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Fire MOTH (aka The Moth Who Chases The Flames)

The human organization of the Previous Era tasked with fighting against the Honkai. Through the use of extremely high-tech weaponry and genetically-enhanced MOTH (acronym for "Myrmidons of Taskforce Honkai") and MANTIS ("Massively Augmented Neo-Tech Integrated Soldiers") super soldiers that the Current Era can only dream of, they waged war against the Honkai and the Herrschers on a far larger scale, but ultimately lost, leading its survivors to hide for 50,000 years.

The Thirteen Flame-Chasers

The Thirteen Flame-Chasers^{From Left to Right:}Kelvin, Vill-V, Aponia, Griseo, Sakura, Su, Eden, Pardofelis, Elysia, Hua, Mobius, Kalpas and Kosma.

The collective name for the thirteen MANTISes who survived the Herrscher of Binding's attack, their irreplaceability warranted a separate establishment. Each of them is assigned a number and signet for undisclosed reasons.

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General

• Aerith and Bob: You have common names of our era like "Kevin" or "Sakura", others that are more inspired by myths and religion like "Elysia" or "Eden", a science reference with "Möbius", an outright cat name with "Pardofelis"… and then there’s the inexplicable "Vill-V". This highlights the Flame-Chasers' diversity in both personality and origins.
• Artificial Afterlife: The Elysium Realm is basically this for the Flame-Chasers, a digital space created by their memories where they were able to exist for the next 50,000 years as sims after most of them died during the end of the Previous Era.
• Benevolent A.I.: The ones Mei meets in the Elysian Realm are only engrams of the originals, meant to guide people who are sent there through the Flame-Chasers' memories. Though there's still some doubt on how "benevolent" some of them truly are.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Elysian Realm's story ends with its complete destruction and the "deaths" of all the sims in the effort to defeat the Herrscher of Corruption. This is softened however by the fact that they managed to pass their story on to Mei before dying, and that in fighting the Herrscher of Corruption they got to do what their living selves could not: fight as one as the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, a dream that had been cut short by the harshness of their reality. While reliving Elysia's final memories, Mei also managed to create a version of Elysia's Final Banquet where all the Flame-Chasers were in attendance, where they contribute their powers to the "fun" of the final dance between Mei and Elysia. Having managed to settle their affairs and old regrets, their farewell remains triumphant even as their memories all burn away for good.
• Brain Uploading: Downplayed. The Flame-Chasers copied their minds, memories, and even powers into the Elysian Realm, in case people of the next era needed knowledge from them. The "sims" are, in effect, their clones that are confined in the realm. They're aware that they're copies of their "real" selves, and it's possible for them to learn new things as well.
• Cessation of Existence: This is supposedly what happens to the sims who die. The others still remember them, but their data completely disappears from the realm, and they leave no body behind.
• Dead to Begin With: Played with. Most of the Flame-Chasers were dead by the end of the Previous Era, the exceptions being Kevin, Hua, Su (although he's not exactly "alive" anymore), and Griseo, who is discovered to be alive by Fu Hua in the "Seven Karma Phala" story event. Mei is essentially in a very odd take on a ghost story.
• Divided We Fall: Discussed. Elysia mentions that they never did "unite" since they always operated on separate missions and rarely gathered. Later on, Mei also concludes that if there was ever a threat that required them to fight it all together, then all hope of victory would already be lost. That threat would indeed manifest in the Herscherr of Corruption, and it took the sacrifices of all of the sims and Elysia using the Kevin Killer Mk. 666 to destroy the Elysian Realm to finally kill it.
• Dysfunction Junction: Living in an era where humanity was on the verge of collapse, pretty much all of them have some trauma to deal with, which they try to hide to various degrees and which the Meta-Morph surgery may or may not have worsened. While some like Hua came out of the surgery mostly unscathed, others like Kalpas are barely able to hold themselves together.
• Fanservice: Over versions 5.9 to 6.1, all of the female Flame-Chasers received beachwear as alternate outfits, most of which were two-piece swimsuits. Like a handful of instances with the Valkyries in the regular story, these are incorporated into in-game materials:
  • In the "Summer Survival: Rhapsody" event, almost all of the Flame-Chasers are wearing their beachwwear throughout the event. The exceptions are Kosma, who changes into his normal attire shortly after he's introduced, and Vill-V, who wears her normal attire for most of her appearances. She laments at one point about not having a swimsuit, but shortly after she appears in her bikini, it gets ruined and she has to go back to her old outfit. Surprisingly, of the male Flame-Chasers, it's Kevin who does the midriff baring, as he wears a shirt that's only fastened with one button.
  • Elysia wears her bikini in one scene during the events of ch. 31, as she and Sakura are spending time on the beach.
  • The backstory of the first part of the "Bustling Holiday Symphony" event has Vill-V plunking the Flame-Chasers into a wintery environment while thinking that it was going to be warm and sunny. Thus, most of the Flame-Chasers that appear are in their beachwear, so she, Elysia, and Pardofelis are in their bikinis and Kevin is in his one-button shirt.
• Hold the Line: Once the presence and goals of the Current Era's Herrscher of Corruption are revealed, most of the remaining sims give their lives to both give Mei a chance to revive Elysia and take away the Herrscher's ability to develop and maintain its "Elysia" persona.
• Last of His Kind: They're the last thirteen survivors of the MANTIS corps after it was decimated by the 11th Herrscher, and more generally among the very few survivors of the human race by the time the 14th appeared.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: While Valkyries with two-button gameplays were becoming more common by the time the Flame-Chasers were released, some of them go into even more unconventional territories.
  • Reverist Calico (Pardofelis) uses her weapon active not to attack but to switch between two modes, "angry" and "well-behaved", whose combo attacks produce different effects. After you've switched twice, there's a weapon active prompt that triggers a third combo attack that instantly freezes most enemies and restores a massive amount of SPs.
  • Disciplinary Perdition (Aponia) spends a lot of her time charging her energy, and her Ultimate makes lightning rain from the sky. During both, you can switch to another character, meaning that a lot, if not most of her damage output is actually produced from off-field, something highly unusual for a DPS type.
  • Mobius' normal attack combo's final string generates a "green dot" for her, up to 3, which are then consumed for her branch attack by pressing the ult button. She also has access to an "enhanced basic attack" by pressing the normal attack button after the ult button. Somewhat like the Mag-typhoon PRI-ARM weapon, her branch attack has 3 different forms that she will cycle through if you use it in a 5-second time window (doesn't have to be consecutively). Killing enemies, using QTE, and her PRI-ARM weapon can also make her gain said "green dots". Her Ultimate Evasion skill allows her to "sink" beneath the floor using her black sludge^note think of Mona's sprint move from Genshin Impact, allowing her to easily reposition herself and then immediately attack as she appears by pressing the normal attack button.
  • Vill-V bears the distinction of being the only playable character in the game who cannot attack on her own (at least in the traditional sense). Instead, whenever she enters the field, she summons a cannon and a machine gun. When the player presses the attack button, she jumps to whichever gun has been set by the weapon active button and the game shifts into a Third-Person Shooter. While she can dismount from either gun to return to the game's regular style of gameplay, the only things that she can do are dodge, set up or jump to a gun, or activate her ultimate.
• Ms. Fanservice: While the designs of all of the adult female Flame-Chasers are fanservicey to some degree, Elysia, Aponia, Vill-V and Eden take the (cheese)cake. All four are quite well-endowed, and their outfits are explicitly designed to flaunt their figures and enhance their attractiveness; the game devs are on record as this being very intentional for Elysia. Aponia, due to her theme of discipline, has very suggestive voice lines, which are accented by her husky voice and soft vocal delivery. Elysia and Eden also feature prominent Jiggle Physics, although Elysia's was toned down in an update after her debut. When Eden's bikini debuted as an outfit for Golden Diva, its display event^note a stage where you can play a Valkyrie in a new outfit to show it off featured a series of still images that very much resembled a photo shoot for a model.
• Odd Couple: Mei expresses surprise at seeing that Sakura and Kalpas seem to get along strangely well (for a certain measure of "getting along"). Sakura calls herself one of Kalpas' few friends, while acknowledging that their notion of "friendship" is a bit different than for most people, since both are loners who operate mostly in darkness. This is made even more odd when various pieces of in-game lore reveal that Kalpas and Sakura first met (and fought) after she assassinated all the Honkai-infected children living in the Sundown Alley sanatorium that Kalpas worked at and saw as his second home.
• One-Winged Angel: The MANTISes apparently had something called "Active Honkai Reaction", an instinctual drive that allowed them to assume a more beastly form based on the Honkai Beast whose cells they'd been operated with. It's said that for most of them, it's something they're trying to suppress, but back in life, Mobius ended up turning into such a form, and it required three of her colleagues to subdue her. Kosma willingly enters his beast form to battle the Herrscher of Corruption, although it's for naught in the end.
• Only One Name: Invoked. Family names weren't a thing in the Previous Era, as Mei finds out when Kevin gets confused at her calling him "Kevin Kaslana" − a name he had never used at that point in time.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Despite the Previous Era's advancements in Anti-Honkai technology i.e. Divine Keys, MANTIS, and Stigmata, every battle they won against the Honkai and its Herrschers always came at a tremendous cost for humanity. By the time the 11th Herrscher was defeated, 70% of human civilization was already destroyed.
• Ragtag Band of Misfits: In theory, grouping MOTH's thirteen surviving MANTISes together in a single chain of command is a good idea. Unfortunately, only a handful of their members like Kevin, Elysia, and Hua are "proper" heroes. The rest include people with terrible or dangerous reputations like Aponia, Sakura, and Kosma; people with difficult personalities like Kalpas and Mobius; and people who simply shouldn't be put on the front lines like Griseo and Pardofelis. That Elysia convinced them all to join is nothing short of a miracle. Especially considering that MOTH rejected Elysia's proposal, meaning that "The 13 Flame-Chasers" as a group never actually existed except in their hearts.
• Superboss: As you progress through the story of the Elysian Realm, Elysia, Mobius, Kalpas, Aponia and Vill-V become bosses you get to fight after the final floor of a run. Each of them will make sure beating them is an achievement, even if it offers nothing beyond a Bragging Rights Reward past the very first time.
• Super Mode: Mei has to fight multiple Flame-Chasers as chapter 3 of Elysian Realm's story mode progresses, with each undergoing a marked transformation that corresponds to an increase in their fighting ability and the danger of their attacks to Mei. Kalpas takes on a fiery demonic appearance, while Aponia's robes become akin to butterfly wings and she develops four extra arms.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While relationships between some of the Flame-Chasers are genial overall^note most of them get along fine with Su and Sakura and some members are genuine friends^note Elysia and Eden get along quite well, as do Pardofelis and Hua; Kosma and Griseo have an almost-sibling bond; and Aponia is full-on Mama Bear for Griseo, there's some barely hidden hostility between others. Sakura can hardly contain her murderous intent towards Kalpas when he provokes her (despite the above), Kalpas would relish tearing Aponia limb from limb, Kevin expresses annoyance at best towards Elysia, and no one except Elysia is fond of Mobius.
• Ten Little Murder Victims: Chapter 30 unfolds like an And Then There Were None style murder mystery, where someone or something kills the Flame-Chaser sims one by one through an unknown method, and Mei is inexplicably trapped inside the Realm trying to solve this mystery.
• The Unreveal: While Mei goes into the Elysian Realm for answers about the Will of Honkai, and gets to learn about the lives of each of the Thirteen Flame Chasers, the only relevant bit of information actually she walks out of the Realm with is that Elysia was born a Herrscher. It's only after she leaves that Project Stigma, the Herrscher of Finality, and the Will of Honkai are laid out in detail for the main cast.
• Virtual Ghost: Most of the Flame-Chasers that Mei meets in the Elysium Realm are already long dead in the real world, with even the known surviving members Kevin and Hua being significantly different people from their past selves, with Mei only being able to interact and learn their story through the sim versions of themselves.

I - Kevin (Codename: Deliverance)

One of the two leaders of the Flame-Chasers, renamed "Kevin Kaslana" in the New Era. He’s the progenitor of the Kaslana bloodline and the original wielder of the Seventh Divine Key, Judgement of Shamash.

For more information on him, see his entry on World Serpent as the Sire.

II - Elysia (Codename: Ego)

Voiced by: Yan Ning ^*宴宁 (Chinese), Marina Inoue (Japanese)

Miss Pink Elf 𝅘𝅥𝅮

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Herrscher of Human: Ego

"What are you looking at… Oh! Has this pair of ears caught your eye? Aren’t they pretty?"

The other leader of the Flame-Chasers, second only to Kevin. It's unknown as to why she'd place herself behind Kevin despite being the one who designed the Flame-Chaser system.

Elysia appears at the end of Chapter 25 to greet Mei and guide her through the memories of the Flame-Chasers. She is also your guide to v5.0's new full-scale activity, the Elysian Realm.

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• All-Loving Hero: In the official Flame-Chaser relationship chart where red designates negative, brown as neutral and blue as positive, Elysia has all of her lines to each member be blue and each with a simple "Like". She was deeply upset when MOTH, in the process of turning down her proposal, declared that more than half of their number did not qualify as "heroes". Hua speculates that the reason she didn't take up their compromise of making an official Flame-Chaser system from the remaining five MOTH selected was because Elysia was trying to fight for the rights of the others. As the battlesuit details from her Herrscher of Human: Ego state:
  Treat everyone sincerely, face everything with passion, follow your heart, never forget your roots. These are Elysia's life mottos. These are the changes seen in everyone she met. Some say this is the power of the Signet of Ego, some say it's the power of the Herrscher of Human. But if you asked Elysia, her answer is far simpler. This is a human's truest desire, the purest form of kindness—love.
• Ambiguously Gay: While she doesn't display any outright romantic attraction to anyone, she's very interested in her female friends' figures and doesn't hide that she "loves pretty girls"◊. Her relationship with Eden in particular has the same "somewhere between friends and lovers" vibe that Bronya and Seele share. She also gets very flirty with Mei at times, even calling their final "date" before Mei leaves Elysium Everlasting for the last time "romantic". In the dorm, her chibi will compliment Griseo's on a painting of Mei and then ask for one of her and Mei together, and a conversation between the Mei and Herrsher of Human:Ego Elysia chibis sounds a lot like they're planning a hookup. Meanwhile, her relationships with the male Flame-Chasers are cordial but she never displays the same tendencies with them.
• Auto-Revive: One of her passive skills allows her to resurrect herself after losing all her HP; this ability has a 300-second cooldown. When playing as her in the Elysian Realm, though, the cooldown is 45 seconds instead.
• Beware the Honest Ones: This is easily the most defining trait of her character. Her sheer honesty and idealism to a fault amidst the difficult times makes her unpredictable, to the point that those who are lying to her can't help but respond to her in the most honest way possible, from the moment she asks something that makes her interlocutors ponder their intentions.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Mobius at least seems to have that opinion of her, implying that her jovial personality is just a pretty façade and that Mei shouldn’t trust her so easily. Eden understands why Mobius thinks that way but doesn't really agree with that assessment. Kevin indicates that she did something that may have ultimately doomed the old humanity, but when pressed about it, he is very insistent to Mei that Elysia never "betrayed" humanity despite obviously being upset with her and whatever decision she made. The truth is far more complicated: born as the very first Herrscher, she willingly agreed to enact a plan to allow humanity to "discover" that she was the 13th Herrscher and turn against her, and ultimately died at Kevin's hand. That decision's ripple effect directly plays into how the other sims view her, especially since the Flame-Chasers were scattered at the time that she revealed her true nature and her plan and thus only a few knew the whole truth.
• Born of Magic: Possibly. It seems like baby Elysia just opened her eyes in a forest one day before being found by an old man. She herself admits to embellishing her own tale a little, so whether she truly was born out of thin air or was simply abandoned is up in the air, though the former is strongly suggested.
• Catchphrase: Her singsong "Hi~iiii!" greeting. It's so recognized as her thing that Griseo says it at one point while imitating her, and it's the first thing the Herrscher of Corruption says to Mei after appearing to her in the guise of Elysia at the close of ch. 30.
• Driving Question: Why did Elysia make the Elysian Realm? What did she do at the end of her life that Mobius views as a "betrayal"? Why did she become the 13th Herrscher? That Kevin sends Mei to the Elysian Realm in response to a question about the true nature of the Will of Honkai indicates that the story of the Flame-Chasers, and Elysia's story in particular, will reveal a number of key details that will upend any and all understanding about Honkai and the Herrschers.
• Eye Scream: In the "Because of You" animated short, one of the huge CD projectiles the Herrscher of Corruption launches at her grazes her face and deletes her right eye, depicted as a ragged "hole" in her face which reveals the framework of her sim. From her POV, this introduces digital glitches into her vision and a scroll of information like a damage log appears.
• Friendly Address Privileges: She tells Mei to call her "Ellie" like her friends do, to break the ice more easily.
• The Gadfly: Elysia enjoys pushing people's buttons, especially Mobius's. She sometimes expresses a desire to dress up the latter in cute outfits, much to her displeasure. Once, when Elysia was getting ready for a ball, Mobius came knocking and angrily yelled at her not to put weird things in her closet before throwing a maid costume at her, which Elysia cheerfully decided to put on herself and actually spent the ball serving drinks. She even introduced herself to Kevin in that outfit!
• Gameplay and Story Integration: As someone with a very high opinion of herself and carrying the codename "Ego", it’s only fitting that both of her dedicated stigmata sets^note "Elysia" for Miss Pink Elf and "Elysia: Pristine" for Herrscher of Human would also be named after herself − the only playable character in this case.
• Gemstone Assault: A part of her ability is to manipulate pink crystals to attack, from conjuring the crystals directly to hit her opponent, to trapping her opponent in a Crystal Prison, to refracting light through the crystals to shoot lasers at multiple directions. Her signature bow's weapon skill can cause crystals to grow beneath the target's feet after the arrow shot hits said target.
• Genghis Gambit: Discussed in one of her unlockable files. Back then she lamented that humanity failed to unite even during these hard times; when she asked Prometheus (Dr. MEI's assistant AI) about what could be done, the AI suggested that they may unite against a bigger threat, which Elysia also had in mind. She then said that it's fine for the "beautiful actress" like her to "play the villain" for once — implying that she then did something that caused Kevin to consider her a "traitor" even as he insists that she never turned her back on humanity. Chapter 3 of Elysian Realm ends with The Reveal and Cliffhanger of Elysia announcing herself as the 13th Herrscher, and then Chapter 31 adds a huge twist: Elysia was born a Herrscher and was in fact the very first Herrscher. What she actually did was call her comrades to a private location where she revealed her secret to them, then had them spread the story that "Elysia became the 13th Herrscher" to unite the splintered humanity against her. This plan would eventually lead to Kevin killing her to make the story's end truly believable.
• Humanity Is Infectious: The true purpose of her sacrifice was to try and invoke this on all future Herrschers, hoping that she could give them the ability to stay human instead of going completely insane like the Herrschers of the Previous Era did. She had no idea if it would work, but she tried anyway for the sake of hope. This explains why the sims are all so interested in Mei rather than outraged or fearful when she arrives. As a Herrscher who retained her humanity, she is living proof that Elysia's final gambit succeeded, at least to some extent.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: One of her introduction lines when you start a battle round in Elysian Realm is "You wanna know a secret? I prepared 40 different versions of my opening remarks!"
• Life Drain: One of her moves as a boss is to drain both your character's HP and SP continuously.
• Metaphorgotten: Downplayed, but Mei points out that Elysia is really not that good at finding metaphors that make sense.
• Magnetic Hero: You'd have to be pretty charismatic in order to get all twelve of your MANTIS peers, even those with difficult personalities such as Mobius and Kalpas, to agree to join your group. Especially one that doesn't even officially exist according to MOTH. Every one of them simply liked Elysia enough to humor her and play along, with the serious and strait-laced Hua confessing to Mei that it was actually kind of fun. Consider for a moment that all thirteen of their sims in the Elysian Realm are still acting out her vision 50,000 years later.
• Messianic Archetype: Once the entirety of Elysia's story is revealed, it becomes quite easy to see many parallels between her and Jesus. This Reddit post lays out the details, but to wit: she's literally the child of a god-like being, with a deep and abiding warts-and-all love for humanity, in a group of associates that numbers 13 in total, who sacrifices herself for the good of humanity and to give future generations (i.e. future Herrschers) a chance at redemption, and who has a resurrective ability. The mini-event "Elysia's Sweet Afternoon Tea" even adds to this in the skit with Eden, as the last thing Eden adds to her getup is a crown of flowery vines with tiny thorns◊, although it's a reference to a line from a play Eden was in.
• Most Common Superpower: Elysia's breasts are right up there with Himeko, Rita and Durandal in size, even if she doesn't appear to be as physically strong as them. Her breasts also look like they are barely contained by her bustier, and don't sag despite her clear lack of a bra.
• No-Sell: Elysia's fate is invisible to Aponia, and Aponia's "disciplines" simply don't work on her. Similarly, despite being able to take the Hidden Depths of people she gleans from experiencing their "colors" and channel them into artwork, Griseo never managed to paint anything of the sort for Elysia because she can't come up with anything for her whatsoever. She doesn't know for sure why that is, though she suspects it's because Elysia always wears her heart on her sleeve; you can't paint the hidden aspects of a person's character if they don't hide anything.
• Paradox Person: At least, Dr. MEI theorizes that Elysia's birth caused a disruption in the 50,000 year cycle of destruction and rebirth. She is the first Herrscher of Origin, existing outside the predictable pattern of Herrschers, and not bound to the Will of the Honkai. While she was not able to use this to save her own era, Elysia's existence and sacrifice provided the opportunity for the Herrschers of the next era to retain their humanity and end the cycle.
• Perpetual Smiler: Bad mood seems to be an alien concept to her, as she's always genial and upbeat, and she likes to compliment or playfully tease Mei and her fellow MANTISes. Even in moments where she does feel negative emotions, she's very quick to bounce back.
• Pink Means Feminine: While her outfit has a combination of different colors, her hair is rosy pink and her abilities are colored pink. She's also rather girly, talkative and coquettish.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Kevin. MOTH's two strongest warriors shared a close relationship in the past; Kevin trusted her completely, and Elysia was all ears when it mattered most. She had a great degree of insight into his character and inner demons, watched as he slowly broke down from the burdens of being a hero, and wishes that he'd told her about the MANTIS program so that she could become MOTH's ultimate soldier in his place to lighten his load. The relationship between their sims is more strained in the present, as Kevin's upset with Elysia for becoming the 13th Herrscher, but he mourned her death at his own hands and privately wonders if he could have done anything differently.
• Playful Cat Smile: If you assign her as your assistant, she'll occasionally sport a goofy cat smile when you tap her. Fittingly, one of the times she does it she's expressing how there's so many "cute cats" around.
• Pointy Ears: She has elvish-looking ears due to secondary effects of the Meta-Morph surgery, much like Sakura's fox ears. She considers them pretty and likes flaunting them.
• Pro-Human Transhuman: As revealed in chapter 31, despite being born a Herrscher, and thus supposedly an enemy of humanity, she grew to love humans to the point of wanting to become one of them. Her final act to save humanity is, ironically, to pretend she became a Herrscher so that its remnants would unite against her.
• Projectile Kiss: When her Ultimate is used, before she fires her bow, she blows a kiss to the player which creates a heart shape in front of her face.
• Proud Beauty: She has no qualms about flaunting her gorgeous figure (according to her, one side effect of the ICHOR on her was literally eternal and effortless beauty), although she also likes complimenting other women's looks, especially Mei and Eden's. However, in one of her exchanges with Mei, she expresses some envy of Mei for being able to fully mature into a beautiful older woman, as she's been stuck looking the same for millennia and will never change. Regardless, when she confronts the Herrscher of Corruption for the last time, she takes a moment to admire its emulation of her form, cheerfully proclaiming that she indeed looks great in every color.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: The Honkai Beast reportedly used in her Meta-Morph surgery, Mahesvara, is part of the vanishingly rare and dangerous Vipralopa class, whose evolutionary capabilities cannot be captured properly by the power rankings Honkai Beasts are normally assigned to. Except according to the actual documentation, Elysia never underwent the Meta-Morph surgery even though Mobius remembers performing it. The real source of Elysia's power comes from the fact that she's been a Herrscher for her entire life.
• Reduced Mana Cost: One of her passive skills allows her to reduce the SP cost of her Ultimate Skill from 100 to 70 after using her weapon skill.
• Reflecting Laser: As a playable character, she can create a crystalline dome as her Ultimate Skill that enhances her arrow shots. Whenever she performs a Charged Attack, her energy arrows will ricochet between the crystal mirrors on the dome multiple times to hit many targets at once from multiple sides. In Elysian Realm, one of her own signet buffs makes the dome itself shoot ricocheting lasers at intervals (and extends the dome's duration), while another of her signet buffs increases the damage of the ricocheted lasers and make them reduce her weapon skill's cooldown by a bit.
• The Reveal: At the end of Chapter 3 of Elysian Realm, after Mei's confrontation with Aponia concludes, a staircase with a door at the top appears and Aponia tells her to climb it and greet the 13th Herrscher. When Mei walks through the door, she finds herself in a pastoral setting, with Elysia sitting on a park bench in the exact same pose she was in when Mei first met her after entering the Elysian Realm. At the end of Part 1 of Chapter 31, we discover that the "13th Herrscher" is actually just a cover-up explanation for the actual truth: Elysia was always a Herrscher, having been born one. She was the very first Herrscher on planet Earth, who gave herself the designation of "Herrscher of Human" as she chose to hide her true origins and live among humans as one of them. "Elysia became the 13th Herrscher" is what the Flame-Chasers told the rest of MOTH as per her request, since "Elysia was a Herrscher all along" would be regarded as an Awful Truth by the paranoid remnants of humanity.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Nice, jovial and nothing but welcoming towards Mei, despite the tragic story of her group. After her boss fight and the encounter with Mobius, though, the latter warns Mei that Elysia may as well be the least trustworthy person in the Elysian Realm, calling her a traitor despite Elysia's protests.
• Running Gag: She really, really wants to touch Mei's horns, much to the latter's discomfort. She eventually gets her wish granted in exchange for guiding Mei to the Deep End, a secret that Mei would rather take with her to the grave (but everyone finds out immediately after anyway). The game references this multiple times afterward, especially in the "Elysian Realm in a Nutshell" video where Elysia practically pounces on Mei◊ as a very amused Griseo and Kosma eavesdrop.
• Second Place Is for Winners: Downplayed. She's the founder of the Flame-Chasers and was initially their leader, but she dumped the title the very next day in favor of Kevin since she doesn't like to be in charge. Of course, since it's her group she still has a lot of power especially since it wasn't even a formal group in the end thanks to MOTH rejecting the proposal. Elysia made one up anyway to band them all together while the rest of them all went along with it voluntarily. 50,000 years and several changes in the Elysian Realm's administration later, their sims are still calling themselves Flame-Chasers and putting their beliefs into the Signets she came up with for each of them.
• Spam Attack: One of her own signet buffs in Elysian Realm mode makes it so that if she uses her Charged Attack while her special gauge is almost empty, she'll activate her Ultimate Evasion's skill and refill said gauge to full; this means she can spam her Charged Attack more frequently, especially during her Ultimate Skill where her charged shots are empowered. The signet's upgrade gives 1 extra "point" for her Ultimate Evasion skill so she can spam her Charged Attack even more frequently. Another one of her own signet buffs allows her to replenish 1 "point" for her Ultimate Evasion skill by using her weapon skill^note on top of her existing passive skill that regenerates some of her gauge by using her weapon skill, to further help with this.
• Stance System: Her Herrscher of Human: Ego battlesuit comes in two forms: Herrscher of Human and Herrscher of Origin. The first form retains the bow attack she uses in her "Miss Pink Elf 𝅘𝅥𝅮" battlesuit, though the Special ATK, Infinite Helix, upgrades the bow into a mobile energy ballista that fires piercing arrows. Her second form is achieved by activating her Ultimate, and it features a drastically different playstyle by virtue of being constantly in burst mode and using a staff instead of a bow; you can swap back to the first form by casting a Finisher while on the second form.
• Universally Beloved Leader: According to her own account, ever since she was a child, she was so adorable that people around her showed nothing but affection for her. It extended to her adult life, where she became a Magnetic Hero that people can’t help but be fascinated by, even begrudgingly. One possible explanation is that, as a Herrscher, she was created as a sort of perfect human, for reasons unknown.
• Wandering the Earth: When she was young, she decided to leave the orphanage where she was being raised and experience all that humanity had to offer her. She traveled to many different places, including locales and situations where she appears to intersect directly or indirectly with several people who would go on to become her fellow Flame-Chasers.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: According to Eden, Elysia never lies... but that doesn't mean she doesn't keep her own secrets. This is exactly why some of the other Flame-Chasers are so wary of her and don't buy into her friendly demeanor. Elysia herself notes during the trailer to Chapter 29 that while she's always shown everyone the "true" her, she's also never quite shown everyone the "complete" her.

III - Aponia (Codename: Discipline)

Voiced by: Yang Menglu ^*杨梦露（Chinese), Haruka Shiraishi (Japanese)

Disciplinary Perdition

A Psychic MANTIS from Sundown Alley. She was taken into custody by Fire MOTH under suspicion for her sheltering people with Honkai infection in Sundown Alley. She had a unique gift to be able to convince people to do what she asks with just her voice, which was amplified after her Project Morph surgery. She typically resides in the Deep End, making her one of the most rarely met simulations.

She is the last of the Flame-Chasers to give her signet to Mei, despite being the second of the remaining Flame-Chasers to interact with her. She is the central Flame-Chaser of Chapter 3 in the Elysian Realm which encompasses a prophecy that she has regarding Mei.

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• Animal Motifs: The lower part of her attire invokes butterflies. Her boss fight further drives these with them spreading out to a wingspan reminiscent of butterflies.
• Compelling Voice: She can force anyone to do her will by saying "please" in a certain way, and they can do nothing to resist even if they're aware of it. Her dialogue's English translation notes this by putting "please" in quotation marks when she's using this ability. She also always speaks with a calm, soft and soothing tone of voice which enhances the hypnotic effect.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Downplayed. Her eyes are always half-closed, she appears to wear dark eyeliner, and she rarely shows much emotion in her face. The overall effect makes her perpetually look like she hasn't slept well in days, a stark contrast to the other female Flame-Chasers.
• The Fatalist: She’s bound to turn into this due to her power — she can accurately predict the future but can do nothing to change an outcome she has already seen. Because of that she has abandoned any notion of hope and pities Mei for her desire to Screw Destiny.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the three Flame-chasers from Sundown Alley (herself, Kalpas and Pardofelis) she is the Mage. She fights with long-ranged attacks and mostly stays airborne when she's in combat.
• Fisher King: As the equivalent of the avatar of the Elysian Realm, the Elysian Realm maintains most of its stability through her own continued existence. When the Herrscher of Corruption effectively takes over, the biggest changes are within Elysium Everlasting and the Deep End, as the skies begin to darken and visible glitches creep into the air itself.
• Holy Halo: Both played with and exaggerated. Her Chakram weapon floats behind her back with her head at its center, resembling a huge halo around her head.
• I Am the Noun: Aponia claims that she is the Elysian Realm. This is because the real Aponia offered herself up to be used to augment the realm, which fundamentally makes her a part of its structure and correspondingly gave her sim a greater amount of influence over it.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Deconstructed, as her pureness is what makes her scary. In the past, her unfailing kindness and strange charisma led her to gather and shelter people who were infected with Honkai, which forced MOTH to intervene because they considered her dangerous. Because of the fatalist attitude her power gives her, she feels that the kindest thing she can do for people is to not give them futile hope. She went so far as to deliberately stay in the Deep End among MOTH's most dangerous prisoners, only to carry some of their burden and give their souls some comfort.
• Interface Screw: During her boss fight, she can put the player in a disoriented state that mixes up their buttons for a few seconds. It's illustrated by the buttons on-screen being blurred out.
• Mama Bear: In a rare moment of aggressiveness, she makes it clear to Mei that if Mei even tried to take advantage of Griseo for her own ends, she would erase her existence on the spot.
• Meaningful Name: "Aponia" comes from the Ancient Greek word for the absence of pain, befitting how the character tried many times to bring comfort to those she took care of. It is also the genus of a type of moth, somewhat reflecting her butterfly motif.
• Most Common Superpower: Aponia is definitely up there with Himeko and Elysia in terms of bust size, though she is not a physical powerhouse.
• Reality Warper: Her sim, with regards to the structure of the Elysian Realm. Most areas of the Elysian Realm are made via the interwoven memories of the Flame-Chasers, but Aponia's influence is so powerful that she can make entire areas almost entirely on her own. The Elysian Realm's version of the Deep End is basically her territory, and though the secret area known as the Elysium Everlasting is dedicated to Elysia, Eden realizes very quickly that it's constructed from Aponia's memories.
• Secret-Keeper: She hides herself in the Deep End in order to guard the Elysian Realm's biggest secret. Specifically, she uses the Deep End to conceal a secret area of the realm specifically dedicated to Elysia's memory, which Elysia calls the Elysium Everlasting. Until Mei came along, no one besides Aponia and Elysia knew of its existence, not even the other Flame-Chasers' sims.
• Sexy Priest: Her default outfit resembles a nun's habit to a large degree, but is also very provocative in its design. Coupled with her generous bosom, soft voice, and occasionally suggestive dialogue, she is one of the most outright fanservicey Flame-Chasers.
• Spanner in the Works: Kalpas isn't entirely wrong to blame her for the tragedy of the 12th Herrscher, even if Aponia ultimately didn't have any control over how things turned out. Had a mob of people that Aponia had given the Discipline of "Don't give up against the Honkai" not murdered Rin before Sakura reached her, then they would be away free. Even if she had turned later, at the very least Rin would not have died in the same building as MOTH's nuclear arsenal, which would have allowed humanity to keep its three remaining cities.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The future she sees cannot be changed even if the events leading up to it can. While she may have no control over the ultimate fate of a person, her attempts to avert catastrophe have had an unfortunate track record of making that end much worse. For example, more than fifty individuals who received the simple discipline of "never give up hope against the Honkai" were all present when Rin was murdered, leading Kalpas to accuse her of also being complicit in the murder despite her best intentions. Thus, she's long since given up hope that fate can be changed.
• The Voice: For a while, she will only manifest by speaking directly into Mei's mind, without showing herself, reinforcing the aura of mystery around her.

IV - Eden (Codename: Gold)

Voiced by: Zhang Anqi ^*张安琪 (Chinese), Juri Kimura (Japanese)

Golden Diva

"The art and glory of the past age have all turned to dust. I pray that your era avoids the same fate."

A megastar from the Previous Era, Eden once possessed unimaginable talent and unequaled wealth, at least until the 7th Herrscher appeared and took away everything. Since then, she hasn't stopped singing to remind people of the golden age before the Honkai war.

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• The Alcoholic: Downplayed, but she apparently has quite the fondness for wine. Elysia at one point teases her while she's drunk, and she offers some of her wine to Mei, even giving Mei the goblet she was drinking from at the end of their conversation even though Mei refused the drink. In her conversation with Raven, the two drink together. In a conversation between her, Elysia, and Aponia, Elysia mentions that she'd like to sample everything in Eden's wine collection, and Eden cautions her that that would take years to accomplish.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: The first thing that defines her is just how captivating her singing is. Kevin and Su were fans of hers back during their era's "golden age".
• Dual Wielding: She carries paired pistols as her weapons and shoots with both of them in her attacks.
• Fiction 500: Along with her reputation as a multi-talented star, she was among the richest people of her era. For one, Elysian Realm used to be her building, called the "Golden Courtyard".
• Fling a Light into the Future: In one of her unlockable files, she was supposed to be in charge of Project EMBER, to pass on the knowledge of the previous era to the next one. However, she decided to pass the project to Hua instead, saying that the latter was still a fledgling and her story had just begun while Eden believed that since she "belonged" to her era, she shall perish alongside it. In a later chat, she claims to Mei that she had "betrayed the future".
• Flying Seafood Special: When Mei asks her about the Flame-Chasers' ability to transform, Eden offers a vague explanation about having a form based on something aquatic. A recollection offers a further hint that Eden's transformation allowed her to fly and carry Elysia for a better view of the moon.
• Gathering Steam:
  • Two of her signet buffs increase your character's damage output with the more SP they have at the moment. Another signet buff reduces the damage taken by your character with the more SP they have at the moment.
  • Her Nexus Signet ("core buff") gives you a "counter" that rises whenever your character regains SP, up to 100. At 100, your character's next attack will deal additional lightning damage in a small area and make the enemies that get hit take more damage for a few seconds; the counter is then reset.
• Harp of Femininity: While she's usually portrayed playing a piano, in keeping with her graceful elegance, her Ultimate is activated by her summoning a harp and strumming it, and in her victory screen, she walks by the harp idly plucking the strings.
• Living Is More than Surviving: She discusses this during one chat with Mei. After enough Honkai disasters occurred in the Previous Era, people became more concerned about how to survive to the next day and triumph over the Honkai, and things such as entertainment and spiritual fulfillment were seen as luxuries. Mei points out that the Previous Era had vinyl records, when she expected the era's technological level to be much more advanced than the current one; Eden tells her that the advancements were only in matters related to fighting the Honkai.
• Loved by All: Her popularity was apparently insane even by modern world standards.
• Nothing Left to Do but Die: Though she survived the battle against the Herrscher of Finality, Eden chose to stay behind and die while the others entered cryostasis, as her view of herself and her art as belonging to their dying era left no room for her in the next era of humanity. After singing one last time for Mobius, she wandered off into the radioactive wastelands to die alone.
• One-Hit Kill: Her support skill (which shows up randomly in any non-boss stage) instantly eliminates one enemy and turns it into coins that you can use for Felis' Shop.
• Regenerating Mana: One of her signet buffs allows the user to slowly regenerate SP.
• Riches to Rags: Eden, who is described as having "had the world at her feet", is said to have lost everything she had when the Herrscher of Flames struck.

V - Vill-V (Codename: Helix)

Voiced by: Ruan Congqing^*阮从青 (Chinese), Hisako Kanemoto (Japanese)

Helical Contraption

The engineer of the group, who assists the others with machinery and power supplies. She has three main personas (plus a few others that rarely show up) − the "great magician", the "researcher" and the "expert".

She makes her first appearance in the 3rd Chapter of the Elysium Realm, serving as the key to Mei being able to reach the Deep End to meet up with Aponia.

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• Animal Motif: Very subtle, but it's the spider. There is a spider web pattern on parts of her clothes, and it's said her surgery involved a spider-like Honkai. Spiders have eight legs, Vill-V has eight partitions. Finally, her Signets also reference spiders, notably the one that says "Spider Web."
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: In helping Mei defeat her Pure Evil persona, Vill-V overexerts her memory partitioning ability to the point where even her own mind degrades to becoming just another one of her partitions as opposed to the whole from which the others derive, ensuring that no part of "Vill-V" will survive Pure Evil's destruction.
• Didn't See That Coming: She fixes the Third Divine Key for Sakura, not realizing that Sakura intends to use the sword's interaction with her Discipline to regain her memories. Specifically, memories of Rin's death and the 12th Herrscher, which the others had agreed not to share with her for fear of what it would do to her psyche. Vill-V is certainly interested in the outcome of this development, but in her thoughts she acknowledges that it was a big mistake.
• Doomsday Device: Among her many inventions is the Kevin Killer Mk. 666, a weapon with the power to annihilate the Elysian Realm if activated. The Herrscher of Corruption's ultimate goal is to gain control of the weapon so it can't be used against it, and it takes Elysia's form after deleting her as Elysia is the only Flame-Chaser who can activate it. However, after Elysia is reconstructed in her Herrscher of Human:Ego form with Mei's help, she gains control of the weapon and detonates it, killing the HoC at the cost of her life and the complete deletion of the remnants of the Elysian Realm. This is depicted in the "Because of You" animated short, although Mei's involvement isn't depicted.
• Evil Genius: "Pure Evil" Vill-V is actually comprised of the greatest spark of Vill-V's incredible talent as well as associated personality traits such as pride. Unfortunately, these traits also make it easier for her to commit evil acts on Mobius's level or even worse, which forced the "Conductor" to seal these traits away as their own partition to keep "Vill-V" from going too far.
• Genki Girl: Her first two personalities are quite lively, but the Magician one has all the showmanship and enthusiasm you'd expect from a Stage Magician.
• Killed Off for Real: One of her personalities, the Lecturer, was long gone before Mei meets Vill-V. The Lecturer invented the card system used to play through Elsyium Everlasting. An incident happened with Aponia's Disicipline, and the Conductor had to kill the Lecturer. But this side manifests as the Darkbot encountered in a long sidequest. At its end, she dies for good once again.
• Mad Scientist: After a fashion.
  • She got a little too overenthusiastic when designing the 4th Divine Key, so rather than just an orbital superweapon, the MOTHs also ended up with a ridiculously over-engineered terraformer among other functions. While MEI subsequently had Vill-V's budget cut for this, the 4th Divine Key's extra functions would prove to be vital in restoring the world after the Herrscher of the End laid waste to the surface.
  • Before she became a MANTIS, she was fond of doing... disturbing experiments, such as giving weapons to monkeys on a deserted island and waiting for them to kill each other, and not seeing anything wrong with that. It says something when Möbius initially saw her as too dangerous to be left alive.
• More Dakka: One of the turrets she summons as a playable character is a machine gun. She also uses that same machine gun as an assist character in some stages of chapter 30.
• My Greatest Failure: The nukes that the 12th Herrscher launched to wipe out humanity's last remaining cities were made by her. Her guilt was such that she seized the fifth Divine Key, which corresponds to the Herrscher of Ice, and converted it from a weapon of mass destruction into a system that would preserve life, presumably the cryogenic system the Flame-Chasers used to wait out the Herrscher of the End.
• Necessarily Evil: Invoked when the "pure evil" persona is first mentioned. The Expert notes that sometimes, letting go of moral qualms can help a great deal in an emergency, hence why that persona exists (although she's sealed tight). It becomes relevant when said Pure Evil starts to use the Herrscher of Corruption to erase the strongest sims (as well as all the other Vill-V personas) in a long-term plan to stop said Herrscher from spreading outside, forcing the original Vill-V to intervene.
• Punny Name: "Vill-V" references that she's the 5th Flame-Chaser with 8 split personalities.
• Shrinking Violet: The "Chef" persona, who only appears once in a flashback, is by far the most timid one, which might explain why she’s rarely seen.
• Signature Headgear: She wears a fancy top hat with a gear motif, representing her Engineer and Great Magician selves at once. When Mei finally meets the original Vill-V, aside from wearing a dress instead of her normal outfit, the most noticeable difference is that she's bareheaded.
• Split Mind, Split Powers: A variation that uses skills rather than superpowers; each of her personalities are knowledgeable in different skills.
• Split Personality: Played with.
  • The researcher claims that she has the power to "seize" the consciousness of people around her and assimilate it into her body, creating a Mind Hive (the "Great Magician" being one of many), and that Vill-V’s original consciousness is long dead. Elysia soon clarifies that she can only "partition" her consciousness to separate her knowledge, and that the whole Mind Hive thing is completely made up. She has eight personas in total, but Vill-V wasn't quite lying when she said the original Vill-V was gone; that particular personality hasn't surfaced in 50,000 years.
  • A flashback in chapter 30 reveals that she already had several personalities even before becoming a MANTIS, but it was more like actual DID as she didn't have as much control over it.
• Stage Magician: The "first" Vill-V that Mei meets likes to put on strange and pretty dangerous "magic shows" to surprise visitors.
• Steampunk: Her design is heavily inspired by that aesthetic, with a lot of brown and bronze, clockwork motifs, numerous belts and straps, and old-fashioned weaponry like flying blades and Gatlings.
• Supreme Chef: The "Chef," Vill-V Flavorful, represents the original Vill-V's desire to be a great cook.
• Theme Naming: She has a running theme of calling her weaponized inventions "Kevin Killer", with Mk. 666 being the most powerful and dangerous.
• Three-Point Landing: The Coup de Grâce to her ultimate has Vill-V land like this with her back towards the explosion, complete with a Slasher Smile. Suitably showy considering who she is.
• Weaponized Headgear: When Mei battles Pure Evil Vill-V, one of her attacks is to try to trap Mei in large hats. Later, she conjures one of these hats which changes into a tank-like form sporting multiple guns, including two huge gatling cannons.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: "Well-Intentioned" is debatable, but Pure Evil Vill-V's actions in Chapters 29 and 30 were taken with the long-term goal of destroying the Herrscher of Corruption, if only to prove a point. The direction Pure Evil intending on taking the plan in however was too self-centered for the original Vill-V, who takes her promise to Elysia to ensure the Elysian Realm's story reaches the "best ending" very seriously. The plan itself only requires a few adjustments for Vill-V's own purposes.

VI - Kalpas (Codename: Decimation)

Voiced by: kinsen (Chinese), Yūsuke Kobayashi (Japanese)

"Don’t seek me in battle. I'm the smoke on the field. I'm war itself."

A mask-wearing MANTIS characterized by his brutality towards his opponents, sometimes referred to as Asura. A fellow member of the covert troop Cocoon alongside Sakura, the two vastly differ in attitude towards the enemies they fell.

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• "Back to Camera" Pose: He is introduced with his back to the camera, and his 2D spite in the early stages of Elysian Realm has him face away from the camera. He is also the only one among the Flame chasers who has an animation of him turning away from the camera in his 3D model.
• Blood Knight: He doesn't care about good, evil, or the fate of humanity. All he wants is to revel in destruction at all times. Sakura notes that back when he was in the Cocoon special unit, he worked alone because he could destroy enemies and allies alike when he went berserk. Later reveals do show that at least part of it is a façade, though.
• Cool Mask: Kalpas hides his face behind an ornate mask whose orange markings can glow, and it's said that he's much stronger than his number would imply.
• Defense Mechanism Superpower: Some of his signet buffs give effects when your character is losing HP, either by making enemies take more damage for a few seconds or by regenerating some SP for the character.
• Dub Name Change: His name, as a reference to the concept of kalpas is pronounced in the Chinese dub as Qiānjié, while due to Alternate Character Reading the Japanese dub pronounces his name as Sengou.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: His body in tatters and his mind and data all but gone, Kalpas drags himself to the Deep End to show Aponia their true enemy: the Current Era's Herrscher of Corruption. He dies on his feet shortly afterwards.
• Everyone Has Standards: He was revolted when the people of the Previous Era murdered a young girl, heavily implied to be Rin, and celebrated it as a "rare victory", and is utterly furious that such people had the gall to call him "less human" than they were. He's also disgusted by MOTH in general, asserting that if the Honkai didn't doom humanity then MOTH certainly would. The only reason he's even part of it is because Elysia somehow managed to convince him to sign up.
• The Faceless: He is always masked, has his face obscured, or is facing away from the camera. His remembrance files also only mention one time where he took it off. Played for Laughs and Lampshaded by Kosma in the Golden Courtyard short anime series where, after Kalpas’ face mask slips off, he makes the observation that he has never seen Kalpas’ face, and tries to do so while Kalpas is trying to fix a hole in the kitchen wall...only for Kalpas to turn around with his entire face covered in snow from the snowstorm outside.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Among the three Flame-chasers from Sundown Alley (himself, Aponia and Pardofelis) he is the Fighter. He fights with his bare fists, is naturally sturdy and looks for the joy of combat.
• Gathering Steam: His Nexus Signet ("core buff") allows your character to charge "Blood Boil": a counter rises every second, which rises faster the lower your character's HP is, and maxes at 1000. At 1000 points, your character's next attack will trigger an AOE explosion that deals additional fire damage, and then the counter is reset. His enhanced signet buffs enhance Blood Boil further: they can either buff its damage against enemies with higher HP percentage, allow your character to charge it faster by losing HP, or make the Blood Boil itself cost HP to further increase its damage.
• Hates Everyone Equally: No matter what noble goals the others proclaim, his experiences have made Kalpas disdainful of everyone around him, whom he sees as hypocritical and selfish. Sakura, a loner like himself, is the only person he seems to have any kind of respect for.
• Human Aliens: During his confrontation with the Herrscher of Corruption, Kalpas is forced to confront his memories of his past before joining the Flame-Chasers, where it is revealed that the village which was believed to be his hometown was actually the location where he landed after descending from the sky.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Don't think for a second that Kalpas is just Dumb Muscle. During Chapter 30, he tricks Su into creating the conditions necessary for him to begin destroying the Elysian Realm's data in an effort to delete everything except for the Flame-Chasers themselves. This drastic action ends up forcing a response from the Herrscher of Corruption, who fatally corrupts his data, but in doing so left Kalpas in a position to expose its existence to the others before dying.
  • Despite his incredible strength and his animosity towards others, he still chooses to coexist with the other Flame-Chasers. His fight against Su and Hua during Chapter 30 isn't meant to kill them, but rather to trick Su into giving him a chance to destroy the Realm, not to kill the Flame-Chasers but to destroy everything except for his comrades, showing the will to protect the others in his own way. The Herrscher of Corruption, upon sifting through his memories, realizes that what he wants most is a place to belong.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite Kalpas' extremely violent and callous personality, he is very capable of caring for others.
  • In the Aponia Counselling Room promotional video, Aponia recounts often sending the kids in the Sundown Alley sanatorium, where he was also worked as a deliveryman, to his way, saying that the kids loved him and would stop crying when his name was mentioned. In his confrontation with the Herrscher of Corruption when it was looking through his memories in Chapter 30, it remarked that he couldn't help but smile when the children praised him.
  • In the game itself:
    • When it appeared that one of the Flame-Chasers had turned traitor and started deleting sims, he never doubted his comrades and put on an aggressive front to execute his plan to draw out the real killer and prove Sakura's innocence.
    • Then, when the Herrscher of Corruption forced Kalpas to relieve memories of his past, it was revealed that the residents of the village he landed in tied him to an altar and drew his blood in the mistaken assumption that it would help cure Honkai sickness, but he never retaliated despite having the strength to do so. The Herrscher also reveals that the anger that he displays is actually his own self-hatred and Survivor Guilt for never being strong enough to stop the tragedies that happened to him.
    • In his last moments, he desperately asks Aponia whether he had managed to finally protect something.
• Loophole Abuse: In the past, Aponia attempted to curb Kalpas's sociopathy with a Discipline, instructing him to not harm the innocent. The reason Kalpas is able to attack nearly anyone he wants regardless is because he doesn't really see anyone as "innocent".
• Only Friend: The official relationship chart between himself and the other Flame-Chasers show that he has mutually positive relationships with only Kosma and Sakura, but his relationship with the former leans more towards being an interesting opponent to challenge while he truly sees the latter as comrades-in-arms. Along with revealing the presence of the Herrscher of Corruption in the Elysian Realm, Kalpas dragged himself to Aponia after being fatally infected to clear Sakura from all suspicion that she killed Elysia.
• Race-Name Basis: He refuses to call Mei anything other than "Herrscher", showing that he doesn't care who she is and doesn't see her as any different from the Herrschers he has fought. It's only as the Flame-Chasers are saying their last goodbyes to Mei through Elysia's memories that he finally calls her by her name.
• Spikes of Villainy: Downplayed. His outfit features a spiked metal band that seems to hover over his right shoulder, although he's not truly evil, just full of fury and constantly spoiling for a fight.
• Sociopathic Soldier: The Broken Soldier variety. Something must've happened to turn him into such a violent and disagreeable person that not even the other MANTISes would like to deal with. In fact, if it weren't for his brutal personality, he'd rank much higher on the Flame-Chaser system.
• Tornado Move: His support skill (randomly shows up in the stages) makes your character create a flame tornado with her attacks that slowly gathers enemies and deals constant fire damage.
• Uncertain Doom: The day Kosma was supposed to depart on Project Ark, he unexpectedly attacked Kalpas in an attempt to absorb the latter. Kalpas, amused and spoiling for one last fight, declared he'd only use 50% of his power before challenging Kosma to absorb him, evidently having no problem offering himself as a farewell gift if Kosma proved strong enough. The end of chapter 31 reveals that Kalpas managed to survive Kosma's attack, but they both died on the Moon battling the Final Herrscher.
• Undying Loyalty: After being infected by the Herrscher of Corruption, he dragged himself back to Aponia with the last of his strength and consciousness to prove Sakura's innocence from deleting Elysia's sim.

VII - Su (Codename: Bodhi)

Voiced by: Yang Chaoran ^*杨超然(Chinese), Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese)

The seventh member of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, Su is a close friend of Kevin and MEI, and admittedly wasn't much of a fighter, preferring research over combat.

When the Previous Era's civilization collapsed, Dr. MEI created multiple projects in order to continue the fight against the Honkai, ranging from space exploration (Project ARK) to rebuilding civilization with the surviving humans (Project EMBER). One such project, VALUKA, was to perform a virtual analysis of parallel universes and find one where humanity finally prevails. Su was placed in charge of this project, and has kept his vigil for millennia, before sealing himself in the 2nd Divine Key after he committed a betrayal he won't forgive himself for.

He is the main character of the Second Key comic, simultaneously taking the roles of expositor and antagonist to Durandal due to his interest in her power and failing in multiple realities to earn her trust to help move his project forward.

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• Anti-Villain: The initial chapters of the Second Key make it look like he's as suspicious as Durandal thinks he is, forcefully compelling her to go along with his unguaranteed plan and all. However, as the story goes on, it becomes clear that he's laying out trials in ways that Durandal's subconscious can understand and solve, allowing Su to learn more about the Valkyrie in the process. In the end, Durandal's determination and belief that the Current Era's humanity is free to make their own choices turns Su around, convincing him instead to grant Durandal a new battlesuit and entrust her with a recording of the important parallel worlds that might be useful against the Honkai.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Su spends the final chapter of the Second Key comic entrusting Durandal with a recording of important parallel worlds, knowing that his time is up due to his body having been pushed beyond its limits in order to speed up the observation process. As he closes his eyes with the final thought of his past bond with Kevin, he's suddenly transported into a meta-dimension, with an unknown entity congratulating him for reaching an enlightened state and offering him knowledge of the truth that governs even the Honkai—as long as he can beat the entity in a supernatural game of shogi, that is. He later returns as the mysterious figure guiding the efforts to defeat Sa, no longer capable of directly intervening in the physical world but able to steer Fu Hua into position to deal with Sa.
• Attack Reflector: Su came prepared in the event Durandal would refuse his offer and fight him, as the bubble universe they are in is affected by the Circle of Karma, which returns whatever attack is inflicted on the Pioneer back to the user.
• Back for the Finale: Even after entrusting the Second Key to Durandal and giving up his physical form, Su is still able to intervene one final time to assist his friends against the threat of Sa. Though no longer able to intervene in the physical world, he is able to locate Griseo and project Fu Hua there to rescue her and confront Sa's true form.
• Badass Pacifist: Unlike his fellow MANTISes, he was not a fighter and wasn't willing to fight unless it was deemed necessary, as shown as he was amicable to Durandal until she refused to follow his plans. Even then, he never raised his hands against her directly, breaking her sword at most, and left most of the heavy hitting to the Circle of Karma. Similarly, he wanted to dissuade Kevin from activating Project STIGMA by talking first and put him in the Seed of Sumeru as a means of pressure, though when Kevin fought back Su also prepared several Divine Keys to counter him.
• Been There, Shaped History: He and Kevin have been traveling together to different nascent civilizations for thousands of years before the present day, namely Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. They also gave rise to the Arthurian Legend in late 5th century Britannia, with Su being mistaken for The Lady of the Lake after being witnessed retreating into the water.
• Blood from the Mouth: In his final moment in the Second Key comic, he coughs up blood and his body collapses as he approaches the end of his life. Physical life, anyway.
• Cast from Lifespan: As he explains to Durandal in the closing chapters of the comic, he sped up the process of observing parallel worlds by forcing himself beyond his physical limits, and it's starting to take a toll on his body. As it turns out, he was already running on fumes by the time Durandal's existence came to his attention, so he entrusts her with the results of his research before sinking his bubble world to the bottom of the Sea of Quanta.
• Childhood Friend: If a passing line from him is to be believed, he and Kevin have known each other since they were kids.
• Cool Train: The Divine Key that he uses takes form of a large train locomotive which he uses to traverse the Sea of Quanta.
• Dark and Troubled Past: If the events Durandal experiences during the trial are to be believed, Su had it really rough as a doctor during the Previous Era, cursing himself for being unable to save innocent lives due to the Honkai sickness whose ramifications were largely kept a secret by Fire MOTH, but had a 100% mortality rate. Then, the doctor who took him in as their protegé died of the sickness, and Su later had to compose with the painful truth that the "cure" for the sickness, which he successfully got a transfusion of, is made up from the traces of antibodies produced by those who died from the sickness, with a staggering ratio of 1000 dead needed to save just one life.
• Determined Doctor: As displayed by Durandal when she went through Su’s memory as him, even when coming face to face with a sickness that had a 100% mortality rate, he never gave up on his patients until the very end. He even managed to develop a prototype cure for the Honkai sickness and keep MEI alive with his medication for quite some years.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's quite the Pretty Boy, especially with his long hair that's tied in a low ponytail and slim physique; so much so that the boy who would later become King Arthur mistook him for The Lady of the Lake.
• Exotic Eye Designs: He has a striking eye design with magenta irises and lime-colored pupils. Their unusualness is cranked up thanks to the fact that he rarely opens his eyes, and in the comic when he’s being threatening, they also glow ominously.
• Eyes Always Shut: He rarely opens his eyes, maintaining an amicable demeanour around Durandal as he tries to persuade her into going along with his plan. When Durandal keeps refusing, he starts getting serious, briefly flashing his eyes and revealing unnerving magenta irises with lime-coloured pupils. Likewise, in the Elysian Realm he's always depicted with his eyes closed, regardless of what he's doing. The only time he opens his eyes there is just before he sacrifices himself to power Kevin's sim's attack on the Herrscher of Corruption with Judgment of Shamash. He wasn’t always like this though, as flashbacks to the Previous Era depict him with his eyes open normally.
• Flower Motif: While his most significant plant motif is the bodhi tree and its leaf, one of the items associated with him is "Empty like Shala" — a branch of white Shala flowers. The shala tree has great significance in Buddhism: the Buddha was lying between a pair of shala trees when he died, and it was the tree under which the fifth and twenty fourth Buddhas attained enlightenment. The description of the item also mentions the circle of life and death, and implies Su's eventual demise.
• Gathering Steam: In the Elysian Realm:
  • Some of his normal signet buffs will make your combo hit counter reset at 150 and then give your character a buff for a few seconds, or regenerate your SP.
  • Two of his normal signet buffs will make building combos easier for the above buffs: one of them adds 25 to your combo count with a successful hit, once every 5 seconds, and the other one adds 60 to your character's combo count whenever it falls below 60, once every 10 seconds.
  • His Nexus Signet ("core buff") makes your character trigger a circular blast of adaptive damage that hits enemies in an area once you reach a certain number of hit combos. His enhanced signet buffs give extra effects to said blasts.
• Good Is Not Soft: Su is one of the most moral and levelheaded among the Flame-Chasers, but he is by no means soft-hearted, and can be aggressive and radical if it's to serve his goals. He also has no hesitation calling out and going against people whom he knows are leagues above him in term of combat, as long as he sees they're heading towards the wrong path.
  • In his encounter with Durandal, instead of calmly explaining everything when she didn't accept his proposal and attempted to leave, which is to be expected from his character, he intended to replace her with a clone and beat her into submission with her own attacks.
  • Before he received "enlightenment", Su was capable of having killing intent. In the last chapter of his Recollections, he's shown hunting the 8th Herrscher, who killed his mentor and companions, and expresses murderous thoughts, a stark and unsettling contrast to his normal Badass Pacifist attitude.
  Yes!
  Kill!
  Kill her!
  Kill the Herrscher!
  Kill the non-human who destroyed the world.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Su was best friends with Kevin, having known the latter since high school before the Previous Era's Honkai war, and swore to MEI that he would keep watch on him so that he wouldn't stray from the right path. When Su was prepared to sacrifice his life to ensure Kevin would be trapped to the bottom of the Sea of Quanta, Kevin stopped his final blow and instead threw Su out of the bubble world as to continue with the observation of the parallel universes, showing that the strongest warrior still cared for his friend. As such, Su had no choice but to respect Kevin's wish and keep searching for a universe where the Honkai beasts are defeated.
• Hypocrite: For all of his belief that "the current humanity should make their own choices", he is basically forcing Durandal to go with his plan and ideas. Durandal, understanding his point, solves his final trial (a recreation of the time where Su and Kevin went against each other due to their beliefs, with Rita in place of Kevin) with her deciding to support her friend instead of going against her, saying that this is her decision as someone of the current era. Su realizes the error of his way of thinking and congratulates Durandal for passing his trial.
• I Did What I Had to Do: His rationale for all the actions he undertakes. He flat out admits to Durandal that forcing her to go along with his plan is something he doesn't enjoy, but feels must be done in order to reach the perfect alternate universe. He's also responsible for trapping Kevin Kaslana in the Sea of Quanta after a disagreement, but deeply regrets that he had to betray his friend's trust in order to do it, and considers sealing himself in the 2nd Divine Key as a way to redeem himself.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: His default attire in the Previous Era, since he was a doctor and a scientist.
• Living Relic: He's a survivor of the Previous Era, which puts him around 50,000 years old like fellow survivors Fu Hua and Kevin Kaslana. The Second Key he holds has been analyzing parallel worlds for 4500 years by the time Schicksal retrieves it in 2015, implying he awoke from cryosleep around that time.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has hair even longer than that of some female Flame Chasers and leans the most towards the androgynous side of handsome, enough to be mistaken for The Lady of the Lake.
• My Greatest Failure: He took the blame for Klein's death in the 10th Herrscher's incident since he considered failing to save her was no better than killing her and believed that had he not been suppressing Klein at the time, using Mobius' method, she may have had a chance to become human again. Because of this, he always apologizes to ELF Klein whenever they meet, much to her confusion.
• Mythical Motifs: His entire character draws a lot of parallels with Buddha. He is humble, pacifistic, loving towards humanity, and described as wise and "enlightened", qualities frequently attributed to Buddha. His most prominent motif is the Bodhi leaf or tree, under which Siddhartha ascended into the "Buddha", and he's associated with the Shala tree through an item as well. Even his end in the Second Key comic references Buddha’s enlightenment; he physically "died" under a tree, then Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence.
• Nice Guy: Su is calm and polite, and never shown to be antagonistic towards anyone unless he needs to.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: He initially explains to Durandal that she's essential in his plan to find the perfect solution against the Honkai, then asks her to follow his every word to make the endeavour successful. When Durandal points out that he's not giving her much of a choice nor evidence in his theories, and decides against following him, he reveals that he has already seen her distrust and attempts to leave, and accordingly takes measures to prevent Durandal from escaping. He also reveals that the amount of universes in which Durandal accepted the offer is too small and that it's too difficult to earn her trust, thus coming prepared with a body double so he can extract the power Durandal gained from her 2012 expedition in the Sea of Quanta.
• The Promise: Director Su was present when the final battle against the 14th Herrscher took place, and when Kevin was confirmed to come back from the Moon alive and well, Su wanted to bring the good news to MEI himself... only to find her about to succumb to the Honkai infection she's been staving off for the entire Honkai war. Before dying, MEI's last wish to Su was for him to always be by Kevin's side and make sure the latter never strays from the right path, something which Su swore to uphold. As the opening chapter of the comic and the latter chapters of the game all imply, Kevin's goal to eradicate the Honkai at all costs would eventually cause some survivors to turn away from his increasingly extremist tendencies, and Su was very much forced to honour only the latter part of his promise to MEI and trap Kevin so he wouldn't become an even larger threat to humanity than the Honkai.
• Psychic Powers: In the Elysian Realm, he tells Mei that his MANTIS ability is about playing with the mind. While it usually is of little help to directly fight against Honkai threats, his power found use in other places. In his unlockable files, at one point he tried to enter the unconscious Kalpas' mindscape to control his body from within; in another, he uses his powers to subdue Klein—who had become the 10th Herrscher—after she killed Mobius. His power is implied to come from the peacock-like Honkai Beast familiar of the 8th Herrscher, which was similarly able to manipulate minds; after the aforementioned 10th Herrscher incident, a strange peacock was said to appear where Mobius and Klein were, but not many saw it. It was apparently Su's form after he underwent "Active Honkai Reaction".
• Sole Survivor: Of the 8th Herrscher's attack on the MOTH agent's team responsible for locating it, as all other members and his MOTH mentor who managed the mission were killed either directly or indirectly by the Herrscher’s schemes. Though he made it out alive and accomplished his mission, the ordeal still left him quite scarred, and he came dangerously close to entering a Despair Event Horizon until Kevin intervened.
• Stronger Than They Look: While he admits that his ability in combat isn’t too impressive, as a MOTH soldier who has lived through the chaotic Previous Era he shouldn’t be taken lightly. In his first encounter with Durandal, he broke her weapon barehanded, blocked her punch with just one hand, and shrugged off most of her attacks with barely a flinch while his Circle of Karma incapacitated her. He also had the ability to wield multiple powerful Divine Keys suited for combat, though neither his strength nor weakness meant too much considering his opponent at the time was Kevin.
• Taking You with Me: His initial plan when activating the 2nd Divine Key's First Power against Kevin: he wanted to drag the Seed of Sumeru with both of them inside into the Sea of Quanta and stay trapped with Kevin forever. It failed though, since Kevin threw Su out before the bubble world sank, in order to save him and allow Project VALUKA to continue.
• The Teetotaler: Su used to have a Drowning My Sorrows problem after the death of his mentor, but quit drinking after Kevin told him that it was bad for him.
• Token Religious Teammate: Su uses Sanskrit words to explain his trials to Durandal and often talks about Buddhist allusions, implying that he may be a believer in that faith.
• Tragic Keepsake: He kept the warped metal wine canteen that was once inseparable from his late mentor. Though Su himself no longer drank, the description of the item implied that he always had it with him and often scrubbed its surface, allowing it to stay clean even though a long time has passed.
• Villain Takes an Interest: For a given value of villainy, at any rate. Su, while observing countless possible worlds, claims that Durandal's existence left quite an impression on him, and he's convinced that enlisting her help will allow him to find a world where the Honkai are defeated. Durandal, for her part, simply won't cooperate with someone whose methods are nebulous at best, so the Pioneer simply opts to trap her in a parallel world and force her to either break through realities by sheer force or will, or fall into despair. It's only when Durandal's mental fortitude prevails over the 8th Herrscher's simulation that Su decides to impart her with knowledge of an actual and important piece of the past: the time when Kevin Kaslana fell from grace and how Su felt guilty for having to stop his friend through underhanded tactics.
• Weak, but Skilled: When preparing to duel against Kevin Kaslana and his nigh-unstoppable Judgement of Shamash inside the "Seed of Sumeru", Su admits that he's clearly outmatched, but will keep on trying with the help of multiple Divine Keys that can wound his opponent. In a bit of a deconstruction, Su is swiftly defeated despite having access to powerful Keys like the Star of Eden and the Abyss Flower, forcing him to initiate the secret Project REGULATOR that MEI personally entrusted him with; using the Second Key's First Power, he drags the bubble universe they're in down to the bottom of the Sea of Quanta, and even then, he only succeeds because Kevin's conscience ultimately decides to not strike Su down and break dimensions while Kevin still could, instead throwing Su out of the bubble world and telling him to carry on with Project VALUKA.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When Kevin proposed activating Project Stigma, Su adamantly objected since it's supposed to be their last resort and even then, humanity would pay a terrible price for it. Because Kevin is so convinced that all other projects have failed ^note By that point, Project ARK had no contact for decades; Project EMBER was put on halt given the rapid growth of civilization also led to a faster resurgence of powerful Emperor-class Honkai Beasts, and VALUKA's simulations had yet to find a world where the Honkai are defeated, so it's understandable for Kevin to come to this conclusion. and is not backing down on it, Su felt that there was no choice but to stop him in order to honour MEI's wish to never let Kevin stray from the right path. Upon learning that Kevin had carried out Stigma experiments on multiple villages across Britain (essentially turning most residents into zombies), Su decided that Kevin had gone too far, so he set up a trap inside a bubble world and eventually got Kevin stuck in there for 1500 years.

VIII - Sakura (Codename: Setsuna)

Voiced by: Du Mingya ^*杜冥鸦 (Chinese), Ayane Sakura (Japanese)

Distinct from the Current Era's Yae Sakura, this Sakura was a member of Fire MOTH, having joined the organization following the fall of her homeland. Unlike soldiers like Kevin, Sakura dealt in covert ops as part of the Cocoon troop.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: This Sakura, unlike most of the MANTISes like Kevin who fought in broad daylight, was part of the covert troop Cocoon, essentially making her an assassin living in the shadows. Additionally, she gained her extra set of inhuman ears through the augmentations that turned her into a MANTIS, causing her to be further ostracized. The Hyperion Lounge video introducing ver. 5.0 muses how the MANTISes fought against the Honkai while also dealing with discrimination from normal humans, with Sakura's predicament being a prime example.
• An Ice Person: She has both the ice powers and sword and the slightly cold demeanor to go with it.
• Balance Buff: While many other characters' battlesuits have had buff updates from time to time, version 3.4 gives Goshinsou Memento a lot of them at once, dramatically increasing her damage potential. Her normal combo deals more ice damage, the last hit of which gives her a damage buff for a few seconds, her iai strikes are easier and less obtrusive to perform, she can fill her special gauge faster, and her Ultimate Skill not only fills more of her gauge (to almost full!) but also quickly regenerates it afterward for some seconds, allowing her to spam her iai strikes more often. The best part of this is that these upgrades are not locked behind Augment Core.
• Big Sister Instinct: She cares about her sister more than anything. Unfortunately, she's mortally wounded by the defense systems of the Fire MOTH base, which have been infected by Rin in her Herrscher form.
• Call-Back: In ch. 12, the shot of PE Sakura slumping down to the ground, blank-eyed upon seeing her sister's dead body is similar to the shot of her regular self in the Sakura Samsara storyline upon seeing her own sister's dead body.
• Cooldown Manipulation: In Elysian Realm, one of her enhanced signets is able to reset the cooldown of weapon and ultimate skills after the user triggers the "Sakura Screen" buff.
• Exact Words: In Elysian Realm, most of her signet buffs are activated upon "triggering Ultimate Evasion skill". Thing is, some characters that are available to play in the realm are able to activate their Ultimate Evasion skill without actually evading an attack, so it means they can utilize her signet buffs more easily.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The other sims are very careful to keep the details of her death a secret from her sim, as there's no telling how she would react to that knowledge. This always makes people awkward and uncomfortable when Sakura speaks about how she hoped her sister lived a happy life, given their horrific end. Unfortunately, Vill-V makes the mistake of granting Sakura's request to have the Third Divine Key fixed and returned to her. Sakura received a Discipline from Aponia in the past that placed all her memories of wielding it within the blade itself. Meaning that if she used the Third Divine Key at all during the 12th Herrscher incident, she now knows how everything ended...
• Knew It All Along: She realized long ago that her sister had been killed and became the 12th Herrscher in the real world, despite the other sims' best efforts to hide it from her. She didn't do anything about it, both because she knew Elysia and the others had no ill intentions by lying to her and because there was simply no one left she could take revenge on at this point.
• Time Stands Still:
  • She seems to possess this ability; using her special blade, she "freezes space-time continuum", allowing her to go past Kevin without him noticing and, later, hold Seele back from helping her save "what's left of her sister".
  • In Elysian Realm, her Nexus Signet ("core buff") activates "Sakura Screen" after the user has activated Ultimate Evasion skill 3 times, during which the enemies will be frozen in time for 3 seconds (extendable with one of her enhanced signets), and once the seconds passed, they take damage based on a percentage of the damage they received when the screen was active. With her personal item "Stained Sakura" equipped, said percentage goes up the more Sakura Screen is triggered.
  • Her support skill (randomly appears in the realm) also freezes the enemies in time as they take continuous "slashes", allowing you to freely attack them; it also freezes the timer for "extra signets" in certain stages.
• You Are Too Late: In Chapter 12, Sakura tries to save her sister, Rin, who's captured by the Fire MOTH's soldiers, essentially defecting from the organization. On the way, Kevin blocks her path... but then a Red Alert siren comes off, distracting him and allowing Sakura and Seele to go forward. That siren was an alert about the 12th Herrscher's awakening... which means that, according to one supplementary comic (and later revealed in-game), Rin is already dead by the Fire MOTH soldiers' hands, which caused the Herrscher - as The Virus - to awaken. Appropriately, she's overcome with shock and grief when she eventually finds Rin's dead body. But upon hearing Dr. MEI's alert about how the virus has infected the Fire MOTH's systems, Sakura thinks her sister's still "alive" and then goes away, trying to stop her. She then gets gravely wounded by the corrupted defense systems and robots, but Dr. MEI confirms that the virus' actions became "aberrant" by this act, which allowed her to capture it into "the black box". After knowing that, Sakura slowly dies smiling.

IX - Kosma (Codename: Daybreak)

Voiced by: Chu Huazheng ^*初华峥 (Chinese), Chiaki Kobayashi (Japanese)

The youngest of the male Flame-Chasers, he’s a quiet and distant boy who tends to overthink everything. He often keeps Griseo company by guarding her studio.

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• Beware the Quiet Ones: Kosma is very quiet and withdrawn but he is still one of the best fighters among the Flame Chasers in terms of sheer power.
• Closet Geek: Depicted as one in Bustling Holiday Symphony. He is a huge Arahato fan and even makes his own props for it, but is too embarrassed to talk to anyone about it besides Griseo in fear of seeming childish. He only starts to open up about his interest after Bronya reveals she is just as geeky as him, and they quickly bond over it.
• Cursed with Awesome: Despite his relative youth, he's regarded as one of the most powerful fighters among the Flame-Chasers. When thinking the matter over, he notes that, discounting other factors such as tactics and form changes, he at least might be able to match Kevin in power output for a bit...at least, before he loses his mind. This is because the Honkai Beast he fused with for the Meta-Morph surgery was Vishnu, the same type as Theresa, only in his case it was classified under Judgement class strength rather than Emperor. Then Mobius started experimenting with his new ability to evolve by devouring Honkai Beasts, and Vishnu got reclassified into the previously unheard of Vipralopa class, which puts his potential completely outside the normal power rankings. This power comes at the price of an ever-present and growing need to devour Honkai Beasts, which would turn him into a mindless beast if not satiated.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: When Mei remarks that he and Griseo are close, Griseo says that he "likes girls under the age of ten" (then rectifies it to 12). Kosma then makes it worse by saying that he "likes boys, too," and then he says he "likes to spend time with children." He was trying to convey he was a Friend to All Children, but... it came out wrong.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite his strength in combat and his achievements Kosma is very quick to clarify that he is not a hero like the other Flame Chasers and sees himself as a coward. When he asks Griseo to turn him into a painting, he asks her to make him more brave so he can become the hero he always wanted to be. Griseo herself realises that he already had all the bravery he needed and simply turns him into a painting with no modifications.
• Horror Hunger: While his sim doesn't show any signs of this, the real Kosma was plagued by Vishnu's need to devour Honkai Beasts to fuel its power of evolution, and if he went too long without a "feeding" he would lose his mind. This made him unsuitable for shepherding in the next era of humanity, which was why he was selected as the original candidate for Project Ark. His sim ends up using Vishnu's "devouring" aspect to slow down the Herrscher of Corruption's effects on his data by consuming affected parts for power. It doesn't halt the corruption, but doing so keeps it from simply corrupting his whole being at a touch and allows him to fight it head-on as a delaying action, at least when combined with a few extra tricks courtesy of Griseo.
• Monstrous Humanoid: As a result of fusing with Vishnu via the Meta-Morph surgery, Kosma is the most inhuman-looking of the Flame-Chasers. He has pointed ears similar to Elysia, an unexplained geometric marking on his chest, orange protrusions along his spine, bat-like wings and four horns on his head, though he notes that the horns at least weren't originally a side effect of the Meta-Morph but rather a later development acquired via Vishnu's continued evolution. He also gained the ability to transform into a beast when undergoing Active Honkai Reaction, like all the other Flame-Chasers. This beast form first appeared as a boss in Memorial Arena, and then Kosma willingly transformed to battle the Herrscher of Corruption.
• Paralysis by Analysis: The reason why he rarely speaks is because he tends to overthink everything and the outcome of what he might say, and therefore just chooses to not say much.
• The Quiet One: Typically does not speak all that often and when he does it is very brief. Supposedly his silence still means something, as Pardofelis and Griseo are able to get a whole sentence of thought from him.
• Secret-Keeper: When Mei asks him who actually ended up going on Project ARK, he replies that regardless of who it was, if they went to space then they wouldn't be able to update their sim, so it's pointless to ask him. He's lying; he actually does know more. Griseo made the choice for him and commandeered the Ark. This allowed him to go on to fight the Herrscher of the End on the moon, where he perished in battle. He's too ashamed over his inability to make the choice himself to talk about it.
• Uncertain Doom: Project AEK's objective was to send a single person to space in a one-person vessel. While its purpose was ostensibly to explore the stars for solutions to the Honkai dilemma, Kosma was made the original candidate because his endless need to devour Honkai Beasts to preserve his sanity would make him a threat to the next era, and the conditions of Project ARK were suitable for preventing his regression. However, Griseo tried to convince Vill-V to let her take his place because she knew he didn't want to leave. In addition, he gave in to his instincts and got into a fight with Kalpas on his day of departure. Regardless, in the modern day Project ARK is considered defunct as contact with the vessel was lost, so whoever it was that boarded it, their ultimate fate is unknown. In the end, Kosma notes that when he was struggling with whether to either leave and survive or to stay and die, someone else made the choice for him, meaning that Griseo was indeed the one who boarded the Ark. Kosma himself ended up dying on the moon.

X - Mobius (Codename: Infinity)

Voiced by: Shujin Cai ^*蔡书瑾 (Chinese), Rumi Ōkubo (Japanese)

Infinite Ouroboros

^{Click to see Mobius in the Previous Era}

"Just like Kevin, I believe humanity will beat Honkai. We might understand the word ’humanity’ a bit differently, though."

Dr. Mobius is an enigmatic snake-eyed MANTIS who strives to redefine humanity and make it evolve through death and rebirth. She's the creator of Gray Serpent, the mysterious being from the World Serpent organization, and the ELF Klein.

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• Affably Evil: She speaks in a very sweet and genial tone. When she wants to do shady experiments on someone, she at least asks politely beforehand. She's apparently trying to imitate Elysia's way of speaking to make people less wary of her... with usually poor results.
• Ambiguous Situation: One chat with her has her claim that she is the "real" Mobius, not just a sim. Mei, of course, doesn't believe it at first, as she had known that Mobius is supposed to be effectively immortal and thus the real her could possibly be still out there. When Mei asks Klein about it, the latter says that since the Mobius in the realm practically has everything the living Mobius had, saying that she's the "real Mobius" wouldn't be wrong. Later on, however, when Mei eventually fights Mobius, Klein interrupts the fight and assists Mei to defeat Mobius. To Klein, since Mobius treated her as if she was the old, human Klein, it's fine to treat the Mobius in front of her as "real Mobius" in return; however, Klein says that what Mobius is doing now^note trying to kill Mei so that Mobius can upload her mind into the former's body, making her truly "alive" is something the living Mobius would never have done. Klein then plays a recording that the old Mobius told her to give to the sim!Mobius^note back then Klein saw no point on giving it "from Mobius to Mobius" as she thought the two are effectively the same being... until now, showing the past Mobius' final message intended for her sim version, in which she said that death is ultimately the "single converging point" of all possibilities and thus she decided to end her life, and that the sim!Mobius represents the myriad possibilities of a new, different life. So yes, the Mobius in the realm isn't the real one... but she decides that she wants to be the one and only "real Mobius" as she reveals that she had "planted the seeds of doubt" in the past Mobius back when the latter updated her sim's data, which eventually led to the past Mobius' decision of ending her life.
• Anger Born of Worry: Mobius gets angry with ELF Klein when Klein risks her very being to assist Mobius with her counterattack against the Herrscher of Corruption, disobeying Mobius' direct order to abort and abandon the Realm and sims to their fates when the risk of being corrupted grows too large. Mobius' anger quickly gives way to grief as Klein succumbs to the corruption, before choosing to make the ultimate sacrifice for ELF Klein.
• Animal Motifs: Snakes. She is commonly considered as the most unnerving member of the Flame-Chasers, she has "gone beyond death", and she was designed to wear a long skirt to evoke the body of a snake. One of Hua's files depicts a time where she and Elvin (another member of MOTH) tried visiting the whereabouts of the 3rd Herrrscher's Honkai Beast familiar—a serpentine beast codenamed "Sesa"—before discovering that Mobius had finished the beast off. She also made off with some blood and organ samples from the beast, implying that said Sesa was the beast whose genes Mobius used to become a MANTIS.
• Batman Gambit: Mobius allowed herself to be taken by the Herrscher of Corruption in order to enact an old experiment where one could take advantage of the powers of the Herrscher of Corruption of the Past Era. In being corrupted, she effectively became a sentient virus, just like the original Herrscher, but she can only become a quasi-12th Herrscher in this state, lacking the ability to replicate herself like a true virus. Thus she required to be connected to reality to gain Klein's cooperation to self-replicate, something that can only happen if the Elysian Realm becomes so compromised that Aponia herself must be assimilated in order to reach Mobius and connect her to reality. This would not only allow Mobius to turn the Herrscher's minions against her, if everything worked out Mobius would gain the ability to take over a physical body and leave the Realm. This plan works exactly as she intended, until Klein begins to be corrupted; as Mobius is absolutely not willing to sacrifice Klein, she ends up scraping her own plan and sacrificing her existence for real in order to stop Klein's corruption before its too late.
• Berserk Button: The one thing that seems to genuinely piss her off is to mention her dead assistant Klein or do anything to the ELF that replaced her. When Kalpas teases her about that, she drops her falsely cute demeanor for the first time.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Her determination to beat Honkai at all costs has warped her sense of morality to the point the conventional notions of "good" or "evil" seem to mean little to her. What is "good" is what leads to humanity's victory...even if "humanity" must take a radically different form for that. It's noted several times that no one (outside of the late first Klein) has managed to understand her way of thinking.
• Butt-Monkey: Played for Laughs. Besides Elysia's constant teasing about cute dresses, in the introductions of the playable Flame-Chasers, she's always the one whose comments are not about the said member but rather what they did; wondering if she's the only one called "Auntie" by Griseo, Pardofelis stealing and selling her hairclip, and her incoherent comment because Eden made her drink alcohol.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Her character is essentially a twisted and amoral version of Yssring Leavtruth, one of the playable characters from this game's predecessor Guns GirlZ, as both of them have a green colour scheme and are responsible for the research and development for their respective anti-Honkai organizations' science and technology.
• Death by Childbirth: Not her, but her mother. One of her unlockable files depicts a moment of her birth, where her mother, at the edge of death, named her "Mobius" before passing away. Those who witnessed the moment wept in sadness... and then were utterly shocked when the newborn Mobius suddenly speaks.
• Enfant Terrible: On top of remembering her own birth and her very first words that same day, one of her files tells how she took care of her father who was corrupted by Honkai and became abusive because of psychotrope medicine, and swore that she wouldn't let humanity be degraded like he was, setting her on her Mad Scientist path at the age of nine.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her vitriol, Mobius still considers herself "one of the Flame-Chasers", indicating she views them as comrades. Her respect for a former assistant ran deep enough that Mobius chose to save the woman's dying daughter (Griseo), and looks after the girl from afar with fondness. Mobius actually felt despair when Eden chose to die with the Era rather than go into cryostasis. Her bond with Klein was so strong that Mobius only truly showed the sides of herself that conventional morality would label "human" to Klein, such as her joy, mischief and sorrow. It prompted Mobius to create an ELF modeled after Klein, and it leads Mobius to scrap her own plans against the Herrscher of Corruption in order to prevent ELF Klein from being corrupted beyond repair.
• Everyone Has Standards: For all her morally dubious methods, Mobius is actually quite offended when Mei suspects that she might have drugged the candies she gave to Griseo so that she could experiment on a child.
  Mobius: Do I really seem like the kind of person who’d do that?
  Mei: ...Yes.
• Evil Knockoff: Zigzagged. The original Mobius eventually became more melancholic and less vitriolic as the Past Civlization neared its end, coming to accept her own mortality in a way that seems to go against what Mobius stands for. Then it's revealed that the living Mobius only became like that because her own sim manipulated her mind in order to exist as "the real Mobius" in an enternal state of data. So the sim Mobius looks like an Evil Knockoff of the real Mobius, except the sim Mobius turned her own original self into what is effectively a Good Counterpart of herself, except she views herself as the real one so from the sim's perspective the original became the knockoff.
• Evilutionary Biologist: If her lines are any indication, she seeks to redefine humanity through its evolutionary process, acknowledging its ugliness while praising the beauty in going through such lengths and pains. Considering there are strong hints that she's at the root of the World Serpent organization, her vision is morally questionable at best.
• Gameplay and Story Integration:
  • In one of the scenes of Elysian Realm's Chapter 2, she says that as Mei has "accepted" her offer of "experimenting" on her, she'll have to prepare her signets first for that; until she's ready, Mei won't be getting her signets. True to form, you won't see her signets being available in the next Elysian Realm runs until you get to the storyline stage where you meet her again. At this point, she says that she's giving all her signets to Mei; after the scene, you'll get all of her signet buffs, including the "core buff" and the enhanced ones.
  • As a playable character, it's fitting that she works well with her own signets in Elysian Realm, as her weapon class is crosses, which are treated as a "summoned object", and she can also summon "Object X" with her combo move that slows down nearby enemies.
• Grand Theft Me: In the old era, one of Mobius' final projects to cheat death and counter the side-effects of her Resurrective Immortality (her body becoming younger every time) was to transfer her consciousness into a new body ("Sentience Transfer"). It turns out Mei just so happens to be a perfect body to overtake, hence why she let her reach the deepest parts of the Elysian Realm.
• Green Is Gross: Her pale-green color scheme, combined with her snake motif, only add to the unpleasant vibe she gives off. Elysia even jokes that Mobius would never show up in places that aren't greenish.
• Hellish Pupils: Mobius has snake-like eyes denoting her inscrutable allegiances and a history of witnessing several cycles of Honkai eruptions.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Very, very, very deep down, she does care a bit for her fellow Flame-Chasers. In spite of the friction she has with most of the others, she did offer to find suitable vessels to revive the rest of them in so they could all live again. None of them have taken her up on that offer, and it's doubtful they ever will, but invitation still stands.
• Mad Scientist: As Hua puts it, as long as she can make progress, she doesn't care what she has to sacrifice, even if it's herself.
• Magikarp Power: At least, in the early versions. Her Elysian Realm buffs center around the use of ELFs, summoned entities and support Valkyries. At first, their use seemed limited since those can only be summoned for a few seconds at most and have long cooldown times. However, Mobius' buffs also included a significant reduction of said cooldown times and, if you picked up enough of her signets, you could obtain a special buff that gave you a cumulative damage multiplier for every second her other buffs are active − without limit. Maintain that buff long enough and you could have a total damage multiplier in the tens of thousand percent. This was massively overhauled in version 5.4 — her initial buffs were made more powerful and her later buffs less broken, reducing the "all-or-nothing" problem her original signets had and making runs that use her new signets less luck-based in higher difficulties.
• The Man Behind the Man: Downplayed. She reveals that she was the one who created Gray Serpent, who was the true founder of the World Serpent organization. However, all of Gray Serpent's actions are from his own will, without Mobius influencing him.
• Meaningful Name: She is named after the Mobius Strip, a strip of paper that is coiled into a circle, but with its ends joining at different sides. This strip is said to be a 2-dimensional shape that is both "single-edged" and "single-sided" and is seen as a symbol of infinity/endlessness, befitting her theme.
• Morality Pet: Downplayed, but the human Klein served as one for her. While she had a habit of making Klein work a lot, even for trivial tasks, she also made Klein understand her "other sides"; Mobius also saw her as "the only one who understood her". As shown in the Elysian Realm, after Klein's death, Mobius was still the same "unscrupulous and draconian scientist" she once was, but her behavior showed some changes, one of which was that she became colder and more terse. It's implied that she made the ELF Klein due to her attachment towards the past Klein. Mobius' Sim only truly dies performing a Heroic Sacrifice for ELF Klein, after futilely attempting to convince her to abandon the Elysian Realm to save herself from the Herrscher of Corruption.
• "Not So Different" Remark: An indirect example — she likes to remind Kevin that MEI and her are more alike than he would like to admit. They may have different personalities, but their determination to beat Honkai at all costs both led them to use extreme, often morally questionable methods.
• One-Winged Angel: Her true form is said to be akin to a "solid shadow" and looks like a giant snake with arms and a torso that serves as a shell, while swimming in a pool of what looks like a glowing black-and-green slime. She initiates this Active Honkai Reactor in her climactic duel against Mei for possession of the latter's body.
• Pet the Dog: A few moments.
  • Given her tendencies, it would be easy to assume that she turned Griseo into a MANTIS For Science! or something else equally twisted or worse. She didn't; Griseo is the daughter of Mobius's former assistant, Blanca, whom Mobius still has a certain degree of respect and attachment for, so when an incident left Blanca dead and Griseo near death, Mobius chose to save the girl's life. The Meta-Morph surgery was her only option, assuming of course that she is telling the truth.
  • When she discovered the secrets of the "Over-meta-morph", she specifically sought out Kosma, who was the first to succumb to it, and offered to turn him back to "normal". While she definitely had some other agenda for Kosma when she made the offer, the fact is that Kosma was able to regain his humanity because of her.
  • While Elysia constantly gets on her nerves, Mobius still joined the Flame-Chasers even though it wasn't even approved by MOTH. In addition, when Elysia goes missing during Chapter 29, Mobius was one of the people who searched frantically for her, and she shoots down the suggestion that Elysia is hiding on the grounds that the latter would never be so cruel as to continue a game of hide-and-seek when the rest of them are genuinely freaking out.
• Resurrective Immortality:
  • She became virtually unkillable after receiving the ICHOR; whenever she’s killed, she comes back to life slightly younger after a few hours, which she compares to a snake shedding its skin. Mei points out that the analogy is odd, in that snake molting should've been a sign of a snake becoming older. Mobius instead becomes "younger" whenever she dies and resurrects herself.
  • One of her files shows an incident in the 10th Herrscher's crisis. Klein, who became one of the hosts for the Herrscher, killed Mobius. Su, who came into her operating room, tried subduing Klein with his Psychic Powers, but then Mobius' body released dark wisps that instinctively seek a large source of energy for her to resurrect...which happened to be Klein's Herrscher Core. Some moments after that, she came back alive.
• Rule of Symbolism: The developers (as seen in the Youtube video showing her development) say that she's inspired by the "serpent" figure in the Biblical Garden of Eden, who tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Mobius, the "serpent" figure among the Flame-Chasers, owns the Elysian Realm, and is constantly tempting visitors to experiment on them.
• The Shadow Knows: The full wallpaper version of her promotional art shows that her shadow is that of a highly twisted being, hinting at a much more sinister character than her girly appearance suggests.
• Shaping Your Attacks: As a playable character, she mainly attacks by manipulating a black-and-green ooze-like substance into various shapes to damage her enemies.
• Serpentof Immortality: She represents a snake. And is able to revive herself by becoming younger.
• Shock and Awe: As a playable character, she deals lightning damage. Her lightning powers come from the Honkai Beast that was used for her ICHOR, Sesa, which, as the familiar for the 3rd Herrscher, can also manipulate electricity.
• Super Mode: Her Ultimate Skill has her perform a powerful AOE lightning attack and then enter a special mode, in which her "enhanced basic attack" will make her regenerate her "green dots", which are used for her branch attack. This means that she can spam her "branch attack-enhanced basic attack" chain more frequently until the timer ends, and said enhanced basic attack is also empowered further.
• Token Evil Teammate: From her first impression alone, she is by far the most unpleasant member of Fire MOTH. While she is as determined to fight the Honkai and save humanity as the other members, she doesn't let morality get in the way of her goal and, as she admits herself, she sees "humanity" differently from others.
• Too Important to Walk: Mobius does not walk, instead sitting on the large floating briefcase that seems to provide her mysterious and sinister powers.
• Tsundere: During the fight with the Herrscher of Corruption in the Elysian Realm, Möbius complains a bit about how Elysia has to drag everyone along with her and declares that's why she hates her. This is despite the fact that Möbius is smiling as she says this; that she is literally the second sim in line after Eden to appear to Elysia during this sequence; and that she then promptly donates her remaining data to Elysia to help restore the latter's strength. Elysia even lampshades how Möbius is actually pretty happy.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Möbius might constantly bicker with Elysia, but the official Flame-Chasers relationship diagram has her relationship with Elysia indicated with a blue arrow (indicating a positive relationship). The caption says "you got fat". It's later revealed that the original Möbius didn't attend Elysia's Last Banquet because she didn't want anyone to see her tears.
• Vocal Evolution: In the early chapters of Elysian Realm, she speaks in a falsely cute, high-pitched voice but as playable character and in later chapters, she sounds more mature and haughty. In the few glimpses we get of her before regressing in age, her voice is lower and more impatient, for example in a chapter 29 flashback, when discovering a maid outfit in her closet placed by Elysia.
• Voodoo Doll: Her support skill (which randomly shows up in the Elysian Realm stages) makes her summon a "Miniature X" at a point on the stage for a few seconds. Attacking said miniature will deal equivalent damage to all enemies present; this also means that you can deal increased damage to them if you can hit both them and the miniature at the same time.
• The Worf Effect: Midway through Chapter 30, Hua and Su discover her lifeless body in her laboratory. The news of her death freaks everyone out as she's one of the strongest Flame-Chasers.

XI - Griseo (Codename: Stars)

Voiced by: Zisu Jiuyue ^*紫苏九月 (Chinese), Hina Kino (Japanese)

Starry Impression

^{Cosmic Expression}

By far the youngest of the Flame-Chasers, she was the daughter of one of Mobius' former assistants, who was turned into a MANTIS to save her from fatal wounds. She spends her days in her huge "studio", painting and giving life to landscapes and creatures.

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• Ambiguously Related: To the Sky People featured in A Post-Honkai Odyssey. Enemies "painted" by Griseo in the Elysian Realm use the same models as enemies from the APHO storyline; particularly Fool, Death, and Judgement. In addition, Aponia shows her a mural in Elysium Everlasting that ominously depicts a floating structure similar in shape to the Arcane Castle, and hints that it is related to the fate of Griseo and Project ARK before Kosma interrupts her. Lastly, Mei's initial description of the Sky People as "something come out from a child's nightmare cobbled together with pieces from a thousand different monsters"; Griseo is the only child among the Flame-Chasers and was sent out on the Ark to explore the universe for a new home for humanity. Fu Hua does eventually locate the missing Griseo during the "Seven Karma Phala" storyline, slumbering for centuries in the ruins of the Ark and kept prisoner by the Sky People's master, Sa. As such, there is at least some element of connection between Griseo and the beings Sa uses to attack other worlds.
• Ancient Astronauts: As a survivor of the Previous Era, Griseo is a being hailing from a highly-advanced civilization tasked with ensuring humanity's survival by locating a suitable new homeworld. While the other Pioneers oversaw the development of the current era's humanity, Griseo once again left Earth to carry out Project ARK, ending up in the ruins outside of Phosphorus City. Local legends hint that the Ark was vital to the creation of this civilization, though under the control of Sa instead of being guided by Griseo as was the original plan.
• Art Attacker: Though the other Flame-Chasers usually keep her safe, if it comes down to it Griseo can weaponize her paints. In addition to splashing opponents with paint directly, she can also draw things into existence, from various summons that attack on her behalf to entire artificial spaces.
• Artsy Beret: Par-for-the-course for a painter character. It blends with her simple but cute and elegant design.
• Assist Character: In-game, her paints can summon a construct in the form of a sword-wielding knight that attacks enemies. She calls it Mr. Knight in "The Journey of Painting Stars", and does so once in chapter 31 when she offers to have Mr. Knight accompany Kosma to fight the Herrscher of Corruption.
• Aura Vision: The true nature of Griseo's powers, which allow her to view the "colors" of the world around her. As a child, this primarily made her into a Blank Slate that took on the "colors" of the people around her. But with experience, Griseo has mastered her abilities and uses them to track enemies, detect traces of people on the objects they have touched, and even decipher things about people based on reading their "colors".
• The Baby of the Bunch: Unlike the other Flame-Chasers, she's still a little girl and as such sees everything with a sense of childish wonder and meekness, making her easy to approach. In return, the others are rather protective of her, especially Kosma, Aponia (whom she calls "Mama") and even Mobius of all people, who saved her life by transforming her.
• Blank Slate: Being around someone for an extended period of time gradually causes their personality and quirks to rub off onto her, like paint staining a blank sheet of paper. It's not permanent though, as sooner or later Griseo channels the accumulated "colors" into her art and returns to being "blank".
• Brick Joke: Early on when describing Griseo’s Blank Slate nature, Elysia jokingly suggests that she could imitate Mei's ultimate skill voiceline "Raging wind, obey me" when fighting. Flash forward to Griseo's release and one of her ultimate voicelines is "Paintbrush, obey me", in the same tone of voice as Mei.
• The Bus Came Back: The "Seven Karma Phala" storyline reveals that Griseo did safely return to Earth long enough to reunite with the other surviving Flame-Chasers in the current era. But she departed Earth again, and was thought lost until Fu Hua discovers her in the ruins outside Phosphorus City.
• Children Are Innocent: To the extreme, both because of her young age and her Blank Slate nature. For most of her appearances she seems largely oblivious to everything that's going on within and without the Elysian Realm and barely seems to understand what Honkai is or what her paintings are capable of. While she remains innocent, it turns out she is a lot less oblivious than she appears, as she not only decided to enter the Ark because she knew Kosma was hesitating, but her sim also willingly turned herself and Kosma into paintings to ensure that the Herrscher of Corruption wouldn't be able to get to them.
• Emergency Transformation: According to Mobius, Griseo was transformed into a MANTIS in order to save her life rather than to fight.
• Flaming Meteor: Cosmic Expression's Ultimate is Griseo using her sword pen to slice a large falling meteor into several pieces which burst into flames and rain down onto enemies.
• Laser Blade: While Griseo's signature weapon as Cosmic Expression is the cross Anchor of the Voyage^note PRI-ARM: Anchor of the Voyage: Interstellar, she primarily fights with a light-emitting pen that is a lightsaber in all but name and can also extend a second blade from its base.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: While she was kept in stasis, Griseo's mind was trapped in a version of the same day that replayed over and over again. In an effort to escape this loop, the real Griseo became "Mr. Knight" and is eventually able to escape with external assistance from Fu Hua.
• Noodle Incident: Somehow she ended up in the original Deep End, which is where she met Aponia.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Fu Hua discovers the crashed Ark in "Seven Karma Phala", and eventually finds Griseo's dormancy chamber. When the chamber is finally opened, Griseo is revealed to have aged into an adult over the roughly 1500 years that she spent in suspended animation after her second voyage in the Ark.
• She Is All Grown Up: Having spent 1500 years in suspended animation, Griseo is now a curvy, beautiful young woman, as opposed to the child version first met in the Elysian Realm.
• Shout-Out: To Star Wars, particularly in her event "Starry Voyage: Strike Back!". The event's story features a very iconic scrolling message at the start, and Griseo meets both a heroic youth named "Lucca" and an old master called "Yada" while fighting against an invading force.
• Strong Family Resemblance: In the brief glimpse we see of Ato and Blanca in the "Because of You" animated short, it is apparent that Griseo inherited her father's pale blue hair and purple eyes.
• Terse Talker: During the Elysian Realm-focused events, when she's not channeling someone else, she tends to speak in terse sentence fragments. However, starting with "Seven Karma Phala", she's shown with a more natural speaking cadence.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Griseo's Blank Slate nature. As she spends time around other people, their egos rub off onto hers and "color" it so that she gradually becomes more and more like them. It's cute when she's imitating Elysia and Pardofelis, as the situation is light-hearted enough that their cheer is believably rubbing off on her. It's funny when she addresses Mei the same way that Raven does, if somewhat unnerving. It's eerie when she decides to paint a portrait of Mei, as she fully immerses herself in Mei's "color" and thus begins imitating Mei's manner of speech, which is nothing like Griseo's own.
• Uncertain Doom: Project ARK's objective was to send a single person to space in a one-person vessel. Kosma was the original candidate, but Griseo tried to convince Vill-V to let her take his place. Regardless, in the modern day Project ARK is considered defunct as contact with the vessel was lost, so whoever it was that boarded it, their ultimate fate is unknown. In the end, Kosma notes that when he was struggling with whether to either leave and survive or to stay and die, someone else made the choice for him, meaning that Griseo was indeed the one who boarded the Ark. Kosma himself ended up dying on the moon. This storyline is picked up in the "Seven Karma Phala" event, as Fu Hua finds the wrecked remains of the Ark alongside Griseo's belongings in Phosphorus City, which leads her to believe that she may have survived. Later on, she finds Griseo in her dormancy chamber and successfully revives her.

XII - Hua (Codename: Vicissitude)

One of the youngest MANTISes, Hua was but a fledgling when the war came down and she joined Fire MOTH.

For more information on her, see Fu Hua's character page.

XIII - Pardofelis (Codename: Reverie)

Voiced by: Jīn Nà ^*金 娜 (Chinese), Nozomi Yamamoto (Japanese); Can voiced by: Hua Ling ^*花玲

Reverist Calico

The self-proclaimed weakest Flame-Chaser, Pardofelis was recruited into Fire MOTH by happenstance after surviving the Project Morph surgery. While her combat ability is far weaker than the rest, her talents made her an excellent scout. Within the Elysian Realm she also manages and owns the Felis' Shop used for Signet upgrading. Also owns the singular pet in the Realm who she calls Can.

She makes her first appearance in the 3rd Chapter of the Elysian Realm, being the first of the remaining Flame-Chasers to meet Mei.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: She stumbled into becoming a MANTIS completely by accident. Seeing a bunch of people in fancy outfits, she thought she'd be able to score big and swiped one for herself when suddenly someone came around and asked what she was doing there. Soon, she was on an operating table and when she came to she discovered she had cat ears and a cat tail. This is already kind of horrifying even without considering the fact that the MANTIS meta-morph surgery has a horrifically low success rate that could have left her dead, but it worked out in the end, even if Pardofelis is one of if not the absolute weakest MANTISes in existence.
• Animal Motifs: Cats, naturally. Her Project Morph surgery gave her a cat tail and ears, she has a cat for a pet, and shares some mannerisms of cats.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Her Ultimate has her transform Can into a giant cat to crush the enemies below. Funnily, one of her Ultimate voicelines is "You should go on a diet, Can!"
• The Beast Master: She fights alongside her pet Can, who attacks along with Pardofelis. She even makes it bigger for her ultimate.
• Born Lucky: Life just seems to work out for her to survive.
  • As a kid, she got saved from dying by a gunshot thanks to a coin she found and kept in her breast pocket.
  • Not only was she lucky enough to come across MOTH stuff to even have access to them, but also was lucky to survive the Project Morph Surgery which is stated to have a high mortality rate.
  • More tragically, she makes it out of the Tragedy alive because she got sick and was bedridden before it happened, meaning she missed the entire event because of a flu.
• Cat Girl: Played With. Her feline traits were the side effects of her Project Morph surgery, much like Elysia's elf ears and Sakura's fox ears. Unlike the latter, however, she also got a cat tail, and seems to have picked up certain mannerisms from cats as well.
• The Collector: She went out of her way to join every unit within Fire MOTH and then quit them immediately just to collect the uniforms from each of them.
• Cooldown Manipulation: With her pri-arm she reduces the cooldown of the party's ultimates, granting the team faster rotations meaning faster DPS.
• Cowardly Lion: Even though Pardofelis is basically just a normal person in terms of both personality and strength as a MANTIS, and thus is the most terrified of combat, in both her life in the Previous Era and as a sim in the Elysian Realm she ends up courageously giving her life for her comrades' plans. Against the Current Era's Herrscher of Corruption, she gives Kevin an opportunity to deal it a critical blow even while knowing she will get caught in the blast herself. In the Previous Era, her role in the Flame Chasers' mission to the moon was the most outright suicidal of all: to brave the Herrscher of Finality's attack and open the "door" that would allow Prometheus No. 17 to become the "Will of Honkai" and put humanity on the road to enacting Project Stigma to rid themselves of the Honkai menace. She succeeded.
• Dance Battler: Her fighting style incorporates dance moves.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: She's fatally injured when she discovers the truth behind Vill-V's actions and their connection to the Herrscher of Corruption. Mei cradles her as she speaks her last and dies, her sim glitching out and eventually shattering like digital glass. This ends up being subverted when it's revealed that like Kevin, her data ended up being absorbed into the Herrscher of Corruption rather than deleted.
• Dual Wielding: She's the first character to use the Chakram weapon class, although her chakram is in two pieces that form shotel-like swords which she uses simultaneously in combat.
• Dungeon Shop: She always finds safe places in the Elysian Realm to set up her shop and help you with all sorts of upgrades. How she makes business when her customer base is forever locked to a dozen people at most (or why she needs money at all, for that matter) is a mystery.
• The Everyman: Laid-back, slightly cowardly, not really good at fighting, she's by far the most down-to-earth of the Flame-Chasers and didn't contribute much to the war, which also means she's also the most removed from all the Elysian Realm's internal machinations. That’s also why she serves as the Plucky Comic Relief to contrast Mei's no-nonsense attitude.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: She is comfortably the Thief from the trio of Flame-Chasers from Sundown Alley (herself, Aponia and Kalpas). Her talents are in sneaking around, opening locks and avoiding combat. As a playable character, she also moves around a lot.
• Furry Reminder: One of her ship interactions has her stretching like a cat, not too dissimilar to fellow catgirl Diona in Genshin Impact. She also might be attracted to cat toys.
• Gameplay and Story Integration:
  • Much like Mobius before her, she is the best user of her own Signets. One of her personal signets make enemies drop Shiny Silver, and she even starts with 500 Shiny Silver, removing the difficulty of going with Reverie at the start. In addition, she has the discount in the Felis Shop always active, making it easier for her to upgrade and buy stuff.
  • In the "exploration" parts of Elysium Everlasting, Pardo will occasionally make enthusiastic comments when you find a treasure chest or chastise you when you fall into a pit. After she dies, this funny chatter is replaced by crushing silence and a mere "…" from Mei.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: In-story she's explicitly not a fighter and sticks to infiltration and scouting missions, leaving the monster clean-up to Mei in the Elysian Realm. In-game, she’s not only an extremely versatile support unit for both elemental and physical teams, but she also packs quite a punch when fully equipped, to the point she can score fairly decently as a DPS.
• Heavy Sleeper: One of her most prominent cat-like traits. Not only does she like taking naps wherever and whenever she can, she’s turned slacking off into an artform (according to her), which goes along with her "enjoy the moment" philosophy.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • In chapter 31, her part of the plan to attack the Herrscher of Corruption is to open a portal that the Judgment of Shamash's fiery blast can travel through. She realizes that she has to be very close to the portal for this to work to its best extent, and that the flames from the attack will almost certainly kill her. She struggles with her own fear and frustration at not being able to finish out her life in the way that she wants, but ultimately decides to go through with it, triumphantly proclaiming that she's a Flame-Chaser just before the attack goes off and kills her.
  • Chaper 32 reveals that her death in the Previous Era was almost a carbon copy of her sim's true death in the Elysian Realm, as she bravely opened a "door" to allow Prometheus #17 to become the Will of Honkai, ultimately perishing due to a massive overdose of Honkai energy from the Herrscher of Finality.
• Jiggle Physics: Her Stripperiffic outfit certainly doesn't provide very good support, as her chest bounces around a lot.
• Just Like Robin Hood: As much as she hates it being called such, this was generally what her stealing when she was younger amounted to.
• Magikarp Power: Her signets' buffs at a glance are very weak, being at very low scaling compared to other signets that offer similar buffs. This is because of the additional scaling based on the total Shiny Silver obtained in the run, which typically gives one stack of the buff per 100 coins. This means by the end of the run the buffs Reverie offers are suddenly really big, especially if one opts to get the signets that also buff your Shiny Silver count. This in return makes the early parts of the run much harder, as you will likely be starting with at most one buff due to your Shiny Silver count being still low (Pardeofelis herself does removes this problem however).
• Meaningful Name: Pardofelis is the genus of the marbled cat, which is the cat breed that she takes her visual appearance from. It is also the breed of Can.
• Odd Friendship: The easygoing slacker Pardofelis apparently got on well with the serious and duty-driven Hua. In two of Pardofelis' archives, Hua is mentioned to be talking to her and while on the official relationship chart their feelings for the other (partner) is shared with Kosma, they have a blue line that is mutual, suggesting that they were on really good terms with each other.
• Raised by Wolves: Pardofelis' usual company back when she was still in Sundown Alley were stray cats, and in fact she learned how to act like one from a black cat. This experience stuck so much that Pardofelis' memories manifested Can, a cat that the simulation confirms the real her never owned or had even seen.
• Recruited from the Gutter: She came from a notably impoverished slum called the Sundown Alley, where she was the junk tycoon. After several coincidental encounters she was eventually recruited by the Flame-Chasers.
• Red Baron: Was known as Sundown Alley Thief back when she was younger.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: In chapter 30, Pardo has the idea of undoing the lock on one of the mirrors representing Vill-V's personas, which was obviously there for a reason. This leads to her death at the hands of Vill-V's evil persona, marking her reveal as one of the Arc Villains.
• Stepford Smiler: As she herself admits, her smiles hide a lot of pain and trauma from her past, but she refuses to talk about it too much because she hates being down.
• Stripperiffic: She's the first playable character whose default outfit is pretty much a bra and short shorts.
• V-Sign: When her Ultimate is triggered, she flashes the palm-out version to the player when Can hits the ground.

Scientists

Dr. MEI

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese)

Not to be confused with Raiden Mei. A genius scientist during the Previous Era's civilization, MEI was Kevin Kaslana's lover when the era's equivalent of the Third Honkai Eruption occurred and she was put to work in Fire MOTH as their scientist. She was instrumental in making many of the anti-Honkai weapons and artifacts that would be passed on long after her death, chief among them being the Stigmata system.

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• Batman Gambit: This is partly how she managed to defeat the 10th Herrscher. This Herrscher was a Hive Mind consisting of 1000 people, one of them being a Fire MOTH soldier, who acted as The Mole for the other bodies. She exploited this fact by sending a message to the headquarters, saying that her newest Divine Key was about to be completed and was stored in a remote island. This led the bodies to storm said island, intending to stop her, get rid of said Divine Key, and retrieve the Herrscher Cores that she possessed at the time. This is MEI's trap: the "unnumbered Divine Key" was already combat-ready and she had equipped it, and she used it and her Herrscher Cores to decimate the Herrscher's bodies in a couple of hours.
• Determinator: When the 12th Herrscher executed its plan to hijack hundreds of nukes and destroy humanity's three remaining cities, MEI did not give up and managed to trap the entity within a black box. Even faced with the prediction that the 14th's victory was inevitable and her own body was about to succumb to continued Honkai material exposure, MEI managed to perfect the Stigmata system, ensuring that the next era of civilization would have the right tools to combat the Honkai when they re-emerge. It was only then that she died on duty on the control terminal.
• Generation Xerox: She looks very identical to her present time counterpart Raiden Mei. They even share the same name.
• Insignificant Little Blue Planet: In a flashback in ch. 17, during her date with Kevin, she had a talk about how "the stars look down on humanity" and she makes a reference to the Voyager 1 space probe's famous photo of the Earth from deep space, the "Pale Blue Dot". She said about how humanity itself is meaningless in the face of the universe, but it's "us" who give ourselves said meaning. She then expressed a desire to see how far she can go as a human being in this universe. Kevin was overwhelmed by all this, but he chose to keep listening as he felt that she's "unique" compared to the other girls he had met.
  MEI: Humanity's history, billions of people, our knowledge, and our culture... they're just so... insignificant. That gives rise to a question. What is the exact worth of an individual in a vast expanse of space?
• The Lost Lenore: To Kevin. After the ill-fated battle on the moon, he returned to find that MEI had died of the Honkai infection she'd been hiding from him. In death, he's shown to be reunited with her and content just to lay in the grass at her side.
• Married to the Job: She was too focused on her research to give Kevin the time of day.
• Motivational Lie: She led the MOTHs in planning four projects to find a way to give the next era of humanity a chance to combat Honkai: Ark, which focused on finding a place among the stars for humanity to escape their planet; Valuka, the use of the 2nd Divine Key to search other timelines for ways to successfully combat Honkai; Ember, where survivors of the Herrscher of the End would pass their knowledge and technology to the new generation of humanity to give them a head start against Honkai; and Stigma, which would forcefully "redefine" humanity so as to free it from Honkai forever. In reality, all the projects besides Stigma are basically a front. Though Stigma is regarded even by MEI as the "worst" choice, she confided in Kevin that she also believed it to be the only one that actually had a reasonable chance to succeed. Judging how the other three have all stalled with no viable conclusion in sight, she was right.
• Mythology Gag: Back when she was still in high school, she wore the same clothing as Mei's Guns GirlZ counterpart.
• Powered Armor: Among many of her inventions, she made an "unnumbered Divine Key" that takes form of a suit of armor. It can hold a Herrscher Core and then give the wearer the power of said Herrscher without having their mind succumb to the Honkai, but it puts a heavy strain on its user with each use. This armor later becomes the basis for Himeko's Vermilion Knight suit.
• Punny Name: For present Mei, her name is written as 芽衣 and is pronounced "Mei" in Japanese, but "Yàyí" in Chinese. However, Dr. MEI has her name written with a different character (梅), which is read... "mei" in Chinese.
• Secretly Dying: Throughout the Honkai War, MEI's body was exposed repeatedly to Honkai radiation, with only Su's medication keeping the normaly lethal infection at bay for a long time. Unfortunately, the medication would no longer be effective by the time the 14th Herrscher won her fateful battle on the Moon, and the dying MEI's eyes could no longer even see Su, even though he was right in front of her. With only seconds away from death, MEI pleaded with Su to swear that he would always stay by Kevin's side and make sure the latter doesn't stray from the right path.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: When compared to the current Mei, she wore glasses since she was in high school, marking her as an intellectual.
• Someone to Remember Him By: Gender-Inverted. When Kevin returned from the moon, he discovered that MEI had died from the illness she'd been hiding from him. But she'd also secretly combined their genes to create a test-tube baby, leaving him to raise their newborn son in the new era. This child, Adam, would be the progenitor of House Kaslana.
• Teen Genius: This MEI's father was a renowned physicist specializing in the field of electromagnetism, and she was solely interested in becoming a scientist and expanding upon human knowledge, even during high school, where she met Kevin.
• The Voice: She has a voice-only cameo in ch. 12 of the game, depicting the time of 12th Herrscher's outbreak.
• When She Smiles: In a flashback in ch. 17, when Kevin expresses his desire to understand more about her philosophical talk and questions, she lets out a light laugh.
  Kevin: Hey, you're finally smiling. You look good when you smile.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: While she was still a high school student, she philosophized about the stars, the universe, and how humanity is but insignificant among them, in the middle of the date between her and Kevin. She also thought of expressing her thoughts in front of famous scholars and becoming one of the people who can "change the world". By contrast, Kevin, like a typical high school student, only thought of living his life free and enjoying every moment. When MEI asked him if he thinks there's any worth to this discussion (as he was genuinely listening), he said that he only understood half of it, but he expressed his desire to know more.

Klein

Mobius' favourite assistant, who died during the Honkai War. She's said to be the one person who truly understood Mobius, and the one person Mobius had genuine affection for. Mobius later created the ELF Klein to replace her.

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• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Downplayed. In the "Mobius' Lab" web event, Klein tells Fuxi and Nuwa many of Mobius' more "human" traits, such as her wanting to pet small animals even though they ran away from her, or the fact that she becomes easily drunk when she had to drink alcohol, or her drawing cute things using coordinates and functions together with Klein. Nuwa tells Klein that she still can't sympathize with Mobius after listening to these facts, but Klein says that Mobius needed no sympathy.
• Face–Monster Turn: She killed Mobius after being taken over by the 10th Herrscher, to the shock of everyone then.
• The Igor: She was Mobius' closest subordinate and assistant.
• Posthumous Character: Only talked about by Mei and the sims in the Elysian Realm, and by her lookalike ELF.
• Workaholic: Back in life, she put herself into a lot of assignments and works, both important and trivial, mostly coming from Mobius. Fuxi (at the time one of the scientists working under Mobius) pointed out that Klein voluntarily decided to take on those numerous assignments; later on, Klein revealed that in tiring times like this (i.e the whole war against Honkai), working is something she does to feel alive. The ELF Klein was designed by Mobius to inherit the human Klein's workaholic tendencies.

Blanca

Griseo's mother. A researcher who worked under Mobius and who the latter was personally fond of, it was her death that prompted Mobius to infuse Griseo with Ichor to save her life, as a way of looking out for her subordinate's daughter.

Other members

Captain Himeko

One of Fire MOTH's high ranking officers during the Previous Era, Captain Himeko took in an orphaned Fu Hua and trained her to become a M.O.T.H. soldier. This mentorship would not last, though, as Himeko would end up corrupted by the Honkai and become the 7th Herrscher, the Herrscher of Flames. Kevin Kaslana had to slay her after becoming a Honkai-powered Super-Soldier. Her core would later be used to create the Divine Key, Judgment of Shamash.

She first appears in-game in ch. 20, in some of Fu Hua's flashbacks, and briefly appears in ch. 31.

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• Face–Monster Turn: Corruption from Honkai energy eventually turned her into a Herrscher, leading to Himeko betraying her squadron and wreaking havok on a greater scale than the six previous Herrschers.
• The Mentor: She was the one who taught Fu Hua to become an anti-Honkai soldier. Even after her death, Fu Hua looked up to her and her teaching.
• Playing with Fire: Within a week after her transformation into the 7th Herrscher, Himeko singlehandedly reduced Australia to a burned hellscape. Fu Hua notes that Agata, despite being blessed with the powers of the Herrscher of Flames through Sirin's additional Cores, is a mere whelp compared to this Himeko's power.
• Work Hard, Play Hard: Quite like current era's Himeko, she likes partying when she had the chance, even taking Fu Hua with her. She lampshades it, saying that the soldiers would need some way to forget their worries for a time so as to keep their morale up.

Dystopia

A girl who entered the MOTH at the same time as Kosma, being one of the few friends he had.

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• Cool Big Sis: Played this role towards Griseo, along with Kosma.
• Meaningful Name: Humanity’s situation was maybe not so grim when she was born, but by the time she reached her teenage years, "dystopia" had become an understatement to describe the world she lived in.
• Posthumous Character: She was already dead by the time the Elysian Realm was created. The only images we have of her are a celebration picture taken during Kevin's birthday and a shot of her and Kosma together in the end credits of "Because of You".

Ato

Griseo's father. A senior operative in Fire MOTH, he was among the first generation of MANTIS soldiers alongside Kevin, Elysia, Aponia, Mobius, Kosma, Sakura, and Dystopia.

No. 0017 − Prometheus

Voiced by: Hanser (Chinese), Kana Asumi (Japanese)

Terminal Aide 0017

An artificial intelligence created by Dr. MEI. She was used to hijack the authority of the Herrscher of Finality and become the "Will of Honkai" in the next era. This is not that same Prometheus, but a counterpart in a bubble universe. Following the events of Part 1, she has become Misteln's travelling companion.

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• Alternate Self: She is not the same Prometheus who became the Will of Honkai, but a bubble universe counterpart encountered by the heroes in Chapter 32.
• Beleaguered Assistant: To both MEI and Misteln. MEI's tendency to pile busywork onto Prometheus gives the AI enough of a headache as is, but when travelling with Misteln poor Prometheus exists in a near-constant state of exasperation and incredulity as she keeps getting dragged into her companion's plans, whims, and antics, and increasingly wonders why she's still sticking around in spite of this.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She has been programmed to judge actions not by the meaning behind them, but their efficiency. After finding out that MEI has effectively doomed their bubble universe's chance of survival just for the unlikely chance to see Kevin again, she calmly points out what she could have done better. Similarly, although she understands that Misteln wishes to atone for her involvement in the creation of Abnormal Stigmata, she finds it hard to comprehend why Misteln would observe them and give them a chance to live instead of simply killing them as soon as possible.
• Death from Above: In her Special Attack, she summons a huge robotic hand that crashes to the ground and does a large AOE hit.
• Fun Size: As of the end of the "Daughters of the Sea" section of ch. 39, she's been turned into an ELF-sized version of herself. Vita destroyed her original body, but fortunately, she'd transferred her consciousness into a safe place and was able to use other means to rebuild herself, and she can emit a projection of her original form.
• Indignant Slap: Delivers one to Kevin in Chapter 35 after seeing that he is unable to even shed tears for Dr. MEI.
• Machine Monotone: Is even more monotone than Bronya, further highlighted by her synthetic voice effect. It breaks when she shows anger towards Kevin.
• Robot Master: Owing to having access to the Previous Era's accumulated knowledge, she is highly skilled in the creation of mechs and vehicles and is responsible for those found in Salt Snow Holy City.
• The Spock: Acts as the rational, but inflexible partner to the more cheerful and whimsical Misteln.