History Characters / HonkaiImpact3rdStFreyaAcademy

* GirlyRun: Does a typical version with her arms bent upwards at her sides. On one hand, this fits with the "cute" image she cultivates − on the other, it makes her the slowest runner of all playable characters, which can be a slight handicap in timed missions.

Her signature weapons are Oath of Judah (for Valkyrie Pledge), Blood Embrace (for Luna Kindred), Pledge of Sakura[[note]]pri-arm: Salvation of Sakura[[/note]] (for Sakuno Rondo), 11ᵗʰ Sacred Relic[[note]]pri-arm: 11ᵗʰ Leithourgia[[/note]] (for Celestial Hymn) and Hekate’s Gloom (for Twilight Paladin).\\

Her signature weapons are Oath of Judah (for Valkyrie Pledge), Blood Embrace (for Luna Kindred), Pledge of Sakura[[note]]pri-arm: Salvation of Sakura[[/note]] (for Sakuno Rondo), 11ᵗʰ Sacred Relic[[note]]pri-arm: 11ᵗʰ Leithourgia[[/note]] (for Celestial Hymn) and Hekate’s Gloom (for Twilight Paladin).

[[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdHonkaiBeastsAndHerrschers Honkai Beasts and Herrschers]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdAPostHonkaiOdyssey A Post-Honkai Odyssey]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdOtherNPCAndHistorical Other NPCs and Historical Characters]] | [[Character/HonkaiImpact3rdCaptainverse The "Captainverse"]]-]]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Luna Kindred]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theresa_lk.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* 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 [[YouAreNumberSix code is A-872]] (while Theresa's is A-310) and she's created with a slightly different process and component from normal Theresa]].
* AntiDebuff: Valkyrie Pledge and Luna Kindred have "leader skills" that decreases the duration of debuffs taken for the whole team if they're set as the team's leader.

** Luna Kindred turns her cross into an axe and smashes enemies with it, giving them the "bleeding" debuff.

* 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, DualWielding red swords that come out of nowhere and turning her cross into [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]] to smash enemies with.

* DirtyBusiness: She reveals in ch. 4 that she was the one recommending Wendy to take part of the experiment for the Gem of Desire in the first place (she used to be Theresa's student). Theresa feels that, now that everything has come to this (i.e Wendy awakening as a Herrscher and then getting kidnapped by Anti-Entropy), apologies won't be enough and so she decides to keep "bearing her cross" (i.e bearing the burden of fault). Wendy at least understands and thanks the principal for all of her teachings.

* 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.

** Her Twilight Paladin outfit have some similar elements to another existing "Knight" suit: Rita's Argent Knight.

* MyGreatestFailure: Being unable to prevent [[GodzillaThreshold Cecilia from being deployed during the Second Honkai Eruption,]] which leads to Cecilia's death and the sundering of the Kaslana-Shariac family, a regret she shares with Siegfried. This spills over to failing to look after Kiana for most of her life like she promised Cecilia, which is why Theresa is overjoyed when Kiana ends up walking into her life after the Third Eruption.

* 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]]. In the "Odd Drifter" event, whenever she's craving for blood, she'll slowly go sickly and then berserk; the Captain sates her thirst for blood at least twice in the event.

* SpinAttack: Luna Kindred's normal attacks are sets of spinning attacks with her swords. Her Ultimate Skill has Theresa spin while swinging her axe twice; she then jumps up and slams it to the ground, dealing damage in an area.

!!Zhuge Kongming
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The Princess and Grand Seeress of the Emberyan empire.\\

She first appears near the end of the "Odd Drifter" event as the one masterminding the whole event in order to fix the anomaly that the Captain caused by mistake. In the "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event, she receives the Captain's help to slay a certain Honkai Beast that threatens her country. She also stars in the next event, "The Day You Vanished With The Stars".\\
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She's also available as a stigmata set. In version 4.0 she becomes playable as a battlesuit of Theresa called "Starlit Astrologos" (A BIO, SP). Her signature weapon is Zither’s Lament.

* AccidentalDiscovery: One scenario in "Emberyan Chronicles" mini event has her creating a design for a "talent-seeking device", which is basically a computer hooked to a bunch of potatoes as its electric source. The villagers are confused upon seeing the thing, as they don't understand how it works. She thinks that [[TimTaylorTechnology it's just lacking power]], which she tries to solve by adding more potatoes to it. It just ends up roasting the potatoes instead, so she just decides to focus on that instead - she has discovered potato fries.
* TheAgeless: Her focus event reveals that [[spoiler:the "immortality" that the Golem gave her and Rita only means that they won't die a natural death. They can still die by being killed, as she first witnessed with Rita and then herself; they've lived for around a thousand years by then]].
* AscendedExtra: Downplayed. She went from just being depicted in a stigmata set to an actual character in events.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Caught in her joy having defeated Huodou, she makes a wish to the Golem for the "eternal prosperity of her kingdom". [[spoiler:The Golem, assuming that having Kongming and Rita at its helm would be enough to make Emberya prosperous, proceeds to make both of them immortal so that they rule it forever.]] Unfortunately [[spoiler:as the years and centuries passed, the empire did meet its inevitable downfall, due to her "disappearance".]]
* CombatHandFan: Like with most depictions of Zhuge Liang, she's depicted with a feather fan that she can use to [[BlowYouAway manipulate the winds]].
* CooldownManipulation: The T version of her Stigma reduces the cooldown of Ultimate Evasion's effects by some percent.
* ExactWords: In the end of "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", after it's explained to her that [[spoiler:Golem's "backup programming"]] will try to erase her from the world [[spoiler:as she's deemed an "anomaly"]] in any way it could and that every timeline the Captain has faced and tried to fix will only end up in her death, she comes up with an idea to address it: [[spoiler:to leave this world, so that she can stay alive while said "program" will not detect her again]].
-->'''Tesla-Zero''': [[spoiler:Fortune teller (Kongming) leaving this world would count as mission accomplished for the program.]]
* FacialCompositeFailure: In the "Honkai Kingdoms Zero" event, all three factions present an illustration of Zhuge Kongming to you (the Captain), telling you to find and capture her. Durandal's side gives a normal image of her, Rita's side gives an image of her doing a double V-Sign pose with an annoyed expression, and Kiana's side gives the memetic "derpy chibi" image of her.
* TheFourGods: Four of her skill's names are somewhat derived from these (Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Combo: Black Tortoise, Rosefinch).
* GadgeteerGenius: In the "Emberyan Chronicles" web event, she acts as an inventor who tries using her designs to help her people.
* GeometricMagic: Her "Eight Formation" involves her drawing circles and some runes, that can do various things.
* HistoricalGenderFlip: She's basically [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Zhuge Liang]] in a body that somehow resembles Theresa. In the second scenario of her focus event, she's said to be playing her zither alone near her kingdom's fortress as her people has been evacuated when the two neighboring kingdoms attack hers, a reference to an anecdote of the real Zhuge Liang doing something similar to fool the invaders into thinking he may be hiding a powerful ambush.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals:
** Her stigmata version's profile has to point out that she and Theresa are different, unrelated people, and her chibi in the dorm shows disdain over being compared to "that irresponsible principal". This is a SelfDeprecation over miHoYo having to change her name into "Theresa: Stargazing" in the Chinese version.
** In her event in version 4.0, it's a plot point: Kongming [[RightfulKingReturns has come back]] [[KingInTheMountain from her hiding]] only to find her empire being attacked by neighboring ones, and she deposed Theresa (the Grand Seeress in the original Honkai Kingdoms event) and took over the throne again before she defeated the invaders and captured their leaders. She then makes Theresa into her "songbird" against her will. In the third scenario where everything's relatively better, Theresa apparently works as Kongming's BodyDouble and "acting Grand Seeress" for the current Emberya whenever Kongming tries to go KingIncognito. This also gets lampshaded when Theresa briefly dresses as Kongming and the latter wears her alternate outfit to mess with the Captain.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Her signature weapon, "Zither's Lament", is a "cross" in the shape of a zither. She uses it like any other cross, by dropping it down and activating it, which blows slowing winds around it that deals continuous damage.
* InsultOfEndearment: She initially calls the Captain "Mr. Assassin" because of a misunderstanding when they meet, but even after it's lifted she keeps calling him that. By the end, she clearly uses it very affectionately. In her focus event, in the first scenario, she calls the Captain with it again just before she dies due to poison; he's confused as he doesn't remember ever being called that, but it (and the talk with her just before that) clues him that she might've meet someone similar to him before.
* IWillWaitForYou: In the end of "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event, the Captain promised to her that they'll meet again in a distant future. So she patiently waited for him to come back... [[spoiler:up to 1000 years, as she has become TheAgeless]]. In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event, she's still waiting for "Mr. Assassin", and that she feels that the current Captain [[YouRemindMeOfX reminds her of him]].
* JustFrameBonus: If you release the attack button at just the right time (indicated by a yellow circle) when she uses her branch attack, she'll shoot out a stronger whirlwind out of her fan. Some of her skills are tied to this mechanic.
* KingIncognito: In her event, before the Qixi Festival, Rita and Theresa gives Kongming a more "civilian" dress (the Orchid Night alternate costume) so that she can blend in to the common people better.
* KingInTheMountain: In Honkai Kingdoms Zero's ending, around 70-80 years after she established the new dynasty, she went to guard the seal of Huodou and left the kingdom to Rita's care. As around a millennia have passed without her around, Emberya isn't the same anymore and is now under the threat of two new neighboring kingdoms, Schicksal and Jormungond, setting the original Honkai Kingdoms event.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: As the second "SP" character of the game, she has special skills that differentiate her from the others. She has a branch attack instead of other Theresas' {{Charged Attack}}s, although it can still be charged to become stronger. Her evasion skill, aside from activating Time Fracture, also puts a magic circle on the ground that can activate another Time Fracture if her teammates step on it. Her most prominent feature, however, is her QTE: unlike other characters, hers is activated by having her teammates attack the enemy enough times to gain the "Hexagram" stacks, and once it's stacked to 10, her QTE is available. Unlike other [=QTEs=], you ''do not'' switch with her upon usage. Instead, she jumps into the field by herself and performs the QTE attack as you're controlling your current character (think of {{Assist Character}}s in tag-based fighting games). You can switch with her after the QTE by tapping her button again, or, if she has her Ultimate Skill available, you can instead tap her button to make her perform it, again while you're still in control of your current character. As both her QTE and Ultimate Skill can give her teammates various buffs, this makes her a unique and useful SupportPartyMember towards "sustained damage" characters like Bright Knight: Excelsis, and even more so with the right equipment.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In the Chinese version of the game, she's only known as "Stargazer". This is part of the censorship in that country regarding the GenderFlip of historical Chinese figures.
* ParadoxPerson: In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars", [[spoiler:this is a big part of the reason why she dies in all of Captain's attempts to go back in time to save her. Huodou's rampage after [[SealedEvilInACan breaking out of its seal]] wrecked the Golem in the ruins, which inadvertently activated a "self driven management program" within it. This program archives all individuals who made a wish to the Golem; it didn't detect Kongming (who once made a wish) as she was away in another world (the Odd Drifter's setting). When she came back, said programming deemed her an "anomaly", as an "unexistant" person who somehow made a wish to the Golem, and thus it tries to cause her death either InMysteriousWays, or through its "mass-produced agents". Also, if the program deems it impossible to erase the anomaly, it would try to RestartTheWorld.]]
* PromotedToPlayable: She becomes playable in version 4.0 after only appearing in events and as a set of stigmata.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship:
** While they weren't exactly lovers, the way she speaks of her Grand Chancellor, Rita, when reminiscing indicates that Kongming saw her as more than just a friend. [[TheLostLenore Rita's death]] after the two neighbor kingdoms seemingly refused to help in the fight against Huodou made her [[RevengeBeforeReason hungry for revenge]] and [[CynicismCatalyst a lot more cynical]]. Considering they had shared each other's lives [[spoiler:for a thousand years after the Golem made them immortal]], that's unsurprising.
** In the end of said event, [[spoiler:when she thinks of leaving this world to save herself from certain death, she thinks of Rita as well. Unfortunately, Tesla-Zero tells her that the Captain cannot bring two people at once with him to the ''Hyperion''. She and the Captain decide to see Rita for one last time. Finding Rita asleep at her desk, Kongming decides to put a blanket over her while telling the Captain not to wake her up. Kongming still finds it hard to say goodbye to her, taking one long last look towards her, and the Captain has to pull her out. When Rita wakes up later, she sees that Kongming left one of her fans behind on the window sill, and immediately understands that the princess is away (again), looking for new adventures.]]
* ResurrectionDeathLoop: In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars", she dies early on the event after drinking poisoned wine while telling the Captain (or "Mr. Assassin" as she calls him) to "save her and Rita". He was told about "Ms. Ironfist" (Tesla-Zero, whom Kongming kept in her room long after the "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event), that he can use her to help him. He tries activating her, then she seemingly turns back time to before Rita died fighting against Huodou. He tries [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fixing the problems that caused Kongming to die]], but everytime he manages to do so, something else kills her instead, and he has to use Tesla-Zero again to go back in time to resolve the new problem. Eventually, after the fifth failed attempt, he realizes that some greater force may be holding him back, and may be behind her deaths. Later, Tesla-Zero reveals that it's because [[spoiler:Kongming has been deemed as a ParadoxPerson (see above) that has to be wiped off the face of the world. Kongming herself finds out a way to resolve this: by going out of her world (again).]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's a young princess and heir to the throne who uses her wisdom and intelligence to try to solve the monster problems of her kingdom and bring back peace. In her focus event in 4.0, in the second scenario, she defends her kingdom from the neighboring kingdoms at the cost of her life, while in the third, she uses her wits to negotiate peace with said kingdoms' leaders. The end of said event, however, has her saying that [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask while she was willing to take on the duty as the heir to the throne, if she had the choice, she'd rather be an explorer roaming the realm.]] [[spoiler:She laments that she had to "leave" this world to protect it (see ParadoxPerson above for why), but she's still willing to do it.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Two different cases of this occurs in "The Day You Vanished With The Stars".
** In the first scenario, she seemingly tends to give a cold smile as she does [[KickTheDog cruel things]] to Theresa and the captured leaders of the neighboring kingdoms. It hides her sorrow and wrath over Rita dying while fighting Huodou because the Schicksal and Jormungond couldn't give the help her kingdom needed in time to defeat the beast.
** In the third, during the Qixi Festival, she seemingly goes around like an excited little kid buying various treats; the Captain can't help but think that it must've been the "festive mood", but it also relieves him, knowing that she can enjoy herself and this night. Then she gives him a wry smile instead and says "are you happy now, Captain?" as she points out his long face throughout the night. Turns out she actually wants to puts him at ease and not worry about anything.
* TornadoMove: Her Ultimate Skill is to summon a tornado that slowly [[YouWillNotEvadeMe gathers enemies]] and deals multiple hits, as well as buffing the whole party for several seconds.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: {{Discussed|Trope}} during "The Day You Vanished With The Stars". If it wasn't for [[spoiler:Rita (who was also immortalized with her), she would've gone mad from living a millennium alone]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: She's only 12 years old during ''Honkai Kingdoms Zero'', but she already has the composure and wisdom to rule Emberya and see through the conspiracies around her.

!!Crew of the ''Hyperion''

[[folder:The Captain]]
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TheCaptain of the ''Hyperion'', who represents ''you'', the player, when you're not directly controlling the Valkyries. "He" only appears in event stories and isn’t part of the main storyline.

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* ActionSurvivor: This is often the role he takes in in the more intense events. While he can fight, he's generally no match for the monsters or the human characters and has to rely on his ingenuity and [[{{Determinator}} sheer determination]] to pull himself through.
* AlternateSelf:
** The "Sanka Saga" event reveals that "The Ferryman" (who has been guiding Kasumi from far away since the start) is in fact the alternate version of the Captain, with his own ''Hyperion''. At the end of "Arc: Light Bound", it is also reveals that he's the one who assigns Kasumi to retrieve the Ether Anchor in Bronie's universe. From the same scene, he later assigns Kasumi to assist Delta in her next mission, which also confirms he's the one who speaks with Delta in "Honkai Quest".
** One big twist of "Odd Drifter" is that there are two versions of the same Captain running around, one in the first half of the event and the other in the second half. In the climax, the two meet each other and "merge". Near the end, Zhuge Kongming explains that this happened because, back when the Captain tried to go back home with Kongming's help, he subconsciously wanted to live in "realities where the girls are happy" and it messed with her Formation spell, causing him to be split in two.
** "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" has the Captain wondering about how "the future him" traveled back in time and changed Kongming's past, and what "he" is currently doing right now. The next event, "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", starts with the Captain only remembering things up to "Odd Drifter"[='s=] ending, implying that this Captain isn't the same one from the previous event. Kongming in that event also mentions that she used to meet "someone like the Captain" before, who promised to her that they'll meet each other again in the future--which was what the (different?) Captain said in "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero". [[spoiler:Later, Tesla-Zero confirms that the Captain of this event would later become the "future Captain" that she talked about.]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: His "time-traveling". [[spoiler:The end of "Rosemary's Floriograph" has Rita (who acted as "Irene Adler") claim that the Captain's "consciousness mapping" involves him [[MentalTimeTravel "inserting" his mind into other people's]], taking on their memories, knowledge and experiences in the process. The problem this poses is that he has done it too many times and has started to [[LossOfIdentity forget who he really was]], so [[BecomingTheMask he thinks he's really "Conan Doyle"]]. Thankfully Rita could "pull" him out before it's too late, but she feels that she could jog his memories more.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The Captain's wit is usually extremely dry and contrasts the wackiness in some of the events well.
* {{Determinator}}: In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars", he tries over and over to save Kongming from her fate, but he fails every time. Even after realizing that he's only a "pawn" in this whole "game", he keeps going on as that's the only thing he knows. After so many attempts to go back in the past by activating Tesla-Zero, she fully awakens, and goes on to explain everything to help him. She lampshades it, saying that he's the biggest tryhard she's ever seen, but it's also thanks to such persistence that he managed to awaken her in the first place. She says that the "future Captain" has set up the "consciousness mapping threshold" as "absurdly high", believing that the current Captain can reach it by his repeated attempts, and that he can find a completely different resolution than the future him did.
* DimensionalTraveler: TheStinger for "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event seemingly establishes the Captain as one, as his ''Hyperion'' is currently floating in the Sea of Quanta. Built by his memory, it's the manifestation of his power and the path leading to tomorrow, as Tesla-Zero says. [[spoiler:Kongming--now part of the ''Hyperion'' crew--notes that there are other travelers who have lost their footing in bubble universes, and that he's planning to travel to more worlds.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", he only knew of Kongming since the end of "Odd Drifter", but hearing her story of how she turned into a tyrant filled with sorrow and vengeance, then having her die in front of him as she begs "Mr. Assassin" to save her and Rita, compels him to try to help her. Even with the ability to go back in time to solve the problem that causes her death, she always ends up dying again and again. Near the end, he could barely even remember that he initially only wanted to go back to the ''Hyperion''. It eventually takes a toll on his mind, and he goes on to say that he's not the "Mr. Assassin" that could make miracles happen for her, and that she has put her faith in the wrong person.
-->'''Captain:''' I'm not your Mr. Assassin! The Mr. Assassin in your memory can do everything, but I... You know how many Qixi nights have I been through? How many times I watched you disappear? I'm afraid... afraid to meet your eyes when I wake up again... afraid to run into another dead end... I want to run away from this, but where to? Running is a choice I don't have... \\
'''Kongming:''' You have a choice. You can always give me up and shake off the nightmare. Without me, Rita and Theresa would still take good care of you. You could erase me from your memory and live happily. If you give me up now, I'd never hold any grudge against you. I never did.
* TheGhost: Interestingly, they never appear in the game's Story mode nor are ever referenced, despite often appearing in events. In Chapter Chiyou, for one, it's Theresa who commands ''Hyperion'' to support the Valkyries currently inside [[EldritchAbomination Chiyou]]. The most you'll usually get is a glimpse of their hand or arm from your POV.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** The Captain's narration in the final stage of "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" has him leaning extremely close to the fourth wall.
--->I was playing a game that had spun out of my control. If I could somehow get the whole picture from a high point, there might be a way to beat the game. But I was hopelessly trapped and had to play my part in the game... Yes, instead of the player, I'm merely a pawn on the chess board. Who's playing this game? Are there other observers? Would they feel bored when the game has come this far? They might be able to see in a glance the ending that I have to take thousands of steps to get to. I don't know how the story ends... or if the story has any ending at all. If there are observers watching this game, what would they say about all the things I've done? Sure... they won't approve of me. And they have every reason to do so.
** In the end, [[spoiler:TheStinger of said event has Kongming, now a part of the ''Hyperion'' crew, say that the Captain has recorded the past events that he was in, a FandomNod to how the players would do the same thing. He then goes on to give those records a name of his own--"[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Cap's Bizarre Adventure]]"--seemingly establishing the whole "Captain-verse" (a term coined by the fans) as a real thing. He even says that the name comes from a story he used to like reading.]]
* NoGender: There's no visual representation, nor is the Captain ever referred to as a specific gender in-game (although the English translation uses male pronouns). However, they are implied to be male, as Kongming refers to him as "Mr. Assassin" in their events and the Captainverse version of Rita, who is the Rita seen in her 2020 birthday event, has a buried attraction to him. Non-game materials, if they ever depict them, often depict the Captain as male.
* NonEntityGeneral: They're almost totally unseen, as they're representing you. Non-game materials may show them on screen. For instance, the gag 4-koma comics released by [=miHoYo=] depict him as a red-haired man wearing a seaman's cap.
%%** It must be noted that we do get a glimpse of red hair during the Midsummer Dreams event.
* OnlySaneMan: They often have this attitude when it comes to the antics of the people around them, especially during "Odd Drifter".
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" opens with Kongming dying in front of him due to drinking poisoned wine, and begging the Captain with her last words to change her and Rita's fate, as [[YouRemindMeOfX she thinks of him as the "Mr. Assassin"]] (the Captain in "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero") who once helped her a lot in the past. He was told about "Ms. Ironfist" (Tesla-Zero, who was kept with Kongming at the end of "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero"), and that he can use her to help him. He tries activating her, and she warps him back in time to attempt to prevent her death and the problem he has to solve for it. However, each time he manages to do it, something else kills her instead, so he tries going back in time again to solve the new problem. In the fifth scenario, he gets to let Kongming know about what he's doing and what he saw; he didn't expect her to believe him, but to his surprise, she chooses to take his words and follow them closely. After the fifth failed attempt, we're treated to a montage of shorter scenes where he tries, again and again, to fix things up to prevent her death, to no avail. He then feels that some kind of force is holding him back.
-->'''Captain:''' It's like I was fixing a leaking umbrella. One hole was patched up and another began to form.
* TimeTravel:
** In "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero", in the beginning, the Captain is playing Chinese chess with Zhuge Kongming on the ''Hyperion'', with him talking about how the present wouldn't come to be if "the past remains unchanged". He then says that "the [me] from the future" changed Kongming's past, but he wonders what the "future him" is doing. He then travels to the past, accompanied by the ELF Tesla-Zero, to when Kongming was still a crown princess after the emperor's passing and a civil war is brewing from her absence. Kongming has a plan to seal and banish the monsters that threatened the kingdom, but the event shows that she might have failed in sealing the last beast were it not for the Captain's interference. After Kongming, Captain and their allies manage to seal said beast, [[spoiler:the "Golem" in the underwater altar wakes up and tells the Captain that it (the Golem) can [[MakeAWish grant a wish to whoever summoned it]]... but since the Captain has asked from him once "in the future" (a reference to the original "Honkai Kingdoms" event), the current Captain cannot ask for more. The Golem offers it to Kongming instead, who wishes for eternal peace and prosperity for her kingdom. The Golem claims that she and Rita (her chancellor) are the two brilliant minds that can make the kingdom's peace and prosperity possible, so it chooses to give them {{Immortality}}. This is implied to be how Kongming can stay alive to the present, and how Rita seems to be infatuated with the Captain in the original "Honkai Kingdoms"]]. In the end, the Captain goes back to the present after saying farewell to Kongming, claiming that "they'll meet again in the distant future".
** In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", the Captain of this event repeatedly goes back in time with Tesla-Zero's help in order to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent whatever it is what would cause Kongming's death]]. However, every time he manages to do so, something else kills her instead, and he's forced to go back to the past again. After doing it countless times, Tesla-Zero finally wakes up for real, and reveals that [[spoiler:the ability to travel back in time [[TheMagicWasInsideYouAllAlong is all Captain's doing]], with a technique she calls "consciousness mapping". She only helped him set up the place and time he needed to go back to, and later, to realize this ability, as he [[HowDoIShotWeb didn't understand it at first]]. In the end, as he proceeds to go back to the ''Hyperion'' with Kongming with Tesla-Zero's help, [[MeaningfulEcho he says "see you in the not-so-distant future"]]]].
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[[folder:Ai-chan]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Xiao N [[labelnote:*]]小N[[/labelnote]] (Chinese), 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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* ADayInTheLimelight: One supplementary comic is about her backstory. Back in 2001, a year after the 2nd Honkai War, Theresa investigated a strange FloatingContinent above the Arctic Ocean and entered a strange hole in its grounds. There, she first met Ai-chan, [[spoiler:or rather, an android called "A1", who came from the Previous Era. The two then fought each other, and then Theresa beat her and brought her body to the ''Hyperion''. There, she was connected to the battleship, and her AI then inhabited its system. As [[TraumaInducedAmnesia she lost her memories and abilities]], she was given a new name, "Ai-chan".]]
* 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.
* DealWithTheDevil: In "Empyrean Legends", where she poses as one of the villains, a mysterious person came to her, offering some "crystalium" for her. The shady person then asked her to "make the Celestial disappear". She then becomes the second boss of the event, using the crystals to empower herself.
* DrunkWithPower: This is how she becomes one of the villains in "Empyrean Legends". She used to be just a simple cabbage farmer in a village that primarily grows pumpkins; many of the villagers ostracized her and pushed her away to the corner of the village. One day, a shady bald man offered "Crystalium" to the villagers, claiming that it'll help growing crops much faster (they had a crop failure back then); out of all the villagers, only Ai-chan accepted it, the rest seeing it as a scam. [[CassandraTruth Except that it wasn't]]--her cabbages grew big and quickly, enough to cover most of the village. The twist is that the crystals are also a ToxicPhlebotinum that caused her ego to spiral out of control; she soon pushed away all of the pumpkin farmers and built a palace for herself, and her cabbages also caused animals that ate them to become violent and turn into monsters. After the Celestial fights her, the former cures her of the Crystalium poisoning, turning her back normal.
* FightingClown: In "Empyrean Legends", her attacks either consists of firing barrages of [[AbnormalAmmo cabbages]], or parodies of other attacks in the game, such as Kiana's dimensional cat paws, copies of Oath of Judah, or [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's Ultimate Skill]].
* FinishingMove: In Schicksal HQ Open World, Ai-chan can finish off almost-dying mooks with her skill during combat mode. This is helpful when you're completing tasks, as many of them come with a time challenge.
* GratuitousEnglish: When you're upgrading your weapon or stigma, Ai-chan will exclaim "Weapon upgrade!" or "Stigma upgrade!" respectively. When you put a complete stigmata set on your character, she'll say "Wow, sweet!"
* ImportantHaircut: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Rtl3VVDmw the intro animation]] for "Stan Wars Overtime", Ai-chan announces that she's stepping down as top idol and resigning. She then pulls the cabbage-shaped pieces of her hair off and tosses them aside as she walks off the stage, revealing that they're just hair extensions that are worn by the top idol.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ai-chan's Candy (the cross weapon) attacks by dropping gift boxes onto enemies once it's deployed.
* MacguffinGuardian: [[spoiler:The purpose of her past self, A1, was to guard a part of the "last Divine Key" that was destroyed by the final Herrscher. She tried testing Theresa if the latter is worthy of using the weapon, and she came to the conclusion that Theresa wasn't, because the weapon is meant to defend the world and humanity, and that someone who's bound by their personal feelings is not qualified to use it. After A1 was defeated, the device she was guarding was brought to Schicksal HQ.]]
* 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.
* MindRape: It wasn't her intention, but [[spoiler:when A1 tried to do a "mind check" on Theresa, the latter ended up relieving her memories, including the bad ones, up to Cecilia's death]]. She was left kneeling on the ground after that.
* 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 [[HackYourEnemy and the enemy robots and turrets]]. 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 [[SkillScoresAndPerks skill tree]].
* 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.
* SelfInsertFic: The Stigmata Naoe Kanetsugu looks like an adult version of Ai-chan, odango hair and everything. When you read the Stigmata's notes, it quickly becomes apparent that Ai-chan has written herself into a version of the real samurai's accounts, which Himeko lampshades in a report to Theresa.
-->We need to do something about Ai-chan's obsession with these Japanese Taiga Dorama history TV shows, Principal. Her addiction is getting in the way of everything.
* SpaceshipGirl: More like "Airship Girl", but it's still the same.
* VillainNoLongerIdle: In the 2nd chapter of "Empyrean Legends", she's just lounging in her palace, only talking to the protagonists through the robotic scarecrows on the lands. When they start [[StormingTheCastle storming her palace]] and the guards come to her reporting it, however, she decides to take arms with the Ai-chan Hammer and confront the heroes by herself.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Once she's defeated at the end of ch. 2 of "Empyrean Legends", the Celestial cures her Crystalium poisoning by forcing her to puke it out. It's a painful and [[BloodFromTheMouth slightly bloody]] process; the player (fortunately) only gets the text describing what's happening.
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:In the middle of the fight between her "past self" A1 and Theresa, she suddenly stopped working because she exhausted her energy supply. At that point she couldn't hold the fight anymore; in desperation, she tried to self-destruct to [[TakingYouWithMe take Theresa down with her]], but Theresa stopped her cold with an ArmorPiercingSlap.]]
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[[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdHonkaiBeastsAndHerrschers Honkai Beasts and Herrschers]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdAPostHonkaiOdyssey A Post-Honkai Odyssey]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdOtherNPCAndHistorical Other NPCs and Historical Characters]]-]]]]]

* DimensionalTraveler: :TheStinger for "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event seemingly establishes the Captain as one, as his ''Hyperion'' is currently floating in the Sea of Quanta. Built by his memory, it's the manifestation of his power and the path leading to tomorrow, as Tesla-Zero says. [[spoiler:Kongming--now part of the ''Hyperion'' crew--notes that there are other travelers who have lost their footing in bubble universes, and that he's planning to travel to more worlds.]]

* NoGender: There's no visual representation, nor is the Captain ever referred to as a specific gender in-game (although the English translation uses male pronouns). However, they are implied to be male, mainly due to being the target of Himeko and Rita's flirting. Non-game materials, if they ever depict them, often depict the Captain as male.

* DimensionalTraveler: :TheStinger for "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event seemingly establishes the Captain as one, as his ''Hyperion'' is currently floating in the Sea of Quanta. Built by his memory, it's the manifestation of his power and the path leading to tomorrow, as Tesla-Zero says. [[spoilerKongming--now part of the ''Hyperion'' crew--notes that there are other travelers who have lost their footing in bubble universes, and that he's planning to travel to more worlds.]]

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'''[[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rd Character Page Index]]''' | '''St. Freya Academy''' ([[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdKianaKaslana Kiana Kaslana]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdRaidenMei Raiden Mei]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdBronyaZaychik Bronya Zaychik]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdFuHua Fu Hua]])\\
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!St. Freya Academy
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* PointBuildSystem: In Schicksal HQ Open World, Ai-chan's "tech" is put around like this, with you allocating skill points to a SkillTree.

[[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdHumanOrganizations Human organizations]] ([[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdSchicksal Schicksal]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdAntiEntropy Anti-Entropy]] ([[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdCocoliaOrphanage Cocolia Orphanage]]) | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdWorldSerpent World Serpent]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdFireMOTH Fire MOTH]]) \\

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has bright green hair, which only feeds into the "cabbage" gag more.

* BeautyMark: She has a mole on her right breast, near her cleavage. All of her outfits have her cleavage exposed [[CleavageWindow one way]] or [[AbsoluteCleavage another]], making her mole always visible.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship:
** While they weren't exactly lovers, the way she speaks of her Grand Chancellor, Rita, when reminiscing indicates that Kongming saw her as more than just a friend. [[TheLostLenore Rita's death]] after the two neighbor kingdoms seemingly refused to help in the fight against Huodou made her [[RevengeBeforeReason hungry for revenge]] and [[CynicismCatalyst a lot more cynical]]. Considering they had shared each other's lives [[spoiler:for a thousand years after the Golem made them immortal]], that's unsurprising.
** In the end of said event, [[spoiler:when she thinks of leaving this world to save herself from certain death, she thinks of Rita as well. Unfortunately, Tesla-Zero tells her that the Captain cannot bring two people at once with him to the ''Hyperion''. She and the Captain decide to see Rita for one last time. Finding Rita asleep at her desk, Kongming decides to put a blanket over her while telling the Captain not to wake her up. Kongming still finds it hard to say goodbye to her, taking one long last look towards her, and the Captain has to pull her out. When Rita wakes up later, she sees that Kongming left one of her fans behind on the window sill, and immediately understands that the princess is away (again), looking for new adventures.]]

** The "Sanka Saga" event reveals that "The Ferryman" (who has been guiding Kasumi from far away since the start) is in fact the alternate version of the Captain, with his own ''Hyperion''. At the end of "Arc: Light Bound" event, it is also reveals that he's the one who assigns Kasumi to retrieve the Ether Anchor in Bronie's universe. From the same scene, he later assigns Kasumi to assist Delta in her next mission, which also confirms he's the one who speaks with Delta in the "Honkai Quest" event.
** One big twist of the "Odd Drifter" event is that there are two versions of the same Captain running around, one in the first half of the event and the other in the second half. In the climax, when the two meet each other, the two "merge" with each other. Near the end, Zhuge Kongming explains that this happened because, back when the Captain tried to go back home with Kongming's help, he subconsciously wants to live in "realities where the girls are happy" and it messes with her Formation spell, causing him to be split into two.
** "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" has the Captain wondering about how "the future him" traveled back in time and changed Kongming's past, and what "he" is currently doing right now. The next event, "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" starts with the Captain only remembering things up to "Odd Drifter"[='s=] ending, implying that this Captain isn't the same one from the previous event. Kongming in that event also mentions that she used to meet "someone like the Captain" before, who promised to her that they'll meet each other again in the future--which was what the (different?) Captain said in "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero". [[spoiler:Later, Tesla-Zero confirms that the Captain of this event would later become the "future Captain" that she talked about.]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: His "time-traveling". [[spoiler:The end of "Rosemary's Floriograph" event has Rita (who acted as "Irene Adler") claim that the Captain's "consciousness mapping" involves him [[MentalTimeTravel "inserting" his mind into other people's]], taking on their memories, knowledge and experiences in the process. The problem this poses is that he has done it for too long that he started to [[LossOfIdentity forget who he really was]] and [[BecomingTheMask think he was really "Conan Doyle"]]. Thankfully Rita could "pull" him out before it's too late, but she feels that she could jog his memories more.]]

* {{Determinator}}: In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", he tries over and over to save Kongming from her fate, but he fails every time. Even after realizing that he's only a "pawn" in this whole "game", he keeps going on as that's the only thing he knows. After so many attempts to go back in the past by activating Tesla-Zero, she fully awakens, and goes on to explain everything to help him. She lampshades it, saying that he's the biggest tryhard she's ever seen, but it's also thanks to such persistence that he managed to awaken her in the first place. She says that the "future Captain" has set up the "consciousness mapping threshold" as "absurdly high", believing that the current Captain can reach it by his repeated attempts, and that he can find a completely different resolution than the future him did.
* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:TheStinger for "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event seemingly establishes the Captain as one, as his ''Hyperion'' is currently floating in the Sea of Quanta. Built by his memory, it's the manifestation of his power and the path leading to tomorrow, as Tesla-Zero says. Kongming--now part of the ''Hyperion'' crew--notes that there are other travelers who have lost their footing in bubble universes, and that he's planning to travel to more worlds.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", he only knew of Kongming since the end of the "Odd Drifter" event, but hearing her story on how she turned into a tyrant filled with sorrow and vengeance, then having her die in front of him as she begs "Mr. Assassin" to save her and Rita, compels him to try to help her. Even with the ability to go back in time to solve the problem that causes her death, she always ends up dying again and again. Near the end, he could barely even remember that he initially only wanted to go back to the ''Hyperion''. It eventually takes a toll on his mind, and he goes on to say that he's not the "Mr. Assassin" that could make miracles happen for her, and that she has put her faith in the wrong person.

* TheGhost: Interestingly, they never appear in the game's Story mode nor are ever referenced, despite often appearing in events. In Chapter Chiyou, for one, it's Theresa who commands ''Hyperion'' to support our Valkyries currently inside [[EldritchAbomination Chiyou]]. The most you'll usually get is a glimpse of their hand from your POV.

** In the end, [[spoiler:TheStinger of said event has Kongming - now a part of the ''Hyperion'' crew - say that the Captain has recorded the past events that he was in, a FandomNod to how the players would do the same thing. He then goes on to give those records a name by his own--[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Cap's Bizarre Adventure]]--seemingly establishing the whole "Captain-verse" (a term coined by the fans) as a real thing. He even says that he gives that name based on a story he used to like reading.]]

* OnlySaneMan: They often have this attitude when it comes to the antics of the people around them, especially during the "Odd Drifter" event.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" opens with Kongming dying in front of him due to drinking a poisoned wine, and begging the Captain with her last words to change her and Rita's fate, as [[YouRemindMeOfX she thinks of him as the "Mr. Assassin"]] (the Captain in the "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event) who once helped her a lot in the past. He was told about "Ms. Ironfist" (Tesla-Zero, who was kept with Kongming at the end of "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero"), and that he can use her to help him. He tries activating her, and she warps him back in time to attempt to prevent her death and the problem he has to solve for it. However, each time he manages to do it, something else kills her instead, so he tries going back in time again to solve the new problem. In the 5th scenario, he gets to let Kongming know about what he's doing and what he saw; he didn't expect her to believe him, but to his surprise, she chooses to take his words and follow them closely. After the 5th failed attempt, we're treated to a montage of shorter scenes where he tries, again and again, to fix things up to prevent her death, to no avail. He then feels that some kind of force is holding him back.

** In the "Honkai Kingdoms Zero" event, in the beginning, the Captain is playing Chinese chess with Zhuge Kongming on the ''Hyperion'', with him talking about how the present wouldn't come to be if "the past remains unchanged". He then says that "the [me] from the future" changed Kongming's past, but he wonders what the "future him" is doing. He then travels to the past, accompanied by the ELF Tesla-Zero, to when Kongming was still a crown princess after the emperor's passing and a civil war is brewing from her absence. Kongming has a plan of sealing and banishing the monsters that threatened the kingdom, but the event shows that she might have failed in sealing the last beast were it not for the Captain's interference. After Kongming, Captain and their allies manage to seal said beast, [[spoiler:the "Golem" in the underwater altar wakes up and tells the Captain that it (the Golem) can [[MakeAWish grant a wish to whoever summoned it]]... but since the Captain has asked from him once "in the future" (a reference to the original "Honkai Kingdoms" event), the current Captain cannot ask for more. The Golem offers it to Kongming instead, who wishes for eternal peace and prosperity for her kingdom. The Golem claims that she and Rita (her chancellor) are the two brilliant minds that can make the kingdom's peace and prosperity possible, so it chooses to give them {{Immortality}}. This is implied to be how Kongming can stay alive to the present, and how Rita seems to be infatuated with the Captain in the original "Honkai Kingdoms" event]]. In the end, the Captain goes back to the present after saying farewell to Kongming, claiming that "they'll meet again in the distant future".

* DealWithTheDevil: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, where she poses as one of the villains, a mysterious person came to her, offering some "crystalium" for her. The shady person then asked her to "make the Celestial disappear". She then becomes the second boss of the event, using the crystals to empower herself.
* DrunkWithPower: This is how she becomes one of the villains in the "Empyrean Legends" event. She used to be just a simple cabbage farmer in a village that primarily grows pumpkins; many of the villagers ostracized her and pushed her away to the corner of the village. One day, a shady bald man offered "Crystalium" to the villagers, claiming that it'll help growing crops much faster (they had a crop failure back then); out of all the villagers, only Ai-chan accepted it, the rest seeing it as a scam. [[CassandraTruth Except that it wasn't]]--her cabbages grew big and quickly, enough to cover most of the village. The twist is that the crystals are also a ToxicPhlebotinum that caused her ego to spiral out of control; she soon pushed away all of the pumpkin farmers and built a palace for herself, and her cabbages also caused animals that ate them to become violent and turn into monsters. After the Celestial fights her, the former cures her of the Crystalium poisoning, turning her back normal.
* FightingClown: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, her attacks either consists of firing barrages of [[AbnormalAmmo cabbages]], or parodies of other attacks in the game, such as Kiana's dimensional cat paws, copies of Oath of Judah, or [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's Ultimate Skill]].

* VillainNoLongerIdle: In the 2nd chapter of the "Empyrean Legends" event, she's just lounging in her palace, only talking to the protagonists through the robotic scarecrows on the lands. When they start [[StormingTheCastle storming her palace]] and the guards come to her reporting it, however, she decides to take arms with the Ai-chan Hammer and confront the heroes by herself.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Once she's defeated at the end of ch. 2 of the "Empyrean Legends" event, the Celestial cures her Crystalium poisoning by forcing her to puke it out. It's a painful and [[BloodFromTheMouth slightly bloody]] process; the player (fortunately) only gets the text describing what's happening.

** In a variant, Blood Rose's ChargedAttack has her do her usual slashing combo, then leaping up and performing a vertical spinning slash 2 times before a downward chop onto the ground. Her QTE is a more powerful version of it, and in her SuperMode she can spin a lot more times.

* ExpositoryPronoun: In the Japanese voiceover, she uses the rarely used "atakushi" to refer to herself. As a combination of "atashi" (an informal pronoun commonly used by young, and often childish, females) and "watakushi" (a more formal/sophisticated form of the normal "watashi"), it captures the 2 sides of her character very well.

* OrbitingParticleShield: Celestial Hymn's Ultimate Evasion effect is to command 2 blades to revolve around her while spinning, hitting the enemies around her multiple times. She also has a skill that allows her to give this "shield" to another character when she switches out.

* ShortRangeShotgun: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, her weapon is a 2-barreled shotgun whose bullets don't go very far, but [[SpreadShot fires multiple shots at once in a spread]]. She can deal huge damage at close-to-point-blank range with it. Her Ultimate Skill increases its power (and her defense).

* SpinAttack: Luna Kindred's normal attacks are sets of spinning attacks with her 2 swords. Her Ultimate Skill has Theresa spin while swinging her axe twice; she then jumps up and slams it to the ground, dealing damage in an area.

* KingInTheMountain: In Honkai Kingdoms Zero's ending, around 70-80 years after she established the new dynasty, she went to guard the seal of Huodou and left the kingdom to Rita's care. As around a millennia have passed without her around, Emberya isn't the same anymore and is now under the threat of 2 new neighboring kingdoms, Schicksal and Jormungond, setting the original Honkai Kingdoms event.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Being the second "SP" character of the game, she would have special skills that put her differently from the rest. She has a branch attack instead of other Theresa's ChargedAttack, although it can still be charged to become stronger. Her evasion skill, aside from activating Time Fracture, also puts a magic circle on the ground that can activate another Time Fracture if her teammates step on it. Her most prominent feature, however, is her QTE: unlike other characters, hers is activated by having her teammates attack the enemy enough times to gain the "Hexagram" stacks, and once it's stacked to 10, her QTE is available. Unlike other [=QTEs=], you ''do not'' switch with her upon usage - instead she jumps into the field by herself and performs the QTE attack as you're controlling your current character (think of {{Assist Character}}s in tag-based fighting games). You can switch with her after the QTE by tapping her button again, or, if she has her Ultimate Skill available, you can instead tap her button to make her perform it, again while you're still in control of your current character. As both her QTE and Ultimate Skill can give her teammates various buffs, this makes her a unique and useful SupportPartyMember towards "sustained damage" characters like Bright Knight: Excelsis, and even more so with the right equipment.

* ParadoxPerson: In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars", [[spoiler:this is a big part of the reason why she dies in all of Captain's attempts of going back in time to save her. Huodou's rampage after the beast [[SealedEvilInACan broke out of its seal]] wrecked the Golem in the ruins, which inadvertently activated a "self driven management program" within it. This program archives all individuals who made a wish to the Golem; it didn't detect Kongming (who once made a wish) as she was away in another world (the Odd Drifter's setting). When she came back, said programming deemed her an "anomaly", as an "unexistant" person who somehow made a wish to the Golem, and thus it tries to cause her death either InMysteriousWays, or through its "mass-produced agents". Also, if the program deems it impossible to erase the anomaly, it would try to RestartTheWorld.]].

* ResurrectionDeathLoop: In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars" event, she dies early on the event when she drank a poisoned wine while telling the Captain (or "Mr. Assassin" as she calls him) to "save her and Rita". He was told about "Ms. Ironfist" (Tesla-Zero, whom Kongming kept in her room long after the Honkai Kingdoms: Zero event), that he can use her to help him. He tries activating her, then she seemingly turns back time, to before Rita died from fighting against Huodou. He tries [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fixing the problems that caused Kongming to die]], but everytime he manages to do so, something else kills her instead, and he has to use Tesla-Zero again to go back in time to resolve the new problem. Eventually, after the 5th failed attempt, he realized that some greater force may have held him back, and may be behind her deaths. Later, Tesla-Zero reveals that it's because [[spoiler:Kongming has been deemed as a ParadoxPerson (see above) that has to be wiped off the face of the world. Kongming herself finds out a way to resolve this: by going out of her world (again).]]

** While they weren't exactly lovers, the way she speaks of her Chancellor Rita when reminiscing indicates that Kongming saw her as more than just a friend. [[TheLostLenore Rita's death]] after the two neighbor kingdoms seemingly refused to help in the fight against Huodou made her [[RevengeBeforeReason hungry for revenge]] and [[CynicismCatalyst a lot more cynical]]. Considering they had shared each other's lives [[spoiler:for a thousand years after the Golem made them immortal]], that's unsurprising.
** In the end of said event, [[spoiler:when she thinks of leaving this world to save herself from certain death, she thinks of Rita as well. Unfortunately, Tesla-Zero tells her that the Captain cannot bring 2 people at once with him to the ''Hyperion''. She and the Captain decide to see Rita for one last time; the latter was asleep on her desk, and Kongming just decides to put a blanket over her body while telling the Captain not to wake her up. Kongming still finds it hard to say goodbye to her as the princess takes one last long look towards her trusted chancellor, and the Captain has to pull her out. When Rita wakes up later, she can only see the fan that Kongming left behind on the window; she immediately understands that the princess is away (again), looking for new adventures.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's a young princess and heir to the throne who uses her wisdom and intelligence to try to solve the monster problems of her kingdom and bring back peace. In her focus event in 4.0, in the second scenario, she defends her kingdom from the 2 neighboring kingdoms at the cost of her life, while in the third, she uses her wits to negotiate peace with said kingdoms' leaders. The end of said event, however, has her saying that [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask while she was willing to take on the duty as the heir to the throne, if she had the choice, she'd rather choose to be an explorer roaming the realm.]] [[spoiler:She laments that she had to "leave" this world to protect it (see ParadoxPerson above for why), but she's still willing to do it.]]

** In the first scenario, she seemingly tends to give a cold smile as she does [[KickTheDog cruel things]] to Theresa and the captured leaders of the neighboring kingdoms. It hides her sorrow and wrath over having Rita died fighting Huodou because the 2 kingdoms couldn't give the help her kingdom needed in time to defeat the beast.
** In the third, during the Qixi Festival, she seemingly goes around like an excited little kid buying various treats; the Captain can't help but think that it must've been the "festive mood", but it also relieves him, knowing that she can enjoy herself and this night. Then she gives him a wry smile instead and says "are you happy now, Captain?" as she points out his long face throughout the night. Turns out she actually wants to puts him at ease and not worrying about anything.
* TornadoMove: Her Ultimate Skill is to summon a tornado that slowly [[YouWillNotEvadeMe gathers enemies]] and deals multiple hits, as well as buffing the whole party for some seconds.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: She discussed it in her event in 4.0. [[spoiler:If it wasn't for Rita (who was also immortalized with her), she would've gone mad from living a millennium alone]].

!!Valkyries with individual entries:

* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdKianaKaslana Kiana Kaslana]]
* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdRaidenMei Raiden Mei]]
* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdBronyaZaychik Bronya Zaychik]]
* [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdFuHua Fu Hua]]

** Blood Rose's Burst Mode strengthens her normal attacks, makes them faster and deal more hits, increases her defense, [[ImmuneToFlinching interruption resistance]] and [[AntiDebuff gives her immunity to]] StandardStatusEffects, and will engulf the enemies in flames for further damage; basically making her nigh unstoppable. Unlike other Super Modes, however, hers is CastFromHitPoints per second, although it can be stopped manually.

** The "Sanka Saga" event reveals that [[spoiler:"The Ferryman" (who has been guiding Kasumi from far away since the start) is in fact the alternate version of the Captain, with his own ''Hyperion''. At the end of "Arc: Light Bound" event, it is also reveals that he's the one who assigns Kasumi to retrieve the Ether Anchor in Bronie's universe. From the same scene, he later assigns Kasumi to assist Delta in her next mission, which also confirms he's the one who speaks with Delta in the "Honkai Quest" event.]]

TheCaptain of the ''Hyperion'', who represents ''you'', the player, when you're not directly controlling the Valkyries. "He" mostly appears in event stories.

* 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. She also mentions that the Hyperion used to be her ship when you select her in the character menu.

** She's one for the cast of playable characters, as she commands not only St. Freya Academy but also the battleship Hyperion.

* 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.

* ItsQuietTooQuiet: In ch. 17, she feels alarmed by the quietness of the situation as she's flying on the Hyperion towards Nagazora City. It reminds her of the uneasy silence during the Battle of Schicksal (in chapters 7 to 9).

* OutOfFocus: After having a few chapters focusing on her and the Anti-Entropy's group, the focus shifts to Kiana's story. She only appears again in ch. 17 where she's flying on the Hyperion towards Kiana's position, and later in ch. 20 where she's briefing Kiana and Bronya during their journey to Mount Taixuan in their search for Fu Hua.

** In the end of said event, [[spoiler:when she thinks of leaving this world to save herself from certain death, she thinks of Rita as well. Unfortunately, Tesla-Zero tells her that the Captain cannot bring 2 people at once with him to the Hyperion. She and the Captain decide to see Rita for one last time; the latter was asleep on her desk, and Kongming just decides to put a blanket over her body while telling the Captain not to wake her up. Kongming still finds it hard to say goodbye to her as the princess takes one last long look towards her trusted chancellor, and the Captain has to pull her out. When Rita wakes up later, she can only see the fan that Kongming left behind on the window; she immediately understands that the princess is away (again), looking for new adventures.]]

** The "Sanka Saga" event reveals that [[spoiler:"The Ferryman" (who has been guiding Kasumi from far away since the start) is in fact the alternate version of the Captain, with his own Hyperion. At the end of "Arc: Light Bound" event, it is also reveals that he's the one who assigns Kasumi to retrieve the Ether Anchor in Bronie's universe. From the same scene, he later assigns Kasumi to assist Delta in her next mission, which also confirms he's the one who speaks with Delta in the "Honkai Quest" event.]]

* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:TheStinger for "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event seemingly establishes the Captain as one, as his Hyperion is currently floating in the Sea of Quanta. Built by his memory, it's the manifestation of his power and the path leading to tomorrow, as Tesla-Zero says. Kongming--now part of the Hyperion crew--notes that there are other travelers who have lost their footing in bubble universes, and that he's planning to travel to more worlds.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", he only knew of Kongming since the end of the "Odd Drifter" event, but hearing her story on how she turned into a tyrant filled with sorrow and vengeance, then having her die in front of him as she begs "Mr. Assassin" to save her and Rita, compels him to try to help her. Even with the ability to go back in time to solve the problem that causes her death, she always ends up dying again and again. Near the end, he could barely even remember that he initially only wanted to go back to the Hyperion. It eventually takes a toll on his mind, and he goes on to say that he's not the "Mr. Assassin" that could make miracles happen for her, and that she has put her faith in the wrong person.

* TheGhost: Interestingly, they never appear in the game's Story mode nor are ever referenced, despite often appearing in events. In Chapter Chiyou, for one, it's Theresa who commands Hyperion to support our Valkyries currently inside [[EldritchAbomination Chiyou]]. The most you'll usually get is a glimpse of their hand from your POV.

** In the end, [[spoiler:TheStinger of said event has Kongming - now a part of the Hyperion crew - say that the Captain has recorded the past events that he was in, a FandomNod to how the players would do the same thing. He then goes on to give those records a name by his own--[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Cap's Bizarre Adventure]]--seemingly establishing the whole "Captain-verse" (a term coined by the fans) as a real thing. He even says that he gives that name based on a story he used to like reading.]]

** In the "Honkai Kingdoms Zero" event, in the beginning, the Captain is playing Chinese chess with Zhuge Kongming on the Hyperion, with him talking about how the present wouldn't come to be if "the past remains unchanged". He then says that "the [me] from the future" changed Kongming's past, but he wonders what the "future him" is doing. He then travels to the past, accompanied by the ELF Tesla-Zero, to when Kongming was still a crown princess after the emperor's passing and a civil war is brewing from her absence. Kongming has a plan of sealing and banishing the monsters that threatened the kingdom, but the event shows that she might have failed in sealing the last beast were it not for the Captain's interference. After Kongming, Captain and their allies manage to seal said beast, [[spoiler:the "Golem" in the underwater altar wakes up and tells the Captain that it (the Golem) can [[MakeAWish grant a wish to whoever summoned it]]... but since the Captain has asked from him once "in the future" (a reference to the original "Honkai Kingdoms" event), the current Captain cannot ask for more. The Golem offers it to Kongming instead, who wishes for eternal peace and prosperity for her kingdom. The Golem claims that she and Rita (her chancellor) are the two brilliant minds that can make the kingdom's peace and prosperity possible, so it chooses to give them {{Immortality}}. This is implied to be how Kongming can stay alive to the present, and how Rita seems to be infatuated with the Captain in the original "Honkai Kingdoms" event]]. In the end, the Captain goes back to the present after saying farewell to Kongming, claiming that "they'll meet again in the distant future".
** In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", the Captain of this event repeatedly goes back in time with Tesla-Zero's help in order to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent whatever it is what would cause Kongming's death]]. However, every time he manages to do so, something else kills her instead, and he's forced to go back to the past again. After doing it countless times, Tesla-Zero finally wakes up for real, and reveals that [[spoiler:the ability to travel back in time [[TheMagicWasInsideYouAllAlong is all Captain's doing]], with a technique she calls "consciousness mapping". She only helped him set up the place and time he needed to go back to, and later, to realize this ability, as he [[HowDoIShotWeb didn't understand it at first]]. In the end, as he proceeds to go back to the Hyperion with Kongming with Tesla-Zero's help, [[MeaningfulEcho he says "see you in the not-so-distant future"]]]].

The AI of the battleship Hyperion, who is also the "system voice" of the game and will help you with tutorials.\\

* ADayInTheLimelight: One supplementary comic is about her backstory. Back in 2001, a year after the 2nd Honkai War, Theresa investigated a strange FloatingContinent above the Arctic Ocean and entered a strange hole in its grounds. There, she first met Ai-chan, [[spoiler:or rather, an android called "A1", who came from the Previous Era. The two then fought each other, and then Theresa beat her and brought her body to the Hyperion. There, she was connected to the battleship, and her AI then inhabited its system. As [[TraumaInducedAmnesia she lost her memories and abilities]], she was given a new name, "Ai-chan".]]

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'''[[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rd Character Page Index]]''' | '''Valkyries of St. Freya''' ([[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdKianaKaslana Kiana Kaslana]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdRaidenMei Raiden Mei]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdBronyaZaychik Bronya Zaychik]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdFuHua Fu Hua]]) | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdOtherPlayableCharacters Other playable characters]] \\
[[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdHumanOrganizations Human organizations]] ([[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdSchicksal Schicksal]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdAntiEntropy Anti-Entropy]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdWorldSerpent World Serpent]] | [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdFireMOTH Fire MOTH]]) \\
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