Vladimir Salvatore

Vladimir Salvatore or better known as his villain alias, "**Greed**" is a villain that has built a reputation as one of the best thieves in the world and has accumulated both great fortune and infamy. He is described as a ghost, with no record of his existing and lives through the countless aliases he has developed or stolen over the years. While next to none know what his true identity is or have seen his actual face, the name of his actions is well known all throughout Europe.

## Appearance

Vladimir has long black hair that perfectly matches his eyes. He's a tall and well built young man, under his clothes are the results of intense and heavy workouts and scars from the countless missions he's been in. His main outfits are composed of fancy and incredibly expensive suits, usually three pieced suits, with different colored long-sleeved shirts and black necktie from underneath. But what remains is his black fedora which he changes the different colored stripes. Vladimir also hates having to wear masks or hide his identity but when he does he wears a black medical face mask. Despite his affliction to masks, he is skilled as using his disguises at its fullest capability, so while he can tolerated it, he doesn't enjoy it.

## Personality

Vladimir is a naturally cool and calm individual usually breathing an air of someone in completely control. This is seen a lot on his usual demeanor when talking to others as he does so with a tone of complete confidence and a smug grin. Whether in the midst of a chaotic heist or during a casual conversation, he exudes an aura of complete control. The only time this isn't fully felt is when he's fully delved into any persona he is using at that moment.He can suppress his feelings and operate with a logical and rational mindset, even in the most emotionally charged situations. This emotional resilience gives him a significant edge in high-stress scenarios.

Without a doubt, Vladimir has etched his alias of "**Greed**" as that of the best thieves in the world and as a true legend of the underworld. Greed boasts an impeccable track record that spans over a decade of activity. He has executed countless heists, leaving a trail of baffled authorities behind him, as thievery is not just a criminal pursuit; it's an art form. He approaches each heist with the precision of a master craftsman, meticulously planning every detail and planning for as many contingency. On record he's robbed around twelve federal banks single handedly, along with multiple jewelry stores before the age of twenty. This brings him back to why he was originally called, "Greed", he had a thirst for as much wealth he could build. But at his core, while his initial motivation may have been greed for wealth, Vladimir's thirst for attention has grown into a consuming desire. He revels in the headlines, the news reports, and the public's fascination with him. After the first few robberies he couldn't deny how much he enjoyed the attention and began to leave behind blank cards as his calling card, provoking the world even more as a silent taunt.

Greed possesses a unique form of intelligence that sets him apart. While not the conventional book-smart individual, his sharp wit, keen intuition, and street-smarts him a formidable thinker. He approaches every decision with meticulous consideration, always weighing the risks and rewards. Whether him knocking out specific guards while keeping others simply distracted to make the best use of his time or making the right contacts/grease up the right palms to make his plans all the more efficient. During a jewelry heist where escape routes were limited, Vladimir had placed vehicles at strategic locations throughout the city. Whenever the police closed in on him he would cleverly switch cars, slowly losing groups of cops, before suddenly finding himself driving without even the slightest hint of blue and red behind him.

In a high-stakes standoff with law enforcement, Vladimir's emotional detachment became evident. As the sirens wailed and tensions ran high, he remained cool and collected, outmaneuvering the police at every turn. This ability to maintain a steely resolve under pressure has earned him the nickname "The Ice Thief."

While Greed doesn't seek leadership, he is often the unspoken authority within his team. For instance, during a complex infiltration mission, his team members turned to him for guidance on the best approach. Vladimir quietly and effectively directed their actions, demonstrating his leadership. He issued precise instructions that enabled each team member to play to their strengths, resulting in a successful operation. During negotiations with a large crime syndicate, Vladimir's charisma and cool resolve led the discussions. Despite his initial reluctance, he emerged as the de facto spokesperson for his team, using his persuasive abilities to get what they were after without the need of violence.

Vladimir could care less about the world that surrounds him and declares, "It could all burn down tomorrow so long as I die a life of fame and fortune, I will be satisfied." Even viewing his team and employers as a "pass time" or "tools for work", seeing no value to them outside of how they benefit him.

## Battle Prowess

### Abilities

* **Exemplary Thief:** While he was stuck growing up without any formal education outside what he gained until the age of nine, Vladimir became an expert at planning. He understood what he had to do and with both his innocent appearance and his then limited quirk Vladimir was anble to become an adept thief. By the age of twelve he had robbed enough to support himself and his mother. By the age of twenty two he became "World Class" as he kidnapped the President Of Italy, successfully holding him for ransom. Despite the best attempts of heroes and law enforcement, Vladimir was able to escape and made his way to America with the massive fortune he had gathered. Whether its a bank, museums amd even Hero Agencies to reclaim evidence for clients.
* **Cognitive Empathy**:Throughout the years Vladimir was able to develop a form of empathy, or at least being able to understand others and their personality, reading them clearly. This was to help him as he could better tell when others were lying to him or giving him false information. He uses this to read how one's feeling to better manipulate them into getting what he wants out of them. Using this skill he could easily gain one's trust, enter their house and silently kill them to rob their home.
* **Expert Marksmanship**:While he does maintain a decent body build, Vladimir prefers to use guns. Not just for their range but because of the sounds they emit. He could fire silent bullets from his pistol landing headshots almost every time. His marksmanship is usually called super human for how rarely he misses.

### Quirk

Sound Edit: Sound Edit is an Emitter type Quirk allows Vladimir to change the way sounds travel through the air. This allows him to change sounds, for instance, he can change what his voice sounds like, being able to turn a whisper to a grossly loud and powerful uproar. Because of his quirk he can modify his voice with a wide range of pitches, tones, and accents, making him capable of mimicking anyone's voice with uncanny accuracy. Along with mimicking he uses this mechanic to enhance his personas, or when on the job it is allowing him to infiltrate enemy ranks or elude capture by confusing pursuers. Vlad can make a gunshot sound like a thunder clap, deafening countless people in an instant while remaining unaffected as he simply shut any sound down within his personal bubble. With its wide area of effect, altering sound around him to suit his needs. Making a distracting sound to break peoples focus, altering voices of enemies to confuse or distract them, or just have himself and others move around silently, muting their footsteps and movements. This also gives Vladimir an advantage against any sound-based Quirks.

However, the more be does alter sound, it causes vibrations to go through his bones. While only moderately at first the louder or more drastic he changes sounds the more aggressive these vibrations get. The louder or quieter the sound originally does affect how much he can alter it. Vlad also admits that he cannot make a sound completely muted as sound still needs to exist to be edited.

### Stats

Vladimir's stats, according to the Official Character Book
## Equipment

Vlad owns many different weapons with an entire armory inside all of his houses. On person he carries few weapons (with many more being changed in and out) such as

* **Mano di Dio**: A set of black and modern Sedgley OSS .38 gloves.
* **Sognatrice:** A heavily modified **CZ 75** pistol made to be able to release combustion rounds. It is also capable of pacing enough power to send a bullet through a ten inch thick steel wall.
* **Gioco di prestigio**: A collapsible gun hidden on his forearms on each arm. When they're in use they slide right into his hands. Each gun having an extended clip.
* **Stridio**: A set of five disks. One locks on and attaches to the target acting as a beacon and attracting the other four. The other four release powerful sonic blasts, each capable of bringing down an entire house without Vlad's quick enhancing it. When enhanced with his quirk they're capable of shredding through an entire apartment complex.

## History

When he was born Vladimir’s mother gave him the name Vladimir to inspire power and strength to her son. Vladimir was born into a rather poor family and natives to Taormina. While there his family only barely managed to get by with his mother unemployed and sick while his father was a heavy alcoholic only barely getting money through mugging other drunks or unsuspecting people. In his early childhood Vladimir would frequently try his best to attend school and take care of his mother, both proved to be a challenge as his classmates would mock him for wearing the same clothes everyday without washing them, only changing twice a week due to the lack of clothing and lack of cleaning materials. Taking care of his mother was a challenge as his family could not afford her medications and their poor living conditions only made her health worse.

Eventually a mafia family saw the poor and meek child, asked him if he needed help to which Vladimir said “Yes”. He informed them of his problems from his living conditions, his mother’s disease and his father’s refusal to work and alcoholism. The following week his father was beaten down and threatened that if he were to step into any nearby bar then the same mafia family would ensure he “wouldn’t be able to walk to check his mail”. This only caused more problems at home as from then on, now separated from his alcohol Vladimir’s father went through intense withdrawals and became an abusive man, not just verbally or emotionally but also very physically. On bad days his father would beat Vladimir down to the floor breaking his nose twice and giving him black eyes almost as soon as one would heal and on “good days” he would only yell and slap Vlad. This would go on for about two months. Until Vladimir came into contact with the same gangster and explained his father’s abuse, which only prompted the gangster to “Take care” of the problem. A week later Vlad’s father and the gangster were both found dead.

At only the age of nine Vladimir became fatherless, also losing his gangster benefactor. He was now alone and still had to take care of his sick mother which only made going to school even harder. One day he was caught stealing food from other students and was kicked out of the school. Alone and poor he followed in his father’s footsteps and began a life of stealing.

He would regularly break the law using his unnatural tricky intellect and innocent appearance to disarm people causing them to lower their guard around him. While only slightly knowing what his quirk could do he would after his foe’s guard was down amplify his scream to the point he would rupture their eardrums and make them pass out. Efficiently robbing them and permanently making them deaf. Slowly this would allow him to better take care of his mother and actually be able to live. At the age of twelve he had refined the rough skills he had, training his quirk despite the laws in place meant to prevent him form doing so, along with learning and researching other thieves. He at this point, despite the young age, had fully accepted he wouldn't be attending school and gave up on any real formal education.

At the age of fifteen Vladimir made a drastic mistake and had both robbed and killed a very influential member of a mafia family. This would lead the family to exact revenge by burning Vlad’s home not knowing that his mother was still bedridden and died in said fire. Now completely alone with no real family he placed his hand in his pockets and felt the many five hundred euro notes, creating his own philosophy of “All people die. All families die. What is certain is i was born for power, fame and most importantly money.”

By the age of eighteen and with a masterful use of his quirk, Vladimir began robbing jewelry stores, small banks and businesses without a second thought. Not even the fear of a mafia family scared him as he single handedly not just robbed them but killed around half of their top members including their boss. With many new stories covering his exploits were sweeping all of Italy it only fed into his ego making him up the ante and rob larger banks leaving behind a blank poker card at all his crimes.

At the age of twenty two he had his final act of crime in Italy by kidnapping the President of Italy for a ransom of ten million euros and because he wanted to “prove he could rob anything or anyone”. This plan worked and now with his unquenchable greed for fame and money he left with this fortune and infamy traveled to America.

### New land, New life

With Vlad now arriving to America and still with his identity in tact he bought a loft in New York City to settle himself. He had no intent on shutting down operations but realized he could walk into banks and scout them out alone. So on the eve of his first heist, he found a small bar just near Central Park that served favorite kind of Scotch. He ordered a glass 'neat and took a look at his phone to examine the picture of the bank he took. Without paying attention he grabbed a glass and drank from it and quickly noticed something else was pressing against his lips, an orange slice. It was here when he noticed someone chuckling looking at him, a brunette by name of Maria. The two would kick off their night together by talking, Maria explaining she's half Italian and half french, she came to America for a fresh start of identity. When she asked why Vlad came to America he simply says, 'I guess you could say for the same. Just new identity and a new life to take from'.

Vlad would end the night after his third glass of scotch and went home. He didn't say much about his life earlier when speaking with her and instead talked around her, simply giving general answers to any questions she had for him. The next day he went to do the heist he had planned to do, which went off flawlessly. Going out to celebrate with a drink at the same bar, he would again meet up with Maria by accident. The two recognized one another and talked again with her giving Vlad her phone number.

A few weeks later Vlad couldn't shake off what he had been feeling for her. While in the middle of a heist her image came to his mind. While fighting a hero he almost didn't kill them because she made a comment of him 'being a good man'. This comment would almost lead him to making mistakes with jobs. Each time they met the more he wanted to see her again. Slowly he began to take longer breaks between jobs and refused to do them in the city he was living in. When he met with Maria again he confessed his feelings of love for her and she in turn replied a single soft kiss, gently pulling his hand for a walk in a snow covered park. So the two started to date eventually leading to them moving in together after a few months. When she would ask how Vlad could afford the life he has, he simply mentions his family owned a few banks in Italy. Even through the months he spent with her were beautiful, it never stopped him from doing his 'Job'. Surprisingly, it became harder for him to do so. Vlad could no longer just kill someone for denying him something. He struggled more to commit jobs over the next two years as he got closer to Maria.

The two would tie the knot and get married on their second year anniversary. Maria eventually got pregnant with a daughter. This lead to Vlad deciding he could no longer keep this way of life on after his child is born. So his choice was to steal and rob everything and anything he could. To build an even greater fortune he ever had so he would never have to break the law again.

During the third year Vlad was on a job on the other side of the country in California, when Maria went into premature labor. This would be the job where he was intercepted by a hero. With him occupied and unable to abandon the heist he could only pray and ask for everything to go well. Vlad's wife was sadly caught in a bad accident on the way to the hospital as her taxi was met with a charging truck. Sadly this caused Vlad to lose both with his daughter and wife on the same day.

### Greed

Vlad struggled with his lost. He couldn't kill anyone for revenge as the other driver also passed away from the accident. Vlad was left with blaming and being angry at himself. He paid to have his wife buried back in France with her family. He would then disappear from New York and clean any loose ends that connected him back to his life there. His heart no longer feeling anything but pain, he decided that all what was left for him to do was to build a fortune, the one thing he could think till gave his life some type of purpose. Vlad's death count only rose, as in the first three months after their passing he killed more than 300 people. He picked up a bad smoking habit since their death as it would help numb his thinking.