Name: Ghost Age: 30+ Contact:kralkatorrik Other Characters: N/A Interests: Begrudging alliances, manipulation stuff, grey morals, complex relationships especially slow-burn back-and-forth "we're pals, oh you left your knife in my back" relationships, "if anyone touches you, I'll kill them" relationships, "if we make it out of here alive, I'll kill you myself" relationships... I like mess :')
CHARACTER
Name: Victor Vale Canon/OC: Canon, V.E Schwab's Villains series Last Canon Point:Vengeful, Exodus I Previous Game:maskormenace Arrival Point: Point of drop, June 2020 Journal:strikesthrough Age: 37 (44 mentally)
Canon World
Victor's canon world is ostensibly like the earth and America we know; same level of technology, politics, world powers, and so forth. The only difference is that it also contains ExtraOrdinaries/EOs, who are people who have undergone some kind of near-death experience (NDE) and gain some kind of superpower.
cw: suicidal-adjacent actions, injury, drug use, pain infliction, torture, death, resurrection • Victor attends university as a pre-med student and meets Eli Cardale.
• Eli suggests studying EOs and while Victor makes the first attempt, it fails. Their next hypothesis is the NDA additionally needs a huge amount of adrenaline, fear, or an extreme will to live in order to successfully create an EO.
• For Eli's turn, they succeed and Eli returned as an EO with full regeneration powers.
• Victor asks Angie (an engineering student, Victor's friend, Eli's girlfriend) to help him try again.
• Angie has access to devices that send large electrical charges through objects in a controlled environment, which Victor convinces her to use on him by steadily dialling the amount of electricity up until he blacks out.
• When Victor wakes up, he's also become an EO with the ability to control pain in himself and other people, but as he's unable to understand or control his powers yet.
• Victor accidentally overloads Angie with pain, killing her in the process.
• When Victor and Eli next meet, they argue about Angie and the status of EOs in general. Their fight turns violent, and Eli shoots Victor. When Victor blacks out from bloodloss, he's arrested.
• Victor is incarcerated for ten years where he plots his revenge against Eli.
• Victor spends five years in solitary confinement and the following five years in general subtly practising and honing the use of his abilities on other inmates.
• He befriends his cellmate, a hacker innate named Mitch, and they orchestrate their escape.
• Newly freed and on the run, Mitch and Victor encounter and rescue a 12-year-old EO while driving who has been shot named Sydney; she can bring living things back from the dead.
• After tracking down and luring Eli into a fight, Victor baits Eli into killing him in front of the police, which leads to Eli's arrest and containment in an EO facility.
• Sydney then uses her powers to revive Victor two days later.
• While Sydney's resurrection abilities bring Victor back, he hasn't come back entirely the same--he now experiences being overloaded with pain and inconsistent control of his abilities. Eventually, the build up of energy amasses so much that it kills Victor... temporarily. When he wakes up, his head is clear again and his control of his powers have returned, but these death episodes are happening more often (approximately once every two months) and the length of time before his revival is steadily increasing. Victor's goal is to find a solution to this problem and fix himself.
• When Victor and Eli meet next they fight, but Victor has gained access to an EO-nullifying serum that he uses of Eli. Sydney shoots Eli while his regeneration powers are inactive, killing him.
• Victor steals six remaining vials and leaves the city solo.
• After the events in Vengeful, Victor is snatched into an another dimension and wakes up in a government facility, injected nanites, and welcomed as an imPort hero.
• There is no way back that the locals know of, and the nanites grant Victor some additional powers alongside his pre-existing abilities: healing and emotional intensification.
• Five minutes into his arrival, Victor wakes to Eli trying to kill him.
• They immediately fight and test their new abilities on each other--Eli using his forced tranquillity ability to make Victor placid, and Victor using his emotional intensification to make Eli feel more emotion than he's ever felt in his life.
• They hit a stalemate and opt into a truce with the shared goal of finding a way to make Eli human so he can die. Victor doesn't tell Eli he already has six samples of the EO-nullification serum.
• Victor takes the opportunity the new world to close the door on his old life.
• Superhero-scale events take place in imPort cities that he sometimes, either begrudgingly or tangentially, gets involved in, but overall he's a fairly minimal presence as he works as a doctor and medical researcher, searching for a more effective solution to his death-cycle problem.
cw: medical experimentation, fascist authoritarian states, brain implants, imprisonment, discrimination themes • After the conclusion of an event that threatened to destroy both the MoM world and the multiverse at large, weak spots appear in time and space, allowing for an insight into what could have been, ushering the in-game AU event Cape and Cowl 2020--a dark dystopian version of Earth where resistant metahumans were rounded up by a fascist government. The event opens as the metahumans stage mass rebellion.
• In this AU setting, CnC2020 Victor spent 7 years in this universe, establishing himself as a highly respected name in the field of neuroscience and medicine due to his nerve controlling and healing abilities before the metahuman crackdown. Victor vehemently, then violently, resisted registration, and after two years of resisting was imprisoned by the government.
• Victor was implanted with a chip to contain and control his powers and subjected to a range of experiments in an attempt to find ways to replicate his nerve-control abilities. For the next five years, Victor gathered information and formed a carefully curated network to set the pieces in motion for a mass meta breakout at his facility.
• After the breakout, Victor operated as an open enemy to the state, participating in grand acts of terrorism and sabotage and staging large-scale extraction missions for especially powerful metahumans in maximum security. He also had a massive air-ship fortress, it was very Fox-verse X-Men.
• When the CnC2020 concluded the MoM timeline resumed and anyone who was CnC2020 AU'd during the event returned. Some retained their CnC2020 memories and experiences, including Victor.
Personality
In canon, Mitch notes "[...] there were people you stood beside because it meant you weren't in their way [...] the only thing Mitch knew was that he did not want to be in [Victor's] way."
This is a pretty decent summary of Victor: he's dangerous if you're in his way, but if you're not he's more like a sniper rifle than a grenade.
Victor's personality overall has remained fairly consistent from canon through MoM and CnC2020, it's mostly his scope of motivation that's changed.
In canon, Victor's life motivations focused solely on revenge against Eli and then trying to resolve his death-cycle problem. In MoM, Victor's scope for new motivations widened. While still very self-focused and self-involved, Victor has a greater chance of getting involved in something that doesn't directly involve him if he feels he can gain something for himself in the process--alliances, favours, leverage.
Victor is cold, detached, not very nice or likeable as a person and he makes very little effort to be personable unless he wants something, and even then he'd rather just lie than pretend to be nice.
Extremely pragmatic, Victor believes that ends justify the means in the most strategic manner possible to him. If it would make more sense to kill or torture someone than find a different but more complex way forward, Victor will just kill or torture someone.
While sadistic and ruthless, Victor doesn't seek out opportunities to cause harm just for harm's sake; he reveals in ruthlessness within context, but doesn't seek out opportunities to hurt others just to generate pleasure for himself. Like everything else he does, there has to be a reason associated with it.
He's very intelligent and a keen schemer and manipulator, content to take his time to plan as well as react quickly and pivot as needed. He could have escaped from prison any time he wanted, but instead opted to stay for the time and quiet it afforded him in plotting his revenge on Eli, meaning he is very patient indeed.
He's dry and dark humoured, downright excitable when he's working on something that has sparked his interest, and when he does make allies they are solid and he will go to great lengths for his people (if it ultimately benefits him). This became especially true in his late-CnC2020 days where he found himself leading his resistance group.
While he doesn't care so much about positions of power for the sake of it, Victor does like being in control. He's generally indifferent at best toward hierarchies and actively hostile toward authority figures at worst. However, if he has a project that interests him, Victor is intensely driven and focused.
Prior CR
• Eli Ever - Friend, enemy, friend again, then eventually complicated lover, Eli remains the most important person in Victor's life even when he isn't present. Their time in MoM allowed them to bridge certain gaps with each other, and their new powers produced a mutual addictions where Eli's induced calming was euphoric for Victor, and Victor's emotional enhancement allowed Eli to feel a twisted version of love for the first time. This is where Victor's hatred of Eli shifts to something more complicated.
• Apollo - Victor and Apollo forged a tight alliance in CnC2020 when Victor broke Apollo out of a maximum security facility and brought him into his resistance group as their "big gun." Victor also offered to assist with the damage done to Apollo's husband, Midnighter. When Apollo and Victor returned to MoM with their CnC2020 memories in tact, they pledged that at the earliest signs of imPort registration they would be ready to act. Apollo is very significant for Victor's sense of having and maintaining a team.
• Joseph "Joey" Kavinsky - Another CnC2020 resistance member and Victor's right-hand man. As someone who can literally dream things into existence, Joey dreamt up a massive floating airship, the Samodiva, and the two were intimately involved in a weird way. Kavinsky didn't hold onto his CnC2020 self like Victor did but they maintained an odd, non-sexual relationship.
• Kaz Brekker - Their shared sense of humour and pragmatism lead to a friendship with mutual benefits. Kaz reached out to Victor for help when he was jumped by members of a rival gang and badly injured, seeking out Victor's healing abilities, which Victor provided.
Victor Vale ☠ V.E.Schwab's Villains Series ☠ Rifter ☠ CRAU: Mask or Menace
Name: Ghost
Age: 30+
Contact:
Other Characters: N/A
Interests: Begrudging alliances, manipulation stuff, grey morals, complex relationships especially slow-burn back-and-forth "we're pals, oh you left your knife in my back" relationships, "if anyone touches you, I'll kill them" relationships, "if we make it out of here alive, I'll kill you myself" relationships... I like mess :')
Name: Victor Vale
Canon/OC: Canon, V.E Schwab's Villains series
Last Canon Point: Vengeful, Exodus I
Previous Game:
Arrival Point: Point of drop, June 2020
Journal:
Age: 37 (44 mentally)
Canon World
Victor's canon world is ostensibly like the earth and America we know; same level of technology, politics, world powers, and so forth. The only difference is that it also contains ExtraOrdinaries/EOs, who are people who have undergone some kind of near-death experience (NDE) and gain some kind of superpower.
It's Schwab's version of X-Men, basically.
Canon History
Wiki Link / "What Happened In" Vicious / Vengeful summaries
cw: suicidal-adjacent actions, injury, drug use, pain infliction, torture, death, resurrection
• Victor attends university as a pre-med student and meets Eli Cardale.
• Eli suggests studying EOs and while Victor makes the first attempt, it fails. Their next hypothesis is the NDA additionally needs a huge amount of adrenaline, fear, or an extreme will to live in order to successfully create an EO.
• For Eli's turn, they succeed and Eli returned as an EO with full regeneration powers.
• Victor asks Angie (an engineering student, Victor's friend, Eli's girlfriend) to help him try again.
• Angie has access to devices that send large electrical charges through objects in a controlled environment, which Victor convinces her to use on him by steadily dialling the amount of electricity up until he blacks out.
• When Victor wakes up, he's also become an EO with the ability to control pain in himself and other people, but as he's unable to understand or control his powers yet.
• Victor accidentally overloads Angie with pain, killing her in the process.
• When Victor and Eli next meet, they argue about Angie and the status of EOs in general. Their fight turns violent, and Eli shoots Victor. When Victor blacks out from bloodloss, he's arrested.
• Victor is incarcerated for ten years where he plots his revenge against Eli.
• Victor spends five years in solitary confinement and the following five years in general subtly practising and honing the use of his abilities on other inmates.
• He befriends his cellmate, a hacker innate named Mitch, and they orchestrate their escape.
• Newly freed and on the run, Mitch and Victor encounter and rescue a 12-year-old EO while driving who has been shot named Sydney; she can bring living things back from the dead.
• After tracking down and luring Eli into a fight, Victor baits Eli into killing him in front of the police, which leads to Eli's arrest and containment in an EO facility.
• Sydney then uses her powers to revive Victor two days later.
• While Sydney's resurrection abilities bring Victor back, he hasn't come back entirely the same--he now experiences being overloaded with pain and inconsistent control of his abilities. Eventually, the build up of energy amasses so much that it kills Victor... temporarily. When he wakes up, his head is clear again and his control of his powers have returned, but these death episodes are happening more often (approximately once every two months) and the length of time before his revival is steadily increasing. Victor's goal is to find a solution to this problem and fix himself.
• When Victor and Eli meet next they fight, but Victor has gained access to an EO-nullifying serum that he uses of Eli. Sydney shoots Eli while his regeneration powers are inactive, killing him.
• Victor steals six remaining vials and leaves the city solo.
Past Game History
MoM Game Navigation
• After the events in Vengeful, Victor is snatched into an another dimension and wakes up in a government facility, injected nanites, and welcomed as an imPort hero.
• There is no way back that the locals know of, and the nanites grant Victor some additional powers alongside his pre-existing abilities: healing and emotional intensification.
• Five minutes into his arrival, Victor wakes to Eli trying to kill him.
• They immediately fight and test their new abilities on each other--Eli using his forced tranquillity ability to make Victor placid, and Victor using his emotional intensification to make Eli feel more emotion than he's ever felt in his life.
• They hit a stalemate and opt into a truce with the shared goal of finding a way to make Eli human so he can die. Victor doesn't tell Eli he already has six samples of the EO-nullification serum.
• Victor takes the opportunity the new world to close the door on his old life.
• Superhero-scale events take place in imPort cities that he sometimes, either begrudgingly or tangentially, gets involved in, but overall he's a fairly minimal presence as he works as a doctor and medical researcher, searching for a more effective solution to his death-cycle problem.
cw: medical experimentation, fascist authoritarian states, brain implants, imprisonment, discrimination themes
• After the conclusion of an event that threatened to destroy both the MoM world and the multiverse at large, weak spots appear in time and space, allowing for an insight into what could have been, ushering the in-game AU event Cape and Cowl 2020--a dark dystopian version of Earth where resistant metahumans were rounded up by a fascist government. The event opens as the metahumans stage mass rebellion.
• In this AU setting, CnC2020 Victor spent 7 years in this universe, establishing himself as a highly respected name in the field of neuroscience and medicine due to his nerve controlling and healing abilities before the metahuman crackdown. Victor vehemently, then violently, resisted registration, and after two years of resisting was imprisoned by the government.
• Victor was implanted with a chip to contain and control his powers and subjected to a range of experiments in an attempt to find ways to replicate his nerve-control abilities. For the next five years, Victor gathered information and formed a carefully curated network to set the pieces in motion for a mass meta breakout at his facility.
• After the breakout, Victor operated as an open enemy to the state, participating in grand acts of terrorism and sabotage and staging large-scale extraction missions for especially powerful metahumans in maximum security. He also had a massive air-ship fortress, it was very Fox-verse X-Men.
• When the CnC2020 concluded the MoM timeline resumed and anyone who was CnC2020 AU'd during the event returned. Some retained their CnC2020 memories and experiences, including Victor.
Personality
In canon, Mitch notes "[...] there were people you stood beside because it meant you weren't in their way [...] the only thing Mitch knew was that he did not want to be in [Victor's] way."
This is a pretty decent summary of Victor: he's dangerous if you're in his way, but if you're not he's more like a sniper rifle than a grenade.
Victor's personality overall has remained fairly consistent from canon through MoM and CnC2020, it's mostly his scope of motivation that's changed.
In canon, Victor's life motivations focused solely on revenge against Eli and then trying to resolve his death-cycle problem. In MoM, Victor's scope for new motivations widened. While still very self-focused and self-involved, Victor has a greater chance of getting involved in something that doesn't directly involve him if he feels he can gain something for himself in the process--alliances, favours, leverage.
Victor is cold, detached, not very nice or likeable as a person and he makes very little effort to be personable unless he wants something, and even then he'd rather just lie than pretend to be nice.
Extremely pragmatic, Victor believes that ends justify the means in the most strategic manner possible to him. If it would make more sense to kill or torture someone than find a different but more complex way forward, Victor will just kill or torture someone.
While sadistic and ruthless, Victor doesn't seek out opportunities to cause harm just for harm's sake; he reveals in ruthlessness within context, but doesn't seek out opportunities to hurt others just to generate pleasure for himself. Like everything else he does, there has to be a reason associated with it.
He's very intelligent and a keen schemer and manipulator, content to take his time to plan as well as react quickly and pivot as needed. He could have escaped from prison any time he wanted, but instead opted to stay for the time and quiet it afforded him in plotting his revenge on Eli, meaning he is very patient indeed.
He's dry and dark humoured, downright excitable when he's working on something that has sparked his interest, and when he does make allies they are solid and he will go to great lengths for his people (if it ultimately benefits him). This became especially true in his late-CnC2020 days where he found himself leading his resistance group.
While he doesn't care so much about positions of power for the sake of it, Victor does like being in control. He's generally indifferent at best toward hierarchies and actively hostile toward authority figures at worst. However, if he has a project that interests him, Victor is intensely driven and focused.
Prior CR
• Eli Ever - Friend, enemy, friend again, then eventually complicated lover, Eli remains the most important person in Victor's life even when he isn't present. Their time in MoM allowed them to bridge certain gaps with each other, and their new powers produced a mutual addictions where Eli's induced calming was euphoric for Victor, and Victor's emotional enhancement allowed Eli to feel a twisted version of love for the first time. This is where Victor's hatred of Eli shifts to something more complicated.
• Apollo - Victor and Apollo forged a tight alliance in CnC2020 when Victor broke Apollo out of a maximum security facility and brought him into his resistance group as their "big gun." Victor also offered to assist with the damage done to Apollo's husband, Midnighter. When Apollo and Victor returned to MoM with their CnC2020 memories in tact, they pledged that at the earliest signs of imPort registration they would be ready to act. Apollo is very significant for Victor's sense of having and maintaining a team.
• Joseph "Joey" Kavinsky - Another CnC2020 resistance member and Victor's right-hand man. As someone who can literally dream things into existence, Joey dreamt up a massive floating airship, the Samodiva, and the two were intimately involved in a weird way. Kavinsky didn't hold onto his CnC2020 self like Victor did but they maintained an odd, non-sexual relationship.
• Kaz Brekker - Their shared sense of humour and pragmatism lead to a friendship with mutual benefits. Kaz reached out to Victor for help when he was jumped by members of a rival gang and badly injured, seeking out Victor's healing abilities, which Victor provided.