| “ | Neptune... Why? I don't really recognize the name, but the sound of it pisses me off... | ” |
— Arfoire
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Template:Infobox character/Tab She exists merely to kill CPUs. She doesn't really like hanging out with other people, but since the Seven Sages strive to get rid of the CPUs, she hangs out with them. But seeing as how Pirachu calls her an old woman, she may actually blend in nicely with the other Seven Sages. She really hates Neptune, perhaps because the Arfoire of the other world hated Neptune so strongly, it crossed dimensions somehow.— Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory official site.
The main Antagonist of Hyperdimension Neptunia and Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2. In the original game, she was Gamindustri's only goddess but then created Histoire and made the four CPUs. In Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 she is known as the Deity of Sin and Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory she is a member of the Seven Sages.
Appearance
~Hyperdimension Neptunia~
Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2
Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory
Personality
Arfoire is a very intelligent and clever person. She knows exactly what she wants and what she needs to do to get just that. Arfoire is able to easily manipulate just about everyone to achieve her goals as shown when she convinced the goddesses to fight each other for the title of “True Goddess” in Celestia while she sent monsters to the world below to weaken the amount of faith they received therefore making them weaker. Arfoire also serves as a form of comic relief at times when she is angered or shock by something unbelievable or stupid, causing her to say funny things before going back to being serious. Being the one who had helped create the goddesses along with Histoire, parts of her personality are inside the goddesses as well. Blanc sometimes says the opposite of what she means and if you harass her long enough she may just give in to you. Neptune has an unshakable determination to achieve anything she strives for and won’t let anything stop her. Noire has a strong desire to be the perfect goddess. All of these the traits can easily be applied to Arfoire. She can also be somewhat of a sore loser as well and doesn't accept her defeat even if the tables are obviously turned against her.
Story
Hyperdimension Neptunia
In Hyperdimension Neptunia, Arfoire was originally Gamindustri's only goddess. After misusing her powers and being stopped by four heroes, she seperated a portion of her power from herself which created Histoire. Together, Arfoire and Histoire created the four CPUs, Neptune, Noire, Blanc, and Vert and gave them a quarter of the power of a true goddess.
Arfoire is the direct cause behind the Console War, putting the four CPUs against each other as a distraction so that she could plunge Gamindustri into chaos by filling it with monsters and shaking the faith that the people had in their goddesses. All of this is to become the being known as the True Goddess. Her plan takes a turn for the worse when the CPUs team up against Neptune and banish her to the world below which allows Histoire to call out to her and request her aid in breaking the seal.
When Arfoire finds out about Histoire's actions, she tries to kill Neptune and her party on several occassions while also stirring up trouble in each of the nations and making a up a lie about a fictitious overlord named Momus who had supposedly defeated Purple Heart and was the reason that she had not returned to Planeptune.
When Neptune manages to gather the aid of the other three CPUs and goes to Celestia to face Arfoire, the party must face her three times, the final time being in the form of a dragon. Her power is revealed to be stemed from the fear of everyone in Gamindustri. The CPUs manage to defeat her easily once and for all. However, the monster threat she had impended upon Gamindustri still remained.
Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2
In Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Arfoire is known as the Deity of Sin and is the object of worship to ASIC. ASIC manages to spread Arfoire's infleunce so greatly to the point where she has control of approximately 80% of Gamindustri's shares. When the CFWs are finally defeated by Nepgear and the others, they return their power back to their creator, Arfoire, and she is soon revived in a hideous vessel.
When Nepgear and her friends head to the Gamindustri Graveyard and face off against Arfoire, Nepgear uses the power of the faith her friends have in her to finally rid the world of the Deity of Sin, once and for all.
Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory
Arfoire first appears in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory when searching for CPU Memories with Pirachu in the Zeca Ruins. After she gives Pirachu the CPU Memories to escape with, she takes on the form of DDS Arfoire and easily takes down Neptune and Noire before Plutia returns with CPU Memories as Iris Heart and hands them over to her two friends. When Neptune and Noire access HDD and take down Arfoire with Iris Heart's help, Arfoire makes a run for it.
Arfoire declares to claim revenge against Neptune and goes through a number of ordeals just for the sake of redeeming herself. Not only does she go as far as kidnapping IF three times (once as a child and twice as an adult) but she even creates an eggplant farm after finding out that eggplants are Neptune's least favorite food. She makes the eggplants attack Neptune and when those attacks fail she becomes one with eggplant and turns into cross between her DDS Arfoire form and an eggplant monster. She is easily defeated but still refuses to give up in trying to defeat Neptune.
At the end of the game, she is shown to still be running her eggplant farm with Pirachu as a worker to deliver packages of eggplants to people. Even then, she is still determined to claim her revenge against the CPUs, namely Neptune.
Trivia
- Arfoire is the only goddess who doesn't represent a console.
- Arfoire is the only goddess who eyes doesn't contain the power symbol.
- Arfoire has the ability to shape-shift herself into different forms as displayed mainly in Hyperdimension Neptunia, where she would change her form constantly to deceive people.
- Arfoire's name is a reference to the 'R4' device, a Nintendo DS chips which allows owners to illegally download games, movies and music for use with the Nintendo DS.
- In a popularity poll, Arfoire came in 23rd place, just beating CFW Magic by 2 points.
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