Vermouth
| Vermouth | |
| English name: | Vermouth |
|---|---|
| Age: | ? |
| Gender: | Female |
| Nicknames: | Rotten Apple |
| Aliases: | Sharon Vineyard Chris Vineyard Belmot |
| First appearance: | Manga: Chapter 238 Anime: Episode 176 |
| Appearances: | TV: ? Movies: 1 Specials: ? Openings: 8 |
| Keyhole number: | Volume 26 (Vermouth) Volume 35 (Sharon) |
| Japanese voice: | Mami Koyama |
Vermouth (ベルモット Berumotto), also known as Sharon Vineyard (シャロン・ヴィンヤード Sharon Binyaado) and Chris Vineyard (クリス・ヴィンヤード Kurisu Binyaado), is a member of the Black Organization in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.
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Background
Vermouth's background is very mysterious. She was friends with Yukiko Kudo back when they were acting together under the name Sharon Vineyard, but she was even then secretly a member of the Black Organization. It is unknown for exactly how long she has been a member, but it is known that she had been secretly living at least two lives through the art of disguise: that of herself and her supposed daughter, Chris Vineyard. After staging Sharon Vineyard's death, she now lives as "Chris" and continues to serve the Black Organization. At one point, some twenty years ago, she killed the parents of a little girl who would become the FBI agent Jodie Starling, one of her most bitter enemies.
Vermouth is the boss’s favorite which grants her some independence. She also appears not to age or have de-aged over a period of twenty years between when she killed Jodie's parents and her current appearence. She doesn’t seem to like the research that Ai and her parents engaged in, calling it “foolish.” [1]
Vermouth entered the storyline some time after Shiho Miyano/Sherry/Ai Haibara's mysterious flight from the Organization. Her main objective was to track down and eliminate the 'traitor', and for that purpose she assumed the identity of doctor Tomoaki Araide. But although she managed to discover Shiho's reversion into a child, she did not succeed in killing her, as she met Conan Edogawa, who was able to discover and thwart her plans. She also encountered the FBI during this process.
Vermouth has great personal interest in Conan, constantly calling him "Silver Bullet". Since it has been revealed that she knows about Ai and Kudo's reversion to their child forms, she seems to know the shrinking effect the drug can have, but for reasons yet unrevealed she keeps this knowledge secret from the rest of the Organization.
Personality
At this point, Vermouth seems very mysterious. She knows about Conan being Shinichi, as well as that Haibara is Sherry, yet she has kept this information a secret from the rest of the Organization.
It is frequently implied that Vermouth does not approve with the Organization's plans and is willing to quit, but fears the consequences of doing so openly. She is frequently shown to hold hopes that Conan is the 'silver bullet' that will eventually stop the Organization. She also retains personal feelings for persons who have earned a special place in her heart, such as Shinichi/Conan (as the son of her best friend) and Ran (who had inadvertently saved her life during her and Shinichi's adventures in New York).[2] As a result, she is highly unwilling to do them any harm even when she is ordered to do so.
Speculation
Sharon’s mother may also be Vermouth because she died in a fire on the day Sharon debuted.[3] Sharon may not be Vermouth’s first alias. Vermouth would have to be somewhere around 70-85 years old if Sharon's mom was the same person. If this is the case it also means that APTX in its current incarnation isn’t the source of Vermouth’s apparent failure to age. Shiho’s parents, Atsushi and Elena Miyano, and their experiments are too young to account for the timepoint. It would have to be Shiho’s grandparents or something else which caused her to stop aging.
Quotes
General
| “ | A secret makes a woman woman. | „ |
— (Her motto) | ||
Specific
Episode 286: No angel has ever smiled upon me.
V37-8 pg11: We can be both of God and the Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time.
Trivia
- The name "Vermouth", is actually pronounced "Belmont".
- Vermouth is or was in a sexual relationship with Gin.[4]
- In the Episode 362 of the Anime, Jodie Starling referred to Vermouth's disguise as a frightening type of perfection.
References
- ^ Manga chapter 434
- ^ Episode 288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, Part 3.
- ^ Manga Volume 35, File 1, pg 2, "Golden Apple 2"
- ^ Conan Drill, page 239, "肉体関係" (sexual relations)
