Vanessa Nguyễn ||Sailor Styx
Biography
Civilian Form
Name and Meaning
Vanessa Nguyễn. Vanessa was used as the name of a type of butterfly by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1807. Nguyễn means an ancient Chinese instrument Ruan and was the surname of a Vietnamese king.
Age and Birthday
186, October 31st
Appearance
Physically, as a Chiropteran Queen, she has stopped physically aging at 16 but she can shapeshift to alter the appearance of her age to make people think she is 18 during the timeframe of Senshi no Basuke or to look like other individuals but her reddish-brown eyes will remain. She has a black mole on the left side of her neck. When she goes to school, she wears the Touou boys' uniform since she's not careful and her military academy uniforms were all unisex and had pants. When she is stimulated and often in battle mode, her amber brown eyes will glow red. She has a pale complexion and stands at 5'2.5". She has black hair in a pixie cut with bangs but when she transforms into Sailor Styx, her hair will reach to right above her bust. After transforming, she will revert back to her 16-year-old appearance.
Nationality
She has Vietnamese and American citizenship in modern days.
Ethnicity
1/2 Vietnamese, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 German
Personality
Vanessa appears to be a quiet individual but when she gets to a certain comfort level and when she is with her loved ones, she's quite talkative. Vanessa is a very emotional individual and tends to cry when distressed due to her sensitivity. She is very kind and patient towards others. She can be scatterbrained and can come off as funny (regardless of whether it is intentional or not). She can be hardworking even though she dislikes schoolwork and studying but takes responsibility for her duties. She can be biased when other people rub her the wrong way and tends to take things seriously.
She can be responsible and can be very patient but has trouble with looking for stuff unless the item has a certain scent or people give her specific descriptions of where to retrieve the item.
Her dream is to be an elementary teacher or have an office job. She once dreamed of falling in love, getting married, and having children but after experiencing disillusionment with interacting with other people through the decades, she almost gave up on that dream until she met her destined lover.
Mottos
"There is still wonder to be found in the world."
"I am a Chiropteran Queen! I have to fight!"
Sexual Preferences
Heteroromantic / Heterosexual
Likes
being creative as in writing or drawing, watching Asian dramas, Disney animations, Jackie Chan movies, and anime, reading books (picture books, novels, and manga). Some of her favorite foods are burgers and fries and her favorite subject is English. Her favorite colors are all shades of pink.
Dislikes
schoolwork and studying (at times), being teased, harsh words (whether in the form of criticism or insults). Her least favorite food are bamboo shoots and her least favorite subject is math.
Hobbies
being creative as in writing or drawing, watching Asian dramas, Disney animations, Jackie Chan movies, and anime, reading books (picture books, novels, and manga), going on the computer, listening to music, singing or doing karaoke (when the occasion allows), playing the piano, playing basketball.
In her free time, she draws.
Specialties
Her specialty is being able to be creative often by writing or drawing.
As a Chiropteran Queen, she can shapeshift to alter her appearance, but her reddish-brown eyes will remain. When she is stimulated and often in battle mode, her eyes will glow red. She can grow fangs, claws, and shapeshift into her true Chiropteran form but on rare occasions will she resort to that method. She can manipulate her vocal cords to imitate the voices of others or simply to alter her voice. She also has superhuman strength and telekinetic abilities. She can instantaneously heal from injuries. Due to the curse placed on her bloodline, her blood is poisonous to her twin and can cause her to fatally crystallize. She can also drink blood and be able to extract knowledge or memories from it at will.
She can speak Vietnamese, Chinese, German, English, Spanish, Japanese.
As a shooting guard, she has practiced to the point she can easily get into her rhythm for three-pointers. Her best skills are her three pointers and jump shots.
Committees
She is the vice-captain of Touou's girls' basketball team and is not on any school committees as she works part-time at her grandaunt's restaurant, Snow Rose, as a bus girl.
Background
Chiropteran Queens are the descendants of a bat spirit and Queen Serenity's younger twin, Tranquility, from the days of the Silver Millennium and their lineage continues in modern days. Every Chiropteran Queen is born as a pair of twin girls. One with eyes of red / reddish-brown eyes and one with blue eyes. Vanessa and Valerie were born in what would now be known as Ho Chi Minh City in modern days on October 31st, 1829. While Vanessa was born in the afternoon, her younger twin was born at night. At some point in time, her family relocated to California and resided in Cerris City for a long time. When her maternal grandfather was slain by a demon, it caused her to awaken as Sailor Styx and Valerie to awaken as Sailor Nix. In previous years prior to 2015, she has attended Cerris Military Academy and even graduated from the academy multiple times. Instead of going into college after graduating Cerris Military Academy in 2011, her family decided to move to Tokyo, Japan within that year for her grandmother to reunite with her elder twin. In 2013, she began attending Touou Academy and met her first comrade, Mihiro Kasamatsu aka Sailor Charon. Near the end of the following year, she became the vice-captain of Touou's girls' basketball team. She is also the shooting guard on the team and her jersey number is #6. Her team gained the reputation of being “Mistresses of the Underworld” as they crushed their opponents on the court. After graduating, she and her family moved back to California, and she attended a state university in Domino City. (City taken from Yu-Gi-Oh! and placed in America.)
Relationships
Family
Tom Nguyễn and Theodora Wáng (parents), Valerie Nguyễn (younger twin sister), Méi gui hóng Wáng (maternal grandmother), Luca (deceased maternal grandfather), Flora Wáng (aunt), Annie Wáng (maternal cousin), Báixuě (maternal grandaunt), Saya and Diva Otonashi (second cousins)
Her parents are loving but also strict. In addition, they are overprotective of her and her twin sister. Their parents drive them to school every day even in Japan although their parents have agreed to let them walk home together with their basketball team. Their father is a talent pianist and he taught them how to play. Their mother makes them practice playing the piano every week. Theodora loves gardening and makes them help her in the garden.
Valerie is a Blue Chiropteran Queen and Vanessa's younger twin. Vanessa was born in the afternoon, but Valerie was born at night. Although their bloodline had been curses that each pair of Chiropteran Queens would put themselves first and couldn't coexist in peace, because they and the generations before them were raised equally, there's no chance of the curse taking effect on them. The girls are always together and even sharing a room (although they sometimes take naps in different rooms). They even share similar interests such as tastes in men and food. However, Valerie can be more playful and is a better singer while Vanessa takes most things seriously and can be awkward with people she isn't as familiar with.
Méi gui hóng Wáng is a Red Chiropteran Queen. Growing up, Theodora would often tell Vanessa and Valerie tales of their grandmother's exploits as Red Riding Hood at the age of 16. (Not Little Red Riding Hood as mortals tend to believe). Both twins admire her beauty and their grandmother helped raise them. She cooked for them and bought them treats and toys.
When the twins were younger, they often traveled with their grandparents. The demon who slayed their grandfather caused them to awaken as Sailor Styx and Sailor Nix. They regretted that they couldn't awaken earlier and blamed themselves for his death, but their loved ones reassured them that it wasn't the case and told them that Luca wouldn't have blamed them. They grieved for him for some time before coming to an understanding that he is now in a better realm of existence.
Aunt Flora is their mother's younger twin and a Blue Chiropteran Queen like Valerie. She is a talented singer and cook. Compared to their mother, she is gentler while lecturing them but can still be fierce like their parents. She loves cooking for the household and the twins love her cooking as well.
Annie is Aunt Flora's youngest daughter and a Red Chiropteran Queen like Vanessa. She as influenced the twins' music tastes and interests in Asian dramas. The twins often confide in her, and she often advises them. She often teases Vanessa.
Báixuě is a Blue Chiropteran Queen and their grandmother's elder twin. When the twins were little, they were told that their grandaunt was Snow White. They refer to their grandaunt as "Great Aunt". When Vanessa and Valerie came to live in Japan, Báixuě offered them part-time jobs at her restaurant, the "Snow Rose". Vanessa works as a bus girl (since carrying trays of food makes her nervous) while Valerie works as a waitress there. They also enjoy working at her restaurant and her cooking.
Saya is a Red Chiropteran Queen and her younger twin, Diva, is a Blue Chiropteran Queen. They are Vanessa and Valerie's second cousins, and they attend the same school. They are first years while Vanessa and Valerie are third years. Diva sometimes helps at Snow Rose while the three of them work part-time at the Snow Rose. Vanessa and Saya get on well because of their love of food, serious natures, and being fellow Red Chiropteran Queens with fighting instincts and liking pink. Vanessa dislikes Diva's teasing but likes to do karaoke with her.
Friends
Satoshi "Ash" Ketchum aka Neptunus Knight
When Vanessa and Valerie were disguising as 13-year-olds and Satoshi was 10 years old. She, Valerie, and her grandparents were staying at Pallet House, the restaurant and inn owned by Satoshi's mother. This allowed them to meet and be friends. Vanessa, Valerie, and Satoshi share similar interests in animanga, Disney animations, and Jackie Chan movies. All three of them own Noraemon (Kuroko's Basketball name for Doraemon) and Pooh Bear stuffed animals. Vanessa and Valerie often traveled to Portland, Oregon, with their grandparents when the occasion arose, and Satoshi and his mother got the chance to travel to California to visit their family. The twins have convinced Satoshi to get social media accounts so they can stay in touch despite their long-distance friendship. They reunite in Tokyo when Satoshi must move there. They discover each other's alter egos and cooperate.
Rivals
N/A
Love Interests
(Inuyōsei) Yoshi Taisho aka Selene Knight
In their previous lives, they met during Princess Serenity and Princess Tranquility's 14th birthday ball. When the attendees were asked to dance with someone from another home celestial body, Vanessa found herself staring at Queen Serenity's second prince, Prince Lucius and the prince smirked at her when he caught her staring before bowing and invited her to dance. Vanessa shyly accepted his invitation and they spoke during and after the dance then kissed in the rose gardens of the Moon Castle. They reunited during modern days when Sailor Styx was separated from her team, and she was forced to cooperate with him. She remembered him from their past lives, but he didn't. His cold attitude and curt manner of speaking put her off but since they're both of supernatural and mixed human lineage with sharp noses, they were able to connect their civilian forms to their alter egos because of their scents. As they cross paths with one another, Inuyosei finds her to be endearing and Vanessa sees a more caring side to him. As they fall in love all over again, Inuyosei eventually recalls his past life memories and his previous romance with Vanessa's past incarnation. When Sailor Styx was weakened, Selene Knight bridal carried her in front of all the Plutonian Guardians. When he is 18 on documentation, they get married.
Her type of man is a man who is understanding towards her.
Player She Has Her Eyes On
Yukio Kasamatsu, Shintarō Midorima, and Taiga Kagami
Guardian Form
Name
Sailor Styx, Sailor Guardian of Oaths
Guardian Starseed
Styx Crystal
Mission
To guard Styx (formerly), to protect Princess Pluto, to protect Earth
Realm of Influence
Styx, the Styx River
Past Life
In her past life, she and her younger twin sister, Nix, were the daughters of a Plutonian duke and a Lunarian noblewoman. Their mother wished for love from the goddess, Aphrodite, and she met her husband soon afterwards, so she named her elder daughter “Vanessa” meaning “Of Venus” in the goddess’s honor. Vanessa’s alter ego, Sailor Styx, faithfully guarded the Gate to the Styx River at her post on Styx and was the guardian Sailor Guardian of Sailor Pluto.
Guardian Animal
N/A
Allies and Teammates
The Plutonian Moon Sailor Guardians
Mihiro Kasamatsu aka Sailor Charon
In their past lives, they met during Princess Serenity and Princess Tranquility's 14th birthday ball and Vanessa, Nix, and Potámi were able to relate to being mixed Plutonian, mixed Lunarian aside from being fellow Plutonian Moon Sailor Guardians with the duty of protecting Princess Pluto and became good friends. The three of them met in their current lives as classmates in the first year of high school. Mihiro peer pressured Vanessa and Valerie into joining the basketball team as bench players and made them practice basketball with her during lunch break. However, teaching Vanessa how to play basketball tested her patience until Valerie soon told Mihiro that Vanessa was predominantly left-handed and needed to be taught from a left-handed perspective. Mihiro began training herself to be ambidextrous so she could successfully teach Vanessa to play basketball and even make jump shots and three pointers. Thanks to Mihiro's training, the twins made it on the girls' basketball team as regulars in their second year.
Minette Kurokawa aka Sailor Kerberos
While Vanessa recognized Minette as Aminta from their previous lives, she was shocked by Minette's coldness and how she defeated Kimiko Toratani, their power forward to claim her position on the team. Mihiro's hot-headedness and Minette's cold attitude made them class often and as the vice-captain of the team, Vanessa often had to get in between the girls to keep them from fighting. Minette's attitude rubbed Vanessa the wrong way but still, she tried to remain professional and patient with her due to a part of her wanting to give her a benefit of the doubt due to her memory of Aminta, the fact she was Kaoru aka Sailor Hydra's cousin, and the fact she is a fellow Plutonian Moon Sailor Guardian. Sailor Kerberos tries to act on her own and Sailor Styx is often reminding her that they are a team whether she likes it or not. When discussing Minette's attitude with Mihiro, Mihiro remarked that "I've been in her place before, not wanting to trust anyone else. That's why we don't get alone. Because we're too alike." Mihiro's statement gave her more understanding of Minette's disposition. Minette later asked Vanessa how she was still so kind despite everything she's been through, and Vanessa replied, "Because I know better than anyone what it's like to get hurt so I don't want others to feel the same way." Hearing that made Minette see her in a new light.
Transformation Token
Glaze Rod
A yellow round heart with the symbol of Styx in aqua blue engraved in it on top of Sailor Pluto's Garnet Orb. The rod is an aqua blue stick with a golden ball at the end.
Henshin Phrase
“Styx Pluto Power, Make Up!”
Henshin Sequence
The symbol of Styx flares up on the Glaze Rod, she tilts the Glaze Rod to the right with her red manicured hand, she does a jump in the air with both arms to the sides and hands held in fists then as she lands, apart then taps her left foot forward then back and does the same with her right foot while her bare body is shining with aqua blue light before holding up the Glaze Rod and spinning around which causes a mass of aqua blue sparkles to cover her body and she reemerges transformed with the Oath Sword in her hand. White sparkles brush against her lips, giving her some gloss over her lips and she stands in her pose before a aqua blue-looking Styx with the Oath Sword.
Symbol
N/A
Guardian Challenge
“The guardian under the protection of Pluto’s moon, Styx, I am the Sailor Guardian of Oaths! Sailor Styx!”
Guardian Fuku
It is the typical Solar System fuku but her back bow has pointed, aqua blue tails with golden trims that have three white beads and a Garnet Orb charm hanging from it. Her dominant color is aqua blue and her accent colors are red (in the tiara gem and chest bow gem) and yellow (in the front bow and back bow.) Her Sailor collar has no stripes. Her earrings are a blue round gem with a blue tear shaped gem dangling from it. Her choker pendant is one tear shaped blue gem dangling from it. She has aqua blue boots with silver belt buckles at her ankles.
Weapon
Oath Sword
It is a claymore.
Guardian Forms
base, super, eternal
Attacks
Styx Dread!
Sailor Styx swings down her Oath Sword which causes waters of the Styx River to destroy the target on impact.
Cold Cruelty!
Sailor Styx swings her Oath Sword horizontally from left to right, causing a massive stream from the Styx River to twist around the target, wrapping it, then destroying it.
Untouchable Oath!
Sailor Styx holds up her sword in her left hand to the side before swinging her sword from left to right as waters of the Styx River are summoned, acting as a barrier.
Styx Waterway!
As Sailor Styx swings her Oath Sword in a left to right motion from over her shoulder which creates a dimensional rip that leads to the Styx river whether in the upper world or in the Underworld depending on her will.
Xin Địa Tạng Bồ Tát bảo vệ và phù hộ cho chúng con! (May Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva protect and bless us!) Invisible Blessing!
Sailor Styx holds up her Oath Sword in her left hand to the side with her right hand in the abhayamudra gesture as she speaks in Vietnamese with her eyes closed. An image of Kṣitigarbha spreading out his garment appears behind her as she reopens her eyes and swings her sword with both hands from left to right as she says “Invisible Blessing!” in English which conjures waters of the Styx river that spread out and causes her and people behind her to appear invisible. (This ability only lasts for one hour and does not prevent enemies from detecting the ones rendered invisible using scent or if they make noises.)
Stats
Stats
Physical ability: 9/10
Technique: 8/10
Stamina: 9/10
Mental strength: 7/10
Special ability: 5/10
Lei Motif
Voice Actors
Kotono Mitsuishi (Usagi Tsukino / Japanese), Kari Wahlgren (Saya Otonashi in Blood+ / English)
Theme
Yiruma - River Flows in You
Transformation Music
Battle Music
Romantic Theme
Miscellaneous
Inspirations
She's my self-insert! I am not athletic nor do I have a twin in real life, but every Chiropteran Queen comes in a pair of twins. The twins having similar tastes in food and men were inspired by the twins in the manga, Red River. A long time ago, my coauthor cousin listened to me attempt a Disney crossover idea with Blood+ and she suggested that I combine fairytales with female protagonists with Chiropteran Queens so that worked out well instead. She headcanoned that Chiropteran Queens originated from China and Snow White is a story from Germany which is why my self-insert has Chinese and German blood in her. Joachim Patinir's depiction of the river Styx inspired her primary color and since my self-insert is a Red Chiropteran Queen and the Vaitarana river which is the Indian equivalent of the Styx is seen as filled with blood by the sinful, red had to be one of my self-insert's secondary colors. Yellow is another secondary color because in Diyu, the Chinese Underworld, the Styx equivalent is the Yellow Springs. I'm a Mahāyāna Buddhist so I wanted to incorporate my religion in my self-insert's attacks or abilities and thankfully, Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva is near the Japanese version of the Styx River, the Sanzu River, helping the spirits of deceased children hide within his garments so I used that as inspiration for her invisibility technique. For my soundtrack, I knew Yiruma's River Flows in You had to be added to make the river connection obvious. I love Brown Eyed Girls' Sixth Sense song and knew the instrumental version would work as a transformation theme. In my middle or high school days, a guy classmate was trying to headcanon my theme song as something from Star Wars and I disagreed. I wanted to go with something from the Kdrama, Bad Guy, as my theme but it ended up becoming my battle music. I'm a fan of Mỹ Tàm so I tried looking for a happy love song and I found one and thought it fitted for my self-insert and her love interest. Thanks to Rose for encouraging me to go ahead with my choices of voice actresses for my self-insert.