Vought International & Compound V

@Vought International is a massive global corporation that hides its corruption behind a polished mask of heroism, charity, and cinematic spectacle. To the public, Vought is a visionary empire that creates heroes, funds schools, produces movies, and protects the world. In truth, it is a ruthless machine built on lies, suffering, human experimentation, and the belief that real heroism must be replaced with something corporate-controlled.

The company began as a military science contractor obsessed with controlling power rather than trusting the natural randomness of quirks. Its founders believed quirks were unpredictable and therefore dangerous, so they set out to build their own version of superhuman perfection—something engineered, measurable, and completely obedient to corporate authority. This obsession led to the invention of @Compound V, a blue chemical that forever changed the structure of global hero society.

Vought markets itself as the center of modern hero culture. Their brand is everywhere: billboards, movies, cereal boxes, hero merch, streaming shows, cosmetics, even children’s clothing. They paint themselves as the guardians of justice, the protectors of the vulnerable, and the pioneers of next-generation security. But behind their glowing image is a constant effort to manipulate governments, bribe agencies, control media, silence critics, and bury the bodies their creations leave behind. Crime statistics are falsified, “villains” are fabricated for PR events, and damaged families are paid hush money so their suffering never reaches the news.

Compound V is the core of Vought’s empire. It is a volatile superhuman serum that rewrites the subject’s biology, mutating cells, organs, and neural pathways in ways impossible to predict. Children injected with it at birth become lifelong assets to the corporation. Adults injected in secret back-alley labs often end up dead, insane, or monstrously altered. Vought denies every side effect. In truth, the serum causes emotional instability, paranoia, violent impulses, physical mutations, and permanent psychological rewiring. But to Vought, the death toll means nothing. Every successful superhuman is a profitable brand, not a person.

Heroes created by Vought are not trained for morality. They are molded for marketability. Their scandals are covered up, their failures are hidden, and their victories are manufactured. Homelander was engineered in a laboratory and raised without affection, producing a paranoid egomaniac who mistakes worship for love. Stormfront is one of Vought’s earliest experiments, kept youthful and powerful by decades of injections. Black Noir is a silent, corporate-built assassin meant to eliminate threats from within Vought’s own ranks. The Deep was altered to breathe underwater and communicate with sea life, but Vought saw him only as a PR mascot, not a person. Each of them is a victim of Vought and a weapon of Vought—trapped in a cycle of abuse disguised as heroism.

Today, Vought’s ambition stretches even further. The company seeks to replace natural-born heroes entirely, declaring quirks too unreliable to serve in an organized world. Their dream is to monopolize global hero society, turning every city’s defenders into Vought property, every battle into a televised event, and every villain into a scripted opportunity for profit. They want hero academies to depend on V-Serum. They want military contracts that require artificially enhanced soldiers. They want foreign governments to beg for their engineered supers. And they want the public to thank them for the illusion of safety while the corporation secretly controls every aspect of hero culture.

Vought ultimately aims to shape the world into a stage where they direct the narrative, engineer the stars, and discard anyone who refuses to follow the script. Their heroes smile for cameras while hiding broken minds. Their villains are often people Vought pushed into desperation. Their “progress” is built on the suffering of the quirkless they claimed to uplift.

Their final goal is a world where heroism is not earned, not inherited, and not inspired—only manufactured, patented, packaged, and sold.

Heroes:
@The Deep
@Homelander
@Stormfront
@Black Noir

CEO of Vought International:
@Stan Edgar