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Arguably the hottest Kodaka character...
Woof, more than a year later, i'm back for a proposal, now being a member of the whitelist!
So after having been asleep for a bit (mostly inactive), i've come with another possible candidate to come from another one of Kodaka's works. This be from a biiiig game. Got permission from Miss Accounty to tackle her, so let's do this!
What's the work?
The Hundred Line: -Last Defense Academy- is a collaboration project between famous VN workers Kodaka and Uchikoshi, being a visual novel RPG released in 2025. Famous for being advertised to have over 100 endings, and a whole bunch of routes.
Takumi Sumino is an average boy living calmly in the Tokyo Residential Complex, an artificial recreation of Tokyo including a fake sky, where he's friends with Karua Kashimya. One day however, after an invasion that endangered the two of them, a mysterious robot called Sirei gives him a weapon that activates a mysterious power inside him, and is subsequently sent to a place called "Last Defense Academy" alongside 9 other teens. But they're not here to play a killing game (don't listen to Darumi's comments about it), they're here to serve as humanity's last hope! Here to kill the invaders and defend something hiding inside the School for 100 days, to which they're promised to have them return to the TRC with rewards planned for them.
Spoiler alert, first time doesn't go to well, and Takumi decides to use his sudden acquired powers to go back in time and fix what went wrong originally, with that introducing the many choices that he will have to go through, with many possible futures to account for the choices he makes. Horror? Cults? Killing Games? All of it possible! It's your future...
So anyways enough blabbing, here's the main big bad of the whole game, across most routes, and the first go around.
ALL HAIL, TO THE SUPREME COMMANDER.
Who is V'ehxness? What has she done?
The Supreme Commander V'ehxness, the Paragon of Hope, is the overall main antagonist of the game, being the leader of the School Invaders/Sovereign Army of Futurum, the planet the game actually takes place in. Since her backstory is only introduces in one route, let's start there.
Born the sister of Eva, the future Paragon of Nature, they were both born with the incredulous power of Hemoanima, a miraculous power inside the blood of some of those born in Futurum. Having been forced to fight since she was 5 years old due to Futurum having been invaded by the remnants of humanity in the war, V'ehxness grew up to a rather religious adoptive father that frustrated her to no end about his total devotion to God and how he attributed both good and bad events to God.
When she was 6, she decided to take the war unto her own hands, and take place as Supreme Commander, she challenged the previous Supreme Commander Dahl'xia and defeated him, later killing her own adoptive father due to disapproving of her actions. During her years as leader, she created the monstruous Invaders by having dying Futurans and humans experimented unto monstruous colorful creatures that could be produced in mass, overturning the course of the war that required the Exodus Project to deploy Last Defense Academy to get a chance to fight back, a school with integrated students with hemoanima that would fight her for 100 days to prepare missles that would kill all life on the planet.
Route 0
V'ehxness soon takes action and guides commanders with invaders to infiltrate the school and get the weapon inside the School.
Having been searching for information about the secret weapon inside the School, V'ehxness first appears in Second-to-Last Defense Academy on Day 28, making quick work on the students there. However, because the school was a decoy to guide invaders away, she's subsequently blown up by Nigou, and the students manage to escape.
Encountering them again on Day 87, despite their language barrier, she notices that the robot (Ima Tsukumo in Sirei's body) could traduce their language, and makes them a deal. Give up the weapon inside the school and surrender so that they're "rewarded" with a ship back to the Artificial Satellite (the TRC), or keep fighting and die to the massive army incoming.
After a few days, most of the team sans Nozomi accepts the deal, and they all board the ship, that is actually a repellant of hemoanima to trap the team and take the weapon herself. Revealing that she actually wanted the weapon so that she could become god herself, denouncing the strict religion that every other commander they encountered followed, killing Ima and subsequently Nozomi in front of the team. She enrages the team enough to unite once more to kill her and all invaders, as she laughs of the deaths of their comrades.
Being defeated, she's hold down by Takumi who could now understand her, and after taunting them about their ignorance, she's killed by Kako Tsukumo for having killed her twin brother in a brutal fashion.
2nd Scenario
Having experienced a boost of power on her hemoanima due Takumi's time travel to the past, Veshy (let's just call her that for now ok?) gains the confidence to finally break the biggest taboo on her relligion, absorbing someone else's hemoanima/cryptoglobin and leaving the victim a dry blackened mummy of a corpse, to this end, she cloaks herself unto both Murvrum and Pakron's battles against the SDU (special defense unit) to observe the development of the fight and subsequently absorbs both once they die. She also later kills Darumi Amemiya like this.
She subsequently absorbs most of the commanders the team fights, sneaking in at the last moment denying them the absorption, and leaves them in difficult situations, such as forcing Takumi to choose who to choose to sacrifice so that they use an undying flames bomb to kill her, forcing the team to choose between Gaku Maruko and Kurara Oosuzuki to save the lives of before absorbing one or the other, and subsequently gaining so much power that she proclaims herself the new God, while also being mad at Eva when she encounters her being brainwashed by the SDU to fight the invaders. At some point, the invaders scream for help towards the team while fighting, indicating their origins of innocent Futurans/humans being experimented on.
Eventually, she becomes able to produce undying flames, the same element that the secret weapon inside the school (named Shion) could produce to power up Last Defense Academy and the missles planned to be launched everywhere. To counterast this strategy before the final days, she developes a missle that she fills with undying flames to destroy the Artifical Satellite filled with humans, to kill them and crush their hopes of ever reaching peace between the two races of Futurans and humans, becoming the new God.
The plan goes without a hitch, but despite the team being crushed by this action, the team still fights and defeats her.
Other routes
In most other routes, this is more or less her MO, absorbing commanders' hemoanima to make herself powerful, either by getting frustrated and deciding to slaughter them all before going back to LDA (like in the Coming-Of-Age route), teaming up with the traitor Eito Aotsuki to enact her plans of submission against humans (like in Box of Blessings), teaming up with another version of herself to destroy the SDU (like in Serial Battles), and many other slight variations of conquering both humans and Futurans to get that high of being all powerful. Most end in her death in one way or another.
Mitigating Factors
Despite there being around 20 routes, + the first playthrough, there's one thing that never stops being consistent. V'ehxness will never stop wanting to become the new God. She's a powerhungry monster of a warlord who experimented on possibly thousands of dying Futurans/humans to create her "Battle pets" that fight even when they scream in agony for help. Even when the humans prove themselves to be the real instigators of the war for wanting to invade Futurum by taking their planet by force and having created most of the SDU (sans Nozomi Kirifuji) from cloning a baby with powerful cryptoglobin, planning to bomb the planet with the undying flames missles to exterminate all life on it, V'ehxness still proves to be just as bad as the opposing faction, due to wanting to stop the missles not because she wants to save the futurans, that's just an excuse to become the new God of the "tired old, foolish religion" that Futurans follow.
Her family (her adoptive father and Eva) are shown to be not care for her, even willing to kill Eva if she opposed her ways. She forces her to fight despite clearly not being fit for the battlefield (only succumbing due to wanting to protect Kamyuhn, her adoptive daughter). And she mentions having killed her father, despite him loving her in his own way. She's a terrible boss towards her other commanders too, as seen when she consumes them once they stop being useful, as well as generally, seeming abusive towards them and not sharing the sometimes sympathetic qualities they have of wanting to protect the planet from invaders.
The habitants of the planet clearly don't like her rule either, as there is a Rebel group directed by Kamyuhn that oposes her violent ways, and the invaders do cause more destruction than it's worth taking in, often killing civilians. In any ending where she wins against the SDU, the planet seems to be worse off.
So yeah, for the most part, she's a monster with no redeeming qualities (besides her alluring design and badass VA), and is almost basically the heinous standard of the game for having a lot of victims to her name for continuing the war , often including SDU members. There is routes like the Comedy Route where she's not taking as seriously, but in that route, no one is taken seriously, and is relatively disconnected from everything serious regarding lore or consistency between routes. There's also other routes where she's defeated by a bigger threat, but it's inconsequential towards her menace in most routes.
What prevents her from being Pure Evil?
To talk about her redeeming quality, let's talk about the route fittingly called:
V'ehxness Route
Choosing to sacrifice Tsubasa in the three-way sacrifice between her, Takemaru and Kyoshika, Tsubasa is unable to hit the undying flame bomb and Veshy defeats and captures all of the rest of the SDU to investigate the school alongside the rest of the commanders. In it, we learn about the previously mentioned backstory, her motives of how she represents Hope of Futurum by proposing to do something and doing it, without any regrets, no matter how monstrous it is, making her a more deep character.
However, this is where the redeeming quality comes in. After spending time finding Takumi Sumino curious due to both of them having oposing ideals and how they deal with the choices of their lives, she develops a kind of care towards him, inviting him to swim with her as well as giving him a bed so that he sleeps on it rather than the hard floor where he's chained up. In both endings of the route, V'ehxness either comes to greatly respect Takumi for his ideals and strength, or comes to protect him from attacks, sort of developing a kind of love towards him.
Unlike other routes that could give dear ol' Veshy here some faults to disqualify her out of Pure Evil, this route here is integral to her character and is focused on her. It's taken seriously, and ultimately shows that she is capable to grow fondness towards someone. She doesn't really redeem so it's not too much of a deviation, but because of this route, ol' Veshy does have a redeeming quality.
Final Veredict
So having said all that, i believe Veshy fits for NPE. Hopefully i can make more proposals in the future.
Still would though god damn