Name: Piérre Luigi Marchonné
Age: 23 | Actual age: 636
Species: Aurazin
Role: Empath
Face Claim: Benedict Cumberbatch

Optimistic | Childish | Loving | Forgiving
Naif | Gullible | Instantaneous | Forgiving

*Trigger Warning - Physical abuse, still birth, violent death*

Piérre and his twin brother Romeo, born Corvus and Aquila, were the children wrought of the joining of two noble families in Renaissance Venice, Italy. However, they would not relish the love of family for longer than a few months, for a jealous uncle on the twins' father's side, a scorned noble named Scorpio, sought out his younger brother and his radiant bride, to slay and destroy the lineage so that he himself could claim power for his own. Though the family fled, and the twins were eventually safely abandoned on the outskirts of Arezzo, the parents of the ill-fortuned brothers were caught and slaughtered at the hand of Piérre's ruthless uncle, who in turn took power over the nobility. Always paranoid that somehow his brother's whelps would return to rein vengeance on his head, Scorpio reclused himself in his castle, and was then on known as the Lord of Seclusion.

As for the twins, they were eventually recovered and then raised by a travelling gypsy circus and given the names that they sported for the rest of their lives: Piérre and Romeo, respectively. Piérre became renowned as a fire-breather, court jester, and a mandolin instrumentalist, and he was renowned for having a story to tell at any point in time. Romeo, blessed and cursed with the genetic trait of gigantism, was the greatest strongman that had ever belonged to the troupe. For most of the twins' child and adolescent years, the boys had a relatively happy life. When Piérre was sixteen, his adoptive father Krystov Devon Delizia, the previous ringleader of the troupe, passed away, and Piérre became the new ringleader, leading his troupe successfully for the last seven years of his life.

On an ill-fated day in the midst of summer in Italy, Piérre was accused and convicted of belittling and insulting a high-ranking noble. Who else would it happen to be but Lord Scorpio, who was no less paranoid or sensitive than he was twenty-three years ago. Old age had made the cruel lord bitter, and the loss of his left eye did nothing to remedy it. At the sound and the sights of Piérre and his jester nature, and especially at the slights and gentle taunts that the never ill-intending lad spoke, Scorpio arrested the ringleader, had him beaten and then sentenced to Coffin Torture until he was released. Despite the heat, the shame, the agony, the hunger, the thirst, and the mockery, a bright light, a spark of hope burning deep in Piérre's heart continued to see him through. That and the company of his brother kept Piérre fighting for every bit of life that he had left to give. One day passed, and then another... for a week Piérre was kept in the cage, weakening and wasting away, yet still smiling and jesting to the best of his ability, praying in his Catholic faith for protection and deliverance, by life or death. Impressed with the ringleader's performance in this cage, Scorpio forged a bet with Romeo. If Piérre could survive another three days in the cage without food, drink, or company, he would free the captive. If not... there would be no skin off of his back. Romeo complied, and for the next three days, the troupe prayed and fasted for Piérre.

At the end of three days, Piérre was still breathing, albeit barely, and he was loosed from his cage. Just as he was offered freedom, however, Piérre's body could sustain him no longer, and with a single sip of freedom, Piérre relinquished his spirit...

For days after his departure from the mortal world, Piérre travelled with his troupe, still thinking himself living and recovered from his ordeal. It was not until a blinding spirit of rainbow light found him, broke the news gently, and then guided Piérre, a rainbow spirit like it, back to others of his kind... a race that Piérre came to know as the Aurazin.

For the next six centuries, Piérre watched the mortal world inquisitively and curiously, with the mind of a child and the kindness of the Catholic God that he always sought to emulate. Though he was told that it was Zeus that created them, Piérre always believes that it is the One True God that permitted him life and the ability to guide and counsel the living and guide the passed spirits who were like himself. Love and empathy are Piérre's most powerful traits and he always uses them. Agape. Love is what will save the world.