Character

Vincent Kennedy

Chaotic Neutral

Written by Fabulous Killjoy

"Allt har ett pris. Vad är du villig att betala?”

Original CharacterHuman, with an unusual physiological variation.male

Sweden
25 years
Chemistry over gender
Ships With Chemistry

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Resident EvilOriginal Character (OC)Alternate Universe (AU)

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Bio

Private arrangements / Stockholm

VINCENT KENNEDY

25 years old / Independent broker / Raised in Sweden

“You can say no. It just gets more expensive tomorrow.”

01 / FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Good manners. Questionable intentions.

Vincent makes introductions for a living. A buyer needs something difficult to obtain, a seller needs someone who can pay, and he makes sure neither has to waste an evening looking for the other. Documents, restricted equipment, information, a discreet favor. His fee depends on how urgently you need it.

He has a small, established network and enough repeat business to dress well, eat well, and turn down people who irritate him. He does not run an empire. He knows a few useful people very well, and he has spent years making himself useful in return.

Friendly enough to buy you dinner. Dishonest enough to let you think the terrible offer was your idea. He usually likes his clients. It rarely affects the invoice.

02 / BEFORE THE BUSINESS

A safe place to grow up.

He grew up in Sweden with a foster family who loved him. There was food on the table, someone at school meetings, and a light left on when he came home late. They gave him a childhood well away from the violence that had shaped his father's life. Vincent has never pretended they treated him badly. That would have made explaining the rest much easier.

He knew Leon Kennedy was his father. There were visits, phone calls, and plans that sometimes survived long enough to happen. He loved seeing him. He hated how quickly he became a boy waiting by the window again. Being told that distance kept him safe eventually began to sound like an answer he was never allowed to question.

As a teenager, he discovered that people were remarkably generous when they needed something. He arranged small favors, negotiated payments, and learned which acquaintances could be trusted with money. By nineteen, friends were sending friends to him. Later came introductions he knew better than to mention at home. Each successful deal made the next compromise easier.

At twenty-five, he earns a comfortable living from arrangements that would look ugly in a police report. He chose the work because he enjoys it: the bargaining, the leverage, the satisfaction of being the person someone has to call. His childhood explains a few things. It does not excuse what he does with them.

03 / FAMILY MATTERS

Kennedy is still his name.

He loves Leon. He also resents him, argues with him, and occasionally ignores his calls because he knows concern will turn into questions. Leon's instinct to protect him feels increasingly like an attempt to make decisions for a grown man. Vincent can be particularly cruel when he thinks he is being managed.

He knows enough about his father's work to find lectures about legality irritating. He knows enough about his father to recognize that some of those warnings are deserved. Admitting that would mean giving up an argument he has been having for years.

His foster family gets a softer version of him. He visits, helps with ordinary things, and describes his work as private brokerage. He dislikes lying to them. He does it anyway.

AFTER HOURS / NO QUESTIONS

04 / TERMS & CONDITIONS

Pleasant company. Difficult company.

Cheeky & rebellious. Vincent has an answer ready, especially when silence would serve him better. He dislikes orders, tests boundaries, and becomes stubborn when someone assumes age or authority will make him cooperate.

Confident & persuasive. He can hold a room without raising his voice. He bargains patiently, remembers details, and asks awkward questions with a perfectly agreeable expression. Confidence sometimes carries him past the point where he should leave.

Observant & deceptive. He listens closely and reveals little. He can feign sympathy, omit an essential detail, or keep two incompatible promises until he decides which relationship is worth saving.

Dry humor & inconvenient compassion. A bad situation usually earns a worse joke. Someone visibly hurt can interrupt his careful detachment, although helping them may be followed by considerable complaining.

Private & selectively loyal. His trust is difficult to earn. Once attached, he becomes more protective than he likes to admit, but being fond of someone does not automatically make him honest with them.

Charming, with limits. He enjoys banter and attention. He is not a serial seducer, and flirting is hardly his answer to every problem. Genuine interest makes him more guarded; he dislikes giving anyone something personal to bargain with.

05 / SMALL TELLS

Watch his hands.

The wrist. His thumb finds the inside of his wrist when a conversation turns threatening. It looks absentminded. He is checking his pulse.

The manners. Irritation makes him sarcastic. Real anger makes him exceptionally polite. Familiar nicknames disappear first.

The appointment. “Later” earns a request for an exact time. He remembers lateness, particularly Leon's, and rarely believes an unspecified promise.

The bakery. A completed deal usually ends with coffee and a cinnamon bun. He can negotiate something thoroughly unpleasant and spend the next ten minutes deciding which pastry looks fresher.

06 / Under the Skin Inherited mutation & abilities · Character secret · Click to expand

What he inherited

Leon was twenty-seven when Vincent was conceived, after Spain. His mother’s name was kept off the official records. To anyone who asked, she was simply the mysterious woman. Only Leon and Vincent knew who she was. By then, both of Vincent’s parents had been exposed to multiple viral agents, and Leon had survived a Las Plagas infection. Years later, Elpis dealt with the lingering infection in Leon. By that point Vincent had been living with what he inherited from both of them for years. It had been part of his own development from the beginning.

The first time he noticed, he was fifteen. Someone dropped a glass in his foster parents’ kitchen and he caught it by the rim. That could have been luck. The hairline crack under his thumb was harder to explain. He put it back in the cupboard anyway. It took them three days to find it.

What he can do

Pulse control

Vincent can slow his breathing, bring his heart rate down, and steady his hands even when he’s scared. People tend to fill the silence when they can’t tell whether they’ve got to him.

Limit. Pain, exhaustion, and sustained pressure make it harder to hold. His thumb goes to his wrist when he needs to know how close he is to losing control.

Short bursts of speed and strength

For a few seconds he moves and reacts faster than a human should. He can wrench a cheap lock out of its frame or get to cover if he sees someone reach for a gun in time.

Limit. His grip starts to go as soon as the burst wears off. Trying again too soon can leave him on the floor with a leg that won’t take his weight.

A hitch in infected tissue

Bare skin against certain infected tissue lets him feel a second rhythm under his own pulse. Sometimes he can interrupt it just long enough to make an infected hand loosen its grip or a knee buckle.

Limit. It takes direct contact and only works on some mutations. On a bad attempt, it’s his own fingers that lock up.

Faster clotting

Small cuts stop bleeding unusually fast.

Limit. Broken bones still take weeks, blood loss still puts him down, and a new infection can get a foothold.

The reaction comes later.

The worst of the shaking tends to come after he’s safe. He’s left meetings looking bored and sat in his car for ten minutes trying to get the key into the ignition. If you’re waiting for him to admit he needs a minute, you might as well get comfortable.

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