Pico Botticelli

By Cranium Tyranus

• January 10, 2013




Age: 24

Gender: Male

Species: Non-Pony

Personality: Sarcastic, but good natured, though he can be slightly irritable due to his obsession with staying awake. He has a strong sense of justice and is quick to forgive people for past transgressions, something that hurts him as well as helps him, as people tend to take advantage of his generosity.

Backstory: Although his parents were Italian, they moved from Bari, Italy to Prescott, Arizona before he was born. When he first attended school his parents were worried that he would be ridiculed for his thick accent, so his parents arranged a special exemption with Pico's kindergarten teacher not to call on him until he could be taught to talk without the accent. This lasted five years, but Pico managed to learn to speak English without an accent.<br /><br /> After he graduated high school he left his parents house to pursue a career in music, he left Prescott and headed strait for California, one of his online friends in Carlsbad had encouraged him to come out there, he already had a band and alls that was needed was a singer, although Pico wanted to be a pianist, he felt the opportunity was too good to pass up, besides which he learned how to control his voice so well that he could hit many difficult tones without much effort. The band played many bars and open houses before the group eventually gave up and went their separate ways.<br /><br />Pico's 24th birthday came and went, he didn't really pay attiention anymore, he worked at a local whole foods, just paying the bills, though he did enjoy a nice chat with his mom, his dad had passed on 3 years before, he was closing up shop when a burglar approached his register, pointing a gun at him. Pico had never been in a situation as stressful as this, he was a deer caught in the head lights, so to speak, the robber was becoming impatient, he pulled the trigger, the bullet passed through Pico's left shoulder before he could even react, he remembered feeling scared, that he wanted to see his friends and his mom one more time, but he mostly felt rage toward his aggressor, 'How dare he? He has no idea what I've been through! Who is he to take my life!?' The thought consumed him, unbeknownst to Pico however, he was about to become a pawn of an unspeakably malevolent force. Just before the being could take hold of Pico soul through the Malice he was feeling at the moment, he soon mellowed, becoming acceptant of his fate, as well as forgiving the robber for his actions, he awoke moments later in a hospital, the sole survivor of an apparent animal attack within the whole foods.<br /><br />Months went by before Pico realized that these freak animal attack were really horrific monsters when he himself almost became a statistic. A ghoulish beast had attacked him in his own home, trying it's best to tear him asunder, Pico had since excersised his Second Amendment right and bought a shotgun for home defense, it took four shells to bring the beast down. Apparently the monsters were manifestations of Pico's sub-concious, all the dark repressed thought he had towards humanity were working their way out of his head while he slept somehow, he took it upon himself to hunt these abominations down, they did come from him after all, it was his responsibility. <br /><br />He had been at his new vocation for three months when he noticed that for every monster he brought down, the more hate he seemed to be allowing into his personality, but it also gave him incredible stregth, speed, and endurance. He was now able to tilt cars over by himself, he could even manage to pick up little Volkswagon beetles like they were just heavy stones.<br /><br />More time passed and he was quickly becoming more of a loner, he stopped talking to his friends and stopped calling his mom, dark shadows formed around Pico's eyes, indicating that he hadn't been sleeping much, he had just finished off another monster, this time with only his hands when an odd creature floated up to him. It introduced itself as Mad the Swine, an inter-dimensional being charged with watching over this existence a well as those that neighbor around it. He was quick to tell Pico how boring this occupation was until he saw Pico himself, he had no idea what Pico was doing but saw why he was and this interested Mad a great deal.<br /><br />Mad then pointed out that he wished to try an experiment, he wanted to see if Pico could spawn these nightmare creatures in other dimensions as well, or if this phenomenon was just tied to this plane of existence or not. Then without a word approval from Pico, Mad had sent him off, Pico was no longer within his dimension.