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Golden Wind was already notorious for having a lot of dark and gritty scenes compared to its predecessors, which the anime expanded upon. This fanfic also dabbles in these, and is no slouch in its own slew of dark and disturbing moments, including more things that can happen in the Mafia world. These pretty much go to show that the fanfic has its mature rating for a very good reason.The Prelude
- Leaky-Eye Luca's Stand, Marlene In The Hole, is rather terrifying just from how it chases its targets, and anyone sucked into the hole it can create is Buried Alive, no matter the terrain. Olivia nearly dies to it, and the gallery gives some Fridge Horror by mentioning what Luca generally used his Stand for: chasing down enemies or people who refused to pay him.
- Chapter 4 has the first exceptionally horrifying moments. When Mista and Olivia search Prudenza's apartment and split up, Mista seemingly discovers spoiled food in the fridge, only to see that the cracked eggs have their yolks boiled with dead chick fetuses inside them. Olivia also finds a dead, rotting dog inside Prudenza's bathroom. This is all topped off by Prudenza's sudden inhuman change in appearance after she's seemingly incapacitated by Mista. With white skin with boils, and red eyes, it's very reminiscent of Phantom Blood's zombies. She even sinks her fingers into Mista's neck to use him as a puppet. Even her death isn't pretty, as the boils she had on her face explode and immolate her as she falls to her death. This is later shown to have been caused by an unknown member of Missione Boschetto, as mentioned by Pomodora, also showing that the circle in Prudenza's apartment was a Wheel of Abraxas.
Boss' Orders
- Burro may be a Hate Sink, but his actions are nothing short of scary, either. The first chapter establishes that people who don't pay him get their shops burned down by him. There's also his Bad Boss tendencies, especially the Cruel and Unusual Death one of his Mooks suffers, where he gets dissolved alive from a reflected acid bulb from his Stand during his fight with Hitomi, and he barely bats an eye. The worst one of all has to be how he kidnapped two tourist Japanese children from their parents for his other business. Hitomi is able to save them, but the implications of what Burro intended to do crosses even more of the Moral Event Horizon. Not that he didn't already cross it by killing Hitomi's father among other things.
- His posthumous cameo during Risotto's flashback shows his cruelty one more time, as he progressively stripped everything from the surviving Natale family, and then he had them executed when they refused to give anything else up.
- Cioccolata's unnamed Early-Bird Cameo in chapter 15 pulls no punches with his creepiness that had already been established in both the manga and anime. His scene opens with Pollo strapped down to a surgical table, and when you remember that Cioccolata's a sadistic doctor and the anime showed him to have been the one to butcher Sorbet, this alone can already be dread-inducing. The fanfic mercifully cuts to after Pollo had died, but the tension is played for all it's worth thanks to what's been established about Cioccolata, including his creepy Pre-Mortem One-Liner as he carries what seems to be the same knife he used to butcher Sorbet.Cioccolata: What's wrong? Cat got your tongue? Don't worry, there's more than one way to skin that cat… Secco, make sure you're recording this.
- The introduction of Drawns, courtesy of Gamberi, the first Witch fought by the heroes. The very fact that they don't transfer damage to their user makes for a formidable, intimidating trait when it's first introduced. The most scary thing to come from the introduction of Drawns is how they can turn against and kill their Witches, and how it's introduced is Scorpion crushing Gamberi's head and neck. It's essentially an R-Rated Opening to this particular trait about Drawns.
- Gamberi's sudden attempted backstabbing of Formaggio comes out of nowhere and pulls no punches as he swiftly slices off some of Formaggio's fingers. Seeing this for the first time can be jarring considering they were meant to work together, especially how Gamberi planned to cover it up as Formaggio falling in battle. Leeroy Jenkins aside, it seemed like a convincing plan on the spot as well (at least until Ghiaccio decided to examine Formaggio's wounds).
- Chapter 18 opens with Thin Lizzy entering the bar owned by Giorno's parents, where he not only reveals himself as Enya's second son, but also ruthlessly (yet coldly) kills Giorno's parents by decapitation. The events leading up to it, on top of the bar's blinds being closed are pretty unsettling and sudden, especially once Shiori notices Jacopo's decapitated body.
- Olivia being confronted with the fact that her mother is indeed dead via a Murder-Suicide is just as much of a Tear Jerker as it is unsettling, with her Suddenly Shouting a Rapid-Fire Big "NO!" once Illuso talks about it, collapsing to the ground in the process. It's then followed by a rather terrifying flashback showing how it happened, which does a great job painting the situation a younger Olivia was in as helpless and horrifying before she was saved at the last second. Her mother's Pre-Mortem One-Liner just adds to the creepiness and imminent terror.Ofelia: Mommy wants to get away… but she's going to be very lonely...You don't mind dying with Mommy, right...?
- For being one of the antagonists, Spumoni's backstory is disturbing and surprisingly tragic, detailing that she was kidnapped from her family by the Natale gang when she was 11, and was immediately forced into being a drug mule, along with other children that were kidnapped. The story pulls no punches in explaining the process, and she even had to watch other children die. This also reveals that Prosciutto was involved with this too, and he snuffed out any means of possible escape from her, like bribing a police officer. She and the other kidnapped children were eventually Left for Dead after Prosciutto betrays his team, and her Sanity Slippage leads her to do the same when the children formed a human pyramid in attempt to escape.
- Spumoni's death may not be anywhere near as brutal as Gamberi's, but it's still terrifying with how she's absorbed by her own bubbles after she leaves her Witch token behind in her attempt to escape, prompting Lovefool to turn against her. It's best not to think too much about how painful her death might have been.
Flashback of The Zeppeli Siblings
- Fredo Zeppeli joining the Natale gang after meeting Boss Natale and shining his shoes may have been his Start of Darkness, but it really kicks up when he attempts to have Will's letters burned shortly after Lisa Lisa leaves, and then brutally killing Mr. Mancino, the man from Caesar's backstory who took all of Mario's reserve money. Even if he had it coming, Fredo made sure he suffered, and it wasn't pretty. Of course, that's not all of the scary things the flashback chapters tell:
- When a Camorra man who made Fredo shine dog poop off his shoes once encounters Fredo again, Fredo venomously expresses a desire to kill him. While Francesco gets him to back off, he and Fredo find him again on the road, drunk. This time, Fredo nearly scares Francesco into running him over with that same venomous tone, and when Francesco backs out at the last second, Fredo steps out and shoots the man dead anyway. The scariest part is that this is how Fredo finally ropes Francesco, who had been disapproving of Fredo's work in the mafia up to that point, into the gang, complete with this chilling line.
Fredo: Now that you've witnessed this, Francesco...You've become my accomplice. You've got no choice but to join my gang. You're going to help me put this body in the trunk and then dump it.- Fredo's assassination, which was mentioned all the way back in Star-Crossed Crusaders, is finally shown, and it reveals he died a Rasputinian Death: Even after being shot multiple times, it turns out he was still able to feel agony from being immolated before he was promptly kicked to his death off the sea cliff. Even if he had it coming, it's still a horrible way to die.
Boss' Orders (Continued)
- It's brief, but the first glimpse at Cranberries, Pomodora's Drawn, is seen when she covers Risotto's retreat after he restores the Venice photo. It also serves as why Pomodora warns about staying away from her blood, as the gangsters are first heard screaming, and then dead seconds later, with their skin said to have turned into a red melted flesh, with their faces molten into their skulls. As described in the story, it gives them an appearance of a ghastly death mask. If you need help picturing it, basically think about a certain infamous melting face, as it's what it sounds similar to.
- Limona has the scarily deranged behavior to back up how she's one of the most vicious members of Missione Boschetto, being a murderous sadist at that too. It's all thanks to the abuse she sustained from her "adopted" mother, who she ultimately killed the night she awakened her Drawn. She also killed every guard in her path using it the night she broke out of prison.
- Blondie may already have a freaky, mask-like appearance, but it goes even further with its own One-Winged Angel-like form, which is heralded by it emitting a loud, unnatural scream. After that, Limona's hair grows so much that not only it covers a wide area, it turns into a tall, statue-like hair woman that Limona resides within, which is pictured above. With how Limona can already make her hair sturdy as steel, it's nigh-impenetrable, so much that it takes the heroes a temporary truce with Ghiaccio in order to stop it.
- Limona's death, while ultimately turning into a Mercy Kill thanks to Vino being nearby, is still pretty horrifying with how she begins to choke to death on her own hair, and it even comes out of her nose and ears. At that point, she might as well be lucky she was able to get a quick death after what happened with Gamberi and Spumoni.
Betrayal
- Chapter 35 has Risotto Nero's False Innocence Trick coming into full force, where he attempts to kill Pomodora with Metallica for having her coven kill his men. What makes it even worse is that it's outright described that when he used Metallica on her chest, Pomodora's organs are exposed. This is something that never happened in the manga or anime, which makes it all the more shocking. Her Lampad even falls out, which first mentions how it has an eye, which even glares at Risotto. Had it not been for Thin Lizzy's intervention, Pomodora would have died an arguably worse death than Doppio almost did when he fought Risotto.
- Misfits, Fegato's Drawn, is easily one of the creepiest Drawns encountered by the heroes, with how it slowly possesses its target, exploiting their fears. The scariest part is how in addition to how it can make its target hallucinate based on their fears, it eventually can turn the victim into a corpse-like puppet, complete with vomiting blood and unnatural movements. Fegato ends up doing this to Fugo and later Peaches. Special mention goes to when the possessed Fugo goes to get Trish, she hallucinates Fugo as King Crimson when Misfits briefly goes into her during their struggle, causing Trish to faint.
- Fegato later uses another Witch spell, "The Sound of Silence", which essentially cranks Nothing Is Scarier up to eleven, as anyone within its range will see total darkness and be nearly unable to hear anything. When this reaches Giorno, it triggers his childhood fear of the dark, complete with being pulled into a nightmare where he's his younger self again, except a bloodied, decapitated version of Shiori approaches him and holds him. He's snapped out of it by Mista finding him, but the premise of his nightmare is still a terrifying one.
- Fegato being revealed to have a bunch of sharp teeth and no tongue is creepy enough on its own, but then there's his backstory. While short, it is one of the most disturbing of all the Witches of Missione Boschetto. He had no memory of his old life aside from how he was a serial killer who would use fear on his victims. Having killed 13 people before, he was going to make Setteveli his 14th until the next thing he knew, he was a part of the coven, but now his fingernails were torn off and his tongue was gone too. He later learns from Thin Lizzy that Setteveli made him his "toy" for six months all because he had blond hair, and he made Fegato tear off his fingernails and eat his own tongue once he got bored of him. This alone also serves as one horrifying revelation about Setteveli too.
- Even his death is not pretty, as while he had it coming like any other enemy, he gets an exceptionally brutal death by being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice all over his body after he's sent flying into Fight Island's spike pit after a finishing barrage by Purple Haze. While he died in seconds, the kicker is that Fegato is subsequently revealed to have fallen onto the spikes so hard that Peaches and Herb were able to retrieve his Lampad and hand it to Lisa Lisa, saying it was pierced on one of the spikes. Seems like rogue drawns aren't a requirement for a Witch to die brutally.
