Vinca is a character from Metaphor: ReFantazio. He is tied to Basilio's Follower Bond event.
Appearances[]
- Metaphor: ReFantazio: Minor character, optional boss
Details[]
Vinca is one of the many homeless paripus in Grand Trad tricked by the sanctist church to be used as igniter test subjects. He is also an old friend of Basilio that he knew since his days of confinement by the church and joked about buying a house with the meager wages he earned from being hit by igniter magic. Just like Basilio and Fidelio, he presumably escaped during the paripus riot. However, it's heavily implied that his wounds have melancholized, which would drive him into murder sprees against igniter merchants.
The protagonist and Basilio first meets him in his Rank 2 bond event when the latter was having trouble securing herbs for his wounds from a peddler. He appeared to be friendly and shared the herb he was looking for with him, allowing Basilio to cure his wounds. However, Vinca had a chest pain at the middle of the conversation which he lies as him having "not enough sleep." While Basilio and the protagonist first dismiss the concern, they hear of an unsettling rumor about a serial killer prowling around Port Brilehaven.
During Basilio's Rank 4 Bond event, he and the protagonist run into Vinca right after one of his murder sprees. However, their encounter this time is less than pleasant; several civilians were seen gossiping about the serial killer being a paripus with a hulking stature, and Vinca can be heard letting out a loud scream right after suffering from some sort of pain in his chest. Basilio confronts him of his illness, which he denies and changes the topic to him being on a "job" and asks the protagonist and Basilio to help him about it some time. When the protagonist and Basilio checks on him on the Bond event right after, Vinca openly and non-chalantly admits that he was the serial killer himself by asking him to help him kill an ishkia igniter merchant in the Nightprowler pub.
After a failed investigation, Basilio and the protagonist decide to stand by the igniter merchant's store and wait for him to come out. However, the merchant lays dead on the floor soon after with Vinca explicitly found by the two being behind the murder. At this point, Vinca almost fully melancholized in a manner like Hyperic from Eupha's bond events, having a sinister purple aura radiating out from him and failing to form coherent sentences. In an unusual move, he teleports into the Disgraced Ruins, a chasm where dead paripus test subjects were buried at and awaits for a confrontation.
At Basilio's final Bond event, they go to the chasm and confront Vinca, who seems to be in horrible pain and no longer recognizes Basilio, and is also holding a rifle backwards as a weapon. The party puts him out of his misery, at which he returns back to sanity and reminiscences with Basilio about their past and dreams, before he succumbs to his wounds and dies. They then return to Brileheaven to mourn him and organized him a ritualistic paripus funeral.
Stats[]
- Linked directly to Basilio's Rank 8 Follower bond; the battle is initiated immediately after speaking to him next to the Hushed Honeybee Inn and accept his offer once the requirements are fulfilled.
- Basilio is forced in this fight.
| Serial Killer Vinca | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Level | HP | Turn Icons | ||||||||
| Person | 66 | 15,000 | 2 | ||||||||
| Affinities | |||||||||||
| Slash | Pierce | Strike | Fire | Ice | Elec | Wind | Light | Dark | Almi | ||
| Resist | Resist | Resist | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ||
| Normal Drop | Rare Drop | ||||||||||
| Death White Mask Murderer's Axe |
Talisman of the Night | ||||||||||
| Skills | |||||||||||
| Earsplitting Shriek | Moderate chance of inflicting Daze to all enemies. | ||||||||||
| Hellbound | Heavy Strike damage to one enemy. | ||||||||||
| Slam Shatter | Heavy Strike damage to all enemies. | ||||||||||
| Frenzy | Deals heavy physical Strike damage to all enemies 1-3 times. | ||||||||||
Quotes[]
- "Uuu......gh... KiLL... eVERYonE... I'M goING... to KiLL..." (Pre-battle)
- "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! iT hUuuuUUuuUURTS!" (Start of battle)
- "RrrRRgH... WhO... arE YOU? doN'T KNOW you... i HAte yOU... it HUrtS...! i'LL KILL YOU!"
- "My HaTE is EterNAL" (Randomly on someone's turn)
- "i'LL KILL YOU!!" (Randomly on someone's turn)
- "i'LL KILL AnyONE iN my waY" (Randomly on someone's turn)
- "I FeEL noTHING" (Randomly, if attacked)
- "i'LL BrEAk yoU" (Using Slam Shatter)
- "Feel the pain... FeeL The SuFFerInG!" (Using Earsplitting Shriek)
- "i'LL KILL YOU!! I'll KiLL All of YOU!!" (Using Earsplitting Shriek)
- "ArrrGHHHH!!"
- "Ba... Basilio? It hurts... it hurts real bad... Help me..." (50% HP)
- "It hurts... It HUuuuuUuurtS..." (Randomly on someone's turn, low HP)
- "Huagghh HUAGHHHHH" (Defeated)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- When fighting Vinca, Basilio is muted on voicelines save for calling his archetype.