Vinny

*"Vinny is a former DIK. He left the DIKs sometime the year before I arrived. He's been described as wild and polarizing."*

**Vinny** is a drug dealer, criminal, former student at Burgmeister & Royce and former member of The DIKs. Together with Nick, they were the first pledges to the fraternity, joining one week after it was founded by Rusty and Tommy. A year before the events of Being A DIK, Vinny left the The DIKs for reasons not yet revealed. He is still occasionally mentioned in passing by other students. With Tybalt, Dawe and Patrick, he is one of the antagonists of the game. He is currently working as a drug dealer, reporting to Buddy.

## Physical Appearance

Vinny is a young man with brown eyes and brown hair in a high-top haircut. He's tall and thin, easily standing taller than his DIK brothers during his time with the fraternity.

In present day, Vinny looks noticeably more disheveled, having grown a beard since dropping out of college.

## History

### **Episode 5 Flashback**

Vinny was first seen in a flashback scene with Nick checking out the DIK fraternity, and he pushes his way past Tommy after talking to him. He then takes the initiative and starts dictating ideas to Rusty and Tommy. He finds the library and immediately starts trashing it and declares it his living quarters.

A year before the events of Being A DIK, Vinny left the DIKs for reasons not yet revealed. He is still occasionally mentioned in passing by other students. He would regularly challenge Tommy's authority when it came to his position as Vice President, arguing that a week's difference did not entitle Tommy to give him orders. It's been implied that the two never got on and one flashback shows them on the verge of fighting; it is even implied that they had a violent fistfight during a party, and this was one reason why Vinny left.

### **Episode 9**

Vinny eventually dropped out as he only went to college to party and never took academics seriously. Vinny is now apparently working in the same drug organization as Quinn, reporting to Buddy. He makes an appearance at the Halloween party, where he is seen wearing a bird mask, and trying unsuccessfully to access and rob the safe in Rusty's room. He also speaks with Quinn about the drug dealing business and references their shared history. He later gets into a confrontation with the MC, flashing a gun and referring to himself as the founder of the fraternity.

### **Episode 10**

We see Vinny again while MC is waiting for Quinn outside. Vinny whistles, and he appears, referring to MC as a dog again, keeping up this relationship dynamic. Vinny talks, and MC says nothing, clenching his fist- and then Vinny walks off to Buddy's drug den.

In Buddy's drug den, once Quinn has received her percentage cut of her drug sales, Vinny appears, and Buddy is not pleased to see him, saying he is not supposed to be there until Sunday. Vinny wants to talk with Buddy, and he starts inquiring into Quinn's relationship and her performance. Buddy is reluctant to divulge any details, but he does mention some new customers Quinn picked up- the Pink Rose girls, those being Vinny's former customers. Although Buddy does not explicitly say who they are, Vinny figures this out.

At the end of the episode, Riona, one of Quinn's HOT sisters and her main accomplice in her illicit activities is walking back presumably to the HOTs house at night on campus, but is then forcibly abducted by Vinny and an accomplice after identifying him, and is thrown into the back of a blue van, before the van drives off.

## Personality and Traits

Vinny has been said to be wild, living his life on the edge, at full throttle. His "best friend" Nick tells MC that Vinny was someone who would party even harder than the rest of the already-excessive DIKs, which led him to quickly becoming their most polarizing member. "You either loved the guy or you hated his guts." During Vinny and Nick's "Gay security guard challenge" part of Hell Week, a challenge where DIKs doing Hell Week had to run past a security guard naked and masked Vinny did this challenge without a mask, and drank 2 keg stands of beer instead of one. He is also assertive and ambitious, has a dominant personality and doesn't seem to care about the feelings of others.

He frequently clashed with Tommy while he was in the DIKs, with the pair both being hot-headed, narccisistic and looking to exert their dominance. But Tommy, although temperamental is not a bad person, whereas Vinny is psychopathic, morally bankrupt, dangerous, edgy and violent. With all his flaws, Tommy does not stoop to committing felonious crimes- whereas Vinny is shown to regularly stoop to that level with his drug dealing, his attempted robbery of the DIKs vault, his assault of the MC with the butt of a handgun and his most recent kidnapping of a college student. But in Episode 9, while trespassing in his former room, depending on MC's reaction to Vinny shoving him against a bookcase, Vinny can merely threaten MC with a handgun, or pull out a handgun and hit MC in the face with the butt of it, if MC punches him in the face. Quinn later warns the MC to stay away from him. Meanwhile Buddy says that he outperforms Quinn in drug sales, but by Episode 10 this seems to have changed in Quinn's favor.

## Relationships

### **Buddy's drug syndicate**

#### **Buddy**

Buddy's relationship with Vinny is strictly business, and it is implied that Buddy does not like Vinny for obvious reasons. Vinny seems to be lower on the peking order with Buddy than Quinn, and Buddy seems to respect Vinny less, and he has known Quinn since she was a girl. He is also annoyed by Vinny's attempts to gather information about Quinn from him and his inquiring of their distributor Mick's activity.

#### **Quinn**

At the Episode 9 Halloween Party it is strongly implied that Quinn and Vinny not only knew each other when he was at B&R, but they had a sexual relationship in the past, though Quinn appears to now dislike Vinny and wants nothing to do with him.

##### **Riona**

Vinny's relationship with Quinn's accomplice Riona before he kidnapped her is unknown, but after this abduction it is likely very antagonistic and violent on his end.

### **DIKs**

#### **Nick**

Nick was Vinny's maggot brother when they were pledging into the DiKs fraternity. Nick was walking with Vinny when they got to the DIKs mansion for the first time. Because of Vinny's departure, Nick almost never sees Vinny anymore, as their lives have gone separate ways.

#### **Tommy**

Vinny and Tommy had a poor relationship that turned violent, thanks to their similar dominant, ambitious and edgy personalities. It is heavily implied that after Vinny again challenged Tommy's leadership, Tommy snapped and they had a fight during one of the DIKs parties. But later on, when Tommy starts buying from Vinny, the relationship seems to have relaxed, and the goings-on with MC at the DIKs mansion and the attention it has attracted from outside parties has gotten Vinny's attention to the point where he sees an opportunity to deal on Quinn's territory.

#### **Main Character**

During Episode 9, MC returns to his room only to find Vinny in it, trashing the room. MC confronts him, and then Vinny starts talking about how the library used to be his room. Upon hearing this, MC immediately recognizes this strange figure as Vinny, and after MC tells him what he knows about Vinny and his time at the DIKs fraternity, he tells him to leave. The situation turns violent when Vinny challenges MC's authority, which MC can respond by either punching him (DIK), telling him off (Neutral), or not doing anything (Chick). If he chooses the Chick option, the MC does nothing, and then Vinny then chastises the MC. If the Neutral option is chosen, then the MC tells Vinny off, and Vinny then threatens him with a handgun he has on him. But if the DIK option is chosen, MC immediately punches Vinny in the face, and then Vinny retaliates by pulling out a handgun and hitting MC in the face. Then, Tommy comes in and escorts him out without Vinny resisting. So MC's relationship with Vinny is antagonistic and potentially violent thus far.