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- "She is the good sister."
- ―Fabiana to Max Payne, regarding Giovanna.
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Giovanna Taveres is a Brazilian charity worker and socialite in São Paulo. Giovanna is the younger sister of Fabiana Branco, and a love interest of Raul Passos. She was a member of the Branco family from 2009 until her sister's death in 2012.
Born one year after her sister, Giovanna most likely lived and grew up in the same place as her sister, but began a different life. While Fabiana mostly worked as a fashion designer and model, Giovanna began to work as a charity worker and helped children, teenages, and young people at the poorest favelas of Sao Paulo.
After her sister got married with businessman Rodrigo Branco, Giovanna fell in love and began an affair with one of his bodyguards, Raul Passos, and by 2012, she became pregnant with his child.
In 2012, during a party at Club Moderno, Giovanna and her sister were captured by members of the Comando Sombra. Giovanna manged to escape, but Fabiana was kidnapped.
Another bodyguard of the Branco family, Max Payne found that Fabiana is held in Nova Esperança, one of the poorest favelas in the city, and a hideout to the Comando Sombra. Giovanna and her brother-in-law, Marcelo Branco, Rodrigo's brother, arrived to the favela in order to exchange money for Fabiana. The deal goes wrong and Fabiana is killed by the Comando Sombra leader, Serrano, while Giovanna and Marcelo end up as prisoners of the Crachá Preto gang, who was used as a backup for the Unidade de Forças Especiais unit that attacked the favela.
Giovanna is saved by Max, and the two escape from the favela and from the soldiers of the gang, ending up being in a factory building and escaping via a bus from remaining enemies. Raul then arrives on a helicopter and saves Giovanna, while leaving Max behind.
Finally, Max and Raul settle their probelms, and Giovanna and Raul leave Sao Paulo to live as a family with no worries, bidding their farewells to Max.
Biography
Early life
Little is known about Giovanna, except that she was born in 1986, and she is the younger sister of Fabiana Branco, the wife of Rodrigo Branco. She was most likely born in Lisbon, and grew up in São Carlos, like her sister.
She started to work in São Paulo's favelas to help children and young people and help them to live better, working mostly as a charity worker and socialite.
Just like her sister, Giovanna enjoys parties and similar social events. At some point after her sister was married to Rodrigo Branco in 2009, Giovanna fell in love with Raul Passo, Rodrigo's bodyguard, and has became pregnant with his child.
Fabiana's kidnapping
- Main article: Kidnapping at Club Moderno
In 2012, during one charity party at the Branco's building, a gang known as the Comando Sombra (CS) attack the place and kidnap both Fabiana and Rodrigo, but the two are saved by Max Payne, one of Rodrigo's boyguards, much to Giovanna's relief, which she would tell later. Giovanna attended the party, with Raul comes by her side to talk to her.
The folllowing day, Giovanna fly on a helicopter to a party at Club Moderno, along with Fabiana and Marcelo, as well as Max and Raul who serve as bodyguards. During the fly, she thanks Max for saving Fabiana. Minutes after arriving, the Comando Sombra attack the club, and attempting to kidnap Fabiana again, with Giovanna and Marcelo (who escapes them before) too.
As Raul, Marcelo and Max oversee the roof of the club, they see Fabiana and Giovanna are forced to enter to a helicopter by CS members, but as Marcelo calls for Giovanna, she escapes them, running away from dozens of armed goons. Finally, after the Brancos' helicopter lands to drop Max, who finishes off the remaining CS, he finds Giovanna hiding behind a bar.
As the helicopter lands once again to pick up the two, Giovanna runs to Raul, but stumbles and falls on the ground. Raul runs for her aid, and the two embrace.
Nova Esperança warzone
- Main article: War in Nova Esperança
After Max finds out that Fabiana is held at Nova Esperança, he set to rescue. In the meantime, Giovanna and Marcelo enter the favela as well, with a bag of money to bring back Fabiana.
The deal does not go well, as the money is not enough. Max enters the room where the deal goes on and tells the leader of the Comando Sombra, Serrano, to put down his guns, but instead, is disarmed by Serrano's men.
Serrano aims at Giovanna, who screams in fear, while Max yells at him not to shoot her. Serrano agrees, and instead, kills Fabiana with a shot in the head. Giovanna begins to cry over her dead sister, and before being killed, the Unidade de Forças Especiais unit attacks the favela, leading Serrano to escape with Giovanna and Marcelo. As she is taken Giovanna kepp crying and yelling her sister's name.
The two are later end up as prisoners of the Crachá Preto underboss, Milo Rego. Rego put Marcelo in a cylinder of tires, and orders one of his men to burns him, while Giovanna is held by Rego himself.
Max rushes to the place, and while not managing to help Marcelo, he kills Rego in a melee-fight, and along with Giovanna, the two go to hiding. The two oversee the Crachá Preto finding Rego's corpse, and Giovanna tells to Max that Neves blames him on Rego's death.
Traveling with Payne
After hours of waiting, Giovanna and Max get up from their hideout, and attempt to escape the area. Giovanna and Max get a more urban location of the city, where Giovanna finds a phone and calls to Raul. The two hide in a bus wreck at a wrecks graveyard, where Giovanna tells Max that she is pregnant with Raul's child, much to Max's shock.
Members of the Crachá Preto enter the bus graveyard, and find both Max and Giovanna. Giovanna hides from all the gunfight, while Max kills the soldiers. As soldiers are coming, Giovanna panics and runs behind some barrels and wrecks as snipers attempt to kill her. After killing remaining soldiers, Max and Giovanna enter to a factory building. Max jumps to the ground floor, while Giovanna finds no way from the first floor and stays there as Max kills more soldiers. Giovanna then runs on a small bridge from more soldiers, and svaed by Max. She then warns out about more soldiers. Giovanna finally finds a buttom to lower stairs for Max, and the two reunite.
As the two about to leave the building, a Crachá Preto soldier enters and holds Giovanna at a gunpoint, who yells in scare. She is soon saved by Max, who guns down him.
The two then escape in a bus which Giovanna drives while Max shoots at soldiers that chase them, much to Giovanna's shock, who never drove a bus. After getting hit by another bus, they crush at a building.
Luckily, Raul arrives on a helicopter. Giovanna runs to him while Max stays to kill the remaining soldiers and then to get on the helicopter, but to his shock, Raul flies without Max.
Later life
- "I owe...I owe...I owe you everything."
- ―Giovanna to Max before leaving.
After the fall of the Crachá Preto, and Max and Raul solved their problem together, Giovanna and Raul decides to leave Sao Paulo.
Before leaving, Max says that he is sorry for not saving Fabiana, but Giovanna says that it is not his fault, and Fabiana married to a 'sick family'.
The two say their farewells to both Max and detective Wilson Da Silva, who were about to end the scandal started by the UFE. Raul comments that he and Giovanna may go to New York City, Argentina or Salvador.
Appearances
- Max Payne 3
- Something Rotten In The Air (First appearance)
- Nothing But The Second Best
- A Hangover Sent Direct From Mother Nature
- Here I Was Again, Halfway Down the World
- It's Drive or Shoot, Sister
- A Fat Bald Dude With A Bad Temper
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