In Final Showdown, Vannessa can be customized to have her original dark skin from her debut in Virtua Fighter 4.For unexplained reasons, Vanessa's skin color was changed in VF5 to a much lighter color.Interestingly, Vanessa also has an unusual hair color like those two.Although she was taken in and trained in combat by J6, she is not an assassin like Goh Hinogami or Jean Kujo.Her combat data was transferred to Dural to create a new model called V-Dural.Captured by Judgement 6 pre- Virtua Fighter 4 and Virtua Fighter 5.Bodyguard for Sarah Bryant in Virtua Fighter 4.She is currently struggling to find out what happened to her during this 'blackout'. However, she has dissociative amnesia, and does not remember anything that has happened to her between these events.

She was rescued by a double agent within J6. Vanessa was captured by J6 in order to create a new Dural model called V-Dural ('V' standing for Vanessa). Vanessa decides to join the 4th tournament not only as Sarah's bodyguard, but to find Lewis's murderer as well. One day, she hears of J6's intention to capture Sarah in the 4th tournament. Years later, she has joined an organization to protect important individuals. However, their time together was brief, as a member of J6's special forces murdered Lewis when Vanessa was celebrating her twentieth birthday. A man named Lewis, a member of the special forces, infiltrated J6 and rescued Vanessa. She was taken by Judgement 6 shortly afterwards, and trained to be an instrument of combat. When she was still a child, Vanessa's parents were killed.

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