Vincent Brooks

Vincent Brooks is the protagonist of Catherine and its remastered version Catherine: Full Body.
Vincent is a 32-year-old man working as an engineer for a technology company based in the American space colony of Neo-Brooklyn. Vincent is someone who prefers to drift aimlessly in his life and lacks any greater ambitions or life goals to go further. In other words, he wants to remain easy-going, riskless, carefree, and simple. However, his life is about to change for better or worse.
He was voiced by in Japanese and in English.
==Appearance==
Vincent is a man with curly short black hair, gray-blue eyes, and a little bit of facial hair or a stubble. 
He wears a tan jacket with "Italian Stallion Rider Equipment Since 2009" on the left shoulder. There is vertical red, white and green stripes on the front left side, representing the flag of Italy. Underneath his jacket, Vincent wears a pink t-shirt with RA💘E on it. He wears dark red-brown pants and brown dress shoes.
While at home or in the Nightmares, he wears nothing but white boxers with pink polka dots. When he becomes sucked into the nightmares, he has grown ram horns.
==Personality==
Vincent Brooks is a textbook bachelor: His room is a terrible mess, he has difficulty with commitment, and he spends almost all his free time having fun with friends. Despite being extremely devoted, he is weak willed, and he's shown to be a very prolific liar under pressure as the love triangle forces him to spin an increasingly shoddy web of lies to keep the women from discovering each other. Depending on the player's actions, he will lie more often or less often, depending on who he is trying to keep in his life.
Orlando mentions that Vincent's always been popular with girls, even in elementary, and that Catherine is his "third" romance (the first two being grade school romances, and then Katherine). Justin also mentions that some men seek women who will put them in their place, even without realizing it; this would explain why both women in Vincent's life are very dominant and controlling. Even so, Vincent knows how to please women and be a good boyfriend, which was what endeared Katherine to him when they started dating.
Vincent's a fairly perceptive friend but doesn't seem to know his limits or boundaries in conversations. He can be highly confrontational toward others, even getting physical at his breaking point. He's also very blunt toward Erica about her issues and tends to snap at people when they patronize him. He's an active drunk, often spending an entire night drinking at the Stray Sheep before going home and drinking more beer. This causes him to have constant hangovers and memory blackouts, which usually involve him (apparently) calling Catherine over for "company," which he claims not to remember at all.
==Story==
===Early life===
Ever since childhood, Vincent has a circle of friends that have stayed with him through much of his life: Katherine McBride, Orlando Haddick, Erica Anderson, Jonny Ariga and Paul Miller. Initially however, Vincent and Katherine's friendship was antagonistic, as Vincent and Orlando would often steal and eat Katherine's lunch. Though it upset her, she began giving Vincent some her snacks, indicating that she had a crush on him as a child. From that point on, Vincent stayed close to his friends as much as possible including his high school years.
10 years ago, Vincent and Katherine met again during a high school reunion. Afterwards when she was depressed, Vincent ran to her side in the middle of the night and comforted her. He found out that she was having dating problems and started to give her advice but ended up falling for her himself. While seemingly romantic, Erica theorizes that Katherine only started dating him because her maternal instincts and dominant personality wouldn't allow her to leave a slacker like Vincent alone.
Despite being officially engaged, Vincent and Katherine don't live together for unknown reasons (possibly because of their workplace commutes), although she occasionally visits him to see how he's doing and drop off snacks.
The two have been in a steady relationship for the past 5 years, though Vincent isn't interested in taking it to the next level, and Katherine's parents have started to pressure her to marry. This doesn't sit well with Vincent, who is comfortable with their current standing and is afraid to fully commit to their relationship.
===The Nightmares===
Vincent starts the game being plagued with nightmares, where he is forced to climb a tower and face a different boss every night. These nightmares are the basis of a rumor circulating around the city about a curse known as "The Woman's Wrath." This curse is known to have killed a friend of Vincent's, Paul.
He begins by having a confrontation with Katherine about his unpaid overtime, as she is upset at him for his inability to stand up for himself. Katherine then brings up the possibility of both of them getting married. He dodges both issues and escapes to the Stray Sheep, where he complains to Toby, Jonny and Orlando about how he wants things to just stay the same.
When they leave and he continues drinking, he is approached by Catherine, who seduces him with the thought that she's a girl who is just as terrified with commitment as him and wants nothing more than her freedom. He later wakes up next to her with no recollection of anything that happened. She quickly leaves before he can tell her he's already in a relationship, and he spends the rest of his day discussing the affair and how he should handle it with his friends.
As time goes on, Vincent keeps desperately finding ways to avoid both women finding out about each other, despite many close calls. Each night, he finds himself waking up next to Catherine. At one point, Katherine asks him to meet her for lunch for an important piece of news, where she tells him she thinks she's pregnant. Although stunned, he takes slight comfort in knowing nothing is certain yet. This doesn't last long, as Katherine soon tells him (while Catherine is secretly in his apartment) that she actually is pregnant.
One morning he awakens to a threatening phone call from a man named Steve Delhomme, who explains that he is Catherine's apparent boyfriend, and demands that Vincent stop seeing her. Frightened by the call but glad to finally have a firm reason to break up with her, he confronts Catherine, who explains she doesn't know anyone named Steve. Vincent then decides Steve must have meant Katherine, and he tries to deal with the implication she is cheating on him before confronting Katherine as well, who also denies knowing a Steve.
Things come to a head when he finally realizes he cannot continue with Catherine and asks her to come to the Stray Sheep. He informs her that he is in a relationship with someone he got pregnant, and wished to tell her earlier, but he had difficulty. Catherine claims that he can continue being with her as long as Catherine is Vincent's "number one", which bothers Vincent. Though hurt and upset, Catherine is still desperate to stay with Vincent, but he says he can't see her anymore, causing her to cry. Catherine tells him "I'm going to die" and goes to the bathroom. Vincent follows her into the bathroom where she takes her anger and sadness out on him physically by beating him. He won't relent and ends up completely breaking things off, despite her protests.
Satisfied about the breakup, he awakens the next morning with no nightmares, no Catherine on his bed, and Katherine is at his door. He happily opens it, when Catherine shows up behind him and greets Katherine offering a cup of coffee; Katherine enters and demands to know what is going on. Katherine attempts to get answers from Vincent; after a heated exchange of insults between the two women, Katherine, due to Vincent's betrayal and Catherine's constant insults of her worthlessness to Vincent and Catherine's superiority to Katherine, snaps with despair and moves over the kitchen sink searching for a kitchen knife while still facing Vincent and Catherine but to no avail as Catherine predicted this and took the knife in advance.
Vincent attempts to calm down Katherine by telling her that he had already called off his affair with Catherine, causing Catherine to snap with rage and jealousy and Catherine blames Katherine for Vincent's confusion. Catherine claims that if Katherine went away, Vincent could finally be free and attempts to kill Katherine with the kitchen knife. Vincent tries to defend Katherine and is cut non-fatally in his right lower rib cage. As Katherine dashes over the coffee table to escape, Catherine grabs Katherine's hair, shoves her to the floor and a struggle begins. Catherine ends up impaling her abdomen while seemingly having the upper hand on Katherine while they are both on the ground. With Katherine hysterical, Vincent pulls her from the room only to emerge in a Nightmare with a monstrous version of Catherine chasing them.
At the end of the Nightmare, Katherine breaks down and admits she cannot continue on after Vincent's lies. He comforts her and tells her his true feelings. Katherine asks Vincent if he still thought about her during the affair, and Vincent says of course he did. After Vincent apologizes to Katherine, Katherine is still reluctant to escape. The area shakes and Katherine falls down, but Vincent jumps to cushion Katherine. Katherine asks Vincent a question but doesn't finish it.
Vincent wakes up again in bed and realizes everything about the entire Katherine and Catherine meeting had been a dream. Katherine is again at his door, this time to break up with him because of the affair and tell him the pregnancy was a mistake. Katherine admits that she found that her pregnancy was a false alarm but didn't tell Vincent sooner despite her relief because she felt that he would leave her. Although she knew her mistakes, she was incredibly scared because his reactions didn't increase her confidence in him, making her question if he would rather leave her with the baby in order to not have to deal with the stress and commitment of being a father. Although Vincent claims he was happy about the news of her "pregnancy", Katherine is saddened because she isn't entirely convinced. Despite his best efforts to stop her, Katherine politely yet firmly breaks up with him and leaves his apartment. Devastated, he sinks into a depression.
Vincent, describing his troubles to Orlando, discovers that all of Catherine's contact information and SMS messages (including several revealing photographs) have inexplicably disappeared from his phone. This leads his friends to admit that none of them have ever met or seen her and causes him to doubt his sanity. Vincent, seeking evidence that Catherine exists, remembers that the only other person he ever heard her speak to: the bartender of the Stray Sheep, Thomas "Chop" Mutton, who accidentally reveals himself to be the orchestrator of the entire recurring-nightmare situation if not Mesopotamian shepherd god Dumuzid. "Catherine" is a succubus working with him, who takes the form of each man's ideal woman, to tempt him into cheating and test their loyalty to their partner so that they can procreate more children for the human race. Moreover, Dumuzid tells Vincent that he is responsible for birth by causing his mother to end up with her husband. 
Vincent makes a deal with him to return voluntarily to the nightmare landscape and climb the final levels of the tower, in return for which Mutton will release all other captive men. Vincent, having mastered block climbing techniques, is able to win.
As the main protagonist of Catherine, Vincent's story can result in him ending up with one of his three potential love interests or choosing to find his own path in life.
==Trivia==
*Vincent is named and modeled after Vincent Gallo's character Billy Brown from the film Buffalo 66. 
*Vincent's drink of choice is a variation of the Cuba Libre known as Rum and Coke (Rum and Cola in game). It is essentially the same thing as the Cuba Libre but without the lime.
*The canned beer he drinks at home is labelled "Atlus Beer," a reference to Atlus (the company that developed Catherine).
*Due to his interest in computers and cell phones, Vincent could be considered something of a nerd. At one point in the game, Katherine accuses him of wasting his money on electronic devices that he doesn't really need.
*Vincent is very interested in space travel, and dreams of paying for a ride on a space shuttle but fears that he will never be able to earn enough money to afford it. A space tourism poster can be seen hanging on the wall in his apartment.
*Vincent has a brief appearance in Persona 3 Portable as "Man Drinking Alone", where he briefly talks about his nightmares to Makoto Yuki or Kotone Shiomi. In P3P, he is drawn with a mole under his left eye, while he has no mole in Catherine.
*On the side of his shirt, the number 2009 is on there, an easter egg regarding his appearance in Persona 3 Portable.
*Interestingly, Vincent's plot between Katherine and Catherine represents one of the tales of the Lovers Arcana, where a man is seen talking with two women: one young and blonde (Catherine), and the other one black-haired and more mature looking (Katherine). Both of them are dressed the same (red and blue), with a cherub sitting in a star waiting to shoot one of his arrows at one of them. This represents the dilemma of choosing between physical desire (Catherine) or the romantic and intellectual attraction (Katherine).
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