Originally born somewhere in Haiti as Tallulah Black, "Vivienne" grew up into poverty as an only child to a single English mother. At thirteen, around the time of her mother's death, Vivienne was abducted by slave traders, and was transported to an unknown island in the Bahamas, where she became a maid-servant to a former pirate named Albinus. After countless suffering, she finally shot him at nineteen, before eventually escaping to the pirate island of New Providence. There, Vivienne evolved into becoming a swash-buckling con-artist, posing as a tavern prostitute to steal high valued items from its customers. After seducing a young merchant sailor named John Silver, her charisma stole his innocence, and "corrupted" his morality, seemingly inspiring him into becoming a fantastic liar, and a born-opportunist. For his talent to influence others, Vivienne recruited Silver as quartermaster, and Jim Hawkins, a young nineteen-year-old she managed to rescue. From that point and onward, Vivienne built her own pirate crew, and bought her own ship, "The Red Rose".
Despite her shady background as a slave, and her fluency in the English and Spanish language, the beautifully-deceiving Tallulah Black is smart, fierce, cunning, unpredictable, and very collected, even when she is in the face of danger. Thoroughly educated into learning life's lessons on the road (and sea), Black was the first female buccaneer to ever arise in the Caribbean, who took her unchained freedom as an opportunity to gain an easier living, and a bit of an adventure. In between hot-headed forcefulness and cool-minded compassion, Black is not to be underestimated; she has grown up into becoming a highly-intelligent and ruthless buccaneer, who dreams for a better life, after suffering through a rather traumatic childhood. Though her choice in career is to be frowned upon, her beauty, charm, and talent to test and inspire others was so great, Vivienne can bend their minds and make easy pardons; she also influenced Abigail Ashe, John Silver, and Jim Hawkins into becoming part of the pirate community. Since after discovery the treasure of Salazar, her personality soon starts to change for the worst.