Viridi

Viridi

ナチュレ

Natyure

First Appearance: Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012) Latest Appearance: Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012) Title(s): Gender: Female Race: Goddess/Deity Homeland: Overworld Affiliated Faction: Other Allies: Status: Voiced By: English: Hynden Walch (Kid Icarus: Uprising) Japanese: Makiko Ohmoto (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Viridi (ナチュレ Natyure) is a major character introduced in Kid Icarus: Uprising. She is the vengeful goddess of nature who has a deep hatred for the human race, to the point that she finds enjoyment in obliterating entire armies of humans with her incredible power. Viridi is shown to have her own elite forces, and is allied with other nature deities such as Arlon and Phosphora. She is also shown to be very young for a goddess, and has a rather childish personality. Her minions are separate from those of the Underworld, and are collectively known as the Forces of Nature. They often clash with both the Underworld forces and Palutena's army during various parts of the story.

Characteristics

Appearance

Viridi is a young goddess that wears a red dress decorated with vines and flowers. She has blond hair, and wields a large, wooden staff. Her long hair is also tied up in a ponytail using vines. Although she is a major character, Viridi's in-game model is only ever seen once during the story mode.

Personality

Despite her initially destructive introduction, Viridi is actually not necessarily evil; rather, she desires revenge on the human race for taking advantage of nature. As a result of Pit getting in the way of her plans, she often argues with him in a childish manner while sending her Forces of Nature to attack him. However, during the Aurum invasion, she slowly develops a change of heart and eventually becomes one of Pit's most important allies. Despite this, Viridi typically gets annoyed with the angel on a regular basis, and often questions his actions and interests (especially concerning Hot Springs). She's also shown to be very protective of her forces when compared to the likes of the uncaring Hades, and often refers to them as her "children". As the goddess of nature, she has a deep affection for plants and wildlife and has a very eco-friendly attitude, claiming that she uses cloth shopping bags, composts her food scraps and separates her recycling into 15 types.

Abilities

As a goddess, Viridi is immortal and possesses unimaginable godly power over nature. She can manipulate plant life and create countless new lifeforms out of natural materials to fight for her. She can also create weapons out of plant life, such as her most powerful weapon, the Reset Bomb which can easily annihilate anything in its path like a meteor and grow forests wherever it lands. She can also use some of the spells known by Palutena such as the "Gift of Flight" and use it on Pit or the ability to teleport Pit out of dangerous situations. Like all the other gods she can communicate telepathically with others to relay information and astral project herself as a giant figure.

Appearances

Kid Icarus: Uprising

Viridi first appears during Chapter 11 after Pit's defeat of the Phoenix, where she suddenly projects an image of herself in the sky and wipes out multiple armies of humans with a Reset Bomb, all the while laughing wickedly and declaring humanity "scum" that the world is better off without. Soon after, a twisted forest of thorns arise from the destroyed area and Palutena orders Pit to explore it in case any humans survived. Throughout their trek in the forest, they encounter Viridi's army, the Forces of Nature which prove to be no match for Pit, meanwhile Palutena tries to reason with Viridi to no avail, as her beliefs are deeply cemented in the idea that humans are evil beings who mistreat and take advantage of nature. Seeing no other choice, Pit heads to the forest's center where he comes face to face with its stone guardian, Cragalanche, Viridi then quickly orders her creation and last resort to destroy Pit. Despite it being a tough battle, Pit comes out victorious leaving Viridi fuming.

In Chapter 12, Pit and Palutena witness Viridi's army in conflict with Hades's and they hear Viridi's protests about the Underworld Army being worse than humans. Viridi then launches another Reset Bomb at a nearby town full of humans and Pit quickly takes action to defuse the bomb and luckily succeeds. Pit then discovers Viridi's Reset Bomb Depot, where she creates all her Reset Bombs and he heads in to shut it down. Viridi continues to send out countless soldiers to defeat Pit but to no avail and he soon makes it to the Depot's core where the pod that grows the Reset Bombs lies. Pit then makes quick work of it and the guards, causing the Depot to explode and fall apart. A furious Viridi then appears and tells Pit that he's made it on her "to-kill list".

At Chapter 14. Viridi and her Forces of Nature engage in an intense battle against the Underworld Forces with Lightning Flash Phosphora as the commander of the Forces of Nature and Thanatos now revived by Hades commanding the Underworld Forces.With the commanders locked in an intense battle Pit follows the two opposing forces so as to take down the remaining commander once one wins. During the battle Viridi is absent while Pit, Palutena, and Hades converse about the lightning battle until Palutena shows her disgust towards Hades "complement" about Phosphora's battle skills where she joins in the conversation suddenly saying that "There's nothing wrong with complements". For most of the chapter she is not present due to her being occupied with the battle against Hades's except for one time in a mine cart room where Pit questions why Phosphora will leave the Thunder Cloud very soon with Viridi suddenly replying that "The independent Phosphora does not lay her roots down. Like a hobo". During the rest of the chapter though Viridi will not make any more appearances in the side conversations, only speaking again during the fight with Phosphora.

At the beginning of Chapter 15, when Pit asks if these new enemies are Forces of Nature troops, Viridi suddenly cuts in, sarcastically asking Pit if they look natural. She then goes on to say that she was just about to destroy Hades when these new enemies suddenly appeared. After making an analogy to these new enemies taking pieces of the earth the way bees take pollen back to their hive, she sends her troops in to attack them. Later, near the end of the aerial part of the mission, she gets defensive when Palutena says that her battling with Hades is what lured the Aurum to Earth in the first place and doesn't hesitate to point out that Palutena and Pit are just as responsible, but doesn't continue arguing, instead saying that the Aurum are the threat now and they are all victims. During the ground section of the level, she taunts Pit and offers to have one of her commanders accompany him so he won't be so lonely. She also questions the authenticity of any Hot Springs found in Aurum bases, saying that for Pit's sake that they are in fact Hot Springs and not "some other kind of 'puddle.'"

In Chapter 16, she is the first to notice that the Aurum are making copies of Underworld enemies. She is also impressed that the Aurum are willing to destroy themselves just to destroy Pit, and is also later impressed when the Underworld Army uses a ship they hijacked to break through the shield protecting the Aurum Hive, allowing Pit to get inside. Later on, during the ground section, she sends some of her troops in to provide cover fire for Pit, though she claims she's not doing it to help him and it is only in her best interest to keep him alive. If Pit rides a certain grind rail to a platform below the rest of them, Palutena will suggest that Viridi has a soft spot for Pit- she denies this and repeats that she is definitely not doing it to help Pit. After still not being believed, she calls Pit annoying and that was why she kept trying to kill him.

In The Aurum Brain, Viridi and Hades send their troops in to distract the Aurum forces while Pit and Pyrrhon head for the Aurum Brain. After Pyrrhon takes over the brain and takes over the Aurum forces, Viridi uses her last Reset Bomb as a last resort, but it is incinerated seconds after impact. After Palutena cuts off the Power of Flight, Viridi comes to Pit's rescue by catching him on a platform carried by her troops. After Pit complains that the platform is too small, Viridi sends him a larger one. Throughout the first half of the ground segment, Viridi instructs her troops on how to move the platform, including through an Aurum ship and above two other ones after they try to sandwich Pit. When Pyrrhon tries to blast Pit with a massive blast of fire, Viridi has her troops take the blast for him. At the end of the chapter, when Pyrrhon sends the Aurum across the galaxy, she comments that he finally did something useful for a change.

Trivia

• Viridi could be based on any number of Greek goddesses of nature, although her name comes from the word "viridian", which is a bluish-green pigment.
• At one point during the story, Viridi breaks the fourth wall when a discussion between her and Pit arises about the relation between Metroids and Komaytos.
• At another point in the story, Pit mentions the loading screen before Viridi quickly says "Shhhh! They'll hear you! We're not supposed to talk abut that!"
• Viridi has her own domain which you use late in the story instead of Palutena's. When you go back to Palutena's domain, it can be changed back to Viridi's in the hidden options menu. You can donate hearts to either goddess this way.
• In an easy-to-miss conversation in Chapter 16, it is strongly implied that Viridi may have feelings for Pit. This would explain why she helps him in later chapters.