Grand Vita Mortem

Grand Vita Mortem is a roleplayer, streamer, and occasional poet within VRChat, who aimes to teach all those he meets how to live better and roleplay.
=History=
Grand Vita Mortem is the founder and leader of the Mortisian Syndicate community, the largest and most active criminal community on VRChat from the time of October 14th onward. Starting out with humble beginnings, sporting a Miko mobster uniform, he went on to create the Mortisian Syndicate, which sports over 1,400 members that perform nefarious activities throughout VRChat, with the usage of their Metaverse portal.
As described by his members, Grand is an intimidating, terrifying, charismatic, and intelligent leader who learns and teaches through life experiences and those around him. Running his criminal empire from the penthouse of The Omerta Hotel within the city of Babylon, he is viewed highly by those whom he has taken under his wing and pledge loyalty to his cause. Grand seeks to unite the various criminal organizations in VRChat and to work together to forge better relationships all around as the Godfather and Kingpin of Babylon. In this mission, he has worked alongside other groups such as the LPD, M.O.M, SCP Foundation, the Hoppou Foundation, and others, towards creating bridges that are necessary to help everyone benefit from the interactions, towards a more united future.
=Out of Character=
Grand enjoys singing, writing stories and poems, watching anime and playing chess and pool with those who he finds to be his closer companions, oftentimes being seen performing songs upon one of the various stages within Babylon. Amongst these things he also enjoys teaching his staff how to be better leaders, and pushing them towards reaching their goals. He has also been seen to help talk people out of panic attacks, aid people out of depressive episodes, and has been known to have at least two successful rescues of those who were on the brink of "Alt-F4ing", if the placeholder is understood. Grand was in the United States Army from the age of 18 through 20, before he received an injury that would become increasingly difficult to cope with while going through secondary advanced trainings, his military career ended with him as a 68W combat medic stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia. Grand has been roleplaying for around 13 or so years, from the age of 9 on a chatroom client site called IMVU, where he ran the Mortisian Empire for the entire time before real life, time, and mental constraints left a bad taste towards the site, causing him to abandon it and move on to VRChat. Now he runs the Mortisian Syndicate which was originally known as the Loli Mafia of the House of Mortem since October 14th, 2020. He holds at present time a good friendship with GreyhoundVRC and has even had a statue of the two of them fighting within the main world of the Mortisian Syndicate.
=In Character=
The Godfather's history is fairly linear to a certain point before strange occurrences begin to be noted, the following is the close account as to how the Godfather came to power:
"Grand was born to two loving parents at around the end of the 18th Century though the year is as of yet undefined to most records. His Parents raised him in a happy loving home within the Ghettos of New Orleans where he met various people whom he viewed to be his extended family. It was then however that his parents, while working at the Local Opera House were shot and killed in a Gang War that broke out in the Theatre, leaving Grand Orphaned and alone. He soon learned that his father was a deeply set Consigliere of the Varsezzi Family to which, the Don of said family adopted the Orphaned Grand and raised him as his own in the wake of his parents sacrifice for the Family. It was within the Varsezzi Family that Grand grew up to become an Underboss and take on the role of teaching the new blood to Fight and intimidate people. However as the War broke out Grand was Drafted into service to fight within the American Army as an Auxiliary force for the Allied powers, being stationed in a remote Outpost during the Battle of the Somme, Corporal Mortem saw numerous grueling and terrifying battles occur and had killed numerous soldiers of the enemy side. Ending with a Final battle in which the Corporal was flung into the air by Artillery shell that threw him into a Mud pit created from a long crashed ordinance of an Explosive Artillery round. He nearly suffocated within the Mud until some strange alien creature dug him from the muck, giving him a device to help save the Universe from absolute destruction and eternal collapse. From here the Corporal Mortems path was created, which has led him to taking on a new Role after the death of Don Varsezzi to unite the Family after the War and take on new responsibilities to help save everything, and make a Profit from it all."
Though this does not describe his full military history and has a collection of inaccuracies within it, this is what is believed occurred and has spurred the Godfather to exist as he does within the World. However to describe the more accurate aspects of his military history, please read the following, from the point after Harpy's company-which would eventually become Grand's company. Finished their first month of active duty service holding a French defensive point during what would later become known as the Battle of the Somme.
After Harpy's company had moved back to HQ Nottingham from their forward position upon the Somme, they would go on to win numerous battles and be forced to route only Once, by their own American General. It was unfortunate to Harpy's Company, then Grand's Company as Corporal Grand was elevated to the rank of Sgt. then presented with a field Commission to the rank of Captain, alongside Privates Arthur and Quartermaster Grey who were each presented distinguished service Medals upon their dress uniforms, while Captain Mortem would receive Distinguished Service Medals of varying calibers. Private Smokey and Private Ginny each were presented Distinguished Service Medals and elevated to the rank of Sgt. to Smokey, and Lt. to Ginny, while the Quartermaster Grey would be granted the rank of Sergeant alongside Arthur.
The American General John J. Perishing viewed Grand's Company as a "Mobile Fort" and granted their emblem the Bastion Emblazon, being depicted as a Castles wall without any breaks within it and requested that they hold the line at another remote Outpost within the Somme line. After Four Months of grueling combat, the Order was received to Captain Mortem for his Company to go over the top and take the German Defensive Line as it was believed that they had abandoned their post due to German War Efforts shifting. Instead the Germans had fortified which led to the massacre of a large portion of Captain Mortems' soldiers and the routing of the rest. Captain Mortem was notably flung into the air by way of a stray Artillery shell that launched him into a Mud Trap created from weeks of rain and dirt collecting together. The report here becomes unclear as the Captains body was recovered by a lone French Rifleman out in No Man's Land retrieving the corpses of the dead for proper burial rites. It was here that this French fighter, Samuel. Found the Captains Body and aided him back to the American Line. It was here that the Captain's eyes were notably changed, believed to be due in part to the gunpowder and asphyxiation of the Mud, causing his eyes to turn black and his eyes iris to turn yellow with presumed Jaundices, though these stories are as of yet unconfirmed.
The Captain Mortem was relieved of duty come the end of war due to his exceptional efforts during the various battles and skirmishes he fought within that he received an Honorable Discharge, and was shipped back home on an American transport ship to where he now resides within Babylon City, where his family greeted him with open arms, and stories to tell.
=Trivia=
* Grand has gone on record to say, "He would die for his cats, if ever they were to come into harms way he would happy die for them."
* Grands favorite Flavor of Ice cream is Vanilla.
* Grand only has one weakness and it's AGH
=Links=
*Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/grandvitamortem
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