Hikari & Vanessa

*This partner is currently exclusive to the mobile version of Arcaea.*

**Hikari & Vanessa** are a duo collaboration Partner, added as part of Chapter 2 of the Arcaea x Cytus II Collaboration.
They can be obtained via World Mode after purchasing the Cytus II Collaboration Chapter 2 pack.

## Gameplay

### Stats by level

*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

All stats listed are base values. See Skill for how these stats may be affected.

### Skill

Hikari & Vanessa use a HARD Recollection Gauge by default.

Their **Lose Emotions** skill overlays the Recollection Gauge with five "Emotion" segments, each equating to 20 Recollection Rate, similarly to Ilith & Ivy's skill. When the Rate falls below the top of one of these segments, a random stat penalty is applied, so letting the Rate fall a single point below 100/80/60/40/20 will incur a total of 1/2/3/4/5 penalties.
Each penalty randomly decreases either FRAG, STEP, or OVER by -10.
Penalties are applied before any calculations pertaining to song-end rewards, and reset after all rewards have been given.
Note that each penalty will remain even if the Rate climbs back above the corresponding threshold, e.g. if a player reaches a minimum Rate of 59 and loses 3 segments, but clears the song on 72 Rate, all 3 penalties will still apply.

In summary,

PENALTY

FRAG

PENALTY

STEP

PENALTY

OVER

=

⌈

100
−

Minimum Recollection Rate

20

⌉

,

{\displaystyle {\text{PENALTY}}\_{\text{FRAG}}+{\text{PENALTY}}\_{\text{STEP}}+{\text{PENALTY}}\_{\text{OVER}}=\left\lceil {\frac {100-{\text{Minimum Recollection Rate}}}{20}}\right\rceil \,,}

distributed randomly among the three stats, with the updated FRAG/STEP/OVER stat values being

STAT

new

=

STAT

base

−

PENALTY

STAT

×
10

,

{\displaystyle {\text{STAT}}\_{\text{new}}={\text{STAT}}\_{\text{base}}-{\text{PENALTY}}\_{\text{STAT}}\times 10\,,}

and with the new multiplier being

MULT

new

=

MULT

base

−

PENALTY

STAT

×
0.2

.

{\displaystyle {\text{MULT}}\_{\text{new}}={\text{MULT}}\_{\text{base}}-{\text{PENALTY}}\_{\text{STAT}}\times 0.2\,.}

## Trivia

* Vanessa is a central character in Cytus II, and its eventual antagonist.
* Vanessa's Lose Emotions skill is likely a reference to her deteriorating emotional stability in Cytus II's story.
	+ In the story, unlike Ivy, who becomes "Awakened" and gains independence from the Cytus system's protocols, Vanessa remains partially dependent on the Cytus system, and becomes emotionally unstable when disconnected from it for too long. After a failed uprising by the Awakened architects and the decommissioning of all living architects, Vanessa's comatose core is found and used as the basis for the new virtual internet. The stress of supporting the virtual internet plus her exposure to the knowledge of humanity's many atrocities leaves her deeply unstable, and she develops a new personality bent on eradicating humankind.
* Hikari's design in Arcaea's character art is based on her Fracture variant. Vanessa's design with its glowing red eyes is based on her berserk state in Cytus II.
	+ Hikari is portrayed holding a rose in a similar pose to ROBO\_Head's default skin in Cytus II.
	+ Unlike Tairitsu (Grievous Lady) & Chuni Penguin, this partner does not name its Fracture Variant, despite the design being based on this variant instead of her base version.
* Vanessa appears on the song jackets for Used to be, 99 Glooms, and II.
* Hikari & Vinessa and Ilith & Ivy are the only 2 partners to have their names remain the same when the player's language is set to Japanese.