Shinra Corp

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Years ago at shinra Vincent became a member of the Shin-Ra Company's Turks, a group of highly skilled operatives who specialized in various activities such as espionage, kidnapping, assassination and serving as bodyguards. When he was assigned to supervise the Jenova Project in Nibelheim, he fell in love with a scientist named Lucrecia Crescent, , who was serving as an assistant to Professor Gast. But unbeknownst to Vincent, Lucrecia was also the lab assistant of Vincent's father, Grimoire Valentine, who died while saving Lucrecia's life. Vincent tried expressing his feelings to her but she rejected him out of guilt over Grimoire's death, ultimately entering a relationship with her associate Hojo instead. Lucrecia became pregnant afterwards, supplying a test subject for the Jenova Project's intentions to investigate the effect of Jenova cells on an unborn child. Vincent objected to the use of humans — especially Lucrecia and her unborn child, as live test subjects. Even so, in the interest of science, Lucrecia proceeded with the treatment and suffered various ill effects as a result.

Outraged, Vincent confronted Hojo in the Shinra Mansion's underground laboratory and a heated argument ensued.
"You basterd"Vincent yelled, "Oh Lets see I took ur girlfriend got her pregnant." says Hojo grinning "I Will Kill You!" Vincent takes a knife and lunges at Hojo but Hojo takes a gun out of his coat "Now! I will kill you!" Hojo shot him "damn you!" Vincent dies in cold blood. Vincent's near-death body was placed in a large experimental capsule for use in Hojo's experiments based on Grimoire's research of the Lifestream. This resulted in Vincent's anatomy being altered to where he could temporarily change his physical form into monstrous entities when enraged (Galian Beast, Hellmasker, Death Gigas, a red form evocative of his cloak, and possibly others as well). Lucrecia, wanting to revive Vincent, exposed him to the G Substance, a contaminated form of mako— the result being Vincent becoming the host for Chaos, an entity intended to pave the way for Omega WEAPON by killing all living things. But Hojo counted on Lucrecia doing that as the main reason he conducted those experiments on Vincent was because a normal human body was incapable of housing Chaos.

Under the influence of Chaos, Vincent became consumed in feral rage and broke out of his confinement. Lucrecia then used the ProtoMateria (a special form of mako created by the planet in order to control Chaos) to calm Vincent and place him in a deep slumber. By the time Vincent reawakened on the operating table — with Hojo and Lucrecia nowhere in sight — he responded to his modified body with both anguish and rage. From there, he entered inside a coffin for approximately 30 years as a self-inflicted punishment for his inability to save Lucrecia, which Vincent referred to as his "sin". Of course there is no information of what happened to Vincent during the time after he awoke from the experiment and when he had put himself to sleep; which of course would explain how he got his attire and how long exactly he had been in the Shin-Ra Mansion asleep. "Where am I?Why am I in this coffin?"
Then the story FF7 starts.