Vice

**⚠ This page contains canonical information added by Ima Crook which has not yet been mentioned in the Ima Crook Universe (ICU). This page contains spoilers.**

## Vice

### Universe

Ima Crook Universe (ICU)

Vice is the collective name for Ima Crook's debut trilogy consisting of Vice: Part One, Vice: Part Two and Vice: Part Three.

## Trivia

* Vice was initially supposed to be released as a single book but the length made it impossible to publish, causing it to be broken down into three parts.
* Despite being split into three parts, Ima Crook considers Vice as one epic novel.
* The almost identical cover design between the three parts was meant to show that they combine to make one complete work, not three separate novels.
* In the novel, Rose's eyes are described as a lighter, more penetrating 'emerald green' than shown on the cover.
* The story was initially going to contain multiple POVs, switching between Rose, Ricardo and Casey.
* Originally, Rose, Ricardo and Casey were all supposed to be joint protagonists.
* Each chapter wasn't initially going to comprise of an entire day, but Ima wanted the reader to feel Rose's pressures through the chapter lengths, the idea being that when Rose has a long day, so does the reader.
* Vice was initially going to contain at least three extra heists that were later cut: a gold reserve heist, a US military base heist where the trio would steal military-grade weapons (this was later changed to the shootout in High Hills), a casino heist (set in Las Vegas) and a heist on an air aircraft carrier (where the trio would storm an aircraft carrier, shoot the soldiers on board, then Ricardo would steal a fighter jet while Rose and Casey got away on a speedboat).
* The initial idea for Vice was a story where a police officer was in love with a bank robber and helped him get away from the police.
* In their original design, Ricardo, Casey and Rose completed the dark triad; Ricardo the silver-tongued Machiavellian, Rose the egotistical narcissist and Casey the cold-blooded psychopath.
* Illicit drug use by the three central characters was initially more prominent.
	+ **⚠ Note from Ima Crook:** Rose originally smoked a lot of weed and abused painkillers (this drug use was supposed to become more and more prominent as the story went on). Originally, she was going to begin abusing heroin at the start of Vice Part Two. Casey was a huge cokehead in the first drafts and Ricardo initially had compulsive gambling and sex addictions. Rose's drug use was eliminated because I didn't want her addictions to be blamed for her actions and emotional state, Casey's drug use was eliminated as part of a general character overhaul and Ricardo's vices were eliminated because I wanted his character to be a little more caring and relatable and his original personality (which included his vices) was extremely cold and shallow.
* Vice was originally going to be a TV show called 'Murderville' (named after another screenplay Ima Crook was writing, Murder Street) but Ima Crook eventually decided the story's pacing wasn't right for TV and adapted it into a novel and thought 'Vice' was a more fitting title.
	+ **⚠ Note from Ima Crook:** This was actually going to be a theme in my writings. I had a loose outline for a series called Killville (which I still intend to write), as well as another series called Murder Town (which I also intend to write but will be releasing under a different name). I also wrote a story called Murder Avenue (which I scrapped) which was basically an American adaptation of Murder Street, as well as a gangland tale called Murder Boulevard (which I also scrapped). Needless to say, there was going to be a common theme between the names of my stories.
* Ima Crook came up with the initial idea for Vice (a story about a cop whose boyfriend was a bank robber) sometime around 2013. In 2019, Ima began seriously outlining the plot of Vice.
	+ In 2022 she began the first draft of Vice Part One which took from March 2022 until September of the same year to write.
	+ Immediately after finishing the first draft of Vice Part One, Ima started writing Vice Part Two which took a little over a month to write.
	+ The day she finished the first draft of Vice Part Two, Ima began writing the first draft of Vice Part Three which took 24 days to finish.
	+ Ima Crook worked 18-hour days 7 days a week for the entirety of 2022 to finish Vice so quickly.
* Ima Crook has cited Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Chuck, Hate List, Harry Potter, Grand Theft Auto IV, Dexter, Snatch and Reservoir Dogs as her primary influences.
* Vice has a gigantic cast of characters, many of which have an impressive amount of page time. Ima Crook planned every single character's journey over the course of the story, even those who are unimportant or only briefly mentioned. This serves the purpose of making every character feel so real but is also what helps to make the Ima Crook Universe (ICU) feel so real and alive. Even when characters aren't on the page, Ima knew exactly what every single character was doing, even if it was never mentioned in the books because Rose McClane didn't know what they were doing. This is partly why Vice took so long to plan and outline but Ima has confirmed this is a technique she will use for every novel, show and film she writes going forwards.
	+ **⚠ Note from Ima Crook:** My aim was to create a story which could be told from the perspective of *any* character within. The stories of some other characters interested me so much that I plan on writing novels or screenplays telling their stories in the future.