The Jank did a good video testing & demonstrating Vivian 10 days ago that I thought you might like to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cXUfDS7wtw

best boy

I've been using her a lot for the past few weeks & she's so well designed I don't think I have even one gameplay criticism. Not even a picky mild one. That might be a first for me. I was gonna say her forward strong feels like it doesn't reach far enough backward but then I checked the hitbox in Practice & it turns out I'm just bad. Top notch character. Crazy that she's only your third.

vivian reals 11/10

Also, it'd be cool if her trans alts effected the color palette of the curtains on her respawn platform.

hell yea you go girl

@Dakota ❌

her :3

women

If you know, you know, i'm not gonna tell anything more.

Despite my complaints about the taunt, it might be cool if the trans alts had trans flag color palettes for the explosions. Speaking of which, I like that the bomb (I don't remember what it's called) is used in the up strong.

Being able to wall jump cancel down special might be cool too.

I'm starting to think V.O.I.D. is just trolling badly. They won't clarify what they mean & "clearly guy had to "Trump" it, tbh real" is just word salad.

but you still need to fix these combos if anyone would to play this character (even tho many will hate taunt like me but i'm not sending hate) and that would be good, good luck

clearly guy had to "Trump" it, tbh real

@Dakota You're a weirdo for getting so caught up in someone not liking a taunt.

@Xompo: Imagine being so transphobic that you can't imagine why someone wouldn't want a trans character to randomly bring up her transness during a fight when it's out of character for her to do so. If Midoriya's taunt was him slamming a Japanese flag into the ground, I'd criticize that too. Do you think that means I hate Japanese people?

Vivian's my favorite Paper Mario 2 character & part of the reason is because she's a rare example of a trans character being written as a person instead of a prop or a hate sink. If I didn't respect trans people, I wouldn't care enough about the taunt to mention it. Besides, I was being very polite & you weren't so you shouldn't be the one talking about meltdowns.

I didn't even demand that they change it. I just said it's the one thing I don't like & explained why.

anyways i think this character is awesome and you should not remember what happened on April 1st 2025

imagine being so transphobic you have a meltdown over a taunt... and you play RIVALS. Like bro who do you even play with???

@D YellowMadness You are a weirdo for getting so caught up by a taunt bro LMAO I'm so glad theres people like you to remind me that I'm normal

That taunt is really cute. The tail working over pits is awesome too!

@Reiga: Yeah, I always kinda thought if anyone ever made Vivian, they'd go the easy route of just having the tail disconnect from the ground, which wouldn't have felt right at all.

Great mod! Looks very nice and it's great you got the ghost tail working lmao

@V.O.I.D: Which combo? Your comment is extremely vague.

@VivianVT: I agree with this. A bad taunt doesn't ruin a great character. Though they might've been calling me an ass for criticizing the taunt. I don't know.

@Prince Herb: If you have to avoid using a taunt just because it's cringe & an insult to the character, then it's a bad taunt. When I eventually make videos of her, I'm gonna have to remember not to instinctively taunt during victories or lulls because I'll look like a condescending panderer just because I accidentally used the taunt. Same with Garnet's taunt when I eventually record her.

Taunts are often where a character's personality shines through the most but their taunts are the opposite. i similarly avoid using Goku's taunt because although it doesn't have the pandering vibes, it represents the Awful flanderized braindead version of Goku instead of the version of Goku that make Dragon Ball so popular in the first place.

Glad I won't have that problem when using Madeline.

if the taunt is a problem you can just not taunt

yall who are calling it ass because of the taunt are tweaking this is peak

spritework is kind of stiff but its nice to have a full vivian on the workshop. happy belated day of visibility

eh, could be better if not the taunt, also the combo is kinda uhh, dunno, bad ig, it doesn't even follows up, i play Saya DE, Mecha Sonic,Fujiwara, even Helldiver

go fix combo and change the taunt otherwise mass of hate comes so be aware of that

4/10

Absolute ass

ass

I've tried her out now & she's fun. The only thing I don't like is her taunt. It's such a disservice to a character when their only taunt is something about their gender, race, sexuality, or whatever. Especially if it's not in character for them to be randomly bringing it up. Regardless, everything else was done really well.

Oh, I forgot, I had a gameplay suggestion though. It would be cool if she could use her down special offstage to enter the wall to get back onstage, similarly to Spooky. I don't know if that would be well balanced or easy to program so I'm not implying she needs it. Just that it might be cool. Sorry if you got spammed by notifications. This was two posts at first because I was too wordy.

Just in time for International Transgender Day of Visibility

TRANS RIGHTS

Cool. Vivian was tied with Goombella for who I wanted most out of this jam.