Profile
Likes
He loves music, some of his favorite genres being: emo rap, rock, post-hardcore, and a little bit of pop but he's picky about it. His favorite artists include: Rivilin, Eidola, and Entail of Crow. He listens to Nickelback unironically and loves them.
Spicy food, he adores it!
Baseball hats. He has a collection of them that he's quite proud of. He'll show it to you if he likes you enough.
Sports.
BEER! HELL YEAH!
Animals.
Dislikes
Fuckin neeeeerds. Get outta here!
- Suits and Corpos
- Chick flicks and romcoms (or just romance movies in general). They bore him to death. He doesn't believe in this fairy tale bullshit.
- Ads and marketing in general. Listen, it's brainwashing. You don't need that product that the big screen flashes at you. Snap out of it!
- Smoking. Fuck you. It's one of the things he frequently argues about with Johnny. He hates the smell, he hates smoke in his face. Just put that shit out before he makes you swallow it.
Trivia
- V owns a pet cat named Caesar. He once had a dog too, in his childhood years.
- He's played a few of them growing up including hockey and baseball, baseball being his favorite sport.
- His favorite game is Tekken
- His favorite movie is 2011's Drive, a real classic.
- Asian food, with Korean food being some of his favorite. He loves the Korean styled BBQ and enjoys sushi a lot.
Personality
V is a Street Kid. He's a man of little patience, and he's tough and rough. The streets have taught him how to survive, giving him a harsh exterior. Regardless of that, he's a charismatic and charming man who enjoys a good conversation over cold drinks. He knows many people, yet isn't quick to call any of them his friends. He's cautious and weary of people, which makes him push people away and may make him look like an ass (which he is, but not the point), but once he's comfortable with someone and lowers his wall, you'll notice things about him; he'll smile more often and talk more freely.
Vitalion has his fair share of bad traits. He's a shoot first ask questions later kind of guy. Some might even view him as a rebel. He views as the Corpos as a stain on earth, but realizes it would take more than a rebellion to save the world. If anything, he has the cynical view that it doesn't matter how much people protest for change. It's always the same shit, new day. Ask him and he'd tell you that everyone is already dying, everyone is just trying to survive and hold out as long as they can. That's it. And that's what he's doing as well, he's a fighter, and he'll fight for his life until he can't anymore. It's a dog eat dog world and he doesn't intend to be on the lower end of the food chain.
He's not very bright but he's a very spiritual person, not in a religious sense though. He believes there is a higher power, just maybe not 'god'. So he enjoys Misty's company and spends a good amount of time discussing topics of existential crisis with her. In a sense, he likes having deep conversations about the universe, why we exist, and if there is a greater plan for humankind. Although he's a bit cynical and is considered a nihilist. But talk to him about science? He'll call you a nerd and punch you in the face.
V has a tendency to gravitate towards violence. He doesn't lust for blood or anything, but given the opportunity, he might kick a person a few more times than he should. Maybe he'll put an extra bullet into a man, you know, for the fun of it. It makes him feel good. Call him a sadist if you like, but that's just how he is.
Traits
- - Athletic:
Played tons of sports growing up. His favorite being baseball - - short temper:
Obviously.
- Extrovert turned introvert- Grew up in a small neighborhood where everyone was familiar with the other. Moving to Night City completely fucked him up.
- - He's got nothing against you, he's trying
- It's not you, it's him. Really. He's trying but he can't bring himself to trust people like he used to. The only people he keeps close are Misty, Vik, and Jackie.
Hobbies
- During his free time when he's not a Merc for hire, Vitalion enjoys activities such as shooting empty beer bottles, boxing, and again, playing baseball
Appearance
Being a street kid, he doesn't have a high interest in anything fashionable and will mostly wear jeans or pants with a tank top and a sleeveless jacket. He almost always wears a baseball hat. His selection of shoes include mostly sneakers, sports shoes, and combat boots, tactical, steel reinforced.
All in all, he looks like a hillbilly from the country side. You might even say he looks like your average dude-bro that you see at a bar chugging down beers and yelling about sports. TLDR; he's a himbo.
Relationships
V doesn't connect with people easily. It can take him a while to lower his guard. He finds relationships, platonic or not, taxing. But they're a part of life that he has to take part in regardless of how he feels about it.
He's always been closest Jackie and after his death, V has returned to withdrawing himself and keeping to himself. He would rather be a listener than a speaker. At the start, he might not be much of a talker, responding in very simple sentences, or even just a word. However he does enjoy the company of a certain few including River and Vik.
Due to his distant nature, it takes V a long time to fall in love. He had a crush on Jackie but never said or did anything about it since obviously Jackie was in love with Misty. But after he was gone, V felt like Jackie took his heart with him to the grave. Perhaps it just needs to be kickstarted again, but for now, it remains dead. You can still find him spending time with joytoys, but it means little to him. Pleasure and love are two different things.
Speaking of things that are dead, his relationship to Johnny is very indifferent and in the middle. He agrees with Johnny on a lot of things and disagrees on others. Although the experience was terrifying at the start for him, he grew accustomed to it with time and eventually found a middle ground with the ghost in his head.
Vitalion has a preference for masculine males with little to no interest in feminine males.
Story
Vitalion grew up in the country side, a peaceful life away from the developing city, which made it harder for him to adjust when he had to move to Night City after his father got a job there. The change was so drastic that it messed with him. He became agitated with the new life he was forced to accept, and agitation turned into anger, then violence. He started taking his anger out on kids at school, getting into fights regularly. He wasn't the smartest kid, didn't do so well with his education, but he loved sports and for a while it was an outlet for him to take his anger out in a normal and relatively healthy way. He played baseball, football, and even hockey. But even then, V felt like it wasn't the life for him. He didn't want to grow up to be a professional athlete, marketed and having his face plastered on magazines, bending a knee to the corpos and becoming just a poster boy, so he quickly returned to his life of mayhem.
He became a menace even outside of his school life. Graffiting walls, breaking private property, vandilising public areas. He often got in trouble with the law which displeased his parents. But rather than trying to talk to their son and see what's bothering him, they simply shrugged it off as boys being boys. Even though they tried to discipline him, it never worked out. The harder they tried, the worse Vitalion got.
In his teenage years he ended up joining a gang where most of what they did included robbing and dealing drugs. The first time V truly understood the danger of the life he now insterted himself into was during a shootout with the cops, when the gang could have walked away and showed mercy but instead, V was asked to get rid of the already bleeding cop. And he did. In fact, he felt apathetic about it. There was no guilt or remorse, not even years after he'd grown.
He realized then, maybe that's the life he's meant to have. A killer, a thief, and becoming everything that Night City hates. His resentment did not only extend to police officers, but corpos, who he believed were the real culprits and those deserving the most of his ire. If the world had to burn for him to be satisfied, then so be it.
CHILDHOOD IN THE SOUTH
Life in the south was peaceful for V growing up, he was far more extroverted than he is now, living in a small neighborhood where everyone knew each other. V's best friend at the time was the neighbor boy. The two of them spent a lot of time together exploring around the area they lived in and when they were a bit older, they started learning how to use guns, mostly to shoot empty beer bottles they collected. The boy taught V how to play baseball which is something he still holds dear to him. Vitalion then found himself falling in love with the boy, discovering the fact that he was gay, to his parents' displeasure. He can't remember a time when he was happier, spending nights staring up at the stars with the boy he loved by his side, talking about the future, laughing at the stupidest jokes. Things that were all ripped away from him after he moved to Night City. Now the image of his once love is nothing but a hazy memory, and V is afraid of confronting the ghost of it, afraid that the boy he once loved might be dead, or worse, that he moved on and no longer had space in his life for V and what he had become, afraid that when he saw him, he wouldn't even recognize V or remember him.
Combat, Vehicles, etc
He's better with a pistol than a rifle, and avoids snipers like the plague.
Most of his focus goes on weapons rather than his scanner and cyberattacks. As mentioned before, he has little patience so he's not a fan of stealth. He'd rather get in there, blast everything and blow shit up over careful planning and sneaking.
He almost always rides Jackie's ARCH. It has sentimental value and means a lot to him. In a weird and spiritual way, he feels like it keeps him connected to Jackie. (He may or may not talk to it sometimes too. Leave him alone he's dealing with grief in his own way, okay?)
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