History Characters / HonkaiImpact3rd

* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdPlayableCharacters1 Main playable characters]]

* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdPlayableCharacters2 Playable characters of St. Freya Academy]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this is just the playable cast (sans Post-Honkai Odyssey) as of the game's fourth anniversary.[[note]]From left to right: [[HeroOfAnotherStory Kallen Kaslana (Sixth Serenade with Hanami Daimyo outfit)]], [[MajorlyAwesome Himeko Murata (Vermilion Knight: Eclipse with Rouged Mayumi outfit)]], [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Rozaliya & Liliya Olenyeva (Rozaliya: Molotov Cherry with Coral Sunrise outfit; Liliya: Blueberry Blitz with Lavender Glow outfit)]], [[{{Miko}} Yae Sakura (Goushinnso Memento with Hyoukai Sonata outfit)]], [[EmotionlessGirl Bronya Zaychik (Black Nucleus with Fleurs du Mal outfit)]], [[CowardlyLion Seele Vollerei (Stygian Nymph)]], [[TheHero Kiana Kaslana (White Comet with Prodigal Girl outfit)]], [[TheLancer Raiden Mei (Herrscher of Thunder)]], [[FairyCompanion Book of Fuxi ELF]], [[ClassRepresentative Fu Hua (Azure Empyrea)]], [[NobleTopEnforcer Bianka "Durandal" Ataegina (Bright Knight: Excelsis)]], [[PuttingThePalInPrincipal Theresa Apocalypse (Starlit Astrologos)]], [[NinjaMaid Rita Roseweisse (Fallen Rosemary)]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this is just the playable cast (sans Post-Honkai Odyssey) as of the game's fourth anniversary.[[note]]From left to right: [[HeroOfAnotherStory Kallen Kaslana (Sixth Serenade with Hanami Daimyo outfit)]], [[MajorlyAwesome Himeko Murata (Vermilion Knight: Eclipse with Rouged Mayumi outfit)]], [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Rozaliya & Liliya Olenyeva (Rozaliya: Molotov Cherry with Coral Sunrise outfit; Liliya: Blueberry Blitz with Lavender Glow outfit)]], [[{{Miko}} Yae Sakura (Goushinnso Memento with Hyoukai Sonata outfit)]], [[EmotionlessGirl Bronya Zaychik (Black Nucleus with Fleurs du Mal outfit)]], [[CowardlyLion Seele Vollerei (Stygian Nymph)]], [[TheHero Kiana Kaslana (White Comet with Prodigal Girl outfit)]], [[TheLancer Raiden Mei (Herrscher of Thunder)]], [[ClassRepresentative Fu Hua (Azure Empyrea)]], [[NobleTopEnforcer Bianka "Durandal" Ataegina (Bright Knight: Excelsis)]], [[PuttingThePalInPrincipal Theresa Apocalypse (Starlit Astrologos)]], [[NinjaMaid Rita Roseweisse (Fallen Rosemary)]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this is just the playable cast (sans Post-Honkai Odyssey) as of the game's fourth anniversary.[[note]]From left to right: [[HeroOfAnotherStory Kallen Kaslana (Sündenjäger with Hanami Daimyo outfit)]], [[MajorlyAwesome Himeko Murata (Vermilion Knight: Eclipse with Rouged Mayumi outfit)]], [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Rozaliya & Liliya Olenyeva (Rozaliya: Molotov Cherry with Coral Sunrise outfit; Liliya: Blueberry Blitz with Lavender Glow outfit)]], [[{{Miko}} Yae Sakura (Goushinnso Memento with Hyoukai Sonata outfit)]], [[EmotionlessGirl Bronya Zaychik (Black Nucleus with Fleurs du Mal outfit)]], [[CowardlyLion Seele Vollerei (Stygian Nymph)]], [[TheHero Kiana Kaslana (White Comet with Prodigal Girl outfit)]], [[TheLancer Raiden Mei (Herrscher of Thunder)]], [[ClassRepresentative Fu Hua (Azure Empyrea)]], [[NobleTopEnforcer Bianka "Durandal" Ataegina (Bright Knight: Excelsis)]], [[PuttingThePalInPrincipal Theresa Apocalypse (Starlit Astrologos)]], [[NinjaMaid Rita Roseweisse (Fallen Rosemary)]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this is just the playable cast (sans Post-Honkai Odyssey) as of the game's fourth anniversary.[[note]]From left to right: Kallen Kaslana (Sündenjäger with Hanami Daimyo outfit), Himeko Murata (Vermilion Knight: Eclipse with Rouged Mayumi outfit), Rozaliya Olenyeva (Molotov Cherry with Coral Sunrise outfit), Liliya Olenyeva (Blueberry Blitz with Lavender Glow outfit), Yae Sakura (Goushinnso Memento with Hyoukai Sonata outfit), Bronya Zaychik (Black Nucleus with Fleurs du Mal outfit), Seele Vollerei (Stygian Nymph), Kiana Kaslana (White Comet with Prodigal Girl outfit), Raiden Mei (Herrscher of Thunder), Fu Hua (Azure Empyrea), Durandal (Bright Knight: Excelsis), Theresa Apocalypse (Starlit Astrologos), Rita Roseweisse (Fallen Rosemary)[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this is just the playable girls (sans Post-Honkai Odyssey) as of the game's fourth anniversary.[[note]]From left to right: Kallen Kaslana (Sündenjäger with Hanami Daimyo outfit), Himeko Murata (Vermilion Knight: Eclipse with Rouged Mayumi outfit), Rozaliya Olenyeva (Molotov Cherry with Coral Sunrise outfit), Liliya Olenyeva (Blueberry Blitz with Lavender Glow outfit), Yae Sakura (Goushinnso Memento with Hyoukai Sonata outfit), Bronya Zaychik (Black Nucleus with Fleurs du Mal outfit), Seele Vollerei (Stygian Nymph), Kiana Kaslana (White Comet with Prodigal Girl outfit), Raiden Mei (Herrscher of Thunder), Fu Hua (Azure Empyrea), Durandal (Bright Knight: Excelsis), Theresa Apocalypse (Starlit Astrologos), Rita Roseweisse (Fallen Rosemary)[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this is just the playable girls (sans Post-Honkai Odyssey) as of the game's fourth anniversary.]]

* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdPlayableCharacters1 Playable characters of St. Freya Academy]]
* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdPlayableCharacters2 Other playable characters]]

* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdPlayableCharacters Playable characters]]

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!Valkyries

[[folder:Kiana Kaslana]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shanxin (Chinese), Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Knight Errant]]

TheProtagonist of the story. She is the 69th successor of the Kaslana family and daughter to Siegfried Kaslana and Cecilia Schariac. Her mother died when she was young and her father later abandoned her. She attended various schools before ending up in the same school as Mei and Bronya. She (along with her two friends) later joins Schicksal, enrolls in St. Freya Academy and becomes a Valkyrie to find out what happened to her parents. Kiana also has rather open feelings for Mei, something that (among other things) sparks her rivalry with Bronya.\\
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Her battlesuits are White Comet (B-rank MECH-type), Valkyrie Ranger (A MECH), Knight Moonbeam (S BIO), Divine Prayer (A PSY) and [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void (S BIO, Awakened Knight Moonbeam)]].

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* AnimalMotifs:
** She insists on a cat motif for herself, which shows in her SuperMode as White Comet and Divine Prayer where she summons giant mechanical cat paws out of nowhere (dubbed "Neko-Charm") and sometimes says "meow".
** Also jokingly, ''tuna'' as a result of MemeticMutation.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: 2 stages of Ch. 11-EX take place in her mind.
** The first one is Kiana confronting "HER" ([[spoiler:Sirin]]), who tried to [[MindRape break her mind]] in order to [[GrandTheftMe take over her body]] [[spoiler:again]]. Kiana's inner consciousness is depicted as an empty, broken hall floating in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by flying pictures of her and her friends (representing her memories), all in DeliberatelyMonochrome; when she gets to the end of the stage, suddenly a giant, shining eye opens in the sky, representing "HER". "SHE" made her fight an illusion of Mei and Theresa, then Fu Hua (who, as "SHE" noted, [[spoiler:kidnapped her and took her to Otto]]), and then [[spoiler:[[MultiMookMelee multitudes of]] [[CloningBlues the previous K-400 series clones]] (which took the form of White Comet Kiana)]]. Later, she thought that it was a nightmare that she had since 3 months ago[[labelnote:Spoilers!]]It was back when she first awakened after Himeko suppressed her Herrscher self, at the cost of Himeko's life[[/labelnote]], but [[spoiler:Phoenix Fu Hua (as a spirit)]] says that they aren't just nightmares--"SHE" always tries to take over her whenever Kiana has those nightmares.
** The second one is Kiana confronting "HER" again, but this time [[spoiler:Fu Hua]] helps her; the former also summons an illusion of [[spoiler:Himeko]] to battle "HER". In the end, "SHE" is defeated and "restrained" by [[spoiler:Fu Hua]], but the latter notes at the end of the chapter that "SHE" may come back again someday.
* {{BFG}}: Uses one as her Ultimate Skill in both her Valkyrie Ranger and her Knight Moonbeam battle suits.
* BigDamnHeroes: In one supplementary comic, when Herrscher-Mei is at the mercy of Welt (the Herrscher affiliated with Anti-Entropy), Kiana comes in by [[DynamicEntry dive-kicking him from above]] and goes to fight him with her new White Comet outfit, but not before lifting Mei in a BridalCarry and proclaiming that "your knight has come to save the princess".
* BigEater: As Bronya said in one supplementary comic, she's like a "starving demon" who tends to eat 6 bowls of rice on average.[[note]]The context was that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Kiana lost her appetite]] due to her inner thoughts.[[/note]] One of the "date" cutscenes with Theresa in the DatingSim mode also has her mention Kiana's meals as taking a significant portion of the funding for St. Freya Academy. [[spoiler:Even as Herrscher of the Void, she still seems to be obsessed with food.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]]''': [[spoiler:Human]], don't forget to make a dinner for me.
* BookDumb: She admits once that all she ever reads is manga, which is why she fails a lot in her exams. That said, her combat capabilities are noted to be strong and full of potential.
* BraidsOfAction: A pair that reach to her waist.
* BrilliantButLazy: The main reason why she fails her exams is due to her laziness. However as noted by Mei and others, Kiana has the potential to be a skilled and intelligent Valkyrie if she studies more seriously. This is implemented in-game in the dorms; if you have the Wooden Desk or a similar piece of furniture and drag any version of Kiana to it, instead of sitting and using the laptop when she’s dropped, she will land beside the desk and have a foot-stomping tantrum.
* BrokenPedestal: While she wasn't all that chummy with Fu Hua from the get-go, Kiana did at least respect her as a reliable senior. However, she was clearly hurt when [[spoiler:Fu Hua kidnapped her and handed her over to Otto]]. When Kiana encounters her again later [[spoiler:(Fu Hua's spirit) in Chapter 11-EX]], Kiana gives her an angry WhatTheHellHero speech and says she wants nothing to do with her anymore. Downplayed later when she sees that Fu Hua truly does regret what happened and Kiana forgives her.
* DaddysGirl: As she grew up only with her father, she became attached to him as a result and picked up a good number of his traits. His disappearance causes her to hate him for making her miss him so much.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff:
** Valkyrie Ranger's QTE has her shooting at her enemies rapidly, with a final shot that inflicts the common "impared" debuff.
** Divine Prayer has a passive skill where, whenever she's inactive, [[ShockAndAwe a lightning bolt]] will periodically strike the closest enemy, dealing lightning damage and the "impaired" debuff.
** [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's ChargedAttack will leave a special debuff on all enemies hit that makes them take more damage from her attacks for 10 seconds.]]
** Void Drifter (Augmented Valkyrie Ranger) can inflict a special debuff through her normal attack, Ultimate Evasion or QTE. Aside from increasing the damage the enemies take from attacks, it also empowers her branch attack and allows it to inflict the Time Slow debuff on them.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:At the end of Chapter 6, Fu Hua defeats her when she turns berserk; she's then taken to Schicksal's main HQ. Theresa vows to rescue her, which happens in Ch. 7.]]
* DeathFromAbove: The last part of Void Drifter's branch attack, as well as her QTE, has her falling down onto her enemies [[SwordPlant with her "lance"]], striking enemies in an area and giving them her special debuff.
* DefrostingIceQueen: A more platonic example. She initially had little respect towards Himeko (whom she calls "aunt"), but over the years she has come to show some respect to her teacher, culminating in her becoming the source of Kiana's resolve at the end of ch. 11-EX.
* DrivenToSuicide: At some point after [[spoiler:her Herrscher powers are suppressed]], she attempted to commit suicide [[spoiler:to prevent Sirin from taking over her again]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler:Fu Hua's spirit]] stopped her from doing so.
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler:As Herrscher of the Void, her voice is much deeper, with [[VoiceOfTheLegion Kiana's and Sirin's voice superimposed]], [[CreepyMonotone a robotic tone]] and [[PowerEchoes a slight echo]].]]
* {{Expy}}: She's the main heroine who wields two guns and is a KickChick, is part of a PowerTrio of school friends, is very emotionally-driven, a LethalChef, a BookDumb and strong fighter, [[spoiler:is a clone of a major character, has a SuperpoweredEvilSide that takes her over and wants to destroy the world, and a red hero with a sword performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop her (although in Himeko's case, it's lethal) and she later learns to use her evil side's power for herself]]. She's definitely one of [[Videogame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]] [[spoiler:and Mu-12]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Part of the backstory mentions that some time after Cecilia's death, Siegfried decided to run away from the Schicksal (helped by Theresa), taking Kiana with him. However, the Extra Story "Everlasting Memory" has Otto mention that he has Kiana in his custody, while Siegfried instead took something called "Experiment K423" with him. Then Chapter 7 of the Story Mode reveals that [[spoiler:the playable Kiana (whose story we follow up to this chapter) is actually [[CloningBlues Experiment K423]]]].
** A more minor one: after an update, in the Dorm, you may occasionally see Kiana muttering to herself that she had a nightmare where she hurts Mei. She's really angry at such a thought and hopes that that will never happen in real life. [[spoiler:In story mode, as Herrscher of the Void she not only beats Mei quite badly, she later steals Mei's Herrscher Core, leaving her in critical condition (though she recovers later).]]
* FrickinLaserBeams: Knight Moonbeam's QTE attack rains {{homing lasers}} on the battlefield.
* GamerChick: Enjoys videogames, but she always loses to Bronya.
* GiantFootOfStomping: With White Comet or Divine Prayer, certain attacks make her summon giant robotic cat paws from dimensional holes to strike her foes, akin to VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'s Wicked Weaves.
* GunFu: Kiana’s fighting style in all of her battle suits consists either of ranged gun shots, or physically attacking using her guns.
* GunsAkimbo: She [[DualWielding dual-wields]] pistols as her primary weapons.
* HairDecorations: In all of her battle outfits, she wears a black hairband. [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void loses the hairband, but instead she has a hair ornament shaped like a cross. Kiana retains this ornament as Void Drifter.]]
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: The fight against [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] at the end of Chapter 8 will end before you can deplete the boss' health, and then the scene afterwards shows her overpowering you.
* HesBack: Kiana spends two entire chapters in complete disarray following the conclusion of Chapter IX, [[spoiler:where Himeko sacrifices herself to suppress the Herrscher of the Void and bring Kiana back to her senses.]] Unable to cope with the guilt of indirectly killing a friend (among ''other things''), she goes missing for several months, and it's only in Chapter XI-EX that we get back to her side of the story, still visibly reeling from the emotional trauma. [[spoiler:It takes a Honkai attack on Arc City and a little pep talk from Himeko's ghost for Kiana to take up arms again and use part of her Herrscher powers to fight the beasts.]] This is manifested into gameplay as the Void Drifter suit.
* HumansAreInsects: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's view about humans, which Himeko proceeds to [[LampshadeHanging make fun]] [[BadassBoast of]].]]
* IdiotHero: As revealed in some levels' pre-battle dialogue, Kiana is very neglectful in her studies and frequently fails her exams at St. Freya. She's also simple-minded, stubborn and very emotionally-driven, which sometimes makes her come off as childish.
* ImprovisedPlatform: In story cutscenes, [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] is able to walk in the air with shining small platforms under her feet.
* KickChick: Her melee attacks, especially as White Comet, often are based around kicks.
* KnightOfCerebus: With the introduction of [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]], ''[[FromBadToWorse everything goes downhill]]'', '''fast'''.
* LethalChef:
** She's quite clumsy when it comes to cooking. Either the resulting dish ends up distorted because of her methods, or it's a mishmash of unfitting ingredients that she thought would taste unique.
** It's also the focus of the interaction with her in the DatingSim mode, with her trying to be a better cook.[[note]]In the end, she at least manages to make a completely normal omurice, although Mei (who tried it) told Kiana that it's still flawed and she has to practice more. The Captain is at least relieved that [[DamnedByFaintPraise it doesn't turn out as crazy as her usual cooking]].[[/note]]
** In the Chinese New Year event, where the Valkyries cook a lot of food for a feast party, she gets paired with Fu Hua and the latter deliberately makes her do simpler stuff in order to keep her from ruining the cooking.
** In one of the side comics, she at least knows one thing she can cook well: pizza toasts, which she learned from her father (who's revealed to be a similarly bad cook, as well).
* LoadBearingBoss: The moment [[spoiler:Himeko injects the Honkai-neutralizing vaccine into her]], the PocketDimension they're in collapses.
* {{Mascot}}: She's one for miHoYo as a whole, as she first appeared in their very first game, ''Fly Me 2 The Moon'' (also known as "Houkai 1st") and their later games also feature her in some form.
* MeaningfulEcho:
** A cutscene in ch. 11-EX has her echoing what her teacher Himeko says at ch. 9 [[spoiler:as her FamousLastWords]]:
-->'''Kiana:''' I will change this imperfect world... into the one I want!
** A subtler gameplay example: Void Drifter's optimal gameplay is to use her normal attack or QTE to give her special debuff onto enemies, then use her branch attack sequence twice until she "overheats", then cool it down with her Ultimate Skill, and repeat her branch attack again until she overheats again and has to switch out. This is similar to how Himeko as Vermilion Knight plays, only that she can sustain it longer because she can use her low-cost Ultimate Skill multiple times (but only when she has enough SP to be able to repeat it). Their QTE attacks are also similar.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is taken from the moon goddess of Myth/HinduMythology. As such, she has many moon-related themes, including her crescent moon-shaped small IdiotHair.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void fights differently from any other Kiana. She almost never uses her guns, her long-ranged attacks are flexible, and she has a ChargedAttack instead of other Kianas' branch attack. She's also among the few (such as her other suit, Knight Moonbeam) who's able to activate Ultimate Evasion's effects[[note]]for her, it's creating a [[TimeStandsStill time-stopping bubble]] that stops the movements of enemies in it and those that walk into it[[/note]] without actually evading an attack; instead, she can [[IntangibleMan phase through enemies]] with her evasion move to activate it.]]
* TheMedic: Kiana’s Divine Prayer battle suit serves as this, with its ability to heal the entire party with her normal attacks (with a chance), team skill, Ultimate Evasion, QTE, and Ultimate Skill.
* MismatchedEyes: In her childhood, she had her right eye covered in bandages; when it's opened, her right eye is gold. It's blue in the present, however. [[spoiler:It's part of her having the 2nd Herrscher's core put into her. As Void Drifter, her right eye turns gold again after her Herrscher power gets partially unsealed, giving her control over it.]]
* TheMusketeer: "Void Drifter" changes her fighting style from pure gunner to gun and sword-like lance.
* MultiDirectionalBarrage: Knight Moonbeam's branch attack is to spin around while firing her guns to all directions.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Her white hair is evocative of the powerful and nigh-mystical Kaslana family.
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Her Herrscher of the Void form is heavily based on the game's predecessor ''Guns [=GirlZ=]'''s final story boss God Kiana.]]
* NerdActionHero: She's a comic book geek and a GamerChick while simultaneously being a Honkai asskicker.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] seem to dread [[spoiler:the [[DeadlyUpgrade Vermilion Knight armor]] Himeko wears]], as she recognized the Herrscher core used to power it, giving it the similar power as Judgement of Shamash's.
* OutOfFocus: From chapter 9-EX to 11, the story doesn't put focus on her as she's somehow missing. She only has a cameo in a photo, which the other good guys are using to try to look for her. She comes back to focus in ch. 11-EX, which shows her current whereabouts: the wreckage of Arc City.
* {{Overheating}}: In a variant, Void Drifter's branch attack would make her fill a gauge. If it's filled to full, she'll stun both herself and the enemies around her for 3 seconds, then the gauge slowly empties, during which she cannot use her branch attack. The only way to get out of said stun (aside from not overusing it in the first place) is 1) by switching out, or 2) by using her Ultimate Skill, or 3) (in CoopMultiplayer only) by using her team skill. Bizarrely, she also has a sub-skill that allows her to buff her teammates by intentionally filling her special gauge to full.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her mother died when she was young, and her father abandoned her some years after. As shown in a supplementary comic, she doesn't seem to remember where her father went after a certain event where he [[spoiler:lost his left arm after using his Judgment of Shamash's fully released state]]. This is lampshaded by herself both in game and in the comic, where she says that she wants to beat him so badly for making her miss him so much.
* PillarOfLight: More like "Pillar of Darkness", but Void Drifter's Ultimate Skill has her creating a pillar-like burst of spatial collapse around her, launching enemies upwards.
* PocketDimension: The battle between [[spoiler:Herrscher of The Void against Himeko (in her Vermilion Knight battlesuit)]] takes place in one.
* PowerFloats: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void always floats, like Bronya.]]
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void has longer and looser hair than normal Kiana. Also Void Drifter, by extension.]]
* PowerParasite: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void in Chapter 9 defeats Mei and then takes out her Herrscher core, critically injuring her in the process. This gives her access to Mei's abilities; in a later boss fight she can utilize lightning attacks as well, and becomes practically immune to lightning damage.]]
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void merely teleports away when her hit points reach zero rather than collapse like Kiana's other battlesuits.]]
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: In Kiana's regular VictoryPose, she aims a handgun at the camera while winking.
* SempaiKohai: In the Japanese voiceover, she addresses Mei as "Mei-senpai".
* SexyScandinavian: Her place of birth is Northern Europe.
* ShortRangeGuyLongRangeGuy: As White Comet and Divine Prayer, she fights mostly in melee. As Valkyrie Ranger and Knight Moonbeam, she fights at range with her guns.
* SkywardScream: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's final act after Himeko successfully injects the Honkai-neutralizing serum into her.]]
* SpaceMaster: [[spoiler:As the "Herrscher of the Void", she's able to manipulate spacetime, allowing herself to [[{{Teleportation}} teleport around]], distort spacetime to create damaging spatial collapses, and create [[ThinkingWithPortals dimensional portals]], from which she can [[SpikeShooter shoot spikes]] and [[SummonMagic summon Honkai Beasts]], as well as (in story) [[CatchAndReturn turn any ranged attack back to the attacker]] (which is reused for her playable self as her Ultimate Skill). Later on, normal Kiana manages to use some of the Herrscher's powers, becoming Void Drifter in the process.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: One of the supplementary comics mentions that she stands in the way of Bronya and Cocolia trying to use Mei for their plans.
* StatSticks: [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void, unlike other Kianas, doesn't actually use her guns in her normal attacks. Her IdleAnimation shows that she puts her guns inside one of her portals. She does, however, visibly attack with the guns if you choose to activate the weapon's active skill.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: In a supplementary comic, [[EyeColorChange her eyes turn gold]] during certain moments, most notably when she recalls her old memories. In the game itself, this happens in [[spoiler:the climax of Chapter 6 when she realized that all of her adventures from Chapter 5 isn't real and she uses the "magic words" that she had used throughout the chapter, and later, as her will gets taken over by the 2nd Herrscher (in Chapter 8)]].
* SuperMode:
** White Comet's Ultimate Skill makes her attacks accompanied with giant robotic cat paws from dimensional holes, giving her more power and range; her SP will be slowly depleted to zero while it's in use.
** Divine Prayer's Ultimate Skill is similar to White Comet's, but also activates [[BulletTime Time Fracture]] for the whole duration and [[HealThyself slowly heals the whole team]]. Said effects will still be active even if you switch her out for another teammate. Her SP will be slowly depleted to zero while it's in use.
** [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's ChargedAttack activates "Herrscher Mode" where, after a BadassFingersnap attack that causes a large explosion, her attacks are faster and enhanced, and she moves faster as well. It runs off the special 2-part gauge above the HP gauge.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:By virtue of having the 2nd Herrscher's core inside her body, she gets a Herrscher side that's awakened at the end of Chapter 8, courtesy of Otto from the previous chapter. She aims for humanity's destruction as a "Honkai agent" and she's much more powerful than her regular self. Chapter 9 shows that this evil side is specifically Sirin's consciousness, brought out from the Herrscher core inside Kiana's body.]]
* SymbolicWings: Aside from the Valkyrie symbol (stylized pair of wings) that many Valkyries share, as Knight Moonbeam she has wings of light trailing off her back. [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void, meanwhile, has only one proper wing, while the other side has spikes arranged with the shape of a wing.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: Chapter 11-EX [[InternalReveal has her finally learn the truth about herself]]: [[spoiler:that she's a clone made from Kaslana and Schariac genes, as well as that of Sirin, as part of Otto's project; among other clones, she has the core of the Herrscher of the Void put into her, giving her sapience. In her mind, Sirin says that the two were basically victims of humans, and that her fate ([[RaisedAsAHost as a "vessel"]]) was sealed since before her conception. She also says that her longtime friends would see her differently and try to "save" her by destroying her. The twist is that Kiana actually ''knew'' something was inside her back when she unwittingly awakened the Herrscher's powers when she was 12, but she intentionally suppressed her mind, trying to forget "HER" (Sirin) and what happened. It's just that the truth was far uglier than she thought.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the tomboy to Mei’s girly girl, due to the fact that she enjoys games and manga and opts to wear [[WhoWearsShortShorts shorts]] in most of her battle suits and costumes.
* TookALevelInBadass: Version 3.3 introduces her own Augment Core upgrade for Valkyrie Ranger, like Mei and Bronya before her, called "Void Drifter". It improves her playstyle greatly, allowing her to dish out much more damage, dash faster and support her teammates better. It also coincides with such a moment in the story, where, after [[spoiler:some pep talk from "Himeko" inside her mind]], she manages to use some of [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]]'s powers by her sheer will, allowing her to overpower the Honkai Beasts around her.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ramen, usually instant ones. She also makes a mooncake out of instant ramen and its sauce as a consumable item.
* TraumaCongaLine: The more the story progresses, the more you realize [[StepfordSmiler exactly how much she is repressing]].
** Initially it "only" seems that Kiana is dealing with a case of DisappearedDad which she's hellbent on solving, but it eventually turns out she's always hurt from never knowing anything about her MissingMom. Kiana was seemingly abandoned by Siegfried when she was not even a teenager, after which she spent the following years searching for him through several ''continents'' entirely on her own, [[AdultFear with all that entails]], including Honkai-infested lands and apparently even being involved in a school murder case as a near-victim.
** After a near-death experience helping Mei seal the Third Herrscher personality, she joins Schicksal, where she lives happily until Mei gets kidnapped by Anti-Entropy, which [[DwindlingParty quickly results in Bronya nearly dying and falling into a coma and the death of Wendy]].
** In one of the supplementary comics, at one point she gets depressed because Himeko is critically injured (after the events of Chapter Xuanyuan and Chiyou in the game) and she felt like she isn't strong enough to prevent it.
** Then she winds up in a data recreation of the Second Honkai War, where she is able to interact with and get to know her long-dead mother through a recreation of her memories for whom she discovers an extremely potent love, [[spoiler:[[YankTheDogsChain only for it to turn out to be all a ruse]] designed by the Second Herrscher to [[DespairEventHorizon break Kiana's will and make her reject the real world]].]] This leads to Kiana [[spoiler:[[DistressedDamsel being captured by Schicksal]]]].
** [[BigBad Overseer Otto]] then [[spoiler:uses her to revive the Second Herrscher]]. This is only possible because [[spoiler:the Kiana we know is actually [[CloningBlues a clone of the true Kiana]] with an implant of the Second Herrscher's core]]. The former revelation takes place in Otto's reports of Theresa's origins, with an accompanying shot of [[spoiler:[[HarmfulToMinors a child Kiana blindfolded and in chains]]]] just to drive home what her [[spoiler:''real'']] childhood was like.
* {{Tsundere}}: In the higher bond levels, Kiana will act like this towards the Captain. She's more open with her feelings towards other people, however. Also, [[spoiler:the Herrscher of the Void takes this role in the Valkyrie Dorms. Mei even refers to the Herrscher as Kiana's "rebellious phase".]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Himeko proves to be a match for Herrscher of the Void, she angrily throws ''everything'' at her with reckless abandon. After Himeko injects her with a serum that neutralizes the Honkai energy inside her, all she can do is let a scream in pure rage.]]
* VillainShoes: A few stages in Chapter 9 have you [[spoiler:controlling Herrscher of the Void to battle Theresa's Violet Executer suit, and later, Fu Hua's Shadow Knight suit]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Entire data about [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] will reveal what happened from Chapters 7 to 9 entirely, as well as her true nature.
* TheWatson: Due to being BookDumb she often has to have someone [[{{Exposition}} explain some in-universe information]] that she should've learned. This conveniently also gives info to the player.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe:
** Valkyrie Ranger's Ultimate Evasion skill is to create an UnrealisticBlackHole where she stood on, sucking nearby enemies to one place. If she's ranked S, the black hole has increased effective range and duration. As Void Drifter, she can also create a black hole by the last part of her normal combo, though this comes with a cooldown on its own; her black holes also have less effective range than normal Valkyrie Ranger's.
** [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void can also create a black hole in her combo, which also sucks nearby enemies to it and then damages them with ReverseShrapnel of spikes.]]
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[[folder:Raiden Mei]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' [=TetraCalyx=] (Chinese), Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Lightning Princess]]

She is the daughter of the Master Electric (ME) Corp's CEO. When she was young, her father were arrested and most of her family assets were seized due to her father’s criminal activities, and she was later captured to be part of a Honkai-related experiment. This event has caused her to be cold and distant towards others, though her friendship with Kiana has caused her to become more gentle and caring. She also has great power sealed within her, which was unleashed during the Choukuu City event, causing her to become the 3rd Herrscher. After Kiana stopped her, she joined Schicksal shortly after to learn to control her power.\\
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Her battlesuits are Crimson Impulse (B-rank BIO-type), Valkyrie Bladestrike (A BIO), Shadow Dash (A MECH), and Lightning Empress (S PSY).
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* AdvertisedExtra: InUniverse in the more [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking events]], Mei will complain how she has little to no presence in the story despite the fact that she's supposed to be one of the PowerTrio. This first shows up in the Winter Rhapsody event where the orchestrator couldn't find a proper character for her to play [[PlayingATree but found a cute reindeer costume for her to wear]], and continues in the Summer Battle event with her passive ability "Give me more lines or taste 5 Elemental DMG that ignores DEF"
* BackStab: Shadow Dash has a passive skill that lets her do more damage if she attacks the enemy's back. Her team skill will also let her co-op teammates do the same.
* BetrayalInsurance:
** Before she enrolled into St. Freya Academy, she feared that her Herrscher self may one day come out and injure people again. Himeko suggested that she have a bomb planted near her heart that will go off if her Herrscher self ever resurfaces again. After it's done, she starts studying there.
** In a separate comic, her Herrscher self does come out, which causes said bomb to start a countdown of 5 minutes; it also hurts her chest so she's forced to subdue herself before it's too late.
** The game's Chapter 8 has her requesting Theresa to deactivate the bomb inside her. Theresa allows it, which later causes Mei's Herrscher self to resurface (albeit with less influence than before).
* {{BFS}}:
** Valkyrie Bladestrike's ultimate skill is a SuperMode that gives her a blade aura that gives her attacks greatly increased reach, allowing her to attack multiple opponents at once.
** If Crimson Impulse reaches SS rank, she can gain a sub-skill that modifies her ultimate skill so that it also elongates her sword's reach for a duration like Valkyrie Bladestrike after the initial SwordBeam.
* BladeSpam: Her branch attack (and switch-in attack) as Valkyrie Bladestrike is a series of very fast slashes that you can prolong by ButtonMashing the attack button. After the Augment Core upgrade, the attack is improved so that she can move around while slashing her target, alleviating the "sitting duck" problem of said attack. The same upgrade also changes her QTE into a flurry of slashes around her as she falls toward the target.
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:Having the Gem of Conquest (her Herrscher Core) yanked off her body leaves her comatose for months]], but it didn't slow her down a bit afterward, which Rita lampshades in the fight against her.
* CrissCrossAttack: Lightning Empress' QTE attack has her criss-crossing in midair to slash the enemy(ies) around her. Her Ultimate Skill is a more powerful version of it.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:She's captured by Anti-Entropy in Chapter 3, and most of Chapter 4 is spent trying to rescue her.]]
* DashAttack: Shadow Dash's branch attack (can also be done after her dodge move, and as a switch-in attack) is her dashing forward for an upward slash that launches enemies upward, and the attack can be continued with a powerful circular slash. Her QTE attack is a more powerful version of it.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Shadow Dash can summon shadow clones as her Ultimate Evasion effect to both attack and distract the opponent. Her Ultimate Skill lets her summon a more powerful clone, or 2 less powerful clones if she's ranked SS (3 when she's SSS).
* IdiotHair: Mei also has an ahoge like Kiana and it is longer.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: An event-only costume for Valkyrie Bladestrike is her in a beautiful white dress.
* TheLancer: The calmer, more level-headed counterpart to the excitable and BookDumb Kiana.
* MagikarpPower: Shadow Dash at first isn't all that impressive, with rather weak attacks and Ultimate Skill. Get her to Rank S, though, and she can upgrade her branch attack into something more powerful, as well as allowing her Ultimate Evasion to summon an extra shadow clone. Get her to Rank SS and she can summon 2 clones in her Ultimate Skill.
* MeaningfulName: Her Lightning Empress battle suit gives her lightning-based attacks, very fitting for someone named after the Japanese god of thunder.
* NerfArm: She (and Sakura by extension) has a number of blades from events that appear like {{Joke Item}}s, like a candy cane or even a ''really stiff fish'', yet they are 5-star weapons, thus powerful blades (although less powerful than "regular" 5-star blades).
* {{Ninja}}: She uses a {{katana|sAreJustBetter}} as her primary weapon, and is generally the fastest out of all the Valkyries. Her fighting style is also stated to be partially based on ninjutsu. As Valkyrie Bladestrike and Shadow Dash, however, she fights more like a samurai.
* OneeSama: Bronya calls her "Mei-neesama" and looks up to her.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Her Herrscher self believes that only she is allowed to kill Kiana, because of a grudge that's caused by Kiana having suppressed her (multiple times) in the past.
* OutOfFocus: In Ch. 9-[=EX2=], the heroes' group [[LetsSplitUpGang split up]]; Mei and Dr. Tesla goes to find Kiana while Bronya, Theresa and Dr. Einstein goes to the Eye of the Deep. Ch. 10 focuses on the latter group, leaving Mei offscreen for 2 chapters.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Mei's regular VictoryPose makes her draw a blade towards the camera.
* ShamuFu: In the joke event Mei's Kenjutsu Training, she beats up enemies using a piece of stiff and salty tuna.
* ShockAndAwe:
** Her power as the 3rd Herrscher is manipulation of electricity. As Lightning Empress, she's stated to be able to control her lightning power by her own mind and limit her Herrscher self's influence on her. She can use lightning attacks to heavily damage and [[TheParalyzer paralyze enemies]].
** After the Augment Core upgrade, Valkyrie Bladestrike shocks enemies in the last part of her normal combo, throws electric disks as her DashAttack (that consumes "ammo" and is replenished through normal attacks), and casts lightning when entering SuperMode.
* {{Shoryuken}}: Her branch attack as Crimson Impulse has her do a jumping upward slash while [[SpinAttack spinning]], [[LauncherMove launching close enemies into the air]]. It can be upgraded (after reaching SS rank) to make her able to do it twice in a row. Her QTE attack is a more powerful version of it, ending with a SwordPlant from above that creates a burst of energy.
* SingleStrokeBattle: Valkyrie Bladestrike's QTE attack is a powerful single slash as she dashes through the enemy, which then deals extra damage after she stops. In her Augment Core upgrade, the final slash in her normal combo is changed into this, that also [[TheParalyzer paralyzes enemies hit by it]].
* SituationalDamageAttack: After Valkyrie Bladestrike's Augment Core upgrade, her Ultimate Skill's activation deals damage to the enemies around her; the more combo hits she did before the activation, the stronger the damage becomes.
* SpinAttack: Aside from the {{Shoryuken}} above, Lightning Empress' branch attack is her doing up to 3 circular slashes that deal lightning elemental damage around her.
* SplitPersonalityTeam Up: In the last stage of Chapter 8, her Herrscher self comes out to help her to fight against [[spoiler:Herrscher Kiana]]. In particular, Herrscher Mei makes note on how it's rare to have the goals of both sides of her selves align.
* StatuesqueStunner: She is the tallest Valkyrie at 172 cm (~5'8").
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Her powers as the 3rd Herrscher come with a SplitPersonality that's more ruthless and considers her regular self pathetic. In separate supplementary comics, when one of her friends is heavily injured by someone/something, it causes her Herrscher self to go on a rampage. She's able to manipulate electricity in a large scale.
* SwordBeam: Crimson Impulse's ultimate skill is to shoot out a wide, slow-moving, multi-hitting crescent beam out of her sword.
* TeamChef: She's mainly the one to cook for her friends. Himeko likes her cooking, and Yae Sakura has a dialogue in the dorms where she compliments Mei on some barbecue that she made.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the girly girl to Kiana’s tomboy, due to the fact that she cooks and opts to wear skirts and dresses for many of her battle suits and costumes.
* TookALevelInBadass: Version 2.9 gave Valkyrie Bladestrike a major overhaul in her system, called "Augment Core". It modifies many of her skills and attacks, making her more powerful and useful. It also comes with a new outfit called "Striker Fulminata" where [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange she has shorter hair]]. In-story, all of these augments are made by Tesla of Anti-Entropy to aid her.
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[[folder:Bronya Zaychik]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Hanser (Chinese), Creator/KanaAsumi (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:275:The Armored Bunny]]

Bronya was a Russian orphan who was raised as an assassin since she was young. Eventually she was sent to assassinate Cocolia, a member of Anti-Entropy, but failed in her mission. Instead of killing her, Cocolia took pity on Bronya and took her to be raised in her orphanage. There Bronya was experimented on, gaining the power to use Honkai energy, enabling her to, among other things, [[PowerFloats levitate]], [[{{Hammerspace}} pull her cannon and her support puppet robot Project Bunny 19C out of nowhere]], and [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind enter people's minds]], but losing her emotions as a result. Later, by Cocolia’s orders, she was sent to St. Freya High School in order to spy on Schicksal.\\
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Her battlesuits are Valkyrie Chariot (B-rank PSY-type), Yamabuki Armor (A PSY), Snowy Sniper (A BIO), Dimension Breaker (S MECH), Wolf's Dawn (A PSY, awakened Yamabuki Armor), Black Nucleus (S BIO, awakened Snowy Sniper) and [[spoiler:Herrscher of Reason (S MECH, awakened Dimension Breaker)]].
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In the event "Seele's Quantum Diary", a scene in the past shows Roza and Lili eavesdropping on Bronya wanting to go outside with Seele (when the outside was still dangerous for children due to wars) and they "threaten" to snitch to their foster mother... all with Roza ChewingTheScenery (or trying to, at least) while saying so and Lili only half-heartedly following along. Bronya can barely hold her laughter back.
* AdventuresInComaland: The Extra Stage "Dilemma Dreamland" covers her journey inside her mind (accompanied by Fu Hua) after she fell into a coma following the events of Chapter 4. There, she'll try rediscovering herself and fight her inner demons.
* AnimalMotifs: The rabbit; [[MeaningfulName her last name means "bunny" in Russian]], she's a fan of the plush bunny HOMU, and her support robot is called Project Bunny 19c.
* AlphaStrike: Black Nucleus' ultimate skill is to immobilize the target and surround them with cannons from every side, which proceed to bombard them for heavy damage. Its boss version (Dark Bronya) has a different one where it arranges multiple portals above her with cannons inside them, which then bombard a large area.
* BackStab: Black Nucleus has a passive skill that increases her damage if she attacks the enemy's back.
* BadassBiker: The Seele event in v3.1 reveals that Bronya was trained to ride a motorcycle when she was a ChildSoldier. [[spoiler:When she gains the power of the Herrscher of Reason, Project Bunny gains [[TransformingMecha an alternate]] [[CoolBike motorcycle mode]] that Bronya gets to ride in her battle against Tlaloc, [[HighSpeedMissileDodge skillfully dodging the monster's tentacles]] by driving on a [[SteppingStonesInTheSky holographic road]], then proceeding to ram Tlaloc's head at full speed. As a playable character, she uses her bike when roaming in the Open World stages (Sakura Samsara, Schicksal HQ, and a few others), allowing you to go around faster]].
* BecomingTheMask: She was tasked by Anti-Entropy to follow Mei so that one day she could capture her, but by the time she enrolled into St. Freya Academy (along with Mei and Kiana), she grew genuinely fond of Mei.
* {{BFG}}: [[SmallGirlBigGun She mainly wields a variety of heavy artillery.]] It can be either a rocket launcher that fires strong rockets, a cluster missile launcher that fires a MacrossMissileMassacre, or a laser cannon that fires a continuous laser.
* BlindedByTheLight: One of Dark Bronya's attacks (which is used as Black Nucleus' team skill) is to throw a small ball of light up, which then emits a flash of light like a flashbang that stuns her opponents (unless you turn away from her).
* BrokenPedestal: She [[ThisIsUnforgivable finds it hard to forgive Cocolia]] after what she's done to her[[note]]e.g [[VillainOverride taking control of her body and ordering her to attack her friends without her consent]], and possibly other questionable things she ordered her foster child to do[[/note]], and she finds Cocolia's obsession with Herrschers rather unsettling (considering she got to be friends with Mei and Wendy as well). However, she can't deny that Cocolia has been kind to her (as a foster mother) either, a feeling that her orphanage friends Rozaliya & Liliya reinforce.
* CallBack:
** The control chip inside her brain (that she fried in ch. 4, resulting in her coma) gets referenced in Chapter 9-[=EX2=]​, as Gray Serpent invades Hyperion's system.
--->'''Gray Serpent''': Remember that control switch that Cocolia left in your brain? \\
'''Bronya''': That chip should be burnt out. \\
'''Gray Serpent''': You're right, it no longer functions. But the pain it brought should be more permanent.
** In the end of her side story "Dilemma Dreamland", Bronya (inside her mind) tells Fu Hua that (the ability to) enter other people's minds isn't something to be proud of. Later, [[spoiler:when Fu Hua reappears in her mind in Chapter 9-[=EX2=], Bronya says the same line. The twist is that Fu Hua says that she isn't the real Fu Hua, but one of her "feathers" that she left in Bronya's mind]].
* CallForward: The supplementary comic "Valkyrie's Dining Escapades" shows Bronya cooking borscht, with her being reminded of her time with her old friend Seele. The mini-event "Seele's Diary" shows that Seele was the one who taught Bronya how to cook borscht.
* CarFu: At the end of Chapter 11, [[spoiler:she charges her motorcycle through Tlaloc's arms, into its mouth, and out of the back of its head, obliterating everything above its shoulders in the process. As a playable character, her QTE and Ultimate Skill has her ramming the enemy with her bike (and, for the latter, [[AlphaStrike shooting the enemy with multiple beams from multiple cannons from many sides at once]]), and in her "bike mode" she has a strong SpinAttack with the bike]].
* ChargedAttack: Her artillery shots can be charged to become more powerful; her rocket launcher can fire a volley of powerful rockets, her cluster missile launcher can fire a multitude of {{Homing Projectile}}s, and her laser will do more DamageOverTime.
* ChildSoldier: She has faced the battlefield even before she became a teenager. [[LittleMissBadass She's rather coldly efficient at it, too]]. This gives her a cold disposition that often sets Seele off.
-->'''Seele:''' Did you play on a swing before? \\
'''Bronya:''' Nyet. But I played with Avtomat Kalashnikova and Dragunova.
* ColdSniper: She was one in her backstory as an assassin, with a reference to the real life sniper Simo Hayha. Nowadays she's largely the same, only that she's much colder than before and she uses heavy artillery instead of sniper rifles. Literally as Snowy Sniper, with her gaining [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] that she can use to freeze enemies.
* TheCracker: She's good at hacking through networks and security systems, and is generally computer-savvy.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff:
** Yamabuki Armor's uncharged shot gives enemies the "impaired" state that lowers their defense. After her Augment Core upgrade, however, it gives an enemy an AreaOfEffect that weakens their damage output, makes enemy in the AOE less resistant to flinching and increases damage taken to their ArmorMeterPoints (and [[HealThyself slowly heals the whole team]] whenever the DeflectorShield "beats" and hits the affected enemies).
** [[spoiler:Herrscher of Reason]] can inflict a unique "analyse" debuff on enemies (through various means) that increases her damage output against them.
* DeadpanSnarker: Despite her lack of emotions, Bronya is still capable of dealing verbal jabs here and there, mostly towards Kiana.
* DeathSeeker: Only in one case in her backstory, where she wants to be put in Anti-Entropy's quantum experiment, knowing that she'll "die" in the process. This was apparently so that [[TogetherInDeath she can meet Seele, who had undergone the same experiment and "disappeared"]]. However, once she had her brief reunion with Seele, the latter tells her to go away to stay alive, and find a way to rescue Seele from her current state.
-->'''Seele:''' You're my hope, Bronya. You're the bravest and strongest person I've known. You'll find a way to rescue me. Staying here with me would mean you've given up hope and chose to run away...
* DeclarationOfProtection: In "Seele's Diary", she wanted to take Seele out to the closest amusement park, but the latter warned her that it's dangerous outside; she then says "I'll protect you". In other occasions she's also instinctively protective of Seele whenever the latter is feeling down.
* DeflectorShields:
** Yamabuki Armor has a passive skill that creates a spherical barrier for the whole team (and summoned friends and/or friendly escorts, if there are any) that blocks physical damage and can explode to deal damage if the shield is broken; the shield will regenerate if no attacks hit you for 6 seconds. If she's ranked S, she can make the shield stronger. After her Augment Core upgrade, her barrier becomes even stronger with it being based off a percentage of her HP and DEF. It also "beats" and deals a small amount of damage at intervals to close enemies[[note]]its damage is based on the active character, and can also trigger passive abilities from said character[[/note]], it buffs the character's melee physical damage and crit rate whenever it's active, and when the shield explodes, it can [[TheParalyzer paralyze nearby enemies]]. However, it no longer automatically regenerates--to reset the shield you have to perform her QTE, her Ultimate Skill or (at SSS rank) her Perfect Defense.
** Wolf's Dawn has a similar passive skill, but for elemental damage.
* EmotionlessGirl: She speaks in a deadpan monotone and in a [[TheSpock polite, direct and terse way of speaking]]. She's also very rational and and logical thinking, which makes her clash with the intuition- and emotionally-driven Kiana. While she can still feel emotions deep down, she has difficulties recognizing and expressing them. This is due to her suffering brain damage in her backstory.
* {{Fangirl}}: She's a big one to the plush bunny named HOMU, which is one of the game's mascots. Some of her outfits have the face of HOMU (or a silhouette of it) plastered onto them. She has been a fan even back when she was a ChildSoldier and then got put into Cocolia's orphanage. In the "HOMU Rush!" event, when her team is told to smash a statue of HOMU as part of the trial, she refuses, saying that she would defend the HOMU at all costs (including being beaten by Theresa).
* FirstKiss: In a supplementary comic focusing on her backstory, her best friend Seele shares her first kiss with her just before the former [[FadingAway fades away from reality]] due to the (failed) experiment done on her. The two insisted that it shall not be their LastKiss, and Seele's technically not dead (she's just unable to interact with the world or say anything to anyone, and vice versa), which leads to Bronya and Cocolia vowing to find a way to restore her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Seele's Quantum Diary", when Bronya and Seele saw a pack of motorbike riders going past them, Bronya said that she'll get a motorbike and the two can ride it to the beach. At the end of Ch. 11, she gets her NextTierPowerUp from [[spoiler:the Herrscher Core of Reason]] that transforms her Project Bunny into a more powerful form, that can [[TransformingMecha transform into a motorbike]].
* GamerChick:
** She's [[GodlikeGamer very good at various kind of games]], and regularly beats Kiana and others in them. The ManHua typically shows her playing against the other characters and easily winning even while she's [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask expertly preparing dessert with her other hand]].
** The Final HOMU Fantasy Raid has her practically taking over a MMORPG that she became obsessed over, with her godlike avatar serving as the Final Boss. One of the dates in the anniversary event shows that this even extends to things like basketball arcade games, where she handily beats the Captain if the player picks that option, thinking it would be an easy win due to her height.
** The anniversary summer event has her taking over miHoYo in order to realize her dream of making a HOMU-based game of her own.
** A later summer event ("Homu RUSH!") shows her being a game streamer during her off days.
* GirlishPigtails: Her hair is styled into twin drills with butterfly-shaped HairDecorations.
* GratuitousRussian: She uses "Da, nyet, spasiba" instead of "yes, no, thank you".
* GroundPunch:
** Valkyrie Chariot's switch-in attack is to [[DeathFromAbove fall from above]] and punch the ground with her Project Bunny. Her QTE is a stronger version of this, with the punch emitting a circular energy field that deals high damage.
** In Yamabuki Armor's Ultimate Skill, her Project Bunny will do a ground punch as the final hit of its combo attack.
** As Wolf's Dawn, her Project Bunny may sometimes punch the ground to attack enemies, which will send them airborne.
** Black Nucleus (both as the boss "Dark Bronya" and the playable version) slides in and punches the ground as her switch-in skill. In a variant, her QTE has her Project Bunny punch the ground with a charged cannon instead of its fist, which then releases a large explosion on the ground.
** Some of her weapon skills will have the Project Bunny punch the ground to generate different effects. Her stealth kill in Sakura Samsara mode is also executed this way.
* HandicappedBadass: She's one of the stronger (and [[GeniusCripple more brilliant]]) students in her academy and her legs are crippled. Downplayed in that her thigh-high metal boots are prostheses that allows her to walk normally.
* HeroicSacrifice: Around the climax of Chapter 4, [[spoiler:she fries the bio chip inside her brain that's controlling her in order to free herself from Cocolia's control and stop herself from hurting her friends, at the cost of her going comatose]]. Cocolia, who saw Bronya like her own child, [[OhCrap even begs her to stop it]].
-->'''Cocolia''': [[spoiler:Are you kidding me?! That chip is supposed to be implanted inside your brain! Are you trying to kill yourself?!]]
* HeroicSecondWind: At Ch. 11 act 16, she was defeated by [[spoiler:Seele's SplitPersonality]]. Act 17 has Joachim waking her up in her mind, exploring parts of the strange world she's in, all while hearing the voices of the people she met in the "bubble universes". At the end of the level, she solidifes her resolve, and act 18 has her wake up for real, ready to confront the boss again.
* HolographicTerminal: A bunch of these appear near Wolf's Dawn when she uses her Ultimate Skill.
* ImprovisedPlatform: in a variant, [[spoiler:Herrscher of Reason can create roads in the air as she rides on Project Bunny's bike form]].
* {{Invisibility}}: Black Nucleus' Ultimate Evasion and QTE effect is to activate "stealth mode" where she's invisible to her enemies and [[ReduceAggro stops drawing their aggro]]. This is useful for sneaking behind the enemy's back and then attacking them from behind, as well as escaping tough situations, and gives her increased speed. She'll exit the mode when she attacks (if she's charging her cannon, she won't be visible until she actually fires it), uses her Evasion move, gets hit, or switches out with her partner.
* JustFrameBonus: Dimension Breaker has an unique mechanic for her laser cannons where, after she overheats her laser, there'll be a shrinking circle near her laser's position. Pressing the attack button when the circle gets small enough will make her laser cool down instantly, allowing her to fire again immediately.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Bronya's [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/616908/6 Alloy_BRONYA game avatar]] in the "Himouto BRONYA Chan" manhua chapter is pretty much [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Big Boss]] in a HOMU Hat.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Her Project Bunny 19c can use the shield on its right arm to protect Bronya from attacks; the DefendCommand mechanic [[MechanicallyUnusualClass (which replaces the usual Evasion)]] is only used for Yamabuki Armor and Dimension Breaker valkyrie suits. If the shield button is released right after an attack is blocked, Bronya will do a CounterAttack (different for each of her suits).
* ManaShield: Dimension Breaker has a passive skill (that can be toggled on or off) that reduces her damage taken at the cost of burning bits of her SP per hit.
* MarionetteMaster: She has a mechanical puppet named "Project Bunny 19c" that aids her in attacks and (sometimes) defense.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: [[spoiler:Herrscher of Reason fights differently from any other Bronya: she has melee attacks as her normal attack, and her ChargedAttack, which still accomodates the variations of her heavy weapons, also works differently. It only requires her to fill a special gauge (by attacking, Ultimate Evasion or QTE) and it doesn't require charging time, allowing her to repeatedly bombard the enemies with the 3rd stage of her charged shots so long as she still has units in her gauge. Her laser cannons now only shoot short bursts of lasers instead of a continuous one. She's also able to activate Ultimate Evasion's effect ''after'' being hit (the "available" time frame is short, however). Her Ultimate Skill's effect is also rather unique, consisting of her riding on her CoolBike and evading enemies while she manifests multiple floating laser cannons to shoot enemies.]]
* TheMole: She's actually an agent of Anti-Entropy who infiltrates the Schicksal on their orders. She ends up betraying Kiana and Mei, but only because she is [[VillainOverride being controlled by Cocolia]]. Later, [[spoiler:Bronya comes to care about Mei so much that she decides to fry the control chip inside her brain (wrecking her own brain in the process) just to break herself free from Cocolia's control]].
* MythologyGag:
** The Wolf's Dawn outfit is based on one of the outfits she wore in the previous game, ''Benghuai Xueyuan'' (aka ''Guns [=GirlZ=]''). In a supplementary comic that takes place before the game's present, she still wears it (and her Project Bunny still has its PileBunker lance as its left arm, and she didn't wield a cannon yet).
** One of her weapons is [[GatlingGood a rotary cannon]] that was used by a (now deceased) Valkyrie in the past, as shown in the comic.
* NextTierPowerUp: While searching for Seele in the Sea of Quanta at the end of Ch. 11 (in the plotline animation "Cyberangel: ZERO Exception"), Bronya stumbles upon [[spoiler:the Herrscher Core of Reason (Joachim/Welt's core)]] and tries to grab it, only for it to go out of control and try to assimilate her, while also being simultaneously attacked by a Tlaloc. It isn't until Seele's spirit appears before her that Bronya snaps out of it and seizes full control of the thing, granting her and Project Bunny a massive upgrade and materialization powers [[spoiler:befitting of the Herrscher of Reason]], which she gets to demonstrate by curbstomping the Tlaloc.
* {{Overheating}}: Her laser cannons will overheat if used for too long, and she'll have to wait till they cool down to fire again. As Dimension Breaker, she has a passive skill that delays the overheat of the laser weapons and her Ultimate Skill allows her to continuously use laser weapons without overheating until the duration ends.
* ParentalAbandonment: She mentions in Ch. 4 that her real parents weren't there with her when she was little. [[OrphansOrdeal Then she was found by a mercenary group and trained to become a cold and efficient]] ChildSoldier until Cocolia found her and then adopted her.
* PileBunker: As Wolf's Dawn, her Project Bunny wields a huge JoustingLance-like pile bunker as its left arm. If she attacks the enemy with uncharged shots, her Project Bunny will do a thrusting attack with it, and her Ultimate Skill has Project Bunny smash the ground with it 3 times, hitting the enemies around it with the earth spikes that jut out of the ground.
* PlotDeviceAllAlong: Aside from her receiving it from Seele from "Imaginary Space", Project Bunny 19c otherwise looks and acts like a normal robot and has the capabilities of such. However, in ch. 11, it's shown that it can attack Quantum enemies normally when, as Joachim claims, normal weaponry would have a hard time hurting them.
* PowerFloats: While her prosthetics allow her to walk normally, she prefers floating around.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:At the end of Ch. 11, after gaining the power of Herrscher of Reason, her hair grows longer, reaching her hip.]]
* PromotedToPlayable: The Dark Bronya boss of Chapter 2 became playable as the S-rank Black Nucleus battlesuit.
* PuppetFighter:
** As Wolf's Dawn, her Project Bunny 19c is away from her at all times and will attack the enemies at its vicinity or if Bronya use uncharged attacks on a specific target. The enemies will [[DrawAggro try to attack Project Bunny]] while Bronya can shoot them from afar.
** Downplayed with Dimension Breaker, as her Project Bunny only detaches from her if she uses her Ultimate Skill. Like in Wolf's Dawn's case, it will grab the enemies' attention for several seconds, then release an explosion and finally teleport back to Bronya.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her Black Nucleus outfit is mainly black with red accents, and it represents her being controlled by Cocolia.
* RedBaron: In the past, as an assassin, she used to be called "Silver Wolf of Ural".
* SeeksAnothersResurrection: In one supplemental comic, her best friend Seele died in an experiment and she and Cocolia vowed to restore her somehow. They apparently thought Mei's powers as a Herrscher may be able to help them, which is part of the reason Bronya decided to go to the same school as Mei.
* ShieldBash:
** Yamabuki Armor's switch-in attack is to dash towards an enemy and then bash them with the shield on her Project Bunny's hand. Her QTE is a stronger version of it that also stuns the target.
** Wolf's Dawn has a similar switch-in attack, only that the Project Bunny detaches from her and then dashes at the enemy shield-first. Her QTE also works similarly.
* ShutUpHannibal: That can be double as the BadassBoast towards Gray Serpent as he proceeds to do a [[MindRape mental invasion]] on her in Chapter 9-[=EX2=].
-->'''Gray Serpent''': I know what you fear.\\
'''Bronya''': Fear? Bronya lives with it [[OrphansOrdeal since Bronya was born]].
* SpreadShot: As Black Nucleus, she has an unique ability that changes how her cluster missile works; instead of homing to multiple enemies, the missiles now spread out like shotgun pellets, which is good for both hitting a row of enemies and dealing high damage to a single enemy at close range.
* SquishyWizard: The modification to her body allows her to control Honkai energy and use it to achieve various feats, but her body is fragile; she has among the lowest HP count of the playable characters. Subverted by Yamabuki Armor which focuses on defense.
* StaircaseTumble: In the past, this happened to her courtesy of Sin Mal, who then stomped on her legs to damage them further. When Cocolia treated her, Bronya only claimed that she was "careless", but Cocolia knew that someone like Bronya can't be that careless, and then says that Bronya could've retaliated and broke the neck of the person who had pushed her down.
* SuperMode:
** Yamabuki Armor can enter one as her Ultimate Skill where she switches into melee combat mode with Project Bunny's powerful punches until her SP is depleted. If the enemies have the "impaired" status (whether by using her uncharged shots, team skill or some other means), the initial activation will put the enemies in a time-slowed state; when she punches the enemies in that state, [[HealThyself she can heal the whole team with each punch]]. After the Augment Core upgrade, her attacks during Ultimate now drag enemies towards her and put them in a time-slowed state, and her DeflectorShield continuously regenerates in the duration. It also strengthens the heal from the shield "beats" (the "beats" themselves are faster too), and this state will stay active even if you switch her out.
** [[spoiler:After you use Herrscher of Reason's Ultimate Skill, she enters a "bike mode" where she goes around with her bike. She'll repeatedly spawn laser cannons that [[BeamSpam spams beams]] at the enemies, and she also gains access to [[CarFu attacks with the bike itself]]. She also slowly [[HealThyself heals herself]] for as long as the mode lasts.]]
* SupportPartyMember: Most of her suits have supportive capabilities in one way or another. There are 2 exceptions to this:
** Black Nucleus has a lot of firepower, including her Ultimate Skill, which straight up deal high damage, while having little-to-no support capabilities.
** [[spoiler:Herrscher of Reason goes similarly, and is also the first Bronya that mainly deals [[AnIcePerson (ice) elemental damage]].[[note]]Snowy Sniper, despite her own control over ice, is only limited to freezing enemies with it.[[/note]]]]
* TeleportSpam: Dark Bronya (the boss of Chapter 2) has an attack pattern where it disappears, then appears for an attack, then disappears again, which is then repeated for around 4-5 times.
* TerrifyingRescuer: In the supplementary comic detailing her backstory, when she rescues Seele from kidnappers, Seele noted that Bronya has a scary look on her face the whole time.
* ThirdPersonPerson: A strange twist, in that she refers to herself as "the Bronya", almost as if she has somehow dissociated from herself. In her side story "Dilemma Dreamland", where she (temporarily) lost her memories, she uses "I" ("watashi" in Japanese voiceover) normally until she regained her memories; in the supplementary comic detailing her backstory, she also used "I" normally. There's also a humorous moment in the dorms where Mei, after asking Bronya if she wants to join her in the library, tells her that Kiana is actually in the library studying; this apparently shocks her so much that she says "...I will go, too."
* ThisIsADrill: [[spoiler:Herrscher of Reason's normal attack combo has her manifesting multiple drills to strike the enemies from multiple sides. Her ChargedAttack, if she uses rocket launchers, will be modified to make her fire drill-tipped rockets.]]
* TimeMaster: As Dimension Breaker, she's able to manipulate space-time to lock enemies in a time-slowed state, either in her Perfect Defense, switch-in attack, QTE, or team skill.
* TookALevelInBadass: Like Valkyrie Bladestrike (Mei) before her, Version 3.0 gave Yamabuki Armor a major overhaul in gameplay with her own Augment Core. It modified many of her skills and attacks, making her more powerful and useful, especially for support. It also came with a new outfit called "Drive Kometa". In-story, these upgrades are also made by Dr. Tesla of Anti-Entropy to help her.
* TragicKeepsake: Project Bunny 19c was given to her by Seele Vollerei as she sent Bronya back from the place she currently is in[[note]]i.e the Imaginary Space, where Seele ended up in after she fell victim to the experiment by Anti-Entropy[[/note]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Downplayed; she was a cold and brutally efficient ChildSoldier who nevertheless could still feel and express emotions, especially towards Seele. One of the diary entries of Seele's Quantum Diary shows that Bronya was kind to animals, too, with Seele noting that her cold gaze softens during so. The experiment done on her robbed her of her emotions (and the use of her legs), but her memories of the past (especially Seele) still remain. In the "Cyberangel" cinematic, it shows alternate possibilities of Bronya who appears happy and cheerful from childhood to adulthood, implying she is bound to be a happy person if only she had lived in a normal life.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe:
** As Valkyrie Chariot, her ultimate skill is to create a black hole that sucks enemies in, deals multiple hits and (if she's ranked S) explodes at the end, dealing more damage and stunning enemies caught within. During the skill, [[InvulnerableAttack she's invincible]], and she'll stay there until the move ends even if you tag her partner in.
** If Wolf's Dawn is ranked SSS, her ultimate skill can be modified to make the enemies get sucked in towards the Project Bunny's position.
** After her Augment Core upgrade, Yamabuki Armor's QTE and Ultimate Skill can create mini black holes that pull enemies towards her.
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[[folder:Murata Himeko]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jiuer (Chinese), Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Squad V Major]]

Himeko is the commander-in-chief of the Valkyrie Squad Fifth Platoon and is the superior officer of Kiana, Mei and Bronya. A year after the death of her father, Himeko enlists in the Honkai Fighting Strategy Unit Training Program, becoming a very distinguished combatant and commander with the rank of Major. Unlike other playable characters, she does not have any natural resistance to Honkai energy, thus her body had to be transplanted with artificial stigmata. Due to this and the effects of Honkai energy on her body, it is estimated she only has one year left to live.\\
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Her battlesuits are Battle Storm (B-rank BIO-type), Valkyrie Triumph (A BIO), Scarlet Fusion (A MECH), Blood Rose (S PSY), Arctic Kriegsmesser (A PSY, awakened Battle Storm) and Vermilion Knight (S MECH, awakened Scarlet Fusion).
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* TheAlcoholic: On the occasion she drinks, she turns into a LadyDrunk. Fu Hua also mentions Himeko's alcoholism in Dorm.
* BadassBoast: Delivers one to [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] as she's overpowering her opponent.
-->'''Himeko''': That looks painful, you're actually bleeding! I never expect a god to bleed.
-->'''Himeko''': Don't you ever get tired calling us [[HumansAreInsects insects or humans]]? I have a name, you know. Try to remember it when you go to hell and cry to your daddy... [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya I'm HIMEKO MURATA!!]]
-->'''Himeko''': Has your [[AlphaStrike assault]] ended? Then it's my turn, if you don't mind.
* BadassTeacher: Whenever she isn't on duty as a Valkyrie, she works as a teacher in St. Freya Academy. In particular, back when Kiana first enrolled, the latter roused her into a fight; Himeko soundly won despite being a "normie" compared to her.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: One level in Chapter 9 is set in her mental world, with her trying to conquer her inner demons (represented by Boss Blood Rose) before she can use the new Vermilion Knight armor. During the boss fight, there'll be a scripted event where Theresa, Bronya, Mei and Kiana appear and briefly attack the boss before disappearing, representing Himeko's care towards them.
* BeautyMark: She has a mole on her right breast, near her cleavage. All of her outfits have her [[AbsoluteCleavage cleavage exposed one way or another]], making her mole always visible.
* BerserkButton: Due to [[YourDaysAreNumbered her lifespan being shortened from artificial Stigmata]], Himeko has no patience towards those who hold their own lives with little value. Examples of this are Mei requesting to be executed in fear of the 3rd Herrscher taking over her body, and the diver who followed after her (in a supplementary comic) being infected with Honkai energy insisting she leave him behind.
* {{BFS}}: She wields large swords as her choice weapon.
* BloodFromTheMouth: In one of the cutscenes of Chapter 8, she suddenly coughs up blood after fighting. Due to her body's condition, she briefly becomes worried and insists that "her time isn't up yet".
* BoobsOfSteel: Has the largest bust out of all the Valkyries, and also wields the largest swords.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the side story "Chapter Xuanyuan", when she grabs the legendary Xuanyuan Sword, she suddenly goes crazy and attacks Kiana, Mei and Bronya. She also has GlowingEyesOfDoom during this. After the three BeatTheCurseOutOfHer, she ends up being heavily injured and they have to retreat.
* TheCaptain: As shown in a supplementary comic, she's apparently the Hyperion's previous captain. After you (the player) take that role, she's free to go on field missions.
* CallForward: In a flashback in ch. 11-EX, while she mentioned that [[MercyKillArrangement a Valkyrie should end their teammate's life right away if they've succumbed to the Honkai]], she swore that she won't let any of those happen to the members under her. It's referring to what happened in the end of ch. 9, where [[spoiler:despite Kiana being taken over by the Herrscher of the Void, Himeko chose to suppress her instead of killing her]].
* ChargedAttack: Her normal sword strikes can be charged for her to do stronger slashes, although the exact form varies depending on her iteration.
* ChristmasCake: She's 27 and is desperately looking for a good man. Considering that [[YourDaysAreNumbered she doesn't have much time left to live]], it's implied that she at least wants to have a good love life before dying, if not getting married and having a child of her own.
* CooldownHug: In the Last Lesson, she gives one to the [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void in a final attempt to bring her back to her self and to stealthily inject the serum into her]].
* CombatMedic: Aside from being a decently powerful attacker, Valkyrie Triumph's ultimate skill, if she's ranked S, can be upgraded to be able to heal her whole team per second for each enemy trapped in the time-stopping field (up to 4). In co-op plays, her team skill is to create an AreaOfEffect around her that heals the team when they stand on it.
* DashAttack: Her running animation is unique in that if she keeps running enough, she'll start sprinting at high speed. In that state, pressing the attack button will make her do a powerful slash attack.
* DeadlyUpgrade: The Vermilion Knight armor is more powerful than any of her previous suits, but Fu Hua warns her that since it's powered by a Herrscher's gem, Himeko would risk getting corrupted by the Honkai if she were to draw out the higher extents of its power. She doesn't mind it.
* {{Determinator}}: She survived everything [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] threw at her (including getting ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill slammed, squashed, sliced, and stabbed, simultaneously, and topped off by a miniature black hole]]'') thanks to her resilience and resolve (and her new battlesuit).
-->'''[[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]]''': I should've killed you thousand times over.\\
'''Himeko''': I could be quite sticky at times.
* DifficultButAwesome: Her slow attack speed and close range may overwhelm new players on trying to use her; she'll also tank hits more than she dodges them. If properly mastered, she can easily blow through the enemy's defenses and deal high damage while taking only a little damage in return.
* DualWielding: Vermillion Knight wields a special sword that hovers behind her back alongside her usual BFS.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: The short animation "Last Lesson", which ties in with the end of Chapter 9, has Himeko [[spoiler:- likely deciding that [[TheLastDance it'll be the last thing she does]] - giving it her all to [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight snap out Kiana out of the Herrscher's control]], engaging her in a duel that was initially lopsided in Kiana's favor, but evened out with [[HeroicWillpower Himeko's willpower]] and [[HeroicRROD overexerting her suit]]. Himeko manages to even dispel the Herrscher's most powerful attack (read: ''a miniature black hole'') and fool her into thinking Himeko missed her finishing blow when in reality she needed an opening to inject Kiana with a Honkai-restraining serum. Himeko is successful and the Herrscher is suppressed, but this comes at the cost of her own life.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: She's the only normal human of all the playable Valkyries, and has to be empowered with artificial Stigmata just to keep up with the others. She's still a renowned Valkyrie despite that. This does, however, leave her with the short lifespan problem that most Valkyries have; the other characters don't have it due to being naturally different[[note]]Kiana, Kallen and Sakura have natural Honkai antibodies and thus have much better Honkai resistance; Theresa, being Kallen's clone, would also have it; Mei is a Herrscher and thus part of the Honkai in the first place[[/note]] or having been modified heavily[[note]]Bronya and the Olenyeva Twins, by Anti-Entropy's experiments[[/note]].
* FamousLastWords: During the climax of the special cutscene "Last Lesson", Himeko delivers a poignant message to Kiana [[spoiler:as she spends the last of her power to get close to the latter and inject her with a Honkai-restraining serum, shortly before dying]].
-->Kiana, raise your head and continue to go forward, to turn this imperfect story into what you’ve always been expecting! And, please stay alive, Kiana. This, is the last lesson I could teach you.
* FireIceLightning: 4 of her battlesuits are focused on one of the three.
** AnIcePerson: Arctic Kriegsmesser
** PlayingWithFire: Blood Rose and Vermilion Knight.
** ShockAndAwe: Scarlet Fusion
* FlyingWeapon: Boss Himeko (encountered in the Extra Story "Chapter Xuanyuan") primarily attacks with flying apparitions of the legendary Xuanyuan Sword.
* GoOutWithASmile: In "The Last Lesson", she gives a slight smirk as her consciousness fades away when [[spoiler:the Herrscher of the Void]] pushes her away since she had [[spoiler:successfully administered the serum during her CooldownHug]].
* GreaterNeedThanMine: During her time in the Helheim Labs with Dr. Tesla, the latter manages to recreate a Honkai-neutralizing serum from the lab's files, and then gives it to Himeko, saying that it can save her life. Then she ended up using it on [[spoiler:Kiana instead, to neutralize the Herrscher inside her. By the time Himeko dies, she has already shown signs of Honkai corruption]].
* HeroicSeductress: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Himeko is the most openly and directly flirtatious with the Captain in her dialogue pieces on the home screen[[note]]Rita is also quite flirty, but she's much more coy and demure about it[[/note]], and goes as far as leaning forward so the Captain (and thus, the player) can get an even better look at her assets.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: In a flashback in ch. 11-EX, Himeko mentions that she could be a scientist at a Honkai energy lab[[note]]As shown in the first summer event with younger Himeko, she mentioned that she studied in an engineering school[[/note]] until her father became corrupted by the Honkai; she decided to became a Valkyrie some time after. She also mentioned that her old Valkyrie commander (back when she was still a rookie) wanted to become a gardener, but then said commander went KIA and Himeko ended up putting herself in St. Freya Academy. Himeko then lamented that so many girls wanted to become a Valkyrie (referring to the students) despite them potentially being able to live normal lives with their parents.
* InvulnerableAttack: Vermilion Knight's ChargedAttack and Ultimate Skill make her completely invulnerable for a short moment.
* {{Irony}}: She's an EmpoweredBadassNormal who faces the similar Honkai corruption and short lifespan problems that other typical Valkyries face. [[spoiler:In the previous civilization 50000+ years ago, an older incarnation of her became the Herrscher of Flame. Furthermore, the Vermilion Knight battlesuit is powered by Herrscher of Flame's core, meaning that Himeko is channeling her "older self's" power by wearing it.]]
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: A downplayed, PlayedForLaughs version in her specific scenes in the DatingSim mode. As the volunteer law enforcer in Soukai City, she ends up cuffing at least one person in every scene for even the most minor of slights and the Captain (i.e you) will note that, for most of them, she's just looking for an excuse to cuff people. In the last scene, even ''you'' get cuffed as well (because she thinks you got persuaded by the Anti-Entropy some moments before this).
* JustFrameBonus: Scarlet Fusion has the "Perfect Combo" mechanic, where her normal attack combo will be more powerful (increased CriticalHit chance) if you time the attack button tap just right (indicated by circle appearing for a few frames around her body).
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: In the supplementary comic, she comes very close to kissing Kiana after sneaking into her bed while drunk.
* LightningBruiser: Downplayed. She can run faster than other characters, her attacks do heavy damage, and she can tank hits well, but she has slower attack speed than other characters. Played fully straight as Vermilion Knight, where her evade move is changed to a dash (akin to Sakura's), her attacks become naturally faster, and she automatically "sprints" when she moves, all while retaining her usual toughness and hard blows.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: The main trio's primary teacher who [[spoiler: dies trying to rescue Kiana from Herrscher of the Void's control in [[MeaningfulName "The Last Lesson"]], but not before [[FamousLastWords some last words of encouragement to Kiana.]] Kiana's transformation into the Void Drifter is caused by her resolving to live by her late mentor's advice and hopes.]]
* MixAndMatchWeapon: The greatsword she can get from the week-long event with Dark Bronya is more of a cannon with a sword hilt, and its active skill is to shoot homing missiles. From the same event with Wotan as the boss, she can get the Wotan Cleaver greatsword that can shoot a sweeping laser.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: She invokes this to trick her opponent into letting her guard down; the moment [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] thinks that she's dead and turned her back, she proves it wrong with her retaliation, with the latter almost [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice getting stabbed]] by her attack.
* {{Overheating}}: Vermilion Knight has an "overheat" system like Bronya's laser weapons: performing her ChargedAttack will fill the heat gauge to almost full, while performing it again when the gauge is still cooling down will make it overheat. In that state, she gains increased fire damage, but she won't gain SP from attacks and can't use ChargedAttack again until she fully cools down, either from waiting it out or by using her Ultimate Skill.
* PostVictoryCollapse: [[spoiler:After she injected the Honkai-neutralizing serum to Herrscher Kiana and saying her FamousLastWords, the [[{{Determinator}} only thing]] that brings her down[[note]]This is after getting ''[[RasputinianDeath slammed, squashed, sliced, and stabbed, simultaneously, and topped off by a miniature black hole]]''[[/note]] is her own [[HeroicRROD body condition]].]]
* SelfDuplication: Boss Himeko, after entering a "dormant" state (when her health is almost depleted), will create 3 clones of herself that have different attributes (Mecha, Creature, Psychic) and attacks. In the second phase of the battle, she will create the 3 clones again, one by one, as her health is depleted.
* SelfMadeWoman: After her father's death, she went to work as a Valkyrie and becomes an experienced veteran after the years.
* SeriousBusiness: In Chapter Xuanyuan, Kiana mentions that Himeko seems to take their current mission more seriously than the previous ones, even with her doing literary researches prior to this. Bronya explains that since using artificial stigmata causes normal human users (including Himeko) to have short lifespans, this mission is to look for natural stigmata so that she can help the Schicksal's researches on it, which may potentially help with her body's problems.
* SpinAttack:
** As Battle Storm, her QTE and Ultimate Skill is a spinning attack with her sword that hits multiple times.
** Arctic Kriegsmesser's QTE and Ultimate Skill are similar, but enhanced and more powerful.
** Vermilion Knight's Ultimate Skill starts with her performing a few spinning slashes with her sword enhanced.
* SplitSecondBladeSpam: Vermilion Knight's ChargedAttack has her {{Flash Step}}ping forward as she does multiple weak slashes, before reappearing for a final, powerful slash with both swords.
* SticksToTheBack: Her sword freely sticks to her back whenever she isn't using it.
* SuperMode:
** Scarlet Fusion's ultimate skill strengthens her normal attacks and lets her shoot out powerful {{Sword Beam}}s for each sword strikes for a duration.
** Blood Rose's ultimate skill strengthens her normal attacks, makes them faster and deal more hits, increases her defense and gives her immunity to StandardStatusEffects, and will engulf the enemies in flames for further damage. Unlike other Super Modes, however, hers is CastFromHitPoints per second, although it can be stopped manually.
** Arctic Kriegsmesser can enter one by using her ChargedAttack. It'll make her subsequent sword attacks be followed by extra icy slashes while depleting her special meter as long as it's active. It's deactivated by either evading, getting interrupted (note that she gains increased resistance to flinching during this), switching out, or having the meter depleted.
* SwordDrag: Scarlet Fusion's ChargedAttack is her running while dragging her sword against the ground. While running, contact with her body will deal lightning damage to enemies multiple times, and when the button's released, she lets out a powerful upward slash. If she scores 2-3 times of Perfect Combo (see JustFrameBonus above), the upward slash will also fire off a lightning element SwordBeam.
* SwordPlant: Many of her weapon skills, as well as her "stealth kill" move, have her stab the ground with her sword to cause a small explosion on the ground. This is also her QTE as Vermilion Knight.
* TimeStandsStill: Valkyrie Triumph's ultimate skill is to create a large hemispherical field around the target that will stop the time for the target and the surrounding enemies, leaving them open for attacks, while also summoning [[ReverseShrapnel multiple swords around the field]] that will impale the trapped enemies after a few seconds.
* TomboyishPonytail: As Arctic Kriegsmesser.
* TookALevelInCynic: Downplayed. When she was younger, she thought that the world and life was good and filled with possibilities, and that she dreamed of doing a lot of things, like being a scientist at his father's Honkai lab. Then her father was corrupted by the Honkai and she chose to become a Valkyrie to seek answers. She joined a Valkyrie squad, whose leader taught her a lot of things, before she went KIA and Himeko ended up applying as a teacher in St. Freya Academy, because she doesn't want any other people to lose their families. She doesn't become outright cynical, but she definitely become matured through her experiences.
-->'''Kiana:''' Why did you end up as a Valkyrie with beefy arms? \\
'''Himeko:''' ...Because I work out and because life isn't perfect, sugar.
* TrashOfTheTitans: One glance at her messy residence is all it takes for Kiana to call it a dumpsite, with Theresa adding that it's the place of an over-aged, single, solitary woman. Himeko even admits that she jams things she doesn't use into a cabinet.
* TrickBoss: The fight with Boss Himeko doesn't stop when you deplete her health. You then have to defeat her clones, and then she gets healed back to full health and start whipping out stronger attacks.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: She has a tendency to keep hard drives containing data within her sizable bust.
* YoungerAndHipper: Arctic Kriegsmesser (the "awakened" version of Battle Storm) is a younger version of her from a special storyline in the DatingSim mode that takes place in 2006 (10 years before the present).
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[[folder:Theresa Apocalypse]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukariTamura (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:300:St. Freya's Principal]]

The principal of St. Freya Academy where Kiana, Mei and Bronya attend, and "granddaughter" of the Archbishop of Schicksal, Otto Apocalypse. She was "born" from Kallen Kaslana's genes and is an accomplished Valkyrie from a young age. She was close friends with Kiana's parents (especially Cecilia), and they asked her to be Kiana's godmother.\\
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Her battlesuits are Valkyrie Pledge (A-rank PSY-type), Violet Executer (S MECH), Sakuno Rondo (A PSY), Celestial Hymn (S BIO) and Luna Kindred (A BIO, awakened Valkyrie Pledge).
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* TheAce: She's one of the strongest Valkyries that Schicksal has, partly because she was made with Kallen's genes. An off-hand mention in the story says that she can be an S-rank Valkyrie, but she's not interested in being one since she's working as a principal.
* AlternateSelf: While Luna Kindred claims (indirectly) that she's "Theresa", she (as an "awakened" character) looks slightly different, with her [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] and longer hair, not to mention being vampiric. The special "story in the past" in the DatingSim mode slowly reveals that [[spoiler:she isn't the same usual Theresa; as shown in Kallen's files, Luna Kindred's code is A-872 (while Theresa's is A-310) and she's created with a slightly different process and component from normal Theresa]].
* ArtificialFamilyMember: Created by Otto by using genes taken from Kallen. He expressed feelings for her and later adopted her as his granddaughter. Kiana also sees her as her "aunt".
* ArtificialHuman: She was "born" in a lab by mixing Kallen Kaslana's genes with that of a powerful Honkai Beast. This gives her [[SuperStrength immense power]] and HealingFactor, but due to a genetic defect, her body can't grow beyond looking like a 12-year-old girl.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Just say it aloud: ''Theresa '''Apocalypse'''''.
* BadassArmfold: She stands with her arms confidently folded in her victory pose, all of her costume slots, and on the bridge.
* BigGood: She's one for the cast of playable characters, as she commands not only St. Freya Academy but also the battleship Hyperion.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: Chapter 8 reveals that [[spoiler:she had always known that the Kiana she's taking care of isn't the real Kiana, but the fact that she's a clone doesn't matter and she will still save her from Otto]]. She herself first experienced this with Cecilia, who treated her as an equal despite knowing her origins.
* CloseRangeCombatant: While she's usually a mid-range fighter (by throwing swords/spears around), her special Luna Kindred form (an "awakened form" of her default Valkyrie Pledge form) fights in melee, with DualWielding red swords that come out of nowhere and turning her cross into [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]] to smash enemies with.
* ClosetGeek: She usually acts like an adult despite her appearance. However, she reads manga in secret.
* CompanionCube: She's mainly associated with the elite cross weapon named Oath of Judah (aka the "Cross of Pledge"). She mentions it a lot in her quotes, and one side story reveals that she can't go to the bathroom at night without it.
* EmbarrassingPassword: When she gives Anti-Entropy access to Hyperion's security, she discloses the password "TERITERI". Tesla gives a stern look to Theresa for her choice of password.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: Somewhat. She easily (and sometimes nonchalantly) deals with adult matters and generally acts dignified; being a person in a high position, she's expected to think wisely and make good decisions. However, she still has a childish side, such as calling herself "the world's cutest principal" and with many of her reactions in the home screen. Lampshaded by Bronya in ch. 10:
-->*''after Theresa's pep talk''* Bronya is unaccustomed to Principal Theresa sharing words of wisdom.
* EXSpecialAttack: Luna Kindred has a special attack where she turns her mechanical cross into a poleaxe and smashes enemies with it, dealing bleeding DamageOverTime. It comes with a special stocks-gauge that is [[GatheringSteam filled with her normal attacks on bleeding enemies]] or her Ultimate Skill (and evading at the right time) and expended by using the axe move; it can be performed with the gauge depleted but she'll swing the axe slower and deal less damage.
* GratuitousEnglish: She shouts "Hide and seek!" when on field.
* HalfHumanHybrid: An artificially created one, being born in a lab by splicing Kallen's DNA with a powerful Honkai beast called "Vishnu".
* HeterosexualLifePartners: She was one with Cecilia in the past, as she was the one (other than Otto) that didn't [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer deny Theresa respect or treat her as a non-human due to what she is]]. She actually got jealous towards Siegfried due to this; in one of the supplementary comics, she says to the "virtual" version of him that she still can't forgive him for "stealing" Cecilia from her, but nonetheless, the two are on good enough terms.
* HonoraryUncle: Kiana casually calls her "Auntie", which occasionally irritates her.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: While other characters have more mundane weapons, she uses complex mechanical crosses that can do various things, and the crosses visibly transform to attack.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: As Twilight Knight, she wears an elegant black and blue dress with a long gown. Combined with the multiple floating blades she uses, Theresa's fluid movements in this battlesuit are reminiscent of a dance. Celestial Hymn also wears a regal-looking white dress, while Luna Kindred's attire makes her look like an ElegantGothicLolita, fitting for a "vampire". A good number of her costumes are also rather fancy dresses.
* LittleMissBadass: She has accustomed to being on the battlefield against Honkai forces from a young age. It gets muddled in the present, however, as she merely looks like a little girl but is OlderThanSheLooks.
* MagicalGirl:
** She has a special costume for Sakuno Rondo that turns her into one, with lots of pink, white and frills. There's also a special cross weapon that goes with the costume, Super Dimension Sonata, which looks more like a MagicStaff than a cross but is still used like the latter would, and said weapon attacks with "[[FrickinLaserBeams magical lasers]]".
** In the DatingSim mode, her bond cutscenes have her thinking that she's the "Magical Girl Teriri", supposedly due to Tesla's hypnotism-induced amnesia. You, the captain, are going to accompany her and follow her whims; however, in a later scene, Yae Sakura suspects that Theresa might've been FakingAmnesia[[note]]Prior to this, she [[UseYourHead headbutted a Titan Mecha]] that's causing ruckus in the shopping street, causing her to collapse and, presumably, stopped the hypnosis effect[[/note]] due to the stress of her work and wanting to be "someone else" for some time.
* MysticalWhiteHair: She got her white hair from the powerful Kaslana family. It [[PowerDyesYourHair turns pink]] as Sakuno Rondo due to Higokumaru's influence.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Luna Kindred is described as one, with her needing to sustain herself by drinking blood. The unique thing about her is that her bite turns affected people into undead-like beings that are effectively immortal as long as Luna Kindred lives [[spoiler:courtesy of Otto adding in some energy from the Key of the Devourer in her creation]]. In gameplay, she has a passive skill where, if she attacks enemies with bleeding status, [[LifeDrain she'll heal herself bit by bit]].
* PintsizedPowerhouse: As a clone who benefits from the genes of a powerful Honkai beast, Theresa boasts immense physical strength despite her petite body, handling the Oath of Judah with incredible ease despite its weight (which is around three times as heavy as Theresa). On a more comical note, she can manhandle Kiana with one arm and drag her off for "[[TrainingFromHell training]]".
* PlayingWithFire: As Sakuno Rondo, she gains the ability to control fire and attack enemies with it.
* PowerLimiter: In Ch. 10, Einstein reveals to her that she has only been using around 15% of her potential power this whole time. The Honkai Beast "Vishnu" that was used for her creation gives her high potential power, but its use is intentionally limited by Otto for the fear that Theresa might explode violently if she pushed herself too much. Her Violet Executer suit has a module that can let her use more of said power, but said module is restricted by a protocol program; Eisntein offers to lift it for her. Later on, she tries to use said ability; it allows her to withstand and decimate a lot of Honkai Beasts. Lifting part of that limiter is the basis for her Twilight Knight suit, Violet Executer's "Augment Core".
* {{Reincarnation}}: Due to [[ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait her kind and protective personality]] (that the other Kallen homunculi seem to lack), Otto thought that she may be a reincarnation of Kallen. He's highly doubtful of it, however, as the concept of "reincarnation" isn't easily comprehensible by known science. Nevertheless, he dotes on her a lot because of it.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: The end of Chapter 6, continuing to Ch. 7, shows that Theresa would go against Otto with her own forces in order to rescue the kidnapped [[spoiler:Kiana]].
* SelfAppliedNickname: She tends to call herself "Teri-Teri".
* ShockAndAwe: Her Valkyrie Pledge suit specializes in dealing lightning damage.
* SpinAttack: Luna Kindred's Ultimate Skill has her spin while swinging her axe twice, and then jumps up and slams it to the ground, dealing damage in an area.
* SticksToTheBack: Her cross seems to "float" behind her back whenever she isn't using it. The supplementary comics reveal that she actually carries it by chaining her body to it, which is shown in her Stigmata set.
* StormOfBlades:
** Valkyrie Pledge's ultimate skill has her summon multiple spears raining from above.
** Celestial Hymn's QTE skill summons falling swords around her, while her ultimate skill has her create an UnrealisticBlackHole that [[YouWillNotEvadeMe sucks enemies in]] and then causes a series of swords to fly around continuously, shredding enemies caught within.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: She mainly attacks by throwing out spinning swords/spears out of nowhere that fly like boomerangs. As Sakuno Rondo, they're [[KatanasAreJustBetter flying katanas]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bitter melon, especially juiced.
* TheTurretmaster: Her cross is used like a turret; once she plants it in the ground, it activates and gives an offensive/supportive AreaOfEffect around it for a few seconds.
* UnusualEars: Gains a pair of her own fox ears in her Sakuno Rondo battle suit. In-story (as shown in the supplementary comic), this comes from Sakura planting her Stigma onto Theresa's body.
* VagueAge: Her bio lists her age as "a secret". The Extra Stage "Everlasting Memory" clears it somewhat: She was born around 1971-1973; as the game's present takes place in 2014-2016, this pegs her age in the 40s.
* ViolenceIsNotAnOption: In one of the supplementary comics, in the climax, she's fighting Hellmaru. Even though she has transformed into Celestial Hymn at that point, the beast still overwhelms her; not only that, it's entering her mind, and trying to sway her by making her give in to her inner hatred (of Otto). At this point, she has come to the conclusion that "nothing good comes out of hatred" and decides to forgive said beast instead. Hellmaru is moved by this (as it has known nothing but hatred since 50.000 years ago) and voluntarily goes dormant.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of ghosts. It's lampshaded in a supplementary comic, where it says that she, who can defeat even Emperor-level Honkai Beasts, is still afraid of something like ghosts. In the "HOMU Rush!" event, one of the trials that her team has to pass through is [[{{Kimodameshi}} a "test of courage" filled with prop "ghosts"]], which makes her go berserk as she tries to destroy any "ghost" that she sees with her Oath of Judah.

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[[folder:Fu Hua]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' [=BananaMace=] (Chinese), Creator/MinamiTakayama (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Class Monitor]]

An A-rank Valkyrie who used to be in the same class as Kiana in St. Freya Academy. She was a hardworking honor student with excellent grades, but also shrouded in mystery. Seemingly has a connection to Archbishop Otto.\\
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Her battlesuits are Valkyrie Accipiter (A-rank PSY-type), Shadow Knight (S MECH), Phoenix (S PSY) and Night Squire (A BIO).
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* ACupAngst:
** In the supplementary comic, she gets irritated when "Wraith", a Schicksal spy and informant, shows off her {{Shapeshifting}} ability to give herself large breasts.
** In her side story "The Forgotten", there is this exchange...
--->'''Nuwa''': *''making a figurine''* There's also your pitiful stature. Let me just make you a bit more charming.\\
'''Fu Hua''': OK, what you just said was all pretty insulting to me.\\
'''Otto''': Haha, interesting.\\
'''Fu Hua''': Shut up.
* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: The only playable Chinese character in the game, and a martial arts master who uses her hands and feet to smash mechas and Honkai beasts.
* TheAce: She was among the best (if not ''the'' best) of Kiana's generation at her academy in both academics and fighting skills, and she's also popular with the students.
* AnimalMotif: Various kinds of birds.
* BadassInANiceSuit: In her Night Squire suit's default costume. Said suit's bio mentions that she used to wear it for an infiltration mission in the past, and Bronya even lampshades it.
* BareFistedMonk: With her "weapons" being PowerFists, she uses martial arts to fight the Honkai.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: She's quite handsome in the Night Squire battlesuit, leading players to call her [[FanNickname Butler Fuka]].
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:She was a powerful immortal being and a OneManArmy who defeated Schicksal's forces and its strongest Valkyrie Kallen all by herself when they waged war in China 500 years ago. Many years later, for unknown reasons, she lost most of her power and turned into a normal human, and sought Otto's help to protect China in exchange of working for Schicksal. She entered St. Freya Academy as an A-rank Valkyrie though her ability is on par of an S-rank.]]
* BrokenPedestal: She was very loyal to [[spoiler:Otto]] and even considered him as a friend. But during Chapter 9, he informed her that [[spoiler:he had no intention of saving Kiana from the 2nd Herrscher and that the possibility of at least one her friends dying was all within his plans]]. It was at that moment that Fu Hua realised how truly insane and uncaring he was, to the point that she goes LaughingMad. In a later chapter, she mentions how she had put her trust in the wrong person.
* ClassRepresentative: She used to be one in Kiana's class.
* CombatMedic: Valkyrie Accipiter, while doing the least damage out of her battlesuits, has some ways to heal herself, and one of her Ultimate Skills can heal the whole team by a certain amount. In co-op plays, her team skill is to drop HP-recovery items for the team.
* TheComicallySerious: In the event stories, she still acts seriously even in more lighthearted situations, which is often pointed out.
* ConsummateProfessional: She's for the most part a disciplined and straight-laced person, who takes things (though not all things) seriously and will try to give her all in doing things. This puts her at odds with the more easygoing Kiana.
* DeadlyLunge: One of Shadow Knight's and Night Squire's combos end with her doing a shoulder charge attack.
* DoubleAgent: Chapters 6 and 7 reveals that [[spoiler:Fu Hua was sent to the St. Freya Academy as Otto's spy, and that she brought Kiana to the Schicksal HQ on his orders, as she knew from Otto that Kiana has the 2nd Herrscher in her body and that Schicksal may try to fix that problem. However, she also cares enough for her friends and the principal at the academy (and the 2nd Herrscher threatening people in general, which she didn't expect to happen) that she at least ordered Rita to just imprison Himeko and Tesla, and later went to fight the Herrscher of the Void in order to buy time for Bronya to escape with Mei and Theresa.]]
* DubNameChange: She's known as Fuka in the Japanese version. Downplayed in that "Fuka" is simply the ''onyomi'' reading of Fu Hua (符华).
* ExpositionOfImmortality: In the Dorm, she occasionally mutters to herself about Xuanyuan and Shennong (characters from thousand years past), as well as remarking that Nuwa and Fuxi (revered figure of ancient China) look different in the history books. [[spoiler:That's because she has indeed lived that long--much longer than anyone else, in fact.]]
* EXSpecialAttack: Night Squire has "special combos" that are done by using different button combinations in her combos instead of just one. The third strike of each special combo will consume one stock of the special gauge (which is replenished with the third strike of her "normal combos") to become stronger; they can be done with the gauge depleted, but they won't give extra effects.
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Her personal mascot is a white bird. It's a parody of [[spoiler:her "incarnation" as the bird Jingwei]]; it's supposed to be a phoenix but it looks closer to a chicken.
* EyeColorChange: Her eyes change color to [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] as Phoenix.
* TheFogOfAges: [[spoiler:With her age being 50,000 or so years old, she remembers little about her past aside from her duty to guard the sacred land.]] It's shown in her side story "The Forgotten", where she and Otto try exploring her past memories, which are mostly fragmented, with the only "accessible" parts being those few she can muster to remember.
* GatheringSteam: Phoenix has a special red bar above her SP gauge. The more it's filled, the stronger her fire attacks become, and it's filled by alternating her combo moves.
* GroundPunch: All versions of her (except for Phoenix) have a similar attack for their normal switch-in and QTE: she [[DeathFromAbove falls from above]] striking the ground with her fist. Her different suits give different effects to the QTE attack.
** Valkyrie Accipiter does this in two of her special combos (which also double as her Ultimate Skills if you hold the button).
** Shadow Knight does this in one of her special combos, and her Ultimate Skill.
* HeroWorshipper: She has a lot of respect for Himeko, who is her teacher. One of the supplementary comics shows that [[spoiler:it went for longer than it seems: In the previous advanced civilization, back when Fu Hua was a novice soldier, her captain, the older incarnation of Himeko, helped and guided her a lot... until the latter becomes the Herrscher of Flame and then was killed by Fire Moth's forces. Fu Hua's desire and determination to work her hardest for her (late) captain was partly what allowed her to transform a replica of the Xuanyuan Sword into a weapon more fitting for her: Grips of Tai Xuan, one of the Divine Keys in the game.]]
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind:
** It's implied that this happens in Bronya's side story "Dilemma Dreamland" where she appears inside Bronya's mind, trying to help Bronya fix her mind. Before this, we're treated to the scene of Fu Hua's hand over the unconscious Bronya's head, then it cuts to black while [[FeatherMotif white feathers]] fall down, before it cuts into the inside of Bronya's mind with Fu Hua in it. [[spoiler:Chapter 9-[=EX2=] has her reappear inside Bronya's mind, now in her Phoenix outfit. She reveals that she isn't the real Fu Hua, but rather one of her "feathers" that she left inside Bronya's mind, through the power of her personal Divine Key, "Fenghuang Down" (the [[HairDecorations hair ornament]] that ties her ponytail).]]
** And later on, [[spoiler:she appears again in ch. 11-EX, now inside Kiana's mind; this time, she mentions that she has set her Fenghuang Down in such a way that her soul is now bonded with Kiana's (meaning that it's now the real her, not her "feathers"). She did so in order to watch over her and prevent her Herrscher self from resurfacing, out of guilt of what she had done towards Kiana and because Himeko believed in the white-haired girl; but she can only do so much for around 3 months because Kiana refused to talk to her, thinking of her as just an illusion[[note]]especially after what happened between the two at the end of ch. 6, Kiana became bitter towards her[[/note]]. It's not until Fu Hua tries to prevent her from [[DrivenToSuicide taking out her own life]] that Kiana starts opening herself to her, allowing her to help Kiana fight Sirin inside her mind, suppressing Sirin in the end. Fu Hua mentally says that if the worst case happens, [[MercyKillArrangement she has to end their lives together]]; she can only mentally apologize to Kiana.]]
* KamehameHadoken: Valkyrie Accipiter's special attack button lets her throw out up to 3 energy shots out of her palms. It can be charged to make her throw out a stronger one that [[OneHitPolykill pierces through enemies]], but it'll cost 25 SP.
* LettingHerHairDown: In Night Squire's second costume.
* LivingRelic: [[spoiler:She, along with Nuwa and Fuxi are the last survivors of a previous human civilization that had existed at least 50,000 years ago but was destroyed by a Herrscher. They had been put to sleep and then awakened 5000 years before the events of the story, making her at least [[TimeAbyss 50,000 years old]]]].
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Her Ultimate Skill button is replaced with a "special attack" button. Her extra attacks are done by pressing said button either by itself, or after her normal combos. She still has Ultimate Skills, but they're done by [[ChargedAttack holding the button]].
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:In Chapter 9, Otto seemingly shoots her dead with a replica of Judgment of Shamash. Later, she shows up as a ghost (in her Phoenix outfit), guiding Himeko to get the Vermilion Knight battlesuit stored in Helheim Labs, in order to gain an edge against Herrscher of the Void [[SpannerInTheWorks and halt Otto's plans]]. After thanking Himeko for all of her teachings and wishing farewell, she vanishes for good. It's implied (retroactively, from the reveal in ch. 9-[=EX2=]) that this ghost is just one of Fu Hua's "feathers" instead of the real her, but the trope is still in play as the real Fu Hua was shown "dropping feathers" onto Himeko when the latter was unconscious.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She is clearly not happy with her role in the [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's awakening]].
* MysticalWhiteHair: As Phoenix, her hair is white [[MulticoloredHair with red streaks]].
* ThePhoenix: One of her Valkyrie suits is simply called Phoenix. It lets her [[PlayingWithFire manipulate fire]] [[ElementalPunch in her attacks]] and her Ultimate Skill with it is to briefly [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn into a fiery phoenix]] and then [[DeathFromAbove crash to the ground]] to create a big blast of fire.
* PowerDyesYourHair:
** Inverted; [[spoiler:she used to have white hair during her days as Jingwei (the basis of her Phoenix battlesuit) 5000 years ago. When she lost most of her powers, her hair turned grey.]]
** Played straight in one of Night Squire's costumes in which her hair turns light pink similar to Phoenix's when she activates her Ultimate.
* PowerGlows: If she has enough SP to perform an Ultimate Skill, her hands will glow to indicate it.
* ProHumanTranshuman: [[spoiler:As the immortal that guided humans to create civilisation anew and guarded a sacred land (China), people revered her (well, Jingwei) as a goddess.]]
* RapidfireFisticuffs: One of Shadow Knight's special combos in her SuperMode is to throw lightning-fast punches at enemies. In a variant, one of Night Squire's special combos has her doing a flurry of kicks.
* SeriousBusiness: In the DatingSim mode's date scenes with her, she takes "getting high scores in arcade games" seriously as part of her training.
* {{Shoryuken}}: A part of one of Valkyrie Accipiter's special combos has her do a jumping uppercut.
* ShoutOut:
** One scene in the Anniversary Memories Festival has her challenge Yae Sakura on a fighting game. She wins defeating Sakura's Flame Sakitama using her Phoenix's secret combo [[KonamiCode "Up up down down left right left right B A"]].
** The other is in the Winter Rhapsody event, which is a nod of how players joke about her RapidfireFisticuffs.
--->'''Fu Hua''': [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure OraOraOraOraOraOra!!]]
* SkunkStripe: She has a red stripe on her light pink hair as Phoenix.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Played with. While she is smart and wears glasses, those glasses are actually high-tech Schicksal equipment; her eyesight is actually normal, and in 2 of her Valkyrie suits, she doesn't wear it.
* SuperMode:
** Shadow Knight's Ultimate Skill is to enter one where [[ElementalPunch her attacks are enhanced]] [[ShockAndAwe with lightning]] and her special attacks are modified to become more powerful.
** Night Squire's Ultimate Skill is to enter one where [[SpamAttack she attacks much faster with random attacks]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In short, she's the reason for the big events in the chapters after Ch. 6, due to a genuine mistake on her part. [[spoiler:She beats Kiana down and brings her to Otto, thinking that he'd help with the Herrscher's problem. Otto's real plan, however, is to awaken the Herrscher of the Void (and pit her against her teammates in order to make her controllable), and by the time Fu Hua realizes this, it's too late. She fights the Herrscher in her friends' stead, then Otto makes the Herrscher escape and (seemingly) shoots her dead for being a SpannerInTheWorks. She then tries to amend things by helping Himeko fight the Herrscher (the former of which Fu Hua beat down prior to the reveal), and later bonds her soul to Kiana's after the Herrscher is suppressed. Not to mention that the Herrscher caused a large-scale Honkai eruption around the world before she was put down.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: In Chapter 11-EX [[spoiler:Kiana angrily calls her out on being a DoubleAgent for Otto and kidnapping her, blaming her for everything that's happened. It takes a while, but Kiana does forgive her later.]]
* YouDontLookLikeYou: [[spoiler:She is the same person as Jingwei. However, the Jingwei stigmata looks different from Fu Hua, with red hair and large bust. In the Extra Story "The Forgotten", Nuwa made up this image of Jingwei thinking people might get interested in Jingwei's stories if she makes her look hotter ([[ACupAngst she didn't take it too kindly]]).]]
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[[folder:Yae Sakura]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaneSakura (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Miko Priestess]]

Sakura is the shrine maiden of the Yae Village, born centuries before the game's present. Her sister ended up being sacrificed in one of the village’s rituals, causing her to bear great hatred and bitterness towards the villagers. Afterwards, she found Kallen Kaslana wounded near her village, with the two eventually forming an intimate relationship. Despite her friendship with Kallen, she still felt hatred towards her village, eventually becoming possessed by the Honkai box that Kallen carried and becoming a pseudo-Herrscher. She was quickly defeated and sealed up by Kallen, and for years afterward, she existed in a "stigmata world" where she was forced to relieve her dark past countless times, until the events of Sakura Samsara finally broke her free from the loop as the Honkai beast inside the box was slain. She later manifests in the real world by borrowing Mei's body.\\
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Her battlesuits are Gyakushinn Miko (A-rank BIO-type, awakened Crimson Impulse), Goushinshou Memento (S MECH, awakened Shadow Dash), and Flame Sakitama (A BIO, awakened Valkyrie Bladestrike).
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* {{Adorkable}}: While mostly serious, she is not totally safe from messing up adorably, like when she made sushi ''by mistake'' when it was intended to be a rice ball.
* AnIcePerson: Goshinsou Memento has ice powers that she uses in her attacks, which can slow down and freeze enemies.
* AnimalMotif: She is associated primarily with foxes, with her having long animal-like ears, wearing a fox mask on her waist and even being controlled by a fox-like Honkai Beast.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: She talks in an old-fashioned way because she indeed comes from such an era.
* CherryBlossomGirl: Her name specifically refers to the "Yaezakura" variety of cherry blossoms, which has multi-layered petals and is comparatively less "delicate" than other varieties.
* CrissCrossAttack: Flame Sakitama's Ultimate Skill has her lunging through multiple opponents with dashing flaming slashes, before entering a SuperMode where time is slowed and she attacks much faster.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of her little sister caused her to be bitter and resentful towards her village, which ended up being the catalyst for the fox Honkai Beast to possess her.
* DeadlyLunge: As Gyakushin Miko (her default outfit):
** Her branch attack (also doable after an Ultimate Evasion) is a quick dashing slash through her target; it's a useful move to [[YouWillNotEvadeMe get into a melee range with them]]. If there are enemies with the "sakura mark" (applied onto enemies with her normal attacks, Ultimate Evasion, QTE, or one of her elite weapons), she'll automatically slash through them one by one when the branch attack is performed. After she's done slashing them, she'll then sheath her sword and the sakura marks burst, dealing high damage for both the enemies' HP and their shields.
** Her Ultimate Skill has her enter a SuperMode where she'll perform the same dash-through slash attack with each press of the attack button until the duration ends. Like before, she'll then sheath her sword and the enemies get one final strong hit.
* DemonicPossession: When she came into contact with the Honkai box that Kallen brought with her, the Honkai energy inside it leaked into her, causing her to be possessed with a Honkai Beast in the shape of a {{Kitsune}} named "Hellmaru" and become a pseudo-Herrscher.
* DualWielding: Flame Sakitama has an extra wakizashi (alongside the equippable katanas); {{downplayed|Trope}} in that she only uses it in a few of her moves.
* FashionableAsymmetry: As Flame Sakitama, she has an arm sleeve and white glove on her right arm, and Japanese-style arm armor with bared shoulder for her left arm.
* GatheringSteam: After reaching SS rank, Flame Sakitama gains a gauge that fills up whenever she uses her flaming slashes; the more filled the gauge, the stronger her total damage becomes.
* GrandTheftMe: Due to what happened to her in the past and the present, she's left as a bodiless soul; she "borrows" Mei's body [[WillingChanneler when Mei allows it]], causing them to share Mei's character level and some of her skills.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: As Goushinsou Memento, her branch attack is a series of very fast unsheath-resheath slashes that can hit the enemy from a (medium range) distance. Her Ultimate Skill is a more powerful version of it.
* InvulnerableAttack: In the duration of Gyakushin Miko's Ultimate Skill, she'll be invulnerable (even to the Abyss' health drain) as long as she keeps using her SingleStrokeBattle move.
* JustFrameBonus: Flame Sakitama is able to do an alternate finisher for her normal combo or her branch attack by timing the button tap just right. Said finisher deals pure fire damage, and, if she's SS ranked, will fill her special red gauge.
* LagCancel: Flame Sakitama has a special trait where canceling her combos with a dash will not reset her combo, i.e canceling the first strike into her dash and then attacking again will make her start with the 2nd strike instead of the 1st one again. This is useful since her gameplay is majorly tied to the special finisher part of her normal combo, so that this system makes sure the dash won't cancel the entire combo sequence.
* {{Miko}}: It's her day job to protect her village from demons and exorcize them, and it comes complete with the stereotypical (albeit modified) outfit. She isn't all that happy about her job, however.
* ModestyShorts: As Gyakushin Miko, she wears white shorts underneath her skirt, although this is absent in her SuperDeformed form in the dorm.
* OrnamentalWeapon: Each of her outfits has a sheathed long katana that she never uses.
* PlayingWithFire: As Flame Sakitama, she's learning to control the Honkai power within her (the fox beast who can control fire), making her able to [[FlamingSword coat her sword in flames]] for her attacks.
* PlayingWithSyringes: During the Anniversary Memories Festival, she appeared as a nurse in a recently opened clinic and she is first shown injecting a tree with a ''huge'' syringe.
* PromotedToPlayable: She is a World Boss character in the preceding game ''Guns [=GirlZ=]''. In this game, she is playable and has her own side story.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: Goushinsou Memento is actually a character from an in-universe video game called "Kallen Fantasy VII". There, she's described as a runaway failed experiment who goes on a rampage until she meets Kallen.
* TheResenter: She became bitter and hateful towards the villagers after they had her sister sacrificed in the ritual. The villagers' EntitledBastard attitude towards her doesn't help matters either.
* {{Samurai}}: Her fighting style is closer to this when compared to Mei's, although she's just as quick with her [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. As Flame Sakitama, she also dons a more samurai-like outfit.
* SharingABody: Gameplay-wise, she is an Awakening-type character bound to Mei. All of her battlesuits are fused with Mei's (except Lightning Empress). However, Mei's battlesuits aren't required to be unlocked to unlock their respective Sakura battlesuits.
* SwordBeam:
** Gyakushin Miko's QTE attack is to roll forward while shooting out 3 crescent beams out of her sword that gives Sakura Marks to the enemies hit.
** Goushinsou Memento's QTE attack is a crescent beam attack that freezes the enemies solid.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She likes making and eating rice balls.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: Hellmaru's possession of her caused her to gain long animal-like ears. Later, a cutscene shows how being possessed by Sakura causes Mei's body and clothes to transform.
* UnusualEars: She has a set of long ears coming out of the top of her head due to her being possessed by a fox-like Honkai Beast. It's extra unusual in that the ears are elongated, making them look like rabbit ears. During the Odd Drifter event, she's sometimes referred to as "donkey girl" because of the ears.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has pink hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Gyakushin Miko has it, ranked A, with her white stockings.

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[[folder:Kallen Kaslana]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NanaMizuki (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Legend Paladin]]

Kiana's ancestor, who lived in the 15th century. The legendary Valkyrie of the Kaslana family, she stopped numerous Honkai threats together with the Schicksal organization, and was close friends with Otto Apocalypse. \\
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While at first she was a dutiful warrior, over time [[DefectorFromDecadence she questioned Schicksal's policies and methods, and ended up running away from them]] while taking their "Honkai box" with her, ending with her being lost in Yae Sakura's village. Sakura rescued her, and from there the two shared a bond over their similar circumstances; however, Sakura's resentment caused her to be possessed by the Honkai Beast inside said box, and she would've gone through with destroying her village had Kallen not sealed her away. She was then found by Schicksal's agents and carried back to Europe to be executed for her rebellion, but Otto released multiple Honkai Beasts upon the city as a distraction so the two could run away. Kallen, though, cared more about the people and decided to protect them and fight the beasts instead, which ended in her death.\\
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Her battlesuits are Imayoh Ritual (A-rank MECH-type, awakened White Comet), Sixth Serenade (S PSY, awakened Divine Prayer) and Sündenjäger (A-rank MECH-type, awakened Valkyrie Ranger).
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* TheAce: She is the first S-rank Valkyrie in Schicksal's records.
* AnIcePerson: Sixth Serenade uses ice powers in her attacks.
* AnimalMotifs: Sixth Serenade goes with a crow/raven motif, to go along with her PhantomThief persona.
* ArmorPiercingSlap:
** When Otto shouted at Kallen that he didn't want her to senselessly sacrifice herself and "look at what happened to your father", she responded with this, feeling that Otto was being too insulting to the man who saved the two from Honkai Beasts back then. This reminded Otto of the time when they were kids, where she gave him one for trying to resurrect her father.
** She later gave one to Otto for releasing Honkai Beasts on the city and killing multiple people by proxy just to stop her execution.
* BackFromTheDead: A special story in the DatingSim mode (taking place in 2006) shows her alive and running around as Himeko's acquaintance. She's apparently hunting a vampire that existed in a rumor that is threatening people's lives. [[spoiler:That vampire is Luna Kindred, who was made as a tool by Otto to resurrect her "sister" by using her special bite. Kallen knows that she (Kallen herself) is supposed to be dead and her living state is a wrong one, and thus seeks Luna Kindred in order to not just stop her from threatening the populace with her bloodlust but also to [[DeathSeeker allow herself to die again]] (as her life is tied to Luna Kindred's, courtesy of the bite). In a further twist, her bio mentions that she doesn't ''feel like'' she's Kallen, which implies that she's her own identity/consciousness and not the same Kallen's soul.]] This persona of Kallen is the basis of her Sündenjäger battlesuit.
* BigEater: A supplementary comic and the special DatingSim story (10 years in the past) show that eating a lot runs in the Kaslana family, including her.
* BraidsOfAction: A single braid in contrast to Kiana's two, and she was a major kicker of Honkai butts.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: While she has her heart in the right place (compared to most other members of Schicksal at the time), she can't help but be helpful to others and be "the shield of the people", sometimes to her detriment. This is shared with a good number of other Kaslana family members, including her own father.
* ChurchMilitant: She was part of one, the Schicksal, and even wore a nun getup in combat.
* CoolMask: She has a crow-like opera mask to go with her PhantomThief outfit as Sixth Serenade. During the Sakura Samsara's side story, the mask appears multiple times in the sections of the Celestial Castle, which clues in her presence. Sixth Serenade's ultimate skill has her wear it on her face before unleashing the move.
* CrissCrossAttack: Sixth Serenade's Ultimate Skill has her performing quick dashes in the air multiple times, hitting enemies in a large area, before she falls down for a finisher attack that deals more damage and activates her special cross.
* DashAttack: Sixth Serenade has a special attack where she dashes through enemies after [[DoppelgangerAttack splitting into 2 shadow bodies]]. She has to fill a special bar for it, but it deals potent ice damage.
* DubNameChange: Sündenjäger is German for "Sin Hunter", the original name of the battlesuit.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her Imayoh Ritual outfit has her wear a single red glove on her left hand and single black stocking on her left leg.
* GratuitousEnglish:
** As Sixth Serenade, she shouts "Showtime!" and "It's my time!"
** As Imayoh Ritual she can be heard saying "Nice timing!" when you pick up HP drops.
* GratuitousSpanish: As Sündenjäger, she shouts "Hasta la vista!!" when deploying her ultimate.
* GunsAkimbo: Like Kiana, she wields two guns as her primary weapon.
* HealThyself: Sündenjäger can heal herself slightly by performing Ultimate Evasion. If her health is under 30%, using Ultimate Evasion or Ultimate Skill will rapidly heal her until her health reaches above said threshold.
* HeroicResolve: In one of the supplementary comics, she's faced with the will inside of the Honkai box (which took the form of a shadowy version of the boss Jizo Mitama) who tried to possess her body. When said "will" restrained her and was about to strike her, the "spirit" of her late father [[BigDamnHeroes appeared to save her]] and awaken the resolve of the Kaslana's faith, allowing her to defeat the "monster" and make it go dormant. [[spoiler:As the Sakura Samsara side story shows, this feat made the box recognize Kallen as "the strongest being in its memory" and then create an "image" of her to defend itself.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the past, in her fight with the possessed Sakura, she ended up taking her sword to the gut, but she keeps on fighting. Later on, she [[TakingTheBullet got impaled while defending the helpess people]] from a Honkai Beast, this time resulting in her death.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon:
** She was the first user of the Oath of Judah cross before Theresa.
** As Imayoh Ritual, she has another mechanical cross named Eliudnir that she uses in her branch attack and QTE (where it turns into a {{BFG}} that shoots a WaveMotionGun) and her ultimate skill (where it turns into [[SentryGun a turret gun]] that fires [[BeamSpam multiple beam shots]]).
** As Sixth Serenade, she uses Winter Sonata, a cross that looks like a masked crow, in her Ultimate Skill. This one floats in the air when activated, immobilizes enemies in the area and makes her special gauge (that fuels her branch attack) fill much faster.
* LethalChef: As shown in the Chinese New Year event, her cooking skills are as atrocious as Kiana's. Her attempt at making a stargazy pie ends up with it turning into charcoal, while the soup she made turns green. The Captain lampshades that House Kaslana should never be allowed to cook again.
* LivingMemory:
** In one supplementary comic, Kiana and Bronya stumble into a particular virtual recreation of history, specifically, around the time Kallen was about to be executed, with the people in it (including Kallen) being all virtual. Kallen herself, however, notes that something seems to change about her, including how she recognizes herself as a living memory (when one normally shouldn't).
** In a variant, the PhantomThief Kallen that appears at the end of Sakura Samsara's side story and the Raid co-op stage "Soul Throne" is [[spoiler:an artificial construct made by the Honkai box in order to guard the sword Jizo Mitama[[note]]which used to be said box before Higokumaru transformed it[[/note]]. The will of the box recognized the thief Kallen as the strongest being in Higokumaru's memory, so the box used her "image" as the sword's guardian. At first, this Kallen lacks any memories of the original one, but due to the Higokumaru's Herrscher core effect, it slowly brings her memories back; by the time Sakura meets and embraces her, Kallen regains her full memories]].
* LongDeadBadass: She was dead 500 years before the game's present.
* LongRangeFighter: Sündenjäger favors fighting by shooting her pistols, contrasting the melee PistolWhip fighting style of Kallen's other battlesuits.
* MovesetClone: Her boss version (in Sakura Samsara) has Divine Prayer (Kiana's) combo attack, in addition to several handguns' weapon skills. She can also use the Oath of Judah cross when her health goes low.
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: In the past, after she battled her friend who was corrupted by the "Honkai box", she declared that the box shouldn't fall to the hands of any human, which is why she stole it.
* NoSell: Her boss version is immune to elemental damage. In Sakura Samsara, this makes her immune to the "soul cannon" trick. She also is immune to the bomb from the "bombing" mission, and heavily resists damage from stealth kills.
* PhantomThief: What Sixth Serenade is. She speaks in a romantic, flowery way in this battlesuit.
** In one supplementary comic, after seeing a poor mother being mooched of her money by a Schicksal member, she became one (helped by Otto), who [[JustLikeRobinHood stole money from rich people (including that Schicksal member) and gave it to the poor]]. She later reappears at the end of Sakura Samsara's side story, stealing the sword Jizo Mitama away for some reason. Her Sixth Serenade battle suit is taken from her thief depiction.
** Played for laughs in the DatingSim mode, where her "justice rogue" persona is played way up, usually causing various shenanigans.
* PillarOfLight: If Sündenjäger is ranked SS, her Ultimate Skill will cause lasers to fall from above to hit her target for 15 seconds.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: The playable Imayoh Ritual form is actually a depiction of Kallen from [[FictionalVideoGame an in-universe video game]] called "Kallen Fantasy VII" made by Otto himself.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Imayoh Ritual's branch attack requires her to fill a gauge with 3 separate sections. The more it's filled, the stronger the attack becomes as the gauge is depleted.
* SuperMode: Sündenjäger's ultimate has her [[WalkingArmory deploying her arsenal of firearms]], turning her basic attacks to [[MoreDakka a barrage of bullets and missiles]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While Otto had done some questionable deeds even before her death, [[PlotTriggeringDeath her death just made him even more driven and obsessive, and made him do even more of those deeds]], dooming many other people by his hands in the name of trying to resurrect her. This includes tangling with the Herrschers [[spoiler:in order to find the "Herrscher of Death", which he believes would be the key to resurrecting Kallen]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: The reason she died fighting Honkai Beasts to protect the city is because she was weakened from her battle against the possessed Sakura and she didn't seem to have it healed (that, and she was forced to defend a helpless citizen against a Honkai Beast [[TakingTheBullet with her own body]]).
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[[folder:Rita Rossweisse]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Maid of Schicksal]]

One of the three S-ranked Valkyries currently active in Schicksal, Rita is the deputy captain of the "Blade of the Immortal" Valkyrie Squad, as well as the adjutant to fellow S-class Valkyrie Durandal. She's professional, courteous and elegant, but her impersonality makes people unable to find out anything more about her. \\
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Her battlesuits are Umbral Rose (A-rank PSY-type), Stalker: Phantom Iron (A MECH) and Argent Knight: Artemis (S BIO).

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* AffablyEvil: She always remains polite and courteous, mostly due to the fact that she is a maid. When set to be on the bridge, she will even make tea for the Captain, as well as expressing concern for his safety and well-being and occasionally flirting. At the same time, while she's a Valkyrie like the others, she's more on [[BigBad Otto's]] side.
* AnIcePerson: Argent Knight deals ice damage and can freeze enemies.
* AscendedMeme: Argent Knight is often called a [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Stand User]] (with her "Crescent Harvest" as her stand). In the Chronicles story "Dreams of Gemina" she auditions for a role as a villain, where [[https://youtu.be/U1t3d_9yLwM she does a "Jojo Pose" along with manifesting Crescent Harvest]].
* AssistCharacter:
** Phantom Iron's ultimate skill is to summon a robotic 4-legged creature called "Stalker Carbon" that attacks her enemies until her SP runs out.
** Argent Knight has a scythe-wielding robot companion called "Crescent Harvest" that frequently appears and reappears to attack her enemies.
* AutoRevive: If Umbral Rose is ranked SS, she gains a skill that lets her revive herself back to a fraction of her full health. This effect can only occur once per battle.
* BoobsOfSteel: Has the second largest bust size behind Himeko, yet this doesn’t stop her from being a deadly close-quarters fighter.
* CastFromHitPoints: Umbral Rose's ChargedAttack has her [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throwing her scythe forward]]. It costs a bit of HP and her entire special bar to use, but she'll then get a buff that lets her [[HealThyself heal herself with her normal attacks]].
* ConsummateProfessional: As both a maid and a Valkyrie, she does everything with immaculate skill and grace. In one of the lighter moments of ch. 9, it's revealed that this even extends to [[spoiler:tying people up]].
* CoolMask: Phantom Iron has a mask that she only wears during her SuperMode and in a few cutscenes in Chapter 9-EX. Her chibi form permanently wears it though.
* DashAttack: Phantom Iron's ChargedAttack is to dash through the closest enemy while spinning her scythe. This then activates a SuperMode where she moves faster and [[SpellBlade her attacks become laced with lightning]], but her special gauge will fill up (performing Ultimate Evasion and killing enemies will halt the fill-up progress). If it gets full, she'll enter an {{overheat|ing}}-like state where she becomes slower until it cools down.
* EvilBrit: She is from Manchester, UK as the Durandal visual novel reveals.
* HairDecorations: She wears a horned maid headdress as Umbral Rose and a normal black hairband as Phantom Iron. As Argent Knight, she wears a blue crown-like hair ornament that looks like it's made of ice, symbolizing the ice elemental damage she deals with this battlesuit.
* HumanPopsicle: Argent Knight's ChargedAttack can induce this on her opponents--even the normally-unfreezable ones, like bosses--but only after her Crescent Harvest robot has inflicted enough status ailments on the enemy.
* {{Irony}}:
** Her maid-like mentality makes her a humble and obedient person. In the Winter Rhapsody event, however, she's put in the role of the haughty Red Queen. Even if the Queen's role is revealed to be GoodAllAlong, she still tries her best to act as high and mighty as a queen should be, albeit with slips here and there. The Captain points out that she really doesn't fit the role due to her mentality.
** Out of all the all the Valkyries, Rita is the one (other than Mei) who is generally most concerned with the Captain’s safety and well-being, despite the fact that she is on Otto’s side and thus she and the Captain are technically enemies. However, whether this is genuine or simply an act is up for speculation.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: She refuses to disobey any of Otto's orders [[spoiler:even when Fu Hua tells her how foolish that is]].
* MysteriousPast: Rita's past prior to becoming a Valkyrie is a total mystery, and she never talks about that time so there's no telling if/when any details will ever be revealed. None of her battlesuits' profiles reveal anything about her past, either.
%%** There's one visual novel that is about her and Durandal, but it's not officially translated yet.
* NinjaMaid: Because of her work as a maid and associated servile attitude and politeness, it's easy to forget that she's a ''S''-rank Valkyrie on par with her leader, Durandal. Her Umbral Rose battle outfit reflects her image of a perfect maid: prim, proper and deadly with the scythe. During the events of ch. 9, she fights Fu Hua to a standstill and may have actually beaten her if Durandal hadn't ordered her to stand down.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: In the Odd Drifter event, Rita joins the Captain's party (who's looking for Seele's "sister") to look for her missing "servant". But when they find Seele's "sister" (Bronya), they also find out that Bronya has Rita's "servant" (Crescent Harvest) in her custody. Rita can only sheepishly say that she's going back to the igloo she was in and waiting for another adventurer who doesn't know Bronya/isn't on her side, but the Captain says it's too late. Rita then turns against the rest of the group, wanting to take her Crescent Harvest back and to reuse the HumongousMecha that Bronya is guarding. Your party defeats her and she's forced to flee.
* PeekABangs: Her left eye is obscured by her hair; artwork tends to completely cover the eye while it can barely be seen in her in-game models. Not only does this accent her already considerable beauty, it serves to mark her as an antagonist as she's the only Valkyrie whose hair obscures her face and, in the Story mode, serves as Otto's agent and assassin. She's less obviously antagonistic in the side events, but most of her roles have a nefarious edge to them, and she eventually opposes the Captain, Tesla, and Seele during the second half of "Odd Drifter".
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Another hint to Rita being an enemy to Kiana and her friends is that her eyes are the same dark red as the roses on her Umbral Rose battlesuit.
* ShockAndAwe: Phantom Iron can utilize lightning in her attacks.
* ShortHairWithTail: She has short hair by default, but her alternate variants for the Argent Knight and Phantom Iron suits (Maid of Celestia and Summer 2019, respectively) give her two long tails, while still keeping the prim and proper short cut.
* SinisterScythe: She's the first scythe-wielder in the game. Despite her polite disposition, she's scarily graceful in her attacks with it.
* SomethingAboutARose: Her last name means "Rose White" (and is a reference to ''Das Nibelungenlied''), her outfits have rose patterns, and especially as Umbral Rose, she leaves behind [[PetalPower rose petals]] in her evasion move and some of her attacks.
* SpeedBlitz: Umbral Rose's Ultimate Skill has her {{Flash Step}}ping around while attacking the target (and its surroundings) from multiple sides, before doing a powerful spinning slash.
* SpinAttack: Her scythe attacks involve a lot of spinning and twirling.
* SummonToHand: She's capable of summoning her scythe to her hands. This comes in handy when one of Umbral Rose's attacks is to throw the scythe towards enemies--she can simply summon it back.
* SuperMode: Aside from Phantom Iron's own, Argent Knight's Ultimate Skill empowers her attacks, making her do more damage and freeze her enemies more often. It also comes with an ultimate attack that ends the mode, where she deals high ice damage and freezes enemies on a large radius. Activating it will also [[HealThyself heal herself for some amount]].
* TheTeetotaler: This is implied by an interaction between her and Himeko in the dorms, although it could just be her gently ribbing Himeko for being such a lush.
-->'''Himeko''': Rita, have a drink with me.\\
'''Rita''': Thank you, but I can't drink.\\
'''Himeko''': You can't?\\
'''Rita''': If I get drunk, who will take care of you?\\
'''Himeko''': Take care of me? *''frowning [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Japanese_style kaomoji]]''* Are you saying I'll get drunk?
* {{Teleportation}}: Her evasion action is similar to that of [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]]'s in that she disappears and reappears in a spread of rose petals (Umbral Rose) or sparks of lightning (Phantom Iron). She can't pass through opponents, however.
* VillainRespect: She may be Otto's agent, and has a lot of blood on her hands by the time ch. 9 ends (along with sabotaging Theresa, Mei, and Bronya's attempt to find Kiana), but she always uses the -''sama'' honorific for Theresa, addresses Mei as part of the influential Raiden family, admits to liking Fu Hua after their fight, and seems genuinely regretful that Fu Hua is dooming herself by choosing to oppose Otto. Outside the Story mode, she always addresses the Captain as "Kanchou-sama", even in situtations where their interactions are more personal and a less proper means of address might be okay.
* VillainShoes: Half of Chapter 9-EX is from Rita's perspective, as she opposes our heroes' group and tries to get the intel of the missing Kiana's location before the latter's friends do.
* VillainousCrush: Judging by her interactions on the Bridge and her dialogue during Honkai Kingdom it is implied that Rita has one for the Captain.
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[[folder:Rozaliya & Liliya Olenyeva]]
!!!'''Rozaliya Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiKoga (Japanese) / '''Liliya Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuSerizawa (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Older Hind]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Younger Hind]]

A pair of twins who belonged to Cocolia's orphanage, and two of Bronya's friends. They used to be normal girls until injuries from Honkai Beasts led to them being put into an experiment where Honkai Beast cells were grafted into them. Nowadays they act on Cocolia's orders.\\
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Rozaliya's battlesuit is Molotov Cherry (S-rank PSY-type). Lilya's battlesuit is Blueberry Blitz (A-rank MECH-type).
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* AgeInappropriateDress: They're as young as they look, and their costumes are quite revealing, consisting of elaborate-looking babydolls and stockings.
* BackportedDevelopment: The event "Seele's Diary" is set in the past, back before Rozaliya and Liliya got their enhancements that gave them horns and tails of Honkai Beasts, but they appear in the story with the 3D models of their playable appearances, i.e after their enhancements. The explanation for this is that, in the flashback story, they're apparently "props" made by Roza to enhance her unique persona as a superstar.
* {{BFS}}: They use the same swords that Himeko can use, but the two are even more petite than Bronya. This is lampshaded in Liliya's victory pose, where she runs up dragging her sword, seems to stop and gather herself, and then heaves it up a bit with both hands; her deadpan expression almost seems to be saying "This is really heavy."
* BioAugmentation: They have been modified by Cocolia's group to [[LittleBitBeastly exhibit Honkai Beast traits]], from horns to tails.
* BookDumb: Rozaliya is quite weak in academics like Kiana, contrasting Liliya who gets perfect scores constantly.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: Lili has to rein Roza in, or at least do damage control (like talking to the people affected), whenever Roza is doing her usual antics.
* CounterAttack: Liliya's Ultimate Skill has her do a defensive stance. If she's struck (or after a few seconds passing) she'll do a wide sideways slash. [[JustFrameBonus If timed right before an enemy's attack]], the counter attack will be more powerful and briefly activates [[BulletTime Time Fracture]].
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: Roza has a passive that activates when she dies, but only if you also bring Lili; Lili will switch in and Roza will heal some of her HP. This can only occur once per battle.
* DeathFromAbove:
** Lili's ChargedAttack has her jump up, then fall down to a designated place (you can move the circle before you release the button), dealing damage in a circular area. It requires her gauge to be full (by normal attacks), but said attack can deal high damage to shields. Her QTE also has her fall down with [[RollingAttack a rolling slash]].
** Roza's QTE has her do a diving attack from above.
* DeflectorShields: Roza's Ultimate Evasion effect gives her a temporary shield that can block certain amounts of damage.
* DifficultButAwesome: Making the most use of Liliya's Blueberry Blitz battlesuit requires triggering her Ultimate at the moment of an enemy's attack to increase its damage, restore some of her SP, reduce her Ultimate's cool down, and activate Time Fracture. Since you only have 0.5 seconds worth of wiggle room and different enemies have different timings, this is difficult to do consistently, especially with a laggy phone. However, if you do master it, you'll have the most damaging Physical Mecha battlesuit in your hands at the time of her release.
* EmergencyTransformation: They said that the modifications made on their body were a way to save them after they were injured by Honkai Beasts.
* {{Expy}}: With Roza's LittleBitBeastly look (especially with her tail), petite body, pink color scheme and obsession in being an idol, she's the game's sendoff to [[Videogame/FateExtra Elizabeth Bathory]].
* ExtremeOmnivore: Played for laughs. In the Schicksal side portion of the Honkai Kingdoms event story, they had no problems eating ''[[LethalChef Kaslana]]''-made dishes and they even commented how realistic their "Bonsai cake" (which is actually not even a cake but just bonsai on a pot) is while chomping it down.
* GratuitousRussian: Like Bronya, they also sometimes speaks Russian words.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: They are not called "Vodka Girls" without a reason. They chug vodka a lot, though the vodka in question is stated to be somehow non-alcoholic. The names for their battlesuits are also based on drinks, courtesy of Rozaliya.
* HarmlessVillain: In the "Odd Drifter" event, they play the part of the villain in the side-story where they try multiple times to capture the Captain for unknown reasons - except that they tend to fail even before the Captain recognizes them, so much that even the other girls pity the two.
* HealingFactor: At rank SS, Rozaliya can slowly heal her HP whenever there are enemies around her.
* IdolSinger: Both of them apparently had a dream of becoming idols since they were little, although Roza is more openly ambitious about it. In the Honkai Kingdoms event, in the Emberya faction's story, they eventually become an idol group and then make "Grand Seeress" Theresa join them, with the Captain being roped into being part of their management.
* IllGirl: Liliya has to sleep at 7pm everyday, otherwise she will suddenly fall asleep on the battlefield. It's a side effect of her BioAugmentation.
* InvulnerableAttack: Liliya is immune to indirect damage when she uses her Ultimate Skill. The attack where Liliya swings Rozaliya also makes them briefly invincible, and Roza's Ultimate Skill also makes her unable to be attacked for a brief time.
* LargeHam: As part of their obsession to becoming superstars, Roza likes to dramatize her lines almost whenever she speaks. Lili is the opposite.
* LittleMissBadass: They're even younger than Bronya and they're quite as capable of kicking Honkai butts.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Rozaliya is the more playful and carefree type while Liliya is the more serious type. They almost look like literal RedOniBlueOni, with their Chronicles story "Dreams of Gemina" putting a lampshade on it.
* PrehensileTail: They each have one, with a three-fingered mechanical claw at the end, which they use to help swing their swords. Rozaliya in particular likes her tail.
* SelfParody: Their Chronicles story "Dreams of Gemina" has them auditioning to become idols (specifically, movie stars). They then get to re-enact certain scenes in the story mode, such as Fu Hua's reveal of the truth about Kiana[[note]]but with Rita in place of Fu Hua, while also throwing out a reference to ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''[[/note]], Bronya turning Dark Bronya, or [[spoiler:Kiana becoming her Herrscher self and Rozaliya making the same pose as Himeko at the end of the latter's battle]].
* SpinAttack: Rozaliya's ChargedAttack is to spin with her sword until she gets dizzy [[{{Overheating}} if you hold too long]].
* TagTeamTwins: When you're playing as Rozaliya and Liliya is in the team, the latter will [[CombinationAttack repeatedly jump in to add attacks of her own]] when the former does her normal attack. Roza's SpinAttack can be continued with Lili jumping in and then [[GrievousHarmWithABody swinging Roza and her sword]] as a powerful attack. Roza's Ultimate Skill will have Lili jumping in to perform it together, increasing its damage.
* TokenMiniMoe: As of their introduction, they're the youngest playable characters.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Seele Vollerei]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaiNakahara (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Nymph of Water]]

Bronya's friend in Cocolia's orphanage. A rather timid and withdrawn girl who revered Bronya, calling her "big sis". She participated in one of Anti-Entropy's experiments, [[ProjectBlank Project X-10]], which aimed for creating a "new breed of human race" and would let her manipulate things at a quantum level. However, it didn't end well for her; [[GoneHorriblyWrong her body broke down into atoms and her mind went into the Imaginary Space]]. She's also shown to have a Stigma of her own.\\
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Initially available as a Stigmata set, she became playable in Version 3.2, using the battlesuit Swallowtail Phantasm (A-Rank QUA-Type)
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* AndIMustScream: She ended up in the Imaginary Space/Sea of Quanta, with little to no way to interact with the outside. Downplayed in that it didn't bother her too much, and she's just waiting there for Bronya to bring her back. In "Seele's Quantum Diary" she later explains to the Captain how she ended up in "the dark room".
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In "Seele's Quantum Diary" she claims that she ended up going to the beach with Bronya, with her detailing her experiences. Then her SplitPersonality comes out and gives a sarcastic MirthlessLaughter before saying: "Did you actually go to the beach with Bronya?" Later her split personality makes the Captain ask the same question and Seele is forced to admit that she didn't.
* BigDamnKiss: Shares her first kiss With Bronya in a panel that nearly takes up an entire page [[https://manga.honkaiimpact3.com/book/1004/11 at the end of the Azure Waters manga]]. So big that the Chinese version of the manga tripped the censors in China and was changed to a KissingDiscretionShot, while the English version of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p461V9fy4jo Azure Waters PV]] was extended to include it in its climax.
* BigDamnReunion:
** The first time was in [[spoiler:Winter Rhapsody event, where she shows up at the very end to meet Bronya. Seele sets up the whole event (by pulling Bronya and friends into a game) in order to meet her, at least for a brief time]].
** Played with in Ch. 11, as the first time they meet was in a "[[AlternateUniverse bubble universe]]" where Seele is supposedly a Valkyrie in St. Freya Academy and becomes Bronya's squadmate. At the end of the mission that they're put in, Bronya deduces from what she sees that, unlike the other people she meets - who are the AlternateUniverse versions of the people she knew - Seele is "not of this world". Then the two embrace each other and cry TearsOfJoy.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: After Seele "[[OnlyMostlyDead died]]", she would occasionally appear in the real world in the form of a blue butterfly. The "Valkyries' Dining Escapades" ManHua shows her doing this to visit Bronya in her dreams. [[spoiler:At the end of Ch. 11, she transforms into a blue butterfly, and then seemingly "merges" with Bronya (and persumably the Herrscher Core of Reason) to give her a brand new form.]]
* CowardlyLion: Rather shy, meek and passive, especially after [[DamselInDistress she got kidnapped by human traffickers]] (and then got rescued by Bronya). [[labelnote:Further details]]She tended to instinctively hide behind Cocolia, Bronya, and other places whenever something startling happens. It didn't help that Sin Mal bullied her often. She was also too afraid to stop Sin from hurting Bronya's leg despite her being around and looking at the whole thing, a fact that she's deeply ashamed about, although Bronya assured her that it's not her fault.[[/labelnote]] She nevertheless came up with her own brave moments later on, like taking the experiment X-10 in Bronya's stead.
-->'''Seele:''' *''thinking''* "I lack Rozaliya's fearsome confidence. I also can't laugh at myself like Liliya. I just lacked their courage."\\
'''Captain:''' Seele, you took the test because you wanted to protect Bronya. There's no need to hide. You were brave when you made the choice. You can definitely be brave again.
* DealWithTheDevil: In the Sea of Quanta, she was trapped inside a "dark room" before a "door" opens, and then she goes out. Apparently, a being [[spoiler:called the World Serpent]] was the one who helped her escape; in exchange of her freedom, said being asked her to retrieve [[spoiler:the Herrscher Core of Reason]] for it. Its true motive is to [[spoiler:bypass the "barrier" that Welt had made with his Herrscher Core and go out to the real world]].
* DemotedToExtra: The previous game ''Guns [=GirlZ=]'' has her being one of the playable characters. Here, she's merely a PosthumousCharacter and, prior to version 3.2, only depicted in a Stigmata set.
* {{Diary}}: There's a mini-event in Version 3.1 that focuses on a "diary" she writes. She can't speak by herself (being incorporeal and all) so she "writes" everything that she experienced (including her past), hoping that someone would read it--and the Captain ends up doing so (through his phone). The two then "communicate" by text as he reads her diary. The diary entries give a number of details of her past, including how she first met Bronya and some parts from the supplementary comic "Violet Sea Tales". In Chapter 11, Bronya later gets the diary after she gets out of a "bubble universe" in the Sea of Quanta.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: her normal attacks and Ultimate Skill has her do a lot of spinning attacks.
* ExposedToTheElements: In the Odd Drifter event, she's wearing the summer event costume (a white dress with quite a number of openings)... in a frozen tundra. It gets lampshaded later on.
* FirstKiss: Shares her first kiss with Bronya [[https://manga.honkaiimpact3.com/book/1004/11 at the end of the Azure Waters]] manga, and has Bronya promise to kiss her back when she returns to save her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In one supplementary comic, when Cocolia held a test of manipulating Honkai energy for her orphanage children, Seele tried and failed to shape a ball of mercury; before the whole thing crumbles, it assumed a shape vaguely similar to a scythe. Later, after the Experiment X-10, she's shown brandishing a scythe of her own.
** In ch. 11, during a mission they're put together in, Bronya (who thought that she's the AlternateUniverse version of Seele) thinks that Seele seems to know more about the mission's details and what to do than she ought to. At the end of the mission, Seele's SplitPersonality briefly takes over and summons a Quantum Honkai Beast to attack Bronya, which she defeats. [[SpottingTheThread All of those leads Bronya to conclude]] that the Seele in front of her is "not of this world".
* GatheringSteam:
** The individual parts of her Stigmata set have effects that only occur when the user's SP is more than 150, which would require them to build their SP.
** As Swallowtail Phantasm, she has a gauge that can be filled with normal attacks, Ultimate Evasion, QTE and Ultimate Skill. The gauge is used to power her ChargedAttack (powerful slashing move with her scythe) in her normal state, and in her SuperMode, the gauge determines how long the mode lasts; during which, her ChargedAttack can refill her gauge at the cost of her Ultimate Evasion entering cooldown, and killing enemies can also refill it.
* GratuitousRussian: She occassionally speaks Russian like her fellow orphanage friends Bronya, Rozaliya and Liliya despite having Estonian origins. Justified in that the orphanage was in Siberia.
* IntangibleMan: The effect of her Ultimate Evasion is that she becomes able to phase through enemies for few seconds.
* TheManBehindTheMan: She's the one behind [[spoiler:the Winter Rhapsody event happening in the first place: she pulls Bronya, the other Valkyries, and the Captain inside a video game and puts them in various roles, including Rita as the AntiVillain "Red Queen" and Kiana as the BigBad, "White Witch" (i.e Herrscher of the Void in her special winter costume). She simply wanted to have her BigDamnReunion with Bronya, at least for a brief time; Bronya doesn't have the means to bring Seele to the real world yet, though, so she's fine with parting again]].
* MeaningfulName: "Seele" means "soul" in German. Due to Experiment X-10, she ends up becoming nothing but a soul.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: She's the first ever Quantum-type playable character. She deals normal damage to the 3 normal types (BIO, MECH, PSY) and they also do normal damage to her, but [[MutualDisadvantage she'll deal increased damage to "Void"-type enemies (and so would they towards her)]]. She also gains 25% extra EXP from ''all types'' of [[RareCandy EXP chips]] (while the normal type characters get 50% extra EXP from specific EXP chips).
* MindRape: Her SplitPersonality did it on Sin Mal [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend for revenge of her pushing Bronya down the stairs]], breaking Bronya's legs in the process. She lovingly calls it "The Revenge Staircase Super Ride", where she made Sin "fall down endless stairs".
* OnlyMostlyDead: Her current state. She can't directly interact or talk with people or things, and neither can they towards her. She, however, seemingly finds out how to [[spoiler:bring Bronya and the other Valkyries inside a video game (the Winter Rhapsody event) in order to have a brief reunion with her]].
* PowerEchoes: In the game, her SplitPersonality has a slightly echoing voice.
* PowerIncontinence: When the Experiment X-10 started, Seele, in her mind, tried to reach out to Bronya, but then she hid herself inside a "chest". Her SplitPersonality told her that she wouldn't be able to control the power contained in said "chest", but Seele is determined to help Bronya and opened it anyway. For around 0.8 seconds after that, [[TimeStandsStill time briefly stopped]], and then Cocolia and the scientists celebrated...but then her body started to break down and disappear. When Bronya later took the experiment to meet Seele again, the latter handed over said power, called "Rebuild", to Bronya before she was gone. That power later manifests as the Project Bunny 19c. Later on Ch. 11, both "Joachim" and her SplitPersonality says to Bronya that she only has little control over her abilities.
* PowerMakeover: Once her physical body broke down completely, her mind escaped out of the lab she was in with the help of her Stigma. She's then dressed in the outfit depicted in her Stigmata set (a small white and purple dress, wielding a SinisterScythe) and flew over the seas, trying to reach the orphanage to meet Bronya before her mind disappeared. Unfortunately, she was too late, as her mind forcibly went to the Imaginary Space before Bronya could see her.
* PowerTattoo: Her personal Stigma is located at the top of her chest, just under the collarbone.
* ThePromise:
** After Bronya saved Seele from her kidnappers, the latter, who was frightened by what Bronya did to the kidnappers, made Bronya promise to never hurt anyone again. She held onto that promise... which led her to not retaliate when Sin Mal pushed her down the stairs. Her SplitPersonality explains this to the Captain when the latter asks her why Bronya didn't do anything about it.
** She makes one with Bronya in her final moments, saying that [[FirstKiss the kiss that they share]] won't be the last, and she also makes Bronya promise to restore her somehow. They also sealed it with a PinkySwear.
* PromotedtoPlayable: Version 3.2 adds her to the roster of Valkyries.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: After activating her Ultimate, her SwordLines turns red and black, showing her dark side being active for a period of time.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes turn red whenever her darker side takes over.
* RoleReversal: In the second half of the "Odd Drifter" event, Seele is the one looking for her "sister" Bronya this time. She, the Captain, and the rest of their group finds her inside the snow-buried wreckage of a giant mech, but Bronya (as the "Rime Witch") says that she has been [[SealedEvilInACan sealing the mech together with herself]] and that she can only project herself for a short time, before disappearing with a FingerForcedSmile. A tearful Seele vows to find a way to save her.
* SinisterScythe: She is the second scythe wielder after Rita.
* SpamAttack: Swallowtail Phantasm's normal combo is unique in that, after she does the 5th (finishing) strike, she'll go straight to her 2nd strike if you tap the attack button again, allowing for endless attacks.
* SplitPersonality: Her Stigma apparently comes with its own personality.
** She's a rather sadistic person who tried to make her other self (regular Seele) do nasty things to those who wronged her. For all of her ruthlessness, however, she's loyal to her other self and won't go against her. [[spoiler:The peculiar shape of the stigma's tattoo is revealed in another comic to be the symbol for the 6th Herrscher, the "Herrscher of Death", in the previous civilization 50000+ years ago, which may imply that Seele's stigma had said Herrscher's consciousness.]]
** Said split personality also appears in "Seele's Quantum Diary", at first confusing the Captain with the diary entries[[note]]She claimed that "only good times are worth remembering"... and this is after the Captain just read the part where Bronya gets pushed down the stairs and then Seele saying that she had "avenged" Bronya. In particular, "Seele?" is treated by her other self as the "unhappy" moments of her life.[[/note]] and their conversation before "showing up" to him; it doesn't help that [[HydePlaysJekyll she occasionally pretends to be her real self]].
-->'''Seele?''': [[spoiler:I was transcribed to human genetic memory to help transfer our knowledge, powers... and the eternal hatred of Gods, known as the Honkai.]]
** Before the climax of Ch. 11, "Seele?" reveals herself to Bronya for the first time and then [[spoiler:turned on her, saying that she had made a "deal" with a being (which Bronya correctly guessed as the "Serpent") that may allow the two to escape to the real world, and that she needed the Herrscher Core of Reason for it. Bronya isn't letting her, because Joachim had told Bronya to not let the Serpent out at all costs, and because she's still holding onto ThePromise she made back then]]. At the end of the chapter, said personality is subdued[[note]]it's implied that regular Seele was FightingFromTheInside the entire time and only "won" when she had been beaten enough from the outside[[/note]] and Seele goes back normal.
* SuperMode: Her Ultimate Skill is a powerful wide-area attack that also makes her enter a powerful state, courtesy of her SplitPersonalityTakeover for the moment. Aside from increased attack power, she gets stronger (and the duration of the mode gets longer) the more she kills enemies.
* TakeMeInstead: She accepted to participate in the Project X-10 in Bronya's place. Her SplitPersonality in "Seele's Quantum Diary" points out that because she failed the experiment, Bronya ended up taking part in it herself and it left Bronya emotionally and physically crippled, thus making her the reason for Bronya's later suffering.
* TalkingToThemself: She can talk with her SplitPersonality, with the latter usually creeping her out. In "Seele's Quantum Diary", she starts doing this in front of the Captain, confusing him.
* {{Technopath}}: It's implied in [[spoiler:the Winter Rhapsody event]] and "Seele's Quantum Diary" mini-event that she has the ability to manipulate virtual data, probably as a result of Project X-10.
* {{Teleportation}}: The effect of the 2-SetBonus of her Stigmata is that the user can teleport somewhere else right before being struck; this has a 10-second cooldown.
* TheVoice: The "???" who speaks to the Captain at the end of the Chinese New Year event is implied to be her voice.
* WeWillMeetAgain: [[spoiler:Says this to the player character in the Winter Rhapsody ending. This is obliquely referenced in the "Seele's Quantum Diary" event, where she's surprised that the Captain talks to her via text ("Captain?! Is that you?") before claiming that "it's nothing" when the Captain asks about it.]]
* WishUponAShootingStar: In "Seele's Diary", when she saw a falling star, she quickly made a wish that Bronya would one day take her to see the beach.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Very dark blue, with purplish blue shades.
[[/folder]]

! Bosses
[[folder:Ganesha/Parvati]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Ganesha (top) and Parvati.]]

A huge Honkai Beast in the shape of a large warthog. Ganesha is white with pink lines while Parvati is its stronger version, black colored with blue lines. Ganesha is the end boss of Chapter 1, while Parvati is one of the bosses in the Extra Stage "Everlasting Memory".

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* AnIcePerson: Parvati can manipulate ice to attack.
* BellyFlopCrushing: Both have an attack where they walk on their hindlegs trying to follow you, then slam their body down.
* BreathWeapon: Ganesha can shoot a WaveMotionGun from its mouth. Parvati's own causes freezing ice chunks to cover the ground.
* CraftedFromAnimals: A week-long monthly event stage would let you fight Ganesha and gain weapons based on it: either a sword for Mei or a laser cannon for Bronya.
* DeathFromAbove: Parvati can cause chunks of ice to fall from above in large amounts.
* DegradedBoss:
** In one of the stages of the "Squad Snowwolf" Raid, Parvati appears as a MiniBoss and is smaller than its regular self.
** In one of the Chinese New Year event stages, you'll fight 3 mini versions of Ganesha for their meat (it's the year of the Pig and the girls are going to make barbecue with it).
* DualBoss:
** In the Infinite Abyss mode, the last floor may have you fighting Ganesha and Dark Bronya at the same time.
** In the third Matrix Raid stage, both Ganesha and Parvati act as the boss at the end of the level.
* FullBoarAction: They are Honkai beasts in the shape of gigantic warthogs.
* LightningBruiser: Despite their massive size and strength, they move surprisingly quickly.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Ganesha has an attack where it gathers energy, then releases a powerful shout that deals damage in [[AreaOfEffect an area around him]]. Parvati's version of it does no damage, but will freeze you solid and is nigh undodegable (it covers the whole arena). [[SmashingSurvival Mash buttons to break free!]]
* RollingAttack: Both have 2 kinds of this: a very fast rolling attack that goes on a straight line and deals high damage in a single hit, and a slower one that tracks your position and deals multiple hits.
* TronLines: Ganesha has pink lines, while Parvati has blue.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wendy]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ryouko Maekawa (Japanese)
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The end boss of Chapter 3. A former Valkyrie from New Zealand who is a victim of an experiment where she has the "Gem of Desire" implanted in her legs, causing her to be crippled and become the 4th Herrscher. She's an unassuming girl at first, but her Herrscher self awakens in her stressful moments, forcing the Valkyries to subdue her.

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* BlowYouAway: Her Herrscher ability is to control the winds.
* ChekhovsGun: Her Gem of Desire was last mentioned in ch. 4 [[spoiler:as it was used to power up Wotan, exhausting her life in the process]]. In ch. 10, Cocolia mentions that she still has it hidden in The Deep, and it becomes the MacGuffin that our Valkyrie team needs to secure.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: You can see throughout the fight that her skirt barely covers her panties, she tends to breeze up her skirt with her wind, and most of her moves involve her leaning forward in a MarilynManeuver-esque way... while [[PantyShot leaving her rear open]] (especially if you dodge behind her).
* EvilCripple: Downplayed in that she's only evil half the time; the reason she has an evil side is also the reason her legs are crippled: she was [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on by scientists]] and ended up with a Herrscher core (called "Gem of Desire") lodged in her calf.
* {{Flight}}: She's able to fly as her Herrscher self, and generally [[PowerFloats floats around]] by default.
* FourIsDeath: She's the 4th Herrscher, [[spoiler:and the first to die in-story, in Chapter 4]], no less.
* FuumaShuriken: She can [[ShapingYourAttacks create three of them]] [[ElementalWeapon made of wind]] to be thrown at the player characters.
* MulticoloredHair: She has black and green hair.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She dies two chapters after her introduction.]]
* SlasherSmile: Her Herrscher self constantly wears this expression.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Her Herrscher self awakens when Bronya was suddenly controlled by Anti-Entropy and attacked her.
* TornadoMove: She can summon swirling tornadoes.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Her looks reminded Bronya of her old friend Seele (from a supplementary comic). This causes the normally stoic Bronya to open up to Wendy and show more kindness than she usually does.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: She has a move where she creates a wind vortex that sucks the player character(s) in, then creates a wind explosion that deals substantial damage.

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[[folder:MSR-7 Wotan]]
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The end boss of Chapter 4. A HumongousMecha made inside the ME Corp. building which belongs to the Anti-Entropy.

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* BackgroundBoss: It stays in the background, and you can attack either its body or its GiantHandsOfDoom to damage it.
* TheBusCameBack: The Schicksal HQ Open World reveals what happened to it after Chapter 4: Schicksal salvaged it and put it inside their base. When your Anti-Entropy forces invade Schicksal HQ, Einstein is surprised to meet her group's mech again and plans to use it for their invasion plan.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: When it TurnsRed, its head disappears and its torso reveals a huge face.
* CraftedFromAnimals: A week-long monthly event allows you to acquire weapons themed after the mech as a RandomDrop, either a sword for Himeko or a pair of guns for Kiana.
* GroundPunch: Its main attack. In a variant, it has an attack where its hand opens its pistons and it smashes said hand down, causing jets of flame to run across the ground.
* HavingABlast: It can create multiple explosions that track your current location.
* LaserCutter: It has a move where it fires a sweeping laser that ends in an explosion. The sword dropped by it can perform a similar move.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: It's mainly powered by [[spoiler:Wendy's Herrscher core, exhausting her life in the process]].
* SuddenNameChange: An update changes its name from "Godfather" into "Wotan". Einstein still calls it "Godfather" in cutscenes, though.
* VacuumMouth: After it TurnsRed, the large mouth on its torso is capable of [[YouWillNotEvadeMe sucking you towards it]] for a bite.

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[[folder:HOMU Emperor]]
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The "King" of all HOMU-kind. He appears as a boss in Bronya's extra story "Dilemma Dreamland", as well as in the Coop Raid stages "Final HOMU Fantasy".

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* AssKicksYou: He has a butt bump as an attack. [[{{Fartillery}} He also farts before the attack, which also will hurt.]]
* CirclingBirdies: After his SlideAttack, he appears to be dizzy while stars spin above him. After a few seconds, the stars fall around him, dealing quite some damage to your Valkyries if they hit.
* CoolCrown: A big red one that signifies his "royalty".
* DegradedBoss: In Final HOMU Fantasy's first stage, copies of him appear as a GiantMook; they're relatively easy to beat, with the catch that they have [[{{Synchronization}} the Soul Link buff]] between them. He then shows up as a proper boss in the third stage. Inverted in the fourth stage, as he's invincible (Bronya explicitly hacked the game to make it so) and can [[OneHitKill kill your characters in one hit]]; what you do in that stage is to bait him towards the crowns on the ground (dropped by killing the HOMU mooks). He'll stop after getting 4.
* FlunkyBoss: He can occasionally summon [[ActionBomb HOLA mooks]] to aid him.
* InterfaceScrew: He can throw {{Banana Peel}}s around that will reverse your direction if you step on them.
* InvincibilityPowerup: Only in the Memorial Arena battle--he has a move where he turns invincible but with a few seconds of charge time. You have to break his shield gauge (preferably with attacks that do multiple hits) before he finishes charging in order to cancel the invincibility; the one who breaks the shield will also get a special debuff where they get weakened, [[ManaBurn their mana depletes]] and they move much slower.
* KingMook: He's one for the HOMU mooks and can perform similar moves as them, but stronger.
* {{Roboteching}}: He has a move where he fires 3 homing bullets from his gun. They can be evaded in cue.
* ShockwaveStomp: Two of them: one only does one hit but will keep you stunned for quite some time, while the other does multiple hits and will do quite a number to your Valkyrie should you get hit.
* SlideAttack: He has an attack where he runs and then slides forward, while shooting harmful stars in 5 directions.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:RPC-6626]]
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One of the bosses of Chapter 5, and also appearing as one of the bosses of Everlasting Memory stages. It's a Schicksal-made VTOL fighter plane which was built to fight the Honkai. However, it went berserk because of the 2nd Herrscher's influence.\\
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It's also the last boss of the Co-op Raid stage, "Matrix Space", acting as the "virtual antivirus" that gets corrupted and goes berserk, as well as an early boss in another Raid stage "Squad Snowwolf".

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* AlphaStrike: After it TurnsRed, one of its moves is to use the rotary cannon, middle laser and area bombing simultaneously.
* DeathFromAbove:
** It has a move where it launches multiple bombs upward, which all fall down onto a designated area a few moments later.
** In some of the battles against it (notably as the SS-rank version in Memorial Arena), it's capable of simply floating up, away from most of your characters' reach (except Bronya[[note]]Cluster missiles are more reliable to hit it in that state; rocket launchers can too, but only at a longer distance[[/note]]) and it can keep attacking from above, including with one move where it flies to a direction while dropping bombs.
* GatlingGood: It's armed with 2 rotary cannons on the sides that can rapid fire shots.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: It can fire multiple missiles that track your position and leave patches of paralyzing electricity on the impact zone. They can be [[TennisBoss deflected towards it]] with your attacks if you react quickly enough.
* PromotedToPlayable: You can get to use the plane in two of the weekly events, as well as in one of the levels in the Co-op Raid, Snowwolf. The gameplay turns into an UnexpectedShmupLevel.
* SphereOfDestruction: It can emit an expanding blast of electricity out of its body that can [[TheParalyzer paralyze you if you get hit]].
* SpreadShot: When it TurnsRed, it may periodically fire small shots from its cockpit area.
* VillainOverride: By Sirin.
* WaveMotionGun: It has a large cannon in the middle of its body that can fire a large continuous laser.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Assaka]]
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A tall Honkai Beast which caused havoc during the 2nd Honkai War. It is comprised of 2 halves: the blue half called "Son of Darkness" and the pink half called "Son of Dawn". Son of Darkness is fought first as a boss of Chapter 5, while Son of Dawn is fought in the chapter's final stage, after which Assaka reunites the two halves and fights as the chapter's last boss.\\
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All of its forms are also fought in the Co-op Raid stage "Squad Snowwolf" in multiple levels, although Assaka itself is only fought in one.

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* AttackItsWeakpoint: Either version normally takes reduced damage (even less as full Assaka) until you hit its large fist(s) enough, after which it starts taking more damage. It can regenerate its broken fist(s) later, however.
* DashAttack: All versions of it have an attack where it covers itself with its large fist(s) and then charges forward.
* DualityMotif: Aesthetically speaking. Son of Darkness has an enlarged right shoulder and left arm, while Son of Dawn has an enlarged left shoulder and right arm. Assaka makes the whole design symmetrical except for the coloring.
* DubNameChange: It's called "Ashvin" in the original Chinese and Japanese, a reference to Myth/HinduMythology where it's a name for a twin figure of sunrise and sunset (hence the name for the beast's halves).
* ImprovisedWeapon: When it (only as Assaka) TurnsRed, it summons a large pink pillar from the ground to be used to pound your Valkyries with.
* LaserCutter: Son of Darkness has a move where it fires a sweeping laser from its ShouldersOfDoom. Assaka itself can fire 2 lasers at once in the same way.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Assaka has both the small arms and the large arms from Son of Darkness and Son of Dawn. The small ones have no use, however.
* PowerFist: Son of Darkness has [[RightHandOfDoom an enlarged left hand while Son of Dawn has it on the right]]. Assaka, logically, has both. They can do different things with them, most notably causing explosions of energy with them.
* RapidfireFisticuffs: All versions of it have an attack where it smashes multiple times with its large fist(s). Assaka itself throws more punches than either of its halves.
* ShockAndAwe: Son of Darkness (and later Assaka itself) can summon lightning that sweeps from the sky, [[HomingProjectile which slowly tracks your position]] and leaves small patches of electricity on the ground. The lightning [[HoistByItsOwnPetard can harm the boss itself]] though, especially if you [[MisguidedMissile intentionally move in a way that the lightning follows you and hits Assaka on the way]].
* SpinAttack: One of Assaka's moves with the pillar is multiple spinning swings that hit around it.

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[[folder:Padrino]]
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The end boss of the Extra Story "Chapter Xuanyuan". It's a stronger variant of the Titan Mecha mook, used by Anti-Entropy when they invade the underwater cave that our Valkyrie team is exploring.

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* CounterAttack: It can enter a defensive mode where it deploys a DeflectorShield. If it gets attacked in melee, the attacker will flinch and it'll immediately do a counterattack.
* FlunkyBoss: In the Memorial Arena version of the battle, it'll be accompanied by 4 Titan Mechas. Upon ascending in rank, some of the mechas become their better versions, culminating in the SS-rank where they are all copies of Padrino (but with only a single life bar each).
* GoldColoredSuperiority: It's gold-colored and is the stronger boss version of the Titan Mechas.
* GroundPunch: One of its moves is to smash the ground with its fist (it might run towards you first before this).
* GroundWave: Its GroundPunch and ShockwaveStomp moves cause waves of energy that creeps along the ground.
* KingMook: Of the Titan Mecha mooks.
* LightningBruiser: Downplayed in that it moves relatively slowly, but it has a move where it runs quickly towards you. Played straight in the SS-rank Memorial Arena version of the fight, where its walking speed is increased drastically, making it harder to chase it as it walks around.
* PowerFist: There's a stronger version of it that has 2 enlarged piston-like fists, called "Fire Spirit Titan". It has several different attacks that uses the fist, such as a stronger GroundPunch and shooting a pulse-like energy shot from said fist. Many of its attacks will also put you in an "ignited" state.
* ShockwaveStomp: One of its moves is to stomp the ground in front of itself, causing a small quake that hits all around it. It's fully ImmuneToFlinching during the animation.
* TurnsRed: At lower health, the blue lines on its body turn red and it becomes fully ImmuneToFlinching and most status ailments, and it also gains a [[DeflectorShields special shield]] in front of its body at all times that flinches melee attackers (or laser-shooting Bronya) and [[AttackReflector reflects projectiles directly to the shooter]], forcing you to [[BackStab attack from behind]].

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[[folder:Hellmaru]]
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The boss of the 3rd storyline of Sakura Samsara mode. A Honkai Beast in the shape of a {{Kitsune}}, it was the beast that corrupted Sakura as she held Kallen's Honkai box, causing her to turn into a pseudo-Herrscher. The 3rd storyline event causes it to come out of Sakura's body to become fightable.

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* BreathWeapon: One of its attacks is a sweeping fiery laser from its mouth.
* DashAttack: If you're far away from it, it can attack by rapidly dashing towards you.
* DeathFromAbove: It has an attack where it makes balls of fire fall onto you from above. When in low health, it summons a magical purple stone that floats high above you and constantly drops the same balls of fire at intervals.
* DemonicPossession: In the story, it does this to Sakura's body, being attracted to Sakura's resentments as it's also resentful to the humans that hated it.
* DualBoss: In Sakura Samsara and one stage of Matrix Space Raid, it's fought together with Sakura.
* MultipleTailedBeast: In keeping with its ''kitsune'' image, it has 4 tails.
* PillarOfLight: More like Pillar of Fire, but it can create pillar-shaped fire explosions around itself.
* PlayingWithFire: Can manipulate fire in various ways to attack.
* Really700YearsOld: In one supplementary comic, it indirectly reveals that it has been around since 50,000 years ago.
* SealedEvilInACan: The can in question is the Honkai box that Kallen stole from the Schicksal. In the distant past, said box was [[spoiler:what trapped its "true form"--that of [[TheVirus a powerful virus]] controlled by the 12th Herrscher of the past, the nameless girl that would later be called "Higokumaru". Said box also contained the directive to turn the Herrscher into a Divine Key, but it's not after 50000+ years later that its soul went dormant, allowing the box to "impose its directive" upon it, turning it into the sword, Jizo Mitama]].
* SummonMagic: In the fight against it in the last stage of Soul Throne's Nightmare difficulty, it has a new attack where it summons [[spoiler:copies of Higokumaru]] to cover a lot of the arena with fire attacks. You have to move to a "shelter circle" (that disappears and reappears at different points in the stage) to be immune to fire attacks.
* SuperMode: It can enter one, indicated by it emanating a fire aura and the screen becoming orange-tinted. While it's active, Hellmaru's attacks are enhanced, and you'll slowly take continuous fire damage; it only stops if you break its shield gauge.
* TailSlap: One of its attacks is a tail-slapping attack as it turns its body 180 degrees to hit its behind.

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[[folder:Jizo Mitama]]
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The boss of the Celestial Castle in Sakura Samsara mode, as well as the end boss of the co-op Raid stage "Soul Throne". As the amnesiac Higokumaru (whom Sakura found near the beginning of Sakura Samsara's side story) starts to regain her memories, she suddenly goes berserk and possesses the sword Jizo Mitama, causing it to form a large armored legless samurai.

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* DeadlyLunge: In its third phase, it has an attack where it lunges towards your position with both swords multiple times while spinning like a drill.
* DeflectorShields: In the second phase, it's covered by a special shield that reduces any attack's damage to 1, but can be broken with enough sustained hits. It can regenerate the shield some time later, however.
* DualWielding: In the first and second phases of its fight, it wields 2 long swords. In the third phase onward, it trades the swords for [[{{BFS}} a single, longer sword]].
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Not only does it wield katanas, it is essentially the power of a mystic katana given form.
* ManaBurn: It has an attack where it [[SwordPlant plants both of its swords]] on the ground and then creates explosions of energy at your location. They leave dark circles on their wake that will drain your SP if you stand on them.
* SelfDuplication: In the last phase, it can create a purple-colored copy of itself that has its first phase's attacks. It reduces all attack's damage towards it to 1, but it doesn't have much HP to begin with.
* SingleStrokeBattle: In the first and second phase, it has an attack where it does a dashing slash attack towards you with both swords.
* SpellBlade: In the second phase onward, all of its sword attacks deal elemental damage.
* SpinAttack: In the first and second phase, it has an attack where it spins rapidly while slashing all around it; the move also [[YouWillNotEvadeMe drags you towards it]]. In the third and fourth phase, it also has an attack where it elongates its sword and then does a single circular swing.
* SwordBeam: Starting from the second phase, some of its sword swings shoot out either crescent beams, straight lasers or {{Ground Wave}}s of energy.

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[[folder:Benares]]
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One of the bosses of Chapter 7. A large dragon-like Honkai Beast that rampaged in the 2nd Honkai War under the 2nd Herrscher's command, it emerges again in the present, attacking Theresa's fighter plane, Helios.

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* AdaptiveAbility: At least as the SS version of the Memorial Arena fight against it, the element it turns into depends on the element attack you used the most against it. Upon taking an element form, it'll gain resistance towards said element, so it's advised to bring characters with different elemental abilities against it.
* BreathWeapon: Only used when it's far enough from you (including when it jumps away while [[WindFromBeneathMyWings blowing you backwards with the wind]]). At first it shoots air projectiles, but later it can either shoot lightning spheres, jets of flame or icy gas. Its "fire version" also has a move where it flies up and then shoots exploding fireballs from is mouth.
* ColorCodedElements: It normally has a white, black and blue coloring, but the blue part changes color when he changes elements (the initial state is NonElemental): orange for fire, dark purple for lightning, and a different shade of blue for ice. When it TurnsRed, its color changes into a slightly lighter purple and it also emanates dark smoke from its body.
* DeadGuyJunior: When Sirin gives Benares a human form, she also gives her the name of "Bella", after her friend who died from Schicksal's experiments.
* DeadlyLunge: It has an attack where it simply flies towards you to tackle you (only if you're far enough from it).
* TheDragon: Literally one for Sirin, who summoned it back in the 2nd Honkai War as her strongest Honkai familiar. [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void also later summons Benares in a cutscene, and her later boss version can occasionally summon its head through a portal to fire its BreathWeapon.]]
* FireIceLightning: It can harness one of those three elements after losing some health, and upon (nearing) [[TurnsRed its last bar of health]] it's capable of using all three at once.
* GroundPound: It has an attack where it pounds the ground twice with its front legs. Upon gaining an element, the pounding also gains elemental effects. In its second phase, it also has a different pounding attack that [[ShockwaveStomp creates circular shockwaves]].
* HighAltitudeBattle: At end of Chapter 7 normal mode, Fu Hua's Shadow Knight has DuelBoss against it mid-air. In game, they step on an invisible floor in the sky.
* NoSell: When it TurnsRed, it can no longer be affected by Time Slow effects (including Time Fracture). Even before that point, it has a high resistance to those effects (the durations being reduced greatly).
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: in this case it's western-style and capable of using 3 elements.
* PillarOfLight: More like Pillar of Fire, but it has an attack where it create fire pillars around your position (only if you're at a distance).
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Upon defeat, it flies to the sky instead of collapsing down.
* SpinAttack: It has an attack where it spins around, hitting with its tail and then its head. Upon gaining an element, it'll also shoot out elemental projectiles from its mouth when it swings its head.
* TornadoMove: Its "ice version" can create an icy tornado that [[YouWillNotEvadeMe sucks you towards it]]. As the tornado is generated in its former position right after it flies, you better start running when it prepares the move, as it can also follow the tornado by [[DeathFromAbove slamming down from above]].
* {{Weredragon}}: Chapter 19 of the "2nd Herrscher" ManHua shows that Benares can transform into a human girl at will, courtesy of Sirin gifting her with part of her Herrscher power and intellect.

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[[folder:Baldur]]

One of the bosses of Chapter 8, acting as one of Schicksal HQ's head of the (automated) guardian troops. It's dispatched to fight Himeko and the other rebels. It also becomes one of the last floor bosses in the Infinite Abyss mode after an update.
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* DeadlyLunge: One of its common attacks is to perform a long-range lunging stab, usually after dashing to a direction first.
* DualWielding: It wields 2 swords that it can combine into one DoubleWeapon for certain attacks.
* KingMook: It's the boss variant of the Mysteltainn MechaMooks. Appropriately, [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority it's also colored deep red]].
* PromotedToPlayable: In Schicksal HQ Open World, in one of the storyline missions, you get to hijack an inactive Baldur and control it to move quickly around the base. Later, you can also build your own Baldur, although [[DoubleUnlock it requires Ai-chan to reach Tech Lv. 15]] and even then, it's a RareRandomDrop from the "hangar" where the production of the robots is played like a gacha, but with special materials from the Open World (and the particular gacha that produces Baldur is littered with other useless bots).
* SpinAttack: It has a quick-moving and wide-reaching spin attack with its swords. In a variant, its strongest attack after it TurnsRed (and its Ultimate Skill as the playable version) has it firing continuous lasers from its swords while spinning, hitting all around it at long ranges.
* SwordBeam: One of its attacks after it TurnsRed is to fire crescent beams from its DoubleWeapon. In a variant, another attack has it [[SwordPlant plant its double swords to the ground]] to create creeping waves that goes to multiple directions.
* SwordPlant: It has an attack where it jumps up and then stabs the ground with both swords.
* TurnsRed: Upon reaching half health, its blue TronLines turn yellow and it whips out stronger attacks.
* VideogameFlight: In Schicksal HQ Open World, it can fly around, which allows you to access certain locations at a time limit quicker.

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[[folder:Heimdall]]
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One of the bosses of Chapter 9. A large robot made by Schicksal to guard their important facilities and fight off intruders.

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* {{BFS}}: Its main weapon is a big white sword. When it TurnsRed, the sword has a LaserBlade-like extension.
* DashAttack: It has 2 kinds of this: one where it dashes towards you for a body-check while leaving pillars of energy on its trail, and another where it does [[ThisIsADrill a drilling stab]] with his sword while simultaneously firing multiple missiles.
* DeflectorShields: It can occasionally create one after certain attacks. Melee attacks that strike it will have it do a CounterAttack with its sword, while ranged attacks that strike it will make it counter with [[TheParalyzer paralyzing]] {{Homing Projectile}}s. It can be broken by a strong enough attack (usually a ChargedAttack, certain switch attacks/QTE, certain weapon skills, Himeko's DashAttack, or Ultimate Skill) which will also deal a huge blow to its ArmorMeterPoints. If the entire meter is depleted, Heimdall will enter a phase where it will slowly regenerate its shield, but is also immobilized and takes massively increased damage.
* DualBoss: At the end of Chapter 9-EX, Rita summons 2 of them to cover [[VillainExitStageLeft her escape]] after she's beaten. The two have lower health than the previous Heimdall battle.
* ImplacableMan: When it [[TurnsRed enters Overdrive mode]], all you can do is run, dodge, or use some InvulnerableAttack (usually Ultimate Skill[[note]]Drive Kometa's, especially, will shield you from physical damage for almost the same duration as Overdrive mode's[[/note]]) on it, as it won't stop the entire time; it's also [[MoveInTheFrozenTime completely immune to Time Fracture]] for the duration.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: At the end of its Overdrive Mode (see below), it'll fly up and then fire multiple missiles towards you. It then ends with it falling down and stabbing its sword to the ground, causing [[GroundWave creeping energy waves]].
* SpinAttack: It has a spinning sword slash attack that's followed by spreading exploding {{Energy Ball}}s around it.
* SwordPlant: It has an attack where it plants its sword to the ground, then emits [[PillarOfLight pillars of energy]] that [[AlwaysAccurateAttack tracks your position]].
* TurnsRed: Its body will turn gradually redder the more you attack it; once it turns fully red, it enters "Overdrive Mode" and goes in a frenzy, gaining heightened defense and attacking much faster with wide-ranging attacks until it cools down. Slower, stronger attacks are thus encouraged against it, particularly ones that can break its DeflectorShields.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: In-story, the first time it appears, Himeko (in her Scarlet Fusion suit) is [[HopelessBossFight hopelessly outmatched]] and [[MissionControl Tesla]] has to temporarily hack its systems to allow Himeko to escape. The second time it appears, Himeko (now in her [[EleventhHourSuperpower Vermillion Knight: Eclipse]] suit) [[CurbStompBattle stomps it into the ground with ease, reducing it to little more than molten slag.]]

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[[folder:Tlaloc]]
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The end boss of Ch. 10 and 11, as well as the "Team Raid" game mode. It's a gargantuan Honkai Beast that appears around the Eye of the Deep and later inside the Sea of Quanta.

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* OffWithHisHead: The one that appears at the end of Chapter 11 (featured in the plotline animation "Cyberangel: ZERO Exception") ends up decapitated when [[spoiler:Bronya, empowered by the Core of Reason, makes short work of it by ramming its head with Project Bunny's new motorcycle mode at full speed, cleanly blasting off everything above the shoulder. Bronya then ensures it doesn't come back by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill beam-spamming the hell out of its corpse]].]]

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! Non-Playable Characters
[[folder:Ai-chan]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiHorie (Japanese)
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The AI of the battleship Hyperion, who is also the "system voice" of the game and will help you with tutorials.\\
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She also has 3 (event-exclusive) weapons modeled after her: a cannon for Bronya, a "[[DropTheHammer hammer]]" for Himeko and a cross for Theresa.
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* BadLiar: Despite her proudly boasting that players won’t be able to see the Valkyrie’s panties no matter how hard they try, it is in fact, very easy to see the panties of several Valkyries.
* FinishingMove: In Schicksal HQ Open World, during combat mode, Ai-chan can finish off almost-dying mooks with her skill. This is helpful when you're completing tasks, as many of them come with a time challenge.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ai-chan's Candy (the cross weapon) attacks by dropping gift boxes onto enemies once it's deployed.
* ManaMeter: In Schicksal HQ Open World, she comes with an energy meter of her own. Some of her hacking abilities will cost her energy (some of them more than others), while a few of them have free cost.
* {{Mascot}}: She's one for the game. She also becomes the "face" for the game's developers in the social media.
* OdangoHair: She has her hair tied in a pair of large buns. One of the game's {{Running Gag}}s is based around as them, as they rather resemble cabbages.
* OneHitKill: In Schicksal HQ Open World, she can kill the roaming mooks in one hit whenever you're outside of combat mode, by [[BackStab walking to the mook's back]] and then activating Ai-chan's skill.
* TheParalyzer: Ai-chan Hammer's active skill has Himeko [[GroundPound smash the ground with it]], causing a small blast that has a 50% chance to stun nearby enemies.
* PlatformingPocketPal: In the Schicksal HQ Open World, she becomes this, in the vein of Higokumaru below. She floats alongside you, picks up collectables for you, and [[HollywoodHacking acts as an all-purpose hacker]] for the many interactive devices on the stages. By [[LevelUp leveling her up]], she'll be able to perform more things.
* PointBuildSystem: In Schicksal HQ Open World, Ai-chan's "tech" is put around like this, with you allocating skill points to a SkillTree.
* RocketPunch: The Ai-chan Cannon fires her 2 fists instead of normal rockets. They also [[RandomEffectSpell give random status effects onto the target]] by a chance.
* SpaceshipGirl: More like "Airship Girl", but it's still the same.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has bright green hair, which only feeds into the "cabbage" gag more.
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[[folder:Dawei]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShunsukeTakeuchi (Japanese)
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A.k.a "Big Wei". The AuthorAvatar of miHoYo's CEO, he mostly appears in events.

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* ButtMonkey: He mostly serves as a comic figure where jokes and hijinks are made at his expense.
* TheFaceless: His "face" is only a pair of eyebrows and the hanzi for "Wei".
* FingerTenting: His NPC model in dialogue shots is locked into this pose.
* RichesToRags: The anniversary summer event shows him being reduced to walking on the streets after Bronya buys a significant amount of miHoYo's stocks in order to take over the company. One story of the event focuses on you trying to help him get back to be the head of the company again, although he's thwarted in the end.
* RunningGag: Almost always, whenever he appears, he mentioned to have sold something that he owned in order to give you some certain goodies.
* SharpDressedMan: Being a CEO, he wears the standard 3-piece suit.

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[[folder:Otto Apocalypse]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese)
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The Archbishop of Schicksal, old friend of Kallen Kaslana, and "grandfather" of Theresa Apocalypse. Also called "Overseer Otto". A genius mind who made technological breakthroughs for the organization, but his motives and presence are undisclosed to most of its members.\\
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He's first shown in-story in Chapter Everlasting Memory (Theresa's side story) which takes place around 40 years before the present, then in the main story in Chapter 5 where she monitors Kiana's adventures, before showing up more after Ch. 7. He also accompanies Fu Hua in her side story "The Forgotten".\\
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Also available as a Stigmata set.

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* AffablyEvil: He's polite and jovial to everyone he talks to, but he also has an extremely callous disregard for all human life that isn't Kallen, and the Everlasting Memory chronicles reveals that [[spoiler:he is actively sabotaging the war effort against the Honkai with plans to extend it until the [[ApocalypseMaiden Herrscher of Death]] appears so he can sacrifice Theresa to revive Kallen]]. Fu Hua later calls him on it in Chapter 9.
* AllYourPowersCombined: With his special Divine Key, "Void Library", he can create a replica of any Divine Keys. Judgment of Shamash is what he prefers to use the most.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Part of why he crushes on Kallen is because she was the first person at his age who's not only nice to him but also compliments his genius.
* BigBad: The closest person this series had to one. A good number of problems in the present can be traced back to his deeds.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Played with. In one supplementary comic that took place in the 2nd Honkai War, when the first Herrscher (Anti-Entropy's leader of the time, Walter "Welt" Young) was about to finish the 2nd Herrscher, Otto (in a disguise with a mask) stopped him and took him down, claiming that the 2nd Herrscher is vital to his plans.
** In another comic that takes place in 15th century, when Kallen is about to be shot by her friend-turned-Honkai Beast, he came to her rescue and shot the beast with a replica of Judgment of Shamash before it could hit Kallen.
* BodyBackupDrive: The 2nd Herrscher ManHua reveals that this is how he managed to live for hundreds of years: He creates increasingly more powerful bodies to inhabit, in case his previous one proves insufficient to his needs. It gets played for comedy when he screwed up during the body-changing process and his new body became that of his child self, although he got it fixed later. One episode of ''Cooking with Valkyries'' shows that he sometimes goes out while using his child self's body in order to spy on Theresa.
* CallForward:
** In the supplementary comics focused on the Divine Keys, younger Otto shows up with a narration where he says that he didn't believe what his father said, that the Honkai is the true enemy that will wipe out humanity, and he believes that it's "something else". The neutral narration that comes after that says "Of course, that enemy would be mankind itself"--shown over Otto running on what seems to be the remains of a large-scale battlefield.
** Back when he was a child, he thought that making Kallen's father somehow alive again would make her happy, and he willingly sold his soul to the "mysterious golden cube" just for that. When he attempted to actually resurrect Kallen's father, however, she stopped him (with an ArmorPiercingSlap for good measure), saying that he died to save the two of them and that she just wanted to honor his sacrifice. After 500 or so years, it looked like he didn't learn at all...
* CavalryBetrayal: [[spoiler:He stopped Herrscher of the Void from killing Fu Hua. When it becomes clear that Fu Hua has lost all faith in him after everything that happened, however, he then goes on to personally (seemingly) kill her.]]
* CoolKey: In its dormant form, his Divine Key, Void Library, takes form of an actual key. When he chooses to access its power, it takes him into a MentalWorld set in the insides of a giant library. [[MagicalLibrary Inside it lies vast amounts of knowledge, especially from the old civilization.]]
* CovertPervert: In a supplementary comic, it's shown that he made a lot of fancy outfits for Kallen. She mentally wonders why he made so many of them and how he knows her size well.
* DealWithTheDevil: Back when he was a child, he stumbled upon a strange golden cube that his father kept inside the chapel. When he touched it, the cube suddenly spoke to him, saying that it could help him with anything he wanted to do if he offered his soul. He agreed to it (he wanted to try to resurrect Kallen's father, who died a few days before), and then the contents of that cube flowed out and entered his body. That "thing" is one of the Divine Keys, Void Library, which has its own conscience and becomes Otto's "inner voice", who would persuade Otto to use its functions whenever he faces a problem.
* DisguisedInDrag: One time in a comic, he disguised as a woman to distract some guards to help with Kallen's rogue work. It's also depicted in one of the special Stigma in-game.
* DotingGrandparent: His audio diary in Everlasting Memory game mode notes that he might've doted on Theresa quite a lot (like making her bitter gourd juice or knitting her clothes).
* DramaticIrony: His whole reason for his actions, i.e [[spoiler:prolonging the Honkai War, causing thousands of people to die meaningless deaths, experimenting on children, and manipulating people around him]], was all to bring a woman he was in love with back from death. Unbeknownst to him, the woman didn't even like him that way. In fact, she was in love with a shrine priestess, and [[spoiler:when she was brought BackFromTheDead 10 years from the present (in the special story of Anniversary Summer Event), she [[UnwantedRevival didn't feel like being brought back alive]] and then arranged her (second) death]].
* EvilRunningGood: He was originally a decent man at heart and appeared to work for the organization's goal to fight the Honkai phenomenon, but not only did he employ various questionable deeds to that end, his true motive isn't all good: he wants to revive his old crush, Kallen, [[AmbitionIsEvil by any means necessary]] [[spoiler:and is actually prolonging the war against the Honkai as he believes that the [[PhysicalGod Honkai (a.k.a "God")]], and specifically the Herrscher of Death, hold the key to reviving her]].
* FreudianExcuse: There's the fact that [[FriendlessBackground he has no friends in his childhood]] and [[ParentalNeglect his parents didn't seem to care about him much]], so the only one he genuinely loves at all is Kallen, [[LivingEmotionalCrutch her and her alone]]. Thusly [[TheUnfettered he will do everything to save her, no matter what atrocities he might make, with no one else to calm him down]] and as there's no one else that he makes a meaningful bond to, he sees little value in other people's lives.
* GatheringSteam: The T version of his Stigma allow the user to accumulate "charges" with normal attacks, up to 3. After that, the next ChargedAttack will become more powerful, upon which the stack resets. The 2 SetBonus of his Stigma also allow said ChargedAttack to generate an AreaOfEffect on hit that increases the lightning elemental damage taken by the enemies that stand on it.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He didn't acknowledge that Kaslanas always value the lives of others more than their own, in contrast to his complete disregard of other people's lives, which gets Kallen killed by his own plans to rescue her.
* LackOfEmpathy: He didn't care about any people other than Kallen, [[TheUnfettered this is what makes him so dangerous]]. He also doesn't actually care about Kallen as a person outside of himself, dismissing her attachment to Japan (and Sakura) as some idle fancy.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: While at first he's a decent enough guy, it's revealed later in the backstory comic that his loyalty falls to Kallen more than the Schicksal itself. When Kallen died, he, in disillusionment, decided to [[TheUsurper usurp the Archbishop position from his father]] and then use the organization and its resources to [[SeeksAnothersResurrection bring Kallen back to life]].
* MissionControl:
** In Fu Hua's side story "The Forgotten", he becomes one for her as she goes into a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind to discover her old, forgotten memories.
** In Chapter 9-EX, he becomes one for Rita when you play as her.
* MotiveRant: In Chapter 9, he personally comes to Fu Hua to explain his plans: [[spoiler:to make Herrscher of the Void (in Kiana's body) fight her closest friends and for her friends to be able to subdue her with ThePowerOfLove, so as to create a "controllable Herrscher" like what happened with the 3rd Herrscher (Mei) and the 4th. He's telling Fu Hua this because her act (fighting Void Herrscher in her friends' stead) goes against his plans and that "[[SpannerInTheWorks she's becoming harder to control]]".]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Would you trust a guy who has the word ''Apocalypse'' for a surname?
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He tried to stop Kallen's public execution by releasing the Honkai Beast to rampage across the city [[WeNeedADistraction as distraction]]. Not only did he get an ArmorPiercingSlap from Kallen because she disapproved this, this also led to her being killed by the Honkai Beast he just summoned.
* NonActionGuy: It's noted that, among the core families of Schicksal, only his own lacks any (inherent) fighting power against the Honkai while the Kaslana and Shariac families do.
* NukeEm: In the 2nd Honkai War, he ordered to nuke the Babylon Tower where Cecilia and the 2nd Herrscher were fighting. Despite Theresa's protests, it eventually happened.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Rita mentioned in Chapter 9 that he didn't use his "trump cards" at all as [[AllAccordingToPlan everything is still in his control]].
* PreMortemOneLiner: This is what he said to [[spoiler:Fu Hua before he shot her dead]].
-->'''Otto''': I didn't lie, [[spoiler:Master Jingwei]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He was born and grew up along with Kallen in the 15th century, and is still around nowadays (in 21st century) without any signs of old age thanks to switching to ever more powerful bodies.
%%* SacrificialRevivalSpell: [[spoiler:What Otto plans to do to Theresa to revive Kallen.]]
* ShipperWithAnAgenda: In one of the supplementary comics set in the past, Siegfried made a deal with Otto to allow him to meet Cecilia again. Otto agreed, and put him into a series of battles against some Valkyries as a requirement. It took 2 years, but Siegfried showed some good progress, and in the end Otto fulfilled his deal. When Theresa thanked Otto for being so kind, [[LampshadeHanging he noted that she should know better than to think he's doing this purely out of goodwill]]--he had a thought of [[HybridPower combining the Kaslana and Schariac bloodlines in order to create an even more powerful warrior]].
* TragicMistake: He gets Kallen killed [[NiceJobBreakingItHero by his very plan to save her]]. He, of course, [[LoveMakesYouEvil didn't take it well]].
* TheUnfettered: Kallen's death is [[LoveMakesYouEvil what made him into the person he is now]]. He admits to the "Captain" (in the end of the DatingSim's special story) that he will stop at nothing to try to bring Kallen back to life.
* WeHaveReserves: He has an extremely callous disregard for anyone's life that isn't Kallen. He releases a horde of Honkai Beasts to slaughter a town as a distraction in an attempt to save Kallen, performs fatal human experiments on kidnapped children, and treats all Valkyries not named Theresa as extremely disposable.
* WhyAmITicking: His 3 SetBonus of his Stigma has this effect. Every 5 seconds, the next ChargedAttack creates a "brand" on the target that explodes half a second later, dealing lightning damage to nearby enemies.
* WouldHurtAChild: Through Schicksal, he kidnaps children and performs painful and often lethal experiments on them to boost the war effort against the Honkai. This has directly led to the creation at least two Herrschers [[spoiler:which may be what Otto wants]]. This will eventually include [[spoiler:his beloved granddaughter Theresa, as he's planning to exchange her life for Kallen's when the time comes]].

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[[folder:Jixuanyuan]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ami Nanase (Japanese)
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A.k.a "Princess Xuanyuan". A legendary hero from China who developed natural Stigma and resistance against Honkai, and was blessed with "a sword from the gods", the Divine Key that was called Xuanyuan Sword, and warded off the Honkai threats with it, making her popular with the populace. Later, she sacrificed herself to hold a colossal Honkai Beast, called Chiyou, dormant under the sea.\\
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Chapter Chiyou reveals that a part of her is alive inside of the beast, with (at least part of) her consciousness lying inside the Xuanyuan Sword. Her body, however, is still [[WhoWantsToLiveForever alive]], [[AndIMustScream awake]], and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation has been very, very lonely for eons]], eventually becoming mad and nihilistic, with her body and blade tainted with darkness: Dark Jixuanyuan.\\
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She's featured as 3 stigmata sets: normal Jixuanyuan, Jixuanyuan: Aqua, and Dark Jixuanyuan. Her weapon(s) can also be acquired for Himeko, with the normal Xuanyuan Sword restricted to gacha while the dark version is available in Sakura Samsara's shop (with enough materials). The latter is also the end boss of "Chapter Chiyou" and "The Forgotten" (Fu Hua's side story), and and one of the bosses of the Matrix Space Raid stages.
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* AndIMustScream: The uncountable millennia spent inside [[EldritchAbomination Chiyou]] were not good for her, at all. [[EldritchLocation The environments inside]] didn't help.
* {{BFS}}: The Xuanyuan Sword, one of the [[LegendaryWeapon Divine Keys]] and one of the high-rarity weapons in-game, along with its corrupted version, Dark Xuanyuan Sword. The former lets Himeko attack with FireIceLightning effects randomly and defend herself with [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks sword projectiles]], while the latter lets her activate [[BulletTime Time Fracture]] more often.
* BulletTime: The Dark Jixuanyuan Stigmata set are all about powering yourself up while in a Time Fracture state.
* CharacterSelectForcing: Dark Jixuanyuan in Memorial Arena has a combination of significant features: she [[InjuredVulnerability takes more damage if she's bleeding or ignited]], she's fast with her horse, and said horse also resists ranged attacks. There's exactly one character who can easily bleed enemies with melee attacks and is fast enough to keep up with her: Gyakushin Miko (Sakura).
* CoolHorse: As Dark Jixuanyuan, she has a black-and-golden horse that gives him damage resistance and [[SuperSpeed lets her warp around the place]].
* FallenHero: The years she spent inside [[EldritchAbomination Chiyou]] [[GoneMadFromTheIsolation completely eroded her heart and her will as a hero]], turning her into Dark Jixuanyuan.
* FlyingWeapon:
** Dark Jixuanyuan's Memorial Arena version has an attack where she creates multiple small portals beside her that then fire copies of her Xuanyuan Sword. After she TurnsRed, said attack will cover a lot more space and last a bit longer.
** Matrix Space Raid version of Dark Jixuanyuan is accompanied by flying copies by the Dark Xuanyuan Sword in her second phase. They can fly around while trying to impale your Valkyries, or [[SwordPlant plant themselves on the ground]] and then fire painful lightning beams at the Valkyries.
* GoOutWithASmile: Dark Jixuanyuan thanks our hero trio as they put her out of her misery.
* ShockAndAwe: Some of Dark Jixuanyuan's attacks are laced with lightning, including lightning strikes from above.
* SwordBeam: One of Dark Jixuanyuan's attacks is a simple crescent beam attack from her sword. She has a more powerful version of it that she executes by jumping first.
* TurnsRed: After you deplete Dark Jixuanyuan's health to around 1/2 to 1/3 of her third bar, she'll become more powerful, with more lightning strikes in her attacks and some of her attacks also being enhanced.

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[[folder:Sirin]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SakuraTange (Japanese)

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One of the test subjects of Schicksal's Babylon Tower's research department. She awakened the power of the 2nd Herrscher within her, and soon after she went on a rampage, starting the 2nd Honkai War. She met her demise after Otto ordered to bombard the tower while Cecilia was keeping her busy, and her Herrscher Cores were then found by Schicksal and shared with the Anti-Entropy.\\
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In-game, she's shown in Chapters 5 to 6 as they take place in a "simulation of the past", i.e the 2nd Honkai War. \\
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Also available as 2 Stigmata sets.
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* TheBeastmaster: Part of being a Herrscher is that she can talk to and command Honkai Beasts.
* ColonyDrop: In the 2nd Honkai War, after she gained extra power [[spoiler:from the "Honkai God"]] in the moon, she hurled many pieces of the moon's debris onto the earth, causing mass devastation in multiple countries.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her eyes are [[SupernaturalGoldEyes gold]] with 4-pointed stars as her pupils. [[spoiler:Kiana's Herrscher of the Void battlesuit later inherits this as well.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:In the end of Chapter 8, after the boss fight against "Herrscher Kiana" in the end, her mind starts taking over Kiana's, making her "alive" again. She's presumed to be gone after the fight with Himeko in the end of Chapter 9, but it's not made obvious - until ch. 11-EX, where it's shown that she's still alive inside Kiana, and tries to take over her body again. She's thwarted in the end by Fu Hua, but she notes that she may resurface again in the future.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: When she's [[spoiler:inside Kiana's mind]], she can create illusions inside people's mind that feel real. [[spoiler:This is how she "modified" the virtual recreation of the 2nd Honkai War in Chapters 5 and 6, as the story was seen from Kiana's perspective. In one of the supplementary comics, this is also likely the reason how the hologram of Siegfried is unnaturally emotive (and even directly speaks to Kiana and answers her) unlike the other holograms used by Theresa to test Kiana.]]
* PreInsanityReveal: There is the data in her stigmata profile showing that she UsedToBeASweetKid back then. The Second Honkai War comic story also occasionally shows her past, i.e she was once a normal, happy person before getting abducted by Schicksal to the Babylon Tower.
* PowerFloats: Once she's awakened to her Herrscher powers, she always floats.
* PowerOfTheVoid: She was called "Herrscher of the Void" for a good reason.
%%* PowerParasite: At some point in the second Honkai War, she acquired some of the Fenghuang Down's feathers that Fu Hua used against her. This is the reason she has a MasterOfIllusion power described above.
* PsychopathicManchild: After becoming a Herrscher, she acted like a playground bully, flaunting her powers and taunting "weak humans" with it. It helped (or not) that she's barely a teenager (probably even younger).
* {{Revenge}}: Ever since she became a Herrscher, her mind is filled with nothing but wrath and desire of vengeance towards humanity. In particular, she also [[spoiler:tempts Kiana with getting back at humanity for "sealing their fates", after she reveals [[CloningBlues what Kiana truly is.]]]]
* {{Sadist}}: As her EvilGloating implies, she enjoys causing misery on anyone she meets, due to her hating humanity. In particular, [[spoiler:she is trying to crumble Kiana mentally from within [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness by warping things that she sees]] [[DespairEventHorizon until her host gives in]]​ to [[TraumaCongaLine the sheer misery]], allowing her to eventually take control of Kiana's body.]]
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:Like all Herrschers, her soul lies dormant in her Herrscher Core after her death. Long after it was put inside Experiment K-423, her consciousness resurfaces within her as a "mysterious inner voice".]]
* SpaceMaster: Her Herrscher ability is to manipulate and rend spacetime, letting her create painful space distortions and [[{{Teleportation}} teleport around]] by accessing the Imaginary Space.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The game occasionally calls her "Celine" or "Selene".
* TranshumanTreachery: Upon embracing her Herrscher side, she willingly sided with the Honkai and aimed to destroy humanity, shown by her going RaceNameBasis towards other people. [[spoiler:This continues when she's in control of Kiana's body.]]
* TheUnfought: While she's confronted in Chapter 6, she's ultimately not a fightable boss, and instead is defeated in a cutscene by Cecilia. [[spoiler:The whole chapter is revealed to be (partly) a lie that she made (inside Kiana's mind), anyway.]]
* UpgradeArtifact: In the 2nd Honkai War, she was brought to the moon by Benares. There, she [[spoiler:met something called the "Honkai God", and she asked "it" for help to destroy the humans. From said being, she]] got 4 extra Herrscher Cores [[spoiler:(of the 3rd to 6th Herrschers of the past)]], giving her more power, as well as [[PowerMakeover changing her clothes to be more alien-looking]] (as seen in her Sirin Ascendant stigmata set).
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has purple hair.
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[[folder:Bianca "Durandal" Astagina]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamikoNoto (Japanese)
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An S-rank Valkyrie and Rita's superior. Durandal is the current owner of Cecilia's Divine Key, Black Orchid - White Lily. She appeared in Chapter 9.

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* TheAce: She is one of only four known S-rank Valkyries.
* ChildSoldier: She was already an A-rank Valkyrie at age of 11.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Inverted; she doesn't like being called "Durandal" and insists being referred to as "Bianca". Rita ignores this though.
* EarlyBirdCameo: She was mentioned first in Chapter 3 to be coming to assist our Valkyrie team. She's mostly in the background, dealing with Anti-Entropy's mechs to distract them from your team.
* LethalChef: In Rita's birthday event, Rita found the kitchen a complete mess with a ''literal'' lava cake oozing around after being used by Durandal. The cake also tastes "as salty as the Dead Sea" and Rita thought Durandal mistook salt for sugar.
* MultiMeleeMaster: She currently uses a lance-type Divine Key but in her flashback in manhua, she has also wielded PowerFist and dual guns as well.
* SelfMadeWoman: According to Theresa, Durandal got the S ranking through sheer determination and hardwork instead of raw talent and power.
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[[folder:Cocolia]]
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The ArcVillain of Chapters 3 to 4. One of the high-ranking members of Anti-Entropy, and the current owner of ME Corp after its previous owner - Mei's father - was arrested. She also ran an orphanage in which she raised and became a foster mother of many lost children, including Bronya and Seele. \\
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Also available as a stigmata set.

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* AssassinOutclassin: She once was a target for assassination by Bronya, but she then discovered Bronya herself and cornered her. She ended up adopting her, too.
* AssistCharacter: Her Stigmata set are all about strengthening your summoned entities, as well as strengthening the user as long as said summoned entity is around. It's almost tailor-made for Wolf's Dawn (Bronya) as her Project Bunny is almost always out as a "summoned entity", but it can also work for Shadow Dash (Mei) and her shadow clones.
* EnemyMine: In ch. 9-[=EX2=] she asks the Valkyrie team for cooperation in preventing the Gem of Desire from falling into Schicksal's hands.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She may be ruthless to many​ people, but as she admitted herself, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes she's soft on children (especially orphans)]]. While [[PlayingWithSyringes she subjected many of her foster children into various experiments for Anti-Entropy]], she only did so in order to ensure her children's survival in the future, she always tries to choose better potential subjects, and she has enough restraint to stop the project in question if it's proven to be infeasible[[note]]such as in the Project X-10 where even using Seele, who had a natural Stigmata, proved a failure and resulted in Seele's "death". She considered discontinuing it, were it not for Bronya insisting to take part in it as well.[[/note]]. Contrast with Otto and Schicksal who kidnapped children and imprisoned them in dark places hidden to the public for their experiments (which tend to be rather gruesome), and went rather far with a [[WellIntentionedExtremist "the end justifies the means"]] mindset.
* KickTheDog: She lets [[spoiler:Wendy]] utter her parting words into a recording, shortly before her apparent death by [[spoiler:having her Gem of Desire plucked out of her to be used to power up Wotan]]. Kiana is understandably angered at this.
* TheMole: In ch. 9-[=EX2=], Einstein and Tesla talk about Cocolia with the Valkyries. After the 2nd Honkai War, Anti-Entropy formed contracts with many companies in order to support them, one of them being Mikoyan Design Bureau. However, the Anti-Entropy designs and products later got leaked, leading them to suspect an "infiltrator" among their ranks, one of them being Cocolia, who joined the group around the same time period. Cocolia herself is acting rather shadily in both this chapter and on Chapter 10.
* OhCrap: In story Chapter 4, upon knowing [[spoiler:[[HeroicSuicide what Bronya is trying to do]]]], she begs the latter to stop in panic.
* OrphansOrdeal: She was once an orphan herself (and implied to be a ChildSoldier, too), so she founded her orphanage and adopted many orphans from the war across her country (Russia), so that they won't suffer like she did.
* OjouRinglets
* ParentalSubstitute: Being the foster mother for an orphanage, she's one for Bronya, Seele, Sin Mal and many others. The children call her "Matushka".
* TheReveal: Einstein mentions to Mei that Cocolia was the one who tricked Mei's father into getting arrested and then had Mei experimented upon to become a Herrscher. Mei already knows this, though.
* SeeksAnothersResurrection: The same as Bronya--she is trying to bring Seele back from the Sea of Quanta (Imaginary Space).
* ShesGotLegs: As depicted above, her skirt has a slit that reaching her hip.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her Stigmata set spells her name as "Cocolia", but in different parts of the game she has also been called "Cacalia" or "Kukuria" or "Kakaria".
* TokenEvilTeammate: While Anti-Entropy consists mostly of decent enough people, she is the most questionable among them, as she tends to do things behind their back, her fellow Anti-Entropy members don't trust her much.
* VillainOverride: She ends up doing this at the end of the "Selene battleship" scenario[[note]]It used to be Chapter 2, but after an update, it's folded into Chapter 1[[/note]] and in the middle of Chapters 3 and 4, both to Bronya in order to attack her friends.
* TheVoice: In the early chapters of the game (2 to 4) she's only heard talking from afar, mostly towards Bronya, but in ch. 4 she's also talking to the other Valkyries who infiltrated the ME Corp building.
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[[folder:Sin Mal]]
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Sin Mal was one of the orphans in Cocolia's orphanage along with Seele, Bronya, Rosaliya, and Liliya. Unlike the others, she was a nasty, bullying git who tormented Seele and nearly killed Broyna for trying to befriend her. In story mode, she shows up as an agent of Anti-Entropy during the Chiyou side quest, commanding the mecha forces opposing the Valkyries. \\
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Also available as a Stigmata set.

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* CripplingOverspecialization: All of her Stigmata are about "enhancing stealth mode", which only Black Nucleus (a very rare Bronya suit) has.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Unlike the other girls in the orphanage, Sin has wide MismatchedEyes that serve as a clear visual indicator of her cruel nature. This carries over to her in-game sprite which looks thoroughly crazed.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sin is a viciously unpleasant character; she was horrible to Seele and Bronya in the orphanage, and is the reason why Bronya has cybernetic legs. Even in the present day she arrogantly refers to the Valkyries as trash.
* MindRape: As punishment for hurting Bronya, she was forced by Seele to be mentally subjected to falling down an endless flight of stairs, which seemed to wreck her mind.
* RapeAsDrama: {{Subverted|Trope}} in one of the side mangas which covers the story of what happened in the orphanage. Some time after her attack on Bronya, she pushed Seele onto the floor, ripped her shirt open, and suggestively ran a finger down her chest as she examined her stigma mark. However, Seele's other side took over and subjected her to the "endless staircase".
* ScaryTeeth: Her teeth are all pointed and animalistic, although whether this is natural, a side effect of something that happened to her, or they were filed is not revealed.
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[[folder:Siegfried Kaslana]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese)

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Kiana Kaslana's father, husband of Cecilia Schariac, and Theresa's friend. The latest heir of Kaslana family, known as a prodigy among them. Not long after he fathered Kiana, he participated in the 2nd Honkai War, which ended in his wife's death; he later ran away from Schicksal and took Kiana with him, raising her by himself. Some years after that, he left Kiana for unknown reasons.\\
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In-game, he's shown in Chapter 5, set in a "simulation of the past". There he met Theresa and Kiana, and later tries to attack Sirin with his "released" Judgment of Shamash, although he failed to do lasting damage and would've died from his own attack were it not for Cecilia saving him.\\
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Also available as a Stigmata set.
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* AnArmAndALeg: He lost his left arm after [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique he released the power of Judgement Of Shamash]]. It's still [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat quite a feat for him]], though, as at least 3 other Kaslanas before him died for doing the same.
* AncestralWeapon: His Judgment of Shamash is a weapon--one of the [[LegendaryWeapon Divine Keys]]--passed through the Kaslana family's generations. It takes the form of [[GunsAkimbo dual guns]] that contain [[PlayingWithFire destructive fire powers]] and, when fully "released", can [[MorphWeapon transform]] into a powerful {{BFS}}, but its power once released is so tremendous that [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique it can cause massive collateral damage and harm his body]], something that happened to a few of his ancestors.
* BattleCouple: With Cecilia.
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: In one of the supplementary comics, he had a strong sense of loss and yearning after Cecilia was taken back by Schicksal, and vowed to see her again. Two years later, it's shown that Cecilia had a similar sentiment; once the two [[BigDamnReunion got reunited]] (by his deal with Otto), they immediately embraced each other.
* DisappearedDad: He left Kiana a few years before she enrolled to St. Freya Academy. Theresa claims to know his whereabouts, which she uses to convince Kiana to partake in the academy.
* {{Fanboy}}: Back when he was a young boy (around TheEighties), he was a fan of [[ShowWithinAShow a mecha anime called "Arahato"]]. Later, before the start of the 21th century, he found out that said anime was, in fact, produced by Anti-Entropy (as a means of income) and that they've made a 1-to-1 scale model of the mech that can also go to outer space. When Welt Young revealed the mecha to him, he briefly had a dorky fanboy moment before Welt had to cut him off.
* HandsomeLech: Theresa once says that he's a shameless flirt. Best shown in Chapter 5 (which takes place in a simulation of the past) where he tries to flirt with the girl that Theresa brought with her, not realizing that it's Kiana, his own daughter. In a supplementary comic, even the holograph of him in a fight simulator compliments Kiana's "growth", [[PervertRevengeMode causing her to punch his face]].
* HeroicWillpower: In the past, he once encountered Welt Young of Anti-Entropy, who blocked his way to Cecilia and tried to subdue him with Star of Eden's power of gravity. Welt warned him that the force of 10G (10 times normal gravity) would hurt him if he resisted, but Siegfried fought back against the force, stood back up and tried to attack him again. Siegfried got punched in the gut by Welt to unconsciousness for his troubles.
* IdenticalGrandson: He apparently looks similar to his oldest ancestor, [[spoiler:Kevin Kaslana, from the previous major civilization, down to the similar hairstyle (when Kevin got older at least), jacket and weapon]].
* LethalChef: He's shown to toast the pizza bread he made ''using Judgement of Shamash''.
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father, Like Daughter]]: He's heroic, tough, straightforward, stubborn, a pervert, and a bad cook...just like Kiana.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: [[spoiler:Implied to be the reason he left Kiana in the first place. He wanted her to learn how to survive on her own and believed leaving her to her devices was the best way to do it.]]
* WalkingTheEarth: Before he met Cecilia he wandered across the world. He apparently ran away from home because he didn't want to be bound to the family's duties to Schicksal and wanted to be a hero in his own way.
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[[folder:Cecilia Schariac]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuKobayashi (Japanese)

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Kiana's mother, Siegfried's wife and Theresa's close friend. She was an S-rank Valkyie and "the chosen one" of the Schariac family. Some time after mothering Kiana, she perished during the second Honkai War when Schicksal bombarded the area where she was facing the 2nd Herrscher, Sirin, killing them both. She appears in Chapters 5 and 6 in the "simulation" of the 2nd Honkai War.\\
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Also available as a Stigmata set.
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* TheAce: She was an S-rank Valkyrie and one of the most powerful Valkyries Schicksal ever had (after Kallen Kaslana and Reanna Brigantia).
* BattleCouple: She and her husband are both powerful fighters who wield their own Divine Keys.
* BladeOnAStick: Her Divine Key, Black Orchid - White Lily, is a pair of polearms; one's a lance and the other's a javelin. It is currently in the hands of Durandal after her death.
* DubNameChange: Her name is "Cecilia Shaniate" in the original Chinese/Japanese.
* HappilyMarried: To Siegfried.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the 2nd Honkai War, she held the 2nd Herrscher in a fight for long enough for Schicksal to bombard the tower the two were in, killing the Herrscher at the cost of her life.
* ImportantHaircut: In one of the supplementary comics, when she was younger (around her teen years), after the incident where she's separated from her fellow Valkyries and found by the young Siegfried, she cut her hair short to make herself less noticeable (for her safety).
* MysticalWhiteHair: She has white hair and possesses her own mystical power, as well as wielding a Divine Key.
* SetBonus: Her Stigmata set is unique that its individual stigma won't take effect unless at least 2 of them are put together. Aside from activating the 2-set bonus, equipping 2 will also activate the corresponding stigmata parts' effects.
* StanceSystem: Her Stigmata plays this way: Every few seconds, the 2 stars circling the user's head will glow either black or white. Each part of the stigmata, as well as its 2-set bonus, have different effects that activate when stars are glowing either black or white. E.g Cecilia T increases the power of normal attacks when the stars shine black, or the power of branch attacks when they shine white.
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[[folder:Higokumaru]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShioriIzawa (Japanese)

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A character introduced in Sakura Samsara's side story. She's found by Sakura inside a barrel, without her memories; the two spend the story trying to restore her memories. After the side quest, she serves as companion in the Open World.\\
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Also available as a Stigmata set.
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* AmnesiacDissonance: She was [[spoiler:Hellmaru]]. Even longer before that, she was [[spoiler:the 12th Herrscher of the old world, the "Herrscher of Erosion". So named because her power is [[TheVirus a super-powerful virus that infects humans, animals and machines alike]]]].
* {{Bokukko}}: In the Japanese voice version, she uses "boku" to refer to herself. Combined with her somewhat androgynous look, the "-maru" in her name (usually used for males) and her way of speaking, it makes her a {{tomboy}}.
* BreathWeapon: One of her attacks is her breathing a continuous stream of fire at the target. It's also the effect of the T version of her Stigma (activated by breaking the enemy's shields with normal attacks).
* DamageOverTime: The "fire" version, with one of her skills allowing you to cause a small blast of flames with normal attacks that ignites enemies in a small area. In a different way, the B version of her Stigma lets the user deal continuous small fire damage by getting into the enemy's vicinity.
* DamageReduction: The M version of her Stigma decreases physical damage taken by a certain percentage.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: A glimpse of the past shown in her story in Sakura Samsara showed that she used to be a harmless girl, but someone thought that she could become a potential danger. Despite knowing it's wrong to kill the harmless girl, that someone ended up killing her. Unexpectedly, she "arose" as a fox-like phantom and got angry towards her killer and began haunting them, until said killer [[SealedEvilInACan sealed her inside a tiny box]]. [[spoiler:One supplementary comic shows her past in better detail: 50000+ years ago, she was the 12th Herrscher who [[TyphoidMary didn't show any signs of being a Herrscher other than her abnormally high Honkai energy]], who was killed by soldiers who feared her for being a potential threat, [[DeathActivatedSuperpower activating her Herrscher abilities and releasing a powerful virus]]. She began infecting people and the computer systems of Fire Moth's HQ, releasing nukes that destroyed humanity's three remaining cities in the process, until the past Mei trapped it into a special box that she made.]]
* DeflectorShields: One of her skills gives the whole team a spherical forcefield. Unlike Yamabuki Armor's own, this shield only blocks one hit before disappearing (and regenerating after some seconds), but it can also block fire damage without breaking.
* {{Fireballs}}: Her basic attack is to throw small fireballs at the enemy.
* FlamingSword: She occasionally swings a fire blade.
* FlyingFirepower: She can fly freely around you and [[PlayingWithFire use fire attacks]].
* FunSize: She's quite small, around the size of a hamster, and looks SuperDeformed. Her Stigmata set depicts her with more humanoid proportions, however.
* GenderBlenderName: -maru usually is for boys.
* {{Kitsune}}: The in-game description of her mentions that she claims to be a human, but notes [[LittleBitBeastly the 4 tails and the fox ears]], and the fact that she likes inari-age (seasoned tofu skin). The description concludes that "she must be a fox".
* OptionalStealth: One of her skills in the Open World is "Expose Instinct", which makes your character enters "stealth mode". When activated, you'll be able to see [[InexplicableTreasureChests hidden chests]] and special hidden encounters, and you'll also gain the "stealth kill" ability that allows you to BackStab roaming enemies for massive damage.
* PillarOfLight: More like Pillar of Fire, but still, one of her attacks creates a pillar-like blast of fire that sends enemies airborne. It's also the effect of the M version of her stigma (activated upon Ultimate Evasion).
* PlatformingPocketPal: In Sakura Samsara's Open World, she acts as this. She frequently assists you during battle and provides you with some unique abilities. A later patch gives a feature of turning her off (so she won't be assisting you directly), while keeping the passive abilities from her.
* SetBonus: For her Stigmata set:
** 2 sets: Gains 1% fire damage for both you and the summoned Higokumaru's attack [[GatheringSteam for every combo hit count]], which stacks up to 40 times.
** 3 sets: Instantly sets the combo counter to 50 (if the number was less than 50) and the stacks of the 2 sets' effect by 40 upon entering the field, 30 seconds cooldown.
* SpellBlade: One of her skills gives you extra fire damage on your normal attacks (also used in the T version of her Stigma).
* SummonMagic: The effect of the T and M version of her Stigmata allows you to summon her to perform an attack, even outside the Open World.
* {{Teleportation}}: One of her skills lets you teleport around in the map with her powers. It's disabled when you're battling monsters, however.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink hair, [[MulticoloredHair with red streaks]].

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[[folder:Lizelle A. Einstein]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MitsukiSaiga (Japanese)

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One of head scientists of Anti-Entropy. She appeared in Chapter 8, assisting Hyperion when they had EnemyMine with Anti-Entropy to take on the common enemy.\\
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Also available as two stigmata sets.
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* ChargedAttack: Her "normal" stigmata set's individual effects are about strengthening the user's charged attacks in different ways, as well as some bonus effects.
* CriticalStatusBuff: One of Einstein T's effects is to give the user increased power when their health is below 33%. Before the BalanceBuff, all of her "normal" stigmata's effects only activate when the user's health is below 33%.
* DamageReduction: Her "normal" stigmata's 3-SetBonus will reduce the damage taken when the user is close to the enemies.
* DitzyGenius: As Eins says, Einstein could sometimes be eccentric and says nonsensical things, but she's a good girl at heart.
* FamousAncestor: She has the real Albert Einstein as her ancestor.
* MoralityPet: In ch. 11, as implied in the 3rd bubble universe, without her, Tesla and the rest of Anti-Entropy's founders alive[[note]]as in this reality, everyone was killed in the First Honkai War against Schicksal, leaving him alone[[/note]], the leader of Anti-Entropy goes into the full-blown RoaringRampageOfRevenge, bent on eradicating Schicksal and willingly giving in to the Honkai influence.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She was active back in the 50s when the First Herrscher was first manifested, and stays alive to the present without looking any older. She knows both the 1st Herrscher and [[spoiler:his successor]] personally, and is one of the founders of Anti-Entropy.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue towards Tesla's red not only on hair color but also in personality where Einstein is quiet and serious while Tesla is brash and very talkative.
* RobotBuddy: She owns a robot drone named Eins. It is your main companion during the Raid stages "Matrix Space", and it later is accompanied by another drone called [[NumericalThemeNaming Zwei]]. Her Einstein Band stigmata, aside from giving the user general stat buffs, also gives them an AttackDrone modeled after Eins that attacks in the similar way Eins does in Matrix Raid.
* SheCleansUpNicely: In the Eisntein Band stigmata set, she wears different dresses that make her more beautiful overall compared to her normal self.
* SituationalDamageAttack: Her "normal" stigmata's 2-SetBonus increases the user's attack power the further they are from the enemy.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her first name is occasionally spelled as "Lieserl".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: While she is surveying the deeper parts of The Deep, Eins stumbles with Cocolia talking with a shadowy figure. Another one (that looks similar to "Gray Serpent") appeared behind Einstein herself with gun in hand and seemingly shot her to unconsciousness. She went missing the next day.]]
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[[folder:Frederika N. Tesla]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (Japanese)

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One of head scientists of Anti-Entropy. Like Einstein, she joined her faction's EnemyMine with Hyperion in Ch. 7.\\
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Also available as Stigmata sets.
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* BoundAndGagged: She gets subjected to this by Rita during the background events of ch. 9 to try to stymie her from interfering with [[spoiler:Otto activating Kiana's Herrscher side]]. As Himeko is freeing her, she angrily remarks on how [[ApologeticAttacker Rita was apologizing as she was tying her to the chair]], and even put some perfume on the scarf used as the gag. Himeko, for her part, is very impressed by the beauty of the knotwork.
* ChainLightning: the Tesla Band stigmata's 2-SetBonus effect makes the user's normal attack after 4 hits (cooldown 15 seconds) cause lightning to jump from the target to the nearest enemies, up to 3, and paralyze them. Its 3-set bonus effect strengthens the power of said lightning.
* {{Expy}}: She is [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Rin Tohsaka]] in everything but name, which is ironic since Rin is [[HopelessWithTech notoriously bad with machines]].
* FamousAncestor: She's one of the real UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla's descendants.
* FieryRedhead: Among the Anti-Entropy's scientists, she's the redhead and the most vocal and proud about her stuff.
* FriendlyRivalry: Oddly with Nancy T. Edison who currently works with opposing faction. To a lesser extent, she also has one with Einstein.
* GirlishPigtails: She has her hair tied to this style, presumably to mark her as less mature.
* InjuredVulnerability: The "normal" Tesla stigmata's individual effects are about increasing damage dealt against enemies under paralyzed, frozen or stunned status. Their 2-SetBonus effect also increases damage against enemies with their shield gauge emptied.
* MadScientist: Downplayed. She's more of a loudmouth with rather bold (and at times nonsensical) scientific ideas, but she isn't outright mad.
* {{Meganekko}}: She wears glasses to invoke a genius image.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Like Einstein, it's implied that she has lived for much longer than her young look suggests.
* PowerFist: She always wears a mechanical gauntlet in one hand.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red towards Einstein's blue.
* RobotBuddy: Like Einstein, she also has drones, 3 in her case.
* SheCleansUpNicely: She wears more beautiful dresses in the Tesla Band stigmata set.
* ShockAndAwe: Her Tesla Band set is mainly used to strengthen your lightning-elemental Valkyries. Its B version gives the user extra lightning damage in their attacks and its 3-SetBonus gives another extra lightning damage.
* SoundsOfScience: Unlike the serious Einstein, Tesla talks a lot and keeps gloating about her intelligence. Events usually label her as "Noisy Red-haired Girl".
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[[folder:Nuwa & Fuxi]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MomoAsakura (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Nuwa (top) and Fuxi]]

A pair of characters introduced in Fu Hua's side story "The Forgotten". The pioneers of China and its civilization, revered as two of the "Three Sovereigns" of China. They were close friends with someone named "Jingwei" in the past, who's entrusted by them to protect the land after their passing.\\
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Also available as 3 Stigmata sets; Fuxi has 1 set while Nuwa has 2. There are also weapons modeled after them: Book of Fuxi (a cannon for Bronya) and Nuwa Blade (a sword for Mei/Sakura).
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* AnimalMotifs: Snakes, befitting the original legend. As seen in 2 of Nuwa's Stigmata, she can also turn into a SnakePerson.
* CloudCuckooLander: Nuwa firmly believes that legends must be interesting so that people won't forget them, and is a bit too enthusiastic about the figurines.
* FireIceLightning: The Fuxi Stigmata set are about increasing elemental damage on either frozen, paralyzed or burned enemies, depending on the individual stigma. If the three are used together, they'll increase the user's elemental attack further and reduce elemental damage taken if there are 3 or more enemies around them. The Book of Fuxi cannon also lets Bronya attack with the three elements one at a time through its special StanceSystem: either exploding fireballs, homing electric balls or a continuous ice laser.
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: In Fu Hua's side story "The Forgotten", both Nuwa and Fuxi are attempting to do this in their own ways: the former makes clay figurines, while the latter tries to create and observe the currency system. They also entrusts Jingwei to guard the land and its people for them, since unlike the two, she can live much longer. [[spoiler:In the supplementary comic that shows the previous advanced civilization, [[LivingRelic the twins themselves are also the light flung into the future]], as they were put into a deep sleep following the past humanity's extinction in order to help guide the next human civilization.]]
* GenderFlip: In the original Myth/ChineseMythology, Fuxi was a guy.
* OlderThanTheyLook: They both look like young girls, but [[spoiler:they used to be part of the previous advanced civilization, making them (technically) much older]].
* {{Otaku}}: Nuwa seems to be one, who's obsessed with making figurines and comic books. In the Winter Rhapsody event, she's also mentioned to be a NEET. In the Dorm, it's implied through Fu Hua that she was the one who wrote a particular book about being an otaku.
* PlayingWithFire: The original Nuwa Stigmata set are all about enhancing the fire abilities of the user, making them fitting for fire-elemental Valkyries. [[FlamingSword The Nuwa Blade]] also lets the user summon a "fire fairy" that attacks enemies with fire.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Nuwa is more artistic and quite an airhead, while Fuxi is calm and thoughtful, especially about economics.
* RapunzelHair: Both have very long dark brown hair in a HimeCut.
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[[folder:Walter "Welt" Young]]
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The "Sovereign" of Anti-Entropy, and the "First Herrscher" (aka "Herrscher of Logic/Reason"). His first in-game appearance is in Chapter 9-[=EX2=], although he has been featured in the supplementary comics. \\
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He later is featured in a set of equippable Stigmata.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: in Ch. 11, it's implied that the "versions" of his younger self seen in the Sea of Quanta's [[AlternateUniverse "bubble universes"]] reflect his dark past, only with different people filling the roles/in different places.
** World 1 shows him being a young boy EscapedFromTheLab (Schicksal's labs, specifically), who's CoveredInScars and could barely control his Herrscher abilities.
** World 2 shows him being one of the kids in an orphanage. Before he ended up there, his father was a scientist who performed inhuman experiments in order to try to bring his wife back alive, and then gets killed by a priest for his crimes, who would then take the young boy to said orphanage. He was bitter about having his father die in front of him, and the priest admitted that it's hard to call what he did as "right" or "wrong".
* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:His name [[CodeName is an alias]] he puts on as a honor to the real 1st Herrscher. His real name is "Joachim". Einstein also calls him with his real name when the situation's serious. In a supplementary comic that takes place in 2nd Honkai War, Otto (who had history with the real Welt) is surprised that Welt is supposedly alive again; when the 2 formally meet eye to eye, Otto figured it out, calling him "Welt II".]]
* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:At the end of ch. 10, he has been regressed into a child. It's presumably an effect of the Sea of Quanta that he's trapped in. Played with in that the "Joachim" that Bronya sees is apparently a "split" from the real Welt Young.]]
* GateGuardian: He (or more specifically [[spoiler:the "image" of his younger self]]) acts as this in Ch. 11, specifically guarding the "space labyrinth" (that leads to the actual Sea of Quanta) that Bronya falls into. He also acts as ThresholdGuardian for Bronya, with him throwing her towards the "bubble universes" in order to see how she would solve the problems in each one, and later telling her his aims, including warning her about the "Serpent".
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: His Herrscher power is to [[SpectralWeaponCopy replicate anything that he can understand and remember in his mind]], from weapons to war vehicles. It also includes Divine Keys, as long as he's familiar enough with how they work; he primarily uses the replica of the [[GravityMaster Star of Eden]]. There's seemingly no limit to this replication power, especially when he goes all out; best seen in the fight against the 2nd Herrscher where he repeatedly creates tanks, fighter planes, etc and sends them at her, causing massive destruction.
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:His [[SoulJar Herrscher core]] houses a whole load of souls, including Welt Joyce himself.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: In one of bubble universes in Sea of Quanta, he leads the Anti-Entropy against Sirin and eventually absorbed her Herrscher of Void core, making him a much more dangerous Herrscher.
* PetTheDog: in one of the supplementary comics, when the young Siegfried was concerned with Cecilia taking too long back in the arcades, he went to find her, only to meet Walter, who told him to "pretend he never meets her". Angered, Siegfried tried attacking him, but the latter quickly brought him down, but not before calling Walter "trampler of people's dreams". When Siegfried was unconscious, Einstein came back to Walter, saying that she's done with taking Cecilia's blood samples and asked him if he wanted to bring Cecilia with them. He refused, saying that said woman and the unconscious guy have an unfulfilled promise and that they have no right to [[MeaningfulEcho trample on their dreams]].
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:When he was a kid, he inherited his "Welt" title and his Herrscher core from the real 1st Herrscher, Walter "Welt" Joyce, who was dying back then. And now Joachim have Bronya inherit his power.]]
* UncertainDoom: Chapter 9-[=EX2=] shows one of Einstein's research logs (as seen through Bronya). It depicted the last time Einstein was with Walter, i.e some time after the 2nd Honkai War. The two were conducting an experiment with the "Eye of the Deep" (implied to be some kind of "gate/door") before an anomaly occurred; Walter tried to stop it with Star of Eden's gravity powers, but they ended up getting sucked into [[EldritchLocation a strange place]] called "Sea of Quanta". There, they met a giant, black snake-like being called "World Serpent", which was the cause of the aforementioned anomaly. Walter tried fighting this creature, while telling Einstein to escape with the dimensional anchoring that they've set up. In the present, Einstein claims that Walter was still in "the Deep", but his fate remains unknown. Ch. 11 makes it somewhat clearer: [[spoiler:He ended up using the last of his powers to create a "barrier" (in form of the strange dimension that Bronya entered) that separates the Sea of Quanta from the real world in order to prevent the World Serpent from going out and causing calamity. He's ultimately "dispersed" into the Sea of Quanta, leaving only his Herrscher Core as the CosmicKeystone for the barrier, and the "image" of his younger self around as the guardian of the barrier, who would then guide Bronya around]].
* WhiteSheep: The 2nd Herrscher called him a "Honkai renegade". This is because he still has his human consciousness and is fighting for humanity, but due to this, he has no control over Honkai Beasts unlike other Herrschers. This would later [[spoiler:apply to Bronya as well, after she inherits the Herrscher Core from him]].
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%%[[folder:Gray Serpent]]
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: In the Odd Drifter event, Rita joins the Captain's party (who's looking for Seele's "sister") to look for her missing "servant". But when they find Seele's "sister" (Bronya), they also find out that Bronya has Rita's "servant" (Crescent Harvest) in her custody. Rita can only sheepishly say that she's going back to the igloo she was in and waiting for another adventurer who doesn't know Bronya isn't on her side, but the Captain says it's too late. Rita then turns against the rest of the group, wanting to take her Crescent Harvest back and to reuse the HumongousMecha that Bronya is guarding. Your party defeats her and she's forced to flee.

* HairDecorations: She wears a horned maid headdress as Umbral Rose, a normal black hairband as Phantom Iron, and a blue crown-like hair ornament as Argent Knight.

* NinjaMaid: Because of her utmost servitude and politeness, it's easy to forget that she's a ''S''-rank Valkyrie on par with her leader, Durandal. Her Umbral Rose battle outfit reflects her image of a perfect maid; prim, proper and deadly with the scythe. During the events of ch. 9, she fights Fu Hua to a standstill and may have actually beaten her if Durandal hadn't ordered her to stand down.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: In the Odd Drifter event, Rita joins the Captain's party (who's looking for Seele's "sister") to look for her missing "servant". But when they find Seele's "sister" (Bronya), they also find out that Bronya has Rita's "servant" (Crescent Harvest) in her custody - Rita can only sheepishly say that she's going back to the igloo she was in and waiting for another adventurer who doesn't know Bronya/isn't in her side, but the Captain says it's too late. Rita then turns against the rest of the group, wanting to take her Crescent Harvest back and to reuse the HumongousMecha that Bronya is guarding. Your party defeats her and she's forced to flee.
* PeekABangs: Her left eye is obscured by her hair; artwork tends to completely cover the eye while it can barely be seen in her in-game models. Not only does this accent her already considerable beauty, it serves to mark her as an antagonist as she's the only Valkyrie whose hair obscures her face and, in the Story mode, serves as Otto's agent and assassin.

* {{Fangirl}}: She's a big one to the plush bunny named HOMU, which is one of the game's mascots. Some of her outfits have the face of HOMU (or a silhouette of it) plastered onto them. She has been a fan even back when she was a ChildSoldier and then got put into Cocolia's orphanage.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of ghosts. It's lampshaded in a supplementary comic, where it says that she, who can defeat even Emperor-level Honkai Beasts, is still afraid of something like ghosts.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the tomboy to Mei’s girly girl, due to the fact that she enjoys games and manga and opts to wear shorts in most of her battle suits and costumes.

* ParentalAbandonment: He left Kiana a few years before she enrolled to St. Freya Academy. Theresa claims to know his whereabouts, which she uses to convince Kiana to partake in the academy.

* FunSize: She's quite small, around the size of a cat, and looks SuperDeformed. Her Stigmata set depicts her with more humanoid proportions, however.

* OptionalStealth: One of her skills in the Open World is "Expose Instinct", which makes your character enters "stealth mode". When activated, you'll be able to see [[InexplicableTreasureChests hidden chests]] and special {{Hidden Encounter}}s, and you'll also gain the "stealth kill" ability that allows you to BackStab roaming enemies for massive damage.
* PillarOfLight: More like Pillar of Fire, but still, one of her attacks create a pillar-like blast of fire that sends enemies airborne. It's also the effect of the M version of her stigma (activated upon Ultimate Evasion).

** 2 sets: Gains 1% fire damage for both you and the summoned Higokumaru's attack for every combo hit count, which stacks up to 40 times.

* MoralityPet: In ch. 11, as implied in the 3rd bubble universe, without her, Tesla and the rest of Anti-Entropy's founders alive[[note]]as in this reality, everyone was killed in the First Honkai War against Schicksal, leaving him alone[[/note]], he goes into the full-blown RoaringRampageOfRevenge, bent on eradicating Schicksal and willingly giving in to the Honkai influence.

* {{Expy}}: She is [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Rin Tosaka]] in everything but name, which is ironic since Rin is [[HopelessWithTech notoriously bad with machines]].

* ThirdPersonPerson: A strange twist, in that she refers to herself as "the Bronya", almost as if she has somehow dissociated from herself. In her side story "Dilemma Dreamland", where she (temporarily) lost her memories, she uses "I" ("watashi" in Japanese voiceover) normally until she regained her memories; in the supplementary comic detailing her backstory, she also used "I" normally. There's also a humorous moment in the dorms where Mei, after asking Bronya if she wants to join her in the library, elling her that Kiana is actually in the library studying apparently shocks her so much that she says "...I will go, too."

* NinjaMaid: Because of her utmost servitude and politeness, it's easy to forget that she's a ''S''-rank Valkyrie on par with her leader, Durandal. Her Umbral Rose battle outfit reflects her image of a perfect maid; prim, proper and deadly with the scythe. During the events of ch. 9, she fights Fu Hua to a standstill [[spoiler:and may have actually beaten her if Durandal hadn't ordered her to stand down]].

* VillainRespect: She may be Otto's agent, and has a lot of blood on her hands by the time ch. 9 ends (along with sabotaging Theresa, Mei, and Bronya's attempt to find Kiana), but she always uses the -''sama'' honorific for Theresa, admits to liking Fu Hua after their fight, and seems genuinely regretful that Fu Hua is dooming herself by choosing to oppose Otto. Outside the Story mode, she always addresses the Captain as "Kanchou-sama", even in situtations where their interactions are more personal and a less proper means of address might be okay.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In short, she's the reason for the big events in the chapters after Ch. 6, due to a genuine mistake on her part. [[spoiler:She beats Kiana down and brings her to Otto, thinking that he'd help with the Herrscher's problem. Otto's real plan, however, is to awaken the Herrscher of the Void (and pit her against her teammates in order to make her controllable), and by the time Fu Hua realized it, it's too late - she fights the Herrscher in her friends' stead, then Otto makes the Herrscher escape and (seemingly) shoots Fu Hua dead for being a SpannerInTheWorks. Then she tries to amend things by helping Himeko fight the Herrscher (the former of which Fu Hua beat down prior to the reveal), and later bond her soul to Kiana's after the Herrscher is suppressed. Not to mention that the Herrscher caused a large-scale Honkai eruption around the world before she was put down.]]

* YouDontLookLikeYou: [[spoiler:She is the same person as Jingwei. However, the Jingwei stigmata looks different from Fu Hua, with red hair and large bust. In the Extra Story "The Forgotten", Nuwa made up this image of Jingwei thinking people might get interested on Jingwei's stories if she makes her look hotter ([[ACupAngst she didn't take it too kindly]]).]]

* IaijutsuPractitioner: As Goshinsou Memento, her branch attack is a series of very fast unsheath-resheath slashes that can hit the enemy from a (medium range) distance. Her Ultimate Skill is a more powerful version of it.

* RefugeeFromTVLand: Goshinsou Memento is actually a character from an in-universe video game called "Kallen Fantasy VII". There, she's described as a runaway failed experiment who goes on a rampage until she meets Kallen.

** Goshinsou Memento's QTE attack is a crescent beam attack that freezes the enemies solid.

* UnusualEars: She has a set of long ears coming out of the top of her head due to her being possessed by a fox-like Honkai Beast. It's extra unusual in that the ears are elongated, making them look like rabbit ears.

* NextTierPowerUp: While searching for Seele in the Sea of Quanta at the end of Ch. 11 (in the plotline animation "Cyberangel: ZERO Exception"), Bronya stumbles upon [[spoiler:the Herrscher Core of Reason (Joachim/Welt's core)]] and tries to grab it, only for it to go out of control and try to assimilate Bronya, while also being simultaneously attacked by a Tlaloc. It isn't until Seele's spirit appears before her that Bronya snaps out of it and seizes full control of the thing, granting her and Project Bunny a massive upgrade and materialization powers [[spoiler:befitting of the Herrscher of Reason]], which she gets to demonstrate by curbstomping the Tlaloc.

* ThirdPersonPerson: A strange twist, in that she refers to herself as "the Bronya", almost as if she has somehow dissociated from herself. In her side story "Dilemma Dreamland", where she (temporarily) lost her memories, she uses "I" ("watashi" in Japanese voiceover) normally until she regained her memories; in the supplementary comic detailing her backstory, she also used "I" normally.

* VillainRespect: She may be Otto's agent, and has a lot of blood on her hands by the time ch. 9 ends (along with sabotaging Theresa, Mei, and Bronya's attempt to find Kiana), but she always uses the -''sama'' honorific for Theresa, admits to liking Fu Hua after their fight, and seems genuinely regretful that Fu Hua is dooming herself by choosing to oppose Otto.
* VillainShoes: Half of Chapter 9-EX is from Rita (as Phantom Iron)'s perspective, as she opposes our heroes' group and tries to get the intel of the missing Kiana's location before the latter's friends do.

* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: The only playable Chinese character in the game, and a martial arts master capable of smashing mechas and Honkai beasts with her bare hands.

* DoubleAgent: Chapters 6 and 7 reveals that [[spoiler:Fu Hua was sent to the St. Freya Academy as Otto's spy, and that she brought Kiana to the Schicksal HQ on his orders, as she knew from Otto that Kiana has the 2nd Herrscher in her body and that Schicksal may try to fix that problem. However, she also cares enough for her friends and the principal at the academy (and the 2nd Herrscher threatening people in general, which she didn't expect to happen) that she at least ordered Rita to just imprison Himeko and Tesla, and later went to fight the Herrscher of the Void in order to buy time for Bronya to escape with Mei and Theresa]].

One of the three S-ranked Valkyries currently active in Schicksal, Rita is the deputy captain of the "Blade of the Immortal" Valkyrie Squad, as well as the adjutant to fellow S-class Valkyrie Durandal. Professional, courteous and elegant, but her impersonality makes people unable to find out anything more about her. \\

* BoobsOfSteel: Has the second largest bust size behind Himeko, yet this doesn’t stop her from being an absolute deadly close-quarters fighter.

* NinjaMaid: Because of her utmost servitude and politeness, it's easy to forget that she's a ''S''-rank Valkyrie on par with her leader, Durandal. Her Umbral Rose battle outfit reflects her image of a perfect maid; prim, proper and deadly with the scythe.
* PeekABangs: Her left eye is obscured by her hair; artwork tends to completely cover the eye while it can barely be seen in her in-game models.

'''Himeko''': *''frowning [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Japanese_style kaomoji]]''* Are you saying I'll get drunk?

* DashAttack: Shadow Dash's branch attack (can also be done after her dodge move, and as a switch-in attack) is her dashing forward for an upward slash that launches enemies upward. If she's S-ranked, the attack can be continued with a powerful circular slash. Her QTE attack is a more powerful version of it.

* GroundPunch: All versions of her have a similar attack for their normal switch-in and QTE: she [[DeathFromAbove falls from above]] striking the ground with her fist. Her different suits give different effects to the QTE attack.

** And later on, [[spoiler:she appears again in ch. 11-EX, now inside Kiana's mind; this time, she mentions that she has set her Fenghuang Down in such a way that her soul is now bonded with Kiana's (meaning that it's now the real her, not her "feathers"). She did so in order to watch over her and prevent her Herrscher self from resurfacing, out of guilt of what she had done towards Kiana and because Himeko believed in the white-haired girl, but she can only do so much for around 3 months because Kiana refused to talk to her, thinking of her as just an illusion[[note]]especially after what happened between the two at the end of ch. 6, Kiana became bitter towards her[[/note]]. It's not until Fu Hua tries to prevent her from [[DrivenToSuicide taking out her own life]] that Kiana starts opening herself to her, allowing her to help Kiana fight Sirin inside her mind, suppressing Sirin in the end. Fu Hua mentally says that if the worst case happens, [[MercyKillArrangement she has to end their lives together]]; she can only mentally apologize to Kiana.]]

* EXSpecialAttack: Luna Kindred has a special attack where she turns her mechanical cross into a poleaxe and smashes enemies with it. It comes with a special stocks-gauge that is filled with her normal attacks (and evading at the right time) and expended by using the axe move; it can be performed with the gauge depleted but she'll swing the axe slower and deal less damage.
* GatheringSteam: Luna Kindred has a special gauge above her SP gauge that fills slowly by itself and quickly by continuous normal attacks on bleeding enemies (or her Ultimate Skill). Said gauge is used to power up her branch attack, where she smashes enemies with her axe that causes the bleeding DamageOverTime debuff. This attack can be used when the gauge is empty, but the attack will be less powerful and executed more slowly.

* MeaningfulEcho: A cutscene in ch. 11-EX has her echoing what her teacher Himeko says at ch. 9 [[spoiler:as her FamousLastWords]]:

* {{Overheating}}: In a variant, Void Drifter's branch attack would make her fill a gauge. If it's filled to full, she'll stun both herself and the enemies around her for 3 seconds, then the gauge slowly empties, during which she cannot use her branch attack. The only way to get out of said stun (aside from not overusing it in the first place) is 1) by switching out, or 2) by using her Ultimate Skill. Bizarrely, she also has a sub-skill that allows her to buff her teammates by intentionally filling her special gauge to full.

* SheDressedUpNicely: An event-only costume for Valkyrie Bladestrike is her in a beautiful white dress.

* CooldownHug: In the Last Lesson, she gives one to the Herrscher of the Void in a final attempt to bring her back to her self [[spoiler:and to stealthily inject the serum into her]].

* ICouldaBeenAContender: In a flashback in ch. 11-EX, Himeko mentions that she could be a scientist at a Honkai energy lab[[note]]As shown in the first summer event with younger Himeko, she mentioned that she studied into an engineering school[[/note]] until her father became corrupted by the Honkai; she decided to became a Valkyrie some time after. She also mentioned that her old Valkyrie commander (back when she was still a rookie) wanted to become a gardener, but then said commander went KIA and Himeko ended up putting herself in St. Freya Academy. Himeko then lamented that so many girls wanted to become a Valkyrie (referring to the students) despite them potentially being able to live normal lives with their parents.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: The main trio's primary teacher who [[spoiler: dies trying to rescue Kiana from Herrscher of the Void's control in [[MeaningfulName "The Last Lesson"]] , but not before [[FamousLastWords some last words of encouragement to Kiana.]] Kiana's transformation into the Void Drifter is caused by her resolving to live by her late mentor's advice and hopes.]]

* SeriousBusiness: In Chapter Xuanyuan, Kiana mentions that Himeko seems to take their current mission more seriously than the previous ones, even with her doing literary researches prior to this. Bronya explains that since using artificial stigmata causes normal human users (including Himeko) to have short lifespans, this mission is to look for natural stigmata so that she can help the Schicksal's researches on it, which potentially may help with her body's problems.

** Arctic Kriegsmesser can enter one by using her ChargedAttack. It'll make her subsequent sword attacks be followed by extra icy slashes while depleting her special meter as long as it's active. It's deactivated by either evading, having the combo counter reset, or switching out.

* SwordPlant: Many of her weapon skills, as well as her "stealth kill" move, have her stab the ground with her sword to cause a small explosion on the ground.

* {{BFG}}: Uses one as her Ultimate in both her Valkyrie Ranger and her Knight Moonbeam battle suits.

* BrokenPedestal: While she wasn't all that chummy with Fu Hua from the get-go, she did at least respect her as a reliable senior. However, she was clearly hurt when [[spoiler:Fu Hua kidnapped her and handed her over to Otto]]. When Kiana encounters her again later [[spoiler:(Fu Hua's spirit) in Chapter 11-EX]], Kiana gives her an angry WhatTheHellHero speech and says she wants nothing to do with her anymore. Downplayed later when she sees that Fu Hua truly does regret what happened and Kiana forgives her.

* DeathFromAbove: Void Drifter's QTE has her falling down onto her enemies [[SwordPlant with her "lance"]], striking enemies in an area and giving them her special debuff.

* DrivenToSuicide: At some point after [[spoiler:her Herrscher powers are suppressed]], she attempted to commit suicide [[spoiler:to prevent Sirin from taking over again]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler:Fu Hua's spirit]] stopped her from doing so.

* LoadBearingBoss: The moment [[spoiler:Himeko injects the Honkai-neutralizing vaccine into her, the PocketDimension they're in collapses]].

* PocketDimension: [[spoiler:Herrscher of The Void's fight against Himeko (in her Vermilion Knight battlesuit)]] takes place in one.

* BodyBackupDrive: The 2nd Herrscher ManHua reveals that this is how he managed to live for hundreds of years: He creates increasingly more powerful bodies to inhabit, in case his previous one proves insufficient to his needs. It gets played for comedy when he screwed up during the body-changing process and his new body became that of his child self, although he got it fixed later.

* KickingAssInAllHerRefinery: As Twilight Knight, she wears an elegant black and blue dress with a long gown. Combined with the multiple floating blades she uses, Theresa's fluid movements in this battlesuit are reminiscent of a dance. Celestial Hymn also wears a regal-looking white dress, while Luna Kindred's attire makes her look like an ElegantGothicLolita, fitting for a "vampire". A good number of her costumes are also rather fancy dresses.

** She insist on a cat motif for herself, which shows in her SuperMode as White Comet and Divine Prayer where she summons giant mechanical cat paws out of nowhere and sometimes saying "meow".

** The first one is Kiana confronting "HER" ([[spoiler:Sirin]]), who tried to [[MindRape break her mind]] in order to [[GrandTheftMe take over her body]] [[spoiler:again]]. Kiana's inner conscious is depicted as an empty, broken hall floating in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by flying pictures of her and her friends (representing her memories), all in DeliberatelyMonochrome; when she gets to the end of the stage, suddenly a giant, shining eye opens in the sky, representing "HER". "SHE" made her fight an illusion of Mei and Theresa, then Fu Hua (who, as "SHE" noted, [[spoiler:kidnapped her and took her to Otto]]), and then [[spoiler:[[MultiMookMelee multitudes of]] [[CloningBlues the previous K-400 series clones]] (which took form of White Comet Kiana)]]. Later, she thought that it was a nightmare that she had since 3 months ago[[labelnote:Spoilers!]]It was back when she first awakened after Himeko suppressed her Herrscher self, at the cost of Himeko's life[[/labelnote]], but [[spoiler:Phoenix Fu Hua (as a spirit)]] says that they aren't just nightmares - "SHE" always tries to take over her whenever Kiana has those nightmares.
** The second one is Kiana confronting "HER" again, but this time [[spoiler:Fu Hua]] helps her; the former also summons illusions of [[spoiler:Himeko]] to battle "HER". In the end, "SHE" is defeated and "restrained" by [[spoiler:Fu Hua]], but the latter notes at the end of the chapter that "SHE" may come back again someday.

* BrokenPedestal: While she wasn't all that chummy with Fu Hua from the get-go, she did at least respect her as a reliable senior. However, she was clearly hurt when [[spoiler:she kidnapped her and handed her over to Otto]]. When Kiana encounters her again later [[spoiler:(Fu Hua's spirit) in Chapter 11-EX]], Kiana gives her an angry WhatTheHellHero speech and says she wants nothing to do with her anymore. Downplayed later when she sees that Fu Hua truly does regret what happened and Kiana forgives her.

* DeathFromAbove: Void Drifter's QTE has her falling down onto her enemies [[SwordPlant with her "lance"]], striking enemies in an area and giving her special debuff onto them.
* DefrostingIceQueen: a more platonic example. She initially had little respect towards Himeko (whom she calls "aunt"), but over the years she has come to show some respect to her teacher, culminating in her becoming the source of Kiana's resolve at the end of ch. 11-EX.
* DrivenToSuicide: At some point after [[spoiler:her Herrscher powers are suppressed]], she attempted to commit suicide [[spoiler:to prevent her Herrscher side from taking over again]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler:Fu Hua's spirit]] stopped her from doing so.

* {{Expy}}: She's the main heroine who wields 2 guns and is a KickChick, is part of a PowerTrio of school friends, is very emotionally-driven, a LethalChef, a BookDumb and strong fighter, [[spoiler:is a clone of a major character, has a SuperpoweredEvilSide that takes her over and wants to destroy the world, and a red hero with a sword performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop her (although in Himeko's case, it's lethal) and she later learns to use her evil side's power by her own]]. She's definitely one of [[Videogame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]] [[spoiler:and Mu-12]].

** In the Chinese New Year event, where the Valkyries cook a lot of food for a feast party, she gets paired with Fu Hua and the latter deliberately make her do simpler stuff in order to keep her from ruining the cooking.

* MismatchedEyes: In her childhood, she had her right eye covered in bandages; when it's opened, her right eye is gold. It's blue in the present, however. [[spoiler:It's part of her having the 2nd Herrscher's core put into her. As Void Drifter, her right eye turns gold again after her Herrscher power gets partially unsealed, giving her control over it]].

* TomatoInTheMirror: Chapter 11-EX [[InternalReveal has her finally learn the truth about herself]]: [[spoiler:that she's a clone made from Kaslana's and Schariac's genes, as well as that of Sirin, as part of Otto's project; among other clones, she has the core of the Herrscher of the Void put into her, giving her sapience. Sirin in her mind says that the two were basically victims of humans, and that her fate ([[RaisedAsAHost as a "vessel"]]) was sealed since before her conception. She also says that her longtime friends would see her differently and try to "save" her by destroying her. The twist is that Kiana actually ''knew'' something was inside her back when she unwittingly awakened the Herrscher's powers when she was 12, but she intentionally suppressed her mind, trying to forget "HER" (Sirin) and what happened - it's just that the truth was far uglier than she thought.]]