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matt at . taco bell being chased by the police #averagenight

Quote out of the “LA BB Murder Cases”, so full credit to that

I imagine Matt is calling Mello emo as he’s writing this.

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Mello’s gun in the manga is specifically a Beretta 92FS INOX, which is stainless steel with a black grip and details, as opposed to the standard Beretta 92FS, which is all black.

Also, as you can see, Mello has attached a Celtic cross to his gun in the manga. None of the other crosses shown in his design are Celtic, but this one is. Go figure.

Not only does Mello wear one rosary, he wears two. In addition to the five decade rosary he wears around his neck, he wears a shorter, one decade rosary around his left wrist. (Also noticed: Mello’s rosaries have cross pendants, not crucifixes.)

Contrary to what I always assumed, Mello only wears biker boots during the Takimura abduction part of the plot, before Obata completely settled on a design for him (he also wears white pants at that point, which he never does again either). Once he becomes the black leather pants Mello we all know and love, his boots–as you can see above and below–are just square-toed dress boots.

Mello’s leather pants are consistently shown as being frayed or torn at the hem. Why? Aesthetic, apparently.

There are no clear images of the weird lumpy shapes on Mello’s wallet chain, but they seem most likely to be skulls. Which is so perfectly “teenage boy attempts to look badass” that I can’t help but love it. (It also appears to attach directly to his belt, somehow? I don’t even know.)

Mello’s hairstyle changes subtly after the explosion. Unscarred Mello has a very neatly coiffed bob with the ends curled under. Scarred Mello’s hair is straighter and wilder.

Which, as you noticed, looks an awful lot like a Beretta 92FS:

Why the similarity? Between 1974 and 1980, Beretta was under contract to provide Beretta 92 handguns for the Brazilian military, and one of the terms of the contract required them to open a factory in Brazil and use local Brazilian labor. When the contract expired, Beretta sold that factory and everything in it to Taurus (which was already based in Brazil). Taurus proceeded to make minor cosmetic alterations to the Beretta 92 and go right on producing them, now as the Taurus PT92. (Since the patents for the original Beretta 92–which the Taurus model is based on–are expired, Taurus could do this without having to get a license from Beretta. Weird but true.) The Taurus PT99 is merely a PT92 with an adjustable rear sight. The two lines of guns have been updated and developed independently since then, resulting in more divergence in their appearance than there used to be, but they’re still undeniably close cousins and almost impossible to distinguish from a distance.