Post by bane on Apr 21, 2008 0:42:48 GMT 1
Name: Vincent Walter Bane
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: German
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Grade: Sophomore
Birth Date: April 2nd, 1992
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 163 lbs.
Facial Structure:
Vincent Bane was given the gift of natural good looks that seems to run in the family. His overall facial structure is symmetric in just about every way, other than the slight scar on his left eye brow. His eyes have that mysterious look to them just about all the time, even when he is smiling, but most people just ignore it because of how he acts. His nose is short and slightly rounded but it fits his face nicely. His jaw line isn't exactly masculine, but it fits with what he should look like at his age. He has a light tan from being outside quite often, but he is far from a surfer's tan.
Body Build:
If Vincent's entire body could be described in one word it would be 'Fit'. He is the type of person that makes sure that his body is always in the best condition possible, and even then he tries to push it even further. His arm muscles are very well defined, but not to the point where the appear too bulgy and deformed. They are the perfect size for a person of his height, and he wouldn't have them any larger or smaller.
His torso has been worked to a point where he can go shirtless and almost everyone will gawk at him. His shoulders are well rounded and shaped, and his pectoral muscles are a sight to see. His abdomen has been worked to insure a greatly detailed eight pack. His legs are very powerful and he works on them almost everyday to make sure that he can always keep up with his opponent in any circumstance.
Other than his seemingly perfect body, Vincent has a number of different tattoos located all over his body. He has a tribal like tattoo on his upper left arm, a tribal circle located on the middle of his back and a black barb wire tattoo wrapping around his right wrist. It is unknown what the significance of the tattoos are, if any at all, but he insists that every one of them has a meaning.
Apparel:
Vincent has two main outfits that he wears more than any of his other cloths. These outfits are quite different from each other over all, but he sees that as a good thing because it seems to make him stand out more. One of his outfits gives him a neat and distinguished look, while the other kind of makes him look more like a non-conformist. He usually only wears his classy outfit when attending something that he believes to be important. Otherwise you will usually see him wearing his casual outfit, which is a total one eighty from his formal outfit.
Formal Wear:
He wears a tight black turtle neck shirt with long sleeves that come down to the very end of his wrists. Many people mistake this for Under Armor, but it is a little thicker and it is made out of a softer material. He will sometimes wear a white suit over this shirt, but only on very special occasions. Around his neck is a silver necklace with a howling wolf pendant attached to it, which is usually tucked into his shirt. This is a family heirloom that has been passed down to the males in his family since his great-grandfather's time.
With his black turtle neck, he wears a pair of white dress pants that are held up against his waist by a black, leather belt. These pants never have wrinkles in them when they are first put on, but due to some of Vincent's activities they often become quite a mess by the end of the day. For shoes he wears a pair or black dress shoes that just slip on and off. They have and romanized capital B on each of the outer parts of each shoe, obviously standing for Bane.
Casual Wear:
Vincent sometimes has a pair of square, black biker goggles up on his forehead to keep his hair out of his face. He wears a navy blue tee shirt that has a romanized W underneath a thin, white leather jacket that is always left unbuttoned. The collar of this jacket juts out about three inches in the front, giving it a unique look. He has a pair of black, fingerless, leather gloves that have a hole on the main section on the hand. He may also wear his family Wolf Pendant around his neck, but the chances of this happening are about fifty-fifty.
With his navy tee shirt and white leather jacket. Vincent wears a pair or dull, gray jeans that dark blue waves from the ankle to about half way up to his knee. These pants help him to remember the beautiful and unique waves of his home. There is a single silver chain that hangs from his right pocket that holds his wallet, which has virtually nothing in it in the first place. His shoes are black Nikes with blue designs that rap around the entirety of each shoe.
2008 School Picture
Eye color:
Light gray with dull green ring both around the pupils and on the edge of each iris. He has been told that he has very unique and mysterious eyes, but both his grandfather and dad have virtually the same exact type.
Hair:
His hair color is platinum blond, and that is without any kind of die. There are a few places in his hair that have a darker tone, but for the most part they aren't noticeable. Hair and its style is something that separates people from the rest of the crowd, and Vincent is no exception. His hair is of even length all around his head, about four and a half to five inches long, and it is almost always in a messed up fashion. He uses volumizing Bed Head shampoo so that it will stay up the majority of the day, but just in case he puts a little bit of product in it. The only time that his hair isn't messed up and all over the place is when he wears his biker goggles because they push his hair back in a somewhat slicked fashion.
Habits:
Though Vincent would appear to not have any visible habits, there is one thing that people might consider one. He seems to give off an unsettling aura, even though he is a fairly kind person on the surface. It is unknown as to whether he gives this off unpurpose, or if it is just something that happens automatically, but never-the-less he still makes certain people uncomfortable. It doesn't affect everyone that he is around, but people who have somewhat of a sixth sense for these kinds of things will feel t for sure.
Personality:
On the surface, Vincent seems to be the ideal student. He gets great grades, does exceptionally well in all the sports he plays and is generally nice to the people that aren't offensive to him. He isn't exactly the most outgoing person around, but he can hold a conversation if someone wishes to talk to him. He rarely has a full blown smile on his face, instead he will just get a smirk or a slight grin if something calls for it. He gets along with everyone that he meets, and is able to make friends quite easily.
Underneath this nearly perfect exterior, Vincent is a somewhat cold individual. He loves to cause panic among his fellow classmates and even teachers, usually by saying something to someone that he probably should have kept to himself. These few words can be either fact or fiction, but they result in the same thing... fighting. He finds enjoyment in people beating each other bloody, mostly because he sees their strengths and weaknesses. He records every fight that he's personally viewed in a journal for future reference.
Hobbies: There is a large number of things that Vincent likes to do on his spare time, but I will limit them down to the activities that he does most frequently. He does a lot of running and weight training to keep his body in the best shape it can be, and to take out any stress that he accumulates over the day. He may also hit the punching bag for an extra bit of exercise, but this only happens about twice a week. He loves to play sports outside of school with his friends, usually sticking to baseball or football. He also likes to simply observe his surroundings when he isn't doing anything. Watching and listening to others is one of his favorite pastimes.
Classes:
Physics A-
College Prep Algebra A-
Advanced Writing A
World Studies B+
Trial Music A
Independent Studies A-
Extracurricular:
Vincent is a very active person all in all, taking part in a number of different sports. He has been known to play football (wide receiver), baseball (pitcher), soccer (goalie), swimming (multiple races), and he also loves to run in track. He usually plays two to three of these sports every school year, switching them up for the next year. The two sports that he's rated best in are football and baseball, where he was ranked among the top fifty players in the country.
History:
Vincent was born on a very stormy night in his family's home town of Westbrook. A hurricane was just a few miles off of the coast of the city, but the forecasters guaranteed that it would carve down toward Texas and Mexico. The delivery of the baby wasn't exactly the most ideal one, but there was really nothing that the Bane's could do. Claire Bane toughed out the whistling winds and pounding rain as she pushed her first born child out into their world. He was, like all other new borns, disgusting to look at because of all of the blood and juices on him, but after he was cleaned up and used to the new environment he was given to his mother who could only say "Beautiful".
Though they had originally decided to call the baby Gregory Mathieu Bane Jr., they changed their minds once they saw their child in his mother's arms. They were at a loss for new names until Gregory's father mentioned that Vincent seemed to fit well, and so they decided to name the child Vincent Walter Bane. Over the course of his first four years of life, Vincent had shown his family that he was an extremely fast learner. He learned how to walk after only about five months, was potty trained at eighteen months, and he began speaking full sentences some time in between. This amazed his pediatrician, who found these facts to be almost unbelievable, but came to the conclusion that their son would most likely be a fast learner his entire life.
As he entered his first years of school, his pediatrician's prediction appeared to be correct. Vincent was at the top of his class in every subject to the point where his pre-school teacher asked his parents if they wanted their child to be brought up a grade or two. They decided that it was in Vincent's best interest to go through school like any other child, and so they kept him in pre-school and let him go grade by grade to stay with his classmates. Vincent started playing competitive sports at the age of six, playing football, baseball and soccer. He quickly found what he was best at in all three sports, and developed his skills in those positions. He would later take place in swim class, and become quite the water lover.
Throughout his Elementary and Middle School years, Vincent remained one of the top students in the school. His grades were within the top five in his grade, and he continued to get better and better at the sports that he played, which upon fourth grade included track. Though he appeared to be the perfect student and the perfect son, Vincent also participated in a few other non-school related activities. He would often get caught fighting against school bullies, both in his grade and older, and this frightened his mother. She believed that Vincent was too fragile to continue these fights, even though he came out victorious just about every time. She asked Vincent if there was anything that she could do to get him to stop fighting, and he said he wanted to learn martial arts.
So for his thirteenth birthday his father signed him up for karate and taekwondo classes, which were the two classes that he took place in as a child. At first, Vincent loved training with his teachers and fellow students, but over time he grew more and more distant from the classes. This was something that both of his teachers noticed right away, and they tried their best to keep him interested in their martial arts. They gave him more advanced lessons, more days to come and train, but even with all of the extra attention that they gave him he continued to lose interest. Finally, only about a week before his fourteenth birthday, Vincent told both his parents and his teachers that he no longer had any use for the classes. The last thing that both teachers said was that he could have gone far.
Now that he was out of his martial arts classes, Vincent took more time out of his life to get back into competitive sports. He rejoined all of his favorites, and upon the beginning of every one of them it seemed like he had never stopped playing. Even though he loved to play sports, he started to get back into his old fighting habits, but this time he would simply fight anyone that challenged him. These fights were more discreet, and so his parents rarely ever heard about them, but they knew when he had been in a fight due to the wounds that he came home with. On one of these occasions, Vincent had gotten into a fight with three larger students. He took two of them down, only receiving a few decent blows, but the third took a rock and hit Vincent on the left side of his forehead, knocking him unconscious.
When he woke up he was in the hospital with both of his parents sitting on each side of his bed. His mother was crying her eyes out, but his father seemed to be proud of his son for some reason. The rock had cut deep into his forehead, from about the middle of it straight through his left eye brow. The scar that remained would stay a dark maroon color, but it would usually be covered by either his hair or some other accessory. When he was finally released from the hospital it was only a few days away from his graduation from Junior High. The graduation ceremony was a pretty extravagant one, put on by Vincents father and some other wealthy friends, and Vincent ended up being the salutatorian of his class. The end of Junior High meant the beginning of Westbrook Academy for Vincent, and his parents were thrilled to finally see their son attend the school.
Westbrook Academy was quite a change for Vincent who had gone to small schools almost his entire early school life. There were multiple fights breaking out every day, compared to a fight or two a week in his old schools, and these fights sparked an interest in Vincent that had been growing over the years. He would walk around the school grounds and watch as many fights as he could, recording everything that he saw in a number of different notebooks. He also seemed to be getting a lot of attention around school for a number of different reasons. The fighters talked about his abilities in combat, the girls talked about how attractive he was, the jocks marveled at how well he played sports and the nerds talked about how great he did on the tests that were recently given out.
All of the chatter that was going around the school eventually got to the ears of multiple Flow members, who then found there way to Vincent with a proposition. They simply asked if he would join their ranks as a member of Flow. When he asked them why, they simply said that he meets the qualifications that the group has set over its many years of existence. After a few moments thinking, Vincent agreed to join Flow and help them in whatever it was that they did around the school. The group itself was made out of just about every different kind of student that you could find in a normal school. They had jocks, the rich, the popular and the smart, and on his first day Vincent was told by the Captain of Flow that he had all of these characteristics.
During his first month in Flow, Vincent had proven himself to be very good at acquiring information and taking down just about anyone that challenged him in a fight. This ended up getting him an early promotion into on of the four seats of Flow, who only take orders from the Captain of Flow. This promotion was something that Vincent enjoyed, but there was something that had been bugging him for the past week. He had been following one of Flow's own members who had been acting suspiciously both in and out of the meetings, and what he found didn't made him even more uneasy. He witnessed the lower member of Flow walk into the Principle's office on more than one occasion, and most of the meeting lasted a good thirty minutes. This lead Vincent to believe that he was some sort of spy sent to keep a tab on what was going on in Flow.
Instead of telling his Captain or the other three seated members, Vincent took his underlings and devised a plan to make sure that the spy wouldn't ever report anything back to the Principle. He had his three followers stalk the traitor as he left the school late one evening. He made his way over to the school's track field where he started to jog at a steady pace. On his third time around he noticed the three members of Flow that were waving him over. Since he knew them all by face he didn't suspect anything, and so he jogged over to them to see what they wanted. When he finally reached them they triple teamed him and beat him within an inch of his life. After the beating, the spy was sprawled on the ground, and one of the three relaid a message. He told him that if he didn't leave Westbrook immediately tomorrow that the next attack would be fatal.
The next day the traitor and his family were already out of town, and the Principle, Gregory Bane, believed that he knew why. He had witnessed the brutal beating of his informant, and even though his son was involved he couldn't help but believe that he was. Soon after the gruesome attack, Gregory Bane resigned from his position as Westbrook Academy's Principle, stating that his club needed more attention than the school did. Everyone knew that he was lying, but they let him leave knowing that he had plenty of hidden pain. Vincent looked at both the disappearance of the traitor and his family and the resignation of his father from the Principle position as a job well done, taking down two dangerous birds with one well aimed stone.
Flow never found out that Vincent and his followers were behind the attack because the attack was never talked about publicly. It was rumored among the higher ups in Flow, and so Vincent just with along with it. After a few months everything had finally died down, and rumors of a new Principle coming to work at the Academy were spreading across the school like wild fire. Flow was there to separate fact from fiction, and about a month before it actually happened they knew just exactly who was going to be their new Principle. The ceremony came a couple weeks after the winter vacation, where Principle James Brumen and Vice Principle Naomi Walsh were officially given their respective titles and jobs. The students cheered, the teachers looked impressed and Vincent couldn't have been more happy knowing that the two on top of the school knew nothing of Flow.
The rest of Vincent's Freshman year went by without any notable problems, and when the school year started coming to an end the Captain of Flow had to decide who would be his successor. There were multiple people that were being talked about to be the next Captain of Flow, but when the decision was finally made there were many shocked faces in the room. Vincent was named the successor to the title of Captain of Flow, and being that he would be a Sophomore next year he would be the youngest person to ever receive the title. After the graduation ceremony Vincent held a final meeting for the school year where even the graduates were to attend. At the meeting, Vincent stood and gave a toast to those that graduated, but the next thing that was said changed the mood from joyous to almost despair.
Vincent told everyone that he was disbanding Flow as of the end of the school year. He stated that it was his father that started the group, and it was his destiny to end it. Many people stood in protest, but all of the seniors, including the former Captain, agreed with Vincent's decision. They explained that Flow had lost its touch over the years, and that its overall purpose has become obscured with time. With these words everyone became quiet and Vincent declared that the meeting was over. It appeared to be a sad ending to everyone's school year, but Vincent had a totally different feeling at the end. What everyone else was unaware of was that Vincent simply wanted to cleanse his group and start anew. With the start of a new school year, there would be a new fire burning in Flow's life.
During his summer vacation, Vincent did his usual routine. He would exercises daily, train for all of the sports that he would take place in next year and go on the occasional date every now and again. He continued to do this through the entire summer until about mid-august. At this time the news had reported a number of sightings around Westbrook Academy during the late hours of the night. People were warned to stay away from the school after it got dark, but Vincent decided to go and see just what was going on around the school. As he walked to the school he got a phone call from one of his old Flow followers, and what he heard wasn't good news at all. He was told that a large number of ex-Flow members were planning on burning down the school, and so he picked up his pace as he made his way to the Westbrook Academy.
When he arrived he saw a number of different people running away from the school yelling at the stragglers to hurry up. As he turned back to look at the school, a massive explosion of flames erupted from the inside and shattered almost every window in the school. Vincent watched as it burned down from the inside out. He knew that there was nothing that he could have done, and so he turned away from the school and walked back to his home. The next day, every channel had the fire in the news, stating that it was started by a number of usually well mannered and respected students from Westbrook Academy itself. They were all arrested and charged with multiple cases of arson. Vincent could only smile at them getting caught, because he knew that without Flow those students didn't have a reason to go to school anymore.
When his father saw the news, he immediately started making phone calls to many schools like Westbrook around the country. Even with his ties and money, most of the schools that he called would not accept Vincent due to the fear that he might have been involved in the attack on the school. This was the reason that many schools were denying student transfers from Westbrook, but finally Gregory got a hold of Principle MacMillan of Hircine High. After a long discussion about what had happened at Westbrook and about his sons school records, MacMillan gave Vincent the okay to attend Hircine High's next school year. After hearing the good news, Gregory closed down the Wolves Bane and decided that he would move his business with his family.
Vincent seemed saddened by the fact that they were leaving Westbrook, but deep inside he was happy to finally experience something new. New surroundings, a new school and a new life. When the Banes finally arrived at their new house in San Fransisco, they couldn't believe how different everything was over on the west coast. Gregory, almost immediately, started the construction of the new Wolves Bane night club, while Vincent wandered his new city to get a feel for it. Though he came from a big city in the south, San Fransisco seemed monstrous in comparison. It would only be about another week before he started school at Hircine High, but he still had his plans to bring Flow back with different rules and regulations. School was going to be interesting this year.
Fighting Style:
A fighting style, in Vincent's mind, is something that you develop over the course of your training and fighting life. You don't have to go to a martial arts school to have a fighting style, you just have to learn as you go. Even though he had gone through only a years worth of Karate and Taekwondo at the age of thirteen, he has taken his experience from those classes and developed his own style of fighting. This style is fast, unpredictable, and has proven to be very effective in combat.
Vincent's stance while fighting seems to be open for attacks in just about every area, but that is how he wants it to look. He will stand with his feet about a foot and a half apart and adjacent from each other. His hands will be in his pockets, at first, unless it is a surprise attack. From this position he will wait for his opponent to make a move, and than devise the proper counter attack. The fight will than go on with him going with the flow of battle, and only returning to this position if his opponent is a good distance away from him. He tends to use quick jabs, chop, knees, kicks and grapples, but he has been known to throw in a headbutt or an uppercut if the time is right.
Strengths:
There a a number of different attributes that give Vincent the edge over his competition, and one of these attributes is his abnormally high speed. He is very fast both physically and mentally. He is able to attack with great speed and avoid opponents attacks with relative ease, and he can also read an opponents attacks and devise a worthy counter attack within a short period of time. He is also a very fast learner. Other than his speed is has high levels of endurance and stamina, which help him keep up with his opponent if the fight goes on for a long period of time. This also helps him with the sports that he participates in. He has also trained himself to mentally block out pain while either fighting or training.
Weaknesses:
Vincent may be a quick individual, overall, but he lacks the strength that many other fighters may possess. This doesn't by any means make him a weakling, it just means that he has average power behind his attack compared to his far from average speed. Another thing that has proven to be a major problem for him in the past is his height and weight. He isn't exactly the largest fighter that you will ever meet, and if faced with an opponent that is larger than him he may have a difficult time fighting them. In the past, Vincent has faced quite a few larger foes and his victory to defeat ratio is about half, but he is currently training to change that. After he has hit a certain amount of pain, his mental block will wear out and the pain will rush through his body like a dam breaking and letting a river crush everything in sight.
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: German
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Grade: Sophomore
Birth Date: April 2nd, 1992
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 163 lbs.
Facial Structure:
Vincent Bane was given the gift of natural good looks that seems to run in the family. His overall facial structure is symmetric in just about every way, other than the slight scar on his left eye brow. His eyes have that mysterious look to them just about all the time, even when he is smiling, but most people just ignore it because of how he acts. His nose is short and slightly rounded but it fits his face nicely. His jaw line isn't exactly masculine, but it fits with what he should look like at his age. He has a light tan from being outside quite often, but he is far from a surfer's tan.
Body Build:
If Vincent's entire body could be described in one word it would be 'Fit'. He is the type of person that makes sure that his body is always in the best condition possible, and even then he tries to push it even further. His arm muscles are very well defined, but not to the point where the appear too bulgy and deformed. They are the perfect size for a person of his height, and he wouldn't have them any larger or smaller.
His torso has been worked to a point where he can go shirtless and almost everyone will gawk at him. His shoulders are well rounded and shaped, and his pectoral muscles are a sight to see. His abdomen has been worked to insure a greatly detailed eight pack. His legs are very powerful and he works on them almost everyday to make sure that he can always keep up with his opponent in any circumstance.
Other than his seemingly perfect body, Vincent has a number of different tattoos located all over his body. He has a tribal like tattoo on his upper left arm, a tribal circle located on the middle of his back and a black barb wire tattoo wrapping around his right wrist. It is unknown what the significance of the tattoos are, if any at all, but he insists that every one of them has a meaning.
Apparel:
Vincent has two main outfits that he wears more than any of his other cloths. These outfits are quite different from each other over all, but he sees that as a good thing because it seems to make him stand out more. One of his outfits gives him a neat and distinguished look, while the other kind of makes him look more like a non-conformist. He usually only wears his classy outfit when attending something that he believes to be important. Otherwise you will usually see him wearing his casual outfit, which is a total one eighty from his formal outfit.
Formal Wear:
He wears a tight black turtle neck shirt with long sleeves that come down to the very end of his wrists. Many people mistake this for Under Armor, but it is a little thicker and it is made out of a softer material. He will sometimes wear a white suit over this shirt, but only on very special occasions. Around his neck is a silver necklace with a howling wolf pendant attached to it, which is usually tucked into his shirt. This is a family heirloom that has been passed down to the males in his family since his great-grandfather's time.
With his black turtle neck, he wears a pair of white dress pants that are held up against his waist by a black, leather belt. These pants never have wrinkles in them when they are first put on, but due to some of Vincent's activities they often become quite a mess by the end of the day. For shoes he wears a pair or black dress shoes that just slip on and off. They have and romanized capital B on each of the outer parts of each shoe, obviously standing for Bane.
Casual Wear:
Vincent sometimes has a pair of square, black biker goggles up on his forehead to keep his hair out of his face. He wears a navy blue tee shirt that has a romanized W underneath a thin, white leather jacket that is always left unbuttoned. The collar of this jacket juts out about three inches in the front, giving it a unique look. He has a pair of black, fingerless, leather gloves that have a hole on the main section on the hand. He may also wear his family Wolf Pendant around his neck, but the chances of this happening are about fifty-fifty.
With his navy tee shirt and white leather jacket. Vincent wears a pair or dull, gray jeans that dark blue waves from the ankle to about half way up to his knee. These pants help him to remember the beautiful and unique waves of his home. There is a single silver chain that hangs from his right pocket that holds his wallet, which has virtually nothing in it in the first place. His shoes are black Nikes with blue designs that rap around the entirety of each shoe.
2008 School Picture
Eye color:
Light gray with dull green ring both around the pupils and on the edge of each iris. He has been told that he has very unique and mysterious eyes, but both his grandfather and dad have virtually the same exact type.
Hair:
His hair color is platinum blond, and that is without any kind of die. There are a few places in his hair that have a darker tone, but for the most part they aren't noticeable. Hair and its style is something that separates people from the rest of the crowd, and Vincent is no exception. His hair is of even length all around his head, about four and a half to five inches long, and it is almost always in a messed up fashion. He uses volumizing Bed Head shampoo so that it will stay up the majority of the day, but just in case he puts a little bit of product in it. The only time that his hair isn't messed up and all over the place is when he wears his biker goggles because they push his hair back in a somewhat slicked fashion.
Habits:
Though Vincent would appear to not have any visible habits, there is one thing that people might consider one. He seems to give off an unsettling aura, even though he is a fairly kind person on the surface. It is unknown as to whether he gives this off unpurpose, or if it is just something that happens automatically, but never-the-less he still makes certain people uncomfortable. It doesn't affect everyone that he is around, but people who have somewhat of a sixth sense for these kinds of things will feel t for sure.
Personality:
On the surface, Vincent seems to be the ideal student. He gets great grades, does exceptionally well in all the sports he plays and is generally nice to the people that aren't offensive to him. He isn't exactly the most outgoing person around, but he can hold a conversation if someone wishes to talk to him. He rarely has a full blown smile on his face, instead he will just get a smirk or a slight grin if something calls for it. He gets along with everyone that he meets, and is able to make friends quite easily.
Underneath this nearly perfect exterior, Vincent is a somewhat cold individual. He loves to cause panic among his fellow classmates and even teachers, usually by saying something to someone that he probably should have kept to himself. These few words can be either fact or fiction, but they result in the same thing... fighting. He finds enjoyment in people beating each other bloody, mostly because he sees their strengths and weaknesses. He records every fight that he's personally viewed in a journal for future reference.
Hobbies: There is a large number of things that Vincent likes to do on his spare time, but I will limit them down to the activities that he does most frequently. He does a lot of running and weight training to keep his body in the best shape it can be, and to take out any stress that he accumulates over the day. He may also hit the punching bag for an extra bit of exercise, but this only happens about twice a week. He loves to play sports outside of school with his friends, usually sticking to baseball or football. He also likes to simply observe his surroundings when he isn't doing anything. Watching and listening to others is one of his favorite pastimes.
Classes:
Physics A-
College Prep Algebra A-
Advanced Writing A
World Studies B+
Trial Music A
Independent Studies A-
Extracurricular:
Vincent is a very active person all in all, taking part in a number of different sports. He has been known to play football (wide receiver), baseball (pitcher), soccer (goalie), swimming (multiple races), and he also loves to run in track. He usually plays two to three of these sports every school year, switching them up for the next year. The two sports that he's rated best in are football and baseball, where he was ranked among the top fifty players in the country.
History:
Vincent was born on a very stormy night in his family's home town of Westbrook. A hurricane was just a few miles off of the coast of the city, but the forecasters guaranteed that it would carve down toward Texas and Mexico. The delivery of the baby wasn't exactly the most ideal one, but there was really nothing that the Bane's could do. Claire Bane toughed out the whistling winds and pounding rain as she pushed her first born child out into their world. He was, like all other new borns, disgusting to look at because of all of the blood and juices on him, but after he was cleaned up and used to the new environment he was given to his mother who could only say "Beautiful".
Though they had originally decided to call the baby Gregory Mathieu Bane Jr., they changed their minds once they saw their child in his mother's arms. They were at a loss for new names until Gregory's father mentioned that Vincent seemed to fit well, and so they decided to name the child Vincent Walter Bane. Over the course of his first four years of life, Vincent had shown his family that he was an extremely fast learner. He learned how to walk after only about five months, was potty trained at eighteen months, and he began speaking full sentences some time in between. This amazed his pediatrician, who found these facts to be almost unbelievable, but came to the conclusion that their son would most likely be a fast learner his entire life.
As he entered his first years of school, his pediatrician's prediction appeared to be correct. Vincent was at the top of his class in every subject to the point where his pre-school teacher asked his parents if they wanted their child to be brought up a grade or two. They decided that it was in Vincent's best interest to go through school like any other child, and so they kept him in pre-school and let him go grade by grade to stay with his classmates. Vincent started playing competitive sports at the age of six, playing football, baseball and soccer. He quickly found what he was best at in all three sports, and developed his skills in those positions. He would later take place in swim class, and become quite the water lover.
Throughout his Elementary and Middle School years, Vincent remained one of the top students in the school. His grades were within the top five in his grade, and he continued to get better and better at the sports that he played, which upon fourth grade included track. Though he appeared to be the perfect student and the perfect son, Vincent also participated in a few other non-school related activities. He would often get caught fighting against school bullies, both in his grade and older, and this frightened his mother. She believed that Vincent was too fragile to continue these fights, even though he came out victorious just about every time. She asked Vincent if there was anything that she could do to get him to stop fighting, and he said he wanted to learn martial arts.
So for his thirteenth birthday his father signed him up for karate and taekwondo classes, which were the two classes that he took place in as a child. At first, Vincent loved training with his teachers and fellow students, but over time he grew more and more distant from the classes. This was something that both of his teachers noticed right away, and they tried their best to keep him interested in their martial arts. They gave him more advanced lessons, more days to come and train, but even with all of the extra attention that they gave him he continued to lose interest. Finally, only about a week before his fourteenth birthday, Vincent told both his parents and his teachers that he no longer had any use for the classes. The last thing that both teachers said was that he could have gone far.
Now that he was out of his martial arts classes, Vincent took more time out of his life to get back into competitive sports. He rejoined all of his favorites, and upon the beginning of every one of them it seemed like he had never stopped playing. Even though he loved to play sports, he started to get back into his old fighting habits, but this time he would simply fight anyone that challenged him. These fights were more discreet, and so his parents rarely ever heard about them, but they knew when he had been in a fight due to the wounds that he came home with. On one of these occasions, Vincent had gotten into a fight with three larger students. He took two of them down, only receiving a few decent blows, but the third took a rock and hit Vincent on the left side of his forehead, knocking him unconscious.
When he woke up he was in the hospital with both of his parents sitting on each side of his bed. His mother was crying her eyes out, but his father seemed to be proud of his son for some reason. The rock had cut deep into his forehead, from about the middle of it straight through his left eye brow. The scar that remained would stay a dark maroon color, but it would usually be covered by either his hair or some other accessory. When he was finally released from the hospital it was only a few days away from his graduation from Junior High. The graduation ceremony was a pretty extravagant one, put on by Vincents father and some other wealthy friends, and Vincent ended up being the salutatorian of his class. The end of Junior High meant the beginning of Westbrook Academy for Vincent, and his parents were thrilled to finally see their son attend the school.
Westbrook Academy was quite a change for Vincent who had gone to small schools almost his entire early school life. There were multiple fights breaking out every day, compared to a fight or two a week in his old schools, and these fights sparked an interest in Vincent that had been growing over the years. He would walk around the school grounds and watch as many fights as he could, recording everything that he saw in a number of different notebooks. He also seemed to be getting a lot of attention around school for a number of different reasons. The fighters talked about his abilities in combat, the girls talked about how attractive he was, the jocks marveled at how well he played sports and the nerds talked about how great he did on the tests that were recently given out.
All of the chatter that was going around the school eventually got to the ears of multiple Flow members, who then found there way to Vincent with a proposition. They simply asked if he would join their ranks as a member of Flow. When he asked them why, they simply said that he meets the qualifications that the group has set over its many years of existence. After a few moments thinking, Vincent agreed to join Flow and help them in whatever it was that they did around the school. The group itself was made out of just about every different kind of student that you could find in a normal school. They had jocks, the rich, the popular and the smart, and on his first day Vincent was told by the Captain of Flow that he had all of these characteristics.
During his first month in Flow, Vincent had proven himself to be very good at acquiring information and taking down just about anyone that challenged him in a fight. This ended up getting him an early promotion into on of the four seats of Flow, who only take orders from the Captain of Flow. This promotion was something that Vincent enjoyed, but there was something that had been bugging him for the past week. He had been following one of Flow's own members who had been acting suspiciously both in and out of the meetings, and what he found didn't made him even more uneasy. He witnessed the lower member of Flow walk into the Principle's office on more than one occasion, and most of the meeting lasted a good thirty minutes. This lead Vincent to believe that he was some sort of spy sent to keep a tab on what was going on in Flow.
Instead of telling his Captain or the other three seated members, Vincent took his underlings and devised a plan to make sure that the spy wouldn't ever report anything back to the Principle. He had his three followers stalk the traitor as he left the school late one evening. He made his way over to the school's track field where he started to jog at a steady pace. On his third time around he noticed the three members of Flow that were waving him over. Since he knew them all by face he didn't suspect anything, and so he jogged over to them to see what they wanted. When he finally reached them they triple teamed him and beat him within an inch of his life. After the beating, the spy was sprawled on the ground, and one of the three relaid a message. He told him that if he didn't leave Westbrook immediately tomorrow that the next attack would be fatal.
The next day the traitor and his family were already out of town, and the Principle, Gregory Bane, believed that he knew why. He had witnessed the brutal beating of his informant, and even though his son was involved he couldn't help but believe that he was. Soon after the gruesome attack, Gregory Bane resigned from his position as Westbrook Academy's Principle, stating that his club needed more attention than the school did. Everyone knew that he was lying, but they let him leave knowing that he had plenty of hidden pain. Vincent looked at both the disappearance of the traitor and his family and the resignation of his father from the Principle position as a job well done, taking down two dangerous birds with one well aimed stone.
Flow never found out that Vincent and his followers were behind the attack because the attack was never talked about publicly. It was rumored among the higher ups in Flow, and so Vincent just with along with it. After a few months everything had finally died down, and rumors of a new Principle coming to work at the Academy were spreading across the school like wild fire. Flow was there to separate fact from fiction, and about a month before it actually happened they knew just exactly who was going to be their new Principle. The ceremony came a couple weeks after the winter vacation, where Principle James Brumen and Vice Principle Naomi Walsh were officially given their respective titles and jobs. The students cheered, the teachers looked impressed and Vincent couldn't have been more happy knowing that the two on top of the school knew nothing of Flow.
The rest of Vincent's Freshman year went by without any notable problems, and when the school year started coming to an end the Captain of Flow had to decide who would be his successor. There were multiple people that were being talked about to be the next Captain of Flow, but when the decision was finally made there were many shocked faces in the room. Vincent was named the successor to the title of Captain of Flow, and being that he would be a Sophomore next year he would be the youngest person to ever receive the title. After the graduation ceremony Vincent held a final meeting for the school year where even the graduates were to attend. At the meeting, Vincent stood and gave a toast to those that graduated, but the next thing that was said changed the mood from joyous to almost despair.
Vincent told everyone that he was disbanding Flow as of the end of the school year. He stated that it was his father that started the group, and it was his destiny to end it. Many people stood in protest, but all of the seniors, including the former Captain, agreed with Vincent's decision. They explained that Flow had lost its touch over the years, and that its overall purpose has become obscured with time. With these words everyone became quiet and Vincent declared that the meeting was over. It appeared to be a sad ending to everyone's school year, but Vincent had a totally different feeling at the end. What everyone else was unaware of was that Vincent simply wanted to cleanse his group and start anew. With the start of a new school year, there would be a new fire burning in Flow's life.
During his summer vacation, Vincent did his usual routine. He would exercises daily, train for all of the sports that he would take place in next year and go on the occasional date every now and again. He continued to do this through the entire summer until about mid-august. At this time the news had reported a number of sightings around Westbrook Academy during the late hours of the night. People were warned to stay away from the school after it got dark, but Vincent decided to go and see just what was going on around the school. As he walked to the school he got a phone call from one of his old Flow followers, and what he heard wasn't good news at all. He was told that a large number of ex-Flow members were planning on burning down the school, and so he picked up his pace as he made his way to the Westbrook Academy.
When he arrived he saw a number of different people running away from the school yelling at the stragglers to hurry up. As he turned back to look at the school, a massive explosion of flames erupted from the inside and shattered almost every window in the school. Vincent watched as it burned down from the inside out. He knew that there was nothing that he could have done, and so he turned away from the school and walked back to his home. The next day, every channel had the fire in the news, stating that it was started by a number of usually well mannered and respected students from Westbrook Academy itself. They were all arrested and charged with multiple cases of arson. Vincent could only smile at them getting caught, because he knew that without Flow those students didn't have a reason to go to school anymore.
When his father saw the news, he immediately started making phone calls to many schools like Westbrook around the country. Even with his ties and money, most of the schools that he called would not accept Vincent due to the fear that he might have been involved in the attack on the school. This was the reason that many schools were denying student transfers from Westbrook, but finally Gregory got a hold of Principle MacMillan of Hircine High. After a long discussion about what had happened at Westbrook and about his sons school records, MacMillan gave Vincent the okay to attend Hircine High's next school year. After hearing the good news, Gregory closed down the Wolves Bane and decided that he would move his business with his family.
Vincent seemed saddened by the fact that they were leaving Westbrook, but deep inside he was happy to finally experience something new. New surroundings, a new school and a new life. When the Banes finally arrived at their new house in San Fransisco, they couldn't believe how different everything was over on the west coast. Gregory, almost immediately, started the construction of the new Wolves Bane night club, while Vincent wandered his new city to get a feel for it. Though he came from a big city in the south, San Fransisco seemed monstrous in comparison. It would only be about another week before he started school at Hircine High, but he still had his plans to bring Flow back with different rules and regulations. School was going to be interesting this year.
Fighting Style:
A fighting style, in Vincent's mind, is something that you develop over the course of your training and fighting life. You don't have to go to a martial arts school to have a fighting style, you just have to learn as you go. Even though he had gone through only a years worth of Karate and Taekwondo at the age of thirteen, he has taken his experience from those classes and developed his own style of fighting. This style is fast, unpredictable, and has proven to be very effective in combat.
Vincent's stance while fighting seems to be open for attacks in just about every area, but that is how he wants it to look. He will stand with his feet about a foot and a half apart and adjacent from each other. His hands will be in his pockets, at first, unless it is a surprise attack. From this position he will wait for his opponent to make a move, and than devise the proper counter attack. The fight will than go on with him going with the flow of battle, and only returning to this position if his opponent is a good distance away from him. He tends to use quick jabs, chop, knees, kicks and grapples, but he has been known to throw in a headbutt or an uppercut if the time is right.
Strengths:
There a a number of different attributes that give Vincent the edge over his competition, and one of these attributes is his abnormally high speed. He is very fast both physically and mentally. He is able to attack with great speed and avoid opponents attacks with relative ease, and he can also read an opponents attacks and devise a worthy counter attack within a short period of time. He is also a very fast learner. Other than his speed is has high levels of endurance and stamina, which help him keep up with his opponent if the fight goes on for a long period of time. This also helps him with the sports that he participates in. He has also trained himself to mentally block out pain while either fighting or training.
Weaknesses:
Vincent may be a quick individual, overall, but he lacks the strength that many other fighters may possess. This doesn't by any means make him a weakling, it just means that he has average power behind his attack compared to his far from average speed. Another thing that has proven to be a major problem for him in the past is his height and weight. He isn't exactly the largest fighter that you will ever meet, and if faced with an opponent that is larger than him he may have a difficult time fighting them. In the past, Vincent has faced quite a few larger foes and his victory to defeat ratio is about half, but he is currently training to change that. After he has hit a certain amount of pain, his mental block will wear out and the pain will rush through his body like a dam breaking and letting a river crush everything in sight.
