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CHARACTER
Name: Vermouth/Chris Vineyard/Sharon Vineyard
Age: Unknown, appears ~late 20's or early 30's, claims 29. Apparently immortal.
Canon: Detective Conan
Canon Point:
History: Vermouth's first canon mention on the timeline is as the famous rising star, Sharon Vineyard. Nothing was known about Sharon's family, and it was said that her parents had died in a fire on the day she first appeared on screen. Sharon was incredibly successful, although very private; even her most devout fans knew little about her beyond her career. She became very successful on Broadway, and at some point married and had a daughter, although not much was ever known of her family. Her husband died of a mysterious illness the day after she earned an Oscar. During this time, she studied under the world-famous magician, Kuroba Toichi (Kaito's father and the original Kaitou Kid), and became good friends with his other student, the rising Japanese star Kuko Yukiko - Shinichi's mother. They kept in touch after Toichi's death, and Sharon even sent Yukiko three tickets to the Broadway production "The Golden Apple", inviting Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to New York to visit; a murder on set (unrelated to her at all) became Shinichi's second real case. The next year, she died under mysterious circumstances, and her daughter, Chris, was seen publicly for the first time outside of private interviews and some early acting work at the funeral. Chris used her mother's reputation to rise fast, becoming a famous actress in her own right, although she maintained the tradition of secrecy, dodging and avoiding any questions from reporters about her mother's death, her father, or really anything unrelated to work. Sharon claimed to have had a falling-out with her daughter to Yukiko, saying she hadn't seen Chris in years and that Chris had fallen in with "a bad crowd", even being acid at her father's funeral and starting an argument.
This all becomes more impressive when you realize that Sharon and Chris were, in fact, the same person. It's noted that during that entire time, she hasn't aged, raising huge questions about her; she's apparently some form of ageless or partially immortal, and no-one save maybe the mysterious Boss of the Black Organization has a clue how old she actually is.
During the time Shinichi and Ran were in New York for the play, they crossed paths with an investigation of a serial killer - actually Vermouth, disguising herself to lure out FBI agent Shuichi Akai; Shinichi spotted the "Killer", apparently an older man with long hair, and gave chase. This ended up with Ran saving "him" from a fall off a fire-escape railing - then later Shinichi noted that the "man" had cleaned off the railing of blood and fingerprints...
In more current canon timeline, as mentioned above, Vermouth spent almost a year posing as Conan and Haibara's grade school's doctor; there were several small slips that eventually gave her away, but she used that position for some time to monitor the "children" and those around them, with signs that she'd gathered more than enough evidence to have figured out who Conan really was - including having had bugs on Agasa's residence, where they tended to do most of their planning.
To date, she has yet to share this knowledge with the rest of the Organization; in fact, she's tipped her hand to recognizing both Haibara and Conan, yet has interfered with Gin when Gin was about to kill Mouri Kogorou and everyone around him (Ran and Conan included) as "suspicious", and even once had Conan kidnapped in her car after an Incident - and she not only let him overhear her calling the boss clearly enough for him to decipher the number by the tones of the keys, but basically allowed him to escape. She's been perfectly ruthless towards the FBI and CIA agents pursuing the Org, but has dubbed Shinichi her "silver bullet" and occasionally even given him evidence. Granted, some of this also ends up weeding out the stupid from the Org; Irish, the end victim of her last stint of giving Shinichi evidence, was a bit of a loose canon, to put it lightly, gunning for Gin, who she does seem to "like". It's clear that she has an agenda and that Shinichi is important enough of a pawn to keep alive, but no clue has been given just what that agenda is or what she's using him for - whether she honestly wants the Org to fall, is using him to weed out the stupid and disloyal, or just got bored and decided it was more interesting if they had a challenge... or some mix of all of the above. She does seem to have some kind of fondness in her attachment to Ran and Shinichi, enough to go out of her way to avoid killing them and even give orders not to touch them when there was a clean shot.
Personality: Vermouth is very secretive, very manipulative, and very fickle. If you treat dealing with her like dealing with a very large cat, complete with the feline ego, you're in the right ballpark. Whatever her agendas are, she doesn't share them; she'll throw in with others, sometimes even to the point of some shows of allegiance, but in the end, she's in it for exactly one person: herself. If her agendas or interests run counter to those of her allies, well... bad luck for them. She will perfectly happily play both sides and set people up as unwitting pawns.
She does seem to get attached to certain people as "people she likes", and might be more charitable towards them; she'll still use them and manipulate them shamelessly, but is less likely to do something that'd permanently damage them or get them killed. This seems to be a little unpredictable, and it's also hard to predict just how far those attachments can be pushed; it's heavily implied she's got a pretty close relationship with the Black Org's boss, after all, and she's practically grooming Shinichi to at least be a major threat to the Organization, referring to him as the "Silver bullet" to destroy them. She's also perfectly capable of feigning attachment, to compound the confusion.
Ennui seems to be a decent driving force in her personality; she's old enough to have hit the age where she's seen it all, and while she certainly has things she's after seriously, there's times she seems to do things just because it amuses her. It's even possible to "be amusing" enough to earn one of the insulated "attached" labels, although again, the extent to which that's a protection is variable and can change quickly. She'll flirt, toy with people, use them as verbal cat-toys and then be almost impossibly sweet to them, and it's difficult to predict where her moods are going to go or what agenda you might be playing into. The fact that she'll terrorize and occasionally set up or manipulate people she "likes", and sometimes save or act kindly toward people she "dislikes", makes it even harder for others to guess where they stand. She does seem more attracted to individuals with a strong will and a strong personality as people she'll find "interesting".
It's worth noting that one of her cannier "allies" who she's expressed some vague sort of fondness for keeps her at arm's length and seems to approach interactions with her as handling a live rattlesnake... and that it's likely a wise decision on Gin's part.
She will happily play both the angel and the devil, capable of almost simultaneous acts of ruthless cruelty and unexpected kindness and mercy. This makes more sense with what's been shown of her sense of ethics and philosophy; she doesn't work in terms of "good and evil" per se, and she doesn't seem to be out for any kind of world-changing agenda except as a side effect of her own personal goals. There's an embittered cynicism underlying this that leads to her playing the villain more often than not - at one point she says "no angel has ever smiled on me", and seems to treat cruelty and tragedy as just a fact of life. At the same time, she seems to have a small fascination with people that are stubborn enough in terms of honest good intentions and actions; as much as the amusement seems to be half "How cute, you're trying so hard for something impossible", she'll be inclined to be less destructive toward them, even mildly protective, although it's not safe to rely on her goodwill - it can vanish if she decides you're not useful for her agenda or if you manage to fall out of her good graces. It seems like, on some level, she'll flicker between recognizing that "good" people are mostly her enemies to be destroyed, and genuinely wanting them to win. It's almost as if she's halfway looking to find someone that might manage to change her opinion on human nature and the way the world works - someone that'd be able to prove that a person can keep high ideals and succeed at acting on them without turning into a hypocrite or destroying themselves. This doesn't stop her from being ruthless and deadly in most circumstances.
She seems to be disenchanted with any notion of higher powers - where this comes from and why is anyone's guess, but she's actively cynical and hostile towards the notion of a "kind and loving god", in an adversarial sense more than an atheistic or agnostic sense. The almost personal offense she takes to the idea is something incredibly curious that really isn't answered in canon.
Abilities/Strengths: She's ungodly old and trained as a spy and an actress, as well as having been around people for god knows how long. She's a fast and generally accurate judge of character, and good at minding small details to decipher things about the people she's dealing with; it's very hard to get anything past her. This ability isn't supernatural, although granted, canon pushes the boundaries of normal and believable with her and Kid both, as they can, without any augmentation or outside help or "supernatural tricks", accurately mimic ANYONE'S voice. She's also well versed in not only undercover-type work and keeping a persona, but stage and screen work alike.
She's also a master of disguise. She studied under Kuroba Toichi, the original Kaitou Kid who was infamous for being able to "be anyone", and may have already known some of the tricks before that. She is capable of using perfectly non-supernatural means to convincingly pass off as just about anyone. She spent the better part of a year replacing the (male) school doctor at Conan and Haibara's school; there were a handful of small slips and clues, but not enough for it to be caught for longer than is really good for the sanity or deserved paranoia of most of the cast.
She's a skilled, excellent actress and liar. One of the best canon examples is spending almost a year in the persona of "Doctor Araide" after arranging an accident for the real doctor in secret; only a few of the doctor's regular patients noticed anything odd, and even then, it was just her not remembering some small interactions - things she had no way to know about. She can tell lies as naturally and easily as normal speech, without any trepidation or giveaways.
She's old and experienced in a lot of crazy things; she's very hard to genuinely surprise.
She's also unpredictable and very good at keeping people around her off-balance.
She's an excellent shot with various guns and a skilled assassin, very capable at stealth and not really someone you want to end up in a fight with; she doesn't have physical strength or brute force on her side, but she's experienced, very good at it, and will fight very, very dirty.
She's also proven capable of basically combat driving with a motorcycle, although being able to pull chases and herd other vehicles isn't likely to come up here.
Oh, and she's also immortal, or at least hasn't aged in a good while. Given some of her behavior, it's entirely possible it might go past just not aging, and she has gotten injuries in canon that should've left scars but didn't. (I point this out because canon has had incidents with other characters getting noticeable scars from things like bullet graze injuries, so it actually is a noticeable exception.) So far it seems that's about it on her doing anything unnatural. While she doesn't go out of her way to test or demonstrate this, she has displayed a cavalier lack of regard for danger; she'll dodge and avoid injury with the best of them, but it isn't something that seems to bother her or give her any pause. She's been known to cage-rattle and then stare down - while at gunpoint - a "teammate" who happens to be a very irritable assassin. Said assassin is the agent in charge of weeding out traitors among other things, and she tends to pull a mix of baiting and flirting with him. Given that she does get hurt, it's not some kind of Wolverine-esque healing factor; I'm rendering it that she'll heal at a fairly "normal" rate, maybe slightly fast, just more cleanly than normal, and "death" would just put her down for a bit while her body repairs itself.
She also was able at one point to pull off combat driving and trick marksmanship while nursing a couple cracked ribs; she ended up passing out later, but has frightening pain tolerance.
Weaknesses: She's not physically very strong; for her size and build, she's in decent shape, but it's more straightforward activity than strength training. In straight contests of strength, she'll probably lose.
For all her skill and crazy, even with her powers she's not immune to damage; she can ignore a good amount, but it's less that she's not affected and more that she's bulling through on pain tolerance, and it WILL come home to roost not long after.
She's fickle, and can be very unpredictable when she's bored... and she's usually at least a little bit bored. She can also be very moody without it being visible in the slightest, making it all the harder to figure out if she's actually safe to be around at the moment or just lulling you into a false sense of security. She's also unstable in her relationships with others, and even people she's attached to might get used as cat toys or, if she loses enough interest in them, discarded.
She's cynical and distant, as well as incredibly paranoid and guarded; she can fake warm and friendly very well, but it's almost always an act. Her actual opinion on things is likely to ... more than a little depressing. She can also be a bit condescending.
She can also be mildly self-destructive at times; it's likely largely out of boredom and being too used to surviving.
ARCANARUM
Story: Greek Mythology
Story Character: Siren
Plans: Partly because Eris would be too easy and not give enough to work with/too similar, also because luring people to their doom is becoming a disturbing specialty of hers. It's not going to bother her much at first, as much as wings and bird's legs and tail might be a pain, but it'll probably also end up amplifying some of her more abstract self-destructive tendencies, as well as making her that much more dangerous to be around.
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kyanve_te_shirhanContact (MESSENGER/E-MAIL/ETC): shirhanblade @ AIM, kyanve @ Plurk
CHARACTER
Name: Vermouth/Chris Vineyard/Sharon Vineyard
Age: Unknown, appears ~late 20's or early 30's, claims 29. Apparently immortal.
Canon: Detective Conan
Canon Point:
History: Vermouth's first canon mention on the timeline is as the famous rising star, Sharon Vineyard. Nothing was known about Sharon's family, and it was said that her parents had died in a fire on the day she first appeared on screen. Sharon was incredibly successful, although very private; even her most devout fans knew little about her beyond her career. She became very successful on Broadway, and at some point married and had a daughter, although not much was ever known of her family. Her husband died of a mysterious illness the day after she earned an Oscar. During this time, she studied under the world-famous magician, Kuroba Toichi (Kaito's father and the original Kaitou Kid), and became good friends with his other student, the rising Japanese star Kuko Yukiko - Shinichi's mother. They kept in touch after Toichi's death, and Sharon even sent Yukiko three tickets to the Broadway production "The Golden Apple", inviting Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to New York to visit; a murder on set (unrelated to her at all) became Shinichi's second real case. The next year, she died under mysterious circumstances, and her daughter, Chris, was seen publicly for the first time outside of private interviews and some early acting work at the funeral. Chris used her mother's reputation to rise fast, becoming a famous actress in her own right, although she maintained the tradition of secrecy, dodging and avoiding any questions from reporters about her mother's death, her father, or really anything unrelated to work. Sharon claimed to have had a falling-out with her daughter to Yukiko, saying she hadn't seen Chris in years and that Chris had fallen in with "a bad crowd", even being acid at her father's funeral and starting an argument.
This all becomes more impressive when you realize that Sharon and Chris were, in fact, the same person. It's noted that during that entire time, she hasn't aged, raising huge questions about her; she's apparently some form of ageless or partially immortal, and no-one save maybe the mysterious Boss of the Black Organization has a clue how old she actually is.
During the time Shinichi and Ran were in New York for the play, they crossed paths with an investigation of a serial killer - actually Vermouth, disguising herself to lure out FBI agent Shuichi Akai; Shinichi spotted the "Killer", apparently an older man with long hair, and gave chase. This ended up with Ran saving "him" from a fall off a fire-escape railing - then later Shinichi noted that the "man" had cleaned off the railing of blood and fingerprints...
In more current canon timeline, as mentioned above, Vermouth spent almost a year posing as Conan and Haibara's grade school's doctor; there were several small slips that eventually gave her away, but she used that position for some time to monitor the "children" and those around them, with signs that she'd gathered more than enough evidence to have figured out who Conan really was - including having had bugs on Agasa's residence, where they tended to do most of their planning.
To date, she has yet to share this knowledge with the rest of the Organization; in fact, she's tipped her hand to recognizing both Haibara and Conan, yet has interfered with Gin when Gin was about to kill Mouri Kogorou and everyone around him (Ran and Conan included) as "suspicious", and even once had Conan kidnapped in her car after an Incident - and she not only let him overhear her calling the boss clearly enough for him to decipher the number by the tones of the keys, but basically allowed him to escape. She's been perfectly ruthless towards the FBI and CIA agents pursuing the Org, but has dubbed Shinichi her "silver bullet" and occasionally even given him evidence. Granted, some of this also ends up weeding out the stupid from the Org; Irish, the end victim of her last stint of giving Shinichi evidence, was a bit of a loose canon, to put it lightly, gunning for Gin, who she does seem to "like". It's clear that she has an agenda and that Shinichi is important enough of a pawn to keep alive, but no clue has been given just what that agenda is or what she's using him for - whether she honestly wants the Org to fall, is using him to weed out the stupid and disloyal, or just got bored and decided it was more interesting if they had a challenge... or some mix of all of the above. She does seem to have some kind of fondness in her attachment to Ran and Shinichi, enough to go out of her way to avoid killing them and even give orders not to touch them when there was a clean shot.
Personality: Vermouth is very secretive, very manipulative, and very fickle. If you treat dealing with her like dealing with a very large cat, complete with the feline ego, you're in the right ballpark. Whatever her agendas are, she doesn't share them; she'll throw in with others, sometimes even to the point of some shows of allegiance, but in the end, she's in it for exactly one person: herself. If her agendas or interests run counter to those of her allies, well... bad luck for them. She will perfectly happily play both sides and set people up as unwitting pawns.
She does seem to get attached to certain people as "people she likes", and might be more charitable towards them; she'll still use them and manipulate them shamelessly, but is less likely to do something that'd permanently damage them or get them killed. This seems to be a little unpredictable, and it's also hard to predict just how far those attachments can be pushed; it's heavily implied she's got a pretty close relationship with the Black Org's boss, after all, and she's practically grooming Shinichi to at least be a major threat to the Organization, referring to him as the "Silver bullet" to destroy them. She's also perfectly capable of feigning attachment, to compound the confusion.
Ennui seems to be a decent driving force in her personality; she's old enough to have hit the age where she's seen it all, and while she certainly has things she's after seriously, there's times she seems to do things just because it amuses her. It's even possible to "be amusing" enough to earn one of the insulated "attached" labels, although again, the extent to which that's a protection is variable and can change quickly. She'll flirt, toy with people, use them as verbal cat-toys and then be almost impossibly sweet to them, and it's difficult to predict where her moods are going to go or what agenda you might be playing into. The fact that she'll terrorize and occasionally set up or manipulate people she "likes", and sometimes save or act kindly toward people she "dislikes", makes it even harder for others to guess where they stand. She does seem more attracted to individuals with a strong will and a strong personality as people she'll find "interesting".
It's worth noting that one of her cannier "allies" who she's expressed some vague sort of fondness for keeps her at arm's length and seems to approach interactions with her as handling a live rattlesnake... and that it's likely a wise decision on Gin's part.
She will happily play both the angel and the devil, capable of almost simultaneous acts of ruthless cruelty and unexpected kindness and mercy. This makes more sense with what's been shown of her sense of ethics and philosophy; she doesn't work in terms of "good and evil" per se, and she doesn't seem to be out for any kind of world-changing agenda except as a side effect of her own personal goals. There's an embittered cynicism underlying this that leads to her playing the villain more often than not - at one point she says "no angel has ever smiled on me", and seems to treat cruelty and tragedy as just a fact of life. At the same time, she seems to have a small fascination with people that are stubborn enough in terms of honest good intentions and actions; as much as the amusement seems to be half "How cute, you're trying so hard for something impossible", she'll be inclined to be less destructive toward them, even mildly protective, although it's not safe to rely on her goodwill - it can vanish if she decides you're not useful for her agenda or if you manage to fall out of her good graces. It seems like, on some level, she'll flicker between recognizing that "good" people are mostly her enemies to be destroyed, and genuinely wanting them to win. It's almost as if she's halfway looking to find someone that might manage to change her opinion on human nature and the way the world works - someone that'd be able to prove that a person can keep high ideals and succeed at acting on them without turning into a hypocrite or destroying themselves. This doesn't stop her from being ruthless and deadly in most circumstances.
She seems to be disenchanted with any notion of higher powers - where this comes from and why is anyone's guess, but she's actively cynical and hostile towards the notion of a "kind and loving god", in an adversarial sense more than an atheistic or agnostic sense. The almost personal offense she takes to the idea is something incredibly curious that really isn't answered in canon.
Abilities/Strengths: She's ungodly old and trained as a spy and an actress, as well as having been around people for god knows how long. She's a fast and generally accurate judge of character, and good at minding small details to decipher things about the people she's dealing with; it's very hard to get anything past her. This ability isn't supernatural, although granted, canon pushes the boundaries of normal and believable with her and Kid both, as they can, without any augmentation or outside help or "supernatural tricks", accurately mimic ANYONE'S voice. She's also well versed in not only undercover-type work and keeping a persona, but stage and screen work alike.
She's also a master of disguise. She studied under Kuroba Toichi, the original Kaitou Kid who was infamous for being able to "be anyone", and may have already known some of the tricks before that. She is capable of using perfectly non-supernatural means to convincingly pass off as just about anyone. She spent the better part of a year replacing the (male) school doctor at Conan and Haibara's school; there were a handful of small slips and clues, but not enough for it to be caught for longer than is really good for the sanity or deserved paranoia of most of the cast.
She's a skilled, excellent actress and liar. One of the best canon examples is spending almost a year in the persona of "Doctor Araide" after arranging an accident for the real doctor in secret; only a few of the doctor's regular patients noticed anything odd, and even then, it was just her not remembering some small interactions - things she had no way to know about. She can tell lies as naturally and easily as normal speech, without any trepidation or giveaways.
She's old and experienced in a lot of crazy things; she's very hard to genuinely surprise.
She's also unpredictable and very good at keeping people around her off-balance.
She's an excellent shot with various guns and a skilled assassin, very capable at stealth and not really someone you want to end up in a fight with; she doesn't have physical strength or brute force on her side, but she's experienced, very good at it, and will fight very, very dirty.
She's also proven capable of basically combat driving with a motorcycle, although being able to pull chases and herd other vehicles isn't likely to come up here.
Oh, and she's also immortal, or at least hasn't aged in a good while. Given some of her behavior, it's entirely possible it might go past just not aging, and she has gotten injuries in canon that should've left scars but didn't. (I point this out because canon has had incidents with other characters getting noticeable scars from things like bullet graze injuries, so it actually is a noticeable exception.) So far it seems that's about it on her doing anything unnatural. While she doesn't go out of her way to test or demonstrate this, she has displayed a cavalier lack of regard for danger; she'll dodge and avoid injury with the best of them, but it isn't something that seems to bother her or give her any pause. She's been known to cage-rattle and then stare down - while at gunpoint - a "teammate" who happens to be a very irritable assassin. Said assassin is the agent in charge of weeding out traitors among other things, and she tends to pull a mix of baiting and flirting with him. Given that she does get hurt, it's not some kind of Wolverine-esque healing factor; I'm rendering it that she'll heal at a fairly "normal" rate, maybe slightly fast, just more cleanly than normal, and "death" would just put her down for a bit while her body repairs itself.
She also was able at one point to pull off combat driving and trick marksmanship while nursing a couple cracked ribs; she ended up passing out later, but has frightening pain tolerance.
Weaknesses: She's not physically very strong; for her size and build, she's in decent shape, but it's more straightforward activity than strength training. In straight contests of strength, she'll probably lose.
For all her skill and crazy, even with her powers she's not immune to damage; she can ignore a good amount, but it's less that she's not affected and more that she's bulling through on pain tolerance, and it WILL come home to roost not long after.
She's fickle, and can be very unpredictable when she's bored... and she's usually at least a little bit bored. She can also be very moody without it being visible in the slightest, making it all the harder to figure out if she's actually safe to be around at the moment or just lulling you into a false sense of security. She's also unstable in her relationships with others, and even people she's attached to might get used as cat toys or, if she loses enough interest in them, discarded.
She's cynical and distant, as well as incredibly paranoid and guarded; she can fake warm and friendly very well, but it's almost always an act. Her actual opinion on things is likely to ... more than a little depressing. She can also be a bit condescending.
She can also be mildly self-destructive at times; it's likely largely out of boredom and being too used to surviving.
ARCANARUM
Story: Greek Mythology
Story Character: Siren
Plans: Partly because Eris would be too easy and not give enough to work with/too similar, also because luring people to their doom is becoming a disturbing specialty of hers. It's not going to bother her much at first, as much as wings and bird's legs and tail might be a pain, but it'll probably also end up amplifying some of her more abstract self-destructive tendencies, as well as making her that much more dangerous to be around.
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