Franco Dell'aglio is a supporting character and a minor antagonist in Misericordia.
Personality[]
Franco is a shy kid, at the begining he was extremely quiet and robotic, with a less impulsive personality than Luis and was at most soft-spoken, since he rarely talked, but since he has been constantly re-programmed and enforced by Luis to be more useful to him and having someone to talk to aside from the other students. Luis did this by punching his thorax or abdomen or smacking his head[1). Franco was Edgar's replacement after Edgar leaves the school, sharing desk with Luis.
Appearance[]
Franco is a short, somewhat pudgy, brown-haired, brown-eyed. He wears attire identical to that of Luis, but with the addition of numerous smudges and stitches, both in his school coat and in his skin. He wears a pair of large square black cybernetic glasses (altough in Misericordia's Racing and an early concept art, he wears a pair of round silver glasses) with a small cybernetic eye on the left side. His ragged appearance may be a side-effect of Luis´s reprogramming sessions.
Trivia[]
- The cybernetic eye on Franco's glasses is sentient, and most of the time, can be seen blinking or moving.
- The right side of Franco's head bears a strikly resemblance to the character Dexter from the Cartoon Network show Dexter's Laboratory. Even his personality is a lot like Dexter's.
- He loves cereal.
- The name "Franco" is intended as a pun on the greece word "Fakós" that means "Glasses".
- If one compares Franco's design from the old games with that of the Sierra games, his cybernetic eye seems to be angry all the time, since it is seen in a static red without changing color, this is a possible explanation for why he went crazy, because with so much stress he could have gone mad.
- Another possible explanation for his insanity in the later games is that at one point in Willy - Tag Racing Champion one of Franco's lines when talking to him is "Oh, I'm sick of seeing you win all the time!, I have enough with what my cyber eye makes me see and hear", claiming that his cybernetic eye makes him see visions and hear things, and by having these experiences often his sanity may have been declining successively.