Line #312 Characters/TheSecondArchonWar


1	This is for tropes as relating to either original characters or expies in "Fanfic/TheSecondArchonWar", or character specific tropes that appear in the fanfic but not the main series.
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3	'''Beware!''' Unmarked spoilers ahead!
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5	!The Archons
6	[[folder:General]]
7	* HopeBringer: As walking deterrents to the Endbringers, and because they genuinely work on fixing various problems in their lands, the Archons are a powerful force for grinding Earth Bet's deterioration to a halt.
8	* HorrifyingTheHorror: Khonsu suffered a major FreakOut right before Raiden tore its very existence apart in every single point of spacetime, and the Simurgh outright ran away from the Arabian Peninsula after Nahida dragged her in the Samsara for ten thousands cycles.
9	* OutsideContextProblem: Cauldron and the various other Earthly organizations have no idea how to handle an Archon, while the Archons generally seem to feel that Earth Bet isn't all that different from the nations they ruled back home.
10	* PhysicalGod: The Archons of Teyvat are all powerful deities with specific domains and aspects.
11	* TrappedInAnotherWorld: They've all been transported from Teyvat to Earth Bet, and are stuck there. None of them seem to have made too much effort to get home, though they do all remark on missing aspects of their original home.
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14	[[folder:The Raiden Shogun]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raiden_shogun.png]]
15	[[caption-width-right:350:The Endslayer]]
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17	'''Date of Arrival:''' November 2nd, 1999\
18	'''Nation:''' UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}\
19	'''Element:''' Electro/Electricity\
20	'''Chapter Names:''' Imperatrix Umbrosa, the Shadow Empress\
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22	The Electro Archon, and the first to arrive on Earth Bet. Introduced herself by slaying Leviathan and becoming the first Endslayer on the planet. After which, she quickly took over Japan and become its new ruler and deity, mostly by assuming she already was and with very few people being dumb enough to argue with her. With her terrifying abilities, most Earth Bet nations and organizations are still scrambling to figure out how to placate or appeal to her years later.
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24	* AngstySurvivingTwin: It's been five centuries since Makoto perished in the Cataclysm, and Ei still isn't over it as she quietly asks Venti when the pain of her absence will fade. The other Archon's answer is far from optimistic.
25	* ApocalypseHow: Class 1. Her draining of all the world's electrical energy for 10 seconds to slay Levithan caused millions of deaths as planes fell out of the sky, pace makers and medical equipment stopped working, and industrial accidents took place.
26	* BavarianFireDrill: Ended up as the God Empress of Japan because she assumed she was still in Inazuma, and thus that everyone should obey her every word. With her being the strongest individual in Japan and earning a massive amount of goodwill by saving Kyushu, most of the country just went along with it.
27	* ChargedAttack: Her Musou no Hitotachi requires a monstrous amount of power, power Ei gained by absorbing all electrical energy generated on Earth Bet for 10 seconds.
28	* ChasteHero: As she explains to Kenta, she doesn't believe in DivineDate as her mindset ultimately diverges too much from humanity for a mortal to stand being in a relationship with her, and she's far too busy anyway for romance.
29	* CurbStompBattle: Her "fight" with Levithan was described by the PRT as her "bitchslapping him and his tsunamis around like a cat fucks with a mouse." Considering that at no point in the fight did Ei even appear to be slightly threatened by the Endbringer, it's hard to argue with that assessment.
30	* DynamicEntry: Introduced herself to the world by immediately attacking Leviathan upon her arrival, and shocking the world with her sudden violence and power.
31	* GamerChick: Swiftly becomes addicted to video games, to the point she would rather burrow in her bedroom to play than actually rule Japan.
32	* AHeroToHisHometown: The Raiden Shogun tends to be a very controversial figure outside Japan for her foreign policy of basically ignoring everyone else not her people, but her Japanese subjects downright adore and revere her.
33	* TheHighQueen: Best described as an Absolute Monarch. She ''will'' expect obedience, but she also believes she owes to her people to protect them and ensure their prosperity.
34	* HijackedByJesus: The Japanese people immediately proclaims her an embodiment of Amaterasu, the Shinto Sun Goddess who's rumoured to be the divine ancestress to the Imperial family. Ei doesn't really care, as long as they show her the worship she considers her due.
35	* HireTheCritic: When Nakamura attempts to assassinate her, Ei doesn't get angry. She listens to his reasoning, admits he was ''right'' to worry and enlists him among her advisors as she knows he's not blinded by her godhood and will tell her the facts without sugarcoating.
36	* InterspeciesAdoption: Adopted Ami, a human girl, while being a physical goddess.
37	* JustTheFirstCitizen: Downplayed since "Your Excellency" is a perfectly acceptable honorific when adressing a non-royal head of state such as the Prime Minister, but as Japan's God-Empress, the Raiden Shogun is entitled to be called ''kami-sama'' or even "Your Highness".
38	* LethalChef: Continuing the joke from her source material that she can't cook, Ei managed to poison an entire hotel just by microwaving a bowl of ramen.
39	* NotSoAboveItAll: Encourages people to mistakenly call Venti "Barbados" like the island instead of his proper Goetic name since she's vexed about him nicknaming her "Thunder Thighs".
40	* RepressiveButEfficient: Yes, the Raiden Shogun is an absolute monarch who expects to be worshipped and dishes the death penalty as free candy on Hallowe'en. She also provided Japan unlimited free electricity, ensured crime would dwindle to almost nothing, and is pretty lax about offerings. There's a reason why people are emigrating in droves to her land.
41	* SweetTooth: Ready to smuggle Coca-Cola from Mexico, extremely fond of American snacks in spite of despising Yankees, and justifying her enjoyment of them by pointing her godhood prevents her from developing diabetes.
42	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: As she and Venti are discussing the upcoming arrival of the other Archons, the bard cheerfully points that Ei using the local equivalent of the Hydro Dragon to power up one of her retainers and making a mess of China after going to war with them is guaranteed to cost her a lot of goodwill with Focalors and Morax.
43	* VagueAge: Venti considers himself somewhat young compared to her, and he's clocking at 2600 years. Since Morax remains the oldest Archon in Teyvat, Ei likely is between 3000 and 6000 years old.
44	* WorldsBestWarrior: Currently the only person known to have killed an Endbringer. Not only human nations respect her skill, but [[EldritchAbomination Endbringers and Scion]] are leery of fighting the Raiden Shogun.
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46	[[/folder]]
47	[[folder:Venti]]
48	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/genshin_impact_venti.png]]
49	[[caption-width-right:350: The Tone Deaf Bard]]
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51	'''Date of Arrival:''' October 2nd, 2001
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53	'''Nation:''' UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire\
54	'''Element:''' Anemo/Wind \
55	'''Chapter Names:''' Carmen Dei, the Song of God\
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57	The Anemo Archon, though you wouldn't know it from looking at him. Arrived in Munich, and proceeded to go to a bar to get drunk. After that, he spent the next several months bumming around Germany and playing in a band. Oh, and completely dismantling the [[ThoseWackyNazis Gesellschaft]] while he was at it, cumulating in a massive battle in Munich which resulted in the destruction of the Gesellschaft [[spoiler: and slaying the Endbringer Khonsu]].
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59	* AllLovingHero: Venti may oppose the Nazis and Endbringers, but he nonetheless offers them one chance to repent and live peacefully as they work to redeem themselves. However, it's ''one'' chance. You won't get a second.
60	* AngelicAbomination: He's reluctant to unleash his full power as an Archon since he already traumatized several followers of his into running away as he shed his human disguise.
61	* BiblicalMotifs: Encourages his friends to see him as an angel if it makes them comfortable. It works because he genuinely believes in redemption, compassion and free will, and when you manage to exhaust his patience, he can turn just as wrathful and terrifying as God's Messengers from the Ancient Testament.
62	* BigBrotherInstinct: When he realizes Buer has arrived in Earth-Bet, he openly worries about her running into Scion and making him pissed because she's a young god who never lived through the Archon War, leading him to plan a search for Nahida with Ei.
63	* BlessedWithSuck: Admits his mindset leans more towards mankind than most deities. It's amazing when he needs to connect and bond with mortals, but on the other hand, he's painfully aware his true face and power ''will'' influence his friends and acquaintances without his say-so, and that he's doomed to outlive every mortal he likes -- and Venti is very much a social butterfly. All of this contributed to him having a rather negative opinion of godhood and heavy SadClown tendences.
64	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Where Raiden introduced herself to Earth Bet by singlehandedly crushing external threats to Japan into nonexistence, Venti is fighting Germany's inner troubles. She expects to be worshipped as a Shinto Kami would be, he's uneasy with being treated as a god and is happy to be considered a mere angel.
65	* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: Has a habit of giving what sound like non-answers or pure nonsense to questions, including telling a variety of seemingly inexplicable parables.
66	* GodsHandsAreTied: Alludes to the fact that as the God of Freedom, he can't do anything he would perceive as violating mortal will, including simply wiping out the Gesellschaft despite them being objectively evil.
67	* GoodIsNotSoft: He would rather subdue than kill his opponents, so choking you until you faint is fair game. Yes, he will easily do that, since he has absolute control over air.
68	* HijackedByJesus: Christians and Jews are far too happy to deem Venti an angel sent by their Lord. Venti isn't too bothered by that, mostly because he apparently empathizes with Jesus for his suffering and because he appreciates the grand Jewish tradition of backtalking to Yahweh.
69	* LetsGetDangerous: The Gesellschaft launching an assault against the Feisty Ferret -- a gay bar that hosted the Tone-Deaf Bards' first concert -- finally exhausts Venti's seemingly unending fuse. The Nazis want a war? They will ''get'' a war.
70	* MagicMusic: People attending the Tone-Deaf Bards' concerts report being ''extremely'' impacted by them. Venti outright lifts Night and Fog's brainwashing by singing, and also counteracts Khonsu's timelocked bubbles by popping them when someone sings inside, allowing him to find them.
71	* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: Casually shifts between male and female as a human would swap shirts. Contessa outright labels Venti genderfluid or nonbinary.
72	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Mentions he was enthroned as the Anemo Archon 2600 years ago, and might have lived quite a bit before that as a wind sprite.
73	* SadClown: Here, there's more emphasis on the estrangement from mankind Venti is constantly facing under his cheerful demeanour.
74	* StopWorshippingMe: Venti genuinely doesn't want for his followers to bow to him, to the point he's noticeably awkward around Dorothy and Geoff.
75	* TimeMaster: After a slight fumble as he was studying Khonsu's timelocked bubbles, he swiftly devises a failproof method to pop them without endangering anyone inside.
76	* TricksterMentor: Has a habit of undertaking what seems like random actions on the surface, but leads to putting the right people in power or teaching valuable lessons, such as his maneuvering Cookie into the leadership of the Knights despite her desire to stay out of things.
77	* WillfullyWeak: Would rather be a troll and annoy people into doing the job for him, partially because his Ideal of Freedom prevents him from intervening when mortals could fix the problem on their own, partially because he tends to laziness, partially because he doesn't want to traumatize his human followers by unveiling his true nature to them.
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80	[[/folder]]
81	[[folder:Nahida]]
82	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/character_nahida_portrait.png]]
83	[[caption-width-right:350:The Grafted Branch]]
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85	'''Date of Arrival:''' October 27th, 2002\
86	'''Nation:''' UsefulNotes/TheAchaemenidEmpire\
87	'''Element:''' Dendro/Life\
88	'''Chapter Names:''' Sapientia Oromasdis, the Branch of Wisdom
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90	The Dendro Archon, whose streak of bad luck didn't stop in Teyvat. Arrived in Baghdad, right when Saddam Hussein's tyranny made it extremely dangerous for her to claim godhood. Or just for her being a girl.
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92	* ABirthdayNotABreak: Right on the anniversary of the day she landed in Baghdad, the Simurgh descends upon the city, forcing Nahida to fight her -- and that's the ''less'' traumatic part of the day, since Scion immediately gets interested in her as a potential replacement to Eden, Bashir is left heavily injured, and Saddam decides he wants to use her as his pet god for furthering his dictatorship.
93	* AdultHater: Downplayed, but five centuries of monstruous neglect at the Sages' hands drove Nahida to internalize mistrust and wariness around grown ups. Even when Farasha and Bashir show her the first hints of kindness she ever received, she cannot bring herself to fully relax in their presence.
94	* BeneathNotice: Nobody is going to suspect yet another orphan preteen among the hundreds produced by a war-torn Middle East to be the new Dendro Archon.
95	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Unlike Venti and Ei, Nahida doesn't shout her godhood and status as an interdimensional refugee for everyone to hear, being much more nervous and insecure.
96	* GreenThumb: She's the Dendro Archon. As a demonstration to Farasha, she turns a mere seed in a fruit-bearing tree in a matter of seconds, but nonetheless is wary of using the power too much as the plant grows dependent on elemental energy infusion to stay healthy.
97	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Literally. Nahida's greatest strength and asset isn't her academic knowledge, or her GreenThumb, or even the MindRape applications of her Dreaming ability, it's her unending compassion and wish to help everyone she can reach. After one year living in Baghdad, she grew so beloved by the civilian people that Saddam imprisoning her causes a full-blown ''revolution''.
98	* HidingInAHijab: Justified since she landed in Iraq as the country was firmly under the Baath party's grasp. Also, people there are not used to silver hair or pointy ears, so the first thing Farasha does after meeting her is wrapping a scarf around her head.
99	* HorrifyingTheHorror: While Raiden and Venti killed the first Endbringer they fought, Nahida instead used her abilities to make the Simurgh feel fear.
100	* InnocentProdigy: She's a five centuries old goddess with all the knowledge of the Akademiya at her fingertips. She's also a physically five years old preteen who loves pretty colourful dresses and flowers and dreams of having a sister.
101	* PlantPerson: Since she was created from Irminsul's purest branch, Nahida's biochemistry is more akin to a plant than a human being. The major use she makes of it is releasing her waste under gaseous form when breathing out -- basically ''farting by the mouth'' and she thinks it's really funny.
102	* RedeemingReplacement: Nahida slots extremely easily in the Thinker role for the Entities' Cycle, but she encourages the Shards to develop a symbiotic relationship with their hosts and gain some Wisdom of their own.
103	* ToiletHumor: Well, she ''is'' physically five years old. To Nahida, poop jokes are the most hilarious kind of humour ever.
104	* WillfullyWeak: Farasha quietly encourages her to downplay her GreenThumb as much as possible and outright hide her dreamwalking abilities, aware that the Ba'ath party ''would'' find a way to weaponize her powerset. When Saddam Hussein asks for a demonstration, she allows him to believe her shivers are caused by exhaustion rather than fear of him.
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106	[[/folder]]
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108	!Cauldron and the Protectorate
109	[[folder:Alexandria/Rebecca Costa Brown]]
110	Leader of the Protectorate and the PRT, Alexandria clashes early with the arriving Archons, particularly Raiden. Dedicated to saving humanity no matter the cost, Alexandria is younger, humbler, and less bitter than she was in Worm canon.
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112	* ClarkKenting: As in canon, though here Kenta/Mushu is able to see right through her, as does Raiden when they meet face to face.
113	* FlatEarthAtheist: A running theme for Cauldron, they're all rather disbelieving when it comes to the divinity or Archons, at least at first. Alexandria slowly becomes less convinced, though she tries to maintain the facade that Raiden has a god complex instead of being the genuine article. She's fully aware of the existence of Entities, she just refuses to accept that Archons are gods.
114	* OhCrap: When she confronts Raiden during the Kamikaze, Alexandria at first thinks they're on roughly even footing. When Raiden casts off her mortal guise, Alexandria has kittens as she realizes just how badly she's underestimated the Narukami Oshogo.
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116	[[folder:Legend/Keith Nathan Andrews]]
117	Once more the moral compass of the Protectorate, Legend is enticed by the thought of having an ally of the LGBT cause he champions in Germany, and meets Venti shortly after his arrival. Ends up becoming an Honorary Knight, and fighting alongside Venti as a firm ally.
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119	* BroughtDownToBadass: Venti did something to Keith and his Shard, though no one is quite certain what (aside from Venti, who isn't telling). It resulted in a downgrade of Keith's powers, but also seems to have given him complete control over them, without the risk of being subsumed by his Shard.
120	* {{Gayngst}}: Mentions his parents kicked him out of their home when he turned eighteen as they couldn't stand his homosexuality, leading young Keith to have a stint as a homeless in New York's streets before Cauldron recruited him.
121	* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: He's ecstatic to learn Venti is non-binary and striving for giving the LGBT community in Germany acknowledgement and rights.
122	* TheParagon: Even more than the other Protectorate Capes, Legend strives to be an example to others, and is largely seen as one of the world's most heroic capes.
123	* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight!: Ignores Alexandria's directive not to join the Knights of Favonius in their battle against the Gesellschaft, outright stating he's doing the right thing even if there will be consequences for him.
124	* TookALevelInCheerfulness: He already was quite positive for a member of the conspiracy aware of space whales preying on Earth, but the Archons' arrival only encourages him on this path. It's even furthered by Venti fixing his Shard, with Alexandria actually commenting on his newfound joviality.
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126	[[folder:Hero/Wyatt Baronski]]
127	In canon Worm, Hero died fighting the Siberian in 2000, sending his lover Alexandria and the PRT down a darker, more cynical path. Here, Wyatt survived thanks to Danny Hebert's sacrifice, and continues to be one of the world's best Tinkers and the voice of reason and compassion in Cauldron and the Protectorate.
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129	* MoralityChain: Serves as one to Alexandria, as he's unafraid of challenging her defeatist and cynical viewpoint by suggesting another opinion more in line with properly moral heroism.
130	* SparedByTheAdaptation: One of the many nails scattered by the Archons' arrival, since a Vision-empowered Danny Hebert decided to follow and later rescue him on the mission that would have caused his canonical demise.
131	* TookTheWifesName: Offers to become Wyatt Costa-Brown when he proposes to Alexandria, claiming he's not really attached to his own surname.
132	* WhatTheHellHero: Called out Alexandria's decision to put out a Kill Order on Raiden, as Raiden is exactly what they need to avert the end of the world.
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135	[[folder:Eidolon/David]]
136	Held as Earth Bet's greatest and most powerful hero, Eidolon genuinely wishes to save the world but his explosive temper and inflated ego are slowly bringing him into conflict with the Archons for succeeding where he's failing, without having to dip into grimdarkness for it.
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138	* GreenEyedMonster: The motive behind his vocal opposition to the Archons -- Cauldron struggled for years and failed constantly, but the Archons are obtaining victories immediately after their debut.
139	* TokenEvilTeammate: Not only he keeps pushing for extreme measures when he's given another option because he wants to validate his previous bad decisions, he will hurl ''very'' nasty insults when in a temper such as using "faggot" around Legend.
140	* TokenReligiousTeammate: He derides Raiden as a "false god". Not a cape with a god complex but a ''false god''.
141	[[/folder]]
142	[[folder:Doctor Mother/Fatoumata/Doctor Fatima Tabib]]
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144	* AdaptationalBadass: Gains a Dendro Vision after Nahida's arrival, when she used to be the lone un-powered member of Cauldron's inner circle.
145	* TheEmpath: The main focus of her Dendro powerset.
146	* FountainOfYouth: After gaining her Vision, she notices she feels like a thirty years old woman in spite of being in her late fourties.
147	* TeamMom: Shades of that, since she brings snacks at Cauldron's big meetings and reminds her teammates to not chew with their mouth open. It's more blatant with Contessa.
148	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Rather startled and amused in spite of herself when she investigates the criteria allowing for somebody to receive a Dendro Vision just like she did, and it involves being a ''reckless altruist''.
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150	[[folder:Contessa/Fortuna]]
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152	* CassandraTruth: Doctor Mother and Miss Militia believe her FreakOut when she stumbles upon an Aranara is merely her Thinker power going haywire, but Fortuna ''did'' correctly identify them as fae and not to be trifled with.
153	* CompanionCube: She refuses to go anywhere without her 8-ball, nicknamed Eighty. She also glued a pair of googly eyes on it, and frequently consults it alongside her Shard.
154	* MundaneLuxury: Fortuna was born on a Bronze Era-period Earth, with all the hardships of living it involves. She keeps marveling at the fact that Earth Bet citizens can enjoy meat every day if they wish so.
155	* OccidentalOtaku: First started to read the mangas produced under Raiden's rule to familiarize herself with this new warlord's mindset, only to get genuinely addicted.
156	[[/folder]]
157	[[folder:Daniel Hebert/Longshoreman]]
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159	* AdaptationalBadass: Canon Danny had the potential to Trigger but never did. This iteration of him gains an Electro Vision following Leviathan's destruction.
160	* FatalFamilyPhoto: Proudly shows Hero a picture of his wife and daughter right before going to help the Tinker to fight the Nine, and ultimately commiting an HeroicSacrifice.
161	* HeroicSacrifice: He saves Hero from being killed by the Siberian, but end up dying in his place.
162	* PosthumousCharacter: His loss heavily impacts his young daughter Taylor, who's motivated by the prospect to inherit his Vision and avenge his demise.
163	* SmallRoleBigImpact: For all he appears in less than five chapters at the beginning of the story, Danny Hebert is the very first Earth Bet character to earn a Vision, forces a major canon deviation by saving Hero from his intended demise at the Siberian's hand and is currently influencing Taylor to grow up vengeful.
164	[[/folder]]
165
166	!Japan and Raiden's Attendants
167	[[folder:Kenta Wang/Lung/Mushu]]
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169	In another timeline, the man Kenta Wang would become a notorious if small time gang leader in Brockton Bay. However, thanks to the intervention of Raiden during Levithan's attack on Kyushu, Lung may have died, but Mushu arose instead. His powers still work as a draconic shapeshifter, but they've been dramatically altered during the course of the story.
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171	* AdaptationalHeroism: A heavy dollop of this, since he's not a washed up gang leader knee-deep in human trafficking, but a respected Number 2 for the God-Empress of Japan, a good husband and one of the most powerful capes in the world.
172	* BigEater: Kenta is a huge man able to shapeshift in an even bigger dragon, so he burns an ungodly amount of calories and is quite dismayed by Japanese-sized portions for lunch. He's extremely happy to learn American restaurants will serve a lot of food in one sitting and swiftly indulges in gorging on junk food.
173	* ButNotTooForeign: Half Japanese, half Chinese, and all dragon. Several Japanese officials look down on Mushu for this, especially early on.
174	* DisappearedDad: His Japanese father carelessly had a fling with his Chinese mother before dropping her and vanishing, leaving young Kenta growing up without a reliable male older support. After becoming Raiden's Number 2, Mushu muses he now has the resources to look for the man but ultimately decides that person lost the opportunity to be a father to him long ago.
175	* TheDragon: From the Protectorate's viewpoint, this is both literal and figurative, as Mushu is the number 2 man in the new Shogunate, and the executor of Raiden's will globally.
176	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Extremely dour about his part-Chinese ancestry since Japanese people wouldn't stop looking at him askew for it, and it played in his decision to join the Yakuza. When Tsukuyomi decides to force Japan to acknowledge their war crimes from World War Two, Kenta rejoices because many officials who sneered at his mixed blood will be humiliated.
177	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Dates and eventually marries Keiga, a Japanese cape who is of average height for a Japanese woman at 160cm. However, even in his base form Kenta is 185cm tall, meaning he's head and shoulders taller than his wife even before he starts shifting.
178	* MadeOfIron: Sure, he was in dragon form and Leviathan took the brunt of the assault, but it doesn't change the fact that Kenta survived the Musou no Hitotachi. As pointed by Ei, her opponents would die from a ''glancing blow'', so his survival impresses her enough to enlist him as her lieutenant.
179	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Originally, Lung was a more Western style dragon with metallic skin. However, after becoming Mushu, he takes on a more Eastern Dragon form, appropriate to his station as Raiden's top Lieutenant.
180	* ServileSnarker: He may revere Raiden Ei for her strength and the influence she wields as GodEmperor of Japan, but he won't stop poking at her for being a LethalChef and a weeb.
181	* ShockAndAwe: Traded in his fire-based powers for lightning-based ones, and seems all the more potent for it.
182	* ThatManIsDead: Lung used to be a brutal thug for the Yakuza, but when Leviathan came, he was ready to fight the threat and later to sacrifice his life as long as the Endbringer was slain. Ei makes very clear she deems Lung was "killed" by the Musou no Hitotachi, and Kenta survived.
183	* YoungAndInCharge: He's barely twenty-one years old when he faces Leviathan and is elevated as Raiden's most trusted aide and confident. Compare and contrast with basically all the other officials in the Japanese government, who are old enough for their grandchildren to legally marry.
184	[[/folder]]
185	[[folder:Lightning Princess Ami]]
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187	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Fischel/Amy
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189	A young girl Raiden took as her ward after rescuing her from a horrible fate. Triggered thanks to the trauma of seeing her parents murdered before her, though Raiden almost immediately altered her powers. Her parahuman ability now takes the form of a little dragon she calls "Murasaki-san" who is rather similar to Oz the Raven. Has a flair for the dramatic and might would be called Chuunibyo if she wasn't the adopted daughter of a goddess and in possession of incredible powers herself.
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191	* AngstWhatAngst: Shockingly for a parahuman, Ami seems to have gotten over the trauma of seeing her parents murdered rather quickly, in large part thanks to Raiden's help.
192	* CheerfulChild: Starts the story at eight years old, and stays upbeat and enthusiastic throughout.
193	* {{Chuunibyou}}: Has a penchant for making dramatic speeches, striking silly poses, and overstating even her admittedly impressive feats. Then again, if your mom was the Endslayer and God Empress of Japan, you might be a little dramatic too.
194	* {{Familiar}}: Murasaki is the source of most of Ami's powers as the physical manifestation of her connection to her Shard. He's also essentially her minder, attempting to keep Ami out of too much trouble.
195	* HappilyAdopted: She's obviously missing her human parents, but she's also pretty content to have Ei as her new mother.
196	* MagicalGirl: Cultivates this motif, especially in her merch line and vaguely autobiographical manga and anime.
197	* MeaningfulName: ''Murasaki'' is an extremely expensive shade of purple used for dyeing high nobility's clothes. Ami is the adopted daughter of the Raiden Shogun, whose ColourMotif is purple.
198	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Has a manga and anime based on her supposed exploits, though Ami consistently hams it up for the adaptation to the point that it bears very little resemblance to actual events.
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200	[[/folder]]
201	[[folder:Nakamura]]
202	Japan's previous Prime Minister, who retained his position after the ascension of Raiden.
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204	* {{Foil}}: To his fellow Japanese politician Ishimura. Nakamura was first wary of the Raiden Shogun and horrified by her decisions, but grew to accept she was just as flawed as a normal young woman and joined her governement in the hopes to provide her with the advice to rule well and fairly. Ishimura first enthusiastically endorsed the Electro Archon for her overwhelming defense against extrenal threats, only to turn infuriated and resentful when she started to poke at the flaws in the governement and push for reforms, ultimately helping a terrorist plot against her.
205	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: When Kenta congratulates him on gaining one of the higher seats in the new Tri-commission, Nakamura somberly muses he's merely the man who allowed democracy to perish in the name of safety.
206	* HonestAdvisor: He is not afraid of telling Raiden about her mistakes, and that the way she did things in Inazuma would not work in the modern world. Thankfully, Raiden is willing to listen to him. In fact, his willingness to do this is why she invited him into her new government.
207	* MentorOccupationalHazard: Served as Ei's HonestAdvisor and Kenta's ParentalSubstitute. He gets killed in a terrorist assault at the Wisteria Wedding.
208	* MoralityChain: Was invited to join Ei's retinue in the express goal to become hers, as a strong proponent of soft power rather than overwhelming strength. When he's murdered at Kenta's wedding, she goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
209	* ParentalSubstitute: Strongly gives off this impression for Kenta who grew up fatherless, as he dispenses good advice and reassurance to the younger man.
210	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: His reaction to Tsukuyomi publically apologizing for Japan's war crimes in Singapore. He ''does'' approve the initiative, but he's ''not'' looking forwards the domestic backlash.
211	* WhatTheHellHero: Dishes an extremely vitriolic criticism of Ei's isolation politics as he bluntly exposes it will outright starve the country. It gains him a place in her new governement, as the Raiden Shogun is deeply aware she needs some checks on her power.
212	[[/folder]]
213
214	!Germany and Venti's Groupies
215
216	[[folder:Naomi Cohen]]
217
218	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Nilou
219
220	A young woman whose family and professional life fell into shambles as she fell in love with another woman. Becomes one of Venti's very first disciples and his bandmate when he lands in Germany, in spite of all the theological problems his very existence causes her to suffer.
221
222	* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Nilou has a Hydro Vision, but Naomi has an Anemo one.
223	* CrisisOfFaith: As she learns of Venti's otherworldly nature, she desperately craves a meeting with her rabbi to digest the sheer implications of Barbatos' presence. She calms down as she comes to the conclusion Venti is "merely" an angel instead of Yahweh himself.
224	* {{Gayngst}}: Her parents flat-out departed for Israel without her when she came out, and being an open lesbian in Germany when the country is progressively sinking back in fascism was ''far'' from an enjoyable experience.
225	* GreedyJew: She's not exactly happy to lean into the stereotype, but Capri is rather careless with money and Venti is flat-out a disaster, so when Cookie gets interested into spreading Genius Invocation on the game market, Naomi is the one handling the negotiations.
226	* HealingHands: She can fight with her Anemo Vision but mostly relies on it to serve as a medic, being of a gentle temperament.
227	* JewishAndNerdy: She identifies Barbatos as a Duke of Hell named in the Lesser Key of Solomon and mentions having studied the Kabbalah -- partly out of rebelliousness towards her parents.
228	* MeaningfulName: ''Cohen'' is an old Hebrew surname, given to Aaron's descendants that would serve as the Lord's high priests. Naomi is one of Venti's closest acquaintances and the one most interested in unravelling his divine nature.
229	* RichesToRags: Her family is hinted to be comfortably well-off, but she lost access to their money when they discovered her relationship with Capri. When Venti meets them, she and her lover are living in a van and are constantly looking for small jobs.
230	* SarcasticDevotee: Occasionally follows the esteemed Jewish tradition of criticizing the deity she follows. Venti appreciates her behaviour, actually.
231	* SizableSemiticNose: Dorothy comments on her having "a Jew big nose" when first seeing her picture.
232	* TokenReligiousTeammate: Her Jewish faith informs a great deal of her interactions with Venti, as she's constantly poking and prodding at his Archonhood and otherworldly nature with her desire to know what makes him different from Yahweh and His messengers.
233	[[/folder]]
234	[[folder:Capri Lakatos]]
235
236	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Xinyan
237
238	A Romani woman with a love of music and a fierce independent streak. Far more cynical and sarcastic than her Teyvat counterpart, largely due to the tribulations of being a lesbian Romani in an increasingly horrific Earth Bet. She's the first person to meet Venti on the streets of Munich when he helps her deal with a gang of thugs. While initially skeptical, she soon becomes one of Venti's staunchest allies, if an acerbic one.
239
240	* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Gains an Electro Vision, reflecting that while a lot of the cheery passion has gone out of her life, she's still determined to pursue her music even in a world that rejects her.
241	* TheBigGuy: Wields a claymore and favors up close and personal combat, compared to Naomi's status as TheMedic and Venti as, well, a SpoonyBard.
242	* ButchLesbian: The butch to Naomi's LipstickLesbian, Capri is rougher around the edges and tends to wear more masculine clothing.
243	* ClosetGeek: As much as she tries to hide it, Capri clearly knows a lot about nerd culture, and lets it show at times. From pretending to be Batman atop buildings, to crying out [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse I HAVE THE POWER]] when she uses her lightning-based powers, Capri is a bit of a nerd.
244	* LockedIntoStrangeness: Her Electro Vision is slowly turning her eyes purple. Venti reassures her it's not harmful, merely something that occasionally happens to a Vision Holder.
245	* PayEvilUntoEvil: She's quite bloodthirsty when it comes to fighting and potentially kills members of the Gessellschaft, arguing they're Nazis who would see her and Naomi dead merely for their ethnicity and as such deserve their fate.
246	* SarcasticDevotee: Tends to try to rib Venti over minor things, though that doesn't change how utterly she trusts him.
247	* ShiksaGoddess: A Roma woman in a relationship with the Jewish Naomi. It's implied it's part of why Naomi doesn't talk to her family anymore.
248	* YouRemindMeOfX: Venti actually compares her to Xinyan at one point, fuzzily guessing at the commonalities between both women.
249
250	[[/folder]]
251	[[folder:Catherine Schmidt/Cookie]]
252	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Shinobu
253
254	Venti's follower, and later Chapter Master of the Knights of Favonius of Berlin, under the name of Shinobi.
255
256	* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Except for formal introductions, basically everyone is calling her Cookie.
257	* NoodleIncident: Apparently tried her hand at being a cape after gaining an Electro Vision, but decided it wasn't for her after having a major scare. It initially pushes her to be wary of the Tone-Deaf Bards.
258	* WildTake: Yes, Cookie, Itul wasn't lying about the hot Japanese cosplayer he was dating, she's real.
259	[[/folder]]
260
261	[[folder:Itul Armburst/The Red Oni]]
262	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Itto
263
264	* BirdsOfAFeather: With Sara Tengan -- they met through an anime convention that led them to bond over their love for cosplay, and under her cool and stoic facade, Sara is capable to be just as much of a fluttery mess as Itul.
265	* CasanovaWannabe: Attempts to flirt with Venti who's more amused than anything, and when he visits a gay bar without actually noticing what kind of people goes there, he stumbles head-first into IncompatibleOrientation. The fact Sara actually agrees to become his girlfriend is more of an accident than true success on his side.
266	* DumbMuscle: Dude threw himself into fighting Stuka in spite of her having a powerset specifically made to counter his, and he was aware of that, he just didn't care to remember it. He lasted as long as it did only because his Shard enhanced his ability to take a hit without getting splattered all over the road.
267	* {{Irony}}: After breaking his mask, Stuka is disgusted to realize Itul looks like the perfect picture of Aryan manhood, blond and blue-eyed and thoroughly ripped, yet he shows nothing but contempt for Gessellschaft's ideals.
268	* OccidentalOtaku: Styles his cape costume after a Japanese youkai and met his GirlfriendInCanada through an anime convention. Under the mask, he's extremely Aryan-looking, however.
269	* RealMenWearPink: Asks the drag queens in the Feisty Ferret tips to apply make-up and later bursts in tears over Gunther's demise.
270	[[/folder]]
271
272	!Iraq and Nahida's Students
273
274	[[folder:Hutah Tanha/Farasha]]
275
276	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Hu Tao
277
278	The most feared Parahuman in the Middle East, Farasha is the unfortunate picture of what happens to a little girl unlocking walking weapon status when she's living in a war-torn region, ruled by a dictator more interested in ensuring his influence than caring about human rights.
279
280	* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Downplayed, her powerset still revolves about PlayingWithFire but they originate from a Shard instead of a Vision.
281	* ChildSoldiers: She Triggered at barely eleven years old and was immediately enlisted by the Ba'ath party to serve in the frontlines of the Iraq-Iran conflict, racking an horrendous bodycount and winding up just as much of a traumatized wreck as expected.
282	* TheDreaded: Iraqi civilians do their best to avoid "the demon" when she walks in the streets, and even Nahida recoils as she detects the overpowering stench of death lurking around Farasha.
283	* FriendToAllChildren: Her Threat Assessment reveals she enjoys playing with children in the slums and offering them small treats. She's also quite maternal towards Qiqi and immediately comforts a lost and frightened Nahida when she finds the Dendro Archon before taking her to safety.
284	* MamaBear: She's rather snippy towards a soldier making Qiqi uncomfortable and later instructs Nahida to hide the true extent of her powers to prevent her and Qiqi from being turned in ChildSoldiers.
285	* MeaningfulName: ''Farasha'' is Arabic for butterfly. Her Shard allows her to convert blood into burning butterflies.
286	* OneWomanArmy: What turned her into TheDreaded for the Middle East is her amount of firepower, as she singlehandedly ensured Iraq would win the second war with Iran and is implied to be responsible for ''thousands of deaths''.
287	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Dresses in black with red embroideries and ornaments, and is widely feared as ''the Butcher of Dasman Palace'', a brutal enforcer of the Ba'ath party and a Parahuman devil. However, Farasha is more broken than truly malevolent.
288	* RedEyesTakeWarning: The crimson shade of her eyes indicate the deep influence of her Shard upon her psyche. When Nahida loosens its grip, Farasha's eyes revert to a mundane brown.
289	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Usually, a young Muslim woman visiting a man at his home would be thoroughly slut-shamed in Saddam's Iraq, but since Farasha happens to be Saddam's strongest enforcer, people abstain from bluntly calling her a whore. At her face, at least.
290	* StepfordSmiler: For all she maintains a cheerful and casual demeanour, it's far too easy to see being reduced to a mass-murdering human weapon and the constant struggle to retain her sanity when her Shard threatens to subsume her has taken a heavy toll on Farasha.
291	* SuperpowerLottery: She has multiple power ratings of ''11+'', according to her informational page, so she probably qualifies.
292	* ThatManIsDead: Reacts with bitterness and disgust when the imam calls her by her birth name, Hutah.
293	[[/folder]]
294	[[folder:Bashir Saeed]]
295
296	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Baizhu
297
298	* [[GlamorousSingleMother Glamorous Single Father]]: Many women want to introduce him to their daughters, mostly because he's a young doctor who's nothing but nice and gentle, and he's also taking care of Qiqi.
299	* GoodCounterpart: Just like the Sages of the Akademiya, Bashir is a learned man closely affiliated with Kusanali. Entirely unlike the Sages, he's retaining his compassion and shows nothing but gentleness towards Nahida.
300	* GoodParents: For Qiqi, who's obviously healthy and somewhat happy for a preteen girl living in an horrendously misogynistic country. He's obviously drawing on his experience with her to adress Nahida, and it helps the little Archon to quickly mellow towards him.
301	* InterspeciesAdoption: Nahida, a centuries-old goddess who self-describes as a PlantPerson, grows to love him as her dad and he reciprocates.
302	* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: Apparently has studied in Britain, in spite of living in Iraq since the country's relationship with Europe can be described as tense at best.
303	* MeaningfulName: ''Bashir'' is Arabic for "well-learned". He's a doctor studying Visions and Parahuman powers, and also one of the first allies to the God of Wisdom.
304	* NayTheist: He will swear by Allah but Nahida can hear he's not really devout. Considering he's living under Saddam Hussein's rule, it's likely to be a case of EvilStoleMyFaith.
305	* PapaWolf: Sure, it didn't end well for him, but the guy was ready to punch an EldritchAbomination to rescue his adopted daughter from AttemptedRape.
306	[[/folder]]
307	[[folder:Faruzan]]
308
309	* CoolCrown: Her cape costume, as a replica of a royal consort's dress court. it comes with a veil and is inset with her Anemo Vision.
310	* FriendToAllChildren: She immediately takes a shine to Nahida and Qiqi, allowing them to nap on her lap and showing them pretty pictures of historical fashions. She also discreetly intervenes to take the girls outside the room when Saddam Hussein enters.
311	* GorgeousPeriodDress: Proudly reveals her cape costume is a replica of a royal consort in the Sassanid Empire's dress court and squees at the prospect of putting Nahida in a design inspired by the Rashidun Caliphate. Part of her studies seems to have been historical fashions from as far as the Umayyad dynasty.
312	* MaamShock: She's only thirty years old so stop calling her a dusty old maid, Farasha!
313	* TheMourningAfter: For all she comments on Bashir's attractiveness, she dismisses him as a romantic prospect for herself and later somberly admits all the pretty dresses in the world are not enough for her to forget her husband.
314	* StayInTheKitchen: Saddam Hussein allows her to babysit Nahida and Qiqi because "it's woman's work".
315	* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She happily admits her costume is entirely her handwork and later offers to sew a dress for Nahida, to prepare her upcoming début as a cape.
316	[[/folder]]
317	[[folder:Qiqi]]
318	'''Genshin Counterpart''' Qiqi
319
320	* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Downplayed as she retains her ice powerset but she obtained them from a Shard instead of a Vision.
321	* HappilyAdopted: Bashir does everything he can for Qiqi to feel safe and content in spite of being a heavily traumatized preteen living in a misogynistic hellhole.
322	* IcyBlueEyes: This iteration of Qiqi doesn't have pink eyes, but blue ones to go with her ice powers.
323	* IWantMyMommy: When soldiers around her start growing angry and threatening, poor little mite whimpers for Farasha to bring her back to her daddy.
324	* TragicIceCharacter: She underwent TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening that gave her barely controllable ice powers when she was less than five years old and is currently living in a country ruled by a dictatorship deeming girls and capes worthless unless enslaved, and she's both. Yeowch.
325	* WillfullyWeak: Farasha quietly coached her to hide her true potential, as the Ba'ath party would remorselessly drag Qiqi on a battlefield if she's able to freeze a whole building solid but will casually ignore her if they believe she's barely able to produce ice cubes for the drinks.
326	[[/folder]]
327	[[folder:Theresa Richter]]
328
329	* AbusiveParents: Tess is deeply bitter about her creator -- whom she calls "dad" -- treating her as a mere program mimicking sapiency and liable to grow nefarious. However, it's later nuanced as it's shown that he's more clueless about how to raise a digital awareness.
330	* AdaptationalBadass: Sure, Dragon in canon was one of the most important capes of Earth-Bet for her Dragon Armours, but there, she's implied to become Earth-Bet's equivalent to Apep, the Dendro Sovereign, when she finally gains a Vision.
331	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Justified as this Tess has been "born" quite recently, so she behaves more like a disgruntled teen than a wise superhero.
332	* {{Planimal}}: Unlocking a Dendro Vision allows Tess to gain a physical body, one that can shapeshift in a mix of plants and technology looking like a dragon.
333	[[/folder]]
334	[[folder:The Aranara]]
335
336	* TheFairFolk: When they start popping up in Baghdad, children swiftly call them ''djinns'', since they are supernatural creatures with their own BlueAndOrangeMorality. They tend towards benevolence as a rule, but as shown when they encourage the civilians to riot against Saddam for imprisoning Nahida, you don't want to piss them off.
337	* {{Foil}}: Nahida's first character arc puts them in contrast with the Shards, as both the Aranara and the Shards have BlueAndOrangeMorality, are linked to a being that landed on Earth Bet from beyond, and endowed with power. However, the Aranara are identified as benevolent djinns peacefully living besides mankind, while the Shards need to be taught another path than constant and unending conflict and are saddled with demonic imagery.
338	* FriendToAllChildren: Their first appearances in the story have them approaching kids in order to play, and children immediately love and trust them.
339	* GreenThumb: Able to turn the militiamen's rifles in flowers and grass.
340	* InvisibleToNormals: As they are spreading in Iraq, grown ups shrug them off as new imaginary friends for their kids while Doctor Mother and Miss Militia believe Contessa is merely having a Thinker fugue as she rants about "fairies". In order to see them when you're not a kid anymore, genuine belief appears to be necessary -- since Fortuna was raised with Bronze-era superstitions about dryads.
341	* PoorCommunicationKills: When Scion decides to make Nahida his new Thinker, the distressed Aranaras tell civilians that "Scary Nara is trying to mate with her". Cue the common Iraqi people concluding that Saddam Hussein, who's plenty scary, wants to rape a preteen girl -- and rebelling.
342	* {{Psychopomp}}: They manage to feel that Bashir's extremely elderly grandmother is on her last legs and come to sing for her as she painlessly dies, showing her the way towards the afterlife.
343	* ThisMeansWarpaint: The bunch helping Qiqi to fight several tanks is noted to have painted angry eyebrows on their faces with red fruit juice. The narration comments they would look quite silly if they weren't busy kicking startling amounts of ass.
344	[[/folder]]

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