Standing at 5'7", this young twenty four year old woman is far from the mundane you would encounter in life. Her hair is always subject to change in terms of color but also features an undercut mohawk with patterned scalp, usually in checkerboard themed or featuring a single anarchy symbol carved in the hair. Her hair is silky and thin, obviously well taken care of and treated as the crown to her punk fashion sense. She sports various piercings and features a full-body tattoo scheme. Her make-up theme seems to be a natural urban grit featuring nude smokey eyeshadow, wispy pitch black eyelashes, and a unique lip makeup style. She colors the upperlip a solid color, usually black, a natural shadow color, or dark red, and traces the bottom outline of her lip with that color leaving most of her lower lip naturally colored. The makeup design is ingenuis to her youthful vibrance and brightly pale golden eyes. It accentuates her almond-shaped eye shapes and olive skin complexion.

Veronica embodies the expression of 'walking art gallery' with her full-body network of intricately designed art in ink. The most notable aspect of her ink network is its theme; a black rose garden with skulls among the vineyards. Some words and phrases or dates and names are cleverly formed with the vineyards across various points of her body, but mostly within the torso area. Her shoulders hold the most significantly distinctive artwork however. An anarchy symbol appears to have been branded upon her shoulder in a three-dimensional style that has a chain coming from the center to weave around her neck and connect to another matching symbol in graffiti art. The latter symbol is upside down however to form a V to represent her name, Veronica. Her eyelids have been given black script words Little Devil going from right to left. Her inner bottom lip has the word Resist. Her upper knuckles state Nica 1994 and her lower knuckles state Riot Life. On her neck the words Nov. 23, 2014 is on the right side with the words Roy Family on the left. On her face, just before each ear are the words Self on the right and Made on the left.
Beyond the ink-work and punk fashion sense is a very athletic framed woman, but not overly muscular. She still retains an feminine figure. The noticeable abs and biceps are not easy to spot behind the tattoos, but they are there. She happens to be on the midly top heavy side, but lacks a lot of curve to her lower body. Her wrists seem to have remains of healed burn wounds as well as a slight deformity. The left wrist is noticeably smaller than the right due to an injury years ago. Various other small scars and deformities are over her body, because no one in her line of work can go through life without scars.
Piercings
- Left Ear: Anti-Tragus, Lobe, Pinna x2
- Right Ear: Auricle x2, Lobe
- Oral: Tongue, Nasal, Snakebite
- Surface: Brooch x2, Eyebrow, Belly-button
More Soon. Work In Progress
Early Life
Veronica is the child of Dimitri "The Truth" Vincento and Domanika Jelen, born into the restoring ruins of Detroit, Michigan and conceived as a safety measure against a secret society. It was the plans of Domanika that she would conceive a child through optimized breeding to shape into a failsafe should the Vril-Ya fail in their planned conquest of the surface. Veronica was intended to be the individual responsible for keeping a pure lineage to the original Vril-Ya. However, Dimitri was wanting an heir to the criminal syndicate he had fought so hard to establish and upon discovery of his child being a girl, he turned on Domanika. Casting the woman back to the Czech Republic post-birth, Dimitri then gave up Veronica to a prostitute who expressed interest in raising the child as her own. This exposed Veronica to drug addiction, sexual activity, profanity, and poverty during the earliest stages of her life. By the age of four, she was making trips to local corner stores near the apartment complex she lived in to steal bare minimum groceries for both herself and her mother. This carried on for a few months until the shelter of a place to live came to an abrupt end when an altercation within her home forced Veronica onto the streets. A man drunk and angry at the world had visited her mother for 'business reasons' and Veronica got struck for getting in the way of the door. This left her alone to fend for herself where she resorted to more theft and manipulation to survive. Over two years she used her young age to allude men and women with caring hearts to take her into their home so she could make off with a free meal and sell valuables later. The young Veronica began to grow spiteful towards the world that wasn't in her position, believing them only an insult to her suffering. Eventually, it developed into a dire sense of insecurity and coping methods where she dissociated herself to numb the severity of her living conditions.
The two years passed fast enough with miraculous results but she eventually would make the wrong move. It came in the form of trying to work her charms over on Giovanni Piedmont, a man who owned a local gym that played host to the Vincento fight circuit. Being caught stealing, Piedmont had took it upon himself to show the girl the possibilities of what could happen if she steals from the wrong person again. He took her to a meeting of the Vincento mafia where she witnessed a man lose a finger due to his theft from the family at the hands of her own father unbeknowest at the time. When it was her turn to 'be made an example of', Dimitri hesitated for reasons unknown to the others. He saw Veronica's golden eyes and knew it was his daughter somehow surviving for two years after the prostitute reported her missing. He ordered Piedmont to take her in and inofficially indoctrine her into their pocket of the Italian mafia. Weeks later, Veronica was working the streets in the Vincento name, performing small tasks that were designed to be low-key supplements to larger crimes later down the line. Due to Giovanni's living situation with his wife and son unaware of his involvement with the criminal underworld, he could only offer Veronica a hotel room every so often. Thus, she continued to life on the streets but with a gained purpose and designated safehouses for low rations and shelter.
Birth of a Punk
At the age of seven, not shortly after her birthday, Veronica was taking a leisurely stroll through the streets of Detroit. There she encountered a gathering of individuals enjoying a street performance of a band called The Drowning Jocks in a plaza. Despite her age, the group welcomed her to enjoying the gathering and music and even asked her questions related to who she was. For the first time, she felt welcomed and it had certain left its impression. Veronica began to emulate their fashion sense, listen to their music, and sought them out to continue exposure. She was turning herself into a punk and striving to become a member of its community despite her age. One woman in particular was the one who caught her eye however, in the form of the band's bassist, Kami Viridian. Kami became her idol, introduced her to Garbage and Joan Jett as well as other old-school rock and punk rock bands -- essentially giving her the crash course. The young Veronica enjoyed it immensely. However things eventually took a turn for the worse. Kami later suffered an attack from a supervillain that cut out Veronica's time to hang out with the woman. The world has once more rained down on her parade just as she started to get that slight hint of happiness -- and she didn't like it at all. She put it in her head that to survive this world one needed to defend themselves and thus she turned to Giovanni Piedmont's gym. At first, she never really announced the reason of her presence there, more focused on observing men train or spar in the ring. It was a mix of boxing and mixed martial arts during the day and bloodsport brawls during the night.
Eventually, Giovanni caught her trying to replicate the moves she would see in these fights. He attempted to scold her for doing so saying it wasn't in her best interest to learn how to fight like they did, but after Veronica's stubborn resolve kindled a flame -- he decided to try and teach her the basics when she became older. Thus, Veronica fell into running errands for the Vincento family, living in severe poverty, and struggling to survive all the way through her preadolescent years. It wasn't until she was at the age of thirteen that things would change for Veronica once again. On March 7th -- her birthday -- Veronica had been given a hotel room to stay in for the night. Not shortly after getting comfortable, a young man only a year younger than her walked into the same room revealing himself to be her biological brother. At first Veronica was naturally skeptical but after some harsh words and fists were exchanged, her brother -- Trenton Vincento -- convinced her of the situation she was in. She had been abandoned at birth and handed to the prostitute she believed to be her mother, she had been used as a tool and a convenience for them since she joined the Syndicate's operations, and it was all because she was born a woman. This obviously infuriated the young delinquent to the point that she rushed out the back window of the hotel room and ran from the Syndicate's influence.
Power Emergence and Bacchanal
A few years had passed after running from the Syndicate. She had been avoiding their areas of influence, avoiding contact with those she thought would rat her out, and overall trying to escape their notice. In her eyes, they would search for her though they never truly did. During a late night search for a place to stay, Veronica stumbled onto a park bench and began to set up to sleep there for the night. Before she managed to fall asleep however, a man dressed in clown face-paint approached the young woman. Veronica reacted violently; pulling out a knife and threatening to end his life if he tried anything. Rather than being deterred, the man only grinned and began to speak to her. The way he worded things caught Veronica's attention in a hypnotizing manner and she spent hours into the night having a conversation with him. He told her his name was Bacchanal and that he had a plan for people just like her; a message to send those that weren't in their position. Upon asking her age, she lied and claimed herself eighteen and the conversation ended with Veronica agreeing to join him. The next few months were spent taking steps towards Bacchanal's plan. He was amassing an army of the degenerates, the outcasts, and those of misfortune on the streets of Detroit. Things got violent to Veronica. Bacchanal had targeted city officials like attorneys, police officers, high school principals, and other persons of interest that worked towards the government. Murders, kidnappings, and other vile acts were happening before her very eyes. To her, it wasn't much different than her days in the Syndicate but there was a certain quality to Bacchanal's methods that infatuated her, and she could never put her finger on it. The attention of the law enforcement eventually reached her directly and the pressure was applied.
Due to this, Veronica was eventually forced into a situation that caused her latent Vril-Ya powers emerge in devastating results. Pinned down by cops and stuck in a life-threatening situation, Bacchanal observed Veronica perform what he thought was magic against the cops that came in the form of fireballs, heat, and shifting concrete ultimately leading up to their escape. Intrigued and wanting to see how far he could push her, Bacchanal's twisted mind devised an elaborate scheme to try and do just this. Veronica had been called to a meeting place to gather with other notable figures of Bacchanal's movements under the premise of planning out their next step. In reality, these men had all taken actions against Bacchanal's goals and were in need of being punished. Paid goons burst in on the meeting with lead spraying to take the lives of all save Veronica. She woke up in a small box with only a slit at the top allowing oxygen to pass. Cold, cramped up, and scared for her life, Veronica began to shout and pound away at this box only to find it metallic in nature and left her with a few broken knuckles. For hours, the young woman screamed and desperately tried to get out until a voice called out to her saying "Do what you did the night you attacked the cops". Confused and terrified, Veronica could only continue screaming. Eventually, Bacchanal had grown tired of waiting and flipped a switch in the building they were in. He had dug out an old well that she dropped into to dangle by rope as water began to pour in. Something triggered moments afterwards with Veronica lighting up ablaze in anger and used her powers to escape the death trap just in time for Bacchanal to pretend to play hero and kill her 'captives'. The end of the ordeal left Veronica crippled with fear at the thought of drowning, a realization she had powers to exploit against their enemies, and in the arms of a man whom as far as she was concerned loved.
The Black Parade
With the new found power at her disposal, Veronica had been convinced she had the power to liberate the allies her and Bacchanal had amassed for the final step in their plans. Given that her powers severity scaled with the level or anger she experienced, Bacchanal went through great lengths to make her angry in some form at all times. The next encounter with local law enforcement finally caught the attention of vigilantes and heroes within the city. Keeping them focused on her allowed Bacchanal to carry out the final steps in preparation. Veronica demonstrated a steadfast passion in her beliefs, currently being the anti-governmental brainwashing Bacchanal had planted in her head. Eventually, she was forced to retreat however but took a large amount of property damage alongside heroic injury with her. The name of Anarchy spread like wildfire when a video went viral from a phone that recorded the fight between her and the heroes. Her display and speech about the lower class being submitted to the worst parts of western civilization had somewhat inspired others and caused even more hopeful recruits to approach her and Bacchanal. Bacchanal couldn't be more satisfied and demonstrated his appreciation to her by giving her one final task with promise of reward when it was done. That night, a party was held in commemoration to their success. Veronica was treated to a five course meal and pampered like a queen.
The following morning things set into motion. Parade floats and a large army of gang members, civilians fighting back, and others following Bacchanal's cause amassed on one of the busiest streets in the city. Demolition teams escorted by hired mercenaries went to historic landmarks to Detroit. Teams awaiting signal to bombard the local police stations with military grade weaponry took position, and Veronica found herself with her own team awaiting the signal to assault the prison. When the signal was heard, Veronica ordered her team to assault the prison from every angle as they planned while she moved to the back to use her rage-induced powers to cause a break-in. With the prison riot performed in a timely fashion, the operation went off without a hitch. Just when things were going to plan, various heroes and vigilantes joined into the fray to fight off Bacchanal's forces. Veronica found herself facing new heroes that had what it took to bring her down after a brief struggle. By the end of the day, the heroes had successfully avoided a large deal of damage and death's to the city and Veronica faced incarceration. Weeks passed behind bars before she was finally seen before a judge. It was only due to the heroes sense of morals and sympathy that she got off with community service, mandatory reformation, and to pay a large fine to the city to compensate for the damage she caused.
A Vendetta's Reformation
The first few months in Reformation went about as one would guess. The details instated she would undergo a training program at the hands of the heroes that spared her facing life in prison due to their conviction to give her a second chance. She was stubborn, arrogantly rejectful, and fought back against the authority of her program. It wasn't until a certain letter reached her room that things shifted in the right direction. The letter was from Dimitri Vincento saying he was looking for her and had her way out of the program should she need it. To her, he only began to pay attention due to the impact she had with Bacchanal and it trigger a rage unlike any she had felt before. A sudden shift happened in Veronica. She began to focus entirely upon training under her mentor's help, developing her fighting skills, learning everything she could at its core. In her favor, her mentor was Brent Heights, a former ex-VIPER operative that had his second chance as well, so they could relate on a personal level. This gave her a military training, mentality, and determination. After months of extensive training and hardening, Veronica donned her very first set of tights and took upon the name Vendetta. Operating under the cover of night and sneaking out of her room, she began to investigate into her father's criminal syndicate differently than her time on the inside.
Weeks into her investigations, she had a habit of leaving the men she took down around wherever they fell and left a trail for the authorities to follow. As Vendetta, she did not want the attention upon herself on any outlet. Unfortunately, this wouldn't go as planned because it wasn't long before she found herself face to face with the Great Lake Vigil Watch headed by Street Sovereign. Encounter after encounter with these men led to her eventual joining to her cause. They started hitting the Syndicate hard and relentlessly where it hurt. It wasn't until they took out the Underboss that they started to face a difficult time. Vincento forged a situation where the police and the Great Lake Vigil Watch would meet head-on and framed the vigilante group for the murder of a few cops. It went flawlessly and at the end of the night, the local authorities put out an all points bulletin on the vigilante group responsible for the death of four officers on the field. It was here that Veronica and Detective James Roberts had their first encounter. Through continued efforts that spanned over months, the combined team of the MCPD at Detective Roberts' lead and the Great Lake Vigil Watch finally caused the Syndicate to nearly collapse.
Questionable Means to an End
After the collapse of the Syndicate, Dimitri "The Truth" Vincento and various other high profile members went into hiding to start consolidating their power influence. This is when the rival mafioso family, the Falcone, began to increase their efforts by tenfold that drew the attention of the MCPD and the GLVW. This left Veronica alone with tracking down her father while the others handled the larger issue. Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into month that even passed her seventeenth birthday. It was in July of 2011 that Veronica had finally come face to face with her father once more. The struggle began at a drug trade meeting between Matthew Falcone and Dimitri Vincento that she had set up thanks to her work in her father's drug trafficking routes back in the day. Contacting Street Sovereign and Detective James Roberts, the trap and bait had been set. The MCPD and the vigilante group launched their ambush just as the drugs being seen had the devices inside detonate to coat the area in a thick fog of white powder and smoke. Veronica lie in wait to pick out her father in the chaos erupting within the location. She put on pursuit of the man through foot and vehicle, relentlessly hounding upon the man running for a solid twenty minutes before she managed to catch him in an alleyway thanks to her more nimble movements. Words had been exchanged and Vincento's last sights was his daughter holding a pistol to his head and the flash behind the barrel.
With Vincento's body found and the MCPD knowing who was responsible, the name Vendetta became more criminal over beneficiary. This time, it was Vendetta always on the run from the MCPD and even had encounters with Street Sovereign and other vigilantes of the Great Lake Vigil Watch. Slowly but surely the pressure was beginning to overwhelm her and Veronica needed to find a way out without sacrificing her identity to break her parole, reveal her involvement, or compromise her reformation program. Her salvation came in the form of an old friend during her days in the Syndicate named Yasmin Sullivan. An unfortunate accident from gang violence turned into opportunity for Veronica. The only thing left to do was stage her feigned death. Veronica placed the body of Yasmin near the docks and went out to 'go out with a bang'. Shooting into the air in a public place to draw the MCPD attention, Veronica led them on a goose chase through a good half of the city before reaching the docks where she dressed Yasmin Sullivan as Vendetta and dumped her into the river. She made a point to use her powers to ensure the woman look burned and suffered an explosion. When she left the scene, she set off an actual explosion and left the MCPD to find a now deceased Vendetta identified as Yasmin Sullivan.