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Vivian (Paper Mario)

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Mario, I will follow you to the end, I swear it! I feel bad for the princess, but that queen must fall before us! And when she does, you and I can... Well, anyway, let's take this fight to her!
~ Vivian

Background

Vivian is a major character in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. She originally worked as a member of the villainous Shadow Sirens alongside her sisters, Beldam and Marilynq. Later, Vivian defects from the Shadow Sirens and joins Mario as his fifth party member. She is consistently put down by her oldest sister, Beldam, and has had a poor relationship with both her sisters for quite some time when Mario meets her. Although she suffers from an inferiority complex throughout the events of the game, she learns to respect herself as she travels with Mario.

General Information

Name: Vivian

Origin: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

First Appearance: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Gamecube)

Latest Appearance: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

Company: Nintendo, Intelligent Systems

Creator: Shigeru Miyamoto, Ryoichi Kitanishi

Gender: Female (Vivian notes that it took them a while to realize they were a sister and not a brother)

Sex: Male (Initially believed to be a brother before transitioning)

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: Unknown

Classification: Shadow Siren, Transgender Female

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Naturally assists Mario and others to help them on their adventure. Despite being a villain initially, this was only due to being forced by her sisters)

Codex Statistics

Tier: Varies. Up to 6-C

Cardinality: Varies

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Attack Potency: Varies (Mario and his friends are noted to be akin to a troupe of actors, taking on different roles depending on the game[1], with his gimmick being attributed to the same as Mickey Mouse, with their strength and skills even being shown to vary with it being shown with Mario being unable to take on Wario in his pixelated form due to the Wario using a different physiology to make him be unable to interact requiring him to turn to a similar physiology to beat him). Up to Island level (Superior to the Paper Mario cast. Capable of harming the Shadow Queen, who created the Crystal Stars. Capable of harming Mario, Bowser, and Princess Peach)

Durability: Varies. Up to Island level (Can take hits from the Shadow Queen, Mario, and Bowser)

Striking Strength: Varies. Up to Island Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class

Travel Speed: Varies. Supersonic to Faster Than Light (Comparable to Mario, Bowser, and Princess Peach)

Attack Speed: Varies. At most Relativistic+ to Faster Than Light (Comparable to Mario, Bowser, and Princess Peach)

Reaction Speed: Varies. At most Relativistic+ (Can block/parry lasers. Superior to the Paper Mario cast, who can block a flash of light) to Faster Than Light (Comparable to Mario, Bowser, and Princess Peach)

Stamina: Superhuman (Can fight dozens of battles in a sitting, and go on an adventure that took the spans of days. Able to complete the Pit of 100 Trials, which are 100 battles that includes the stronger boss, Bonetail)

Range: Standard Melee to Tens of Meters, Tens of Meters to Hundreds of Meters with items. Universal with the Crystal Stars

Intelligence: Above Average Intelligence (Vivian is a good fighter who can use various weapons without prior training. She's even able to stand up against those with decades of experience)


Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic, Longevity (Should be comparable to Beldam, who's existed for over 1,000 years), Fighter's Intuition (Defeated the Glitz Pit champion Rawk Hawk in a fight), Accelerated Development (Vivian became powerful enough to surpass herself when she had the Crystal Stars, which were used to weaken the Shadow Queen. In which no character was able to deal any damage to her. As shown in the Bonetail battle, Vivan no longer needs them to harm someone who's above The Shadow Queen. Bonetail was stated by Goombella to be stronger than the Shadow Queen. And added with his better stats, it makes a lot of sense. Prior to that, Mario and co. couldn't harm the Armored Harriers at all, even losing the battle. Up until Mini-Yoshi came, they were able to defeat them, twice. The cast was then able to defeat the rest of the Glitz Pit fighters, each one being ranked higher than the other. They were able to defeat Bowser, who was able to one-shot Rawk Hawk, a previous boss. Shadow Peach [the Shadow Queen's weaker form], one-shots Grodus, another previous boss. Mario and co. also survives that exact attack), Fire Manipulation (With Shade Fist, Vivian's punches can burn enemies and set them on fire. Fiery Jinx burns all enemies with a wave of her finger), Pseudo-Teleportation & Intangibility (With Veil, Vivian can go phase through the ground so enemies cannot attack her), Durability Negation (Fiery Jinx deals piercing damage, which bypasses the defense stat), Status Effect Inducement (With Infatuate, Vivian blows a kiss at enemies to confuse them), Social Influencing (By either using Appeal or Stylish Moves, Vivian can cheer up an entire audience. Even to those who initially wanted her hurt or dead are charmed), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance; All partners can breathe on the moon), Non-Standard Interaction (All partners can harm Boos), Regeneration (Mid; All partners can come back from being squished by the stage hazards), Body Control (All partners can use the Cursed Box's curses, which allows you to become an airplane, boat, and tube), Save and Load & Time Manipulation (All partners can use Save Blocks to save their data), Perfect Guard (All partners can perform Superguard, which negates any damage and side effects dealt).


Resistance to Heat (All partners can run near fire), Cold (All partners are unaffected by snowy areas and space), Transmutation (All partners seem to be unaffected by Doopliss' ability to turn people into pigs), Cosmic Radiations (Can stay in space just fine), Sleep Manipulation (All partners can stare at a Sleepy Sheep, which makes you fall asleep from just looking at it), Absorption & Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; All partners resists the Shadow Queen's hands, which she can use to absorb the victims and their souls), Conceptual Manipulation/Paint Manipulation. With Guard or Superguard, she can guard/parry/negate (on a greater scale): Physical attacks, Absorption (Parries Fuzzies, Swoopers, and the Shadow Queen from absorbing health and FP), Fire Manipulation (Parries fire from Fire Bro, Bowser, Ember, Lava Bubble, Phantom Ember, Hooktail, X-Nauts, Grodus, Vivian), Poison Manipulation (Parries poison attacks from Bowser, Poison Pokey, Putrid Piranha, Poison Puffs, Gloomtail, Beldam, and the Shadow Queen), Explosion Manipulation (Parries explosions from Bob-ombs and Bobbery), Ice Manipulation (Parries ice attacks from Frost Piranha, Ice Puffs, Bonetail, Grodus, Beldam), Sound Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation (Parries sleep inducement from Crazee Dayzees and Bonetail), Electricity Manipulation (Parries lightning attacks from Dark Puffs, Dark Wizzerd, Wizzerd, Elite Wizzerd, Grodus, Marilyn, Shadow Queen), Statistics Reduction, Paralysis Inducement, Size Manipulation (Parries attacks that shrink Mario from Bonetail, X-Nauts, Beldam), Time Stop & Time Manipulation (Parries attacks that slow and freeze time from Grodus and Beldam), Power Nullification (Parries Bowser's command removal, Shadow Queen and Beldam's status effect remover), Vibration Manipulation (Parries earthquakes from Gloomtail and Magnus), Fragrance Manipulation (Parries damage inducing breath from Gloomtail and the Shadow Queen), Mind Manipulation (Parries attacks that induce confusion from Bonetail), Darkness Manipulation (Parries the Shadow Queen's Dark Wave), Magic (Parries magic from a Magikoopa and Kammy), Status Effect Inducement


Equipment

Various items and badges


Notable Techniques

Name FP Needed Effect Action Command Attack Power Move Rank
Shade Fist 0 Sets enemies on fire with a burning punch. After three lights flash, player presses the mystery button shown (A, B, X or Y). Initial: 3
Super: 4
Ultra: 5
Initial
Veil 1 Hides Mario in the shadows to avoid enemy attacks. Player presses the 5-button A/B combo that appears on the screen. N/A Initial
Fiery Jinx 6 Deals fire damage to all enemies, piercing defense. It also burns them. Player presses the 5-button combo of A, B, X, and Y that appear on the screen. Super: 5
Ultra: 5
Super Rank
Infatuate 4 Blows a kiss to all enemies to confuse them if effective When a heart appears above an enemy, player presses A. N/A Ultra Rank

Other

Standard Tactics: Vivian would use her fire-based attacks and items.

Weaknesses: Has limited FP.

References

  1. "If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon," Miyamoto said. "They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games."

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