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Bayonetta is a modern witch covered in mystery, intrigue, and a catsuit fit for a queen.

Bayonetta is confident, bold, and cocky; she has swagger, and it shows with her runway walk. When she knows she has a foot on the situation, she takes it over and dominates the situation or at least tries to. Sometimes she ends up far too cocky for her own good, and it shows with the mistakes she makes in battles, failing some of the Alfheim challenges, and not anticipating her father coming back after her return from the past. She's still human, she still makes mistakes whether big or small.

She's nonchalant about the things that would usually scare a normal human being, like angels and demons, heaven and hell. She even calls the infernal demons she summons as pets. There are only a few things Bayonetta is scared of when she still had no recollection of her past. Now the only thing she's frightened of is losing the few good friends she has in the world, and Cereza when she was still around in the present. Bayonetta has a constant cool state even under pressure that can reach to the extremes, only to be triggered by certain sensitive topics, like how Jeanne threatens Cereza's life. Caring about people is what makes her vulnerable because she will defend them whatever it takes. Bayonetta even goes through Hell to rescue Jeanne's soul, nearly on the verge of tears when she thought she lost her. The same happens when Balder, who is actually a good man, takes the evil soul of Loptr to save the world by sacrificing himself. It hurts her witch heart. Five years after the first game shows how much more emotional she really is, how vulnerable she feels because of it.

Bayonetta loves playing the dominant sadist; she is violent and brutal, yet still graceful and playful when it comes to her battles. She has no qualms in torturing god's holy messengers with equipment like iron maidens and guillotines, even going so far as to mock them with flirtation and spank them with her whip before she finishes them off with bullets, fists, or the ground. She even laughs after they die, being genuinely amused at their demise. She doesn't back down from a fight, simple as that; Bayonetta enjoys hunting for angels, but she loves looking for a challenge. That's one of the reasons why she started her journey in the first game.

There's no denying her witty and sexual nature. It's practically synced with her fighting, being nude fifty percent of the time, and her personality — she uses it as an edge against people. That's how she made Luka back away and fall over a window simply by walking to him, and she's comfortable with elegant nakedness. She does enjoys sex in general, even mentioning that she rather enjoys the proccess of making children over having them.

Her cover up when she's out in public is posing as a traveling nun. She knows how to play her role well and even deceives people with it, even memorizing some of the verses from the Bible. That makes her an excellent actress to the public, and whenever she decides to hide her emotions or true thoughts from prying eyes; it's one of the many ways of manipulation at its finest, and it looks very beautiful. Just because she uses manipulation doesn't mean she is a liar. She just never tells the truth, or she beats around the brush just as Jeanne accuses her of doing. Bayonetta does draw things out depending on the situation, mainly either if she loves to tease a person or toy with them.

In the context of children like Cereza, she was never appreciative of them before. Still isn't, but she isn't as allergic to taking care of them before meeting Cereza. In the middle of the game grew an exception during one of her most intense quests. Cereza came into her life in the most unfortunate way possible, and that is through a battle with one of the larger angels. Initially the witch believes her to be a burden, but whenever Cereza disappears or is taken from her, worry rises and so does anger. This doesn't mean she cares for all children, but Bayonetta's grown a motherly attitude for Cereza. It could happen again if she becomes close to another young person.

Her theme song reveals a secret loneliness, and it stems from two things: In the past, Bayonetta was hated by almost everyone in the clan except her mother, Rosa, and her best friend, Jeanne. In the future she has no memories of her past, and she's the only one of her kind left until she reunited with Jeanne. Bayonetta has been alone most of her life, but she's all right.

Bayonetta is blunt and snarky, most especially when people wear her patience thin, when she becomes uncomfortable, or when she grows ridiculously bored in such a short span of time. Like talkative angels, for example. Bayonetta has disrupted two speeches, one by shooting Fortitudo at his upsidedown face with her handguns. There's also stopping Sapientia's speech by throwing a large steel bar at his mouth to keep his jaw from moving.

To summarize, Bayonetta is a witch who wants to have fun, and has a heart.

» lengthy detailed version. tl;dr version below.

» physical
Bayonetta is a woman filled with years of training in the form of physical prowess and the dark arts. Because she holds the Left Eye of the World, and because she is the child of a Lumen Sage and an Umbra Witch, she is incredibly powerful and it shows with how she deals with angels and demons. She can easily catch a falling train ( part of it ) with one hand, which is most likely enhanced due to her own magic. Without her magic she could only carry what her build will allow. She knows how to fight with different kinds of weapons, with four handguns being her favorite, as well as some hand to hand combat.

Guns perfectly harmonize with Bayonetta because she's studied and mastered the Bullet Arts, a fighting style favored by the Umbra clan, and how agile and limber she is. She also enjoys wrestling, street & pole dancing, and a bit of figure skating. She fights like a glass cannon where she does her best not to be hit, and it rewards her with Witch Time. If she's hit, she loses plenty of stamina and health. Even though she is a powerful witch, Bayonetta is still human and is vulnerable to what a mortal human goes through; she can die like one whether it is ( extremely ) old age, murder, or natural causes. It's just a bit tougher because she knows how to fight.

» magic
Bayonetta can use magic like a traditional Umbra witch, like setting things on fire with just a sweep of her finger or granting second sight on glass to reveal the ongoing events within Purgatorio. Additionally they can summon certain weapons through magic. She can also start a vehicle without the keys, same goes for doors, and breathe in outer space. She most likely gains her super strength from her magic as well. She isn't immortal, she can die; the witch has longevity, almost 600 years old and she still looks to be in her twenties.

An important note with Umbran magic is that they use their hair as conduits for summoning or simple magic, like how Bayonetta uses it for clothing. She can also transform into different animals: Panther, crow, bat, and snake.

Bayonetta can summon a portal to slip between the mortal realm and Purgatorio, where she is invisible to the naked eye. Only those on the level of an Umbra Witch, a Lumen Sage, or something godly can see Bayonetta. However, she can be revealed through a mirror's reflection in the mortal realm.

Witch Time is a specialty for witches, where they can slow down time by entering another plane of existence. She can even use the slowed down world and manipulate it to her will.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY is the demon Bayonetta has made a deal with to enhance her abilities with both action and magic. it's through the use of Wicked Weaves that the Madama's fists and heeled feet are summoned out using the witch's hair per usual. Bayonetta can summon the Madama in her full form as well.

She can summon out torture devices and infernal demons from inferno and use it on the supernatural from some sort of dark magic hammerspace, which is also where she keeps her inventory. In the OVA she was able to use it on Jubileus with the help of Jeanne and their summoned demon, Queen Sheba. There's a chance for her to mess up the summoning however, accidentally releasing the demons instead of holding them back with her magic, but the chance is low. If she uses her magic in repeated succession chances are she'll be too exhausted ( magic-wise ) to a point that she won't be able to use it again for a certain amount of time.

These past few days had been filled with fun and entertainment for the witch, and she believed it to be so much better than the first time she arrived in the new city. It wasn't enough for her, however, the witch idly wishing for a little more fun. This is supposed to be her vacation, away from all the angels and demons back home.

After a few days of landing in Paris, it was a pleasant surprise to see that familiar golden light and the scent of rosemary, a demon repellent — anyone can see it, from humans to gods to ants — from the blue sky. She had only been walking back to the hotel... to think that was the only thing needed to catch their attention. Her wishes just keep coming true these days, from her little pole dance the night before to this. That was why — the witch looked around the area, making sure no one would peek at her little trick — with a wave of her arm, that familiar violet portal covered with symbols and a star forms in front of the witch. Had she been a normal woman without casting a spell on glass, she wouldn't be able to see god's holy messengers flutter downward with their golden weapons in hand. She had no need to enchant her glasses, but working in Purgatorio was much easier. No one to see her make a mess, she believed.

Normally she would start shooting at this point, taking the other half of Love is Blue out from dark magic. This world was already a mess, why did she care for it to be messier?

Bayonetta knew she had to be careful, or at least keep them far away from her little room in the apartment buildings. She didn't want to play clean up, after all. Aiming one of the magenta handguns up high in the air, she pulled the trigger to attract the angels quicker.

"I know you missed me," she said, her voice sultry as she began to run down the cement walkway to somewhere, anywhere. The first place she thought of was the plains, and it's not because she doesn't wish destruction on the city — it's for the fresh air, "Come on, now. Shall we play my favorite game?"

She ran so, so fast, and those winged creatures chased her and tried to hit her but she deflected almost every single swing. It was always too easy for her, truth be told, but where there was no quality there was quantity. That's why her devious smile appeared as she looked back, noting that flock chasing her down the street, through the town, and all the way until she saw that familiar greenery. The second she stopped, the witch turned and waited for one to dive — there. All it took was a sidestep before she grabbed an arm to slam him across her way, forcing the holy entity to dig into the dirt.

A pleased sigh, she turned towards the other angels that follow on. There would have been a rush of wind from how quick they were from the city to the green land.

"Would anyone else like a taste of Bayonetta today?"