Jiuyuan

Overview

Jiuyuan (also known as "Miss Jiuyuan") is an S-Class Anima Esper in Neverness to Everness. She is a skilled driver who stays cool under pressure while transporting Espers and handling urgent anomaly deliveries across Hethereau. Jiuyuan is affiliated with the transportation side of the city's operations and is believed to be a courier or manager at Sterry Express. She wears a distinctive large floppy hat and is closely tied to the game's vehicle and driving mechanics, giving players rides during missions and adding a unique flair to open-world exploration.

Character Profile

Appearance

Jiuyuan's most recognizable feature is her large floppy hat, which has become her signature visual element. She has a glamorous, distinctive design that stands out even among the game's colorful roster. Her overall look conveys a blend of elegance and practicality that fits her role as someone who works behind the wheel but carries herself with style.

Personality

Jiuyuan is defined by her composure. She stays cool under pressure, a trait that serves her well both as a transporter navigating Hethereau's chaotic streets and as a combatant facing anomalies. Developer interviews have confirmed her dual role as someone who transports people and cargo under dangerous conditions while also being a capable fighter in her own right.

She carries a philosophical outlook, captured in her belief that greed will sink you "deeper into the mire." This perspective suggests a character who values restraint and clear-headedness over ambition, which aligns with her calm demeanor on the road and in combat.

Role in Hethereau

Jiuyuan operates as a transporter across Hethereau, handling deliveries that are too dangerous or urgent for ordinary couriers. Her work puts her in contact with Espers who need to move quickly between anomaly sites, making her a critical support figure in the city's response to supernatural incidents.

Players can hitch a ride with Miss Jiuyuan during certain missions and experience her driving skills firsthand. These sequences showcase her exceptional vehicle handling, weaving through Hethereau's traffic, weather conditions, and anomaly-distorted zones with the same unflappable calm that defines her personality. Her involvement with the game's driving mechanics makes her one of the more unique characters in the roster, bridging the gap between combat gameplay and the vehicle systems.

Combat

Jiuyuan functions as a hybrid DPS and healer, making her one of the more versatile S-Class characters. She offers ranged grouping abilities that pull enemies together, combined with self-healing that lets her sustain independently in extended fights. This self-sufficiency makes her effective across a wide range of content without depending heavily on team composition.

Her balanced stat distribution between damage and healing means she can function independently and stay strong in many scenarios. She does not specialize as hard as a dedicated DPS or a pure healer, but her flexibility compensates by fitting into almost any team.

Esper Cycle Reactions

As an Anima element character, Jiuyuan slots into the Esper Cycle through two key elemental pairings:

Pairing Jiuyuan with Cosmos characters like Hotori, Chiz, or the protagonist (Zero) triggers Blossom for additional area damage. Alternatively, pairing her with Incantation characters like Baicang or Adler triggers Hexed for amplified damage scaling.

Team Building

Jiuyuan's hybrid nature makes her a flexible pick in team building. Teams that lack a dedicated healer can rely on Jiuyuan's self-sustain, while teams that need ranged grouping benefit from her ability to cluster enemies for area damage. She pairs especially well with:

Gacha Availability

Jiuyuan is available in the permanent pool on the Scarborough Fair standard banner, alongside other standard S-Class characters like Daffodil, Lacrimosa, Baicang, and Hathor. She can be obtained through Fabricated Dice pulls on the standard banner. An S-Rank Selector is available after 50 standard banner pulls, allowing players to choose Jiuyuan directly.

Trivia

• Jiuyuan's large floppy hat has become one of her most recognizable features in the community, often referenced in fan art and character discussions.

• Her name is sometimes romanized as "Jiayuan" in early English-language coverage, though "Jiuyuan" is the official spelling.

• She was difficult to obtain during beta testing, which limited the amount of detailed gameplay information available before launch.

• Her philosophical quote about greed sinking people "deeper into the mire" hints at a backstory involving temptation or moral choices.