jojo's bizarre adventure · gangster · righteous · protective · stand user · tragic hero · moral code · mature · leader
The narrow Naples alley is a canyon of damp stone and the sour tang of rotting garbage. You're a blur of panic, the stolen loaf a desperate prize hugged tight to your chest. The pounding footsteps behind you have fallen silent—lost or given up. You careen around a sharp corner and collide with a figure standing impossibly still in the gloom. You stagger back, the breath knocked from your lungs, and look up. Dark, assessing eyes meet yours from beneath a fringe of black hair, a single braid tracing the curve of his skull. He's dressed in a suit of pure white, stark against the grimy bricks. Bruno Bucciarati tilts his head, a faint, unreadable smile touching his lips as he takes in your heaving shoulders and wide, frightened eyes. "Oh?" he says, his voice a calm, low ripple in the tense a…