Livia x Ricciardi

Livia x Ricciardi is the story between Livia Lucani and Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi from the Inspector Ricciardi fandom.

Love at first sight
Livia and Ricciardi meet in the worst possible circumstance: the murder of Arnaldo Vezzi, Livia's husband, a murder that Ricciardi must investigate as police commissioner. Their first meeting takes place right at the police station, where Livia is interrogated by Ricciardi, despite not being a suspect since when her husband was killed she was at home in Rome and he was on tour in Naples, the city where Ricciardi works. Arnaldo was a horrible man who had blamed Livia for the death of their son which was actually due to an illness and who constantly cheated on her, and Livia no longer loved him. The woman immediately feels attracted to the commissioner and during their meetings she tries to make him understand that she would like to talk to him about something other than Arnaldo's murder, but Ricciardi does not attempt to flirt with her in the slightest, nor does he seem to understand her interest in him, despite Livia being a beautiful woman.

Ricciardi ignores Livia (and women in general) for a reason: he is able to perceive the spirits of those who die a violent death by seeing and hearing them the last thing they saw or thought before dying. This power of his has completely alienated him from normal life even if it sometimes helped him in his work and since he inherited this ability from his mother, he is determined never to marry and never have children because he does not want to condemn anyone to live among the dead as he does (Ricciardi and Livia live in the 1930s, violent death was much more common than now and the "echoes" of dead people remain even for months, so Ricciardi is continually surrounded by ghosts). Sometimes Ricciardi thinks he is crazy and is so firm in his decision that despite feeling attracted to his neighbor Enrica Colombo he has never tried to establish contact with her. Obviously he has never confessed this to anyone, but Livia understands that he has something that makes him suffer.

Fanon
Livia x Ricciardi is a fairly popular ship also because it was part of the pivotal love triangle of almost the entire series.. It is the rival of Enrica x Ricciardi and Bianca x Ricciardi.

Many fans did not appreciate Enrica's character very much, considering her dull, and hoped that the commissioner would choose Livia. After Enrica's death, fans hoped that the two could end up together in the end.

Notes and Trivia

 * Curiously, Livia always calls Ricciardi by his surname, never using his first name.