Lacrimosa
Lacrimosa, the S-rank Chaos character in Neverness to Everness. Sleepy Vampire title, Esper Constructs weapon, Nightmare DOT status stacking up to 10, bat transformation flight, Morning Tomato and Devilish Gift skills, tomato obsession, third-person speech, and ETD-4 member.
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Overview
Lacrimosa is an S-rank playable character in Neverness to Everness. Her element is Chaos, one of the six attributes in the Esper Cycle, and she fights with Esper Constructs as her weapon type. She holds the title of "Sleepy Vampire." She is a member of ETD-4, a specialized containment team within the Bureau of Anomaly Control. She holds the record for the most maintenance requests within ETD-4.
Lacrimosa is an enigmatic, drowsy operative with an obsession for tomatoes and a habit of speaking in the third person. She can transform into a bat for out-of-combat flight, making her one of the few characters with a unique exploration ability. In combat, she inflicts the Nightmare status: a Chaos-element damage-over-time effect that stacks up to 10 times, dealing 1 instance of Chaos DMG per second per stack.
Appearance
Lacrimosa embodies the vampire aesthetic with an emphasis on drowsiness rather than menace. Her character design conveys perpetual sleepiness, with half-lidded eyes and a relaxed posture even during conversations. Despite her casual demeanor, her outfit incorporates gothic elements befitting her vampire nature. Her Esper Constructs manifest as floating dark-energy objects that orbit around her during combat.
Personality
Lacrimosa's defining trait is her perpetual drowsiness combined with a childlike, whimsical nature. She speaks in the third person, referring to herself by name, which gives her dialogue a distinctive, innocent quality. Her most famous quote captures her character perfectly: "Tomatoes... Lacrimosa like tomatoes... One day, Lacrimosa will wake up from a tomato bed, and live life in a tomato castle."
Her obsession with tomatoes is all-consuming. She consumes them in various forms and considers them the ideal food. This quirk plays against the expected vampire blood-drinking trope. Whether her tomato fixation is a deliberate substitution for blood or simply a personal preference is left intentionally ambiguous.
Despite her disengaged presentation, Lacrimosa possesses exceptional physical strength. According to her official character introduction, she was observed lifting and shaking a vending machine with ease to extract its contents, rather than using conventional methods. She commands respect and fear from ordinary citizens as a member of the enigmatic ETD. During the Hypervortex response in New Helios, she was reportedly disengaged, though whether this reflects laziness or a deeper disconnect from Bureau objectives is unclear.
Abilities and Combat Kit
Lacrimosa fights by manipulating Esper Constructs manifestations of dark energy she controls telekinetically. Her combat style centers on applying and stacking the Nightmare DOT status, which deals accumulating Chaos damage over time.
Sweet and Sour (Basic Attack)
Lacrimosa manipulates her Esper Constructs to perform up to 5 consecutive attacks. Targets hit are afflicted with Nightmare, dealing 1 instance of Chaos DMG per second for a duration. Nightmare can stack up to 10 times, meaning sustained attacks create exponentially increasing DOT pressure. The name "Sweet and Sour" fits her quirky, food-obsessed personality.
Morning Tomato / Devilish Gift (Elemental Skill)
Morning Tomato: Lacrimosa accidentally throws a barrage of unfinished Esper Constructs, dealing 1 instance of Chaos DMG to targets within the area and applying Nightmare. After casting Morning Tomato, it can be comboed into the 5th instance of Sweet and Sour for seamless attack chains.
Devilish Gift: Lacrimosa creates mobs identical to the original skill owner with her Esper power and initiates an attack, simultaneously triggering the corresponding skill's additional effects. The skill duration matches the original skill owner's, allowing Lacrimosa to copy and replay ally abilities as dark-energy duplicates.
Working Day Judgement (Ultimate)
Lacrimosa fully manifests her Esper Constructs into a large-scale Chaos formation, dealing 5 instances of Chaos DMG to enemies in the area while applying Nightmare. The ultimate creates a devastating zone of stacking DOT that combines with any existing Nightmare stacks from her basic attacks and skill, rapidly pushing enemies toward the 10-stack cap.
Microwake (QTE)
During character swap sequences, Lacrimosa's QTE deals area Chaos damage. The name reflects her drowsy nature. Even her swap-in attack is framed as barely waking up.
Passive Abilities
Tomato Banquet Reduces Break cap by 10% per Discord trigger, up to a maximum of 30%. This makes enemies more susceptible to being broken.
Sleep In After casting Sweet and Sour 5 times during a skill cooldown, Lacrimosa gains 1 additional use of Morning Tomato. This rewards sustained basic attack comboing with extra skill uses.
Sleepwalk Lacrimosa transforms into a bat for out-of-combat flight. When out of combat, hold dodge to enter flight mode.
Bat Transformation (Traversal)
Through her Sleepwalk passive, Lacrimosa can transform into a bat and fly freely through the environment when out of combat. This traversal ability allows her to reach areas that ground-based characters cannot access, skip over obstacles, and move through Hethereau more efficiently. The bat form is activated by holding dodge while out of combat. This makes her a valuable exploration character in addition to her combat role.
Esper Cycle Role
As a Chaos element character, Lacrimosa creates reactions with adjacent elements on the Esper Cycle wheel. Her Nightmare DOT is particularly effective in reaction-based team compositions because the continuous Chaos application gives teammates many opportunities to trigger duo reactions against affected enemies. With stacking up to 10 times, Nightmare maintains constant Chaos status even after Lacrimosa swaps out, enabling powerful off-field elemental contribution. Her Tomato Banquet passive also reduces enemy Break cap, making her valuable for Break-focused strategies.
Lore and Background
Lacrimosa is a member of ETD-4, serving alongside captain Baicang, Fadia, and Skia. The team operates under the Bureau of Anomaly Control and was dispatched to the Hypervortex disaster in New Helios. Lacrimosa holds the record for the most maintenance requests within the unit, a testament to either her carelessness or her unconventional approach to Bureau property.
The name "Lacrimosa" is Latin for "weeping" or "tearful," originating from the Lacrimosa dies illa section of the Requiem Mass ("That tearful day"). This somber name contrasts sharply with her drowsy, food-obsessed personality. Her vampire nature, third-person speech pattern, ability to transform into a bat, and superhuman strength suggest she is not a standard human Esper but something different entirely, possibly an Anomaly entity that has integrated into human society, similar to the ambiguity surrounding Fadia's nature.
Her character introduction depicts her attempting to extract items from a vending machine by physically lifting and shaking it, demonstrating both her superhuman strength and her childlike approach to problem-solving. Citizens in Hethereau regard her ETD affiliation with a mixture of respect and fear.
ETD-4 Team
Baicang Captain. Laid-back but reliable.
Fadia Support/tank hybrid. Vampire-like martial artist.
Skia Shadow Hound Operative. Shadow manipulation specialist.
Affiliations
ETD-4 Lacrimosa's containment team within the Bureau.
Bureau of Anomaly Control The parent organization.
Character Statistics
Character | Description |
|---|---|
Rarity | S-rank |
Element | Chaos |
Weapon | Esper Constructs |
Title | "Sleepy Vampire" |
Combat Role | DOT DPS / Area denial (Nightmare stacks up to 10) |
Traversal | Bat transformation (out-of-combat flight via Sleepwalk passive) |
Trivia
Lacrimosa's tomato obsession is a playful subversion of the vampire blood-drinking trope. She dreams of waking up in a tomato bed and living in a tomato castle.
She speaks in the third person, giving her dialogue a distinctive childlike quality.
Her bat transformation via the Sleepwalk passive makes her one of the few characters with a unique traversal ability outside of combat.
Her name comes from the Requiem Mass hymn "Lacrimosa dies illa" ("That tearful day").
She holds the record for the most maintenance requests within ETD-4.
She was observed lifting and shaking a vending machine with bare hands to extract its contents.
Her skill names are food-themed: Sweet and Sour (basic attack), Morning Tomato (skill), and Tomato Banquet (passive).
ETD-4 notably contains two vampire-themed characters: Lacrimosa and Fadia.
Related Pages
Esper Cycle How Chaos interacts with other elements.
Hypervortex The disaster ETD-4 responded to.
Baicang Captain of ETD-4.
Fadia Fellow ETD-4 member.
Skia Fellow ETD-4 member.
Gacha System How to obtain S-rank characters.
Characters Full roster of playable characters.