Zanfirico Vidimus

33 human equivalent | June 10 | Male | Fae
Supporting | Academy Staff | Theater Teacher

Fan Art of Antonio Salieri from Fate: Grand Order byPFALZ
In his human form, Zanfirico looks older than he might otherwise because of his white hair. Otherwise he might look like he is an Italian man in his mid-thirties. He stands 5'10" tall and has bright red eyes. In this form, his style is dapper and smart.


Official Art of Antonio Salieri from Fate: Grand Order
In his true form, Zanfirico appears as an almost demonic parody of a Victorian gentleman. His body is made entirely of glass and looks like he is wearing finery of red and black including thigh high high heel boots. His face is covered by a twisting, horn-like gray mask. In this form he stands thin and over seven feet tall.

Zan is a gentleman with a love for the arts and music, a scholar who enjoys history and science. A Renaissance man. He is kind and gregarious, slow to anger and quick to laugh. He can and does enjoy sporting events and generally tries to be personable to everyone.

Underneath though, he bears a single-minded thirst for vengeance that transcends what is possible, even for himself. Everything he does and is and will be is dedicated to this vengeance, which he is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve.

Active
Fae Glamour
Zan can hide his true form with a Glamour, making him look, smell, and even feel human to those who cannot see through it.

Sonata of Shards
By whistling or humming, Zanfirico can control up to one hundred pounds of glass within one hundred feet of himself, moving and reshaping it as if an extension of his own body. He can also grow glass from even a small shard, though he can only grow one pound of glass per minute.

Passive
Unquenchable Thirst
Zanfirico is the bearer of the collective debts owed to the individual who led to his Court's fall. Until it is paid back, he cannot be killed or held permanently. If killed, he will grow from a single shard of glass after several weeks. If held or trapped for several weeks, his mind will transfer into the closest piece of sand or glass and he will be reborn from it while his old body shatters and crumbles to nothing. Once his debt is somehow repaid, he will die immediately.

Weakness
Fragility
While his body is no less durable than a normal human's damage that breaks his skin does not create a localized laceration. Instead, he begins to crack and break like glass. This causes wounds he suffers to be far worse than they normally would be.

Zanfirico was a nobody: a simple gate guard for the Court of the Winedark Sea, also known as the Court of Stained Glass. That was when the calamity came. A dragon, a massive flash of emerald and unprovoked hatred. She tore through a majority of the Court in her tantrum, then left when her damage was done. It did not take long for the other Courts to swoop in like vultures to a fresh kill. Zanfirico barely made it out alive.

In the aftermath, he collected what glass he could from his deceased brethren and his King and Queen. He took this glass, the still barely living shards, into himself. And thus, he took on the anguish and debt that they had borne when the dragon had come for them.

He wandered for a long time, finding his way between Courts that would have him, such as Facade, and the Long Night. But he never even got a name of the dragon he had so much seething hatred for. Eventually he found his way to Manta Carlos. He started working, if for no other reason than to give himself something to occupy his time. And there on a whim, he went to watch a fight at the arena.

What providence. What divine intelligence. He watched his hated foe battle a scruffy man in the arena and get soundly beaten by him. He could get the vengeance he so desperately wanted. The eonly question was how.

Lives in a small cottage on a teacher's salary.