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Historical Characters

Ancient China

Nuwa & Fuxi

Voiced by: Perilla September ^*紫苏九月 (Chinese, Nuwa), Mingya Du ^*杜冥鸦 (Chinese, Fuxi), Momo Asakura (Japanese, both)

Nuwa (top) and Fuxi

A pair of characters introduced in Fu Hua's side story "The Forgotten". The pioneers of China and its civilization, revered as two of the "Three Sovereigns" of China. They were close friends with someone named "Jingwei" in the past, who's entrusted by them to protect the land after their passing.

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• Animal Motifs: Snakes, befitting the original legend. As seen in 2 of Nuwa's Stigmata, she can also turn into a Snake Person.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Nuwa firmly believes that legends must be interesting so that people won't forget them, and is a bit too enthusiastic about the figurines.
• Demythification: In the Chinese myth, the two are twin pioneer deities of Ancient China. Here, they're simply normal girls (inasmuch as they can be called "normal") who became legends and deified by the people.
• Early-Bird Cameo: They were first mentioned in Chapter Chiyou, where, on the pieces of land devoured by Chiyou, our protagonists come across steles that contain information of them, and the soulium fragments' writings that they found near Chiyou's hearts say that they tried to seal the beast before their deaths.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: The Fuxi Stigmata set are about increasing elemental damage on either frozen, paralyzed or burned enemies, depending on the individual stigma. If the three are used together, they'll increase the user's elemental attack further and reduce elemental damage taken if there are 3 or more enemies around them. The Book of Fuxi cannon also lets Bronya attack with the three elements, one at a time, through its special Stance System: either exploding fireballs, homing electric balls or a continuous ice laser.
• Fling a Light into the Future: In Fu Hua's side story "The Forgotten", both Nuwa and Fuxi are attempting to do this in their own ways: the former makes clay figurines, while the latter tries to create and observe the currency system. They also entrust Jingwei to guard the land and its people for them, since unlike the two, she can live much longer. In the supplementary comic that shows the previous advanced civilization, the twins themselves are also the light flung into the future, as they were put into a deep sleep following the past humanity's extinction in order to help guide the next human civilization.
• Gender Flip: In the original Chinese Mythology, Fuxi was a guy.
• Improvised Weapon: The "Book of Fuxi" cannon used to be one of the "silver orbs", relics from the Previous Era made of Soulium and hold many knowledge of the past (hence why it's called "book"). Theresa and her Schicksal branch then constructed a weapon out of both the orb and the Soulium remnants found inside the colossal Honkai Beast, Chiyou, from the information they get from the orb.
• Mythology Gag: In the original myth, Nuwa was said to create humanity and other creatures out of clay. This is translated into her hobby of creating clay figurines.
• Older Than They Look: They both look like young girls, but they used to be part of the previous advanced civilization, making them (technically) much older.
• Otaku: Nuwa seems to be one, who's obsessed with making figurines and comic books. In the Winter Rhapsody event, she's also mentioned to be a NEET. In the Dorm, it's implied through Fu Hua that she was the one who wrote a particular book about being an otaku.
• Playing with Fire: The original Nuwa Stigmata set are all about enhancing the fire abilities of the user, making them fitting for fire-elemental Valkyries. The Nuwa Blade also lets the user summon a "fire fairy" that attacks enemies with fire.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Nuwa is more artistic and quite an airhead, while Fuxi is calm and thoughtful, especially about economics.
• Posthumous Character: Both are long dead by the time Honkai Impact 3rd's main story takes place, with "The Forgotten" side story being Otto's probe into Fu Hua's fragmented memories. Kevin notes in the Second Key comic that they gave their lives to stop the monster Chiyou, claiming that their casualties are proof that Project EMBER is a failure.
• Verbal Tic: In Japanese, Nuwa ends her sentences with the double exclamation "zo yo", to emphasize her overenthusiastic nature.

Jingwei (spoilers)

The third of the "Three Sovereigns" of China besides Nuwa and Fuxi, known as the sole deity who watched over the Shenzhou and protected them from the Honkai. It is the identity Fu Hua initially assumed when transitioning to the Current Era. For more information on her, see her character page.

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• Animal Motifs: Birds. In the original Chinese myth, Jingwei is the name of a mythical bird.
• Determinator: She's a symbol of determination, follwing the Chinese myth where the bird is determined to fill the seas with twigs and stones so nobody would be drowned in the sea again (like what happened to her before she was reborn as a bird), no matter how much of an Impossible Task it is. This is applied to Fu Hua as well, with her determination (for various reasons behind them) allowing herself to keep moving forward and help humanity as much as she can, no matter how long it may take.
• Mythology Gag: In the original myth, the bird Jingwei used to be the daughter of the Yan Emperor, named Nuwa (not to be confused with Fuxi's twin sister with the same name). In this game, the game's Nuwa (Fuxi's twin sister) partially shaped Jingwei's legend with her figurines.
• Playing with Fire: The M version of her Stigma allows the user to gain fire damage for a few seconds by attacking with a branch or Charged Attack.
• Sadly Mythtaken: In what is likely a deliberate twist from the Chinese legend, Jingwei was never said as one of the Three Sovereigns of China. Besides Fuxi and Nuwa, the other prominent sovereign is (according to various sources) Shennong, who existed in the Honkai world, but only as a humble farmer (and a Stigmata set).
• Set Bonus:
  • 2 pieces: for every ignited/firebranded enemy, gain 10% attack speed, stacks 5 times.
  • 3 pieces: when having a target, all enemies except the current target deal 70% less damage.
• Situational Sword: All of the Stigma's individual pieces have effects that only occur when there are no more than 1 (T), 3 (M) or 2 (B) enemies around the user; because of this, this set is more effective to fight bosses. Aside from that, the B version also gives Regenerating Health that only works when the user's HP is under 50%.
• You Don't Look Like You: The reason she looks nothing like Fu Hua is that Nuwa made that image in order to make her (and her legend) more appealing.

Jixuanyuan

Voiced by: Yan Lin ^*林簌 (Chinese), Ami Nanase (Japanese)

A.k.a "Princess Xuanyuan". A legendary hero from China who developed natural Stigma and resistance against Honkai, and was blessed with "a sword from the gods", the Divine Key that was called Xuanyuan Sword, and warded off the Honkai threats with it, making her popular with the populace. Later, she sacrificed herself to hold a colossal Honkai Beast, called Chiyou, dormant under the sea.

Chapter Chiyou reveals that a part of her is alive inside of the beast, with (at least part of) her consciousness lying inside the Xuanyuan Sword. Her body, however, is still alive, awake, and has been very, very lonely for eons, eventually becoming mad and nihilistic, with her body and blade tainted with darkness: Dark Jixuanyuan.

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• And I Must Scream: The uncountable millennia spent inside Chiyou were not good for her, at all. The environments inside didn't help.
• BFS: The Xuanyuan Sword, one of the Divine Keys and one of the high-rarity weapons in-game, along with its corrupted version, Dark Xuanyuan Sword. The former lets Himeko attack with Fire, Ice, Lightning effects randomly and defend herself with sword projectiles, while the latter lets her activate Time Fracture more often.
• Bullet Time: The Dark Jixuanyuan Stigmata set are all about powering yourself up while in a Time Fracture state.
• Character Select Forcing: Dark Jixuanyuan in Memorial Arena has a combination of significant features: she takes more damage if she's bleeding or ignited, she's fast with her horse, and said horse also resists ranged attacks. There's exactly one character who can easily bleed enemies with melee attacks and is fast enough to keep up with her: Gyakushin Miko (Sakura).
• Cool Horse: As Dark Jixuanyuan, she has a black-and-golden horse that gives him damage resistance and lets her warp around the place.
• Fallen Hero: The years she spent inside Chiyou completely eroded her heart and her will as a hero, turning her into Dark Jixuanyuan.
• Flying Weapon:
  • Dark Jixuanyuan's Memorial Arena version has an attack where she creates multiple small portals beside her that then fire copies of her Xuanyuan Sword. After she Turns Red, said attack will cover a lot more space and last a bit longer.
  • Matrix Space Raid version of Dark Jixuanyuan is accompanied by flying copies by the Dark Xuanyuan Sword in her second phase. They can fly around while trying to impale your Valkyries, or plant themselves on the ground and then fire painful lightning beams at the Valkyries.
• Go Out with a Smile: Dark Jixuanyuan thanks our hero trio as they put her out of her misery.
• Red Baron: She was better known as the Yellow Emperor, the first recorded human with powers strong enough to fight the Honkai.
• Shock and Awe: Some of Dark Jixuanyuan's attacks are laced with lightning, including lightning strikes from above.
• Sword Beam: One of Dark Jixuanyuan's attacks is a simple crescent beam attack from her sword. She has a more powerful version of it that she executes by jumping first.
• Turns Red: After you deplete Dark Jixuanyuan's health to around 1/2 to 1/3 of her third bar, she'll become more powerful, with more lightning strikes in her attacks and some of her attacks also being enhanced.

Lin Zhaoyu

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese)

A character from the "Seven Swords" visual novel that focuses on Fu Hua, she was the "Celestial Phoenix's" first disciple of School of Taixuan. She first appears in-game in ch. 20 when Kiana and Bronya visit Mount Taixuan to look for Fu Hua's belongings, and then she helps the two unlocking the seals of Fenghuang Down feathers that they found there.

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• Big Damn Heroes: She first appears to Kiana and Bronya by saving them from hordes of Honkai Beasts, slaying the beasts in one fell swoop.
• Bio-Augmentation: Master Phoenix taught her the "Blade Mantra Swara", a hypnotic suggestion that empowers her body and nervous system, and allows her to control Honkai energy. It comprises of numerous syllables whose meaning only Master Phoenix knew. With that and her sword techniques, she managed to defeat a cultist who was empowered by the Honkai, which allowed him to wield "eldritch flames". She explains to Kiana that it's part of the Edge of Taixuan technique that Master Phoenix taught her and her disciples.
• Let Me Tell You a Story: In Ch. 20 act 1, she tells the story of "Celestial Phoenix" to Kiana, which abridges the early parts of the "Seven Swords" visual novel. She says that Master Phoenix, though dedicated to defending the masses, was rather ruthless, with her driving motto "no mercy for the corrupted" that she taught to her disciples. Eventually, all but the youngest disciple got fed up with their master causing the deaths of their closest people^note for starters, she murdered their parents when they were younger because their parents were corrupted, then she took them under her wing, and one of them showed signs of "corruption" as well; so they made a plan to murder her, which shocked Kiana. But then Lin Zhaoyu says that Master Phoenix would then recover 20 years later.
• Older Than They Look: Played with. She's someone from a story that took place 500 years from the present, as one of Fu Hua's disciples. However, given Kiana and Bronya's discovery near the end of the chapter, it's implied that Zhaoyu, like many of the things the two saw on Mount Taixuan, are elaborate illusions made by "Hua(?)" to lure them to her. Hua(?) later confirms it in ch. 22.
• Parental Abandonment: Her parents were apparently corrupted by the Honkai, and Master Phoenix had to kill them. She then took Zhaoyu as her disciple.

15th Century Japan

Yae Sakura

Voiced by: Mingya Du ^note 杜冥鴉 (Chinese), Ayane Sakura (Japanese)

Gyakushin^note Heretic Miko

^{Flame Sakitama}

Sakura is the shrine maiden of the Yae Village, born centuries in the past. Her sister ended up being sacrificed in one of the village’s rituals, causing her to bear great hatred and bitterness towards the villagers. Afterwards, she found Kallen Kaslana wounded near her village, with the two eventually forming an intimate relationship. Despite her friendship −and eventually love− with Kallen, she still felt hatred towards her village, eventually becoming possessed by the Honkai box that Kallen carried and becoming a pseudo-Herrscher. She was defeated and sealed up by Kallen, and for years afterward, she existed in a "stigmata world" where she was forced to relieve her dark past countless times, until the events of Sakura Samsara finally broke her free from the loop as the Honkai beast inside the box was slain. She later manifests in the real world by borrowing Mei's body.

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• Alternate Character Reading: The character for "sakura" is read "yīng" in Chinese, so that's how she's called in the Chinese dub.
• Alternate Self:
  • Part of Ch. 12 is set in a "bubble universe"^note set in the "Previous Era", i.e 50000+ years ago in the Sea of Quanta which features her as Goshinsou Memento.^note In the real world, she's supposed to be a "video game character". She's looking for her missing sister, who was kidnapped by the forces of Fire Moth, causing Sakura to defect from the group and to break into their base, while taking Seele on tow. She dies at the middle of the chapter, and the bubble universe dissolved with her. Because the sister that this Sakura is looking for turns out to be the 12th Herrscher, on top of Kevin Kaslana making a promise to her after she dies, it can be surmised that this is how the Previous Era's Sakura looked like.
  • In the "Sakura Season" event, Darkbolt Jonin visits an izakaya (Japanese pub) run by Higokumaru to find a job as a ninja. The latter thinks that the former reminds her of someone she knew, but later, she claims that the unnamed ninja's personality is nothing like that someone.
• Antiquated Linguistics: She talks in an old-fashioned way because she indeed comes from such an era.
• Cherry Blossom Girl: Her name specifically refers to the "Yaezakura" variety of cherry blossoms, which has multi-layered petals and is comparatively less "delicate" than other varieties. The Cherry Blossom motif is deep with her, particularly as Gyakushin Miko: her attacks and movements leave falling sakura petals, especially in her Ultimate Skill, and the "life and death" theme of the flower is shown in her becoming a spirit sealed in the "stigmata space" where she's forced to relive the tragedy of her past (including the deaths of her sister and Kallen) over and over again.
• Criss-Cross Attack: Flame Sakitama's Ultimate Skill has her lunging through multiple opponents with dashing flaming slashes, before entering a Super Mode where time is slowed and she attacks much faster.
• Cynicism Catalyst: The death of her little sister caused her to be bitter and resentful towards her village, which ended up being the catalyst for the "will" inside the Honkai box to possess her. While Kallen became her new "beacon of light" and she could show happiness again, she still kept some resentment in her.
  Village Chief (in Sakura Samsara): She hates me for what happened. It's just a little girl. Compared to the whole village, a little girl's life was nothing!
• Deadly Lunge: As Gyakushin Miko (her default outfit):
  • Her branch attack (also doable after an Ultimate Evasion) is a quick dashing slash through her target; it's a useful move to get into a melee range with them. If there are enemies with the "sakura mark" (applied onto enemies with her normal attacks, Ultimate Evasion, QTE, or one of her elite weapons), she'll automatically slash through them one by one when the branch attack is performed. After she's done slashing them, she'll then sheath her sword and the sakura marks burst, dealing high damage for both the enemies' HP and their shields.
  • Her Ultimate Skill has her enter a Super Mode where she'll perform the same dash-through slash attack with each press of the attack button until the duration ends. Like before, she'll then sheath her sword and the enemies get one final strong hit.
• Deal with the Devil: In the 2nd iteration of Sakura Samsara in the game, the "demon in the box" (the 12th Herrscher) says to Sakura that she can't protect the village without enough strength (and adds that that's probably "what she really wanted" so that the village will be devastated by Honkai Beasts). The "demon" then says that it has something that can make Sakura stronger, strong enough to protect everyone and kill all the monsters. Kiana then comes and tells Sakura to not listen to said demon, but no avail. In this iteration, Sakura accepts the demon's power and then kills Kallen in a fight. Of course, this means that Sakura is now possessed by said demon... and then the iteration ends.
• Defense Mechanism Superpower: The T version of her in-game stigma gives a 40% chance for enemies with "sakura marks" that attack her to deal 80% less physical damage and get stunned for 1s.
• Demonic Possession: When she came into contact with the Honkai box that Kallen brought with her, the Honkai energy inside it leaked into her, causing her to be possessed with the "Honkai will" from inside the box. Said "will" then forced Kallen to fight her new friend to free her.
• Disc-One Nuke: Her Gyakushinn Miko battlesuit is one, due to her quick attacks, fast dashes, and good damage output making much of the game’s early content very easy.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Goshinsou Memento's Ultimate Evasion effect is her conjuring a blue-colored clone of herself. It'll strike the enemy once, then disappear; if she's ranked SSS, said attack can freeze enemies.
• Dork Knight: While mostly serious, she is not totally safe from messing up adorably, like when she made sushi by mistake when it was intended to be a rice ball.
• Dual Wielding: Flame Sakitama has an extra wakizashi (alongside the equippable katanas); downplayed in that she only uses it in a few of her moves.
• Due to the Dead: In her Cooking with Valkyries episode in season 2, as shown in the past, she preserved some cherry blossoms in brine, to make her ill sister Rin happy, as she cannot walk out to enjoy the blooming cherry blossoms in spring; by adding water to it, the salted cherry blossoms will "bloom". After Rin's death, Sakura kept doing it in remembrance of her sister, even if the salted cherry blossoms never had a chance to "bloom" again - up until she starts using them as ingredients for cooking (in cherry blossom rice wine and rice balls).
• Fashionable Asymmetry: As Flame Sakitama, she has an arm sleeve and white glove on her right arm, and Japanese-style arm armor with bared shoulder for her left arm.
• Fighting from the Inside: In her backstory, when she was possessed by the Honkai (i.e the 12th Herrscher) and about to kill Kallen in their fight, she then ended up stabbing herself in the gut, while the "Honkai mind" called Sakura off for daring to defy "it". While it did free Sakura from "its" influence, "it" just moved into the body of the fox Honkai Beast that Kallen defeated earlier; "it" then attacked Kallen and grasped Sakura in the fox's mouth.
• Foreshadowing: Goushinsou Memento's bio mentions that despite it appearing in a video game, it's surprisingly comprehensive and features design for manufacturability. Sure enough, ch. 12 shows the Previous Era version of Sakura who actually wears the suit.
• Full-Name Basis: Unlike other characters, she's usually referred to as "Yae Sakura" by the game.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: The Yae Sakura stigmata set is best used on Gyakushin Miko, as the set revolves around the "Sakura Mark/Brand" that she can inflict on enemies.
• Gathering Steam: After reaching SS rank, Flame Sakitama gains a gauge that fills up whenever she uses her flaming slashes; the more filled the gauge, the stronger her total damage becomes.
• Gatling Good: Her weapon in the "Empyrean Legends" event is a gatling gun that has a very fast rate of fire, but will slow her down while firing and takes a second to spin before it can start firing. The shots are also spread in a "spray burst" fashion, so that it isn't as accurate at longer ranges.
• Grand Theft Me: Due to what happened to her in the past and the present, she's left as a bodiless soul; she "borrows" Mei's body when Mei allows it, causing them to share Mei's character level and some of her skills. The end of Sakura Samsara's extra story offers a possible explanation on how she does this: by using Higokumaru's power as the 12th Herrscher to be able to project her consciousness into anything, including other people.
• Green-Eyed Monster: In the supplementary comic focusing on her backstory, the "Honkai will" that possessed her body (i.e the 12th Herrscher) claimed that, after the few years of despairing following the loss of her sister, Sakura found a new "beacon of light" in Kallen, but that light "chose to shine on others" instead, and that she had dreamt of making Kallen belong only to her. Kallen retorted that Sakura is not that kind of person.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: In the Cybernet Havens event, her Flame Sakitama battlesuit is a Gate Keeper who guards the entrance to Creeksmouth village, but is easily fooled by the forged pass that Alloy Bronn personally made, granting her and Durandal passage. Durandal can't help but make a jab at that Sakura's illiteracy, but Alloy Bronn shuts her up to keep up the charade.
  Durandal: (Pst) Is she reading it upside down?
  Alloy Bronn: (Hush) Stop being honest. It hurts people. She might get triggered.
  Gate Keeper: The tasteful smoothness of the paper, the elegant script of blooming sakura, the fragrant ink... Oh my goodness... this seal... evenly applied... it's something that the King would do. Welcome to Creeksmouth. I'll go open the door. Please forgive my rudeness just then.
• Heal Thyself: The 3-pieces Set Bonus for her in-game stigmata allows the user to heal 30% of their HP whenever they kill an Elite Mook, with 10 seconds cooldown.
• Heroic BSoD: She underwent this when her sister died in front of her. Her Alternate Self in ch. 12 undergoes this when she discovers her own sister's dead body.
• Iaijutsu Practitioner: As Goushinsou Memento, her branch attack is a series of very fast unsheath-resheath slashes that can hit the enemy from a (medium range) distance. Her Ultimate Skill is a more powerful version of it. As a boss, despite being Gyakushin Miko, she can do something similar; the distant slashes will track your position, so you have to evade it multiple times.
• I Choose to Stay: In the end of the "Soul Throne" Raid story, Kallen tells Sakura that she can use the sword Jizo Mitama to manifest in the real world. Though grateful, Sakura declines, saying that "being here is already enough". She then tells Kallen to give the sword to someone else to use.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight:
  • In the past, this happens when she's possessed by the "Honkai will", and Kallen tried fighting her to bring her back. In the end, Kallen could only seal her.
  • In Sakura Samsara's extra story, Sakura promises to kill Higokumaru if the latter ever goes into the dark side. In the end, when she gets possessed by the cursed sword Jizo Mitama, Sakura keeps her promise and fights the demonic samurai, though thankfully Higokumaru ends up alive and well after the battle.
    Sakura: Higokumaru, don't give up. Fight the darkness in your heart.
• Invulnerable Attack: For the duration of Gyakushin Miko's Ultimate Skill, she'll be invulnerable (even to the Abyss' health drain) as long as she keeps using her Single-Stroke Battle move.
• I Will Find You: At the start of Sakura Samsara's extra story, Kallen mysteriously disappears. Sakura then tries to find her. She only meets Kallen again at the end, with the latter stealing the sword Jizo Mitama away. The Raid stages "Soul Throne" has Sakura chasing her; she eventually gets to Kallen and resolves everything.
  Sakura: You're mistaken. It's not that I can't give up the sword. What I can't give up... is you.
• "Just Frame" Bonus: Flame Sakitama can do an alternate finisher for her normal combo or her branch attack by timing the button tap just right. Said finisher deals pure fire damage, and, if she's SS ranked, will fill her special red gauge.
• Lag Cancel: Flame Sakitama has a special trait where canceling her combos with a dash will not reset her combo, i.e canceling the first strike into her dash and then attacking again will make her start with the 2nd strike instead of the 1st one again. This is useful since her gameplay is majorly tied to the special finisher part of her normal combo, so that this system makes sure the dash won't cancel the entire combo sequence. The 3.4 update gives Goshinsou Memento a similar feature.
• Last Request: Around the middle of ch. 12, her Alternate Self is slowly dying from her wounds and asks Kevin to bring Seele out to see Sakura's town, saying that the world is ultimately still beautiful and worth fighting for. This is after the 12th Herrscher hijacked the Fire Moth's systems and launched multiple nukes that obliterated the last 3 human cities, including her hometown. Kevin recounts that there was nothing but wasteland where the sakura tree used to be when he visited it.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the summer Dating Sim event, the scenes with Sakura would later have a parody of Dating Sim game mechanics, with the Captain being aware of them. Later, after the Captain went too far on the mechanics things, Sakura knocks him unconscious, thinking that he's aware of things he shouldn't and that it's threatening this world.
• Miko: It's her day job to protect her village from demons and exorcize them, and it comes complete with the stereotypical (albeit modified) outfit. She isn't all that happy about her job, however.
• Modesty Shorts: As Gyakushin Miko, she wears white shorts underneath her skirt, although this is absent in her Super-Deformed form in the dorm.
• Ornamental Weapon: Each of her outfits (except Darkbolt Jonin) has a sheathed long katana that she never uses.
• The Paralyzer: In the "Empyrean Legends" event, her Ultimate Skill is an aimable bomb that paralyzes all enemies that gets hit by its explosion.
• Playing with Syringes: During the Anniversary Memories Festival, she appeared as a nurse in a recently opened clinic and she is first shown injecting a tree with a huge syringe.
• The Promise: Back when she was young, she promised her ill sister Rin that she'll find a good doctor, treat her tasty foods, and go up to the mountains to see sakura trees together. Sadly, Rin got sacrificed by the village before all that can come to pass.
  Rin: Sister... I'm sorry... I can't fulfill my promise to see the cherry blossoms with you... Please, become a great miko, and help... everyone...
• Promoted to Playable: Yae Sakura was a World Boss character in the preceding game Guns GirlZ. In this game, she is playable and has her own side story.
• Really 700 Years Old: She's 500+ years old. Most of it has her soul being trapped inside a supernatural realm, though.
• The Resenter: She became bitter and hateful towards the villagers after they had her sister sacrificed in the ritual. The villagers' Entitled Bastard attitude towards her doesn't help matters either. She only kept helping the village due to her sister's Last Request, that Sakura must become a good miko.
  Sakura [at Rin's grave]: Rin, I've obtained powers that can kill anything, anyone. And that's exactly what I'll do - revenge! I'll slay everyone who wronged you. Every one of them! And then, I Will Find You. Be it in heaven or hell, I'll find you. And we'll finally be together. Okay?
• Samurai: Her fighting style is closer to this when compared to Mei's, although she's just as quick with her katana. As Flame Sakitama, she also dons a more samurai-like outfit.
• Sharing a Body: Gameplay-wise, she is an Awakening-type character bound to Mei. All of her battlesuits are fused with Mei's (except Lightning Empress). However, Mei's battlesuits aren't required to be unlocked to unlock their respective Sakura battlesuits.
• Situational Sword: The B version of her in-game stigma buffs her total damage based on how many enemies around her have the "sakura marks" on them.
• Super Mode:
  • Gyakushin Miko's Burst Mode changes her normal attacks into her slash-through attacks, and she's also immune to attacks while slashing. This allows her to perform her "sakura mark burst" attacks more often.
  • Flame Sakitama enters one after using her Ultimate Skill, where the enemies are time-slowed and she attacks much faster.
• Sword Beam:
  • Gyakushin Miko's QTE attack is to roll forward while shooting out 3 crescent beams out of her sword that gives Sakura Marks to the enemies hit.
  • Goushinsou Memento's QTE attack is a crescent beam attack that freezes the enemies solid.
• Sword Plant: As a boss (Gyakushin Miko), she has an attack where she stabs the ground with her blade and creates a pink circlular Area of Effect on the ground that will knock your character off their feet if they stand on it.
• Time Loop Trap: This is what "Sakura Samsara" is in a nutshell, where Sakura('s soul) is trapped in a looping time inside her "stigma dimension", courtesy of "Hellmaru", the Honkai Beast that was sealed with her. Specifically, Sakura is trapped in the times of her backstory (including the death of her sister and Kallen coming to the village), and the time loops when either Sakura "dies" or Kallen does. This is all so that Hellmaru can break her mind and that the beast can fully possess her body and break free. This has happened for approximately 500 years, and Sakura can only dream for her "white-haired savior" to save her from this nightmare. That eventually comes to pass with Kiana's help, with her helping to defeat the beast, turning the dimension into a Dream Land that reflects Sakura's memories, allowing her and Kallen to live together in peace.
  Bronya: If someone doesn't intervene, this tragedy will just keep repeating itself. Those trapped in it will never be set free, either.
  Kiana: I WILL find out what happened and prevent the tragedy.
• Together in Death:
  • This is the ending to the Sakura Samsara's main storyline, where Sakura and Kallen can finally find peace and spend their time together in the dreamscape formed by her memories in the "stigmata dimension".
    Kiana: Even if I couldn't change history, knowing that they're together in the memory dimension makes me happy.
  • Implied in one of the spinoff comic's chapters. Sakura seems to be spending a day picnicking with Kallen under a cherry blossom tree, but the end of the chapter has them fading away while our modern day protagonists pass by, implying that they're just spirits. Sakura points out that it's the omagatoki (the end of dusk, known as a time for meeting spirits and other supernatural creatures).
• Trademark Favorite Food: She likes making and eating rice balls.
• Transformation of the Possessed: The Honkai's possession of her (through the fox-turned-Honkai Beast) caused her to gain long animal-like ears. Later, a cutscene shows how being possessed by Sakura causes Mei's body and clothes to transform.
• Unusual Ears: She has a set of long ears coming out of the top of her head due to her being possessed by a fox-like Honkai Beast. It's extra unusual in that the ears are elongated, making them look like rabbit ears. During the "Odd Drifter" event, she's sometimes referred to as "donkey girl" because of the ears.
• You Are Too Late: In her backstory, she was trying to save Rin from being sacrificed by the village. She cut down the bindings on her sister, but to her horror, she discovers that Rin's leg tendons had already been cut, so she's unable to run. Sakura then had to Mercy Kill her, guided by the village chief's hands.

Higokumaru

Voiced by: Noah (Chinese), Shiori Izawa (Japanese)

A character introduced in Sakura Samsara's side story. She's found by Sakura inside a barrel, without her memories; the two spend the story trying to restore her memories. After the side quest, she serves as companion in the Open World.

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• Afraid of Their Own Strength: In the Sakura Samsara's extra story, as she gains more of her memories (including how she used to hurt many people), she's afraid that she'll use her powers to hurt people again. Sakura says that she has to control her power, lest it controls her; and Sakura promises to kill her if she ever turns into the dark side.
• Alternate Self:
  • As ch. 12 shows that her real identity is Rin, she's this to the sister of the current Sakura, also called Rin.
  • The "Sanka Saga" event shows her as a formless, invisible spirit confined to the Yae Shrine that goes along with the "apprentice miko" (Theresa in her Sakuno Rondo outfit). Her backstory also differs a bit: it's implied that she and the Herrscher of Corruption are not one and the same, unlike in the main timeline; "Hellmaru" is simply the form she took when she was corrupted by the Herrscher, 500 years ago. After the "Zakti Rune of Tiryag" forcefully transforms her back into Hellmaru, Kasumi defeats her and seals her inside said rune, allowing Kasumi to summon her to attack enemies.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: She was Hellmaru. Even longer before that, she was the 12th Herrscher of the Previous Era, the "Herrscher of Corruption". So named because her power is a super-powerful virus that infects humans, animals and machines alike. If the bubble universe shown in ch. 12 is to be believed, she was also the Previous Era Sakura's sister, Rin. After she remembers everything, she explains what she is to Sakura.
• Asian Fox Spirit: The in-game description of her mentions that she claims to be a human, but notes the 4 tails and the fox ears, and the fact that she likes inari-age (seasoned tofu skin). The description concludes that "she must be a fox". As ch. 12 and a supplementary comic shows, she didn't always look like this; it's implied that after the power of the 12th Herrscher is turned into the sword Jizo Mitama, her leftover body and original consciousness (i.e Rin) merged with that of the fox beast (which likely was a normal fox), causing her to gain fox features.
  Higokumaru: I'm certainly good at finding food. Just follow the scent.
  Sakura: (A fox indeed...)
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the beginning of the "Soul Throne" Raid stages, she narrates and recaps what happened previously, then she goes off to say:
  "Uh, what? You said you can't understand? Go play Sakura Samsara at least 4 times, or I'll roast you in the BBQ!"
• Breath Weapon: One of her attacks is her breathing a continuous stream of fire at the target. It's also the effect of the T version of her Stigma (activated by breaking the enemy's shields with normal attacks).
• Call-Back: All of her attacks are weaker versions of Hellmaru's attacks.
• Chekhov's Gun: She views Sakura as her older sister of sorts. Sakura also says at one point that "her face seems familiar". Ch. 12 implies that her real older sister is the previous era's Sakura.
• Damage Over Time: The "fire" version, with one of her skills allowing you to cause a small blast of flames with normal attacks that ignites enemies in a small area. In a different way, the B version of her Stigma lets the user deal continuous small fire damage by getting into the enemy's vicinity.
• Damage Reduction: The M version of her Stigma decreases physical damage taken by a certain percentage.
• Dark and Troubled Past: A glimpse of the past shown in her story in Sakura Samsara showed that she used to be a harmless girl, but someone thought that she could become a potential danger. Despite knowing it's wrong to kill the harmless girl, that someone ended up killing her. Unexpectedly, she "arose" as a fox-like phantom and got angry towards her killer and began haunting them, until said killer sealed her inside a tiny box. One supplementary comic shows her past in better detail: 50000+ years ago, she was the 12th Herrscher who didn't show any signs of being a Herrscher other than her abnormally high Honkai energy, who was killed by soldiers who feared her for being a potential threat, activating her Herrscher abilities and releasing a powerful virus. She began infecting people and the computer systems of Fire Moth's HQ, releasing nukes that destroyed humanity's three remaining cities in the process, until the past MEI trapped it in a special box that she made.
• Deflector Shields: One of her skills gives the whole team a spherical forcefield. Unlike Yamabuki Armor's own, this shield only blocks one hit before disappearing (and regenerating after some seconds), but it can also block fire damage without breaking.
• Escort Mission: A good part of Sakura Samsara is this for Higokumaru, who wants to go to the "Celestial Castle", but she says she'll be hounded by the villagers if she goes alone. In practice, you simply go around and fight enemies on your way while Higokumaru assists you, Platforming Pocket Pal style.
• Fireballs: Her basic attack is to throw small fireballs at the enemy.
• Flaming Sword: She occasionally swings a fire blade.
• Flying Firepower: She can fly freely around you and use fire attacks.
• Foreshadowing:
  • At the start of Sakura Samsara's extra story, there are appearances of people that Sakura doesn't know. As it takes place inside the "stigmata realm", which is shaped by Sakura's memories, those people make Sakura briefly suspicious, but the most striking thing is that they're all talking about "accusing a kid for being a monster" and "incarcerating the kid even though she did nothing wrong before". Then Sakura finds Higokumaru inside a barrel, who claims that the villagers trapped her there; and when Sakura walks around after she frees Higokumaru, there'll be enemy encounters where the nearby villagers shout "It's a monster!" and then turn into zombies. They're all allusions to her Dark and Troubled Past, that is shown later on.
  • In the trailer guide for Darkbolt Jonin, Higokumaru sees the former's Ultimate Skill where she summons a Kitsune. Higokumaru says "this Demon Fox smells familiar... have I met her before?" Then the "Sanka Saga" event (which stars Darkbolt Jonin) reveals that after Kasumi fights Hellmaru inside a strange dimension, the former seals the latter into one of the Zakti Runes, allowing Kasumi to summon Hellmaru's image at will. Kasumi later gives the fox a new name, "Raigokumaru".
• Fun Size: She's quite small, around the size of a hamster, and looks Super-Deformed. Her Stigmata set depicts her with more humanoid proportions, however.
• Gender-Blender Name: -maru usually is for boys. Sakura mentions that said name is based of an "old friend" of hers, and that his name was a bit too manly for the fox girl.
• Genki Girl: She's always cheerful and eager to go around the village with Sakura (and your character).
• Identity Amnesia: "Higokumaru" is simply a name given by Sakura given that she forgets her real name. Her reason for wanting to go to Celestial Castle is that she feels that the castle may hold something that can make her remember her past. As they go up the castle, she gradually remembers her Dark and Troubled Past and how she used to hurt many people, including Sakura; her talk with the miko slowly but surely strengthens her will, allowing her to let the past be the past and vow to not use her powers for revenge. In the end, after she remembers her real name and asks Sakura if she wants to call her Hellmaru, Sakura prefers "Higokumaru"; the little fox girl then accepts it.
• Literal Split Personality: Implied in some scenes in Sakura Samsara game mode and one of the supplementary comics. After Hellmaru is defeated, its power and consciousness as the 12th Herrscher is turned into the Divine Key, Jizo Mitama, by the box, which presumably leads to Higokumaru (i.e the girl who "hosted" the 12th Herrscher back in the Previous Era) being split from it and later found by Sakura. In Sakura Samsara's extra story, Higokumaru will remember things from her past the closer they get to top of the castle (including how she used to hurt many people), and once they found the sword Jizo Mitama, she remembers everything... and then the sword forcefully "merges" with her, turning the two into the boss Jizo Mitama. From "her" lines, it's implied that "she" was Hellmaru, or rather the consciousness that controlled the fox beast around. Once Sakura beats "her", Higokumaru goes back normal (the sword splits off from her) and she apologizes to Sakura.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In Sakura Samsara's extra story, once she remembered that she was the one who corrupted Sakura, she feels that she had done "something unforgivable". In the end of the story, she apologizes to Sakura for everything she did in the past, especially to the miko. Sakura, noting that everything has happened 500 years ago, forgives her.
• Optional Stealth: One of her skills in the Open World is "Expose Instinct", which makes your character enters "stealth mode". When activated, you'll be able to see hidden chests and special hidden encounters, and you'll also gain the "stealth kill" ability that allows you to Back Stab roaming enemies for massive damage.
• Pillar of Light: More like Pillar of Fire, but still, one of her attacks creates a pillar-like blast of fire that sends enemies airborne. It's also the effect of the M version of her stigma (activated upon Ultimate Evasion).
• Platforming Pocket Pal: In Sakura Samsara's Open World, she acts as this. She frequently assists you during battle and provides you with some unique abilities. A later patch gives a feature of turning her off (so she won't be assisting you directly), while keeping the passive abilities from her.
• Running Gag: In various events, almost every time Higokumaru shows up or is mentioned, there'll be jokes about her getting roasted or becoming food. In a few events you can also find or cook Higokumaru-themed food. The source of it is the Sakura Samsara's extra story, where, in the beginning, she thought that the villagers are going to roast her.
• Set Bonus: For her Stigmata set:
  • 2 pieces: Gains 1% fire damage for both you and the summoned Higokumaru's attack for every combo hit count, which stacks up to 40 times.
  • 3 pieces: Instantly sets the combo counter to 50 (if the number was less than 50) and the stacks of the 2 sets' effect by 40 upon entering the field, 30 seconds cooldown.
• Spell Blade: One of her skills gives you extra fire damage on your normal attacks (also used in the T version of her Stigma).
• Spell My Name With An S: At least Japanese-wise, her name is properly spoken as "Higyokumaru".
• Summon Magic: The effect of the T and M version of her Stigmata allows you to summon her to perform an attack, even outside the Open World.
• Teleportation: One of her skills lets you teleport around in the map with her powers. It's disabled when you're battling monsters, however.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Inari-age, or fried tofu. The events tend to reference this, with her eating some fried tofu or wanting to have some.
• Unreliable Narrator: The opening of the "Soul Throne" Raid stages is narrated by her, where she claims that she turned the Honkai box into the sword, Jizo Mitama. In truth, it's the box itself that transformed the power of the 12th Herrscher into a Divine Key, which is implied to cause Higokumaru to be split from the Herrscher's power and will.

15th Century Europe

Kallen Kaslana

Voiced by: Yiwen Chen ^note 陈奕雯 (Chinese), Nana Mizuki (Japanese)

Imayoh Ritual

^{Sündenjäger}

^{Sixth Serenade}

Kiana's ancestor, who lived in the 15th century. The legendary Valkyrie of the Kaslana family, she stopped numerous Honkai threats together with the Schicksal organization, and was close friends with Otto Apocalypse.

While at first she was a dutiful warrior, over time she questioned Schicksal's policies and methods, and ended up running away from them while taking their "Honkai box" with her, ending with her being lost in Yae Sakura's village. Sakura rescued her, and from there the two shared a bond over their similar circumstances; however, Sakura's resentment caused her to be possessed by the Honkai Beast inside said box, and she would've gone through with destroying her village had Kallen not sealed her away. She was then found by Schicksal's agents and carried back to Europe to be executed for her rebellion, but Otto released multiple Honkai Beasts upon the city as a distraction so the two could run away. Kallen, though, cared more about the people and decided to protect them and fight the beasts instead, which ended in her death.

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• The Ace: Kallen is the first S-rank Valkyrie in Schicksal's records.
• Alternate Self: The "Sanka Saga" event features a different world version of Kallen. She shares the backstory of her regular self, but she later becomes immortal due to the "Zakti Rune of Deva" and lives on to the present day. When she was supposed to be taken to Europe after sealing Sakura (like in the main timeline), Kallen instead drove the Schicksal agents off, and used said rune to keep watch over both Sakura and the Yae Village. The Deva Rune ended up making her develop a Split Personality that represents Kallen's desire to save Sakura from her current state by all costs.
• Back from the Dead: A special story in the Dating Sim mode (taking place in 2006) shows her alive and running around as Himeko's acquaintance. She's apparently hunting a vampire that existed in a rumor that is threatening people's lives. That vampire is Luna Kindred, who was made as a tool by Otto to resurrect her "sister" by using her special bite. Kallen knows that she (Kallen herself) is supposed to be dead and her living state is a wrong one, and thus seeks Luna Kindred to not just stop her from threatening the populace with her bloodlust but also to allow herself to die again (as her life is tied to Luna Kindred's, courtesy of the bite). In a further twist, her bio mentions that she doesn't feel like she's Kallen, which implies that she's her own identity/consciousness and not the same Kallen's soul. This persona of Kallen is the basis of her Sündenjäger battlesuit.
• Big Damn Heroes: In Sakura's backstory, when she had trouble fighting a bear Honkai Beast and then got trapped in its clutches, Kallen came to her rescue and then defeated the beast.
• Big Eater: Kiana's endless appetite is apparently a family trait, as a supplementary comic and the special Dating Sim story (10 years in the past) show that Kallen can put food away just as well as Kiana can. In one special Cooking With Valkyries episode, Yae Sakura teaches her how to make rice balls, but she ends up making one really big ball. In another supplementary comic focused on Kallen's life, she and Otto stop by a coffee shop to eat. Otto, for his part, simply orders a cup of tea and a slice of cake. Kallen? A large assortment of pastries and sweets, and she even takes Otto's slice after eating all that.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: While she has her heart in the right place (compared to most other members of Schicksal at the time), she can't help but be helpful to others and be "the shield of the people", sometimes to her detriment. This is shared with a good number of other Kaslana family members, including her own father. Even as a young girl, she already had the idea of "saving the world and making it a better place".
• Church Militant: She was part of one, the Schicksal, and even wore a nun getup in combat.
• Cool Mask:
  • Kallen has a crow-like opera mask to go with her Phantom Thief outfit as Sixth Serenade. During the Sakura Samsara side story, the mask appears multiple times in the sections of the Celestial Castle, which clues in her presence. Sixth Serenade's ultimate skill has her wear it on her face before unleashing the move. In the "Sanka Saga" event, her model in the story cutscenes wears it constantly; it only gets removed in a CG cutscene where Kasumi unintentionally breaks it with her kunai.
  • This gets discussed in the "Soul Throne" stages; Higokumaru claims that she can sense the feelings of the mask's creator for Kallen through the mask back when she had a brief contact with it^note likely referring to Kallen's battle against the 12th Herrscher (i.e what Higokumaru used to be). Sakura admits that she feels somewhat jealous over it. In the final stage, when Sakura embraces her and calls her "Kallen", restoring her memories, the mask breaks off.
    Higokumaru: (Reciting the "blessing in the mask") "May the light of truth pierce into the darkness of lies. May the courage be with you..."
    Sakura: May the courage be with me.
• Criss-Cross Attack: Sixth Serenade's Ultimate Skill has her performing quick dashes in the air multiple times, hitting enemies in a large area, before she falls for a finisher attack that deals more damage and activates her special cross.
• Dash Attack: Sixth Serenade has a special attack where she dashes through enemies after splitting into 2 shadow bodies. She has to fill a special bar for it, but it deals potent ice damage.
• Deflector Shields: The M version of Kallen Hymn stigma gives the user a special shield that cuts the damage from a physical attack, then regenerates after 6 seconds. While the shield is still standing, the user will take less "indirect damage" (such as the heatlh drain in Dirac Sea/Q-Singularis).
• Dub Name Change: Sündenjäger is German for "Sin Hunter", the original name of the battlesuit.
• Expendable Alternate Universe: Invoked in the "Sanka Saga" event. Kallen's new plan for disposing of Herrscher of Corruption once and for all is to use the power of the Zakti Rune of Preta to open a path to another dimension and dump the thing in there. Kasumi points out that she may be endangering other people in other worlds, but Kallen can only say that she's exhausted and running out of options. In the end, a dying Kallen uses her last breath to transport herself and Sakura's corrupted body into the Saha World (i.e Sea of Quanta).
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Kallen's Imayoh Ritual battlesuit has her wear a single red glove on her left hand and single black stocking on her left leg.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Played with. The Kallen Hymn set, due to its skills (relying on "summoned objects" and the "impair" debuff), are best used on... Celestial Hymn (Theresa). Kallen as Sündenjäger can at least use it because she can inflict the impair debuff easily, but she won't benefit on half of the T version's effects (which requires a "summoned object", which Theresa's cross weapons count as).
• Gratuitous Spanish: As Sündenjäger, she shouts "Hasta la vista!!" when deploying her ultimate.
• Gun Twirling: Kallen's victory pose has an extravagant variation, as she tosses her left-hand pistol into the air to twirl it before catching it and brandishing it toward the player.
• Heal Thyself: Sündenjäger can heal herself slightly by performing Ultimate Evasion. If her health is under 30%, using Ultimate Evasion or Ultimate Skill will rapidly heal her until her health reaches above said threshold.
• Heroic Resolve: In one of the supplementary comics, she's faced with the will inside of the Honkai box (which took the form of a shadowy version of the boss Jizo Mitama) who tried to possess her body. When said "will" restrained her and was about to strike her, the "spirit" of her late father appeared to save her and awaken the resolve of the Kaslana's faith ("Kaslana Relief"), allowing her to defeat the "monster" and make it go dormant. As the Sakura Samsara side story and the "Soul Throne" Raid stages shows, this feat made the box recognize Kallen as "the strongest being in its memory" and then create an "image" of her to defend itself.
• Hero of Another Story: In the present story, she's just a background character who is Otto's motivation for doing everything he did. Two supplementary comics cover her story, one taking place in Europe and the other in Japan after she escaped there.
• Injured Vulnerability:
  • One of the effects of the T version of Kallen Hymn stigma is to further increase the damage dealt to "impaired" enemies.
  • In a variant, the Kallen Hymn B stigma buffs the attack speed and critical damage of the user depending on how many enemies are "impaired" around her.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In the past, in her fight with the possessed Sakura, she ended up taking her sword to the gut, but she kept on fighting. Later on, she got impaled while defending the helpess people from a Honkai Beast, this time resulting in her death.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: Kallen mainly uses pistols, but she was the first user of the Oath of Judah cross before Theresa, and two of her battlesuits have cross weapons available to them:
  • As Imayoh Ritual, she has a cross named Eliudnir that she uses in her branch attack and QTE (where it turns into a BFG that shoots a Wave-Motion Gun) and her ultimate skill (where it turns into a turret gun that fires multiple beam shots).
  • As Sixth Serenade, she uses Selune's Elegy, a cross that looks like a masked crow, in her Ultimate Skill. This one floats in the air when activated, immobilizes enemies in the area and makes her special gauge (that fuels her branch attack) fill much faster.
  • As Sündenjäger, she instead has a contraption consisting of 4 machine guns and 4 missile launchers that she uses in her Ultimate Skill.
• Lethal Chef: Kallen's cooking skills are as atrocious as Kiana's, which gets brought up in multiple events:
  • In the Chinese New Year event, the soup she made turns green, and her attempt at making a stargazy pie ends up with it turning into charcoal and causing the Captain to pass out after sampling it. The Captain lampshades that House Kaslana should never be allowed to cook again.
  • In the "Odd Drifter" event, she claims that her ELF companion, Selune's Elegy, is the one to cook for her.
  • One of the interaction stages in the "St. Freya's Fiesta" event has Kiana and Kallen puzzling out something to cook together. One of the optional interactions with the Captain and Theresa has them successfully sabotage this, which turns out to be the correct choice.
  • Averted, however, in the "Captain's Ranch Tale" event, where she actually becomes a good chef by meticulously following recipes made by Rita and with help from Yae Kasumi. She acknowledges that she'd've been hopelessly lost without Rita's cookbooks.
• Liminal Being: In the climax of the "Sanka Saga" event, after absorbing the Preta Rune into herself, her "space and time" have been devoured by the rune, causing her appearance to shift frequently, from "Sixth Serenade", to the "castellan", to the nun figure that she used to be centuries ago.
• Living Memory:
  • In one supplementary comic, Kiana and Bronya stumble into a particular virtual recreation of history, specifically, around the time Kallen was about to be executed, with the people in it (including Kallen) being all virtual. Kallen herself, however, notes that something seems to change about her, including how she recognizes herself as a living memory (when one normally shouldn't).
  • In Sakura Samsara, she and other people inside the dimension are all memories of the people that Sakura knew in the past. If the Gratitude Arc comic is to be believed, though, she's actually the real Kallen's soul (or at least part of her consciousness), sealed inside the cross pendant that she left with Sakura after Kallen sealed her, which got picked up by Mei and becomes instrumental in helping Theresa fight Hellmaru inside the dimension.
  • In a variant, the Phantom Thief Kallen that appears at the end of Sakura Samsara's extra story and the Raid co-op stage "Soul Throne" is an artificial construct made by the Honkai box to guard the sword Jizo Mitama, which used to be the "Honkai will" (i.e the 12th Herrscher) in the box. Said will recognized the thief Kallen as the strongest being in Higokumaru's memory, so the box uses her "image" as the sword's guardian. At first, this Kallen lacks any memories of the original one, but due to Higokumaru's Herrscher core effect, it slowly brings her memories back; by the time Sakura meets and embraces her, Kallen regains her full memories. Sakura thanks Higokumaru for this.
• Long-Dead Badass: She was dead 500 years before the game's present.
• Long-Range Fighter: Sündenjäger favors fighting by shooting her pistols, contrasting the melee Pistol Whip fighting style of Kallen's other battlesuits.
• Meaningful Appearance:
  • Imayoh Ritual and Sündenjäger have crosses on different parts of their clothes (and, for the latter, her hairpin) as part of her origins as a Church Militant. Sixth Serenade, however, lacks them, as she has gone rogue.
  • Imayoh Ritual suit is a "reversed" version of Sakura's Goushinsou Memento suit. They both come from an in-universe video game called "Kallen Fantasy VII" and they're depicted as bitter rivals.
  • Her single braid is a reference of her being the ancestor (and, in some ways, parallel) of Kiana, who has 2 braids.
• Motive Rant: In the climax of the "Sanka Saga" event, where she's the antagonist, she blurts out why she did everything: centuries before the event, she absorbed the Deva Rune into herself partly to protect the Yae Town, and partly to "punish herself" by making herself immortal. She would then develop a Split Personality who's driven to revive Sakura by any means necessary, including countless experiments regarding souls - she's revealed to be the one who authorized Raiden Ryoma (Mei's father)'s experiments of replacing people's bodies with artificial body parts and putting souls inside machines. She then thinks of her childhood friend who similarly went through a lot of questionable things out of love; she used to criticize the guy, but nowadays she feels that she's not in the position to judge him.
• Moveset Clone: Her boss version (in Sakura Samsara) has Divine Prayer (Kiana)'s combo attack, in addition to several handguns' weapon skills. She can also use the Oath of Judah cross when her health goes low.
• Mundane Object Amazement: She and Sakura make a cameo in one Cooking with Valkyries season 2 episode. While Theresa and others are outside having their little party, the two appeared in her room; Kallen looks at the camera on the desk and is confused at what the thing is, and tries to press a button on it. It flashes as it takes the picture of the two girls.
• No Man Should Have This Power: In the past, after she battled her friend who was corrupted by the "Honkai box", and later, the will of the Honkai box itself (the 12th Herrscher), she declared that the box shouldn't fall to the hands of any human, which is why she stole it and brought it far away to the East.
• No-Sell: Her boss version is immune to elemental damage. In Sakura Samsara, this makes her immune to the "soul cannon" trick. She also is immune to the bomb from the "bombing" mission, and heavily resists damage from stealth kills.
• Phantom Thief: What Sixth Serenade is. She speaks in a romantic, flowery way in this battlesuit.
  • In one supplementary comic, after seeing a poor mother being mooched of her money by a Schicksal member, she became one (helped by Otto), who stole money from rich people (including that Schicksal member) and gave it to the poor. She later reappears at the end of Sakura Samsara's side story, stealing the sword Jizo Mitama away because she claims that its power is too dangerous. Her Sixth Serenade battle suit is taken from her thief depiction.
  • Played for laughs in the Dating Sim mode (and a few other events), where her "justice rogue" persona is played way up, usually causing various shenanigans.
• Pillar of Light: If Sündenjäger is ranked SS, her Ultimate Skill will cause lasers to fall from above to hit her target for 15 seconds.
• Runaway Fiancé: Kallen was in an Arranged Marriage to Otto, when she learned of the church's corruption and fled to the Far East. After her capture and impending execution, he even tried to leverage this to save her life. Kallen refused to honor the engagement, recognizing that she would be giving up her freedom to live as a political prisoner kept in a Gilded Cage to appease the masses.
• Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: In her Victory Pose, she throws her gun up, then catches it and then aims it towards the camera (at an angle).
• Set Bonus: For the Kallen Hymn stigmata set:
  • 2 pieces: spend at least 15, 70 and 125 SP in one go to get 8%, 15% and 22% inceased total damage for the whole team, lasts 7 seconds.
  • 3 pieces: attacking an impaired enemy recovers 8% HP and 5% SP for the user, 8 seconds cooldown.
• Sins of Our Fathers: In her backstory comic, she quoted The Bible about this trope when she saw a young girl about to be forced into servitude by one of the Schicksal's members to "pay the sins of her father".
• Situational Damage Attack: Imayoh Ritual's branch attack requires Kallen to fill a gauge with 3 separate sections. The more it's filled, the stronger the attack becomes as the gauge is depleted.
• Split Personality: In the "Sanka Saga" event, the event version of Kallen is revealed to have this. In the past, after assimilating the Deva Rune into herself, she became The Ageless, but she also gained another personality that is driven by Kallen's deeper desire to bring her love, Sakura, back from the dead. Kallen at first thought she's doing odd things in a dream (like ordering her men to perform "soul transfer experiments"), but when she woke up and saw what happened, those things she did in her dreams were real, courtesy of her other personality, that she called "the castellan". During nights, she would turn back normal and go around as the "Sixth Serenade", wandering the nights as a Phantom Thief, but when the daylight comes she would lose herself and be controlled by her other personality. Later on, however, the Herrscher of Corruption (inside Sakura's body) calls her out on it, claiming that the whole "other awareness" thing was a lie she created to detach herself from her misdeeds; whether this is true or not is ambiguous.
• Super Mode:
  • Sündenjäger deploys her arsenal of firearms, turning her basic attacks to a barrage of bullets and missiles.
  • Sixth Serenade enters one after using her Ultimate Skill, where her special gauge regenerates quickly by itself and she gains more elemental damage.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While Otto had done some questionable deeds even before her death, Kallen's death just made him even more driven and obsessive, and made him do even more of those deeds, dooming many other people by his hands in the name of trying to resurrect her. This includes tangling with the Herrschers to find the "Herrscher of Death", which he believes would be the key to resurrecting Kallen.
• Weapon of X-Slaying: The Kallen Pledge stigmata set's B version and Set Bonus effects are all about making the user more effective against Elite Mooks. Kallen Pledge B increases damage dealt to and decreases damage taken from elite mooks, the 2-pieces effect is increasing Critical Hit rate depending on the number of elite mooks on the field, and the 3-pieces effect is giving you a physical damage buff each time you kill an elite mook, which stacks up to 3 times.
• Worf Had the Flu: The reason she died fighting Honkai Beasts to protect the city is because she was weakened from her battle against the possessed Sakura and she didn't seem to have it healed (that, and she was forced to defend a helpless citizen against a Honkai Beast with her own body).
• You Are Not Alone:
  • In Sakura's backstory, she said that she left Kallen out of her battles and duty to the village because she doesn't want to trouble her injured friend. Kallen then declared that "[Sakura] is not alone anymore" and that the two will fight together from then on. This gets a Meaningful Echo near the end of the backstory comic:
    Kallen: I won't let this happen... Because I made a promise to you... that we would keep fighting together! I want to protect you... Even if I have to forsake the world, I want to protect you, Sakura!
  • In the Sakura Samsara storyline, Kiana helps hammering this point down to Sakura. This allows the latter to disclose her issues to Kallen, including the loss of her little sister (when she couldn't do so in the past by herself^note Back then, it was the "Honkai will" possessing her that explained it all to Kallen) and strengthen her will, which helps her defeating the beast that manipulated her, Hellmaru (with Kallen and Kiana's assistance). In the end, the stigmata dimension is freed from the Honkai's curse, and the two grow closer to each other.

Eleanor Schariac

A young woman who lived in the 1470s. She used to be infected with the "Black Death" plague until Otto developed a cure and used it on her, making her healthy again. She then was given the last name "Schariac" and became a Valkyrie for the Schicksal.

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• Blind Obedience: Her Undying Loyalty towards Schicksal and particularly Otto (after he saved her from her disease) made her blind towards the group's corruption.
• Irony:
  • After she became part of Schicksal's Valkyries, she condemned the "rogue" that attacked one of Schicksal's priests. And she was talking to Kallen (the very rogue) at the time.
  • She was so loyal to Otto and looked up to him, and yet he ended up shooting her with the copy of Judgment of Shamash, allowing Kallen to finish her off. Her last words were about questioning Otto and lamenting that she could've done much more.
• Knight Templar: After she was saved by Otto and joined Schicksal, she came to believe that the group is just and can do no wrong, and thought that whoever opposed them are "heretics".
• Power Crystal: She acquired one from the strange "Honkai box". She would then use it to turn into a Spider People-like Honkai Beast to fight Kallen. She claimed that "God knocked the door and she opened it" after she transformed, and claimed herself to be "God's avenging angel". In her beast form, she can shoot powerful lasers from the crystal, which was embedded in her chest. When Otto came to Kallen's rescue, he ended up shooting the crystal on her body, allowing Kallen to finish her off. After her death, said crystal released dark vapors and enveloped Kallen; it - the 12th Herrscher - would then try to corrupt Kallen and take over her body until her Heroic Resolve defeated it.
• You Just Told Me: When she came to Schicksal's secret underground facility to respond to an intruder, she called the intruder "Captain Kaslana" and she reflexively turned her head towards Eleanor, forgetting that she's supposed to be in disguise.

William Shakespeare

A famous playwright who occasionally performed theatre shows on the streets of Western Europe. Kallen meets her during the events of Elan Palatinus, before taking the playwright's rebellious words to heart and starting her stunt as the Rogue Extraordinaire. Shakespeare is also among the various Sitgmata figures Durandal meets in the Sea of Quanta during the events of the latter's eponymous visual novel.

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• Artistic License – History: Gender flip aside, our Shakespeare wouldn't even be born until 90 years after the events of Elan Palatinus, whereas this Shakespeare is already performing street plays during the 1470s. She's mainly there to be the catalyst for Kallen's debut as the Rogue Extraordinaire.
• Cooldown Manipulation: The stigmata's 2-piece Set Bonus reduces the cooldown of Ultimate Evasion by 30%.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Each of her Stigma pieces directly makes the user gain extra lightning, fire or ice damage. They're best used standalone, however, as no character in the game could use more than 1 element at a time.
• Historical Gender Flip: This William Shakespeare is a girl, in line with most of the Stigmata sets which base themselves on historical figures.

Previous Era Civilization (Warning: Unmarked spoilers inbound)

Fire MOTH

See its respective page on the Human organizations.

Doctor Einstein

Not to be confused with Anti-Entropy's Einstein. A major scientist of the Previous Era, this Einstein created the autonomous weapons known as the Equipment: Living Form (or ELF) in order to keep fighting the Honkai while also minimizing human losses.

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• Dead Man Writing: While exploring the ELFs' village, Schrodinger stumbles upon a recording of this Einstein, who explains how the war against the Honkai turned human life into the most valuable resource, leading to the development of autonomous weapons, namely the ELF, as well as how adding directives to the latter uplifted them into highly intelligent lifeforms. When the 9th Herrscher launched a black hole attack on the Mu continent, Einstein and many ELF hives were sucked into it with no way out, with Einstein spending the rest of her life musing how the ELFs can live in the bubble universe free from the influence of humanity and the Honkai.
• Motherly Scientist: She initially regarded the ELFs as weapons, but when they gained sentience, she began to treat them similarly to humans and gave them the right to freedom. When the human society of Mu slowly died out, she helped the ELFs build their own civilization, thinking of them as the continuation of humanity and "the one thing she's proud of".
• Three Laws-Compliant: In this universe, humanity drafted two major directives of similar value to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotic, dubbed "Guiding Directives of ELF Behavior". The first directive was to regard any Honkai as hostile and defeat them; the second was to not harm any human. Einstein also added a third directive, which was simply to survive. That last directive would later become a point of contention for the ELF, whose intelligence grew beyond basic reasoning and started advocating for their rights on par with their human creators. Einstein, being their creator, eventually sympathized with their plight and gave them a fourth directive, which was the right to freedom.

Guest Characters

Asuka Shikinami Langley

Voiced by: Yuko Miyamura^note unusually, she keeps her Japanese voice even if you play in Chinese

Gospel of Tomorrow

One of the major protagonists of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Rebuild of Evangelion, Asuka comes to Anti-Entropy's aid when an Angel descends upon Nagazora. She became playable as part of "New Century", a collaboration event between her home series and Honkai Impact 3rd in version 4.5 (and could only be obtained during that event).

For tropes specific to her character depiction in the original series and Rebuild movies, see here and here.

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• Adaptational Badass: Asuka is a formidable Eva pilot in her home series and is decent at hand-to-hand combat, but not exactly the superpowered Valkyrie she is depicted as here. Also, she never used the Lance of Longinus in armed combat.
• Catchphrase: Her famous "Anta baka?" ("What are you, stupid?") gets used numerous times for her appearance in this game. It's even the name for her normal attack skill.
• Deadly Lunge: Her Charged Attack has two variants: the half-charged one (uses half of her special gauge) where she rushes through her enemy with her spear, and the full-charged one (uses her entire special gauge) where she performs multiple rushing thrusts that ends with her striking to the ground. In both cases it can be continued with an additional attack that recovers a bit of her gauge.
• Gratuitous English: One of her battle cries is "Come on!".
• Guest Fighter: From Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the event's final episode, circumstances leave her as the only one available to pilot Wotan to take out the Honkai Beasts and the "lifeforms" created by the "virus Angel" (implied to be the 11th Angel, Ireul). However, Wotan itself is eventually infected and its self-destruct is activated, which Einstein reveals would destroy all of Nagazora in the blast. Tesla then proposes a solution: have Asuka pilot Wotan into the rift to the Sea of Quanta which she originally came from. Asuka agrees, but just as she enters the rift, Wotan's systems malfunction and she's unable to eject from the cockpit. Knowing that she came out of the Sea of Quanta in the first place, Asuka accepts this, giving some final words of encouragement to Mei before the detonation. In the end, she's seen floating unconscious in the Sea of Quanta among the mech's wreckage.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: In the beginning of the "New Century" event, she forgets how she ended up in the Honkai world. She makes references throughout the story that indicate that she has at least some memories of her former world, especially regarding the Angels, but nothing concrete is revealed.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Downplayed. Her game sprite's face closely resembles her character design in NGE, contrasting with the faces of the native Honkai characters which have a much more "modern" anime look.
• Regenerating Mana:
  • Her S-rank SP Skill allows her Charged Attack's additional attack to recover a bit of SP. Her SS-rank SP Skill makes her Charged Attack's additional attack enhance her teammates for 12 seconds, in which their attacks recover some SP for her when she's on standby (with 1 second cooldown).
  • One of her passive skills allows her to recover some SP whenever she breaks an Armor Meter (with a cooldown).
  • Her Lance of Longinus' active skill marks the affected enemy for 30 seconds; when her teammates attack said enemy, it'll cause spectral lances to fall onto said enemy and recover a few SP points for her.
• Super Mode: Her Ultimate Skill has her entering an "enhanced mode" (not considered a Burst Mode) where her normal attacks and Charged Attack change into a stronger version, where her lance swings cause red spikes to erupt from the ground or fall from above, and her special gauge recovers much faster, allowing her to spam her Charged Attack more often. Like Darkbolt Jonin's, it also has a finisher attack (which has to be done while the enhanced mode is active) where Asuka summons a giant lance from above which drills the ground for additional damage.
• Sword Plant:
  • Her QTE has her falling from above and striking the ground lance-first.
  • In her victory animation, she stabs the Lance into the ground and leans against it with her arms crossed.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While she's still quite confident and at times arrogant, her overall portrayal in "New Century" is a far cry from the volatile tsundere of the original NGE or even the Jerk with a Heart of Gold she mellowed into in Rebuild. Even though Mei is essentially a Gender Flip of Shinji in the event's world, Asuka gets along with her much better than she ever did with Shinji, even openly encouraging her at times. In the 5th episode, she advises Mei to "follow your heart", then goes on to say that talking wise is not her style. She even takes her "bad luck" in stride, when in Evangelion she went into a downward spiral of depression after failures.
• Trapped in Another World: It's apparent that she's not native to the world in "New Century". The opening sequence implies that she was somehow transported from the world of Evangelion into the Sea of Quanta at some point during or after the Unit-03 incident^note she was the test pilot for this Eva in Rebuild 2.0, but it became infected by an Angel and was torn apart by Unit-01 under the control of the Dummy Plug, as she finds herself reflexively opening and closing her right hand^note Shinji's classic tic, she feels a tingling in her left eye^note which something happened to, as she wears an eyepatch over that eye in Rebuild 3.0 and she feels as though she was in a serious accident but can't remember the details^note calling the Unit-03 incident a "serious accident" is an understatement. Interestingly, these circumstances map equally well to what happened to Asuka in End of Evangelion, and at the start of the event she's wearing her original plugsuit instead of the experimental plugsuit she wore in Rebuild 2.0 for the Unit-03 test.
• Whole Costume Reference: Her Blazing Hope outfit is near identical to the one Tesla wears during the "Gemina Invasions" event. The only noticeable differences are the Massive Electric company symbol on her skirt being replaced by a NERV symbol, an Angel-themed badge on her right suspender, and the lack of Tesla's red frame glasses. Blazing Hope's alternate outfit, Auburn Sync PS, is just her classic red plugsuit. In the event's story, Kiana ends up wearing the repaired battlesuit instead of Asuka, and it now resembles her plugsuit from Rebuild 3.0 (and it also becomes an obtainable alternate outfit for Void Drifter, Peak Sync P5).
• You Remind Me of X: In "New Century"'s 5th part of the story, she tells Mei that Mei reminds her of someone she used to call "idiot" a lot, referring to Shinji as Mei is taking on his characteristics for this event.

Fischl

Voiced by: Mace (Chinese), Maaya Uchida (Japanese)

Prinzessin der Verurteilung

One of the playable characters from Genshin Impact, she is an investigator working for Mondstadt's Adventurer's Guild, accompanied by her trustworthy raven named Oz. She becomes a playable character in version 4.9's collaboration event with Genshin − permanently available, unlike Asuka.

For tropes specific to her character, see here.

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• Adaptational Badass: Gameplay-wise she's much stronger and flashier than her Genshin counterpart: her normal shots always deal lightning damage, she can enhance her shots after summoning Oz to shoot multiple homing arrows at once, she has access to a special Charged Attack while Oz is out where she shoots a powerful arrow, she can use her "plunge attack" as a QTE (and it always deals lightning damage, unlike in her game), Oz himself is more mobile, and her Ultimate Skill, while named the same as her Genshin counterpart's Elemental Burst (Midnight Phantasmagoria), works much differently: Oz grows large and then rains electric feathers from the sky before diving down for a strong finisher.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Maintaining the weapon-active button lets her enter a third-person shooting mode, which allows her to deal more damage if she attacks the red spot on the enemy.
• Chuunibyou: Of the "Evil Eye" type. She gives herself all sorts of fancy titles, speaks in a ridiculously dramatic tone with equally dramatic poses, pretends to have lived for three thousand years and even wears an Eyepatch of Power, a common element of this trope. Whether any of the things she rants about are true is up in the air — although she obviously does have powerful abilities. Some of her bridge lines have her forgetting to be "in-character" before realizing her mistake.
• Familiar: Her talking raven Oz serves as one for her. He generally is loyal and obeys her will, although he can sometimes argue with her or voice his exasperation towards her antics. Gameplay-wise, she can summon him with her Charged Attack or Ultimate Skill; he'll then periodically attack her enemies with lightning feather shots and a lightning Criss-Cross Attack, the latter if she or another character perfoms a branch or charged attack.
• Gratuitous German: From her self-attributed title "Prinzessin der Verurteilung"^note roughly "Princess of Condemnation" to her made-up powers, she’s fond of peppering her Purple Prose with random German words. Oz also calls her "Mein Fräulein"^note pronounced "mine froy-line", which means "My Lady" to go with it.
• Large Ham: She's got the bombast of a bad Shakespearean actor, and several of her appearances in conversations have her in dramatic poses that look like she's trying to make JoJo's references.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Aside from being the first bow-user in the game, she brings Genshin's Aimed Shot mechanic into this game, allowing her to deal significant damage by hitting enemy weakspots. Not only that, she has an unique trait in which she can activate her QTE by herself, by pressing the attack button after using her weapon skill.
• Purple Prose: Her dialogue is loaded with fancy and overly-grandiose verbiage, which Oz often has to render down so the others know what she's talking about.

Keqing

Voiced by: Ying Xie (Chinese), Eri Kitamura (Japanese)

Another Guest Fighter from Genshin Impact. Keqing is one of Qixing of Liyue. Unlike Fischl, Keqing is only playable in the "Outworld Quest" collaboration event.

For tropes specific to her character, see here.

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• Adaptational Badass: She has faster and flashier battle animations compared to her Genshin Impact counterpart. She also gets to actually use her signature sword in combat which is unavailable in Genshin yet.
• Criss-Cross Attack: Her QTE and Ultimate skills are executed this way.
• Hero of Another Story: Like Fischl, she comes from a completely separate game, and she is also the protagonist of "Outworld Quest".
• Face Palm: The sillier or weirder antics of her teammates, especially Fischl, have her frequently doing this to express her annoyance.
• Lightning Bruiser: She's easily the fastest and most agile fighter of any that can participate in the event, and has a wide array of abilities that allow her to easily outpace the other characters in raw damage output.
• Master Swordsman: She is a skilled sword fighter and can even hold her own against Yae Sakura in a fight.
• Sword Beam: Using her weapon skill allows her to fire electric waves which she can Beam Spam as long as she has enough charge meter.
• Temporary Online Content: Unlike Fischl, she is only available in the time-limited event, similar to the playable Wotan in the "New Century" event.

Unaffiliated Bosses

HOMU Emperor

Voiced by: Ye Sun ^*孙晔 (Chinese), Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese)

The "King" of all HOMU-kind. He appears as a boss in Bronya's extra story "Dilemma Dreamland", as well as in the Coop Raid stages "Final HOMU Fantasy".

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• Ass Kicks You: He has a butt bump as an attack. He also farts before the attack, which also will hurt.
• Circling Birdies: After his Slide Attack, he appears to be dizzy while stars spin above him. After a few seconds, the stars fall around him, dealing quite some damage to your Valkyries if they hit.
• Cool Crown: A big red one that signifies his "royalty".
• Degraded Boss: In Final HOMU Fantasy's first stage, copies of him appear as a Giant Mook; they're relatively easy to beat, with the catch that they have the Soul Link buff between them. He then shows up as a proper boss in the third stage. Inverted in the fourth stage, as he's invincible (Bronya explicitly hacked the game to make it so) and can kill your characters in one hit; what you do in that stage is to bait him towards the crowns on the ground (dropped by killing the HOMU mooks). He'll stop after getting 4.
• Flunky Boss: He can occasionally summon HOLA mooks to aid him.
• Interface Screw: He can throw Banana Peels around that will reverse your direction if you step on them.
• Invincibility Powerup: Only in the Memorial Arena battle—he has a move where he turns invincible but with a few seconds of charge time. You have to break his shield gauge (preferably with attacks that do multiple hits) before he finishes charging in order to cancel the invincibility; the one who breaks the shield will also get a special debuff where they get weakened, their mana depletes and they move much slower.
• King Mook: He's one for the HOMU mooks and can perform similar moves as them, but stronger.
• Roboteching: He has a move where he fires 3 homing bullets from his gun. They can be evaded in cue.
• Shockwave Stomp: Two of them: one only does one hit but will keep you stunned for quite some time, while the other does multiple hits and will do quite a number to your Valkyrie should you get hit.
• Slide Attack: He has an attack where he runs and then slides forward, while shooting harmful stars in 5 directions.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: The music for SS-level boss fights in the Memorial Arena is the darkest and most epic soundtrack of the game, filled with Ominous Latin Chanting. It is a bit jarring when the boss in question is a giant yellow plushie who attacks with farts and banana peels.

Mexicatl: Umbreist

A strange spherical creature found in the Sea of Quanta. It is encountered in ch. 12.

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• Dash Attack: Its "horseback knight beast" form has a high-speed running attack with its lance.
• Dig Attack: Its "crab beast" form has an attack where it burrows underground, then tries to follow and then hit you from there. It'll attack like this 2-3 times before it comes out of the ground.
• Dub Name Change: Its original name is "Tlipoca: Shadow of Chaos".
• Final-Exam Boss: The boss periodically shapeshifts into stronger versions of the Quantum Honkai Beasts that you've fought from ch. 11 to ch. 12 (as well as in Q-Singularis); in fact, the boss never attacks you in its original sphere form. If you've learned how to handle the individual monsters (including how to induce a "Quantum Collapse" on them), you'll have an easy time beating this boss. The only difference is that it has 2 "quantum shields", meaning that you have to induce the "quantum collapse" twice on it to make it vulnerable.
• Flunky Boss: In the Memorial Arena version of the battle, the boss will summon Quantum Honkai Beasts when its health go below 50%. At higher rank, it'll summon stronger kind of monsters.
• Giant Enemy Crab: One of its forms is a huge crab with high defenses.
• Rolling Attack: Its "crab beast" form can roll into a ball and then tackle you if you're far away from them. It can then follow the attack by teleporting above you and then falling down with a Shockwave Stomp.
• Sentient Phlebotinum: The "Sanka Saga" event shows that this creature (at least, in this event's world, where it's called "Demonic Seed: Chaos") is the "Zakti Rune of Preta" that is alive and tries to devour anything into the "Saha World" (implied to be the Sea of Quanta). In The Stinger of the event, it's implied that the rune is none other than a Herrscher Core, although its exact "identity" is never known.
• Shaping Your Attacks: Its "octopus beast" form primarily attacks by shaping quantum energy into blocks of different shapes and then shooting them at you in various ways, including conjuring walls of energy blocks to trap you and then smashing you with a moving wall.
• Shoryuken: Its "crab beast" form has a jumping uppercut with its left pincer as an attack. It can then follow up with a powerful Shockwave Stomp.
• Sword Beam: Its "horseback knight beast" form has an attack where it shoots wide, slow-moving crescent beams out of its lance. It can do this multiple times while Teleport Spamming.
• Takes One to Kill One: As it's a Quantum-type boss, Quantum-type playable characters are strong against it.

Huodou

A huge lion-like beast with fire powers, who first made an appearance in the "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event, inside the underwater altar. Zhuge Kongming aims to seal this beast to prevent the threat to her kingdom.

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• Boss Subtitles: "The Beast of Yang, Huodou".
• Breath Weapon: It can breathe fire, including a spray of fire to cover the ground in flames and firing fireballs upward that fall down like meteors.
• Dash Attack: One of its attacks after it Turns Red is to dash around, leaving temporary trails of fire.
• The Dreaded: When the beast returns in "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", it was the cause of all the problems that happened in the event, whether directly or indirectly, and many people appropriately fear it.
• Fiery Lion: It's a monstrous lion who can manipulate fire.
• Ground Pound: It has an attack where it jumps, then tries to track you as it lands.
• Kill It with Ice: It's weak to ice attacks. When it Turns Red, you can temporarily stop its threat by repeatedly attacking it with freezing attacks.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: It takes great effort from the Captain, Rita and Tesla-Zero to distract the beast while Kongming prepares her Banishing Ritual, but they eventually succeed and the monster is sealed into a rift of time and space. In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", however, said beast has broken out of said seal and threatens to wreak havoc again. In the first scenario, Rita completely stops it, at the cost of her life; in the second, the Captain and Kongming assists her, but he ends up having to lure it towards the sea as it tries to detonate itself by overloading itself with energy.
• Sphere of Destruction: After you attacked it enough with ice attacks and it is stunned temporarily, when it goes back on its feet again, it'll charge up and then let out a Mighty Roar that causes a huge fiery explosion that covers its body.
• Turns Red: Upon depleting its health bar, it wakes up, regenerates all its HP (but also loses its "red dot") and becomes Wreathed in Flames. Its attacks become stronger and your characters will take continuous fire damage just by being close.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Tesla-Zero explains in the end of "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event that everything that happened in the event started when Huodou broke out of the seal 3 years before the present^note  because Kongming, who's supposed to guard the seal, was away in "another world" (the setting of the "Odd Drifter" event). In its rampage, it wrecked the Golem nearby where it was sealed, but it inadvertently caused a "self driven management program" to be activated in said golem. This program, as stated by her, is the "true enemy": it is the force behind Kongming's many deaths, as it has deemed her an "anomaly" upon this world that has to be wiped out, either In Mysterious Ways, or through its mass-produced "agents". It also deems any collateral damage to "other data" (i.e other people) as not a priority as long as Kongming is gone.

Husk - Nihilius

One of the bosses of chapter 17. A robotic "imaginary construct" that appeared out of the "imaginary singularity" created by the 2nd Divine Key's power, it ambushed Benares in the air and then attacks Mei.

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• BFS: It wields a large golden sword shaped like a clock's hand.
• Clockwork Creature: Befitting its "time" theme, it has several gears in its design, including a big one at its "torso".
• Dash Attack: It may try doing a dashing stab towards your character twice or thrice in succession.
• Doppelgänger Attack: After it gets back up from getting stunned, it'll plant its sword on the ground to create an explosion of light, then it creates a time-displaced copy of itself that mimics its attacks. The copy can be destroyed with enough paralyzing attacks, which will also stun the boss itself afterwards.
• Final Boss, New Dimension: Downplayed in that it's only a Climax Boss, but Mei notes that the "space is different" during her fight with it.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Nothing much is said about this boss, about what it is and its nature, other than it being an "imaginary construct" which comes out of an "imaginary singularity". It just suddenly appears to attack Benares while the dragon was flying.
• Lightning Bruiser: Aside from highly damaging attacks that will knock your character onto their backs, it also moves around quickly with wheels on its feet.
• Pulling Themselves Together: The boss is reassembling itself as it is introduced. Later, after the boss fight, it seemingly reverses time as it reassembles itself yet again, and tries to strike Mei down while she's unable to move.
• Rule of Symbolism: Mei's battle against it (and Benares' involvement in it) ends up being symbolic for both of them. Mei, who treasures her past times with Kiana greatly, laments how "they can no longer go back to the past" and that she feels it's her fault for being powerless. Meanwhile, Benares also wishes that she can keep serving "her queen" like she did in the past. This boss is a mechanical creature who can reverse time. Mei's slaying of this boss symbolizes her deciding to "cut" her ties with the past and "transform" into a new self: Herrscher of Thunder. Then, Benares' dead body is transformed by Herrscher Mei to become her new draconic servant. She is no longer "Benares", and her lingering feelings and wishes are gone; so that the end of the battle also "changed" Benares and "removed" the ties to her past as well.
• Spin Attack: One of its attacks is planting its sword and doing a spinning kick, aided with its wheeled feet.
• Sudden Soundtrack Stop: Downplayed in that it merely slows down, but it will happen if your character steps into the "time slowing dome" created by its sword.
• Sword Lines: A trail of golden line filled with Roman numerals (representing the hours on a clock) follows its sword swings.
• Sword Pointing: It opens the fight with pointing its sword at your character.
• Tick Tock Tune: Kcloc, its boss theme, naturally uses ticking clock effects as part of the rhythm, fitting its Time Master powers.
• Time Master: The boss makes use of time manipulation during the fight. Its attacks (and the Area of Effect circles left by those attacks) slowly fill the "Taint" gauge on your character; if it's filled to full, your current character moves slower and becomes unable to recover HP or SP until it wears off. One of its attacks is to plant its sword down which creates a dome where time moves slower for your characters. When its HP depletes, it'll create a giant Deflector Shield around itself as it slowly regenerates its HP, and several gears and a "clock blade" will spin around it. You have to destroy the gears to break its shield; the clock blade will damage you as it spins, but you can evade it to trigger Time Fracture, which will help you destroy the gears. You have to do all this up to 3 times (in which 2, then 3 clock blades will appear) until the shield fully breaks; the boss is then left stunned and you can freely whale on it until it dies.

Couatl: Revenant

A quantum creature that was called "Dark Lord" in the "Honkai Quest" event. Delta is hunting this creature for her mission, while Seele aims to defeat it to free her "sister" Bronya.

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• Armor Points: While normal quantum monsters only have 1 "quantum shields", Couatl has 4. However, many of its attacks leave "light orbs" that you can collect; evading its attacks while you're holding a light orb will cause the orb to explode, taking out one of its shields. Once they're all down, the boss will take increased damage. The fact that Valkyries keep the orb they picked up with them when they switch out also adds a touch of strategy, in that you can plan which attack to dodge with which valk to down the shields more efficiently.
• Death from Above: One of its attacks in the second phase is to cause dark orbs to fall from the sky, covering the ground in lots of explosions. They will leave lots of light orbs on the ground for you to use against it.
• Demonic Possession: In the backstory of "Honkai Quest", Bronya was thought to have defeated it, but in truth - as Fu Hua tells Seele - the Dark Lord possessed her as she attempted to subdue it, turning her into the "new" Dark Lord. Dark Bronya is the penultimate boss of the event; after Seele and Delta defeat her, Couatl comes out, and Delta slays it, freeing Bronya of its control.
• Dig Attack: In a variant, in its second phase, it can "swim" underneath the floor and "jump out" for surprise attacks.
• King Mook: It's the stronger, quantum variant of the "Emperor" Honkai Beasts.
• Outside-Context Problem: The "Grand Sages" and Alice (the NPCs in the "Honkai Quest" event) reveal that this monster is not native to this world.
• Sequential Boss: It has 2 phases, indicated by its two "red dots". In the first phase, its attacks are the stronger variant of the Emperor's (a faster Spin Attack, a "twin blade" attack that leaves a block-shaped quantum blast, etc). In the second phase, it grows a long tail and it whips out a whole slew of new, unique attacks.

Dominator of Wolves

A boss that appears in version 4.9’s cross-over event with Genshin Impact, where it rules over the frozen half of the island the protagonists are stuck on.

For tropes specific to his character, see here.

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• Canon Foreigner: Orginally called Andrius, a boss in a side story of Genshin Impact; in this game, it (an ice wolf) serves as a counterpart to Huodou (a fire lion), in the cross-over event and later in Memorial Arena.
• Death from Above: After you deplete its health a first time, it will start to howl and summon a giant ice ball to drop it on you, making it temporarily invincible before its second phase starts.

ELF

The "Equipment: Living Form", constructed lifeforms made to emulate the power of certain weaponry.

Jingwei's Wings

Voiced by: Ke Zhong ^*钟可 (Chinese), Minami Takayama (Japanese)

One of the Equipment: Living Form (ELF)s; she's based on the pair of pistols of the same name, and holds the "legend" of Jingwei (or at least, those that she knows as such). She focuses on dealing fire damage and healing your characters. She first appears in an event of Version 3.0, where Einstein explains the basic nature of the ELFs.

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• The Bore: Implied in one of her lines in the ELF menu screen. She's talking too much about the importance of avoiding being too "chatty"... and it ends with her yelling "Hey, brat! No dozing in class! Wake up!"
• Crying Wolf: In the comic that focuses on the ELFs' world, while she may not have been lying, she had talked a lot about humans (who are extinct in their world) to the other ELFs that they're sick of hearing it, so that they couldn't believe her words when she meets Schrodinger (who stumbled into their world).
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: She calls the ELFs' home, the "solar-powered tree with battery charging functions"... exactly that way.
  Schrodinger: (*thinking*) I must say I'm impressed with their extremely literal naming scheme.
• Flying Firepower: She's one of the few ELFs that can fly, and she uses fire attacks like the pistols she's based on.
• Healing Hands: Her Ultimate Skill is to heal your current character before releasing a big fire blast centered on your character. Some of her passive skills improve her healing power.
• Insufferable Genius: As she's based on the legendary Jingwei, she acts like a wise, knowledgeable sage lady... in a vain sort of way. In one of the supplementary comics, she presents herself to Schrodinger as an "incredibly wise and well-learned ELF historian, scholar and professor". That said, one of her lines in the ELF menu screen has her say that even a knowledgeable master like her can't stay away from daily nuisances (such as the one time where she accidentally set her robe on fire).
• Limited Wardrobe: In the comic that focuses on the ELFs' world, the other ELFs apparently like to change their appearances, but she's still loyal to her old robes, being the "history-preserving sage" that she claims she is.
• The Magnificent: She insists to be called "Master Jingwei".
• Mystical White Hair: As part of Jingwei's mysticism, she's got white hair.
• Native Guide: She becomes one for the visiting Schrodinger, taking her to the unique places in the ELF-centric world.
• Signature Headgear: She has a big white-and-red hairpin that resembles feathers, and in particular, the pistols she's based on.
• Significant Double Casting: Her having Fu Hua's voice isn't a coincidence. (The original) "Jingwei" is Fu Hua.

Blood Embrace

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese)

An ELF based on the cross of the same name; she excels in dealing physical damage and breaking shields. First appearing in Version 3.0, alongside Jingwei's Wings.

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• Anti-Armor: Her attacks, especially her Ultimate Skill, can easily blow through the enemies' shield gauges.
• Boisterous Bruiser: She's physically strong and proud of her own abilities, claiming that "you shall witness absolute victory".
• Continuity Nod: One of her lines in the ELF menu screen has her asking you (the Captain) to tell her about "this vampire friend of yours". It refers to the "Sanguine Nights" event where he met Luna Kindred Theresa and bonded with her.
• Critical Hit: One of her skills give her a 50% chance for her basic attacks to deal massively more damage. This is separate from her CRT stat.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Following her visual inspiration, Theresa's Luna Kindred outfit (who is a fitting character to be equipped with Blood Embrace the cross), her oufit is gothic lolita-styled.
• Horned Humanoid: She has two small horns jutting out from her forehead.
• Idiot Hair: She has a huge one above her head.
• Our Vampires Are Different: She claims that she's a "cruel, bloodsucking vampire" and denies liking tomato juice... despite her talking about tomato juice and fruits just moments before.
• Signature Headgear: Her long white hair is tied with 2 ornaments that loosely resemble the cross Blood Embrace.
• Significant Double Casting: She's voiced by Theresa's voice actress, following her visual inspiration.
• Spin Attack: Her Ultimate Skill has her spin her axe around her 3 times, hitting all around her, before throwing it upward; around 2-3 seconds later, it then falls onto the target, dealing big damage. It's a visually simplified version of Luna Kindred's own Ultimate Skill.
• Status Buff: One of her passive skills increases her attack power after she uses her Ultimate Skill. Another passive skill increases her attack power after she breaks an enemy shield.

Selune’s Elegy

Voiced by: Jīn Nà ^*金 娜 (Chinese), Yukari Tamura (Japanese)

An ELF based on the cross weapon of the same name, she serves as a powerful ice-type support unit. Appeared in version 3.3 as the first gacha ELF.

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• An Ice Person: Her ultimate can freeze enemies and greatly fill rime gauges, making her very useful against bosses like Huodou. Not only that, she’s one of the most powerful ELFs in terms of sheer damage, fitting with the pattern of ice-type characters being rarer and more powerful than average in Honkai.
• Chuunibyou: In ELF Academy, she likes to present herself as a master of darkness with the ability to summon demons. She cannot but she has the poses and the deep voice to go with it.

Book of Fuxi

Voiced by: Momo Asakura (Japanese)

An ELF based on the cannon of the same name, and thus, the legendary Fuxi herself. She first appears in Version 3.7, acting as the companion for the "Celestial" (Azure Empyrea) in her adventures.

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• Affectionate Nickname: The Celestial calls her "Xixi".
• Character Exaggeration: Like most ELFs, her personality is played comically compared to the original Fuxi. Whereas Fuxi was a straight-laced person who's focused on economics, the ELF has somewhat of a Money Fetish and will try extorting money from people given the opportunity. She lampshades it in the ELF menu screen, saying that she may have been created by both Fuxi and Nuwa and bear the former's name, but her personality is closer to the latter; she even has Nuwa's Verbal Tic "zo yo".
• Eccentric Mentor: For all her eccentricities, she's ultimately well-meaning and tries to correct the Celestial's own flaws.
• Insult of Endearment: She constantly refers to the Celestial as "Blockhead".
• Must Make Amends: In the 4th chapter of the "Empyrean Legends" event, when she and the Celestial fight the brainwashed Maotai Girls (Rozaliya and Liliya), she tells the Celestial to go after the "Nian" beast (Seele) while she holds the twins in place. She claims that it's to atone for her mistake (see Nice Job Breaking It, Hero below).
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the last chapter of the "Empyrean Legends" event, she reveals to the Celestial that she had been keeping a secret from the beginning of the story: that the "Nian" beast they defeated before has come back and taken a human form: Seele, one of the employees at Sakura's Inn that the ELF and the Celestial took rest in. When the Celestial asked her why she didn't say it earlier, she says that she only wanted to make the Celestial have some relax time and socialize and know new people around her, as the ELF wouldn't live as long as she would. The Celestial points out that Seele may have been the one behind the fire that burned the village they're in.
• Not Quite Flight: She flies on top of a yin-yang orb, based on the cannon's orb. In the 2nd chapter of the "Empyrean Legends" event, she complains that she's tired from wandering around with the Celestial, but the latter points out that she flies all the time.
• Obsessed with Food: She'll often get excited in doing something whenever there's food involved.
• Playing with Fire: Her attacks deal fire damage. When you activate her Ultimate Skill, it'll also forcibly activate QTE of fire-elemental characters.
• Sequel Hook: In one of the side comics, she tells the Celestial that someday she'll have her power depleted, and she suggests the Celestial to make a martial arts school so as to make the latter socialize with people. It leads to the "Seven Swords" visual novel starring the Celestial who has 7 disciples in her School of Taixuan.
• Significant Double Casting: She shares the same voice with the real Fuxi.
• Wall of Weapons: More like "Scroll of Weapons", but she stashed anachronistic-looking weaponry inside her scroll. She would later separately give them to the Celestial's adventuring companions.
• You Are Not Alone: In ch. 20, in a flashback, she tells the Celestial that while the latter puts her focus to her duty to the world, someday, there will be someone who "treasures [her] more than the world".

Tesla-Zero

Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese)

An ELF based on Tesla, part of her "Dark Science Index"; she proclaims she's the no. 0 of said index. She's the Captain's companion in the "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event, assisting him on his time-traveling mission to Zhuge Kongming's empire to ensure the events in the past can properly lead to the current present.

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• Cryptic Conversation: In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", when she speaks of Kongming being "an anomaly", she claims that the Golem in the underwater ruins could be the greatest anomaly in this world. When the Captain shows confusion over it, she decides to dismiss it, saying that the Captain wouldn't understand.
• Deadpan Snarker: True to her model, she has some sharp wit, sometimes engaging in Snark-to-Snark Combat with the captain.
• Deus ex Machina: In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", the real resolution of the story starts when she finally fully wakes up, as she's the one who understands the "time passage" and how to help the Captain with it. She even lampshades it:
  Tesla-Zero: Persistence alone won't help you accomplish the impossible. And miracles won't happen merely because you believe so. We both know that even if you've strived for it, it's still beyond your current reach. But here I am, offering you an opportunity to break away from the hopeless situation.
• Fling a Light into the Future: Inverted, she was left in the past by the Captain in "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" event's end. She then takes The Slow Path for a millennium as she's kept with Kongming, until "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event where she meets the (different?) Captain in the present. She explains that the "future" Captain has set her purpose to help the current Captain. In the end, the Captain has come back to the Hyperion, and goes to say:
  Captain: After I leave T here, events that involve you (Kongming) should end now. The seed was planted and the story is to be continued.
• In-Series Nickname: Kongming calls her "Ms. Ironfist" for the Power Fists that she has on her back. The Captain in "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" calls her "T".
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Continuing the Captain's tirade near the end of "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event, she goes on to say:
  If there are other onlookers at this moment, they must be expecting something of you - they expect you to bypass even more tragedies, until you reach a happy ending where everyone is safe and sound. They do not know or care what you've been through. What you've lost and found time and again are little more than tall tales to them, tales whose endings they think they know. But is what they believe the truth?
• Meaningful Echo: In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event, she reminisces about what the Captain said to her in a "distant future"; that to understand humanity, she can't be just an onlooker and that she has to stand right next to them and see what they see. Now this is what she's trying to do, as she asks the Captain about what his eyes fell upon. She also explains that that's why the "future Captain" (who's the real player of this "chess game") to send the current captain to this world and time as a "pawn". So that he's both an "onlooker" and a "participant".
• The Nicknamer: She calls the Captain "skipper" and Kongming "fortune teller".
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Small and cute as she may look, those robot fists on her back aren't just for show. Even (this story's version of) Raven would rather think twice before messing with her after seeing her power. As a playable ELF, her ultimate skill is a Rapidfire Fisticuffs with her robot fists before finishing with a falling punch that creates a strong localized explosion.
• Stable Time Loop: Judging from both events she's in, it looks like she doesn't have a clear point of origin. The end of "Honkai Kingdoms: Zero" has the Captain leaving her behind in the past while he goes back to the present in his Hyperion. 1000 years later, in "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", the Captain from the "Odd Drifter" event gets to find her being deactivated, and goes to use her to go back in time several times until the end, where she helps the Captain to transport Kongming with him to his Hyperion. This leads back to the HK: Zero's opening where he goes back 1000 years to the past with her again.
• Time Master: In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event, she can seemingly transport the Captain back in time to undo whatever events that may cause Kongming's death. However, in the end, she reveals that she wasn't the cause of all the "consciousness mappings" - it's all the Captain himself. She only set up the locations and thresholds for him to move through spacetime, and later, makes him realize this ability.
  Tesla-Zero: There seems to be some misunderstanding. After all, I'm a man-made item. I'm not the cause of your consciousness mappings. It's all you. ... I'm not the game changer you wish to be. I'm merely left here to help you change the game yourself.
• Walking Spoiler: When she finally "wakes up" for real and gets to speak again in the end of "The Day You Vanished With The Stars", that's where she blurts out several big infos that explains everything that happened in the event.
• Walk on Water: In the final stage of "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event, she seemingly walks on a river with numerous floating lanterns on them. The river is implied to be "the passage of time" and the lanterns show the "events in time" that the Captain has witnessed before. At the end of the "stage", there are a lot more lanterns before her, seemingly in reference to her words that the "ending" to this story is constantly being modified. After the stage ends, the next scene shows the Captain waking up, implying that she was talking to him inside his dreams.

Bella

Voiced by: Yaxin Wang ^*王雅欣 (Chinese), Yukana (Japanese)

An ELF made from a sample of Benares' scales and some amount of Soulium; she's based on Benares' human form, also called Bella. First appearing in version 4.1.

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• Animal Motifs: Dragons, befitting the Honkai Beast she's based on.
• Critical Hit: In a variant, one of her skills gives her attacks 50% chance to deal big bonus lightning damage, with a cooldown of 6 seconds. This is separate from her CRT stat.
• Damage-Increasing Debuff: Her Ultimate Skill makes the enemies hit take a bit more lightning damage for 6 seconds afterward. 2 of her sub-skills increase the lightning damage boost and its duration.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Downplayed. She prefers the name "Bella", but she's fine to be called "Benares".
• Healing Hands: One of her skills makes her automatically heal the on-field character when her HP drops below 50%, with 50 seconds cooldown. Her sub-skills increase the healing and decreases its cooldown.
• I Am a Monster: While she understands that no one minds her origins (being made from a Honkai Beast), she still feels doubtful of herself, of whether she can really be humanity's friend despite her origins. She seemingly has an existential crisis as she ask "why was I made this way?"
• Instrument of Murder: Her weapon is a big harp shaped like a dragon's wing, which normally floats behind her. She shoots lightning arrows with it when she plucks its strings.
• Past-Life Memories: Implied. One of her lines has her saying that a girl called Kiana Kaslana "smells familiar" to her, and she feels that she wants to protect Kiana. It refers to Kiana taming Benares in ch. 17 because the beast knows of her as its master, Herrscher of the Void.
• Rain of Arrows: In a variant, her Ultimate Skill has her shoot a stream of arrows to her target, followed by a strong arrow that then causes a lightning bolt to strike from above.
• Shock and Awe: She primarily attacks with lightning.
• Situational Sword: Some of her passive skills increase her damage output whenever there's only one enemy on the field, making her suitable on most boss fights.
• Synchronization: Gameplay-wise, at least. She has a passive skill that boosts the elemental damage of your team if you set someone with "fast attacks" as its leader (such as Shadow Knight or Valkyrie Pledge), and another skill that boosts the lightning damage of your team if its leader is a lightning damage dealer. There's also a skill that increases her own damage output if your team has at least 1 lightning damage dealer.
• Undying Loyalty: She's loyal to her duty as humanity's friend and to fight the Honkai. However, this gives her conflicted feelings towards Kiana (whom she feels a desire to protect) as she knows Kiana is a Herrscher and thus is (supposed to be) an enemy of humanity.

Water's Edge

Voiced by: Ruriko Aoki (Japanese)

An ELF based on Cheng Lixue, Fu Hua's disciple who died in the battle against the 2nd Herrscher. She's named after the sword that Lixue used to wield. Introduced in version 4.7.

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• New Transfer Student: In ELF Academy, she’s sent to the titular school but gets lost on the way and stumbles upon a den of Honkai zombies instead. After she teaches them "acupuncture", the zombies become her servants and accompany her to the Academy, to the shock of everyone.
• The Pollyanna: Nothing seems to faze her on her way to the ELF Academy, as she takes everything the zombies throw at her as either an act of kindness or a special training.
• You Will Not Evade Me: Her special skill as an ELF is to create a whirlpool that gathers enemies to one location for several seconds, making them easier to wipe out.

Klein

Voiced by: Miho Okasaki (Japanese)

The ELF in charge of maintaining the Elysian Realm until the day it has served its purpose. She is modeled after Möbius’ assistant Klein, who passed away long ago. Playable since version 5.2.

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• Cute Oversized Sleeves: Klein's sleeves reach well past her hands, enhancing the strange cute factor of her appearance. This doesn't seem to hinder her in any way, as she is shown performing her tasks as normal.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Downplayed, but when she surfaces on the moon in ch. 32, her conversations with Seele and Sora reveal that she's feeling rather lost and purposeless since as the sole maintenance crew for the Elysian Realm, its destruction took away the job she was created for.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Played with. She has a human body with an ant-like gaster attached to her rear end.
• Meaningful Name: "Klein" is German for "small", fitting her short stature as an ELF. She is also named after the Klein bottle just like how Möbius is named after the Möbius strip.
• Replacement Goldfish: While she considers herself as her own person, it’s heavily implied that Möbius gave her her assistant's name and appearance because she was the one person she actually cared about.
• That Man Is Dead: Played with. When Elysia tries to awaken Klein's memories of her "past self", the latter clarifies that the "other" Klein is dead and that she didn't inherit any of her memories.

Aliens

No, we're not kidding. Media and backstories related to Post-Honkai Odyssey reveal that beyond the Honkai, extraterrestrial forces exist, and they either watch over us, or are planning to invade our system.

The Sugars

A race of fuzzball-shaped aliens that usually reside within a pocket dimension, watching over humanity as they struggle against the Honkai. They oppose the Sky People, but have chosen not to aid humanity, and are considering leaving Earth once scouts of the Sky People are spotted in 2005. They're first formally introduced in "Alien Space" comic, with one of them, Peppermint, being the close friend of Murata Ryusuke.

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• Adorable Abomination: Most people perceive them as cute tiny fuzzballs with distinguishing characteristics depending on personality, but Ryusuke claims that they're much stronger than Welt, who is a Herrscher. Not only that, but their form when powering up a host is almost Eldritch-like, what with their blue tentacles and ominous red eye.
• Doomed Hometown: Their home planet was devastated by the Sky People, so they traveled far and wide across the galaxy before ending up on Earth. They fear that the same fate awaits humanity, but decided against interfering in the latter's affairs.
• Edible Theme Naming: All of the named Sugars are named after various types of candy. Peppermint, Lady Toffee, Uncle Konpeito, and so on.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Inverted. Once you enter their home dimension, you are turned into a fuzzball-shaped version of yourself instead, with your most distinguishable features coming at the forefront. Welt has to compose with the fact that the Star of Eden didn't shrink while he's in the world of the Sugars.
• Masquerade: Peppermint and his alien relatives normally lived hidden from humanity, and tried not to reveal their existence except to a select few trusted humans. When Peppermint first went out to find a good human to be his partner (in the past), he saw Ryusuke and felt that he can relate to the man for being "nail-headed" like him, so he decided to be partners with the scientist. Later in the present, when Ryusuke meets Welt in Himeko's dorm house, the former feels that Welt is someone he can negotiate peacefully with (after he checks Welt's background), so he decides to let Welt in on the secret of the alien.
• Neutrality Backlash: Despite having the power to challenge the Sky People and even the Honkai, the Sugars don't want to interact with humans and thus stay on the sidelines as the human civilization struggles against the Honkai. Throughout the Alien Space comic, Uncle Konpeito warns the youthful Peppermint to not mingle with humans, claiming that he has not seen the worst of humanity yet. Uncle Konpeito's fears become true as Ryusuke succumbs to his ambitions and turns on the Sugars, forcefully taking away their powers and enslaving them, all while belittling the Sugars for their neutrality.
• Nonhuman Sidekick: The Sugars are normally tiny-looking fuzzballs who are visible only to the people they choose to tag along with. In Alien Space, Peppermint tries to work with the native inhabitants of the planet in secret, in order to stop the "Sky People" from invading the Earth.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: The diminutive Sugars normally bond to a human host in order to manifest their powers, but can sometimes create a human body to move around, though they'll complain how it feels clumsier than their normal body. This is best shown at the end of the Alien Space comic, where the Sugar sent to retrieve Welt and the Void Archives takes the form of a woman whose appearance and mannerisms are remarkably similar to the late Shub-Niggurath.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Peppermint believes that he can work with humanity in order to stop the Sky People's plans. Konpeito (the alien's relative) says that he (Peppermint) hasn't seen the "dark side" of humanity, probably not helped by how he's only 10 years old.
• The Worf Effect: The Sugars are said to have controlled the Honkai of their own planet and have created various advanced technology. However, they're no match for the Sky People, which forced them to flee their planet.
• You Can See Me?: Peppermint got concerned when Ryusuke encountered Welt; the latter can see his "alien aura" when other people cannot.

The Sky People

A hostile race of aliens that invades countless planets for their resources, crushing any civilization that stands in their way. They are the underlying antagonists of Post-Honkai Odyssey and its related comic, Alien Space.

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• Greater-Scope Villain: For once, these are antagonists that expand beyond the scope of the Honkai, and are the reason the Void Archives is active during the events of Post-Honkai Odyssey. Some of their scouts have been sighted as far back as 2005, though their main invasion force does not come into the picture until over two decades later.
• Planet Looters: Their modus operandi, as described by the Sugars, is to send Vanguard Stones to scout planets that house civilizations, then send an invasion force that's strong enough to crush said civilizations, before harvesting the planet's resources and erase all traces of the defeated civilization's existence once they're done.
• Starfish Language: Their language is translated in the Alien Space comic as nothing but squares instead of letters, on top a red speech bubble. They do, however, include expressive punctuation and symbols for objects they don't recognize such as Welt's glasses, which the Void Archives manages to pass off as proof of high status to a confused grunt while disguised.

Sa (Unmarked Spoilers for Chapter 37 onwards)

The master of the Sky People. Originally a researcher from Venus which was also fighting against Honkai, she tried to harvest the energy from the Sea of Quanta to combat it. In a final act of desperation she flooded her planet with the Sea, killing all of the survivors but turning herself into a god like being mimicking Honkai's Cocoon of Finality.

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• A God Am I: Her transformation made her a god-like being, capable of granting destructive "wishes", and forcing her former coworkers to continue existing under her control.
• Bad Boss: From what we can see, she used to be a Benevolent Boss before the flood. Nowadays, she likes to toy with her former coworkers and even reset their memories the moment they show any dissent, even if they would rather die than keep working for her.
• Evil Overlord: She is a god-like being, existing within the Sea of Quanta while using her vast army and copies to invade and harvest worlds. She is said to rarely take direct action, instead observing from deep within the Sea and letting her victims destroy themselves through the "blessings" she grants.
• Fallen Hero: Once the hope of her planet, she is now a tyrant ruling over her former coworkers and people with an iron fist while destroying countless worlds just like the Honkai did.
• Godhood Seeker: Her ultimate goal is to ascend beyond a physical form and rule over the Sea of Quanta as a Cocoon equal to the Finality. For this, she has devoured multiple bubble universes and repeatedly "reset" her experimental world.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The true master of the Sky People, ruthlessly harvesting worlds to sustain herself as a pseudo-God of the Sea. With the conclusion of Part 1, she seems to be set to become a new major threat on par with the Honkai.
• I Hate Past Me: In her pursuit of true godhood, she has completely abandoned her former self and attempted to shed away every trace of humanity. The flashback of her interactions with Vita reveal her disgust with her "assistant", a being that seems to embody everything that she once was.
• Industrialized Evil: She oversees a system that creates, builds, and then harvests entire bubble universes for their energy. Her servants also oversee the harvesting of planets, destroying an untold number of civilizations to supply the power she needs for her full ascension.
• Lady in a Power Suit: She is a being of god-like power, compared to the Cocoon of Finality in strength. And she wears a stylish outfit modeled after a pant-suit, suited to her authority and control over others.
• Last of His Kind: The last of the Venusians, as a direct result of her own desperate actions.
• Loss of Identity: By her own admission, the closer she comes to true godhood, the more her personality and consciousness is diluted by all the power she absorbed, leaving her a shell driven by duty with no humanity left. This is partially by choice both since she believes it's the only to make a new home for her people and because she hates who she used to be.
• Mirror Character: To Su, who is eventually revealed to be the mysterious party responsible for revealing Sa's existence to the protagonists. Both are powerful psychics with very similar powers, that survived the destruction of their civilizations and have spent thousands of years slowly ascending beyond the constraints of their physical forms. Su even warns that their powers are very similar, but that Sa has become obsessed with godhood and forcefully destroying to gain power as opposed to Su's observation and guidance from beyond. While they are not confirmed to be alternate versions, they mirror each other as similar individuals that went down very different paths as they obtained greater power.
• The Omniscient: She possesses a level of omniscience that makes fighting against her extremely challenging, observing the destruction of worlds and easily countering efforts to save them. Nothing short of other paradoxical beings from the Sea are capable of even hoping to counter this ability.
• Outside-Context Problem: This is the primary reason Kiana isn't able to swoop in and deal with the threat she poses - Kiana's abilities stem from the Imaginary Tree, while Sa is based in the Sea of Quanta, both of which are diametrically opposed. As a result, Kiana is only vaguely aware of any major events that happen inside the Sea at best, and thus has no real idea where Sa actually is in order to launch an attack.
• Reality Warper: As a pseudo-Cocoon of Finality, her powers extend to this as well. She mostly uses it to grant the wishes of the people within Bubble Universes in ways that ensure their destruction and make their energy easy picking for her drones.
• Really 700 Years Old: While she looks like she's the same age as the playable characters, she has been destroying worlds for millennia in her pursuit of becoming a force equal to the Cocoon of Finality.
• That Man Is Dead: How she feels about herself from before she became Sa. It's to the point that when you play as her any mention of her old name is censored and she has a visceral reaction when an old coworker calls her by it.

Vita (Unmarked Spoilers for Chapter 37 onwards)

Voiced by: Yan Yeqiao ^*闫夜桥 (Chinese), Yōko Hikasa (Japanese)

^*spoiler*

An agent of Sa, created in her image and responsible for overseeing the culling of worlds. She encounters Seele in Salt Snow Holy City, while posing as one of the residents.

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• Apocalypse Maiden: Her appearing within a Bubble universe means that said universe is effectively marked for destruction by Sa.
• Artificial Human: As a creation of Sa she is an artificial lifeform. Since Sa used herself as a template, though, it functionally doesn't make a difference besides the fact that Vita doesn't age.
• Cool Big Sis: To the younger Vitas, who all view her as their beloved older sister and eagerly await her visits. She claims to not care about them, but this is ultimately proven to be false.
• Dragon Ascendant: Vita bides her time during the climatic battle against her former master, remaining in hiding until Sa is defeated and forced to retreat. Vita betrays her master and claims the "Eyes" for herself, though whether she will continue culling bubble universes or do something else remains unknown. She parts ways with the protagonists on relatively peaceful terms, with no indication of what she intends to do next.
• Dragon with an Agenda: She served as Sa's main assistant throughout the centuries, but eagerly takes the first chance to break free and begin working towards her own agenda. After Fu Hua and Griseo are able to defeat Sa's physical form and drive her back into the Sea, Vita is waiting to claim her prize.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: In her Sa outfit she mostly copies her outfit but loses one pant leg.
• Meaningful Rename: She originally didn't have a name since she was only meant to be a proxy, but she eventually takes on Sa's abandoned name Vita to show her appreciation of life and mark herself as an individual.
• Playing Both Sides: Vita does this throughout the entire story, first with Seele's group and later with Griseo. As a Gambit Pileup occurs, Vita is patiently waiting to claim first her freedom and then her master's power.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Once she is revealed to be an agent of Sa, she makes it very clear that she does not like working for Sa and considers destroying worlds as a duty she can't get out of. Unsurprisingly, she has long grown sick of doing Sa's dirty work and takes the first chance she gets to break free from her.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: By the end of Chapter 39, she's finally able to break away from Sa's control and and promptly leaves to enjoy her new freedom.

Phosphorus Representatives

The Vitas

A group of seven identical children, responsible for overseeing the management of Phosphorus.

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• Artificial Human: They were created by Sa, which each embodying an aspect of her "virtues" that she chose to cast off.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Each Vita has a different color to identify them, which is used as their namesake.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: While all created from the female Sa, Cyan and Blue are both male.

Other

Dawei

Voiced by: Forrest Wei Liu ^*刘伟 (Chinese), Shunsuke Takeuchi (Japanese)

A.k.a "Big Wei" or "Brother Wei". The Author Avatar of miHoYo's co-founder, he mostly appears in events.

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• Butt-Monkey: He mostly serves as a comic figure where jokes and hijinks are made at his expense.
  • In the anniversary summer event, he was forced to become a receptionist at the miHoYo building; there's an event stage set in the building, with him sitting on the reception's desk. He apparently can be attacked by your playable character; this does nothing negative gameplay-wise, but it does lead to him reacting funnily.
  • In the "Odd Drifter" event, it's implied that the dead patron in the Pavilion is him, and he was thought to be murdered, but it turns out that he only died by slipping on a Banana Peel...that is, if you take Rita’s explanation at face value.
  • There are 2 live action videos that feature him; the first one has him being trapped inside an out-of-control Baldur robot, the second one has him being unwillingly used to fight Assaka. A third video is also made when he fights Durandal with "gacha power", only to lose and get impaled in the posterior for his troubles.
• The Faceless: His "face" is only a pair of eyebrows and the hanzi for "Wei".
• Finger-Tenting: His NPC model in dialogue shots is locked into this pose.
• Riches to Rags: The anniversary summer event shows him being reduced to walking on the streets after Bronya buys a significant amount of miHoYo's stocks in order to take over the company. One story of the event focuses on you trying to help him get back to be the head of the company again, although he's thwarted in the end.
• Running Gag: Almost always, whenever he appears, he says that he’s sold something that he owned in order to give you certain goodies.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears the standard 3-piece suit.

Sora

Voiced by: Hana Tamegai (Japanese)

A little girl that Mei and Tesla find in the ruins of Nagazora City. She's part of "the Roost", the refugee community in said ruins, built at high elevations to avoid the flooded part of the city and the Honkai Beasts.

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• Delicate and Sickly: She's covered in bandages, has one arm in a sling, and is constantly hooked to an IV drip that her robot carries around. Raven says that she (and the other kids) was born with incomplete stigmata; this helps them surviving the Honkai, but they would suffer withdrawal if there is little to no Honkai energy around them. They need regular medication to slowly activate the stigmata within them; Raven says that this is the least risky method to help them, and that World Serpent can help her with supplying.
• Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: A consequence of her amnesia is that she forgot when her birthday was, although the information found by her "sensei" and stored in Mark II made her aware of that part of her past.
• Dramatic Irony: In ch. 17, when Mei tells her that the former and Kiana "ran into some problems", she suggests Mei to give Kiana some curry as it made the refugee kids happy. However, when Mei comes back to her place, she eavesdrops on Kiana revealing herself to Einstein and Tesla that she already knows the things Mei tried to hide from her, and this (and the fact that Kiana also hides things from Mei) saddens Mei greatly. She then tries to cook curry for Kiana; the latter claims that it's "spicy" as always. When Mei walks out, she says that it's not a spicy curry - so that means Kiana is again acting happily in front of her (because Kiana has lost her sense of taste). In short, Sora's suggestion of making curry for Kiana to make her happy ends up with Kiana only pretending to be happy, giving Mei more problems and making her more distressed.
• Escort Mission: One stage each in ch. 16 and 17 have you as Mei escorting Sora, and you have to fight the Honkai Beasts that are in your way. Sora won't be hurt as she will conveniently "disappear" when a fight occurs.
• Hero-Worshipper: She adores her "sensei" very much for having saved her from the Honkai disaster and then taking care of her, teaching her many things so that she can live well and stay safe in the ruins. The other children of the Roost think similarly.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her pink hair covers her left eye. Her overall appearance gives her an image of a gloomy, downtrodden girl, but her personality subverts it.
• In the Hood: She wears a dark blue and black hoodie.
• Morality Pet: She's one (among the other refugees) for her "sensei", Raven. Despite being part of World Serpent and working as its assassin, she shows that she indeed cares for the innocent people in need. When she comes to the Roost in ch. 16, she has an argument with Mei about Kiana that escalates into a fight because Mei wants to protect her friend from Raven, who aims to kill Kiana because she's a Herrscher. It's only stopped when Sora comes out, asks her why she's fighting Mei who has been kind to them, and why she's not allowing Mei to reunite with her friend. In the end, Raven relents and agrees to help Mei out.
  Raven: Because her friend is dangerous. She may hurt you and everyone.
  Sora: Then... will Mei be able to see her again? ... She won't?
• Not in Front of the Kid:
  • Raven makes a point to Mei to not talk too deeply about the Honkai in front of the refugee kids, including Sora. She also never tells them about her real job.
  • In ch. 17, Sora notices that Mei looks upset, despite having found Kiana. She can't really tell what happened to the little girl, so she only says that they "ran into some problems".
• Parental Abandonment: She and most of the people in the Roost has lost their parents, mainly from the Honkai disasters.
• Plucky Girl: Despite her gloomy look and her situation, she's a lively and positive-thinking young girl. It helps that her "sensei" saved her life and taught her and the people of the Roost the way to live around the ruins, including how to "live well", and said sensei also gave her the Mark II and with it, the infos of her past life, as she's an amnesiac.
  The Nagazora City is gone, but we're still here, and we'll live on and live well to build a better tomorrow. Someday, we'll leave here and get to the other side of the sea, back to the sunny days. And our story will encourage someone else to live on with hope. I believe this is why sensei built this place, and why she gave Mark II and my past to me on my birthday.
• Robot Buddy: She has a small drone named "Mark II". It Was a Gift from her "sensei", and it helps her remember things she forgot and guides her around.
• Spell My Name With An S: Her name consists of a single kanji "空" ("sky"), but can be read in 2 ways: "Sora" or "Kuu". The English translation goes with the former, and most of the Japanese playerbase assumed that to be the reading as well, but it's later announced that "Kuu" is how it's officially pronounced.
• Teru-Teru Bōzu: One event for chapter 16 will have you collect "Sora's Bouzu" as the event currency to buy goodies. In ch. 17, Sora gives her bouzu to Mei, saying that she prayed to it every day that she can one day leave Nagazora and see the outside world; now that it has come true (her "sensei" has found another better place for the refugees to move into), she decides to give it to Mei, wishing for her wish to come true as well.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: it's implied that the Honkai eruption 3 years ago (the Third Honkai Impact) caused her to lose her memories. She could only know a few pieces of her past from the information that her "sensei" searched out for her. While her life might have been ordinary as she claims, she's still grateful that she can have access to her past, that it makes her feel "alive" even though her memories didn't actually come back.

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