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A fictional Fighting Game by Wax.

The game's plot revolves around the Justice Fist, a tournament held by the Kahn Company. While the tournament is a PR stunt by Waldemar Kahn to show a good face, it hides more nefarious motives...

Gameplay is meant to be 3D and based on strings and the neutral game, with combos being very restricted.

Tropes associated with SEIKEN:

• Blocking Stops All Damage
• Evil Counterpart: Alluded to, as each character has a specific rival. However, the characters are different, the pairs closest to this being Kornelia and Kai, and the rival in this case is not evil, only Darker and Edgier.
• Frills of Justice: Aoife's dress and Ritsuka's Magical Girl Warrior costume.
• Kissing Cousins: Averted. Kai and Kornelia are Heterosexual Life-Partners, but not interested in each other.
• Launcher Move: A few, but they're generally slow and not key to the game.
• Little Miss Badass: Dearbhla and Komachi are very small, yet nothing stops them from beating the rest of the cast.
• Magical Girl: The two magical girls present are (or were in Kinu's case) of the Magical Girl Warrior type. Ritsuka is now a Magic Idol Singer.
  • Double Subverted with Kinu, who retired from "the whole magical-girling thing", yet still uses the power she has.
• Male Might, Female Finesse: While a general case within the game, this isn't a rule set in stone. Emphasized by Aoife and Yin, with Yin recognizing her as "stronger" than him.
• MegaCorp: There's a few huge familial enterprises. The Kahn Company is the most prominent due to being the center of attention with the Justice Fist, but Kinu is also heir to a huge enterprise.
• Moveset Clone: A few moves are shared between characters.
  • Kornelia and Sieglinde have a variation on Waldemar's Justice Fist, but the one common point between the three moves is that they're power punches with the right hand that knock the opponent down.
  • Surprisingly, Mana has Xarath's Infection attack (though they differ due to their different elemental powers). The characters have no link to each other.
• Not Just a Tournament: The fact that Waldemar has hired the Monaghan sisters to track down dark powers hint at this, and almost everyone has an agenda beyond just the tournament itself.
• Phenotype Stereotype: The Asian characters all have black hair, except Kinu and Ritsuka, and the latter only in her Magical Girl form, as well as Komachi, who has hair going from light brown to purple.
  • Kornelia completely averts this, having fiery orange hair despite being the daughter of Waldemar, a blonde, and Mana, a Japanese brunette.
• Practical Taunt: Many stances, such as Kinu provoking her opponent as a stance or Kai willingly letting down his guard. All of them have potent counter-hit tools out of their stances.
• The Rival: Ten pairs of characters are specific rivals to each other, though each character has an alternate rival that's unlocked after beating arcade mode once.
• Urban Fantasy: The two main elements of the game are the huge corporations and magic (with exorcists, Magical Girls, demons, and an ascended immortal, oh my).
• Wrestler in All of Us: Some characters use pro-wrestling moves, namely Kinu, Alvin, and Xarath.

Characters:

Kornelia Kahn

The main heroine and Waldemar Kahn's daughter. She ran away from home and travels with her friend Kai, though they come for the tournament.

Tropes associated with Kornelia:

• But Not Too Foreign: Played with: She is half-Japanese, but she shows this on her family name, Nishina-Kahn, using her Japanese mother's family name first.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Her motivation.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: Attempts to defy this, despite not having seen her mother since she was a kid. She also inherited much more from her father than from her mother, being tall and having few Japanese features.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Sieglinde has to say this to Kornelia during their alternate boss encounter. However, Kornelia is suspicious of Sieglinde due to circumstances (and not knowing what Sieglinde actually looks like).

Knightmare

A British Dragoon who has fused himself to his Powered Armor to dedicate himself to serving the country.

Tropes associated with Knightmare:

• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Despite being functionally a living Powered Armor entirely made of metal, he's as easy to knock out as the other characters.
• Undying Loyalty: To his country, but primarily to Princess Eulalia.

Julia de Villepin

Julia de Villepin

A French lawyer assistant with ties to the Knights Templar. After settling one too many court cases, she investigates the Kahn Company by herself.

Tropes associated with Julia:

• Black-and-White Morality: Her special education made her very knowledgeable about the word of the law, but not very much critical thinking, leaving her with little idea when to loosen up.
• Hypocrite: Her alternate rival, Xarath, calls her out when she says she'll arrest him for going on his own and solving the problem physically, because that's exactly what she's doing. She settles for calling him out for his murders.
• Improbable Age: Working law cases at 21. That's because she benefited from special education.
• Inspector Javert: Her alternate rival fight has her try to arrest Xarath.

Dearbhla Monaghan

An Irish exorcist employed by Kahn to find dark powers that would show up in the Justice Fist. However, Kahn also hired an assassin to kill her.

Tropes associated with Dearbhla:

• Fairy Sexy: While not actually a fairy, just a human who happens to be small and has a fey-influenced visual motif.
• Flash Step: She's extremely fast, and some of her moves have these.
• Little Miss Snarker: Dearbhla is a lot smaller than her sisters (and the rest of the cast), but that doesn't stop her from giving sass to even Kahn.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Assisted with magical power and speed, she has no problem topping the bigger guys in the setting.
• Stripperiffic: Dearbhla wears a leaf-themed bra and skirt and that's about it. Despite looking young due to being small (her sisters Deirdre and Aoife being tall doesn't help), she's 20.

Yin Xian

A wandering kenpo fighter from China. He enters because he thinks the only fighter he didn't defeat, a mesmerizing woman braver than him, will be there.

Tropes associated with Yin:

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Not exactly obvious, but the odd line here and there shows he entered for a challenge. Justified, as it took Aoife to tie with him.
• The Dandy: He is very obsessed with his looks.
• Male Might, Female Finesse: Inverted in his dynamic with Aoife, where she applies more force while he relies on precision and technique to make his hits count.

Rui Xian

Yin's sister and a practitioner of Wing Chun. She has been tracking Yin down for five years, and wants to win the tournament to pay her mother's hospital fee.

Tropes associated with Rui:

• Funny Bruce Lee Noises: Her taunt has her do a high-pitched "WOOOOAAAAAAAH!"
• Long-Lost Relative: Yin and her haven't met in their entire lives.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Frequently throws a few punches in quick succession.

Cain Barlow

An American politician who dons his wrestler mask to enter the Justice Fist, to defend the interest of his country.

Tropes associated with Cain:

• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a Shout-Out to Kane.

Komachi Enomoto

A young demon-girl from Japan. Small, weak, and frail by her own admission, she enters only as a favor to a friend.

Tropes associated with Komachi:

• Anime Hair: While her haircut is nothing special, her hair color is gradiented from light brown to purple.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Komachi is a demon... but she's also the sweetest character in the entire playable cast.
• Fighting Clown: Her occasional comical ineptitude seeps into her animations.
• Forgetful Jones: She has a tendency to forget things. As Kornelia's alternate rival, she forgot that she was supposed to leave with Kornelia to Japan.
• Genki Girl: For the most part, as she tires easily.
• Horned Humanoid
• Lethal Joke Character: She has weak fundamentals, but her flying mixups are hard to deal with.
• Meaningful Rename: To signify her adoption into the demon clans. Kinu knew her as Kuroda a few years prior.
• Winged Humanoid

Alvin Jones

Alvin Jones

An African-American who pacified his neighborhood with martial arts. After being attacked by a vigilante, he enters suspecting that he will be here.

Tropes associated with Alvin:

• Bar Brawl: He fought in a three-way fight between Xarath, himself, and five men armed with knives.
• Bully Hunter: More or less why he's after Xarath - to prove that you don't solve problems by stabbing the other side.
• Good Is Not Soft
• Martial Pacifist

Coline Roosevelt

A mysterious maid who enters the Justice Fist for purposes unknown.

Tropes associated with Coline:

• Ninja Maid: Enters a fighting tournament wearing a maid outfit and has the competence to stay in.
• Robot Girl

Kai Rey Meyer

A friend of Kornelia, she currently travels with him. His mother killed and his father framed for the crime, he gets from a tip that the Kahn Company is involved.

Tropes associated with Kai:

• Calling the Old Man Out: Exaggerated. Even though Waldemar is his uncle rather than his father, he's here to kill him, regardless of whether or not Kornelia agrees.
• Good Old Fisticuffs
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's 6'6".
• Unskilled, but Strong: He fights using his size and brutality.
• You Killed My Father: To be exact, "you killed my mother". But Waldemar also framed Kai's father for the murder, and Kai's father is currently in jail.

Brodie Blackpool

A pro wrestler from the British circuit. Known for his aggressive attitude and dirty fighting style, he is employed as a secret agent by Princess Eulalia, and infiltrates Kahn's clique.

Tropes associated with Brodie:

• Combat Pragmatist: Has a lot of dirty moves that would be illegal in wrestling.
• Friendly Rival: Averted. He and Knightmare know they are working for the same person, with the same objective, but their personalities are so at odds with each other, they fight anyway.

Deirdre Monaghan

The black sheep of the Monaghan family, generally under the protection of her sisters to check on the curse that's afflicting her since youth.

Tropes associated with Deirdre:

• Detect Evil: Inverted: she detects Julia's holy power when they fight.
• Facial Markings: She has marks around her left eye, symbolizing the demonic power devouring her and a seal applied around it.
• Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: An exorcist whose main mark is being cursed by a dark power.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She's regarded as the more feminine of the Monaghan sisters because her hair is the longest (though it's also for being far less physical than her sisters, the two kind of relate).
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She insults Pamela in her alternate rival fight with her, as she can't believe a foreign exorcist, who might help with curing her, is out to kill her instead. Considering she's been sick and her family's been looking for a solution for eleven years, one could understand the frustration getting to her.
• Plucky Girl: While she does let frustration get to her in her alternate rival fight against Pamela, Mana notes in her rival fight against her that her power is crazy if she's been enduring a curse for this long.
• Reluctant Warrior: She's not fond of fighting at all.

Pamela Allen

The daughter of exorcists who moved from Ireland to America. She's out to kill the Monaghan sisters after learning of their intercontinental fame.

Tropes associated with Pamela:

• Always Someone Better: She's driven by envy of the Monaghan clan's success.
• Boyish Short Hair: Like Aoife, she claims to take a more "realistic" approach to exorcism.
• Professional Killer: Pamela is normally an exorcist, but hired herself out to Kahn as one to kill the entire Monaghan family.
• Psycho for Hire: While at first, killing was foreign business to her, she enjoyed the thrill on her attempt on Dearbhla's life enough that it's starting to settle in, as she notices herself.

Aoife Monaghan

The oldest of the Monaghan exorcist sisters, and a notoriously strong fighter. While present to protect her sister, she enters the competition for its own sake.

Tropes associated with Aoife:

• Amazonian Beauty: Averted. Yin fell in love with her not because she's "stronger than him", but for Kicking Ass in All Her Finery.
• Cool Big Sis: She's very supportive of her sisters.
• Meaningful Name: Aoife fits for a beautiful woman warrior, as the figure from Irish mythology she's named after.
• Pimped-Out Dress: She's known for wearing these, and many of her quotes allude to this.

Ritsuka Minami

A former magical girl, now an idol singer as part of the group Quadrant A. She recently got back into shape to fight in the Justice Fist to cover an investigation.

Tropes associated with Ritsuka:

• Badass Bookworm: She's bookish.
• Badass Pacifist: As befits the dedicated defensive character in the game, she doesn't do much of the attacking herself.
• Finger Poke of Doom: For one of her grabs, she flicks the opponent's forehead.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: One of her intros shows her glasses, that she tosses away.
• An Ice Person
• Older Alter Ego: Averted, though alluded to, as her transformed form barely changed even though it's been five years since the last time she fought.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: Outside of being on stage, she almost needs to be transformed to muster up the courage to speak.
• The Smart Girl: As far as her group is concerned.

Sana Sangster

A groupmate of Ritsuka's, who secretly prepared for the tournament as Ristuka did. Unlike Ritsuka, she never really was out of fighting shape.

Tropes associated with Sana:

• Audible Sharpness: Many of her chops actually have slash visual and audible cues. Regardless, they never cut.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her trademark color is purple, and she is said to be stronger than Ritsuka.

Kinu Naito

A former magical girl, now the heir to a minor business in Japan. Despite her past, she's a corporate rogue with no loyalty to anyone but herself.

Tropes associated with Kinu:

• Badass in a Nice Suit: Surprisingly, she's the one fighting in a white suit, even though the game has characters much richer than her.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Don't trust her Magical Girl-esque pink hair and white suit.
• Brought Down to Normal: Kinu's retirement from the Magical Girl Warrior life (and her cynical personality and "take all I can" motto) was her mother undergoing this.
• Girlish Pigtails: She has two very small ones.
• Pink Heroine: She used to be one.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Subverted. Kinu has pink hair, but is a cynical, selfish, and provocative person.
• Spinning Out of Here: Her teleport.
• Teleport Spam
• Wild Card: Written out in her bio, she's "a corporate rogue with no loyalty but to herself".

Xarath Saber

A vigilante with a skull mask, who is known for hunting down corrupt corporate leaders. He enters the Justice Fist, with Waldemar Kahn as his current target.

Tropes associated with Xarath:

• 0% Approval Rating: No other character likes him. not the heroes, not the villains. The only character with any measure of respect for him is Alvin.
• '90s Anti-Hero: Canon-wise inspired by those. He takes a propensity for using violent methods, yet honest and good motives from them.
• Cool Mask: Xarath wears a plastic facecover mask with a skull motif.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In his ending, he gives one to Waldemar, setting him on fire and tying his neck to a rope before kicking him out a window.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Wears a skull-themed facecover and an otherwise all-black outfit, but despite his use of violence, he's not evil outright.
• Darker and Edgier: Surprisingly considers Kai this to him in an alternate rival conversation, though under the mistaken belief that Kai kidnapped Kornelia to hurt Kahn.
• The Faceless: He always conceals his face.
• Good Is Not Nice
• Greyscale of Evil: His outfit is nearly all black, and whatever isn't is white motifs. He's an Anti-Hero.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He's generally unhappy and bitter, mostly because of what he's doing, though he argues "someone has to do it".
• Loners Are Freaks: His status as an asocial loner is obvious in how he communicates with people.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: In the Bar Brawl that started Alvin's quest to find him, he didn't give more than a few bruises to Alvin, while the five aggressors after him were hospitalized with stab wounds from their own knives.
• The Power of Hate: He learned his dark magic through this, hence the Red and Black and Evil All Over motif his powers have as opposed to his own black-and-white.
• Pragmatic Hero
• Scare 'Em Straight
• Shout-Out: Inspired in design by comic book anti-heroes like Batman and The Punisher.
• Vigilante Execution: His intention for Kahn. He notes it to be an extreme case in his dialogue with Julia, where she calls him a repeat murderer and he points out he killed exactly two persons.
• Vigilante Man
• Would Not Shoot a Good Guy

Nicole Rosenwald

A girl often seen at Kahn's side. Actually a hostage that he coerces into staying as pressure to her politically-affluent father. Nicole is clearly destabilized by this, and who knows what one year of isolation has done to her mental state...

Tropes associated with Nicole:

• Combat Pragmatist: Justified, as there is nothing she won't do to stay alive.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: She is weak and fragile compared to the real fighters around here, but remains a threat due to sheer unpredictability.
• Nervous Wreck: Being kidnapped by Kahn from her previous lavish life has been a huge shock to her to say the least.
• Psycho Electro: She has electric powers, and the timing of her developing those is suspiciously close to her kidnapping.

Waldemar Kahn

The Big Bad and true organizer of the Justice Fist. A ruthless corporation leader known as the European Terror to other businesses. Who knows what he's after..?

Tropes associated with Waldemar:

• 0% Approval Rating: Everybody is suspicious of him or after him. Considering his portfolio seen lower, it's entirely justified.
• Abusive Parents: As his marriage and parenthood weren't out of love and didn't go as he wanted, it's little surprise he became this in no time.
• Badass Normal: His goal is to obtain magical power, especially of the dark nature. While he hasn't achieved that goal yet, he fights using raw physical power.
• Big Bad: Despite his status as The Heavy, though, he's only the penultimate boss.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: He has a lot of bad blood with his family, and is the root cause of it. Most stems from his loveless marriage with Sieglinde (who has since taken her old identity as Mana Nishina) and their daughter Kornelia. But, by getting his sister assassinated, he also earned the hatred of her son, who is none other than Kai.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Especially obvious with Xarath, who got his dark powers and honed them on his own. Considering this is what Kahn had been seeking his entire life, his frustration can be understood.

Spoiler characters

Diligence Goodwin

The Final Boss. She lurks around the Justice Fist site with the aim to smite evil, but does not enter the tournament.

Tropes associated with Diligence:

• All There in the Manual: Nothing actually hints at her family name.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: While she is a demon hunter seeking to kill Kahn, she shows up entirely unannounced and doesn't enter the Justice Fist, instead ambushing the winner.
• No Sense of Humor: She's extremely serious and doesn't do small talk.
• Really 700 Years Old: She's 411 years old.
• Religious Bruiser: Diligence is named after one of the Seven Heavenly Virtues for a reason.
• Save the Villain: Half the characters are saving Kahn from her.
• SNK Boss: As the Final Boss, Diligence doesn't hold a bit back. She innately regenerates health. Her Ascension Stance, mimicked from Ritsuka, now also has the same parry properties, though she doesn't access Ritsuka's assists. She can also maintain flight like Komachi, while her playable version can't (and doesn't have Komachi's tiredness drawback). Her Purifier transitions into a throw on hit with no need of a clean hit, and said animation now deals more damage and leaves her with enough advantage for a guaranteed followup. Her Sphere of Destruction move is also now an Invulnerable Attack.

Sieglinde Kahn / Mana Nishina

Sieglinde Kahn

Waldemar's wife and Kornelia's mother. Kahn married her because of her demon blood, but she ran from home when Kornelia was 8. She comes to abduct Kornelia.

Tropes associated with Sieglinde:

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has the obvious Japanese dark hair, but is only aloof due to lurking near the tournament site and not wanting to be found out by Waldemar.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Regardless of the form, she is generally helpful or polite, but not to be trifled with
• Confusion Fu: She has a lot of stance transitions, each of which can lead to many, many different moves.
• Good Is Not Soft: She has moves that are considerably brutal compared to most other females, though more due to lethal precision than overwhelming size.
• Lady of War: Actually the quintessential one in this game.
• Missing Mom: To Kornelia. She's been absent for 10 years.
• Mom Looks Like a Sister: She's Kornelia's mother, yet is much smaller than her and maintains a young look, making her look younger than her own daughter.
• True Final Boss: Once unlocked, she can be an alternate one-woman Boss Bonanza for Kornelia, with Sieglinde serving as the penultimate boss and turning into Mana as the Final Boss.

Mana Nishina

Sieglinde's true name, used for her One-Winged Angel form. She uses a style much less grounded in normal martial arts, instead fully using her demonic powers.

Tropes associated with Mana:

(Warning: Story tropes already associated with Sieglinde won't show up unless some specific precisions apply to her gameplay incarnation.)

• Body Paint: Her base costumes as Mana always are the same as those she has as Sieglinde, except she takes her top off to reveal this.
• Confusion Fu: Even greater than Sieglinde, as she gains access to specific command grabs, one of them ranged, and even a few unblockables.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite her demon blood, she remains a nice person.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Sieglinde uses moves grounded in reality, but Mana doesn't pretend to be normal.
• Final Boss: She's only an alternate Final Boss exclusive to Kornelia.
• Moveset Clone: Partially, though justified: she is Sieglinde.
• One-Winged Angel: She's just Sieglinde using her demonic powers and her birth name.
• Power Echoes: Her Kiais echo in this form.
• Turns Red: A One-Winged Angel form with greater offensive capabilities.

Frugal Blaunstein

A parody character. A powerful paramilitary contractor who lives on a boat.

Tropes associated with Frugal:

• Affectionate Parody: He's really just a young guy trying to be Rugal from King of Fighters '94.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Embodied. He shows up as an Optional Boss out of nowhere, for a one-off fight that has no impact whatsoever.
• Fighting Clown: He looks like he's not taking the fighting all that seriously.
• Optional Boss: After being unlocked, he can appear just before the rival fight at random.