I'm not speaking about his age on RtYS, but i'm speaking abou the time i drew him first. In 1994, at school. In that year I was very active at drawing comics, and i planned to do a serie with 50 episodes called simply 'Alice & Elena'. At that time he had another (and, of course, unlikely name), and he was a pink haired (LOL) teenager. Maybe the typical italian teenager from '80s. In those stories Alice and Elena were fignting against crime (naturally, unlikely criminals) and thi character helped the twins a lot. Matteo has been a neglected character for more than 10 years, and i stopped to care about him when i started to draw Daniel, another character from Remembering the Yellow Sky (that 'bleeding' eye on the corner belongs to Daniel XD). Recently i decided that RtYS needed Matteo. I can't talk about Matteo's role, his function is to create conflict and to render Alice and Elena's life more difficult (their life is already difficult XD). I can say that Matteo should be the peaceful italian kid in '80s style, that loves to ride scooters and thinks that school is not that important for life. But the fact that he's peaceful doesn't mean that he can't create problems (he does). And for this, of course imagining to be Matteo, i draw him with an almost anonymous look: unkempt curly, dark-ginger hair, small and with chubby body, wearing plain chlotes.
Choosing his name has been very hard. Usually i choose name in an instinctive way, i just care about the nationality. For Matteo i took ten months. I could not find a name that sounded good with the name Arancini, and i didn't wanted to use horrible italian names like Luca and Andrea (most suggested names durng the 10 months), also because Andrea already belong to Andreas Brushes (and that name is good for him) and Luca is one of the italian names that i like less. No one of my other characters gave me problems. Not even foreign characters.
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