Vikki and Vance

Vikki and Vance were an aspiring criminal couple that lived before the Great War.
==Background==
While not as widely known as the infamous Bonnie and Clyde, Vikki and Vance began their crime spree two days before them in 1932. Primm Slim describes Vikki and Vance as perpetrating "a narrow swath of shoplifting, check-cashing fraud, and gas pump drive-offs." Their crime spree came to a halt in Plano, Texas when they accidentally drove their car through a crossfire between law officials and a gang of bank robbers. The police subsequently released an official apology for their wrongful deaths.The Courier: "Tell me the whole story of Vikki and Vance."Primm Slim: "Yahoo! I ain't had a chance to tell their tale in a mess of years. First things first: any bosh you've heard about Vikki and Vance being copycats ain't nothing but ill-tempered slander. Fact is, they begun their crime spree two days before Bonnie and Clyde robbed their first bank - so who was copying who? Now true, Vikki and Vance didn't exactly cut a wide swath of murder and bank robbery across the central U.S., like Bonnie and Clyde did. It was more like a narrow swath of shoplifting, check-cashing fraud, and gas pump driveoffs - but crime is crime! They drove reckless, too. Having lived by the gun - well, Vance owned one, anyway - it was only fitting that the duo of desperados would die by the gun. Perhaps it was fate itself that accidentally drove them into a crossfire between police and a gang of bank robbers in Plano, Texas. Or maybe they just didn't notice until it was too late. It's been said that Vikki would have tried to cash a bad check in that bank, had she lived. We'll never know for sure. All we know is that the crossfire tore the car and both occupants to pieces, and the police issued an official apology. You can put your eyes on the genuine Death Car just over yonder, and there's Vance's machine gun in the case next to it!"(Primm Slim's dialogue)
==Casino==
The duo has an establishment bearing their names, the Vikki and Vance Casino in Primm. Their death car, Vance's 9mm submachine gun and replica clothing items were displayed there, but only the vehicle remains.
Mannequins that had once displayed the replica clothing items belonging to Vikki and Vance stand near placards that describe them, as followed.
Converse to Vikki's approach to fashion, the plaque located on the opposite side of the death car describes Vance's fashion sense as attempting to mirror how he imagined gangsters would look and that the items on display were merely articles of clothing that were found in the car's trunk. It reads:
The gun is currently in the possession of Sammy and Pauline Wins, who plan on using it to rob the casinos of the New Vegas Strip in an attempt to emulate the criminal duo of the past.The Courier: "What's your plan?"Pauline Wins: "Sammy and me got our hands on a powerful weapon not too long ago: Vance's gun. You know - Vance, of Vance and Vikki? That gun's our "shot" at the big-time. We're gonna sneak it onto the Strip and rob one of the casinos. Maybe all of them! We'll be known as the greatest gunslingers to ever terrorize the wastelands!"(Pauline Wins' dialogue)
==Appearances==
Vikki and Vance are mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and the Fallout 76 update Once in a Blue Moon.Vikki & Vance the brahmin
==Behind the scenes==
Vikki and Vance are a reference to the real life crime duo Bonnie and Clyde, who died in a shoot out with police on May 23, 1934. This date is reflected in the password to Sammy Wins' safe. The real world death car is based on the 1934 Ford Deluxe V-8 the couple were driving when ambushed and killed. The real world car is currently on display in a museum located within Whiskey Pete's Hotel & Casino in Primm, Nevada.
==Gallery==
FNV Vance gun plaque.jpg|Plaque describing Vince's gun at the Vikki and Vance Casino in Primm
FNV Vikki outfits plaque.jpg|Plaque regarding Vikki's sense of style
FNV Vance outfits plaque.jpg|Plaque describing Vance's lack thereof
Nv vav billboard2.png|Billboard texture file
Nv vav billboard.png|Billboard texture file
==References==
Category:Fallout: New Vegas mentioned-only characters
Category:Once in a Blue Moon mentioned-only characters
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