Little Death is a cursed Arcanum who is the personification of Death and allies herself with the other cursed Arcanum to steal all harmony from the divine arcanas' universe. She and her allies are the main antagonists of Sayonara Wild Hearts. She resides in Lovedead City and is the fifth and final Arcanum that the Fool battles.
Appearance[]
Little Death has short yellow hair and wears a Columbiana-styled skull mask on the upper part of her face. She is wearing an all black outfit with a white ascot, and has white socks with black and white dress shoes. Little Death's weapon is a scythe. Her motorcycle is white and styled similarly to a 1950s Triumph Tiger.
Story[]
Transonic Gravity
Little Death appears to the player mid-level, introducing Lovedead City's mechanics of electricity, gravity, and the antagonist's scythe attacks. The player pursues Little Death while dealing with all three until the level ends with her summoning a horde of winged skulls, setting up the next level.
Hate Skulls
Immediately picking up from the last, this level introduces an Arcanum summoned bow, which the player must actively aim to shoot down all winged skulls. Upon defeating the horde, Little Death is shown waiting at the end of the level.
Inside
The player pursues Little Death for the final time. In the first stage, attacks throughout the level involve impeding the player through scythe attacks, skull hordes, and electric fields, all of which the player must dodge in time. A brawl sequence starts the second stage where the player then dodges obstacles while riding on a trail of Little Death's vomit, ending with the player knocking her into multitudes of heart fragments collectable by shooting the bow. This promptly introduces the third stage of Little Death, now a giant winged orc-like creature who shortly attacks through electric bolts and attempting to crush the player. She is defeated after the player shoots her limbs and her eye, the KO leaving only the eye.
Wild Hearts Never Die
The eye, presumably Little Death, begins the level by transporting the player into Heartbreak Subspace and immediately attacking with hordes of cards, progressing into projectiles shot out of its eye, and then using both at the same time. An opening allows the player to KO the eye with the sword. The next stage begins when the player is stripped of the Fool's persona by the cursed arcana, turning the Fool into a version of every antagonist from previous levels that the player now must fight. The player KO's each version by kissing them on the cheek, symbolizing the acceptance and love of the character. Upon the defeat of the last antagonist, the divine arcana address the player in the final stage as they ride the Fool transformed into a dragon, declaring the player must find harmony in their own world now that the arcana's harmony is restored. A final kiss on the dragon turns it back into the pixie that initially transformed the player into the Fool, who catches the pixie back through the Starway. Instead of the Fool Arcana, it turns into a reassembled heart given back to the player. The level ends with the narrator giving closure on the player's journey as they fall, telling how the young woman grieved for years until she "fell right back into her groove," with one final scene of the woman—having finally moved forward—peacefully playing guitar.
Trivia[]
- This set of levels presumably represents the stage of acceptance in the woman's life, as the final battle is her fighting all stages of herself with love, along with the fact that Death in the Tarot represents change.