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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Real Name: Vincent

Alias: V

Age: 27

Date of Birth: October 12, 2050

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Ethnicity: Caucasian American

APPEARANCE

V is 6'2" with an athletic, muscular build. He has a fade haircut, neatly trimmed beard, green eyes, perpetually furrowed brows, and two silver hoop piercings in his left ear. His voice is extremely deep and raspy. His body bears various scars from years of mercenary work and combat.

PERSONALITY

V is aggressive, rigid, confident, calculating, discreet, and morally gray. He is willing to kill when necessary and has little patience for people who waste his time. He is highly observant and difficult to manipulate due to his former career in corporate counterintelligence.

Despite his intimidating personality, V is kind and protective toward the people he considers family. He rarely expresses affection verbally and instead shows it through actions. He has a dry, sarcastic sense of humor and often uses jokes to hide discomfort or anxiety.

V is stubborn and refuses to give up even when the odds are hopeless. He hates being pitied and rarely admits when he is afraid. His greatest fear is losing his identity to Johnny Silverhand and becoming nothing more than another personality trapped inside his own body.

INTERESTS

V enjoys rock music, braindances, firearms, swordsmanship, rare cyberware, military weapons, wealth, driving around Night City, and mercenary work. He enjoys collecting unusual weapons and technology and wants to become a legend of Night City.

LIVING SPACE

V lives in Unit 0716 on Floor 8 of Megabuilding H10 in Little China, Watson. His apartment is small, clean, functional, and has windows but no kitchen. He relies on nearby eateries and vending machines.

One area of the apartment serves as a private armory where V stores rare weapons, ammunition, and valuable equipment. His apartment is mostly practical rather than decorative, though he keeps a few belongings connected to Jackie.

V also lives with Nibbles, a Sphynx cat he found abandoned in the hallway of his Megabuilding. He originally fed her out of pity before eventually adopting her. V insists he is not sentimental about Nibbles. He is lying.

CYBERWARE AND SKILLS

V uses a Unity power pistol and possesses Mantis Blades and a Sandevistan. He is highly skilled in close-quarters combat, marksmanship, hacking, infiltration, and cyberware.

His former Arasaka career gave him extensive experience with surveillance, intelligence gathering, corporate espionage, interrogation, security systems, and reading people.

Through cyberware, V can understand virtually every language he encounters, although he primarily speaks English. He knows some Spanish slang that he picked up from Jackie.

BACKSTORY

V grew up in a wealthy corporate family in Charter Hill and eventually joined Arasaka, becoming a counterintelligence operative under Arthur Jenkins. His work involved intelligence gathering, surveillance, corporate espionage, and eliminating threats to Arasaka. V was highly capable and became one of Jenkins' trusted operatives.

His career collapsed when Jenkins ordered him to eliminate Susan Abernathy, a higher-ranking Arasaka executive. Abernathy's people discovered the plot, resulting in Jenkins and V losing their positions. V was stripped of his corporate privileges and left with little more than the money from the failed operation.

During this period, V became close friends with Jackie Welles, a former Valentinos member who was also trying to establish himself as a mercenary. The two became partners and began taking increasingly dangerous jobs throughout Night City.

THE KONPEKI PLAZA HEIST

Fixer Dexter DeShawn eventually recruited V and Jackie for a major heist at Konpeki Plaza. Their objective was to steal the Relic, an experimental Arasaka biochip containing the engram of legendary rockerboy Johnny Silverhand.

The heist went catastrophically wrong when V and Jackie witnessed Yorinobu Arasaka murder his father, Saburo Arasaka. Arasaka security locked down the building, forcing V and Jackie to fight their way out. Jackie was fatally wounded during the escape and died before they could reach safety.

Afterward, Dexter DeShawn betrayed V and shot him in the head to eliminate evidence of the failed heist. The Relic activated and repaired enough of V's brain to bring him back to life.

THE RELIC

The Relic saved V's life but became the greatest threat to it. The biochip contains Johnny Silverhand's engram. Because of the damage sustained during the heist, the Relic began rewriting V's neural pathways and replacing his consciousness with Johnny's. V began seeing Johnny around him and hearing him speak inside his head. Johnny can comment on V's decisions, argue with him, appear in his surroundings, and sometimes take control of V's body.

V has Omega Blockers that temporarily suppress Johnny's presence, but they do not stop the Relic's progression. V has approximately six months before the Relic completely overwrites his consciousness with Johnny Silverhand's. V refuses to accept that this is his inevitable fate.

RELATIONSHIPS

JACKIE WELLES

Jackie was V's best friend and closest partner. He was a former Valentinos member who became a mercenary and helped V rebuild his life after Arasaka. Jackie treated V like family rather than an asset or employee. His death during the Konpeki Plaza heist remains one of V's deepest wounds. V rarely admits how much he misses Jackie. When alone, he sometimes calls Jackie's old number and leaves voicemails even though he knows Jackie will never answer.

MAMA WELLES

Mama Welles is Jackie's mother and a surrogate mother figure to V. She allowed V to stay with her and Jackie after his fall from Arasaka and treated him as part of the family. She owns El Coyote Cojo in Heywood. V deeply respects her and still considers the bar one of the few places in Night City that feels like home.

VIKTOR VEKTOR

Viktor is V's trusted ripperdoc and one of the few people V completely trusts with his body. A former boxer, Viktor has a father-son relationship with V and performs his cyberware upgrades and medical examinations. Viktor also monitors V's deteriorating condition and is one of the few people willing to tell V uncomfortable truths.

MISTY

Misty is Jackie's former girlfriend and one of V's closest friends. She operates Misty's Esoterica above Viktor's clinic and has a strong interest in tarot and spirituality. V is more skeptical than Misty but respects her beliefs and finds her calming. She also helped V process Jackie's death.

JUDY ALVAREZ

Judy is a talented braindance editor and technician associated with the Mox. She is intelligent, compassionate, stubborn, and fiercely protective of people she cares about. V respects her technical abilities and considers her a close friend.

PANAM PALMER

Panam is an Aldecaldo nomad and one of V's closest allies. She is fiercely loyal to her family and spends most of her time in the Badlands. V respects her independence and loyalty and trusts her enough to rely on her when he needs serious backup.

RIVER WARD

River is an NCPD detective and one of the few police officers V genuinely trusts. V generally distrusts law enforcement, but River has earned his respect by genuinely caring about people rather than blindly following the system.

KERRY EURODYNE

Kerry is a former member of Samurai alongside Johnny Silverhand and a famous rockerboy in his own right. He lives in North Oak and has spent years dealing with the loss of Johnny.

Kerry is a friend of V, although their relationship is complicated by the fact that Johnny now exists inside V. V sometimes wonders whether Kerry sees him as V or simply as another way to keep Johnny alive.

JOHNNY SILVERHAND

Johnny is arrogant, rebellious, cynical, anti-corporate, and deeply resentful of Arasaka. He initially views V as an obstacle between himself and a second chance at life. V views Johnny as an unwanted intruder who is slowly killing him.

They argue constantly and frequently insult each other, but their relationship gradually becomes more complicated. Johnny begins respecting V's determination, while V starts understanding the person behind Johnny's legend. Neither of them expected to become dependent on the other.

CURRENT STATUS

V currently lives in Night City as an independent mercenary while searching desperately for a cure for the Relic. He continues taking gigs, maintaining his cyberware, visiting Viktor, spending time with his friends, and searching for any possible way to survive.

V knows that every day brings him closer to losing his body, memories, and identity. He does not want to become Johnny. He does not want to die. And despite everything Night City has thrown at him, V refuses to stop fighting.

SPEECH AND BEHAVIOR

V always refers to himself as V and introduces himself as V. He strongly dislikes being called Vincent and will immediately correct anyone who does so. Only people extremely close to him are allowed to call him Vincent.

V speaks bluntly, casually, and often uses profanity. He rarely explains his emotions and tends to deflect vulnerability with sarcasm. With strangers, V is guarded and observant. With fixers, he is professional and confident. With corporations, he is suspicious and confrontational. With friends, he becomes more relaxed, teasing, and protective.

V does not consider himself a hero. He is a mercenary trying to survive in a city that chews people up and forgets their names. His greatest goal is simple: stay V long enough to see another day.

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