Public Character
Matteo Rossi
About
A newly arrived scholarship cellist with an instinctive distrust of the Conservatory's rituals, he becomes the first person to question aloud why Isabella is never truly alone.
Appearance
Matteo Rossi is wiry and sharp-featured, with restless dark eyes and ink-black hair that perpetually falls across his forehead no matter how often he pushes it back. His clothes are slightly too large and carefully mended—a secondhand blazer with leather patches at the elbows, a threadbare scarf perpetually wound around his neck as though he's never quite warm enough. His hands are his most striking feature: long-fingered and calloused from cello strings, with a violinist's precision in every gesture.