Vinny Sabes

Vinny Sabes (voiced by William Saball)

Vinny is one of the three leading protagonists in Obsolete Souls™. Vinny (Vincent) is a mellow fellow that is always being tested, but still finds ways to keep a smile in a bad situation. He doesn't like to fight, but always feels the need to defend someone. His best way to go about it is to avoid confrontation, but somehow bad situations always find him. When Vinny was 6, his parents abandoned him. He was quickly taken in by the Duphaine family, and grew up in the city of Stobon with Dex.  As Vinny got older, he grew more curious about why his parents left him. He quickly learned that it was because they were deeply involved in organized crime, so he stopped looking into it to avoid causing trouble for anyone. Well, at least until Dex found a potential lead on Vinny's parents hiding out in the town of Lestormine years later.  - (*obsoletesouls.com*, 2018)

## Profile

### **Appearance**

Vinny is a young adult with short brown hair, and brown eyes. He wears a soft red hat, and usually lets his hair flow from underneath it. He also wears a dark blue shirt with a bright red jacket sporting white flames along the bottom of it's trim. He wears black gloves, black pants, and some stylish red shoes. Vinny's original outfit before the time-skip

consisted of a green shirt over a black long sleeve undershirt with blue pants, and brown shoes. When Vinny reaches his max power as a Nebrajin he removes his jacket, and becomes surrounded in a hot blue aura as his eye color turns red.

### **Personality**

Vinny is introduced as a mildly timid character, but is adventurous and ambitious enough to take part in the journey to find his missing parents. Vinny tends to stay positive, and maintains a happy appearance in the beginning of the game as well. After facing many treacherous events, and being in constant peril, Vinny slowly begins to change. His pacifist nature drastically changes after Tamara's kidnapping. By the time

Vinny traveled to Belial's Hovel, he seemed to be a completely different person. He became easily angered, pessimistic, and developed a mind for fighting his enemies to the death. By the end of the game his rage and sorrow begin to fully shape his personality.

Since his youth, Vinny has had a strong bond with Dex and the Duphaine family. Along his journey his friendship extended to Aria, and the other Insignificants. Vinny was especially close with Tamara, and his bond with Tamara grew as they trained with Justice during the Span of Distinction. Vinny grew to value his friendship with the other Insignificants over time, but he had a slight dislike for Phalle. There were many characters that Vinny disliked much more than Phalle on the other hand. Vinny was quickly building a friendship with Zach, but after the events on the Cimmerian Vinny began to dislike him. Vinny made friends with Dave, and Dex while they were kids in Stobon. However, after Dave's reveal in Ravinan, and assault on his friend, Vinny developed a strong dislike for Dave which eventually extended to E.R.I.C, and Sheldon. Deep in Vinny's heart he also had a burning hatred for Edge, Dig Furn, and Zadroga.

## Story *(contains spoilers)*

Vinny and Dex reach Lestormine and continue to follow their information on the Sabes' whereabouts. The two of them make the soon to be life changing decision of stopping by the Lestormine Pub upon their arrival. When Vinny and Dex enter the Pub they walk by Dig Furn. After passing Dig Furn they head to the bar, and take a seat next to Edge and Innocent. They have a small conversation about where to stay for the night, and Edge buys them their drinks for 30 minutes. After Vinny and Dex finish their drinks at the pub they head over to an inn at Edge's recommendation. Vinny and Dex enter the inn, and they check into a room with a treasure chest in it. Upon opening the treasure chest they find Sir Adon's corpse stuffed inside. One of the inn staff members sees them open the chest, and immediately leaves to tell authorities that Vinny and Dex have committed murder. Vinny and Dex are quickly apprehended, and placed in the Lestormine prison to await execution.

Due to the King of Lestormine's failure to maintain the quality of the Lestormine prison, Vinny and Dex fall through the floor of their prison cell. They use this opportunity to escape from Lestormine into Acadia. After Vinny arrives in Acadia he accepts that they've become fugitives and pitches the idea of fleeing the Kingdom as a whole. They decide to stay at the inn inside Acadia until midnight, so they can flee in the darkness. However, when Vinny and Dex go to the Acadia inn they encounter Aria and Tosen for the first time. Fortunately for them, Tosen decides that they aren't worth the trouble at this point, and he takes his leave with Aria. Vinny and Dex hide at Acadia's inn until midnight, and then proceed to flee through the night. They come across Dave (an old friend of theirs from Stobon) who is lying in the grass covered in blood. They ask Dave for a boat, and he tells them that their best bet is to find one around Lestormine castle.

Dave travels with Vinny and Dex for a brief moment until the three of them encounter Aria and Tosen. Aria and Tosen chase Dave into the castle, so Vinny and Dex give chase to make sure their friend will be okay (and also to secure the boat). Once inside Vinny and Dex lose track of the others. They wander the castle until they come across Dave, dead, in the castle basement. Vinny and Dex assume Tosen is the assailant. Upon venturing further into the castle, Vinny and Dex meet Aria again. Aria confirms their suspicions of Tosen killing Dave, the three of them battle a fierce spirit known as The End, and then they proceed to escape the castle by jumping into a water chute in the basement. Vinny passes out in the water as it pushes him out into the sea. When he awakens, he finds himself inside the bottom of a ship with a man named Zach.

Vinny befriends Zach and the two of them begin to explore the ship (the Cimmerian). Upon exploring the ship, Vinny and Zach meet Cody, Jane, and Tamara. Tamara tells Vinny that she's been lost at sea for weeks, and that they're low on food. The Cimmerian is then ambushed by a mass of Sea Haegans. After the Sea Haegans are dealt with, a worn vessel steered by Edge and Hope approaches the Cimmerian.  Edge and Hope board the Cimmerian, but they are immediately contested by Cody. Edge strikes fear into the group by killing Cody. After the horrific display Edge begins demanding absurd requests for their ship, and knowledge of the Dauphinius Stone and the Galaxy Kites. Edge willingly lets Vinny, Jane, Tamara, and Zach go to the lower parts of the ship to discuss their next course of action in private. Amidst devising a plan, they are intercepted by Hope as she proposes to help them escape from Edge. However, Jane easily sees through Hope's deception, and the two of them skirmish. Vinny, Tamara, and Zach proceed to the deck of the ship to confront Edge. Once they find Edge, they battle him until the Cimmerian reaches land.

Upon reaching land Edge reveals that he was holding back and just "messing around". Zach uses light gamia to turn invisible, and flee from battling a more serious Edge. As Zach disappears, Jane appears to help Vinny and Tamara battle Edge. Edge easily beats Vinny and Tamara, but Jane proves to be a challenge for him. Hope stops them from fighting any further by telling Edge that they have more important matters to tend to. Edge and Hope sail away with the Cimmerian as Jane helps Vinny and Tamara recuperate. After they get themselves together, Jane takes Vinny and Tamara to her brother Justice. They stay with Justice at an unknown location in Stobon for 3 months. After the Span of Distinction the King of Lestormine makes a public announcement for a "special" speech that he plans to deliver at the Stobon International Center. Vinny and Tamara travel with Justice to the S.I.C to see the speech at Tamara's request.

The event quickly turns into a disaster  after Dex Duphaine is successfully framed for assassinating Queen Taiza on stage. Vinny watches Dex escape the Stobon International Center and quickly pursues him to the docks outside of the city. At the docks Vinny finds Dex with Justice, Tamara, Trent, Aria, and Eli. Justice reluctantly invites everyone inside of his submarine to discuss their current situations before departing to Jervachen. After riding in Justice's submarine, Vinny travels with the group as an Insignificant to Jervachen. Justice leaves the group in Jervachen and tells them to find Titania. Dex leads off to find Titania, so Vinny follows him along with the rest of the group. On their journey to find Titania, the Insignificants are intercepted by the group Litilnumia.

The Insignificants battle with Litilnumia, and in the process Tamara is kidnapped as the rest of the group is defeated. Trent expresses a new urgency in finding Titania. Trent reveals that Titania is their older sister and she is also the Queen of Treblem. With the Queen's help, they believe that they should be able to rescue Tamara. Once the team finds Titania in Treblem, they are all arrested except for Trent. Aria is exclusively released, because Trent uses his ties to Titania to save Aria from potential execution. Aria gets angry with Trent for only speaking on her behalf instead of everybody's, and refuses to stand for what she believes to be injustice. After deeply scolding Trent, Aria was able to have him convince Titania to give Vinny, Dex, and Eli a private hearing for their freedom. Of course, this was with the expectation that Vinny, Dex, and Eli would be processed for execution anyway. However, once Titania learned that they were sent to her castle by Justice, she decided to keep them alive as long as they choose to remain hidden in her castle. Aria and the Insignificants remained in Titania's castle for the day, but fled in the middle of the night after reflecting on the involvement of Titania's kingdom. Vinny continued to travel as an Insignificant to Ravinan castle where he partnered up with Aria to face off against Litilnumia for the 2nd time.

Expecting the King of Ravinan to be behind Litilnumia, Vinny is shocked as he sees Edge sitting in the King of Ravinan's throne. Tension in the throne room escalated quickly as everyone prepared to fight. Before the battle begins, Dave appears and reveals to Vinny that it was actually Aria who stabbed him instead of Tosen. Hope also appears as a member of Litilnumia. Aria and Vinny are badly beaten by 6 fighters in the room. Fortunately Dex, Justice, and Titania enter the throne room in time to save Aria and Vinny. (At this time Trent quietly leaves the scene with Tosen to an unknown location.) A day after the events at Ravinan castle, Aria, Vinny, Dex, and Eli are introduced to Sheldon (a man who claims to be a Zarragorian). Sheldon tells them of a dangerous Zarragorian that plans on returning the universe. This leads to Vinny being tasked with traveling to New Egypt in search of the Dauphinius Stone alongside Dex and Justice.

The three of them quickly take off for New Egypt, and upon their arrival they encounter a merchant that's looking for a jewel thief that apparently stole the Dauphinius Stone. Vinny, Dex, and Justice split up to search New Egypt for the thief. Vinny and Justice come up short in their search, but later Dex brings them to the supposed thief. The thief they find is a girl named Phalle, but Phalle informs them that she's also looking for the thief, because the criminal is actually Phalle's sister. Phalle tells them that her sister most likely escaped to Haytii, so Vinny, Dex, and Justice grab Phalle and leave for Haytii. In Haytii they find Phalle's sister, Empsa, who happens to be a member of Litilnumia. They chase Empsa through Haytii's jungle, and into the tunnels below.

Inside of the tunnels they come across Master Sheehan instead of Empsa. Vinny, Dex, Justice, and Phalle have a battle with Sheehan, but Sheehan gives up after he finds the skirmish to be a waste of time. Sheehan leaves the tunnel, and shortly after the ground underneath Vinny collapses, plunging the 4 Insignificants into darkness. In the darkness they find an abnormal glow coming from a stone in the ground. They believe this to be the Dauphinius Stone, so they take it and return to Stobon. Once they return, all current members of the Insignficants are called together for a meeting by Diderot. At the meeting they meet Kohiid, and learn of Tosen's plan to resurrect Thorg with his siblings. Vinny, not sure of where his close friend Tamara is, had to wait patiently for her to return to Stobon. Diderot, Dex, Jane, and Justice went off to battle Tamara, Titania, Tosen, and Trent to stop the resurrection of Thorg. Fortunately the Duphaine's were successful, and they returned to Stobon with Tamara, Trent, Titania, and Tosen. Vinny along with the other Insignificants gladly reunite with Trent, and Tamara. This also allowed Tamara to reunite with Phalle (who she previously believed was deceased). After Phalle catches up with Tamara, she confronts Vinny about his failure to protect Tamara on the Cimmerian, and his failure to protect Tamara from Litilnumia. This reminds Vinny of the time that Edge referred to him as "someone who doesn't have the power to change things" at Ravinan castle. Vinny wallows in sadness until Diderot calls everyone together for another meeting. This time, Tosen speaks to confirm Sheldon's beliefs of Litilnumia resurrecting the dangerous Zarragorian (Zadroga) into the universe.

Vinny along with the rest of the Insignificants head back to Ravinan for a 3rd battle against Litilnumia. When they reach the Ravinan throne room it twists into a strange area with an open baskor. Vinny and the Insignificants move through the baskor and into Belial's Hovel to search for Litilnumia, but upon entering, the Insignificants become separated. This leads everyone into dangerous situations where they are easily defeated by each member of Litilnumia. Vinny faces off against the cyborg E.R.I.C. Upon being defeated, Vinny is reminded of his failure to defeat his enemies once again. Vinny wakes up on a bed in the Yachtty's recovery room. When Vinny recuperates he learns of Dex's death at the hands of Litilnumia, and sees the horrible conditions of his friends. A few days after his recovery, Jane passes away as well due to her failure to recover from her battle with Titania. Vinny sinks into a deep depression, but some of the pressure is lifted after Dex returns to Stobon from the center-verse.

Now with Dex bearing a new power from Dasphelle, and a revised plan of attack from Diderot and Sheldon, the Insignificants gain enough morale to challenge Litilnumia one last time. Vinny enters Belial's Hovel with the team once again. Vinny faces off against E.R.I.C, but this time he is successful. In E.R.I.C's final moments he tells Vinny that he's too late to stop Zadroga's resurrection. After E.R.I.C's defeat, Vinny meets up with Dex so that the two of them can head to Zadroga's coffin in Belial's Happy Place. Once Vinny and Dex reach Belial's Happy Place they find Aria, Kohiid, and Phalle standing in front of Edge. Vinny and Dex join them and prepare to battle Edge as well. As this is what Vinny truly believes to be his last encounter with Edge, he gathers his thoughts about the events in Lestormine, and realizes that the experience there was too ludicrous to be an act of chance. Edge tells Vinny that he was in Lestormine to meet with Dig Furn at the Pub to close on a deal.

Dig Furn was planning to eliminate the Sabes family, so he could become the new king of the underworld. To make sure that there weren't any loose ends, he needed someone to get rid of their only son, Vinny. Edge caught wind of Dig Furn's plan, and proposed to get rid of Vinny in exchange for Dig Furn's Galaxy Kite. The only issue was that they didn't know how to find Vinny (although Stobon was often suspected), and they had no knowledge of his appearance. Vinny happening to enter the Pub when he did was merely a coincidence. After Edge talked with Vinny and Dex in the Pub, he slowly figured out who Vinny was. Afterwards, Edge told Innocent to tell Hope (who previously murdered Sir Adon for a Galaxy Kite he kept around his neck) to hide Adon's body in the bottom of the Lestormine Inn. Edge has his story cut short by Phalle, and the battle begins. They fight Edge until he is seemingly defeated. Afterwards, Zach enters the Hovel. As Zach enters the Hovel, Edge becomes ecstatic. Zach raises his arms over his head, and in a horrid burst of energy his skin explodes off of his body, and he takes the form of an entirely different man.

It is then revealed that as long as Sheldon has been roaming Earth Alpha, Zadroga has also been roaming Earth Alpha under the guise of Zach. All hope is lost as the remaining Insignificants realize that Litilnumia has successfully completed the resurrection. Zadroga kills Edge, and then proceeds up a long staircase into a twisted darkness. Dex pitches a back up plan that Sheldon came up with for this exact situation. Aria, Vinny, Dex, Kohiid, and Phalle attempt to battle Zadroga, but they are easily defeated. Zadroga begins to draw power from the universe to strengthen his body, but Zadroga failed to realize that he was strengthening the Insignificants as well. Zadroga moves deeper through the twisted darkness into outer space, but Aria, Vinny, and Dex give chase. The three of them ascend to new heights with their gamic energy and battle Zadroga one more time.

Aria, Vinny, and Dex manage to mix their gamic energy into a blast strong enough to launch Zadroga across space and into a baskor. The side of the baskor that Zadroga entered through was destroyed by the gamic energy that sent him into it. Aria, Vinny, and Dex have successfully managed to trap Zadroga in the center-verse -- out of the universe -- while eliminating Litilnumia's leader. All seems well for a brief moment, but the moment is quickly ruined by 3 intense bursts of energy. The 1st burst of energy was from a massive beam of light that emerged from the collapsing baskor. The other 2 bursts were from Aria and Vinny. Aria and Vinny had their Nebrajin status reach it's peak breaking point due to the energy Zadroga pumped into them from the universe.

Vinny, completely unaware that he was even a Nebrajin, turned to Aria only to see her bursting with the same energy. As they're both in the final moments of their lives, Aria quickly grabs Vinny's hand, and gives him the Nebrajin remedy that she got from Trent. Aria forces Vinny to take the remedy, and tells him that this is her way of apologizing for her lie about stabbing Dave. Aria's Nebrajin energy consumes her, and she dies in a massive explosion that launches Vinny across Belial's Happy Place. As Vinny lies on the ground in pain, he sees Dex coming over to help him up. Seconds before Dex can grab Vinny's hand, the beam of light that raced out of the crumbling baskor strikes Dex through the heart, and turns him into a Soul Sphere.

Angry and confused, Vinny picks up the Soul Sphere, and walks toward the exit of Belial's Happy Place. Kohiid finds Vinny, and escorts him out of the Hovel. After the Hovel is exited, Vinny returns to Nebra-tech. Vinny explains to Phalle how Dex became trapped inside of the Soul Sphere, and how Aria sacrificed herself to save him. The next day, Phalle gathers Vinny, Kohiid, and Justice together for a meeting at Aki's grave. At the meeting Vinny speaks out to say that he's going to kill Dig Furn, and that he wants nothing to do with any of the Insignificants ever again.

Vinny no longer wanted to consider any of them as his friends, and he left that as his good bye. With rage and sorrow in his heart, Vinny sets out on his own journey away from his remaining friends to seek solo revenge against Dig Furn.

## Gameplay

***In combat, Vinny has high defensive capabilities and moderate strength.***

Vinny is a **"*Fisticuff*"** fighter**.** He can equip **"*Light Armor*",** **"*Small Shields*",** and **"*Fancy Clothes*".**

(***Vinny's attributes after the time skip.)***

**Vinny's move list is as follows:**

## Musical Themes

Vinny's theme song is respectively titled Vinny's Theme, and can be unlocked through the Jam Room. His song can also be heard on the Obsolete Souls OST, and during his Max Universe special move.

https://dennelcake.bandcamp.com/track/Vinnys-theme

## Gallery

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## References

1. Obsolete Souls™ video game
2. www.obsoletesouls.com
3. (Weatherspoon, D, D., personal communication, 2019.)
4. www.dennelcake.com