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CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Full Name: Beniamino aka Benny aka Ami whatever you like really as long as you’re paying him
Race: Human
Occupation: Whore??
Faction, if applicable: Neutral
Reputation & rumors:
- Might be a eunuch (why is the world so cruel ; ;)
- Whore’s whore (WHY)
- Shiri has yelled at him so much that she really must like him or he’s always five seconds away from losing his nuts
Age: 21
Birthday: sigh
Birth Location: Druze
Height: 5’10
Weight: 140lbs?? I NEVER KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER
PB (Played-By): Luke Pasqualino
History: His father was a military man, like his father before him. And like his grandfather, Benny’s dad seemed to only know how to marry a woman from a foreign land and make more children everytime he was inbetween tours. In Benny’s eyes his mother was terribly oppressed, but she was pragmatic enough to make light of her situation. She was a seamstress that (tried to) put all her children to work. So in theory, Benny should have been helping his mother watch his little siblings. He should have been washing dyes from fabrics in the river. Except, he didn’t.
He knew his mother was overworked and barely paid, but it just meant that she’d have a harder time actually disciplining him. Rather than feel sorry for her and inclined to help, Benny caroused around as he pleased once he was over the age of twelve. Benny ended up rolling in a pack of likewise abandoned hoodlums and petty thieves. Eventually he made a show of ‘disowning’ his own mother, claiming that his friends were his real family now. His ‘family’ treated him well until they all started getting old enough to get in serious trouble. They went from stealing flowers to stealing food to stealing cattle. It wasn’t long before most of them were caught. Instead of losing his hand or his life, Benny found himself on a chain of similar criminals and on his way to Tyrol. He had dreams of dungeons, the salt mines in Olsec, or worse.
It didn’t turn out to be any of those things. He was sold to a merchant lord and sent to Tartessos to load and unload his ships and docks. The air was salty, there were mermaids, and the population was seedy. Benny didn’t mind the work all that much, but he knew things could be better for him. He was right, too. The lord’s wife took an interest in him eventually and put him to bed. A bored minor lord’s wife was a lot to handle for a seventeen year old, but spending the afternoon on his back was nicer than spending it hauling crates. She liked him well enough, and took him along when she left Tartessos to sail for Italy on her many vacations.
He found inhibitions looser in Italy than they were in Tyrol, and the drugs were pretty great! She kept a large company with a variety of tastes. He had a few quiet moments of horror when he realised his short life had boiled down to being a villa boytoy, but the he thought of where the rest of his ‘family’ was and moved on. He’d come to regard the rest of humanity as a crazy, lusty, sometimes bloodthirsty bunch that did what they wanted, and his life was much simpler when he just thought himself stripped of choice in the matter.
The motto served him well when word came that the merchant lord had suffered a messy death at the hands of his competitors. His wife was quick to act in liquefying what assets she could in the name of covering her tracks and keeping her own pretty head, but it meant downsizing as well. It seemed there was some fondness left in her for Benny - instead of being dumped in any old brothel, she had him
sent to present himself at Inanna’s. And while originally grateful for his crack at a classy place instead of some Bercator slum, Shiri’s moodswings continue to make him feel a bit awkward.
He’s been at Inanna’s for almost a year now and is just about settled. Trusting such a crazy broad doesn’t come easy for him, but he’s tried to make the best of what’s been set before him. He likes the clientele enough and works, well, hard for his money. He’s even managed to get a regular or two. Shiri hasn’t slapped him in almost a month!
Personality: Benny’s never had anyone to teach him morals, and he doesn’t think himself as having any. The more (non-violent) crazier you are, the more he probably likes you. Addicts and neurotics are the kind of people that fascinate him. The taboo excites him. He doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with his profession. Farmers break their backs, nobles spend all day betraying each other, and he spends his having enormous amounts of good sex and playing cards. It still grinds his gears when people look down on him for it, but really, he thinks there’s a large amount of jealousy in their derision.
Part of being an efficient whore is learning to play to the desires of his clients. Benny realises this, but his skill is still being honed. He often overreaches and spends a large amount of time trying to figure even his colleagues out. He doesn’t sweat it, though. If he’s wrong, he’ll figure it out! It’s all a fascinating process. And Others, wow! He’d love to fuck one. Or maybe he has and he just doesn’t know it. How exciting. As his sense of shame withered on the vine many years ago, he thinks nothing of mewling at the knee of some rich lord if it means more money in his (and Shiri’s) pocket. There’s not a lot Benny wouldn’t do for a client, provided there wasn’t a danger to his own life or limbs. And no blood, his stomach gets all squirmy at the sight. :(
99.5% of the things that happen at Inanna’s don’t make him blink. The last four years of his life have been all about pleasing people in one form or another and it shows - he’s a go with the flow kind of guy where work isn’t concerned. He genuinely tries not to judge at first, but if you rub him the wrong way continually he finds it hard to forgive. Self-centered to the point of being obnoxious most days, he does love talking about himself! Being a brothel is sort of odd when it comes to the ‘friends are family’ line that he established in his early years, but he could see it happening eventually. Even having no morals, he still knows there’s some things you don’t do where his homie whores are concerned. He’s probably jumped in a fight between clients to separate them or held back a drunk patron’s wrist before it could slap a girl before.
Personality Keywords: reckless, lazy, greedy, low-brow, conceited, lusty, sly, without morals
Appearance: Benny is babyfaced and he knows it. It’s a feature that will keep him in the business longer than he should be. Even with a strong and square jaw, his wide nose and mouth coupled with big doe eyes leave him looking younger than his twenty one years. His hair is another thing that helps, brown and shaggy over his forehead or disheveled in different directions. Despite his best efforts his default expression rotates between sleepy and frowning, and he often has to be reminded to smile. His skin is a smooth, light brown and unblemished for the most part save for a few small scars at his calves and back.
He’s got no problem parading around shirtless or even naked, but he understands the phrase ‘why pay for what can be gotten for free?’ The girls have got it way easier when it comes to fashion with their gauzy little getups, but he gets by well enough. Shirts that are sleeveless or cut to show collarbones, overlarge trousers that hang low at the hips and end at the top of his calves. A bedsheet. Whatever works. He’s not picky! He fills out most clothes well enough but he's very lean and a little bird-chesty, he could afford to eat a little more.
Also speaks with a slight Italian accent, totally played up whenever he wants. His left ear is pierced and still filled with a stud.
Languages Known: English
Skills: cards! whoring! being bratty! being quiet! dodging shiri’s fists of fury!
Strengths: Manipulative to a point, easy to look at, easy to speak to, massage skillz!
Weaknesses: over eager, unable to see the big picture, impatient, faints like a bitch at the sight of blood, vain vain vain