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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Kirsten
AGE: YOU GUYS HAVE THIS
JOURNAL: THIS
IM: AND THIS
E-MAIL: ALSO THIS
RETURNING: One, and Eridan Ampora!
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Bayonetta
FANDOM: Bayonetta
CHRONOLOGY: From the very beginning of The Broken Sky, immediately after giving Cereza one of her ribbons but before the actual plane arrives.
CLASS: Anti-hero... maybe. Bayonetta is very self-interested, and more often than not, if something doesn't involve her, then she doesn't care. Probably a side-effect of her incredible power and that whole "five hundred years in a casket at the bottom of a lake" thing.
SUPERHERO NAME: N/A. Bayonetta don't need that shit.
ALTER EGO: Bayonetta, and with the lack of homicidal angels in the City, she'll probably end up taking a position as the local go-to person for suplexing supernatural somebodies... out of boredom. Her fee is nice, too.
BACKGROUND:
The world of Bayonetta is much like our own modern day Earth, except for the secret occult groups running things behind the scenes - the Lumen Sages, agents of light and Paradiso, and the Umbra Witches, representatives of dark and Inferno. Or the groups that used to run things behind the scenes. Six hundred years ago, they both worked together, using their respective Eyes of the World to do so - each group held one, and together they kept each other (and the world) in balance.
Then, a child was born that threw both groups into chaos. A Lumen Sage named Balder and an Umbra Witch named Rosa had a daughter, equally light and dark - Balder was exiled from his clan, and Rosa was imprisoned for the rest of her days. The girl, Cereza, was raised as a black sheep within the Umbra.
The clans never recovered from this breach of their doctrines. Eventually they fell into war, and though the Lumen had the light of Paradiso and all its angels behind them, they eventually fell to the witches. Soon afterwards, however, the humans began the witch hunts, and the battle weary Umbra clan soon succumbed.
All but one.
Fast forward four hundred and eighty years - Antonio Redgrave, investigative journalist extraordinaire, follows a shady and tedious few clues to the bottom of a European lake. There he finds a coffin, and inside, a woman; soon after, apparently at the woman's supernatural whims, he is torn limb from limb. His young son watches the whole scene from the shore.
Fast forward again - this time twenty years. The apparent final member of the Umbra clan, Bayonetta, remembers nothing more than her own status as a witch. She works with her demonic informant and weaponsmith Rodin and the hapless mobster Enzo to try and recover her memory. This search, in time, leads her to Vigrid - paradise of BFE, just in Europe.
Here's where things get kind of long-winded, so here's the basics: Bayonetta travels to Vigrid, meeting again with Luka Redgrave, who hunts for a way to expose her and find justice for his murdered father, and her nemesis, the mysterious fellow witch Jeanne. Bayonetta makes her way through Vigrid, pretty much wrecking shit all over the place and not caring, killing hundreds of angels, killing more major Virtues than can be counted on one hand, and in the meantime, duels with Jeanne multiple times, meets a strange little girl named Cereza who insists on calling Bayonetta her mother, is pursued by Luka, and continues killing angels. And being continuously coquettish while doing so, even with angels. While she's murdering them. And a spooky voice speaks to Bayonetta and only Bayonetta, calling her "my dear, sweet child". It's sort of spooky, mysterious, and more than a little creepy.
Eventually, revelations are had all around: Jeanne is the one who sealed Bayonetta. A much younger Jeanne and Cereza were best friends. Bluh bluh the clans killed each other etc. etc. etc. Luka explains a bunch of clan stuff I already explained earlier, and what I didn't explain is kind of boring and also unimportant. Basically, this year happens to be the year of the Festival of Resurrection, which only comes around every five hundred years. The Festival of Resurrection is sort of a bi-millennial event to try and revive Jubileus with the Left and Right eye, and remake reality itself. It's some crazy shit, but it's just a myth, of course. Through a series of flashbacks, Bayonetta recalls more of her powers, and eventually, she duels Jeanne for a final time as missiles blow the shit out of most of Isla Del Sol, where all the rich Vigridians hang out. She believes Luka and Cereza dead due to a missile of Jeanne's, and only finds out after the battle that they survived. A revelation: Bayonetta's birth name is Cereza, the same as the young girl tagging along with her and Luka. She also reveals that the stone in the ornament on Bayonetta's chest is not the Left Eye - is in fact worthless.
Moments later, Jeanne is killed by missiles.
Bayonetta, Luka, and Cereza ascend to the top of the highest skyscraper (full of goddamn hard to kill angels), where the CEO of the Ithavoll corporation awaits with the Right Eye. Bayonetta finds Cereza, who had disappeared earlier, at the top of the tower with Father Balder, the last Lumen Sage and Bayonetta's father. Luka bursts in and interrupts Balder's villainous speech, and is then told the truth about his father's death - angels under Balder's orders killed Antonio Redgrave for being too nosy, tearing him limb from limb. He just couldn't see them. Bayonetta was innocent.
Bayonetta is... less than impressed with her father, and when he attempts to kill Luka the same way he killed Luka's father, and subsequently hurls him out of a window to his death, and then absorbs the child Cereza - really a child Bayonetta - into himself to form a hideous godboss angelthing, she's incensed. In fact, she beats his ass. Once that's done, she returns the child Cereza to her proper time, singing the lullaby that would later finish the stable time loop and create her current persona. Then she approaches Luka, the trials they've faced having brought them together, with the setting sun as the backdrop. Very romantic. All looks to be well, until...
...Well, until all hell breaks loose.
You see, back before coming to Isla Del Sol, Bayonetta gave Cereza one of her ribbons to tie the golden... Umbra amulet or something that she set the Left Eye gem in around her neck, as a necklace, telling her to always keep it near her heart. However, that kept her from being sealed and from screwing up the last Festival of Resurrection five hundred years ago, which doesn't seem to fuck with the modern timeline too much, but still activates the Left Eye in Bayonetta. Balder rises from the dead, takes Bayonetta from a bewildered Luka (not actually dead, this will become a thing very soon) and ascends to the statue of Jubileus (God) and takes his place in her right eye, with an unconscious Bayonetta in her left. They kick off a rocket underneath the statue, heading for the stratosphere to remake the universe as they see fit. As Balder sees fit, actually. Luka is helpless and human, there is no one with the power left to stop Balder.
Except for Jeanne, who survived the missiles through a force field raised by the Left Eye stone of Bayonetta's. This stone also broke the mind control Balder had put her under, forcing her to repeatedly fight her closest friend, eventually to the not-death. Anyway, she survived, and with her badass magical motorcycle, managed to ride up shrapnel and castaway rocket parts up to the rocket proper and Jubileus' statue. There (in space) she pulls Bayonetta from Jubileus' left eye, wakes her up, and then loses her Witch Walk powers and floats away, because Balder blew up the moon.
Bayonetta then proceeds to fight God. And win.
After summoning her ultimate summon, Queen Sheba, who punches a heavily weakened Jubileus into the sun, Bayonetta sits on Jubileus' burnt body as it hurtles towards Earth, threatening to destroy it. Apparently planning to die alongside Earth. However...
Well, Jeanne reappears, having found her motorcycle in space and ridden it to Jubileus' corpse. She and Bayonetta take up the places they did five hundred years ago, during the war with the Lumen and their angels, fighting back to back to destroy the rubble from Jubileus' barely-living body to keep it from destroying Earth. (Really, if you don't hit every single piece, the planet explodes.) They both manage this, and then freefall back to Earth, apparently dying. It is a freefall through the atmosphere we're talking about, after all.
Later, Rodin and Enzo are attending Bayonetta's funeral, as Rodin explains that after witches die, they wander Hell forever, cold and scared shitless. Luka shows up with a shitton of rosemary - what Bayonetta told him earlier was a demon repellent - and wishes her well on her journey ahead.
Then, the light of Paradiso shines down from the sky, pretty much exactly like the very first scene of the game, and the nun presiding over the service reveals herself to be Jeanne. She begins fighting the angels, and asks the casket if it fell asleep in there again. Then Bayonetta busts out of the coffin, proceeding to kick angel ass all over the place alongside Jeanne, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Except for Balder. But he was kind of a dick anyway.
PERSONALITY:
Coquettish, ferocious, mysterious, and ultimately self-interested (but only sometimes), Bayonetta is not a particularly easily understood woman, and she prefers it that way.
In fact, as far as most people will ever know (and that isn't many to begin with, considering she's skulking around in a realm outside of human reach about 95% of the time), Bayonetta is just the above and nothing else: flirty, at moments terrifying, but ultimately wholly self-interested. She shows up, she gets what she wants, and then she leaves, without much concern for the damage left in her wake. Like people's cars. Or planes. Or entire cities. (As a note, she never intentionally causes any damage or loss of human life. It's mostly the agents of Paradiso that do that, and Bayonetta just doesn't go out of her way to save people once it happens.)
This is somewhat true. Bayonetta is not a hero, has never pretended to be, and doesn't actually give much of a shit about the grand scheme of things. Not caring too much about the human world is one thing - it can be argued that her immense power, lack of memory, and ability to remove herself from the human world whenever necessary has disconnected her from it, especially since she acts more humanized once Luka and Cereza enter her life - but when you don't care if Heaven and Hell go into balls-out war with each other? With results described as making "the Book of Revelations look like Mother Goose"? You're either hideously damaged or terribly selfish. Or you just don't care about these things.
Bayonetta just doesn't care about these things. And maybe a little bit of category B too, but that's good for a girl.
However, she's not totally self-interested. Her interest is just mostly limited to herself and the small circle of people she personally cares about, and it's pretty hard to make it into the second category with all that invisibility and avoidance shit she's usually got going on. Still, people have managed to do it - she has a good (occasionally threatening, quite flirty) relationship with her demonic weaponsmith Rodin, and though she's harsh on him in her flirty, somewhat maliciously playful manner, is friendly with Enzo as well.
Luka Redgrave, however, is one of the most important factors within the scope of her time in Vigrid, and really how her capacity to actually care for people other than herself is shown in the game. It's obvious when he has his first showdown with her that Bayonetta's been dealing with him for years, following her and trying to reveal her to the world, and that she finds him more of an amusement than a legitimate threat. She calls him a child, gives him a cute nickname, nearly gets him killed (but saves him) a couple of times, teases and taunts him, and just generally doesn't take him seriously. However, they gradually become legitimate friends over the course of their time in Vigrid - watching out for each other, watching over Cereza (who Bayonetta, while initially a bit reluctant to involve herself with the girl, eventually does grow fond of and begin treating almost like a daughter), rescuing (or attempting to, in Luka's case) one another multiple times, maintaining a flirty undercurrent to their interactions, and just generally growing close. By the end of the game, they're close friends, and though it was by no means easy to get to that point, Luka and Cereza manage to show another side of Bayonetta; in certain situations she can indeed be kind (if a little mean sometimes), she can be affectionate, she can be concerned for people other than herself, and that she can even be a bit motherly, if... a little rusty with children. "Don't you dare cry," indeed.
Bayonetta, aside from being the insanely cruel bane of Paradiso, can also be human. Sort of.
However, she's still... the insanely cruel bane of Paradiso. It's very difficult to legitimately make her lose her cool, even in the heat of battle, but ruffled or not she's still undeniable awful to her enemies. It's not just that her magic means her attacks are awful and vicious, though they are - Bayonetta legitimately enjoys causing the angels massive amounts of suffering, and takes fiendish delight in being able to do so. Even her friends can get a less than empathetic response if she's busy or they've managed to get in her way. She frequently combines this cruelty with overtly sexual comments or gestures, which usually ends up pissing the angels off more. Meaning she gets crueler. It's a vicious, fun cycle to her.
The angels can kind of be assholes though, killing humans at random to get Bayonetta's attention and all, so she technically is on the lighter side of morally grey as all hell. Sort of. She'd still be killing them even if they weren't, because going to Hell forever is not kosher, but she has that excuse if anybody tries to call her out.
Most evident to everyone, even people who only know of her, is that Bayonetta is aware of her sex appeal. She isn't afraid to show that she's aware of it, either. From taunts ("You want to touch me?") to end-of-level commentary ("I should've been a pole dancer!") to torturing angels to death (the Joy one in particular is nasty, not to mention having some major dominatrix overtones), to... well, pretty much everything, it's all absolutely drenched in sex. And it's not compensation, or a means to an end, or anything particularly serious like that; it's because Bayonetta likes being sexy, likes to fluster, and - maybe most of all - likes pissing off angels with it. If you have it, why not have fun with it? She really does have fun fulfilling the nigh unattainable femme fatale archetype.
She really, really does.
Well, that and it feeds into her overwhelming ego. Massively overwhelming, and - while not easy to bruise - easy to insult, which is just bad for everybody. Insinuate that she can't handle herself and she will tell you to piss off, and then threaten to bust a cap in yo ass if you start being a meddling meddler re: her business. Seriously. Word-for-word game dialogue here. When Temperantia, one of the angels representing the Heavenly Virtues themselves, sees Bayonetta, the first thing he says is, "Even after all these years, you still have the pride of an overseer." (Then he says she has pretty eyes.) Bayonetta and her not taking shit from people, and being a smartass about aforementioned lack of shit taking, is even infamous among angels. The really important ones. Bayonetta is a very proud woman, and is determined not to let anyone compromise that pride. Even if she has to break their faces.
Still, she's not untouchable, much as she'd like others to think so. It's difficult to seriously affect her confidence, but going after those close to her or her lost memory is the way to do it; attacking her friends will piss her off royally, but grab her attention in a way that simply confronting her won't, and doing things like stealing the pinion on her chest will throw her off her game. Still, she deals with the memory issue much better than the possibility of losing her friends - mostly by deflecting comments about it, or asking slyly about what the other person knows, or just murdering them horribly if she already knew what they could've told her. Also unlike threatened loved ones, Bayonetta isn't desperate to get everything she can out of one individual. There are always more angels, and she's always had Jeanne to give her weird, vague hints.
This anxiety relating to her amnesia and weakness for the few other people she can consider her friends, however, is something not exploited easily. And why should it be? She takes good care of her friends. Good enough, anyway, if they can manage to keep up, and if not, they'll be safer not being around her at all. Why should she go around babysitting if they can't handle her? And someone is intent on calling her out back in Vigrid, and it isn't like she's in any danger of running out of angels to interrogate.
It isn't a question, to her, of whether or not she can handle what her life throws at her. It's whether or not her life can handle what she throws at it.
POWER:
purgatorio magic: Aside from her demon summoning, which is hax (FIRE BREATHING DEMON SPIDER) and will be left out of her powerset for the game, a lot of her magic is reliant on the realm of Purgatorio. Bayonetta will be bringing a bit of it with her into the City: not a whole separate realm, but just enough to give her the skills she'd normally only have access to in Purgatorio. This includes removing herself from the normal physical plane (though magic types can still see and interact with her), and creating small barriers. These barriers can be broken with sufficient physical or magical force.
beast within: As a witch, Bayonetta possesses the ability to shapeshift into three different animal types. These three specific animal species seem to vary between witches, but generally have the same body type; Bayonetta's are a panther, a crow, and a small cloud of bats.
general witchyness: Bayonetta, on multiple occasions, displays strength, acrobatics, endurance, and speed far beyond that of a human, all of which seem about average for a witch of her and Jeanne's caliber. She also has control of her hair, though in the City she'll be limited to just making her iconic bodysuit out of it.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
Another long trip? [sigh.] If I didn't get frequent flier miles for that last one, I had better get them for this. I do try to keep the trans-dimensional trips to a minimum, you know.
[the speaker is a woman with a British accent, and though she seems a touch exasperated, she's anything but angry. bemused, maybe. she stops for a moment, thoughtful. the pause is punctuated by her footsteps on the way out of the Porter room.]
Now, Cheshire, I know you have quite the knack for mucking about in places I wouldn't expect. If you've ended up here along with me - with or without the girl - I expect to hear from you. Posthaste, kitty.
[another pause.]
Now, was there anything else? Maybe a good Italian place... oh!
[VIDEO TIME. she looks a touch surprised for a moment, and then bemused.]
A complimentary American vacation and a nice little toy to go with it? Wonders never cease.
[the ♥ is almost audible.]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Bayonetta, after all the hell the rest of the day had been, had expected catching a flight off to this "island of champagne wishes and caviar dreams" Luka had gone on about back on that bridge. She had expected little fuss from Cereza, preoccupied with her doll as she was. Little fussing from the angels, too, though that was never a certainty. An easy trip over to this Isla Del Sol. Or at least one that could be handled with little angelic blood on the interior of their private chopper.
She hadn't expected, midway through settling her feet up on the helicopter's dash, for the seat to drop out from under her. To have to catch herself mid-fall or risk busting her ass in a suddenly much less humid environment, in a much brighter room, in a much louder place.
Bayonetta was not a woman accustomed to confusion. Still, she didn't panic - panicking never did anything good, now did it? - but glanced around the room warily for any halos or feathers, guns in hand. But there weren't any. Just the room, and the tags, and the little phone thing, and the brochure, all of which she ambled her way over to in time and looked over. It was all almost too bizarre to be true (and not a whiff of Paradiso or Inferno's influence anywhere in this or just anywhere in general, which was somewhat disquieting), this superhero schtick, but there really wasn't any other explanation for how she went from Vigrid to... here. She didn't even need to go outside to sense the massive difference from her world and this one.
And weirder things had happened, in the general... flow of things.
Still, Bayonetta treated it as she treated all these weird happenstances that seemed just so frequent in her charmed life. She noted it, sighed a bit at how deeply this cut into that whole daring quest of hers, and shrugged it off. You didn't get where she was by panicking at being hurled across realities, you know.
(The small voice of unease at this situation - at leaving Luka and Cereza behind, even for a moment - she smothered.)
Dog tags slung around her wrist, brochure abandoned back in the Porter room, and comm in hand (and being fiddled with - how neat was this little thing?), Bayonetta strutted out into the City.
Might as well get a bit of sightseeing done before something inevitably went awry, hm?
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[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Bayonetta
FANDOM: Bayonetta
CHRONOLOGY: From the very beginning of The Broken Sky, immediately after giving Cereza one of her ribbons but before the actual plane arrives.
CLASS: Anti-hero... maybe. Bayonetta is very self-interested, and more often than not, if something doesn't involve her, then she doesn't care. Probably a side-effect of her incredible power and that whole "five hundred years in a casket at the bottom of a lake" thing.
SUPERHERO NAME: N/A. Bayonetta don't need that shit.
ALTER EGO: Bayonetta, and with the lack of homicidal angels in the City, she'll probably end up taking a position as the local go-to person for suplexing supernatural somebodies... out of boredom. Her fee is nice, too.
BACKGROUND:
The world of Bayonetta is much like our own modern day Earth, except for the secret occult groups running things behind the scenes - the Lumen Sages, agents of light and Paradiso, and the Umbra Witches, representatives of dark and Inferno. Or the groups that used to run things behind the scenes. Six hundred years ago, they both worked together, using their respective Eyes of the World to do so - each group held one, and together they kept each other (and the world) in balance.
Then, a child was born that threw both groups into chaos. A Lumen Sage named Balder and an Umbra Witch named Rosa had a daughter, equally light and dark - Balder was exiled from his clan, and Rosa was imprisoned for the rest of her days. The girl, Cereza, was raised as a black sheep within the Umbra.
The clans never recovered from this breach of their doctrines. Eventually they fell into war, and though the Lumen had the light of Paradiso and all its angels behind them, they eventually fell to the witches. Soon afterwards, however, the humans began the witch hunts, and the battle weary Umbra clan soon succumbed.
All but one.
Fast forward four hundred and eighty years - Antonio Redgrave, investigative journalist extraordinaire, follows a shady and tedious few clues to the bottom of a European lake. There he finds a coffin, and inside, a woman; soon after, apparently at the woman's supernatural whims, he is torn limb from limb. His young son watches the whole scene from the shore.
Fast forward again - this time twenty years. The apparent final member of the Umbra clan, Bayonetta, remembers nothing more than her own status as a witch. She works with her demonic informant and weaponsmith Rodin and the hapless mobster Enzo to try and recover her memory. This search, in time, leads her to Vigrid - paradise of BFE, just in Europe.
Here's where things get kind of long-winded, so here's the basics: Bayonetta travels to Vigrid, meeting again with Luka Redgrave, who hunts for a way to expose her and find justice for his murdered father, and her nemesis, the mysterious fellow witch Jeanne. Bayonetta makes her way through Vigrid, pretty much wrecking shit all over the place and not caring, killing hundreds of angels, killing more major Virtues than can be counted on one hand, and in the meantime, duels with Jeanne multiple times, meets a strange little girl named Cereza who insists on calling Bayonetta her mother, is pursued by Luka, and continues killing angels. And being continuously coquettish while doing so, even with angels. While she's murdering them. And a spooky voice speaks to Bayonetta and only Bayonetta, calling her "my dear, sweet child". It's sort of spooky, mysterious, and more than a little creepy.
Eventually, revelations are had all around: Jeanne is the one who sealed Bayonetta. A much younger Jeanne and Cereza were best friends. Bluh bluh the clans killed each other etc. etc. etc. Luka explains a bunch of clan stuff I already explained earlier, and what I didn't explain is kind of boring and also unimportant. Basically, this year happens to be the year of the Festival of Resurrection, which only comes around every five hundred years. The Festival of Resurrection is sort of a bi-millennial event to try and revive Jubileus with the Left and Right eye, and remake reality itself. It's some crazy shit, but it's just a myth, of course. Through a series of flashbacks, Bayonetta recalls more of her powers, and eventually, she duels Jeanne for a final time as missiles blow the shit out of most of Isla Del Sol, where all the rich Vigridians hang out. She believes Luka and Cereza dead due to a missile of Jeanne's, and only finds out after the battle that they survived. A revelation: Bayonetta's birth name is Cereza, the same as the young girl tagging along with her and Luka. She also reveals that the stone in the ornament on Bayonetta's chest is not the Left Eye - is in fact worthless.
Moments later, Jeanne is killed by missiles.
Bayonetta, Luka, and Cereza ascend to the top of the highest skyscraper (full of goddamn hard to kill angels), where the CEO of the Ithavoll corporation awaits with the Right Eye. Bayonetta finds Cereza, who had disappeared earlier, at the top of the tower with Father Balder, the last Lumen Sage and Bayonetta's father. Luka bursts in and interrupts Balder's villainous speech, and is then told the truth about his father's death - angels under Balder's orders killed Antonio Redgrave for being too nosy, tearing him limb from limb. He just couldn't see them. Bayonetta was innocent.
Bayonetta is... less than impressed with her father, and when he attempts to kill Luka the same way he killed Luka's father, and subsequently hurls him out of a window to his death, and then absorbs the child Cereza - really a child Bayonetta - into himself to form a hideous godboss angelthing, she's incensed. In fact, she beats his ass. Once that's done, she returns the child Cereza to her proper time, singing the lullaby that would later finish the stable time loop and create her current persona. Then she approaches Luka, the trials they've faced having brought them together, with the setting sun as the backdrop. Very romantic. All looks to be well, until...
...Well, until all hell breaks loose.
You see, back before coming to Isla Del Sol, Bayonetta gave Cereza one of her ribbons to tie the golden... Umbra amulet or something that she set the Left Eye gem in around her neck, as a necklace, telling her to always keep it near her heart. However, that kept her from being sealed and from screwing up the last Festival of Resurrection five hundred years ago, which doesn't seem to fuck with the modern timeline too much, but still activates the Left Eye in Bayonetta. Balder rises from the dead, takes Bayonetta from a bewildered Luka (not actually dead, this will become a thing very soon) and ascends to the statue of Jubileus (God) and takes his place in her right eye, with an unconscious Bayonetta in her left. They kick off a rocket underneath the statue, heading for the stratosphere to remake the universe as they see fit. As Balder sees fit, actually. Luka is helpless and human, there is no one with the power left to stop Balder.
Except for Jeanne, who survived the missiles through a force field raised by the Left Eye stone of Bayonetta's. This stone also broke the mind control Balder had put her under, forcing her to repeatedly fight her closest friend, eventually to the not-death. Anyway, she survived, and with her badass magical motorcycle, managed to ride up shrapnel and castaway rocket parts up to the rocket proper and Jubileus' statue. There (in space) she pulls Bayonetta from Jubileus' left eye, wakes her up, and then loses her Witch Walk powers and floats away, because Balder blew up the moon.
Bayonetta then proceeds to fight God. And win.
After summoning her ultimate summon, Queen Sheba, who punches a heavily weakened Jubileus into the sun, Bayonetta sits on Jubileus' burnt body as it hurtles towards Earth, threatening to destroy it. Apparently planning to die alongside Earth. However...
Well, Jeanne reappears, having found her motorcycle in space and ridden it to Jubileus' corpse. She and Bayonetta take up the places they did five hundred years ago, during the war with the Lumen and their angels, fighting back to back to destroy the rubble from Jubileus' barely-living body to keep it from destroying Earth. (Really, if you don't hit every single piece, the planet explodes.) They both manage this, and then freefall back to Earth, apparently dying. It is a freefall through the atmosphere we're talking about, after all.
Later, Rodin and Enzo are attending Bayonetta's funeral, as Rodin explains that after witches die, they wander Hell forever, cold and scared shitless. Luka shows up with a shitton of rosemary - what Bayonetta told him earlier was a demon repellent - and wishes her well on her journey ahead.
Then, the light of Paradiso shines down from the sky, pretty much exactly like the very first scene of the game, and the nun presiding over the service reveals herself to be Jeanne. She begins fighting the angels, and asks the casket if it fell asleep in there again. Then Bayonetta busts out of the coffin, proceeding to kick angel ass all over the place alongside Jeanne, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Except for Balder. But he was kind of a dick anyway.
PERSONALITY:
Coquettish, ferocious, mysterious, and ultimately self-interested (but only sometimes), Bayonetta is not a particularly easily understood woman, and she prefers it that way.
In fact, as far as most people will ever know (and that isn't many to begin with, considering she's skulking around in a realm outside of human reach about 95% of the time), Bayonetta is just the above and nothing else: flirty, at moments terrifying, but ultimately wholly self-interested. She shows up, she gets what she wants, and then she leaves, without much concern for the damage left in her wake. Like people's cars. Or planes. Or entire cities. (As a note, she never intentionally causes any damage or loss of human life. It's mostly the agents of Paradiso that do that, and Bayonetta just doesn't go out of her way to save people once it happens.)
This is somewhat true. Bayonetta is not a hero, has never pretended to be, and doesn't actually give much of a shit about the grand scheme of things. Not caring too much about the human world is one thing - it can be argued that her immense power, lack of memory, and ability to remove herself from the human world whenever necessary has disconnected her from it, especially since she acts more humanized once Luka and Cereza enter her life - but when you don't care if Heaven and Hell go into balls-out war with each other? With results described as making "the Book of Revelations look like Mother Goose"? You're either hideously damaged or terribly selfish. Or you just don't care about these things.
Bayonetta just doesn't care about these things. And maybe a little bit of category B too, but that's good for a girl.
However, she's not totally self-interested. Her interest is just mostly limited to herself and the small circle of people she personally cares about, and it's pretty hard to make it into the second category with all that invisibility and avoidance shit she's usually got going on. Still, people have managed to do it - she has a good (occasionally threatening, quite flirty) relationship with her demonic weaponsmith Rodin, and though she's harsh on him in her flirty, somewhat maliciously playful manner, is friendly with Enzo as well.
Luka Redgrave, however, is one of the most important factors within the scope of her time in Vigrid, and really how her capacity to actually care for people other than herself is shown in the game. It's obvious when he has his first showdown with her that Bayonetta's been dealing with him for years, following her and trying to reveal her to the world, and that she finds him more of an amusement than a legitimate threat. She calls him a child, gives him a cute nickname, nearly gets him killed (but saves him) a couple of times, teases and taunts him, and just generally doesn't take him seriously. However, they gradually become legitimate friends over the course of their time in Vigrid - watching out for each other, watching over Cereza (who Bayonetta, while initially a bit reluctant to involve herself with the girl, eventually does grow fond of and begin treating almost like a daughter), rescuing (or attempting to, in Luka's case) one another multiple times, maintaining a flirty undercurrent to their interactions, and just generally growing close. By the end of the game, they're close friends, and though it was by no means easy to get to that point, Luka and Cereza manage to show another side of Bayonetta; in certain situations she can indeed be kind (if a little mean sometimes), she can be affectionate, she can be concerned for people other than herself, and that she can even be a bit motherly, if... a little rusty with children. "Don't you dare cry," indeed.
Bayonetta, aside from being the insanely cruel bane of Paradiso, can also be human. Sort of.
However, she's still... the insanely cruel bane of Paradiso. It's very difficult to legitimately make her lose her cool, even in the heat of battle, but ruffled or not she's still undeniable awful to her enemies. It's not just that her magic means her attacks are awful and vicious, though they are - Bayonetta legitimately enjoys causing the angels massive amounts of suffering, and takes fiendish delight in being able to do so. Even her friends can get a less than empathetic response if she's busy or they've managed to get in her way. She frequently combines this cruelty with overtly sexual comments or gestures, which usually ends up pissing the angels off more. Meaning she gets crueler. It's a vicious, fun cycle to her.
The angels can kind of be assholes though, killing humans at random to get Bayonetta's attention and all, so she technically is on the lighter side of morally grey as all hell. Sort of. She'd still be killing them even if they weren't, because going to Hell forever is not kosher, but she has that excuse if anybody tries to call her out.
Most evident to everyone, even people who only know of her, is that Bayonetta is aware of her sex appeal. She isn't afraid to show that she's aware of it, either. From taunts ("You want to touch me?") to end-of-level commentary ("I should've been a pole dancer!") to torturing angels to death (the Joy one in particular is nasty, not to mention having some major dominatrix overtones), to... well, pretty much everything, it's all absolutely drenched in sex. And it's not compensation, or a means to an end, or anything particularly serious like that; it's because Bayonetta likes being sexy, likes to fluster, and - maybe most of all - likes pissing off angels with it. If you have it, why not have fun with it? She really does have fun fulfilling the nigh unattainable femme fatale archetype.
She really, really does.
Well, that and it feeds into her overwhelming ego. Massively overwhelming, and - while not easy to bruise - easy to insult, which is just bad for everybody. Insinuate that she can't handle herself and she will tell you to piss off, and then threaten to bust a cap in yo ass if you start being a meddling meddler re: her business. Seriously. Word-for-word game dialogue here. When Temperantia, one of the angels representing the Heavenly Virtues themselves, sees Bayonetta, the first thing he says is, "Even after all these years, you still have the pride of an overseer." (Then he says she has pretty eyes.) Bayonetta and her not taking shit from people, and being a smartass about aforementioned lack of shit taking, is even infamous among angels. The really important ones. Bayonetta is a very proud woman, and is determined not to let anyone compromise that pride. Even if she has to break their faces.
Still, she's not untouchable, much as she'd like others to think so. It's difficult to seriously affect her confidence, but going after those close to her or her lost memory is the way to do it; attacking her friends will piss her off royally, but grab her attention in a way that simply confronting her won't, and doing things like stealing the pinion on her chest will throw her off her game. Still, she deals with the memory issue much better than the possibility of losing her friends - mostly by deflecting comments about it, or asking slyly about what the other person knows, or just murdering them horribly if she already knew what they could've told her. Also unlike threatened loved ones, Bayonetta isn't desperate to get everything she can out of one individual. There are always more angels, and she's always had Jeanne to give her weird, vague hints.
This anxiety relating to her amnesia and weakness for the few other people she can consider her friends, however, is something not exploited easily. And why should it be? She takes good care of her friends. Good enough, anyway, if they can manage to keep up, and if not, they'll be safer not being around her at all. Why should she go around babysitting if they can't handle her? And someone is intent on calling her out back in Vigrid, and it isn't like she's in any danger of running out of angels to interrogate.
It isn't a question, to her, of whether or not she can handle what her life throws at her. It's whether or not her life can handle what she throws at it.
POWER:
purgatorio magic: Aside from her demon summoning, which is hax (FIRE BREATHING DEMON SPIDER) and will be left out of her powerset for the game, a lot of her magic is reliant on the realm of Purgatorio. Bayonetta will be bringing a bit of it with her into the City: not a whole separate realm, but just enough to give her the skills she'd normally only have access to in Purgatorio. This includes removing herself from the normal physical plane (though magic types can still see and interact with her), and creating small barriers. These barriers can be broken with sufficient physical or magical force.
beast within: As a witch, Bayonetta possesses the ability to shapeshift into three different animal types. These three specific animal species seem to vary between witches, but generally have the same body type; Bayonetta's are a panther, a crow, and a small cloud of bats.
general witchyness: Bayonetta, on multiple occasions, displays strength, acrobatics, endurance, and speed far beyond that of a human, all of which seem about average for a witch of her and Jeanne's caliber. She also has control of her hair, though in the City she'll be limited to just making her iconic bodysuit out of it.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
Another long trip? [sigh.] If I didn't get frequent flier miles for that last one, I had better get them for this. I do try to keep the trans-dimensional trips to a minimum, you know.
[the speaker is a woman with a British accent, and though she seems a touch exasperated, she's anything but angry. bemused, maybe. she stops for a moment, thoughtful. the pause is punctuated by her footsteps on the way out of the Porter room.]
Now, Cheshire, I know you have quite the knack for mucking about in places I wouldn't expect. If you've ended up here along with me - with or without the girl - I expect to hear from you. Posthaste, kitty.
[another pause.]
Now, was there anything else? Maybe a good Italian place... oh!
[VIDEO TIME. she looks a touch surprised for a moment, and then bemused.]
A complimentary American vacation and a nice little toy to go with it? Wonders never cease.
[the ♥ is almost audible.]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Bayonetta, after all the hell the rest of the day had been, had expected catching a flight off to this "island of champagne wishes and caviar dreams" Luka had gone on about back on that bridge. She had expected little fuss from Cereza, preoccupied with her doll as she was. Little fussing from the angels, too, though that was never a certainty. An easy trip over to this Isla Del Sol. Or at least one that could be handled with little angelic blood on the interior of their private chopper.
She hadn't expected, midway through settling her feet up on the helicopter's dash, for the seat to drop out from under her. To have to catch herself mid-fall or risk busting her ass in a suddenly much less humid environment, in a much brighter room, in a much louder place.
Bayonetta was not a woman accustomed to confusion. Still, she didn't panic - panicking never did anything good, now did it? - but glanced around the room warily for any halos or feathers, guns in hand. But there weren't any. Just the room, and the tags, and the little phone thing, and the brochure, all of which she ambled her way over to in time and looked over. It was all almost too bizarre to be true (and not a whiff of Paradiso or Inferno's influence anywhere in this or just anywhere in general, which was somewhat disquieting), this superhero schtick, but there really wasn't any other explanation for how she went from Vigrid to... here. She didn't even need to go outside to sense the massive difference from her world and this one.
And weirder things had happened, in the general... flow of things.
Still, Bayonetta treated it as she treated all these weird happenstances that seemed just so frequent in her charmed life. She noted it, sighed a bit at how deeply this cut into that whole daring quest of hers, and shrugged it off. You didn't get where she was by panicking at being hurled across realities, you know.
(The small voice of unease at this situation - at leaving Luka and Cereza behind, even for a moment - she smothered.)
Dog tags slung around her wrist, brochure abandoned back in the Porter room, and comm in hand (and being fiddled with - how neat was this little thing?), Bayonetta strutted out into the City.
Might as well get a bit of sightseeing done before something inevitably went awry, hm?
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
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