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Characters from the parallel event storyline involving the faceless "Captain" and other recurring characters that are different versions of the main storyline's characters.

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General tropes

• Alternate Self: Many of the Captainverse characters are alternate versions of other characters.
  • The Captain is unusual in that he has alternate selves of himself:
    • The "Sanka Saga" event reveals that "The Ferryman" (who has been guiding Kasumi from far away since the start) is in fact the alternate version of the Captain, with his own Hyperion. At the end of "Arc: Light Bound", it is also reveals that he's the one who assigns Kasumi to retrieve the Ether Anchor in Bronie's universe. From the same scene, he later assigns Kasumi to assist Delta in her next mission, which also confirms he's the one who speaks with Delta in "Honkai Quest".
    • One big twist of "Odd Drifter" is that there are two versions of the same Captain running around, one in the first half of the event and the other in the second half. In the climax, the two meet each other and "merge". Near the end, Zhuge Kongming explains that this happened because, back when the Captain tried to go back home with Kongming's help, he subconsciously wanted to live in "realities where the girls are happy" and it messed with her Formation spell, causing him to be split in two.
    • "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" has the Captain wondering about how "the future him" traveled back in time and changed Kongming's past, and what "he" is currently doing right now. The next event, "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", starts with the Captain only remembering things up to "Odd Drifter"'s ending, implying that this Captain isn't the same one from the previous event. Kongming in that event also mentions that she used to meet "someone like the Captain" before, who promised to her that they'll meet each other again in the future—which was what the (different?) Captain said in "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero". Later, Tesla-Zero confirms that the Captain of this event would later become the "future Captain" that she talked about.
  • While Luna Kindred claims (indirectly) that she's "Theresa", she (as an "awakened" character) looks slightly different, with her red eyes and longer hair, not to mention being vampiric. The special "story in the past" in the Dating Sim mode slowly reveals that she isn't the same usual Theresa; as shown in Kallen's files, Luna Kindred's code is A-872 (while Theresa's is A-310) and she's created with a slightly different process and component from normal Theresa.
  • In the official guide video for Darkbolt Jonin, Higokumaru is the one narrating; she notes that the ninja's name is "Kasumi", and then says that she and Sakura may not be the same person. Darkbolt Jonin herself also mentions her own name, "Yae Kasumi", in the trailer, despite the text box besides her having "Yae Sakura" on it. The climax of the event shows the truth: the real Sakura still exists, her dead body preserved and hidden inside Kallen's castle. Out of anger and shock, Kasumi demands Kallen to tell the truth about herself, but Kallen isn't going to comply without a fight. After they do just that, Kallen indirectly reveals that Kasumi's a clone of Sakura, but later the Herrscher of Corruption (inside Sakura's body) says that she has Sakura's soul (which is why Kasumi can be alive in the first place).
  • Fallen Rosemary is hinted to be different from the usual Rita, possibly coming from another universe.
  • Delta is Rozaliya from another universe, but instead of being a carefree and jovial older sister, she is a stern but well-meaning Valkyrie with a stronger sisterly instinct towards Liliya when compared to her sillier self. She also eventually meets Rozaliya and Liliya from another world, implied to be the one from "The Day You Vanished From The Stars" (and subsequently, from the "Gemina Invasions" stories), and takes them with her to her hideout.
• Love Triangle: By the end of the overall Captainverse story, the Captain has ended up in a love rectangle with Kongming, Luna, and Rita. Kongming and Luna are both head over heels for him and neither is willing to share, so whenever they're both with him, they passive-aggressively snipe at each other and try to monopolize the Captain's attention. For his part, he's devoted to each of them in his own way and has yet to give any hint of choosing one, which annoys them both to some degree. He also does his best to ignore them when they're being catty to each other. Rita's attachment to the Captain is more about demure attraction; she coyly expresses her interest when they're together in private and doesn't hesitate to flirt with him regardless if anyone else is around, which gets under both Luna and Kongming's skins.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter:
  • As the second "SP" character of the game, Zhuge Kongming has special skills that differentiate her from the others. She has a branch attack instead of other Theresas' Charged Attacks, although it can still be charged to become stronger. Her evasion skill, aside from activating Time Fracture, also puts a magic circle on the ground that can activate another Time Fracture if her teammates step on it. Her most prominent feature, however, is her QTE: unlike other characters, hers is activated by having her teammates attack the enemy enough times to gain the "Hexagram" stacks, and once it's stacked to 10, her QTE is available. Unlike other QTEs, you do not switch with her upon usage. Instead, she jumps into the field by herself and performs the QTE attack as you're controlling your current character (think of Assist Characters in tag-based fighting games). You can switch with her after the QTE by tapping her button again, or, if she has her Ultimate Skill available, you can instead tap her button to make her perform it, again while you're still in control of your current character. As both her QTE and Ultimate Skill can give her teammates various buffs, this makes her a unique and useful Support Party Member towards "sustained damage" characters like Bright Knight: Excelsis, and even more so with the right equipment.
  • Darkbolt Jonin is the first "SP" Valkyrie in the game; unlike her other battlesuits, it isn't an awakened form of Mei. It requires less Valkyrie fragments to rank up than her other battlesuits (but still more fragments than "regular" suits of other characters). All of her skills require a special material to level up, while for her other suits, only some of their skills do (the rest of them can be leveled up normally). The most important part, however, is the special "SP Skills", extra skills that are unlocked with rank ups; they too would require leveling up with special materials.
  • Fallen Rosemary has unique mechanics that separates her from other Rita battlesuits. While her normal attacks are nothing to write home about, it then changes when she enters "Valfreyja Mode" with her Charged Attack. In that mode, she can summon various spirits to attack her enemies and activate Instant Runes beneath her whenever said summons successfully hit the enemies; said runes can either buff the whole team or make the enemies take more damage. Her evasion move can hurt enemies at close range (akin to Violet Executer's), but in Valfreyja Mode, she can also activate her evasion skill (summoning a bird that shoots lightning bolts) without actually evading an attack. Her Ultimate Skill has a delayed activation and she can be switched out before the actual attack comes out, allowing you to switch in another support character or a main offensive character to pile on the damage.
  • Delta has an unique trait in which 1) her 1st, 2nd and 3rd strike in her normal combo (i.e outside Super Mode) can be canceled into her evade move and then continued to the next strike in her combo, 2) her 4th strike onwards in her combo, if canceled into her evade, can be continued to her 4th strike again, allowing for relentless Spam Attack. She also has 2 gauges, one pink and one blue; the pink one is filled by her evade move (her Ultimate Evasion fills more), the blue one is filled by her normal attacks, and both can be filled by using her QTE. When both gauges are full, her Charged Attack makes her enter Super Mode called "Fervent Mode" (see below).
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: This seems to be the default state of everyone the Captain's brought to Hyperion as of the "TeRiRi's Magical Quest" and "Before the Endless Dream Ends" events. Kongming is as haughty as ever. Bronie and Delta would just as soon fight each other as be in the same room; Delta finds Bronie's irreverent attitude very irritating, while Bronie thinks Delta has a stick up her ass and enjoys needling her. Bronie also doesn't trust Yae Kasumi one bit, which Kasumi's secretive loner nature doesn't help with. Rita tries to be the peacemaker, but her personality and shifty ways mean no one fully likes or trusts her. On top of this, since Delta and Kasumi work for "the Ferryman", they are adversarial toward the Captain. Bronie and Rita initially pair up to help TeRiRi, then run into Delta and Kasumi who have similarly teamed up, and after some initial friction they settle into an uneasy alliance behind TeRiRi...and then it all goes south thanks to Luna Kindred's machinations. Thankfully, everyone is more or less getting along as of the end of "Captain's Ranch Tale", with Sirin and Bronie even joining Delta in playing Delta's video games.

The Captain

The Captain of the Hyperion, who represents you, the player, when you're not directly controlling the Valkyries. He isn't part of the main storyline and only appears in certain events, especially ones where he travels to parallel universes.

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• Action Survivor: This is often the role he takes in in the more intense events. While he can fight, he's generally no match for the monsters or the human characters and has to rely on his ingenuity and sheer determination to pull himself through.
• Ambiguous Gender: The captain when on the bridge and in non-Captainverse events has no visual representation and therefore no confirmed gender. However, they are implied to be male, mainly due to being the target of Himeko and Rita's flirting. In the Captainverse, however, he is confirmed to be male as seen at the start of "Honkai Kingdoms" and at the end of "Rosemary's Floriograph", which has Rozaliya and Liliya and then Kongming and Rita, respectively, refer to him using the male pronoun (他) in the original Chinese text. Accordingly, the English translation calls him Mr. Assassin. Non-game materials, if they ever depict them, often depict the Captain as male.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: His "time-traveling". The end of "Rosemary's Floriograph" has Rita (who acted as "Irene Adler") claim that the Captain's "consciousness mapping" involves him "inserting" his mind into other people's, taking on their memories, knowledge and experiences in the process. The problem this poses is that he has done it too many times and has started to forget who he really was, so he thinks he's really "Conan Doyle". Thankfully Rita could "pull" him out before it's too late, but she feels that she could jog his memories more.
• Deadpan Snarker: The Captain's wit is usually extremely dry and contrasts the wackiness in some of the events well.
• Determinator:
  • In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars", he tries over and over to save Kongming from her fate, but he fails every time. Even after realizing that he's only a "pawn" in this whole "game", he keeps going on as that's the only thing he knows. After so many attempts to go back in the past by activating Tesla-Zero, she fully awakens, and goes on to explain everything to help him. She lampshades it, saying that he's the biggest tryhard she's ever seen, but it's also thanks to such persistence that he managed to awaken her in the first place. She says that the "future Captain" has set up the "consciousness mapping threshold" as "absurdly high", believing that the current Captain can reach it by his repeated attempts, and that he can find a completely different resolution than the future him did.
  • "After the Blood Moon Fades" also shines a spotlight on his determination, as he will stop at nothing to bring Luna back to join the rest of the crew no matter how she tries to avoid him or how many obstacles she puts in his path.
• Dimensional Traveler: The Stinger for "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event seemingly establishes the Captain as one, as his Hyperion is currently floating in the Sea of Quanta. Built by his memory, it's the manifestation of his power and the path leading to tomorrow, as Tesla-Zero says. Kongming—now part of the Hyperion crew—notes that there are other travelers who have lost their footing in bubble universes, and that he's planning to travel to more worlds.
• The Dulcinea Effect: In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", he only knew of Kongming since the end of "Odd Drifter", but hearing her story of how she turned into a tyrant filled with sorrow and vengeance, then having her die in front of him as she begs "Mr. Assassin" to save her and Rita, compels him to try to help her. Even with the ability to go back in time to solve the problem that causes her death, she always ends up dying again and again. Near the end, he could barely even remember that he initially only wanted to go back to the Hyperion. It eventually takes a toll on his mind, and he goes on to say that he's not the "Mr. Assassin" that could make miracles happen for her, and that she has put her faith in the wrong person.
  Captain: I'm not your Mr. Assassin! The Mr. Assassin in your memory can do everything, but I... You know how many Qixi nights have I been through? How many times I watched you disappear? I'm afraid... afraid to meet your eyes when I wake up again... afraid to run into another dead end... I want to run away from this, but where to? Running is a choice I don't have...
  Kongming: You have a choice. You can always give me up and shake off the nightmare. Without me, Rita and Theresa would still take good care of you. You could erase me from your memory and live happily. If you give me up now, I'd never hold any grudge against you. I never did.
• The Ghost: Interestingly, they never appear in the game's Story mode nor are ever referenced, despite often appearing in events. In Chapter Chiyou, for one, it's Theresa who commands Hyperion to support the Valkyries currently inside Chiyou. The most you'll usually get is a glimpse of their hand or arm from your POV.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • The Captain's narration in the final stage of "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" has him leaning extremely close to the fourth wall.
    I was playing a game that had spun out of my control. If I could somehow get the whole picture from a high point, there might be a way to beat the game. But I was hopelessly trapped and had to play my part in the game... Yes, instead of the player, I'm merely a pawn on the chess board. Who's playing this game? Are there other observers? Would they feel bored when the game has come this far? They might be able to see in a glance the ending that I have to take thousands of steps to get to. I don't know how the story ends... or if the story has any ending at all. If there are observers watching this game, what would they say about all the things I've done? Sure... they won't approve of me. And they have every reason to do so.
  • In the end, The Stinger of said event has Kongming, now a part of the Hyperion crew, say that the Captain has recorded the past events that he was in, a Fandom Nod to how the players would do the same thing. He then goes on to give those records a name of his own—"Cap's Bizarre Adventure"—seemingly establishing the whole "Captain-verse" (a term coined by the fans) as a real thing. He even says that the name comes from a story he used to like reading.
• Non-Entity General: They're almost totally unseen, as they're representing you. Non-game materials may show them on screen. For instance, the gag 4-koma comics released by miHoYo depict him as a red-haired man wearing a seaman's cap.
• Only Sane Man: They often have this attitude when it comes to the antics of the people around them, especially during "Odd Drifter".
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" opens with Kongming dying in front of him due to drinking poisoned wine, and begging the Captain with her last words to change her and Rita's fate, as she thinks of him as the "Mr. Assassin" (the Captain in "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero") who once helped her a lot in the past. He was told about "Ms. Ironfist" (Tesla-Zero, who was kept with Kongming at the end of "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero"), and that he can use her to help him. He tries activating her, and she warps him back in time to attempt to prevent her death and the problem he has to solve for it. However, each time he manages to do it, something else kills her instead, so he tries going back in time again to solve the new problem. In the fifth scenario, he gets to let Kongming know about what he's doing and what he saw; he didn't expect her to believe him, but to his surprise, she chooses to take his words and follow them closely. After the fifth failed attempt, we're treated to a montage of shorter scenes where he tries, again and again, to fix things up to prevent her death, to no avail. He then feels that some kind of force is holding him back.
  Captain: It's like I was fixing a leaking umbrella. One hole was patched up and another began to form.
• Time Travel:
  • In "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero", in the beginning, the Captain is playing Chinese chess with Zhuge Kongming on the Hyperion, with him talking about how the present wouldn't come to be if "the past remains unchanged". He then says that "the [me] from the future" changed Kongming's past, but he wonders what the "future him" is doing. He then travels to the past, accompanied by the ELF Tesla-Zero, to when Kongming was still a crown princess after the emperor's passing and a civil war is brewing from her absence. Kongming has a plan to seal and banish the monsters that threatened the kingdom, but the event shows that she might have failed in sealing the last beast were it not for the Captain's interference. After Kongming, Captain and their allies manage to seal said beast, the "Golem" in the underwater altar wakes up and tells the Captain that it (the Golem) can grant a wish to whoever summoned it... but since the Captain has asked from him once "in the future" (a reference to the original "Honkai Kingdoms" event), the current Captain cannot ask for more. The Golem offers it to Kongming instead, who wishes for eternal peace and prosperity for her kingdom. The Golem claims that she and Rita (her chancellor) are the two brilliant minds that can make the kingdom's peace and prosperity possible, so it chooses to give them Immortality. This is implied to be how Kongming can stay alive to the present, and how Rita seems to be infatuated with the Captain in the original "Honkai Kingdoms". In the end, the Captain goes back to the present after saying farewell to Kongming, claiming that "they'll meet again in the distant future".
  • In "The Day You Vanished with the Stars", the Captain of this event repeatedly goes back in time with Tesla-Zero's help in order to prevent whatever it is what would cause Kongming's death. However, every time he manages to do so, something else kills her instead, and he's forced to go back to the past again. After doing it countless times, Tesla-Zero finally wakes up for real, and reveals that the ability to travel back in time is all Captain's doing, with a technique she calls "consciousness mapping". She only helped him set up the place and time he needed to go back to, and later, to realize this ability, as he didn't understand it at first. In the end, as he proceeds to go back to the Hyperion with Kongming with Tesla-Zero's help, he says "see you in the not-so-distant future".

Theresa (A-872)

Voiced by: Hua Ling (Chinese), Yukari Tamura (Japanese)

Luna Kindred

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Lunar Vow: Crimson Love

A vampire girl who appears in the "Sanguine Nights" event. The Captain finds her passed out in a street.

She returns in the "Before the Endless Dream Ends" and "After the Blood Moon Fades" events, seemingly as an adversary to the Captain and his companions.

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• Anti-Debuff: She shares Valkyrie Pledge’s "leader skills" that decreases the duration of debuffs taken for the whole team if they're set as the team's leader.
• Chainsaw Good: Lunar Vow: Crimson Love's signature weapon is the cross Bloodied Casket, but it takes the form of a huge chainsaw.
• Close-Range Combatant: Unlike other Theresa battlesuits, Luna Kindred fights in melee, Dual Wielding red swords that come out of nowhere and turning her cross into an axe to smash enemies with.
• Dual Wielding: Bloodied Casket is actually two chainsaws mounted side by side. Luna's basic attack keeps them together, but she splits them into two saws for her Frenzy attack, making multiple slashes and ending with a ground stab, and her Ultimate, where she does a lunging cross slice.
• EX Special Attack: Has a special attack where she turns her mechanical cross into a poleaxe and smashes enemies with it, dealing bleeding Damage Over Time. It comes with a special stocks-gauge that is filled with her normal attacks on bleeding enemies or her Ultimate Skill (and evading at the right time) and expended by using the axe move; it can be performed with the gauge depleted but she'll swing the axe slower and deal less damage.
• Older Than She Looks: Exaggerated. Luna, like Theresa, hasn't physically aged since reaching around 12 years old, but she is far older than Theresa since she's a vampire. In "After the Blood Moon Fades", she uses a time dilation trick to try to escape the Captain, but he pursues her and in the 10,000 years it takes for him to finally catch up with her, she actually ages into an adult, represented by Lunar Vow: Crimson Love.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Luna Kindred is described as one, with her needing to sustain herself by drinking blood. The unique thing about her is that her bite turns affected people into undead-like beings that are effectively immortal as long as Luna Kindred lives courtesy of Otto adding in some energy from the Key of the Devourer in her creation. In gameplay, she has a passive skill where, if she attacks enemies with bleeding status, she'll heal herself bit by bit. In the "Odd Drifter" event, whenever she's craving for blood, she'll slowly go sickly and then berserk; the Captain sates her thirst for blood at least twice in the event.
• Spin Attack: Luna Kindred's normal attacks are sets of spinning attacks with her swords. Her Ultimate Skill has Theresa spin while swinging her axe twice; she then jumps up and slams it to the ground, dealing damage in an area.

Zhuge Kongming

Voiced by: Hua Ling (Chinese), Yukari Tamura (Japanese)

The Princess and Grand Seeress of the Emberyan empire.

She first appears near the end of the "Odd Drifter" event as the one masterminding the whole event in order to fix the anomaly that the Captain caused by mistake. In the "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event, she receives the Captain's help to slay a certain Honkai Beast that threatens her country. She also stars in the next event, "The Day You Vanished With The Stars".

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• Accidental Discovery: One scenario in "Emberyan Chronicles" mini event has her creating a design for a "talent-seeking device", which is basically a computer hooked to a bunch of potatoes as its electric source. The villagers are confused upon seeing the thing, as they don't understand how it works. She thinks that it's just lacking power, which she tries to solve by adding more potatoes to it. It just ends up roasting the potatoes instead, so she just decides to focus on that instead - she has discovered potato fries.
• The Ageless: Her focus event reveals that the "immortality" that the Golem gave her and Rita only means that they won't die a natural death. They can still die by being killed, as she first witnessed with Rita and then herself; they've lived for around a thousand years by then.
• Ascended Extra: Downplayed. She went from just being depicted in a stigmata set to an actual character in events.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Caught in her joy having defeated Huodou, she makes a wish to the Golem for the "eternal prosperity of her kingdom". The Golem, assuming that having Kongming and Rita at its helm would be enough to make Emberya prosperous, proceeds to make both of them immortal so that they rule it forever. Unfortunately as the years and centuries passed, the empire did meet its inevitable downfall, due to her "disappearance".
• Combat Hand Fan: Like with most depictions of Zhuge Liang, she's depicted with a feather fan that she can use to manipulate the winds.
• Cooldown Manipulation: The T version of her Stigma reduces the cooldown of Ultimate Evasion's effects by some percent.
• Exact Words: In the end of "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", after it's explained to her that Golem's "backup programming" will try to erase her from the world as she's deemed an "anomaly" in any way it could and that every timeline the Captain has faced and tried to fix will only end up in her death, she comes up with an idea to address it: to leave this world, so that she can stay alive while said "program" will not detect her again.
  Tesla-Zero: Fortune teller (Kongming) leaving this world would count as mission accomplished for the program.
• Facial Composite Failure: In the "Honkai Kingdoms Zero" event, all three factions present an illustration of Zhuge Kongming to you (the Captain), telling you to find and capture her. Durandal's side gives a normal image of her, Rita's side gives an image of her doing a double V-Sign pose with an annoyed expression, and Kiana's side gives the memetic "derpy chibi" image of her.
• The Four Gods: Four of her skill's names are somewhat derived from these (Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Combo: Black Tortoise, Rosefinch).
• Gadgeteer Genius: In the "Emberyan Chronicles" web event, she acts as an inventor who tries using her designs to help her people.
• Geometric Magic: Her "Eight Formation" involves her drawing circles and some runes, that can do various things.
• Historical Gender Flip: She's basically Zhuge Liang in a body that somehow resembles Theresa. In the second scenario of her focus event, she's said to be playing her zither alone near her kingdom's fortress as her people has been evacuated when the two neighboring kingdoms attack hers, a reference to an anecdote of the real Zhuge Liang doing something similar to fool the invaders into thinking he may be hiding a powerful ambush.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals:
  • Her stigmata version's profile has to point out that she and Theresa are different, unrelated people, and her chibi in the dorm shows disdain over being compared to "that irresponsible principal". This is a Self-Deprecation over miHoYo having to change her name into "Theresa: Stargazing" in the Chinese version.
  • In her event in version 4.0, it's a plot point: Kongming has come back from her hiding only to find her empire being attacked by neighboring ones, and she deposed Theresa (the Grand Seeress in the original Honkai Kingdoms event) and took over the throne again before she defeated the invaders and captured their leaders. She then makes Theresa into her "songbird" against her will. In the third scenario where everything's relatively better, Theresa apparently works as Kongming's Body Double and "acting Grand Seeress" for the current Emberya whenever Kongming tries to go King Incognito. This also gets lampshaded when Theresa briefly dresses as Kongming and the latter wears her alternate outfit to mess with the Captain.
• Instrument of Murder: Her signature weapon, "Zither's Lament", is a "cross" in the shape of a zither. She uses it like any other cross, by dropping it down and activating it, which blows slowing winds around it that deals continuous damage.
• Insult of Endearment: She initially calls the Captain "Mr. Assassin" because of a misunderstanding when they meet, but even after it's lifted she keeps calling him that. By the end, she clearly uses it very affectionately. In her focus event, in the first scenario, she calls the Captain with it again just before she dies due to poison; he's confused as he doesn't remember ever being called that, but it (and the talk with her just before that) clues him that she might've meet someone similar to him before.
• I Will Wait for You: In the end of "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event, the Captain promised to her that they'll meet again in a distant future. So she patiently waited for him to come back... up to 1000 years, as she has become The Ageless. In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event, she's still waiting for "Mr. Assassin", and that she feels that the current Captain reminds her of him.
• "Just Frame" Bonus: If you release the attack button at just the right time (indicated by a yellow circle) when she uses her branch attack, she'll shoot out a stronger whirlwind out of her fan. Some of her skills are tied to this mechanic.
• King Incognito: In her event, before the Qixi Festival, Rita and Theresa gives Kongming a more "civilian" dress (the Orchid Night alternate costume) so that she can blend in to the common people better.
• King in the Mountain: In Honkai Kingdoms Zero's ending, around 70-80 years after she established the new dynasty, she went to guard the seal of Huodou and left the kingdom to Rita's care. As around a millennia have passed without her around, Emberya isn't the same anymore and is now under the threat of two new neighboring kingdoms, Schicksal and Jormungond, setting the original Honkai Kingdoms event.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: In the Chinese version of the game, she's only known as "Stargazer". This is part of the censorship in that country regarding the Gender Flip of historical Chinese figures.
• Paradox Person: In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars", this is a big part of the reason why she dies in all of Captain's attempts to go back in time to save her. Huodou's rampage after breaking out of its seal wrecked the Golem in the ruins, which inadvertently activated a "self driven management program" within it. This program archives all individuals who made a wish to the Golem; it didn't detect Kongming (who once made a wish) as she was away in another world (the Odd Drifter's setting). When she came back, said programming deemed her an "anomaly", as an "unexistant" person who somehow made a wish to the Golem, and thus it tries to cause her death either In Mysterious Ways, or through its "mass-produced agents". Also, if the program deems it impossible to erase the anomaly, it would try to Restart the World.
• Promoted to Playable: She becomes playable in version 4.0 after only appearing in events and as a set of stigmata.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship:
  • While they weren't exactly lovers, the way she speaks of her Grand Chancellor, Rita, when reminiscing indicates that Kongming saw her as more than just a friend. Rita's death after the two neighbor kingdoms seemingly refused to help in the fight against Huodou made her hungry for revenge and a lot more cynical. Considering they had shared each other's lives for a thousand years after the Golem made them immortal, that's unsurprising.
  • In the end of said event, when she thinks of leaving this world to save herself from certain death, she thinks of Rita as well. Unfortunately, Tesla-Zero tells her that the Captain cannot bring two people at once with him to the Hyperion. She and the Captain decide to see Rita for one last time. Finding Rita asleep at her desk, Kongming decides to put a blanket over her while telling the Captain not to wake her up. Kongming still finds it hard to say goodbye to her, taking one long last look towards her, and the Captain has to pull her out. When Rita wakes up later, she sees that Kongming left one of her fans behind on the window sill, and immediately understands that the princess is away (again), looking for new adventures.
• Resurrection/Death Loop: In "The Day You Vanished With the Stars", she dies early on the event after drinking poisoned wine while telling the Captain (or "Mr. Assassin" as she calls him) to "save her and Rita". He was told about "Ms. Ironfist" (Tesla-Zero, whom Kongming kept in her room long after the "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event), that he can use her to help him. He tries activating her, then she seemingly turns back time to before Rita died fighting against Huodou. He tries fixing the problems that caused Kongming to die, but everytime he manages to do so, something else kills her instead, and he has to use Tesla-Zero again to go back in time to resolve the new problem. Eventually, after the fifth failed attempt, he realizes that some greater force may be holding him back, and may be behind her deaths. Later, Tesla-Zero reveals that it's because Kongming has been deemed as a Paradox Person (see above) that has to be wiped off the face of the world. Kongming herself finds out a way to resolve this: by going out of her world (again).
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's a young princess and heir to the throne who uses her wisdom and intelligence to try to solve the monster problems of her kingdom and bring back peace. In her focus event in 4.0, in the second scenario, she defends her kingdom from the neighboring kingdoms at the cost of her life, while in the third, she uses her wits to negotiate peace with said kingdoms' leaders. The end of said event, however, has her saying that while she was willing to take on the duty as the heir to the throne, if she had the choice, she'd rather be an explorer roaming the realm. She laments that she had to "leave" this world to protect it (see Paradox Person above for why), but she's still willing to do it.
• Stepford Smiler: Two different cases of this occurs in "The Day You Vanished With The Stars".
  • In the first scenario, she seemingly tends to give a cold smile as she does cruel things to Theresa and the captured leaders of the neighboring kingdoms. It hides her sorrow and wrath over Rita dying while fighting Huodou because the Schicksal and Jormungond couldn't give the help her kingdom needed in time to defeat the beast.
  • In the third, during the Qixi Festival, she seemingly goes around like an excited little kid buying various treats; the Captain can't help but think that it must've been the "festive mood", but it also relieves him, knowing that she can enjoy herself and this night. Then she gives him a wry smile instead and says "are you happy now, Captain?" as she points out his long face throughout the night. Turns out she actually wants to puts him at ease and not worry about anything.
• Tornado Move: Her Ultimate Skill is to summon a tornado that slowly gathers enemies and deals multiple hits, as well as buffing the whole party for several seconds.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Discussed during "The Day You Vanished With The Stars". If it wasn't for Rita (who was also immortalized with her), she would've gone mad from living a millennium alone.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: She's only 12 years old during Honkai Kingdoms Zero, but she already has the composure and wisdom to rule Emberya and see through the conspiracies around her.

Yae Kasumi

Voiced by: Mingya Du (Chinese), Ayane Sakura (Japanese)

The main character of the "Sanka Saga" event in version 3.6^note rerun in version 5.1, she’s a ninja from Shicksal’s "Anbu" section, who looks exactly like Yae Sakura and is helped by a mysterious informant called the Ferryman. She reappears in version 4.7, clashing with the hacker Bronie in another bubble universe.

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• Balance Buff: Back in 3.6, Darkbolt Jonin was seen as weak, especially considering that she consumes more resources to leve her skills up compared to other characters. Version 3.7 gives her a lot of buffs, from the increased duration of her personal buff and debuff, increased "Zakti gauge" gain from attacks, and increased damage in some of her attacks (including her Ultimate Skill).
• Criss-Cross Attack: Darkbolt Jonin's branch attack has her zipping through enemies multiple times while slashing with her katanas. Each slash costs an unit in her special gauge, filled by either normal attacks or her Ultimate Skill (and, for the latter, the gauge will also regenerate afterwards). Doing each slash will buff the power of her next slash, and it stacks up to 5 times. Her Ultimate Skill's additional attack also has her zipping around in a small area around her while slashing around before a final downward strike, akin to Lightning Empress' own (albeit in a smaller scale).
• Cyber Ninja: Played with. She comes back in version 4.7’s "Haxxor Bunny" event with a brand new high-tech suit that shields her from various types of damage and increases her speed and power, but it’s noted that her body itself didn’t undergo any modifications.
• Deadly Lunge: After either her kunai attack or her Ultimate Evasion, she can do a dashing slash attack that goes through enemies.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Her Ultimate Evasion effect creates a shadow clone that slowly attracts enemies towards it while dealing small continuous lightning damage. 3 seconds later, the clone explodes, dealing more damage and triggering Time Fracture.
• Dual Wielding: Played straight − she actively uses both of her swords in a Reverse Grip; there are no dual swords available as selectable weapons, so the game gives her two of whatever sword you equip her with.
• I'm Crying, but I Don't Know Why: In Sanka Saga, after Kallen sacrifices herself to banish the Herrscher of Corruption to another world, Kasumi wanders in the shrine’s ruins with uncontrollable tears. She later admits that she didn’t know what made her cry so much (as she’d only known Kallen for a few days), implying that she still possesses some lingering memories of "Sakura" deep down.
• Injured Player Character Stage: In one stage of "Sanka Saga", Kasumi gets badly wounded and weakened and has to run to the shrine for shelter. She'll get constant bleeding status and occasionally stun herself. She can find various herbs, medicines, etc inside the items on the road to alleviate her condition, but only temporarily.
• "Just Frame" Bonus: If you stop a bit after her 3rd or 4th part of her normal combo, a circle will flash. Pressing the attack button in that moment will cause her to jump up and throw a spread of kunai downward. This will give the enemies a Damage-Increasing Debuff, and a buff for herself.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: There's a reason Darkbolt Jonin's chibi (and thus, her bio) isn't released with her in 3.6 and is only updated in 3.7: it hints towards the big twist in the "Sanka Saga" event.
• Master of Disguise: Part of her infiltration skills as a ninja naturally include playing the role of an ordinary woman, such as a maiko (a geisha apprentice) to fool unsuspecting people and gather information.
• Ninja: She uses speedy attacks, dual-wields katanas, throws spreads of kunai and summons a fox-like beast in her Ultimate Skill to attack her enemies. The "Sakura Season" event has her working in a ninja base-slash-izakaya and taking errands per day, while the "Sanka Saga" event has her go on a big ninja mission.
• The Paralyzer: The last hit of her normal combo will paralyze enemies if they get hit. The paralysis time is short, however (only good for triggering QTE).
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Her cold demeanor as a shadow warrior doesn’t stop her from showing kindness and even slight embarrassment when she’s made to wear the miko outfit by Theresa in the shrine.
• Summon Magic: Her Ultimate Skill has her summon an image of a kitsune to attack enemies with a lightning blast.
• Sword Plant: Darkbolt Jonin's normal combo ends with her stabbing both of her swords to the ground. This is also her version of Domain of Sanction's weapon skill (other Sakura will simply do a downward chopping motion).

Dr. Conan Doyle

An event character, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He's a physician of Baker Street who's known more as a detective and a novelist, having written the Sherlock Holmes stories which are based on his personal accounts of the crime cases. He also has an East Asian named Fu Hua has his partner.

In the "Apocalypse Scandal" mini event, he's hired by the "Blonde Man" (Otto) to try to fight off Irene Adler's attempt to Black Mail him. In the "Rosemary's Floriograph" event, he and Fu Hua are called to the city of St. Fountain by the Anti-Entropy group to solve a case of serial murder, primarily of its leader, Welt Joyce.

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• Forced Sleep:
  • When he's faced with distress after Jackal's sudden murder, as he's thinking about everything that's happened, he suddenly falls asleep. He then finds himself in what looks to be a laboratory, where a ghost (Seele) appears in front of him and asks for help, only for her Split Personality to take over and become hostile. Thankfully, Irene Adler enters his dream to protect him, and battles Seele in his stead. After she's finished, he wakes up.
  • Around 3/4 into the event's story, when he's talking to Sora, he falls asleep again. This time, in his mind, he seems to "become" Seele as he's brought to a place in the past. There, he (as Seele) goes around, seeing the people he knew (Bronya, Joachim, Raven etc) talking about things. It then cuts to a scene where he sees a "shadow" muttering the poem that he previously read (from Welt Joyce). When he wakes up, Irene claims that his body moved by itself and opened the window in the room.
• Grand Theft Me:
  • This is implied to be what happened to him in the middle of "Rosemary's Floriograph". When he's talking to Sora, he enters a Forced Sleep state where he "becomes" the mysterious girl in azure (Seele). When he wakes up, Irene claims that his body moved by itself and opened the window in the room. This gives him the clue to find out that Seele's soul is confined in the rosemary flowers (what he saw when he opened the window); back when he talked to Sora, he smelled a certain scent in her body, which is when he fell asleep - Seele was likely controlling his body at that time.
  • The ending, however, has a bigger twist that involves this trope. The "Doyle" in the event is revealed to be the Captain of "Cap's Bizarre Adventure", using his consciousness mapping to "become" Doyle, taking over his memories, experiences and knowledge.
• I Know Karate: When Fu Hua and Irene talk about accompanying Doyle to meet Einstein, he claims that while he's not much of a fighter, he isn't completely helpless as he was trained in "bartitsu" (which Sherlock Holmes also practices) by Fu Hua.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: Around the middle of "Rosemary's Floriograph", he proposes to split the people in Welt Joyce's manor into 2 groups: his group (him, Irene, Einstein, and Raven) continues the investigation of the crime (and keep watch over the young Joey), and Fu Hua's group (her, Tesla, Bronya) goes out to try to fix the barrier system of St. Fountain to keep the Honkai Beasts away.
• Sherlock Can Read: In the beginning, he seems to know that the woman that sits near them in the train carriage is Irene Adler, a famous opera singer. Fu Hua questions him on how he could know about her; he points out that he's reading the back of the newspaper that Fu Hua's currently reading, which apparently has a report of Adler's retirement.
• The Social Expert: In "Rosemary's Floriograph", many of his findings come from how he can notice the subtle reactions and gestures of the people around him, as befits a detective.
• Summation Gathering: Just like in Sherlock Holmes novels, this happens at the climax of "Rosemary's Floriograph". He gathers everyone in the manor to share his findings, and to find out who the culprit (the murderer) could be.
• Write Who You Know: In-Universe, he based Sherlock Holmes on his own mind and Fu Hua's attitude. She is slightly offended over having Holmes' nationality be Doyle's instead of hers; he tries to politely explain that people might be alienated by the presence of an East Asian (who might be deemed too "magical" or "out there") in a detective story, particularly after he saw her breaking a wall with her bare hands.
• You Just Told Me: He uses the non-verbal variant of it in "Apocalypse Scandal". He thinks hard of what to do to find Irene Adler's photo of the "Blonde Man" when Fu Hua accidentally spills his drink, causing him to reflexively look at his document papers on his table. This gives him an "Eureka!" Moment as he explains that one would reflexively look at (the general direction of) their important belongings whenever something sudden happens which they think could bring harm to said belongings. So he makes a plan that makes Irene put him into her house^note Fu Hua dresses like a hobo who's obsessed with Irene, and Doyle "protects" her from Fu Hua, getting punched in the face to unconsciousness in the process, then Fu Hua lights up some firecrackers near Irene's house in order to distract her attention - which sets her house on fire. Irene reflexively glances at a certain direction in her room; Doyle quickly notices it, then^note after Irene brings him outside and Fu Hua takes him out, he and Fu Hua sneak into her house again during the chaos he tries looking at the place Irene might be hiding the photo. Played with in that despite his plan, he couldn't find the photo; but his wits impresses Irene so much that she decides to call off her threat and promise that she wouldn't release said photo to the public.

Rita Rossweisse ("Fallen Rosemary")

Voiced by: Xiao N (Chinese), Aoi Yūki (Japanese)

Fallen Rosemary

A different version of Rita hailing from the bubble worlds, and the one who appears in the "Apocalypse Scandal" and "Rosemary's Floriograph" events.

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• Bathtub Scene: In "Rosemary's Floriograph", one of the story segments is from Irene's POV as she discusses the case with Conan Doyle while enjoying a bath. While not explicit thanks to a Modesty Towel, it's still rather sensual in tone, and she mixes some playful teasing in with her conversation.
• Black Mail: In the "Apocalypse Scandal" event, she (as "Irene Adler") sends a letter to Otto (referred to only as "Blonde Man") informing him that she has a photograph of him Disguised in Drag (the letter also has a copy of the photo) and she threatens to leak the photo to the public if he doesn't send her some ransom money in 3 days. As he's about to be promoted from a cleric to a bishop, he fears that the photo would tarnish his reputation, so he asks for the private detective "Conan Doyle" and his assistant Fu Hua for help. Doyle plans to find the real photo in those 3 days through various means, from disguising as one of Adler's servants to sneaking into her room. In the end, though, she's very impressed with Doyle's effort to outwit her, and promises to not leak the photo to the public, which leaves the Blonde Man delighted.
• Dimensional Traveler: miHoYo developers based Fallen Rosemary around the concept of a character brought out of the bubble universes just like Yae Kasumi and Zhuge Kongming, but also refer to her as a higher order entity, being one of two noticeable observations by Otto at the end of Chapter 17, with the other being the Wind Dragon Dvalin from Genshin Impact.
• Famed In-Story: In the "Apocalypse Scandal" web event, as she takes the role of "Irene Adler", she acts as a famous traveling theater actress who has a lot of admirers and suitors.
• First-Name Basis: In "Rosemary's Floriograph", the event's version of her has apparently known Tesla and Einstein for quite some time, calling them "Frederika" and "Lieserl".
• Flower Motifs: As Fallen Rosemary, the rosemary flower/herb symbolizes remembrance, loyalty, love, and fidelity. The very title of "Rosemary's Floriograph" event basically points out the meaning of the rosemary - particularly about "memories", as shown in one of her quotes in the character selection screen. In the event, while the rosemaries in the Welt Manor's garden are revealed to be Seele, as her dead body was buried 5 years ago in said garden, Rita's connection with the flowers is that it was her who told Joachim to bury Seele's body there, with her persumably also giving her "magic" in the process (the detail is not shown). In that case, the rosemary symbolizes "memories" of Bronya and Joffrey, of their "sister", Seele.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Fallen Rosemary's "signature" Stigmata set is Irene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes novels. Fittingly, in the event stories of "Apocalypse Scandal" and "Rosemary's Floriograph", she's acting as Irene Adler.
• Hot Witch: Fallen Rosemary's concept—an otherworldly wanderer who wears an elegant dress, moves and poses in an alluring way, and speaks in a sophisticated tone. Her abilities also seem more "magical" than most other playable characters.
• Mysterious Waif: Fallen Rosemary is presented as this. Her origins are unknown; Hyperion is just one of her footholds, but nobody knew what she had gone through.
• Projectile Kiss: Fallen Rosemary simulates this in a sequence of her combo (in Valfreyja mode) where she alluringly leans forward as if to blow a kiss, projecting a phantom animal head on her target.
• Regenerating Mana: One of Fallen Rosemary's passive skills allows her to gain SP and fill her special gauge while on standby, whenever her teammates perform a branch or Charged Attack.
• Summon Magic: Fallen Rosemary's gameplay revolves around this. After entering "Valfreyja Mode", she can summon a wolf-like spirit and a serpentine spirit in her normal attack, a bird spirit that shoots lightning bolts with her evasion skill, and (with her Charged Attack) a giant wolf spirit that bites all enemies in an area and creates an Area of Effect buff. In her Ultimate Skill, she summons a magic lamp that releases the "Trickster God" which then performs a Ground Punch that causes a giant blast of electricity.
• Super Mode: Fallen Rosemary can enter "Valfreyja Mode" by using her Charged Attack when her gauge is filled at least halfway (or when she uses her signature weapon, Iris of the Dreams). Her normal and charged attacks and evasion skill change to become more powerful as she utilizes Summon Magic.
• Supermodel Strut: Like her counterpart in the regular 'verse, she has a pronounced hip sway as she walks. This is evident in parts of "Rosemary's Floriograph"; technically it's the Captain walking around Welt's office examining areas for clues, but this is represented by her as Irene Adler.
• The Tease: In "Rosemary's Floriograph", she loves to get under Tesla's skin in a playfully naughty way, very much unlike the Passive Aggressive Combat that usually happens between the regular versions of Rita and Tesla.
  "Irene": It's been a while. You seem to have become more adorable.
  Tesla: Er, you're giving me a blush, Ms. Adler.
  "Irene": Now there's something about you that makes me want to pamper you even more.
  Tesla: Er... Ahh, don't come any closer!
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  "Irene": Don't be silly—we haven't seen each other for long. I should make the most of our time together to tea... I mean, bond with you.
  Tesla: You were definitely trying to say "tease"!

Delta

Voiced by: Duoduo Poi (Chinese), Aoi Koga (Japanese)

A mysterious wandering girl who appears in version 4.3's "Honkai Quest" event, where she’s searching for a certain "Dark Lord" with the young aspiring adventurer Seele. She combines the physical traits of both Rozaliya and Liliya but is a rather cynical and sarcastic girl with little patience.

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• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She used to be a Valkyrie of St. Freya/Schiksal Far East Branch, and she holds a lieutenant rank.
• BFS: Although in-game she uses whichever sword she's equipped with, she's usually depicted wielding Sleeper's Dream, the PRI-ARM version of Rozaliya's signature sword Sleeping Beauty, which dwarfs her in size. She also has a blue greatsword called "Odette's Curse" which she uses in her SuperMode, which belonged to her sister.
• Brick Joke: In Assaka's boss files, Rozaliya wonders if she can become one with Liliya just like it, only for Liliya to bluntly reply that if that happens, she can just leave the entire battle to her. Come the introduction of Delta in "Honkai Quest", and this is what Rozaliya becomes if she decided to become one with Liliya by integrating what appears to be her sister's remains into herself.
• Composite Character: Along with her own unique style, her gameplay borrows elements from both twin’s battlesuits, such as Rozaliya’s base combo and super headbutt QTE and Liliya’s defensive pose when activating her ultimate skill with a similar "Just Frame" Bonus. And of course, her design is a mix of both, as she has two horns and a pink-and-blue color pattern. Her flashback stories almost confirms that she's literally a composite of Rozaliya and Liliya.
• Cynical Mentor: Acts this way to "Honkai Quest"'s Seele, accepting to bring her along to the "Dark Castle" and train her to fight as long as she doesn’t get in Delta’s way too much.
• Deadpan Snarker: There are very few things she doesn’t look down upon; even the "Djinns" and self-proclaimed "Grand Sages" aren't safe from her jibes. It doesn’t help that her sheer brute strength makes her basically unstoppable in the "Honkai Quest" world, to the bafflement of everyone she comes across. This is because she used to be a Valkyrie working for St. Freya before becoming a Dimensional Traveler.
• Defense Mechanism Superpower: Like Lili's, her QTE can be activated by having the current character take a hit (even if no damage occurred).
• Dimensional Traveler: She is one like the Captain and "Rosemary" Rita, as she mentions "bubble universes" several times, and her flashbacks indicate she comes from a very different world than the one the event takes place in. Her bridge interactions actually mention Fallen Rosemary indirectly, indicating that they have met at least once.
• Emergency Transformation: Her flashbacks show that this is what leads to her current self. Back in her world, she and her sister tried escaping the city they're in as Honkai Beasts invaded it, but they got injured by them along the way. Then after her sister called the doctors, the two are put together for a special treatment; the doctors told them that "there's no turning back" after this, and her sister accepted it as she holds the barely conscious Roza's hand. The result for the treatment is shown in a report, where her "Honkai factors" are strengthened, but she had "cognitive problems" and allergic reactions to nightmares (which she had quite a lot after the experiment) as a side effect. It's highly implied that the experiment fused them into one being.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She almost always comes off as callous, dismissive, and uninterested in anything or anyone that's not relevant to her goals, and frequently talks down to Seele and the Water Djinn, but underneath her sass she's not so stony, and helps Seele find real courage and congratulates her on seeing her quest through to become an adventurer.
• Little Miss Badass: She's even more badass than regular Rozaliya; she's a seasoned veteran who had faced a lot of dangers, and she tends to casually dismiss them as her sheer power lets her cut through them almost effortlessly.
• Meaningful Appearance: Her appearance is essentialy a scaled down and humanoid version of Assaka, right down to its color scheme. Quite appropriate for an older sister who wants to become one with her younger sister.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She lampshades it; she says that names are for remembering, but she claims that she's not worth remembering and only uses "Delta" for convenience. Her real name is always blanked out in conversation. However, based on the "Old Dreams" section of "Honkai Quest"'s story CGs and the subtitle color used in her dialogue, she is obviously Rozaliya Olenyeva, but not the same jovial Rozaliya we know.
• Point of Divergence: She's what Roza would have become had Roza truly lost her sister and had no emotional encouragement from anyone but herself.
• Super Mode: Filling her pink and blue gauges and then using her Charged Attack, or triggering her Ultimate Skill, allows her to enter "Fervent Mode" where she wields another greatsword called "Odette's Curse" in tandem with her main one, attacks faster and deals a lot more damage for a few seconds. Learning how to fill the gauges and SP quickly to use this mode almost continuously^note by using her Ultimate Evasion and Ultimate Skill is the basis of her gameplay. It's the equivalent of the normal Roza and Lili fighting in tandem, and for a good reason behind it.
• Surrogate Soliloquy: As seen in the end of "Honkai Quest", she sometimes talks to her own tail as if it has a mind of its own. Due to how she's mentioned to have "cognitive problems", it would seem that there's something behind this habit; either the tail really has a mind of its own (either her sister, or her younger self), or her subconsciousness "acts" as the tail whenever she talks to it.
• Sword Lines: Her sword lines are unique in that they can be colored either pink or blue (or both) epending on the attack, and they resemble paint splashes. Despite how bright and colorful they may seem, one of her special scenes notes that they come from the interactions of her bad feelings and her "Honkai Factor"; the coloring comes from her special sword that gives "pigments" to the resulting combination of said interaction, that she uses to fight her enemies with.
• That Man Is Dead: While Delta used to be her, her bridge interactions show that she no longer considers herself as "Rozaliya" and even calls out the Captain for calling her that. In one flashback scene in "Honkai Quest", she angrily calls out her handler for calling her with "that name".

Bronie

Voiced by: Hanser (Chinese), Kana Asumi (Japanese)

The main character of the "Arc: Light Bound" event, Bronie is an Alternate Self of Bronya who has never lost the use of her legs and is much more expressive. She works as a waitress at Raven's, a bar owned by her boss Cioara, and occasionally takes dangerous jobs at night. She's accompanied by a Robot Buddy which appears to be a smaller and simplified version of Project Bunny 19C.

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• Attack Drone: Along with Bunny Ball, she's able to summon small drones to back up her shooting attacks, and her Ultimate summons several of them to do a massive bombardment.
• Combat Parkour: Similar to some of Kiana's attacks, her basic attacks involve her jumping forward and back while shooting her guns. Her dodge is a leaping forward roll, and her special charged attack in "Arc: Light Bound" causes her to jump straight up, flip uside-down, and deliver a powerful barrage.
• Dual Wielding: She's the first version of Bronya to use firearms since Project Bunny 19C isn't there to do the shooting, wielding a pair of brightly-colored FN P90 submachine guns. Her alternate outfit Old Times equips her with a pair of tommy guns.
• Escape from the Crazy Place: This is Bronie's main drive in life — she feels trapped in Arc City due to the Light Curtain and wants nothing more than to bring the Curtain down and escape to whatever is beyond it.
• Gratuitous English: As with the regular Bronya, Bronie's in-game Chinese and Japanese dialogue clips include her saying "Yes, Captain!". She also says "Hacker's time!" when she's swapped in, "Surprise!" and "Gotcha!" when her QTE is used, and one of her clips for her Ultimate is "Time to say goodbye!"
• Gratuitous Russian: Bronie's jacket features a logo of a rabbit with a fox in its mouth with the words "Я голоден, найду добычу" underneath, which roughly translates to "I'm hungry, time to find prey".
• Hard Light: The introductory cutscene for "Arc: Light Bound"'s story mode reveals that her guns are hard light holograms. Near the end of the story, as she is talking to Kasumi, she mentions that she was born with the ability to project the guns, as well as her drones.
• In the Hood: Her outfit includes a large hood with rabbit ear extensions, which appears to be attached to her shirt rather than her jacket.
• Line-of-Sight Name: A meta example. According to the making-of video (2:27) she was named after Mihoyo had a birthday party for one of the team members with brownies on the menu.
• Palette Swap: Her White ARC outfit is just the default outfit with everything that's black changed to white.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Bronie and Theresa are both orphans; they grew up together and are close friends, with Theresa taking a sort of mother hen role toward Bronie (or "big sister", as she says herself), patching up her wounds when she gets into fights and helping her with hacking.
• Point of Divergence: Unlike Bronya, Bronie never went through the X-10 experiment, and as such retains the use of her legs and higher emotional responses, though this also means that she neither floats nor has an advanced Robot Buddy like Project Bunny 19C. With Project Bunny out of the picture, Bronie's a lone fighter who enjoys danger and employs various conventional weapons like firearms, grenades and bombs.
• Retraux: Her Old Times outfit gives her a very old-fashioned makeover. The outfit itself is her former working clothes from Raven's, her FN P90s are replaced with tommy guns, and her drones resemble early film projectors, with the fan rotors replaced by film reels. Her victory animation even has a sepia filter over it.
• Robot Buddy: Instead of Project Bunny 19C, Bronie is accompanied by a rabbit-eared drone called Bunny Ball which she accesses for her special skills. In the "Arc: Light Bound" event, Bunny Ball helps Bronie make large jumps and find special crates.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Flavored chocolate bars. Bronie's frequently shown either eating them or with a bite of one sticking out of her mouth in the still shots from "Arc: Light Bound", her Stigmata piece in the Bringer of Light set features the latter, and they're one of the items you pick up during the event, which are spent to upgrade Bronie, her guns, and her Stigmata sets.

Sirin

Voiced by: Wang Xiaotong (Chinese), Sakura Tange (Japanese)

This Sirin is from a bubble universe where Magical Girls are a reality, and studies magic alongside this universe's versions of Theresa, Bronya, and Seele, named TeRiRi, Boboli, and Volleri respectively.

She debuts in "TeRiRi's Magical Quest" and takes TeRiRi's role as the focus character from her bubble universe in "Before the Endless Dream Ends" and "After the Blood Moon Fades".

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• Shear Menace: Her signature weapon, Dream Cutter, is a chakram that comes as a pair of blades shaped like the halves of scissors. Additionally, she floats into battle on one of her blades, and her Ultimate has her create an AOE that she warps outside of and slashes with scissors.
• Straight Man: She tends to fall into the role of straight man to Bronie, if only because of Bronie's constant playful teasing.

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