#vinnie(oc)

Let's jump into this- Just keep in mind that I built this with the songs Devil's Train(The Lab Rats), Return To Sender(LuLuYam), Queen(Stephen Jerzak) and Starkiller(Bear Ghost) in mind.

Vinnie comes from a family of five four siblings(two brothers, three two sisters) and a mother. A shitty one at that, as she kicked one of his brothers out of the house, made the other three depraved and yearning for her approval, meticulously manipulated every aspect of Vinnie's early life, is the reason why the kids' dad left after Vinnie's birth and a secret fourth thing that you'll have to go into my ask box and ask me yourself. (;

Twelve years of living under his mother's emotional abuse and control, Vinnie tries rebelling in small, unnoticeable ways that wouldn't get him in trouble, but would give him a sense of control, which leads to him getting high one night, running away and ending up at a train station, limping along the tracks, just trying to sober up, that's when good ol' Devil appears.(Clear and in your face "Devil's Train" inspiration)

In exchange for his soul, Devil offers to give Vinnie any job/property he'd want, because no matter what he'd be in charge and in control of everything. Might sound like very little on Devil's end, but that's the point because Vinnie is twelve, high and desperate so he'd take anything handed to him.

Vinnie thinks back to an old bar that his grandpa(dad's side) used to own but it was left abandoned after some family tragedy regarding the ink illness(this is already very messily explained and I don't want to complicate things, just ask me😭), so Vinnie easily settled into the place, making it into an all-ages safe haven of sorts. Thanks to the contract giving Vinnie full power and control over his business, he gained the ability to sniff out and sense poison/drugs, as to keep his patrons safe.

The reason I specified that Vinnie knows exactly who Cuphead and Mugman are is because he not only knows that they work for the Devil, but also the fact that they chose to doom the world with the ink illness over suffering the consequences of their own actions. He is pretty damn bitter towards them about it.

And to come full circle with this, Vinnie's older brother Joseph(still gotta work on his design) is the one their mother kicked out due to all the arguments the two had. Joseph gets kicked out when Vinnie is sixteen and had been working on his bar for a good four years by then(successfully sliding under the authorities' radar with a fake ID) and the brothers reunite through pure coincidence when Joseph wonders around the state for a job and stumbles upon Vinnie's bar, where he now works as a bouncer.

Now that THAT'S over with, I'd really like to write a fic in which after the questers deal with Cala Maria and get the gear, they go into some nearby town where they find Vinnie's bar and have small talk with the guy while he tells them his grandpa's whole deal.(Again, the entirety of "Devil's Train")

And finally, I'll just drop this trash here, byeee

If this flops then I'll get back to writing that fanfic instead.