Giovanni dalle bande nere Servant(Saber) WIP

[proda]

Saber



"Non Snudarmi senza ragione, non impugnarmi senza onore."

[/font][/font][/b]: // Giovanni di Giovanni de' Medici
OTHER ALIAS: //Giovanni dalle bande nere, Giovanni de' Medici
CURRENT AGE: // 28 (age at Death)
YEAR OF BIRTH: // 1498
GENDER: // male
ALIGNMENT: // Lawful Neutral
OCCUPATION: // Capitano di ventura(mercenary leader),swordsman.
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[/font][/b]: //My wonderful mustachioed figure
A statue my son built in my honour, it's me in my FABULOUS medici crest armour.
Myself while fighting

HEIGHT: // Unknown, said to be tall by contemporaries.
WEIGHT: // Unknown
EYE COLOR: // Hazel
HAIR COLOR: // Black
PIERCINGS: // None
TATTOOS: // None
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: // Beautiful mustache,black banner,engraved sword,Black armor with Medici family crest.
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[/font][/font][/b]: // Hotheaded,easy to anger

• Reckless Fighter
  
  • Cares little about his own health while fighting one on one, thus often exposing himself to counterattacks,this may make for a frightening implacable man or a lump of dead meat, depends on the strenght of the opponent, but it's generally not a good trait.
    
• Easily angered
  
  •  Just Badmouthing anything he loves is enough to get yourself in a world of hurt, if you're lucky, that is. It is unsuitable for a leader such as him and this has caused many problems with his fellow men, but they came to love and understand him nonetheless,altough they try to reduce possible disagreements to a minimum.
    
• Loving Father
  
  • Truly loves his son whom he sees capable of doing marvelous deeds, he is truly sad he never had the chance to see him grow up and realize the greatness that he hoped for.

LIKES: // His men, Firenze, Pope Leo X, his son,his mother.
DISLIKES: // Disrespecting a contract, disertors, traitors, those who badmout the things he cares about.
STRENGTHS: // Tactical genius, strenght comparable to that of 20 average italian men of the time, peerless swordsmanship and leadership.
WEAKNESSES: //Easy to anger, rash temperament, fights recklessly[/font][/ul]

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_dalle_Bande_Nere
www.unipi.it/index.php/tutte-le-news/item/1259-cos%C3%AC-mor%C3%AC-giovanni-dalle-bande-nere (italian)
www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp?issuetocId=7681
cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/biografie/bandener.htm (italian)
(The part about him being always faithful to his contracts is still historically true, that was the meaning of being a capitano di ventura, but the part of him never betraying the papal states was a huge romanticization, due to the fact that he became a sort of national hero for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany)

MY HISTORY: // I was born as the last son of a very peculiar Mother, Caterina Sforza, she was a loving mother altough i met her for a very short while since I was mostly raised in Firenze due to various circumstaces, however, with time I came to Rome with my tutor,(mostly because i killed a guy in a street brawl because he insulted my family and was thus exiled from Florence) Jacopo Salviati, there my legend started. I entered the papal army because pope Leo X (my great benefactor who I deeply care for) was my father's second cousin, but soon I showed my strenght.When I was but a 16 year old brat with lackluster sword training I singlehandedly defeated an Orsini Elitè captain, veteran of many wars, in single combat during a melèè started on the Castel Sant'Angelo bridge between my companions and his men. Well due to this Mr. Salviati sent me away from Rome (were i just had made a name for myself) and sent me to Naples, weeeell.....let's just say that I made a name for myself even there.My first real war was in 1516 against Urbino, as a leader of a small ragtag bunch of misfits serving as mercenaries under the papal army, that ragtag bunch would become in time the most feared Elitè unit of Medieval Italy, the "Bande Nere". Those willing to join the "Bande Nere" had to duel me and survive, (well it was tought of as impossible to defeat me in signle combat...). Survivors would face a very hars training, but due to me himself taking part in it and treating them as a good father would they would come to love both me and one another as brothers, thus desertors or traitors were incredibly rare, but when they did present themselves they where dealt with swiftly and brutally. We were the first company to adopt a consistent uniform and a strict discipline, and also the first to adopt light cavalry hit and run tactics with the mounted arquebusiers thus I came to be regarded by Macchiavelli himself as "The one who could unite Italy". Well I didn't quite succed in doing that alas, mostly due to the fact that after my benefactor, Leo X's death (it was to mourn his death that i dyed my banner black, before it was white with purple stripes) Things started to go to hell pretty fast and well, the enemy of the Papal states and Florence became the Holy Roman Emperor, my former ally who had very strong mercenary landsknechts at his disposal....Fun thing is, I defeated them time after time, so much so that the landsknecht began to call me the great devil,truly a fittin name!My Bande Nere were never defeated in battle while I was alive,sadly, in 1526 i was hit in the knee by a light cannon shot,the leg was destroyed and the delay in medical treatment led to my untimely death.With me dead my successors who weren't as knowledgeable of military tactics as I was and ended up putting themselves against unsormountable odds, ultimately leading to the Sack of Rome of 1527, all in all i was remembered as a hero, never renouncing my oath to fulfill my contract as a mercenary of the Papal State.

MY GOALS: // I wish to use the Grail to see my son once again. I've had too little time with him while I was alive. I want to look at him and taell him how I feel about him. I also wanto to see Firenze once more, but for that the Grail is not needed.
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[/font][/b]: // Engraved Medici Family sword, has "non estrarmi senza ragione, non impugnarmi senza onore" carved on the blade.
NOBLE PHANTASM: //
Bande Nere-Stemma delle bande nere (Black bands- Black Bands banner)
Rank: C
Type: Support
Range: Self
Max Targets: 1

A Black Banner waving in the wind, it is the symbol of everything Giovanni accomplished in his life, merely looking at it fills him with pride and boosts his morale and battle prowess,slightly increasing his agility endurance and strenght, this Noble Phantasm is always active.
"This is the banner of the one feared by even the german landsknecht, this is the banner of the Great Devil!"

CLASS ABILITIES: //
SKILLS: //

STRENGTH: // B (not totally sure)
ENDURANCE: // C
AGILITY: // C
MANA: //E
LUCK: // E
NOBLE PHANTASM: // C

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[/font][/font][/b]: //
FACE CLAIM: // Giovanni de' Medici from the manga "Pilgrim Jaeger"
OTHER CHARACTERS: //
MISC. INFORMATION: //
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[Sigurd Fafnesbane]

I regret to inform you that, at the moment, we are glutted for Servants, and will, for the moment, be asking people to make Masters before Servants, in order to rectify this imbalance.

[proda]

I thank you for the information! I already have an idea for a Master but was a bit reluctant because the setup for a master character was in my opinion harder so I tried to make a servant first, I'm sorry if it caused you any sort of trouble >.<!