Fio Germi

Fiolina "Fio" Germi is one of the main characters from the Metal Slug games.

Daughter of the massively wealthy Germi Family, hailing from Italy. The Germi family has historically been a military family, sending their oldest into service, so naturally her father wished for a healthy son to carry on the name. However, following Fio's difficult childbirth, her mother was unable to bear anymore children, making it the first time the Germi heir was female.

Eri's polar opposite, Fio was raised in a loving family, and has a cheerful and upbeat demeanor. Aside from her soldier training, she also studied chiropractics, acupuncture and moxibustion in university, and hopes to become a sports doctor in the future.

Appearance
Fio has brown/orange hair in a ponytail and has brown eyes. She wears glasses, a tan vest with a white tanktop underneath, brown short shorts held by a belt, light brown knee pads, socks and brown army boots.

Personality
For a seasoned warrior, on occasion Fio will display an almost childlike naivete and exuberance. She usually thinks less of herself in comparison to her teammates.

Abilities
Fio's special trait from the sixth game onward is carrying extra ammo for her weapons. She starts each life with a Heavy Machine Gun, and gains 50% more ammo on weapon pickup. If playing on Easy, though, she automatically gets the Big Heavy Machine Gun as her initial armament.

Her melee attacks include swift tonfa strikes, hatchet slices, and prissy slapping and shoving.

Trivia

 * Both she and Eri Kasamoto were the first women to be introduced in the heroes team (formerly composed only by the males Marco and Tarma), in Metal Slug 2.
 * In Metal Slug 2 and Metal Slug 4, Fio has Eri's death scream.
 * Fio has slightly different victory animations between games. Metal Slug 2 does not have her making a "V Sign", while Metal Slug 6 to Metal Slug XX skips the animation where she leans forward for a bit only when equipped with a handgun.
 * One of her favorite drinks is Ice Tea (Queen Mary) and her Blood Type is O.
 * Fio has been on certain recon missions with Leona Heidern, and they're good friends from that point.
 * Fio has been one of the most notable characters in the series, the first being Marco.
 * Fio, Red Eye, Clark, and Alisa are the only playable characters who wear a cap.
 * There is an unused victory pose sprite animation found in Metal Slug 2 where she jumps up and down just like Eri's victory pose. This animation, however, actually gets used in Metal Slug Attack after she uses the Mystery Crank's "Medal Crank".