Name: Giorno Giovanna

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Appearance: [url=http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11121/111210761/4309249-giorno.giovanna.full.1582306.jpg]"Never ending is an ending. That is Gold Experience Requiem."[/url]

Canon, AU, or OC?: AU

Universe of Origin: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Personality: A young man of intense confidence and conviction, Giorno Giovanna has a dream that he pursues with the absolute most of his willpower and strength. With a strong personal code, Giorno takes affronts to his personal sense of justice very seriously, and has devoted himself to helping others by any means he deems necessary. Even so, Giorno is a ruthless, calculating individual, who can unflinchingly perform even the most sickening of tasks if need be. With a cool, composed demeanor, even those that incur his wrath rarely come to know of it until it is too late.

Abilities/Weapons: Giorno's extraordinarily powerful Stand, [url=http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/a/a5/GoldExperience_Requiem.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/330?cb=20140822161359]Gold Experience Requiem[/url], has lost some of its power due to residual effects of multiversal travel, but is still quite formidable. The Stand exists outside of time and space, and cannot be categorized using criteria that corresponds to normal stands. Gold Experience Requiem represents an ultimate form of defence for Giorno, and is given that, it is exactly as strong, fast, and precise as it needs to be to defend him at that given moment, is immune to the distortion of time and dimensions, and can act autonomously when Giorno is unable to control it. Its most powerful ability is that to revert an attack to a state of "zero," reverting the attack as though it never happened. Though this only extends to direct attacks made against Giorno specifically, and no one else. Gold Experience retains most of its "life-giving" powers, able to temporarily transform inorganic matter to organic matter or living creatures. He can instinctively sense the location of any "life" created this way, and animals he creates will autonomously seek out any person that they were "created from." Infusing people with life induces a sensory distortion in that person, as their mind moves far faster than their body can keep up with, resulting in intensely dulled reflexes, and a exaggerated sense of time.

Giorno additionally wields the [url=http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/d/db/Arrow1.png]Stand Arrow[/url] that he obtained from Polnareff. This Arrow seeks out people with great willpower and fighting spirit, and can induce a Stand in those individuals. A person of insufficient strength of spirit will either be rejected entirely by the Arrow, or given a Stand that only serves as a parasite, slowly killing the person. A Stand User struck by the arrow gains additional powers, and a Stand struck by the arrow evolves into a "Requiem" form.

Backstory: Born as Shiobana Haruno to an English father and Japanese mother, after his father's mysterious disappearance, his mother moved to Naples, and married an Italian man. His stepfather adopted him, and his name was changed to Giorno Giovanna to better fit in. Giorno's stepfather was a cruel man, who often beat him when his mother way away. Because of this, Giorno had a thoroughly unhappy childhood. However, one day, he found a bleeding man lying in the bushes on his way to school. The man beseeched him for help, and when other, armed men appeared demanding to know where he was, Giorno feigned ignorance, and hid the man with the awakening powers of his Stand. Once they left, the bleeding man asked Giorno his name, and the following week, Giorno's stepfather was beaten by the mafia, and threatened to never harm Giorno again. This experience left a lasting impact on Giorno, and inspired him to use the power of organized crime to help people, rather than exploit them. With this revelation, his hair turned the same golden tone as his father's, and his stand, Gold Experience, fully emerged.

As a teenager, Giorno became a member of the Passione Mafia through a series of circumstances surrounding him accidentally killing a low-ranking member, "Leaky-Eyed" Luca. He joined up with a group of Stand Users in the mafia, under the leadership of a man named Bruno Buccellati. After Bruno ascended to the rank of Capo (the vacancy opening due to Giorno extracting cold vengeance on the previous Capo), the gang was entrusted with escorting the daughter of Passione's mysterious boss to him. Through many trials and battles against traitorous Stand Users, they brought the boss's daughter to him, only to realize that he meant to kill her. The gang rebelled against the boss, meeting up with Jean-Pierre Polnareff, a mysterious man who had previously battled against their enemy. In a climactic battle in the streets of Rome, Giorno's stand evolved into an all-powerful form, Gold Experience Requiem, and with it he was able to defeat the powerful Stand of Passione's boss. With the boss dead and Bruno killed in the battle, Giorno became the new boss of Passione, and has since worked toward making Italy a better country with his power.

Faction: Shadow Eternity