Vuzi

Vuzi is the femslash ship between Serial Designation V and Uzi Doorman from the Murder Drones fandom.

Pilot
Uzi Doorman plans to eradicate all Disassembly Drones, Serial Designation V included, for the return of the Worker’s safety. After the complicated events of attempting to gather ammo for her railgun, she eventually chats with Serial Designation N inside his team and his crashed pod. She hastily retreats outside and sprints towards the Worker colony upon hearing Serial Designation V and J’s arrival. As she is escaping, V stares at her from inside the Corpse House, informing her team that there is a Worker that she “kinda wants to make a balloon animal out of”.

With the goal to free the Worker’s from V and J, Uzi convinces N to fight alongside her, even if it means rebelling against his coworkers. She gives him the offer to choose his target, in which he picks J. His choice was in vain as she turned him down, forcing him to fight V instead.

Episode 2 “Heartbeat”
During Uzi’s self exile, she observes herself in a mirror in the crashed pod after she discovers a strange change in her, ultimately smashing the mirror unintentionally due to her awakened AbsoluteSolver. Unfortunately, V (who is tied with chains in a chair) witnesses this, explaining that she has never seen that symbol before. With sadism in her mindset, she asks if Uzi is willing to perform an autopsy to decipher its origin, in which Uzi responded negatively. While the Worker displays her vengeful aggression towards humans, this triggers V, causing her to lunge at Uzi’s face with nothing holding her back but the chains. She tells Uzi that the humans created Disassembly Drones to fix a problem (referring to the Workers) and she doesn’t have the right to talk poorly about them as if the people were in the wrong.

Episode 3 “The Promening”
After the events of negatively affecting Uzi and N’s relationship, he performs a self exile on V and himself. V unfortunately chose the wrong time to inform him that she planned to attend the Worker’s prom, attempting to persuade him into forgetting about Uzi and giving in to his original nature as a Disassembly Drone. When he kept refusing her offer even when she promised to murder things for their survival if not for their pleasure, she beheads him to keep him stunned long enough to allow her to escape and prepare herself. During this time, Uzi is caught by surprise by Khan’s plan to invite Lizzy and Doll to prepare his daughter for the prom as well, much to Uzi’s annoyance. As she is dressing in the restroom, she overhears Lizzy’s conversation to Doll, which included her invitation to the prom to V. Hearing this, Uzi immediately knew that the Murder Drone wasn’t attending for a simple dance. She escapes Doll’s bathroom through a ventilation shaft and exits the colony with the intention of preventing V from entering. This could not be performed, however, for V has already managed to get herself inside.

Luckily, she managed to have N on her side again and they both arrived at the prom. But instead of expecting the Workers to be in danger, they find V instead being the one in a deadly situation. Surprised, N tells Uzi that they should save her, much to Uzi’s disappointment as she reluctantly bodyguards the pinned Disassembly Drone. During the battle between Doll, Uzi and N, V puts a cease to it as she sneakily eliminates Doll with a gunshot to the head, earning a negative reaction from Uzi, for she explained that Doll was a key to the information behind the AbsoluteSolver.

Episode 4 “Cabin Fever”
Recognizing the AbsoluteSolver as Cyn, V treats Uzi harshly, threatening her to keep a safe distance from N and her if she does something that V doesn’t like. While managing the campers as a counselor, she keeps a close eye on Uzi’s behavior, eventually catching her deforming an arrow into an organic mass. Though Uzi appeared genuinely afraid of her actions and this newfound ability, V leaves no room for mercy, unhesitantly resorting to violence with the intent of eliminating the teenage Worker. Before she could quickly finish her task, she is encountered by N who refuses to allow the unforgivable action.

During Solver Uzi’s reign, she eradicates other campers before catching up with Lizzy. Before she could encounter the latter, V makes herself an obstacle and stuns her by performing a crucial strike, causing Uzi to get launched into a safer distance. Unfortunately, Uzi’s solver gives her the upper hand, making the latter an easy prey. Uzi is swiftly and safely stopped by N during her nearly successful attack on V. When returning to the ground after N’s comforting conversation with Uzi, V observes the two with jealousy. Even after their quarrel that nearly ended her life, V defends Uzi, claiming that the missing campers were her doing.

Episode 5 “Home”
Although rarely interacting with each other due to V’s mindset not currently belonging to herself, Uzi assists N in defeating the AbsoluteSolver’s control on her inside his memory of the gala. When N thanks Uzi for her helpful actions, V quickly snaps at her for roaming inside her memories and demands her to exit. Upon awakening, instead of thanking her for releasing her from Cyn’s grasp, V resorts to threatening Uzi by whipping out a chainsaw from her arm, in which Uzi reacts nervously.

Episode 6 “Dead End”
V and Uzi are cuffed in the same room with Alice, who abuses Uzi due to her being the offspring of her former enemy, Nori Doorman. After Cyn makes herself present inside of Uzi and destroys the panel keeping the door between them and the Sentinels, Uzi returns to her unconscious state, leaving her defenseless. With the Sentinels now arriving at their location, they swiftly crush Alice and attempt to eliminate Uzi and V. Luckily, from the various, disturbing writings on the wall informing V of what to do in this situation, she defends herself and Uzi from the assailants without making direct eye contact. Accepting defeat, the Sentinels abandon them, opening the opportunity for the drones to escape. When meeting back up with Tessa Elliot and N, V carries an unconscious Uzi on her back.

After being deceived by Doll and left in a room with Sentinels, V swiftly protects her team as they head back into an elevator. N tells V to come along, but instead of joining them, she denies his offer despite him desperately trying to persuade her into doing so. V’s attention shifts to Uzi who grimly stares back in a weakened state. The latter informs her that her trust resides within the Worker. With these words, V snaps off the cords holding the elevator in place, forcing it to drop down, leaving her with the Sentinels.

Pilot
"Yo, we got a worker out there I kinda wanna practice balloon animal shapes with!"

- V, crawling inside the Corpse house after spotting Uzi running away.

Episode 2 "Heartbeat"
"I've never seen that symbol before. Wanna do an autopsy to find out?"

- V after seeing Uzi having the AbsoluteSolver symbol on her visor, Heartbeat

Episode 3 "The Promening"
"The sad purple one lets us in, 'cause she has no friends."

- V, to N

"Promise me you and that purple thing will stop prying into that stuff?"

- V, to N after he questions about their origins

"Ah ha! Unhand them, you fieeeend-? I'm confused."

- Uzi, witnessing V trapped

Episode 5 "Home"
"You little narc! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"

- V, angrily to Uzi, becoming her present self.

Episode 6 "Dead End"
"Whoa, hey, cut that thing up and you're gonna get a big creepy worm. An improvement."

- Uzi, just as Alice was about to chop V's head off.

"You, ew! You're mean!"

- Uzi, to V after she says "ew."

"...Nah. Uzi? I trust you."

- V's Last words as she salutes to Uzi, the Sentinels closing in…

Fanon
Not long after the popularity increase in Thuzi and Nuzi, Vuzi’s first fanart received negative attention from most, possibly due to the two never interacting in the Pilot and there wasn’t enough information about V’s character to compare with Uzi. Along with this, most argued that the ship is as toxic as Juzi, the femslash pairing for Serial Designation J and Uzi. However, with the progression throughout the series expanding their relationship and allowing the audience to view more of V’s character, the Vuzi ship slowly gathered more fans. Although the interactions between the females were downright negative, it fed the fans of the “Enemies to Lovers” trope. This did not apply to everyone, for it gave another reason for haters of the pairing to speak negatively about it.

To bite back at downvoters, in the sixth episode of the series, “Dead End”, in the scene in which V carries Uzi on her back, Vuzi fans used this as a reason to uphold their favorite pairing.

Before the events of “Heartbeat” and further episodes, shippers created a love triangle between Serial Designation N, V, and Uzi Doorman, in which N’s unrequited affection towards V is turned down by her affection for Uzi, in which her unrequited love is turned down by Uzi’s affection for N and so on. Or, in other cases, both N and V share the same affection for Uzi and battle for her love.

Fans come to realize that V and Uzi share very similar traits, almost appearing as the same character with separate bodies. The most identical characteristic between them is their tsundere based personalities, in which they hide a soft demeanor behind a cruel, violent mask. However, their masks can be different depending on their overall character, such as Uzi’s angst and V’s sadism.

Overall, Vuzi isn’t considerably a popular ship, but it still has a considerable number of shippers.

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Trivia

 * In the original thumbnail for the Pilot, V and Uzi would be seen posing alonside each other, with V presenting herself in the same pose as N in the first official poster for the series.