Monica Argento // AX Codename: Black Widow

✇Player Info✇
Name: Chaer
Journal: chaernotwasted
Means of contact: AIM: Sicilytremaine Email: chaernotwasted@gmail.com
Other Characters: N/A


✇Character Info✇
Name: Monica Argento
Age: No canon age; roughly 28 due to appearance and life experiences known
Canon: Trinity Blood (manga only)
Canon Point: During Act 42 Le Pacte des Loups; Before Butler appears before her but after Esther and Schera escape her

History:
There is not a whole lot of background on Monica Argento. She appears well into the manga series as an AX Officer. She accompanies Tres Iqus to hunt down Schera and Esther when they are fugitives. After she has finally lost the girls’ trail she pauses to think about her past for only a few pages. It shows her with much longer hair in front of a grave speaking to the headstone. She has lost whoever is in the ground as well as a child from her womb. Still standing at the grave she reveals that she was somehow apart of the mafia, the Cosa Nostra of Sicily, and cuts her hair off.

The scene skips and shows her bound in the cage with a rose collar around her throat. It’s a device that will keep her in line as she has tried to kill the leaders of the Catholic Church for their involvement in the cleaning up of the mafia. Caterina Sforza, the Iron Lady and Head of AX, was the one woman she couldn’t kill. Now Caterina controls her through the collar that will blow up her head should she disobey orders or attempt any more assassination attempts towards the leaders of the Church.
http://trinityblood.wikia.com/wiki/Monica_Argento

Personality: [433 words :D]
Monica Argento is a bitch. There is no way around it. She kills without mercy or remorse. She takes delight in annoying and fighting her allies. Despite being an AX officer and a nun she would like nothing more than to see the downfall of the leaders of the Church.

Being formerly of the Cosa Nostra, or mafia, Monica has been exposed to cruelty and dirty dealings her whole life. Rather than shirk and shrink away from that like a criminal she holds herself high and embraces the dark side of life to achieve her goals. She has no qualms with killing. In fact, she enjoys the process of the hunt and destruction of prey a little too much. She is not simply a murderess though. She waits for her prey to give her a reason to kill them rather than capture them. She gives them multiple chances to stay away from her rose blades, but once they’ve ruined their good luck nothing is going to stop her from cutting them down. She puts an almost careless trust in her own abilities to phase through the weapons that attack her, but also seems to rely on her partner in the single operation she’s been shown in. She is fast in efficient in carrying out Caterina’s orders.

Monica is not a ‘people person’. She tolerates Caterina Sforza and follows her orders because of the bomb strapped to her neck and the respect Caterina earned for capturing her rather than dying at her hand. She is ‘the one woman that Monica couldn’t kill’. She has the strength and the countenance that Monica admires even through her hatred. She goes so far as to bow to Caterina when taking her orders. Even in light of this slightly subservient action, Monica obviously carries out her orders in her own fashion. She is highly aware of her body and its attractiveness, wearing modified priest’s robes rather than a nun’s habit. She is showing off what she is rather than covering it up with something that would imply innocence and virginity.

Monica has no love for the human race and definitely is not one for altruism or sacrifice, but I believe she would help people around her that appealed to her, children especially. From the scene in the graveyard where she cuts her hair and speaks of the child she lost from her womb, I believe that she would help to keep other mother’s from feeling the way she had to at the death of their children, not because she had any actually had any desire to save lives. Monica also has the potential for great loyalty to people she considers her own.


Abilities:

Powers: Monica’s mutation is “Material Permeability” which allows her to phase through matter. She is strong enough that she is able to teleport herself even through the ground using this ability. She can phase out her entire body or only a portion of it as she does when she is attacked to spare herself injury.
Physical Abilities: Monica is extremely fit and flexible due to her ability to phase and her own training. She’s strong for a woman, and fast, but still has to rely on her flexibility and speed to take on some much stronger opponents. Canon does show her holding her own viciously against muscled males, though. Though not specifically trained in any martial arts, she demonstrates many gymnastic like moves and kicks when she fights. Growing up in the mafia led to a variety of weapons training, especially in knives and firearms. She would definitely be able to make use of firebullets.
Mental Talents: Monica is sly and has a talent for interrogation, as well as a small gift for strategy. She’s cunning and quite intelligent, but in more of a street sense than a book or learned sense. She’s good about figuring people’s intentions, but she has little to no experience with technology beyond automobiles and basic computer functions.

Ability Limitations:
The downside to her ability is that if the thing her molecules are merged with is attacked she feels the damage herself and may possibly even be wounded, though it is more likely to scramble and delay her than take her out of commission.

Weapon:

Name: Rose blades
Description: Two long knives In her right hand is one of the set: http://download.minitokyo.net/Trinity.Blood.491484.jpg
Abilities/Powers None
Limitations: They are rather short and meant for close combat, so she’ll probably forgo using them unless she for some reason ends up fighting with another character or has no other weapons available.

Miscellaneous Items:
Modified priest’s robes
Rose choker that’s actually a bomb waiting to blow her head off…
Small belt purse with cigarettes, money, and sunglasses
Appearance:
BOOBS. Monica is a very fit and voluptuous woman. She wears modified priest’s robes that are entirely open down the front revealing tiny shorts and a whole lot of her skin. She wears cropped gloves and tights that come just below her knees, as well as high heels. She also has a leather studded belt around her hips. Her hair is short and dark black, almost violet in some lights. She has a cross at her belly button and another one hanging from the rose choker bomb around her throat.

✇Samples✇
First Person Sample:
{Monica twists the phone around cursing in Italian until she can properly see the camera. Her mouth is set in a vicious smile.}

What that hell is going on? I tried sticking my head through that door over there—{She tilts the camera to show the safe room door and then swings it back.} --And nearly got it taken off by some disgusting mutant decaying ghoul.

{Her eyes narrow.}

They aren’t vampires. Vampires would have that door off its hinges by now. Some information about whatever the hell is happening here and why I’m not still chasing down those little bitches would be nice.

Third Person Sample:
The Black Widow still couldn’t fathom what had possessed her boss in sending her to retrieve her pet robot. The thing, he, she supposed, rightly distrusted her. It was odd for him to go missing without any sort of communication at all. She supposed that’s why she was sent instead of Abel and Esther. She was definitely more expendable than them in an unknown situation. It took her a while to figure out exactly where she needed to teleport and phase without setting off alarms but soon she had an idea of where she needed to be. It was almost a piece of cake getting there. She hung in the molecules of the ceiling and watched the room below her.


When she had seen the dismantled parts of Tres Iqus, AX Agency’s only robot operative, she could admit it had startled her. He was such an efficient thing it had to have taken something powerful, or something that scrambled his circuits to stop him. The new body on the gurney had startled her more though. It was so completely similar in appearance to Tres that for a moment she was afraid she was going to have to scrap a new ‘Tres’ with all the knowledge of AX that was following a new set of orders. Lucky for her, and Caterina, that wasn’t the case.


To hear instead that he was human, she couldn’t believe it so much that she lost her grip of the molecules and had to flip before she landed on her head in the room. Trying for a smooth recovery she smirked at the man and the…man tied to the gurney. “Hey, doll.”

Note: I grabbed this sample from an AU musebox rp if you would prefer a different piece pertaining to zombies and L4D please just let me know and I will be happy to write one up.