discussed with the mods, these abilities will be nerfed somewhat in game in order to maintain balance-- he will be able to heal almost instantly up to a certain point (as a measurement, a full magazine’s worth of bullets entering his body below the head), and after this his regeneration abilities will slowly lose steam so that, if he were to continue taking damage, healing would begin to take longer until finally he’d be unable to heal at all. Regeneration of severed limbs will remain, but to a much slower degree (hours rather than minutes), unless using the help of a Company Lab (or ‘the Kennel’, mentioned in the AU history section), which of course he will not always have access to. In game, unlike in canon, a headshot or massive trauma to the brain would be able to kill him.
The explanation used here will be similar to canon, but slightly translated-- He has an implanted technologically developed Spine, which in gameverse would translate to being a hack-mod paired with nanotech, where the implanted Spine controls the nanotech giving him his enhanced powers. Company Dog Handlers will be equipped with a sword coated in a tech virus known as Dog Bite, which, when stabbed directly into the Spine has the capacity to kill a Cerberus Unit operative instantly, or subduing them if it enters any other part of the body.
Passive | Heightened senses: hearing and sense of smell would be similar to that of a dog rather than a human, and his eyesight would be 2x that of a normal human.
Passive | Enhanced Speed/Strength/Agility: 3x that of a normal human
Passive | Immunity to poisons and diseases Whilst in canon this refers to all known poisons and diseases, in game it applies to MOST, but with an added susceptibility to complex tech viruses that target nanotechnology. As long as his modifications are working optimally, he will be immune, but if he were to be infected with a tech virus, he would be left with a weaker immune system than most since the nanotech has been doing the heavy lifting in place of his own body
Personality: Giovanni begins life as a timid, fearful and withdrawn child who struggles to cope with the horror and violence he was actually created for. He consistently voices a belief that he doesn’t belong in the facility/Cerberus Unit and is often found crying/whimpering/cowering away from whatever awful test he and the other children are subjected to (earning him the nickname ‘crybaby Giovanni’ and occasional teasing or disdain from the other children). Because he starts out as a somewhat inferior specimen, he is constantly berated by ‘Mother’, who subjects him to verbal abuse and consistently informs him of his own uselessness. This sparks the beginnings of a deep jealousy which is only exacerbated by Heine’s escape from the Cerberus Project (see AU history!).
As he matures, the horror and violence of the test facility he has grown up in and the fact that he was abandoned to the facility by Heine has a deep and traumatic effect on Giovanni, leading him to become dissociated from his softer emotions and detached from everything around him. Given the events of his everyday life and his lack of other experiences to draw from, he realises that in order to survive among wolves he has to become one himself, and the jealousy and bitterness he feels towards Heine (the ‘favourite’ child, who also left him behind) and his own sizable inferiority complex drive him to develop control over his own abilities and to become the deadly but loyal fighting machine he was created to be.
Giovanni presents himself as a smooth, collected, violent individual, referring to jobs he’s sent out on as ‘fun’ or ‘games’. He’ll often be found smiling or laughing during violent encounters, takes on a suave, snarky personality and appears to take great enjoyment from violence in general. His tone of voice is often wry, sardonic, and mocking, and on encountering him in a situation outside of the Kennel or away from figures of significant authority within the Company, he would seem to be assertive, confident and ruthless.
However, Giovanni does not, in fact, partake in violence merely for its own sake. Instead, his personality and behaviour are constructed from a persistent undercurrent of jealousy, fear, and his pervasive desire for approval. Despite having proven himself in terms of his abilities among the Dogs, he continues to consider himself second-rate, still somehow defective, and because of this he is always attempting to prove that he is loyal, obedient, deadly, and above all useful. Given his training and background and the fact that he began life with a somewhat ‘submissive’ personality to begin with, he is loyal to the Company down to the bones and considers himself to be little more than a tool ( a ‘leashed dog’, something he openly recognises and makes reference to, at times). He has spent his entire life taking orders and acting almost entirely under the direction of someone else, which suggests that he wouldn’t even begin to know what to do with himself if those ties were broken.
As his life revolves around violence and simple survival, it’s safe to say that he has little idea of where his own interests might lie. He has no deep interpersonal relationships outside of his loyalty to his creator and his connection with the Company (who for the most part look down on him as he is, essentially, just an 'attack dog', a weapon to be used). His distance from everyone around him stems in part from the dissociation created between himself and his emotions following Heine’s perceived abandonment of him, and in part because he is, essentially, just a weapon - he lacks normal socialisation and his creator and superiors in the Company treat him accordingly (a tool, not a friend or even an autonomous person). All in all Giovanni's existence focuses entirely on three things: being the obedient weapon he was intended to be, Heine, and his loyalty to the Company. He has nothing else. However, he does harbour an intense dislike towards Handsome Jack thanks to his role in orchestrating Heine’s escape, and while his training and loyalty to the Company prevent him from seeking a violent revenge, his less-than-friendly feelings towards him are thinly veiled, at best.
When away from battle, Giovanni is an intensely morose, lonely individual who spends much of his time dwelling on the past and almost entirely cut off from his present. His feelings towards – and virtual obsession with – Heine are also more complicated than pure bitterness and jealousy; Heine is the one person who he had shared any level of closeness with and while he in no way expects a return of this closeness, he still misses Heine deeply and has a strong desire for the other man to at least acknowledge his existence. Still, despite his inferiority complex, his desire to please, his abiding fear and his longing for the past, this is not to say that deep down he is still that gentle-natured child who just wants to be liked. In order to survive the horror and violence that makes up his existence, it was essential to become equally violent and ruthless; while he may not be the arrogant, self-confident killing machine he presents himself to be in front of others, he does enjoy fighting and would kill mercilessly if ordered to or if someone stood between him and the goals set out for him. At least some of his bitterness towards Heine stems from Heine’s readiness to abandon the Cerberus Unit; because of his own jealousy, his inferiority complex and his desire to push himself to be better, Giovanni finds it hard to comprehend why Heine wouldn’t want to reach his full potential and become the very best that the Cerberus Unit has to offer, referring to him as a stray mutt. This acts to demonstrate that this kind of violence and ruthlessness is something Giovanni strives for, that the gentleness in him has been largely suppressed by the harshness of his life. He's damaged certainly, and a product of the life he was forced into, but violence is now so deeply ingrained in him that he's come to enjoy it to some extent.
Giovanni Rammsteiner | DOGS | Reserved
Player
Name: Kam
Age: 32
Contact: kamaitachiyoukai @ plurk
Preferred Pronouns: Female pronouns
Character
Name: Giovanni Rammsteiner
Age: unknown/around 22
Memory Option: 2
Established Status: Yes. Giovanni has been established here for 5 years. During that time, he has belonged to the Company as part of their ‘Cerberus Unit’, based in Westerly.
Canon: DOGS: Bullets & Carnage
Canon Point: Chapter 65, whilst being held prisoner by Zollner Neubauten
Citizenship: Westerly, Company property
Job: Cerberus Unit operative (details in the AU history section!)
Abilities
Translated Abilites
Passive | Autonomic Regeneration: Canonly, Giovanni is able to heal almost instantly from a multitude of injuries, including direct headshots/a crushed skull, and possesses the ability to regrow limbs within minutes. However, as discussed with the mods, these abilities will be nerfed somewhat in game in order to maintain balance-- he will be able to heal almost instantly up to a certain point (as a measurement, a full magazine’s worth of bullets entering his body below the head), and after this his regeneration abilities will slowly lose steam so that, if he were to continue taking damage, healing would begin to take longer until finally he’d be unable to heal at all. Regeneration of severed limbs will remain, but to a much slower degree (hours rather than minutes), unless using the help of a Company Lab (or ‘the Kennel’, mentioned in the AU history section), which of course he will not always have access to. In game, unlike in canon, a headshot or massive trauma to the brain would be able to kill him.
The explanation used here will be similar to canon, but slightly translated-- He has an implanted technologically developed Spine, which in gameverse would translate to being a hack-mod paired with nanotech, where the implanted Spine controls the nanotech giving him his enhanced powers. Company Dog Handlers will be equipped with a sword coated in a tech virus known as Dog Bite, which, when stabbed directly into the Spine has the capacity to kill a Cerberus Unit operative instantly, or subduing them if it enters any other part of the body.
Passive | Heightened senses: hearing and sense of smell would be similar to that of a dog rather than a human, and his eyesight would be 2x that of a normal human.
Passive | Enhanced Speed/Strength/Agility: 3x that of a normal human
Passive | Immunity to poisons and diseases Whilst in canon this refers to all known poisons and diseases, in game it applies to MOST, but with an added susceptibility to complex tech viruses that target nanotechnology. As long as his modifications are working optimally, he will be immune, but if he were to be infected with a tech virus, he would be left with a weaker immune system than most since the nanotech has been doing the heavy lifting in place of his own body
Personality:
Giovanni begins life as a timid, fearful and withdrawn child who struggles to cope with the horror and violence he was actually created for. He consistently voices a belief that he doesn’t belong in the facility/Cerberus Unit and is often found crying/whimpering/cowering away from whatever awful test he and the other children are subjected to (earning him the nickname ‘crybaby Giovanni’ and occasional teasing or disdain from the other children). Because he starts out as a somewhat inferior specimen, he is constantly berated by ‘Mother’, who subjects him to verbal abuse and consistently informs him of his own uselessness. This sparks the beginnings of a deep jealousy which is only exacerbated by Heine’s escape from the Cerberus Project (see AU history!).
As he matures, the horror and violence of the test facility he has grown up in and the fact that he was abandoned to the facility by Heine has a deep and traumatic effect on Giovanni, leading him to become dissociated from his softer emotions and detached from everything around him. Given the events of his everyday life and his lack of other experiences to draw from, he realises that in order to survive among wolves he has to become one himself, and the jealousy and bitterness he feels towards Heine (the ‘favourite’ child, who also left him behind) and his own sizable inferiority complex drive him to develop control over his own abilities and to become the deadly but loyal fighting machine he was created to be.
Giovanni presents himself as a smooth, collected, violent individual, referring to jobs he’s sent out on as ‘fun’ or ‘games’. He’ll often be found smiling or laughing during violent encounters, takes on a suave, snarky personality and appears to take great enjoyment from violence in general. His tone of voice is often wry, sardonic, and mocking, and on encountering him in a situation outside of the Kennel or away from figures of significant authority within the Company, he would seem to be assertive, confident and ruthless.
However, Giovanni does not, in fact, partake in violence merely for its own sake. Instead, his personality and behaviour are constructed from a persistent undercurrent of jealousy, fear, and his pervasive desire for approval. Despite having proven himself in terms of his abilities among the Dogs, he continues to consider himself second-rate, still somehow defective, and because of this he is always attempting to prove that he is loyal, obedient, deadly, and above all useful. Given his training and background and the fact that he began life with a somewhat ‘submissive’ personality to begin with, he is loyal to the Company down to the bones and considers himself to be little more than a tool ( a ‘leashed dog’, something he openly recognises and makes reference to, at times). He has spent his entire life taking orders and acting almost entirely under the direction of someone else, which suggests that he wouldn’t even begin to know what to do with himself if those ties were broken.
As his life revolves around violence and simple survival, it’s safe to say that he has little idea of where his own interests might lie. He has no deep interpersonal relationships outside of his loyalty to his creator and his connection with the Company (who for the most part look down on him as he is, essentially, just an 'attack dog', a weapon to be used). His distance from everyone around him stems in part from the dissociation created between himself and his emotions following Heine’s perceived abandonment of him, and in part because he is, essentially, just a weapon - he lacks normal socialisation and his creator and superiors in the Company treat him accordingly (a tool, not a friend or even an autonomous person). All in all Giovanni's existence focuses entirely on three things: being the obedient weapon he was intended to be, Heine, and his loyalty to the Company. He has nothing else. However, he does harbour an intense dislike towards Handsome Jack thanks to his role in orchestrating Heine’s escape, and while his training and loyalty to the Company prevent him from seeking a violent revenge, his less-than-friendly feelings towards him are thinly veiled, at best.
When away from battle, Giovanni is an intensely morose, lonely individual who spends much of his time dwelling on the past and almost entirely cut off from his present. His feelings towards – and virtual obsession with – Heine are also more complicated than pure bitterness and jealousy; Heine is the one person who he had shared any level of closeness with and while he in no way expects a return of this closeness, he still misses Heine deeply and has a strong desire for the other man to at least acknowledge his existence. Still, despite his inferiority complex, his desire to please, his abiding fear and his longing for the past, this is not to say that deep down he is still that gentle-natured child who just wants to be liked. In order to survive the horror and violence that makes up his existence, it was essential to become equally violent and ruthless; while he may not be the arrogant, self-confident killing machine he presents himself to be in front of others, he does enjoy fighting and would kill mercilessly if ordered to or if someone stood between him and the goals set out for him. At least some of his bitterness towards Heine stems from Heine’s readiness to abandon the Cerberus Unit; because of his own jealousy, his inferiority complex and his desire to push himself to be better, Giovanni finds it hard to comprehend why Heine wouldn’t want to reach his full potential and become the very best that the Cerberus Unit has to offer, referring to him as a stray mutt. This acts to demonstrate that this kind of violence and ruthlessness is something Giovanni strives for, that the gentleness in him has been largely suppressed by the harshness of his life. He's damaged certainly, and a product of the life he was forced into, but violence is now so deeply ingrained in him that he's come to enjoy it to some extent.