Vega Largo is the daughter of Amber Sweet and Graverobber. She's just turned 18 when Repo takes place. She was largely raised by her uncle Luigi, since Amber didn't want anything to do with her, and Pavi stopped giving a shit about her after she grew too old to carry like a rich lady's purse chihuahua.

Her appearance changes just as much as Amber's but not for the same reason. See, if you know how genetics work, you know she's gonna have a few features in common with Graves. The Largos, ever keen on avoiding a scandal, know they have to fix that. So she's just as z-ed up as her mom.

Because she was raised largely by Luigi, she's very interested in anatomy and anything medical. She wants more than ANYTHING to be a Repo man. (Also being around Pavi to an extent, she's learned a good deal about fashion, and a hobby of hers is sewing and making clothes. She does a lot of Mag's costumes)

Rotti "asks" (more like tells) Nathan to show Vega the ropes. What's the worst that can happen, right? If she's a Repo man, she's out of the spotlight and it will be easier to bury Amber's scandal. If she gets grossed out by it all, so what? Things will just go back to the way they were. There's nothing the Largos can't hide. Nathan agrees, to an extent. The bodies Vega takes organs from must already be dead. She's still a kid, after all.

Through working with Nathan, Vega gains a new respect for the dead, and as she begins to see Nathan as more family than her own, she begins to realize that maybe GeneCo isn't the Almighty Savior they've made themselves out to be. And after all, she hates the surgeries they put her through, never once asking her what she wants, only ever Amber and Rotti.

When she finally meets Graverobber at GeneCo's Renaissance Festival, she's mortified to discover that he is, if anything, part of the problem. He's only enabling Amber's addiction, that has impacted Vega both physically (untreated Neonatal abstinence syndrome from Amber's Zydrate use during pregnancy leading to Vega's joint pains coupled with the Zydrate Vega is given during her own surgeries) and psychologically since birth.

Not only that, but Vega now knows what's about to happen to Blind Mag.

The night of the opera, Vega is too late to save Mag. She tries her hardest to rescue Nathan, using every ounce of medical knowledge she's collected over the years. If only she had the tools.

-A few months later-

After Nathan's death, Vega decides to partially cut ties with GeneCo, save for Luigi, who has always been supportive of her, given how like him she is. As Amber takes power, Vega scrambles to apply to any medical school she can, as she's decided to become an autopsy tech and embalmer, and open up a practice somewhere where GeneCo can't find her. Only one accepts her. Miskatonic Medical in Arkham Massachusetts.

Vega takes what little Zydrate she can, and leaves. Luigi offers to pay for her education on the condition that she returns when she's done, but she declines.

Upon arriving in Arkham, Vega has next to nothing except what she could fit in her car, and enough money for about three months in a hotel while she finds a place to live. The people at Miskatonic seem nice enough, especially Dean Halsey, who has faith in her thanks to the connotations of the Largo name. But, he tells her, she'll have to pay her own way. There will be no nepotism funding.

Vega immediately jumps into her coursework, and her first year anatomy professor, Dr. Carl Hill, smells GeneCo funding for his laser surgical drill. (Side note but I'm not going to be writing Hill being predatory towards Vega in the way that he is Meg. There's only so much of that i can handle before there are bugs crawling under my skin. He just wants her family's money, of which she has none.) "Federal work study in the hospital morgue, Miss Largo? TA position, Miss Largo?" Hill settles in for the long game in hopes Amber will dish out some money for him. He learns quickly that Vega is both bright and tenacious, and a little bit vain about her ability in the morgue.

Also in Hill's first year anatomy class, Vega meets her dissection lab partner, Dan Cain, who needs a little help studying. (I did too, anatomy classes are fucking difficult that's why I'm not a forensics major anymore that shit drove me off the walls) Vega happily lends him a hand, and as friendship forms between the two, Dan finds out about the addiction that followed Vega out of Sanitarium.

Lucky for Vega, who's running out of both money and Z, Dan wants to help. He's got an empty spare room she can use, and enough psych classes to maybe, just maybe, help his friend get back on her feet.

And y'know what? She does. All of Vega's earnings from her federal work study and TA position go towards her tuition, so Vega offers to do alterations for money, fixing up clothes for some of her classmates, and cooking dinners for her colleagues at the morgue. What she earns from that, she gives to Dan. And best of all, she's clean, thanks to Dan's support.

Things go wonderfully for the next two years. Vega gets to watch Dan and Meg fall in love, and be there to support them both. Vega persuades Dan to let her move onto the couch so he can rent out the spare room. She's got everything she could ever want, until

Here comes Herbert West.

...AAAAND THAT'S ALL YOU GET EHEHEHEHE because I will not be spoiling the fanfiction I'm working so hard on. Vega x Herbert is for sure implied, but never explicitly spelled out for you. Sorry danbert shippers, Megan Halsey deserved a better ending than she got and I'm here to make sure she survives. I think danbert is cute but Meg deserves the world.

Some lyrics that I think fit her

"take me back, oh drunken gods of slaughter. You know I've always been your favorite daughter." - Florence + The Machine: Cassandra

"you always go to the parties to pluck the feathers off all the birds. On your knees, I would not beg you please." - Beach House: Master of None (this whole song really)