Venessa

Venessa is a boss character found in Dark Deception: Unchecked Limitations. She appears in Melodramatic Museum. Venessa will also return in Dark Deception: Journey of the Girl In Red and The Wacky Misadventures of Lucky & Friends as a supporting character. She is the head Vampire Maid and is also confirmed to be returning in Abyssal Annihilation as a supporting protagonist.

Appearance
Venessa, the head maid, has a modified version of the Vampire Maid uniform with dark colors, two ribbons, additional red patches, and black leggings. Venessa also has heterochromia, as her right eye is black and has a red pupil.

Venessa's Dunkleosteus form is a huge, 10m long fish with a purple-colored face plating, white teeth, pink eyes, black skin, and reddish pink fins. This form is absolutely massive, and despite the Dunkleosteus being an aquatic animal, Vanessa can fly regardless.

Personality
The Venessa is organized and slightly flirtatious with Doug, similar to the Reaper Nurses. Despite their aggression, they are polite, reserved, and even friendly when speaking. Venessa herself also feels remorse for her previous actions and apologizes to Doug saying she was only trying to do her duties. Venessa even offers to let Doug come back to the museum and help her with her work before bowing and going back to her nightmare. Just like the other vampire maids, she also seems to be a huge masochist, as the sounds Venessa makes when stabbed are not screams of pain and actually sexual moans.

Powers
Venessa possesses all the powers of normal Vampire Maids such as shapeshifting, flight, immortality, dark magic, and necromancy, but to an even stronger extent. She also has the unique ability to transform into a Dunkleosteus

Behaviour
In her boss battle, Venessa has several attacks:
 * Charge: Chases the player at high speeds, forcing the use of speed boost
 * Necromance: Creates bone spikes from the ground similar to the Lunar Spikes Zumarud uses
 * Scarlet Fire: Spits out an exploding red fireball from her mouth. Both the fireball and the explosion can kill the player, and she will shoot four times.
 * Bat Assault: Turns into a swarm of bats and assaults the player. The player must spam F to fend her off or they will be put on a T-Shirt and maybe a small article in a Newspaper
 * Bullets of Centuries: Flies into a location and creates a portal-like symbol in front of her that rapidly fires projectiles all over the place. Essentially the most Touhou thing ever, these projectiles are fired in patterns and Vanessa can use this attack for ten seconds. These projectiles stun the player for 0.5 seconds (1 second on Hard Mode, 2 seconds of Infernal Difficulty, and instant kill on Lunatic Mode), and if the player is already stunned this resets the player's progress to unstunning themselves. This can accidentally lead to Venessa stunlocking the player. This barrage can take up the entire arena, but it is possible to avoid all the projectiles by dodging quickly.
 * Cloaked in the Night: Rapidly teleports and dashes in random directions. Her path is highlighted by red mist so the player must avoid the mist in order to avoid getting clapped.

To fight back, the player must grab a silver knife on one of the displays and stab her, but she is only vulnerable when using the bone spike attack or charging. She must be stabbed 5 times before the battle ends, which she disperses into a red mist and disappears. The Vampire Maids return in Zone 3, and Venessa also assists Nina in her boss battle. After the battle against Nina, Venessa will transform into her Dunkleosteus form and chase the player along with other monsters. The other vampire maids will also transform into different creatures and give chase.

Playable Data

 * Gimmick: TBA

Light Attacks

 * Jab (Light): TBA
 * Forward Attack (Light): TBA
 * Up Attack (Light): TBA
 * Down Attack (Light): TBA
 * Dash Attack (Light): TBA

Heavy Attacks

 * Jab (Heavy): TBA
 * Forward Attack (Heavy): TBA
 * Up Attack (Heavy): TBA
 * Down Attack (Heavy): TBA
 * Dash Attack (Heavy): TBA

Special Attacks

 * Neutral Special: TBA
 * Side Special: TBA
 * Up Special: TBA
 * Down Special: TBA

Ultimate Attack

 * TBA

Trivia

 * The Vampire Maid's personalities and designs are meant to be fanservice.
 * The Vampire Maids can canonically merge with the museum pillars and sleep in them, this is a reference to the Pillar Men from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
 * Venessa's theme has leitmotifs from 'Night of Nights', 'Septette for the Dead Princess' and 'UN Owen Was Her?', all songs are from Touhou Project
 * The Vampire Maids are meant to out-waifu the original waifus of Dark Deception; The Reaper Nurses.
 * Venessa was originally going to be the only vampire maid, but this was cut
 * Venessa was originally going to turn into a dragon, but the developer wanted to do something out of the ordinary so Dunkleosteus Terelli it is.
 * Venessa is so far one of the only monsters capable of entering Bierce's Ballroom. Malak explains that vampires have many unusual abilities regular demons like him do not possess. Venessa is also canonically stronger than Malak but serves him regardless.
 * Venessa's name can be spelled both 'Venessa' and 'Vanessa'
 * Venessa is voiced by Aoi Yūki, who is the voice actor for Rita Rossweisse from Honkai Impact 3.
 * It’s heavily implied that, much like the majority of the monsters, Venessa and all the other Vampire Maids originally used to be humans before transforming into the beastly creatures they are currently now.
 * Venessa approved of Hamstrong’s goals of “reclaiming the territories that Malak lost to Raksasa” and she greatly revered him to the point that she developed romantic feelings for him, although Hamstrong doesn’t really reciprocate her relationship.

Lore
When Bierce was during her height of stardom, her ballroom was once a turbulent apiary of unrestrained hedonism, where instinct and impulse were indulged with wild abandon. Among the throng of tittering bootlickers and ignorant yes-men within the Hollywood film industry, a seductive predator crept in, masquerading herself as the maid that Bierce seemingly recognized, in which she previously sacrificed her daughter to the demon. She perceived a mocking thirst in that ungodly abomination, despite her ostensible pretension. In a magnificent exhibition of masochistic sport, Bierce plotted to rid herself of this lurking threat, driven half-insane by her condescending vulgarity. The gibbous moon, however, showed her inhuman cravings in all their suffocating hideousness as the moment of murder drew near.

Nevertheless, the morbid encounter terminated in her favor, and Bierce embarked on pursuing decadence in all of its manifestations. As she divulged the manor vintage's unnatural terroir, the air buzzed with expectation. Her euphoria was close to the end, however, as the congregated gentry exploded in an orgy of indescribable violence. A single drop of that forbidden astringent gave Bierce a dizzying glimpse of the slumbering, bloodsucking monstrosity beneath her feet, and at that moment, she comprehended the world's wicked truth. She felt almost reborn as if she was molded by newfound confidence. Her head felt shaken by the whine of a vampiric maiden springing to consume the tarnished essence... of the Dark Dimension.

*** The Museum is a place of relics where the works of the old and the works of the new are displayed in grand galleries stretching massive sizes. Who runs this place? The Vampire Maids do and their head maid Venessa. Despite their authority and power, the maids tend to serve those below them. The exact origins of the vampire maids are unknown and are only known by themselves, but they'd rather not reveal it for now. Unlike other undead creatures, the Vampire Maids are often sophisticated, dressed in fancy clothing, and have an air of class to them. They feed on the blood of other humans, in turn, transferring a disease that transforms those bitten into vampires.

The museum is not the only place where the vampire maids exist, they also tend to provide their services in other nightmares and are the most reliable and dutiful of Malak's minions. The head maid Venessa is special due to her possessing power stronger than that of her fellow night maidens. She was once ordinary for her kind and she was cleaning up in the Aquarium nightmare which was at the time part of Malak's realm, but when the creatures of the abyss took over it, she fell into the void and was seemingly never to be seen again. Except she was, but something about her was different for her power was stronger than even Malak's. She knew this but kept to her duties. It was not known what happened to her on that day, but Venessa says she found someone in the deep who 'helped her'. While the details aren't known of their encounter, this 'someone' seems to be responsible for the fact Venessa has the ability to take the form of an ancient Dunkleosteus. And so to the best of her abilities, Venessa stays in Malak's realm performing her tasks and her duties as a bloody maiden of the night.