Bayonetta

Bayonetta (real name Cereza) is the main protagonist of the Bayonetta series. She is a coquettish and mysterious Umbra Witch. Considered the black sheep of the Umbra Witches due to her Umbran and Lumen descent, she possesses a remarkable talent for Bullet Arts and possessed the Left Eye of Darkness.Cereza was born as the forbidden child between a Lumen Sage and an Umbra Witch. Her birth caused a rift between the two clans due to a tenet claiming that "the intersection of light of dark will bring calamity to this earth". In turn, her father was exiled and her mother was imprisoned. She was originally prohibited from learning magic and grew up an outcast among the witches; despite this, Cereza met Jeanne and formed a strong friendship with her, often playing together as children and later forming a friendly rivalry. As a child, the little comfort Cereza had were the times she could sneak into her mother's cell. Her mother would try to express her affection despite her confinement, creating Cereza's Cheshire doll and often singing Fly Me To The Moon to her every night.[1][3] Cereza was later given her Umbran Watch as a birthday present from her mother.On the eve of Cereza's tenth birthday, Rosa was to be moved to an even more solitary cell with no hope of seeing daylight again. The girl tried to stage a rescue, but her lack of strength and ability in the dark arts meant it was doomed to end in failure.

Turning her back on the clan, Cereza travelled to the outskirts of town where she met Morgana, another exiled witch who lived in isolation. Sympathizing with the girl's plight, Morgana began to strictly train Cereza in using magic so that she could one day be strong enough to rescue her mother from her fate.After the Clan Wars, the Witch Hunts began. Around this time, Jeanne was chosen to be the next leader of the Umbra Witches, and in her final test to prove her worth, she chose Cereza as her opponent due to being perhaps the most powerful witch in the clan, despite the Umbran Elder insisting that it was forbidden. Their battle was interrupted as the Angels attacked; unaware of the true mastermind behind the attack, the Umbra Witches, including Cereza, were led to believe that her father, Balder, had initiated the Witch Hunts and attack. After finding her slain mother, Cereza lost her will to fight; Jeanne, understanding Balder's plot to resurrect Jubileus by obtaining the Left Eye, sealed away Cereza in a special ritual which imparted her into her Umbran Watch's red jewel and was hidden inside a coffin at the bottom of a lake.Five hundred years later, she is promptly found by Antonio Redgrave, who was hired by Balder to investigate her whereabouts. Shortly after being found, he is killed by Balder and his angels. His son, Luka, looks beyond and, due to being unable to see into Purgatorio, mistakes her for being the one that killed his father. Unable to remember much of her life, she retains that she is one of the last surviving Umbra Witches and dedicates her life to killing angels and regaining her memories.Due to Balder's manipulations by bringing forth a younger version of herself from the past, Bayonetta inadvertently changed her own past and history.[1] Although the changes made in her past do not affect her history in this world overall and instead spawned another, the Left Eye of Darkness would open in both the main universe and the parallel universe because of it.Bayonetta, working as a nun, acts 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.

However, upon returning to the present, Bayonetta is suddenly struck down with pain as Balder rises from their fight seemingly unhurt. Upon sending back Cereza, the girl never forgot Bayonetta's advice and continued to wear her Umbran Watch around her chest until she was grown up. When Jeanne tried to seal her away in the past, the ritual failed because of the watch and Bayonetta never lost her memories. Now fully restored, they awakened the Left Eye within her and she is promptly taken to the heavens in order to reawaken Jubileus, The Creator as part of Balder's plan.

Jeanne, having saved herself from death and broken free from Balder's mind control, follows the Ithavoll Tower's ascent into space to revive Jubileus and manages to break Bayonetta free from the giant statue that would serve as the goddess' body. With a reminder for her to finish this, Jeanne floats off into space and Bayonetta vows to do the deed. Balder is killed by the resurrection and the witch clashes with Jubileus in a final showdown that could decide the fate of the universe. Through her combat prowess and Jeanne helping her to summon Queen Sheba, Bayonetta sends Jubileus hurtling into the sun and plummets back to Earth with her friend in tow.

Some time later, Rodin, Luka and Enzo are all attending Bayonetta's apparent funeral after assuming she died in the descent. However, the nun overseeing the ceremony is revealed to be Jeanne and the funeral was another ruse to summon the angels there for another pact fulfilling fight. As the two witches fight on, Bayonetta places a bud of rosemary behind her ear and remarks how it signifies remembrance and also now suits her.After the events of the first game, Bayonetta is doing some Christmas shopping whilst dragging Enzo along in tow to carry her wealth of presents. She meets up with Jeanne, who explains she was looking into something that relates to how both Paradiso and Inferno seem to be acting strangely in regards to things that happened in the previous game. The aerial acrobatics display team Platinum Stars is suddenly hijacked by angels and Bayonetta takes to the skies to battle them. Jeanne quickly follows suit on her own hijacked jet. The two witches team up to take down Belief and Bayonetta summons Gomorrah to finish it off.

However, Gomorrah escapes from his portal, lashing out at Bayonetta who is only barely pushed out of the way Jeanne. Jeanne takes the hit instead, which knocks her soul out her body and, as part of a witch's contract, her soul is dragged down to Inferno. Despite being able to win against the demon, Bayonetta is left with her friend's lifeless body. At the Gates of Hell, Rodin explains that Jeanne is not truly dead as a soul needs to be completely absorbed by another realm in order to be permanently lost. Bayonetta asks about whether the real entrance to Inferno could be used to save her. Though Rodin doesn't feel optimistic of her chances, he gives Bayonetta Jeanne's Umbran Watch as a reminder of how much time she would have before it's too late. If Bayonetta is able to bring the watch to Jeanne's soul, then she can be revived in the human world once again. With this in mind, Bayonetta then grabs Enzo to take her there. Along the way, she learns that the sacred mountain of Fimbulventr contains a portal to Inferno that has so far never been found by human hands. With no other choice and a determination to save Jeanne, Bayonetta travels to Fimbulventr to find the real gates of hell.

Upon arriving in Noatun, the town at the base of Fimbulventr, Bayonetta quickly finds herself fighting off angels and then meets a mysterious boy. Though initially a little at odds with one another, the boy explains how Bayonetta needs his power in order to reach Fimbulventr and that he needs to head there anyway. Introducing himself as Loki, Bayonetta strikes a deal with him to protect him from their assailants if he will show her the way to the mountain. Their journey to the mountain suffers various setbacks from angels and demons alike and Bayonetta also finds herself facing off against a Lumen Sage who seems intent on killing her guide. Luka also shows up in Noatun, keen to help Bayonetta with his journalism skills. It is from him that she is first told about the legend of Aesir.

Eventually, the pair reach the real Gates of Hell, only to be stopped in their tracks by the Masked Lumen and a spirit projection of Loptr, a mysterious being who seems to know about Loki's identity. Unable to prevent the Masked Lumen from attacking Loki, Bayonetta faces off against Loptr and manages to hold her own until he beats her back. Loptr then encourages her to 'see' with the power of the Left Eye. Loptr disables Bayonetta and shows her a vision of the past using the Remembrance of Time. Bayonetta is shocked to see that her father was not responsible for the Witch Hunts and that he tried to save her mother from her death before he was snatched away. She also manages to see a figure resembling Loki as the murderer before she snaps back to the present. As Loptr explains that it is the truth as it really happened, the Masked Lumen prepares to strike Loki down. The boy fires his cards at the Gates behind them and tells Bayonetta to jump in with him to escape. She complies and wakes to find herself in Inferno. Realizing she has little time to rescue Jeanne, she makes her way into its depths.Bayonetta finally makes her way into an infernal palace made of plant-life with some help from Rodin, eventually coming into conflict with the demoness Alraune. The demon has taken Jeanne's soul as her own to become more powerful and eventually rise up through the struggle for power that rages in Inferno. Realising that Bayonetta is an Umbra Witch as well, as she has a pact with Madama Butterfly, Alraune savagely attacks but is eventually no match for Bayonetta's powers. Before the witch can deal the final blow, Rodin intervenes and instead seals Alraune in a new weapon for Bayonetta to use. Bayonetta finally rescues Jeanne's soul and reunited it with the watch. When her friend doesn't initially wake up, Bayonetta falters and pleads with her to open her eyes. To her relief, she has made it and Jeanne begins to return to her body. As she leaves, Jeanne warns Bayonetta that something big is going to happen to world. With her mission complete, Bayonetta turns her attention back to Loki, who she realizes is being attacked by the Masked Lumen. Intervening in their fight, the Masked Lumen reveals his true identity as a younger Balder and the pair fight once again. Just as he has gained the upper hand, Loki reappears and lets out an uncontrollable shockwave of blue energy, sweeping up Balder and Bayonetta into it.

Bayonetta finds herself 500 years in the past in Vigrid, during the Witch Hunts. To her shock, she meets Rosa alive and well and the two witches team up to fight back against the influx of angels determined to destroy their sanctuary. Aiding her mother in combat with both her powers and an Umbran mech armor, Bayonetta meets the younger version of Loptr. It's here that she realizes her mother's eventual murderer would be Loptr, not Loki, and she instantly takes to battle. However, she is blasted away in an explosion and finds herself in the Crescent Valley. Balder, who has been transported back in time with her, meets with her and the pair enter the sanctuary to find Loptr having just killed Rosa. Bayonetta, realizing that Loptr is the true enemy of Balder and not Loki, opens a portal back to her time and implores her father to follow her. As she leaves, she whispers 'Mummy...' under her breath in a final farewell to Rosa.

In the present day, with the help of a revived Jeanne in a fighter jet, Bayonetta and Balder make it to Fimbulventr to witness the older Loptr having taken hold of Loki. Loptr explains that he and Loki are two halves of the same soul and that together they were originally Aeisr. However, the good part of Aesir had split them apart when he had divided his power into the Eyes of the World. Loptr, the evil half of Aesir, had decided to take the Eyes back for his own use and to regain Aesir's power to rule over the realm. After Balder has the Right Eye taken from him, Bayonetta fights back valiantly against Loptr, but is ultimately subdued and has the Left Eye removed. Loptr, now having gained the power of his original self, mocks human free will, but Bayonetta scoffs at the motion and takes to battle again. With some help from Loki, who uses his remaining power to destroy the Eyes and weaken Loptr back to his original state, Bayonetta and Balder summon together and bring forth a fusion of Jubileus and Queen Sheba. The hybrid kicks at Loptr, propelling his physical body out to the ocean where a Jeanne-summoned Gomorrah lies in wait.

As Loptr's soul tries to escape, Balder intervenes and absorbs him, despite warnings from Loki that Loptr will poison his thoughts with pure evil intent. Bayonetta pleads her father not to do this and Balder reveals that he knew she was his daughter all along. He makes Bayonetta promise to be the one to stop him should he ever stray from his path thanks to Loptr and she obliges in his request to call him "Daddy" one more time. She cries after him when he is transported back into his time, finally realizing that he was not to blame for his schemes with Jubileus. Loki, having fulfilled his purpose, begins to fade away; Bayonetta asks whether she'll see him again, and the boy replies that they may do so in the future when he is reborn again.Several days after the events at Fimbulventr, Bayonetta and Jeanne are enjoying another shopping trip to take advantage of the after-holiday sales. As the pair witness Luka helping Rodin out with advertising his bar, a woman pushing a pram walks by and one of Loki's cards flutters out of it. Bayonetta reaches for the dropped card, but it is blown away by the wind. Jeanne snaps Bayonetta out of her thoughts and she intends to drop her bags onto Enzo, before realizing he isn't there. The two witches wonder about Enzo's whereabouts, before noticing a plane flying their way with Enzo inside and angels in pursuit; they kick the plane upwards and enter Purgatorio, catching a ride atop the aircraft. Bayonetta complains about another one of her dresses getting ruined, before she and Jeanne get into uniform and face the angels once more. (Important: Bayonetta will treat this appearance as a former appearance. One that is NOT her current one.) Originally, Bayonetta is portrayed as a beautiful woman with a slender yet curvy bewitching figure. She has black hair, gray eyes and a beauty mark on her chin. Her hair is wrapped into a beehive hairdo adorned with gold chains and two red ribbons. Her signature glasses have the design of butterfly wings close to the lenses. Her main attire is composed of a black skin-tight bodysuit with gold chains and rose-like patterns and an opening at the back, as well as a crescent-shaped keyhole on the chest. She has white gloves with red palms, black and gray heels, three buckled straps on each arm with 'sleeves' of hair draping down, and a pair of gold, cat-shaped earrings. She wears her Umbran Watch on her chest which contains a red jewel thought to be the Left Eye of Darkness. Because of her Wicked Weave techniques, Bayonetta's outfit becomes more revealing as she uses them. Her suit's inner section becomes a leotard and her hair drapes over her chest to cover it. When summoning full demons, the entire suit disappears, leaving behind only her gloves, shoes and watch. (Important: Bayonetta will treat this following appearance as her current one.) As of today, Bayonetta's appearance and outfit has changed: Bayonetta's hair has been cut short and her glasses have a ribbon design near the lenses. She retains her skin-tight bodysuit, though the design has been radically altered. The suit is more gray in color with jagged patterns resembling thorns and a frilly collar. She has sharp shoulder pads and a cloak of hair over her chest, as well as triangular earrings. The palms of her gloves are blue with frills at the wrists. The back of her suit features a diamond shaped opening, and several diamond cutouts on her legs.As a child, Cereza often looked up to her mother, Rosa, regarding her as a hero. She also maintained an attachment to her father, Balder. Despite her cheery nature, she had a tendency to cry a lot.[1] As a teen, Cereza's desire to become strong enough to free her mother gives her the bravery needed become a true Umbra Witch. This confidence and pride later reflects in her life as a young adult, being a proud Umbra Witch despite being the black sheep of her clan.

As an adult, Bayonetta's personality can be described as nonchalant and is perceived as somewhat callous towards others, such as Enzo, whom she often disregards. Throughout the first game, she's shown to enjoy fighting angels in a playful yet brutal manner, maintaining her cool and even tends to banter with the more serious angels such as the Auditio, as well as Infernal Demons.

Bayonetta enjoys using her sexuality to taunt and tease her enemies and friends alike. She usually operates alone and prefers to not get encumbered by other people, at least initially. She can also be construed as somewhat impatient, especially towards the more "talkative type" of enemies she encounters such as that of Temperantia and Father Balder.Despite coming off as callous, Bayonetta has also expressed genuine care and sympathy. It's witnessed that she's done her best to explain to Luka in the past that his father's death wasn't her fault and has been seen taking his venting of anger and frustration to heart.[1] Despite claiming to dislike children, she becomes fiercely protective of her younger self,[1] as well as Loki in Bayonetta 2.[2] After rekindling her friendship with Jeanne, she was willing to risk going down to Inferno to rescue her, placing the blame on herself for not foreseeing Gomorrah's attack in time.[2] She's also very emotionally guarded and doesn't like to be seen vulnerable; in one instance, Loki wouldn't wake up after she got him out of a lake, making her panic before he woke up laughing, and she kicked him for making her worry. Another is when she saved Jeanne from Alraune; her soul wouldn't wake up, making Bayonetta fear that she had lost her friend, but Jeanne wakes up and she immediately regains her composure.[2]

She is also not above expressing outright anger and hatred, having done so for her father[1], Alraune[2] and Singularity. [5]Despite her close connection to her father, upon re-learning her memories concerning his supposed actions of starting the Witch Hunts, she denounced him.[1] In Bloody Fate, she goes even further and blames him for the death of her mother.[6] However, her hatred for her father dissipated upon learning the truth of her mother's death at Loptr's hands and willingly called him "Daddy" one last time before he sacrificed himself to contain Loptr.[2]

Whenever Bayonetta is truly enraged, made apparent when Singularity repeatedly killing off variants of Bayonetta and Jeanne amidst some others then taunting her, she does not speak or make any attempts in conversation, instead trying to wrap things up as quickly as possible.Bayonetta has an unprecedented skill for the Bullet Arts and shows near mastery of a new weapon whenever she picks it up. Her combat skills are brutal yet graceful. She also appears to be extremely perceptive, able to evade attacks from all directions through anticipating her enemy's movements in battle. She has immense superhuman strength and endurance, being able to toss a satellite back at Balder several times and headbutt an entire skyscraper thrown at her by the former,[1] as well as using only her lower body to redirect an even larger satellite at Aesir.[2] She is also able to effortlessly lift the likes of a Belief and block and hold a thrusting attack from a Valiance; she also was able to physically toss back Fortitudo with the aid of her mother, Rosa.[2] She possesses superhuman speed and agility, allowing her to perform numerous acrobatic feats with ease, and able to fight on par with Jeanne, whom was stated to be either just as or stronger than her. She also can lift a light post[1] and physically overpower the likes of Alraune.

Her physical skills, combined with her magic, makes her capable of defeating countless hordes of forces from Paradiso and Inferno.[2] She also manages to hold her own against opponents that overpower her such as the likes of Loptr (and him as the ascended and reborn Aesir)[2] and Jubileus, The Creator[1], which, in order to be truly defeated, required the aid of another.

She also possesses longevity and doesn't seem to age.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. The two guns that are mounted on her heels are fired telekinetically through her magic.

The Arch-Eve Origin Bayonetta from Bayonetta 3 is highly resistant to Singularity's phenomenal affirmation, meaning that Singularity cannot guarantee a kill on her.Umbran Climax & Serious Mode: Techniques that allow Bayonetta to enter into an ascended state of power. Both techniques allow her to continually manifest the limbs of various infernal demons and increase her damage output. In Umbran Climax, she also gains the capability to perform "Infernal Weaves" and even recover her health while in that state.[2][1] Witch Time: Bayonetta is capable of using Witch Time to speed herself up, causing enemies to appear to move in slow-motion. This Dark Art is capable of allowing her of countering the likes of Light Speed used by a sage. Furthermore, she is able to "stack" over Witch Time to counter another witch and even a angel.[2][1] Beast Within: A magic technique that allows transformation into various animals.[1] Panther Within[1] Crow Within[1] Bat Within[1] Snake Within[2] Witch Walk: Bayonetta can use the Witch Walk technique, allowing her the power to defy gravity and walk on any vertical or horizontal surface during a full moon[1] or on select devices created by Lord Aesir.[1] Wicked Weaves: Using her hair as a conduit, Bayonetta can use Wicked Weaves to summon forth various demons and also summon forth their limbs to attack.[1] Infernal Weaves: An even more powerful variant used during Umbran Climax. At the end of her combos using Wicked Weaves, Bayonetta summons a full demon for a large area-of-effect finisher.[2] Infernal Kiss: This allows her to indirectly to control various machines at will, such as in Bayonetta 2, when she blew a kiss at the Cessna-like small plane that contains Enzo while on her way to Fimbulventr before jumping off. Despite Enzo's fumbling, the small plane actually made it all the way to the city she lived in and was only destroyed by angels. This is in contrast to direct control, with which she can shove her middle finger through any machine key holes to take control, such as Enzo's car or even the witches' power walkers. Alchemy: Bayonetta is able to gather crystallized magical compounds such as Mandragora Roots, Baked Geckos and Unicorn Horns to concoct lollipops. These can bolster her power, render her impervious to all damage, or simply restore her health or magic. Healing Factor: When being stabbed by Luka while being in Strider form in the third game that would normally be fatal for a normal human, it is shown that Bayonetta can heal from the wound in a few seconds.Bayonetta is capable of using special attacks which can deal massive damage to most forces of Paradiso and Inferno. By chanting in Enochian, she can summon various objects to potentially finish her enemies. Umbran Watch: A gift from her mother on her birthday which has her name and date of birth engraved on it. This watch also allows her to remain youthful and halt her aging. Rosa is Bayonetta's mother whom she possesses immense love and respect for. As a child, Bayonetta looked up to her mother, regarding her as hero, and looked for any chance to spend time with her. She was devastated when Rosa was killed during the Witch Hunts, so much so that she lost her willingness to continue fighting. In the time displacement, Cereza mistook her older self as her mother, likely due to their strikingly similar appearances.[1] In Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta got to fight alongside her mother after being transported to the past by Loki's Remembrance of Time; according to The Eyes of Bayonetta 2 artbook, the skill level which Rosa exhibits with the Bullet Arts had left Bayonetta speechless.[2] In Bayonetta Origins, Cereza was determined to find whatever power was needed to save her mother and willingly explored Avalon Forest to achieve this goal.Balder is Bayonetta's father whom she has a more complex relationship with. Originally, she didn't see her father often due to his exile, but held an attachment to him. When she first met him as a adult 500 years after the Witch Hunts, she denounced him for supposedly kickstarting those events, and even blamed him for her mother's death. In Bayonetta 2, she was unaware of the Masked Lumen's identity of being a young Balder brought to the future, only finding him somewhat annoying as he constantly made attempts to kill Loki, and had no qualms battling him. After finding out his true identity and further learning he was not responsible for causing the Witch Hunts and his devastation over her Rosa's death, she instead finds herself sympathizing with him and becomes concerned for his well-being. Her genuine love for her father is what enabled the both of them to summon Omne. She was also saddened to learn his corruption to evil came from his honorable sacrifice to contain Loptr, and willingly called him "daddy" one last time before he succumbed.Jeanne is Bayonetta's best friend. They knew each other from childhood and when Jeanne was chosen as the heiress for the Umbra Witches, she chose Cereza as her duel rival. When Bayonetta lost her will to fight during the Witch Hunts, Jeanne sealed her and the Left Eye away to keep them safe from Paradiso. 500 years later, Bayonetta met Jeanne again, but had no recollection of their past together. It wasn't until their final fight at Isla Del Sol that she discovered Jeanne's identity and was dejected when she supposedly died. The two witches worked together to defeat Jubileus and rekindled their friendship.[1] When Jeanne's soul was dragged to Inferno in Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta ventured to Noatun with the intent to rescue her, and is terrified at the thought of losing Jeanne. Much like all her friends, she has a tendency to exchange banter with Jeanne, which the latter reciprocates. It is also said that the two of them live together. Rodin serves as of Bayonetta's weaponsmith. She maintains what resembles a professional relationship with him and has even accepted his aid. Like many of her friends, she tends to banter with him, though doesn't take his teasing kindly, often threatening to shoot him even.[2] According to Hideki Kamiya, when asked if they shared a relationship beyond a professional one, he only states that they have a "special relationship"[7], with character designer Mari Shimazaki elaborating that Rodin plays a "big brother" role to Bayonetta.Enzo serves as Bayonetta's informant. She is incredibly callous and inconsiderate about his problems, regarding him as a "broke, bumbling wise guy" and often using him for transport; though she does care enough to save him from harm's way. Jeanne even once suggested that she should be nicer to Enzo for a change.Cereza is the younger form of Bayonetta who was brought to the present by Balder. Bayonetta finds the girl running around Vigrid and is initially annoyed with her. Over the course of the game however, she becomes protective of her and even indulges in acting as her mother figure. Upon finding out that Cereza is her younger self, Bayonetta returns her to the past, leaving some encouraging words for her and even sings Fly Me To The Moon to her, just as her actual mother would have.Loki served as Bayonetta's companion throughout Bayonetta 2. She first found him being attacked by angels and was impressed with his ability, though she didn't trust him to look after himself. She grew highly protective of him and saved him from many threats, including Balder. After defeating Loptr, Loki began to fade away, and Bayonetta wondered if they would meet again, even granting him permission to call her Cereza, although the latter commented she still didn't look like a "Cereza" to him.Madama Butterfly is Bayonetta's contracted demon. Although rarely interacting with her personally, she is grateful for the fact that she maintains her loyalty and honors their contract.Cheshire was the first Infernal Demon Bayonetta summoned, during her youth. When she was surrounded by Faeries, she accidently summoned him, and he was forced to partner alongside her. They had a begrudging relationship with Cheshire constantly calling her weak and she was sick of his arrogant behavior. When a Faerie using it magic to appear as Rosa tricked Bayonetta into thinking it was the real Rosa, but Cheshire destroyed the Faerie, but young witch was too heart broken by it and yelled at Cheshire. When Cheshire was injured by the Faeries Bayonetta saved him and healed his wounds. The two relationship became close to best friends. Once Bayonetta's mentor was killed Cheshire bid goodbye but Bayonetta vow she'll summon him herself one day.