ename144
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To me, that's what a a foil is: someone who highlights attributes of the main character through contrast. Vinny and the MC are charismatic and inspirational, and both changed the nature of the DIKs. Vinny turned them from a rich boys fantasy into a real fraternity, and the MC turned them from a fraternity into a family. The difference is that while Vinny was extremely polarizing, the MC is unifying.I don't see him being a "foil", but rather as a mirrored version of Vinny, but better than him; someone who can seem at times to be similarly resourceful, single-minded, and ambitious, but who does things for the benefit of others not himself, which is the difference between him and Vinny.
If they are to ever meet and "butt heads" I reckon it would be within Quinn's story since we know that Vinny has seemingly become something of a rival for Quinn in the sense that he's doing better than her in selling the drugs. So maybe he'll offer her some sort of shady deal to help her and this is where the MC would come in to help/counsel Quinn so she doesn't go through with it. I don't, however, see Vinny being the "mastermind" of anything.
And that's why I think their eventual conflict will involve the DIKs. One of them will effectively cement his legacy and determine what the DIKs will be going forward (my money is on the MC). Quinn's empire might be the spark that brings the matter to a head, but I don't think it will end there because the MC hasn't had much to do with it (nothing at all, in some playthroughs).