Arietta Antiphon

"Please, allow me to lead the way..."This page contains story spoilers for NOISZ re:||VERSE; proceed with caution.

## Biographical

### Likes

* Music
* Mapo tofu
* Your tears

### Dislikes

* Going outside
* Active stuff

### Relationships

* Beyond: Older sister
* Remora: Friend/colleague
* Stornel: Colleague
* Gaius Antiphon: Father
* Miria: Mother

## Bio

> *A smug, sadistic, and generally insufferable presence whose sharp insight and unusual power frequently prove invaluable, as frustrating as that might be.*
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> *What is her connection to Beyond and the NOISZ?*
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Arietta is the youngest daughter of the CEO of the Antiphon Corporation, Gaius Antiphon. Although many see her as the best candidate for his successor due to her sharp intellect, she wants nothing to do with the company. Her dream is to create the perfect piece of music.

Arietta is an impulsive and playful person, and she constantly challenges those around her. While under the influence of Alpha, she behaves in a way that is a mixture of both of their personalities. As Alpha gradually takes control of her mind, her personality slowly becomes more sadistic and uncaring.

She cares about her sister Beyond a lot and looks up to her dedicated, hard-working nature.

## Story

After the main character fights off Jonathan, Arietta asks Beyond not to let the main character discover anything unpleasant.

In Story B, Arietta guides the main character to new targets in the World of Music. Then, she takes them to the beach in the human world to defeat Seiryu, Suzaku, and Byakko. Once the NOISZ consumes their soul and turns them into a NOISZ Beast, she uses them to gather energy.

In Story C, Arietta steps out of a decontamination capsule, complaining about the impracticality of the procedure. Despite the procedure, the computer still detects the presence of an anomaly. As Arietta tries to get more information about the situation, a dark mass creeps up on her. The dark entity tries to work with Arietta, but Arietta refuses. She finds herself unable to move her hand, and this entity then possesses her.

Arietta complains about Beyond's plan being unreliable and resolves to take matters into her own hands.

Arietta appears in the World of Music.

She uses technology to forcibly corrupt Stella's, Luna's, and Marziale's forms. After the main character purifies Marziale, Arietta walks over to them. She sends Stella and Luna to attack everyone, tells the main character that she'll reveal everything if they can follow her, and returns to the human world.

After the main character returns to the human world, they see Arietta using her technology to hurt and control Seiryu. Arietta asks the main character to defeat Seiryu in exchange for information. They do so. Arietta answers the main character's questions. Karin gets angry from this explanation and charges at Arietta. Arietta traps her within a single-use capture device.

Arietta then sends Suzaku and Byakko to attack the main character.

After the main character fights Beyond, the entity that has been possessing Arietta leaps into Beyond's body. Arietta begs them to run away.

When the main character is within the Void, Arietta asks them to use her power and save her sister.

After the fight with Beyond in the Void, the entity that had been possessing Arietta convinces her to absorb Beyond's energy into herself. This causes the two to fuse into a single body, which is entirely controlled by this entity, named Alpha.

### NOISZ re:||VERSE

Throughout NOISZ re:||VERSE, Alpha controls Beyond and Arietta's fused body until the main character defeats her.

In Blue Route, the main character defeats Alpha, who takes on Arietta's appearance, by imprinting Beyond. After the fight, Beyond's body fades away.

If the main character chooses to revive the Noise Beasts, Beyond says one final goodbye to Arietta, then disappears completely. Arietta takes over Antiphon and shifts its focus toward the World of Music. She visits her mother Miria in the World of Music with the main character.

If the main character chooses to revive Beyond, her body is completely remade, now free from Void corruption. She inherits Antiphon, and Arietta takes business classes to assist in running the company.

In Red Route, the main character defeats Alpha by imprinting Arietta. After the fight, Arietta's body fades away.

If the main character chooses to repair the boundary, Arietta says one final goodbye to Beyond, then disappears completely.

If the main character chooses to revive Arietta, her body is completely remade, now free from Void corruption. Beyond inherits Antiphon, and Arietta takes business classes to assist in running the company.

If Stage X8 is completed, regardless of starting route, Arietta's body is completely healed. She works to finish high school while also working in record producing at Antiphon. She meets up with the main character and everyone else at a café in Antiphon. They hang out and eat together.

## History

She is the child of Gaius Antiphon and Miria, a Noise Beast who chose to live in the human world with her husband. Because of her being half-Noise Beast, Arietta has a strong connection to the World of Music and finds it nearly impossible to compose music. Whenever she tried, her mind was taken over by the influence of the other world and unwittingly played an already extant piece of music.

When Arietta learned that she was unable to compose, Beyond insisted on helping her. This led to them going into the basement of the Antiphon building to investigate the portal to the World of Music. An otherworldly entity entered into Arietta's eye. Beyond forcibly shut down the portal, and Arietta lost her right eye in this incident.

Beyond and Arietta decide to use the NOISZ to harvest energy in order to restore their bodies and repair the boundary between worlds.

After multiple failures to acquire enough energy with the original NOISZ, Arietta contemplated developing the mass-production prototypes further. Unfortunately, the mass-production prototypes possessing a consumption rate more than thirty times higher than the original unit made them useless. Alpha offered to help her, and despite knowing the danger, Arietta couldn't resist, desperate to help her sister no matter what.

### STΔRLIVHT IVKoma

Arietta appears briefly in the NOISZ STΔRLIVHT prequel comic. During STΔRLIVHT's performance at HI-LIVE, a Noise Beast attacks. Arietta Antiphon notes that this attack happening is just like predicted. After the idol group's victory at HI-LIVE, they receive a letter from "A. Antiphon" offering to recruit them to Antiphon's new entertainment division.

### NOISZ STΔRLIVHT

Arietta is briefly mentioned during a flashback starting at the end of Chapter 1.IV and resuming at the start of Chapter 3.I. Arietta is deeply worried about her ability to follow the plan, and Beyond reassures her and says that she won't be alone. Beyond says she leaves her role to Arietta, and Arietta says that she'll be Beyond and keep the Producer on the right path.

## Trivia

* Arietta's name means "a short aria".
* On the recruitment letter to STΔRLIVHT shown in the STΔRLIVHT IVKoma, "A. Antiphon" has a symbol in their signature. This is likely a coda (𝄌), a symbol in musical notation and the namesake of NOISZ ARC⌖CODA, which features Arietta prominently.
	+ LAST⌖ARC, a NOISZ ARC⌖CODA-exclusive song and its title theme, has Arietta as its enemy.
	+ The actual character used in NOISZ ARC⌖CODA's and LAST⌖ARC's is the Unicode character for position tolerance in engineering. However, this may have been a deliberate choice, due to their close resemblance and the fact that position tolerance is more widely supported by fonts. This is similar to how NOISZ re:||VERSE does not use the Unicode character for a right repeat sign (𝄇) in its name.
* Arietta enjoys all varieties of music, but her favorite genres are classical and "weird modernist pieces"
* In the head-to-head bullet hell fighter game Maiden & Spell, Arietta cameos as a profile avatar.
	+ When Arietta's avatar is selected, your character appears as a recolor of Royal Arcanist in match lobbies.

## References

1. ↑ Confirmed by k//eternal on the NOISZ STΔRLIVHT Discord Server: https://discordapp.com/channels/626529477865766933/846438466074050660/1124074339621417004
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/noiszgame/status/1075512262595698689
3. ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arietta
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/noiszgame/status/1063685465721704448