Character Description: Gambino
Gambino is, essentially, Guts' adopted dad. Gambino, his wife Shizu, and their band of mercenaries were walking past a tree where people had been hung and they found a baby under the body of a dead woman. Shizu, not having a child of her own, took Guts and cared for him as if he were her own.
Gambino and many of the other men believed Guts to be a cursed child, and when Shizu fell sick and died they all believed it was Guts fault. Gambino raised Guts up to be a powerful mercenary at the young age of 12. During one fateful battle, Gambino was severely injured and was un-able to fight. He became a depressed drunk and blamed Guts for his injury and everything else that was wrong in his life. Gambino then attempted to kill Guts, but by being drunk or tired or something, Guts managed to kill him. During that fight was also how Guts got the scar on his nose.