#matthewromano

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Repubblica Cinquefrecce e la sua gente：Matthew Romano, Carlotte D'Angelo, Sterling Valentino

Fictional country and people based on alternative European history

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Matthew ref sheet

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Matthew, an Italian American who were unwilling to inherit his father's business. He learned a third language and travels to Vienna to study the history of the Tsarist Russian minority groups, and Ukrainian national resistance

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In elementary school, Matthew was bullied by his classmates. The American stereotype of immigrants from Europe are ‘underclass people from poor areas’, ‘uneducated’, and ‘associated with violence and crimes’. Matthew’s mother taught him not to tell his classmates that his father was from Europe, and he himself was afraid to speak Italian at school for fear that he would be treated differently. But his "weird last name" exposed him, and he was ridiculed as a mafia’s child and bullied by teenage gangs. All of this leads him to rethink his identity. Young Matthew relied on historical books to make up for the loss he feels and escape from the sad reality.

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Matthew‘s family.

The Romano family, as their name shows, was originated from Rome. A branch of Romano family fled to Naples in the Italian Unification War (The Capture of Rome1870).

A young son, Adalberto(Al) left Naples and went to America in the 1900s(during the Great Arrival1880-1920). He was clever enough to set up his business, married an American Italian woman Luna and had a son named Matthew.

Al decided to stay in America, so he gave Matthew a middle name ‘Naples’ to let his son remember his origin, and Al cherish his wife, so he gave Matthew ‘Campbell’ as a second middle name.

But the Campbell family viewed Al with a stereotype as a poor and rude peasant. At last,Al had to divorce. He took Matthew and returned to Naples.

Later in life, Matthew hid his middle name.

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Sometimes they briefly forget about the heavy workload, the trauma , the right and wrong, the suffering and struggle, the war, the sacrificed , the language, because they what they see in their eyes are their meaning of existence close at hand. No matter what they each carry, they only want to spend the moment with their loved ones.

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Some fun staff and doodle of my oc

So I asked my friends to vote for their favorite one, and I doodled according to the results XD

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Klinger: I will not deny the fact that I am from a Hungarian noble family, but now that doesn’t mean anything.

Matthew: Your name sound Austrian. I bet Klinger is not your real name.

Klinger(?) : You are right.

Matthew: I see.

Klinger(?): …Aren’t you curious about my real name?

Matthew: Thanks, but no.

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The exiled Hungarian noble communicates with the American- Italian scholar in Germen.

Matthew actually had no intention of knowing Klinger's real name, he was afraid of getting into trouble, but he knew that Klinger had shown trust in him so he said thanks.