Rigatoni

Rigatoni (リガトニ) is a minor antagonist featured in Golden Heart, Golden Ring, the light novel based on Vento Aureo. Rigatoni is an assassin on Sogliola Lopez's payroll and a Stand User using the sniper rifle Public Image Limited.

Appearance
Rigatoni is an aging Italian man with a lean but muscled body. He has long dark hair combed into large unkempt spikes and an unkempt beard, with white hair her and there. The man has "rough features" and is drawn with a strong face.

Rigatoni wears a dark bodysuit leaving his arms uncovered and missing large stripes of clothes; in addition the suit is covered in inscriptions of the wrong "strong" as well as a the anarchy symbol. He also wears a large oversized belt, gloves, as well as a peculiar hat made of stripes of cloth.

The assassin carries with him an elaborate sniper rifle with whimsical features.

Personality
Rigatoni is a professional assassin with an appreciation for battles.

As an assassin for Passione, Rigatoni is a consummate professional, claiming that an assassin who cannot finish off a target might as well be dead. When he was partnered with Guido Mista, he disparaged him when he failed to assassinate one of their targets.

Despite his animosity with Mista, Rigatoni has an appreciation for the latter's own prowess. He came out of retirement specifically to fight and kill Mista and was ultimately impressed by how Mista outwitted him, thinking he didn't feel bad being killed this way. Rigatoni himself considers that he must take risks to live an exciting life, explaining his calm as he uses his Stand Public Image Limited which runs the risk of killing him if he misses.

Being an old assassin, Rigatoni has a hidden melancholic side. During one of his jobs, Rigatoni took the time to give his respects to a target who happened to be his friend and stated that they would be together soon enough. As he died, Rigatoni also though that he had lived long enough already.

Abilities
Public Image Limited is a Stand ability that allows him to power up his bullets and absorb the Stand energy of anything it hits. As a trade-off, Rigatoni loses all his energy when hitting someone so he must always hit his target to absorb their energy and survive.

Marksmanship: Rigatoni is a superlative sniper, well accustomed to using his rifle to kill his targets. Among his feats are purposefully shooting targets in non-lethal ways from the top of a tower. Even more, Rigatoni can observe bullets and accurately predict their paths, or even shoot bullets aimed at him mid-flight.

History
Rigatoni is a hitman who specializes in assassinating Stand users, and as such very few in the entire organization know of his existence. He is feared and known as the "Stand Killer" but was once partnered with Guido Mista due to being unable to work with a Stand-less partner. Prior to the events of the novel, Rigatoni had retired. However, he took up a request this time in order to have a showdown with Mista.

He dies at the top of the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica, defeated by a Stand combination between Mista and Giorno Giovanna.