Let's talk Tragic Backstories!

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Welcome to the Tragic Backstories™ meme!

Step 1. Post your character(s)!
Step 2. Explain your character's horrific, tragic backstory in as much lush and lurid detail as you can manage!*
Step 3. Read everyone else's posts and be appropriately horrified!


*Please be sensible and note if there's likely to be particularly disturbing imagery, and likewise keep in mind when reading that these are tragic backstories for a reason

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Narancia Ghirga | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

[orangesmith]

CW for false imprisonment, parental neglect, police brutality, JJBA spoilers

Narancia won't talk about his past much so it's up to me I guess.

Narancia was born in 1983 Italy to his father, an unnamed gardener, and his mother, Mela Ghirga. Unfortunately, things took a turn when Narancia was ten, when Mela died from an eye infection. This left him alone with his father, who was neglectful of his son and apparently didn't care what he did. Narancia soon dropped out of school to start spending more time with his friends, who he valued more than anything. He particularly trusted one older friend, and told that friend about his mother's death via eye infection among other things.

Unfortunately, those friends were not great friends. They would routinely steal food from restaurants and stores, and Narancia was right along with them. The friend he trusted most (who I'll call Asshole Friend) was the worst of the bunch, and one day Asshole Friend told Narancia to dye his hair blond so that they could look alike. Narancia, trusting him, did so. It turned out that Asshole Friend had broken into a woman's home and beaten up the woman who lived there, and faced with the risk of being sent to jail, decided to frame a then fourteen year old Narancia for the crime and let him take the blame.

The plan worked. Narancia was arrested for the break in and attack, and despite his protests that he hadn't done it, ended up being sent to juvie for a full year. To make matters worse, the guards apparently beat Narancia during his time in juvie, resulting in him developing an eye infection like the one that took his mother.

After Narancia got out of juvie at age fifteen, he tried to reunite with his friends, only to find that they were now avoiding him because they thought his eye infection was contagious. Why would they think that, you ask? Well, Asshole Friend, who was the only person Narancia had told about his mother's eye infection, had been spreading rumors based on what Narancia had told him, causing everyone to think the eye infection was contagious when they saw Narancia.

Alone, Narancia began to give up, thinking that the eye infection was going to kill him like his mother, and ended up on his own on the streets. Luckily, it's here that his life starts to turn around. While Narancia was scrounging through the trash for food, a teen named Pannacotta Fugo found him and took pity on him, deciding to bring him to the restaurant where he was meeting up with one Bruno Bucciarati. In turn, Bruno gave Narancia a meal and helped him get medical treatment for his eye infection, despite the fact that he did not have to help him. While in the hospital, Narancia figured out that Bruno was a gangster and asked to work for him, only for Bruno to angrily tell him to go home and return to school.

To his credit, Narancia did do this, though he was never able to trust his neglectful father and he was confused on why Bruno got so angry at him for asking. Six months later (and after realizing that the reason for Bruno's anger was because Bruno actually cared about his wellbeing), Narancia proceeded to go join the gang, a group called Passione, anyways, successfully passing the test needed to get in and gaining his Stand, a small RC sized plane called Aerosmith, in the process. He was assigned to Bruno's team after getting in.

JJBA plot spoilers below:

Unfortunately, at age seventeen, Narancia would be brutally killed at the hands of the boss of Passione, a man named Diavolo. Due to the fact that Diavolo used his time skipping ability in the process of killing him, Narancia didn't have the chance to fight back or even know what was happening. To add insult to injury, Narancia had been planning to finally go back to school before his death, something that he was sensitive about due to his lack of education.

Narancia's now in the Pokémon world, but he found himself in Team Rocket. Hopefully he can make a good life for himself here.