History Characters / HonkaiImpact3rdKianaKaslana

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* StatSticks: [[spoiler:Herrscher of Flamescion]]’s weapon Keys of Radiance is a pair of guns that give her SP regeneration and damage buffs, but she only fights with a flaming broadsword in actual combat, no matter which weapon is equipped.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Knight Moonbeam]]\\
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** Two stages of Ch. 11-EX take place in Kiana's 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 [[NightmareSequence 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.

** 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 K-423" 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 K-423]]]].

--->'''Kiana:''' [[spoiler:I'm not Kiana Kaslana or my dad's baby doll... I am the experimental body K423. A [[CloningBlues cloned]] [[RaisedAsAHost vessel]] for the Herrscher of the Void...]]

** [[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.

The Protagonist 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)[[note]]Augment Core upgrade: Void Drifter[[/note]], Divine Prayer (A PSY), Knight Moonbeam (S BIO), [[spoiler: Herrscher of Flamescion (S PSY)]], [[spoiler: and Herrscher of Finality (S IMG)]]. They all deal physical damage, except the last two, which deals fire.\\
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Her signature weapons are PSY-Bows of Hel (for White Comet), Thunder Kikaku (for Divine Prayer), Mjolnir (for Valkyrie Ranger), ARC Serratus (for Void Drifter), Hyper Railguns[[note]]pri-arm: Positron Blasters[[/note]] (for Knight Moonbeam), Key of Radiance[[note]]pri-arm: Domain of Incandescence[[/note]] [[spoiler:(for Herrscher of Flamescion)]], and Key of Anonymity[[note]]pri-arm: Domain of Genesis[[/note]] [[spoiler: (for Herrscher of Finality)]].

** 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:being beaten to unconciousness by Fu Hua and [[DistressedDamsel captured by Schicksal]]]].

* PersonalHorror: She has several cases of this, from her GuiltComplex over having her closest people get hurt while trying to help her and her not being able to do anything about it, to realizing that [[IAmAMonster she's a "monster" or a "time bomb"]] [[spoiler:due to her SuperpoweredEvilSide, in which she was controlled to hurt her closest ones]]. It's "horror" enough for her that she keeps getting nightmares about it. Her whole struggle is about how she could become a "hero that saves the world" [[HurtingHero despite suffering from all of the above]].