| Not to be confused with her Cyber Runners counterpart. |
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What is your deal?! Is it nerves? Are you sick? Why did you choose today of all days to be such a mess, Vivian? What should I do...? |
” | —Vivian questioning herself in the mirror, SMG4: The Day My Arm Went Psycho | ||
Vivian is one of the three tetartagonists (alongside Evie Brinkerhoff and Lemony) of the Crossover Time series. She is also the main protagonist of Cyber Runners via an alternate version.
She's a major character in Season 29, the tritagonist of The Ren Arc, a major character in The Rapper Robot Arc, Season 30 and The Anime Arc, one of the two tritagonists (alongside Peggy Spengler) of Season 31, a supporting character in The YouTube Arc, a major character in Season 32, The Magic Kingdom 50 Year Anniversary Special, the Genesis Arc and the deuteragonist in Crossover Time Movie: PIRATE RAMEN.
She befriended Team Heroes, namely Peggy Spengler and Evie Brinkerhoff. She was introduced during the Ren Arc, and since then has become a major character in the series. She is the only member of Team Heroes to not live in the New York City, but instead in Highbridge, Bronx.
Like many other members of the gang in Season 32, she winds up being demoted to a minor character to the presence of new characters such as Woomer and Linky, and returning characters such as Jason and Mack, most likely to keep her and Belle Fontiere from becoming stale characters following Cyber Runners's Season 2 release and Cyber Runners Season 3. This minor role was set to continue with her absence in the first three episodes of Season 33 and throughout the season as a whole. In Season 34 she finally starts to appear more and even gets some development alongside Danielle. She would also get her long awaited redesign in Grand Theft K.O. to make up for her absence in The Lawsuit Arc.
Into the early episodes of Season 35, she has begun making a resurrgence into the spotlight with her new voice actor, despite all the controversies in Star Productions, and the result of her Cyber Runners arm mysteriously achieving sentience and becoming known as Conor, helping her to become an "animal whisperer" at the zoo as she seeks to find a career besides playing video games every day.
Appearance[]
Vivian is a young, one-eyed humanoid with lime green skin, two antennas, three fingers on each hand and long legs that ended in stubs. She has short green hair with flower with a pale pink center and light crimson floral petals. She wears a cyan scarf, violet crop tube top, purple skirt with lavender belt, and black fingerless gloves, while also having a metallic left arm. She wears light magents socks and cerise flats.
Unlike her Cyber Runners counterpart, it is not explained why her left arm is bionic. It is shown in The Untitled Hero Video that the arm can be removed.
In Grand Theft K.O. Vivian was completely redesigned. Her short green hair becomes chest-length. Vivian's crop tube top has also been enhanced, and the chest are identical to light purple bunny head icon. Her black fingerless gloves have purple tips and her Cyber Runners arm is glossier than it was in her original model, she also has a wristband and her iconic symbol indented on her left hand. She now wears purple skirt, though she still keeps her lavender belt with purple heart buckle. These changes make here overall more consistent with Chloe, whose more cartoony design was inconsistent with Vivian’s marginally more realistic design.
Unlike her original model, her crop tube top can be underneath. She wears a dark purple jacket with the Cybers Runners logo at the bottom left.
Personality[]
Vivian is an innocent, insecure girl frequently prone to hyperactivity who is a fan of video games, puffballs, and cats. She is shown to be a pacifist and often tries resolving problems with words rather than actions. Vivian is very skilled with weapons such as guns, but is not very athletic and seems to have low stamina. She appears to be very accident-prone, as she often finds herself getting hurt or in danger. She is also really polite and non-confrontational, as she constantly apologizes for every mistake she has made. She is very peaceful, as seen in "Mario and The Diss Track" when she disagrees with the idea of hitting Robot Jones with a baseball bat, alternatively suggesting to the gang that they challenge Robot Jones with a video game instead. However, if she is somehow fooled into thinking that a weapon is harmless or that she's playing a video game, she can do serious damage before she realizes what's going on.
Vivian can be seen as gullible and somewhat naive, as shown in "K.O. and the Robot Jones Mansion..." where she was gullible enough to believe Robot Jones' lies about Thanksgiving, or as he claimed it, "Robotsgiving". Vivian liked them and believed them to be educational. Though she may be gullible, she can at least know a consistency in something depending on the extents used to make the lie, as she questioned why none of the members of the Robot Jones tribe became president if the pilgrims worshiped them. Her realization was so relative to the crux of his first story that Bob had to change the subject to a fake Christmas story instead, and she believed it too. Her gullibility and somewhat naivete was also shown in "SMG4 Christmas Special 2020" where she believed Robot Jones (dressed in a Santa costume) was Santa Claus. In "K.O. & Sprig goes to the dentist", she believes Bashful when he tells her that the gun he gave her shot gum, causing her to shoot her friends' car, leading them into a car crash, which enraged Vivian as she realized that Swagmaster had lied to her, also showing that she hates being manipulated only after the consequences come to be. Apparently, she also trusts K.O. and Sprig to the point where she believes that Sprig is a real dentist and trusts that he can treat her teeth properly. As a result of trusting K.O., her teeth literally explode. Despite her shortcomings, Vivian is very friendly and kindhearted, and was able to quickly become friends with the majority of the cast, even with Evie Brinkerhoff, her foil. She is also extremely sensitive as it is easy to make her upset or cry. This is shown in "The Splatfest Incident", where she bursts into tears right after Froggy Hopkins calls her "a very bad friend". This sensitivity is further explored in "The Big Bad Bully", and as indicated by her involvement in the episode, Vivian can become weak-willed and unable to stand for herself against people who antagonize her by stealing her favorite possessions, resulting in her having bouts of crying and going into a deep depression. However, her sadness can be somewhat dangerous if someone were to see her like that, as shown in "War Of The Best Friends 2019" when Anne stole her puffball. She is able to make him feel guilty about her actions so much that she died from a heart attack. Due to her naivete, Vivian ends up causing destruction and harm to others without realising it, which her innocence and social obliviousness is also responsible for, as her desire for cute things causes her to appear creepy to those without context, and if she is not perceived as creepy for it, then she is taken instead with contempt, sometimes to the extent that others sometimes have to bring attention to the consequences of the attitude she directs towards said cute things.
Though Vivian primarily takes non-violent approaches towards any conflict she is a part of, she is shown to still be a fan of fantasy violence, whether it is gory or not, as she is also shown playing game franchises such as Dark Souls and Grand Theft Auto where the violence itself is controlled or created entirely by the player. She also convinces Saiko to play Super Smash Bros. Melee with her by taking note of the fact that it has violence in "The Mario Purge (Halloween 2018)", showing that she is aware of this trait of herself. Nevertheless, the true reason for Vivian possessing this self-contradictory trait as well as being aware of having it is currently unknown. It can be presumed that it is an indication that there is more to her moral spectrum besides being a pacifist, and that under the rarest circumstance, she can be willing to fight against someone physically and succeed. What with her having a relative interest for fantasy violence, she is also blissfully ignorant to the result of general destruction whether she is causing it or not, and is willing to ignore the responsibility of the restoration of something under an official service whether or not she intends to for the sake of her own interests, which is half-in-half gaming-related during the time of ignorance. This means that in spite of her being a pacifist by intention, Tari cheerfully and obliviously causes and ignores destruction more than she prevents it, gets involved in violent events or topics following the same procedure, or has her priorities directed more by her personal interests than her pacifistic ideals.
She has shown to be even more cowardly than Danielle on several occasions. "K.O. & Sprig goes to the dentist" reveals that she has never been to the dentist in her life and she tried escaping her inevitable checkup multiple times, even getting on the edge just by watching other people peacefully waiting for their turn. After her experience with Sprig, who was pretending to be the dentist after he accidentally killed the real one, she ran off with Swagmaster to escape to Mexico, where there would apparently be no dentists. In the end, she is still forced to go to the dentist, and all she could do was cry. In later videos, she seems to be less shy and less hesitant to engage in dangerous activities, as shown in "Food Fight!", where she participates in the war against fried food and candy with her being on Team Candy, but she seemed to appear a little guilty when they temporarily chased Team Pizza away. She is also more a lot more sociable as she's more willing to make friends compared to her earlier appearances, where she doesn't like being in places with a lot of people and tries to avoid meeting new people.
Vivian has an obsessive side, as demonstrated in her first Christmas special, being extremely eager to get a rubber duck. Evie, of all people, is freaked out by her behavior. This side of her is once again shown in "Stupid Mario 3D All-Stars", when Dendy summoned her by squeezing a puffball, ultimately bringing her out for a purpose. This is also shown in "K.O. & Sprig goes to the dentist" where Evie coerces Vivian to return to the dentist after escaping, with the intention of never coming back.
Vivian seems to be a quick thinker, as shown in "The Mario Purge", where she and Evie Brinkerhoff attempt to fend off the Rabbids with a makeshift Molotov, or in "War Of The Best Friends 2018" when she attempts to save K.O., Sprig, Anne and Maddie on her own using only the Rejection Controller and her Expert Mode, and succeeds, not only saving the aforementioned, but the victims of the T-Pose Virus too. Among the main cast members besides Maddie, Vivian is the second most competent and level-headed, the first being Peggy Spengler, as while she may not be good at physical fights, she can use her head for far more valuable reasons than Maddie. This is most prominent in "The Cabbage" where she instructs everyone not to tamper with the belongings of the person who owns the farm, and she also demands everyone to clean their own mess up to make it the way it was before, unlike the other two characters she was with at the time who only caused more chaos rather than less. Though she can be shown to be one of the most competent cast members, evidence of this is actually rarely shown, as most of her time on-screen uses her less competent side, such as her primarily gullible and accident-prone foibles. In fact, this less competent side of her shows up more often than the more competent side. Sometimes the reasons for her demonstrating herself this way is because of a reason that would typically make someone seem competent compared to the average person, like the time she demonstrated to K.O. and Sprig that gaming requires serenity through feeding ducks in a pond, ending up in the conflict of one trying to bite her instead due the nature of the Crossover Time universe, as well as the countless moments when she insists for people to focus on something. By all means, she is actually correct in both of those regards. Additionally, among the cast, Vivian is more often than not playing the role of the voice of reason and indifference, usually not being a direct participant of most chaotic events in the series, instead only witnessing them or otherwise accidentally being a participant, and occasionally tries to call out to her friends' conscience in order to prevent further chaos, though no one ever really listens or the chaos has reached the point of no return.
History[]
I'm The Ultimate Gamer[]
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NINTENDO HAS CLAIMED THIS VIDEO[]
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Goodbye, SMG4[]
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War Of The Fat Italians 2022[]
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Powers and Abilties[]
While Vivian is shown to be physically weaker than many of the characters in her earlier appearances up to Season 31, her amazing knowledge and skill on video games as well as her expert mode and powerful arm make her very versatile in the various situations she is in:
- Gaming Skills: TBA
- Cybernetic Arm Enhancements: One of Vivian’s most defining features is her cybernetic arm, which increases her gaming ability and allows her to adapt in difficult situations or in games she may have trouble with. Her arm is shown to have an “Expert Mode”, which drastically increases her speed and accuracy to extreme levels, which is enough to amaze her friends and those competing against her, although she requires to type in a code or press a logo on a holographic screen to activate it.
- Game Warping: Vivian also has the ability to transport herself (actually, her conscience) and people near her into a video game she’s currently playing with if someone or herself activates this power. During this sequence, Vivian’s eyes fully turn violet (like her Cyber Runners counterpart). In "The Vivian Abnoramlity", Vivian cannot leave the video game on her own free will as she must beat it if she wants to. "Let's Meets cyber runners" (As well as the cyber runners series, in which Vivian uses seemingly the exact same program as Crossover Time Vivian) also gives us the possibility that Vivian can take anything out of a video game (like how Cyber Runners Vivian ended up pulling Theo out of his game cartridge), however this power has likely not been utilised to it's full potential due to balancing reasons.
- Cyber Runners Vision: By extension, Vivian has the ability to see different paths of success in video games when she is in certain situations.
- Transformation: Her arm can turn into a rocket which she can use to fly around. First discovered in The Final Piece when Lemony reprograms Vivian's arm to turn into it.
- Game Warping: Vivian also has the ability to transport herself (actually, her conscience) and people near her into a video game she’s currently playing with if someone or herself activates this power. During this sequence, Vivian’s eyes fully turn violet (like her Cyber Runners counterpart). In "The Vivian Abnoramlity", Vivian cannot leave the video game on her own free will as she must beat it if she wants to. "Let's Meets cyber runners" (As well as the cyber runners series, in which Vivian uses seemingly the exact same program as Crossover Time Vivian) also gives us the possibility that Vivian can take anything out of a video game (like how Cyber Runners Vivian ended up pulling Theo out of his game cartridge), however this power has likely not been utilised to it's full potential due to balancing reasons.
- Superhuman Strength: TBA
- Immortal: In The Resurrection, in order to bring Gary the Alien back to life, his species turned Vivian and her teammates into Immortals.
- Cooking Skills: TBA
Immortal[]
Only In "The Resurrection", Gary's species turned Vivian and her teammates into Immortals in order for them to resurrect Gary the Alien.
- Healing: According to one of the aliens, Vivian is a lightbinder. Her primary ability is to heal the severely wounded. Unfortunately, it does not work on those who are already dead.
- Light Barrier: Vivian can create a defensive barrier that blocks off dangerous attacks.
- Puffballs???: When put under an overwhelming situation (in this case being piled on by monsters) she might end up activating a unique spell that turns anyone within the radius into rubber ducks.
Weaknesses[]
Vivian's weaknesses in general have more of an extensive effect than her general powers:
- Impulsiveness: Vivian has demonstrated with nearly every single action that she has made, bar the rare occasion that she manages to focus without a problem, that she is unable to have second thoughts about something before committing to something. She finds no issue in doing certain things, regardless of how destructive or misguided they may be, though she is also dragged along by other people who do the same behaviour in a worse fashion than she could have the willpower to think of even doing. She has demonstrated herself to be unwittingly inconsiderate of her surroundings to the extent that she can be just as much of a deviant of basic moral cleanliness as K.O. and Sprig, though only accidentally, but she receives no punishment for it besides being threatened and her lack of confidence leading her to be terrified of said threat.
- Misfortune: TBA
- Physical weakness: Vivian has demonstrated herself to be physically unable to fight people by hand, requiring something or someone stronger to do the work for her. This means that she is unable to contribute to a situation that would require her to do so, which also means that she is always vulnerable to people who are actually physically stronger than her who also consider her a strong enemy, such as Chloe Forsythe prior when she was a full-time villain, and is always open to those who intentionally target her. In later episodes, however, she's shown to be slightly less incompetent, but is still lacking in strength compared to most of the other main characters. In "Grand Theft K.O.", Vivian declares that she will attempt to remedy this weakness of hers, along with her cowardice, requesting Peggy becomes her trainer.
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Trivia[]
- Her creation and history are detailed in the video The Making Of Vivian. She was made by Alise's sister when she was around 12 years old, according to Alise himself.
- Her good behaviour is based on the charity, as she estabilishes a connection with Mercury.
- It is currently unknown how Vivian became a cyborg in the Crossover Time universe.
- It is also unknown exactly how Vivian involved herself in the tournament between Robot Jones in the games store from when the audience first sees her.
- Vivian and Evie can be considered foils to each other. While Vivian doesn’t enjoy fighting in real life and is very friendly, Evie is known to have psychotic tendencies and is more prone to violence than most other members of the cast. However, despite this, they do manage to be really good friends.
- Vivian's concept art is more anime-like than her final counterpart.
- Her final counterpart itself, coincidentally, was largely criticized for assuming an anime-like appearance.
- It is also unknown exactly how Vivian involved herself in the tournament between Robot Jones in the games store from when the audience first sees her.
- Though Vivian's cybernetic arm has remained physically intact throughout all of her appearances, the hand of her cybernetic arm is finally chopped off in a fit of rage by Lemony in The BBQ.
- At the end of the episode, as a temporary solution, she is seen having tied her hand back on to the rest of her arm with rope.
- She is shown to love anime just as much as Froggy Hopkins does, though she is not an otaku like him, possessing no merchandise and dakimakuras.
- She is one of the few main characters to never become a T-Pose Zombie.
- In There's Something Up With Peggy... it's shown that she finds Dark Souls 3 relaxing, a game that's part of a series that's known to be quite the opposite, partly due to its difficulty.
- Among the vague summarising nicknames given to the main cast between acquaintances, Vivian is typically described as a "nerd", which is officially defined as "a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious" or "a single-minded expert in a particular technical field". Given that Vivian is only entirely fitting with the first definition in that she lacks social skills as well as that she can actually think clearly when necessary, it is liable that she is referred to under the second definition.