V (Katana Zero)

"I guess i party a little to hard for him, eh?"

- V's most famous quote

"You think you're tough sh*t? The Dragon?! Well i'm the Dragon Slayer!"

- V

V (whose real name is unknown) is an overarching antagonist in the first half of the indie action-plataformer game Katana Zero, performing as the starter bad guy and Zero's rival. Despite not being the main villain, V is the villain with most appearance in the plot as well as one of The Heaviest on our main character's story.

Before the Events
Everything about V's past is unknown. He is an extremely psychotic, dangerous russian drug dealer that works in the entirety of New Mecca city. One day, he was contracted by an still unknown supplier, in order to work for him in smuggling an old, experimental military drug known as Chronos. This powerful drug developed by the government allowed the users to slow time and have precognition, powers that would supposed to be only for NULL soldiers (a dismantled military task force). Thanks to the leak of the drug in the streets at the hands of V and the unknown supplier, the government used the desperate task to use former brainwashed NULL soldiers with Chronos to eliminate every contrabandist of the drug.

V, as one the most well-hidden of all of them, has not only the mission of smuggling the drug, but also to kidnap, torture or even kill every scientist or auctioner of the Chronos drug in order to mass produce it even further.

Events in the game
As a former NULL soldier, Zero is also used by the government in order to kill every smuggler of the Chronos drug. First time we see V is in the first mission, when we go to rescue the missing gov. scientist Davoud Bey inside a facility. Once he goes deep enoug, Zero finds a bruised, near-death Davoud being held hostage by V's henchmen. Zero frees him and tries to take him out of the place, unaware that V put him an explosive collar around his neck. Once V reachs the place, he automatically activates the bomb's switch and decapitates the pour Davoud, that dies in front of Zero's eyes. V calls his henchmen to get rid of the mysterious intruder and leaves the place, but Zero kills all of them without effort and escapes. Impressed, V develops an strange obsession for the man behind the slaughter of his men, which the media starts to call The Dragon.

At Neon Club
Once we are tasked to kill the 2nd District club Chronos trafficker DJ Electrohead, V is already looking for us in our next killing spree. V does absolutely nothing in this mission and only appears when we go at Electrohead's dome room, looking for Zero. If we decide to kill him, nothing we happens. If we do decide to not kill Electrohead, an unknown marksman will do the work for us and finish him with a single shot to the head from afar. It is unknown if this was V or not.

The Tape
At this point, Zero has completely firtled V's murderous urges, while he kills every target he is given, V tries to drag The Dragon's attention at any mean. This allows him to gave him a favor, and sents him a gruesome tape containing the torturing of Zero's appartment neighbors, using the experimental Chronos drug to enhance their suffering. Using the excuse that they were 'noisy', and don't let Zero to take a sleep, V tortures and murders them using a wirecutter, records it and sends the tape to Zero's little girl neighbor on the other appartment, in a failed attempt to impress him, since Zero has seen even worst things thus far. However, he does take some grudge against V and his gruesome plain madness.

The Limo
After not finding his psychiatrist on the office, Zero decides to walk home in the rain. However, V finds it and decides to take him on a ride in his fancy limo. He takes this opportunity to finally hang with his 'hero' The Dragon and ask to him what he thought about the tape. V tries to befriend and convince him to kill the prostitutes he got on his car at Studio 51, a clandestine studio where he make all sort of snuff films, but Zero is not interested and insults V, calling him a 'f*ck*ng subhuman'. At the end, V's pride was bigger than his admiration, and dumps him out of the car. In the case you gave your sword to V to cut the drugs he was giving to you, you will have to pass the first part of Studio 51 without weapons.