Serial Designation V (2024)

Serial Designation V-X00100000, or simply known as V, is the tritagonist of Murder Drones.

V is a former Worker Drone, converted by Cyn into a Disassembly Drone and sent to Copper 9 to destroy runaway AI as Worker Drones. Her colleague and past love interest N teams up with Uzi who wants to rebel against the company and humanity. V conflicts with them until the three discovered the Absolute Solver, an immensely powerful artificial intelligence that afflicts Uzi and connected to N and V's past.

Physical Appearance[]

V has features of a typical female Disassembly Drone, with neon-yellow eyes and a silver bob-cut hairstyle. As with the other Disassembly Drones, she has a black headband with five sections of eyes and a long black tail ending in a large syringe containing Nanite Acid. She wears a black-gray, short-sleeved crop coat with a fur collar and cuffs. Her legs are painted black up to her thighs, resembling thigh-high socks with a markings yellow and black stripes end of her feet.

When she is hunting, her visor displays a neon yellow long 'X' shape with jagged teeth. She also deploys large bladed-sharp wings and sharp claws that can easily tear through any drone.

Worker Form[]

In N's flashback, V wore a black hard hat, a black-grey maid dress paired with a bowtie around the neck with a button on the middle, and black knee-length stockings on both of her legs. She also wore an armband and black round glasses.

Solver Form[]

V grew large bat wings (similar to Uzi's solver form) and her right fingers were replaced with sharp claws. Her right hand also appeared fleshy and had a yellow large eye with a slit pupil on it. Her visor displayed an 'X' shape.

Prom Outfit[]

During prom, V wore a red-velvet, glittery, sleeveless dress with a slit on the right side of her dress.

Camp Outfit[]

At Camp 98.7, she wore a scoutmaster's outfit, which included a short-sleeved green shirt and shorts. She also wore a wide-brimmed campaign hat.

Personality[]

V, on the surface, appears as a sociopathic and sad*stic mass murderer, who has no qualms or regrets for murdering worker drones. However, underneath this exterior lies a traumatized and complex individual who seeks to keep her friends safe at any cost.

In her past, she was far more reserved individual, being quite shy and nervous around her then-love interest, N, with whom she shared a strong connection with. However, she never truly stood up for herself or her fellow drones, as J frequently abused N as she stood by.

When V became a Disassembly Drone, she adopted the persona of a mass murderer who held joy in the act of snuffing out life wherever the company required it, and she appears to made it her default personality, even justifying some of her more moral actions as set-ups for more devious ones. However, this was mostly an act. On the other hand, she did kill several ostensibly innocent drones even after she joined Uzi in her pursuit of the Absolute Solver.

Despite her exterior ruthlessness, she did hold the capacity for empathy and particularly held a great deal of care for her colleague N, though she normally derided him under her "persona". She had such a great deal of care for N that she actively hid their traumatizing past from him to keep him sane, while also having been transformed into a Disassembly Drone under the condition that she and N would be left alone.

She eventually becomes a staunch ally of Uzi, even sacrificing herself to secure Uzi and N's path. She even develops a best friendship with Lizzy, a Worker Drone who she was originally planning to murder in the prom. While she does maintain an aloof and overall negative attitude towards Uzi, this also appears to be an act, which she maintains with Lizzy.

Due to her still retaining her original personality and memories, V holds great fear for the Solver, killing Workers to keep it from harming her and N. When V sees any host for the Solver (e.g. Uzi), she immediately starts to target them. This is seen when Uzi shows horrific changes from her infection, which sends V into hunting her down.

Biography[]

Pre-series[]

V is a sad*stic Disassembly Drone who, in her past, was once a regular Worker Drone brought in by Tessa to repurpose her as a friend and maid at Elliott Manor, where she grew close to N, J and the Absolute Solver possessing Cyn. V was among the first of her fellow manor Workers to have been corrupted with Solver powers by the titular AI, soon helping it massacre a gala at the mansion and destroying the Earth. Afterward, V was rebuilt by the Solver to be a Disassembly Drone, having an altered personality and falsified memories. Together with clones of N and J, a copy of V was sent to Copper 9 to eliminate all Workers found, unknowingly for the Solver.

Season 1[]

PILOT[]

V makes her first appearance in a flashback with N, in which she is violently killing a Worker Drone. She laughs maniacally and states that she still feels nothing. After, N tries to start small-talk with her by commenting on the planet's toxic death storm, but V promptly snaps, "Oh god! Who are you?" before flying away. Back to the present, she arrives at the Disassembly Drone lair, spotting Uzi attempting to run away before stating "Yo! We got a worker out there I kinda want to practice balloon animal shapes with!". After saying this, V looks around the Spire and asks what happened, to which J replies that N must have tripped and gone offline. After J rebooted N's systems, N hurriedly ran away to retrieve and destroy Uzi's railgun. A flag sticks out from V's hand, reading "LITERALLY SO INSANELY SUSPICIOUS."

She reappears after N manages to get through the doors of the Worker Drones Bunker. She realizes that the ventilation shafts can take them right through the last door and flies into it to kill some Worker Drones. V is about to kill Thad when both N and Uzi arrive. A fight ensues between V and N while Uzi fights J. During the battle, N gets pinned down by V and sees that Uzi is about to get killed by J. He licks V's blade to disorient her, to which V expresses "Ew! What the hell?!" before N kicks her into the ground. V then gets tied up by N with her tail, and N takes her away with him as he leaves with Uzi back to the Landing Pod.

Heartbeat[]

V appears in N's dream (actually a flashback) where she and N are Worker Drone servants at a mansion. V bumps into N, and they then exchange a spark at their hands as both of them touch. V and N look nervously at each other before J suddenly kicks N, interrupting the interaction.

V is in the pod with Uzi, chained up and blowing bubbles. After Uzi shatters a mirror because of the Absolute Solver, V calls it "weird and concerning." V would later question Uzi's innocence when the latter wishes to kill all humans in an attempt to provoke Uzi. A fight almost ensues, but N quickly pulls Uzi away from V.

After the fight with the Absolute Solver, N returns to the pod feeling upset, during which V asks why she is being punished. As N remains silent, V feels sorry for him and adjusts her broken chains to make them look intact. Though annoyed, she remains in the pod to accompany N.

The Promening[]

V is in the pod with N and two human skeletons (one wearing a tuxedo and the other wearing a dress) that N brought as per V's request. V explains her plan to trick Uzi into letting both N and herself into the prom so she can kill everyone there for "prom murder", but N refuses to let V go through with it. After N tells her about J's eldritch transformation and the dream he had about his past, V worriedly asks him to stop prying into those matters and says that if he lets her go to the prom, she will only kill what is necessary to survive. N still refuses to allow V to go along with him and states that they're too dangerous to be in contact with the workers. N then asks V if she is hiding anything and if he can help her; V responds by slicing N's head off, stating that she is doing this for the best of N. With her chain broken, she steals the dress from one of the skeletons and heads to the bunker to kill all the Worker Drones at the prom.

V arrives at the bunker then Lizzy and Doll let her inside. V flies through the ceiling and lands on the prom stage in her red dress, which shocks and scares many students there. V is introduced by Lizzy and is proclaimed the prom queen by default since the other contestants went missing (who were killed by Doll). Lizzy then tells her fellow students that V has changed and is no longer a threat. V then starts to walk forward to the microphone while talking about the gullible nature of the Worker Drones. She is about to go on a murderous rampage before realizing she is the prom queen. Upon realizing this, V decides to instead murder the students after the prom and walks up to the microphone. Suddenly, N and Uzi arrive through the roof thinking they need to stop V from murdering the students. Lizzy decides to betray Doll and yells to V to escape before Doll kills her. Doll suddenly uses her powers to pry wires from under the stage and force them through V's arms, pinning her in place.

Trapped, Doll forces V to remember the murder of Doll's parents (that V committed) and then stabs another wire through her chest. V manages to free her right arm and begins shooting at Doll with her submachine gun hand. However, her attempt is futile, as her bullets are deflected by Doll. Doll then throws a cleaver at her, slicing V's arm off. She forces a fan blade off the roof and throws it at V, but N knocks it away before it can harm her. Uzi then tries to reason with Doll, stating that fighting won't get them anywhere. Doll is seemingly unaffected by these words and is only focused on killing V. Because Uzi and N are in the way, she decides to kill all three at once by throwing two other fan blades at them, but N pushes Uzi out of the way. This resulted in both him and V being dismembered.

Both N and V are retrieving their body parts as Uzi fights Doll. When N grabs a disembodied arm, V snatches it back with her mouth, claiming it is hers. Upon seeing this, Lizzy expresses her disgust and says V looks "like garbage". V snaps and calls Lizzy a "frickin traitor". Lizzy responds by stating that V had been manipulating her and was planning to kill everyone during prom. N thanks Lizzy for confronting her, but she and V ask him to shut up. V manages to put her body back together and sneaks up behind Doll as she makes her last stand against N and Uzi. As Doll is preparing to attack the two, V shoots Doll in the head, seemingly killing her. Uzi voices her displeasure with Doll being shot since she wants to get some information out of her.

Upon entering Doll's home, they find numerous dismembered Worker Drone corpses scattered about. V is seen chewing and sucking on a dismembered arm, which Uzi removes from her mouth. While exploring the dining room, N finds the corpses of Doll's parents, and V comments that they "literally didn't even taste that good"; N tells V that she "sucks" in response. Doll then teleports into the room, pulling the bullet out of her head and firing it at Uzi, but Uzi stops the bullet mid-air with her awakened Absolute Solver abilities. In that moment of Uzi being almost shot, V is seen with a perplexed expression, pointing a gun at both Uzi and Doll's directions, not knowing who to shoot. When Doll realizes that Uzi also possesses the Absolute Solver, she pities Uzi and agrees to help her, provided she can find what she is searching for. She then teleports away right as V fires a missile at her.

Cabin Fever[]

Later, both N and V would keep the other students busy during a field trip, as their real mission was to have Uzi investigate and discover more about the Absolute Solver and catch Doll at Camp 98.7. V reveals that she is suspicious of Uzi because of her involvement with the Absolute Solver. She then warns Uzi to focus on her investigation rather than spying on the rest of the students, even going as far as threatening to kill her if she is to be seen near the group again. V also tells her that N would quickly move on from her death.

V and the students would again notice Uzi when N clumsily shouted for her to come out of hiding. Braidon, out of fear, accidentally shoots an arrow at Uzi. Luckily, she stops it mid-air with her Absolute Solver abilities. But, due to her overheating, she loses control of her powers, and the arrow mutates into a fleshy, sentient creature, much to V's horror who seems to recognize the creature. Uzi would later run off with V trying to chase her, but N gets in the way again and begins scolding her for not informing him about what was going on, and that Uzi was only a child like himself and V. N then told V to keep watch of the students and flies away to look for Uzi. But V, now frustrated, told them to do whatever they wanted and flew off to pursue and murder Uzi.

She later appears again, seemingly trying to stop a now out-of-control, monstrous Uzi from killing Lizzy. V adds that she came to kill Uzi, not to save Lizzy. V approaches Uzi, whom she now regards as "Cyn." Uzi whimpers and wishes to talk to N, but V wants to ensure she can never do that. An enraged Uzi succumbs to her violence, leading her to ambush and overpower V, dismembering her left arm in the process. Just as Uzi is about to stab V to death with her Nanite Acid syringe, N appears and prevents her from doing so by tossing Uzi into the sky. He then criticizes V for her actions and flies off to have a comforting talk with Uzi, leaving V alone and upset.

When Uzi and N land, V prepares for her rematch against Uzi but notices that N has her under control. She eases up, but Lizzy reappears and expresses her disgust towards N and V. V warns her not to patronize her, but Lizzy calls her a "diva" and walks away, to which V rolls her eyes and smiles slightly. Uzi, N, and V later return to the bus with the remaining campers. The teacher asks about the other missing campers, to which V takes the blame for Uzi's killings by claiming that she ate them because she was simply hungry.

Home[]

The episode unfolds in V and N's memories of Elliott Manor. At the start of the episode, V is in the library, standing motionless with ERROR 606 and an 'X' repeatedly flashing on her visor as worker N reads a book titled "101 Dog Breeds" next to her. After N witnesses a few books coincidentally falling from the shelves as he reads a section about Golden Retrievers, he decides to leave the library.

Later, when N comes in contact with Uzi (in the form of a crow), he makes his way toward the supposed "scary basem*nt." V is found standing above the trapdoor of the said basem*nt. N gently pulls V aside but discovers that a key is needed to enter the basem*nt. As N and Uzi realize that the key is with J, V giggles while showing a wide, sharp-teethed grin, her visor displaying an 'X' shape. Her right hand has also changed, with her now having claws and a yellow eye on the back.

N and Uzi run to Tessa and J to obtain the key. However, V, now possessed by the Solver, follows them. J and Tessa fight V to distract her as N and Uzi run back to the basem*nt to unlock it. However, V escapes the fight and follows the two to the basem*nt. As Uzi manages to hijack a Solver camera, she notices V standing nearby. Uzi quickly drags N into the basem*nt and locks themselves inside, preventing V from entering.

Cyn manages to reclaim control of her Eldritch sentience from Uzi and lets V into the basem*nt. She demands V grab a scalpel that Cyn would use to delete N's memories. V struggles to see the scalpel, having persistent difficulty picking it up with her claws as Cyn becomes more frustrated with her. N, however, calms Cyn down and hands V her glasses so that she can see better. She then grabs the scalpel with ease but becomes saddened. Seemingly broken free from the Solver's control, she repeats N's words about Golden Retrievers that he read to her earlier.

Touched, N tries to finish her sentence, but Cyn disarms V and pins her to the ceiling before insisting that she'll just delete his OS. V regains consciousness from the Solver and yells N's name in dismay as Cyn is about to delete his memories once again. However, Uzi regains control of the Eldritch sentience right before N is "executed." She then releases V and she plummets to the ground coughing. N gets up from the chair to check on V. They smile at each other before eventually regaining their current memories. N recognizes Uzi and thanks her, but V shouts in annoyance for her to get out of their head.

N and V return to their Disassembly Drone sentience in the real world. They look at each other before V turns her head away from N, blushing in embarrassment. She angrily stares at Uzi before switching her hand into a chainsaw. Later, V, N, and Uzi go outside, stumbling upon Tessa, J, and Doll, who are about to venture to Cabin Fever Labs. They all look at each other before showing their equal confusion as the episode abruptly ends.

Dead End[]

After a short talk with Tessa, V and the others make their way through Cabin Fever Labs after Doll steals the Keybug. As they explore the place, V is captured alongside N, Uzi, and Tessa by Alice and Beau, where she is strapped down to a hospital bed and experimented on alongside Uzi. She is eventually freed by Beau in a last-second change of heart by the latter, as the Sentinels break into the room and kill both him and Alice.

As she prepares to protect herself and Uzi, the Sentinels are suddenly assimilated into an organic mess by Uzi's Absolute Solver. Once they reunite with Tessa, V angrily berates her for not being able to keep the Sentinels under control like she said she could. Tessa admits that she has not been honest with her like how she was with N. V stares at Tessa, her anger turning into concern. She is later seen on an elevated platform with her group, aiming her submachine gun at the red-eyed Sentinel.

As she drops down, she notices Doll lying on the ground, seemingly boot-looped, with the Keybug in her hand. Uzi comments on how convenient that was but V instead states that Doll has set up a trap. Uzi disregards her warning and pushes V away, using her Absolute Solver powers to retrieve the Keybug from a distance. N suddenly stops her, and he and V look at each other with worried faces. The three then notice Tessa with the Keybug in her hand, and they slowly approach her with V leading the way, arming herself with two submachine guns. When she sees N and Uzi holding hands, she expresses her disgust; in response, Uzi calls V weird.

Suddenly, the previously feigning Doll takes advantage of the situation to steal the Keybug while also releasing Sentinels to the location of the group. She places the Keybug on the reader and jumps down an elevator shaft; an elevator then drops down, cutting them off from Doll. As Tessa prepares to battle the Sentinels, V is seen crawling up the walls to the ceiling.

V manages to catch a bullet aimed at Tessa and fights the red-eyed Sentinel who fired it, using a pair of glasses to improve her vision. Tessa, Uzi, and N rush into the elevator, but as they do so, it begins to jolt and lurch as if about to fall. N worriedly asks V to enter the elevator quickly before it drops without her, but she is occupied with battling the red-eyed Sentinel. As she is about to kill the red-eyed Sentinel, she notices another one ahead of her. The Sentinel tampers with the elevator controls, which forces it back up. The same Sentinel flashes the boot-loop light at V; her glasses fall off when looking away and are destroyed by another advancing Sentinel.

Despite N's pleas to not give herself up because they need her, she slices the cables of the elevator to make it drop as more Sentinels surround her. She salutes Uzi, trusting that she can resolve this. The elevator cables snap as the Sentinels are about to attack, disconnecting V from everyone else. The elevator plummets towards the underground, and V continues to fight the Sentinels.

Mass Destruction[]

When N encounters Cyn in the tunnels, the Solver uses V's appearance to taunt him. She later reappears in N's flashback of him and the other Disassembly Drones slaughtering the human race.

Absolute End[]

V's first appearance after being presumed dead is when she blocks a missile shot by J. Riding on the red-eyed sentinel that she had apparently tamed, V proceeds to fight J and question her on her betrayal towards her and N. J tells her that the Solver tricked them all. J admits that if she promised V anything else, then it tricked her too and fires a missile at V, causing her to fall. J chops off V's left lower leg and reaches out her hand, persuading her to join her and Cyn. V takes her hand, only to chop it off as she says "Oh, how about you bite me!" The two continue to fight as N and Uzi drop down and launch a composed black hole at Cyn.

At one point, J immobilizes V, telling her she needed neither of N or V and shoots a missile. V escapes and finds a holographic version of N created by Cyn, and thinking it's the real N, she tearfully explains how the Solver tricked them and possibly J and profusely apologizes for not being fully honest with N, admitting that she greatly feared for them, especially N. This prompts the real N to yell for V to stop. Upon seeing Cyn holding N's corpse, Cyn tells V about how she promised to leave them both alone as long as V did her job, causing V to stammer. When Cyn tells V she failed, the Solver chases her and V is attacked by J. Just as Cyn is about to kill them both, Uzi steps in and says that no one can traumatize V or N but her and tells V "Glad you're not dead or whatever", with V and Uzi smiling at each other.

They all proceed to clash in one final battle. When Cyn tries to trick Uzi into thinking she stabbed N, J gets ready to attack Uzi before V and N cover her, with V exclaiming J was on the wrong team and N declaring that there would be no more tricks. The two then proceed to kick J into the labs. When Cyn gets a grip on Uzi, V proceeds to fly and piece into her head, smugly smiling at Uzi. While N and Uzi are distracted coming up with a secret handshake, V is left alone with Cyn where she gets pinned to a wall, leading Uzi into uppercutting the latter.

After Uzi destroyed Cyn's heart, all that was left was a giant black hole which paused time (but didn't pause V and N). Uzi blacks out after consuming the black hole, which sent V and N into finding her. After they located her, they had a brief moment of happiness before V put Uzi at gunpoint after noticing her new purple-yellow eyes. After Uzi called herself a "damaged OC", they confirmed it was her and continued their reunion.

The episode then cuts to the classroom where it shows that Uzi was doing a presentation of the events of the show, with V and Lizzy booing at her. V then gets a paper airplane thrown at her, showing the trio in manga art from a smug N who is learning about manga art. This causes V to smile, which makes her slam her hand on Lizzy's face to keep her from seeing.

In post-credits scenes, she is seen at Doll's funeral, playing chess with the red-eyed sentinel with Lizzy hanging with them and V looking agitated while N and Uzi are having a sky dance, and later in some kind of fight with her and Lizzy on one side, and N, Uzi, and Thad on the other side.

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Trivia[]

• V was first shown in the teaser for Murder Drones. She was later featured in the Disassembly Required OST music video.
• She serves as the mascot of Murder Drones, as she was featured in the first official teaser trailer, making her the first character to be revealed to the public.
• In her concept art, V had white hair, a sideways halo, a more slender body, and no mouth. Her overall appearance resembled that of an angel.
• V started the series as an antagonist, but her status as a protagonist was shown off in promotional material such as merchandise. After some foreshadowing in "Heartbeat" (where her concern for N is shown), V eventually joins forces with N and Uzi (to a degree) in "The Promening".
  • It's worth noting that while N and J's personalities mostly remained the same when they were turned from Worker Drones to Disassembly Drones, V's personality changed from being a shy and kind girl to a sinister and psychopathic individual.
    • This personality slowly dissipated after she got her memories back as she showed a kinder personality (as seen when she sacrificed herself so the rest of the team could go before they got attacked).
    • In "Mass Destruction" the Absolute Solver, while using a hologram of V, revealed that it kept the original personalities of N's squad, further proving that V's sinister behavior is an act.