History Characters / HonkaiStarRailJariloVI

* {{Expy}}: One of [[Characters/FateStayNightHumans Illyasviel "Illya" von Einzbern]] and [[Characters/FateStayNightServants Berserker]] from [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate/stay night]], confirmed in an [[https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/240322t interview with Kinoko Nasu and David Jiang]].

* TheCutie: Clara is an adorable and sweet young girl who just wants everyone to get along and be happy.

'''Type:''' [[NonElemental Physical]]\\\

'''Type:''' [[NonElemental Physical]]\\\

'''Type:''' [[NonElemental Physical]]\\\

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring his Eidolons, you can upgrade his third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Big Money!'' and ''Huuuuge Money!'', which will add two levels to his Skill and one to Basic Attack with the former, and two levels to his Ultimate and Talent with the latter.

* TakingUpTheMantle: [[spoiler:Back in his native Moltammerville, Luka befriended Margie, a terminally ill girl who who was a big fan of his and wanted to be just like him. After she succumbed to her illness, her father gave him her notebook filled filled with her hopes and dreams. The three trials he put himself through for "training" are his attempts to fulfill her dreams: helping people in the Underworld, beating up the Fragmentum monsters that threatened them, and defeating Svarog to reopen the path to the Overworld[[note]]While his Companion Mission takes place after Belobog's Trailblaze Missions are over (i.e Svarog no longer stands in the way thanks to the Astral Express' interference), Luka's spar with Svarog is now simply an attempt to make the latter acknowledge his strength, following Margie's writing[[/note]]. His hammy and childish post-victory slogans are recited verbatim from her notes.]]
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring his Eidolons, you can upgrade his third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Born for the Ring'' and ''The Spirit of Wildfire'', which will add two levels to his Skill and Talent with the former, and two to Ultimate and one to Basic Attack with the latter.

Seele swiftly dispatches her foes with her Talent, ''Resurgence'', which gives her an extra turn whenever she defeats her target, as well as puts her in a buffed state that enhances her attacks for one turn. Her Skill, ''Sheathed Blade'', additionally boosts her Speed for two turns, while her Ultimate, ''Butterfly Flurry'', has her warp all over her target and hack away at them, as well as allows her to automatically enter the buffed state. In addition, her Technique, ''Phantom Illusion'', allows her to enter Stealth Mode, rendering her immune to enemy detection and allowing her to enter the buffed state at the start of battle.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she enjoys a reduced risk of being attack whenever she has no more than half her HP and heightened Critical Damage if her target has low enough HP, as well as regenerate additional Energy whenever she defeats her target; her buffed state can now increase her Quantum Resistance Penalty; her Basic Attack can now slightly advance her turn; her Skill's Speed buff can now be stacked twice; and her Ultimate can now inflict the same-named Butterfly Flurry effect on her target, which deals additional Quantum damage whenever they are attacked.[[/note]]

* ChainLethalityEnabler: Her Talent grants her an ExtraTurn whenever any of her attacks score a kill, as well as puts her in a buffed state which gives her a 40–100% damage boost. In addition, her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Lacerate'', adds a 20% boost to the Quantum Resistance Penalty of her attacks whenever she enters said buffed state. She cannot trigger her Talent again if she defeats another enemy during the extra turn, but the effect triggered by her Basic Attack, Skill, and Ultimate are considered separate from each other, potentially allowing her to act four times per turn. Also, the extra turn won't deplete the buffs on her that have per-turn duration.

* CrissCrossAttack: Her Ultimate has her rushing towards her target and performing blindingly fast dashing slashes from many directions at once.[[note]]With damage worth 255–459% of her Attack stat[[/note]]

** Her first Eidolon Resonance gives her a 15% Critical Rate boost when attacking enemies with no more than 80% HP.

* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: In "Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream", when the Trailblazer and March 7th go around on Bronya's behalf to collect votes from the people to "go with freedom or security" and end with a tie, they consult Seele, thinking her opinion will matter a lot. After explaining the matter to her, she decides to abstain, saying the responsibility of making the decision should rest on [[spoiler:the new Supreme Guardian]] and she shouldn't be influencing her decision too much, while also saying she'll support Bronya's decision, whatever it may be. Upon returning to give the vote's results to Bronya, the latter predictably asks about Seele's opinion, and they truthfully relay her abstention to let Bronya decide for herself. In short, Seele knows she'll be a big influence in Bronya's decision-making and thus chose to step out of it to ensure her neutrality.
* ExposedToTheElements: Despite her outfit leaving her cleavage, shoulders, and a majority of her legs exposed, Seele never shows any discomfort dealing with Belobog's extreme cold, as shown in the later part of Belobog's Trailblaze Mission.

* HatesReading: In one of her text message conversations, she admits she's not fond of reading because it's tiring and uses her brain power. Bronya also gave her a huge list of book recommendations, but she ends up getting drowsy just by going through a few pages. This is a MythologyGag to "Dark Seele" of ''Honkai Impact 3rd''; Bronya of that game once noted that Seele may sometimes quickly fell asleep not long after reading books, when she normally enjoys reading.

* RummageSaleReject: In contrast to how most of the Undergrounders dress, both playable and NPC, Seele's outfit stands out quite a bit.

* SinisterScythe: She wields a scythe in battle.
* SituationalSword: Her first Eidolon Resonance, ''Extirpating Slash'', boosts her Critical Rate by 15% against enemies with no more than 80% of their HP.

* SpeedBlitz: Her Skill has Seele blitzing around her target while slashing them from different sides.
* SprintShoes: Her Skill boosts her Speed by 25% for two turns, in addition to dealing damage.[[note]]Worth 110–275% of her Attack stat[[/note]] Her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Dancing Butterfly'', allows the speed boost to be stacked twice (for a total of 50%).

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Dazzling Tumult'' and ''Piercing Shards'', which will add two levels to her Skill and Talent with the former, and two to her Ultimate and one to Basic Attack (''Thwack'') with the latter.

* DefenseMechanismSuperpower: Her fourth Eidolon Resonance, ''Family's Warmth'', gradually provides a 30% damage reduction whenever she gets hit, which are reset on her next turn.

* MirrorMatch: A weirder take compared to other playable characters who are also bosses. Since Svarog does the fighting for Clara as a playable character, if you have the latter in your roster and want to have her fight Svarog's boss self in story missions, the Simulated Universe, or the Forgotten Hall, go ahead, the game won't stop you, which would result in the odd sight of seeing Svarog punching and shooting missiles and lasers at another Svarog.

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Cold Steel Armor'' and ''A Small Promise'', which will add two levels to her Skill and and one to Basic Attack (''I Want to Help'') with the former, and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.

* RaisedByRobots: Clara is a vagrant orphan who grew up with Svarog and his robots for her entire life, and because of her experience, she can better understand them than most other people.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Due to being RaisedByRobots, Clara is a lot more rational and intelligent than your average child.

* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: [[spoiler:At the end of her Companion Mission, Hook sells her gem-eyed childhood teddy bear, Junjun, to earn enough money to buy a Geomarrow Probe for Fersman's birthday so he can repair his vein detector tool. But when the date of their shared birthday rolls around, it turns out he sold his vein detector to buy decorative clothes for Junjun. The achievement you get for completing her quest line is even named after the TropeNamer.]]

* MythologyGag: Similarly to Klee of ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', Hook is a mischievous child dressed in warm-color clothing (i.e., yellow to Klee's red) and associated with fire and explosives.

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Don't Be Picky, Nothing's Icky'' and ''Let the Moles' Deeds Be Known'', which will add two levels to her Skill and one to Basic Attack (''Hehe! Don't Get Burned!'') with the former, and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.
* WeaponSpecialization: Hook's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/The_Moles_Welcome_You The Moles Welcomes You]]" (4★), whose "Fantastic Adventure" passive allows its wearer to gather one stack of "Mischievous" for their first use of offensive Basic Attack, Skill, or Ultimate each in a battle. Each stack increases their Attack stat by 12–24% and this can stack up to three times. This is a solid fit for Hook's purely offensive kit and the synergy between her Ultimate, Skill, and Talent.

* AntiDebuff: Natasha's second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Soothe'', allows her Skill to remove one debuff from her target ally.

* HappilyAdopted: She grew up in an orphanage in the Underground until she was taken in by the Harrower family, an Overworld family of doctors. Her adoptive mother treated her as her own flesh and blood and her adoptive brother, Vache, was gentle with her most of the time. This love for her family blinded her to the nature of Vache's experiments until it was too late.

** In addition to an instant heal,her Skill gradually regenerates her ally's HP for two turns.[[note]]With healing per turn worth worth (4.8–8.4%)+(48–246) of her Max HP[[/note]] Her sixth-ascension Trace, ''Recuperation'', extends the regeneration to three turns.
** Natasha's second Eidolon Resonance, ''Clinical Research'', bestows upon her Ultimate the ability to confer an extra healing burst for allies whose HP is no more than 30% upon its activation.[[note]]With healing worth 6%+160 of her Max HP[[/note]]

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''The Right Cure'' and ''Preventive Treatment'', which will add two levels to her Skill and and one to Basic Attack with the former, and her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.

A captain of the Silvermane Guards. Dedicated to his duties the Supreme Guardian, he can be singleminded in performing said duties, even if that brings him into some conflict with his rebellious older sister Serval.\\

* AchillesHeel: Gepard's primary means of actively mitigating damage (as opposed to merely [[DrawAggro making people hit him]] is the Shield generated by his Ultimate. This makes him potentially capable of doing his job while constantly spamming Basic Attacks to generate SP for his allies, but that also means that he is rather reliant on generating enough energy in order to get his Shield ready again. In most cases, having enough Energy Regeneration Rate and his DrawAggro can help, to allow him to gather more Energy by tanking hits, but the other party members may not be so lucky, especially if the enemies pack {{Herd Hitting Attack}}s. If he doesn't have enough Energy before starting a battle, his Technique can help in generating Shields at the start of battle, but that would mean burning through limited resources which players might find better uses on. Moreover, his Shields are tied to each party members' turn, meaning that the speedier members of the team may run out of his shield faster than intended.

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring his Eidolons, you can unlock his third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Never Surrender'' and ''Cold Iron Fist'', which will add two levels to his Ultimate and Talent with the former, and two to his Skill and one to Basic Attack with the latter.

* BagOfHolding: For an outdoorswoman Lynx carries a surprisingly small rucksack which barely reaches her lower back, yet somehow it holds far more than its size would allow as shown in her Ultimate, where she roots into her backpack and removes a can of sardines, a snowboard, a large camping flashlight, and an entire fish on a skewer, before finally pulling out a medicinal pill nearly as big as she is.

* BreakingOldTrends: Lynx is one of two of the first playable characters in the game (the other being Fu Xuan, released at the same time) whose Basic Attack scales purely off of a stat other than Attack (i.e., Max HP), used by other characters even if their kits gravitate towards scaling off of a different stat.

* RegeneratingHealth: Her Talent gives both her Skill and Ultimate an HP regeneration effect for two turns.[[note]]With healing worth (2.4–3.84%)+(24–106.8) of her Max HP at base, (3–4.8%)+(30–133.5) if the ally has Survival Response[[/note]] Her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Survival in the Extreme'', extends said regeneration to three turns.

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Afternoon of Avalanche Beacon'' and ''Night of Aurora Tea'', which will add two levels to her Skill and one to Basic Attack with the former, and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.

* WalkingSpoiler: You wouldn't guess that she'd be the first major antagonist in the game from her introduction.

* BadassFamily: The three known playable characters of this family--Serval, Gepard, and Lynx--are siblings and decent fighters in their own right, though only Gepard is an actual soldier.

* HeroicLineage: For centuries the clan has produced many Silvermane Knights.
* SiblingTeam: It is possible to pair together Serval, Gepard, and Lynx into a team, and they'd easily cover the fundamentals for an effective party. Serval's pure offensive kit makes up for her younger siblings' relative lack thereof by continuously zapping mobs of enemies; Gepard's increased aggro and Shields soak most of incoming punishment for his sisters, which he can further clamp down on with the high Freeze rate of his Skill; and Lynx helps her older siblings with her Survival Response buff that enhance Gepard's survivability while freeing up SP for Serval to burn.

Oldest and most rebellious of Landau siblings and a former close friend of Cocolia. In the past, she was a military scientist with the Silvermane Guards, but Cocolia's orders for her to cease her research into the Jarilo-VI Stellaron forced her to quit her job and strained their relationship. Nowadays, she spends time tinkering with machines in her own shop, Neverwinter Workshop, while doubling as lead guitarist of the rock band Mechanical Fever, until Gepard referring the Astral Express crew to her renews her interest in finding out the truth about both the Stellaron and Cocolia's sudden change of heart.\\

* ChainLethalityEnabler: Her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Mania'', gives her a 20% Attack buff for two turns whenever she takes down an enemy. As this stacks indefinitely throughout battle, this lets her damage output skyrocket if there are enough enemies for her to take down repeatedly.

* MythologyGag: Serval can be considered an older, lightning-elemental counterpart to Xinyan from ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', being a rock guitarist whose rebellion against her surrounding culture has brought her much grief in the past.

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Listen, the Heartbeat of the Gears'' and ''Belobog's Loudest Roar!'', which will add two levels to her Skill and one to Basic Attack with the former and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can unlock her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Bombardment' and ''Unstoppable'', which will add two levels to her Ultimate and Talent with the former, and two her Skill and one to Basic Attack with the latter.

* ImprobableAge: Pela is only sixteen years old, but is already a high-ranking officer in the Silvermane Guards. Becomes an ExaggeratedTrope when taking into account that according to Dunn, at one point Pela and Serval went to college together. Since Serval went to college with Cocolia, who adopted Bronya when Bronya was a kid (Bronya is an adult now), this was likely over a decade ago. Thus, Pela would have been going to college as a ''toddler''. One possible theory explaining this could be that Belobogians measure their years differently from the rest of the cosmos due to being disconnected from space for so long.

* RegeneratingMana: Her Talent restores 5–12.5 Energy for her whenever she debuffs an enemy, triggered once per attack. Outside of situational setups, there are only three ways for her to debuff enemies: her Ultimate, her Technique, and her Skill (provided she has unlocked her fourth Eidolon Resonance).

* ShoutOut:
** She is named after Russian folk rock singer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelageya Pelageya Sergeyevna Telegina]].
** Her phone cover features minimalistic icons of the male leads from Creator/MiHoYo's OtomeGame ''VisualNovel/TearsOfThemis'', further playing into her private fondness for romantic stories.
* SimpleYetAwesome: Pela's overall gameplay are simple, but her Ultimate inflicting a Defense debuff debuffing makes her a very useful support unit, especially against groups of enemies. Her Skill's buff-dispelling ability can also take the edge off of otherwise tricky enemies.

* StatusBuffDispel: Her Skill has Pela fire a drone on her enemy[[note]]with damage worth 105–262.5% of her Attack stat[[/note]] and remove one buff. Two of her upgrades provide additional effects whenever it removes a buff: her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Wipe Out'', endows a 20% boost to her next attack, while her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Adamant Charge'', boosts her Speed by 10% for two turns

* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Suppressive Force'' and ''Absolute Jeopardy'', which will add two levels to her Skill and one to Basic Attack (''Frost Shot'') with the former, and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.

* ButNowIMustGo: Her Companion Mission begins with Serval asking to join the Astral Express, claiming she wants to take advantage of Jarilo-VI's reopening to international traffic. [[spoiler:However, it becomes clear that she is not so much sightseeing as much as trying to escape the painful memories of her falling-out with Cocolia and her poor family life, which Gepard picks up on and advises her to only do it if she has thought it through, assuring her that [[YouAreNotAlone she's not alone]]. This, coupled with a confrontation with a Fragmentum illusion of Cocolia allowing her to finally confront her feelings on the matter, ultimately convinces her [[IChooseToStay to stay]] and keep running her workshop, as well as help help with the planet's rehabilitation.]]

* RenaissanceWoman: Not only is Serval a skilled musician and mechanic, she is also a capable fighter and a former researcher [[spoiler:studying about stellarons before she got fired by Cocolia to cover up the truth]].

Oldest and most rebellious of Landau siblings and a former close friend of Cocolia. In the past, she was a military scientist with the Silvermane Guards, but Cocolia's orders for her to cease her her research into Stellarons forced her to quit her job and strained their relationship. Nowadays, she spends time tinkering with machines in her own shop, Neverwinter Workshop, while doubling as lead guitarist of the rock band Mechanical Fever, until Gepard referring the Astral Express crew to her renews her interest in finding out the truth about both the Stellaron and Cocolia's sudden change of heart.\\

* BlindedByTheLight: his Technique has Sampo launch a flash bomb that blinds enemies for ten seconds, rendering them unable to detect the party; if they're attacked, their first turn will be pushed back by 25% at the start of battle.

* ConMan: All his Character Stories are accounts of him tricking the citizens of Belobog so that he can set up for larger heists or evade capture. He's become infamous to the point where there is a dedicated association for his victims and caught the attention of the Minister of Security.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: In addition to dealing damage, his Ultimate increases the damage his enemies take from existing damage-over-time effects for the next two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the Ultimate's damage is equivalent to 96–192% of his Attack stat, and the power of damage-over-time effects increases by 20–35%[[/note]]
* DamageOverTime: his Talent gives all his attacks a 65% base chance to inflict Wind Shear for three turns, which damages enemies at the start of their turn and can stack up to five times.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage per stack is equivalent to 20–65% of Sampo's Attack stat[[/note]] In addition, his second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Trap'', increases its duration to four turns; his second Eidolon Resonance, ''Infectious Enthusiasm'', imposes one stack of the debuff on all remaining enemies whenever he defeats one such afflicted enemy; his fourth, ''The Deeper the Love, the Stronger the Hate'', [[StatusEffectPoweredAbility lets his Skill deal additional damage on an enemy per hit once it has five stacks of Wind Shear gathered]], equivalent to 8% of the current Wind Shear damage; and his sixth, ''Increased Spending'', boosts the damage multiplier of Wind Shear he inflicts by 15%.

* EveryoneHasStandards: 2.0 reveals that despite being a [[spoiler:Masked Fool]], even he is [[TeethClenchedTeamwork reluctant to work together]] with [[spoiler:Sparkle]] and only goes through with it so that he can [[spoiler:recover his Mask]]. [[spoiler:Sparkle acknowledges this in her voiceline about him, noting how there are lines that he won't cross even as a fellow Masked Fool.]]

** [[spoiler:Even if you choose not to cover for Sampo once he's outed as "Mr. Cold-Feet," the prime suspect in a string of thefts from the Belobog History and Culture Museum during the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event and reported him to Pela, he can still be invited as museum assistant without issue, and Pela won't make any response to him working in the very museum he's stealing from. If you talk to him, he explains it as having fun with RefugeInAudacity, working right beneath her nose without her noticing.]]

* KickTheDog: For as much as the main story likes to portray Sampo as a LovableRogue who helps out the Astral Express crew regardless of his shady background, the "Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event will remind the player that, at the end of the day, he's still a wanted criminal, [[spoiler:is responsible for a string of thefts from the Belobog History and Culture Museum under the moniker "Mr. Cold Feet," and is not above siccing his accomplices on the Trailblazer]], meaning he can slide into the role of minor villain whenever he feels like it.

* MasterOfDisguise: Implied in his Character Stories. It's mentioned that Sampo is hard for the Silvermane Guards to pin down due to his habit of altering his appearance, and after he runs a number of scams under the identity of Madam Brughel Poisson, the Minister of Security has all the wigs in Belobog seized in hopes of apprehending him. One guard even questions Sampo as Poisson about Sampo himself but never at any point suspects the person in front of him may be wearing a disguise.

* OffscreenTeleportation: In the fourth "Opportunity Makes the Thief" story quest in the "Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event, [[spoiler:if the Trailblazer rejects Sampo's hefty bribe in exchange for letting him off the hook, as soon as they turn their back to contact Pela, Sampo vanishes out of his hotel room without a trace, making no sound from the door or window in the process. This hints that Sampo has a teleportation ability to just bail out of situations whenever they don't go in his favor]].
* PinballProjectile: His Skill has Sampo throw out his combined daggers to, well, pinball around and hit his target, in addition to four random strikes.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the base and random damage are both equivalent to 28%–70% of his Attack stat[[/note]] As a Bounce-type attack, this attack is more effective the less enemies there are, and even more against a lone target, which, if they're weak to Wind, will [[AntiArmor deplete their Toughness Gauge quicker]]. His first Eidolon Resonance, ''Rising Love'', adds a fifth random strike.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Inverted (he unwittingly sets the chain of events that leads to the plot's resolution). Sampo claims that he accidentally also brought Bronya along when he was meant to bring the Astral Express crew to the Underworld to escape from her (after he smoke-bombed them). This ultimately allowed them, especially Bronya, to [[spoiler:learn of Cocolia's Stellaron-fueled corruption and ultimately led to the Supreme Guardian's downfall. However, given his true nature, he might not actually be "unwitting"]].

A motherly doctor that treats the residents of the Underworld in her own clinic. An Underworlder by birth before she was adopted by the famed Harrower family of doctors in the Overworld, she has since returned to the Underworld to care for its people, especially in the wake of both sides of Belobog being cut off from each other in recent years.\\

Befitting her profession, Natasha is a dedicated healer, her offensive capabilities limited to firing shots from her grenade launcher courtesy of her Basic Attack, ''Behind the Kindness'', and her Technique, ''Hypnosis Research'', which hits a random foe as well as inflicts all foes with the Weaken effect for the first of battle that reduces their damage output. Her Skill, ''Love, Heal, and Choose'', is a direct targeted heal that additionally regenerates her target ally's HP for two turns afterwards, while her Ultimate, ''Gift of Rebirth'', has her toss a stuffed teddy bear that she blows up with her launcher to rain down healing confetti onto the party; all her healing potencies are enhanced through her Talent, ''Innervation'', for allies with dangerously low HP.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she can now regenerate Energy whenever she is attacked, as well as heal herself once per battle whenever her HP falls dangerously low; her Skill can now remove a debuff, and its continuous healing is extended to three turns; and her Ultimate can now heal allies one more time come their next turn whenever their HP is dangerously low.[[/note]]

* AlternateSelf: of Raven, ''née'' Natasha Cioara, of ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd''. Similar to Raven, this Natasha has raised orphans, but are opposites in profession, with Raven being an assassin while Natasha is a doctor. Also, just like her ''Honkai Impact 3rd'' counterpart, Natasha used to have an older brother who suffered a tragic fate that continues to haunt her.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Natasha is very kind and motherly; however, do not mistake that for her being a pushover. Pressing her {{Berserk Button}}s is a very bad idea. [[spoiler: She was also prepared to ''obliterate'' Svarog with her grenade launcher (while displaying an uncharacteristic snarl)... before standing down without hesitation when Clara tearfully begs her and the Trailblazer's party not to hurt Svarog.]]

* BoringButPractical: She's about as straightforward of a healer as you can get, meaning that while her abilities are nothing fancy, they do their job reliably well in ensuring your party's survival.

* CombatMedic: Downplayed. She may be a doctor with a fearsome grenade launcher, but gameplay-wise her offensive prowess is negligible. Her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Doctor's Grace'', partially ameliorates it, as it gives her Basic Attack an extra damage burst equivalent to 40% of her Max HP, letting her deal decent damage for a healer.
* DamageReduction: Indirectly, as her Technique inflicts all enemies with Weaken for one turn, reducing their damage output by 30%, as well as damages a random enemy.[[note]]With damage equivalent to 80% of Natasha's Attack stat[[/note]]
* DefenseMechanismSuperpower: Her first Eidolon Resonance, ''Pharmacology Expertise'', allows her to immediately heal herself once per battle if her HP falls under 30%.[[note]]Healing is equivalent to 15%+400 of her Max HP[[/note]]
* DisownedSibling: Natasha had a brother named Vache who was a doctor like her. But she's horrified when she learns how he used her clinic to turn the poor and sick of the Underworld into {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s for his experiments into making mankind immune to the cold. Natasha then disowned him and had him banished to the frozen wastes outside of Belobog. Oleg remarks that Vache likely would have been executed on the spot if Natasha weren't so clearly conflicted about this because of her familial love for Vache.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Natasha is a very kind and motherly doctor, but she can also be quite stern and strict towards naughty children and unruly patients who don't follow her orders, as Seele can attest to in her voiceline about her. She's also not above making thinly veiled threats against neglectful parents who don't visit their children, as one of her notebooks shows. [[spoiler:As the leader of Wildfire, Natasha would have killed Svarog without hesitation had Clara not pleaded with her to stop. Afterward, Natasha admits that she was laying plans to get rid of Svarog for the sake of freeing the Underworlders, and is glad that the Astral Express crew threw a wrench in those same plans.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: Natasha is haunted by her failure to notice that her brother Vache had been turning the sick of the Underworld into {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s for his research into making humanity immune to the cold of the Eternal Freeze. Given that he was using her clinic to distribute the medicine, Natasha blames herself for letting her familial love for her brother blind her to what he was doing until people had already gotten sick and died from his experiments.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Natasha is old enough to have served in the military together with Pela's late mother Penya. While we are not given exact dates, the resumé she submitted as part of her application as volunteer tour guide in the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event spans at least fifteen years of experience, if not more, since she graduated from medical school, not counting the decade she spent in the Underworld. She also used to run an orphanage and looked after Seele, who is now a young adult. By all estimates Natasha has to be in her mid- to late 40s ''at the youngest'' but you would never think that looking at her.

** In addition to an instant heal,her Skill gradually regenerates her ally's HP for two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, healing per turn is equivalent to (4.8%+48)–(8.4%+246) of Natasha's Max HP[[/note]] Her sixth-ascension Trace, ''Recuperation'', extends the regeneration to three turns.
** Natasha's second Eidolon Resonance, ''Clinical Research'', bestows upon her Ultimate the ability to confer an extra healing burst for allies whose HP is no more than 30% at the time she triggers the Ultimate.[[note]]With healing equivalent to 6%+160 of her Max HP[[/note]]

* ShedTheFamilyName: {{Inverted|trope}}. She didn't take up the family name "Harrower", despite wanting to because she was HappilyAdopted, on the urging of her parents because they wanted her to be able to shine by her own merits as an accomplished doctor instead of being overshadowed by the lineage of a family full of doctors.

* TraumaButton: She doesn't take kindly to anyone trying to dig up and redistribute her adoptive older brother Vache's "wonder medicine" under false pretenses that it's a better cure for illnesses than any of the treatments she's offered, especially if the aim for said redistribution is to [[OnlyInItForTheMoney make money]], considering she knows the full extent of Vache's immoral experiments and the severe damage his drug can do to the human body. Disposing of the drug has become Natasha's top priority to ensure the safety of her patients.

* WhiteMage: Her kit is all about healing. In particular, her Skill and Ultimate does so on, respectively, one ally and the entire party[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, their healing potency are equivalent to, respectively, (7%–12.25%)+(70–358.75) and (9.2–16.1%)+(92–471.5) of Natasha's Max HP[[/note]] In addition, her Talent boosts her healing for allies whose HP is no more than 30%.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the multiplier increases by 25–62.5%[[/note]] Furthermore, her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Healer'', boosts her Outgoing Healing by 10%.

* DamageOverTime: Her Skill and Technique inflict Burn on, respectively her target for two turns and all enemies for three turns.[[note]]Their respective Burn damage is equivalent to, respectively, 25–81.25% (depending on Trace levels) and 50% of Hook's Attack stat[[/note]] Her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Happy Tummy, Happy Body'', extends the duration of Burn inflicted by the former to three turns (hence making it last as long as those inflicted by her Technique), while her fourth, ''It's Okay to Not Know'', allows her to inflict Burn on enemies adjacent to her target should she trigger her Talent.
* EXSpecialAttack: Her Ultimate enhances the damage potency and radius of the next use of her Skill.[[note]]In base form, the Skill's damage is, depending on Trace levels, equivalent to 120–300% of Hook's Attack stat; in its enhanced form, it increases to 140–350% against her target, and 40–100% against adjacent enemies[[/note]] Her first Eidolon Resonance, ''Early to Bed, Early to Rise'', adds a 20% damage boost to the enhanced Skill.

* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: [[spoiler:At the end of her Companion Mission line, Hook sells her gem-eyed childhood teddy bear, Junjun, to earn enough money to buy a Geomarrow Probe for Fersman's birthday so he can repair his vein detector tool. But when the date of their shared birthday rolls around, it turns out he sold his vein detector to buy decorative clothes for Junjun. The achievement you get for completing her quest line is even named after the TropeNamer.]]

* HavingABlast: Her Ultimate has Hook drive Diggertron on her enemy and plant a landmine that explodes on their face, in addition to enhancing the next use of her Skill.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 240–480% of her Attack stat[[/note]]

* MightyGlacier: Though not to the extent of Clara, Hook's base Speed is slightly below average at 96, though she compensates by hitting hard and having some form of self-sustain to keep her alive.

* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: In the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" event, Hook, being a young child who lacks an education, has an appropriate Educational Value score of ''zero'', but her Tour Duration and Visitor Appeal stats are both markedly high to make up for it, representing her boundless energy and wealth of free time for the former and CheerfulChild status for the latter.

** Her Talent allows Hook to deal additional damage against Burnt enemies,[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 50–125% of her Attack stat[[/note]] as well as restores 5 Energy. In addition, her second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Innocence'', allows it to heal Hook equivalent to 5% of her Max HP whenever it is triggered.

* SquareRaceRoundClass: Despite being classified as Destruction, Hook plays more like a Nihility or Hunt unit in practice, with her moveset revolving around dealing extra damage to targets inflicted with Burn with Hook having both her Skill and Technique to apply it herself. Her sole method of attacking more than one enemy is a single cast of her empowered Skill after using her ultimate. Otherwise, her damage is strictly single-target.

!! Clara (and Svarog)

A young girl who considers the Underworld robots her family and walks around barefooted. She is accompanied by Svarog, a humanoid robot and veteran of the Antimatter Legion invasion, who has grown distant from humanity and its foibles.\\

Clara puts herself in harm's way to trick her foes into incurring Svarog's wrath, with her Technique, ''A Small Price for Victory'', manually increasing enemy aggression towards her for the first two turns of combat. Her Talent, ''Because We're Family'', reduces all direct damage aimed at her, as well as encourages Svarog to fire a ''Counter'' laser on the whenever she is attacked, inflicting upon the offending party the Mark of Counter, which is consumed to increase the damage incurred from her Skill, ''Svarog Watches Over You'', where she commands the latter to fire missiles on all their foes. Her Ultimate, ''Promise, Not Command'', has her cry out to Svarog for protection, increasing her damage reduction and enemy aggression towards her, as well as enhancing the next two instances of ''Counter'', extending their damage radius to foes on either side of Svarog's target as well as encouraging him to counter on behalf of their allies.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she gains a chance to remove a debuff, as well as an increasing damage reduction, whenever she is attacked, the latter lasting until her next turn; Svarog can now randomly counter on behalf of their allies even outside Clara's Ultimate; her Skill will no longer remove Marks of Counter; and her Ultimate can now boost her (and Svarog's) Attack for two turns, as well as extends Svarog's enhanced counterattacks to three instances.[[/note]]

!!!'''General Tropes'''

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Against Guardian Shadows, Clara flips their [[CounterAttack "ban and counter"]] strategy almost completely against them, with Physical attacks which breach their weakness, damage reduction to soak their attacks better than many other characters, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and even more damage with her own counter]]. She obliterates the Destruction Trotters in the Simulated Universe in the same way, countering ''each and every'' of their counterattacks; beware, however, in that said Trotter's counterattacks will hit ''all of your characters'' instead of just her, so if you don't have any means of out-of-turn survival or high HP/defense for your characters, this scenario can become ugly.
* CounterAttack: With her Talent, Svarog will retaliate against anyone who dare attack Clara and inflict Mark of Counter on them, and her Ultimate will encourage him to counter on behalf of Clara's allies and increase the damage and range of the next two instances of said reprisals.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the damage of the regular ''Counter'' is equivalent to 80–200%, while the enhanced form increases the damage multiplier to 96–192%, with surrounding enemies receiving half the damage to the target[[/note]] Also, with her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Revenge'', gives a 30% damage boost to Svarog's counterattacks, and with her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Long Company'', he gains 50% chance to retaliate on behalf of Clara's allies even outside her Ultimate, as well as extends the number of his enhanced counterattacks to three.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Her Talent makes Svarog inflict the Mark of Counter on any who dare attack Clara, which doubles the damage potency of the first instance of her Skill against them, but also removes the Mark.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the Skill normally deals damage equivalent to 60–150% of Clara's Attack stat; hence, against marked enemies this increases to 120–300%[[/note]] Clara's first Eidolon Resonance, ''A Tall Figure'', allows the Mark to linger on even after the Skill was used on them, rendering the mark permanent.
* DamageReduction: Her Talent reduces all direct damage against Clara by 10%, while her Ultimate provides a further reduction.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, by 15–27%[[/note]]

* MightyGlacier: Svarog is capable of blowing huge holes in the enemy with his CounterAttack, and she appropriately has ways to reduce incoming damage to improve her survivability, but Clara's base Speed is below average at 90, which means she takes longer to take her turn. Her slow Speed is actually to her advantage, as this means there's more chance of the enemies getting their turn first before her, potentially making her take hits and activating her CounterAttack before she gets her turn.

* TheCutie: ''Oh so very much.'' Clara is an adorable and sweet young girl who just wants everyone to get along and be happy.

* ParentalAbandonment: Was on the receiving end of this as a toddler. Svarog found her at a dump site and decided to raise her as his own when it was evident that whoever left her there wasn't coming back for her.
* PrefersGoingBarefoot: According to one message, she was gifted a pair of shoes from "Clara Protection Society". She says that she keeps twisting her ankle whenever she goes around wearing shoes, so she's not used to wearing them.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: After the end of ''Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream'', Clara reveals that Topaz gave her the "Source Code" that Topaz once used to [[VillainOverride override the command of the robots of Belobog]]. She acknowledges that it's a great power, and Svarog told her that it will put a very heavy burden on whoever holds it; she wishes that she'd never face a time where she needs to use it, and she resolves to protect it from falling onto the wrong hands.

* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Creator/DCDouglas and Creator/HirokiYasumoto have voiced a [[Franchise/MassEffect one-eyed robot]]. And the same character in different dubs, no less!

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Svarog is the only person besides the Supreme Guardian and the Architects to know the truth behind the Stellaron on Jarilo-VI, but considers the info so confidential that, when the Astral Express crew tries to negotiate with him about it, his threat assessment of them reaches high enough levels to no longer consider suppression of his enemies an option, but outright elimination, despite Clara's pleas to stop. [[spoiler:Only after a tough battle that requires Sampo bringing in Natasha to help that Svarog factors in the variables in his calculations, and he finally agrees to tell the Astral Express crew and everyone else what he knows about the Stellaron, as well as let them through to the Furnace Core so they can return to the Belobog Overworld and deal with it]].
* HopelessBossFight: Luka challenges Svarog to a one-on-one during the former's story quest, which ends up being completely one-sided in Svarog's favor despite that the latter is holding back.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Clara's Skill has Svarog fire a salvo of missiles at the enemies. He can also do this in his boss fight, letting him deal substantial damage to all of your characters.

* PapaWolf: Svarog will do anything to protect Clara, which plays into how they play as a unit: Svarog immediately counterattacks and debuffs anyone who tries to hurt Clara and their ultimate is Clara begging Svarog to protect everyone, which not only boosts the potency of his counters but extends his protection to the whole party.

* Really700YearsOld: He actually is at least 700 years old, having originally been built to fight the Antimatter Legion's invasion of Jarilo-VI.

* BadassFamily: The three known playable characters of this family--Serval, Gepard, and Lynx--are siblings decent fighters in their own right, even if only Gepard is an actual soldier.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: All Landau siblings share the same shade of blonde hair and blue eyes.

'''Type:''' Quantum\\\

A prominent member of Wildfire. Raised as an orphan on the lawless streets of Rivet Town, Seele is a headstrong girl who prefers to act first, ask questions later and puts everything she has on the line to keep the peace in the Underworld with her trusty scythe. Due to the Supreme Guardian's decree cutting off communication and travel between the Overworld and the Underworld early in her childhood, Seele harbors a deep-seated resentment of Overworlders--an icy surface that slowly begins to break when she gets to know Cocolia's daughter, Bronya.\\

Seele swiftly dispatches her foes with her scythe and her Talent, ''Resurgence'', which gives her an extra turn whenever she defeats her target, as well as puts her in a buffed state that enhances her attacks for one turn. Her Skill, ''Sheathed Blade'', additionally boosts her Speed for two turns, while her Ultimate, ''Butterfly Flurry'', has her warp all over her target and hack away at them, as well as allows her to automatically enter the buffed state. In addition, her Technique, ''Phantom Illusion'', allows her to enter Stealth mode, rendering her immune to enemy detection and allowing her to enter the buffed state at the start of battle.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she enjoys a reduced risk of being attack whenever she has no more than half her HP and heightened Critical Damage if her target has low enough HP, as well as regenerate additional Energy whenever she defeats her target; her buffed state can now increase her Quantum Resistance Penalty; her Basic Attack can now slightly advance her turn; her Skill's Speed buff can now be stacked twice; and her Ultimate can now inflict the same-named Butterfly Flurry effect on her target, which deals additional Quantum damage whenever they are attacked.[[/note]]

* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies, just like her ''Honkai Impact 3rd'' counterpart. As shown in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXVQmHxAnAE "Uneventful Night"]] trailer, she's called the "Butterfly of Tempest," purple butterflies appear as particle effects whenever she [[FlashStep teleports]] or attacks, she lets a butterfly land on her hand during her IdleAnimation, and near the end of that trailer, she gains large butterfly wings on her back. Her alias in the Underworld is "Babochka," meaning "butterfly." They also appear in her character splash artwork, her longcoat is reminiscent of butterfly wings, and the red ribbon on her left arm is shaped like a red butterfly. The icons of her four Combat Skills, two Bonus Abilities, and four Eidolon Resonances all have butterfly wings; her Ultimate is named "Butterfly Flurry"; and when unleashing the latter, [[{{Invocation}} she always says]] "Disappear among the sea of butterflies... illusions of the past!" Then in Bronya's fourth Character Story, Seele is also described as a "woman looking like a butterfly."

* ChainLethalityEnabler: Her Talent grants her an ExtraTurn whenever any of her attacks score a kill, as well as puts her in a buffed state with heightened damage output.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, her damage increases by 40–100%[[/note]] In addition, her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Lacerate'', adds a 20% boost to the Quantum Resistance Penalty of her attacks whenever she enters said buffed state. Note that you can't trigger this effect again if she defeats another enemy during the extra turn, but the effect triggered by her Basic Attack/Skill and Ultimate are considered separate from each other, potentially allowing her to act four times per turn. Also, the extra turn won't deplete the buffs on her that have per-turn duration.

* CrissCrossAttack: Her Ultimate has her rushing towards her target and performing blindingly fast dashing slashes from many directions at once.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the move deals damage equal to 255%–459% of her ATK to a single enemy[[/note]]

** Her first Eidolon Resonance gives her a 15% Crit Rate boost when attacking enemies who are at 80% HP or lower.

* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: In "Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream", when the Trailblazer and March 7th go around on Bronya's behalf to collect votes from the people to "go with freedom or security" and end with a tie, they consult Seele, thinking her opinion will matter a lot. After explaining the matter to her, she decides... to abstain, saying the responsibility of making the decision should rest on [[spoiler:the new Supreme Guardian]] and she shouldn't be influencing her decision too much, while also saying that she'll support the latter's decision, whatever it may be. Upon returning to give the vote's results to Bronya, the latter predictably asks about Seele's opinion, and they truthfully relay Seele's decision to let Bronya decide by herself. In short, Seele knows she'll be a big influence in Bronya's decision and thus chose to step out of it to ensure Bronya can remain neutral.

* FlashStep: Seele can perform short-ranged teleportations, a feat which is best demonstrated in a cutscene when she rushed in to help the Trailblazer [[spoiler:climb the Engine of Creation]]. During TurnBasedCombat, she just teleports to her target whenever she uses her Skill, then teleports back to her original position afterwards.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Seele is a tough, harsh, and aggressive girl, ''especially'' towards Bronya when they first meet, but as the story goes on, she starts to soften up quite a bit [[spoiler:after she learns that Bronya was an Undergrounder like her, and the two become quite close.]]

* MeaningfulName: During the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities", she mentions that Oleg gave her the name "Seele", with him claiming that it's an old Belobogian word for "soul". She interprets it as her being an elusive "phantom" towards troublemakers in the Underworld.

* OnlyOneName: During the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" event, she specifically states that she has no surname when the Trailblazer is helping her fill out a resumé. The Trailblazer can [[LiteralMinded decide to take this literally]] and list her as "Seele No-Last-Name". In previous Honkai games, her surname was "Vollerei" that means "gluttony".

* SprintShoes: Her Skill boosts her Speed by 25% for two turns, in addition to dealing damage.[[note]]Depending on Trace level, damage is equivalent to 110–275% of Seele's Attack stat[[/note]] Seele's second Eidolon Resonance, ''Dancing Butterfly'', allows the speed boost to be stacked twice (for a total of 50%).
* StatusEffectPoweredAbility: Seele's sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Shattering Shambles'', gives her Ultimate the ability to mark its target with a debuff that deals additional damage (equivalent to 15% of that of the Ultimate) whenever they are attacked until Seele's next turn. This additional damage will not trigger her Talent, however.

Pela specializes in compromising her enemies' defenses through laser drones coordinated from a tome-like device. With her Technique ''Preemptive Strike'' and Ultimate ''Zone Suppression'', she can lower all enemies' Defense stat for 2 turns (from the start of the battle, for the former). She can also remove a buff from a target enemy using her Skill, ''Frostbite''. To help charging her energy, her Talent, ''Data Collecting'', regenerates some Energy whenever her attacks inflict debuffs.
[[note]]When fully upgraded, she can now deal more damage to debuffed enemies, regenerate additional Energy whenever she defeats enemies, and gain an additional hit whenever she attacks debuffed foes, in addition to her Skill gaining the ability to increase the power of her next attack and her Speed for two turns should it remove a buff, as well as a chance to inflict an Ice Resistance penalty for two turns.[[/note]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: She's such a frequent victim of this that she has learned to expect it. In her character file voicelines, she has noted [[ExaggeratedTrope 32 different versions of her full name among the Silvermane Guards.]]
* AttackDrone: Pela attacks enemies by summoning and commanding bar-like drones with a SpellBook-like device.

* ChildSoldier: Out of the known Silvermane Guards, Pela is the youngest at just 16 years old.

** Her Ultimate strikes all enemies and inflicts them with the Exposed debuff, which reduces their Defense stat for two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equal to 60–120% of Pela's Attack stat, and the subsequent Defense penalty is 30–45%[[/note]]
** Her Technique hits a random enemy[[note]]With damage equivalent to 80% of her Attack stat[[/note]] and inflicts a 20% Defense penalty to all enemies for the first two turns of battle.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Apparently Trotters are the cause of 20% of cases of missing Silvermane Guards due to chasing them, which has led to Pela's impression that they somehow mind-control their pursuers so they can never return. Lynx has to bemusedly correct this impression when the two find one in the wild.
* FirstNameBasis: Pela has a first name and a typical Russian patronymic ("Sergeyevna" means "daughter of Sergey"); Lynx's companion mission reveals that this ''is'' her last name, as her mother's name is Penya Sergeyevna. She is introduced giving a lecture to a group of small kids--in Russian culture, children ''are'' supposed to address their teachers on name-and-patronymic basis.

* HiddenDepths: When not doing her duties with the Silvermane Guards, she doubles as drummer of Serval's rock band Mechanical Fever and writes fanfiction for her favorite novel series ''Tales of the Winterlands''.
* ImprobableAge: Pela is only sixteen years old[[note]]Lynx states that 16 years ago, Pela was born[[/note]], but is already a high-ranking officer in the Silvermane Guards. Becomes an ExaggeratedTrope when taking into account that according to Dunn, at one point Pela and Serval went to college together. Since Serval went to college with Cocolia, who adopted Bronya when Bronya was a kid (Bronya is an adult now), this was likely over a decade ago. Thus, Pela would have been going to college as a ''toddler''. One possible theory explaining this could be that the Belobogians measure their years differently from the rest of the cosmos due to being disconnected from space for so long.

* MissingMom: Pela's mother Penya passed away [[DeathByChildbirth giving birth to her]] sixteen years ago during an expedition outside of Belobog, where Natasha served as field nurse. When they meet again, the latter apologizes to Pela for her inability to save Penya from her injuries on time; Pela, for her part, does not hold it against her. This is later explored in Lynx's Companion Mission, where she and Pela found old messages left behind by Penya.

* OrwellianRetcon: Due to issues regarding her true age[[note]]and perhaps a bit of mistranslation in the original text[[/note]], in 1.4 her text message about asking "how to get sober" is instead changed to "how to stave off sleepiness".

* RegeneratingMana: Her Talent restores Pela's Energy whenever she debuffs an enemy, triggered once per attack.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, between 5–12.5 points[[/note]] Outside of situational setups, there are only three ways for her to debuff enemies: her Ultimate, her Technqiue, and (if she has her 4th Eidolon upgrade) her Skill.

* SimpleYetAwesome: Pela's overall gameplay are simple, but her Ultimate debuffing all enemies' DEF makes her a very useful supportive unit, especially against groups of enemies. Her Skill's buff dispelling ability can also take the edge off otherwise tricky enemies.

* StatusBuffDispel: Her Skill has Pela fire a drone on her enemy[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 105–262.5% of her Attack stat[[/note]] and remove one buff. Two of her upgrades provide additional effects whenever it removes a buff: her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Wipe Out'', imposes a 20% boost to her next attack, while her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Adamant Charge'', boosts Pela's Speed by 10% for two turns.
* StatusEffectPoweredAbility: Two of Pela's upgrades are triggered against debuffed enemies--her second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Bash'', boosts her damage by 20%, while her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Feeble Pursuit'', allows her to deal additional damage based on 40% of her Attack stat.
* TheStoic: PlayedWith. Pela is normally calm and down-to-earth with a monotone way of speaking befitting her status as an intelligence officer. That is unless any topic regarding her hobbies is brought up, by which case, she'll lose her calm composure and [[NotSoStoic show her energetic fangirl side instead]]. This is most apparent in her "Knowledge" voice line where she rambles about her favorite book "Tale of the Winterlands" with so much excitement, it's as if she's a different character entirely.

[[folder:'''Clara and Svarog''']]
!! Clara (and Svarog)
!!!'''Introduced:''' April 26, 2023 (v1.0 "The Rail Unto the Stars" [game launch])\\
'''Clara is voiced by:''' Zisu Jiuyue (Chinese), Creator/RinaHidaka (Japanese), Kim Yea-lim (Korean), Emily Sun (English)\\
'''Svarog is voiced by:''' Wang Yuhang (Chinese), Creator/HirokiYasumoto (Japanese), Choi Nak-yoon (Korean), Creator/DCDouglas (English)
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->'''Rarity:''' 5★\\
'''Path:''' The Destruction\\

A young girl who considers the Underworld robots her family and walks around barefooted. She is accompanied by Svarog, a humanoid robot and veteran of the Antimatter Legion invasion, who has grown distant from humanity and its foibles.\\

Clara puts herself in harm's way to trick her foes into incurring Svarog's wrath, with her Technique, ''A Small Price for Victory'', manually increasing enemy aggression towards her for the first two turns of combat. Her Talent, ''Because We're Family'', reduces all direct damage aimed at her, as well as encourages Svarog to fire a ''Counter'' laser on the whenever she is attacked, inflicting upon the offending party the Mark of Counter, which is consumed to increase the damage incurred from her Skill, ''Svarog Watches Over You'', where she commands the latter to fire missiles on all their foes. Her Ultimate, ''Promise, Not Command'', has her cry out to Svarog for protection, increasing her damage reduction and enemy aggression towards her, as well as enhancing the next two instances of ''Counter'', extending their damage radius to foes on either side of Svarog's target as well as encouraging him to counter on behalf of their allies.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she gains a chance to remove a debuff, as well as an increasing damage reduction, whenever she is attacked, the latter lasting until her next turn; Svarog can now randomly counter on behalf of their allies even outside Clara's Ultimate; her Skill will no longer remove Marks of Counter; and her Ultimate can now boost her (and Svarog's) Attack for two turns, as well as extends Svarog's enhanced counterattacks to three instances.[[/note]]

!!!'''General Tropes'''
* AntiDebuff: Clara's second- and fourth-ascension Bonus Abilities, ''Kinship'' and ''Under Protection'', give her, respectively, a 35% chance to remove a debuff placed on her whenever she is attacked, and a 35% boost to resistance against crowd-control debuffs.
* BadassAndChildDuo: Svarog is the Badass to Clara's Child, the former doing all the pummeling and the latter commanding him from a distance.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Against Guardian Shadows, Clara flips their [[CounterAttack "ban and counter"]] strategy almost completely against them, with Physical attacks which breach their weakness, damage reduction to soak their attacks better than many other characters, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and even more damage with her own counter]]. She obliterates the Destruction Trotters in the Simulated Universe in the same way, countering ''each and every'' of their counterattacks; beware, however, in that said Trotter's counterattacks will hit ''all of your characters'' instead of just her, so if you don't have any means of out-of-turn survival or high HP/defense for your characters, this scenario can become ugly.
* CounterAttack: With her Talent, Svarog will retaliate against anyone who dare attack Clara and inflict Mark of Counter on them, and her Ultimate will encourage him to counter on behalf of Clara's allies and increase the damage and range of the next two instances of said reprisals.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the damage of the regular ''Counter'' is equivalent to 80–200%, while the enhanced form increases the damage multiplier to 96–192%, with surrounding enemies receiving half the damage to the target[[/note]] Also, with her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Revenge'', gives a 30% damage boost to Svarog's counterattacks, and with her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Long Company'', he gains 50% chance to retaliate on behalf of Clara's allies even outside her Ultimate, as well as extends the number of his enhanced counterattacks to three.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Her Talent makes Svarog inflict the Mark of Counter on any who dare attack Clara, which doubles the damage potency of the first instance of her Skill against them, but also removes the Mark.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the Skill normally deals damage equivalent to 60–150% of Clara's Attack stat; hence, against marked enemies this increases to 120–300%[[/note]] Clara's first Eidolon Resonance, ''A Tall Figure'', allows the Mark to linger on even after the Skill was used on them, rendering the mark permanent.
* DamageReduction: Her Talent reduces all direct damage against Clara by 10%, while her Ultimate provides a further reduction.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, by 15–27%[[/note]]
* DefenseMechanismSuperpower: Her fourth Eidolon Resonance, ''Family's Warmth'', gradually provides a 30% damage reduction whenever she gets hit, which are reset on her next turn.
* TheDividual: While Svarog is the one doing the actual fighting, the two are considered a single unit.
* DrawAggro: Both her Ultimate and Technique increase the chance of enemies to target Clara for two turns, with the former also providing DamageReduction.
* {{Expy}}: One of [[Characters/FateStayNightHumans Illyasviel "Illya" von Einzbern]] and [[Characters/FateStayNightServants Berserker]] from [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate/stay night]], confirmed in an [[https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/240322t interview with Kinoko Nasu and David Jiang]].
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Even when Svarog goes away with Topaz in search for "valuable assets", nothing stops you from using Clara in combat.
* GoThroughMe: A teary-eyed Clara puts herself between [[spoiler:Natasha's grenade launcher and a damaged Svarog when it seemed like negotiations with the latter have failed. Fortunately, Clara convinces Svarog that those on the opposing side are actually allies who just want to resolve the issue with Jarilo-VI's Stellaron]].
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: A platonic example of this trope, with Svarog towering over most of the main party and Clara being child-sized.
* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Clara's combat style involves calling on Svarog to do the fighting for her, with Svarog being her GuardianEntity that only fights out of a duty to protect her. There's even a tinge of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''-style FightingSpirit in their visual aesthetic, with Svarog always being near Clara shrouded by an InvisibilityCloak until he needs to appear and attack.
* MightyGlacier: Svarog is capable of blowing huge holes in the enemy with his CounterAttack, and she appropriately has ways to reduce incoming damage to improve her survivability, but Clara's base Speed is below average at 90, which means she takes longer to take her turn. Her slow Speed is actually to her advantage, as this means there's more chance of the enemies getting their turn first before her, potentially making her take hits and activating her CounterAttack before she gets her turn.
* MirrorMatch: A weirder take compared to other playable characters who are also bosses. Since Svarog does the fighting for Clara as a playable character, if you have the latter in your roster and want to have her fight Svarog's boss self in story missions, the Simulated Universe, or the Forgotten Hall, go ahead, the game won't stop you, which would result in the odd sight of seeing Svarog punching and shooting missiles and lasers at another Svarog.
** In the "Underground Treasure Hunt" event, you can also take Svarog to fight against an identical robot, Monitoring Automaton Prototype 2.
* StatusBuff: Clara's second Eidolon Resonance, ''A Tight Embrace'', allows her Ultimate to boost her Attack stat by 30% for two turns.
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Cold Steel Armor'' and ''A Small Promise'', which will add two levels to her Skill and and one to Basic Attack (''I Want to Help'') with the former, and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Due to Clara's CounterAttack-oriented playstyle, players are incentivized to use DrawAggro abilities to attract enemies to her, a small child.
* WeaponSpecialization: Clara's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/Something_Irreplaceable Something Irreplaceable]]" (5★), whose "Kinship" passive increases its wearer's Attack stat by 24–40%, and when they defeat an enemy or is attacked in-between their turns (can only be triggered 1 time per turn), their damage output is raised by 24–40% and they receive healing equal to 8–12% of their Attack stat. This helps further boost the power of Svarog's CounterAttack, as well as improves her survivability against tougher opponents by giving her a minor self-healing ability.

!!!'''Tropes exclusive to Clara'''
* TheCutie: ''Oh so very much.'' Clara is an adorable and sweet young girl who just wants everyone to get along and be happy.
* {{Emoticon}}: Clara tends to use kaomojis when she types.
* ExposedToTheElements: Despite living on a planet where it's so cold and snowy that exposed skin or even just wearing thin clothing is a health hazard, Clara goes around everywhere shoeless and bare-legged, yet never complains or even makes note of the rough ground or chill.
* HappilyAdopted: She's perfectly content with being Svarog's ward to the point where she insists to him that she isn't really interested in finding her biological family, claiming that she already has a family.

-->(Ultimate activation) "I want to help everyone too."
-->(Normal speed and ×2 speed) "Help me, Mr. Svarog!"
* MoralityPet: She acts as one to Svarog, being the only human he has formed a close connection with and is willing to protect on an individual level.
* ParentalAbandonment: Was on the receiving end of this as a toddler. Svarog found her at a dump site and decided to raise her as his own when it was evident that whoever left her there wasn't coming back for her.
* PrefersGoingBarefoot: According to one message, she was gifted a pair of shoes from "Clara Protection Society". She says that she keeps twisting her ankle whenever she goes around wearing shoes, so she's not used to wearing them.
* RaisedByRobots: Clara is a vagrant orphan who grew up with Svarog and his robots for her entire life, and because of her experience, she can better understand them than most other people.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Due to being RaisedByRobots, Clara is a lot more rational and intelligent than your average child.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: After the end of ''Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream'', Clara reveals that Topaz gave her the "Source Code" that Topaz once used to [[VillainOverride override the command of the robots of Belobog]]. She acknowledges that it's a great power, and Svarog told her that it will put a very heavy burden on whoever holds it; she wishes that she'd never face a time where she needs to use it, and she resolves to protect it from falling onto the wrong hands.
* WrenchWench: To a lesser extent than Serval but Clara is very skilled at working with machinery, most likely due to growing up among robots. She is so skilled in fact that she can maintain and repair many of the robots by herself and only needs to ask Svarog for help when the issues are software related.

!!!'''Tropes exclusive to Svarog'''
* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Creator/DCDouglas and Creator/HirokiYasumoto have voiced a [[Franchise/MassEffect one-eyed robot]]. And the same character in different dubs, no less!
* ArmCannon: He can fire lasers from his palm, as seen in Clara's Talent and Technique. As a boss, this attack can [[CooldownManipulation delay the next action of his target]].
* BadassLongcoat: Though he probably doesn't need it, Svarog wears a long, stylish coat, complete with matching pants and shoes.
* BadassFingersnap: Does one of these when he summons robots to fight alongside him.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Due to being a machine, while Svarog does want to protect humanity, he can only execute plans with the highest likelihood of success. This means that some actions he takes, such as chasing all humans out of the Geomarrow mines to prevent infighting over the possession of the Geomarrow inside, don't make sense or seem completely counter productive to humans.
* CyberCyclops: Has only one [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] [[GlowingMechanicalEyes glowing mechanical eye]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:After the party defeats him, he becomes convinced that they are indeed unique variables to resolving the conflict, and grants them important information on Jarilo-VI's Stellaron and grants you access to the Furnace Core route that will, in-story, allow you to return to the Administrative District and the Overworld.]]
* TheEmpath: Svarog's systems can determine if a person's emotions are sincere. That's partly why he helps Topaz despite disagreeing with her plan (the other parts are that he sees himself as a "tool" and doesn't consider his own opinions as having weight, and that he senses a big probability of compliance through force if he refuses to cooperate).
* FlunkyBoss:
** As a boss, Svarog can summon [[GiantHandsOfDoom giant robot hands]] to aid him. Said robot hands can capture one of your characters, making them unable to act until you inflict Weakness Break on the capturing hand. Svarog can also command them to [[ActionBomb self-destruct on top of your characters]] after a turn. As they're directly controlled by Svarog, said hands cannot act even if their turn comes if he is currently Weakness Broken. There's an achievement you can get by destroying 4 of those robot hands in a single battle.
** In Simulated Universe, he can summon Automaton Beetles and Hounds in the first phase, and Direwolves in the second.
* GentleGiant:
** Downplayed. He's a loving father to Clara, tries to dance with Hook in the ''Dance! Dance! Dance!'' light cone, and has been seen praising two children for their efforts in bringing him parts[[note]]Said parts were useless to him, as they were part of a stolen museum exhibit, but still[[/note]]. Towards everyone else, however, he's rather cold and calculating, showing no hesitation in destroying them if he finds them to be a threat. Gameplay-wise, he only extends his protection to the rest of the party after using Clara's ult, where she begs him for his help.
** According to Natasha, he was deliberately holding back when [[spoiler:Luka]] challenged him to a sparring.
* GoodParents: For a hyper-logical robot, Svarog is a shockingly good parent who believes that Clara's emotional and social development is just as important as her mental and physical development. One of the memories he considers important is the record of her befriending Hook.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Svarog is the only person besides the Supreme Guardian and the Architects to know the truth behind the Stellaron on Jarilo-VI, but considers the info so confidential that, when the Astral Express crew tries to negotiate with him about it, his threat assessment of them reaches high enough levels to no longer consider suppression of his enemies an option, but outright elimination, despite Clara's pleas to stop. [[spoiler:Only after a tough battle that requires Sampo bringing in Natasha to help that Svarog factors in the variables in his calculations, and he finally agrees to tell the Astral Express crew and everyone else what he knows about the Stellaron, as well as let them through to the Furnace Core so they can return to the Belobog Overworld and deal with it]].
* HopelessBossFight: Luka challenges Svarog to a one-on-one during the former's story quest, which ends up being completely one-sided in Svarog's favor despite that the latter is holding back.
* InvisibilityCloak: In gameplay, Svarog is typically hiding with some sort of cloaking tech and only appears to defend Clara.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Svarog doesn't try to stop Topaz and the IPC when they arrive to set up shop on Jarilo-VI, knowing that trying to oppose the MegaCorp would be futile.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Clara's Skill has Svarog fire a salvo of missiles at the enemies. He can also do this in his boss fight, letting him deal substantial damage to all of your characters.
* {{Narrator}}: All four of Clara's Character Story anecdotes are written from Svarog's point-of-view.
* NotSoStoic: While Svarog is usually serious and logic-driven, he does take time to do a little dance with Clara in their idle animation, as well as Hook in the ''Dance! Dance! Dance!'' light cone flavor text.
* PapaWolf: Svarog will do anything to protect Clara, which plays into how they play as a unit: Svarog immediately counterattacks and debuffs anyone who tries to hurt Clara and their ultimate is Clara begging Svarog to protect everyone, which not only boosts the potency of his counters but extends his protection to the whole party.
* ParentalSubstitute: Svarog adopted Clara after finding her in the landfill of Boulder Town and is effectively her father in all the ways that matter. The two openly describe each other as family. Even then, one of Svarog's personal goals is finding her real family.
* PlayingATree: Clara is annoyed that Svarog only ever seems to want to play trees or rocks when she gets him to act out movies with her.
* PrescienceByAnalysis: Svarog acts based on his calculations on what the future will be. For this reason, he's conspired to keep the Underworlders underground, as he believes that the Overworld will perish in due time. But the Astral Express crew confronts him with the folly of this logic: even if he can calculate the future with reasonable accuracy, said calculations are rendered pointless if a new, significant variable (like the Astral Express) enters the equation.
* Really700YearsOld: He actually is at least 700 years old, having originally been built to fight the Antimatter Legion's invasion of Jarilo-VI.
* VerbalTic: Svarog tends to pepper his sentences with what many people usually identify as RoboSpeak, such as "analysis complete".
* WakeUpCallBoss: If the first and previous boss battles didn't teach it enough already, Svarog's boss fight will reinforce the idea that you might need to deal with the boss's summoned minions instead of unleashing everything on the boss. At certain points, Svarog will bring out giant robotic hands that capture one of your party members, making them unable to be controlled or healed unless the hand is dealt with first.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Svarog is widely recognized as the single most powerful force in the Underworld. His presence alone, nevermind his robot army, has deterred all attempts to return to the Overworld. He's only defeated by the combined strength of the Trailblazer, Dan Heng, March 7th, Seele, Bronya, [[spoiler:Sampo, and Natasha, the leader of Wildfire]], and even then the fight was cutting it close. Later on, Luka, another senior member of Wildfire, challenges Svarog to a one-on-one spar and is soundly defeated even though Svarog is noted to be holding back.

[[folder:'''Hook''']]
!!Hook

'''Voiced by:''' Wang Xiaotong (Chinese), Creator/SoraTokui (Japanese), Lee Jae-hyun (Korean), Creator/FeleciaAngelle (English)
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->'''Rarity:''' 4★\\
'''Path:''' The Destruction\\
'''Type:''' [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]\\\

The adventurous self-proclaimed leader of the Moles, a group of friendly little troublemakers in the Underworld.\\

Hook digs away at her foes with her trusty mechanical gauntlet Diggertron, with an emphasis on pulling further mischief on Burnt foes. Her Technique and Skill, respectively ''Ack! Look at This Mess!'' and ''Hey! Remember Hook?'', have a high chance of inflicting Burn--the former, for three turns on all foes, while simultaneously damaging a random foe; the latter, for two turns against her target--allowing her to take advantage of her Talent, ''Ha! Oil to the Flames!'', which adds an auxiliary strike whenever she attacks Burnt foes. Her Ultimate, ''Boom! Here Comes the Fire!'', has her drive Diggertron onto a foe and plant an explosive, as well as enhances her next use of her Skill to expand its damage radius to foes around her target.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she can now deal more damage against Burnt foes; Burn effects inflicted by her Skill can now last three turns; her Ultimate can now slightly advance her turn; and her Talent can now heal her, as well as Burn foes adjacent to her target, whenever it is triggered.[[/note]]

* AntiDebuff: Her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Naivete'', reduces her risk of contracting crowd-control debuffs by 35%.
* BadassAdorable: Hook is a little child with some mean skills in blasting her enemies away.
* BookDumb: Struggles with formal education. Fittingly, in the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" event, when recruited as a tour guide, her Educational Value score is ''zero''.
* CooldownManipulation: Hook's sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Playing With Fire'', advances her next turn by 20% after using her Ultimate, as well as restores 5 Energy.
* CriticalHitClass: One of three stats Hook can upgrade via her Trace tree is her Critical Damage, with her getting a 13.3% boost once fully unlocked.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Hook has bright yellow hair and matching yellow eyes.
* CuteBruiser: Hook is an adorable little girl who packs an incredible punch with her giant gauntlet.
* TheCutie: She's for the most part just a CheerfulChild trying to make the best of life in the Underworld. It's hard to be mad at her for the mischief she gets up to because she's just trying to help.
* DaddysGirl: She adores her adoptive father Fersman and will do anything to make him happy.
* DamageOverTime: Her Skill and Technique inflict Burn on, respectively her target for two turns and all enemies for three turns.[[note]]Their respective Burn damage is equivalent to, respectively, 25–81.25% (depending on Trace levels) and 50% of Hook's Attack stat[[/note]] Her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Happy Tummy, Happy Body'', extends the duration of Burn inflicted by the former to three turns (hence making it last as long as those inflicted by her Technique), while her fourth, ''It's Okay to Not Know'', allows her to inflict Burn on enemies adjacent to her target should she trigger her Talent.
* EXSpecialAttack: Her Ultimate enhances the damage potency and radius of the next use of her Skill.[[note]]In base form, the Skill's damage is, depending on Trace levels, equivalent to 120–300% of Hook's Attack stat; in its enhanced form, it increases to 140–350% against her target, and 40–100% against adjacent enemies[[/note]] Her first Eidolon Resonance, ''Early to Bed, Early to Rise'', adds a 20% damage boost to the enhanced Skill.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Awfully ironic for [[CheerfulChild Hook]] to be absent from a gaming tournament being hosted in the Underworld. And what's this talk about a mysterious "Elite Player"?]]
* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: [[spoiler:At the end of her Companion Mission line, Hook sells her gem-eyed childhood teddy bear, Junjun, to earn enough money to buy a Geomarrow Probe for Fersman's birthday so he can repair his vein detector tool. But when the date of their shared birthday rolls around, it turns out he sold his vein detector to buy decorative clothes for Junjun. The achievement you get for completing her quest line is even named after the TropeNamer.]]
* HappilyAdopted: She was an orphan that Fersman adopted and the two are incredibly close.
* HavingABlast: Her Ultimate has Hook drive Diggertron on her enemy and plant a landmine that explodes on their face, in addition to enhancing the next use of her Skill.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 240–480% of her Attack stat[[/note]]
* InsultOfEndearment: She always refers to Natasha as "The Old Witch" because she finds Natasha a bit scary, but it's clear it's meant to be affectionate and she carefully avoids using that nickname in front of her.

-->(Ultimate activation) "Follow Hook if you wanna win!"
-->(Normal speed) "Pitch-Dark Hook the Great has arrived -- make, way, make way... Woo-hoo~ BANG!"
-->(×2 speed) "Dadadadadadadada... BAM!!!"
* KingOfGames: [[spoiler:She's revealed to be the "Elite Player" of the "Aetherium Wars" event that's been hyped up throughout the story]].
* TheMagnificent: She refers to herself as "Pitch-Dark Hook the Great."
* {{Malaproper}}: She likes to talk big but tends to stumble on complicated words, which adds a touch of cute awkwardness to her character.
* MeaningfulName: ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_(boxing) Hook]] is the name of a punch in boxing, which is fitting since Hook uses a PowerFist in battle.
* MightyGlacier: Though not to the extent of Clara, Hook's base Speed is slightly below average at 96, though she compensates by hitting hard and having some form of self-sustain to keep her alive.
* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: [[spoiler: When you fight her as [[TrueFinalBoss "Elite Player"]], she has two waves of Aether Spirits instead of one, and fields two Overlord Spirits in the second wave, something that you cannot do.]]
* PowerFist: She attacks with Diggertron, a massive claw-like mining tool. Her personal story reveals that Clara helped her find it.
* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: In the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" event, Hook, being a young child who lacks an education, has an appropriate Educational Value score of ''zero'', but her Tour Duration and Visitor Appeal stats are both markedly high to make up for it, representing her boundless energy and wealth of free time for the former and CheerfulChild status for the latter.
* StatusEffectPoweredAbility:
** Her Talent allows Hook to deal additional damage against Burnt enemies,[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 50–125% of her Attack stat[[/note]] as well as restores 5 Energy. In addition, her second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Innocence'', allows it to heal Hook equivalent to 5% of her Max HP whenever it is triggered.
** Her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Always Ready to Punch and Kick'', boosts her damage output by 20% against Burnt enemies.
* SmallNameBigEgo: She gives herself a fancy nickname and talks of her little gang of kids as if they were the most powerful organization in the Underworld. Unlike most examples, though, this trait ends up making Hook adorable and endearing, since she is essentially a child who likes to have big fantasies- not to mention, the Moles do end up helping Underworld denizens to a small extent. [[spoiler:When it comes to "Aetherium Wars" on the other hand, her reputation as the "Elite Player" isn't just self-proclaimed.]]
* SquareRaceRoundClass: Despite being classified as Destruction, Hook plays more like a Nihility or Hunt unit in practice, with her moveset revolving around dealing extra damage to targets inflicted with Burn with Hook having both her Skill and Technique to apply it herself. Her sole method of attacking more than one enemy is a single cast of her empowered Skill after using her ultimate. Otherwise, her damage is strictly single-target.
* TokenMiniMoe: Hook is the youngest and shortest of the playable Jarilo-VI cast.
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Don't Be Picky, Nothing's Icky'' and ''Let the Moles' Deeds Be Known'', which will add two levels to her Skill and one to Basic Attack (''Hehe! Don't Get Burned!'') with the former, and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.
* WeaponSpecialization: Hook's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/The_Moles_Welcome_You The Moles Welcomes You]]" (4★), whose "Fantastic Adventure" passive allows its wearer to gather one stack of "Mischievous" for their first use of offensive Basic Attack, Skill, or Ultimate each in a battle. Each stack increases their Attack stat by 12–24% and this can stack up to three times. This is a solid fit for Hook's purely offensive kit and the synergy between her Ultimate, Skill, and Talent.

[[folder:'''Luka''']]
!!Luka
!!!'''Introduced:''' August 9, 2023 (v1.2 "Even Immortality Ends" [second half])\\
'''Voiced by:''' Xiao Zhai (Chinese), Creator/GakutoKajiwara (Japanese), Lee Joo-seung (Korean), Creator/HowardWang (English)
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->'''Rarity:''' 4★\\
'''Path:''' The Nihility\\
'''Type:''' [[NonElemental Physical]]\\\

A prominent member of Wildfire and a boxing champion at the Underworld, well-loved for his optimism and charisma.\\
\\
Luka punches his way to victory with his emphasis on dishing further punishment on Bleeding foes. His Talent, ''Flying Sparks'', allows him to build up to four stacks of Fighting Will, which are consumed two at a time to upgrade his Basic Attack, ''Direct Punch'', into ''Sky-Shatter Fist'' that immediately triggers his target's Bleed damage, and are built with his other single-target attacks--one at a time through either his regular Basic Attack, his Technique, ''Anticipator'', which hits a random foe, or his Skill, ''Lacerating First'', the latter two being additionally able to inflict Bleed, as well as two through his Ultimate, ''Coup de Grâce'', a devastating haymaker that additionally penalizes his target beforehand with a boost to their damage intake for three turns.[[note]]When fully upgraded, he can now gain additional Energy whenever he builds stacks of Fighting Will, as well as a damage boost for two turns whenever he attacks a Bleeding enemy; his stacks of Fighting Will can now increase his Attack stat; his enhanced Basic Attack can now randomly deal extra hits, as well as additional bursts of Bleed damage depending on the number of said extra hits; and his Skill can now remove a buff, as well as build an extra stack of Fighting Will if his target is weak to Physical damage.[[/note]]

* AnArmAndALeg: As detailed on his Character Story, Luka lost his right arm when protecting a child from the Fragmentum.
* ArtificialLimbs: He has a metal prosthetic right arm.
* BeneathTheMask: On the surface, Luka is brash, headstrong, and outgoing person who's always spoiling for a fight. But he also values everyone else's lives more than his own, to the point that he smiles for the first time after losing his arm while trying to save people from the Fragmentum. Others like Natasha note that he pushes himself too hard because he's afraid of becoming a burden on others.
* BloodKnight: Luka enjoys a good brawl and embarrassed Seele by challenging her to a fight in the heat of the moment. He's disappointed that so many of his fights end in a few swings and is eager to have a match with someone stronger.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Seele is confused when Luka starts shouting the childish, "The Moltammerville warrior, the Boulder City champion, upholding justice and peace again!" after finishing his first "trial" in his Companion Mission. After finishing his second trial, he follows this up with, "The Moltammerville warrior, the Boulder City champion, defeater of evil throughout the world!" Seele has no idea where any of this comes from, as he'd never said anything like this even in the ring. [[spoiler:The end of said Quest reveals that these were the intended mottos of Margie, a terminally ill girl who looked up to him, and by reciting these he is keeping her memory alive and helping her fulfill her dreams.]]
* BoxingBattler: He often appears in the Fight Club, and his splash art features him winning a boxing match.
* BullyingADragon: Seele and the Trailblazer are taken aback when Luka challenges Svarog to a one-on-one spar. Despite Svarog's reputation as a OneManArmy and the strongest in the Underworld, Luka goes in headfirst and refuses to back down even when he's clearly outmatched.
* {{Catchphrase}}: His pre-battle catchphrase is, "Let's see some sparks fly!" He often shouts it in a match before landing the winning blow.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: His Ultimate increases his target's incoming damage for three turns before it deals damage.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the target's incoming damage is increased by 12–21.6%, and the Ultimate's damage is equivalent to 198–356.4% of Luka's Attack stat[[/note]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Discussed. According to him, the Fight Club has a saying, "Make friends with the one who hurt you the most." As a star boxer, Luka speculates that this is why everyone wants to be his friend.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: He hates vegetables and mushrooms.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He was featured in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vPZrMFiZ4&t=37s Official Release Trailer]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRojVWQBsgs SGF Show Video]] as well as the "Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat" Light Cone before becoming a playable character.
* FemaleGaze: The "Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat" Light Cone brings attention to his butt, with his front facing away and his expression seemingly inviting the viewer to examine his sweating back.
* FriendToAllChildren: Luka is noted to be great with kids, with many of them aspiring to follow his example and be just like him. Hook even calls him a member of the Moles, referring to him as "Luka Strongarm", implying that he plays with them a lot in his downtime.
* GatheringSteam: His Talent allows Luka to gather up to four stacks of Fighting Will (one at a time whenever he enters battle or he uses either his Technique, Basic Attack, or Skill; two through his Ultimate), which are consumed two at a time to enhance his Basic Attack. His second Eidolon Resonance, ''The Enemy Is Weak, I am Strong'', allows his Skill to build another stack if his target is weak to Physical damage, while his fourth, ''Never Turning Back'', boosts his Attack by 5% per stack (hence a maximum of 20%).
* GeniusBruiser: In his Companion Mission, Luka, SpiritedCompetitor extraordinaire, comes to an surprisingly sound conclusion regarding the disappearance of two robots. Given that one of them has an alarm that goes off should anyone unauthorized try to take it, he reasons that the thief broke the robot with the alarm to avoid being caught and took the other. The Trailblazer and Seele are both astonished by his deductive reasoning, to which he brags that he's not all biceps and steel.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: According to Seele, Luka is responsible for saving many lives as a senior member of Wildfire. But he isn't mentioned or alluded to at all in the Jarilo-VI arc. This is because Luka was on assignment elsewhere in the Underworld, hence why he missed the events of the story.
* HotBlooded: Always spirited and eager to get into action, often shouting loudly.
* IdiotHair: He has a single strand of hair that defies gravity, reflecting his cheery nature.
* InnocentBlueEyes: He has attractive, bubbly, cute, optimistic, yet pure and heroic blue eyes.
* {{Invocation}}:
-->(Ultimate activation) "Where's the applause?!"
-->(Normal speed) "An opponent worth their salt. Let's see some sparks fly!"
-->(×2 speed) "Let's see some sparks fly!"
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: He's remarkably blasé about the loss of his right arm. He claims he can't even recall when he lost it outside of how it was during a defense campaign. But according to him, losing his arm and the subsequent danger that came from it helped him feel truly alive for the first time. In fact, it was the first time Luka, who had been sullen and withdrawn up to that point, had ever smiled in front of Oleg.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In his Companion Mission, Seele worries for Luka, as he wasn't this much of a headstrong LargeHam the last time she saw him. Later, after Luka gets hospitalized after his spar with Svarog, talking to Oleg reveals that ever since Luka was younger, he tends to have a frown in his face, but after he lost his arm while saving civilians from Fragmentum invasion, he claimed that it was the first time he "felt truly alive" - Oleg summarizes that Luka has always been caring and thinking of others, so Oleg thinks there must be something behind his "personal trials". In the end, [[spoiler:it's revealed that those "trials" are actually [[DueToTheDead dedicated to Margie]], a dead little girl from his hometown who idolized him and dreamed of helping the civilians in their lives, beating back the monsters, and making Svarog acknowledge her strength and determination, but succumbed to her illness.]]
* PowerFist: In combat, he wields a huge mechanical gauntlet over his right arm, that he uses to deliver painful punches.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->(Enemy Target Found) "Ha, here comes the appetizer!"
-->(Battle Begins: Weakness Break) "So! Give up yet?"
-->(Battle Begins: Danger Alert) "I'm just getting started!"
* RapidfireFisticuffs: Whenever Luka has at least two stacks of Fighting Will, his Basic Attack becomes [[ExSpecialAttack enhanced]] into a three-hit punch followed by an uppercut that [[StatusEffectPoweredAbility triggers any active Bleed debuff]]. [[note]]Depending on the Basic Attack's Trace levels, the damage of each punch and the uppercut finisher are equivalent to, respectively, 10–22% and 40–88% of Luka's Attack stat, for a total of 80–176%; and depending on that of the Talent, the additional damage dealt is 68-88.4% of the Bleeding damage[[/note]] With his sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Crush Fighting Will'', each rapid punch has a [[RandomizedDamageAttack 50% chance of being repeated one more time]] (to a maximum of six punches before the uppercut), while his sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''A Champion's Applause'', increases the Bleed damage he triggers by 8% for each rapid punch he throws out (totaling 24-48%).
* RedBoxingGloves: He holds a pair of these in his splash art.
* RedIsHeroic: He has a prominent red ColorMotif, and he uses his martial prowess to protect the people of the Underworld.
* RegeneratingMana: His fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Cycle Braking'', regenerates 3 Energy for every stack of Fighting Will he gains.
* RocketPunch: His Skill has Luka fire his mechanical right fist onto his target, in addition to a 100% base chance to inflict Bleed for three turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, its damage output is equivalent to 60–132% of his Attack stat, while the Bleed effect deals damage [[PercentDamageAttack equivalent to 24% of his target's Max HP]], but can be lower if it exceeds 130%–371.8% of Luka's ATK.[[/note]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: It's implied that fighting the Fragmentum during his days in Wildfire has left some psychological scars.
* ShirtlessScene: The "Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat" Light Cone focuses on his shirtless back and drops of sweat adorning it.
* StatusBuffDispel: Luka's second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Kinetic Overload'', allows his Skill to remove one buff from his target.
* StatusEffectPoweredAbility: Aside from his enhanced Basic Attack triggering his target's existing Bleed, his first Eidolon Resonance, ''Fighting Endlessly'', increases his damage output by 15% for two turns whenever he attacks a Bleeding enemy.
* StepfordSmiler: Luka always has a smile on his face that hides a sea of emotional baggage. [[spoiler:The heaviest one involves a sick girl named Margie, one of his fans. She aspired to be strong like him, strong enough to beat up Svarog, but was bedridden due to an illness she eventually succumbed to. Luka's spent his life trying to get stronger just so he can fulfill her dream of besting him one-on-one, but he has yet to succeed.]]
* TakingUpTheMantle: [[spoiler:Luka met a DelicateAndSickly girl from his native Moltammerville named Margie who was a big fan of his and wanted to be just like him. But she was dying from her illness and eventually succumbed when her father gave Luka her notebook filled with her hopes and dreams. The three trials he put himself through for "training" are actually attempts to fulfill her dreams through him: helping people in the Underworld, beating up the Fragmentum monsters that threatened them, and defeating Svarog to reopen the path to the Overworld[[note]]While his Companion Mission takes place after Belobog's Trailblaze Missions are over (i.e Svarog no longer stands in the way thanks to the Astral Express' interference), Luka's spar with Svarog is now simply an attempt to make the latter acknowledge his strength, following Margie's writing[[/note]]. His hammy and childish post-victory slogans are recited verbatim from her notes.]]
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring his Eidolons, you can upgrade his third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Born for the Ring'' and ''The Spirit of Wildfire'', which will add two levels to his Skill and Talent with the former, and two to Ultimate and one to Basic Attack with the latter.
* WeaponSpecialization: Luka's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/Resolution_Shines_As_Pearls_of_Sweat Resolution Shines As Pearls of Sweat]]" (4★), whose "Glance Back" passive gives its wearer's attacks a 60–100% base chance to inflict the Ensnare effect (unless the target already has one), which reduces their Defense by 12–16% for one turn. This allows Luka to maximize his damage output by softening up his enemies.

[[folder:'''Natasha''']]
!!Natasha

'''Voiced by:''' Qin Ziyi (Chinese), Creator/YumiUchiyama (Japanese), Gang Eun-ae (Korean), Creator/ElizabethMaxwell (English)
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->'''Rarity:''' 4★\\
'''Path:''' The Abundance\\

A motherly doctor that treats the residents of the Underworld in her own clinic. An Underworlder by birth before she was adopted by the famed Harrower family of doctors in the Overworld, she has since returned to the Underworld to care for its people, especially in the wake of both sides of Belobog being cut off from each other in recent years.\\

Befitting her profession, Natasha is a dedicated healer, her offensive capabilities limited to firing shots from her grenade launcher courtesy of her Basic Attack, ''Behind the Kindness'', and her Technique, ''Hypnosis Research'', which hits a random foe as well as inflicts all foes with the Weaken effect for the first of battle that reduces their damage output. Her Skill, ''Love, Heal, and Choose'', is a direct targeted heal that additionally regenerates her target ally's HP for two turns afterwards, while her Ultimate, ''Gift of Rebirth'', has her toss a stuffed teddy bear that she blows up with her launcher to rain down healing confetti onto the party; all her healing potencies are enhanced through her Talent, ''Innervation'', for allies with dangerously low HP.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she can now regenerate Energy whenever she is attacked, as well as heal herself once per battle whenever her HP falls dangerously low; her Skill can now remove a debuff, and its continuous healing is extended to three turns; and her Ultimate can now heal allies one more time come their next turn whenever their HP is dangerously low.[[/note]]

* AffectionateNickname: "Nat", courtesy of Seele.
* AlternateSelf: of Raven, ''née'' Natasha Cioara, of ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd''. Similar to Raven, this Natasha has raised orphans, but are opposites in profession, with Raven being an assassin while Natasha is a doctor. Also, just like her ''Honkai Impact 3rd'' counterpart, Natasha used to have an older brother who suffered a tragic fate that continues to haunt her.
* AntiDebuff: Natasha's second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Soothe'', allows her Skill to remove one debuff from her target ally.
* BerserkButton: According to the description of the Space Anchor near her clinic, Natasha has no tolerance for people who pretend to be sick, as there are too many people in the Underworld who ''actually'' need her treatment.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Natasha is very kind and motherly; however, do not mistake that for her being a pushover. Pressing her {{Berserk Button}}s is a very bad idea. [[spoiler: She was also prepared to ''obliterate'' Svarog with her grenade launcher (while displaying an uncharacteristic snarl)... before standing down without hesitation when Clara tearfully begs her and the Trailblazer's party not to hurt Svarog.]]
* {{BFG}}: Her weapon is a massive GrenadeLauncher.
* BoringButPractical: She's about as straightforward of a healer as you can get, meaning that while her abilities are nothing fancy, they do their job reliably well in ensuring your party's survival.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Vache's Cain, who was a doctor obsessed with creating a medicine that would help people stave off the cold of Jarilo-VI to the point that he indirectly used his patients as test subjects, distributing experimental medication with grievous side-effects.
* CombatMedic: Downplayed. She may be a doctor with a fearsome grenade launcher, but gameplay-wise her offensive prowess is negligible. Her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Doctor's Grace'', partially ameliorates it, as it gives her Basic Attack an extra damage burst equivalent to 40% of her Max HP, letting her deal decent damage for a healer.
* DamageReduction: Indirectly, as her Technique inflicts all enemies with Weaken for one turn, reducing their damage output by 30%, as well as damages a random enemy.[[note]]With damage equivalent to 80% of Natasha's Attack stat[[/note]]
* DefenseMechanismSuperpower: Her first Eidolon Resonance, ''Pharmacology Expertise'', allows her to immediately heal herself once per battle if her HP falls under 30%.[[note]]Healing is equivalent to 15%+400 of her Max HP[[/note]]
* DisownedSibling: Natasha had a brother named Vache who was a doctor like her. But she's horrified when she learns how he used her clinic to turn the poor and sick of the Underworld into {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s for his experiments into making mankind immune to the cold. Natasha then disowned him and had him banished to the frozen wastes outside of Belobog. Oleg remarks that Vache likely would have been executed on the spot if Natasha weren't so clearly conflicted about this because of her familial love for Vache.
* ExposedToTheElements: Subverted and PlayedForDrama. In "Blizzard Immunity", Natasha is insistent on venturing into the Snow Plains outside of Belobog in search of her brother and his work. But she remains dressed in the same labcoat she's usually in because of much of a hurry she was in and not leaving Belobog in years. As a result, she's quickly encumbered by the cold, as even her voice lines have her gasping for air as she struggles to deal with the freezing temperatures she's not used to.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The "We are Wildfire" Light Cone explains that members of Wildfire wear red armbands to signify membership, as seen with Seele, Oleg, and Luka. In the story, the first person you meet in the Underworld was Natasha, who also wears the red armband, [[spoiler:though she is not identified as the true leader of Wildfire until after the Astral Express's battle with Svarog]].
* FriendToAllChildren: She used to run an orphanage in Rivet Town before it was taken over by the Fragmentum. Seele [[spoiler:and Bronya]] are among the many children who have become well-adjusted adults in her care. In the present, she continues to play a motherly role to the many children in Boulder Town, including Hook, and her full Warp art depicts children wanting to play with her.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Natasha is a very kind and motherly doctor, but she can also be quite stern and strict towards naughty children and unruly patients who don't follow her orders, as Seele can attest to in her voiceline about her. She's also not above making thinly veiled threats against neglectful parents who don't visit their children, as one of her notebooks shows. [[spoiler:As the leader of Wildfire, Natasha would have killed Svarog without hesitation had Clara not pleaded with her to stop. Afterward, Natasha admits that she was laying plans to get rid of Svarog for the sake of freeing the Underworlders, and is glad that the Astral Express crew threw a wrench in those same plans.]]
* HappilyAdopted: She grew up in an orphanage in the Underground until she was taken in by the Harrower family, an Overworld family of doctors. Her adoptive mother treated her as her own flesh and blood and her adoptive brother, Vache, was gentle with her most of the time. This love for her family blinded her to the nature of Vache's experiments until it was too late.
* HealerSignsOnEarly: Assuming you didn't roll any other Abundance Pathstriders really early on, Natasha is a dedicated healer who can be made available solely through story progression.
* HospitalHottie: She's a very beautiful doctor, and there are more than a few dialogue options that acknowledge this. It's implied that some people have tried faking illness just to have an excuse to see her. Her Ultimate even begins with a MaleGaze to her chest.

-->(Ultimate activation) "Hmph, just in time."
-->(Normal speed and ×2 speed) " Just a little something. Think nothing of it."
* TheLeader: [[spoiler:She is the true leader of Wildfire, with Oleg acting as her face.]]
* MsFanservice: Natasha wears a FormFittingWardrobe that puts a lot of focus on her legs and her ample breasts, with her Ultimate even [[MaleGaze beginning with a focus on the latter]].
* MyGreatestFailure: Natasha is haunted by her failure to notice that her brother Vache had been turning the sick of the Underworld into {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s for his research into making humanity immune to the cold of the Eternal Freeze. Given that he was using her clinic to distribute the medicine, Natasha blames herself for letting her familial love for her brother blind her to what he was doing until people had already gotten sick and died from his experiments.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Natasha is old enough to have served in the military together with Pela's late mother Penya. While we are not given exact dates, the resumé she submitted as part of her application as volunteer tour guide in the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event spans at least fifteen years of experience, if not more, since she graduated from medical school, not counting the decade she spent in the Underworld. She also used to run an orphanage and looked after Seele, who is now a young adult. By all estimates Natasha has to be in her mid- to late 40s ''at the youngest'' but you would never think that looking at her.
* OnlyOneName: Natasha was an orphan, so she never knew the surname of her biological parents, and while she was adopted by the Harrower family of doctors, they never had her take on their family name, as they wanted her to be more than just another footnote in the family's history.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->(Battle Begins: Weakness Break) "That'll take more than medicine."
* RegeneratingHealth:
** In addition to an instant heal,her Skill gradually regenerates her ally's HP for two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, healing per turn is equivalent to (4.8%+48)–(8.4%+246) of Natasha's Max HP[[/note]] Her sixth-ascension Trace, ''Recuperation'', extends the regeneration to three turns.
** Natasha's second Eidolon Resonance, ''Clinical Research'', bestows upon her Ultimate the ability to confer an extra healing burst for allies whose HP is no more than 30% at the time she triggers the Ultimate.[[note]]With healing equivalent to 6%+160 of her Max HP[[/note]]
* RegeneratingMana: Natasha's fourth Eidolon Resonance, ''Miracle Cure'', regenerates 5 Energy whenever she is attacked.
* ShedTheFamilyName: {{Inverted|trope}}. She didn't take up the family name "Harrower", despite wanting to because she was HappilyAdopted, on the urging of her parents because they wanted her to be able to shine by her own merits as an accomplished doctor instead of being overshadowed by the lineage of a family full of doctors.
* ShipTease: The dialogue options for both Trailblazers when talking to her are quite flirtatious.
* StarterMon: Aside from the Gacha, she can be unlocked just through playing the story. Unless you've been rolling Warps extensively, she will likely be the first healer you have access to.
* StealthPun: She's a doctor, and she is Physical-type. [[spoiler:She's a physician.]]
* TraumaButton: She doesn't take kindly to anyone trying to dig up and redistribute her adoptive older brother Vache's "wonder medicine" under false pretenses that it's a better cure for illnesses than any of the treatments she's offered, especially if the aim for said redistribution is to [[OnlyInItForTheMoney make money]], considering she knows the full extent of Vache's immoral experiments and the severe damage his drug can do to the human body. Disposing of the drug has become Natasha's top priority to ensure the safety of her patients.
* UpbringingMakesTheHero: In ''Honkai Impact 3rd'', Natasha was raised by World Serpent, a millenia-old cult, turning her into an AntiVillain bounty hunter. In ''Honkai: Star Rail'', Natasha was instead taken in by a family of doctors who showered her with love and affection. This is why she became a doctor instead of a brutal killer. [[spoiler:Though, like in ''[=HI3rd=]'', she can be ruthless when the chips are down, as she was preparing to kill Svarog for the sake of reopening the path to the Overworld.]]
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''The Right Cure'' and ''Preventive Treatment'', which will add two levels to her Skill and and one to Basic Attack with the former, and her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.
* WeaponSpecialization: Natasha's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/Post-Op_Conversation Post-Op Conversation]]" (4★), whose "Mutual Healing" passive increases its wearer's Energy Regeneration Rate by 8–16%, as well as Outgoing Healing by 12–24% when using their Ultimate. This Light Cone empowers her Ultimate to make it heal more HP, and make her charge Energy quicker so she can use the move more frequently.
* WhiteMage: Her kit is all about healing. In particular, her Skill and Ultimate does so on, respectively, one ally and the entire party[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, their healing potency are equivalent to, respectively, (7%–12.25%)+(70–358.75) and (9.2–16.1%)+(92–471.5) of Natasha's Max HP[[/note]] In addition, her Talent boosts her healing for allies whose HP is no more than 30%.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the multiplier increases by 25–62.5%[[/note]] Furthermore, her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Healer'', boosts her Outgoing Healing by 10%.
* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler:She immediately backs off from finishing off Svarog when Clara [[GoThroughMe puts herself between them.]]]]

[[folder:'''Seele''']]
!!Seele

'''Voiced by:''' Tang Yajing (Chinese), Creator/MaiNakahara (Japanese), Song Ha-rim (Korean), Creator/MollyZhang (English)
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%%[[caption-width-right:350:Butterfly of Tempest]]
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->'''Rarity:''' 5★\\
'''Path:''' The Hunt\\
'''Type:''' Quantum\\\

A prominent member of Wildfire. Raised as an orphan on the lawless streets of Rivet Town, Seele is a headstrong girl who prefers to act first, ask questions later and puts everything she has on the line to keep the peace in the Underworld with her trusty scythe. Due to the Supreme Guardian's decree cutting off communication and travel between the Overworld and the Underworld early in her childhood, Seele harbors a deep-seated resentment of Overworlders--an icy surface that slowly begins to break when she gets to know Cocolia's daughter, Bronya.\\

Seele swiftly dispatches her foes with her scythe and her Talent, ''Resurgence'', which gives her an extra turn whenever she defeats her target, as well as puts her in a buffed state that enhances her attacks for one turn. Her Skill, ''Sheathed Blade'', additionally boosts her Speed for two turns, while her Ultimate, ''Butterfly Flurry'', has her warp all over her target and hack away at them, as well as allows her to automatically enter the buffed state. In addition, her Technique, ''Phantom Illusion'', allows her to enter Stealth mode, rendering her immune to enemy detection and allowing her to enter the buffed state at the start of battle.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she enjoys a reduced risk of being attack whenever she has no more than half her HP and heightened Critical Damage if her target has low enough HP, as well as regenerate additional Energy whenever she defeats her target; her buffed state can now increase her Quantum Resistance Penalty; her Basic Attack can now slightly advance her turn; her Skill's Speed buff can now be stacked twice; and her Ultimate can now inflict the same-named Butterfly Flurry effect on her target, which deals additional Quantum damage whenever they are attacked.[[/note]]

* AlternateSelf: of Seele Vollerei from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' as well as its predecessor game ''[=Guns GirlZ=]'', complete with similar clothing, but with an aggressive personality that is closer to "Dark Seele." This Seele is also a Quantum-type like her ''[=HI3=]'' counterpart.
* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies, just like her ''Honkai Impact 3rd'' counterpart. As shown in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXVQmHxAnAE "Uneventful Night"]] trailer, she's called the "Butterfly of Tempest," purple butterflies appear as particle effects whenever she [[FlashStep teleports]] or attacks, she lets a butterfly land on her hand during her IdleAnimation, and near the end of that trailer, she gains large butterfly wings on her back. Her alias in the Underworld is "Babochka," meaning "butterfly." They also appear in her character splash artwork, her longcoat is reminiscent of butterfly wings, and the red ribbon on her left arm is shaped like a red butterfly. The icons of her four Combat Skills, two Bonus Abilities, and four Eidolon Resonances all have butterfly wings; her Ultimate is named "Butterfly Flurry"; and when unleashing the latter, [[{{Invocation}} she always says]] "Disappear among the sea of butterflies... illusions of the past!" Then in Bronya's fourth Character Story, Seele is also described as a "woman looking like a butterfly."
* AtomicSuperpower: As a counterpart of Seele Vollerei, Seele weaponizes quantum-based abilities, mainly space-time manipulation to achieve SuperSpeed and to attack from multiple directions at once despite her radically different upbringing as an orphan in a steampunk industrial mining town.
* BadassLongcoat: Her longcoat resembles a butterfly, fitting for her tougher exterior in contrast with her gentler ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' counterpart.
* BigDamnHeroes: Her first introduction involves her slicing apart a bullet being shot at Bronya with her Ultimate.
* BookDumb: Being a street orphan, she naturally did not receive education and thus hates reading. After "Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream" where the planet barely escaped the threat of the [[TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe vastly more advanced IPC]] taking over, Seele admits that not every problem can be solved with violence and thus resolves to study more to become more helpful to the people and Bronya.
* ChainLethalityEnabler: Her Talent grants her an ExtraTurn whenever any of her attacks score a kill, as well as puts her in a buffed state with heightened damage output.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, her damage increases by 40–100%[[/note]] In addition, her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Lacerate'', adds a 20% boost to the Quantum Resistance Penalty of her attacks whenever she enters said buffed state. Note that you can't trigger this effect again if she defeats another enemy during the extra turn, but the effect triggered by her Basic Attack/Skill and Ultimate are considered separate from each other, potentially allowing her to act four times per turn. Also, the extra turn won't deplete the buffs on her that have per-turn duration.
* CooldownManipulation: Her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Rippling Waves'', allows her Basic Attack to advance her next turn by 20%.
* CrissCrossAttack: Her Ultimate has her rushing towards her target and performing blindingly fast dashing slashes from many directions at once.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the move deals damage equal to 255%–459% of her ATK to a single enemy[[/note]]
* CriticalHitClass:
** One of three stats Seele can upgrade via her Trace tree is her Critical Damage, with her getting a 24% boost once fully unlocked.
** Her first Eidolon Resonance gives her a 15% Crit Rate boost when attacking enemies who are at 80% HP or lower.
* EncounterRepellent: Her Technique renders her [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]] and undetectable by enemies for twenty seconds, resets their AlertnessBlink if she has been noticed beforehand, and allows her to enter the buffed state once she initiates combat.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: In "Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream", when the Trailblazer and March 7th go around on Bronya's behalf to collect votes from the people to "go with freedom or security" and end with a tie, they consult Seele, thinking her opinion will matter a lot. After explaining the matter to her, she decides... to abstain, saying the responsibility of making the decision should rest on [[spoiler:the new Supreme Guardian]] and she shouldn't be influencing her decision too much, while also saying that she'll support the latter's decision, whatever it may be. Upon returning to give the vote's results to Bronya, the latter predictably asks about Seele's opinion, and they truthfully relay Seele's decision to let Bronya decide by herself. In short, Seele knows she'll be a big influence in Bronya's decision and thus chose to step out of it to ensure Bronya can remain neutral.
* ExposedToTheElements: Despite her outfit leaving her cleavage, shoulders, and a majority of her legs exposed, Seele never shows any discomfort dealing with Belobog's extreme cold, as shown in the later part of Belobog's Trailblaze Mission.
* FlashStep: Seele can perform short-ranged teleportations, a feat which is best demonstrated in a cutscene when she rushed in to help the Trailblazer [[spoiler:climb the Engine of Creation]]. During TurnBasedCombat, she just teleports to her target whenever she uses her Skill, then teleports back to her original position afterwards.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being BookDumb, almost illiterate and having no education, when recruited as a tour guide for the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event, her Educational Value stat is a decent 72.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: {{Downplayed|trope}}, but for all her tomboyish traits, Seele still hits this. One Express chat, after taking a tour of March's room and feeling inspired by the train's overall design, has her gleefully express how she wants a life-sized Pom-Pom doll because they're so soft and fluffy, promptly [[CutenessProximity losing track of the conversation.]]
* GlassCannon: Seele is very fast and hits incredibly hard, and can build up quite the streak when she gets going, but she has poor durability as a Hunt Pathstrider.
* HatesReading: In one of her text message conversations, she admits she's not fond of reading because it's tiring and uses her brain power. Bronya also gave her a huge list of book recommendations, but she ends up getting drowsy just by going through a few pages. This is a MythologyGag to "Dark Seele" of ''Honkai Impact 3rd''; Bronya of that game once noted that Seele may sometimes quickly fell asleep not long after reading books, when she normally enjoys reading.
* IdiotHair: Sports a small one above her forehead.

-->(Ultimate activation) "I'll free you from your chains."
-->(Normal speed and ×2 speed) "Disappear among the sea of butterflies... illusions of the past!"
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Seele is a tough, harsh, and aggressive girl, ''especially'' towards Bronya when they first meet, but as the story goes on, she starts to soften up quite a bit [[spoiler:after she learns that Bronya was an Undergrounder like her, and the two become quite close.]]
* LeotardOfPower: It's a little hard to notice under the rest of her clothing and accessories, but the innermost layer of her outfit is a skintight white leotard.
* ManaDrain: Seele's fourth Eidolon Resonance, ''Flitting Phantasm'', restores 15 Energy whenever she defeats an enemy.
* MeaningfulName: During the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities", she mentions that Oleg gave her the name "Seele", with him claiming that it's an old Belobogian word for "soul". She interprets it as her being an elusive "phantom" towards troublemakers in the Underworld.
* NavelOutline: Courtesy of her skintight leotard. Emphasized more as Seele's navel and abs are ''sculpted'' as part of her character model, with her muscle tone made more apparent when they are highlighted by light and shadows from certain angles.
* OneHandedZweihander: Several of Seele's attack animations have her swing her scythe with one hand with no difficulty despite it being nearly as long as she is tall.
* OnlyOneName: During the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" event, she specifically states that she has no surname when the Trailblazer is helping her fill out a resumé. The Trailblazer can [[LiteralMinded decide to take this literally]] and list her as "Seele No-Last-Name". In previous Honkai games, her surname was "Vollerei" that means "gluttony".
* PurpleIsPowerful: She's one of the strongest members of Wildfire and a powerful DPS unit overall, and her [[CurtainsMatchTheWindows hair, eyes]], BadassLongcoat, [[SinisterScythe scythe]], and the flash she emits when using her powers are all purple in color.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes briefly turn red when unleashing her Ultimate.
* ReduceAggro: Seele's second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Nightshade'', reduces her risk of being attacked whenever she has no more than half her HP.
* ReverseGrip: She holds her scythe with its blade pointed towards the ground in her idle animation in battle and swings it while held in an ice sickle grip in some of her attack animations.
* RummageSaleReject: In contrast to how most of the Undergrounders dress, both playable and NPC, Seele's outfit stands out quite a bit.
* SecretKeeper: By the end of the Jarilo-VI Trailblaze Mission, she's the only native besides Bronya to know that [[spoiler:Cocolia had been corrupted by the Stellaron and was plotting to destroy humanity]], agreeing to take this knowledge to the grave.
* SinisterScythe: She wields a scythe in battle.
* SituationalSword: Her first Eidolon Resonance, ''Extirpating Slash'', boosts her Critical Rate by 15% against enemies with no more than 80% of their HP.
* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: By the end of the Jarilo-VI Trailblaze Mission, Bronya and Seele become VitriolicBestBuds, if not outright TrueCompanions. Seele, whose unique ability is to get an ExtraTurn upon defeating an enemy, can take advantage of Bronya's action advance and buff to quickly finish off one (or two) enemy unit(s) and/or deal additional damage to bosses. This synergy encourages players to put both of them in the same party. After v1.4, one of the special tutorials are dedicated to the two of them, showcasing their synergy.
* SpeedBlitz: Her Skill has Seele blitzing around her target while slashing them from different sides.
* SprintShoes: Her Skill boosts her Speed by 25% for two turns, in addition to dealing damage.[[note]]Depending on Trace level, damage is equivalent to 110–275% of Seele's Attack stat[[/note]] Seele's second Eidolon Resonance, ''Dancing Butterfly'', allows the speed boost to be stacked twice (for a total of 50%).
* StatusEffectPoweredAbility: Seele's sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Shattering Shambles'', gives her Ultimate the ability to mark its target with a debuff that deals additional damage (equivalent to 15% of that of the Ultimate) whenever they are attacked until Seele's next turn. This additional damage will not trigger her Talent, however.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is a tough and aggressive rebel from the streets, while Bronya is a stoic, polite, and well-educated ProperLady raised in luxury. Despite some initial conflict, the two [[InterclassFriendship eventually became fast friends]].
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Dazzling Tumult'' and ''Piercing Shards'', which will add two levels to her Skill and Talent with the former, and two to her Ultimate and one to Basic Attack (''Thwack'') with the latter.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Bronya. Despite their close friendship, it's not uncommon for them to get into arguments with each other over various differences in opinion.
* WeaponSpecialization: Seele's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/In_the_Night In the Night]]" (5★), whose "Flowers and Butterflies" passive increases its wearer's Critical Rate by 18–30%, as well as builds up to six stacks of a 6–10% damage boost to their Basic Attack and Skill and a 12–20% boost to the Critical Damage of their Ultimate for every ten points of their Speed stat above 100 (for a maximum of 36–60% to the former and 72–120% to the latter), hence capitalizing on Seele's naturally high base Speed of 115 as well as incentivizing players to make her faster, and thus deadlier at the same time.
* {{Workaholic}}: Seele has spent so much of her life keeping the peace in the Underground as part of Wildfire that after the separation of the Underworld and Overworld is lifted, she chose to stay in the Underworld and keep doing her usual work of helping its people. If you talk to Bronya in Qlipoth Fort, she mentions that both her and Seele have their own areas of responsibilities, and both can respect that.

[[folder:Findie]]
!!The Home-Use Object Finder: Richard / Findie
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TiaBallard (English)
A robot from the Interastral Peace Corporation that was stranded in the Belobog Underworld for 700 years following the emergence of the Eternal Freeze. After being discovered by the Astral Express crew, it assists them by finding hidden objects for them, hence its name.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When the Astral Express crew encounters Findie, they learn that it isn't just a generically helpful robot by being a DeadpanSnarker who quickly drops a YourMom retort the moment Dan Heng calls Findie an antiquity.
-->"Beep, beep, beep... Your ''mom's'' an antiquity!"
* RagnarokProofing: Findie was stranded in the Underworld since the onset of the Eternal Freeze, and despite centuries of isolation and the harsh environment of Jarilo-VI, it's still working just fine even though it notes it's long overdue for maintenance with a damaged brainwave scanner module. This is made even more impressive by the fact that the Astral Express crew considers this Findie to be an outdated model compared to the more advanced models that came since, and it can still connect to the IPC's internet despite the Stellaron having cut off communication with Jarilo-VI from the rest of the galaxy by that point.
* RobotBuddy: In general, the Home-Use Object Finder series was created by the IPC to serve this role to patrons who buy them in order to search for misplaced or lost items. For this specific Findie though, it serves this role for the Astral Express crew in Belobog after being found, and it helps out by searching for hidden items throughout the Jarilo-VI story and some sidequests. It does this by splitting its body into seven segments, each pointing a light at the hidden object's location with the color of the lights determining the object's distance.
* VerbalTic: Findie always begins its speech with its characteristic "Beep, beep, beep..." sounds.

[[folder:Oleg]]
!!Oleg
The leader of Wildfire, a grassroots security organization responsible for keeping the peace in the Underworld.

* IChooseToStay: Oleg is the [[RetiredBadass retired]] captain of the Silvermane Guard detachment at the Underworld, but when the Guards were called off to the Overworld for the blockade, he decided to use his work experience to create and manage a peacekeeping organization in the Guards' absence.
* NumberTwo: While on paper he is leading the organization, in truth [[spoiler:he is acting on behalf of Natasha, who prefers to keep her affiliation under wraps lest it conflict with her day job as doctor]].
* PromotionToParent: Seele's second Character Story anecdote, as well as the artwork for the Light Cone "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/We_Are_Wildfire We Are Wildfire]]," imply that Oleg was her father figure since childhood.
* WeHelpTheHelpless: As the leader of Underworld grassroots peacekeeping group, he also mobilizes his members to help the populace in their daily lives. He's usually a few hands short, however, which the Moles see as an advantage to make the effort to help people and spread the name of the gang in the process. Oleg secretly knew of their activities and is proud of them for being good, helpful kids.

[[folder:'''Gepard''']]
!!Gepard Landau
!!!'''Introduced:''' April 26, 2023 (v1.0 "The Rail Unto the Stars" [game launch])\\
'''Voiced by:''' Ma Yang (Chinese), Creator/MakotoFurukawa (Japanese), Min Seung-woo (Korean), Creator/BrysonBaugus (English)
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%%[[caption-width-right:350:Stout Defender of the Union]]
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->'''Rarity:''' 5★\\
'''Path:''' The Preservation\\
'''Type:''' [[AnIcePerson Ice]]\\\

A captain of the Silvermane Guards. Dedicated to his duties the Supreme Guardian, he can be singleminded in performing said duties, even if that brings him into some conflict with his rebellious older sister Serval.\\
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Gepard alternates between stopping his enemies cold with his Skill, ''Daunting Smite'', which has a high chance of Freezing his target with a bash of his reinforced guitar case, and providing Shields onto the party, either for the first two turns of battle with his Technique, ''Comradery'', or three with his Ultimate, ''Enduring Bulwark'', where he punches the ground to generate a wall of icicles. In addition, his Talent, ''Unyielding Will'', rescues him from otherwise fatal hits once per battle.[[note]]When fully upgraded, he gains a variable Attack boost proportional to his current Defense during any given turn; his Skill can now inflict a one-turn Speed reduction should it Freeze his target; and his Talent will immediately fill his Energy once it is triggered as well as immediately bring forward his turn.[[/note]]

* AchillesHeel: Gepard's primary means of actively mitigating damage (as opposed to merely [[DrawAggro making people hit him]] is the massive shield offered by his Ultimate. This makes him potentially capable of doing his job while constantly spamming basic attacks to generate skill points for other party members, but also means that he is rather reliant on generating enough energy in order to get his shield ready again. In most cases, having enough Energy Regeneration Rate and his DrawAggro can help, to allow him to gather more energy by tanking hits, but the other party members may not be so lucky - especially if the enemies pack {{Herd Hitting Attack}}s. If he doesn't have enough energy before starting a battle, his Technique can help in generating shields at the start of the battle, but that would mean burning through limited resources which you might find better uses on. Moreover, his shields are tied to each party members' turn, meaning that the speedier members of the team may run out of his shield faster than intended.

* AutoRevive: His Talent saves Gepard from otherwise fatal hits once per battle and heals him immediately afterwards.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, healing is equivalent to 25–62.5% of his Max HP[[/note]] In addition, his fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Commander'', allows it to immediately fill up his Energy, allowing him to immediately protect himself by erecting Shields with his Ultimate before enemies have a chance to knock him back down again; and his sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Unyielding Resolve'', allows the Talent to advance his next turn immediately, as well as increase its healing potency by half of his Max HP.[[note]]The latter point means that, with high Trace levels, Gepard is guaranteed to be completely healed[[/note]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. His Talent can end up falling into this--among the launch lineup, this Talent is one of two sources of revival, and is undoubtedly powerful. In the right circumstances, it can turn a sure defeat into a close victory. However, because Gepard's kit seeks to negate as much incoming damage as possible, playing his character optimally means his Talent should rarely be triggered, if ever. This also extends to his 4th Ascension bonus ability and 6th Eidolon upgrade, which are tied to his Talent.

* BarrierWarrior: Both his Ultimate and Technique erects Shields to his allies for, respectively, three and two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, his Ultimate creates shields with resilience equivalent to 30%–48% of Gepard's DEF plus 150–667.5, while those of his Technique are worth 24% of his DEF plus 150[[/note]]

* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: He is a stern and direct soldier and the most physically focused of the three Landau siblings. Fittingly enough, he primarily fights with a huge reinforced guitar case (which belonged to Serval) big and heavy enough to be swung about like a TelephonePolearm and [[GoodOldFisticuffs his fists.]]
* TheCaptain: It's his rank, and he's apparently quite young for it, but Serval's Companion Mission perfectly demonstrates that he ''earned'' the rank beyond just his martial prowess. When an unexpected Fragmentum attack in the Underworld mines suddenly threatens Boulder Town, Gepard wastes zero time in mobilizing his own troops to secure its border and defend the town alongside Wildfire, setting up rescue ops for the miners still trapped inside the mine, and diving straight to the frontlines to see to the rescues himself. Oleg, himself an OldSoldier, recognizes this quality in Gepard and doesn't hesitate in offering his respect and support.

* DamagerHealerTank: Forms this trifecta with his sisters for a highly effective SiblingTeam. As the Preservation Tank, Gepard's increased aggro and shields will soak a majority of incoming punishment, with the Freeze of his Skill helping tamp down on incoming damage output.
* {{Determinator}}: As explained by his sister Serval, Gepard will never back down once he starts a fight, be it a brawl or an argument. This becomes DetrimentalDetermination when he values his orders from Cocolia over Serval's pleas to let her reach the Stellaron so the Nameless can end the Eternal Freeze.

* DrawAggro: Gepard's second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Integrity'', increases his chance of being the target of enemy attacks, both allowing him to actively tank damage for his squishier party members, and generating a significant amount of energy for him in the process.
* TheDutifulSon: In stark contrast to his sister Serval, Gepard is a stern and professional solder who feels compelled to follow in the duties expected of him as a [[BadassFamily Landau]].

* FamilyThemeNaming: Gepard and his sisters, Serval and Lynx, are named after big wild cats from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_felids felidae]] family.[[note]]"Gepard" being the German word for "cheetah"[[/note]].

* GuiltTripping: In their companion mission, Serval thinks he's doing this to her, to make her stay in Belobog in spite of her wish to leave it. Gepard requested her to accompany him to the Underworld, supposedly because she won't see them and him again for some time; though it doesn't help that throughout the mission, [[ContrivedCoincidence she keeps encountering things related to her past, as well as other things that go against her decision of leaving her home]]. He then later says to her directly that "running away doesn't solve the problem"[[note]]the context was that she's running away from Landau house because of her disagreement with her father, but it can also be applicable to her current decision of leaving Belobog[[/note]] and how he's not trying to change her mind, but he needs to make sure she really thought things through and isn't just trying to run away from her problems, and he also seemingly alludes to himself and Serval when he's talking to a rescued pair of siblings, particularly about how they should protect each other; she calls him out for said speech, but he claims that it was how he has always felt.

* IronicName: "Gepard" is German for cheetah, an animal that is known for being a FragileSpeedster, while Gepard himself is a MightyGlacier.

* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's a prestigious captain in the Silvermane Guards and takes orders directly from Bronya and Cocolia. He's also by ''far'' the toughest of the Silvermane Guards and is the last man standing when he comes to blows with the heroes over Cocolia's orders to arrest them as insurgents for trying to take the Stellaron.

* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: As a guest assistant for the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event, Gepard, being preoccupied with his duties to the Silvermane Guards, has the lowest Tour Duration stat of the nine such characters at 5 out of 100, in contrast to his Educational Value and Visitor Appeal stats which both fall in the 80s, which reflect his intellect and popularity.
* StatusInflictionAttack: His Skill has Gepard swing his guitar case with a 65% base chance to Freeze an enemy, forcing them to lose a turn and take damage afterwards.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the Skill's damage is equivalent to 100–250% of his Attack stat, and 30–75% for Freeze[[/note]] His first Eidolon Resonance, ''Due Diligence'', grants additional 35% base chance for the skill to Freeze, while his second, ''Lingering Cold'', imposes a 20% Speed penalty for the next turn once the target is unfrozen.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: All Landau siblings share the same shade of blonde hair and blue eyes.

* WakeUpCallBoss: World 3 is the first "proper" world in the Simulated Universe, and as its boss, Gepard introduces you to the "Complete" versions of the story bosses you'll be facing from now on, and he's liable to give you a good thrashing to demonstrate this. His ''Garrison Aura Field'' tests your ability to maintain a constant offense while still keeping your party alive against a formation of enemies immune to almost all crowd-control. Gepard is also the first boss to possess the infinitely-stacking damage buff all future bosses will have, putting you on a time limit to break through his defenses before he and his goons overwhelm you.

'''Type:''' Quantum\\\

The youngest daughter of the Landau family, Serval and Gepard's younger sister, and one of Belobog's most talented explorers in extreme environments.\\

Lynx shares her survival skills to her allies through her Talent, ''Outdoor Survival Experience'', which for two turns gradually heals targeted allies, which are granted through her other abilities: her Skill ''Salted Camping Cans'' heals one ally, which additionally boosts their Max HP, bestows the "Survival Response" state which enhances the Talent's healing for two turns, and increases enemy aggression towards them if they are a Destruction or Preservation Pathstrider; her Ultimate ''Snowfield First Aid'' heals the whole party, where she tosses a giant medicine pill that additionally removes a debuff; and her Technique, ''Chocolate Energy Bar'', which grants the talent's effect at the beginning of the battle.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she immediately regenerates Energy whenever allies with Survival Response are attacked; her healing increases if her allies have no more than half their HP; the Survival Response state can now block one debuff and boost the affected ally's Attack for one turn, as well as extended to three turns; and her Talent's duration is now extended to three turns.[[/note]]

** Lynx can mass-dispel debuffs from the entire party with her Ultimate.
** Her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Exploration Techniques'', increases her chances of resisting crowd control debuffs by 35%.
** Her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Noon of Portable Furnace'', grants a one-time debuff block to Survival Response, and her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Dawn of Explorers' Chart'', additionally gives Survival Response 30% more Effect Resistance.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's the youngest child of the Landau family, which leads to her being doted and fretted on quite often by her older siblings Gepard and Serval. This becomes a source of conflict for Lynx during her companion mission, as she dislikes being coddled by them, knowing she's all grown up now.

* BagOfHolding: For an outdoorswoman Lynx carries a surprisingly small rucksack; it barely reaches her lower back but is shown to contain far more than its size would allow. Upon casting her ultimate Lynx reaches into her pack and removes a tin of sardines, a snowboard, a large camping flashlight and an entire fish on a skewer, before finally pulling out a medicinal pill nearly as big as she is.
* BoldExplorer: Lynx spends her time beyond Belobog's walls, exploring the planet's frozen landscape and engaging in arctic research. Her character art shows her living in a tent, ice fishing for food, and enjoying the hot beverage from her thermos while smiling happily at the aurora. Her character quest follows her and Pela going on on a camping trip in the hopes of seeing the first post-Stellaron crisis aurora together.
* BreakingOldTrends: Lynx is one of two of the first playable characters in the game (the other being Fu Xuan, released at the same time) whose Basic Attack scales purely off of a non-ATK stat (max HP in her case), when others have their Basic Attack traditionally scales off of their ATK stat regardless if their kit gravitate towards scaling off of a different stat.
* BrilliantButLazy: Lynx is a highly-talented explorer, but comes across as lazy and unmotivated to avoid unnecessary socialization, which to her is basically ''all'' socialization in general.
* CombatMedic: Lynx's Basic Attack, ''Ice Crampon Technique'', scales off of her max HP, letting her deal decent damage when built as intended.
* CordonBleughChef: With a dash of survival-camping-variety ForeignQueasine; Pela tries and fails to take over cooking duties when she hears Lynx's proposed stew which includes, among other things, mimic slug (a camouflaging snow slug) and ''canned sardines''. {{Subverted|trope}} when the resulting dish turns out looking and tasting delicious. Lynx's stew tasting good is even more impressive considering her canned sardines appear to be based on surströmming, an infamously stinky kind of fermented herring from Sweden. Pela explicitly calls the sardines "surströmming" in her Japanese voice lines.
* DamagerHealerTank: Forms this trifecta with her siblings for a highly effective SiblingTeam. As the Abundance Pathstrider, Lynx's Survival Response buff makes Gepard a much better tank, while her regeneration effect frees her up to supply Serval with Skill Points through her Basic Attack.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Lynx and her older siblings, Gepard and Serval, are named after big wild cats from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_felids felidae]] family.
* GlacierWaif: Building Lynx to maximize her HP restoring abilities AND her damage means stacking max HP, truly turning this young-looking girl into a hardy survivalist that can handle any attacks thrown her way.
* HealingHands: Her Skill heals a single ally[[note]]by 8%--12.8% of Lynx's Max HP plus 80--356 depending on Trace levels[[/note]], while her Ultimate heals the whole party[[note]]by 9%--14.4% of Lynx's Max HP plus 90--400.5 depending on Trace levels[[/note]]

* JustAKid: For all her adventuring prowess, her older siblings still consider her a child, much to her chagrin. Her Companion Mission also begins with Gepard and Serval summoning the Trailblazer to watch over Lynx from the shadows upon learning that she is going out with a stranger (unbeknownst to them, Pela).
* LadyOfAdventure: The youngest child of the prominent Landau family, Lynx has chosen to leave the safety of Belobog for a life of adventure. Though still young, she's already established herself as one of the best extreme environment explorers in the world. It began from her desire to see the world outside Belobog and look for its wonders which she read from books.

* PowerfulPick: [[WeaponsOfTheirTrade Fitting with her profession]], she uses her ice pick for her Basic Attack.

* RegeneratingHealth: Her Talent gives both her Skill and Ultimate an HP regeneration effect for two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, equivalent to (2.4–3.84%)+(24–106.8) of her Max HP at base, which can increase by (3–4.8%)+(30–133.5) if the ally has Survival Response.[[/note]] Her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Survival in the Extreme'', extends said regeneration to three turns.

* StatusBuff: The Survival Response effect granted by her Skill does a myriad of things. At base, it boosts the ally's Max HP by a fraction of Lynx's own[[note]]Depending on Trace Levels, by (5–8%)+(50–222.5)[[/note]] and heightens the HP regeneration effect of her Talent, as well as imposes a DrawAggro effect if they are a Destruction or Preservation Pathstrider. Her even-numbered Eidolon Resonances also add other effects: a one-time debuff resistance through her second; an Attack boost based on 3% of Lynx's Max HP through her fourth, ''Dusk of Warm Campfire''; and an additional boost to Max HP based on 6% of Lynx's own, as well as a 30% boost to Effect Resistance, through her sixth.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: All Landau siblings share the same shade of blonde hair and blue eyes.
* TemporalThemeNaming: Her six Eidolon Resonances are named after the cycle of day and night, specifically pertaining to an explorer like her.

[[folder:'''Pela''']]
!!Pelageya "Pela" Sergeyevna

'''Voiced by:''' Yanning (Chinese), Creator/SumireMorohoshi (Japanese), Lee Da-eun (Korean), Creator/XantheHuynh (English)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pela_4.png]]

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'''Path:''' The Nihility\\
'''Type:''' [[AnIcePerson Ice]]\\\

An intelligence officer in the Silvermane Guards. Calm and methodical in her methods, she also spends time alternating between her duties to the Guards and as drummer at the rock band Mechanical Fever, led by Gepard's older sister Serval, if not indulging in her passion for reading and writing romantic novels.\\

Pela specializes in compromising her enemies' defenses through laser drones coordinated from a tome-like device. With her Technique ''Preemptive Strike'' and Ultimate ''Zone Suppression'', she can lower all enemies' Defense stat for 2 turns (from the start of the battle, for the former). She can also remove a buff from a target enemy using her Skill, ''Frostbite''. To help charging her energy, her Talent, ''Data Collecting'', regenerates some Energy whenever her attacks inflict debuffs.
[[note]]When fully upgraded, she can now deal more damage to debuffed enemies, regenerate additional Energy whenever she defeats enemies, and gain an additional hit whenever she attacks debuffed foes, in addition to her Skill gaining the ability to increase the power of her next attack and her Speed for two turns should it remove a buff, as well as a chance to inflict an Ice Resistance penalty for two turns.[[/note]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: She's such a frequent victim of this that she has learned to expect it. In her character file voicelines, she has noted [[ExaggeratedTrope 32 different versions of her full name among the Silvermane Guards.]]
* AttackDrone: Pela attacks enemies by summoning and commanding bar-like drones with a SpellBook-like device.
* BadassAdorable: Pela is one of the most respected officers of the Silvermane Guards on account of her intellect and work ethic, and is also adept in dealing with troublemakers. She also exhibits a geeky side off the clock, such as her fascination for romance stories and writing fanfiction out of them, not to mention her cute, youthful looks.
* BespectacledCutie: Pela is a short and cute girl who wears large round glasses and is a fan of romance stories.
* BizarreTasteInFood: She expresses a genuine like for Himeko's coffee when aboard the Express, in contrast to everyone else who has tried it before including her own superior Bronya. The only other person thus far who views Himeko's coffee positively is Arlan, and he only mentions enjoying the aroma and hasn't actually tasted it.
* ChildSoldier: Out of the known Silvermane Guards, Pela is the youngest at just 16 years old.
* ClosetGeek: She's visibly embarrassed over her geeky hobbies and tries to hide them from others.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff:
** Her Ultimate strikes all enemies and inflicts them with the Exposed debuff, which reduces their Defense stat for two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equal to 60–120% of Pela's Attack stat, and the subsequent Defense penalty is 30–45%[[/note]]
** Her Technique hits a random enemy[[note]]With damage equivalent to 80% of her Attack stat[[/note]] and inflicts a 20% Defense penalty to all enemies for the first two turns of battle.
** Her fourth Eidolon Resonance, ''Full Analysis'', gives her Skill a base 100% chance to reduce her target's Ice Resistance by 12% for two turns.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Apparently Trotters are the cause of 20% of cases of missing Silvermane Guards due to chasing them, which has led to Pela's impression that they somehow mind-control their pursuers so they can never return. Lynx has to bemusedly correct this impression when the two find one in the wild.
* FirstNameBasis: Pela has a first name and a typical Russian patronymic ("Sergeyevna" means "daughter of Sergey"); Lynx's companion mission reveals that this ''is'' her last name, as her mother's name is Penya Sergeyevna. She is introduced giving a lecture to a group of small kids--in Russian culture, children ''are'' supposed to address their teachers on name-and-patronymic basis.
* HeightAngst: Only subtly mentioned in the "Ancestor's Drill Bit" Adventure Quest, but while tagging alongside the Trailblazer in the Corridor of Fading Echoes, she mentions she's a bit insecure about her short height and doesn't appreciate when people point it out to her.
* HiddenDepths: When not doing her duties with the Silvermane Guards, she doubles as drummer of Serval's rock band Mechanical Fever and writes fanfiction for her favorite novel series ''Tales of the Winterlands''.
* ImprobableAge: Pela is only sixteen years old[[note]]Lynx states that 16 years ago, Pela was born[[/note]], but is already a high-ranking officer in the Silvermane Guards. Becomes an ExaggeratedTrope when taking into account that according to Dunn, at one point Pela and Serval went to college together. Since Serval went to college with Cocolia, who adopted Bronya when Bronya was a kid (Bronya is an adult now), this was likely over a decade ago. Thus, Pela would have been going to college as a ''toddler''. One possible theory explaining this could be that the Belobogians measure their years differently from the rest of the cosmos due to being disconnected from space for so long.
* InformedAbility: She plays drums (and occasionally sings) in Serval's band, but, unlike Serval herself, isn't shown performing any music.

-->(Ultimate activation) "Enemy data secured."
-->(Normal speed and ×2 speed) "Net markers activated -- time for a good old counterattack."
* ManaDrain: Pela's first Eidolon Resonance, ''Victory Report'', restores 5 Energy for every enemy fallen in battle.
* MissingMom: Pela's mother Penya passed away [[DeathByChildbirth giving birth to her]] sixteen years ago during an expedition outside of Belobog, where Natasha served as field nurse. When they meet again, the latter apologizes to Pela for her inability to save Penya from her injuries on time; Pela, for her part, does not hold it against her. This is later explored in Lynx's Companion Mission, where she and Pela found old messages left behind by Penya.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's as short as Clara, who is a child, but is old enough to be an officer for the Silvermane Guards. Downplayed in that she's revealed to be only sixteen years old in Lynx's Companion Mission.
* OrwellianRetcon: Due to issues regarding her true age[[note]]and perhaps a bit of mistranslation in the original text[[/note]], in 1.4 her text message about asking "how to get sober" is instead changed to "how to stave off sleepiness".
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
--> (Battle Begins: Weakness Break) "We have the upper hand."
* RegeneratingMana: Her Talent restores Pela's Energy whenever she debuffs an enemy, triggered once per attack.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, between 5–12.5 points[[/note]] Outside of situational setups, there are only three ways for her to debuff enemies: her Ultimate, her Technqiue, and (if she has her 4th Eidolon upgrade) her Skill.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Pela is very short, and is fittingly an intelligence officer.
* ShoutOut:
** She is named after Russian folk rock singer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelageya Pelageya Sergeyevna Telegina]].
** Her phone cover features minimalistic icons of the male leads from Creator/MiHoYo's OtomeGame ''VisualNovel/TearsOfThemis'', further playing into her private fondness for romantic stories.
* SimpleYetAwesome: Pela's overall gameplay are simple, but her Ultimate debuffing all enemies' DEF makes her a very useful supportive unit, especially against groups of enemies. Her Skill's buff dispelling ability can also take the edge off otherwise tricky enemies.
* SkewedPriorities: At one point, she declares that she would defend the original manuscripts of ''Tales of the Winterlands'' with her life.
* StarterMon: For the "Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event, Pela is the first museum assistant you recruit after completing the first part of its associated "Opportunity Makes the Thief" quest series. She has equal stats in all three attributes, but doesn't really specialize in any of them.
* StatusBuff: Pela's fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''The Secret Strategy'', boosts the party's Effect Hit Rate by 10% whenever she is on the field.
* StatusBuffDispel: Her Skill has Pela fire a drone on her enemy[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 105–262.5% of her Attack stat[[/note]] and remove one buff. Two of her upgrades provide additional effects whenever it removes a buff: her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Wipe Out'', imposes a 20% boost to her next attack, while her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Adamant Charge'', boosts Pela's Speed by 10% for two turns.
* StatusEffectPoweredAbility: Two of Pela's upgrades are triggered against debuffed enemies--her second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Bash'', boosts her damage by 20%, while her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''Feeble Pursuit'', allows her to deal additional damage based on 40% of her Attack stat.
* TheStoic: PlayedWith. Pela is normally calm and down-to-earth with a monotone way of speaking befitting her status as an intelligence officer. That is unless any topic regarding her hobbies is brought up, by which case, she'll lose her calm composure and [[NotSoStoic show her energetic fangirl side instead]]. This is most apparent in her "Knowledge" voice line where she rambles about her favorite book "Tale of the Winterlands" with so much excitement, it's as if she's a different character entirely.
-->*gasp* "A new edition of the fanbook "Tale of the Winterlands?" That's one of the most sought-after series out there... H--How many copies should I get... Ten? Is ten enough...?"
* TheUnfought: Among the Silvermane Guard higher-ups, Pela is the only one who isn't fought directly despite accompanying Bronya on initial orders to arrest the Astral Express crew, and in general, is mostly absent from the greater scope of the Silvermane's operations to oppose the crew throughout the Jarilo-VI Trailblaze Mission.
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Suppressive Force'' and ''Absolute Jeopardy'', which will add two levels to her Skill and one to Basic Attack (''Frost Shot'') with the former, and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.
* WeaponSpecialization: Pela's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Night_and_Sleep_Well Good Night and Sleep Well]]" (4★), whose "Toiler" passive increases its wearer's damage output by 12–24% for every debuff on their target, which can stack up to thrice (for a maximum of 36–72%) and also includes any damage-over-time effect they might inflict. This effect plays well into Pela's ability to inflict a Defense penalty and complements her increased damage output against debuffed enemies through her subsequent upgrades.

[[folder:'''Serval''']]
!!Serval Landau

'''Voiced by:''' Mu Xueting (Chinese), Creator/AimiTerakawa (mononymously credited as "Aimi") (Japanese), Min-a (Korean), Creator/NatalieVanSistine (English)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/serval_2.png]]

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'''Path:''' The Erudition\\
'''Type:''' [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]\\\

The oldest and most rebellious of three Landau siblings and a former close friend of Cocolia. In the past, she was a military scientist with the Silvermane Guards, but Cocolia's decision as Supreme Guardian to cease her research caused her to quit her job and strained their relationship. Nowadays, she spends time tinkering with machines in her own shop, Neverwinter Workshop, while doubling as lead guitarist of the rock band Mechanical Fever, until Gepard referring the Astral Express crew to her renews her interest in finding out the truth about both the Stellaron and Cocolia's sudden change of heart.\\

Serval literally shocks her foes with strums of her electric guitar. Both her Technique and Skill, respectively ''Good Night, Belobog'' and ''Lightning Flash'', have a very high chance to inflict the Shock effect--the former, for three turns on all foes, in addition to damaging a random foe; the latter, for two turns, affecting her target and adjacent foes. In addition, both her respective Talent and Ultimate, ''Galvanic Chords'' and ''Here Comes the Mechanical Fever'', deal multi-target damage with auxiliary effects against Shocked foes--the former deals damage on all affected foes in conjunction with her attacks, while in the latter, she conjures thunderbolts with her guitar and extends any existing such effect by two turns.[[note]]When fully upgraded, she can now regenerate Energy at the start of battle, as well as enjoy heightened Attack for two turns whenever she defeats an enemy and damage output against Shocked foes; her Basic Attack can now hit a random foe adjacent to her target; her Ultimate gains a high chance to inflict Shock; and her Talent can now regenerate her Energy whenever it is triggered.[[/note]]

* BadLiar: While Serval is many things, being good at lying is not one of them. Her attempts to divert attention and try to weasel past her brother are nothing short of horrid with her poor acting skills.
* BlackSheep: Her rebellious nature and bad relationship with her father had led her to cut ties with most of her family, although she still remains on good terms with her younger siblings Gepard and Lynx.
* ButNowIMustGo: Her Companion Mission begins with Serval asking to join the Astral Express, claiming she wants to take advantage of Jarilo-VI's reopening to international traffic. [[spoiler:However, it becomes clear that she is not so much sightseeing as much as trying to escape the painful memories of her falling-out with Cocolia and her poor family life, which Gepard picks up on and advises her to only do it if she has thought it through, assuring her that [[YouAreNotAlone she's not alone]]. This, coupled with a confrontation with a Fragmentum illusion of Cocolia allowing her to finally confront her feelings on the matter, ultimately convinces her [[IChooseToStay to stay]] and keep running her workshop, as well as help help with the planet's rehabilitation.]]
* ChainLethalityEnabler: Her sixth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Mania'', gives her a 20% attack boost for two turns whenever she takes down an enemy. This has no limit on the number of times it can stack, letting her damage output spike if there are enough enemies for her to take down repeatedly.
* CriticalHitClass: One of three stats Serval can upgrade via her Trace tree is Critical Rate, with her getting a 16% boost once fully unlocked.
* DamageOverTime:
** Her Skill zaps a group of enemies, with an 80% base chance to inflict Shock for two turns, which damage the victim at the start of their turn.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, the base damage is equivalent to 70–175% of Serval's Attack stat against her primary target and 30–75% against surrounding enemies, as well as 40–130% for Shock damage[[/note]] Her second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Rock 'n' Roll'', raises the success rate of the skill to Shock enemies by 20%.
** Her Technique inflicts Shock on all enemies for three turns and damages a random enemy.[[note]]with both random-hit and Shock damage equivalent to half of Serval's Attack stat[[/note]]
** Serval's fourth Eidolon Resonance, ''Make Some Noise!'', allows her Ultimate to inflict Shock on enemies not afflicted beforehand, with damage potency tied to that inflicted by her Skill.
* DamagerHealerTank: Among the Landau siblings, she is the Damager to Lynx's Healer and Gepard's Tank. As an Erudition Pathstrider, Serval's pure offensive kit makes up for her siblings' relative lack thereof, burning down packs of foes with multi-target attacks and damage-over-time effects.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme song in her trailer, "The Cusp of Ignition" is performed by her voice actress in all dubs of the game, with the implication that it's Serval herself singing.
* ExposedToTheElements: Justified. Unlike her siblings, who are bundled up for the cold, Serval doesn't wear heavy clothing because she doesn't regularly leave Belobog as part of her job. While she's comfortable enough in the Restricted Zone, she shivers when she makes the trek up to Everwinter Peak in her Companion Mission.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Serval and her younger siblings are named after big wild cats from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_felids felidae]] family.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Serval wears only half of what is presumably her old attire from her days as an Architect, specifically wearing the right half of her white coat and blue skirt, while the left half of her ensemble is a black tube top and daisy dukes.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** Her weapon is a lightning-shooting guitar she and Cocolia made in school, the same guitar she [[spoiler:smashed to pieces at the end of her companion mission.]] To make it even more blatant, she only finds the guitar again at the start of said quest.
** In the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event, likely for balance purposes, Serval's Visitor Appeal stat is a measly ''10 out of 100'' despite her being a famous rocker. The ''only'' tour guide with worse Visitor Appeal is Sampo.
** Late in Lynx's companion Mission, you might randomly encounter Serval in the museum after speaking to Lynx. She doesn't acknowledge the events of the quest and just says her [[WelcomeToCorneria generic "museum" quote]].
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: In battle, Serval fights her foes by calling down lightning strikes with her guitar, while her brother Gepard uses his ice-powered fists to fight enemies or bludgeoning them with his guitar case. Outside of battle, it gets played with- if you initiate combat normally, Serval will physically swing her guitar. If you use her Technique to initiate combat, she will call down a lightning strike.
* HatesTheirParent: Serval and her father aren't on speaking terms due to her rebellious nature, but she particularly despises him for blindly following Cocolia's orders to seal off the Underworld without question. She does still write to her mother, indicating their relationship isn't as strained. The story of the "Landau's Choice" light cone heavily implies Serval's misgivings extend all the way back to her childhood.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Serval's beauty is commented on by others, with her old friend Dunn stammering around her because of how good she still looks since they last saw each other.
* HerdHittingAttack: True to her Path, her kit allows her to strike multiple enemies at once, in addition to slowly chipping away at their health. Aside from her Skill dealing Blast damage and Ultimate...
** Her Talent lets her deal additional damage on [[StatusEffectPoweredAbility all Shocked foes]] whenever she attacks at least one of them.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 36–90% of her Attack stat[[/note]]
** Her first Eidolon Resonance, ''Echo Chamber'', allows her Basic Attack, ''Roaring Thunderclap'', to hit a random enemy on either side of her target, with damage worth 60% of the initial attack.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Serval wields a unique "electric guitar" that she and Cocolia invented that literally conducts electricity. In combat, she strums and performs sick guitar riffs to smite her foes with bolts of lightning.

-->(Ultimate activation) "Ready to lose yourself?"
-->(Normal speed) "Fight it, or rock with it. My music... conquers all!"
-->(×2 speed) "You can fight it... or rock with it!"
* {{Irony}}: Late in the Jarilo-VI Trailblaze Mission, Serval joins the Trailblazer and friends to help them find the Stellaron and seal it. However, she has to stay behind midway to tend her brother Gepard's injuries from fighting Fragmentum monsters. Had she still tagged along with them, she would have [[spoiler:witnessed the reason behind Cocolia's corruption and their friendship falling out]]. She doesn't however, which leads to the main crux of Serval's personal conflict in her companion mission.
* MsFanservice: Serval is quite the [[{{Pun}} shocking]] beauty, with an outfit that showcases a fair bit of skin and brings her long legs into focus.
* MythologyGag: Serval can be considered an older, lightning-elemental counterpart to Xinyan from ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', being a rock guitarist whose rebellion against her surrounding culture has brought her much grief in the past.
* NonconformistDyedHair: In contrast to her siblings' pure blond hair, she has bluish-purple streaks in her hair that also fades into an electric glowing blue at the tips. Fittingly, she's the BlackSheep of the Landau family and has a rather poor reputation with the rest of her relatives save for her younger siblings.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She looks like a college student, but she's at least old enough to have been schoolmates with Cocolia, who had adopted and raised little Bronya (now a young adult) after becoming the Supreme Guardian, as well as having a past career as a military scientist.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Serval is fairly lax and easygoing, so it says a lot when [[spoiler:seeing the embodiment of Cocolia's emotions causes her to snap in a rage and reveal just how livid and heartbroken she really is over the collapse of their friendship.]]
* ThePowerOfRock: As the wielder of a literally electric guitar, she channels her powers by performing guitar riffs.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
--> (Enemy Target Found) "Huh, these targets will make for good practice~"
--> (Battle Begins: Weakness Break) "Time for the main event."
--> (Battle Begins: Danger Alert) "Here to crash the party?"
* RockersSmashGuitars: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:The end of her Companion Mission has her smash her prized guitar - which she and Cocolia created together, as a symbol of their friendship - to signify that she's no longer trapped in Cocolia's shadow.]]
* RegeneratingMana: Her fourth-ascension Bonus Ability, ''String Vibration'', immediately restores 15 Energy to Serval at the start of battle, while her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Encore!'', regenerates 4 Energy whenever her Talent is triggered.[[note]]This means that, depending on how many enemies are Shocked, she can gain up to 20 extra Energy whenever she attacks[[/note]] This helps her charge her energy rather quickly, allowing her to use Ultimate every 2-3 turns.
* RenaissanceWoman: Not only is Serval a skilled musician and mechanic, she is also a capable fighter and a former researcher [[spoiler:studying about stellarons before she got fired by Cocolia to cover up the truth.]]
* TheRockStar: When she's not running her repair shop, Serval moonlights as the lead guitarist and singer of Mechanical Fever alongside Pela.
* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: Serval mentions that she always used to beat Gepard in their brawls as children. Despite her hesitation about whether she can do so in the present, Serval is a strong counter for Gepard in his boss fight. Her Lightning attacks strike one of his weaknesses; her ability to hit many targets helps stem his constant summoning of Silvermane Guards; and she can Shock him to continuously chip away at his shields. You even get an achievement for letting her land the finishing blow in his boss fight.
* SquareRaceRoundClass: While her academic background and multi-target attacks fit the Path of Erudition, her playstyle--applying [[DamageOverTime Shock]] and then dealing bonus damage to those affected--is a better fit for Nihility.
* SquishyWizard: Serval can bring down epic and electrifying riffs down on her enemies, ''especially'' if they're Shocked, but as an Erudition Pathstrider, her defenses are quite poor.
* StatusEffectPoweredAbility:
** Her Ultimate strikes all foes and will add two turns to any existing Shock effect.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage is equivalent to 108–216% of Serval's Attack stat[[/note]]
** Her sixth Eidolon Resonance, ''This Song Rocks to Heaven'', gives her a 30% damage bonus against Shocked foes.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: All Landau siblings share the same shade of blonde hair and blue eyes.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The conclusion of her Companion Mission has Serval [[spoiler:furiously condemn Cocolia, destroying the guitar they made together while cursing her name beyond the grave. Considering how Cocolia basically completely ruined her life, and with Serval never learning the truth behind her and the Stellaron's corruption, she has every right to not forgive her.]]
-->'''Serval:''' [[spoiler:Look at me, Cocolia! Don't you ''DARE'' look away... Because I... ''[smashes Cocolia's guitar]'' will no longer... ''live... in...'' '''YOUR...''' '''''SHADOW!!!''''']]
* UpgradeArtifact: By acquiring her Eidolons, you can upgrade her third and fifth Eidolon Resonances, ''Listen, the Heartbeat of the Gears'' and ''Belobog's Loudest Roar!'', which will add two levels to her Skill and one to Basic Attack with the former and two to her Ultimate and Talent with the latter.
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** Serval and Cocolia were very close in their youth, to the point where they basically shared personal belongings. However, after Cocolia grew colder over the years, she fired Serval for a reason she's not privy to ([[spoiler:trying to investigate the Stellaron]]), ruining Serval's life and destroying their friendship permanently. [[spoiler:She unfortunately never finds out that Cocolia was corrupted by the Stellaron and ends up condemning her beyond the grave.]]
** Also, according to one of Sampo's voice lines, she and Sampo used to be friends, though it's unclear how close they were, or how much [[UnreliableNarrator Sampo's word]] can be trusted. For her part, Serval doesn't say much about Sampo, only noting that he'll one day get busted by Gepard.
* WeaponSpecialization: Serval's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/Make_the_World_Clamor Make the World Clamor]]" (4★), whose "The Power of Sound" passive automatically regenerates 20–32 Energy for the wearer at the start of battle and increases the damage output of their Ultimate by 32–64%, which helps her use her Ultimate sooner as well as boost its power, especially against Shocked enemies.
* WrenchWench: Serval is a brilliant mechanic, to the point where the Silvermane Guards sometimes call upon her for assistance. She also runs a workshop called the Neverwinter Workshop, where she fixes equipment.

[[folder:Cocolia (Unmarked Spoilers)]]
!!Cocolia Rand
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[[caption-width-right:350:Cocolia, Mother of Deception]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Mufei (Chinese), Misa Katō (Japanese), Creator/HeatherGonzalez (English)\\\

Eighteenth and incumbent Supreme Guardian of Belobog and mother of Bronya.

Her Mother of Deception form can be refought as an Echo of War.

* AdaptationalBadass: Cocolia of ''[=HI3rd=]'' was TheUnfought and a normal human being (physically, that is) compared to the playable characters. This Cocolia is a supreme military leader and [[RankScalesWithAsskicking a very formidable fighter.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: While the Cocolia of ''[=HI3rd=]'' is also villainous despite her well-intentions, she otherwise had limits and stopped herself before she went too far, and got willingly put into the brig for her transgressions. This Cocolia, however, is so corrupted by the Stellaron that she comes to believe that the only salvation of Belobog is through destruction, and she has to be [[DeathByAdaptation fought to the death]].
* AlternateSelf: of Cocolia of ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'', complete with the same voice actor.
* ArcVillain: She's the main antagonist of the Jarilo-VI storyline.
* BaitTheDog: Despite the Astral Express crew's unpleasant first encounter with the Silvermane Guards, Cocolia seems like a straightforward ReasonableAuthorityFigure when they finally meet her, as she hears them out and seems fully onboard with their quest to destroy the Jarilo-VI Stellaron. The moment they leave, she becomes unsettled and has a conversation with an unseen entity, and sure enough, she frames the crew and sends Bronya to arrest them the very next day.
* BrokenAce: She graduated at the top of her class at the Belobog Military Academy, is a charismatic leader beloved by almost all of Belobog, and is the first of the Supreme Guardians to launch an effective counterattack against the Fragmentum. However, Cocolia has been haunted by the Stellaron ever since she took up the post of Supreme Guardian. Its influence gradually broke down her mind in tandem with the pressure of leading Belobog in a CrapsackWorld. By the events of the story, she's become a thoroughly misanthropic OmnicidalManiac, but she still manages to cling to her love for her daughter, Bronya.
* BrokenBird: Cocolia was once a warm-hearted and idealistic woman. But years of being tempted by the Stellaron amidst the stress and hopelessness of leading her people in a CrapsackWorld [[DespairEventHorizon wore her down until she became the cynical misanthrope she is in the present]] as [[MoreThanMindControl she succumbed to the Stellaron's whispers]]. By the time she's fought, she's ranting and raving about how her world is doomed to destruction regardless of what anyone does. Later, when the Trailblazer meets with the "spirit" of the past Guardians in a vision, the latter doesn't judge Cocolia for her madness, saying that it was only a matter of time until a Supreme Guardian broke under the sheer pressure.
* DualWielding: She dual wields lances made of ice in battle.
* DyingAsYourself: Heavily implied in her final moments, as she flashes a [[GoOutWithASmile warm and sincere smile to Bronya]] before she fades away, finally being free of the Stellaron's influence.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While she is the main villain of her arc, the Trailblazer's dreams reveal she did genuinely love Bronya as her daughter as she fell into a frenzy when she disappeared and showers her with concern when she returns. Unfortunately, the Stellaron used this to its advantage to manipulate her into going through with their plans to destroy humanity. Even when Cocolia is at her lowest point, she continues to hope that Bronya will stand with her in the "new world" the Stellaron will create until Bronya refuses her.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Serval. However, Serval ultimately never learns the truth behind Cocolia and the Stellaron thanks to Bronya and Seele and simply believes that Cocolia sacrificed herself for the greater good.
* EvilRunningGood: The Jarilo-VI Architects and Silvermane Guards are a whole heap of {{Hero Antagonist}}s who are genuinely dedicated to defending Belobog; the only corrupt member during the Jarilo-VI arc is Cocolia herself, who manipulates her underlings into coming into conflict with the heroes to get them off the Stellaron's trail.
* FallenHero: She was once a warm and caring woman during her youth, but contact with the Stellaron turned the once-promising Supreme Guardian into a cold and calculating omnicidal ruler.
* FlunkyBoss: She can summon "Ice Edges" to her side. Each of them will deal small Ice DMG in an AOE each turn. As Mother of Deception, she can summon their stronger variant, "Lances of Eternal Freeze"; her Toughness Gauge will be blocked while they're around.
* AGodAmI: Once the Astral Express crew forces her to take aggressive action, she elevates her behavior from mere iron fist to "god complex" along with her OneWingedAngel transformation.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Impaling the Trailblazer with her lance and leaving it there massively backfired on Cocolia, as it allowed the Trailblazer to not only awaken to a Path and element perfectly opposed to her, it allowed them to steal her lance and gain control of the Engine of Creation mecha she had previously been using to attack the heroes.
* HumansAreBastards: The Stellaron's influence has turned Cocolia into a MisanthropeSupreme, calling people cowardly and foolhardy. To her, they're nothing more than scum and justifies her actions by declaring that the "new world" will be better than what mankind left behind.
* AnIcePerson: She's shown to be quite adept with ice in battle, and when she later transforms into the Mother of Deception, she further unleashes more icy power.
* IcyBlueEyes: Cocolia's eyes are an icy blue and she's a stern, no-nonsense leader of a nation facing a CrapsackWorld. The ice associations become even stronger when it's revealed that she has been corrupted by the Stellaron's influence and desires to wipe out Belobog and everything in it. However, she was originally a subversion, as she was a warm, loving mother to her adoptive daughter Bronya and close friends with Serval.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: The Jarilo-VI Stellaron took advantage of Cocolia's genuine motherly love for Bronya to manipulate her into doing its bidding.
* MeteorSummoningAttack: In Mother of Deception's 2nd phase, her strongest attack summons a big meteor to fall onto your characters after a turn, dealing AOE Imaginary damage.
* MsFanservice: Cocolia is quite the looker, being a beautiful and alluring mature woman, who wears a form-fitting gown that leaves her hips and thighs exposed. She's also up there with Himeko, Natasha and Kafka in terms of bust size.
* MythologyGag:
** Her dark green CoatCape she wears over her uniform is a reference to her ''[=HI3=]'' self, who wears a dark green overcoat.
** Her shadowy appearance as the Mother of Deception closely resembles ''[=HI3=]''[='=]s Herrscher of Ice, Ana Schariac.
** Just like in ''[=HI3=]'', her adopted daughter Bronya eventually turns against her after her new friends convinces her (in Bronya Zaychik's case, she even chose to fry the control chip embedded in her brain, sending her into a coma). Unlike in ''[=HI3=]'', Cocolia actually dies and Bronya witnesses it firsthand.
* NoSell: As a boss, she's completely immune to being frozen. Not even Blessings of Remembrance in Simulated Universe can freeze her.
* OneWingedAngel: She takes on a more powerful form when she confronts the party, becoming the Mother of Deception.
* ThePowerOfLegacy: After Cocolia's death, Bronya chooses to weave a tale that Cocolia [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed her life]] to stop the Stellaron and end the Eternal Freeze, rather than telling them the grim reality that she was the villain corrupted by the very thing that created the Eternal Freeze. Bronya fears that revealing the truth at such a tenuous time would destroy any remaining faith in Belobog's government and lead to societal collapse. Her decision at least allows Cocolia to be [[VillainWithGoodPublicity seen as a hero who fought to protect Belobog to the end]]. Bronya, Seele and the Nameless agree to take the truth of Cocolia's actions and death to their graves for the sake of Belobog's future.
* RagsToRoyalty: Like her adopted daughter Bronya, Cocolia was a denizen of the Underworld before being chosen as the next Supreme Guardian.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: She's the Supreme Guardian of Belobog, and is shown to be a highly formidable fighter even ''before'' she becomes the Mother of Deception.
* StormOfBlades: As both herself and the Mother of Deception, Cocolia can conjure a storm of lances out of ice to rain upon her foes.
* ThisCannotBe: She says, "It can't be..." when the Trailblazer survives being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and instead restores Alisa Rand's lance, now imbued with the power of the Amber Lord to fight her. She mutters this again in disbelief upon her defeat.
-->"They've deceived me..."
* TragicVillain: She was a kindhearted young woman who could have been a great ruler if the Stellaron hadn't twisted her mind. For added tragedy, one of the ways the Stellaron drove her mad was by preying on her genuine love for Bronya.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: According to her mad ravings at the end of the Jarilo-VI arc, using the power of the Stellaron to wipe the slate clean and build a new world justifies her decision to kill all the people she swore to protect.
* WalkingSpoiler: You wouldn't guess that she'd be the first major antagonist in the game from her introduction.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Serval were very close when they were younger, to the extent of sharing personal belongings. Then the Stellaron corrupted Cocolia, and she cost Serval her job as a researcher when Serval decided to investigate the Stellaron, destroying their friendship. When Serval leaves, Cocolia becomes noticeably remorseful and Serval tragically never finds out that Cocolia was corrupted by outside forces, still believing that her former friend turned cold-hearted of her own volition after becoming Supreme Guardian.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Silvermane Guards]]

A military organization that maintains peace and security in Belobog, Jarilo-VI, led by the Supreme Guardian. Not long after setting their foot there, the Astral Express crew became wanted people courtesy of Supreme Guardian Cocolia's orders and they have to fight the Guards and their high-ranking members at different parts of the story.

The enemies include: Silvermane Soldier, Silvermane Gunner, Silvermane Cannoneer and Silvermane Lieutenant (elite).
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Daughter of Cocolia Rand, the Supreme Guardian of Belobog, as well as her heir apparent and commander of the Silvermane Guards, the elite defense force of the city, who carries herself with the grace that is expected of someone in her position. Cool and collected, Bronya has dedicated her life and being to the safety of Belobog, and above all, the will of the Supreme Guardian. However, when the likes of the Nameless become entangled with her life, Bronya begins to call into question all she has been taught to believe in, especially once she begins to explore the world around her.

Bronya rallies her allies to a swift victory with her Technique, ''Banner of Command'', which boosts the party's Attack for the first two turns of battle; her Skill, ''Combat Redeployment'', which immediately brings forward the turn of one ally (unless used on herself) and boosts their damage output for one turn, as well as removes a debuff from them; and her Ultimate, ''The Belobog March'', which boosts the party's Attack and Critical Damage for two turns. Additionally, her Talent ''Leading the Way'' advances her turn whenever she shoots at her foes with her Basic Attack, ''Windrider Bullet''. [[note]]When fully upgraded, she can boost the party's Defense for the first two turns of battle; her Skill can now randomly reimburse the Skill Point used, boost the affected ally's Speed for one turn, and see an extension to its damage boost to two turns; and she can now automatically shoot at a foe attacked by her allies, once in between her turns, if they are weak to Wind.[[/note]]

* CooldownManipulation:
** Her Skill immediately [[ExtraTurn brings forward her ally's turn]] ([[NoSelfBuffs except if used on herself]]), [[AntiDebuff removes one debuff]], and boosts their damage output for that turn.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, damage increases by 33–82.5%[[/note]] Her second Eidolon Resonance, ''Quick March'', will let her Skill additionally grant the chosen ally 30% Speed buff for a turn after they take their action, and her sixth, ''Piercing Rainbow'', extends the duration of the damage boost to two turns.
** Her Talent brings forward Bronya's next action whenever she uses her Basic Attack.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, by 15–37.5%[[/note]]
* CriticalHitClass: Relative to her fellow Harmony Pathstriders, Bronya specializes on this trope on two levels. First, when building a team around Bronya, her kit incentivizes players to building her teammates this way, as her Ultimate buffs all allies' Attack and Critical Damage for two turns. The way her Ultimate scales, however, also heavily encourages building Bronya herself into a straightforward example. While her Ultimate's Attack buff is static and only scales with Trace levels, the Critical Damage buff partially scales with Bronya's own Critical Damage. In addition, her second-ascension Bonus Ability, ''Command'', guarantees that her Basic Attack will always be critical hits. As a result, players are encouraged to [[MinMaxing heavily invest in her Critical Damage]] and can [[DumpStat completely forgo any investment in her Critical Rate]].

* TheFettered: Starts as an uncompromising commander who wants to follow the Supreme Guardian's orders through to the end. [[spoiler: After it's revealed she has been lied to by Cocolia, she decides to put the needs of the people above orders and confronts her.]]
* {{Foil}}: Bronya is this to Seele. Both of them are kindhearted, headstrong women who want Belobog and its people to thrive. Bronya is the prim and proper heir to the position of Supreme Guardian and the unquestioning leader of the Silvermane Guards. Seele is a rough-and-tumble member of the grassroots police force Wildfire. When circumstances bring the two together, they quickly butt heads over their respective ideologies despite both of them wanting the same thing.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: As a guest assistant during the "Everwinter City Museum Ledger of Curiosities" limited-time event, despite being one of the most well-educated people in Belobog, Bronya's Educational Value stat is a mediocre 23 of 100, in contrast to 48 points for Tour Duration and 85 for Visitor Appeal, both reflecting her work ethic and charisma. Presumably, the guests are too busy being starstruck talking to the Supreme Guardian herself to actually learn anything.

* MisfitMobilizationMoment: They're only "misfits" relative to the IPC, but in Trailblaze Continuance ''Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream'', around the climax, she mobilized the people of Belobog - both Overworlders and Underworlders - to join their efforts to "preserve their future" against the threat of the IPC taking over their world by working on the rebuilding of Engine of Creation, to show their representative Topaz that the people of Jarilo-VI can rebuild their world eventually.

** While her design is largely derived from Bronya Zaychik's adult self, her big earrings harken back to ''Guns Girl Z'' version of Bronya (which ''[=HI3rd=]'' also references).

* OutOfTurnInteraction: Her fourth Eidolon Resonance, ''Taken by Surprise'', allows her to perform a follow-up attack (taking form of her Basic Attack, with its damage potency at 80% of her ATK) once in between her turns whenever any of her allies use a Basic Attack on an enemy weak to Wind.

* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: As the heir apparent to the Supreme Guardian, she is described as possessing the pride of a princess, but also the professionalism of a soldier.

** Her Ultimate boosts the party's Attack and Critical Damage for the next two turns.[[note]]Depending on Trace levels, Attack is raised by 33%–59.4%, Crit DMG is raised by 12%–21.6% plus 12%–16.8% of Bronya's own[[/note]]

* WeaponSpecialization: Bronya's associated Light Cone is "[[https://honkai-star-rail.fandom.com/wiki/But_the_Battle_Isn%27t_Over But the Battle Isn't Over]]" (5★), whose "Heir" passive increases its wearer's Energy Regeneration Rate by 10–18% and restores a Skill Point whenever they use their Ultimate on an ally, triggered after every two uses of said Ultimate, in addition to increasing the damage output of the next ally to take action after they used their Skill by 30–50%, hence allowing her to use her Ultimate more often (which will help in recovering skill points) as well as further boosts her allies enhanced with her Skill.

* ReversePsychology: In their companion mission, Serval accuses him of this when he expresses his support of her joining the Astral Express. [[spoiler:Although he denies it, it's implied that he really was using this on her before she made her final decision to stay in Belobog after they confronted a physical manifestation of Cocolia's feelings towards Serval in the Underworld.]]

* ImprobableSelfMaintenance: The playable characters who live in Belobog's Underworld are often ludicrously well-kept for living in an underground mining town where even medical supplies can be scarce. While Sampo's case can be justified due to his access to the Overworld, the same cannot be said for others, with Seele having no trouble keeping her long, pale, skirt-tails spotless even with her frequent battles and Clara traversing the mines in bare feet and a red jacket without signs of dirt or injury.

* WildCard: [[spoiler:A dream the Trailblazer has while sleeping at the Goethe Hotel after Cocolia's defeat shows Sampo reporting in with an unseen and non-speaking benefactor about the Astral Express crew. Afterwards, [[BreakingTheFourthWall he directly addresses the audience]] about if they find his antics entertaining, before departing to parts unknown now that his services are no longer needed with the blockade lifted and his apparent objectives fulfilled, making it clear there's a bit more to Sampo than a mere smuggler; especially as his benefactor mentions a "Epsilon" that Sampo views as a giant vanity fair, a description that doesn't exactly mesh with any location on Jarilo-VI as it is. It's also notable that he explicitly mentions the Astral Express, despite never being told that in-story. A memory bubble after finishing the main story of "Aetherium Wars" reveals that he's actually a Masked Fool, meaning he's a follower of [[TricksterGod Aha]].]]

* AchillesHeel: Gepard's primary means of actively mitigating damage (as opposed to merely [[DrawAggro making people hit him]] is the massive shield offered by his Ultimate. This makes him potentially capable of doing his job while constantly spamming basic attacks to generate skill points for other party members, but also means that he can fall flat in modes like the Simulated Universe or various events that need him to fight large numbers of individual enemy groups in separate battle instances, as enemies pummel his team before he can get the energy to get his shields up, only for them to come back down when all buffs are reset for the next fight, and unlike some Preservation characters, he lacks any healing in his own kit to offset it. His Technique, which lets him start fights with a smaller, but still potent shield helps somewhat, but burns through Technique Points quickly. Luckily, the only high-difficulty mode in which this is an issue also comes with plentiful blessings that offset this issue entirely.

* SimpleYetAwesome: He doesn't have many complex gimmicks, but his ability to create Shields for the party is indispensable; with it he can protect all teammates equally instead of one at a time, or having to rely on chance to draw his enemies' aggro towards him (which he can, but the party-wide shields offer more than enough insurance). In some cases you don't even need to bring an Abundance Pathstrider if you have him around. Gepard's simple, but powerful defenses, and the fact that they're built entirely around his ultimate means that he's one of the few fully "SP Positive" defensive characters around, freeing up more resources for his allies without compromising on their protection.