Agents of Monarch
By H.R.C. Stanley
Victor "Animal" Palotti
Date of Birth: 25th April 1964
Nationality: United States
Monarch Activation: 30th March 2002
Occupation: Cameraman
Areas of Expertise: Surveillance, photography, videography
Education: Kew-Forest School, Forest Hills / Tufts University, Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts / American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York City
Background:
Born in Queens to Sephardic Jewish parents, Victor's grandparents on both sides hailed from Thessaloniki, Greece's Spanish Jewish community established there after the 1492 exile from Spain. His family's spoken language at home was the Ladino language, which has described as "a strange, antiquated Spanish dialect written in Hebrew characters".
He initially decided to become an actor after performing in a school play at the age of 16, becoming, at the expense of his academic studies, "obsessed with acting." Both of his parents loved all forms of show business, which further spurred him to become an actor. Although he did not expect the endeavour to be successful, Palotti decided to become a professional actor, so that later in his life, he wouldn't regret not having tried. His first acting job was an advertisement for Italian television when he was seventeen years old, and also even worked as a busboy. he originally intended to work predominantly as a theatrical and television actor, but he soon decided that camera work was a better arena and offered more opportunity, so he moved back to New York, where he eventually met and worked Audrey Timmonds and his future fiance Lucy Field.
However, the normal peace was cut short as he witnessed a giant strange creature seemingly rampage across the City, and he pursued with VHS camera in hand and caught footage of the beast up close before ending up just between its toes and surviving to tell the tale. Later on, he and Audrey broke their way into the Madison Square Garden after hearing rumours of a nest laid there, where they met up with Philippe Roache and Nick Tatopoulos and worked together to film and report of the newborn GINOs. After the building was destroyed, the Adult GINO I rose and chased them in retaliation.
After the mutant was slain, Palotti continued to work with Audrey with making guerrilla-style reports on the sightings of various giant monsters since, even working together with the HEAT team. After being registered by Monarch, he was assigned to Outpost 53 in Georgia, in charge of surveillance cameras watching over the sleeping Titan Tiamat. In 2019, when Tiamat escaped, Palotti luckily survived in time and ran in pursuit of it. It seems that, even after twenty-something years, the man hasn't changed a bit...
To be continued...
