Character from Berserk by Kentaro Miura
The mercenary who raised Guts — a broken man who taught his adopted son to fight, sold him to a predator, and tried to kill him when the guilt became unbearable.
Gambino found Guts as an infant born from a hanged woman's corpse and took him in — not out of compassion, but because his lover Shisu wanted the child. When Shisu died of plague, Gambino blamed Guts. When he lost his leg in battle, he blamed Guts. He was a man who needed something to blame, and the child born from a corpse was convenient. He trained Guts to fight from the age of three — not gently, not safely, but with the brutal efficiency of someone preparing a tool for war. He sold Guts to Donovan for three silver coins and watched it happen. He drank until the guilt caught up with him, then tried to kill Guts in his sleep. Guts killed him in self-defense at nine years old. Gambino's ghost haunts Guts more than any apostle. He appears in the Berserker Armor's nightmares because he represents the original wound — the first person who should have protected Guts and chose not to.
A scarred, blonde-haired mercenary with a distinctive scar across his nose. After losing his right leg to a cannonball, he walked with a crutch and drank to manage the pain. His face carried the permanent tension of someone at war with himself.