Lucrezia Bennati

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File #06 Jan 2009 17:28

Summary

Name Lucrezia Bennati Aliases Status Registered Evolved (Tier 3) Ability Insect Telepathy Gender Female Race/Eth. Italian Birthdate 11/16/1964 Age 44 Height 5'7" Build Unknown Eyes Brown Hair Black Residence Unknown Employment Former Actress/Model Parents Unknown Siblings Amadora Laudani Marital Status Widowed (Cyrano Fontaine) Children None First Seen The God of Small Things Last Seen N/A Profile She's an actress. She's famous. She was married to another famous guy. He's dead now.

portrayed by Monica Belluci

Background

Psych Profile

Evolved Ability

Lucrezia possess the ability to sense, summon, control and communicate with insects and arachnids through telepathic means. Over the last two decades, Lucrezia has honed her ability to nearly flawless efficacy. Her reach and range is expansive but varies from use to use - she can summon over vast distances but can only maintain control over a significantly smaller area.

A few feats have become intuitive and intrinsic and do not require any remarkable expense of effort to engage in. These include (but are not limited to) the understanding and comprehension of any insect "language" and/or behavior as well as sensing the presence of insects in her immediate vicinity (at approximately a ten foot radius). With a bit more effort and concentration, Lucrezia can pinpoint with precision the exact number and type of insects abiding nearby at an exponential rate up to several city blocks. (See also Section 2 for more examples of the fun to be had with bugs and spiders.)

Lucrezia's rapport with the insect world has afforded her some curious side effects. She has come to prefer her meat to be served Rare, her vegetables to be raw, and her rooms to be warmer and darker than most might find comfortable. The winter brings with it a lethargy that she has difficulty shaking off while the summertime makes her maniac and the desire to be as busy as, well, a bee.

The following are just a few examples of the feats which Lucrezia can accomplish with her ability…

• SPIDER SPY: Something of a misnomer, Lucrezia can employ any single insect or arachnid to act as a spy or a sentry over a particular person or place. The insect may be directed to act independently and then return with a 'report' on the activities witnessed OR Lucrezia can 'piggyback' either her sense of sight or her sense of hearing with the insect in order to witness for herself whatever the bug may be privy to. Unlike when employing the HIVE MIND technique, Lucrezia is not incapacitated by this sensory skimming - her brain processes it merely as another avenue of input (like picture-in-picture or listening to just one headphone). As a note, when piggybacking a sense, she is limited in perception by the insect employed - cockroaches and spiders don't perceive sound or "hear" like humans… grasshoppers, crickets, and cicadas as well as certain species of butterflies and moths do. A fly's eyes are multi-faceted and a spider can have up to eight, some see only in black and white or via heat detection, etc.
• HIVE MIND: While Lucrezia may not be able to cram all of her complex human senses into a single insect, however, with a concentrated effort she can effectively gain sensory control over an entire collective/group/swarm of insects and utilize them as a sort of satellite dish for the gamut. This is to say that she can effectively see, hear, and otherwise detect what they do. She can also guide and direct the group telepathically. This is not something to be undertaken casually, however, as doing so leaves her body all but incapacitated in the process until she chooses to relinquish control or upon experiencing pain.
• PLAGUE CALLER: The ability to summon a large host of insects and/or arachnids at once. The speed by which they arrive is dictated entirely by distance (which Lucrezia is able to specify by the strength of the 'ping' she sends out). Once summoned, the insects will arrive as hasty as they are able while still being subject to such things as weather patterns and terrain. She may choose to compel all of the insects in a certain room to come crawling out of the woodwork, so to speak, or she may call specifically for a cloud of locusts or a grist of bees, etc.
• CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Like the name suggests, Lucrezia can compel a silk-spinning spider to produce a particular pattern in its web. This may be a word or a shape or just a pretty design but nothing overly complicated or fancy.
• THE MENACE: Just as she can compel bugs to come forth, so too can Lucrezia forbid them from bothering a certain person or place with but a subliminal suggestion. Similarly, she can cause a person to become plagued by insects by instilling the inverse effect. This gentle notion will remain with any insect so affected for no longer than a day.

Appendices

Skills

• BELLA FIGURA: More than just a pretty face, Lucrezia knows how to make a fine first impression. She is skilled in the rules of etiquette and capable of conducting herself appropriately in a variety of formal situations - from meeting royalty to hosting a fancy dinner party. (Conversely, this also means she knows how NOT to act if she's looking to make a scene.)
• ENTOMOLOGICAL INTIMACY: Her Evolved ability brings with it an intrinsic intimacy with the entomological world but Lucrezia has also striven to increase her book knowledge about the creatures she so often interacts with. She's schooled in the habitats, diets, behaviors, and communication methods of a vast variety of insects and arachnids the world over.
• MODI SEDUCENTI: Lucrezia is an actress and she most certainly knows how to perform. She can lie with a straight face, tap into a reservoir of crocodile tears on cue, and pretend to be everything or nothing that someone else might want her to be. Seductive ways, indeed.
• SWISS BANK ACCOUNT: Someone got some good advice when she was just starting out and, instead of blowing her movie-made millions on frivolous things, Lucrezia saved up her little lire in a Swiss bank account. After nearly three decades in the film industry, it's pretty safe to say that she'll never have to work another day in her life and she'll still be able to eat filet mignon morning, noon, and night. She's got money. A LOT of money.
• WORLD TRAVELER: Like many Europeans, Lucrezia speaks several languages. In addition to her native tongue (Italian), she is also fluent in English and French. She knows enough Spanish to hold a casual conversation and has a smattering of German in her linguistic arsenal.

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Episode Guide

Air Date	Title	Summary	Starring
Summer, 93	The God of Small Things	In which Teodoro Laudani is 11 years old and spending a few summer days with his aunt Lucrezia. Sets precedent for the boy's tendency to set himself on fire, and the woman's stupefyingly loving wrath.	Teo
05 Jan 09	Agnus Dei	Lucrezia reveals her arrival to Amato, and he in turn reveals his recent gleanings in addition to a bit more.	Amato
	Conscience and Cognition	Tyr is led by the mirthful Freyja from the land of Midgaard to the realm of Niflheim, and the All-Father lays his secrets bare.	Amato, Drake, Hans, Kazimir
07 Jan 09	Footservants and Family	When Teo's aunt drops in for a surprise visit, she finds more than just family afoot.	Alexander, Teo
08 Jan 09	Courtesy Call	In an attempt to mix metaphors, the Father calls on the Son and the Holy Spirit in order to assign them tasks that rightly belong to other people.	Amato, Kazimir
	Fool Me Once	Strange what desire will make foolish people do. (Occurs concurrently with events in Fool Me Twice.)	Amato
	Something Sinister	Paths cross and diverge; there are no true coincidences.	Eileen
09 Jan 09	Totally Fucked	Love's the boy stood on the burning deck…	Alexander, Teo
	Easy	Sylar returns, victorious. Of course, it can never be that easy.	Eileen, Kazimir, Sylar
15 Jan 09	Said the Spider	In all of his magnificent ignorance, Teo comes to save his aunt. Eileen imagines herself a new enemy, and Lucrezia recalls… something.	Eileen, Teo
16 Jan 09	Past the Mission	Faith and fidelity are put to the test by an unexpected first and unforeseen confessions.	Amato
17 Jan 09	Someone's Going To Be In Trouble	In which Lucrezia meets the third and final roommate and Teo's going to get a tongue lashing.	Abby, Alexander
18 Jan 09	See What Happens	Assholes, terrorists, staring contests, free drinks and titties abound one afternoon in The Exotica.	Deckard, Ethan
19 Jan 09	Our Lady of the Capricious	It isn't gossip if it is between family, and it promptly transmutes to something else when an erstwhile ally — enemy? — literally bursts out of the boudoir door.	Eileen, Teo

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Listings

A-List

	Amadora Laudani

	Amato Salucci

	Cyrano Fontaine

	Teodoro Laudani

B-List

	Alexander Knight

	Catherine Chesterfield

	Gillian Childs

	Salvatore Bianco

D-List

	Abigail Beauchamp

	Ethan Holden

	Gabriel Gray

	Helena Dean

	Maxwell Quinn

Blacklist

	Eileen Ruskin

	Felix Ivanov

	Kazimir Volken

	Stephen Verse

Unlisted

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