Kaya Velasco Dialogue
Kaya Velasco is a protoframe of the Nova batch who can be found in the Höllvania Central Mall, where she serves as the group's temporal researcher. Kaya oversees Temporal Archimedea, as well as selling the Drifter wares in exchange for the rewards earned. Although she appears in the mall after the Drifter reaches rank Hot & Fresh with the Hex syndicate, she can only be interacted with after the Drifter reaches rank Pizza Party. Through her KIM conversations, the Drifter can learn of her ultimate aim in 1999, and helping her achieve her goal will change some of her dialogue.
Spoiler warning: This page contains spoilers for Techrot Encore and Kaya's KIM conversation arc.
Idle quotes in the mall
"This is a mall of the dead."
"Taking sign-ups for the timeline maintenance team! Make a difference in your community!"
"Ugh, my life is literally a prison."
"At least I've got Peely Pix! Lots… and lots… of Peely Pix."
"Heyyy, Drifter."
(sing-song) "Here we go round the temporal loop, the temporal loop, the temporal loop…."
"Who would've known that baking soda volcano in third grade would lead to this."
"Dear diary: Still stranded in the late 20th century."
"Finally I get to go for coffee without getting stink-eye and bitchy comments! Because everybody's dead!"
"Aoi, you are not adorable and you are not my babysitter."
Greeting the Drifter in the mall
(if the Drifter is not max rank with the Hex) "Uh, stranger danger! Sorry, you're cool, I get that, I just… can't talk to you yet. Gotta wait until the Britannic dude gets the stick out of his ass."
(greeting the Drifter for the first time after reaching max rank with the Hex) "Okay. So. The timeline is a frickin' mess. Luckily, young Kaya Velasco has harnessed the power of Archimedea! Now she and her rag-tag team of social rejects conduct insanely dangerous research so one day we can set things right. You want in?"
"'Sup, Drifter?"
"Hiya, freaky space friend."
"Dude, I am so glad it's you I get to work with."
"How are you the most normal person I know?"
"Ready for a deep dive into causality?"
"All set?"
"Hey, paradox!"
"You don't have to keep up with the science jargon, y'know."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Well! Fancy seeing you here in 1999!"
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Told you I'd make it."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Dude. The future. Rocks."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "SU forever, am I right?"
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Drifter."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Hi, fellow time traveller!"
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "1999 seems to be holding stable."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "It's no Larunda Relay, but it's home."
Viewing Temporal Archimedea
(when the Drifter opens the menu for the first time) "So, you know how if you keep on rewinding a video and playing it back, the quality gets worse and worse and one day it just breaks? Same deal with the timeline. We need to do some serious research to find and fix the weak spots in the tape. Then you can keep on looping and, y'know, stop the entire cosmos going to shit."
"Got a set of crisis events lined up for you. Make sure we get a gold star on each one."
"Velimir and Minerva are ready when you are. Stand by for temporal shenanigans!"
"Okay, get your loadout ready because once you're locked in, I can not pull you out without the whole run going to hell."
Browsing wares
(when the Drifter opens the shop for the first time) "Remember Peely Pix? Those delightful stickers are what we've been using to mark unique spatio-temporal connections as we uncover them. You choose the Peely Pix you want, stick 'em to your mission plan, and you'll get a bit of help from somewhere else on the timeline! Any time you find a whole unopened pack, bring it to me and we'll open it together."
"These are kind of a fixation of mine."
"Not exactly scientific, but they're what I had."
"The sticky never seems to wear off."
"Not just glittery nostalgia."
"Look! Pretty!"
[sniffs] "Still with the lingering bubblegum odour."
"It's okay to like these."
"How's your collection coming?"
"Stick 'em on your binder, your wall, your personal timeline…."
"Let me know if you're hunting that one elusive Peely Pix!"
"Cute things with ominous implications. Relatable."
Exiting wares after purchase
"There ya go."
"Hours of adhesive entertainment."
"Did you get any rares?"
"Have fun!"
"Thank you!"
"Enjoy!"
"Hope you got what you're after."
Exiting wares without purchase
"Huh."
"Alllrightythen."
"But they're so shiny!"
"Fine, I get to keep them."
"Whatever."
"Need time to think?"
Bidding farewell
"Seeya. I'll try not to die."
"I'll be here."
"You give me hope, y'know?"
"Just by existing you prove there's a way out of this, for me."
"Later."
"If I'm gone, don't panic."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Let's hang soon, okay?"
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Look after yourself."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Say hi to Lotus for me."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "You're one of the real ones."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Seeya. Kinda wanna be ya."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Thanks for believing in me."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Catch ya somewhen!"
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Seeya!"
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "I gotta give you that vase for Maroo."
(if Kaya has completed her goal) "Later, bestie."
Larunda Relay
Once Kaya has completed her goal, she will appear in Larunda Relay in the Origin System, where she has a variety of idle quotes.
"It's a mall. A space mall."
"That dude has, like, flesh arms and a robot head!"
"Oh my Gods, that was a cephalon. Amir is gonna die."
"What do you people even do for money? Do you take Höllars?"
"Yeah, I'm the Kaya Velasco, the woman who broke the time barrier."
"Pourin' one out in memory of literally everyone I ever met."
(if the Tenno speaks to her) "YOU. You knew all along, right? That I'd make it? Because when you left for 1999, I was already here, wasn't I? But you let me figure it out for myself, without helping. Thanks. For not spoiling how my story ends."
Techrot Encore trailer
A trailer was released prior to the Techrot Encore update, showing off the new protoframes, in which Kaya has some dialogue.
[Velimir and Minerva step up to a balcony on a snowy rooftop, overlooking the Höllvania Central Mall. Velimir puffs on a cigar.]
Minerva: "A mall? [laughs] Some safe house."
Velimir II: "You wanna risk it?"
[Minerva turns her head sharply to cast a withering gaze at Velimir, who holds up his hands in mock surrender. Suddenly, Kaya walks up between them, shoving them both aside rudely as she goes to stand in front of them.]
Kaya: "Ugh, are we going in or not?"
[Kaya casts a portal leading into the mall. She shakes her head with disapproval at the situation, before turning around to face Minerva and Velimir.]
Kaya: "Let me do the talking."
[Kaya points to herself as she speaks. She prepares to enter the portal, but an electric guitar riff sounds out before she can. She rolls her eyes in exasperation and steps aside as Flare sprints past her, runs off the edge of the roof, turns around midair to face the other three, and strums their guitar as they disappear backwards into the portal.]
Gameplay dialogue
Kaya provides mission control for the following missions:
Like the other protoframes, Kaya has dialogue during missions, which can be heard if the Tenno is using Nova with Kaya's Gemini skin, or if someone in their squad is doing so.
- Kaya Gemini dialogue
Other appearances
Kaya has other dialogue elsewhere, and is mentioned by a number of other characters.
| Other dialogue in: | Mentioned in or by: |
|---|---|
| Kaya KIM conversations | Arthur Nightingale (and KIM conversations) |
| Flare inbox message (and KIM conversations) | |
| Aoi KIM conversations | |
| Amir KIM conversations | |
| Eleanor KIM conversations | |
| Lettie KIM conversations | |
| Quincy KIM conversations | |
| Hex KIM conversations |
One Comment