I think that the VILE organization had five different branches, each led by a different member of VILE faculty, and each agent of vile having certain skills or niches that centered them around the certain branches
Studies/Exploration/Labratory things - All under Bellum
This branch, atleast in my mind, contains all the scientists who work in Bellum’s several labs, so anyone who helped them make their robot army, or test different muscle relaxers for The Beijing Bullion Caper, specifically the knock-out face paint.
Bellum would be the one to manage which main assignments agents would work on and often visit and orchestrate her own personal experiments.
Potential OCs/Self inserts could include a scientist who studies/makes weaponry for agents pre-Carmen Collapse, or perhaps a test subject for said weapons.
I think lab agents would get paid salaries with project finish bonuses, not as much as a field agent but stable income and no need to travel.
Attack/Hunt/Stealing things - All under Brunt
This branch would include all the agents who go out into the field and steal things, “Field agents.” Field agents receive missions management gives them and are flown/driven out. They’re given the choice between letting management pick their board for them (usually cheap/low quality/crammed in with other agents) or ask for a credit to pick a hotel of their choice but they’ll usually have to cough up more money for it. Once the mission is completed agents will do several hand-offs to disrupt any sort of trail then can wait at their board for their next mission (which could mean paying out of pocket for more nights), get shipped back to VILE housing, or what most mature VILE agents do and have their own place they go back to.
Field agents are paid by the length of the mission, the difficulty of the mission, their experience, and how accurate their specialty is to the mission, like an actor.
Field agents can also become independent from VILE while still being hired from them (like how that glasses British guy and Cookie aren’t exactly agents while still maintaining contact and doing missions, or those people at Cleo’s dinner party). These agents may join a separate, smaller organization that sources out to other Villian families, specific clients, dealers, etc.
(ACME still existed before even knowing about VILE! There’s other Villian organizations 😁)
More mature agents will likely choose this path as they can be advertised and better suited for missions and staying in your stealing school is a little Super Senior energy *cough cough* Neal *cough cough*
So, for example, Neal is labeled as an acrobatic contortionist so whatever agency that needed someone to get into the right tight places would put a request for someone like that and Management would accept/deny the request depending on availability/budget/etc, or if it was internal, Planning would study the agents they had available and pin them in for the mission.
Management/Being in control - All under Maelstrom
Management agents are made up of secretaries, HR, all smaller teachers, all planning agents (all of Cookie’s employees,) and heads of agent placement. Management will look at incoming agent’s skills and placements in exams and place them in fitting branches. (Ex: Tigress is good at fighting so she belongs in Field, Mimebomb is good at stealth, fighting, and codes so he belongs in Field and Stealth (he also gets paid more per mission because he has more qualifications and skills).
Then, planning will find and research prized items, jewels, artifacts or accept requests from Villian families/orgs/private collectors and pen them all in. It will then progress to the nitty gritty bit of times-dates-precautions to take note of, then choosing which skills they need/want and which agents fit them best through a catalog of each of the agents and their specialties.
Potential OCs : a rival Villian org. agent has to work with a VILE agent and they have an enemies to whatever moment, a tired secretary gets to bully your least favorite agent by scheduling them back-to-back lengthy low paying missions.
Design/PR/Advertising - All under Cleo
Planning agents are those who look for potential pieces, places, items that could become a spectacle for VILE and keep them and their agents in the heads of clients. VILE’s style is In Plain Sight but that means an Field agent should look their best, so Design agents are the ones who sketch, plan, adjust, size the costumes, images, assist with names, etc.
The Design agents will be given assignments from management and a set of agents that request something in their skill set (EX: “I need something fierce/sexy” ((tigress)) is not going to the same designer as “I need something that’ll make me slippery and stretchy as possible” ((Neal)). ).
Then, they’ll meet with their field agents personally and discuss with them things they want to include like pockets, places for weaponry, hidden compartments, textures they need, sensory issues, all kinds of stuff! Afterwards, they’ll begin drafting several sketches and have agents pick their favorite to have them work on.
Design agents will also work with management to produce a quality public image of an agent. If an agent is particularly cool and skilled a client may want to hire them more then some random. (Like would you rather hire a random indie singer that you don’t care about or cool ass Beyoncé.) This also implies that some agents have fans and merch (this is correct, in my world Lab agents will have favorite field agents and get signed T-shirts and posters of them.) These agents also cost more.
Stealth/Undercoverness - All under Shadow San
Stealth agents work to ensure VILE maintains its secretiveness and that it isn’t revealed. Yeah I sorta gave up on this part, I forgot Shadow san existed and haven’t thought this branch over.
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