Graveyard Girl

"The past is forever buried in the yellow sand."This article details something that has been **cut from the game**, with no official plans for it to be released. As a consequence, information and material may be partially incomplete and currently under research.

## Story Details

### Connected Characters

Major:* Lucky Guy
* Hell Ember
* Forward

Minor:

* Stranger 1

### Connected Locations

Minerva Arms Factory

**Graveyard Girl**, also referred to as **墓地女郎**, and occasionally referred to as **Ponytail Girl** and **Bad Girl**, was a survivor available in the early development phase of Identity V and referenced in the Dangerous Game conceptual project. She was heavily featured in promotional and concept material and artworks during the alpha and early beta phase of the game, but would ultimately be scrapped and confirmed to never return to the game.

## Character Details

### Appearance

*Note: the description is based off of the characters' artworks and rare available screenshots of the model, and as such could be inaccurate and/or inconsistent*

Graveyard Girl is a woman with a slight build and a peach skin tone. He has peach-blonde hair, tied in a braid, and dark eyes, with slight freckles on his cheeks. She sports a grey shirt with a red and black flannel jacket on top. She sports blue jeans pants, with a brown leather belt around her waist, and black and white sneakers at her feet. This appearance lacked a model and was only seen in concept art.

An alternate appearance of Graveyard Girl existed during development of the game, where she would lack her red jacket and would be wearing an orange tanktop instead, with a leather toolbelt and pouch around her waist and grey pants. This version was featured both in promotional art, as well as in Graveyard Girl's model in game.

Both versions sported human-like eyes rather than button ones.

### Events during Identity V

Graveyard Girl never makes an appearance during the game's events. She was, however, featured in an early teaser trailer for Identity V. She's shown entering Arms Factory and finds herself in a room full of human-sized dolls hung to the ceiling. After one of these turns to face her, the Graveyard Girl turns to the camera revealing doll-like button eyes and face. This suggests she might have succumbed or died, as at this point in the game's development, survivors still featured human-like eyes.

### Development of the game

While scrapped during the game's development, Graveyard Girl was heavily featured in early official concept artworks, as well as being featured in available in-game screenshots of the time and an early teaser trailer, to the point where she could be unofficially considered as an early development "mascotte" alongside Lucky Guy, much like Gardener would later go on to become. While her name, "Graveyard Girl", appears in available screenshots of the era, she actually lacked an official title.

Although fully modelled and functional, the game would end up taking a different stylistic direction and new survivors would be drafted, leaving Graveyard Girl unused and her planned role as a playable character completely scrapped.

Her design would go on to be used as the appearance of the Missing Girl in the foggy picture given to Orpheus by the girl's father.

## Trivia

* The name "Graveyard Girl" comes from early development screenshots and videos of the game, where she's referred to as "墓地女郎" under her icon, roughly translated to Graveyard Girl. Alternatively, some fandom names for her are Stranger C, or Beta Girl.
	+ The name "Ponytail Girl" comes from a since-deleted post by Nekooxi, a former concept artist who worked during the early development period of Identity V
	+ The fan-made Stranger C denomination is a reference to the two other cut survivors from early beta, Stranger 1 and Stranger B.
* In the game files is present a "Worn Clothes" model of Graveyard Girl, with torn clothes, messy hair and wounded skin. This further underlines her originally planned role as a playable survivor.
* While eventually re-used in the Missing Girl's photo, this is not meant to be a continuation of the character, but rather should be interpreted as a re-purposing of unused content. As such, Graveyard Girl is officially completely absent from both the game and the story.
* She's present in the concept artwork for the Red Church, despite the fact that the map was rendered available after the game's official release, well after the end of the beta testing period.
	+ She's also present in a concept art of Chasing Shadows in Moonlit River Park in 2021, the last appearance of hers was back in 2018 in Moonlit River Park's concept art.
* In previous versions of the game, a low-polygon version of her model was used to replace female survivors when interacting with lockers. A glitch would allow such model to be seen by players should survivors surrender during a match. It's since been patched. This glitch was also seen in some cases when being rescued from the basement.

## Gallery

* In-Game
* Concept Art
* Promotional Art

A rendered model of Graveyard Girl, still present in the game files. Render by: @oletusprojectGraveyard Girl in an early screenshot of the matching room table, sitting next to Stranger 1 and Lucky Guy. Notice her human eyesA rare screenshot of an early build of the game. Graveyard Girl is opening the exit gate. Notice the name under her icon, 墓地女郎, from which her denomination was obtainedIn-game glitch on a recent version of Identity V, where a low-polygon version of her model appearsThe Worn Clothes model, still present in the game files. Noticed the damaged clothingThe Missing Girl's picture in-game, re-using Graveyard Girl's design

Concept art of Graveyard Girl, by NekooxiPost by Nekooxi: "A girl who didn't make it to the final game. Her and Lucky Guy are merely Identity V's "Adam and Eve", the subjects of the initial project used to determine the characters' styles and models. She's unnamed, however, so just call her Ponytail Girl. PS: She was originally designed to be a survivor, not an NPC."Graveyard Girl in an early iteration of the player lobby. Notice the new design, where she's shown in an orange tank top

Very early artwork of Arms Factory, with Graveyard Girl approaching the factory, with Hell Ember visible on the balcony. This artwork is still used in-game as a background art when selecting Arms Factory in the Custom Game sectionAnother early artwork of Arms Factory, showing the girl running under heavy rainDitto, in a flooded area in an early concept art for the map.Ditto, approaching a gate.Early artwork of Red Church, featuring the girl at the wedding venue.Early concept art of Red Church, featuring the girl. Note how, much like the Moonlit River Park artwork, she had long since been scrapped when these maps were releasedAn early concept artwork of Moonlit River Park, featuring Graveyard GirlGraveyard Girl running beside human Lucky Guy in Chasing Shadows.The girl sitting at the matching room table alongside other survivors, including Forward, as Perception lurks behind the curtainGraveyard Girl featured in an official background artwork for Identity V's Chinese website (Twitter)
### Videos

【胆小慎入】第五人格，坏女孩人物回忆，黑暗诡异An early teaser for the game, featuring Arms Factory. Notice how in the teaser's title refers to her as "Bad Girl"第五人格 遊戲背景故事影片An early trailer. Graveyard Girl can be seen sitting at the table, next to Lucky Guy and Stranger 1Dangerous Game - TrailerGraveyard Girl's name appears as the username of one survivor in the Dangerous Game trailer, but at this stage, there are no diffrentiations between Survivor models.
## References

1. ↑ See 8th top comment of post.
2. ↑ https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1d741127EE/?spm\_id\_from=333.788.recommend\_more\_video.6
3. ↑ https://nekooxi.lofter.com/