Bayonetta (character)
Bayonetta is a female video game character who features in Bayonetta.
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Biography
Cereza was a female human born of a forbidden romance between the Umbra Witch Rosa and the Lumen Sage Father Balder on December 19 1411 at the city of Vigrid. At some point, the Left Eye of the Eyes of the World were placed within Bayonetta for safe keeping by the clan. In her childhood, she used to play with a fellow witch by the name of Jeanne who was later selected to become the heiress of the clan. Thus, the Umbran Elder asked her to select an opponent to which Jeanne chose Bayonetta despite this breaking Umbran law. During their fight, Jeanne was defeated by Bayonetta though afterwards a full scale war erupted between the Umbran Witches and Lumen Sages where the two fought side by side against their enemies. Ultimately, the war was won by the Witches but Humans grew fearful of their power and began massive witch hunts that eliminated the clan that left only Jeanne as well as Bayonetta as its survivors. Jeanne later grew fearful that her clans treasure namely the Left Eye would fall into the hands of the Sages and Laguna which led to hear sealing Bayonetta within a lake for 500 years. She remained in this slumber within the coffin at the bottom of the lake for centuries until 3 March 1977. At the time, a journalist by the name of Antonio Redgrave with his young son Luka Redgrave had come to the lake to discover if the rumors of a witch were true. Antonio would swim to the bottom of the lake and retrieve the coffin thus awakening Bayonetta who had suffered amnesia thus she had forgotten some elements of her past. At this point, she was attacked by angels of Paradiso that were unseen by Human eyes. During her fight with them, Antonio was killed in the battle and Bayonetta later fled to roam the world.
Whilst working as a nun, Bayonetta acted out a funeral ceremony to summon the angels of Paradiso to her in order to fulfill her contract with Inferno. Casting aside her nun clothes, she is able to subdue them with ease with the help of Rodin. After her skirmish, Bayonetta travels with Enzo, a black market information broker, back to Rodin's bar in hopes of getting some answers regarding the Eyes of the World and the half that she carries in her watch. However, during the drive, the pair are ambushed by the crashing of a military plane and Bayonetta promptly takes to battle. There, she comes face to face with a mysterious woman who possesses similar weaponry and magical abilities to her. Despite the two of them working together in order to fend off the angels, the stranger disappears without an answer, though Bayonetta remarks that she seems to remember her from somewhere. Back at the Gates of Hell, Rodin comments how the fight with the mysterious woman seemed to set up to be coincidence and promptly gifts the witch with Scarborough Fair to prepare her for the journey ahead. Meanwhile, Enzo informs Bayonetta of the information he has managed to procure regarding the Eyes. The Right Eye showed itself briefly on the black market before it was withdrawn and its origin was traced back to the small European town of Vigrid. Convinced that reuniting the two gemstones will regain her lost memories, Bayonetta sets off across the globe to find them.
Upon arriving in Vigrid, Bayonetta is pursued by the angels everywhere she travels and encounters a number of faces from her past. She is first greeted by a mysterious voice who tries to assure her that it is watching her and making sure she will come to no harm. She also encounters the mystery woman numerous times who reveals herself to be called Jeanne and Luka, a journalist who claims Bayonetta is the one responsible for his father's death. Including her battles with the angels, she also comes face to face with and defeats the Cardinal Virtues one by one, who all hint that at her connections to the past war 500 years ago that sent both the Umbran Witches and Lumen Sages to ruin. Bayonetta also meets a young girl called Cereza, seemingly lost from her home and who mistakes Bayonetta for her mother. Though she is not comfortable with the situation at first, Bayonetta comes to care for the child a great deal, especially as her memories seem to hint that she may genuinely be the girls' parent. After a fight with Iustitia at the airport, Bayonetta gifts Cereza with a ribbon from her hair, along with the advice to never lose something she loves. In this case, Cereza's own watch, a present she claims her mother gave her on her birthday. The girl vows never to take the watch off and wears it around her neck.
Though further battles and gradual reveals of her past life, Bayonetta meets Jeanne one final time at the Isla Del Sol. Jeanne reveals the truth at long last. 500 years ago, a law between the Witches and Sages compelled them to stay separate as the intersection of both light and dark would bring destruction. However, a child was born between a Witch and Sage in violation of this tenet: Bayonetta. Her birth sent the clans into a spiral of chaos and brought about their eventual extinction. The two witches fight all across the island city and Bayonetta is finally able to best her opponent for good. Jeanne reveals that the pair of them used to be friends as children and that she sealed Bayonetta away in her coffin all those years ago in order to keep the Left Eye safe from the forces of Paradiso. Before narrowly saving Bayonetta from an incoming missile strike at the cost of her life, she refers to her old friend by her true name, Cereza. Bayonetta reaches the top of the Ithavoll Tower to confront the person behind her journey; the last of the Lumen Sages and her own father, Balder. Balder explains that Cereza is actually Bayonetta's younger self brought from the past to the present and that the experiences the girl had in this time zone would help to reawaken Bayonetta's memories in the present. He also reveals that the Eyes of the World are not gemstones, but people and that Bayonetta herself is the Left Eye whilst he is the Right. She engages in battle with him and despite having to use all of her strength to defeat him, she eventually shoots him down in the forehead with the lipstick formerly belonging to her mother. With Cereza safe, Bayonetta uses the portal Balder has in his office to return the girl to her real time and reminds her that there is nothing she cannot do.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Bayonetta was shown to be a beautiful young woman who possessed a slender yet rather curvaceous and tall figure like other Umbra Witches in her clan. She had black hair wrapped into a beehive-like hairdo and gray eyes; also, she has a mole located at bottom of her left cheek close to her lips. Her main attire is composed of a skin-tight suit made of out of her hair that has a rose design on the abdomen as well as long white gloves, black and gray heels and thin, gold chains; she also wears glasses that have the design of butterfly wings close to the lenses, three small belts strapped on each arm, and a pair of gold, cat-shaped earrings. She wears an Umbra Watch over her bust that contains red jewel previously thought to be the Left Eye. Four metal symbols are attached to her hair, three of them are the shape of the crescent moon, the other is the symbol of the Umbra Witches; also, Bayonetta has a hair ribbon wrapped around her hairdo that extends down to to her legs covered in demonic language.
For the most part, Bayonetta can be seen as a calm character. Initially, she comes off as callous and nonchalant, though later on she becomes much more caring.
It was shown that she rather enjoyed fighting angels in a playful yet brutal manner and she maintains her cool even when up against powerful angels such as the Auditos.
She claimed not to care about children, but becomes attached to Cereza.
She claimed to had hated cockroaches and crying babies.
Bayonetta caresd about her clan deeply, despising her father for influencing the witch hunts.
She tends to tease Luka, whether by scaring him or by sensually playing with him.
Powers and abilities
As an Umbra Witch, Bayonetta possess varying powerful magics that assist her in her daily life and allows her to fight against even the most powerful of beings. As an Umbra Witch, she is easily capable of seeing the other realm known as Purgatorio and entering it at will. Skilled in the Dark Arts, Bayonetta also possesses some magical abilities unrelated to the dark arts, such as freezing the moisture in the air to form a spear in an attempt to impale her opponent.
One of her abilities was the power to enter into Witch Time where she could speed time up and cause enemies to appear in slow-motion. The Dart Art served as a counter for the abilities of Light Speed that was used by the Lumen Sages. She was able to 'stack' over her Witch Time allowing her to counter another witch or even an angel.
Her Umbran powers allowed her to unleash the Beast Within which allowed her to transform into an animal form and gain new mysterious magical powers. Through this ability, she had the capacity to transform into a panther allowing her to travel as fast as the wind as well as climb the most difficult of cliffs with ease.
Her hair served as a conduit through which she could summon forth some of the powers of demons to aid her. These Wicked Weaves allowed her to manifest powerful attacks from them where limbs could form to strike at a target. A more powerful version of this was later used with these being known as Infernal Weaves.
Her highest abilities were Infernal Demons which was she was capable of channelling through her hair. As her clothes consisted of this magical, it typically disappeared from her body leaving her in a near-naked state. Among the demons she was capable of summoning included:
- Gomorrah : the Devourer of the Divine resembled a massive dragonic head who emerged from a solid surface and was restricted in its movement by the hair. It was said to hail from the demonic wood Johnson Forest and was incredibly fierce were it identified anything that moved as game and devoured its prey. This entity was capable of grabbing creatures in its massive jaws and rip through their bodies until they were killed. Gomorrah was said to be territorial and was most likely to be found alone.
- Malphas: an enigmatic raven-black bird who was shrouded in the mysteries of the sky. Noted for being ever curious, Malphas had filled itself with all the world's knowledge and mysteries. In addition, the demon ad a brutal demeanour where it tore apart those it encountered and shred them to pieces using its sharp beak along with razor-like talons.
- Hekatoncheir : the Shatterer of the Earth was a giant with six fearsome arms capable of pulverising mountains and whose footsteps resulted in days-long violent earthquakes. The demon lacked knowledge but made up for it in terms of brutality where even the most powerful of conjurers had to be careful when summoning its power.
- Scolopendra : the Eradicator of Paradise was a a vile centipede who hailed from Frejetonta which was a river of boiling blood in the depths of Inferno. Rumors spoke of its body exceeding ten kilometers in length where it moving unlike anything its size with its deftness allowing it to wrap around to constrict its prey in the blink of an eye.
Bayonetta also forged a pact with a Contracted Demon which in her case was done so with Madame Butterfly. The Mistress of Atrocity was a demon that took the form of a woman who left the mortal world under unfortunate circumstances only to be reincarnated in hell. Despite her beautiful appearance, she was noted for being particularly brutal with a well-known reputation amongst the denizens of Inferno.
A more powerful supercharged state could be achieved with this being known as Umbran Climax.
She was the wielder of one of the Eyes of the World where she had the Left Eye of Darkness.
She was later given four pistols by Rodin who stated that they were one of a kind weapon which were created from a special alloy that the Devil himself would have killed to had acquired. Two of the pistols were located on each foot whilst the other two were held in the hands. Each pistol was named after the old English ballad Scarborough Fair and consisted of Rosemary, Parsely, Sage and Thyme.
Bayonetta was gifted an Umbran Watch from her mother on her birthday that had her name and date of birth engraved on it. The watch allowed her to remain youthful and halted her aging.
Notes
- Bayonetta was created by Hideki Kamiya and designed by Mari Shimazaki where she featured in the setting of the Bayonetta universe.
In other media
Films
- In Bayonetta: Bloody Fate, Bayonetta appeared in the setting of the 2013 anime film adaptation where she was voiced by Japanese actress Atsuko Tanaka and by English actress Hellena Taylor in the dub.
Video games
- In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Bayonetta appeared as a playable character in the setting of the fighting video game.
Appearances
- Bayonetta:
- Bayonetta 2:
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