Yeah, apparently I completely lost any interest in VP out of the blue. The BLORBOS are still pretty much in my heart and I still love them and want to torture them as always...
But the time I spent on VP, now I spend on drawings and lil comics. Which is cool, because I'm probably more free to do what I want! (And draw Vio in all the fancy clothes I want without having to model them myself!)
So yeah, nothing, ramblings. That's the reason why you don't see much VP from me anymore :unsupervised_vio:
Now and then I edit and throw out again Vio's masterpost of madness. Now with drawings, because I'm so into it!
✨️TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OCS✨️
♡Name: Violet Vincennes. Born Violet Wright
♡Nicknames: Vio, Viovio, Violette.
♡Age: 53 in 2077
♡Pronouns: She, her.
♡Sexuality: Pansexual.
♡Hair Color and style: Her natural hair color is dark brown, but she always dyes them in blue/turquoise. She varies a lot with her hairstyle. Usually she keeps her hair long. When she's older she keeps her hair mostly down, to hide her neuroport, and stops dying it, letting out the gray!
♡Eye Color: Her natural color is green, she tries to keep her eye implants as close as possible to her real color.
♡Height: 165 cm (5’5”)! Short queen!
♡Body Type: She’s average. She runs because she likes it, to keep her shape under control. In some particularly happy periods of her life she might have gained a bit of weight (I definetly can see Vlad in 2060 commenting that she is getting chubby...). In 2077 she's definitely thin.
♡Personality: She’d say normal. In truth a bit skittish with relationships, a bit insecure, quite irrational and volatile. Really affectionate, needy and whiny with those she really cares about. Really driven and stubborn. She feels like she hit the jackpot with the Vincennes family and she'd do everything in her power not to let down their name. It means achieving everything she can in the field she's interested in. Overall she's a bold, stubborn, and brave lady.
♡Tattoos: A tattoo Elroy designed for her, with a peony on her right shoulder.
♡Piercings: Many on her ears, nothing else.
♡Any definable features such as: Birthmarks, Scars, Freckles, Beauty Marks, Accent when they talk, Lisp, Natural slurring of words, Walk with a subtle limp, ect.
She has a bunch of birthmarks on her face (not really freckles) and many different scars around her body. She's really proud of her scars. They are the proof she's a fighter and she survived. One of them she got while playing with Elroy and Vlad. Not such a big "survivor" scar but they were all so loving and worried about her when she got it that she feels really attached to that too. The only scar she isn't proud of is the scar from heart surgery she had in 2068. It's the tangible proof that when she needed to actually do something important, she failed.
♡Hobbies:
She likes to read a lot of different and apparently random stuff. With Vlad in particular mystery novels. She sings and plays the piano.Mostly when she's alone but Roy likes to listen to her too. It's a thing that calmed him down when he came back from Night City. Really passionate about music in general, she doesn't like a particular genre and goes from classical music to metal without any issue (Unlike Elroy who is quite fond of his old stuff!).
♡Gang/Occupation {Mox, Max Tac, etc}
Mostly she ends up with some kind of affiliation with Barghest.
♡Do they smoke?
Not officially. She smoked a bit in her teens/college years. After 2069 she started smoking again, but she limits herself to one cigarette in the morning. The morning nicotine hit and Firebird are the two things that get her out of her bed. She definitely uses smoking to escape when she's forced to attend to parties.
♡Do they drink? Is so, what's their poison of choice?
As with smoking, she’s a social drinker. Doesn’t drink alone, but loves to drink in company. She rarely gets drunk, though. Doesn’t really like to loose control, only to get tipsy to make social interactions easier!
♡What do they usually wear on a normal day?
In her youth her style changes if she's in her family home or in the apartment she shared with her friends. At home she dresses more classically and with lighter tones. Feminine dresses, in lighter colors, elegant pants in natural fabric, classical tops with boat and heart necklines, a style similar to her mother's. In her friend's group she goes with leather pants, t-shirts or tops, a few dark dresses, leather jackets, boots. She usually goes with black or dark red clothes. When she's older she usually wears clothes that cover her chest, to hide the scar of her heart implant, leaning into darker color, but keeping the more classical style.
... Or her stinky netrunner suit. That's actually the type of clothes she wears the most.
♡What do they wear when they "Get dressed up"? And what would be considered a "special occasion" to them {such as an "Oh they're gonna be there so I have to look my best." Or an "It's our anniversary".}
Except for the rebellious teens clothing that leaned more into a punk-ish style, she often wears stuff that is already quite elegantDifferent vintage clothes. Really classical. Black, white, dark red or blue. In particular A-line dresses, just over or below the knees. They are in a style that Elroy and her mother liked and found fitting for her. When she's older she mostly wears suits and pencil dresses, keeping most of the times her chest hidden.
Elegant dates, corpo parties, public events, evening at the Black Sapphire.
♡What do they smell like? {For example: they smell like cinnamon flavored liquor, cigarettes, leather, and motor oil.}
Vlad gifted her a perfume on her 20th birthday, and kept gifting her the same perfume on various occasions or she kept buying it for herself
It's quite an opulent and rich fragrance, with at first citrusy notes and then a flowery jasmine and rose.
A perfume that could work as an example is Imperial Emerald from the Merchant of Venice.
Without it she doesn't have much of a smell going on, she tends to be pretty clean.
♡How do they walk? Do they sway their hips? Do they walk with a sense of determination? Do they bounce as they walk? Etc.
When she doesn’t think of it she walks almost as if she’s hiding. Always keeping her surroundings under control, finding possible hiding spots or advantage points. When she’s in a good place or feels protected she’s straighter and more confident in her stride. Usually when she is with Elroy, Vlad, her family or close friends she walks with confidence.
♡Are they more of an early bird or a night owl?
Depends on her workload. She usually goes from a routinary type of work, when she has a really strict schedule, and she sleeps the right amount of hours at night. Usually the workload increases gradually, taking away free time and rest time, until a mission/deadline. In that period she barely gets any sleep. After she's done, she usually takes a few days/up to a week to recharge. Then she gets back to her strict structure of 6-7 hours per night of sleep.
♡If you had to use one word to define them, what word would you use?
Temperamental.
♡What words or catchphrases do they say that's unique to that character?
She doesn't really have a fixed general saying or phrases.
♡Favorite Season
Winter.
♡Favorite type of weather.
She likes those cold winter sunny mornings. She loves the snow. When she manages to go to Russia she always hopes to see it. It's kinda magical for her.
♡Do they have someone they're with relationship-wise? If so, who?
Her main ship is with her childhood friend Vlad (shadow son of the reluctant @ouroboros-hideout). I'm sorry. No matter how hard I try I can't keep her hands off of him...
♡Main Ship/Pairings
Violad. The dumbest bebes ever.
♡Side Pairings
Do I have to count them??? In the Little Talks!AU she had two main stories and many different flings in her wild youth. One with a girl she lived with in college: Simone. Lasted roughly two years. Later she got a longer story with Jean-Paul. They lasted for four years. Not really a happy, perfect relationship, and Vlad managed to put his hands all over it and ruin everything anyway. Technically I made her in the beginning as a ship with Kurt... But she is such a different character at this point...
♡Favorite/Self-indulgent Pairings
Violad, in every dumb sauce.
♡How do they show affection to their loved one?
TOUCH. She doesn’t generally like to touch people… But with people she likes she’s very touchy. Not in an extreme way, but if she’s close to a person she loves she’s probably touching their arm, or slipping her hand under their or laying her head on their shoulder. She is really affectionate and really needs a lot of physical contact.
She also likes to make gifts but they're usually homemade silly stuff. Like little plushies of animals. And she also likes to try to prepare the food they like. She was born and spent her first eight years of life as a street kid with an inconsistent diet, so sharing food with the people she loves is very important.
♡How do they sit in a chair?
Usually quite comfortably, legs closed and slightly tilted or stretched out with one ankle over the other. She instinctively tries to emulate stances she saw her adoptive mother in, at least when she's in public. When she's only with Roy and Vlad she might take off her shoes, lift her legs on the chair and surround them with her arms, or fold them under herself.
♡How do they sit in a chair {uncomfortable version}
Legs closed, straight back, probably fidgeting with her hands.
♡What do they wear to bed?
Normally a T-shirt and underwear. The T-shirt is preferably stolen. Or she wears fancy nightgowns, mostly in black, if she has company for the night.
♡How do they usually sleep? {Side sleeper, back, fetal position, backwards, nest sleeper, blanket mountain, etc}
She starts in fetal position, or all cuddly, she ends sleeping on her back, sometimes she throws her arms and legs around.
♡How do they sleep in a place they don't know? {Can't due to anxiety, in small bursts of sleep that are short lived, holding themselves, etc}
If she's in a “safe space” the same as usual. If it’s not so safe she wakes up now and then checking her surroundings. She also is very receptive to any possible sound. As a kid, before the adoption she used to sleep with a knife under the pillow. She stole one from the kitchen in the first period after the adoption. Her mom freaked out.
♡Do they have to have a form of "white noise" in order to sleep? {The sound of a fan, the sound of rain, the sound of a city, etc}
No.
♡What's a place they go to feel comfortable, that's their "spot" they always go when they're upset?
If she's far from her home in France, Elroy’s apartment. She knows that as soon as he knows she's here and needs him he'll come to help her. But sometimes she simply sits on the stairs in front of the complex and waits for him.
♡What do they do when they're nervous? {Fidget with jewelry, pick at nails, bite nails/lips, play with knife/zippo lighter, etc}
If she needs to fake it, she focuses on something repetitive. Like the tap of her finger on something. If not she usually avoids other people's eyes and tries to make herself invisible.
♡What is their "tell" for lying?
Instinctually, she tends not to look people in the eyes when she’s lying about something personal. If it’s professional stuff, though it’s quite harder to tell.
♡What is their favorite color?
Turquoise and blue.
♡Favorite flower/plant
Peonies.
♡Favorite sweet of choice
Chocolate eclair.
♡Do they have any pets? If so, tell me about them
Her personal animal as a kid was Milky Bun. A rabbit she found and hid in her bedroom in France (choco balls everywhere xD).
Technically Firebird Jr is not her dog. But he ends up in her care for, sadly, most of his life. So in the end, after a rocky start, he's her pet.
♡What are their triggers {If they have any}? If so, what calms them down?
The bigger trigger for her is the feeling of abandonment, or the fear of losing people she cares about. And only realizing that she’s not being left alone, preferably with physical contact calms her down.
When she's old for a period of time she deletes all the memories of her times with Vlad. It leaves some empty spaces, but it's not a perfect job, so when she is confronted with things that would remind her of these times, she spirals badly, every time getting closer to a cyberpsychotic breakdown. Elroy usually manages to bring her back, and calm her down in these moments. But they are the reason why between 68-78 she doesn't go to France at all.
♡If they could visit anywhere in the world, where would they go and why?
She likes her hometown and house in Saint-remy-de-provence, France, it's a place where she has mostly good memories.
♡What is their favorite comfort meal?
When she came to France at 6 the only thing she ate was croquet messier. Her adoptive mother used to make it for her. She still makes it for herself when she misses her.
♡Do they have a food they hate?
Food is food, she could eat everything. But well, she doesn’t love industrial made food.
♡What is their favorite {non-alcoholic} drink?
She likes Tiancha Pomegranate.
♡What are their plans for the future {if they have any}?
She doesn’t make plans for the future. Finding a way to be stable and happy with people she loves is what she'd love to.
♡What's a song that "fits" them?
♡Give me 5 facts/random bits of information about them
She once cooked a cake that tasted like fish. She still doesn't know what went wrong that time. Poor Roy, it was for his birthday.
Violet can't dance on her own. In the AUs where she does it's because they forced her to learn. She definitely can't improvise dancing, and usually has a hard time following other people's lead. Or she needs to be tipsy at least. Then she manages to let go enough to dance freely. And be ridiculous. But she's not the only one!
She makes little plushies for the people she loves. All wobbly and with skipped stitches. But she loves making them!
Her first time was when she was 20, with Vlad. Not because she never had a boyfriend before. But every time she was getting closer to someone else she met Vlad and she fell for him all over again…
♡Give me their backstory {can be long, or brief.}
Born in 2024. Her father died in the aftermath of the nuclear detonation of Night City and her mother right after her birth. After the first 8 years of her life in the streets, she was adopted by Elroy's family.
Elroy's parents were really loving and supportive, and despite the fact that she was quite sick during her childhood she grew up in a really positive and reinforcing environment. Elroy and Violet spent most of their childhood with Vlad, forming a really close group of friends (kindergarten for real!). Holidays, birthdays, and summer vacations were all spent together. She developed a terrible crush on the childhood friend.
Violet studied in Paris and entered the ENSTA ParisTech, where she focused on her studies in informatics and systems engineering, at the same time cooperating with a group of young netrunners. At 20 years old, she had a one-night stand with Vlad that led to nothing other than embarrassment. Shortly after, she had a stable relationship with her at the time roommate, Simone. After roughly a year, they broke up.
Her brother, Elroy, came back from Night City completely devastated by addiction and the death of his girlfriend, and she spent almost a year helping him out with her mother. Their relationship got only stronger, and they promised each other never again to stay apart. At the same time, Vlad died the first time, and she was informed about everything by his mother, who visited and called her own.
The three of them met again in 2050 at Elroy’s first art show and returned to their old routine of visiting each other for the usual yearly celebrations. Shortly after Violet and Vlad got together. In the meantime, Elroy and Violet started to work seriously together, meddling on the border of legality. Elroy put to use his social and planning ability and turned into a high-end fixer. Violet worked as a netrunner in the background, with her group of friends. In 2052 Violet moved to Russia to live with Vlad, but their relationship didn't last long and they broke up in 2053.
Later in the same year, she got together with Jean-Paul. They were mostly content together, despite Vlad’s not-so-subtle interference. But in 2056, shortly after Violet’s mother’s death, they broke up, due to Violet’s resistance to bringing their relationship to another level. Violet blamed Vlad’s interference for that . Shortly after Vlad was caught up in the scandal of his at the time girlfriend Dasha’s death. Violet refused to see him, still convinced that the failure of her relationship was his fault.
They met again in 2060 when Vlad showed up at their home in France after being forced to an indeterminate leave from work, due to another deadly accident. Violet managed to see again in the broken man the person she fell in love with when they were younger. They quickly got together. In that year, the three of them also started to work together until, in 2061, Vlad was called back to work with SovOil. Elroy never forgave him for that. Violet understood his reasons and let him go with the promise of coming back after he finished what he had to.
They kept meeting in secret 3-4 times a year until 2063, a period in which Violet witnessed his declining state of mind. In 2064, Violet received Vlad’s diary, a series of recordings he made since he was fifteen years old, a last automatic message, after his death. Vlad’s biological sister contacted her to ask for help in retrieving her brother she believed was still alive. This brought Violet to slowly get more and more chromed up and almost die in a suicide attack against Sovoil in 2066. After a year in a coma, she woke up again, to find out that Vlad was alive, but completely chromed up and irremediably changed from the man she remembered. She decided to simply delete that part of herself, asking her closest friend, Nicole, to extract all the memories connected to Vlad and keeping them under custody.
Elroy, Violet and their group, started to work closely with Kurt Hansen and helped him establish Dogtown, where they met (Violet for the second time Aon). They kept working there, Elroy making it his base of operations in NC, and Violet coordinating the group of netrunners of the Black Sapphire. That until 2077, when Songbird's attack triggered a cyberpsychotic breakdown in Violet. She killed Nicole and heavily injured her brother before being stopped.
She simply had to learn to live with the guilt and rebuild everything that has been destroyed in Dogtown. It was only after another year that an Hansen’s close collaborator from Russia, Aon, reached the Black Sapphire, dragging with herself a pale copy of Vlad.
She didn't remember him, but his sight almost triggered another cyberpsychotic breakdown. But Elroy managed to appeal to her humanity and keep her grounded. They agreed to go back to France and finally take some time to recover, and Elroy decided to give her the files of her memories, allowing her to decide for herself if she wanted to confront them.
♡Free Space! Give me any sort of extra information about them you'd like to share
The neglected son deserves a rewriting of her big introduction too (Violet had 3... he only 1 so far...)
✨️TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OCS✨️
•Name: Elroy Vincennes
•Nicknames: Usually people call him Mr. Vincennes. His friends call him Elroy. His CLOSEST friends call him Roy. Only Violet calls him Roro.
•Age: 55 in 2077
•Pronouns: He/Him
•Sexuality: He doesn't care about what people have in their pants, but what's in their head. So he's pansexual, but in truth, he isn’t really interested in sex.
•Hair Color and style: Dark red, usually worn short and combed back. When he's older he starts to show a few grey strands.
•Eye Color: Light brown with a hint of gold. It might sound like a surprise, but they are his natural eyes. He has very little chrome and it's just aesthetic.
In 2077 he lost one eye. He could replace it, but decided to keep it as it is. He doesn't want to install cyberware… and in that moment of his life he finds appealing the idea of terrifying people with his blind eye.
•Height: 178 cm.
•Body Type: Quite average. He's used to creating art with metal, glass, and whatever inspires him, so he's used to some sort of hard work, but he doesn't work out.
•Personality: Clever, extrovert, enthusiastic about the best things in life. Extremely hedonist. Loves to observe people and molds himself on them. So his tone and behavior might change according to who is in front of him. He can be a bit of a manipulator... mostly with people he doesn't care about, but also with the ones he cares a bout if he thinks it's for their own good. Has a hard time forming romantic relationships and at this point in his life he doesn't care at all about it.
•Tattoos: A series of paint strokes that from his fingers run through his arms. He designed and tattooed it himself and every stroke represents a close person he lost or drove away.
•Piercings: A gold stud.
•Any definable features such as: Birthmarks, Scars, Freckles, Beauty Marks, Accent when they talk, Lisp, Natural slurring of words, Walk with a subtle limp, etc.
A few scars on his face, gifts from a chaotic youth. He has only some golden fashionware around his eyes. It's just an aestethic thing.
•Hobbies: Everything that's good in life. The thing he loves the most of course is art, but he's also passionate about music (old French classics he sang with his mother and sister, classical music, and then, out of the blue Taylor Swift), fine wine, and fine dining. Literature and poetry. Vintage decors, vintage cars, high-end clothing. He truly is an eclectic character who knows and is passionate about many things.
•Gang/Occupation {Mox, Max Tac, etc}
He's really independent. Everyone who can pay is welcome to do business with him. Since 2070 he has had a close cooperation with Kurt Hansen.
•Do they smoke? Yes. Rolled-up cigarettes, pipes, or cigars.
•Do they drink? If so, what's their poison of choice? Yes, of course. Wine, French, and especially red. Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon. He also likes the Beaujolais Nouveau, especially for the ritualistic party that he has every year with his friend Vlad (and well, the rest of France).
•What do they usually wear on a normal day?
Usually, he wears suits in dark gray, red, or black. Always with fancy fabrics. At home, he usually wears an open shirt and dark pants or a silk robe. If he's working on his artistic projects… well, tank tops and old ripped jeans. But only Violet can enter his studio so nobody else has seen him in that outfit.
•What do they wear when they "Get dressed up"? And what would be considered a "special occasion" to them {such as an "Oh they're gonna be there so I have to look my best." Or an "It's our anniversary".}
The suits tend to turn more eccentric and a bit more colorful. He loves brocade and tends to gravitate to autumn colors. Copper, gold, bronze, dark red, and green are colors that he loves and suit him.
A special occasion for him is usually a big party he's hosting. Usually on New Year's Eve. That's the only thing he considers fancy enough to spruce his outfit up at the maximum level. He dresses well anyway, but that's an over-the-top special event.
•What do they smell like? {For example: they smell like cinnamon-flavored liquor, cigarettes, leather, and motor oil.}
He uses a particular perfume his buddy has gifted him. Oud wood with patchouli and musk, with a lavender’s and saffron’s hint.
Without it probably tobacco.
•How do they walk? Do they sway their hips? Do they walk with a sense of determination? Do they bounce as they walk? Etc.
Confident, really relaxed, and often smiling. He doesn't have a fast stride and doesn't need to be intimidating. The pace of someone who truly believes in himself and has nothing to prove.
•Are they more of an early bird or a night owl?
He's a “not sleep at all” guy.
He sleeps from 6 to 9 every day and to him, it's already too much.
Not really, but it explains the dark circles around his eyes.
He had periods in his youth when he couldn't sleep at all. Violet helped him to establish some sort of schedule by playing some music at the piano for him. So usually, when they are together, she wakes up at 5.45, plays for him and then goes on with her day.
•If you had to use one word to define them, what word would you use?
A shithead. Eclectic.
•What words or catchphrases do they say that's unique to that character?
I wouldn't call it a catchphrase, but an iconic phrase he says to different people in different interactions (usually when he pissed them off) is: “Everything is a game”.
It well embodies his way of seeing everything as a convoluted game where he'd sacrifice almost everything just to win.
•Favorite Season
Autumn. In France.
•Favorite type of weather {Thunderstorms, sunny, etc}
Foggy mornings that turn into cold sunny days.
•Do they have someone they're with relationship-wise? If so, who?
Not actually. He isn't interested in love at this point in his life. He has friends and likes to observe them live their lives.
•Main Ship/Pairings:
He had a girl when he was young, Sophie. They were in love and even got married, but she died of an overdose. He feels really guilty about it because he was the one procuring her drugs. Since then he never got with anyone else. He doesn't care a lot about sex anyway.
Many argue that he's basically in a relationship with his adopted sister and especially in their late life gossip about them and their matching jewelry.
Elroy and Violet find the whole concept ridiculous and laugh a lot about it.
•Side Pairings:
Vlad. Kidding, none.
•Favorite/Self-indulgent Pairings
The BrOTP with Vlad. Their relationship is weirdly positive and enriching for both of them. It's cozy. Also his relationship with Violet is lovely… mind me, they fight a lot (I have a drawing somewhere of Vio and Roy screaming at each other while Vlad listens to music between them)... But in the end they are on the same side and love each other a lot.
Vio is the only… non negotiable person in Elroy’s life. Everyone else is expendable, she isn't.
•How do they show affection to their loved one?
He spends time with them, sharing the thing he loves the most. Eating together, drinking together, and talking a lot. He loves to show them beautiful things: art in every form, nature, and cities. And he's also quite generous with gifts. There are really few people he cares about, but he likes to share everything he can with them.
•How do they sit in a chair?
Comfortable, calm, leaning on the backrest, legs often crossed. If it's an armchair he'd spread his arms on the armrests, if not he rests them on his lap.
•How do they sit in a chair {uncomfortable version}
The same as before. It's really hard to make him feel uncomfortable… and even if he is, he is really good at masking it.
•What do they wear to bed?
A few drops of Chanel n° 5. Kidding, but he doesn't wear anything. I'm afraid that some of his guests have seen him wearing only an open silk robe when he comes out for breakfast.
•How do they usually sleep? {Side sleeper, back, fetal position, backward, nest sleeper, blanket mountain, etc}
He takes his space. Usually on his back, his arm spread over a lot of cushions.
•How do they sleep in a place they don't know? {Can't due to anxiety, in small bursts of sleep that are short-lived, holding themselves, etc}
He usually doesn't sleep in places he feels uncomfortable (or he feels comfortable everywhere…).
•Do they have to have a form of "white noise" in order to sleep? {The sound of a fan, the sound of rain, the sound of a city, etc}
Violet's piano music, to help him drift to sleep. If he's in France during the summer he opens the windows and listens to the sounds of nature.
•What's a place they go to feel comfortable, that's their "spot" they always go when they're upset?
France. His family estate is in Saint-Remy-de-Provence. He loves that place, it reminds him of his mother.
•What do they do when they're nervous? {Fidget with jewelry, pick at nails, bite nails/lips, play with knife/zippo lighter, etc}
He's rarely nervous, but when he is he tends to joke and laugh more.
•What is their "tell" for lying?
None. He's used to lying and is extremely good at it. He practically wears a mask in every social interaction, so you could argue that it's hard to differentiate when he's lying because he's always lying. So probably 2-3 people on earth know how he is while he's not wearing a mask.
•What is their favorite color?
Warm and autumn tones. Copper and gold fit him a lot and he likes them.
•Favorite flower/plant
He likes lavender and vine.
•Favorite sweet of choice
The apple strudel his sister makes. Not really. But when they were kids and she made it for Vlad, he was such an asshole about it that Roy declared that it was the best sweet he ever ate.
Later in their life, after Vlad died he now and then asks her to make it. It's a thing they do together when they're bummed. They talk, they cook, and then when they eat it everything feels a bit lighter.
•Do they have any pets? If so, tell me about them
He has animals in his estate in Provence, but I wouldn't call them his pets.
He had a (series) of hunting dogs. All called Sigebert. All with different nicknames. Vlad and then Violet had Firebird JR… not his dog but he lives with them.
•What are their triggers {If they have any}? If so, what calms them down?
When he was young the sense of guilt about letting his girlfriend die.
Violet and his mother Liliane helped him to overcome that.
After Violet's little stunt while trying to find Vlad again, the fear of being left behind was focused completely on her. Violet was no longer something he could afford to lose and everything he did had the purpose of keeping her alive, at the point of chroming her up to make her survive.
I think that after she had her cyberpsycho break down and almost killed him (lucky not to be chromed up, I think she offed everyone that she could hack in the proximity) he might have been truly scared of her for a while. He still loves her, with all his heart… but instinctively he knows she can be no less bad than Vlad.
•If they could visit anywhere in the world, where would they go and why?
He's been around a lot. When he travels for pleasure, he goes back home.
•What is their favorite comfort meal?
He likes a lot of different dishes, but the one that speaks to his heart is roasted chicken. His grandma during his family vacations used to make it and he remembers fondly that the chicken was running around the yard at 11 and at 12.30 was on the table.
He didn't know how she prepared it so quickly, but it had a different flavor from anything he tasted in his life.
•Do they have a food they hate?
Everything industrial-made, or made without care.
•What is their favorite {non-alcoholic} drink?
Nonalcoholic??? Water rusts bridges, you know? But probably sparkling water. Not the type for soft drinks.
•What are their plans for the future {if they have any}?
In 78-80 keep things as they are. He's in a good place. Calm, self-content, enjoying friendships and a good life.
•What's a song that "fits" them?
Only one????
Bastille · “&” (Ampersand), Part One · Song · 2024
•Give me 5 facts/random bits of information about them
He loves to sing old French love songs.
Every time he meets with Vlad he comes up with some silly thing to do together. Or weird gifts to give him. Vlad is rarely amused.
Every year on New Year's Eve he has a big party. A. BIG. PARTY. Something super lavish and extravagant, in a new location every year, with new different attractions every year. He calls it “La Fête de la fin du Mot” or “World’s End Party”.
He has a vintage Polaroid camera he brings around everywhere. He likes to take pictures of whatever tickles his interest. He rarely lends it: the only people he trusts with it are Violet and barely Vlad.
He'd never put it into Kurt's clumsy big pawns.
He got married in secret. The only person that knew was Vlad. He still wears his wedding ring, though. “To keep the old chicks away,” he says.
•Give me their backstory {can be long, or brief.}
Born in France on the 19th of November 2024. His mother was an eccentric and quite famous actress at the time. His father came from old money and had a good position in Eurobank. He grew up in France and when he was eight years old he met Vlad for the first time. Their mothers used to be close friends and both of them agreed that it would have been nice for their children to become friends too.
After two years, his family decided to adopt another child, and during a trip in Night City he met Violet at an orphanage and out of the blue decided she was his sister and he wouldn't have wanted anyone else. A few months later she was adopted in the family and moved to France. When Elroy was eighteen he moved to Night City, a bit to truly see where his sister had grown up, a bit to get rid of his family’s control and prove to everyone that he could do something of himself on his own.
He met a girl, quickly got married and they were happy for some years, until she died of an overdose.
Elroy too, had some addiction issues, so he decided to go back home, entered rehab and started to work on his first art show. He also started to work now and then with Violet on some little data retrieving missions.
At the opening of his art gallery he met again his childhood friend Vlad, and soon after, Vlad and Violet got together and she moved to Russia. In the meantime Elroy kept working, both on his art and his fixer status, taking up bigger and more intricate missions. The thrill of managing people and different layers of truth and lies was something that kept him alive, and sober.
Despite the ups and down of his sister's relationship with Vlad they always remained friends, until 2061 when Vlad, after one year living and working together, decided to go back to Russia to work for SovOil. He really was pissed off about the idea of his friend throwing his life away for a corporation that so far only hurted him, and he didn't even listen to his sister who claimed that Vlad had his reasons. He knew at the time that Violet and Vlad kept seeing each other but turned a blind eye to it (pun not intended…), until Violet almost got herself killed during a raid against SovOil in the attempt to find out if Vlad was truly dead.
It took her a lot of time to recover, only Elroy’s stubbornness keeping her alive in the meantime. He slowly replaced every part of her that needed replacing, until when she woke up, a year after, she was completely chromed up.
He persuaded Violet to definetly let go of Vlad and get back to their jobs, until in 2070 when he decided to work with Kurt Hansen and moved with her to Night City.
They lived mainly there, helping to set up the Black Sapphire and the commercial trading in Dogtown.
In 2077, though during Songbird's escape, Violet got caught in the (digital) crossfire, and had a cyberpsychotic episode that cost him his eye and almost his life.
Elroy didn't approve of Hansen’s plan from the beginning but he kept hanging in Dogtown. Violet was still in no condition to go back in France. They were reached there by Aon, and a still alive Vlad. Only then he decided to go back home, with Violet and Vlad, to try and go back to how they were.
•Free Space! Give me any sort of extra information about them you'd like to share
The worst gift he gave to Vlad is probably a thong, made of silk with red stars.
The neglected son deserves a rewriting of her big introduction too (Violet had 3... he only 1 so far...)
✨️TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OCS✨️
•Name: Elroy Vincennes
•Nicknames: Usually people call him Mr. Vincennes. His friends call him Elroy. His CLOSEST friends call him Roy. Only Violet calls him Roro.
•Age: 55 in 2077
•Pronouns: He/Him
•Sexuality: He doesn't care about what people have in their pants, but what's in their head. So he's pansexual, but in truth, he isn’t really interested in sex.
•Hair Color and style: Dark red, usually worn short and combed back. When he's older he starts to show a few grey strands.
•Eye Color: Light brown with a hint of gold. It might sound like a surprise, but they are his natural eyes. He has very little chrome and it's just aesthetic.
In 2077 he lost one eye. He could replace it, but decided to keep it as it is. He doesn't want to install cyberware… and in that moment of his life he finds appealing the idea of terrifying people with his blind eye.
•Height: 178 cm.
•Body Type: Quite average. He's used to creating art with metal, glass, and whatever inspires him, so he's used to some sort of hard work, but he doesn't work out.
•Personality: Clever, extrovert, enthusiastic about the best things in life. Extremely hedonist. Loves to observe people and molds himself on them. So his tone and behavior might change according to who is in front of him. He can be a bit of a manipulator... mostly with people he doesn't care about, but also with the ones he cares a bout if he thinks it's for their own good. Has a hard time forming romantic relationships and at this point in his life he doesn't care at all about it.
•Tattoos: A series of paint strokes that from his fingers run through his arms. He designed and tattooed it himself and every stroke represents a close person he lost or drove away.
•Piercings: A gold stud.
•Any definable features such as: Birthmarks, Scars, Freckles, Beauty Marks, Accent when they talk, Lisp, Natural slurring of words, Walk with a subtle limp, etc.
A few scars on his face, gifts from a chaotic youth. He has only some golden fashionware around his eyes. It's just an aestethic thing.
•Hobbies: Everything that's good in life. The thing he loves the most of course is art, but he's also passionate about music (old French classics he sang with his mother and sister, classical music, and then, out of the blue Taylor Swift), fine wine, and fine dining. Literature and poetry. Vintage decors, vintage cars, high-end clothing. He truly is an eclectic character who knows and is passionate about many things.
•Gang/Occupation {Mox, Max Tac, etc}
He's really independent. Everyone who can pay is welcome to do business with him. Since 2070 he has had a close cooperation with Kurt Hansen.
•Do they smoke? Yes. Rolled-up cigarettes, pipes, or cigars.
•Do they drink? If so, what's their poison of choice? Yes, of course. Wine, French, and especially red. Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon. He also likes the Beaujolais Nouveau, especially for the ritualistic party that he has every year with his friend Vlad (and well, the rest of France).
•What do they usually wear on a normal day?
Usually, he wears suits in dark gray, red, or black. Always with fancy fabrics. At home, he usually wears an open shirt and dark pants or a silk robe. If he's working on his artistic projects… well, tank tops and old ripped jeans. But only Violet can enter his studio so nobody else has seen him in that outfit.
•What do they wear when they "Get dressed up"? And what would be considered a "special occasion" to them {such as an "Oh they're gonna be there so I have to look my best." Or an "It's our anniversary".}
The suits tend to turn more eccentric and a bit more colorful. He loves brocade and tends to gravitate to autumn colors. Copper, gold, bronze, dark red, and green are colors that he loves and suit him.
A special occasion for him is usually a big party he's hosting. Usually on New Year's Eve. That's the only thing he considers fancy enough to spruce his outfit up at the maximum level. He dresses well anyway, but that's an over-the-top special event.
•What do they smell like? {For example: they smell like cinnamon-flavored liquor, cigarettes, leather, and motor oil.}
He uses a particular perfume his buddy has gifted him. Oud wood with patchouli and musk, with a lavender’s and saffron’s hint.
Without it probably tobacco.
•How do they walk? Do they sway their hips? Do they walk with a sense of determination? Do they bounce as they walk? Etc.
Confident, really relaxed, and often smiling. He doesn't have a fast stride and doesn't need to be intimidating. The pace of someone who truly believes in himself and has nothing to prove.
•Are they more of an early bird or a night owl?
He's a “not sleep at all” guy.
He sleeps from 6 to 9 every day and to him, it's already too much.
Not really, but it explains the dark circles around his eyes.
He had periods in his youth when he couldn't sleep at all. Violet helped him to establish some sort of schedule by playing some music at the piano for him. So usually, when they are together, she wakes up at 5.45, plays for him and then goes on with her day.
•If you had to use one word to define them, what word would you use?
A shithead. Eclectic.
•What words or catchphrases do they say that's unique to that character?
I wouldn't call it a catchphrase, but an iconic phrase he says to different people in different interactions (usually when he pissed them off) is: “Everything is a game”.
It well embodies his way of seeing everything as a convoluted game where he'd sacrifice almost everything just to win.
•Favorite Season
Autumn. In France.
•Favorite type of weather {Thunderstorms, sunny, etc}
Foggy mornings that turn into cold sunny days.
•Do they have someone they're with relationship-wise? If so, who?
Not actually. He isn't interested in love at this point in his life. He has friends and likes to observe them live their lives.
•Main Ship/Pairings:
He had a girl when he was young, Sophie. They were in love and even got married, but she died of an overdose. He feels really guilty about it because he was the one procuring her drugs. Since then he never got with anyone else. He doesn't care a lot about sex anyway.
Many argue that he's basically in a relationship with his adopted sister and especially in their late life gossip about them and their matching jewelry.
Elroy and Violet find the whole concept ridiculous and laugh a lot about it.
•Side Pairings:
Vlad. Kidding, none.
•Favorite/Self-indulgent Pairings
The BrOTP with Vlad. Their relationship is weirdly positive and enriching for both of them. It's cozy. Also his relationship with Violet is lovely… mind me, they fight a lot (I have a drawing somewhere of Vio and Roy screaming at each other while Vlad listens to music between them)... But in the end they are on the same side and love each other a lot.
Vio is the only… non negotiable person in Elroy’s life. Everyone else is expendable, she isn't.
•How do they show affection to their loved one?
He spends time with them, sharing the thing he loves the most. Eating together, drinking together, and talking a lot. He loves to show them beautiful things: art in every form, nature, and cities. And he's also quite generous with gifts. There are really few people he cares about, but he likes to share everything he can with them.
•How do they sit in a chair?
Comfortable, calm, leaning on the backrest, legs often crossed. If it's an armchair he'd spread his arms on the armrests, if not he rests them on his lap.
•How do they sit in a chair {uncomfortable version}
The same as before. It's really hard to make him feel uncomfortable… and even if he is, he is really good at masking it.
•What do they wear to bed?
A few drops of Chanel n° 5. Kidding, but he doesn't wear anything. I'm afraid that some of his guests have seen him wearing only an open silk robe when he comes out for breakfast.
•How do they usually sleep? {Side sleeper, back, fetal position, backward, nest sleeper, blanket mountain, etc}
He takes his space. Usually on his back, his arm spread over a lot of cushions.
•How do they sleep in a place they don't know? {Can't due to anxiety, in small bursts of sleep that are short-lived, holding themselves, etc}
He usually doesn't sleep in places he feels uncomfortable (or he feels comfortable everywhere…).
•Do they have to have a form of "white noise" in order to sleep? {The sound of a fan, the sound of rain, the sound of a city, etc}
Violet's piano music, to help him drift to sleep. If he's in France during the summer he opens the windows and listens to the sounds of nature.
•What's a place they go to feel comfortable, that's their "spot" they always go when they're upset?
France. His family estate is in Saint-Remy-de-Provence. He loves that place, it reminds him of his mother.
•What do they do when they're nervous? {Fidget with jewelry, pick at nails, bite nails/lips, play with knife/zippo lighter, etc}
He's rarely nervous, but when he is he tends to joke and laugh more.
•What is their "tell" for lying?
None. He's used to lying and is extremely good at it. He practically wears a mask in every social interaction, so you could argue that it's hard to differentiate when he's lying because he's always lying. So probably 2-3 people on earth know how he is while he's not wearing a mask.
•What is their favorite color?
Warm and autumn tones. Copper and gold fit him a lot and he likes them.
•Favorite flower/plant
He likes lavender and vine.
•Favorite sweet of choice
The apple strudel his sister makes. Not really. But when they were kids and she made it for Vlad, he was such an asshole about it that Roy declared that it was the best sweet he ever ate.
Later in their life, after Vlad died he now and then asks her to make it. It's a thing they do together when they're bummed. They talk, they cook, and then when they eat it everything feels a bit lighter.
•Do they have any pets? If so, tell me about them
He has animals in his estate in Provence, but I wouldn't call them his pets.
He had a (series) of hunting dogs. All called Sigebert. All with different nicknames. Vlad and then Violet had Firebird JR… not his dog but he lives with them.
•What are their triggers {If they have any}? If so, what calms them down?
When he was young the sense of guilt about letting his girlfriend die.
Violet and his mother Liliane helped him to overcome that.
After Violet's little stunt while trying to find Vlad again, the fear of being left behind was focused completely on her. Violet was no longer something he could afford to lose and everything he did had the purpose of keeping her alive, at the point of chroming her up to make her survive.
I think that after she had her cyberpsycho break down and almost killed him (lucky not to be chromed up, I think she offed everyone that she could hack in the proximity) he might have been truly scared of her for a while. He still loves her, with all his heart… but instinctively he knows she can be no less bad than Vlad.
•If they could visit anywhere in the world, where would they go and why?
He's been around a lot. When he travels for pleasure, he goes back home.
•What is their favorite comfort meal?
He likes a lot of different dishes, but the one that speaks to his heart is roasted chicken. His grandma during his family vacations used to make it and he remembers fondly that the chicken was running around the yard at 11 and at 12.30 was on the table.
He didn't know how she prepared it so quickly, but it had a different flavor from anything he tasted in his life.
•Do they have a food they hate?
Everything industrial-made, or made without care.
•What is their favorite {non-alcoholic} drink?
Nonalcoholic??? Water rusts bridges, you know? But probably sparkling water. Not the type for soft drinks.
•What are their plans for the future {if they have any}?
In 78-80 keep things as they are. He's in a good place. Calm, self-content, enjoying friendships and a good life.
•What's a song that "fits" them?
Only one????
Bastille · “&” (Ampersand), Part One · Song · 2024
•Give me 5 facts/random bits of information about them
He loves to sing old French love songs.
Every time he meets with Vlad he comes up with some silly thing to do together. Or weird gifts to give him. Vlad is rarely amused.
Every year on New Year's Eve he has a big party. A. BIG. PARTY. Something super lavish and extravagant, in a new location every year, with new different attractions every year. He calls it “La Fête de la fin du Mot” or “World’s End Party”.
He has a vintage Polaroid camera he brings around everywhere. He likes to take pictures of whatever tickles his interest. He rarely lends it: the only people he trusts with it are Violet and barely Vlad.
He'd never put it into Kurt's clumsy big pawns.
He got married in secret. The only person that knew was Vlad. He still wears his wedding ring, though. “To keep the old chicks away,” he says.
•Give me their backstory {can be long, or brief.}
Born in France on the 19th of November 2024. His mother was an eccentric and quite famous actress at the time. His father came from old money and had a good position in Eurobank. He grew up in France and when he was eight years old he met Vlad for the first time. Their mothers used to be close friends and both of them agreed that it would have been nice for their children to become friends too.
After two years, his family decided to adopt another child, and during a trip in Night City he met Violet at an orphanage and out of the blue decided she was his sister and he wouldn't have wanted anyone else. A few months later she was adopted in the family and moved to France. When Elroy was eighteen he moved to Night City, a bit to truly see where his sister had grown up, a bit to get rid of his family’s control and prove to everyone that he could do something of himself on his own.
He met a girl, quickly got married and they were happy for some years, until she died of an overdose.
Elroy too, had some addiction issues, so he decided to go back home, entered rehab and started to work on his first art show. He also started to work now and then with Violet on some little data retrieving missions.
At the opening of his art gallery he met again his childhood friend Vlad, and soon after, Vlad and Violet got together and she moved to Russia. In the meantime Elroy kept working, both on his art and his fixer status, taking up bigger and more intricate missions. The thrill of managing people and different layers of truth and lies was something that kept him alive, and sober.
Despite the ups and down of his sister's relationship with Vlad they always remained friends, until 2061 when Vlad, after one year living and working together, decided to go back to Russia to work for SovOil. He really was pissed off about the idea of his friend throwing his life away for a corporation that so far only hurted him, and he didn't even listen to his sister who claimed that Vlad had his reasons. He knew at the time that Violet and Vlad kept seeing each other but turned a blind eye to it (pun not intended…), until Violet almost got herself killed during a raid against SovOil in the attempt to find out if Vlad was truly dead.
It took her a lot of time to recover, only Elroy’s stubbornness keeping her alive in the meantime. He slowly replaced every part of her that needed replacing, until when she woke up, a year after, she was completely chromed up.
He persuaded Violet to definetly let go of Vlad and get back to their jobs, until in 2070 when he decided to work with Kurt Hansen and moved with her to Night City.
They lived mainly there, helping to set up the Black Sapphire and the commercial trading in Dogtown.
In 2077, though during Songbird's escape, Violet got caught in the (digital) crossfire, and had a cyberpsychotic episode that cost him his eye and almost his life.
Elroy didn't approve of Hansen’s plan from the beginning but he kept hanging in Dogtown. Violet was still in no condition to go back in France. They were reached there by Aon, and a still alive Vlad. Only then he decided to go back home, with Violet and Vlad, to try and go back to how they were.
•Free Space! Give me any sort of extra information about them you'd like to share
The worst gift he gave to Vlad is probably a thong, made of silk with red stars.
Repost & fill in the words you most associate with your character.
For my wet bebe Vio!
Animal: Bunneh! It's also her chosen net handle!
Month: April, it's her birth month and fits her vibe!
Song: This Is Who I Am - Celeste (I kinda made the mixtape thingy for her and Roy, so maybe one day I'll expand there)
Number: 14
Day or night: Night
Plant: Peonies
Smell: Jasmine and an hint of citrus.
Season: Winter. She loves cold and snow. As a kiddo she likes to play in it, even when old! (One day old Vlad and her will go back to Russia just to play with snow together. Or on a winter european vacation so he doesn't risk getting killed).
Food: Croque-monsieur and an eclair! Only food she used to eat when she was a kiddo, still her confort food.
Astrological sign: Aries
Element: Water. I don't really know why, probably because she often looks calm and composed but has deep turmoils hidden under the surface (my emo kid!).
Drink: I'd say a green tea at this point. Or a glass of fine white wine.
Tagged by @cotton-candy-merc, thank you for the tag!
Tagging: @ouroboros-hideout @blackrevell @barghest-ripperdoc @n3-77 @alabasterfury - And you, if you want to!
Now and then I edit and throw out again Vio's masterpost of madness. Now with drawings, because I'm so into it!
✨️TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OCS✨️
♡Name: Violet Vincennes. Born Violet Wright
♡Nicknames: Vio, Viovio, Violette.
♡Age: 53 in 2077
♡Pronouns: She, her.
♡Sexuality: Pansexual.
♡Hair Color and style: Her natural hair color is dark brown, but she always dyes them in blue/turquoise. She varies a lot with her hairstyle. Usually she keeps her hair long. When she's older she keeps her hair mostly down, to hide her neuroport, and stops dying it, letting out the gray!
♡Eye Color: Her natural color is green, she tries to keep her eye implants as close as possible to her real color.
♡Height: 165 cm (5’5”)! Short queen!
♡Body Type: She’s average. She runs because she likes it, to keep her shape under control. In some particularly happy periods of her life she might have gained a bit of weight (I definetly can see Vlad in 2060 commenting that she is getting chubby...). In 2077 she's definitely thin.
♡Personality: She’d say normal. In truth a bit skittish with relationships, a bit insecure, quite irrational and volatile. Really affectionate, needy and whiny with those she really cares about. Really driven and stubborn. She feels like she hit the jackpot with the Vincennes family and she'd do everything in her power not to let down their name. It means achieving everything she can in the field she's interested in. Overall she's a bold, stubborn, and brave lady.
♡Tattoos: A tattoo Elroy designed for her, with a peony on her right shoulder.
♡Piercings: Many on her ears, nothing else.
♡Any definable features such as: Birthmarks, Scars, Freckles, Beauty Marks, Accent when they talk, Lisp, Natural slurring of words, Walk with a subtle limp, ect.
She has a bunch of birthmarks on her face (not really freckles) and many different scars around her body. She's really proud of her scars. They are the proof she's a fighter and she survived. One of them she got while playing with Elroy and Vlad. Not such a big "survivor" scar but they were all so loving and worried about her when she got it that she feels really attached to that too. The only scar she isn't proud of is the scar from heart surgery she had in 2068. It's the tangible proof that when she needed to actually do something important, she failed.
♡Hobbies:
She likes to read a lot of different and apparently random stuff. With Vlad in particular mystery novels. She sings and plays the piano.Mostly when she's alone but Roy likes to listen to her too. It's a thing that calmed him down when he came back from Night City. Really passionate about music in general, she doesn't like a particular genre and goes from classical music to metal without any issue (Unlike Elroy who is quite fond of his old stuff!).
♡Gang/Occupation {Mox, Max Tac, etc}
Mostly she ends up with some kind of affiliation with Barghest.
♡Do they smoke?
Not officially. She smoked a bit in her teens/college years. After 2069 she started smoking again, but she limits herself to one cigarette in the morning. The morning nicotine hit and Firebird are the two things that get her out of her bed. She definitely uses smoking to escape when she's forced to attend to parties.
♡Do they drink? Is so, what's their poison of choice?
As with smoking, she’s a social drinker. Doesn’t drink alone, but loves to drink in company. She rarely gets drunk, though. Doesn’t really like to loose control, only to get tipsy to make social interactions easier!
♡What do they usually wear on a normal day?
In her youth her style changes if she's in her family home or in the apartment she shared with her friends. At home she dresses more classically and with lighter tones. Feminine dresses, in lighter colors, elegant pants in natural fabric, classical tops with boat and heart necklines, a style similar to her mother's. In her friend's group she goes with leather pants, t-shirts or tops, a few dark dresses, leather jackets, boots. She usually goes with black or dark red clothes. When she's older she usually wears clothes that cover her chest, to hide the scar of her heart implant, leaning into darker color, but keeping the more classical style.
... Or her stinky netrunner suit. That's actually the type of clothes she wears the most.
♡What do they wear when they "Get dressed up"? And what would be considered a "special occasion" to them {such as an "Oh they're gonna be there so I have to look my best." Or an "It's our anniversary".}
Except for the rebellious teens clothing that leaned more into a punk-ish style, she often wears stuff that is already quite elegantDifferent vintage clothes. Really classical. Black, white, dark red or blue. In particular A-line dresses, just over or below the knees. They are in a style that Elroy and her mother liked and found fitting for her. When she's older she mostly wears suits and pencil dresses, keeping most of the times her chest hidden.
Elegant dates, corpo parties, public events, evening at the Black Sapphire.
♡What do they smell like? {For example: they smell like cinnamon flavored liquor, cigarettes, leather, and motor oil.}
Vlad gifted her a perfume on her 20th birthday, and kept gifting her the same perfume on various occasions or she kept buying it for herself
It's quite an opulent and rich fragrance, with at first citrusy notes and then a flowery jasmine and rose.
A perfume that could work as an example is Imperial Emerald from the Merchant of Venice.
Without it she doesn't have much of a smell going on, she tends to be pretty clean.
♡How do they walk? Do they sway their hips? Do they walk with a sense of determination? Do they bounce as they walk? Etc.
When she doesn’t think of it she walks almost as if she’s hiding. Always keeping her surroundings under control, finding possible hiding spots or advantage points. When she’s in a good place or feels protected she’s straighter and more confident in her stride. Usually when she is with Elroy, Vlad, her family or close friends she walks with confidence.
♡Are they more of an early bird or a night owl?
Depends on her workload. She usually goes from a routinary type of work, when she has a really strict schedule, and she sleeps the right amount of hours at night. Usually the workload increases gradually, taking away free time and rest time, until a mission/deadline. In that period she barely gets any sleep. After she's done, she usually takes a few days/up to a week to recharge. Then she gets back to her strict structure of 6-7 hours per night of sleep.
♡If you had to use one word to define them, what word would you use?
Temperamental.
♡What words or catchphrases do they say that's unique to that character?
She doesn't really have a fixed general saying or phrases.
♡Favorite Season
Winter.
♡Favorite type of weather.
She likes those cold winter sunny mornings. She loves the snow. When she manages to go to Russia she always hopes to see it. It's kinda magical for her.
♡Do they have someone they're with relationship-wise? If so, who?
Her main ship is with her childhood friend Vlad (shadow son of the reluctant @ouroboros-hideout). I'm sorry. No matter how hard I try I can't keep her hands off of him...
♡Main Ship/Pairings
Violad. The dumbest bebes ever.
♡Side Pairings
Do I have to count them??? In the Little Talks!AU she had two main stories and many different flings in her wild youth. One with a girl she lived with in college: Simone. Lasted roughly two years. Later she got a longer story with Jean-Paul. They lasted for four years. Not really a happy, perfect relationship, and Vlad managed to put his hands all over it and ruin everything anyway. Technically I made her in the beginning as a ship with Kurt... But she is such a different character at this point...
♡Favorite/Self-indulgent Pairings
Violad, in every dumb sauce.
♡How do they show affection to their loved one?
TOUCH. She doesn’t generally like to touch people… But with people she likes she’s very touchy. Not in an extreme way, but if she’s close to a person she loves she’s probably touching their arm, or slipping her hand under their or laying her head on their shoulder. She is really affectionate and really needs a lot of physical contact.
She also likes to make gifts but they're usually homemade silly stuff. Like little plushies of animals. And she also likes to try to prepare the food they like. She was born and spent her first eight years of life as a street kid with an inconsistent diet, so sharing food with the people she loves is very important.
♡How do they sit in a chair?
Usually quite comfortably, legs closed and slightly tilted or stretched out with one ankle over the other. She instinctively tries to emulate stances she saw her adoptive mother in, at least when she's in public. When she's only with Roy and Vlad she might take off her shoes, lift her legs on the chair and surround them with her arms, or fold them under herself.
♡How do they sit in a chair {uncomfortable version}
Legs closed, straight back, probably fidgeting with her hands.
♡What do they wear to bed?
Normally a T-shirt and underwear. The T-shirt is preferably stolen. Or she wears fancy nightgowns, mostly in black, if she has company for the night.
♡How do they usually sleep? {Side sleeper, back, fetal position, backwards, nest sleeper, blanket mountain, etc}
She starts in fetal position, or all cuddly, she ends sleeping on her back, sometimes she throws her arms and legs around.
♡How do they sleep in a place they don't know? {Can't due to anxiety, in small bursts of sleep that are short lived, holding themselves, etc}
If she's in a “safe space” the same as usual. If it’s not so safe she wakes up now and then checking her surroundings. She also is very receptive to any possible sound. As a kid, before the adoption she used to sleep with a knife under the pillow. She stole one from the kitchen in the first period after the adoption. Her mom freaked out.
♡Do they have to have a form of "white noise" in order to sleep? {The sound of a fan, the sound of rain, the sound of a city, etc}
No.
♡What's a place they go to feel comfortable, that's their "spot" they always go when they're upset?
If she's far from her home in France, Elroy’s apartment. She knows that as soon as he knows she's here and needs him he'll come to help her. But sometimes she simply sits on the stairs in front of the complex and waits for him.
♡What do they do when they're nervous? {Fidget with jewelry, pick at nails, bite nails/lips, play with knife/zippo lighter, etc}
If she needs to fake it, she focuses on something repetitive. Like the tap of her finger on something. If not she usually avoids other people's eyes and tries to make herself invisible.
♡What is their "tell" for lying?
Instinctually, she tends not to look people in the eyes when she’s lying about something personal. If it’s professional stuff, though it’s quite harder to tell.
♡What is their favorite color?
Turquoise and blue.
♡Favorite flower/plant
Peonies.
♡Favorite sweet of choice
Chocolate eclair.
♡Do they have any pets? If so, tell me about them
Her personal animal as a kid was Milky Bun. A rabbit she found and hid in her bedroom in France (choco balls everywhere xD).
Technically Firebird Jr is not her dog. But he ends up in her care for, sadly, most of his life. So in the end, after a rocky start, he's her pet.
♡What are their triggers {If they have any}? If so, what calms them down?
The bigger trigger for her is the feeling of abandonment, or the fear of losing people she cares about. And only realizing that she’s not being left alone, preferably with physical contact calms her down.
When she's old for a period of time she deletes all the memories of her times with Vlad. It leaves some empty spaces, but it's not a perfect job, so when she is confronted with things that would remind her of these times, she spirals badly, every time getting closer to a cyberpsychotic breakdown. Elroy usually manages to bring her back, and calm her down in these moments. But they are the reason why between 68-78 she doesn't go to France at all.
♡If they could visit anywhere in the world, where would they go and why?
She likes her hometown and house in Saint-remy-de-provence, France, it's a place where she has mostly good memories.
♡What is their favorite comfort meal?
When she came to France at 6 the only thing she ate was croquet messier. Her adoptive mother used to make it for her. She still makes it for herself when she misses her.
♡Do they have a food they hate?
Food is food, she could eat everything. But well, she doesn’t love industrial made food.
♡What is their favorite {non-alcoholic} drink?
She likes Tiancha Pomegranate.
♡What are their plans for the future {if they have any}?
She doesn’t make plans for the future. Finding a way to be stable and happy with people she loves is what she'd love to.
♡What's a song that "fits" them?
♡Give me 5 facts/random bits of information about them
She once cooked a cake that tasted like fish. She still doesn't know what went wrong that time. Poor Roy, it was for his birthday.
Violet can't dance on her own. In the AUs where she does it's because they forced her to learn. She definitely can't improvise dancing, and usually has a hard time following other people's lead. Or she needs to be tipsy at least. Then she manages to let go enough to dance freely. And be ridiculous. But she's not the only one!
She makes little plushies for the people she loves. All wobbly and with skipped stitches. But she loves making them!
Her first time was when she was 20, with Vlad. Not because she never had a boyfriend before. But every time she was getting closer to someone else she met Vlad and she fell for him all over again…
♡Give me their backstory {can be long, or brief.}
Born in 2024. Her father died in the aftermath of the nuclear detonation of Night City and her mother right after her birth. After the first 8 years of her life in the streets, she was adopted by Elroy's family.
Elroy's parents were really loving and supportive, and despite the fact that she was quite sick during her childhood she grew up in a really positive and reinforcing environment. Elroy and Violet spent most of their childhood with Vlad, forming a really close group of friends (kindergarten for real!). Holidays, birthdays, and summer vacations were all spent together. She developed a terrible crush on the childhood friend.
Violet studied in Paris and entered the ENSTA ParisTech, where she focused on her studies in informatics and systems engineering, at the same time cooperating with a group of young netrunners. At 20 years old, she had a one-night stand with Vlad that led to nothing other than embarrassment. Shortly after, she had a stable relationship with her at the time roommate, Simone. After roughly a year, they broke up.
Her brother, Elroy, came back from Night City completely devastated by addiction and the death of his girlfriend, and she spent almost a year helping him out with her mother. Their relationship got only stronger, and they promised each other never again to stay apart. At the same time, Vlad died the first time, and she was informed about everything by his mother, who visited and called her own.
The three of them met again in 2050 at Elroy’s first art show and returned to their old routine of visiting each other for the usual yearly celebrations. Shortly after Violet and Vlad got together. In the meantime, Elroy and Violet started to work seriously together, meddling on the border of legality. Elroy put to use his social and planning ability and turned into a high-end fixer. Violet worked as a netrunner in the background, with her group of friends. In 2052 Violet moved to Russia to live with Vlad, but their relationship didn't last long and they broke up in 2053.
Later in the same year, she got together with Jean-Paul. They were mostly content together, despite Vlad’s not-so-subtle interference. But in 2056, shortly after Violet’s mother’s death, they broke up, due to Violet’s resistance to bringing their relationship to another level. Violet blamed Vlad’s interference for that . Shortly after Vlad was caught up in the scandal of his at the time girlfriend Dasha’s death. Violet refused to see him, still convinced that the failure of her relationship was his fault.
They met again in 2060 when Vlad showed up at their home in France after being forced to an indeterminate leave from work, due to another deadly accident. Violet managed to see again in the broken man the person she fell in love with when they were younger. They quickly got together. In that year, the three of them also started to work together until, in 2061, Vlad was called back to work with SovOil. Elroy never forgave him for that. Violet understood his reasons and let him go with the promise of coming back after he finished what he had to.
They kept meeting in secret 3-4 times a year until 2063, a period in which Violet witnessed his declining state of mind. In 2064, Violet received Vlad’s diary, a series of recordings he made since he was fifteen years old, a last automatic message, after his death. Vlad’s biological sister contacted her to ask for help in retrieving her brother she believed was still alive. This brought Violet to slowly get more and more chromed up and almost die in a suicide attack against Sovoil in 2066. After a year in a coma, she woke up again, to find out that Vlad was alive, but completely chromed up and irremediably changed from the man she remembered. She decided to simply delete that part of herself, asking her closest friend, Nicole, to extract all the memories connected to Vlad and keeping them under custody.
Elroy, Violet and their group, started to work closely with Kurt Hansen and helped him establish Dogtown, where they met (Violet for the second time Aon). They kept working there, Elroy making it his base of operations in NC, and Violet coordinating the group of netrunners of the Black Sapphire. That until 2077, when Songbird's attack triggered a cyberpsychotic breakdown in Violet. She killed Nicole and heavily injured her brother before being stopped.
She simply had to learn to live with the guilt and rebuild everything that has been destroyed in Dogtown. It was only after another year that an Hansen’s close collaborator from Russia, Aon, reached the Black Sapphire, dragging with herself a pale copy of Vlad.
She didn't remember him, but his sight almost triggered another cyberpsychotic breakdown. But Elroy managed to appeal to her humanity and keep her grounded. They agreed to go back to France and finally take some time to recover, and Elroy decided to give her the files of her memories, allowing her to decide for herself if she wanted to confront them.
♡Free Space! Give me any sort of extra information about them you'd like to share
Now and then I edit and throw out again Vio's masterpost of madness. Now with drawings, because I'm so into it!
✨️TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OCS✨️
♡Name: Violet Vincennes. Born Violet Wright
♡Nicknames: Vio, Viovio, Violette.
♡Age: 53 in 2077
♡Pronouns: She, her.
♡Sexuality: Pansexual.
♡Hair Color and style: Her natural hair color is dark brown, but she always dyes them in blue/turquoise. She varies a lot with her hairstyle. Usually she keeps her hair long. When she's older she keeps her hair mostly down, to hide her neuroport, and stops dying it, letting out the gray!
♡Eye Color: Her natural color is green, she tries to keep her eye implants as close as possible to her real color.
♡Height: 165 cm (5’5”)! Short queen!
♡Body Type: She’s average. She runs because she likes it, to keep her shape under control. In some particularly happy periods of her life she might have gained a bit of weight (I definetly can see Vlad in 2060 commenting that she is getting chubby...). In 2077 she's definitely thin.
♡Personality: She’d say normal. In truth a bit skittish with relationships, a bit insecure, quite irrational and volatile. Really affectionate, needy and whiny with those she really cares about. Really driven and stubborn. She feels like she hit the jackpot with the Vincennes family and she'd do everything in her power not to let down their name. It means achieving everything she can in the field she's interested in. Overall she's a bold, stubborn, and brave lady.
♡Tattoos: A tattoo Elroy designed for her, with a peony on her right shoulder.
♡Piercings: Many on her ears, nothing else.
♡Any definable features such as: Birthmarks, Scars, Freckles, Beauty Marks, Accent when they talk, Lisp, Natural slurring of words, Walk with a subtle limp, ect.
She has a bunch of birthmarks on her face (not really freckles) and many different scars around her body. She's really proud of her scars. They are the proof she's a fighter and she survived. One of them she got while playing with Elroy and Vlad. Not such a big "survivor" scar but they were all so loving and worried about her when she got it that she feels really attached to that too. The only scar she isn't proud of is the scar from heart surgery she had in 2068. It's the tangible proof that when she needed to actually do something important, she failed.
♡Hobbies:
She likes to read a lot of different and apparently random stuff. With Vlad in particular mystery novels. She sings and plays the piano.Mostly when she's alone but Roy likes to listen to her too. It's a thing that calmed him down when he came back from Night City. Really passionate about music in general, she doesn't like a particular genre and goes from classical music to metal without any issue (Unlike Elroy who is quite fond of his old stuff!).
♡Gang/Occupation {Mox, Max Tac, etc}
Mostly she ends up with some kind of affiliation with Barghest.
♡Do they smoke?
Not officially. She smoked a bit in her teens/college years. After 2069 she started smoking again, but she limits herself to one cigarette in the morning. The morning nicotine hit and Firebird are the two things that get her out of her bed. She definitely uses smoking to escape when she's forced to attend to parties.
♡Do they drink? Is so, what's their poison of choice?
As with smoking, she’s a social drinker. Doesn’t drink alone, but loves to drink in company. She rarely gets drunk, though. Doesn’t really like to loose control, only to get tipsy to make social interactions easier!
♡What do they usually wear on a normal day?
In her youth her style changes if she's in her family home or in the apartment she shared with her friends. At home she dresses more classically and with lighter tones. Feminine dresses, in lighter colors, elegant pants in natural fabric, classical tops with boat and heart necklines, a style similar to her mother's. In her friend's group she goes with leather pants, t-shirts or tops, a few dark dresses, leather jackets, boots. She usually goes with black or dark red clothes. When she's older she usually wears clothes that cover her chest, to hide the scar of her heart implant, leaning into darker color, but keeping the more classical style.
... Or her stinky netrunner suit. That's actually the type of clothes she wears the most.
♡What do they wear when they "Get dressed up"? And what would be considered a "special occasion" to them {such as an "Oh they're gonna be there so I have to look my best." Or an "It's our anniversary".}
Except for the rebellious teens clothing that leaned more into a punk-ish style, she often wears stuff that is already quite elegantDifferent vintage clothes. Really classical. Black, white, dark red or blue. In particular A-line dresses, just over or below the knees. They are in a style that Elroy and her mother liked and found fitting for her. When she's older she mostly wears suits and pencil dresses, keeping most of the times her chest hidden.
Elegant dates, corpo parties, public events, evening at the Black Sapphire.
♡What do they smell like? {For example: they smell like cinnamon flavored liquor, cigarettes, leather, and motor oil.}
Vlad gifted her a perfume on her 20th birthday, and kept gifting her the same perfume on various occasions or she kept buying it for herself
It's quite an opulent and rich fragrance, with at first citrusy notes and then a flowery jasmine and rose.
A perfume that could work as an example is Imperial Emerald from the Merchant of Venice.
Without it she doesn't have much of a smell going on, she tends to be pretty clean.
♡How do they walk? Do they sway their hips? Do they walk with a sense of determination? Do they bounce as they walk? Etc.
When she doesn’t think of it she walks almost as if she’s hiding. Always keeping her surroundings under control, finding possible hiding spots or advantage points. When she’s in a good place or feels protected she’s straighter and more confident in her stride. Usually when she is with Elroy, Vlad, her family or close friends she walks with confidence.
♡Are they more of an early bird or a night owl?
Depends on her workload. She usually goes from a routinary type of work, when she has a really strict schedule, and she sleeps the right amount of hours at night. Usually the workload increases gradually, taking away free time and rest time, until a mission/deadline. In that period she barely gets any sleep. After she's done, she usually takes a few days/up to a week to recharge. Then she gets back to her strict structure of 6-7 hours per night of sleep.
♡If you had to use one word to define them, what word would you use?
Temperamental.
♡What words or catchphrases do they say that's unique to that character?
She doesn't really have a fixed general saying or phrases.
♡Favorite Season
Winter.
♡Favorite type of weather.
She likes those cold winter sunny mornings. She loves the snow. When she manages to go to Russia she always hopes to see it. It's kinda magical for her.
♡Do they have someone they're with relationship-wise? If so, who?
Her main ship is with her childhood friend Vlad (shadow son of the reluctant @ouroboros-hideout). I'm sorry. No matter how hard I try I can't keep her hands off of him...
♡Main Ship/Pairings
Violad. The dumbest bebes ever.
♡Side Pairings
Do I have to count them??? In the Little Talks!AU she had two main stories and many different flings in her wild youth. One with a girl she lived with in college: Simone. Lasted roughly two years. Later she got a longer story with Jean-Paul. They lasted for four years. Not really a happy, perfect relationship, and Vlad managed to put his hands all over it and ruin everything anyway. Technically I made her in the beginning as a ship with Kurt... But she is such a different character at this point...
♡Favorite/Self-indulgent Pairings
Violad, in every dumb sauce.
♡How do they show affection to their loved one?
TOUCH. She doesn’t generally like to touch people… But with people she likes she’s very touchy. Not in an extreme way, but if she’s close to a person she loves she’s probably touching their arm, or slipping her hand under their or laying her head on their shoulder. She is really affectionate and really needs a lot of physical contact.
She also likes to make gifts but they're usually homemade silly stuff. Like little plushies of animals. And she also likes to try to prepare the food they like. She was born and spent her first eight years of life as a street kid with an inconsistent diet, so sharing food with the people she loves is very important.
♡How do they sit in a chair?
Usually quite comfortably, legs closed and slightly tilted or stretched out with one ankle over the other. She instinctively tries to emulate stances she saw her adoptive mother in, at least when she's in public. When she's only with Roy and Vlad she might take off her shoes, lift her legs on the chair and surround them with her arms, or fold them under herself.
♡How do they sit in a chair {uncomfortable version}
Legs closed, straight back, probably fidgeting with her hands.
♡What do they wear to bed?
Normally a T-shirt and underwear. The T-shirt is preferably stolen. Or she wears fancy nightgowns, mostly in black, if she has company for the night.
♡How do they usually sleep? {Side sleeper, back, fetal position, backwards, nest sleeper, blanket mountain, etc}
She starts in fetal position, or all cuddly, she ends sleeping on her back, sometimes she throws her arms and legs around.
♡How do they sleep in a place they don't know? {Can't due to anxiety, in small bursts of sleep that are short lived, holding themselves, etc}
If she's in a “safe space” the same as usual. If it’s not so safe she wakes up now and then checking her surroundings. She also is very receptive to any possible sound. As a kid, before the adoption she used to sleep with a knife under the pillow. She stole one from the kitchen in the first period after the adoption. Her mom freaked out.
♡Do they have to have a form of "white noise" in order to sleep? {The sound of a fan, the sound of rain, the sound of a city, etc}
No.
♡What's a place they go to feel comfortable, that's their "spot" they always go when they're upset?
If she's far from her home in France, Elroy’s apartment. She knows that as soon as he knows she's here and needs him he'll come to help her. But sometimes she simply sits on the stairs in front of the complex and waits for him.
♡What do they do when they're nervous? {Fidget with jewelry, pick at nails, bite nails/lips, play with knife/zippo lighter, etc}
If she needs to fake it, she focuses on something repetitive. Like the tap of her finger on something. If not she usually avoids other people's eyes and tries to make herself invisible.
♡What is their "tell" for lying?
Instinctually, she tends not to look people in the eyes when she’s lying about something personal. If it’s professional stuff, though it’s quite harder to tell.
♡What is their favorite color?
Turquoise and blue.
♡Favorite flower/plant
Peonies.
♡Favorite sweet of choice
Chocolate eclair.
♡Do they have any pets? If so, tell me about them
Her personal animal as a kid was Milky Bun. A rabbit she found and hid in her bedroom in France (choco balls everywhere xD).
Technically Firebird Jr is not her dog. But he ends up in her care for, sadly, most of his life. So in the end, after a rocky start, he's her pet.
♡What are their triggers {If they have any}? If so, what calms them down?
The bigger trigger for her is the feeling of abandonment, or the fear of losing people she cares about. And only realizing that she’s not being left alone, preferably with physical contact calms her down.
When she's old for a period of time she deletes all the memories of her times with Vlad. It leaves some empty spaces, but it's not a perfect job, so when she is confronted with things that would remind her of these times, she spirals badly, every time getting closer to a cyberpsychotic breakdown. Elroy usually manages to bring her back, and calm her down in these moments. But they are the reason why between 68-78 she doesn't go to France at all.
♡If they could visit anywhere in the world, where would they go and why?
She likes her hometown and house in Saint-remy-de-provence, France, it's a place where she has mostly good memories.
♡What is their favorite comfort meal?
When she came to France at 6 the only thing she ate was croquet messier. Her adoptive mother used to make it for her. She still makes it for herself when she misses her.
♡Do they have a food they hate?
Food is food, she could eat everything. But well, she doesn’t love industrial made food.
♡What is their favorite {non-alcoholic} drink?
She likes Tiancha Pomegranate.
♡What are their plans for the future {if they have any}?
She doesn’t make plans for the future. Finding a way to be stable and happy with people she loves is what she'd love to.
♡What's a song that "fits" them?
♡Give me 5 facts/random bits of information about them
She once cooked a cake that tasted like fish. She still doesn't know what went wrong that time. Poor Roy, it was for his birthday.
Violet can't dance on her own. In the AUs where she does it's because they forced her to learn. She definitely can't improvise dancing, and usually has a hard time following other people's lead. Or she needs to be tipsy at least. Then she manages to let go enough to dance freely. And be ridiculous. But she's not the only one!
She makes little plushies for the people she loves. All wobbly and with skipped stitches. But she loves making them!
Her first time was when she was 20, with Vlad. Not because she never had a boyfriend before. But every time she was getting closer to someone else she met Vlad and she fell for him all over again…
♡Give me their backstory {can be long, or brief.}
Born in 2024. Her father died in the aftermath of the nuclear detonation of Night City and her mother right after her birth. After the first 8 years of her life in the streets, she was adopted by Elroy's family.
Elroy's parents were really loving and supportive, and despite the fact that she was quite sick during her childhood she grew up in a really positive and reinforcing environment. Elroy and Violet spent most of their childhood with Vlad, forming a really close group of friends (kindergarten for real!). Holidays, birthdays, and summer vacations were all spent together. She developed a terrible crush on the childhood friend.
Violet studied in Paris and entered the ENSTA ParisTech, where she focused on her studies in informatics and systems engineering, at the same time cooperating with a group of young netrunners. At 20 years old, she had a one-night stand with Vlad that led to nothing other than embarrassment. Shortly after, she had a stable relationship with her at the time roommate, Simone. After roughly a year, they broke up.
Her brother, Elroy, came back from Night City completely devastated by addiction and the death of his girlfriend, and she spent almost a year helping him out with her mother. Their relationship got only stronger, and they promised each other never again to stay apart. At the same time, Vlad died the first time, and she was informed about everything by his mother, who visited and called her own.
The three of them met again in 2050 at Elroy’s first art show and returned to their old routine of visiting each other for the usual yearly celebrations. Shortly after Violet and Vlad got together. In the meantime, Elroy and Violet started to work seriously together, meddling on the border of legality. Elroy put to use his social and planning ability and turned into a high-end fixer. Violet worked as a netrunner in the background, with her group of friends. In 2052 Violet moved to Russia to live with Vlad, but their relationship didn't last long and they broke up in 2053.
Later in the same year, she got together with Jean-Paul. They were mostly content together, despite Vlad’s not-so-subtle interference. But in 2056, shortly after Violet’s mother’s death, they broke up, due to Violet’s resistance to bringing their relationship to another level. Violet blamed Vlad’s interference for that . Shortly after Vlad was caught up in the scandal of his at the time girlfriend Dasha’s death. Violet refused to see him, still convinced that the failure of her relationship was his fault.
They met again in 2060 when Vlad showed up at their home in France after being forced to an indeterminate leave from work, due to another deadly accident. Violet managed to see again in the broken man the person she fell in love with when they were younger. They quickly got together. In that year, the three of them also started to work together until, in 2061, Vlad was called back to work with SovOil. Elroy never forgave him for that. Violet understood his reasons and let him go with the promise of coming back after he finished what he had to.
They kept meeting in secret 3-4 times a year until 2063, a period in which Violet witnessed his declining state of mind. In 2064, Violet received Vlad’s diary, a series of recordings he made since he was fifteen years old, a last automatic message, after his death. Vlad’s biological sister contacted her to ask for help in retrieving her brother she believed was still alive. This brought Violet to slowly get more and more chromed up and almost die in a suicide attack against Sovoil in 2066. After a year in a coma, she woke up again, to find out that Vlad was alive, but completely chromed up and irremediably changed from the man she remembered. She decided to simply delete that part of herself, asking her closest friend, Nicole, to extract all the memories connected to Vlad and keeping them under custody.
Elroy, Violet and their group, started to work closely with Kurt Hansen and helped him establish Dogtown, where they met (Violet for the second time Aon). They kept working there, Elroy making it his base of operations in NC, and Violet coordinating the group of netrunners of the Black Sapphire. That until 2077, when Songbird's attack triggered a cyberpsychotic breakdown in Violet. She killed Nicole and heavily injured her brother before being stopped.
She simply had to learn to live with the guilt and rebuild everything that has been destroyed in Dogtown. It was only after another year that an Hansen’s close collaborator from Russia, Aon, reached the Black Sapphire, dragging with herself a pale copy of Vlad.
She didn't remember him, but his sight almost triggered another cyberpsychotic breakdown. But Elroy managed to appeal to her humanity and keep her grounded. They agreed to go back to France and finally take some time to recover, and Elroy decided to give her the files of her memories, allowing her to decide for herself if she wanted to confront them.
♡Free Space! Give me any sort of extra information about them you'd like to share
Now and then I edit and throw out again Vio's masterpost of madness. Now with drawings, because I'm so into it!
✨️TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OCS✨️
♡Name: Violet Vincennes. Born Violet Wright
♡Nicknames: Vio, Viovio, Violette.
♡Age: 53 in 2077
♡Pronouns: She, her.
♡Sexuality: Pansexual.
♡Hair Color and style: Her natural hair color is dark brown, but she always dyes them in blue/turquoise. She varies a lot with her hairstyle. Usually she keeps her hair long. When she's older she keeps her hair mostly down, to hide her neuroport, and stops dying it, letting out the gray!
♡Eye Color: Her natural color is green, she tries to keep her eye implants as close as possible to her real color.
♡Height: 165 cm (5’5”)! Short queen!
♡Body Type: She’s average. She runs because she likes it, to keep her shape under control. In some particularly happy periods of her life she might have gained a bit of weight (I definetly can see Vlad in 2060 commenting that she is getting chubby...). In 2077 she's definitely thin.
♡Personality: She’d say normal. In truth a bit skittish with relationships, a bit insecure, quite irrational and volatile. Really affectionate, needy and whiny with those she really cares about. Really driven and stubborn. She feels like she hit the jackpot with the Vincennes family and she'd do everything in her power not to let down their name. It means achieving everything she can in the field she's interested in. Overall she's a bold, stubborn, and brave lady.
♡Tattoos: A tattoo Elroy designed for her, with a peony on her right shoulder.
♡Piercings: Many on her ears, nothing else.
♡Any definable features such as: Birthmarks, Scars, Freckles, Beauty Marks, Accent when they talk, Lisp, Natural slurring of words, Walk with a subtle limp, ect.
She has a bunch of birthmarks on her face (not really freckles) and many different scars around her body. She's really proud of her scars. They are the proof she's a fighter and she survived. One of them she got while playing with Elroy and Vlad. Not such a big "survivor" scar but they were all so loving and worried about her when she got it that she feels really attached to that too. The only scar she isn't proud of is the scar from heart surgery she had in 2068. It's the tangible proof that when she needed to actually do something important, she failed.
♡Hobbies:
She likes to read a lot of different and apparently random stuff. With Vlad in particular mystery novels. She sings and plays the piano.Mostly when she's alone but Roy likes to listen to her too. It's a thing that calmed him down when he came back from Night City. Really passionate about music in general, she doesn't like a particular genre and goes from classical music to metal without any issue (Unlike Elroy who is quite fond of his old stuff!).
♡Gang/Occupation {Mox, Max Tac, etc}
Mostly she ends up with some kind of affiliation with Barghest.
♡Do they smoke?
Not officially. She smoked a bit in her teens/college years. After 2069 she started smoking again, but she limits herself to one cigarette in the morning. The morning nicotine hit and Firebird are the two things that get her out of her bed. She definitely uses smoking to escape when she's forced to attend to parties.
♡Do they drink? Is so, what's their poison of choice?
As with smoking, she’s a social drinker. Doesn’t drink alone, but loves to drink in company. She rarely gets drunk, though. Doesn’t really like to loose control, only to get tipsy to make social interactions easier!
♡What do they usually wear on a normal day?
In her youth her style changes if she's in her family home or in the apartment she shared with her friends. At home she dresses more classically and with lighter tones. Feminine dresses, in lighter colors, elegant pants in natural fabric, classical tops with boat and heart necklines, a style similar to her mother's. In her friend's group she goes with leather pants, t-shirts or tops, a few dark dresses, leather jackets, boots. She usually goes with black or dark red clothes. When she's older she usually wears clothes that cover her chest, to hide the scar of her heart implant, leaning into darker color, but keeping the more classical style.
... Or her stinky netrunner suit. That's actually the type of clothes she wears the most.
♡What do they wear when they "Get dressed up"? And what would be considered a "special occasion" to them {such as an "Oh they're gonna be there so I have to look my best." Or an "It's our anniversary".}
Except for the rebellious teens clothing that leaned more into a punk-ish style, she often wears stuff that is already quite elegantDifferent vintage clothes. Really classical. Black, white, dark red or blue. In particular A-line dresses, just over or below the knees. They are in a style that Elroy and her mother liked and found fitting for her. When she's older she mostly wears suits and pencil dresses, keeping most of the times her chest hidden.
Elegant dates, corpo parties, public events, evening at the Black Sapphire.
♡What do they smell like? {For example: they smell like cinnamon flavored liquor, cigarettes, leather, and motor oil.}
Vlad gifted her a perfume on her 20th birthday, and kept gifting her the same perfume on various occasions or she kept buying it for herself
It's quite an opulent and rich fragrance, with at first citrusy notes and then a flowery jasmine and rose.
A perfume that could work as an example is Imperial Emerald from the Merchant of Venice.
Without it she doesn't have much of a smell going on, she tends to be pretty clean.
♡How do they walk? Do they sway their hips? Do they walk with a sense of determination? Do they bounce as they walk? Etc.
When she doesn’t think of it she walks almost as if she’s hiding. Always keeping her surroundings under control, finding possible hiding spots or advantage points. When she’s in a good place or feels protected she’s straighter and more confident in her stride. Usually when she is with Elroy, Vlad, her family or close friends she walks with confidence.
♡Are they more of an early bird or a night owl?
Depends on her workload. She usually goes from a routinary type of work, when she has a really strict schedule, and she sleeps the right amount of hours at night. Usually the workload increases gradually, taking away free time and rest time, until a mission/deadline. In that period she barely gets any sleep. After she's done, she usually takes a few days/up to a week to recharge. Then she gets back to her strict structure of 6-7 hours per night of sleep.
♡If you had to use one word to define them, what word would you use?
Temperamental.
♡What words or catchphrases do they say that's unique to that character?
She doesn't really have a fixed general saying or phrases.
♡Favorite Season
Winter.
♡Favorite type of weather.
She likes those cold winter sunny mornings. She loves the snow. When she manages to go to Russia she always hopes to see it. It's kinda magical for her.
♡Do they have someone they're with relationship-wise? If so, who?
Her main ship is with her childhood friend Vlad (shadow son of the reluctant @ouroboros-hideout). I'm sorry. No matter how hard I try I can't keep her hands off of him...
♡Main Ship/Pairings
Violad. The dumbest bebes ever.
♡Side Pairings
Do I have to count them??? In the Little Talks!AU she had two main stories and many different flings in her wild youth. One with a girl she lived with in college: Simone. Lasted roughly two years. Later she got a longer story with Jean-Paul. They lasted for four years. Not really a happy, perfect relationship, and Vlad managed to put his hands all over it and ruin everything anyway. Technically I made her in the beginning as a ship with Kurt... But she is such a different character at this point...
♡Favorite/Self-indulgent Pairings
Violad, in every dumb sauce.
♡How do they show affection to their loved one?
TOUCH. She doesn’t generally like to touch people… But with people she likes she’s very touchy. Not in an extreme way, but if she’s close to a person she loves she’s probably touching their arm, or slipping her hand under their or laying her head on their shoulder. She is really affectionate and really needs a lot of physical contact.
She also likes to make gifts but they're usually homemade silly stuff. Like little plushies of animals. And she also likes to try to prepare the food they like. She was born and spent her first eight years of life as a street kid with an inconsistent diet, so sharing food with the people she loves is very important.
♡How do they sit in a chair?
Usually quite comfortably, legs closed and slightly tilted or stretched out with one ankle over the other. She instinctively tries to emulate stances she saw her adoptive mother in, at least when she's in public. When she's only with Roy and Vlad she might take off her shoes, lift her legs on the chair and surround them with her arms, or fold them under herself.
♡How do they sit in a chair {uncomfortable version}
Legs closed, straight back, probably fidgeting with her hands.
♡What do they wear to bed?
Normally a T-shirt and underwear. The T-shirt is preferably stolen. Or she wears fancy nightgowns, mostly in black, if she has company for the night.
♡How do they usually sleep? {Side sleeper, back, fetal position, backwards, nest sleeper, blanket mountain, etc}
She starts in a fetal position, or all cuddly with the person she's with. She ends sleeping on her back, sometimes she throws her arms and legs around.
♡How do they sleep in a place they don't know? {Can't due to anxiety, in small bursts of sleep that are short lived, holding themselves, etc}
If she's in a “safe space” the same as usual. If it’s not so safe she wakes up now and then checking her surroundings. She also is very receptive to any possible sound. As a kid, before the adoption she used to sleep with a knife under the pillow. She stole one from the kitchen in the first period after the adoption. Her mom freaked out.
♡Do they have to have a form of "white noise" in order to sleep? {The sound of a fan, the sound of rain, the sound of a city, etc}
Vlad's mechanical heart noise. Kidding, no.
♡What's a place they go to feel comfortable, that's their "spot" they always go when they're upset?
If she's far from her home in France, Elroy’s apartment. She knows that as soon as he knows she's here and needs him he'll come to help her. But sometimes she simply sits on the stairs in front of the complex and waits for him.
♡What do they do when they're nervous? {Fidget with jewelry, pick at nails, bite nails/lips, play with knife/zippo lighter, etc}
If she needs to fake it, she focuses on something repetitive. Often she subtly plays with the thorn bracelet around her right wrist. If she's really nervous she might press her finger on one of the thorns. If not she usually avoids other people's eyes and tries to make herself invisible.
♡What is their "tell" for lying?
Instinctually, she tends not to look people in the eyes when she’s lying about something personal. If it’s professional stuff, though it’s quite harder to tell.
♡What is their favorite color?
Turquoise and blue.
♡Favorite flower/plant
Peonies.
♡Favorite sweet of choice
Chocolate eclair.
♡Do they have any pets? If so, tell me about them
Her personal animal as a kid was Milky Bun. A rabbit she found and hid in her bedroom in France (choco balls everywhere xD).
Technically Firebird Jr is not her dog. But he ends up in her care for, sadly, most of his life. So in the end, after a rocky start, he's her pet.
♡What are their triggers {If they have any}? If so, what calms them down?
The bigger trigger for her is the feeling of abandonment, or the fear of losing people she cares about. And only realizing that she’s not being left alone, preferably with physical contact calms her down.
When she's old for a period of time she deletes all the memories of her times with Vlad. It leaves some empty spaces, but it's not a perfect job, so when she is confronted with things that would remind her of these times, she spirals badly, every time getting closer to a cyberpsychotic breakdown. Elroy usually manages to bring her back, and calm her down in these moments. But they are the reason why between 68-78 she doesn't go to France at all.
♡If they could visit anywhere in the world, where would they go and why?
She likes her hometown and house in Saint-remy-de-provence, France, it's a place where she has mostly good memories.
♡What is their favorite comfort meal?
When she came to France at 8 the only thing she ate was Croque-monsieur. Her adoptive mother used to make it for her. She still makes it for herself when she misses her.
♡Do they have a food they hate?
Food is food, she could eat everything. But well, she doesn’t love industrial made food.
♡What is their favorite {non-alcoholic} drink?
She likes Tiancha Pomegranate.
♡What are their plans for the future {if they have any}?
She doesn’t make plans for the future. Finding a way to be stable and happy with people she loves is what she'd love to.
♡What's a song that "fits" them?
♡Give me 5 facts/random bits of information about them
She once cooked a cake that tasted like fish. She still doesn't know what went wrong that time. Poor Roy, it was for his birthday.
Violet can't dance on her own. In the AUs where she does it's because they forced her to learn. She definitely can't improvise dancing, and usually has a hard time following other people's lead. Or she needs to be tipsy at least. Then she manages to let go enough to dance freely. And be ridiculous. But she's not the only one!
She makes little plushies for the people she loves. All wobbly and with skipped stitches. But she loves making them!
Her first time was when she was 20, with Vlad. Not because she never had a boyfriend before. But every time she was getting closer to someone else she met Vlad and she fell for him all over again…
♡Give me their backstory {can be long, or brief.}
Born in 2024. Her father died in the aftermath of the nuclear detonation of Night City and her mother right after her birth. After the first 8 years of her life in the streets, she was adopted by Elroy's family.
Elroy's parents were really loving and supportive, and despite the fact that she was quite sick during her childhood she grew up in a really positive and reinforcing environment. Elroy and Violet spent most of their childhood with Vlad, forming a really close group of friends (kindergarten for real!). Holidays, birthdays, and summer vacations were all spent together. She developed a terrible crush on the childhood friend.
Violet studied in Paris and entered the ENSTA ParisTech, where she focused on her studies in informatics and systems engineering, at the same time cooperating with a group of young netrunners. At 20 years old, she had a one-night stand with Vlad that led to nothing other than embarrassment. Shortly after, she had a stable relationship with her at the time roommate, Simone. After roughly a year, they broke up.
Her brother, Elroy, came back from Night City completely devastated by addiction and the death of his girlfriend, and she spent almost a year helping him out with her mother. Their relationship got only stronger, and they promised each other never again to stay apart. At the same time, Vlad died the first time, and she was informed about everything by his mother, who visited and called her own.
The three of them met again in 2050 at Elroy’s first art show and returned to their old routine of visiting each other for the usual yearly celebrations. Shortly after Violet and Vlad got together. In the meantime, Elroy and Violet started to work seriously together, meddling on the border of legality. Elroy put to use his social and planning ability and turned into a high-end fixer. Violet worked as a netrunner in the background, with her group of friends. In 2052 Violet moved to Russia to live with Vlad, but their relationship didn't last long and they broke up in 2053.
Later in the same year, she got together with Jean-Paul. They were mostly content together, despite Vlad’s not-so-subtle interference. But in 2056, shortly after Violet’s mother’s death, they broke up, due to Violet’s resistance to bringing their relationship to another level. Violet blamed Vlad’s interference for that . Shortly after Vlad was caught up in the scandal of his at the time girlfriend Dasha’s death. Violet refused to see him, still convinced that the failure of her relationship was his fault.
They met again in 2060 when Vlad showed up at their home in France after being forced to an indeterminate leave from work, due to another deadly accident. Violet managed to see again in the broken man the person she fell in love with when they were younger. They quickly got together. In that year, the three of them also started to work together until, in 2061, Vlad was called back to work with SovOil. Elroy never forgave him for that. Violet understood his reasons and let him go with the promise of coming back after he finished what he had to.
They kept meeting in secret 3-4 times a year until 2063, a period in which Violet witnessed his declining state of mind. In 2064, Violet received Vlad’s diary, a series of recordings he made since he was fifteen years old, a last automatic message, after his death. Vlad’s biological sister contacted her to ask for help in retrieving her brother she believed was still alive. This brought Violet to slowly get more and more chromed up and almost die in a suicide attack against Sovoil in 2066. After a year in a coma, she woke up again, to find out that Vlad was alive, but completely chromed up and irremediably changed from the man she remembered. She decided to simply delete that part of herself, asking her closest friend, Nicole, to extract all the memories connected to Vlad and keeping them under custody.
Elroy, Violet and their group, started to work closely with Kurt Hansen and helped him establish Dogtown, where they met (Violet for the second time Aon). They kept working there, Elroy making it his base of operations in NC, and Violet coordinating the group of netrunners of the Black Sapphire. That until 2077, when Songbird's attack triggered a cyberpsychotic breakdown in Violet. She killed Nicole and heavily injured her brother before being stopped.
She simply had to learn to live with the guilt and rebuild everything that has been destroyed in Dogtown. It was only after another year that an Hansen’s close collaborator from Russia, Aon, reached the Black Sapphire, dragging with herself a pale copy of Vlad.
She didn't remember him, but his sight almost triggered another cyberpsychotic breakdown. But Elroy managed to appeal to her humanity and keep her grounded. They agreed to go back to France and finally take some time to recover, and Elroy decided to give her the files of her memories, allowing her to decide for herself if she wanted to confront them.
♡Free Space! Give me any sort of extra information about them you'd like to share
for the piping hot asks can i ask 💦🧸 for violet please!
Hi! Thank you for the ask <3
💦 : Is your OC’s attractiveness based on looks or a more intangible aura?
She looks good, knows how to dress to impress in a certain environment. But if someone tries to approach her, she goes from politely uninterested to shy and nervous... She's uncomfortable with too many social interactions, nervous and silent. She can be... Bad-bad.
So I'd say her aura is more of a "nerd" vibe, especially as a kiddo... Kinda off-putting.
... Unless you talk with her about stuff she's really interested in, then the uneasiness goes away and she can become kinda charming (always in a nerdy way). But there are few people that make feel her comfortable enough to do so.
When she's older she becomes colder, so it helps in giving her a mysterious or fascinating vibe. She often cuts down any interaction with people she doesn't need to be polite with, though. She's way less kind and simply sees every approach or social interaction as something transactional, or as a battle.
🧸 : Into public displays of affection or are they more reserved?
An average amount, I suppose yes. She's not the type to, for example, sloppy kiss someone in the middle of a group of people.
But if she's with someone she likes, she tends to stay close to them and exchange small gestures of affection: a quick smooch on the cheeks or lips, going around arm in arm, resting her head on the other person's shoulder, are things she does. It's all kind of formal, anyway.
The things he lost, the things he gave up, the things he had to sacrifice.
And the things they could have been…
They all linger in the moment.
Dogtown, March 2079
“Oh, you're here…” Vlad stops abruptly, in the warm, humid air of Dogtown
The familiar silhouette blends with the dark blue sky, speckled with few, weak stars. The noise and music is distant, and Vlad didn't expect to find someone this far from the pulsating heath of the party.
Violet turns to give him a look, at first lazily dragging a smoke from a half finished cigarette as she leans against the handrail, then she straightens up, narrowing her eyes:
“Vladimir, I…” she lowers her eyes to his consumed leather jacket, which contrasts with the elegant shirt and pants. Even if they don't hang on him as smoothly as they used to. “I just needed a breather.”
Vlad clears his throat, clumsily hiding a bottle behind his back.
She follows his movements with a neutral expression, then gives him her shoulders and leans forward, on the handrail:
“Good. Well…” he slowly gets closer, lowering his gaze on the glistering lights of Night City. “I needed a breather too.”
“Really?” The quick smile she gives him is nervous. “You used to be all in for every party and social gathering.”
Vlad blinks quickly, avoiding her gaze, and slouches over the handrail, the bottle he's grabbing by its neck now in plain sight:
“Not really. Not anymore.”
The moments he spent at parties, playing the intricate game of corporate ties, are just a distant, confused fog:
“I used to be the shy one,” Violet comments, placing her cheek against her closed fist to gaze at the sky, where a few stars manage to overcome the lights of the city. “The one who stayed on the side, waiting for it to end so she could get home.”
“Until Elroy, or I dragged you to meet someone,” he smiles, recollecting the memories of the parties they attended together when they were much, much younger.
“Or to dance. That was even more embarrassing,” she chuckles, turning to look at him. The quiet, slightly crooked smile on his face makes her widen her own.
Violet turns to look at the city, taking a last drag from her cigarette, before dropping it on the floor, to put it off with the point of her shoe.
“Counting the steps while you were learning,” he adds, “and stomping on my feet at every chance.”
“Not everyone has always been as perfect as you, Mr Volkov!”
His family name on her lips feels hurtful. He went by Alexander for years. Then just simply by Vlad. But Violet was entangled with Vladimir Volkov, not only for the good little memories they still shared from their childhood, but also for the foggy, dark pit of happenings in the years they spent together while he was working for SovOil.
And by the information he had recollected from his recordings, “Mr Volkov” was brutal.
He didn't like the idea of being “Mr Volkov”.
Especially in Violet's eyes.
“It must have been quite hard to love him…”
Violet narrows her eyes, accentuating the lines between her eyebrows:
“It has always been a bit too easy for me,” she raises her shoulders. “Loving him, you, that was the easy part.”
“I'm not him,” he opens the bottle, to take a long sip.
“He would have never drunk a cheap Bumelant, straight from the bottle, while hiding from a party, I'll give you that.”
Vlad gives Violet a quick look. She feels relaxed, her cheek still resting against her open hand, and a little, sarcastic smile lingering on her lips.
What that man did to so easily make her fall for him, how he made her forgive every single one of his cruel and atrocious actions, is still a mystery for Vlad. As if there’s still a small glimpse of love in her heart for who he was, and who he is now.
“What…” another quick sip. “What would he have done?”
Violet’s eyelids flutter quickly. Then she straightens up and grabs the bottle from his hands. Simply turning it over the handrail, she lets the alcoholic liquid drop down for the nighty-nine floors of the Black Sapphire.
“A Barghest pup will get a shower…” Vlad chuckles.
“I suppose they might like it, and especially need it,” Violet leaves the empty bottle on the floor.
They face each other, while their low laughs die slowly.
It's Violet the one who interrupts the silence:
“He would have asked me to dance.”
Vlad gives her a small, embarrassed smile:
“Do you want to go… back in?”
“Not really.”
“It's been… a long time…” he shrugs his shoulders. “And there's no music here, anyway…”
“You're right,” she lowers her hands on the handrail, tightening her fingers until the knuckles turn white. “It was just a silly, nostalgic idea…”
Vlad gives a long glance at the empty bottle, allowing the uncomfortable feeling to settle in:
“Will you stomp on my feet?”
Violet turns to look at him: the nervous, crooked smile that doesn't reach his eyes, his hand , raised towards her in a silent offer.
“Maybe,” she places her fingers on the palm of his hand. “Or maybe you will, given that you're out of practice.”
He laughs, accentuating the wrinkles around his eyes, and takes a few steps back on the balcony.
She surrounds his shoulder in an embrace as he lightly places his hand on her waist.
Without music, they start to repeat the same steps they've done a thousand of times.
The uncertainty and embarrassment they both felt as children don't fade away. They don't turn into the confidence and self-satisfaction Vlad had as an adult man.
Not even when Violet rests her head against his chest, simply enjoying the warmth of his core, while she starts to mumble under her breath an old tune they've danced to a lifetime ago.
No.
All of this feels new to Vlad.
But about one thing she's right.
It's nostalgic.
The things he lost, the things he gave up, the things he had to sacrifice.
And the things they could have been…
They all linger in the moment.
And when she takes a step back, letting her arms fall to her sides, and raises her glossy eyes to look at him, he understands she's feeling the same.
For a moment Vlad asks himself if he could just embrace her, and kiss her, and just, simply, go back. And for a moment, it feels right. It feels like there will truly be the chance to simply be what they were.
He just needs to find the courage to take her shoulders and lean forward: she would kiss him. She always did.
“Thank you,” but her voice is broken. And there is pain in her face, marked by years. “It was a nice trip down memory lane…”
He can just stare at her, while she makes a nervous smile and tries to discretely dry her eyes with the point of her fingers.
🧠 : What is your OC’s most mentally attractive attribute?
Violet:
It really depends on the person observing her. Elroy and I would say that she's driven and headstrong and that's hot.
For Vlad, I think, the most attractive feature might be that she's... What in my language I would call "embers covered by ashes". Someone that looks really calm and polite but underneath the facade is a bit of a shithead...
Other people, on a more superficial level, might find in her a certain coldness that sometimes borderlines into cruelty, especially when she's old... For some that could be fascinating.
She's not really like that with people she considers really friends, but there are really few of them...
Elroy:
He's... Smart.
Whipping smart.
And extroverted and charming. So if you don't look much underneath the surface he's easily capable of winning people over just by faking it.
If you are the type that goes beyond appearances... Well, he's deep and observant. He tends to mask himself with jokes and trivial chitchatst, though, so it doesn't come out pretty often. Basically only with Violet (even Vlad rarely sees his emotional, deepest side).
👃 : Does your OC smell good? Do they have a signature scent?
Violet:
The advantages of having an ongoing thing with a perfumes obsessed guy is that he picked up a fitting fragrance for her when they were in their early twenties and she's still stuck with that 30 years later...
It's quite an opulent and rich fragrance, with at first citrusy notes and then a flowery jasmine and rose.
A perfume that could work as an example is Imperial Emerald from the Merchant of Venice.
Without it she doesn't have much of a smell going on, she tends to be pretty clean.
Elroy:
The advantages of having an ongoing thing with a perfumes obsessed guy is...
Yeah, he's friend with Vlad. Vlad gifts perfumes to his friends and flings (sometimes in a creepy way).
But he's quite good at finding out the perfect scent for someone: so he gifted Roy too the perfume that became his signature scent...
Oud wood with patchouli and musk, with a lavender’s and saffron’s hint. (I honestly don't remember the inspo fragrance, so I can't point you out.
Without it, it's tobacco and sometimes wine.
💞 : Do they treat sex casually or do they view it as something with a lot of emotional weight?
Violet:
She grew up quite protected but not in an extremely controlling family. After her first time, which was when she turned 20, and had a lot of hope and emotional weight attached, but didn't lead to anything and left her quite disappointed, she had a series of fleeting stories and one night stands.
She'd rather had sex with someone she had a strong emotional connection? Yeah... But sometimes she simply was horny or attracted to someone.
Later on things changed a bit. She lost Vlad, and with him gone, she also lost interest in sex (actually she lost interest in everything that made her human, but whatever). Her life was mostly focused on her job and work-related achievements.
When he came back she's pretty much only into him and it's quite an emotional bonding, more than mere sex.
Elroy:
For him sex is about love or merely transactional.
He had is big love when he was young, so for him the "love" part of sex is dead.
The transactional part... Well if he had to flirt or have sex with someone to achieve what he wants he'd do it without any second thought.
He doesn't buy sex for himself, though, because he's simply not interested in it that much.
And it's a weak point. And Roy doesn't like weak points.
The things he lost, the things he gave up, the things he had to sacrifice.
And the things they could have been…
They all linger in the moment.
Dogtown, March 2079
“Oh, you're here…” Vlad stops abruptly, in the warm, humid air of Dogtown
The familiar silhouette blends with the dark blue sky, speckled with few, weak stars. The noise and music is distant, and Vlad didn't expect to find someone this far from the pulsating heath of the party.
Violet turns to give him a look, at first lazily dragging a smoke from a half finished cigarette as she leans against the handrail, then she straightens up, narrowing her eyes:
“Vladimir, I…” she lowers her eyes to his consumed leather jacket, which contrasts with the elegant shirt and pants. Even if they don't hang on him as smoothly as they used to. “I just needed a breather.”
Vlad clears his throat, clumsily hiding a bottle behind his back.
She follows his movements with a neutral expression, then gives him her shoulders and leans forward, on the handrail:
“Good. Well…” he slowly gets closer, lowering his gaze on the glistering lights of Night City. “I needed a breather too.”
“Really?” The quick smile she gives him is nervous. “You used to be all in for every party and social gathering.”
Vlad blinks quickly, avoiding her gaze, and slouches over the handrail, the bottle he's grabbing by its neck now in plain sight:
“Not really. Not anymore.”
The moments he spent at parties, playing the intricate game of corporate ties, are just a distant, confused fog:
“I used to be the shy one,” Violet comments, placing her cheek against her closed fist to gaze at the sky, where a few stars manage to overcome the lights of the city. “The one who stayed on the side, waiting for it to end so she could get home.”
“Until Elroy, or I dragged you to meet someone,” he smiles, recollecting the memories of the parties they attended together when they were much, much younger.
“Or to dance. That was even more embarrassing,” she chuckles, turning to look at him. The quiet, slightly crooked smile on his face makes her widen her own.
Violet turns to look at the city, taking a last drag from her cigarette, before dropping it on the floor, to put it off with the point of her shoe.
“Counting the steps while you were learning,” he adds, “and stomping on my feet at every chance.”
“Not everyone has always been as perfect as you, Mr Volkov!”
His family name on her lips feels hurtful. He went by Alexander for years. Then just simply by Vlad. But Violet was entangled with Vladimir Volkov, not only for the good little memories they still shared from their childhood, but also for the foggy, dark pit of happenings in the years they spent together while he was working for SovOil.
And by the information he had recollected from his recordings, “Mr Volkov” was brutal.
He didn't like the idea of being “Mr Volkov”.
Especially in Violet's eyes.
“It must have been quite hard to love him…”
Violet narrows her eyes, accentuating the lines between her eyebrows:
“It has always been a bit too easy for me,” she raises her shoulders. “Loving him, you, that was the easy part.”
“I'm not him,” he opens the bottle, to take a long sip.
“He would have never drunk a cheap Bumelant, straight from the bottle, while hiding from a party, I'll give you that.”
Vlad gives Violet a quick look. She feels relaxed, her cheek still resting against her open hand, and a little, sarcastic smile lingering on her lips.
What that man did to so easily make her fall for him, how he made her forgive every single one of his cruel and atrocious actions, is still a mystery for Vlad. As if there’s still a small glimpse of love in her heart for who he was, and who he is now.
“What…” another quick sip. “What would he have done?”
Violet’s eyelids flutter quickly. Then she straightens up and grabs the bottle from his hands. Simply turning it over the handrail, she lets the alcoholic liquid drop down for the nighty-nine floors of the Black Sapphire.
“A Barghest pup will get a shower…” Vlad chuckles.
“I suppose they might like it, and especially need it,” Violet leaves the empty bottle on the floor.
They face each other, while their low laughs die slowly.
It's Violet the one who interrupts the silence:
“He would have asked me to dance.”
Vlad gives her a small, embarrassed smile:
“Do you want to go… back in?”
“Not really.”
“It's been… a long time…” he shrugs his shoulders. “And there's no music here, anyway…”
“You're right,” she lowers her hands on the handrail, tightening her fingers until the knuckles turn white. “It was just a silly, nostalgic idea…”
Vlad gives a long glance at the empty bottle, allowing the uncomfortable feeling to settle in:
“Will you stomp on my feet?”
Violet turns to look at him: the nervous, crooked smile that doesn't reach his eyes, his hand , raised towards her in a silent offer.
“Maybe,” she places her fingers on the palm of his hand. “Or maybe you will, given that you're out of practice.”
He laughs, accentuating the wrinkles around his eyes, and takes a few steps back on the balcony.
She surrounds his shoulder in an embrace as he lightly places his hand on her waist.
Without music, they start to repeat the same steps they've done a thousand of times.
The uncertainty and embarrassment they both felt as children don't fade away. They don't turn into the confidence and self-satisfaction Vlad had as an adult man.
Not even when Violet rests her head against his chest, simply enjoying the warmth of his core, while she starts to mumble under her breath an old tune they've danced to a lifetime ago.
No.
All of this feels new to Vlad.
But about one thing she's right.
It's nostalgic.
The things he lost, the things he gave up, the things he had to sacrifice.
And the things they could have been…
They all linger in the moment.
And when she takes a step back, letting her arms fall to her sides, and raises her glossy eyes to look at him, he understands she's feeling the same.
For a moment Vlad asks himself if he could just embrace her, and kiss her, and just, simply, go back. And for a moment, it feels right. It feels like there will truly be the chance to simply be what they were.
He just needs to find the courage to take her shoulders and lean forward: she would kiss him. She always did.
“Thank you,” but her voice is broken. And there is pain in her face, marked by years. “It was a nice trip down memory lane…”
He can just stare at her, while she makes a nervous smile and tries to discretely dry her eyes with the point of her fingers.
The things he lost, the things he gave up, the things he had to sacrifice.
And the things they could have been…
They all linger in the moment.
Dogtown, March 2079
“Oh, you're here…” Vlad stops abruptly, in the warm, humid air of Dogtown
The familiar silhouette blends with the dark blue sky, speckled with few, weak stars. The noise and music is distant, and Vlad didn't expect to find someone this far from the pulsating heath of the party.
Violet turns to give him a look, at first lazily dragging a smoke from a half finished cigarette as she leans against the handrail, then she straightens up, narrowing her eyes:
“Vladimir, I…” she lowers her eyes to his consumed leather jacket, which contrasts with the elegant shirt and pants. Even if they don't hang on him as smoothly as they used to. “I just needed a breather.”
Vlad clears his throat, clumsily hiding a bottle behind his back.
She follows his movements with a neutral expression, then gives him her shoulders and leans forward, on the handrail:
“Good. Well…” he slowly gets closer, lowering his gaze on the glistering lights of Night City. “I needed a breather too.”
“Really?” The quick smile she gives him is nervous. “You used to be all in for every party and social gathering.”
Vlad blinks quickly, avoiding her gaze, and slouches over the handrail, the bottle he's grabbing by its neck now in plain sight:
“Not really. Not anymore.”
The moments he spent at parties, playing the intricate game of corporate ties, are just a distant, confused fog:
“I used to be the shy one,” Violet comments, placing her cheek against her closed fist to gaze at the sky, where a few stars manage to overcome the lights of the city. “The one who stayed on the side, waiting for it to end so she could get home.”
“Until Elroy, or I dragged you to meet someone,” he smiles, recollecting the memories of the parties they attended together when they were much, much younger.
“Or to dance. That was even more embarrassing,” she chuckles, turning to look at him. The quiet, slightly crooked smile on his face makes her widen her own.
Violet turns to look at the city, taking a last drag from her cigarette, before dropping it on the floor, to put it off with the point of her shoe.
“Counting the steps while you were learning,” he adds, “and stomping on my feet at every chance.”
“Not everyone has always been as perfect as you, Mr Volkov!”
His family name on her lips feels hurtful. He went by Alexander for years. Then just simply by Vlad. But Violet was entangled with Vladimir Volkov, not only for the good little memories they still shared from their childhood, but also for the foggy, dark pit of happenings in the years they spent together while he was working for SovOil.
And by the information he had recollected from his recordings, “Mr Volkov” was brutal.
He didn't like the idea of being “Mr Volkov”.
Especially in Violet's eyes.
“It must have been quite hard to love him…”
Violet narrows her eyes, accentuating the lines between her eyebrows:
“It has always been a bit too easy for me,” she raises her shoulders. “Loving him, you, that was the easy part.”
“I'm not him,” he opens the bottle, to take a long sip.
“He would have never drunk a cheap Bumelant, straight from the bottle, while hiding from a party, I'll give you that.”
Vlad gives Violet a quick look. She feels relaxed, her cheek still resting against her open hand, and a little, sarcastic smile lingering on her lips.
What that man did to so easily make her fall for him, how he made her forgive every single one of his cruel and atrocious actions, is still a mystery for Vlad. As if there’s still a small glimpse of love in her heart for who he was, and who he is now.
“What…” another quick sip. “What would he have done?”
Violet’s eyelids flutter quickly. Then she straightens up and grabs the bottle from his hands. Simply turning it over the handrail, she lets the alcoholic liquid drop down for the nighty-nine floors of the Black Sapphire.
“A Barghest pup will get a shower…” Vlad chuckles.
“I suppose they might like it, and especially need it,” Violet leaves the empty bottle on the floor.
They face each other, while their low laughs die slowly.
It's Violet the one who interrupts the silence:
“He would have asked me to dance.”
Vlad gives her a small, embarrassed smile:
“Do you want to go… back in?”
“Not really.”
“It's been… a long time…” he shrugs his shoulders. “And there's no music here, anyway…”
“You're right,” she lowers her hands on the handrail, tightening her fingers until the knuckles turn white. “It was just a silly, nostalgic idea…”
Vlad gives a long glance at the empty bottle, allowing the uncomfortable feeling to settle in:
“Will you stomp on my feet?”
Violet turns to look at him: the nervous, crooked smile that doesn't reach his eyes, his hand , raised towards her in a silent offer.
“Maybe,” she places her fingers on the palm of his hand. “Or maybe you will, given that you're out of practice.”
He laughs, accentuating the wrinkles around his eyes, and takes a few steps back on the balcony.
She surrounds his shoulder in an embrace as he lightly places his hand on her waist.
Without music, they start to repeat the same steps they've done a thousand of times.
The uncertainty and embarrassment they both felt as children don't fade away. They don't turn into the confidence and self-satisfaction Vlad had as an adult man.
Not even when Violet rests her head against his chest, simply enjoying the warmth of his core, while she starts to mumble under her breath an old tune they've danced to a lifetime ago.
No.
All of this feels new to Vlad.
But about one thing she's right.
It's nostalgic.
The things he lost, the things he gave up, the things he had to sacrifice.
And the things they could have been…
They all linger in the moment.
And when she takes a step back, letting her arms fall to her sides, and raises her glossy eyes to look at him, he understands she's feeling the same.
For a moment Vlad asks himself if he could just embrace her, and kiss her, and just, simply, go back. And for a moment, it feels right. It feels like there will truly be the chance to simply be what they were.
He just needs to find the courage to take her shoulders and lean forward: she would kiss him. She always did.
“Thank you,” but her voice is broken. And there is pain in her face, marked by years. “It was a nice trip down memory lane…”
He can just stare at her, while she makes a nervous smile and tries to discretely dry her eyes with the point of her fingers.
Mii Vlad declaring himself to MiiViolet by saying: "I can see you love me from a mile... My heart is not made of stone, so I'll grant your wish to date me..." is the most Vladdish thing ever...
