Vivian

Vivian is a major character in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake. She originally worked as a member of the villainous Three Shadows alongside her older sisters, Beldam and Marilyn. Later, Vivian defects from the Three Shadows and joins Mario as his fifth party member. She is frequently 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.

Vivian is also a transgender female ghost. She is physically a male ghost, but chose to live her life as a female ghost. Her sisters also bullied her for acting feminine. </Basic Information> Vivian is a purple ghost with curly pink hair that covers her eyes and pink cheek mark. She wears white gloves and a red and white striped witch hat.

Vivian is physically a male ghost, but she considers herself to have a heart of a girl. Vivian is best characterized by her shyness. Throughout the game, she is unable to stand up to Beldam and her cruel nature, constantly taking the blame for things that are really Beldam's own fault. She develops herself in Chapter 4 when she decides to join Mario and leave her family after he shows her an act of kindness. In the Palace of Shadow, Vivian gains the confidence to battle Beldam as payback for all the abuse she suffered. She is still loyal to Beldam, though it is mostly out of fear or dislike of getting "punished" by her.

Unlike her sisters, Vivian is caring and kind. She wonders if it is bad to do away with Mario and his partners in Chapter 2, and she is a forgiving person, going back with her sisters in the epilogue (despite all the trouble Beldam caused). She seems to have a fondness for jewelry, because when she finds Flurrie's Necklace, she quickly took it, and was upset when Beldam took it from her. In the original game, due to how much Beldam calls her sisters "lovelies", Vivian refers to the group as the "Shadow Beauties" when introduced, much to Beldam's anger. In the remake, she instead introduces the group as "Shadow Sisters", because it makes her happy when Beldam calls her "sister".

Throughout their adventures, Vivian have developed a crush on Mario due to his kindness and bravery. However, when she sees Mario and Peach being together, she doesn't have a grudge on Peach, since she thinks Peach and Mario will be a good couple. Vivian, alongside her older sisters, are part of the Shadow Sirens. The Shadow Sirens are ghosts who are minions of Grodus. Vivian faced lots of bullying from her sisters.

One day, Vivian and her sisters ambushed Mario because of Grodus's orders. However, once Vivian realised about Mario's kindness to her, she decided to defect from the Shadow Sirens and became part of Mario's party because of how Mario treated her better than how her sisters treated her. After joining Mario's party, Vivian gained more courage to stand up to her sisters.

Later, when Mario prepares to leave Rogueport with Princess Peach after having defeated Grodus and the Shadow Queen, Vivian is about to tell Mario that she has a crush on him, but decides otherwise, saying that she thinks he and Peach will make a good couple. Later, Goombella's email to Mario reveals that Vivian has returned to Beldam and Marilyn, who both have ended their villainous activities and promise to never mistreat Vivian again. Vivian's basic abilities includes her pulling people like Mario into her shadow, allowing them to hide and her ability to use magic like Fiery Jinx where she burns her enemies with fire magic. </Powers and Abilities>