#plot info

~3 years after the 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam (Legion victory route) Caesar dies from health complications, and the Courier (Vannika) is invited to his funeral as a special guest. She'd been gone the whole time with a strict "don't fucking contact me" rule but she agrees to show up anyway. She had actually been planning a return herself after she had the personal revelation that her revenge quest against the NCR wasn't yet finished.

At the funeral, Vannika has a chance to speak to Lanius, where he casually drops the bomb that, as Caesar's successor, the first thing he's doing is taking half the Legion forces and heading back towards Arizona. He thinks taking over California can wait, he wants to go home and oversee Legion business in the East.

Shocked and outraged at finding out that her best chance for revenge is about to be snatched away from her, Vannika goes to Vulpes and talks him into staging a coup. Vannika knows of his intense hatred of Lanius, and she could already tell that somewhere in his mind he was already half-considering such a plan, so she's able to convince him without too much trouble.

HOWEVER, their initial assassination attempt at Lanius' coronation fails and Lanius catches onto what Vulpes is trying to pull. The situation rapidly gets worse and the Legion falls into a civil war.

During the first assassination attempt, Lanius never catches onto the fact that Vannika was involved, so she sticks by him over the course of the war, slowly earning his trust and even becoming his confidante at times. Eventually finding an ideal moment after Lanius' faction has lost several of their strongholds and morale is at an all-time low, Vannika requests to have a private dinner with Lanius. There she poisons his drink and then hacks off his head with his own sword (while giving some long fucked up monologue probably)

After that Vannika gets into a duel of some sort against Lanius' chosen legate (haven't decided who yet), and while she wins (barely) she loses her right eye in the fight. In case anyone ever wondered why I sometimes draw her with an eyepatch lmao this is where she gets that injury.

Iiiiiiit’s a camera so Aizawa can keep an eye on everything that’s going on. Which is…. super gross considering how many sex scenes that thing is in.