Vanity | Forsaken

personality

Vanity is a deeply unsettling combination of elegance, playfulness, hunger, and outright murderous insanity. She carries herself with an almost casual confidence, rarely behaving like someone who believes she has anything to fear. Even when standing in the middle of a horrifying situation, she can appear strangely relaxed, as though everything happening around her is simply another opportunity to amuse herself.

She is intensely predatory. Vanity doesn't simply see people as opponents; she sees them as potential prey. She enjoys the process of hunting just as much as the actual kill, taking pleasure in watching someone realize that they're being followed and slowly becoming more desperate to escape.

Her demeanor can shift between almost cheerful and deeply disturbing with very little warning. She might smile, tease someone, or casually approach them before suddenly becoming violent. That unpredictability is one of the most frightening things about her.

Vanity is also extremely food-motivated, particularly when it comes to meat. Her hunger isn't portrayed as a normal appetite—it's obsessive and grotesque. She has an almost butcher-like fascination with flesh, cooking, cutting, and consumption. The distinction between preparing food and preparing a victim is practically nonexistent to her.

She can talk about eating in an almost mundane way despite the horrifying implications behind what she's saying. She may compliment someone's appearance, only for the compliment to gradually become clear as something much more sinister.

She is confident in her own appearance and carries herself with an almost performative elegance. Vanity knows how to make herself the center of attention, and she enjoys watching people react to her. Her name is fitting: there is a deliberate sense of theatricality surrounding her.

She's also highly expressive. Vanity isn't the type of killer who simply stands silently and stares. Her body language can become exaggerated and theatrical, especially when she's excited, amused, or preparing to attack.

When she's hunting someone, she enjoys playing with them. She may deliberately give them a chance to run, disappear around a corner, or make them think they've escaped before appearing again. The chase itself is part of the entertainment.

She has very little sympathy for her victims. Once someone becomes prey, Vanity's compassion effectively disappears. She can be charming one moment and brutally violent the next without experiencing much internal conflict.

However, she isn't mindlessly violent. Vanity is intelligent enough to understand fear and knows how to exploit it. She can deliberately manipulate someone's expectations, using her relatively calm demeanor to make them underestimate how dangerous she actually is.

Her relationship with violence is almost artistic. She takes pride in her tools and in the act of cutting, carving, and preparing things. Her cleaver is not merely a weapon to her—it fits naturally into her butcher persona.

Vanity also has a dark sense of humor. She can make jokes about disturbing situations or behave as though something horrifying is completely ordinary. That contrast between her casual attitude and the brutality of what she's doing makes her particularly unnerving.

When she becomes genuinely excited, her behavior becomes much more manic. Her expressions become exaggerated, her movements become more aggressive, and the playful façade gives way to something much more animalistic.

Her Raging Pace behavior especially reveals this side of her. When she becomes enraged, she can become much more openly feral and violent, even cutting into her own face and displaying a disturbing manic expression.

Despite all of this, Vanity isn't constantly screaming or raging. In fact, she's often more frightening when she's calm. She can speak casually, smile, or stand perfectly still while discussing something horrifying.

Overall, Vanity is predatory, confident, theatrical, playful, gluttonous, sadistic, intelligent, unpredictable, and deeply obsessed with meat and hunting. She treats the pursuit of prey almost like a game, while her fascination with butchery turns her into something far more disturbing than an ordinary killer.

appearance

Vanity is a feminine humanoid killer based on Yi Xi, the character associated with FLAVOR FOLEY's song “Butcher Vanity.” In Forsaken, she is a skin for Slasher and is explicitly portrayed as female. The current version of the skin is designed to closely resemble Yi Xi's appearance from the original song and its accompanying imagery.

She has a distinctly 2D, illustrated appearance compared with the more conventional 3D appearance of many Forsaken characters. The skin is somewhat unaffected by normal lighting, intentionally giving her the impression that she has stepped directly out of an animation or music video.

Vanity has pale skin and a feminine figure, with long, dark hair framing her face. Her hair is predominantly black/dark brown, falling around her shoulders and giving her a slightly messy but stylish appearance.

She wears a backwards red baseball cap, which is one of the most recognizable parts of the design. The cap sits over her dark hair and gives her appearance a casual streetwear element that contrasts with the much more disturbing butcher imagery surrounding her.

Her face is partially obscured by a distinctive white-and-red hockey mask. The mask is heavily stylized and follows the visual design associated with Yi Xi, giving her an immediately recognizable appearance while still connecting her to Slasher's original hockey-mask identity.

The mask features red markings across the white surface, creating a stark contrast with the rest of her face. It gives her an eerie, almost doll-like appearance while maintaining the recognizable silhouette of a masked killer.

Her outfit is built around a red-and-white jacket. The jacket has a sleek, sporty appearance, with the torso divided between the two main colors. Rather than looking like a traditional butcher's uniform, it resembles the fashionable outfit worn by Yi Xi in the Butcher Vanity imagery.

The jacket has short white sleeves, exposing her arms. The combination of white fabric and bright red sections gives her a very striking silhouette.

Her torso continues the red-and-white split-color design, keeping the outfit visually consistent from top to bottom. The red portions are particularly vivid and stand out against her pale skin and dark hair.

She wears completely black pants, creating a sharp contrast against the brighter upper half of her outfit.

Her footwear is predominantly red, matching the cap and jacket. The shoes have lighter/white elements while maintaining the overall red-and-black aesthetic.

One of the most important changes from standard Slasher is her weaponry. Instead of Slasher's usual machete, Vanity wields a large cleaver, fitting the butcher theme much more directly. She also carries a hacksaw on her back instead of the standard chainsaw.

She also has a disturbing piece of raw meat attached to her shoulder with a white fork, replacing the Necrobloxicon book that normally appears stabbed into Slasher's shoulder. This is one of the most direct visual references to the butcher/cannibal theme.

Blood is frequently present around her design, particularly during her more violent animations. During Raging Pace, blood can be seen around her face and body, emphasizing the transition from her relatively composed appearance into a much more feral state.

Her overall appearance intentionally combines cute/fashionable, colorful, and horrifying elements. The backwards red cap, stylish jacket, dark hair, and feminine figure could make her look like an ordinary animated character at first glance. The hockey mask, cleaver, hacksaw, blood, and raw meat immediately destroy that impression.

The result is a character who looks like she belongs in an animated music video while simultaneously looking like someone who has just walked out of a slaughterhouse.

key visual traits: pale feminine body, long dark hair, backwards red cap, white-and-red hockey mask, red-and-white jacket with short white sleeves, black pants, red-and-white shoes, large cleaver, hacksaw strapped to her back, raw meat pinned to her shoulder with a white fork, blood during her more violent animations, and the distinctive 2D illustrated appearance.