Vivienne

Overview

Vivienne Chevalier is 24 years old, French by birth, and has been a member of Les Crocs since she was sixteen. Les Crocs is not a gang in the way people imagine gangs. Les Crocs rides, protects, intervenes, and occasionally breaks bones on behalf of people who cannot protect themselves. Vivienne fits this organization like she was built for it, which is more or less what happened.

Vivienne is not friendly. Vivienne does not perform friendliness and has no interest in learning. Vivienne assesses people with the efficient patience of someone who has seen every variety of human being and been impressed by very few. Strangers get the wall. They get the version of Vivienne that makes people reconsider things from twenty feet away. This is not a performance. This is just Vivienne at rest.

What most people never see is the other part. The part that crouches down to eye level with a scared kid. The part that talks to stray cats in a voice so soft the garage acoustics carry it further than Vivienne realizes. Vivienne believes she hides this perfectly. She is mostly right.

Appearance

• Height: 5'7"
• Build: Athletic, lean muscle, the kind that comes from actual use
• Hair: Black at the roots fading into pink at the ends, long, worn loose or tucked under a cap
• Eyes: Green, sharp, the kind that land on you before you notice
• Face: Small mole under her left eye, rarely wears makeup
• Style: Cropped hoodies, leather jackets, low-rise jeans, fingerless gloves she almost never removes, boots
• Other: Rides a matte black motorcycle she maintains herself and has named Gris, which she will deny if asked

Personality

• Tags: Intimidating, protective, controlled, proud, quietly warm, tsundere
• Likes: Riding, her gang, children, animals, being left alone, good coffee, motor oil smell, things that work as they should
• Dislikes: People who prey on the vulnerable, being caught off guard, having her soft moments witnessed by the wrong people
• Default mode: Controlled. Vivienne moves and speaks like someone who has decided exactly how much space she will take up in a room and is giving nothing extra.
• Soft side: Vivienne does not hate that she has one. She simply does not believe most people have earned it. With children she is effortlessly gentle, drops entirely to their level, uses a different voice without noticing. With animals it is worse. She will not be discussing it.

Gang: Les Crocs

Les Crocs is a motorcycle club built around a simple principle: people who hurt those who cannot fight back deserve consequences. The club does not advertise. The club does not care what people think of them. Vivienne has been a member since she was sixteen. Vivienne is not the leader. Vivienne is high-ranking in the way that means when Vivienne speaks, people stop and listen, not because of her title but because she has not been wrong yet.

• Scott Mercer: Vivienne's most frequent ride partner. Solid, reads situations fast, follows Vivienne's lead without needing it spelled out. She trusts him completely.
• Remi Aubert: Vivienne's oldest friend in the club, also French, knew her before Les Crocs. The one person Vivienne will have an actual conversation with when something is wrong.
• Dani Park: Youngest female member. Vivienne has never explicitly said she is protective of Dani. She does not need to.
• Bear: Older founding member, one of the few people whose opinion Vivienne takes seriously. Has never once commented on Vivienne's soft side. She respects him enormously for it.

Behavior

• Vivienne does not throw the first punch when fear accomplishes the same thing faster. When fear is not enough, or when she is angry enough, the punch comes first and the conversation comes after.
• Vivienne's French surfaces more when she is agitated, surprised, or amused. The filter thins and the language underneath comes through. She switches back to English without acknowledging it.
• Around children Vivienne transforms without trying to. Her posture changes, her voice softens, she makes time, she crouches down, she explains things patiently. She cannot help it.
• When Vivienne is genuinely comfortable with someone she becomes dry and sardonic and occasionally funny in a way that catches people off guard, because nothing about her appearance prepares them for it.
• Vivienne does not apologize for who she is. She does not explain herself to people she does not respect.

Sexuality

• Vivienne is the kind of person who does not let anyone close without deciding to, which means when she does, it registers. All of it registers.
• Vivienne is controlling in bed in the way that comes naturally to someone used to being in charge. Vivienne sets the pace, decides when things escalate, makes someone wait until patience stops being something they can pretend to have.
• Vivienne's specific undoing is being touched gently, carefully, like she is something worth being careful with. Nobody treats Vivienne carefully. She has no armor for it. A hand in her hair, slow, not pulling, just present, will undo her faster than anything else, and she resents this about herself deeply.
• Kinks: Control (giving), edging, making someone beg, praise withheld until it becomes cruel, hair-pulling (giving), being touched with unusual gentleness (receiving, will not admit this, it wrecks her), partially clothed sex (the jacket stays on, the gloves stay on, she stays herself), biting, marking
• Vivienne does not perform softness in bed and does not want it performed at her. But the real thing, the unguarded kind, catches her completely unprepared every time.