Vance Lingolin (Classic Gerosha)

Vance Lingolin is an employee of Sleet Mountain in supplemental materials for Blood Over Water.

Character bio
Vance is another one of Clyde's thugs, out to kill Mark. He shines a flashlight into a room, but Mark has already left. Even so, it becomes clear which envelope is missing. When Vance's efforts to kill Mark end in him accidentally running himself off the road and killing himself, George Lawence gets placed in charge of dealing with Mark instead. George initially couldn't do the job either, leading to Chris Kennal being given the job. Chris then pays an accomplice named Ashley to impersonate a lost party girl looking for a different apartment number, so that he can get the jump on Mark. Vance is never elaborated on again afterward.

Personality
Very little is known about Vance's actual personality, as he was created for supplemental materials purely to fill in some plot holes in the actual miniseries' run.

Development
Vance was ideally to be a character to bridge several gaps and explain several plot holes. But in spite of what direction may have been best to take him in, the miniseries' plot was not primarily decided by regular Dozerfleet staff. Instead, director Chris Wilson set the major tone for creative direction, which affected how primary scriptwriter Angelica McClary depicted characters in her scripts. This allowed little wiggle room for Vance to play the best role possible. Vance was shoehorned into the miniseries' backstory supplemental material as yet-another Sleet Mountain thug.

Wiki articles at that time were lacking in sufficient explanation for why Mark would be willing to risk being murdered for revealing company secrets. Also unclear is why Clyde would consider a pollution and cleanup fraud scandal to be worth murdering someone over. Background materials for the miniseries initially left those questions unanswered. What was answered, however, was why Clyde eventually pressured Chris and Ashley into disposing of Mark. This was explained in backstory material as having been due to the failure of an offscreen character named Vance to do the job properly.

Trivia

 * This version's backstory is canon to both Classic and Comprehensive Geroshas, though Cataclysmic Gerosha retcons Vance into being a martyr who opposes Clyde.
 * Another reason that Vance is almost entirely absent from the final video, is due to the lack of actors willing and able to portray him.
 * A casting call was put out to the theater department at Ferris State for roles such as Vance's. However, the theater students were uninterested.  Most of them claimed that television was "beneath" them.
 * However many of them actually had successful theater careers pre-Globalist Scamdemic, or made it into being anything at a higher level in life than a Starbucks barista, remains unknown.