Vincent was the son of doctor Grimoire Valentine, born in 1950 likely within Midgar. With his family so closely related to Midgar and the Shinra Power Electric Company, as Grimoire was a Shinra professor, Vincent too found himself working under Shinra. He became a Turk, a group of secretive agents charged with bodyguard jobs, detective work, and covering up Shinra's dark deeds. As a Turk, Vincent excelled, being excellent in combat and always carrying an air of professionalism.
One fateful day, Vincent was sent to Shinra Manor within the small backwater town of Nibelheim. There, Shinra scientists such as Professor Hojo were carrying out their experiments, as they had yet to move their base of operations to the Shinra Tower. Vincent was set to become the personal bodyguard of Professor Lucrecia Crescent who, unbeknownst to him, once served under his father Grimoire and was incidentally responsible for Grimoire's death.
During their time together, Vincent and Lucrecia quickly fell in love with each other, and would go on picnics outside of the town. But Lucrecia was suffering in silence, feeling overwhelming guilt for Grimoire's death, until one day she let everything come to a boil and revealed it all to Vincent. He did not blame her for his father's death, even after hearing everything, but the guilt she felt was too much, and she couldn't bear to be around Grimoire's son anymore. In an act of misguided defiance and trying to run away from her problems, Lucrecia got with Professor Hojo.
Hojo and Lucrecia were to bear a child, which pained Vincent greatly, though he he claimed not to mind so long as Lucrecia was happy. He could not stay silent, however, after learning that the two planned on experimenting on their own child, as a part of the Jenova Project. Vincent confronted the two to try and convince them otherwise, but they pushed him aside. Trying one final time to stop the experiments, Vincent confronted Professor Hojo alone. Enraged by the young Turk's constant belligerence, Hojo took a handgun and fatally shot Vincent.
Vincent slowly bled out and died, which Hojo only saw as a new opportunity for experimentation. Hojo took Vincent's corpse, and preformed horrible experiments on him; infusing him with the DNA of several horrid creatures. None of these experiments seemed to work, however, and Vincent's body continued to rot. As a result, Hojo discarded the Turk's body, though it was regrettably discovered by Lucrecia. She took the body herself, and sought to resurrect him to make up for all the grief she caused.
Lucrecia was placed into a tank of Mako energy and his body experimented on, though Lucrecia didn't simply wish to resurrect him. Her thesis paper, on the old concept of Chaos and Omega, could finally be completed with one final procedure; infusing Vincent with chaos energy. She did so, which, to her horror, transformed him into a disgusting chaotic being——Chaos.
Suddenly, with Vincent becoming Chaos, a small orb of Mako energy known as the Protomateria appeared, which, when placed within Vincent, allowed for him to subdue the Chaos form. Still, Lucrecia was mentally broken; the Jenova cells within her didn't allow her her to die, and she was constantly filled with horrific visions of her son, Sephiroth. Out of shame, she fled Shinra Manor and went to an unknown cave to live for the rest of eternity.
Vincent awoke in Shinra Manor, now resurrected and a being of Chaos and monstrous DNA. He was horrified by his new form and felt immense grief over being able to stop Lucrecia from experimenting on her son, and so he let out a pained scream. Vincent hated himself, and thought his inability to save the one he loved was an unforgivable sin. As such, he went to the basement of Shinra Manor and climbed into a coffin, where he was to be "punished for his sins" with torturous nightmares, until the end of the world.
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