#deano is me singing bc I suck

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Can I have some headcanons about deano

Papa Louie Deano HC

-Deano Abbadeli is a 34 year old gondolier and salesman who lives with his wife, Katherina; his son, Matteo; and his daughter, Bianca, in a small Portallini house. While he had wanted to become an opera singer in the past, he met Maximo Del Mare in his adolescence and was inspired to take on his gondoliering after high school.

-Deano is a charming gentleman who while extremely average, always attempts to make himself a larger character than he actually is. His voice and mannerisms are similar to broadway actors or someone in a kids’ show, which make people either laugh or silently cry. After a hard day’s work, he has the tendency to be much grumpier and quiet, though this immediately melts away when he finally gets to see his family again.

-He is also the one to boat Utah and Doan to and from their workplace and to the train stations, which puts extra pressure on them to make his orders amazing. This is also due to Edoardo telling them a scary story about people who wrong Deano suddenly ending up in a waterfront “accident”. In all actuality, Deano’s too nice of a guy to be that petty (and Utah reminds him too much of his own daughter to ever be rude to her). Besides, why would Deano commit homicide for undercooked pasta?

-Much like a radio, if you ask him to whistle you a song, he will. He can also whistle for extremely long amounts of time. He wants to actually sing, but his voice isn’t very good and it disturbs the guests, so he just whistles. When his voice gets too tired, he just talks about his family or let’s the guests tell stories.

-He doesn’t eat all his food at the Pastaria so that he could take some home and bring it to Bianca since she loves gnocchi.

-He met Maximo when he was still in high school. He took the gondola one day after being made fun of again in choir for his awful singing. To be honest, Maximo usually just smiles and nods when guests tell stories because he doesn’t care, but Deano wouldn’t stop crying, so he got too emotionally invested in the story. He decided to cheer Deano up by showing him how to work a gondola, which inspired the boy to become his apprentice. They had a very close relationship and Maximo was even the father in law for both Deano’s kids. Deano misses Maximo very much, but runs the gondola business in his honor.

-When he got bullied by the kids in choir after school, he’d scrape barnacles off the bottom of the gondola and throw them at them. A lot of them left him alone after that, which was also because Katherina (who was his classmate at the time) protected him.

-He can speak Italian, English, Spanish, Japanese, German, and French. This is so he can better connect with his clients when giving them tours or having conversations with them.

-His favorite thing to do is stroll on Portallini’s bridge at night and look up at the stars and street lights. He sometimes does this with Utah and Deano after they’ve all had a particularly exhausting day. They all find it very relaxing.

-His favorite movies are silent movies and black and white films. He likes to imaging how their voices sound and what the actual colors of the screen would be. He’s mostly forced to watch rom coms or animated movies with his family, but he likes those too.

-He and Akari have sort of a rivalry because of their chosen vehicles. It actually doesn’t make sense, the whole boats vs motorcycles thing, but they don’t really like each other. She’s also much too sassy and brazen for his liking while he’s too much of a coward in her eyes (not on Hacky Zak level though).

-Sienna brings him pumpkin and apple pies on Thanksgiving as thanks for always helping her travel. He likes to make her a turkey in return, but it’s almost always raw in the center or dressed up with absurd ingredients, so she always secretly throws it away.

-He is probably singlehandedly keeping the hat shops alive because he keeps having to buy hats after his blow away. He never learns to just take the hat off or to just not wear a hat altogether.

-If you rock the boat on purpose to be silly, he will hit you on the head with an oar or throw a barnacle at you. Utah and Bruna can definitely attest to that.

-Sorry, my headcanons here are kinda weak. Deano used to piss me off when I first started playing Papa’s Pastaria solely because of his shirt, I hate big blue vertical stripes. Also because his hat looked like it was about to fall off and I don’t like feeling anticipation when looking at someone. Despite this, Deano seems like a cool dude.