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Pronouns: he/him
Occupation: Business CEO
Age: 42

Vincent Melbourne

My own OC. An old former friend of Custis’s that reappears in his life during a chance encounter at a grocery store. Having regretted their falling out, Vincent seeks to reconnect with Custis and rekindle their friendship, visiting the apartment from time to time. Over time, they grow back into being friends, and after quite a few years, into something more.

Pre-AU Timeline

  • Met Custis during their college years and had a FWB situation. When Custis graduated, they drifted apart for a while, before Custis had to step down as CEO and became a professor. Finding an opportunity to use Custis’s skills for his own, Vincent hires him as a personal business consultant, but after a conflict surrounding payment, they broke up both their business arrangement and their friendship.
  • Ever since then, Vincent fell into a bit of a depression, barely maintaining his business. He lived in loneliness for a while, wallowing in regret for losing his good friend.
  • Reunites with Custis at a grocery store, where they exchange phone numbers. Vincent slightly strongarms into befriending Custis and becoming FWB again. Unbeknownst to Vincent, his presence becomes something that Custis desperately needed.

Relationships

Prior to the start of WrenE, Custis and Vincent had their own series of events in their relationship. Starting as FWB in university, they soon grew apart as they became older adults and inherited their many responsibilities. They stopped talking at some point as they become too busy with their own lives. A turning point of their relationship comes when Custis is demoted to university professor and they have a little business deal. But such a deal that made money get involved in friendship only led to the wreckage of their friendship alltogether. It pained Vincent deeply, and since then he's been yearning and experiencing an emptiness in his life.

Their chance reunion proves to be the exact opportunity that the both of them wanted in order to repair their friendship. At first it's cordial as Vincent genuinely just wants to reconnect, but soon they get back to their usual FWB situationship, with almost frightening comfort and ease. Soon Vincent becomes more and more involved in Custis's life, finding that he wants to be more than friends with him. After such a confession, they evolve their situationship into something deeper, becoming life partners.