Veronica de Sade

Veronica de Sade is a character from Jun Mochizuki's The Case Study of Vanitas. She is the second child of the House de Sade, thus granddaughter to "The Shapeless One," younger sister to Antoine, and elder sister to Dominique and Louis. As a prominent member of the House de Sade, Veronica boasts a high status, serving the Vampire Queen directly as a Beastia. She also has a close physical, supposedly "casual" relationship with Marquis Machina. Veronica takes the appearance of a pale, silver haired young woman, though the story's timeline suggests she is older than she appears. She has a very feminine figure, with a large bust and hips and small waist. Her face is long, beautiful, and mature, with a small pointed chin, a small nose, large lips, thin eyebrows and angular eyes with especially long lashes. Unique to her design, her pupils are shaped like crosses. Though Veronica is of European descent, her design draws from Japanese aesthetics. Her hair is cut in a hime style, with check-length side bangs and a straight cut frontal fringe. It is also exceptionally long, cut straight and going down to her thighs. In her first appearance during the Bal Masqué, she wears a costume inspired by Japanese dress and mythology, though historically and culturally inaccurate. Her outfit is styled after a lightly colored furisode, patterned with clouds and plants. She has a multi-textile obi tied just beneath her bust. Unlike legitimate kimono, Veronica's clothing rests pasts her shoulders and exposes cleavage, as well as having an obi that is tied in the front. In addition, the lower half of her dress takes a mermaid style and has frills at its split and ends. Her outfit seems to be inspired by myths of kitsune, suggested by her mask, which was black and painted to resemble fox masks traditionally worn in Japan, and by the presence of several fluffy "tails" at the back of her dress. Other accessories to this outfit were a flower hairpin, a rope-like necklace with a tassel, and a black fan. Later, while speaking to Dominique in their home, she wears only a pale bath robe with loose sleeves. This robe was secured with a belt at the waist, but Veronica showed no concern for properly covering herself. As such, the robe's shoulders sat on her forearms, exposing her cleavage. When sitting down and crossing her legs, the split along Veronica's robe would expose her thigh. She smoked from a long pipe resembling a kiseru. Veronica appears to have an extreme misandry, hating men in a general sense and often speaking of them in disgust. Even more, Veronica also appears to hate humans, having found the fact that Vanitas was a male and a human utterly detestable. In terms of personality, Veronica seems to have a particular liking toward torture, which is evident by the collar Dominique had obtained from her and the iron maiden and wheel of death present among numerous other torture devices in the De Sade booth at the Machina estate. This, alongside her intent to kill without a second thought, suggests that Veronica is a rather cold and malicious individual.