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Applicant Info

◎ Name: coco
◎ Journal: roserade
◎ Contact: fennekin

Character Info

◎ Character's Name: Bayonetta
◎ Character's Canon: Bayonetta
◎ Character's Age: 600+
◎ Canon Point: post game
◎ Background/History:
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? she has a sixth sense, being a witch, and can detect, see, and attack both angelic and demonic creatures.

◎ Personality:

Bayonetta is a unique woman, partially so because she's seemingly the last of a dead clan of magic wielders known as the Umbra Witches. Boisterous, suggestive, and provocative in more ways than one, Bayonetta is a campy individual who's unafraid to say exactly what she's thinking at any given time. She, in many ways, exemplifies colloquial and thematic elements of Darkness, perfect for her role as the surviving member of a clan who reigned over Darkness itself.

While feminine mystique is certainly one of her most prominent traits, she is not lacking in the physical gall. Able to take out a legion of angels in just a few waves of her guns, or hair, she is not one to be trifled with; her natural swagger is a testament for her physical and magical capabilities.

Bayonetta has an ineffectual, unflappable air about her, the type who doesn't bat an eyelash at explosions behind her. She doesn't often show her own emotional distress, instead wiping it off with sarcasm and witty euphemisms. Likewise, she is often caught up in her own affairs and chooses to ignore those of others unless they become relevant to her — she states that 'Heaven and Hell can tear each other apart', as, to her, the ongoing war has nothing to do with her.

Due to her aura of calmness, she takes great joy in toying with her prey. In the game, you get bonuses for 'torturing' enemies, or dragging out their eventual demise. This teasing also crosses over to her interactions with other people; she's always snarky and has a myriad of quips that she dishes out on the spot, and affectionately likes to play around with those she likes — when she first meets Luka, she trips him, a sign of their playful (at least on Bayonetta's end) cat-and-mouse relationship.

The only time this impenetrable will wavers is when the topic of Bayonetta's past arises. Her mission — for 20 whole years — has been to recover said memory. While she doesn't like to vocalize it, whenever her memory is called into question, Bayonetta noticeably clams up, becomes silent, and he expression dampens.

While Bayonetta may be a patroness of Darkness, she isn't all double double toil and trouble. She may not show it often, but she has quite the heart, and a maternal instinct lies within her; we can see this in her interactions with Cereza, who she practically adopts. While motherhood doesn't come as naturally to her as many others, along with questionable childcare decisions, (such as lifting her by her neck and brandishing a gun at her, normal mom things) she manages to protect, comfort, and be there for her when need be. She even goes out of her way to save Cereza's stuffed cat — Cheshire — from an angel.

Of course, it takes a while for this maternal side to truly surface. For a while, it's just a facade, a way to get Cereza to cooperate; Bayonetta is, initially, a selfish person, one who only has her own goals in mind. Cereza is, as she hears pulsate through her own head multiple times throughout the game, 'the key to her future', so of course she'd throw on a kindly voice. Bayonetta is persuasive, a great actress, and can be personable when she needs to be. Still, the task of guardianship weighs heavier than fighting God's army on her; her annoyance with Cereza shines through multiple times, and she claims the two things she can't stand more than anything are cockroaches and crying babies.

She, being the coy woman she is, doesn't like to show her doting side. When Jeanne teases her about her attachment to Cererza, she replies with aggressiveness, and later facetiousness; Jeanne notes that she has quite the tongue when 'curling round the truth'. Despite her attempts to mask her affection for Cereza, she still openly worries about her. The only time we really see Bayonetta in a state of panic occurs right after defeating Jeanne, when she's frantically looking for Cereza on a sinking plane. She doesn't even pause to leave Jeanne with a signature one-liner.

Late in the game, we learn that Cereza is actually a younger Bayonetta, which gives us a hint to how she was in her early years, and how her upbringing affected her. Naive, innocent, and trusting, Bayonetta was embittered by the political turmoil between the Lumen Sages and Umbra Witches. However, Bayonetta took this ostracization from both clans as an opportunity to become stronger, into the tough as nails witch she is.

From Cereza, we also see how formative Bayonetta's older self was to Bayonetta's personality. Cereza emulated who 'Bayonetta' is. In some scenes, we even see her mimicking Bayonetta's movements. Cereza later strives to become 'Bayonetta', taking on the moniker. In short, Bayonetta is partially responsible for her own fortitude; showing her own strength and courage to her younger self instilled in Cereza a sense of resilience and perseverance that few orphaned children can claim to have.

◎ Powers/Abilities:

oh boy.

First and foremost, Bayonetta is an Umbra Witch — a woman who hails over the power of darkness. This can mean a myriad of different things, as the dark arts are quite broad and each Umbra Witch had their own speciality. Their main similarity is their inherent connection to darkness, Inferno, the moon, and demons. Each Umbra Witch obtains her respective powers from the demon she makes a pact with, along with spiritual energy from the moon.

Bayonetta's contract is with Madama Butterfly, and specifically, her powers entail:

❤ an affinity for Bullet Arts, a fighting style specific to Umbra Witches that involves martial arts, long range, and magical attacks with enchanted guns on both hands and feet.
❤ Witch Time — an ability exclusive to Umbra Witches in which time is slowed for a short amount of time.
❤ Wiched Weaves — the ability to summon demons through an Umbra Witch's hair.
❤ Transdimensional Travel — Bayonetta is able to travel between the normal world and Purgatorio.
❤ Enhanced Physical Capabilities — Refined acrobatic and melee capabilities.
❤ Herbalism — Ability to craft concoctions from certain items.

◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:

☾ scarborough fair, magical handguns and bayonetta's main weapons. can be equipped to hands and feet
☾ onyx roses, sawn off shotguns made with the souls of fairies. stronger but shorter range than scarborough fair. can be equipped to hands and feet
☾ shuraba, a katana with bloodlust. can only be equipped to hands
☾ kulshedra, a possessed, serpentine whip. can only be equipped to hands
☾ durga, gauntlets that emit fiery or electric claws. can be equipped to hands or feet
☾ odette possessed ice skates that can conjure ice. can only be equipped to feet
☾ umbran watch, an artifact that all umbran witches once possessed

CEREALIA-Specific

◎ Element: Air.
◎ Sense: Sight. Partially because of the irony, but also due to her ability to see and interact with supernatural beings.
◎ Seven Character Traits: ( unwavering, free-spirited, capable ) | ( indulgent, uncaring, abrasive ) + mistrusting

Samples

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