Past VILE faculty is unknown and up to interpretation
The beginning of VILE is dated in the Middle Ages, and Shadow Sanâs join to the VILE faculty is around 1996 (20 years before 2016). This means that any generation from 1500-1990 is able to insert a VILE faculty OC!
Thus, I present to you Orpheus (Steven Carmichael) and Eurydice (Roberta Tines), two VILE faculty members from 1935-1975.
(Beware, Iâm an American writing about Europe, I donât care enough to research more than I already know so there will be inaccuracies. Iâm also choosing to ignore the WWs right now to focus on the characters themselves.)
(These lores will include crime, angst, and death)
Roberta lived in Spain her while childhood and adolescence with her lower class family, born 1906. She lived in a poorer part of town, and witnessed thievery and pickpocketing often. She caught onto how to use these skills effectively, practicing on people once or twice, and how to mind when someone was trying to use them effectively.
She was intrigued by high fashion and poise from a very young age but her family couldnât afford any of the pieces of fashion or jewelry she wanted and she couldnât spend the time to read about and practice niche manners, so Roberta stayed envious. Until, a girl from her home room, Stephanie, made fun of Roberta for lacking any sort of accessories or trendy styles to wear their uniforms and joked that if she was gonna dress like that to the schoolâs dance then she shouldnât even come. Embarrassed and humiliated, Roberta began to plot on how to get back at Stephanie and devised a plan to steal the girlâs dance dress and perhaps an accessory or two.
So, in the mid-day of the dance while Stephanie and her folks were out doing last minute shopping and hairdresser appointments, Roberta broke into their house and reached Stephanieâs closet. The entire thing was filled with dresses, shoes, and jewelry Roberta had seen her wear only once! She wouldnât mind if she took a few other things, right? Roberta yanked several dress off the hooks and tossed them in a pile near the window, then stuffed a couple of necklaces, pairs of earrings, a nice pair of shoes, all seeming to be already worn or neglected. Then, Roberta was able to try on the long, glimmering dress that Stephanie chose for the dance, and it felt amazing to wear it! She couldnât figure out if it was because she looked amazing and stylish for the first time, or if it was the thrill of taking what shouldâve been hers, regardless, when she heard the rumble of Stephanieâs family coming back into the house, Roberta shoved the pile of clothes out the window and the collection of jewelry into her brassiere before lowering herself out of the window.
Roberta high-tailed it away from the house, giggling with a new rush of excitement, she practically sang all the way to the pawn shop. Roberta didnât need all the dresses and jewelry (what a strange sight for the pawn owner seeing an out of breath teen in a ball gown yank earrings out of her bra,) so she sold most of everything, except for a simple pair of pearls and the ruffly, sparkly, âget-fucked,-Stephanieâ dress.
She spent the night out, not at the dance because someone would see her in the dress and Roberta didnât want to take it off, but in the park where no knowing teenagers would be and where she could sit and think about what to do next. In said park, a scraggly gentleman who looked a few years older than her sat on the bench next to her with his arms splayed out and manspreading.
In broken Spanish and with an English accent, the man asked if there was a problem, âpretty ladyâ as his arm slid closer to her over the back of the bench toward the necklace around her shoulders. Unbeknownst to the man, her hand was sliding toward his coat pocket which the strain of the fabric showed where his wallet was.
In the same moment, each of them lunged at their target and yanked it from the opposing party. The man, not yet realizing what happened, made a break for it before pausing a few paces away.
The woman hadnât moved, she didnât even yelp or scream that sheâd been robbed.
The man turned back around to a proud grinning Roberta holding his wallet up in the air, with her other hand open and gesturing towards his guilty digits stuffed into his guilty pocket to try and hide his guilty thieving, and the man smiled. He was incredibly impressed.
The man, who introduced himself as âStevenâ once he found his care in talking to Roberta, sat himself back down on the bench and reading her necklace for his wallet, and began a passionate conversation about her skill in thievery and observation.
Steven lived in England for most of his childhood before his parents died, he was sent to live with his aunt in France where she would half-ass take care of him up until he was 14 where he decided itâd be better for him to take care of himself. Steven bounced around Europe on cars of trains, the backs of random carts, or just with his legs. In his adventures he picked up several languages and learned to steak and pickpocket to make enough money to not starve / have a place to sleep that night.
When he was 19, Steven was scouted by a shady organization for his skills, VILE, and began his student career, taking brief classes before getting back out on the prowl. After a short mission in Spain, Steven thought heâd do a little extra work to get a little more dough for a bite to eat somewhere, and thus, his target.
A young woman in a way-too-fancy dress sat alone on a bench, at night, with a nice string of pearls.
The two had a kerfuffle that lead to Steven being incredibly intrigued by her, eventually giving her a VILE contact card to potentially recruit her into it.
Steven waited a few weeks doing classes and doing a few missions before he saw Roberta again, sheâd taken him up on the offer and decided to join VILE to avoid any overlap with her crimes and her family. (1924, Bertie=18, Stevie=20)
Steven met up with Roberta after her classes and the two talked about everything. Steven talked to her about the things her saw while exploring and how his missions were going. And Roberta talked to him about an interesting facts about art or fashion throughout history.
The two of them grew very close and started dating, they did everything together. Steven helped Roberta train for her physical classes and Roberta helped Steven plan and evaluate for missions. When Roberta graduated as one of the 40 students, neither of them had proper code names yet so they decided to go by matching code names of Orpheus and Eurydice after Robertaâs favorite Greek myth, and in 1937, they got married.
The two of them were able to rise quickly in VILEâs levels, completing capers and missions in sync and becoming very notable to the head five. When it was time for the teacher of Stealth and Thievery to step down, Orpheus was chosen for the position. And when the teacher for Poise and Product stepped down, Eurydice was chosen for the position. The two of them were now the most notable power couple of the villainry world, teaching excellent classes together and, though not as often, pursuing expensive pieces in capers. (1943)
Something happened though.
In a caper where Eurydice was supposed to watch on a building for incoming witnesses or police while Orpheus did a fake-out hand-off with a fake painting for a large amount of money, the buyer got startled when a police sirens sounded nearby. Eurydice confirmed atop the rooftop that they were head the opposite direction and Orpheus tried to tell the buyer this, disturbed, the buyer questioned how Orpheus would know this. Orpheus tried to play it off, but the buyer wouldnât take it. They began yelling over eachother when-
The buyer shot him, twice. Once through his shoulder and again through his chest.
Eurydice could do nothing but witness in horror from the rooftop. Roberta rushed down the fire escape and across the street to Steven, laying on the dark sidewalk and gasping for air. She held his head in her lap and pressed kisses into his face as tears streamed down hers.
Roberta called for back up on their communication devices 87 times. By 32 Steven had closed his eyes, by 53 his pulse was practically gone, and by 74 Steven stopped breathing.
Steven, her Orpheus, is dead.
The Stealth and Thievery teacher was replaced quickly, Roberta always hated that guy. Roberta began to hate a lot of things that way. Her classes became stricter, she was less lenient on alternate perspectives, and Eurydice vowed to be so hurt by an event again.
In 1959, Eurydice sees a young and ambitious Design and Poise student, Cleo, she calls herself. Roberta sees the fire and ambition in Cleo that she did in herself. Eurydice begins to mentor Cleo before stepping down from VILE faculty and reccomending Cleo to take her place.
Roberta steps down in 1965, Cleo takes her place in 1970, she is 26.
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