Vertu ("Val") (OLDDD tab w/ backstory)

Content warning for fictional child abuse/death/murder/abusive relationships. (feel free to skip the notes after this content warning, this is mostly just to clarify a plothole. Also, character relationships are better explained in the tab next to this one!)

Note 1: Not all of my lore is finished! I will mention that in parts that I know don't make sense. Oh yeah, and to clarify there's a whole separate-dimension making thing that Elias and Satu (nokia and vertu's biological parents) work on which is why it took them like an extra 15 years or whatever. Idfk how smart they were to make a completely separate dimension to rehabilitate the dead but somehow this works 💀 just know that's why the brothers and everyone else turned into a cyborg person is in a completely different world later. Also, the whole "rehabilitating the dead" thing is probably a cover-up made by Satu and Elias to the public to make it sound like what they were doing was for the best, I'm trying to find a plot reason as to why GSMMOB was bad and why it had to be stopped? Besides some people being killed on purpose to become a cyborg that lost all of their previous memories, unless losing memories all together is bad enough.

Anyways... back to the backstory

Valtteri did not have a good childhood growing up and only truly lived to be 12 years old. He more or less lived under his deceased brother's shadow since his parents were busy trying to keep their financial situation at bay while also performing a very experimental cyborg project with their son’s corpse. Elias and Satu, his parents, were very much grief-stricken even after decades of losing Daniel, but were lingering onto this hope they had that they could bring their son back with robotics, as they were successfully able to do this with other animals that were already dead. Satu and Elias expected to have Valtteri closely after Daniel passed, and so the brothers never got to meet until GSMMOB was put into action. Because of his parents being incredibly wound up in work and working in desperation to bring their son back, this in turn lead to them neglecting Valtteri and physically and verbally abusing him. He barely attended school and was forced by his parents to stay home or not to socialise, and told the government that he was homeschooled when that was not the case. Although he didn't have many friends, ha had a few by chance. Two of his friends happened to be Carmen and Ben, a pair of siblings that he would occasionally meet due to his parents and their parents having connections with each other. Elias and Satu, though. would always put up a façade whenever they had business visits or had a chance to meet up. They were his closest friends that he got to meet in person. His other friend by chance happened to be Michael, a man that Valtteri would send letters to and turned out to be his mother's boyfriend in college. All of which, however, would unfortunately pass away in different circumstances closer to the end of his own life as well (all relationships are explained better in relationships tab). Valtteri would frequently find ways to escape out of these situations from time to time by either running away, trying to stay away from his house as much as possible, or mentally escaping through music. He used to frequent a music store that was about a thirty-minute walk from his house, and became very close with the two store-owners, one of which was an older middle-aged man and a relatively young adult, which became family to him.

From this, Valtteri was able to explore his passion for music much more, even learning to play guitar and a bit of keys, borrowing a black telecaster that was on the store shelf-rack and messing with the keyboard and pianos that were for sale. Things had started to look up the more that he would come back to visit, the older store owner even mentioning that he’d hope to adopt him and get him out of his familial situation as soon as possible. However, the situation at home was not getting any better. If there were days where he couldn’t manage to sneak out of the house, he would either face punishments or would lock himself in his room for hours, not going out to eat or take care of himself. Things were looking bleak, and Elias and Satu’s success of making a cyborg that could resuscite a corpse was drawing near. It was only a matter of time before he could be the next one to potentially be experimented on.

That day did eventually come. It was time for them to experiment on Valtteri as well. If their first son wasn’t able to survive without being brought back to life, he must go through the same fate. Elias opens the door to Valtteri’s room and shoots him, the bullet travelling from the back of his skull to his left eye. Unsure if he killed his son and as not to create commotion around the neighbourhood, Elias thrashes his body across his room brutally, causing many severe injuries to his body.

Due to the brutality of the injuries Valtteri’s body suffered, his right eye socket never properly healed and is prone to bleeding. His right eye socket is damaged to the point where he is virtually blind in it and has a bit of lazy-eye, mostly because of how poorly the socket healed, making wiring from his brain to his eyes much more difficult. He has a few more minor internal injuries that mainly consist of a minimally chipped left elbow and kneecap.

He was then reawoken as a cyborg, with his brother, who was also successfully resuscitated, waiting for him to get up. Ecstatic to see his brother in person, "living" and breathing, the two of them immediately start to bond, albeit they are a bit terrified as to what might happen very soon, as they both have an idea that they might be sent to a completely different universe, a twisted and run-down version of the earth, allegedly meant to rehabilitate the dead, and the brothers are the ones to keep everybody in their places, being given an overdrive state by their parents on purpose in times of threat or danger. Both of them are terrified to be the ones to "guard" future victims from escaping and finding out the truth, and to hear that their parents are planning on creating more people to join them, at the expense of people forgetting their past lives, being sacrificed, or unwillingly agree to being a part of this.

The two are then sent away into GSMMOB, only to be taken away by an authoritative figure of some sort, leaving the brothers lost and confused and angry. Val, having an overwhelming fear of being forgotten, very much didn't take this well. Both brothers were assigned to live in an apartment complex together where most authoritative figures live in, as Daniel and Val, now "Nokia" and "Vertu," are likely to be used for their power in the future. During their time living at the apartment getting free service from everyone around them, they lived a life of complete luxury. Behind the scenes, however, the two were conspiring a way to get out of GSMMOB and try and rescue the current or future victims who have or haven't been unwillingly transformed.

And so, a plan was devised by both of them about three years later, both of them being 14 and 15 at this point. Nokia would run off and try to discreetly spread information about what is really happening, possibly by getting the help from someone who writes newspapers or publishes books. Nokia found an address that lead to "BlackBerry's" through the use of an addressbook. Daniel, thankfully, is relatively good with anything that requires him to write in detail, so he agreed to go on this journey (and surprisingly later got adopted by blackberry lol 😭). Vertu, on the other hand, would stay back and try to work his way up to the top. This would require, however, for him to get into some rather risky connections with people, and unfortunately, later down the line, would lead him into an abusive relationship with someone he worked with, being "Ferrari."

Vertu started out by illegally bartending, as he grew to be 5'9" by the time he was 15, but was told not to talk as he still sounded relatively young. He was referred this job by one of the authoritative figures, so that they already knew he was illegally bartending and nobody could do anything to stop him. After about a half a year of working, he begins to work with Ferrari, a peer of his, who was also illegally bartending with Vertu. Ferrari already had higher up connections to larger authoritative figures, being a part of a modelling/fashion agency, asking Vertu if he wanted to join him and or help out. Vertu, knowing that he could potentially use these connections to his own advantage agrees, knowing that he would be in quite a lot of danger throughout however long this would take. (info on val and enzo (ferrari) will be mentioned in the relationships tab. i will say for now that it's not good at all. after a couple years, val steals a revolver from ferrari and leaves him and gets with mini.)

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