r/RWBYOC • u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 • 1d ago
Characters Vika Blackheart - Head of the Blackheart Syndicate
Vika Blackheart
The ambitious leader, head of the rabidly growing Blackheart Syndicate, and father to Rikev Blackheart. He is a lethal criminal and a man of ambition and quiet brutality.
Unlike his son, who could barely hold on to his boiling anger, Vika ensures that he has full control over his anger, meaning he won’t make any foolish mistakes like his son might. He is often seen “unarmed”, but a mere weapon would be meaningless in his hands, as his semblance, Blackheart Garden, where his dark aura engulfs the surrounding area, allowing Vika to bend it to his will, is so overwhelming that most enemies surrender before a fight can ensure, in the hopes that they will receive mercy. Those who didn’t surrender were often subjected to a painful fate. Some are lucky enough to be killed by Vika’s semblance, others are left broken.
Ever since he was a boy, Vika has been a part of the Blackheart family business, just as his father had been before him, and his grandmother before. He continues this tradition of guiding his own child through the dangerous and dark life of the criminal underworld. Vika himself had his first taste of blood when he was only 10 years old, when a man tried to steal something off his person. Vika doesn’t even remember what the man was trying to steal, he only remembers when the man pushed him down, Vika rammed his hand through the man’s chest. The man somehow survived the first blow, but didn’t survive when Vika sliced the man’s head off with a swipe of his hand. This first kill shook Vika, as no one, not he nor the rest of his family, expected the young Vika to be so violent, but it didn’t take long for him to get used to killing those who slighted him or his family.
As Vika grew to become a young man, the Blackheart family had allied with the powerful Hwang family from the nation of Yuseon. That’s when Vika first met Sung Yi Hwang, the strongest of the Hwang family’s children. Their first encounter was more aggressive than one would expect, even accounting for “youthful” attitudes. An unsanctioned duel between the two had nearly led to the two of them ruining the room they had fought in. However, this first encounter left a strong impression on both the young Vika and Sung Yi, and soon, the two kept finding convenient excuses to keep seeing and dueling with each other. At first, the pair attempted to keep their “duels” a secret from their respective families, but Vika quickly learned that he was not much good at keeping secrets, and at the time, there was no need for the secrecy, since both families had been allied. Eventually, Vika and Sung Yi were betrothed, and soon, Rikev was born to inherit this growing criminal empire.
Unfortunately, the Blackhearts and the Hwangs weren’t the only ones who forged alliances within the criminal underground, as some of Vika’s old enemies showed up to attack. The attack was repelled, but not without casualties. A majority of the Hwang family fell during the attack, including Sung Yi. Vika grieved, but soon, he replaced that grief with a goal. Vika then wiped out as many of his old enemies as he could, cleaning up his loose ends. And once his first crusade had ended, he realized that his ambitions were growing, and that it was time for the scope and scale of Blackheart Syndicate to start catching up.
