Nico Orsini

Nico Orsini is a young lamia who has recently started attending school at The Trappist Academy in Moonbright Cove, as part of their job to guard over Zinnia Gagliano.

Bio
Nico's early life was pretty chill, for a mafia lamia that is. Sure their family had chaotic... ah... careers, but as a little lamia they were well taken care of along with their many siblings. They spent quite a bit of time with their moms and their nonna when they could.

The Orsini Family
The Orsinis are a family of Lamia that have ties to the criminal underworld of supernatural society. The vibe is a bit Addams Family but make it mafia.

History
The Orsini family migrated to what is modern day Naples a long time ago. At the time, their various talents for magic, folk remedies, and the occasional soothsaying gave them clout which they built upon. As the mundane mafia developed, so too did occult beings form their own family syndicates, with the Orsini family being big players.

With further technological advancements, their skills began to fall out of favor, and now they're a shadow of what they once were. For the most part their ability to hold sway and be part of bigger decisions among the families is gone. Instead they're relegated to more brute force jobs, as hitters, enforcers, guards, and occasionally thieves.

The Orsini Family and Gender
The particulars of being lamia, and having snake characteristics, make the idea of assigning gender based on interpretation of anatomy at birth an alien and unnecessarily invasive custom. As such, they never developed it. Instead, among the Orsini, gender is something that an individual member explores over time, with the understanding that they have final say, and that they're allowed to change and adjust as needed. Any pronouns used before the individual has a chance to express their own feelings on the matter are grammatical placeholders at most.

Game Appearances
Moonbright Cove

2021 NYE Oneshot - NYE in Orlando

Session 1:

 * Woke up before school, and was briefed by Luca on their assignment. Lectured at length.
 * Drove Zinnia to school and found out the particulars of the Gagliano tradition of names and naming in general. Also finds out that Marigold's deadline is this year, despite her being ~11 years old.
 * In homeroom, after commotion about how Quinn "smelled like" Flint Jackson, they used their Jacobson's organ to scent Quinn. She smells like "danger", to them.
 * Witnessed Zinnia get dragged up into a vent in the bathroom and kidnapped. Joan, also in the room tries to save Zinnia, but Nico pushes her away, injuring her, in order to deal with it themself, and headed into the vents to follow.
 * After leaving the vents in the gym Joan caught up with them, tackling and confronting them over having seen their Lamia form, and her believe that Nico has done harm to Zinnia.

Session 2:

 * Further confronted by Joan, they try to deny knowing whatever it was that Joan saw, which doesn't work. Neither does trying to get Joan to recognize that they were just as concerned about Zinnia's abduction, rather than being a participant.
 * Probably didn't help that Nico reversed the tackle in order to get a word in edgewise.
 * Nico exits through the gym doors and ends up... not outside.
 * Joan tries to notify the school about the abduction, and the danger Nico presents. Administration doesn't listen to her, instead suggesting she go to the nurse.
 * On the way there, Joan gazes into the abyss to figure out what would get people to recognize how dangerous Nico is, she starts developing new injuries which she attributes to Nico when found by Quinn. Quinn goes DS and is on the hunt for Nico, which becomes a semi-official bloodhunt when Flint catches up with her.
 * While this is going on Nico is in a void of moving cubes, taunted by a voice that calls them a dashing prince come to save the princess. They eventually hear Fleur who perceives herself to be in a classroom, with Zinnia, who perceives herself to be in the bathroom. Nico cannot hear Zinnia, but encounters Allegro. Allegro can hear Zinnia, but not Fleur.
 * Back in the Gym, Quinn, Elois and Flint all prepare to go through the door that will take them to where Elois believes Nico is.