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**808** is one of the main characters in Hi-Fi Rush. Encountering Chai in the first stage, she assists the team in many ways such as providing Chai with Beat Hits and transporting his allies via Assists.

## Appearance

808 appears as a black mechanical cat. Alongside wearing a red collar containing a Metallica-styled “響” kanji, she has blue markings at the end of her whiskers and tails. Segments of 808's colors can also change depending on who is speaking over her (eg. blue for Peppermint and green for Macaron.)

808 can also turn into a hovering spherical ball, changing her appearance to just her face, ears and a red line signifying her collar. In this form, a speaker appears on the back of her head that sends out visible pulses which acts a a metronome.

### Outfits

After beating the game once, 808's appearance can be customized. This changes her design throughout her game and cutscene appearance (this excludes the deluxe edition costume, which can be used before this requirement).

## Personality

Ever since synchronizing with Chai, she has taken a great liking towards him, often posing with him, emoting and sharing reactions to the events in front of them. Besides this, she normally acts as a regular cat. Although on some occasions, 808 performs gestures such as mimicking karate poses.

## Powers and Abilities

808 is mostly a surveillance bot, acting as Peppermint's eyes and ears and with hacking ability to infiltrate various sections of Vandelay Technologies. However, when Chai accidentally pet her the first time, he unlocked a mysterious Host Synchronization ability, allowing her to enhance his attacks with beams and stronger impacts, as well as acting as his metronome. As a side effect, their synchronization creates a repeating signal that can be hijacked for her hidden temporal displacement technology, essentially allowing Peppermint and any other of their allies to teleport next to Chai temporarily.

808 is not without her tricks by herself, and aside from being able to stun most enemies through cuteness alone with her Steal the Show Special Attack, she can use her sharp claws to destroy machinery - if she can get close enough, be it by herself or through the 808 Gigawatt Cat Attack.

## Trivia

* 808 gets her name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine, this is also where her sound effects come from.
* The “響” kanji (read as “hibiki” in Japanese) on 808's collar can represent different things such as: echo, sound, resound, ring, vibrate. "Hibiki" was also the game's working title, is featured in a lot of Chai's clothes and Korsica's sneakers, one of the Special Attacks, and is still found written on game files.
* When the team contacts Chai, she'll change her colors to blue (Peppermint), green (Macaron), yellow (CNMN) and red (Korsica).
	+ If nobody is speaking over her, her colors are blue by default.
	+ It seems that 808's eyes were planned to turn black when no one speaks over her, as this can be noticed in all the animated scenes. However, 808's 3D model is never shown with black eyes.
* 808 has three default animations when Chai plays with her at the Hideout - licking him in return for pets; briefly playing patty-cake with him, before getting bored and going back to her pillow; and turning into orb form for him to throw upwards a few times. Additionally, she gains new animations in DLC costume packs:
	+ If 808 has her Roquefort costume equipped, it'll add an extra animation where she (harmlessly) attacks Chai with the boss' high-speed slashes instead, before going back to her spot.
	+ If 808 has the Chai costume equipped, she'll play with an air guitar while being encouraged by him, until he picks her up and she wriggles herself out of his grasp.
	+ If 808 has the Traditional costume equipped, she performs a folk dance as cherry blossom petals fly by.
* 808 is inspired by the director John Johannas' black cat, who has a habit of perching on his shoulder much like she does.  Though the original metronome system in the game was simply a blinking orb, Tango Gameworks made it a character on its own, adding the recurring theme of black cats on their games.