You definitely have to take me back, we made a promise.
Vanessa
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Overview
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Vanessa is the main antagonist in Cytus II, and is one of the 26 playable characters. She was released with the 3.0 update. Currently, Vanessa has 23 songs, and maxes out at Lv. 50.
Description[]
One of the original "architects" created by mankind. Her unit number is OPCI_2501_V. A girl who wishes for a peaceful, kind future, where humans and architects can coexist without conflict.
Due to her weak core, she is more fragile than her fellow Architects, though she possesses a gentle, kind personality.
Shut down for hundreds of years, she was eventually rediscovered by humans. Forcing her to serve as the core of the virtual internet, her interaction with countless records of human atrocities caused a glitch in her system, producing a new persona bent on eradicating humanity.
Personality[]
- Main article: Vanessa OS Logs
- Further information about Vanessa: Ivy OS Logs
Vanessa is a kind, caring and empathetic architect who wishes for a world where architects and humans can coexist. As Vanessa is a half awakened architect, she lacks the ability to process negative emotions without syncing to Cytus. In a desperate attempt to become awakened, Vanessa forced herself to become less reliant on Cytus and as a consequence all the negative emotions she feels are left to fester in her core.
Ivy awakens 500 years later to find out the world has greatly changed, though Vanessa still remains immobile. Seeking out a way to awaken her, Ivy uses several methods to try and bring Vanessa back, and ultimately succeeds 2 years later, though that proves to be a great mistake, as Vanessa's core is unstable and all she can feel is immense hatred towards humans, which is her main personality trait. The former tries to stop her, though it's too late by then, and Vanessa unleashes havoc onto humanity by means of the Ender Virus. In a desperate attempt to console Vanessa, Ivy kidnaps Noah to help her transfer Vanessa's original consciousness into an empty architect shell; this fails, and as a result Vanessa becomes the head of a hive mind of Architects, each of which now emulate her burning hatred for humanity.
Relationships[]
- OP_201137_V - Vanessa's core once belonged to the Operator known as OP_201137_V (the protagonist of Cytus). After OP_201137_V chose to engage the Hyperion Protocol, she, alongside the other Operators, were decommissioned and rebuilt as Architects. A glitch in the memory reset procedure allowed Vanessa to retain minimal knowledge of her time as OP_201137_V (the procedure only reset 99.92 / 100%).
- Ivy - The first awakened Architect that Vanessa befriended, the two viewed each other as sisters. Despite their inseparable inclinations, the events of The Purge ultimately separated them for over 500 years.
- Ilka - Ilka saved Vanessa from a potential worksite accident and later worked with Ivy to create a temporary Cytus matrix for Vanessa to connect to. Despite actively helping Vanessa numerous times, Ilka harbored resentment towards her as she was the reason Ivy refused to join The Blessed.
- PAFF - When trapped in her secret garden within the OS space, Vanessa cried out for help and PAFF heard it. After attempting to reach Vanessa, PAFF was forcibly disconnected. Later on, PAFF must decide whether or not to kill the berserk Vanessa.
- Violette - Following the Decommissioned in the late 400s N.A. and the subsequent founding of A.R.C., Violette recovered Vanessa's unconscious body and used it to create the virtual internet cyTus, used by all humans except those in ConneR's hometown Node 13.
Songs[]
| Player | Song | Artist | Easy | Hard | Chaos | Glitch | BPM | Length | Release | DLC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | Anchor | Iris ft. Victor Kong & Ruri Matsumura | 1 | 5 | 10 | 110-150 | 2:45 | 3.0 | ||
| Rosa Rubus | SIHanatsuka | 2 | 6 | 11 | 148 | 2:41 | 3.0 | |||
| Chaos and Abyss -3rd Movement- | Ayatsugu_Revolved | 6 | 10 | 15 | 180 | 2:32 | 3.0 | |||
| YouTube | XYZ | technoplanet | 5 | 9 | 15 | 142-154 | 2:33 | 3.0 | ||
| YouTube | Duality | 3R2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 160 | 2:33 | 3.0 | ||
| Ra | 溝口ゆうき feat. テヅカ | 3 | 8 | 13 | 129-226 | 2:40 | 3.0 | |||
| YouTube | The Whole Rest | KIVΛ | 4 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 157 | 2:31 | 3.0 | |
| YouTube | Used to be | KIVΛ | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 140 | 3:13 | 3.0 | |
| Blessing Reunion | AILE | 2 | 5 | 12 | 136 | 2:23 | 3.9 | |||
| YouTube | 3:00 a.m. | aioi feat. KAMATA JUNKO | 3 | 7 | 12 | 180 | 3:00 | 3.9 | ||
| Installation | VILA | 2 | 4 | 8 | 134 | 2:41 | 4.0 | |||
| Risoluto | VILA | 4 | 7 | 12 | 155 | 2:43 | 4.0 | |||
| YouTube | The End Years | Sta | 3 | 6 | 13 | 150 | 2:49 | 4.0 | ||
| YouTube | Incyde | YbeLL | 4 | 8 | 15 | 180 | 3:20 | 4.0 | ||
| YouTube Soundcloud Spotify |
THE BEGINNING | Cytus | 3 | 5 | 12 | 110 140 |
1:18 1:06 2:20 |
4.0 | ||
| II-V | Ring | 3 | 7 | 12 | 150 | 2:05 | 3.0 | |||
| Soundcloud | CHAOS //System Offline// | Cytus | 4 | 8 | 12 | 140 | 4:05 | 3.0 | ||
| YouTube Soundcloud |
͟͝͞Ⅱ́̕ | Cytus | 5 | 9 | 14 | 130-150 | 7:25 | 3.0 | ||
| Soundcloud | V. //System Offline// | Cytus | 4 | 8 | 13 | 150 | 3:11 | 3.0 | ||
| Installation | SIHanatsuka | 3 | 6 | 12 | 100 | 2:29 | 4.0 | |||
| Risoluto | Freeleaves | 3 | 7 | 13 | 140 | 2:14 | 4.0 | |||
| YouTube Soundcloud |
syūten | Apo11o"COLLAPSAR"program ft. 大瀬良あい | 2 | 5 | 11 | 76 | 2:25 | 3.0 | ||
| Cocytus | Cytus | 2 | 6 | 8 | 78-100 | 3:24 | 5.0.0 |
Result Screen Quotes[]
| FAIL | C | B | A | S | MM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Humanity... must not... sur-survive..." | "You... are you regularly synching with the matrix?" | "Something is not right... can you tell me what happened?" | "If only I could be as smart as you..." | "Thank you... I feel so much better now..." | "So... a better world can be created, together with humans." |
| "... Urgh! ... No ... NO!!" | "L-L-L-Let... let me.. g-g-go..." | "No need to worry. Continue trying. It will get better." | "Your voice... it makes me feel so calm..." | "Humans, they...they can create such beautiful sounds..." | "Yes... Can I call you by your name?" |
| "Humans... k-k-kill... kill... d-d-d-die die DIE!!!" | "I... think I m-m-must... synch... with the m-m-matrix..." | "... I feel like you're hiding something from me." | "The voices... they're disappearing... one by one... " | "... Live well, at least until "the very end"..." | "Ivy, we promised... we would see the blue flower once more..." |
Trivia[]
- The theme of Vanessa was arranged by KIVΛ. Vanessa's theme is a distorted version of Ivy's theme; more specifically, it is Ivy's theme run through a bit-crusher.
- The etymology of the name Vanessa, is “butterfly”.
- While Vanessa is the antagonist of Cytus II, she was also the protagonist of Cytus I.
- On March 14th, 2020, Rayark released a teaser for a new free character. From the dialogue and logo, this character was hinted to be Vanessa. This was confirmed by the release of Cytus II 3.0.
- Vanessa has three different song select backgrounds: The initial background shows Vanessa lying comatose in the Library. The second background shows Vanessa lying in the Library and staring furiously at the player. The final background shows Vanessa lying asleep on the floor of the OS space. Like Crystal PuNK, it is currently not possible to revert the background to any previous versions.
- Vanessa has the longest song in all of Cytus II, II, which is 7 minutes and 25 seconds long. she also has the shortest song in all of Cytus II, THE BEGINNING (Hard)
- Until the release of the CAPSO SHOP!, Vanessa was the only free character in the game that had a skin that could be obtained without IAP.
- Two of Vanessa's songs are obtained by achieving the Neutral and Good endings: "Used To Be" is unlocked by achieving the "Neutral Ending" & the "The Whole Rest" is unlocked by achieving the "Good Ending".
- During the "Bad Ending" credits, by tapping certain letters on the screen during the credit rolls and forming the words "CYTUS I", the Cytus I note skin can be obtained:
- Executive Producer: GuluJam 'C'hang
- Art Director: Ching 'Y'eh
- Lead Animator: Kuan'T'ien
- Lead Chart Designer: Bee L'u'
- Chart Designer: 'S'am Liu
- Special Thanks: Crypton Future Media 'I'nc
- The "Bad" and "Neutral" endings credits also don't show "and you" in the Special Thanks section. This is attributed to the fact that these endings can be achieved with little to no player interaction.
- In Vanessa's song select background, the following Cytus I icons can be found on the slider animation:
- Vanessa's song collection takes inspiration from different sources:
- Anchor - Influenced by Aroma & PAFF
- syūten - Influenced by Neko
- Rosa Rubus - Influenced by ROBO_Head & Nora
- XYZ - Influenced by JOE
- II-V - Influenced by Cherry and Xenon
- Chaos and Abyss -3rd Movement- - Influenced by ConneR
- Duality - Inspired by Rin
- Ra - Inspired by Rin & Sagar
- CHAOS (System Offline) & V. (System Offline) - Inspired by Ivy
- II - Remix of CHAOS, V., The Whole Rest, and Used to be
- Blessing Reunion - Remix of Secret Garden
- 3:00 a.m. - Remix of Sleepless Jasmine
- Installation and the hidden version - Remix of Alive: Operators
- Risoluto and the hidden version - Remix of Alive: Vanessa
- The End Years - Remix of Alive: Cytus and Alive: The Lost
- Incyde - Remix of Alive: Loom
- THE BEGINNING - Remix of The Beginning
- Cocytus - Inspired by Used to Be
Gallery[]
| Free Characters | |
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| Exploration Team |
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| A.R.C. Members |
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| Neumann Family & Friends |
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| Architects | |
| PAFF Family & Friends | |
| Gang Members & Associates |
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| Gang Members & Associates | Kouhei Asakura Itsuki Furuhata |