Santino Giovanni

Santino Giovani (サントノジョヴァンニ, Santono Jovuan'ni) is an independent wizard and the world's first and foremost expert on plants and medicine, recognized as the single-most greatest herbologist alive, specializing in the use of magic plants to heal the sick and weakly around Earth Land, doing so free of charge. Graduating from the elite school Koma Inu's Magical Academy (駒犬学院の魔法,Koma Inu Mahō no Gakuin; lit. Koma Inu's Magical Institute for Young Mages) at the top of his class with the highest marks and grades in the schools history, doing so when he was only 14 years old, only to decide to rejoin six years later in order to study in the fields of plants and medicine. Talented and well-versed in a number of fields, ranging but not limited to magic, botany, medicine, and even archaeology, he has taken on a wide-arrange of skills and abilities while at the same time dominating them on the master level, thus earning his reputation as a genius and a natural prodigy. Spending most of his time traveling the world, he possesses the greatest level of knowledge about plants, devoting most of his days in the search and collection of them, discovering over 179 different species of plants around Earth Land.

Regarded as one of the greatest masters of Green Magic, Santino is unrivaled in it's use, primarily due by having lived his entire life attuned with the forces of nature and rejecting material philosophy and creation, shunning man-made medicines or anything else that would normally not be found in nature or is completely artificial. Before pursuing a career in medicine, Santino was mentored in the ways of martial arts by his teacher Alkaid, eventually taking on a variety of assassination jobs as a Dark Mage in the past, earning his spot as the 5th most deadliest assassin in Earth Land only to reform and pursue a more honest living several years later. Regarded as a genius, Santino, as an experienced archaeologist, is responsible with having uncovered multiple ruins, lost artifacts, revived ancient societies, learning and translating ancient and lost languages around the world. As a doctor, he spends most of his time trying to find new elements to cure immedicable diseases, earning him the epitaph of Miracle Healer (奇跡のヒーラー, Kiseki no hīrā) for his numerous contributions, specifically, having been responsible for discovering multiple natural remedies and vaccines for a multitude diseases and viruses.

Appearance
[[File:Teppei Designs.png|thumb|left| Santino's attire. Santino is a young, and rather stern looking man, with an excellent well-built physique that compliments his natural good looks. Santino has green colored hair with a pompadour hairstyle; he has a scar on the right side of his face, starting from his forehead, over his eye and going down all the way to his neck or maybe even deeper. He normally wears green pants with a long-sleeved green shirt that has a pocket on the left side of his chest for his special plants and chemicals. He has also been seen wearing more casual clothing which consists of a black sweater and jeans. He has three earrings on his right ear, each containing a unique liquids used for plant growing and nurturing. The suit he wears is used by the botanist of Crocus.
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Personality
Toriko-1055662.jpg. Santino, although he may not look it, is an incredibly laid back and kind person that puts the needs of other ahead of himself, and under his oath as a doctor, is willing to help others when in need, regardless of affiliation or alignment. Spending most of his time with people due to his career choice, Santino is very charitable and open with those around him, demonstrating an incredible sense of selflessness by willingly helping others without any type of compensation for his services. Extremely easygoing, Santino is possesses a very friendly nature, one that stays away from having to use his natural gifts for nefarious means, such as his unwillingness to purposely harm others with his magic abilities, choosing to take on the role of support than that of an offensive wizard. His most notable feature can be found in his unorthodox personality and manner of speaking when interacting with others; as an experienced doctor, he often places the well-being of others as his top priority, but doing so in a very awkward manner. From telling others to strip so he can examine them, drawing blood from others without permission, to using a tremendous amount of medicinal jargon that renders him one of the most talkative persons anyone will ever meet, eventually speaking non-stop to the point of being unimaginably irritable to everyone around him. Becoming so consumed with his work, Santino is an incredibly brilliant wizard and genius physician, always maintaining a calm demeanor even when placed in high pressure situation where life-and-death hangs in the balance, incapable of being unnerved by the transition of events; with such a collected sense of self-reliance, Santino can easily hold his composure in stressful environments, most commonly when operating and treating injuries, unfazed by the sight of blood and flesh thanks to years of exposure, effectively hardening his heart at such a grisly sights.
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As an environmentalist, he's spent many years of his life growing up in the wilderness, being absolutely attuned to the forces of nature; as such, he cares deeply about the protection and conditions of all manner of plant life in most ecosystems around Earth Land, taking the time to study, collect, and record numerous species of flora while incorporating their unique characteristics inside his healing methods. Living by his own code, Santinio refuses to use any type of man-made drugs and medicine that are not found in nature or are completely artificial, choosing to use natural remedies and magical plants to substitute their effects for something that comes from nature. This immense level of deep care he has for nature also extends to many other factors, such as animals, state of the environment, and number of living creatures that inhabit it, making him a well-renown conservationist of the magical world. As an avid environmentalist, Santino values the life of even the smallest creatures, always taking into consideration the effects of his actions and the impact they may have on the landscape around him; from time to time, he will stop by from time to time around numerous ecological locations around Earth Land, primarily to observe and study the wildlife, ensuring to stop any type of poaching or hunting of magical animals. Santino is good judge of character, knowing exactly who to confine his trust in and who to mistrust when the situation calls for it. All in all, the word that best describes Santino would be "cautious," he will not act without having the full picture or knowing every possible detail in regards to a situation and how best to proceed, not leaving it to luck or fate determine the outcome.

As a graduate from Koma Inu's Magical Academy, he developed a through belief in finding knowledge to be worth saving and conserving rather than forgetting and destroying, learning from a young age that knowledge is the greatest power a person can have, dwarfing even the greatest of weapons and spells in Earth Land. As such, Santino has spent most of his young life reading and studying on his free time and amassing as much useful information he can get his hands on, such as magic arts, plants, healing techniques, alternative medicine, etc. As a result, he is highly knowledgeable in terms of applying remedial treatments with a great deal of information on medicine. However, despite how simple-minded he appears at first, Santino is a complex person with some rather complex views pertaining to human life and medicine; for example, Santino knows better than most about the value of human life, doing everything in his power to conserve it. But at the same time, he's knows that he isn't some kind of "super" doctor, accepting the limitations of his abilities to heal and cure diseases; to much of his disdain, he knows that he can't save everyone he meets, acknowledging the fact that he isn't God or some kind of miracle worker. Interestingly enough though, this mindset he has, the inability to believe in miracles, choosing to put his faith in reason and logic rather than supernatural uncertainties and long-shot theories, his need to solve cases more often overshadows his actual desire with saving their lives, demonstrating a cold, scientific side of him that is more interested in the "how" rather than the "why."

[[File:Toriko-4287575.jpg|thumb|left| Santino revealing his murderous side. Taking on the role of a healer in battle rather than a potential combatant, Santino is against the idea of needless bloodshed or unnecessary violence, only bothering to step up for a fight when a friend is in danger or lives hang in the balance. However,
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Prowess
Master Medical Specialist: Santino is a specialist when it comes to healing, especially wounds caused by Magic. He seems to do so by employing special medicines, which he extracts from herbs. Through his medical knowledge and skills, he is heralded as a healer with the power to make miracles occur, to much of his own disdain.