The Vice Vipers is a poser gang inspired by a tv show from a century ago called "Miami Vice." They have a not-so-careful balance act between running a detective agency that solves crime on one hand, and being heavily involved in various criminal activities themselves. It is, of course, not about being on one side of the law or the other, but looking good while doing it.

The Vipers have their headquarters and detective agency in the southern part of Northside, but their activities sometimes take them into Little China as well. Because of the gang's involvement in the sex industry, they've encountered The Mox more than a few times. Although they don't completely approve of each other's methods, they both recognize that there are significantly worse options for the sex workers.

Factions

There are four factions within the vipers with different views on what the gang should be about. First, the Cosplayers make up the majority and harken back to the poser gang foundations of the vipers. They review Miami Vice regularly, adopt kitch fashion, and strive for the attitude that made the show special. To them, Vice Vipers are a beacon of style and heart beyond what any simple gang can offer.

In stark contrast, the Other Side want to live up to the style, but they also recognize that Vice Vipers is a street gang with expenses. Stylish jackets and great shades don't pay for themselves. Dealing drugs, having prostitutes, and demanding protection from local businesses are a must. And when that requires the gang to go beyond both the style and ethos of the lore, so be it.

The Two Shoes (as in Goody) stand in opposition to the Other Side on that last point in particular. The whole point of Vice being involved with the bad guys is to beat them up. Do good by being part of it all. Let's take care of the prostitutes, keep drugs away from the unstable, and protect locations that pay protection money.

The final faction, the Moral Majority, takes issue with the very concepts of vice crimes. They oppose the Other Side and see Two Shoes as fools who haven't understood that they're betraying Vice. They're the smallest faction, but also the ones with the strongest convictions.

History

The gang spent its first fifteen years as a poser gang. Their then leader took the name Sonny Crockett and organized infiltration of various gang activities for no other reason than to infiltrate. Because of the strict demands on look and attitude, other gangs often played along, as they rarely got harmed. At least, that's how it started. The current leader rose within the ranks after joining and took crime much more seriously. This led to a harsher kind of gang, but also a much larger and effective one as they gained an income. After Sonny was killed in a shootout, the choice of new leader was obvious. Taking the name Don Johnson, the name of the actor instead of the character, was a statement. Reality would be a priority from now on. This is the Other Side.

"Undercover" members were now required to bring in profit and/or power to the Vipers. They required those with a sex-worker cover to be at least 14, but otherwise, most tasks were given to members of any age if they were capable. Any kid able to count money can sell drugs. Anyone tough enough can run a protection racket.

In 2072, a group of agents, including the recently promoted Gina Calabrese, investigated missing prostitutes in the area. They eventually found them in a lab run by a doctor Paul Nova for Trauma Team. The doctor was studying the effects of aphrodisiacs on the human body and didn't care to be bogged down by silly things like ethics boards or incremental studies. Instead, he held each sex-worker in a cryotube where he could inject them with whatever chemicals he wanted, turn off the cryogenics, and observe the effects. This horrified the Vice Vipers and, while Nova might have escaped, they managed to thoroughly destroy the operation.

This event created the Two Shoes faction. It didn't take long before different Two Shoes members had very different takes. Most of them wanted to reform Vice Vipers to be more responsible, but others felt a moral obligation to eradicate activities shown as bad in the Show. The smaller groups were responsible for an attack that led to a war with The Mox in '73. To "liberate" sex-workers under Mox protection, they opened fire on said protectors. Over several weeks and multiple shootings, the two gangs killed several members of each other. It also put the very people the Two Shoes and the new Moral Majority faction ostensibly cared about the most at risk.

When ceasefire came, Vice Vipers were banned from operating in Little China. The Mox don't have an interest in Northside, but are also not exclusively prevented from working there if they want to. This was a serious setback and loss of face for the Moral Majority, but they haven't given up on their values.

Main Sources of Income

Drug dealing
Smuggling
Sex-work
Protection rackets

Active in

Northside & Little China

Founding Date

2051

Leader

Don Johnson

Location

Vice PI

Cosplayers and unaligned

"Cassette" Jiménez – Racketeer / Crime surveilance

Vice Influence

80s music & broadcast culture.

Personality/Background

Runs several media feeds where he edits stylized crime footage into "trailers." Sees crime as performance art. Constantly recording.

Appearance

Carries a camera drone swarm. Retro mullet wig with neon streaks. Cyberoptics designed to look like old VHS lenses. Wears pastel windbreakers patched with Viper insignias.

Diego “Turbo” Fonseca – Mechanic

Vice Influence

Exotic cars & boats.

Personality/Background

Grease monkey with a cocaine-fueled love of speed mods. Treats engines like gods. Known for “tuning jobs” that turn beaters into deathtraps. As a bonus, he's a wizard at turning a banged-up car sought by the police or reported stolen, into a nice one with a clear history.

Appearance

Oil-stained pastel tank tops, cyberarm coated in chrome hydraulic plates, holo-tattoos of racing flames across his scalp. Styles himself more based on the vehicles of the show than the characters.

"Glitz" Martinez – Face/Recruiter

Vice Influence

The nightlife club scene.

Personality/Background

Glitz talks the talk—loves schmoozing, seducing, and tricking people into joining the gang. Believes "a party is just a recruitment pitch with better music." Has contacts with braindance studios and shady producers.

Appearance

Sequined turquoise suits, permanently dazzling smile courtesy of facial remodeling. Skin has a programmed shimmer effect under blacklight. Always smells of synth-cologne.

Isabella "Stiletto" Morales – Muscle

Vice Influence

Undercover busts gone bloody.

Personality/Background

Joined the Vipers a few months ago. Adrenaline junkie, loves knife work more than guns. Grew up watching martial-arts BDs and idolizes stylish killers. Treats every fight like a dance.

Appearance

Slim, wiry, dressed in neon mesh tops and glitter skirts. Cyberarms with both mantis blades and scratches. She's incorporating more of Miami Vice into her style.

“Jet” Lozano – Muscle

Vice Influence

Cool, clean killers.

Personality/Background

Unlike the loud majority of Vipers, Jet Black is muted, calm, and executes clean jobs, only indulging in neon suits after work.

Appearance

Simple pastel suits, much of his skin is tinted obsidian chrome, cyberoptic implants that shine faint purple. Always immaculate, never flashy on the job.

Jim "Neon Daddy" Cortez – Club Manager

Vice Influence

Miami nightlife bosses.

Personality/Background

Manages a 1980s-themed club called Eternal Sunset. Lavish, flamboyant, but dangerous beneath the glitter. The actual owner is a larger entertainment corp that minds its own business. Jim provides money laundering and hires talent. No one uses his nickname besides himself.

Appearance

Tall, stocky, in immaculate white suits with lavender shirts. Gold-plated cyberhand with a built-in cocktail shaker. Face surgically smoothed, giving him a perpetual uncanny perfection.

Jorge “Hackman” Salas – Muscle

Vice Influence

Frank Hackman as a cool criminal

Personality/Background

Jorge is a strategic thinker who maps out raids, ambushes, and escape routes. Thus, he's often placed in charge of minor operations. He was trained in urban warfare by a front for Arasaka during the Unification War. Like Frank’s strategic foresight, Jorge always considers multiple contingencies, ensuring the gang can adapt if things go sideways.

Appearance

Jorge is tall, with a swept-back hair and a scar across his left eyebrow from a past skirmish. He wears a tactical vest over pastel t-shirts and. His right forearm houses a compact drone launcher that deploys a recon drone for real‑time intel. A Karenzikov implant is attached to his spine.

Rafael "Jaguar" Delgado – Muscle/Driver

Vice Influence

Exotic car chases.

Personality/Background

Street racing legend in Northside. Known for betting his cyberware on races. Has a hot temper but a cool driving hand.

Appearance

Animal-print jackets, fingerless gloves, gold chains. Otherwise mimics various looks from car chase scenes more than a specific character. Chrome spine that flexes for G-force endurance. Reflex boosters and heat-resistant subdermal plating.

Rashid “Giff” Khan – Accountant

Vice Influence

How cool the show make the role of a mobster's accountant out to be.

Personality/Background

Rashid was once a junior accountant for a chemical import corporation before it was bought up by Petrochem and dismantled. He now manages the Vipers’ finances, tracking expenses, laundering money through croptographic mixers, and ensuring the gang stays solvent. Rashid is meticulous, always looking for ways to stretch a credit. He has none of the suave sex-appeal of his name-sake from the show

Appearance

Rashid is of medium height, with neatly trimmed beard. He wears Hawaiian style shirts under pastel suits and usually has a pair of mirror shades pushed up on his forehead (shades are cool, but he needs to see). His right wrist houses a holo‑display.

"Sharkskin" Vasquez – Muscle/Bodyguard

Vice Influence

Oceanic fashion, yacht scenes.

Personality/Background

Ex-boxer from Heywood who took on the Viper lifestyle after losing a match-fixing bet. Known for his loyalty and brutality. Doesn’t talk much.

Appearance

Cybernetic dermal plating patterned like sharkskin, always wearing sleeveless linen suits. Wears mirrored shades indoors, never smiles. Carries a chrome baseball bat with neon inlays.

Silas “Felix” Reed – Fixer / Smuggler

Vice Influence

Felix’s underworld connections

Personality/Background

Silas earned the moniker “Felix” for his uncanny luck in slipping contraband past corporate checkpoints. He’s charismatic, always with a grin, and loves a good gamble. While he enjoys the thrill of the hustle, he maintains a strict code: never betray a client’s trust. He views himself as the modern equivalent of Felix’s network of informants, always knowing where the next shipment is headed.

Appearance

Silas is tall, with a wiry build and a tattoo of a stylized snake winding around his forearm—symbolizing his slippery nature. He has short blonde hair and wears light clothes with pastel color. He has a sub‑dermal storage compartment in his abdomen for smuggling small packages. His left ear holds a covert comms implant that can intercept encrypted frequencies. A set of retractable lock‑picking claws extend from his fingertips, allowing silent entry into secure locations.

“Static Rose” Flores – Muscle

Vice Influence

Street color & attitude.

Personality/Background

Tags every Viper crime scene with pastel graffiti symbols from the show. Believes crime is rebellion as performance art. Reckless, poetic, always broke.

Appearance

Spray-nozzles built into cyberhands. Wears oversized suit jackets splattered in paint, hair glowing like neon fire.

Tony "Boom Box" Alvarez – Muscle

Vice Influence

Loud action set-pieces.

Personality/Background

Loves explosions, loves chaos, lives for spectacle. Grew up watching pirate-recorded action flicks and decided life should feel the same. Loyal, dumb muscle, but deeply enjoys music while wrecking shop.

Appearance

Towering, broad shoulders. Shirtless under pastel suspenders if he can get away with it. Chrome arms plated with speakers that blast synthpop, and a grenade launcher. He paints his weapons hot pink and mint green.

Two Shoes

Camille “Lester” Duval – Dealer

Vice Influence

Lester’s love of lore

Personality/Background

Camille loves Night City’s legends and forgotten histories and her home is covered in old newspapers, corporate memos, and notes. This might make her the most literate dealer north of Little China. Like Lester’s love of lore, Camille believes that understanding the past prevents repeating mistakes.

Appearance

Camille has long, silver‑gray hair tied in a loose braid. She wears a white coat lined with multiple layers of bullet-resistant mesh.

Carmen "Armen" Vega – Gunrunner

Vice Influence

Weapons sting operations.

Personality/Background

Runs a hole-in-the-wall style weapons shop to fence arms confiscated by the Vipers. Ruthless negotiator under a sugary sweet act. Dreams of being a weaponsmith herself.

Appearance

Dressed like an 80s pop idol—fishnets, neon leggings, oversized jackets. Golden cybernetic eyes, neon tattoos that pulse with her heartbeat, and a cybernetic right hand.

Esteban “Hotline” Cruz – Dealer

Vice Influence

Retro police radio chatter. Legacy media.

Personality/Background

Formerly a Ziggurat tech who got caught stealing. Dealing drugs is a job, not a lifestyle. Obsessed with radio waves, constantly monitoring comms. Paranoid, twitchy, but brilliant at intercepting corpos and NCPD chatter.

Appearance

Lean, wiry, with chrome antennae protruding from his skull. Pastel tracksuits bristling with wires. Cyberoptics display static when he gets stressed. He often forgoes the traditional white suit-jacket for something more discreet.

Julio “Disco” Marquez – Muscle

Vice Influence

The endless Miami club scene.

Personality/Background

Runs security at Vice Viper raves, where his job is half bouncing, half spectacle. Loves being the life of the party, but his temper turns brutal when he feels disrespected.

Appearance

Towering, muscle-chipped, with glowing tattoos across his chest that pulse to basslines. Wears neon parachute pants and always carries a chrome-spiked bat.

Marisol "Lipstick" Duarte – Joytoy

Vice Influence

Glamour & seduction.

Personality/Background

Mainly undercover as a joytoy. She's realized hustling clients is more profitable than service sometimes. Might even result in a few good deeds. Specializes in scams, blackmail, and infiltration jobs. Known for elaborate disguises.

Appearance

Hair dyed bubblegum pink, lips permanently colored neon-red with bioluminescent implants. Wears pastel business suits and retro earrings. Skinweave that projects subtle beauty filters.

Priya “Bandi” Mehta – Muscle / Explosives expert

Vice Influence

Explosions!

Personality/Background

Priya is a former bomb squad technician at Militech who left when the corp went ahead with a detonation despite reports of civilians in the area. The vipers make good use of her explosives expertise — both planting and safely disarming them.

Appearance

Priya’s hair is a short, practical bob dyed orange. She wears a reinforced EOD suit with integrated blast‑mitigation gel. Her left arm houses a modular toolset with a micro‑laser cutter, a magnetic disrupter, and a remote detonator. An ocular implant provides a thermal overlay to locate hidden charges, while a sub‑dermal timer can delay detonation by milliseconds for precise coordination.

Sofia “Trudy” Marquez – Joytoy

Vice Influence

The thrills that are the price of justice

Personality/Background

Sofia runs a small escort service that also acts as a safehouse for the Vipers and allies. Like Trudy from the show, Sofia knows the phonebook so to speak — learning all she can about her regulars, turning the service into a hub of information and a sanctuary for those in need. She’s warm, shrewd, and always has a drink ready for a weary ally.

Appearance

Sofia is 5′9″ with her long afro tied up in a tail. She wears a smart‑dress that can change opacity. A sub‑dermal pocket in her abdomen holds a compact med‑kit for emergencies. Her nails can extend into two-inch daggers at will.

Other Side

“Bikini Kill” Carla Torres – Shock Trooper

Vice Influence

80s bikini models with guns.

Personality/Background

Loves the absurdity of fighting in swimwear and body armor. Thrill-addict, always volunteering for the most reckless gigs. Ticking time-bomb for Cyberpsychosis.

Appearance

Neon bikini with chrome combat plating, pastel visors, and heavy smartgun rigs strapped over beachwear. Plenty of combat implants, including a Sandevistan, subdermal armor, hidden weapon mounts, wolvers...

Dante “Saundra” Alvarez – Muscle / Brawler

Vice Influence

Gina Calabrese’s raw power

Personality/Background

Dante, known as “Saundra” (the actor playing Gina in the show)for his ferocious fighting style, grew up in Northside fight clubs, learning to survive through sheer brute force. He’s blunt, often speaking in short bursts, but possesses a surprisingly gentle side when caring for younger gang members. He admires Gina Calabrese’s unapologetic strength and uses it as a personal mantra: “Never back down.”

Appearancec

Dante is a hulking figure, standing 6′7″ with a heavily muscled frame. His skin is augmented with reactive muscle fibers that enhance strength and speed. He has a pair of reinforced forearm plates housing hidden shockwave emitters, delivering concussive blasts on impact. A titanium jaw implant grants him a reinforced bite, useful for close‑quarters intimidation. The suit given to him doesn't fit and he often resorts to minimal gang colors.

Diego "Heatwave" Torres – Muscle

Vice Influence

Explosive climaxes of Vice episodes.

Personality/Background

Pyromaniac with an artist’s soul. Believes every job should end in fire, literally. Writes poetry about flames.

Appearance

Skin grafts scarred from past burns. Chrome arm with built-in flamethrower hidden under sleeve. Always wears pastel Hawaiian shirts and gold chains, sometimes decorated with soot.

Gloria "Pink Slip" DeSantos – Driver/Smuggler

Vice Influence

Flashy cars, speedboat chases.

Personality/Background

Once a getaway driver for Valentinos carjackers, she left after a betrayal and now supplies the Vipers with souped-up rides. Thrill-seeker, cocky, always trying to one-up herself in terms of stunt driving.

Appearance

Neon-pink bomber jacket, mirrored wraparound shades, nails painted like racing stripes. Chrome cyberlegs designed for high-G endurance. Always smells faintly of synth-fuel and bubblegum.

Hector “Sunburn” Diaz – Cleaner

Vice Influence

Darker police procedural elements.

Personality/Background

Cleans up gang messes—burns bodies, erases evidence. Morbid, pragmatic, and oddly philosophical. Sees himself as the “shadow” to Don’s spotlight.

Appearance

Always wears pastel hazmat suits. Cybernetic filter mask integrated into face, dermal skin singed from chemical burns, cyber-arm with acid sprayers.

Lucia "Sugarcane" Rivas – Dealer

Vice Influence

Street hustle, vice economy.

Personality/Background

Charmer and hustler known for laughing in the face of danger and outwitting cops. Grew up in the Kabuki slums; sees gang life as a step up.

Appearance

Glittery crop tops, ripped pastel jeans, cybernetic gold teeth. Neon tattoos that crawl up her arms like snakes. Cybersnake tongue, toxin-binders (that can be turned off) on her liver, and a powerful chemical analyzer in her mouth.

Luis "Sunset" Ortega – Chem Cook

Vice Influence

Vice as drugs.

Personality/Background

The gang’s main drug producer—from synthcoke to black lace to some home-made stimulant/hallusinogen hybrids.. Former medtech student turned criminal chemist. Soft-spoken, but obsessed with "artistry" in drug design.

Appearance

Scrawny, lab goggles always pushed onto forehead. Pale with yellow-stained latex-coated cyberarms. Wears lab coat over floral shirts. Chrome lungs with toxin filters, allowing him to work in toxic vapors.

Pedro "Pastel Reaper" Gómez – Muscle

Vice Influence

Stylish violence.

Personality/Background

Soft-spoken hitman obsessed with aesthetic kills. Leaves crime scenes staged like "art pieces" if he can. Has a morbid sense of humor.

Appearance

White suits combined with shirts with neon graffiti-style patterns. Cyberarms with hidden weapon mounts, chrome skull jaw visible when he smiles.

Ramon “Silk” Dibbler – Street Hustler

Vice Influence

Sleek underworld smooth-talkers.

Personality/Background

Always selling something—drugs, fake IDs, counterfeit tickets to nonexistent clubs... Rarely fights, preferring to wriggle out of danger with charm.

Appearance

Slim, pastel three-piece suits, golden grillz, voicebox mod that gives him a sultry synth tone.

Tara “Lolita” Singh – Joytoy

Vice Influence

Pretty people doing sexy things in stylish clubs

Personality/Background

Tara works the nightlife circuit, using her charm to gather intel and as much as money. She’s charismatic, quick‑witted, and knows how to read a room. Beneath the glitter lies a shrewd strategist who can turn a party into a covert operation in seconds And she's not above drugging or abusing either clients or joytoys working for her if it serves her goals.

Appearance

Tara’s hair is a cascade of luminous pink curls that react to music beats. She wears a smart‑fabric dress embedded with micro‑projectors that can display holographic disguises. Her earlobes contain sub‑dermal audio amplifiers, letting her pick up whispered conversations across a crowded floor. Her right cyberarm includes a cyberdeck.

Val "Peachy" Navarro – Joytoy turned-Spy

Vice Influence

Miami seduction tropes.

Personality/Background

Once a joytoy in Japantown, now gathers intel by seducing corpo execs. Funny, disarming, but utterly ruthless when cornered. Half the profits from Viper smuggling ops are due to leads from her.

Appearance

Glitter makeup implants, holographic heart tattoos across chest, pastel corsets over armorweave. One chrome leg studded with rhinestones.

Valeria "Velvet" Cruz – Assassin

Vice Influence

Undercover femme fatales.

Personality/Background

Cold, calculating, but exudes allure. She’s Don’s occasional lover and frequent hitwoman, the one called when subtlety is needed. Used to be a corpo honeypot operative before burning her handlers.

Appearance

Long red cyberhair, flawless chrome cheekbones, and a skinweave that shifts hues to match her outfit (satin-like pastel gowns or a pastel blouse under a white suit). Has several hidden weapon and steath implants.

Zeke “Xavier” Alvarez – Muscle

Vice Influence

The frequent explosions

Personality/Background

Zeke lives for the controlled chaos of explosions, channeling the show’s love for dramatic firepower. He’s a risk‑taker, often improvising charges from scavenged components. He'll instruct teammates to keep them safe, but doesn't consider it his problem if they don't listen.

Appearance

Zeke’s hair is dyed orange, matching the flare of his custom‑built gauntlet that houses miniature charge dispensers. His left eye is a thermographic implant, letting him see heat signatures and identify optimal detonation points. A reinforced chest plate includes blast‑mitigation padding, protecting him from his own creations. Even on a job that has no reason to get violent, he'll bring a grenade launcher.

Moral Majority

Eddie "Vaporwave" Flores – Muscle

Vice Influence

Neon nightlife, synthwave aesthetics.

Personality/Background

Lives entirely in a retro-future fantasy—thinks the 80s were the "peak of human style" and rewrites code to add neon-glow aesthetics. A moderately talented netrunner, besides being useful as rented out huscle for security. Very much a style over substance with everything, but holds to his ideals.

Appearance

Cyberdeck integrated into a glowing pink-and-turquoise jacket. Glowing Miami Vice-inspired tattoos. Thin, pale, with shaved sides and long slicked-back hair dyed neon-purple.

“Lola Lux” Hernandez – Fixer

Vice Influence

80s glam couture.

Personality/Background

Former fashion student turned clothes shop owner and gang stylist. Procures the signature outfits of the Vipers, while also sourcing disguise gear for jobs. Charming, but viciously judgmental.

Appearance

Hair like a cotton-candy explosion, glitter cyber-lashes, and a wardrobe that shifts colors based on mood thanks to programmable fabric. Cyberhair and augmented skin are given. Her cyberware has pockets, so her clothes don't have to.