Midnight Canvas (episode)

**Midnight Canvas** is the ninth episode of the *V2 Universe* television series, and the fourth episode of the Saturday Arc, which covers episodes 6-11 of Season 1.

## Plot Points

* A clearly deranged and delusional JelloApocalypse is officially incarcerated and brought to the Oxen Asylum.
* The Vincent Five all receive tickets to attend an art gallery hosted by Troy Specter. Thanks to some clever misdirection by V2, V2 has quite a few extra tickets to pass around; he gives two of them to Callie, encouraging her to bring some friends along.
* Callie deliberates over what to do with the tickets; in spite of both the Narrator and Camilla's suggestions to bring along a boy she likes, Callie panics and ultimately winds up inviting Violet Valentine and the third-tier agent Julia Cidel to come along with her.
* V2, Cammy, Hayden, and Lucy have a brief night on the town before they go to the gallery. Lucy is struck by Thaddeus Rosendahl, an arrogant nobleman, and before V2 can get into a fight with him and his henchmen, the chess gambler Desmond Rouge and his mysterious friend, Fantasia (under the alias "C2", much to V2's intrigue), step in and decide to settle things with Thaddeus traditionally.
* Desmond absolutely destroys Thaddeus in three turns. Later that night, Fantasia is revealed to be a Rosian noblewoman that came to Central City to explore, and Desmond is revealed to be the pilot of the Warlord.
* Amber Academy and the Vincent Five enjoy themselves immensely at the art gallery. V2 meets with Violet Valentine for the first time, which causes a strange, glitching effect (the explanation to which is revealed next episode). Meanwhile, Callie almost manages to snag some alone time with Daymond, but the moment they do, the Vincent Five are asked by the museum staff to come to the front office, and the exhibit draws to a close.
* Meanwhile, Saffron and Jeremiah investigate the seemingly-abandoned Factory 13, after Hana detected some strange electronic activity happening inside the factory. Whoever was there had long since cleared out by then, but Saffron and Jeremiah manage to stumble across some left-behind data alluding to a "Homeland", "Cordata", and a mysterious assassin named "Astra". They port the data onto a hard drive and are about to retreat before Roy Elliston suddenly appears on the scene, locked in a fight with someone awfully similar to Jeremiah...
* And while this is all happening, Troy Specter locks the Vincent Five inside the empty museum, and reveals his Code, the power to create small inner worlds within his paintings and pull people inside them. He throws the Vincent Five into his paintings, which means they aren't present when his colleagues Tina Lockhart and Zach II help him steal a portrait by a prolific artist Troy despises, Tina's Geass forcing two hapless security guards to leave their fingerprints all over the crime scene instead of their own.

## Characters In Order of Appearance

* 1. Diethard Ried
* 2. Nux Taku
* 3. Callista Paige
* 4. Canis
* 5. Akamaru
* 6. V2
* 7. JelloApocalypse
* 8. Kylo Ren
* 9. Naomi Mobius
* 10. Asher
* 11. Nikki Starling
* 12. Autumn
* 13. Candy Clairet
* 14. Yuri Mobius
* 15. Hana
* 16. The Narrator
* 17. Cammy Karbowski
* 18. Hayden Scott
* 19. Max Maranza
* 20. Arin Angeles
* 21. Camilla Winters
* 22. Analisa Flores
* 23. Natsuki
* 24. Roy Elliston
* 25. Yuri Ohtani
* 26. Ally Windbeck
* 27. Adam Price
* 28. Sodini Keener-Jeffries
* 29. 2D
* 30. Sidney Crawford
* 31. Kanon Maldini
* 32. Marissa Marks
* 33. Anthony Carson
* 34. Maddie Williams
* 35. Gamzee Ganymede
* 36. Violet Valentine
* 37. Julia Cidel
* 38. Lucy Ann Taylor
* 39. Thaddeus Rosendahl
* 40. Fantasia
* 41. Desmond Rouge
* 42. Troy Specter
* 43. Isabel di Eberle
* 44. Nana Mobius
* 45. James Mobius
* 46. Sayori
* 47. Monika
* 48. Bryce Rothenstein
* 49. Miyako Tsuyu Senba
* 50. Ryoga Senba
* 51. Christy Andrews
* 52. Morris Hendrickson
* 53. Rai Adonis
* 54. Yukine
* 55. Trixie Pop
* 56. Rolo
* 57. Amanda Redford
* 58. Marshall Stormflower
* 59. Audrey Chambers
* 60. Myles Winters
* 61. Ulala
* 62. Saffron McCarthy
* 63. Jeremiah Gottwald
* 64. Rivalz Cardemonde
* 65. Valerie Torres
* 66. Daymond
* 67. Tina Lockhart
* 68. Zach II
* 69. Philemon

## Characters Introduced In Order

* JelloApocalypse
* Thaddeus Rosendahl
* Fantasia / "C2"
* Desmond Rouge
* Troy Specter
* Myles Winters
* Ulala
* Tina Lockhart (first TV appearance)
* Zach II (first TV appearance)

## Battles and Events

* Desmond vs. Thaddeus (Chess Battle, Concluded)
* Arlus Crowe Heist (Initiated)
* Vincent Five vs. Alpha Jeremiah (Initiated)

## Trivia

* Midnight Canvas is the episode with the most amount of characters featured thus far - 69 named characters appear on screen, beating out Amber Memories (Part 1) by a sum of 18 characters.