What's this? An update? During a reasonable amount of time? Why yes, I believe it is.
And reviewers? Stay frosty. You rock my metaphorical socks.
And now...Bianchi!
Bianchi
1.
When Bianchi first met Reborn he took out her mark from right under her nose, and she hated him on sight. Bianchi was not only well-known for her grudges at the time, but for how much she despised losing.
So, she quickly found out, did Reborn. To this day she's not sure how he got her to agree to that first date, but she hasn't looked back since.
2.
Honest to God, Bianchi had absolutely nothing to do with Romeo's death by food poisoning. Her continuous attempts on Lambo's life are merely her efforts to rectify this matter.
3.
While Bianchi has never possessed the musical talent necessary to play an instrument on her brother's level, she has an excellent singing voice. In her childhood, she and Hayato performed many a duet together, side by side and in perfect harmony—the closest they have ever felt to one another.
His fateful piano solo was the first time he ever played without her, and part of her has a sneaking suspicion that her debut batch of poison cooking wasn't entirely unintentional.
4.
When Bianchi comes to Japan and witnesses the blooming (if dysfunctional) relationship between her brother and Sawada Tsunayoshi, she feels endless relief for the fact Hayato has finally found a friend.
She will never admit, however, how much it hurts to know that this complete stranger is far more capable of healing Hayato than she ever will.
5.
While the other girls stay in the kitchen in order to provide comfort and support for Tsuna and his Guardians, Bianchi does it to remind them that Mafia have to stay on their toes even in the safety of their own homes.
It's not quite as flashy as Reborn's explosive retributions, but she's pretty sure the punishment is just as severe.
6.
Bianchi is notoriously bad with guns, and continues to play up this reputation in order to mask her other strengths.
Poison cooking may be her forte, but Bianchi is hell with a blade.
(Sword Emperor Tyr was a family friend and Bianchi's tutor, so despite never really associating with Superbi Squalo she forever loathes the Rain Varia for not only killing her mentor but cutting her lessons prematurely short.)
7.
Bianchi remembers far more about Gokudera Lavina than her brother does. Hayato remembers long silver hair, a warm smile, a comforting embrace, some brief snatches of the melodies Lavina used to coax from the piano—Bianchi remembers a woman, kind and frail, who made time for her son and had some to spare for a bitter child that wasn't her own, all in defiance of her own impending death.
Lavina had been a gentle soul, her father's one and only love, a civilian whose only connection to the Mafia happened to be Papa himself, who'd met her at a concert; the perfect contrast to Bianchi's own mother, the youngest daughter of Don Croce whose arranged marriage to Papa only served to embitter them both. Cold, calculating and impersonal, Bianchi's mother had all the traits of the perfect Mafioso. The crushing disappointment she'd suffered when she'd given birth to a daughter was surpassed only by her rage when she discovered Papa's sickly mistress had managed to bear him a perfectly healthy son.
After Lavina dies, Hayato spends all his time wishing the nice lady would come back. Bianchi just wishes that Lavina could've been her mother instead.
8.
Trident Shamal is the only person alive who is completely immune to Bianchi's poison cooking. Perhaps it's because the man is a festering hive of diseases in his own right, but there is nothing Bianchi has been able to throw at him (literally or figuratively) that has stopped him for longer than a few minutes.
Shamal's endless propositions have pretty much become routine for both of them, but if he leaves her brother bleeding on the floor just because he doesn't have a pair of breasts one more time, Bianchi will forego the toxins and find a way to kill the man with her bare hands.
9.
While Bianchi hasn't yet had the time to experiment with every recipe known to man, she's discovered that there is, in fact, one thing she can make untainted by her poison cooking.
For some inexplicable reason, Bianchi can bake a mean peach cobbler.
(Haru is the only one of the Vongola who knows about this, having been the only one not traumatized enough by Bianchi's previous endeavors to turn it down when Bianchi asks her to try. Haru then decides to pass the cobbler off as her own one family picnic, and it's been in demand ever since.)
10.
Bianchi is a hopeless romantic. To her, love is worth killing for, worth dying for, worth more than any monetary reward she could ever receive, which is why she turns down no less than seven different contracts on Sawada Tsunayoshi in order to assassinate him on her own terms.
The hit is a failure before it even begins when she discovers Hayato has declared himself the Vongola heir's right hand man (her happiness is not worth his), although she makes a few half-hearted attempts as a wakeup call for the future Tenth before Reborn assures her he has the situation under control.
Bianchi's never entirely certain as to what Hayato and Reborn see in Tsuna that makes him so worthwhile, but eventually she finds her own common ground with the boy: Tsuna is just as much of a romantic as she is, if not more.
Bianchi would kill for the ones she loves. Tsuna would take on the world if he had to, and that is exactly the sort of man she can respect.
Guys. GUYS. I lied, there's one more vote left.
I'm definitely doing the Varia, Fran included, but there's one member I've been on the fence about, mostly because it'll probably be either the most boring or most cracktastic of the chapters.
So tell me. Who wants a Gola Mosca chapter?
With any luck, Haru should be posted by Wednesday.
Until then!