Vince McInnes

McInnes’s statue.

**Vincent Royston McInnes** (August 19, 1989- June 5, 2014), nicknamed "**Moth**", was a Alabaman officer who fought during the Sardinia Dispute and Sidon-Saudi War, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general. He tragically took his own life in 2014, after killing his father, Gen. Matthew McInnes, who served from 1989-2014. He is the inspiration of Vaggie, a character on *Hazbin Hotel.*

McInnes was born the first son of Daria (nee Young), an officer, and Matthew Ephraim McInnes, a general who had fought in World War III at the Battle of Beijing in 1996, and was soon followed by three younger brothers, Josiah (1990-2023, killed during the Battle of Helena), Nathaniel (1991-) and Anthony (1993-), with two of his brothers fighting in the Sidon-Saudi War. His mother died from childbirth when he was five. Growing up in the slums of New Orleans, and later El Salvador, McInnes and his brothers were continually subjected to physical and sexual abuse by their domineering father, Matthew. He loved his brothers unyieldingly, with them being the only positive things in his life, and was incredibly protective of them, trying to shield them from their father's abuse. When McInnes was 13, his father forced him into underage prostitution to support their family's financial problems.

McInnes later took to the military, and graduated from West Point in the class of 2005, commissioned in the infantry.

During the Battle of Jerusalem, McInnes legion's performance was fatally handicapped by a breakdown in relations at all levels; within the other legions during this period McInnes's relationship with his subordinate Cletus Greer, had deteriorated completely. Of his performance in the action, the stand by 150th Legion, and the breakout by 50th Legion are notable, while the low point was the loss of Gaza with its entire garrison during the withdrawal to Egypt. His legion was able to withdraw in good order to the Clymene position and was instrumental in fighting the Sidonese to a standstill there.

On June 5th, 2014, Vince and his father, Gen. Matthew McInnes, got into a heated argument which led to his father assaulting him. During the assault, Vince fought back, which enraged his father and led him to hit him directly in the left eye with a bottle of alcohol, permanently mangling his eye. In a blind panic and unable to compose himself after what had happened, Vince grabbed a kitchen knife and killed Matthew after he continued to attack him by brutally driving the knife into his head, and through his brain. Unbeknownst to Vince, his brothers watched the entire encounter after hearing the commotion, and, having not seen what occurred prior, believed that Vince murdered their father. A battered and panicked Vince tried to explain what had happened, but his brothers were too afraid and distraught to listen to him. The authorities soon arrived and decided that Vince had murdered his father, and took him into custody.

While in custody, an officer took the time to mock Vince by saying that he would never see his brothers again and that they hated him for killing their father. This left him incredibly distraught. Thinking that he would likely never see his brothers again and they would forever hate him, Vince McInnes took his own life that night by hanging himself, ending his tragic and short life. He was 25.