Vinny

"*I’m bad*"

🎬Vinny Romano🎬

He/Him ✸ Human ✸ Blacklot Stunt Coaster guardian

**Vinny G. Romano** is an adult male human who is the current guardian of the Blacklot Stunt Coaster at Kings Island. Infamous for his poor acting skills and stupidity, his fellow ride guardians have everything but fond feelings towards him, despite what he tells himself. Before his time at Kings, Vinny worked as a z-movie actor and was raised in a neglectful household by his mother after his father left them when he was young. While he appears to be nothing but an arrogant narcissist with a massive ego, he only wants praise and attention as he willingly puts himself into dangerous situations just to get what he was never given as a child. He has gotten many injuries over the years because of these stunts and is extremely self-conscious of his intelligence as well as himself in general, although only a few guardians know this.

One can often find him performing stunts in front of his coaster or showing off one of his cars to the racers; when he isn’t in the E.R, that is.

## Character Information

### Occupation

Ride guardian for Backlot Stunt Coaster / Actor (formerly) / Student (formerly)

### Relatives

Gianna Romano (mother) / Silas Romano (father)

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Appearance
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Personality
* Not very smart, at all. Probably due to the brain injuries
* Seems very full of himself and doesn’t think before he acts
	+ Really just wants people to notice him and give him praise
* Not a lot of people like him, they find him annoying
* Extremely sensitive
* Enjoys action movies a lot, watches them during his free time
* Loves his job. Whenever he’s doing stunts near his ride or whatever and sees some kid going “woah, he’s so cool!!” He gets very happy :)

History
Vinny’s parents were two Californian kids in love. His mother, Gianna, fell for Silas, his father, during their senior year in high school. Their relationship was stable at first, the two genuinely loving each other, and remained so until a couple of years after they married. They were still fairly young, in their early twenties, and, of course, this caused some problems.

Gianna found herself with a child one cold December day and, much to her husband’s dismay, was extremely excited about it. Silas didn’t like the idea of having a child and tried to convince her that she should put it up for adoption after it was born.

Infuriated, Gianna shot down these ideas and, after hours of arguing, managed to convince Silas that they were ready. She was optimistic and knew that they could raise a baby together; unfortunately, that didn’t happen.

While her husband accepted her decision to keep the baby, he still didn’t want to do it and made his distaste towards the idea known by making snide remarks and other subtle comments towards his wife. This indirect criticism of her decision caused a strain on their relationship, the two slowly starting to argue and pick on each other more and more as the months passed. By the time the child was due, the two could hardly stand each other.

Nevertheless, Gianna gave birth to a healthy boy, which she named Vinny in tribute to her great uncle. Silas ended up being fairly fond of him when he was born, but the positive feelings soon evaporated as soon as they got home from the hospital. He hated parenting and the stress that came with it, having to suffer through crying in the middle of the night and the various needs of a newborn. His wife was also obviously struggling as well, but she kept telling herself that they would be able to do it if they stuck together.

Which, as you could’ve probably guessed, didn’t happen.

Shortly after Vinny’s second birthday, his father left. Being a dad was too much on him, so he simply packed up his things, and drove off, not even giving a fake excuse.

His mother did not take Silas leaving well.
She became distant and aloof, having lost all hope as soon as he stepped out the door. She needed him to help her, she was still young and unprepared, and while he was too, they could’ve been parents together if they'd tried.

But he left.

Gianna gave up shortly afterwards, the burdens of being a mother now breaking her back since she had nobody else to share the struggles with, and Vinny slowly started being neglected. All his mother did was give him the bare minimum to survive but otherwise just left him to do what he wanted, resorting to alcoholism to cope with everything.

This “free time”, as she called it, led Vinny to be exposed to many intense action movies that he often watched on the TV while his mother was sleeping. This, alongside his mother not giving him any attention anymore and his father no longer coming home, caused him to start acting out in various over-the-top ways. He didn’t want to just be ignored every day; he wanted his mom to give him attention and be one of those big superstars in action-packed movies on the TV. This lead to him trying out dangerous stunts like playing with matches and rolling out into the road on his tricycle, but Gianna barely noticed and when she did she only gave him a light scolding, usually being too hungover to do much of anything. Vinny gained many small injuries from doing these “performances” but didn’t get anything serious until his first year of school.

His mother was forced to enroll her son into the local primary school, Our Best Hope, when he was four. He skipped preschool and went straight to kindergarten with a teacher whose name he had forgotten.

Since his mother didn’t prepare him at all and he barely knew how to speak, Vinny didn’t do that well. His poor social skills due to not interacting with other kids also showed as he had a hard time making friends and was occasionally picked on for being “stupid”. Feeling awfully sad and left out, he decided he was going to do something so cool it would make everybody cheer for him and want to be his friend.

This stunt went like this: Vinny would climb up onto the roof of the school, ride off on his trike, land, and then drift off into the parking lot.

To him, it was flawless.

A couple of days later he managed to take apart his tricycle (by brutally smashing it against the wall of the garage) and smuggle it into school. At the end of the day he snuck into the stairwell that led up to the roof of the building and quickly assembled it, with no instructions, and made his way up to the hatch. After he crawled out, he shouted out to the waiting pickup kids who he was and what he was going to do.

Everybody looked up, and so did the teachers supervising. They called for him to get down, but he refused, and as soon as one threatened to come up and get him, he set off. The height didn’t scare him; he knew he was going to make it, and he would become the new star of California.

He, obviously, inherited his mother’s habit of being overly optimistic.

The performance failed, the trike falling apart shortly after he got in the air, and Vinny ended up with a traumatic brain injury. He hit his head on the ground, and went unconscious for awhile. When he woke up, he found himself in the emergency room.

His mother was there alongside a couple of the teachers, who were talking to the doctor about what had happened. Gianna was asked multiple questions relating to how she took care of her child and she lied to every single one of them, not wanting to be put in jail, but Vinny couldn’t do anything about it. He felt like he couldn’t speak or think straight, like his brain had been taken out of his skull and replaced with nothing but air.

Eventually the doctors settled on the incident just being the product of an unruly and over-imaginative child and prescribed him some medicine and rest, allowing him to stay out of school for a month or two.

However, his mother had other plans.

Enraged at how idiotic he had been, Gianna refused to give Vinny his medication and yelled at him about how stupid he was. Even going as far as to bring up his father, saying that he was the reason he left them. This worsened both his mental and physical condition, with his head wracked with major headaches and his memory worsening, he would’ve completely forgotten about his father if his mother didn’t keep reminding him. When she calmed down, she hid the medication and went back to neglecting him, wishing he would die.

He didn’t, though, and he was sent back to school after weeks of suffering.

As you could imagine, he didn’t do any better than he did last time. His brain injury made it hard for him to learn and remember new information which only fueled the children’s teasing of his intelligence.

Regardless, Vinny’s dream of becoming an action superstar remained and he continued doing stunts as nothing could kick that dream out of his head. Due to his mother’s verbal abuse, he craved not only attention, but praise from his peers; he wanted somebody to say that he was cool and be nice to him. He had developed self-loathing and confidence issues and all he really wanted was to just feel like he was worth something. He never let anybody know this, though, and acted like he was as cool as he wanted to be, making him seem arrogant and narcissistic.

All of these things combined only made his peers hate him more; he was insufferable to work with and borderline horrendous to be around, not knowing when to shut up and just being extremely annoying in general.

Everybody found his performances to be lame or ridiculous, only sticking around to watch him get hurt and fail. He became known as the “local madman” and was called rather derogatory terms often. Vinny kept trying though, believing he could get better if he kept trying and made it more extravagant, each stunt being more dangerous than the last. He gained more injuries, although none were as serious as his head injury, but refused to visit the E.R, being too scared of what his mother would say if she found out.

Throughout his school years, he was held back multiple times and he dropped out of high school by the time sophomore year rolled around as he was old enough to do so. He had given up on his town and his school, finally realizing that there was nothing for him there, and didn’t bother saying goodbye to his mother since she probably wouldn't have cared anyways. His home life during this time wasn’t nearly as bad as it was when he was younger, as he was somewhat able to take care of himself, usually spending most of his time out of the house performing. But it was still awful, and he couldn’t wait to get away from it and into the limelight. He was going to find himself an acting job and nobody could stop him.

Since he didn’t have a license, he got out of town through hitchhiking, bragging about how he was going to make it big to the nice folks who picked him up until they could barely stand him.

Eventually they kicked him out at a bar, having been fed up with his attitude. Vinny, feeling rather hurt, made his way inside but didn’t buy anything since he had no money (and was too young to drink anyways). He simply just sat by himself and watched one of the televisions, which was playing a football match much to his dismay.

He sat there for awhile in his misery, fake-reading the menu to pretend like he was a patron. He didn’t perk up until a lanky gentleman with his girlfriend came in and started talking about finding the last actor for “the movie”. Seeing it as his big-break, he made his way over to the customers, who were rather surprised when he came up.

He introduced himself and said that he was looking for an acting job and that he couldn’t help but overhear their discussion of a movie. The couple, feeling a bit awkward, said that they were actually looking for an actor for their film, one that could do their own stunts.

Overwhelmed with happiness, Vinny said that stunts were his specialty, but his good mood was quickly put out when they started asking questions and laying down the requirements. They said the actor needed to have some experience under their belt and asked if he had a bachelor's in acting and other things that he had never heard of. Not wanting to lose the opportunity, he lied and said that he had acted in six different movies and went to film school for ten years, saying that he was thirty two instead of eighteen.

(WIP)

Relationships

Parents

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Benjamin Kings

Positive

* Benji cares about him but they’re not super close. Benji basically just checks in one him every once in awhile making sure that he’s okay, asking stuff like “you don’t *want* to hurt yourself, right?” because he’s semi-aware of his situation and tries his best to be nice to him. Vinny wouldn’t know what he’s talking about, of course, but he appreciates his company nonetheless

Trixie

Positive

* Himbo n’ bimbo dynamic :)

Aspen

Positive

* “Did you mom drop you on your head when you’re were a baby?”
	+ “Yes actually! How’d you know?”

The Racers

Positive

* He’s fairly close with them. They find him a little annoying but they like his fancy cars and motorcycles that he has no idea how to properly drive. They spend their free time talking about drag racing and action movies together

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Trivia
* His first name is a reference to Vincent “Vinny” Franzetti, the founder of the Vinesauce streaming community and once of Scroll’s favorite streamers.
	+ Vinny is his (the characters) actual first name and not a nickname, however.
* Him having Italian descent was inspired by the fact Backlot Stunt Coaster was originally themed to the movie *The Italian Job* when Kings Island was still owned by Paramount.
* Vinny was born on August 9th.

Playlist
* Action Movie Hero Boy - Lemon Demon
* Party Mom and Invisible Dad - That Handsome Devil
* Hansel - Sodikken
* Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) - The Offspring
* Sabotage - Beastie Boys
* Woody Allen - AJR

Gallery
Ditto but transparentFeaturing BenjaminFeaturing Oblivion, David, and the Lord of DarknessFurry design concept
Old Design
Featuring BenjaminFeaturing Trixie and AspenFeaturing AspenFeaturing Trixie and AspenConcept. Featuring Josh