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Cocolia Orphanage

An orphanage led by Cocolia, an ex-Soviet military who managed to gain much influence within Anti-Entropy by assigning most of the orphans therefor.

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Cocolia

Voiced by: Shuai Zhou ^*周帅 (Chinese), Misa Katou (Japanese)

The Arc Villain of Chapters 3 to 4. One of the high-ranking members of Anti-Entropy, and the current owner of ME Corp after its previous owner - Mei's father - was arrested. She also ran an orphanage in which she raised and became a foster mother of many lost children, including Bronya and Seele. She would later make a more physical appearance in Chapter 10 onward.

Assassin Outclassin': She once was a target for assassination by Bronya, but she then discovered Bronya herself and cornered her. She ended up adopting Bronya, too.
Assist Character: Her Stigmata set are all about strengthening your summoned entities, as well as strengthening the user as long as said summoned entity is around. It's almost tailor-made for Wolf's Dawn (Bronya) as her Project Bunny is almost always out as a "summoned entity", but it can also work for Dimension Breaker (Bronya) with her Ultimate Skill, Shadow Dash (Mei) and her shadow clones, Phantom Iron (Rita) and her Stalker Carbon robot, or Bright Knight Excelsis (Durandal) and her King and Queen.
Big Damn Heroes: In ch. 12, she sends out a few Titan mechs to defend Theresa and Roza against Gray Serpent (in Assaka form). She only meant to hold the beast back so Theresa can bring Roza to safety, but the principal insists on saving Lili (who had been absorbed into Assaka just before) as well. The Titans' defense is short-lived, though.
Deal with the Devil: Ch. 12 reveals in a flashback that she made a deal with the Gray Serpent to find a way to save Seele. In return, he wants her to help him "save his kin" by opening the Eye of the Deep. This is why she sends Hyperion a distress call in order to ask for help, leading to ch. 10.
Enemy Mine: In ch. 9-EX2 she asks the Valkyrie team for cooperation in preventing the Gem of Desire from falling into Schicksal's hands.
Everyone Has Standards: She may be ruthless to many people, but as she admitted herself, she's soft on children (especially orphans). While she subjected many of her foster children into various experiments for Anti-Entropy, she only did so in order to ensure her children's survival in the future, she always tries to choose better potential subjects, and she has enough restraint to stop the project in question if it's proven to be infeasible^note. Contrast with Otto and Schicksal who kidnapped children and imprisoned them in dark places hidden to the public for their experiments (which tend to be rather gruesome), and went rather far with a "the end justifies the means" mindset.
Evil Running Good: Similar to Otto Apocalypse, but to an arguably lesser extent. While Welt was absent, she basically took charge of Anti-Entropy, and while she still intended to use Anti-Entropy's resources to destroy the Honkai, her methods were highly questionable at best, or often downright evil.
For Want Of A Nail: Chapter 11 features a simulation of a possible Alternate Universe where Cecilia Schariac survived the Second Eruption and founded St. Freya. One of the main differences, much to Bronya's surprise, is Cocolia was inspired by Cecilia to become a Valkyrie and start teaching at the school.
Kick the Dog: She lets Wendy utter her parting words into a recording, shortly before her apparent death by having her Gem of Desire plucked out of her to be used to power up Wotan. Kiana is understandably angered at this.
Mama Bear: Cocolia is fiercely protective of the children she raised in the orphanage, and they in turn look up to her, calling her "Matushka" ("Okaa-sama" in the Japanese voiceover, and "Mama" in the Chinese). When she learns in Chapter 12 that Bronya plunged into the Sea of Quanta by herself, she starts having doubts on the deal she made with Grey Serpent to open the gate to the Eye of the Deep. Grey Serpent tries to pull a "Not So Different" Remark on Cocolia, noting the lengths at which both of them are willing to go to each their objectives. Cocolia, reflecting back on Bronya's earlier disappointment at her Matushka's actions, decides she's having none of it and promptly pulls her gun on Grey Serpent.
Cocolia: You can finish your deal in hell!
The Mole: In ch. 9-EX2, Einstein and Tesla talk about Cocolia with the Valkyries. After the 2nd Honkai War, Anti-Entropy formed contracts with many companies in order to support them, one of them being Mikoyan Design Bureau. However, the Anti-Entropy designs and products later got leaked, leading them to suspect an "infiltrator" among their ranks, one of them being Cocolia, who joined the group around the same time period. Cocolia herself is acting rather shadily in both this chapter and on Chapter 10. After the events of ch. 12, she's put in the brig by Einstein and others for her misdeeds towards the group (including dealing with and sharing critical information with another group); she doesn't resist.
Mole in Charge: Following Welt's disappearance around 1 year before the game starts, she assumes the position of Anti Entropy's sovereign, using the Welt clone(s) as a Decoy Leader. The group became shadier under her command.
Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Cocolia is a hardened ex-Spetznaz captain who did her best to fight against the Russian government's inherent corruption and neglect of orphaned children, even opening an orphanage to take care of younger girls like Bronya, Seele and the Olenyeva twins. While she's not superhuman like the Valkyries, she easily eliminates any assassin sent after her, even outmaneuvering Bronya during their first encounter. Some people opposing her have taken to calling her a demoness for this reason.
Ms. Fanservice: She's the most blatantly fanservicey NPC in the game, as her dress's low-cut, off-the-shoulders top makes clear that she's bustier than even Himeko and is also slit almost to her hip, showing off her legs. This is evident in her in-game sprites but is even more obvious in her Stigmata pieces.
My Country, Right or Wrong: Deconstructed. In the past, Cocolia tried to rat out her superior Alexey when she caught him stealing weapons to sell them to the black market, believing that people like him were contributing to the Soviet Union's fracture and the inability to support orphanages like the one she grew up in. This got her arrested instead, and she got an earful from the colonel about how Moscow didn't care about Siberia anyway and shady activities were the only way to gain enough money to survive.
Oh, Crap!: In story Chapter 4, upon knowing what Bronya is trying to do, she begs the latter to stop in panic.
Orphan's Ordeal: She was once an orphan herself (and implied to be a Child Soldier, too), so she founded her orphanage and adopted many orphans from the war across her country (Russia), so that they wouldn't suffer like she did.
Parental Substitute: Being the foster mother for an orphanage, she's one for Bronya, Seele, Sin Mal and many others. The children call her "Matushka".
The Reveal: Einstein mentions to Mei that Cocolia was the one who tricked Mei's father into getting arrested and then had Mei experimented upon to become a Herrscher. Mei already knows this, though.
Seeks Another's Resurrection: The same as Bronya—she is trying to bring Seele back from the Sea of Quanta.
So Proud of You: She spells it out to Bronya at the end of ch. 12. She has done many things, including those she wasn't proud of and those she regretted, but she knows she'll never regret one thing: bringing Bronya to her orphanage. She then expresses her pride over her foster daughter.
Spell My Name With An S: Her Stigmata set spells her name as "Cocolia", but in different parts of the game she has also been called "Cacalia" or "Kukuria" or "Kakaria". In the Azure Waters comic, her name in cyrillic is spelled as "Кукурия" (Kukuriya).
Token Evil Teammate: While Anti-Entropy consists mostly of decent enough people, she is the most questionable among them, as she tends to do things behind their back, her fellow Anti-Entropy members don't trust her much.
Villain Override: She ends up doing this at the end of the "Selene battleship" scenario^note and in the middle of Chapters 3 and 4, both to Bronya in order to attack her friends.
The Voice: In the early chapters of the game (2 to 4) she's only heard talking from afar, mostly towards Bronya, but in ch. 4 she's also talking to the other Valkyries who infiltrated the ME Corp building.
You Are Not Alone: In the end of ch. 12, she points out that Bronya tends to do everything by herself back in the orphanage. When she tells Bronya to take care of the orphanage for her, she has to remind her foster daughter that her friends are there and willing to help her.
Cocolia: You walk alone with your eyes set on the horizon, but you forgot about your friends walking by your side. They love you and look after you. You have what it takes to band them together. Remember to wait and help them. Home is where everyone's around.

Bronya Zaychik

See her character page here.

Rozaliya & Liliya Olenyeva

Rozaliya Voiced by: Duoduo Poi ^note多多poi (Chinese), Aoi Koga (Japanese) / Liliya Voiced by: Yan Ning ^note宴宁 (Chinese), Yuu Serizawa (Japanese)

Molotov Cherry

Blueberry Blitz

A pair of twins who belonged to Cocolia's orphanage, and two of Bronya's friends. They used to be normal girls until injuries from Honkai Beasts led to them being put into an experiment where Honkai Beast cells were grafted into them. Nowadays they act on Cocolia's orders.

Age-Inappropriate Dress: The twins are even younger than Bronya and are running around in elaborate-looking babydolls and stockings. This is actually bowdlerized in-game, as their models' tops have a panel that mostly covers their bellies that isn't there in official artworks.
Angsty Surviving Twin: Roza briefly undergoes this when Lili gets absorbed into the Gray Serpent's Assaka form in Ch. 12. But Theresa points out that Lili still can be saved as she isn't completely fused yet. Roza doubts that she can save her sister, but after Theresa's assistance and encouragement, Roza manages to cut the Gray Serpent into fine pieces (something that she claims Lili is better at doing)^note and finally save Lili.
Backported Development: The event "Seele's Diary" is set in the past, back before Rozaliya and Liliya got their enhancements that gave them horns and tails of Honkai Beasts, but they appear in the story with the 3D models of their playable appearances, i.e after their enhancements. The explanation for this is that, in the flashback story, they're apparently "props" made by Roza to enhance her unique persona as a superstar.
Big Sister Instinct: Despite her silly antics, Roza dilligently looks after Lili, particularly about her health.
Bio-Augmentation: They have been modified by Cocolia's group to exhibit Honkai Beast traits, from horns to tails.
Book Dumb: Rozaliya is quite weak in academics like Kiana, contrasting Liliya who gets perfect scores constantly.
Caps Lock: Roza's skill names are all written in capital letters, fitting her abrasive personality.
Casting Gag: Paimon from Genshin Impact shares the same voice actress (in both Chinese and Japanese) as Rozaliya; so naturally, the two characters meet each other in the crossover event with Genshin, with Rozaliya finding it weird that their voices sound the same but Paimon pointing out that she can’t know that since there are no voiceovers in this event.
Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: Lili has to rein Roza in, or at least do damage control (like talking to the people affected), whenever Roza is doing her usual antics.
Counter-Attack: Liliya's Ultimate Skill has her do a defensive stance. If she's struck (or after a few seconds passing) she'll do a wide sideways slash. If timed right before an enemy's attack, the counter attack will be more powerful and briefly activates Time Fracture − the cooldown time before reusing the ultimate will be much shorter too (5 seconds instead of 15)
Death-Activated Superpower: Roza has a passive that activates when she dies, but only if you also bring Lili; Lili will switch in and Roza will heal some of her HP. This can only occur once per battle.
Death from Above:
- Lili's Charged Attack has her jump up, then fall to a designated place (you can move the circle before you release the button) with a Sword Plant, dealing damage in a circular area. It requires her gauge to be full (by normal attacks), but said attack can deal high damage to shields. Her QTE also has her fall down with a rolling slash.
- Roza's QTE has her do a diving attack from above headfirst.
Defense Mechanism Superpower: Lili's QTE can be activated by having your current character take a hit (even if no damage occured).
Deflector Shields: Roza's Ultimate Evasion effect gives her a temporary shield that can block certain amounts of damage.
Difficult, but Awesome: Making the most use of Liliya's Blueberry Blitz battlesuit requires triggering her Ultimate at the moment of an enemy's attack to increase its damage, restore some of her SP, reduce her Ultimate's cool down, and activate Time Fracture. Since you only have 0.5 seconds worth of wiggle room and different enemies have different timings, this is difficult to do consistently, especially with a laggy phone. However, if you do master it, you'll have the most damaging Physical Mecha battlesuit in your hands at the time of her release.
Dimensional Traveler: The "Gemina Invasions" comic establishes them as travelers of bubble universes, where they create wacky hijinks wherever they go. "Gemina Invasions: Deep Paradise Arc" event brings their story into the game, where they messed with the Eye of the Deep in one bubble universe and caused dimensional anomalies in other worlds, and it's up to Dr. Tesla to stop them (courtesy of Einstein tricking her to go out). The end of the event has them go into another dimensional hole, leading them to - of all things - the "Honkai Kingdoms" world, appearing in place of Kongming's summons.
Diving Save: In Ch. 12, Gray Serpent (as Assaka) is about to grab Roza, but Lili quickly pushes her away. He ended up grabbing Lili instead and assimilates her into his body.
Emergency Transformation: According to them, the modifications made to their bodies were done to save them after they were injured by Honkai Beasts.
Expy: With Roza's Little Bit Beastly look (especially with her tail and horn), petite body, pink color scheme and obsession with being an idol, she's the game's sendoff to Elizabeth Bathory. Also in various events, Roza's role (shared with Lili) is often to be unwittingly used by the bad guy, only for her to screw up and ruin their plans by accident, much like Liz.
Extreme Omnivore: Played for laughs. In the Schicksal side portion of the "Honkai Kingdoms" event story, they had no problems eating Kaslana-made dishes and they even commented how realistic their "Bonsai cake" (which is actually not even a cake but just bonsai on a pot) is while chomping it down.
Flashy Teleportation: Their dash move is them "sinking" into bright light on the ground (akin to their shadows), then moving the light around before jumping out of it. It allows them to pass through enemies.
Food as Bribe: Strictly speaking, there's no bribing involved, but Roza agrees to be Theresa's pupil after seeing the tasty foods aboard the Hyperion.
The Glomp: Roza does this to Bronya after meeting her again in the end of ch. 12. She ended up hugging Bronya too hard, and Einstein has to tell Seele to bring her away.
Hard-Drinking Party Girl: They are not called "Vodka Girls" without a reason. They chug vodka a lot, though the vodka in question is stated to be somehow non-alcoholic. The names for their battlesuits are also based on drinks, courtesy of Rozaliya.
Harmless Villain: In the "Odd Drifter" event, they play the part of the villain in the side-story where they try multiple times to capture the Captain for unknown reasons...except that they tend to fail even before the Captain recognizes them, so much that even the other girls pity the two.
Healing Factor: At rank SS, Rozaliya can slowly heal her HP whenever there are enemies around her.
Hostile Show Takeover: In the "St. Freya Fiesta" event, the two sabotage the party that Theresa is making and turn it into "St. Vodka Fiesta". You, as the Captain, have to help Theresa with investigating, and many of the event's interaction stages have you running into the twins (especially Roza) and trying to thwart their antics.
Idle Animation: Liliya's animation has her planting her sword (which is taller than her) in the ground and resting on it for a nap, reminding us that she gets tired easily.
Idol Singer: Both of them apparently had a dream of becoming idols since they were little, although Roza is more openly ambitious about it. In the "Honkai Kingdoms" event, in the Emberya faction's story, they eventually become an idol group and then make "Grand Seeress" Theresa join them, with the Captain being roped into being part of their management. In the "Gemina Invasions" event, they rope Tesla into playing guitar for them during their tryouts for an idol singer competition. Finally, in the "Post-Honkai Odyssey" side story, there is a digital billboard at the downtown of St. Fountain with a silhouette resembling Rozaliya, implying both of them achieving their dreams of becoming idols.
Invulnerable Attack: Liliya is immune to indirect damage when she uses her Ultimate Skill. The attack where Liliya swings Rozaliya also makes them briefly invincible, and Roza's Ultimate Skill also makes her unable to be attacked for a brief time.
"Just Frame" Bonus: Activating Liliya’s ultimate skill at the exact moment the enemy hits grants higher damage, a faster cooldown (5 seconds instead of 15), as well as a time fracture. Their Pri-Arm Sleeper’s Dream^note allows her to circumvent the timing issue: since its active skill consumes one HP in the form of a laser beam that hits the player (with a half-second delay), you can trigger Liliya’s perfect ultimate by parrying said laser beam, even if no enemy attacks you. This makes her a lot more deadly as a DPS, though still tricky to use.
Large Ham: As part of their obsession to becoming superstars, Roza likes to dramatize her lines almost whenever she speaks. Lili is the opposite, and will often chastise Roza when her hamminess goes overboard.
Little Miss Badass: The two are even younger than Bronya but are quite capable in combat.
Meaningful Appearance: Roza has her horn on the right side while Lili has hers on the left. Roza's primary color is hot pink while Lili's is blue. Roza's hair tips spike upward while Lili's wave downward. They all serve to make them contrast each other, even in silhouettes.
The Nose Knows: In ch. 12, as Theresa points out, Roza can still pick up the scent of Lili after the latter was absorbed into Assaka. This is what clues her that Lili can still be saved.
Overheating: Overusing Rozaliya's Charged Attack will cause her to get dizzy. If Lili is in the team, she can have an access to an additional attack (while spinning, release and quickly tap the attack button again) where Lili comes in to swing Roza at the enemy for a powerful slash, and this animation will avoid Roza's dizzy animation, but it will fill around 1/3 of the overheat gauge.
Pintsized Powerhouse: They're as petite as Bronya, but their Bio-Augmentation allows them to wield the same greatswords that Himeko normally uses, and with more speed and agility.
Plucky Comic Relief: Seemingly, their main purpose is to provide humor for the situations they're in. Notably, "Seele's Quantum Diary" event depicts Bronya and Seele's backstory as in the supplementary comic, but with additional scenes of the twins that give them some extra humor. The comics that focus on the twins are also gag comics, and they provide a lot of wacky hijinks in events. However, ch. 12 puts them in a dramatic situation: Aside from having their foster mother injured, Lili gets absorbed by Gray Serpent (as Assaka) as Roza watches, and the latter faces quite the dilemma afterward; if not for Theresa's encouraging words, she may have been too overcome by hysteria and been beaten (and perhaps absorbed) by Gray Serpent as well.
Polar Opposite Twins: Rozaliya is the more playful and carefree type while Liliya is the more serious type. They almost look like literal Red Oni, Blue Oni, which is lampshaded in their Chronicles story "Dreams of Gemina".
The Prankster: In the "St. Freya Fiesta" event, in the various skits you can encounter, they'll be pulling various pranks on people, including you (the Captain).
Prehensile Tail: They each have one, with a three-fingered cybernetic claw at the end, which they use to swing their swords in battle. Rozaliya in particular likes her tail.
Self-Parody: Their Chronicles story "Dreams of Gemina" has them auditioning to become idols (specifically, movie stars). They then get to re-enact certain scenes in the story mode, such as Fu Hua's reveal of the truth about Kiana^note, Bronya turning into Dark Bronya, or Kiana becoming her Herrscher self and Rozaliya making the same pose as Himeko at the end of the latter's battle.
Skinship Grope: Played with if you have the twins together on the bridge. In one of their animations, Rozaliya tries to rub her cheek against Liliya's chest, while Liliya pushes her away with an irritated expression.
Speaks Fluent Animal: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, Liliya can apparently understand the "white dragon" (implied to be Benares)'s noises, translating them to the rest of the group.
Spin Attack: Rozaliya's Charged Attack is to spin with her sword. She'll get dizzy if she spins too much, however, so be careful.
Spotting the Thread: In the climax of the "Empyrean Legends" event, the two rush into the Sakura Inn to try to find Seele. When they meet her, however, the latter has changed her looks: she's got red eyes, red clothes and partly red hair. This (as well as the way "Seele" behaves) causes them to conclude that they have been duped by her all along.
Sword Drag: Both twins carry their swords in their hands this way in their running animations, switching the grip to their tails for combat.
Tag Team Twins:
- When you're playing as Rozaliya and Liliya is in the team, the latter will repeatedly jump in to add attacks of her own when the former does her normal attack. Roza's Spin Attack can be continued with Lili jumping in and then swinging Roza and her sword as a powerful attack. Roza's Ultimate Skill will have Lili jumping in to perform it together, increasing its damage.
- In the "Empyrean Legends" event, Roza becomes one of the bosses. She usually fights alone but she occasionally summons Lili for certain attacks. After she Turns Red, Lili comes out more often to do her own attacks.
Token Mini-Moe: As of their introduction, they're the youngest playable characters.
Unwitting Pawn: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, they become one for Seele, or rather, the "Nian" beast, to do her bidding. The thing is, while they're foolish enough to be easily manipulated, they're also too foolish for their own good, so much that Seele eventually gets sick of them.
What Happened to the Mouse?: They were seemingly never mentioned or seen again in "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event after the story goes to the part of Qixi Festival. They were eventually mentioned to be rescued by Delta in one of her special scenes in "Honkai Quest" event.
Xtreme Kool Letterz: Among Rozaliya's skill names are "I KAN'T STOP!", "I GOT SHIELDZ" and "MOAR CHOPPA!".

Seele Vollerei

Voiced by: Yajing Tang ^note唐雅菁 (Chinese), Mai Nakahara (Japanese)

Swallowtail Phantasm

^{Stygian Nymph}

^{Starchasm Nyx}

^*spoiler*

Bronya's friend in Cocolia's orphanage. Seele is a rather timid and withdrawn girl who revered Bronya, calling her "big sis". She participated in one of Anti-Entropy's experiments, Project X-10, which aimed for creating a "new breed of human race" and would let her manipulate things at a quantum level. However, it didn't end well for her; her body broke down into atoms and her mind went into the Imaginary Space. She's also shown to have a Stigma of her own, which manifests as a Split Personality inside her.

And I Must Scream: She ended up in the Imaginary Space/Sea of Quanta, with little to no way to interact with the outside. Downplayed in that it didn't bother her too much, and she's just waiting there for Bronya to bring her back. In "Seele's Quantum Diary" she later explains to the Captain how she ended up in "the dark room".
Afraid of Their Own Strength: One of the texts in ch. 12 mentions that Seele has always been afraid of the power she's born with. Everytime she tries tapping into it, her Split Personality would take control of her. However, in ch. 23, Seele reconciles this fear and allows "Seele" to fully control her body to unlock her power completely, trusting "Seele" to do the right thing and help her and Bronya escape the Herscherr of Dominance.
Armor-Piercing Question: In "Seele's Quantum Diary" she claims that she ended up going to the beach with Bronya, with her detailing her experiences. Then her Split Personality comes out and gives a sarcastic Mirthless Laughter before saying: "Did you actually go to the beach with Bronya?" Later her split personality makes the Captain ask the same question and Seele is forced to admit that she didn't.
Badass Adorable: As The Cutie of the cast, she plays the role of the sweet little sister that everyone takes care of. She's quiet, friendly, and kind; her gentleness is what makes her special. But that doesn't stop her from being one of the most powerful in the roster, especially after her Next Tier Power-Up
- Played for Laughs Herrscher of Sentience doesn't listen to anyone except for Seele. Both in-story and dorm conversation showed that the Herrscher of Sentience gave in to whatever Seele says because she can't resist her.
Begin with a Finisher:
- In Coop Multiplayer, Swallowtail Phantasm's Team Skill is to give 40 SP for the whole team and to make them gain extra SP per hit for a duration, allowing your team to access Ultimate Skills more quickly.
- As Stygian Nymph, her Team Skill also gives extra SP and increase in Ultimate Skills' damage, so your team can quickly begin with powered up Ultimate Skills. As her own Ultimate Skill can be activated with no SP whatsoever, she can also do this by herself; she also has a passive skill where she can regenerate up to 50 SP at the start of a battle.
Big Bad: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, she's revealed to be the "Nian" beast that was defeated by the Celestial a few weeks ago and has taken form of a little girl, who schemes to try to kill the Celestial, partly out of revenge, and partly so that she can terrorize and prey on villagers without hassle.
Big Damn Kiss: Shares her first kiss With Bronya in a panel that nearly takes up an entire page at the end of the Azure Waters manga. So big that the Chinese version of the manga tripped the censors in China and was changed to a Kissing Discretion Shot, while the English version of the Azure Waters PV was extended to include it in its climax.
Big Damn Reunion:
- The first time was in the "Winter Rhapsody" event, where she shows up at the very end to meet Bronya. Seele sets up the whole event (by pulling Bronya and friends into a game) to meet her, at least for a brief time.
- Played with in Ch. 11, as the first time they meet was in a "bubble universe" where Seele is supposedly a Valkyrie in St. Freya Academy and becomes Bronya's squadmate. At the end of the mission that they're put in, Bronya deduces from what she sees that, unlike the other people she meets—who are the Alternate Universe versions of the people she knew—Seele is "not of this world". Then the two embrace each other and cry Tears of Joy.
Body Motifs: As Stygian Nymph, "Dark Seele" has eyes where her flower ornaments used to be, including on her hair and skirt.
Brainwashed and Crazy: In ch. 12, after the zombie outbreak in the Fire Moth's building, she suddenly freezes up, and her Split Personality says that her power is getting out of control. She then transforms into a darker form who is Red and Black and Evil All Over and sports large Wolverine Claws, all while her regular self's mind is still conscious, desperately calling for Bronya to save her. She then becomes a boss that Sakura has to fight; she manages to suppress Seele, bringing her back to normal. As this happens in the middle of the zombie outbreak, combined with Seele's comment where she says that she feels "unbelievable fury and sorrow", it's implied that it's the 12th Herrscher that is controlling her with her power of "Corruption".
Breast Expansion: In Ch. 23, when Seele leaves full control of the body to her alter ego so that she can unleash her full power, the change comes with...physical enhancements.
The Bus Came Back: After she was absent from the story after chapter 12 and her cameo in one of files in "Thunderous Sanction", she returns in the chapter 23 as the Character Focus in the story.
Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: After Seele "died", she would occasionally appear in the real world in the form of a blue butterfly. The "Valkyries' Dining Escapades" comic shows her doing this to visit Bronya in her dreams. Her Papilio Lily outfit is also adorned with butterflies. Swallowtail Phantasm's dash move has trails of blue butterflies, and her Charged Attack is accompanied by the same butterflies. At the end of Ch. 11, she transforms into a blue butterfly, and then seemingly "merges" with Bronya (and persumably the Herrscher Core of Reason) to give her a brand new form.
Call-Back:
- Her outfit as Swallowtail Phantasm is a reference to the outfit worn by what appears to be the 6th Herrscher of the Previous Era, as shown in a supplementary comic.
- The changes in her physical appearance (long hair and a sizeable bust increase) as Starchasm Nyx are reminiscent of the version of her from Guns GirlZ.
Call-Forward: The supplementary comic "Valkyrie's Dining Escapades" shows Bronya cooking borscht, with her being reminded of her time with her old friend Seele. The mini-event "Seele's Diary" shows that Seele was the one who taught Bronya how to cook borscht.
Character Development: May not as noticeable as the main trio but she's not the same girl the players encountered back in Chapter 12. She wished to be more independent like Bronya; in Chapter 36, she also considers her other self as a role model. She starts doing things on her own, having more initiative and overall braver when facing danger. Though there are moments where she has to take a breather and consults her other self, but all in all she's becoming more dependable, as Susannah notes in later chapters.
- In Ch. 23, this became the main issue for both her and her other self, with the latter having a hard time accepting Seele growing up though they reconciled at the end.
- In Ch. 32, she woke up alone in New Atra with no one familiar to talk to and she worked her way by helping the children and other characters along the way, without any hesitation.
- In Ch. 36, her Japanese voice over makes it more noticeable that she's becoming more mature by speaking more calmly, in a lower tone, and less anxious. She even confidently faces her enemies, with Susannah noting how brave and strong Seele is. In extension, "Seele" is also coming to terms of Seele becoming more independent, even supporting her decision, though she still feels sad about it.
Chained by Fashion: Stygian Nymph has chains adorning her body, primarily from her neck to her hip. This motif carries over to Starchasm Nyx's claw weapons, which are chained together at the wrist.
Charged Attack: Swallowtail Phantasm has a series of small Sword Beams from her scythe that launches enemies upwards and gives enemies a special debuff. This requires her to fill a 2-part gauge, and 1 part is used whenever she launches the attack. In her Super Mode, her charged attack is changed to her performing a powerful circular slash after leaping towards the closest enemy; this will refill her gauge for a bit, but her Ultimate Evasion will be put in cooldown.
Combat Tentacles: Stygian Nymph's dark version can summon tentacles of darkness from the ground to smash enemies around.
Commonality Connection:
- In Chapter 12, she works together with the Previous Era's incarnation of Yae Sakura due to having a similar goal of finding their only family. In Seele's case, she's looking for Bronya, knowing that the latter would search for Seele amidst the bubble worlds of the Sea of Quanta. In Sakura's case, she's looking for her younger sister Rin (implied to be Higokumaru), and instead found Seele in the cell where Sakura thought Rin was detained. Their similar circumstances lead to their teaming up.
- Seele tries to invoke this in Ch. 23, saying that Kiana also has someone inside of her, so they could try to help her. "Seele", however, is less than happy to be compared to someone "wild, dangerous and brutal" like Sirin. Although Seele apologizes, the conversation furthers "Seele" 's irritation at seeing Seele start to bond with other people.
Color-Coded Characters: Seele’s hair, eyes and outfits are predominantly blue and white, while "Seele" is all about red and black.
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In Ch. 12, she points out that if the Fire Moth soldiers hadn't killed Rin, the 12th Herrscher wouldn't be awakened and the crisis could've been avoided. Kevin can only say that since the Herrscher was awakened with her death, the crisis would've come to pass eventually; the Herrschers' fate were sealed the moment the Honkai chose them to be their "agent".
Cowardly Lion:
- Rather shy, meek and passive, especially after she got kidnapped by human traffickers (and then got rescued by Bronya). ^{Further details} She nevertheless came up with her own brave moments later on, like taking the experiment X-10 in Bronya's stead.
  Seele: *thinking* "I lack Rozaliya's fearsome confidence. I also can't laugh at myself like Liliya. I just lacked their courage."
  Captain: Seele, you took the test because you wanted to protect Bronya. There's no need to hide. You were brave when you made the choice. You can definitely be brave again.
- When Seele and Bronya try to escape the Sea of Quanta at the end of Chapter 12's third act (depicted in the short animation, "Seele"), the two are impeded by the Honkai as the gate to the Eye of the Deep is closing. When Bronya sacrifices herself to bring Seele back to the real world, the latter is unwilling to accept that, and tries to break down the gate that just closed. Despite "Dark Seele" insisting that there's nothing she can do, Seele manages to break open a way back into the Deep by sheer determination and love for Bronya, and when the Honkai try to push her back, she manages to convince her other persona to help her annihilate them. When Bronya's life is on the line, Seele will take up arms to rush to her aid, and nothing, absolutely nothing, will stop her - especially after the two had just reunited with each other after so long. This also unlocked her Stygian Nymph form.
Cope by Pretending: In Ch.38, the cast each went through an illusion that was considered as a possible future, "Seele" in particular, was haunted by it throughout the chapter. Huge spoilers ahead.
- The vision depicted a future Seele, now an established Valkyrie spending her days doing her duties. Much later, it was eventually revealed that the Seele being shown is actually the other "Seele". Seele had passed away, and "Seele" can't cope with the fact that she failed to protect her. Therefore, she convinced herself that Seele had survived, and "Seele" was the one who died instead. Throughout the vision, a familiar voice spoke to her, reassuring her that everything will be okay.
  It's alright, Seele. You'll get to meet lots of new friends. You won't feel lonely. Don't worry, nobody will distance themselves from you because of your past, and nobody will fear you because you're weird anymore. You will be loved by everyone and live a life illuminated by sunshine and surrounded by flowers. Don't be afraid, Seele. Nothing will change, even if I'm no longer by your side.
Deal with the Devil: In the Sea of Quanta, she was trapped inside a "dark room" before a "door" opens, and then she goes out. Apparently, a being called the World Serpent was the one who helped her escape; in exchange for her freedom, said being asked her to retrieve the Herrscher Core of Reason for it. Its true motive is to bypass the "barrier" that Welt had made with his Herrscher Core and go out to the real world. Later on, in "Stygian Blooms" event, she would describe her asking for help from her dark self (i.e becoming Stygian Nymph) as this.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Just as Seele has been gaining her alter ego's strength, "Seele" has gradually been growing more heroic thanks to her influence. Ever since their reconciliation in Ch. 23, it's been much easier for Seele to convince her to help their friends and comrades.
- Throughout Ch. 37 showed her reluctantly opening up to Herrscher of Sentience (granted that the herrscher read her mind several times). In Ch. 37, "Seele" thanked Herrscher of Sentience for reassuring her and indirectly inviting the latter to a meal.
  "Seele": Can you...eat spicy food?
  Herrscher of Sentience: Yo, what's gotten into you?
  "Seele": Heh, who knows.
Deliberately Monochrome: As Stygian Nymph, whenever you're playing as "Dark Seele", the scenery will turn monochrome. It'll turn back normal if you switch to another character, or if you turn Seele light again.
Demoted to Extra: The previous game Guns GirlZ has her as one of the playable characters. Here, before version 3.2 she was merely a Posthumous Character and only depicted in a Stigmata set.
Dramatic Irony: "Seele" doesn't see herself as more than Seele's other half and feels like she doesn't have a place in the real world other than her duty in protecting her host. Seele and her friends, on the other hand, have always treated "Seele" like her own person, acknowledging that she has her own thoughts and feelings.
Early-Bird Cameo: In Cooking with Valkyries season 2, she first appears in the 3rd episode, only in a small shot of her walking out of a bus. In the next episode, she's directly mentioned, and she finally appears formally, visiting our Valkyries' little party. She's apparently late because she went through various shops looking for sour cream. After all, Bronya likes it.
Equippable Ally: In the "Seele" video in Ch. 12, after she taps upon the power of her Stigma, "Dark Seele" appears behind her and transforms into a big red scythe, which Seele uses to cut the Quantum Honkai Beasts surrounding her and the strange "tube" she's in along with them while the two Speak in Unison. This is reused as Stygian Nymph's Ultimate Skill for Dark Seele's side.
Exposed to the Elements: In the "Odd Drifter" event, she's wearing the summer event costume (a white dress with quite a number of openings)... in a frozen tundra. It gets lampshaded later on.
Expository Hairstyle Change: When Seele allows "Seele" to take full control of her body, one of the physical changes is that her hair lengthens until it reaches almost to her waist. When "Seele" returns control to Seele, her short hair returns.
EX Special Attack: Stygian Nymph's Charged Attack can be used without filling its special meter, but with the meter full, the attack will do extra hit and damage.
Facing Your Fears: In the end of the "Stygian Blooms" event, after the encouragement from Captain and Fu Hua, Seele goes to embrace her dark self. "Dark Seele" initially feels irritated but she eventually embraces Seele back. This causes Seele's inner world to crumble, so the Captain has to quickly escape from it.
Fanservice Pack: As Starchasm Nyx, she has a noticeable bust size increase.
First Friend: To Bronya, being the first person she really cared about and showed frank emotion towards.
Foil: What Dark Seele is to Herrscher of the Void. Both are darker personalities of Seele and Kiana, and both plan to eventually take over their hosts the moment they see an opportunity. However, Dark Seele very much cares for Seele and is highly protective of her, so much that she tends to cross into Knight Templar territory for any slight made against her. In contrast, the Herrscher of the Void only views Kiana as a convenient vessel crafted only for her, and goes out of her way to torment her to make her feel hatred and despair to fully take over. Dark Seele even points this out to her.
Foreshadowing:
- In one supplementary comic, when Cocolia held a test of manipulating Honkai energy for her orphanage children, Seele tried and failed to shape a ball of mercury; before the whole thing crumbles, it assumed a shape vaguely similar to a scythe. Later, after the Experiment X-10, she's shown brandishing a scythe of her own.
- In ch. 11, during a mission they're put together in, Bronya (who thought that she's the Alternate Universe version of Seele) thinks that Seele seems to know more about the mission's details and what to do than she ought to. At the end of the mission, Seele's Split Personality briefly takes over and summons a Quantum Honkai Beast to attack Bronya, which she defeats. All of those leads Bronya to conclude that the Seele in front of her is "not of this world".
- In the "Empyrean Legends" event, she was the one who suggested to the Celestial to go to the haunted dark forest if she wants to get some timber. She — or rather, her Split Personality — would later be revealed as the "Nian" beast that was defeated by the Celestial some time ago, and had burned the village when the Celestial was away.
- In one episode of Cooking with Valkyries season 2, it mentions our Valkyrie group having a "welcome party for a new roommate", then it gives a small shot of Seele walking out of a bus. The next one mentions her as the "star" of the party. She arrives at the end of the episode, with Bronya saying "Welcome to the St. Freya Academy" - implying that she's the aforementioned new roommate.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Swallowtail Phantasm’s ultimate skill has Seele’s other self ("Seele") take over for the duration of the burst mode. In chapter 23-9, however, "Seele" is angry at Seele and refuses to show up. As a result, you can only activate the ultimate’s initial attack, without burst mode.
- During Ch. 36 the two Seele's are seperated and their connection severed. While "Seele" can use her full skillset as Starchasm Nyx, Seele doesn't have a Solo unit and is unable to use her Ultimate as Stygian Nymph to switch places with "Seele".
Gathering Steam:
- As Swallowtail Phantasm, Seele has a gauge that can be filled with normal attacks, Ultimate Evasion, QTE and Ultimate Skill. The gauge is used to power her Charged Attack (powerful slashing move with her scythe) in her normal state, and in her Super Mode, the gauge determines how long the mode lasts; during which, her Charged Attack can refill her gauge at the cost of her Ultimate Evasion entering cooldown, and killing enemies can also refill it.
- The individual parts of Seele's Stigmata set have effects that only occur when the user's SP stat in battle^note is more than 150, and they would increase with every additional 20 SP (stacks up to 6 times). Its 3-piece Set Bonus empowers Ultimate Skills and weapon skills that deal damage; for every 20% SP remaining, the user gains increased total damage on said skills and for 3 seconds afterward.
Hates Being Alone: "Seele" starts being hit really hard by this in Ch. 23, as Seele starts making more friends like Kiana. It turns out she is terrified at the idea of Seele no longer needing her anymore and leaving her behind. Thankfully, Seele reassures that her other self is irreplaceable.
- It's even more noticeable throughout Ch. 37 - 39, where Seele and "Seele" are separated. She was visibly disturbed by what Seele(?) said, constantly denying that they would be separated forever. While following Dr. Schrödinger's instructions, she rushed through enemies, even gaining concern from Herrscher of Sentience, who eventually reassures her that they will see each other again.
Hidden Depths: For all her sadistic personality, it turns out "Seele" has some quirky aspects that Bronya knew about all along back in their orphanage days. As shown in the third part of the "Blackfrost Blaze" mini-event, Bronya points out that "Seele" is a picky eater, loves spicy foods, and easily gets sleepy at the moment when she picks up a book.
- In Ch. 37, when trying to re-establish the connection to Seele, "Seele" hesitated and even downright stopping in her tracks, questioning whether she could make it happen again. Herrscher of Sentience pointed out how "Seele" is actually pessimistic, anxious, and have low self-confidence before giving her a pep talk.
  Herrscher of Sentience: Something that's happened once is no miracle. Not to mention you were the one who provoked it.
Hourglass Plot: By the time Part 1.5 rolls around, Seele and "Seele"'s roles have switched. While Seele learns to be more confident and independent of "Seele" and Bronya, "Seele" is revealed to be doubtful of herself, and fearful of being separated from Seele.
Identity Breakdown: Borderline of Loss of Identity for "Seele". As a being born from Seele's desire for protection, her identity revolves around keeping Seele from harm at all cost. She would do anything, striking a deal with the serpent in exchange for Seele's freedom from the Sea of Quanta, even going against Bronya in the process. Now that Seele has grown more independent and capable fighter, she no longer needs protection as much as before and having more people around her. "Seele" has a hard time coming to terms with it and becomes very anxious that Seele might leave her for good someday.
Insane Equals Violent: In the "Cyber Haxxor" event, the Haxxors encounter both Saule and Velonia, who are very unpleasant but can be pacified with different kinds of wine, and later Seele on her own. The event ends with a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue revealing that Saule and Velonia each take on grape-themed identities while Seele is a renowned viticulturist with schizophrenia who often plays hide and seek in her vineyard, hinting that Saule and "Seele" were her the whole time.
Insecure Love Interest: Her relationship with Bronya is supposedly platonic, but it really comes off more as this. She sometimes feels that she's a burden to Bronya and that she's too weak or cowardly and depends on Bronya too much. This, among other things, is what leads her into instigating the "Stygian Blooms" event, and in particular, abducting Bronya into the "Anger" section of her mind - Bronya's drive for her protection made her angry at herself.
Intangible Man: The effect of Swallowtail Phantasm's Ultimate Evasion and QTE is that she becomes able to phase through enemies for a few seconds.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Not Seele herself, but rather "Seele", her other self. Outside of her sadistic nature, it is shown that "Seele" has apparent dislike with people interacting with Seele, both stemmed from jealousy and her protectiveness over Seele, the latter knows this and thanks her for it.
Literal Split Personality:
- As seen in the "Seele" video in Ch. 12, "Dark Seele" can manifest separately from her. As Stygian Nymph, when you put her in the bridge, Dark Seele can sometimes manifest before her and talk to her before disappearing.
- Played for laughs in the Dorm: If you put Stygian Nymph's chibi with Liliya, the latter will note the former's red eyes, red hair and wide smile, and Dark Seele tries to make excuses for each one (as she pretends to be the real Seele). Lili then asks if this Seele is, of all things, the "Big Bad Wolf" from Little Red Riding Hood. Dark Seele can do nothing but express amusement at Seele's friends.
- In Ch. 36 "Dark Seele" manifests seperately within the Sea of Quanta to help stabilize Susannah, claiming that it's easier to seperate there. After being split up while traveling through a portal their connection seems to be severed completely with the two Seele's unable to sense each other. An entity posing as Seele claims that they could have seperated at any time but "Seele" continues to deny it.
- Chapter 39 has them gain seperate bodies with "Seele" gaining control of their original body while Seele creates a new one as the Herrscher of Rebirth. It's stated that they are now unable to exist in the same body anymore the way they did before, meaning they are most likely permanently seperated though they still share the name Seele.
Living Emotional Crutch: Seele is this to "Seele". Chapter 37-39 makes it very clear that "Seele" based her entire existence around protecting Seele and doesn't even consider living as her own person to keep protecting her much to Seele's concern. One potential future has her completely lose her mind after losing Seele and starts pretending to be her to cope and in the main story she completely loses her composure and has a breakdown when she thinks Seele died.
The Man Behind the Man: She's the one behind the "Winter Rhapsody" event happening in the first place: she pulls Bronya, the other Valkyries, and the Captain inside a video game and puts them in various roles, including Rita as the Anti-Villain "Red Queen" and Kiana as the Big Bad, "White Witch" (i.e Herrscher of the Void in her special winter costume). She simply wanted to have her Big Damn Reunion with Bronya, at least for a brief time; Bronya doesn't have the means to bring Seele to the real world yet, though, so she's fine with parting again.
Manipulative Bastard: in the "Empyrean Legends" event, she — as the "Nian" beast that takes a human form — acts helpful to Rozaliya and Liliya in order to gain their trust, then tricks them to do her bidding for her scheme to get back at the Celestial. She also bribes Ai-chan with "crystalium" so that she'd fight the Celestial for her. However, due to the twins not being very bright, they ended up making a lot of mistakes, and eventually she gets sick of them.
Meaningful Appearance: As Stygian Nymph, aside from the color change, the the flower in her hair and her chain moves from the right side to the left when Seele's light side performs her Ultimate Skill, giving the "dark mirror" theme for "Dark Seele".
Meaningful Name: "Seele" means "soul" in German. Due to Experiment X-10, she ends up becoming nothing but a soul.
Mechanically Unusual Fighter:
- Seele's the first ever Quantum-type playable character. She deals normal damage to the 3 normal types (BIO, MECH, PSY) and they also do normal damage to her, but she'll deal increased damage to Quantum-type enemies (and so would they towards her). She also gains 25% extra EXP from all types of EXP chips (while the normal type characters get 50% extra EXP from specific EXP chips).
- In particular, Stygian Nymph is unique in that she has Stance System (see below for details) and that the way her ultimate skill works is also unique (see Situational Damage Attack below for details). Also, she can activate Ultimate Evasion effects by phasing through enemies akin to Herrscher of the Void.
Mind Rape:
- Her Split Personality caused Sin Mal to "fall down endless stairs", lovingly calling it "The Revenge Staircase Super Ride", in revenge for Sin pushing Bronya down the stairs, breaking Bronya's legs in the process.
- In the "Stygian Blooms" event, "Dark Seele" abducts half of your Valkyries into a strange dimension and puts them into illusions where they're faced with their worst fears^note. She does so because regular Seele's fears and negative emotions influenced her dark self to find out how others deal with their problems and inner demons.
Motive Rant: In the final chapter of the "Empyrean Legends" event, when the Celestial encounters her, she goes on to spill out her motives - to kill the Celestial through various means: the "white dragon", Ai-chan, and the "beast in the cave".
Mythology Gag:
- In Seele's Summer Suite event, one of the "daily events" that can occur is Bronya finding Seele inside a chest alongside a bunch of turret guns, and Bronya thinking that she might be seeing things. Back in Guns GirlZ, Seele specialized in making turret guns.
- Speaking of Guns GirlZ, her appearance as Starchasm Nyx is loosely based on Seele's older self from one of its post-main story content, particularly her longer hair and her decent amount of Fanservice Pack.
No Name Given: Seele’s other self has no official name^note; even Seele calls her "Other Me". This actually becomes a point of friction between them in chapter 23.
No Social Skills: While Seele is very friendly despite her shyness, "Seele" is actually this. Her first instinct in conversations is to act sadistic and abrasive while internally she worries that her words were too harsh. Thankfully the few people she interacts with, mainly Seele, see past her cruel words and see her kind nature.
Only Mostly Dead: Her state at the start of the game. As she had become The Disembodied, she can't directly interact or talk with people or things, and neither can they towards her. In the "Winter Rhapsody" event, however, she seemingly finds out how to bring Bronya and the other Valkyries inside a video game (the "Winter Rhapsody" event) in order to have a brief reunion with her. It takes Bronya rescuing her from the Sea of Quanta and/or her accepting the powers from her dark side for her to finally be free and corporeal again.
Power Echoes: In the game, her Split Personality has a slightly echoing voice.
Power Floats: The "Dark Seele" boss in Ch. 12 (and, subsequently, Stygian Nymph's dark side) freely floats around instead of walking.
Power Incontinence: When the Experiment X-10 started, Seele, in her mind, tried to reach out to Bronya, but then she hid herself inside a "chest". Her Split Personality told her that she wouldn't be able to control the power contained in said "chest", but Seele is determined to help Bronya and opened it anyway. For around 0.8 seconds after that, time briefly stopped, and then Cocolia and the scientists celebrated...but then her body started to break down and disappear. When Bronya later took the experiment to meet Seele again, the latter handed over said power, called "Rebuild", to Bronya before she was gone. That power later manifests as the Project Bunny 19c. Later on Ch. 11, both "Joachim" and her Split Personality says to Bronya that she only has little control over her abilities.
Power Makeover: Once her physical body broke down completely, her mind escaped out of the lab she was in with the help of her Stigma. She's then dressed in the outfit depicted in her Stigmata set (a small white and purple dress, wielding a Sinister Scythe) and flew over the seas, trying to reach the orphanage to meet Bronya before her mind disappeared. Unfortunately, she was too late, as her mind forcibly went to the Imaginary Space before Bronya could see her.
Power Tattoo: Her personal Stigma is located at the top of her chest, just under the collarbone. In the end of ch. 12, she claims that Einstein wants to check on it.
The Promise:
- After Bronya saved Seele from her kidnappers, the latter, who was frightened by what Bronya did to the kidnappers, made Bronya promise to never hurt anyone again. She held onto that promise... which led her to not retaliate when Sin Mal pushed her down the stairs. Her Split Personality explains this to the Captain when the latter asks her why Bronya didn't do anything about it.
- She makes one with Bronya in her final moments, saying that the kiss that they share won't be the last, and she also makes Bronya promise to restore her somehow. They also sealed it with a Pinky Swear. They also have promised to go to a lot of places together, so this drives both of them to find a way to escape from the Sea of Quanta together.
- As a being born from Seele's desire for protection, "Seele" made a promise to herself to keep Seele away from any harm that comes their way, no matter the cost.
Promoted to Playable: Version 3.2 added her to the roster of Valkyries.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: After activating her Ultimate, Seele's Sword Lines turn red and black, showing her dark side being active for a period of time.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Seele's eyes turn bright red whenever her darker side takes over.
- Took to a new level of Nightmare Fuel in Ch. 38, when the players finally saw the vision that has been haunting "Seele" throughout the chapter. In a possible future, "Seele" is so overcome with grief, she goes around pretending to be Seele, living her life as if nothing happened. Only after she looked at a mirror, her red eyes shattered that illusion.
Sexy Slit Dress: Stygian Nymph's special costume in 3.7 dresses her halves in mirrored white and red qipaos that are cut high enough on one side to expose one leg past the hip.
Sinister Scythe: After the X-10 experiment, she gets to brandish a scythe of her own. The force inside Seele that manifests as her Stigmata mark sometimes takes over Seele and operates on its own, and "she" can be rather cruel and sadistic, as opposed to the innocent Seele.
Situational Damage Attack: Stygian Nymph's Ultimate Skill is unique in that it can be used with no SP, but if she has any amount of SP before performing it, the damage will be increased the more SP she has, at the cost of her SP gauge depleting to zero.
Sociopathic Hero: "Seele" is a sadist who enjoys toying with her enemies and making them suffer, but she will always remain on Seele's side, as her goal is to protect her.
Spam Attack: Swallowtail Phantasm's normal combo is unique in that, after she does the 5th (finishing) strike, she'll go straight to her 2nd strike if you tap the attack button again, allowing for endless attacks.
Spectacular Spinning: Her normal attacks and Ultimate Skill has her do a lot of spinning attacks.
Spin Attack: Her scythe attacks generally involve a lot of acrobatic spinning and twirling. Notably, she's a bit more careful and clumsy in her attacks than Rita.
Split Personality: Her Stigma apparently comes with its own personality.
- She's a rather sadistic person who tried to make her other self (regular Seele) do nasty things to those who wronged her. For all of her ruthlessness, however, she's loyal to her other self and won't go against her. The peculiar shape of the stigma's tattoo is revealed in another comic to be the symbol for the 6th Herrscher, the "Herrscher of Death", in the previous civilization 50000+ years ago, which may imply that Seele's stigma had said Herrscher's consciousness.
- Said split personality also appears in "Seele's Quantum Diary", at first confusing the Captain with the diary entries^note and their conversation before "showing up" to him; it doesn't help that she occasionally pretends to be her real self.
  Seele?: I was transcribed to human genetic memory to help transfer our knowledge, powers... and the eternal hatred of Gods, known as the Honkai.
- Before the climax of Ch. 11, "Seele?" reveals herself to Bronya for the first time and then turns on her, saying that she had made a "deal" with a being (which Bronya correctly guessed as the "Serpent") that may allow the two to escape to the real world, and that she needs the Herrscher Core of Reason for it. Bronya isn't letting her, because Joachim had told Bronya to not let the Serpent out at all costs, and because she's still holding onto The Promise she made back then. At the end of the chapter, said personality is subdued^note and Seele goes back normal.
Stance System: Stygian Nymph has this as the major part of her system. She has 2 modes: "Saule" (Seele's regular personality) and "Veliona" ("Dark Seele"). Using her Ultimate Skill, Saule can transform into Veliona and vice versa; the two sides also have different Ultimate Skills, making her the 2nd character after Valkyrie Accipiter (Fu Hua) to have more than 1 Ultimate Skill. Saule fights like normal Seele would, with her scythe, speedy movement, and focus on area attacks that hit multiple enemies at once. Veliona fights with Wolverine Claws, heavy attacks that are more effective on singular targets and break shields more easily, and uses more of Seele's Lovecraftian Superpower to deal massive damage; she also can't use weapon active skills. The two shares a special gauge; Saule fills it with white units while Veliona fills it with red ones (with normal attacks, successful evasion, QTE, or Ultimate Skill), which are then used for their different Charged Attacks: a wide-area slash with her scythe (Saule) or a quick and powerful Deadly Lunge with her claws (Veliona).
Super Mode: Swallowtail Phantasm's ultimate skill is a powerful wide-area attack that also makes her enter Burst Mode, courtesy of her momentary Split-Personality Takeover. Aside from increased attack power and speed, she gets stronger (and the duration of the mode gets longer) the more she kills enemies.
Swapped Roles: In the second half of the "Odd Drifter" event, Seele is the one looking for her "sister" Bronya this time. She, the Captain, and the rest of their group finds her inside the snow-buried wreckage of a giant mech, but Bronya (as the "Rime Witch") says that she has been sealing the mech together with herself and that she can only project herself for a short time, before disappearing with a Finger-Forced Smile. A tearful Seele vows to find a way to save her. You can break in with a specific item via a side-quest, but it results in a gag ending where Bronya has been playing video games the whole time while trapped.
Sweet Tooth: Seele likes desserts. In Ch. 23 and its side-content, it's mentioned Seele often goes out to eat desserts with Bronya and Kiana. Meanwhile, "Seele" likes spicy food, both Seele and Bronya would help provide her with one from time to time.
Take Me Instead: She accepted to participate in the Project X-10 in Bronya's place. Her Split Personality in "Seele's Quantum Diary" points out that because she failed the experiment, Bronya ended up taking part in it herself and it left Bronya emotionally and physically crippled, thus making her the reason for Bronya's later suffering.
Talking to Themself: She can talk with her Split Personality, with the latter usually creeping her out. In "Seele's Quantum Diary", she starts doing this in front of the Captain, confusing him.
Technopath: It's implied in the "Winter Rhapsody" event and "Seele's Quantum Diary" mini-event that she has the ability to manipulate virtual data, probably as a result of Project X-10.
Teleportation with Drawbacks: The effect of the 2-Set Bonus of Seele's Stigmata is that the user can teleport somewhere else right before being struck; this has a 10-second cooldown.
Third-Person Person: Like Bronya, she usually refers to herself with her own name. She does, however, occasionally use "I" ("watashi") instead. Her Split Personality also does the same, at least whenever she's pretending to be "Seele".
Tsundere: "Seele" to Seele. Despite the former's chaotic nature and occasional threats, she cares a lot about Seele's wellbeing and worries that her existence will make people view her in a negative light and insists on remaining hidden even when Seele herself wants to tell their friends. Whenever Seele acknowledges it and thanks her, she shrugs it off as they're sharing a body so it'd affect her too. In chapter 23, after "Seele" gets angry at Seele for befriending other people and seemingly not needing her anymore, she is very quick to forgive her once Seele reassures her she is irreplacable while verbally saying that she won't be so easily swayed. She even gets a few stereotypical Bakas in after Seele falls asleep mid-apology.
- Played for Laughs in supplementary materials where "Seele's" affection for Seele border on being a Fangirl with her owning a bodypillow of Seele, entering her into an idol competition because she is the cutest idol and watching her sleep to the point that she knows all of her "adorable" sleep talk. She of course denies any knowledge of these things and will do anything to keep them hidden, especially from Seele herself. Her bridge lines as Starchasm Nyx add a bit more to this with her gushing about how cute Seele is and apparently owning an album of pictures of Seele sleeping, all before attacking the Captain for finding out about it.
Vitriolic Best Buds: "Seele" with Herrscher of Sentience. They've only known each other for a while in the recent chapters but circumstances forced them to work together. Both very prideful and childish, they wasted no time bickering and take jabs at each other. "Seele" was being especially vulnerable throughout the arc to the point Herrscher of Sentience kept on giving "Seele" hope that she will see Seele again, even though she wasn't sure herself that it might happen. In the same chapter, "Seele" also got to know the Herrscher a bit better.
Herrscher of Sentience: We've covered a lot of ground today.
"Seele": Are you tired? We can take a break, if you want.
Herrscher of Sentence: Not really. Just expressing (emotions).
"Seele": Well, that's unlike you.
Herrscher of Sentience: ...
Vocal Evolution: Especially notable in Japanese, where Seele’s initially meek and high-pitched voice becomes gradually deeper and more composed as she gets more experienced and self-confident.
We Will Meet Again: Says this to the player character in the "Winter Rhapsody" ending. This is obliquely referenced in the "Seele's Quantum Diary" event, where she's surprised that the Captain talks to her via text ("Captain?! Is that you?") before claiming that "it's nothing" when the Captain asks about it.
Wish Upon a Shooting Star: In "Seele's Diary", when she saw a falling star, she quickly made a wish that Bronya would one day take her to see the beach. In her Cooking with Valkyries episode, it eventually comes true.
Wolverine Claws: As Stygian Nymph (including its boss version), "Seele" fights with two weapons resembling claw-fingered hands that are almost as large as she is and float behind her. Starchasm Nyx has the same weapons, but they are a bit more elaborate in design and are connected to each other by a long chain, and are deployed in her Ultimate instead of being her default weapons.

Sin Mal

Voiced by: Xiao N ^*小N (Chinese), Sumire Uesaka (Japanese)

Sin Mal was one of the orphans in Cocolia's orphanage along with Seele, Bronya, Rosaliya, and Liliya. Unlike the others, she was a nasty, bullying git who tormented Seele and nearly killed Broyna for trying to befriend her. In story mode, she shows up in a handful of places, most notably during the Chiyou side quest, commanding AE's mecha forces opposing the Valkyries.

Crippling Overspecialization: All of her Stigmata are about "enhancing stealth mode", which only Black Nucleus (a very rare Bronya suit) has.
Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Unlike the other girls in the orphanage, Sin has wide eyes of different colors that serve as a clear visual indicator of her cruel nature. This carries over to her in-game sprite which looks thoroughly crazed.
Jerkass: Sin is a viciously unpleasant character. She was horrible to Seele and Bronya in the orphanage, and crippled Bronya's legs by pushing her down a flight of stairs. Even in the present day she arrogantly refers to the Valkyries as trash.
Lethal Chef: Played for Laughs in Cooking with Valkyries. When Rozaliya complains that she lost her tastebuds due to catching a cold in her attempt to save a pack of rotten cherries, Sin offers her a black bread with salo (uncured meat lard) and raw garlic on it, claiming that everyone eats this when they need to beat the flu. The bread looks smelly and non-delicious, and Bronya even recommends Roza to brush her teeth after eating it. Roza being Roza, she eats it anyway, and her lack of reaction prompts everyone to make a Face Fault.
Rozaliya: What did I just eat? And why did I just eat that? (Got moar?)
Bronya: The Roza became a tasteless idiotka.
Seele: You should really eat some meds.
Rape as Drama: Subverted in one of the side comics which covers the story of what happened in the orphanage. Some time after her attack on Bronya, she pushed Seele onto the floor and ripped her shirt open, suggestively running a finger down her chest while examining her stigma mark. However, Seele's other side took over, forced its way into Sin's mind, and subjected her to the feeling of falling down an endless staircase.
Scary Teeth: Her teeth are all pointed and animalistic, although whether this is natural, a side effect of something that happened to her, or they were filed is not revealed.
Uncertain Doom: Nothing so "doomy" implied, but in the end of ch. 12, Rozaliya indirectly implies that Sin Mal isn't among them in the orphanage anymore.

Characters / Honkai Impact 3rd - Cocolia Orphanage

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Cocolia Orphanage

Voiced by: Shuai Zhou *周帅 (Chinese), Misa Katou (Japanese)

Rozaliya Voiced by: Duoduo Poi note 多多poi (Chinese), Aoi Koga (Japanese) / Liliya Voiced by: Yan Ning note 宴宁 (Chinese), Yuu Serizawa (Japanese)

Voiced by: Yajing Tang note 唐雅菁 (Chinese), Mai Nakahara (Japanese)

Voiced by: Xiao N *小N (Chinese), Sumire Uesaka (Japanese)

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Voiced by: Shuai Zhou ^*周帅 (Chinese), Misa Katou (Japanese)

Rozaliya Voiced by: Duoduo Poi ^note多多poi (Chinese), Aoi Koga (Japanese) / Liliya Voiced by: Yan Ning ^note宴宁 (Chinese), Yuu Serizawa (Japanese)

Voiced by: Yajing Tang ^note唐雅菁 (Chinese), Mai Nakahara (Japanese)

Voiced by: Xiao N ^*小N (Chinese), Sumire Uesaka (Japanese)