Elira Pendora’s Officer Via Vale Joins the Detective Division After a Superhero-Bunny Day

NIJISANJI — Elira Pendora’s police character, Via Vale, was invited into the Los Santos Police Department’s detective division on the seventh day of DistrictV2, a Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) role-play server. Elira played the day on her Nijisanji EN channel in a stream of about eight hours, and the offer came after a morning spent as a bunny-costumed “superhero” officer.

The day began slowly. The game took about 20 minutes to download, and when Via finally loaded in she was jobless: a mix-up on the server the day before had reset roles, and she had to wait for the moderators and the chief to rehire her. She had missed the previous day’s superhero costume day, so the chief let her and a fellow officer who took the name Nightlight form a superhero unit for the day. Via wore a bunny outfit with clown-style shoes and called herself “the fuzz.”

“I’m a bunny and a cop.” — Elira Pendora, as Via Vale, explaining her superhero name

The unit’s one real case came on Galileo Road, near an air drop, where a fleeing car crashed and exploded. After paramedics treated the suspects, officers lined up in two rows and “shamed” them as they walked between, a punishment the officers invented on the spot. Nightlight also took a tumble off a roof when his grappling hook failed, and a medic revived him.

Later in the day a senior officer asked Via whether she would like to join the detective division, which had lost a detective who was shot four times and went on leave to recover. “I’d love to. Anywhere I can help,” Via answered. Her first outings included a hostage standoff whose takers demanded that officers introduce themselves like a team of colorful action heroes. Via took the “Gray Ranger” role and announced that people call her the fuzz. It also included a chase in which she drove for the first time, and a hospital interview with three shooting victims, who admitted they had lied about why they were in the hills. A fellow detective advised her to point out inconsistencies in a story rather than accuse.

By evening, officers said the evidence from the shootings pointed to a church and that search warrants had been approved for the church and a facility in Sandy Shores, with a raid possible the next day. Off duty, Via shopped for a detective’s wardrobe and visited the barber to fix her character’s green eyes. Elira said she planned to log on around 6 p.m. the next day, would skip the 11th for a sleepover with friends who might try the server for a day, and would return for the 12th through the 14th. On the 14th she plans a watch-along of the Worlds finals without a co-stream. Viewers sent six Super Chats during the stream.