Fu Hua

Voiced by: Mace (Chinese), Minami Takayama (Japanese)

Valkyrie Accipiter

Story-important battlesuits:
^Phoenix

^{Azure Empyrea}

^{Fenghuang of Vicissitude}

"This world is ever-changing.
I have grown accustomed to parting and despair.
I have lost touch with time.
I struggle in Samsara only in the hope of achieving...
my mission."

An A-rank Valkyrie who used to be in the same class as Kiana in St. Freya Academy. She was a hardworking honor student with excellent grades, but was also shrouded in mystery. Seemingly has a connection to Archbishop Otto.

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The Ace: Fu Hua was among the best (if not the best) of Kiana's generation at her academy in both academics and fighting skills, and she's also popular with the students. It helped that she's actually a 50000+ year old war veteran who only pretends to be a student.
A-Cup Angst: She's painfully aware of her lack of assets, and is irritated when someone reminds her of it, even if it's unintentional.
- In the Moon Shadow comic, she gets irritated when "Wraith", a Schicksal spy and informant, shows off her Shapeshifting ability to give herself large breasts.
- In the Kiana Plays Honkai short comic, Kiana gets to play Honkai Impact 3rd and remarks that like Bronya and Theresa, the Fu Hua she controls has no Jiggle Physics. Fu Hua is understandably mortified.
- In her side story "The Forgotten", there is this exchange...
  Nuwa: *making a figurine* Given your lack luster [sic] figure, I'll have to add more curves for extra seductiveness.
  Fu Hua: That, girl, is a personal attack.
  Otto: Haha, interesting.
  Fu Hua: Shut up.
All Chinese People Know Kung-Fu: Yes, even when the game's creators are Chinese themselves. The only playable Chinese character in the game (prior to the release of Li Sushang) is a martial arts master who uses her hands and feet to smash mechas and Honkai beasts.
All of the Other Reindeer: In her backstory, she was shunned for being the Sole Survivor of the squad that was betrayed by the old civilization's equivalent of Himeko, who was corrupted into becoming the 7th Herrscher and had to be killed by Kevin Kaslana. Fu Hua gained the derogatory nickname of "Firewytch's Little Birdie" due to her adoration for the late Captain HIMEKO, but she continued to fight for Fire Moth anyway, eventually becoming a powerful M.A.N.T.I.S. super soldier.
Armor-Piercing Question: She gave this in the past towards Kallen in one of the supplementary comics. Only later on did the latter find the answer.
Your Divine Key was forged to protect the human race. Tell me, "key wielder", what is it that you fight to protect? Those who do not protect shall not realize its true power.
Badass Cape: As Azure Empyrea she has a long cape which is connected to her dress and splits into four strips of fabric.
Badass in a Nice Suit: In her Night Squire suit's default costume. Said suit's bio mentions that she used to wear it for an infiltration mission in the past, and Bronya even lampshades it.
Bare-Fisted Monk: Played with when you use the option to hide her gauntlets, which gives her the appearance of using only her fists to strike opponents. As Azure Empyrea, her gauntlets are automatically hidden.
Been There, Shaped History:
- Ch. 13 has Kiana run into data found inside Heliopolis building, which shows that Fu Hua once traveled to 19th century England while posing as a detective; the photo showed her alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It's implied that he based his story Sherlock Holmes, on her. This gets a call back in the "Rosemary’s Floriograph" event, where she and Conan Doyle team up with Irene Adler to investigate an incident while Doyle is writing his novels.
- Less "history" and more "legend", but in the "Empyrean Legends" event, when Fu Hua tells a story to Kiana about the legend behind the Chinese New Year, Azure Empyrea takes the place of the mysterious man who got rid of the monster called "Nian" which terrorized the village every New Year. In the original legend, the mysterious man makes banging noises to get rid of the Nian, which were presumed to come from firecrackers; in the event, the banging noises actually come from her assault rifle (that Book of Fuxi gives her), and in the spring festival, Rozaliya makes firecrackers to substitute for the "banging" noise source.
Bifauxnen: She's quite handsome in the Night Squire battlesuit. Lampshaded in one scene in "St. Freya Fiesta" event, where the Captain and Theresa suspect that Himeko looks like she's dating a guy... only to find out that the "guy" is Fu Hua in her Night Squire outfit.
Big Damn Heroes:
- In the past, Schicksal's army had an edge against the soldiers of Ming Dynasty until she appeared to the latter's aid; she, as "the immortal guardian of China", easily took down Schicksal's army by herself. She even managed to defeat Kallen, Schicksal's best warrior, even as the latter came armed with the Oath of Judah.
- In chapter 15, when Kevin appears in front of Kiana and attempts to attack her, Fu Hua separates herself from her and tries to hold him back as she tells Kiana to run away. As Fu Hua is far from her full power, she exhausted herself, leaving her "feather" on Kevin's hands.
Bio-Augmentation: She's one of the "MANTIS" soldiers from the Previous Era, who received the ICHOR augmentation from Dr. MEI, empowering her to be able to safely fight Honkai threats; this also gave her functional immortality as it keeps her cells from natural decay. Additionally, she also got the subliminal hypnotic treatment called "SWARA"^note that empowered her physical strength and neural responses, and allowed her body to adapt to Honkai energy more easily. She would then pass this treatment, which she called "Blade Mantra Swara" to her disciples in Mount Taixuan; as "Blade of the Empyrean" comic shows, this allowed normal humans to be empowered against the Honkai, but in MEI's words, people with the potential to be empowered by SWARA is harder to find than potential MANTIS subjects.
Boring, but Practical: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, she (as the "Celestial") is armed with a simple assault rifle, which fires rapidly, has good range, and doesn't interfere with her movement. Her Ultimate Skill is an aimable bomb that deals the most damage out of all bombs, as it leaves burning flames on the ground that deal further damage. The other characters have special gimmicks to them, but the Celestial has reliability and ease of use.
Born Unlucky: Played for Laughs in the Kiana Plays Honkai short comic. Her RNG luck is atrocious, so much so that she doesn't have any S-rank battlesuits in her team (something which Kiana, having just pulled an S-rank Lightning Empress Mei, taunts her over). Despite working several different jobs (and thus having more than enough money to sink on Honkai Impact 3rd), the gacha simply won't drop the Shadow Knight battlesuit for her... at least until Kiana accidentally trips on the Ai-pad and pulls it from the gacha. From then on, Fu Hua starts stalking Kiana in a mad bid to help her with RNG.
Kiana: [giggling] I just realized that you don't have any starting-[S] battlesuits in your team. What did you do? Piss off the devs?
Fu Hua: *slaps Kiana across the face* Enough! You will not laugh at my waifus!
Brick Joke: Shadow Knight's Blood Voivode costume gives her a vampiric theme. This comes from a throwaway line in ch. 13 where Kiana calls her an "immortal vampire" as the former discovers the data of Fu Hua living in the past centuries.
Broken Pedestal: Fu Hua was very loyal to Otto and even considered him as a friend to the point of going along with his plot to Mind Rape Kiana and awaken the Herrscher of the Void. However, during Chapter 9, he informed her that he never had any intention of saving Kiana from the 2nd Herrscher and that the possibility of at least one of her friends dying (not to mention all the innocent lives already lost, which she took great issue with) was all within his plans. At that moment, Fu Hua realized how truly insane and uncaring he was, the revelation shocking her to the point that she briefly went Laughing Mad. In a later chapter, she tells Kiana that she had put her trust in the wrong person.
Brought Down to Badass: Fu Hua was a powerful immortal being and a One-Man Army who defeated Schicksal's forces and its strongest Valkyrie Kallen all by herself when they waged war in China 500 years ago. Many years later, because of her disciples betraying and attacking her then her losing more of her memories during the Second Honkai War, she lost most of her power and turned into a normal human, and needed Otto's help to protect China in exchange for working for Schicksal. She entered St. Freya Academy as an A-rank Valkyrie though her ability is on par of an S-rank. She gets brought down even further when she loses the last of her powers fighting off the Herrscher of Sentience, but there is little difference in gameplay and she is still powerful enough to get sent to deal with any threats that come up along with Kiana and the others.
Casting Gag: Minami Takayama was popular for voicing Case Closed. Here, her character (Fu Hua) gets a battlesuit themed after a Private Detective (Hawk of the Fog), and she apparently went around in 19th century England in that form as the assistant of Arthur Conan Doyle, the inspiration for Detective Conan.
Character Development: A small but significant one over the course of the story. Chapter 20 reveals that long ago, she used to be rather ruthless when it comes to fighting Honkai threats, with her motto of "no mercy for the corrupted". Even in the present, she gets to beat up Kiana in the "Moon Shadow" manga and in ch. 6 of the game when the latter shows signs of Honkai corruption i.e she starts awakening as a Herrscher. In ch. 11-EX, even after realizing her mistake (being duped by Otto to bring Kiana to him, so he can awaken her fully as a Herrscher), she still advises Kiana on not confronting the Honkai at all as she doesn't want Herrscher of the Void to be awakened again. But when Kiana is Driven to Suicide to stop the Herrscher inside her, Fu Hua instead stops her, even though it'll be in line with Fu Hua's old "philosophy", as Fu Hua cares enough for her and Himeko's wishes for her. So Fu Hua chooses to help Kiana in her whole "mission" as much as she can, primarily by assisting her in controlling the latter's Herrscher powers.
Class Representative: She used to be one in Kiana's class.
Combat Medic: Valkyrie Accipiter, while doing the least damage out of Fu Hua's battlesuits, has some ways to heal herself, and one of her Ultimate Skills can heal the whole team by a certain amount. In co-op plays, her team skill is to drop HP-recovery items for the team.
The Comically Serious: In the event stories, she still acts seriously even in more lighthearted situations, which is often pointed out.
Consummate Professional: Fu Hua, for the most part, is a disciplined and straight-laced person who takes most things seriously and will try to give her all in what she does. This puts her at odds with the more easygoing Kiana.
Cool Mask: When Shadow Knight enters her Super Mode, she wears a metallic mask. Her boss version wears it at all times.
Criss-Cross Attack: Valkyrie Accipiter's augmented form has one special combo where she zigs and zags in the air, hitting multiple enemies in a small area multiple times, before landing with a Ground Punch. During the move she's also completely invincible, even to the Abyss' health drain.
Damsel in Distress: In chapter 22 she's basically held hostage by Hua(?) as the latter holds the Fenghuang Down feather that stores her consciousness. Kiana resolves to save her from Hua(?)'s grasp and take Fu Hua's body back, despite Fu Hua warning her that Hua(?) is too dangerous.
A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 20 is basically "Fu Hua: the Backstory". While glimpses of her past have been shown in "The Forgotten" stages and some parts of the comics, this chapter goes to detail it, and Kiana and Bronya get to see them. Back then, over 50,000 years ago, Fu Hua was just a normal teenage girl from China who left her hometown to go to school in the city of Sapphire. She was incredibly shy and struggled with fitting in. Although she made some happy memories with a close friend, her whole life changed when the Honkai destroyed nearly all of East Asia. She was then taken in into Fire Moth, the anti-Honkai organization, by the Previous Era's Himeko, who became her mentor. Himeko would then become the 7th Herrscher, devastated Australia, and killed many of her comrades before being killed herself, leaving Fu Hua as the only survivor. She then volunteered to become one of the MANTIS augmented warriors under Dr. MEI. The experiments turned her into The Ageless and a powerful anti-Honkai warrior; when the humanity of Previous Era eventually lost to the Honkai, she was sent into cryosleep and then re-emerged in the current era. She was put in charge of Project EMBER which aims to teach the current humanity about the Honkai threats and give them knowlege of Previous Era, but after several resurgences of powerful Honkai Beasts which killed her only friends (Fuxi and Nuwa), she ceased the project and moved on to become the "guardian sage" of Shenzhou.
Deadly Lunge: One of Shadow Knight's and Night Squire's combos ends with Fu Hua doing a shoulder charge attack. One of Azure Empyrea's attacks is a very fast dashing strike that hits all enemies in a line, that causes every enemy that gets hit to take more elemental damage for 6 seconds.
Difficult, but Awesome: Hawk of the Fog has a variety of powerful attacks, but maximizing her damage will require you to use them cleverly and to master the evade-ultimate (holding the ultimate button after a time fracture dodge) by placing it at the right times so as to not run out of SP. Thus, using her to her full potential requires quite a bit more skill than for other Valkyries, especially if you use her with the Zhangheng B stigmata, which gives her a massive damage boost, but only for two seconds after a perfect dodge and if the combo count is below 20, leaving very little room for error.
Disc-One Nuke: Fu Hua's Night Squire battle suit is a powerful A-rank Bio-type attacker that is simple to acquire and upgrade (by farming her fragments). The twist is that even in late-game, with the proper equipment she's still quite viable.
Dope Slap: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, she (as "Celestial") often does this to Book of Fuxi whenever the latter says insensitive things, to the point that the ELF complains that she's getting a brain hemhorrage.
Doppelgänger Attack: Hawk of the Fog has a new Ultimate Skill (that can only be done after one of her combos, or after Ultimate Evasion) where she briefly splits herself into 5, surrounding the target, before all of them strike the target at the same time, dealing heavy damage and paralyzing anyone caught in range.
Double Agent: Chapters 6 and 7 reveal that Fu Hua was sent to St. Freya Academy as Otto's spy, and that she brought Kiana to Schicksal HQ on his orders, as she's going with his plan to awaken the Herrscher within Kiana and then making her controllable. However, she also cares enough for her friends and Theresa (and the 2nd Herrscher threatening people in general, which she didn't expect to happen) that she at least ordered Rita to just imprison Himeko and Tesla, and later went to fight the Herrscher of the Void in order to buy time for Bronya to escape with Mei and Theresa.
Dramatic Irony: In one of the flashbacks in ch. 20, when Fu Hua's old friend (represented by Carole) told her that she had "too many memories" of their hometown that she wished to travel the world to find another good place to live, Fu Hua said that she treasured her memories greatly and wouldn't like to give them up. Many years later, one of the problems of her living very long is that her many memories started to overload her brain. She was too attached to her memories that she was reluctant to use her Fenghuang Down to excise them out of her head, but eventually, she did just that, because she had to.
Dub Name Change: Downplayed in the Japanese version. Fu Hua is called "Fuka", which is simply the onyomi reading of Fu Hua (符华).
Exposition of Immortality: In the dorm, she occasionally mutters to herself about Xuanyuan and Shennong (characters from thousand years past), as well as remarking that Nuwa and Fuxi (revered figures of ancient China) look different in the history books. That's because she has indeed lived that long—much longer than anyone else, in fact.
EX Special Attack: Night Squire has "special combos" that are done by using different button combinations in her combos instead of just one. The third strike of each special combo will consume one stock of the special gauge (which is replenished with the third strike of her "normal combos") to become stronger; they can be done with the gauge depleted, but they won't give extra effects.
Extreme Doormat: Somewhat. She's better described as "obedient", as early as her younger days where she has always been following the advice and orders of others, such as her own father, Dr. MEI, Kevin, and eventually Otto. She also rarely (if ever) thinks for herself or her future, as she says to her old friend in a flashback. She's so determined in fulfilling her duty as a Pioneer (appointed by MEI) despite her suffering from it, that Fuxi and Nuwa pitied her and "betrayed their purposes" to try to make her stop and forget her duties; when the twins died later on, their ELF Book of Fuxi later tried to do the same, but to no avail. The one time she made a significant choice in her life is when after the Previous Era Himeko saved her from a Honkai disaster, Fu Hua demanded the truth about the whole disaster and its nature from her. One way or another, it led her to join the Fire Moth, and the rest is history as it gave her a new direction in life.
Eye Color Change: Her eyes change color to red as Phoenix. This also happens when she comes back a little… different after her resurrection in chapter 20.
The Fog of Ages: Since she's 50,000 or so years old, she remembers little about her past aside from her duty to guard the sacred land. It's shown in her side story "The Forgotten", where she and Otto try exploring her past memories, which are mostly fragmented, with the only "accessible" parts being those few she can muster to remember. In the "Empyrean Legends" event, it's also implied that there's some truth to the "folklore" that she tells Kiana, or at least to the "Celestial" (Azure Empyrea) that stars in it. In the end, the camera focuses on a baseball-sized yin-yang orb on a nearby table, which presumably belonged to Book of Fuxi (her old companion). Chapter 20 reveals that she has deliberately had many of her memories removed with Fenghuang Down in order to stay sane, otherwise remembering everything in her long life would destroy her mind.
Foil: Serves as one in many different ways to Kiana, checking off a decent number of the common foils. Thematically they share many motifs, while also typically embodying opposing ones. The most obvious example being the contrast between their respective Godsbane battlesuits, with both battlesuits having similar functions, but Kiana's focusing on ranged firepower, while Fu Hua's centers around melee combat. With Knight Moonbeam symbolizing moonlight, while Shadow Knight represents the moon's shadow.
Gamer Chick: Fu Hua sees gaming more as a challenge to better herself, which is referenced in various events. She ends up seeing Bronya as her rival of sorts. In a flashback in ch. 20, back in her time in her previous school, her old friend (represented by Carole) is shocked by how talented she is at arcade games; Fu Hua says that her father never allowed her to play in the arcades before, and that she simply followed the "instructions" the games tell her, showing that her martial arts training builds her coordination and reflexes to be useful in playing games.
Gathering Steam: Phoenix has a special red bar above her SP gauge. The more it's filled, the stronger her fire attacks become, and it's filled by alternating her combo moves.
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Kiana manages to control Herrscher of the Void's power by her own will, Fu Hua is impressed. But then Kiana cries, saying "if only I can do this sooner..."^Spoilers! Fu Hua then tells her that her late teacher wouldn't like it if she keeps wallowing in regret and grief, and hoped for Kiana to live happily and move forward. This gets Kiana to pull herself together.
Good-Times Montage: The final unlockable scene of ch. 20 shows photos of her younger years in various situations where she lived a happy teenage life. Then the photos get burned into nothing. It's in reference to how Fu Hua treasured her memories so much, but she had to leave them behind with Fenghuang Down.
Ground Punch: All versions of Fu Hua (except for Phoenix and Azure Empyrea) have a similar attack for their normal switch-in and QTE: she falls from above striking the ground with her fist. Her different suits give different effects to the QTE attack.
- Valkyrie Accipiter does this in two of her special combos (which also double as her Ultimate Skills if you hold the button).
- Shadow Knight does this in one of her special combos, and her Ultimate Skill. During her Super Mode, it also creates an Area of Effect that increases her lightning damage against enemies within.
Harmful Healing: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, the "Celestial" cures Ai-chan from the "crystalium" poisoning by doing a heavy blow to her back, causing Ai-chan to vomit tainted blood. She becomes better after that.
Healing Factor: As part of her MANTIS augmentation, she can heal through any injuries given enough time. Heavy head trauma, though, will considerably weaken it, which happened twice: once when she was betrayed and murdered by her old disciples (around 500 years ago), and once when Otto shot her in the head with the copy of Judgment of Shamash (in ch. 9). In the first case, she took around 20 years to fully recover, and she also lost a good deal of her powers after that; in the second, she recovered quicker with Otto's help, but for one reason or another, her mind took a turn for the worse.
Hermit Guru: Azure Empyrea is presented as this, a "Celestial" who spends her time meditating apart from other people and only goes out to defend the populace from threats such as monsters. The event "Empyrean Legends" chronicles her deeds as a story told by Fu Hua to Kiana (in a comical way).
Hero-Worshipper: She has a lot of respect for Himeko, who is her teacher. One of the supplementary comics shows that it went for longer than it seems: In the previous advanced civilization, she was one of the few survivors of a Honkai outbreak, before she was taken in by the era's version of Himeko, to become a MOTH soldier and learn how to fight back the Honkai. Some time later, Captain Himeko became the Herrscher of Flame and then was killed by Kevin. Fu Hua's desire and determination to work her hardest for her (late) captain was partly what allowed her to activate the ICHOR injected into her and use its powers, and transform a replica of the Xuanyuan Sword into a weapon more fitting for her: Grips of Tai Xuan, one of the Divine Keys in the game.
Heroic Sacrifice: In ch. 31, her sim in the Elysian Realm willingly uses Fenghuan Down at its Level 1 output to strike at the Herrscher of Corruption, eliminating herself in order to damage the Herrscher's ability to gain information from the sims' data in order to "become" Elysia and gain control of the Kevin Killer Mk. 666.
Hidden Disdain Reveal: Chapter 20 reveals that she secretly resented Dr. MEI for indirectly ordering the death of her old captain Himeko (whom Fu Hua thought can still be saved, even though she has become the 7th Herrscher), for her ICHOR experiment that took several casualties, and for ordering her to help the people of the current era (when living for very long took quite some toll on her mind). She still did her duties, but while Fu Hua eventually comes to understand why they have to be done, said hidden resentments surface when "Hua(?)" is resurrected.
Hiding Behind Your Bangs: As Azure Empyrea, her right eye is covered by her hair. It enhances her air of mystery.
High-Class Glass: Valkyrie Accipiter's augmented version has two variants, Hawk of the Fog and Hawk of the Yard. The only difference between them is that Hawk of the Fog comes with a monocle.
Hypocrite: During Chapter 21, when Hua(?) states that wars between humans has caused nearly as much death and destruction as the Honkai, Fu Hua tells her that wars are a part of nature and necessary for the development of civilization, while Honkai go against it, being that the reason why they must defeat the Honkai. She says this despite the universally-known fact that Honkai are pretty much the universe's counter-reaction to civilizations' progress. This somewhat paints Fua Hua in a much shadier light: she will protect the world from all threats of Honkai nature, but, for all her power and knowledge, will not lift a finger to stop wars or overall suffering caused by humans, unless it involves her land.
I Did What I Had to Do: Out of options, and running out of time, Fu Hua uses her connection to the Herrscher of Sentience to steal power from the latter in order to regain her former strength for a moment in order to free hostages from the Herrscher of Dominance. She's not proud of it, as she does see the Herrscher as her own person and would have preferred to do so with her consent, but she goes through with it nonetheless. The Herrscher is understandably furious with her for this and closes their connection completely once the dust settles, leaving the Core of Sentience within Fu Hua inert.
I Have Many Names: Part of her living very long is that she goes with a slew of different names. In the Previous Era, she was simply called "Hua", in the new one she has also been known as the Celestial, Empyrea, Phoenix, "Watson", and of course, Fu Hua.
Invocation: In the "Shattered Samsara" video, as she helps Kiana using the Edge of Taixuan: Eminence against their opponent Herrscher of Sentience, the two Speak in Unison:
"It is the origin of change, the impetus behind creation, and cannot be restricted by forms. It is the Edge of Taixuan's Eminence!"
Injured Vulnerability: Two pieces of the Fu Hua Musician Stigmata set enhance the user's attacks on enemies that are ignited or "firebranded" (a debuff specific to Phoenix). The T version lets the user deal AOE damage on the aforementioned enemies every 3 seconds, while the B version increases the user's total damage on them.
Journey to the Center of the Mind:
- It's implied that this happens in Bronya's side story "Dilemma Dreamland" where she appears inside Bronya's mind, trying to help Bronya fix her mind. Before this, we're treated to the scene of Fu Hua's hand over the unconscious Bronya's head, then it cuts to black while white feathers fall down, before it cuts into the inside of Bronya's mind with Fu Hua in it. Chapter 9-EX2 has her reappear inside Bronya's mind, now in her Phoenix outfit. She reveals that she isn't the real Fu Hua, but rather one of her "feathers" that she left inside Bronya's mind, through the power of her personal Divine Key, "Fenghuang Down" (the hair ornament that ties her ponytail).
- Later on, she appears again in ch. 11-EX, now inside Kiana's mind. This time, she mentions that she has used Fenghuang Down's Zeroth Power, which puts the entirety of her consciousness into a feather that is now bonded with Kiana (meaning that it's now the real her, not her "feather copies"). She did so in order to watch over Kiana and prevent her Herrscher self from resurfacing, out of guilt of what she had done towards Kiana and because Himeko believed in the white-haired girl, but she can only do so much for around 3 months because Kiana refused to talk to her, thinking of her as just an illusion^note. It's not until Fu Hua tries to prevent her from taking her own life that Kiana starts opening herself to her, allowing her to help Kiana fight Sirin inside her mind, suppressing Sirin in the end. Fu Hua mentally says that if the worst case happens, she has to end their lives together; she can only mentally apologize to Kiana.
- In ch. 13's side story, Fu Hua recreates a scenery of her homeland inside Kiana's dream using Fenghuang Down's ability. It's part of Kiana's training with Fu Hua inside her dreams; while Kiana wouldn't necessarily remember everything in the dream when she wakes up, she will build her muscle memory that way. Fu Hua also creates the enemies for Kiana to fight; the former mentions that getting hit by them will make her real body experience pain as well. Time also goes slower in this fabricated dream, so that Kiana can train for as long as she wants.
Kamehame Hadoken: Valkyrie Accipiter's special attack button lets her throw out up to 3 energy shots out of her palms. It can be charged to make her throw out a stronger one that pierces through enemies, but it'll cost 25 SP. As its augmented form, however, it changes into her swinging her hand to shoot out a lightning-element Sword Beam-like attack (up to 2 times) that she can follow with a Dash Attack towards the target, letting her continue the combo at melee range.

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Lap Pillow: The setup for the "Empyrean Legends" event is that Kiana's overeaten and has a bad stomach ache; to distract her from the pain, Fu Hua tells her a story which becomes the event. The introductory animation has a scene with the girls on a couch, Kiana's head on a pillow in Fu Hua's lap.
The Last Dance: One scene in chapter 22 has the narration says that she's ready for a "martyr's death" as she feels that she has little power left. She then sadly says "I'm sorry". In the "Shattered Samsara" video, she eventually uses the last of her power to seal the Herrscher of Sentience together with her into a Fenghuang Down feather while the Herrscher and Kiana are having a Beam-O-War. Kiana, however, can't accept that someone had to sacrifice herself for "so-called victories" (just like what happened to Himeko), so she "dives" into the feather using her void powers to pull Fu Hua back out. In the end, Fu Hua's back on her body as the Herrscher of Sentience "leaves" it.
Letting Her Hair Down: Night Squire's Rustic Noir alternate costume has her hair flowing loose instead of being tied to a low ponytail.
Living Relic: She, Nuwa and Fuxi are three of the last survivors of the Previous Era, the human civilization that was destroyed 50,000 years ago by the Herrscher of the End. They had been put to sleep and then awakened 5000 years before the events of the story. The events of the Elysian Realm story expand on this, going into some detail about her time as a MANTIS and member of the Flame-Chasers before she entered hibernation.
Martial Medic: In the "Sanka Saga" event, the event's version of her is currently working as a traditional doctor. She used to be a martial arts teacher, but she became disillusioned when her disciples went on to do bad things with the stuff she taught them. She heals Kasumi's injuries by beating her body on the right spots.
Meaningful Appearance: Valkyrie Accipiter, compared to the other "Valkyrie" suits, has a few traditional Chinese touches to it, referring to her country of origin.
Mechanically Unusual Fighter:
- Fu Hua's Ultimate Skill button is replaced with a "special attack" button. Her extra attacks are done by pressing said button either by itself, or after her normal combos. She still has Ultimate Skills, but they're done by holding the button. Due to this, her Ultimate Skills also have no cooldown, although the only Fu Hua battlesuit that can enjoy this naturally (i.e without the need to increase the max SP stat) is Valkyrie Accipiter, because her Ultimate Skills cost only 25 SP and so she can spam them easily. Hawk of the Fog (V. Accipiter's augmented form) takes this further, where her Ultimate Skill can only be performed after one of her special combos, or her Ultimate Evasion; doing the latter on reaction can be tricky, but if you master it, it can deal some huge damage in a single hit, particularly with good supports.
- Phoenix's awakened counterpart, Azure Empyrea, adds the "yin and yang" mechanic. It's based on the Ba Gua (Eight Trigrams): yin represents "broken lines", and yang represents "unbroken lines"; there are 8 possible combinations when you put them in a 3-lines pattern. There are three empty circles above her HP bar that are filled with either white (yang) by the normal attack button, or black (yin) by the special attack button; you can mix-and-match the buttons to create different color patterns. After all three circles are filled, holding the basic attack button will do one of three different attacks, depending on whether the circles are all black, all white, or a combination.
Mental World: In ch. 20, in a flashback, she uses one of Fenghuang Down's "higher powers" by focusing her entire consciousness into a single point, causing her to enter a "mental dimension" where she can sense other people's consciousness from a distance. As she was in the Fire Moth's base, she sensed Kevin, the dying Sakura, and the 12th Herrscher, who sensed her and sent Quantum Shadows to attack her.
Mind Manipulation: She's commonly associated with the 8th Divine Key, Fenghuang Down. Its ability is to manipulate the mind of others in all sorts of ways: putting her consciousness inside people's mind, making them stop perceiving time for a moment, creating dreamscapes, and so on. As shown in ch. 20, she once used it to cure the people in the Fire Moth base from the Herrscher of Corruption's mental hijacking. In ch. 22, even after she's reduced to an "apparition" after she uses Fenghuang Down's Zeroth Power, she can use its power to mess with Hua(?)'s own illusionary world, by making the Otto illusion that Hua(?) made "defy" her will.
Morality Chain: Without someone to bring out the "humanity" in her, she could be a stoic, unfeeling and ruthless individual driven solely to protect the land from the Honkai without paying heed to the people around her due to her immortality. Previously, that someone was Book of Fuxi, who kept reminding her to be more sociable; in the present, that someone is Kiana, whose carefree attitude and interactions with her bring out various kinds of emotions and feelings of caring from within her. In ch. 20, it's implied that Kiana has a big impact on Fu Hua's life; in the last "memory feather" of Fu Hua that Kiana enters, she meets Fu Hua's disciples, who separately claim that their master had finally found the one person she actually cares about, and that "it's easy to keep someone from dying, but hard to convince someone to keep on living".
My Death Is Just the Beginning: In Chapter 9, Otto seemingly shoots her dead with a replica of Judgment of Shamash. Later, she shows up as a ghost (in her Phoenix outfit), guiding Himeko to get the Vermilion Knight battlesuit stored in Helheim Labs, in order to gain an edge against Herrscher of the Void and halt Otto's plans. After thanking Himeko for all of her teachings and wishing farewell, she vanishes for good. It's implied (retroactively, from the reveal in ch. 9-EX2) that this ghost is just one of Fu Hua's "feathers" instead of the real her, but the trope is still in play as the real Fu Hua was shown "dropping feathers" onto Himeko when the latter was unconscious. Ch. 21 reveals that she used Fenghuang Down's Zeroth Power to allow herself to "escape" from her own body when she was in the verge of death, and she later attached herself to Kiana.
My God, What Have I Done?: She is clearly not happy with her role in the Herrscher of the Void's awakening.
My Skull Runneth Over: One of chapter 20's flashbacks shows that a side effect of her MANTIS augmentation is that it keeps her brain cells alive and intact, so she won't be able to forget anything unlike normal humans. In her earlier years after she woke up in the current era, she got increasingly severe headaches because she had remembered a lot of things up to that point. Fuxi told her that Dr. MEI gave her Fenghuang Down so that she can excise her memories safely, but at that point she hadn't done that yet, because she still felt attached to her younger self, and feared that she'd be "losing herself" if she excises her memories away.
Odd Couple: Is often paired up with Kiana in event storylines and they tend to have this dynamic going on.
Parasol of Pain: The third strike of Azure Empyrea's normal combo is to strike her enemy twice with her parasol. She also poses with it in her Victory Pose.
Parental Substitute: Played with. Some hundred years ago, Lin Zhaoyu and later Su Mei (two of Fu Hua's disciples) had their parents killed by her when they were younger, because their parents were "corrupted". She took them under their wing to not just teach them how to fight the Honkai, but also to raise and take care of them. Su Mei refused to think of her parents' murderer as her new parent, though she did acknowledge Fu Hua as her master.
The Phoenix: One of her Valkyrie suits is simply called Phoenix. It lets her manipulate fire in her attacks and her Ultimate Skill with it is to briefly turn into a fiery phoenix and then crash to the ground to create a big blast of fire.
Power Dyes Your Hair:
- Inverted; she used to have white hair during her days as Jingwei (the basis of her Phoenix battlesuit) 5000 years ago. When she lost most of her powers, her hair turned grey.
- Played straight in one of Night Squire's costumes in which her hair turns light pink similar to Phoenix's when she activates her Ultimate.
Power Fists: Unlike the other Valkyries, Fu Hua in all of her variants fights with only punches and kicks, and thus her weapons are gauntlets that give her various abilities depending on what she's equipped with, with some gauntlets being tailored to particular battlesuits.
Power Glows: If she has enough SP to perform an Ultimate Skill, her hands will glow to indicate it.
Private Detective: "Hawk of the Fog" (Valkyrie Accipiter's augmented version) is apparently based on the guise she takes while traveling abroad at the end of the 19th century as a detective. She appears in the "Stygian Blooms" event, going with the Captain to solve the mystery regarding Seele and the girls that she abducted. She later also appears in the "Apocalypse Scandal" mini-event (whose story is based on a Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia") and the following event "Rosemary’s Floriograph" where she acts akin to Watson as "Conan Doyle" becomes the POV character.
Pro-Human Transhuman: As the immortal that guided humans to create civilisation anew and guarded a sacred land (China), people revered her (well, Jingwei) as a goddess.
Rapidfire Fisticuffs: One of Shadow Knight's special combos in her Super Mode is to throw lightning-fast punches at enemies. In a variant, one of Night Squire's special combos has her doing a flurry of kicks.
Single-Use Shield: In the Elysian Realm, her Nexus Signet ("core buff") gives your character "Resolve", a "shield" that negates damage of one hit and then dissipates; the shield can regenerate once every 10 seconds (can be shortened with one of her enhanced buffs) and can stack up to 6 times. If the damage is negated by the shield, your character won't lose the stacks of her normal buffs that are normally lost by getting hit. Her personal item, also called "Resolve", when equipped, allows you to begin each battle with 1 Resolve stack and gain temporary invincibility whenever the shield negates an attack, so that your character won't lose the shields too quickly with repeated attacks. One of her enhanced signets also allows your character to start battle with a few more Resolve stacks, while another one speeds up the stack gains of her normal buffs according to the stacks of Resolve you currently have.
Serious Business: In the Dating Sim event's date scenes with Fu Hua, she takes "getting high scores in arcade games" seriously as part of her training.
Sharing a Body: This is her fate as shown in ch. 11-EX. With Fenghuang Down's Zeroth Power, she has bonded her soul to Kiana's, meaning that she'll stay within Kiana up until her death. This is done in order to keep watch over Kiana and her Herrscher side. As shown in ch. 14, this has the side effect of Kiana being (involuntarily) able to access Fu Hua's memories in her dreams.
Shoryuken: A part of one of Valkyrie Accipiter's special combos has her do a jumping uppercut.
Shrinking Violet: During her youth in the Previous Era, she was shy and not particularly sociable, having little outside of her martial arts. Even in the Elysian Realm, her sim (replicating her as she was during her time in MOTH) shows a rather meek and not-very-confident personality, not helped by the fact she was the youngest of the Flame Chasers. This contrasts with her current, austere but determined character, forged by thousands of years of experience.
Smart People Wear Glasses: Played with. While she is smart and wears glasses, those glasses are actually high-tech Schicksal equipment; her eyesight is actually normal, and two of her Valkyrie suits don't include them.
Soul-Sucking Retail Job: In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue ending of the "Cyber Haxxor" event, her Shadow Knight character is reduced to making ramen for the restaurant owned by Himeko's Hawty Potter character, and is described as "Often in tears."
Spirit Advisor:
- She becomes this to Kiana in ch. 11-EX. She has bonded her soul to Kiana's in order to try to help her, but Kiana refused to listen to her until near the end, when she accepts Fu Hua's help against her inner Herrscher. In ch. 13, Fu Hua continues to guide Kiana around as she continuously fights the Honkai invasion in Arc City.
- In chapter 21 an image of Fu Hua revived through the Fenghuang Down feather that Kevin held serves as a partner and advisor of sorts to the "new" Fu Hua resurrected by Otto, revealing her the truth about her nature. This "Fenghuang Down shadow" was the one that defended Kiana from Kevin before the latter got a hold of her feather, i.e the real Fu Hua's consciousness that we followed in the story up to her dwelling inside Kiana's mind.
- Later in ch. 22, she seemingly secretly moves from Hua(?)'s side to Kiana's again, and gives her support for Kiana by guiding her and refilling her HP bar should it get depleted. In the "Shattered Samsara" video, she subtly blocks each of Hua(?)'s attacks for Kiana. She also helps Kiana control Herrscher of the Void's full power again (like in "Meteoric Salvation" video) and then guides Kiana to use the Edge of Taixuan against Hua(?)'s attack.
Super Mode:
- During Shadow Knight's Burst Mode, her attacks are enhanced with lightning and her special attacks are modified to become more powerful.
- Night Squire's Burst Mode lets her slow down and bleed enemies around her and attack much faster with random attacks. It also fills her special gauge to full, allowing her attacks to be enhanced during the mode.
Throw Down the Bomblet: Or rather "roll down the bomblet". In the "Once Upon a Time in Shenzhou" event, her weapon is a chick-shaped bomb that slowly rolls in a straight line and explodes upon contact or reaching its range limit. Like Himeko's HOLA bombs, it also deals a small amount of AOE damage.
Time Abyss: She is well over 50,000 years old, as she was a youth in the waning years of the Previous Era and was put into cryosleep to survive the destruction of human civilzation by the Herrscher of the End.
Uncertain Doom: After she helps Kiana unleash Herrscher of the Void's full power in ch. 14, Kiana tries to call her again in ch. 15, only to find no response from her. Later in the chapter, however, she comes out of Kiana's body to defend her against Kevin.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In short, Fu Hua is the reason for the big events in the chapters after Ch. 6, due to a genuine mistake on her part. She beats Kiana down and brings her to Otto, as part of their plan to awaken the Herrscher within Kiana. However, she expected Durandal and/or other high-ranked Valkyries to subdue the Herrscher and keep the casualties to a minimum. When Rita informs her that Otto ordered them to stand down, however, she starts to realize that something's wrong. She fights the Herrscher in her friends' stead, then Otto makes the Herrscher escape, revealing his true motive: to make the Herrscher fight her friends so she can be subdued with The Power of Friendship. He then (seemingly) shoots her dead for being a Spanner in the Works. She tries to amend things by helping Himeko fight the Herrscher (the former of which Fu Hua beat down prior to the reveal), and later bonds her soul to Kiana's after the Herrscher is suppressed to help her. Not to mention that the Herrscher caused a large-scale Honkai eruption around the world before she was put down.
What the Hell, Hero?: In Chapter 11-EX Kiana angrily calls her out on being a Double Agent for Otto and kidnapping her, blaming her for everything that's happened. It takes a while, but Kiana does forgive her later.
When She Smiles:
- The Second Eruption manga emphasizes how, prior to the main game's story, Fu Hua never smiled. Even in the main game she veers into Perpetual Frowner territory with her serious demeanor, but it seems like Kiana, of all people, is capable of bringing a rare smile out of her. The manga and a number of event CGs make it clear the dunce (and/or her friends) has a positive effect on her. In gameplay, she may sometimes smile in some of her bridge interactions, and Azure Empyrea's default expression is a soft smile.
- At the end of ch. 22 after reclaiming her body for good, the first thing she does is greet Kiana and Bronya with a genuine smile on her face.
Who Wants to Live Forever?:
- In the past, Fu Hua didn't socialize much with the people she protected from the Honkai, only fighting off threats and vanishing soon after. As an immortal, she's fated to outlive all of her comrades-in-arms as well as the normal folk, so she'll inevitably keep reliving the cycle of meeting and burying her friends. Fortunately, the "Little Book" ELF that Nuwa and Fuxi left behind manages to get her to not distance herself too much from humanity. Unfortunately, that ELF would eventually run out of battery and leave her alone again.
- A side effect of her immortality is that she has been rendered unable to forget anything, which doesn't do any wonders for her mental state. Luckily, access to her Divine Key allowed her to circumvent this issue, but whether or not that helped her is another story...
- In "Shattered Samsara" video, as Kiana "dives" into the Fenghuang Down feather Fu Hua sealed herself and Herrscher of Sentience into, it shows scenes of Fu Hua's past as she claims that she has faced many betrayals, witnessed many of the people she cared about died in front of her, and she felt that she'll always be alone, as a consequence of her living very long. Kiana gives her own rebuttal to each of them as she's determined to save her friend and free her from her loneliness.
You Don't Look Like You: She is the same person as Jingwei. However, the Jingwei stigmata looks different from Fu Hua, with red hair and a large bust. In the extra story "The Forgotten", Nuwa made up this image of Jingwei thinking people might get interested in Jingwei's stories if she made her look hotter (she didn't take it too kindly).
You Will Not Evade Me: As Azure Empyrea, one of her special attacks lets her gather enemies in a small area before a powerful strike that hits around her. Her Ultimate Skill will also gather enemies to a certain point before she makes a giant black spike fall down onto them.

Herrscher of Sentience (WARNING: UNMARKED SPOILERS)

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"Deep in this boundless dream... Gazing at my warped self. My past was nothing but a failure. Those I wanted to protect, all perished. Only the remorse etched on one's mind can make one emerge from their pupa. I will now transform this world into one I desire with my own hands. I will reverse all creations."

The result of Otto reviving Fu Hua's dead body after killing her himself. She has the memories and powers of Fu Hua and thinks she is her, but her personality is vastly different. She resurrects an image of Fu Hua using the Fenghuang Down, whom she then travels with. She's depicted with the alternate costume for Hawk of the Fog, called "Onyx Simurgh".

Became playable in version 4.6 (S BIO, awakened Shadow Knight, physical). Also a part of the Rebel's Blades stigmata set (the physical half) named "Fu Hua: Onyx Simurgh" (which is also an alternate outfit for Valkyrie Accipiter).

Her signature weapon is Keys of Oblivion^note.

Alliterative Name: Most of her skills in English have alliterative names such as "Votive in Vain", "Spear Stands for Strength" or "Mercy Means Meekness". It underlines her show-off personality. Lampshaded in game with her leader skill "Alliteration is an Agony".
Badass Cape: In the final phase of Herrscher of Sentience's boss battle, she'll gain a cape made of glowing red energy. As her playable version, she also gains said cape when she uses her Ultimate Skill and enters Super Mode.
Beam-O-War: At the climax of the "Shattered Samsara" short animation (at the end of ch. 22), she creates a giant crimson phoenix made of her energy. Kiana responds by using the Edge of Taixuan technique (with Fu Hua guiding her) using her own void powers, which results in an energy clash. Fu Hua then uses this opportunity to use the last of her power to seal the Herrscher of Sentience into a Fenghuang Down feather together with herself.
Bratty Half-Pint: Played with. While she has Fu Hua's appearance, in personality she's very much like a petulant child, full of herself and sullen when dealing with anyone else. This is downplayed in her appearances in side events, where she's still childish and has a big ego but is much more mischievous and playful along with the anger being reduced.
But Thou Must!: In the beginning of ch. 20, you see things from her perspective; she has voices in her head calling themselves "Id, Superego, and Ego". There are dialogue choices you can go through, but all of them will lead you (her) to attack Otto and beat him to death (temporarily) as all three voices agree that Otto has to die. It's later revealed in chapter 22 that those inner voices are little more than the will of Honkai whispering to her like it did to other Herrschers.
Call-Back: A good number of her rants in ch. 21 are references to the flashback scenes shown in chapter 20, and in particular, Fu Hua's sentiments.
Came Back Wrong: Chapter 20 begins with Otto trying to bring Fu Hua back to life using the body she left behind when he "killed" her. Problem is, she comes back with a much more aggressive, petty and childish personality, not quite sure of why she's even here. Chapter 22 makes clear what happened: the Honkai infused Fu Hua's soulless body with the energy needed to create a Herrscher, but Fu Hua's memories were still imprinted on her brain, and this disrupted that process and left the nascent Herrscher very confused about who she really is. The story notes that this is the first time this "botched Herrscher awakening" ever happened since Honkai existed.
Dark Is Not Evil: Impulsive and explosively immature? Certainly. Proud of her power and quick to use it when things aren't going her way? Definitely. Ultimately however, when compared to truly hostile and alien Herrschers like the Herrscher of Domination or the Herrscher of Corruption, "Senti" just has human vices, if heavily and dangerously exaggerated when at her worst, and with proper guidance is capable of exhibiting human virtues. Tellingly, after her debut not a single fighter of Honkai considers her a proper threat to humanity, not even the people of the Previous Era, just someone who needs to be handled with care. Upon her return in Chapter 32, she ends up allying with Kiana and co. to return to Earth, and is intent on helping them oppose Project Stigma as well.
Death from Above: One of Herrscher of Sentience's attacks at the later phase of her battle is to create a "hole" on the ground which slows you down; if you don't get out of it in time, Kiana will get trapped by chains and a giant sword will fall down on her, dealing lots of damage.
Dislikes the New Guy: She immediately starts acting dismissive and antagonistic towards Li Sushang once she finds out that the latter is now hanging with the Hyperion crew. Kiana begins to wonder why Senti would even have a reason to behave this way with Sushang specifically, because other than her acting under Otto's command at Kolosten along with the other S-rankers, she didn't even interact with anyone really the last time they saw her. ...Except that time she beat Fu Hua. Just as Kiana is about to confirm if this is Senti's real issue, she gets ushered by Mei and Bronya before she adds more fuel to the fire.
Doppelgänger Attack: In the climax battle of ch. 22, in its later phase, she (as Herrscher of Sentience) can sometimes summon a shadow clone for additional attacks. She also has an attack where she plants her BFS into the ground while her clones attack you with her other weapons. At certain points of the battle, she will interrupt the battle, then disappear and create shadow clones of herself. If Kiana attacks the wrong one, she will get trapped and the boss and the other clone(s) will strike her. Attack the right one, however, and the boss will be stunned, allowing you to attack her further.
Dream Walker: Implied in Fu Hua's 2021 birthday scene. It starts with her and you (Captain) in an unknown place; if you ask her where this is, she'll answer that it doesn't matter whether it's Imaginary Space or Memory Space or Quantum Space. But considering what she can do and what happens at the end of the scene (she shows you the real world where Fu Hua is celebrating her birthday with her friends), it's likely that she sneaks into your mind and appears in your dream.
Embarrassing Nickname: In chapter 32, Dr. MEI ends up giving her the moniker "Senti", which she very much hates but Kiana quickly adopts (at least in her thoughts). Ironically, this is the nickname that she gave herself in version 4.9’s Amusement Park event. The nickname sticks even more when "Seele" convinced the citizens of Iron Sand to call the Herrscher of Sentience that in Ch. 37.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She can't understand why Kiana would choose Fu Hua over her and try to fight her to save Fu Hua, believing that she's the more powerful, and thus "better", one. Kiana later calls her out on it, saying "You don't get it at all." Her plan of "presenting Fu Hua's past" also didn't work so well due to this: she expected Kiana and Bronya to have a lower opinion of Fu Hua after seeing her past, but it only makes them sympathize more with Fu Hua's suffering.
Evil Costume Switch: Subverted. While "Hua(?)" isn't truly evil, she's definitely very different in personality from Fu Hua, being childish, quick-tempered, and prone to pettiness and spite. This change is reflected in her outfit, which is somewhat similar to the default outfit of Phoenix but is mostly black, trimmed with fur, and features a belly cutout, which is very out of character for Fu Hua. The end of the first part of ch. 22 sees her use Honkai energy to reshape her outfit into that of a new one, that of the Herrscher of Sentience.
Fashionable Asymmetry: Herrscher of Sentience's outfit has a sleeve only on its right side, while her left shoulder and upper arm are bared. Her hair ornament also leans to her right side.
Field of Blades: In the climax battle of ch. 22, she creates an illusionary landscape for her and Kiana to fight in; it features many swords sticking to the ground, including one that's as tall as a tower.
Grand Theft Me:
- How she comes to be: the Honkai saw Fu Hua's "unoccupied" body and thought it would be a perfect vessel for a new Herrscher. When the Herrscher persona was newly born, however, Fu Hua's memories interfered with her mind, causing her to believe she is "Fu Hua".
- Later, after the battle in ch. 22, Fu Hua wants to reclaim her body as she feels she's still needed and has some unfinished business left, but she says she would like Hua(?)'s help to resist the Honkai's corruption now that her body has Herrscher powers. Hua(?) denies it, bitterly saying that Fu Hua is the victor and she is "a mistake", and decides to "leave", claiming that she prefers to be free. Fu Hua warns her that the Honkai corruption will be even more dangerous to her if she leaves; she just says that she'll just fight it off (like what Fu Hua said earlier to her about having Herrscher powers) as she knows that if she loses, someone will continue the fight for her.
- Word of God is that the idea of Fu Hua as a Herrscher is not "Fu Hua becoming a Herrscher" as they (Mihoyo writers) believe the idea is "unacceptable" for someone like her, but rather "a Herrscher becoming Fu Hua". They hope that Herrscher of Sentience is "more than just Fu Hua with more power".
Hopeless Boss Fight: She becomes this for the first two stages of ch. 22. In the first, Kiana (you) and Bronya try to fight her together, but her really high defense means that it'll take forever to take her down. On Fu Hua's suggestion, Kiana decides to go away while Bronya stays fighting her to keep her busy. In the second, Hua(?) uses her power to recreate part of a city for them to fight in. She still has very high defense, and Bronya as Herrscher of Reason (you) only tries to keep attacking from a distance while speeding around; if Hua(?) hits Bronya even once, the game will make the screen "freeze" as Bronya is left helpless from Hua(?)'s further attacks, and the former ends up KO'd.
Hover Board: In the "Shattered Samsara" animated short, as Herrscher of Sentience, she can use her BFS to fly around as she chases Kiana in the air. As her playable version, after she runs for a bit, she will start riding on her flying BFS; she can damage enemies with it as if she runs close to them, and by pressing the attack button, she'll jump off her blade before throwing it at her target and then summoning it besides her.
Improbable Weapon User: She eventually creates a new divine key for her own use - the catch being that it takes the form of a literal brick with a sticker of her face on the front.
Invisibility: At the beginning of ch. 21, she uses Fenghuang Down's ability to make her undetectable to people in Schicksal HQ. The automated patrol bots, however, can still sense her, showing that Fenghuang Down's ability can only affect living beings with actual minds. She tries this again in ch. 22 with Kiana's memory of Arc City, but the mooks there foil her as well, which greatly frustrates her and leads her to just beat them down.
Ironic Echo: At the beginning of ch. 22, Kiana calls it "unfair" that she has to choose between Hua(?) and the "Fenghuang Down shadow" when she didn't know Hua(?) enough to make a proper decision; the latter says that "nothing is fair in the world". Later, in the final scene between her (now Herrscher of Sentience) and Fu Hua, she points out how much she's confused at her own identity; she then says "there's no fairness in this world, is it?"
Irony:
- She, the mind-manipulator Herrscher, has her own mind messed with by both the Honkai and Fu Hua's memories, causing her to be very confused and believe she is "Fu Hua".
- The first cutscene of Ch. 22 notes that "it was the most devoted fighters of Honkai^noteFu Hua, Otto, and Kevin that played major roles in the birth of the 8th Herrscher".
Javelin Thrower: As the boss Herrscher of Sentience, she has an attack where she jumps up and throws her spear at Kiana. As the playable HOS, her spear mode's branch attack has her throw said spear towards her target, which will "drill" through them and deal multiple hits before she teleports towards them and does a final slash with her BFS.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is extremely proud, self-centered, and immature, but deep down she's nicer than her outward demeanor suggests. When it comes down to it, she does enjoy helping others, though she'll both never admit it and also refuse to stoop to mundane deeds unbefitting of someone as amazing as she is. But stoke her ego a bit and lay it on a bit thick with the idea that yes, only the mighty Herrscher of Sentience can help, and she is likely to cave no matter how much she may gripe otherwise.
- She has some moments, particularly in dealing with the anxious "Seele" in Ch. 36-37. Noticing "Seele" is very anxious and worried (by reading her mind), Herrscher of Sentience gave her a pep talk and reassured her that she will see Seele again...not before taking a jab at her.
  - When "Seele" and Herrscher of Sentience figured out the laws of the bubble universe they're trapped in, Dr. Schrödinger had an idea how to re-established the connection to Seele. This caused "Seele" to rush through the field, almost leaving Herrscher of Sentience behind.
  Herrscher of Sentience: Hey, why are you running so fast!? Are you worried about Seele?
  Herrscher of Sentience: Pfft, save it for yourself! She's tougher than you think. Especially her mouth, I'm the only one she can't out-talk.
  "Seele": ...
  - "Seele" hesitating to try and establish the connection through the Moon Stone, admitting that she's nervous and wasn't sure that it would work again. So, Herrscher of Sentience gave her a "nudge"
  Herrscher of Sentience to "Seele": You're not a dunce like Kevin, nor a rare genius like Dr. MEI. How different can you be, minus the personality? You seem to like maintaining a weak presence and viewing the future negatively at the slightest setback. Seriously, you should have Seele teach you how to live actively and positively. You might even become as optimistic and as confident as I am.
  "Seele": Wh-what are you talking about!?
  Herrscher of Sentience: Drop the act. You know what I'm talking about. Anyway, you should come out more often. Actually, what I'm trying to say to you can be summed up into two sentences. Something that's happened once is no miracle. Not to mention you were the one who provoked it.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In Fu Hua's 2021 birthday scene, she claims that this meeting of her and you is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and if you choose to deny listening to her story, she'll make good on her promise and return you to "reality", ending the scene abruptly.
Lovable Rogue: Events and fan creations, as well as the ELF Academy shorts, usually depict her as a mischievous and fun-loving crook with a free spirit and not a sad bone in her body. Her summer outfit even replaces her broadsword with a surfboard and her Ultimate Skill's "bonk attack" with...a rubber shark...that makes squeaking noises.
Mechanically Unusual Fighter: As the playable Herrscher of Sentience, she combines Fu Hua's usual complexity with that of a Herrscher's into one confusing yet flashy package. As the first DPS-and-support hybrid Herrscher, she can deal various Status Effects to help her team and can reliably fill either role with ease. With her 3 different weapons, she has 3 kinds of basic attacks and branch attacks (available after you fill their individual gauges with basic attacks) that she can cycle through with pressing the special attack button; pressing said button mid-combo will also make her immediately attack with the new weapon and can be continued with said weapon's combo attack. Her ultimate evasion can be activated without actually evading an attack: By pressing the button, she leaves a shadow clone that draws the enemies' attention and then explodes when it's hit or it expires, dealing AOE damage and triggering Time Fracture.
Mind Manipulation: It's at first implied that she uses Fenghuang Down to manipulate minds the same way regular Fu Hua did, but later, the Fenghuang Down shadow that traveled with her points out that Fenghuang Down was destroyed when Fu Hua used its Zeroth Power, and that Hua(?) can't possibly create huge-scale dreamscapes with the Divine Key's leftover feathers alone. The explanation is later revealed to be that she is the Herrscher of the same kind that made up Fenghuang Down, the "Key of Sentience".
Morton's Fork: She tries to induce this on Kiana, who tried to save the Fenghuang Down shadow that goes with her - the real Fu Hua. She is currently weak and bound to Hua(?)'s power and will, and the latter points out that if Kiana can somehow beat her, Fu Hua would die too. Hua(?) doesn't realize that Fu Hua can still find ways to defy her "leash-holder" despite her limited power and actions, such as giving hints and advices to Kiana without Hua(?) knowing. Near the end of their battle, Fu Hua chooses to seal Hua(?) into a Fenghuang Down feather together with herself to stop her threat; Kiana doesn't accept that her friend had to sacrifice herself, so she pulls Fu Hua out with her void powers. After that, Fu Hua is back in her body as Herrscher of Sentience decides to "leave".
Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed in comparison to other Herrschers, but she is still more fanservicey in general than Fu Hua. Her outfit from when she first awakened as "Hua?" features a belly-exposing cutout, her outfit as the Herrscher of Sentience bares her left arm and shoulder, and "Ooh! Summer" and "Turn Up the Music" outfits are both midriff-baring. Contrast with the normally strait-laced Fu Hua, who was on the beach with Carole in one of the photos from her memories at the end of ch. 21 but looked embarrassed to be wearing an unzipped hoodie over a tube top and didn't get a two-piece swimsuit as an alternate outfit until many updates later (and which she wore when she was a Flame-Chaser, thousands of years ago).
Multi-Melee Master: As Herrscher of Sentience, she comes with a slew of weapons: a Cool Sword, a spear, a Whip Sword, and a BFS that doubles as a rack for her smaller weapons.
Not a Morning Person: As both HoS and Hua(?)^note, in one of her bridge interactions, she'll say that she doesn't get why anyone would want to wake up early.
Pay Evil unto Evil: Granted, laying waste to the bases of the two organizations that are focused on fighting the Honkai is a very wrong thing to do. However, since both organizations have been performing pretty immoral things, such as experiments on humans, and the leader of one of them manipulated, betrayed, and killed her, it's hard to fully blame Hua(?) for her actions.
Pet the Dog:
- After several stages of destroying everything and everyone in her path (except for Kevin), she and the Fenghuang Down shadow travel to Mount Taixuan, only to find a village attacked by Honkai Beasts. Seeing a little girl irreversibly corrupted, she proceeds to put her to sleep and make her see a happy dream so that she can die painlessly.
- After encountering Kevin, who has just finished defeating Fu Hua in combat, she cradles the unconscious Fu Hua, her words and tone indicating that she does care for Fu Hua deep down, even if it's buried in annoyance and prideful disdain.
Power Makes Your Hair Grow: In the usual Herrscher fashion, her transformation into the Herrscher of Sentience gives her a lot more hair. However, it gets inverted when she enters her Super Mode where her hair instead shortens to shoulder-length as she gains a Badass Cape in its stead.
Precision F-Strike: In Fu Hua's 2021 birthday scene, as she's "describing" what the "Celestial" told the girl in her story to convince her to become the Phoenix:
Unsurprisingly, it was all bullshit.
Psychopathic Manchild: Having just been "born", she largely acts as a child with no limits who has fun experimenting with her abilities and destroying what she doesn't like. She also tends to react with arrogant threats and petulant anger when the Fenghuang Down shadow tells her things she doesn't want to hear. In ch. 22, as Kiana gradually challenges her sense of identity, her frustration and anger lead to her becoming more volatile and tempermental and to resort to violence to deal with what's bothering her. Kiana points out that she would use all of her power to beat up everything that stands on her way just because she can, and she has little sympathy over the weak and helpless, unlike the real Fu Hua, who Kiana describes as "a strong fighter with a gentle heart". Later, in the end of ch. 22, Fu Hua points out that despite her behavior, Hua(?) is not inherently evil, and in fact she is said to be "never giving in" to the Honkai influence despite being born as a Herrscher, likely because of her struggle with identity crisis. Her childish nature and volatile temper are highlighted in the "Perfect Performance" event, which gives her new animations in which she can indignantly stomp one foot and lean forward with her arms stiff at her sides while talking as if she's tensed in anger.
Rebellious Spirit: She hates to be under anyone else—chiefly Dr. MEI, Kevin or Otto—and aims to deal with the Honkai in her own way. This is in contrast to the real Fu Hua who tends to follow others' orders and rarely thinks for herself. It's also revealed that she's a Herrscher, and thus born from the Honkai—and yet she's already opposing it from the beginning. In the end, after she's defeated, she refuses to share her body with Fu Hua as she prefers to be free, despite Fu Hua's warning that she might be more susceptible to the Honkai that way.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Unlike Phoenix!Fu Hua's soft, amber red eyes, Hua(?)’s are a deep blood red reflecting her more dangerous nature. Herrscher of Sentience adds glowing yellow pupils to her red eyes.
Resurrection Revenge: Her first action after coming back to life and being greeted by Otto is to brutally kill him in anger over his betrayal. Unfortunately, he just sent his soul into one of his many backup bodies.
Shadow Archetype: She's one for not just Fu Hua, but Kiana as well.
- After she has seen Fu Hua's memories and, within them, her moments of weakness and mistakes, Hua(?) decides that she doesn't want them to happen again and becomes fiercely independent, in contrast to Fu Hua who's moved mainly by the orders of those above her. As Kiana points out, Hua(?) shows little sympathy for the weak and helpless, and will use all her power to beat up everything that stands on her way just because she can, unlike the real Fu Hua, who Kiana describes as "a strong fighter with a gentle heart".
- Like Kiana, Hua(?) has an identity crisis as a Herrscher born unto someone else's body. However, while Kiana has accepted that she's not "Kiana" and just strives to use her powers to follow the ideals she grew up with, Hua(?) vehemently insists she's the "real Fu Hua" and will beat up anyone who thinks otherwise, as she's in heavy denial about it.
Sixth Ranger: In chapter 32, when Kevin traps the current Herrschers in a separate bubble universe so that they won’t get in the way of Project Stigma, she ends up joining forces with Kiana and co. so that they can go back to the real world.
Skilled, but Naive: Turns out to be this by chapter 32. While she isn't stupid and is genuinely skilled with her powers, she still has the mental maturity of a child, making it incredibly easy to manipulate her with simple mind games that even Kiana thinks are too obvious to fool anyone.
Slasher Smile: At times during the story sections of chs. 20 and 21, she sports a very unsettlingly large and insane-looking grin along with wide eyes, heralding the shift in her personality after her resurrection. This look is also in her Fu Hua: Onxy Simurgh (B) Stigma piece.
Smarter Than You Look: She might be impatient, immature, easily frustrated, and eager to fight, but don't mistake her for being Dumb Muscle. When she takes a moment to gather her thoughts, the Herrscher of Sentience can be frighteningly clever and insightful herself.
Smug Super: She is one of the strongest beings on the planet, and boy does she love to remind everyone else.
Spectacular Spinning: Herrscher of Sentience's spear mode has her perform multiple twirling spear dances with her normal attack combo.
Stat Sticks: Unlike regular Fu Hua, Herrscher of Sentience fights with multiple weapons; her "equipped weapons" are gauntlets, but she never punches with them (unless its weapon skill is a punching attack).
Storm of Blades: In the later phase of the climax battle in ch. 22, her spear throw attack and Whip Sword attack will occasionally be followed by a swarm of floating black feathers, which then transform into blades that fly towards you (Kiana). In the "Shattered Samsara" animated short, she repeatedly spams her flying blades towards Kiana, which the latter either evades or redirects using her Herrscher power. As playable Herrscher of Sentience, her normal sword's branch attack has her performing a quick slash to hit multiple enemies before summoning a rain of swords above them, inflicting them with Time Lock debuff.
Super Mode: As playable Herrscher of Sentience, her Ultimate Skill has her performing a wide area attack before entering a mode where she switches to using her BFS for her normal attack, and her branch attack has her repeatedly smashing the ground and her enemies in front of her with her greatsword, dealing big damage. Pressing the special attack button in this mode has her create a "hole" in front of her that immobilizes enemies in an area before summoning a huge pillar from below to damage them.
This Cannot Be!: In the final scene of ch. 22, she expresses her disbelief at how, despite being superior in many ways, she still loses to Kiana and Fu Hua.
Tomato in the Mirror: Everyone she meets who has known Fu Hua immediately notices that she is someone else entirely, but she is adamant that she is Fu Hua, only changed. It doesn't help that the real Fu Hua's memories that lingered in her body leads her to believe that she is Fu Hua, and the Fenghuang Down's shadow's words about her not being "Fu Hua" leads her to make an elaborate illusion that spanned chapter 20 to make Kiana and Bronya believe in her as the real Fu Hua^note. The first part of ch. 22 has Kiana and the Fenghuang Down shadow slowly making her realize that she’s not with a barrage of Armor Piercing Questions, which brings her past the Rage Breaking Point. After the climactic battle of the chapter, in the final scene, she sadly admits to Fu Hua that she had known from early on that she isn't "Fu Hua", but she's in heavy denial about it.
The Unfettered: In one interview video with the game's developers, Fu Hua had always been "limited" in one way or another, either by herself or by circumstances, and could never show off the truest extent of her power or fight enemies that could match her. This is one of the considerations they brought up for creating the Herrscher of Sentience: with nothing holding her back (and with her insisting that she won't be held back by anyone), she gets to fight Otto (though this "fight" is decidedly one-sided) and Kevin, and strives to show off how great she is in her own way.
Unreliable Narrator: She shows up in new clothes in Fu Hua's 2021 birthday scene, acting as The Storyteller who tells a story about the "Celestial Phoenix" to the Captain. However, due to her biased view towards how things happened in Fu Hua's life (as shown in ch. 21), she twists many parts of the tale, and the Captain notices them and calls her out for portraying "Phoenix" wrongly.
Van Helsing Hate Crimes: In ch. 22, when Kiana asks her how she would deal with Herrscher of the Void, she says (and demonstrates) that she would kill the Herrscher, for the latter is a threat to humanity. Kiana then asks her if she ever considered the possibility that Herrschers can be saved, and a human can wield the power of a Herrscher—just like what happened to Kiana herself. Hua(?) claims that she can't risk it, but she seems like she just can't follow Otto's thought of "using love to tame Herrschers" as she insisted that she won't follow or trust his words again.
Variable-Length Chain: Herrscher of Sentience's Whip Sword can extend to great lengths, to the point of covering a whole area around her with it.
Villain Has a Point: She expresses regret at not having killed Kallen and Otto 500 years before, which shocks the Fenghuang Down shadow. However, she does have a point that Kallen was the main reason why Otto turned out the way he did, and Otto is connected to everything bad that has happened ever since she died.
Vitriolic Best Buds: As the story progresses, the relationship between Fu Hua and Senti gradually settles into one of prickly friendship. Senti enjoys spending time with Fu Hua, even though she'd never admit it, and likes to needle Fu Hua for being stodgy and behind the times, even referring to her as "Old Timer". Fu Hua, for her part, stoically brushes off Senti's attitude, encouraging her emotional development (for all the good that it does) and trying to steer her away from being too rash about acting on her impulses.
Walking Spoiler: The fact that Fu Hua's body gets resurrected in Chapter 20 already spoils her physical death by gunshot a good eleven chapters back. Things decidedly get worse when it's revealed that the entity residing within Fu Hua's otherwise soulless body (with her soul being the Fenghuang Down feather that accompanied Kiana up until Chapter 15) is a nascent Herrscher.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Word of God (in an interview shown in the official site) says that she is a child who yearns for approval. The thing is, she does that in all the wrong ways, befitting a Psychopathic Manchild.
You Are What You Hate: Since she’s "Fu Hua", she’s driven by the idea of "destroying the Honkai", but the Fenghuang Down shadow notes that after waking up all she did was decimate two of the three anti-Honkai organizations, something that rather resembles the actions of a Herrscher. Chapter 22 clarifies that the Honkai invested Fu Hua's now soulless body, but her 50,000 years of memories were so overwhelming that they interfered with the new Herrscher’s sense of self.

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