Dino Cerutti

Din0 Cerutti’s family had enoughmoney to get by, but not so much that they spoiled their children in any sense of the word. In high school, Din0 and his younger brother Vince took jobs as pizza delivery boys, hoping to save enough money to buy a car and get them into the underground racing scene. Between the two, they put away enough to buy a used 300ZX, which they spent their time and money modifying and racing for extra cash on the weekends. Din0 was in the wrong place at the wrong time, however, and found himself Embraced as cannon fodder for the Sabbat during the short-lived siege of New York. After calling him to deliver a pizza, the Seventh Hydra pack dragged him into their temporary haven, turned him and forced him to drink their blood. Bound to the pack, Din0 accompanied them for two nights, only to wake on the third to the sounds of gunfire. A group of Camarilla ghouls had found the pack‘s haven and tom into it, staking most of its members before rousing the last two. Dino’s sire fought a doomed struggle against the ghouls. Din0 panicked and fled into the night. Din0 called his brother from a street-comer pay phone. His brother met him at Grand Central Station. Din0 revealed what he had become and Embraced his brother as well, hoping for aid in the fight that he had been dragged into. Before they knew it, the conflict was over, and since no one had known Din0 long enough to believe him a member of the Sabbat, the new wave of Kindred assumed that he was just another fresh face ready to make his place in the city. ALL THE BEAUTIFUL M O N ~ W 93 Din0 feels no loyalty to the Sabbat, having known it for only two nights before the destruction of his pack. He doesn’t care one way or the other about the Camarilla, seeing it much like he saw government in his breathing days there and functioning, but not part of his nightly unlife. Were he to be pressured into one side or the other, he’d likely side with the Camarilla, based upon his limited exposure to both sides, but it’s not something he wants to do. At this point, his Vinculi have faded and lie feels no real loss for his erstwhile packmates. As the grease-monkey of the Midnighters Kindred, Dino’s more comfortable under the hood than behind the wheel. At present, he works in Nicholas Chang’s garage and looks to Nicholas for advice in the Kindred matters to which he’s still unaccustomed. He and his brother still have their street-legal 300ZX, for which Din0 is responsible. It’sthefastercaroftheCerutti brothers’andNicholas’, but Chang’s outmaneuvers it. Din0 has worked on cars for other Kindred customers as well, including one other racer (who’s not part of the Midnighters’ coterie) and a few young vampires who prefer dealing with one of their own. In addition, he does repairs for fellow (non-Kindred) Midnighters at reduced rates. He also knows a Cuban who runs a chop-shop out by the docks, who can procure parts or make them disappear and he’s always looking for new goods to move.