Appearance:
A tall young woman at 5'10" with ashy-grey hair and oddly purple eyes, her perpetually pale skin often brings into question how much sunlight she gets, yet does not seem to burn under its light. This nearly doll-like pallor is accompanied, however, by most every other sign of exceptional health, her honed and shapely body speaking to an appreciation of hard work, the genetic lottery or some combination of the two. Her armored dress of a battlesuit gives off the image in battle of a black knight, as she zips around to slice and dice her foes.

Element: Ice.
Ice can freeze enemies (or parts of them) solid to hinder movement and provide breathing room. It can also counter the burning condition and counteract the effects of extreme heat. These are not the only things it can do, provided some creativity is exercised, but they are the primary and simplest ones.

Weapon: Pulse Katana Type-17

• Ability: Channeling a practically trivial trickle of Honkai energy through this weapon, it launches 6 ethereal blades, each blade dealing Ice DMG and greatly slowing enemies struck with them for a single post or 2.5 seconds, whichever is shorter. The ice creeping through their veins lowers their Agility stat by one rank for the duration of this effect. While this duration isn't impressive, the negligible Honkai energy cost and relatively "okay-ish" damage makes it plenty useful if well timed. This ability counts as a status effect and can be resisted with Endurance contested by your Honkai.

Honkai Arts:

• Cryokinesis: C
• Time Fracture: E (1 use)
• Honkai Sensing: C (medium range, honkai corruption level detection)
• Quantum Manipulation: D (Space-time sensory capacity and manipulation solely in regard to the Sea of Quanta. Allows the countering of the Superposed state and Quantum Layers of Quantum Shadows. Allows the creation and maintenance of Bubble Universes in the Sea of Quanta.)

Battlesuit: Void Knight

• Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels. While this battlesuit was once normal, after exposure to the Sea of Quanta, it became an ethereal mantle fused to Jessica's existence like the superposed layers of a Quantum Shadow. Thankfully, she can remove it as easily as rearranging her superposed state, shuffling it off to subspace, but it will never truly leave her. It seems to naturally reconstitute and repair itself over time as a result of this new state, but as a result, it is very difficult to modify or improve. Only Jessica or others touched by the Sea of Quanta are capable of interacting with it properly and making lasting alterations.
• Time Fracture: An ability that increases a Valkyrie’s Agility by one level for a single post or about 5-10 seconds, giving them the opportunity to dodge some form of peril and potentially retaliate in the same timeframe. Can usually only be used once per battle.

Burst: Quantum Heatsink

• Rank: D
• Duration: 2 rounds.
• Modifier Points: 4 (+1 Miasma Suppression, +1 Corruption Cleansing, +2 AOE)
• Effect: Calls forth a chilling cold by opening her body as a gateway to the Quantum void, coating her vicinity in frost out to a MEDIUM distance. This gate to the void has a special effect in that zone, as the radical temperature drop can counteract Honkai corruption, the rapid decrease in thermal energy "freezing" the particles to halt the imminent cascade and drawing them away. Her connection to the Sea of Quanta allows her to do as it does and consume and shunt Imaginary energy. For every round that an ally remains in her zone of cold, a single point of Honkai corruption is cleansed. This also effectively lowers the Honkai Miasma level in her vicinity by 1 for the duration.

Skills:
Speaks fluent English, Spanish and Chinese. Her cooking skills are... existent, enough to follow the instructions on a package and make military rations seem edible. She can drive a car, pilot Anti-Entropy aircraft and operate AE mech suits and drones. She's skilled at first aid and quick on her feet when it comes to treating Honkai corruption. She also has enough competence in engineering and Honkai tech to perform maintenance on her weapons and battlesuit, though not modify them without assistance. She has firearm training, but nothing quite comparable to a Valkyrie gun specialist, and similarly, she is highly skilled in unarmed combat, though not in the operation of Fist discipline weapons. She's pretty good at video games.

Gear:
A bundle of tech items, including a smartphone, wireless earbuds, power bank, charging cords, USB drives and tools enough for light maintenance on her gear. She also carries her car keys, wallet, a lighter, a small flashlight and her handheld gaming console with a charger. She never leaves for duty without a medical kit, which contains all the essentials, including bandages, splints, disinfectant and tools for stitches (with a special needle for piercing Valkyrie skin). She additionally keeps a number of survival items on hand in the chance that a worst-case scenario occurs, including ration bars, water, dehydrated food, and a mess kit with eating utensils, a bowl and a lid that can double as a plate or frying pan. She also carries a FN High Power handgun as a sidearm that she usually keeps strapped under one arm, along with two spare 17-round magazines.

Personality:
Determined and congenial, Jessica is not exactly the social sort, but she tries her best regardless. With little ego to be found, she tends to carry a natural ease about her, not making friends with everyone around her per-say but easily getting along with most people she meets. Her relatively humble nature expresses itself in a habitual politeness, a sort of "treat others as you wish to be treated", and while she does have a temper, rare is the situation where it is allowed to take the wheel. She cares about doing the right thing for as many people as possible and prefers not to take sides unless there is objectively clear wrongdoing or foolishness to oppose.

In contrast to her friendly attitude on the daily, on the battlefield, other traits boil to the forefront. Her concern for the lives of not just civilians -but her comrades as well- is often seen in the form of almost great caution and cold efficiency. At no other time is it easier to earn her harshest words than to behave recklessly or otherwise put the team at risk for personal reasons. When her ire is raised, her fury typically does not burn, but rather chills, filtered through a harsh, calculating rationality guided by a framework of morality, as she channels her rather unnerving talent for killing her emotions for the sake of her goals.

When she isn't training or fighting, Jessica is a bit of a lazybones, taking any opportunity she can to goof off and absorb herself in her hobbies, among which number reading, playing video games, and eating junk food. She dislikes waking up early, being hassled by extroverts and getting saddled with extra work. Her dreams... she's considered the matter at length, and she's not certain she could say she has any. Whenever she considers what she'd like to do with her life... what she'd like to do for the world, she always finds those thoughts crushed by rationality and relegated to daydreams. So, if she had to say she had a dream? It's to keep living, to always pursue the next sunrise, day by day. Whenever she can get away with it, Jessica doesn't like to think about the future and simply lives in the present.

After all, she hasn't found a better cure to existential dread yet.

Biography:
As long as she can remember, Anti-Entropy has been Jessica's home. Her parents were -and are- Valkyries under their banner, primarily conducting experiments in Honkai energy heavy zones, and their little girl grew up with an admiration for the organization's ideals and fight against the Honkai. More times than she can count, she recalls spending her days following her parents around squeaky-clean headquarters, annoying a janitor and rifling through unattended stacks of paper and widgets. She admired her parents and -like many children- wanted to be just like them.

Unfortunately, as she grew up, she found she didn't have the same talents they did, hard work or not. Intellectual pursuits generally didn't suit her, but she had more than enough energy for other ones. And when her Stigmata finally manifested, it seemed as sure a sign as any that her future didn't lay within the tech divisions. Instead, she would use her rare gift to be a Valkyrie in the field and direct her energy towards fighting the enemy at humanity's doorstep. She would be one of many fighting on the front to ensure their backline had more time to develop a solution for the greater benefit of all.

Outside this training, Jessica, unlike many of her more zealous peers, did not experience great tragedy or hardship. Often surrounded by trainees with fires of revenge burning inside them or barely concealed traumas, Jessica felt strangely alone and guiltily relieved, not for the least of which reason because she felt almost apathetic to their struggles. She lived a life free of burdens on her heart, and she was glad for it. Her first condoned forays into the battlefield went well too, not a single time experiencing overt misfortune.

Until one day, very shortly after being deemed combat capable, she found herself assigned to The Deep. An expedition into the Sea of Quanta was to be taking place, the goal classified above her paygrade, but she wasn't concerned. After all, she wasn't going down there. She was just one of many being assigned to guard Anti-Entropy's side of things. They weren't expected to face any combat, barring the potential for a few Quantum Shadow stragglers that they would wildly outnumber. Everything was in readiness, every precaution taken...

It went wrong immediately.

Almost as if the Sea of Quanta had been waiting for them, chaos ensued. Hordes of monsters, a gateway refusing to be shut again, and many finding their footing disturbed. Jessica was one of many to fall into the Sea. In many ways, she isn't entirely certain how she survived in the place between worlds. She was trapped there for weeks, navigating the realm of Bubble Universes, trying to reconnect with as many of her comrades as possible. And eventually, she did. Not all of them were alive... and more than a few weren't quite sane, but most managed to pull themselves together enough to turn a disparate band of weaklings into an organized band of world raiders, taking whatever they needed to survive. And after two months, fortune decided to shine on them again. Finally, they made contact with reality again. With communications reestablished, it was only a matter of time before they were directed onto the right path to escape back into The Deep, the gateway closed behind them.

As with all those who had fallen with her, Jessica did not come away from the experience unchanged. While she had endured it mentally better than most, there was a harsh edge to her now at times. And more drastically, her body had been changed irrevocably, hair leeched of color, eyes bubbling with strange energies and skin nigh-on as porcelain as a doll. Her very existence had been altered in ways the doctors still didn't quite understand even months later, only able to tell her she was "stable" and seemed to have adapted to the changes relatively smoothly... something not all of the returnees could claim. Some suggested she step down from battlefield operations, concerned about potential side effects, but she rejected such nonsense without hesitation.

For many, such an event would have been... traumatizing, to say the least, but Jessica found herself in the strange position of almost feeling nostalgic whenever she thought back on it, when she remembered cavorting around strange lands and fighting weird things, adrenaline thundering in her veins whenever she and her comrades survived by the skin of their teeth yet again and only due to their sheer numbers. If anything, the most unnerving thing to her was to realize just how unconcerned and blithe she felt about what had happened. Not even a month after escaping The Sea of Quanta, and she had already practically shrugged her shoulders in a "what can you do?" and moved on. There was no use crying over spilled milk, no use fussing about the past. Again, her nature as a person that lived in the present first and foremost took the reins, and Jessica found herself easily adapting to the way her life had changed.

So what if she had been altered in unfathomable alien ways? So what if she had almost died? Regardless of her body, she was still herself, wasn't she? She hadn't died, and she didn't plan on that changing any time soon. She wouldn't stop being a Valkyrie. She wouldn't even consider it. Giving up was to admit that the Sea of Quanta had won... Well, not necessarily the Sea, but she simply had this feeling that she couldn’t accept the idea of giving up. It felt like losing, even if she couldn't say for sure what she'd be losing to.

Only months after her life had been made so much stranger, she was back in the field, acting like nothing had ever happened. Maybe that earned her some strange looks, but she didn't care, not as long as she was living her life the way she wanted. And only a few months after that...?

...she found herself being recommended to Fire Moth.

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Weapon: Red Star Banishers


Battlesuit: Steamwork Rook


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Burst: Inferno Alight


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Weapon: Lightning Soul


Battlesuit: Avenger


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Burst: Lightning Strike


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Weapon: Plasma Lance
Upon successfully inflicting damage, can attempt to impale the enemy and weaken their resistance to Honkai. +1 to user’s Honkai stat for the purposes of inflicting the Freeze condition.

Battlesuit: Winter Crusader
• Features: Standard package of comms, GPS, and Honkai sensors.
• Time Fracture

Honkai Arts:
• Cryokinesis: E
• Time Fracture: E
• Honkai Sensing: E

Burst: White Glint
• Rank: C
• Duration: 4 rounds
• Modifier Points: 4 (+1 POW, +1 AGI, +1 AGI debuff, +1 aura AoE)
• Effect: Honkai energy surges out from the battlesuit, enveloping the Valkyrie in an aura that resembles a streamlined suit of armor. This expression of Liliana's Honkai energy serves to empower her offensive attributes, increasing her strength and speed. Moreover, the creeping frost it exudes serves to slow those caught within short range of the battlesuit.

Skills: Speaks fluent English, Finnish, and Japanese. Is a competent mixed martial artist, specializing in Brazilian jiujitsu. Adequate enough with engineering to maintain her own weapon and battlesuit, but no further. Is also rated to pilot most forms of transport aircraft common to Schicksal forces.

Gear: Smartphone, credit cards, cash, charger, combat knife, and a sidearm chambered in .45 ACP with two magazines of reload. Also carries a survival kit with basic field essentials.

Appearance:
Blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin. Stands at 5’11. Toned musculature, larger than average bust. Consistent resting bitch face. Her demeanor is cold, yet hiding an inner fire.

Personality:
Focused, determined. Hot-blooded in her own way. Liliana cares for the mission first and foremost and believes saving people is a nice bonus, but will amount to little without the primary threat to them destroyed. Makes a token effort to get along with others, but will easily throw away any care for the sensibilities of others if she believes her way is best. Still, she’s at least polite and accommodating to acquaintances unless they prove themselves unfriendly towards her first.

Some things just run in the blood, though. Liliana is ridiculously stubborn, utterly refusing to quit on either the battlefield or regarding her beliefs. So long as she breathes, she will relentlessly charge at an enemy, battering it until either she or they give out.

Liliana resents House Kaslana for their oath, as she believes their philosophy directly lead to the death of her parents. She has no problems with the other two houses, however. Her relations with the Kaslanas are bad enough that she gets along better with members of other factions than House Kaslana.

Biography:
"Thou shalt live by this oath: Purge the vile Honkai. Never yield. Become humanity's sword, to excise its enemies."

The Lehtinen family’s existence as a branch of House Kaslana began in the late 19th century when a Kaslana daughter eloped with its heir. Deciding to make the best of things, the Kaslanas eventually allowed the match, so long as the Lehtinens were brought into the fold. For over a century, the family has served Schicksal, producing Valkyries of Kaslana blood, though none ever managed to overshadow those of the main family. While the Kaslana Oath has survived to some extent within the Lehtinens to be passed down, it has been simplified in the exact opposite direction that other members of Schicksal know it as. Where a Kaslana would simplify the oath to protecting humanity, a Lehtinen emphasizes the utter destruction of Honkai first and foremost. Saving man didn’t matter if Honkai was still there to plague them day after day. Only by prioritizing the destruction of the ancient enemy could humanity prosper in the long run. As a result of this philosophy, relations with the main house tend to be rather chilly at best, and borderline hostile at worst.

By the time Liliana was born, the family was on its way towards reconciliation with House Kaslana, in part due to her parents hewing closer to the main family’s line in terms of philosophy. Both of them were active-duty combatants within Schicksal, and served on the front lines regularly. Growing up, Liliana never begrudged her parents for doing such, viewing them as heroes.

That all changed when she was nine. Both of her parents were deployed to a Honkai Beast incursion in France, and were killed in action. Liliana’s status as their only heir afforded her redacted access to the after-action report, but even that limited knowledge told her all she needed: they had died attempting to save the town at the cost of their own lives. What’s more, they had died uselessly. After their deaths, the mission had been an utter failure, with hundreds of lives lost anyway. From then on, Liliana knew that reconciliation with the main house was a vain hope that ripped the lives of her parents from her. Their forefathers were right all along.

From that day, Liliana threw herself into preparation for becoming a Valkyrie. Someone had to fix her parents' mistakes. Become the sword that a Lehtinen was meant to be, not a broken shield. She trained relentlessly, taking advantage of her family's connections to Schicksal to get herself put into the preparatory program as soon as she turned of age. Her time in the program went well enough, though some altercations with members of House Kaslana wound up on her disciplinary record. While Liliana became a competent Valkyrie, her issues with her distant relations meant that putting her in the main forces was a headache waiting to happen. Partially for this reason and partially because she legitimately worked well enough with literally anyone who wasn't a Kaslana, Liliana was sponsored for entry into Fire Moth as a representative of Schicksal.

Other:
Voice claim: Erica Lindbeck
Theme song

Appearance: At 5’ and slender, Isa is short and unassuming - if it wasn’t for her loud, brash personality. Her plush lips are always hooked up into a wide smile or grin. Her warm brown skin is covered in darker freckles, as if she’s spent a lifetime in the sun when she hasn’t. Her shoulder length, dark brown hair is always done in a variety of styles - a ponytail, braids, two buns. Underneath her straight fringe are light brown, almost amber, eyes sparking with curiosity.

Weapon: Crimson Storm, a self modified Azure Storm to be lighter, faster and sharper.
Ability: Upon successfully hitting a weak point, +1 to the user's honkai stat for purposes of inflicting bleed condition.

Stigmata: Artificial.

Honkai Arts:

• Bleed: C
• Time Fracture: E (1 use)
• Honkai Sensing: C
• Weakness Pinpoint: D (Combines honkai and technology to pinpoint enemy weak points, making it easier to hit them)

Battlesuit: Scarlet Executor

• Features: Communications, GPS, honkai sensors, subspace storage (specialised storage to hold specific tools so they can be easily accessed)
• Time Fracture

Burst: Phantom Strike

• Rank: E
• Duration: 2 rounds
• Modifier Points: 2 (+1 POW, +1 Range)
• Effect: Honkai energy coats the battlesuits arms, strengthening Isa and allowing her to send out a "phantom" scythe from her own weapon made of honkai energy.

Skills: Isabella is a skilled engineer, easily able to maintain her battlesuit and weapon along with modifying them (slightly more specialised in weapons). With the right tools and equipment she could create weapons and basic battlesuits. She can also modify and repair AE mech suits and drones, but can’t actually operate them. She could also hotwire a car easily, but again can’t drive it. She has a fairly in depth understanding of artificial stigma and the process of creating them, along with infusing artificial DNA with Honkai energy. She has a quick understanding of scientific concepts. Isa has basic hacking skills, not enough to get through anything too secure. Fluent in English, Portuguese and Indonesian - sometimes falls into Indonesian accidentally when talking about engineering, since it’s the language she spoke to her dad in while learning from him. Technically knows how to use a gun, but likely to miss 50% of the time. Would sooner take it apart than use it. Isa is quite good at wood carving, something she took up to keep herself busy when her parents wouldn’t.

Gear: Isa has all the basics - smartphone, chargers, powerbanks, USB drives, wallet. She has quite a comprehensive tech tool kit, with everything she needs for maintenance of her gear along with modifications. It contains some more specialised tools and materials - some fluid alloy blocks, phase shifters, AE imaginons ect. This takes up most of what she can carry, but she also always has a bunch of chocolate bars on hand (but no other food). She carries a small, relatively blunt knife.

Personality: The first thing noticeable about Isa is that she’s loud and brash, the second is her insatiable curiosity edging on annoying nosiness. She has no qualms about approaching people and very little sense of boundaries, because she grew up in a place where constant questions were encouraged. She wants to know everything - about a person’s technology that is. She asks about fellow Valkyries weapons, battlesuits, stigmata… but rarely about the person themselves. Not because she understands it would be pushing too far, asking something too personal, but because she just doesn’t care that much.

Because of her sheltered upbringing, and rarely interacting with others her age until she began training to be a Valkyrie, Isa is rather socially inept. She doesn’t pick up basic social cues a lot of the time, and doesn’t know when to stop talking. She could talk for hours, especially about her weapon. She’s incredibly energetic, no matter the circumstances or lack of sleep she’s had. For all she talks, though, Isa isn’t actually an extrovert. She’s more used to time alone, and will spend hours on whatever’s taken her interest (namely gear modification). If there are others around her when she does this she’s likely to just straight up zone them out.

What Isa hates the most is being restricted - she spent too much of her life like that. She’ll follow orders if they make sense but she’s not afraid so speak out against those she doesn’t agree with - though rarely for moral reasons, more likely because they just don’t make sense. She likes creating things with her hands and doodling designs, even though her artistic talents aren’t that great. She also quite enjoys taking things apart to see how they tick. She’s fueled by her curiosity and desire to learn, to keep discovering and creating new things.

Because there’s always something new to discover.

Biography:
Born to two Anti-Entropy scientists, Isabella grew up surrounded by cutting edge technology and radical ideas. Her father was an inventor and technical genius, specialising in weapon creation - both for Valkyries and mechs. Her mother, on the other hand, specialised in stigmata research and artificial DNA manipulation. They weren’t Valkyries, instead behind the scenes scientists and inventors.

Isa inherited their intelligence and from a young age was following one parent or the other to laboratories and workspaces, asking constant questions and helping as soon as she was able to. She helped her dad make weapons, finding working with her hands incredibly rewarding, and watched her mum researching. As she grew older she was more inclined towards her dad’s field of work, finding scientific research increasingly boring - artificial stigmata intrigued her, but her mum never brought her along when they were actually involved. She had a constant, insatiable curiosity that only grew with age.

Isa had a comparatively good and peaceful childhood, but she grew up incredibly restrictive. This was in part due to her poor health, which improved in her early teens, but also thanks to controlling parents. She didn’t go to school, instead learning from them what they deemed important - science, maths, reading for scientific documentation and their home languages. If she wasn’t at home she was with them at the AE headquarters. She was always with one parent. They had high expectations of her, that she’d become an AE scientist just like them and help finding a solution.

These expectations chafed at Isa, but not because they’d be difficult to achieve. No, she was more than capable enough to do what her parents did. But that wasn’t what she wanted. She’d been controlled and restricted her whole life and she was sick of it.

Isa didn’t want to be stuck in labs in America anymore. What was the point of creating weapons she couldn’t even use, or researching honkai energy when she’d never even seen them? She was bored of it. It was all she’d done for all of her life, and she hated being so constrained. She just knew out on the field she’d be able to find out even more - right at the source, against honkai themselves.

Unfortunately Isa didn’t have the natural talent to be a Valkyrie outside of her intelligence, and slightly higher than normal agility. She didn’t have a natural stigmata and she’d spent most of her life in laboratories, rather than training. But that didn’t matter because there was always a way to overcome that - technology. Even her lack of stigmata was easily overcome.

Isa’s parents, especially her mum, were against it. They knew the risks better than any of getting an artificial stigmata, and the drastically shortened lifespan that came with it. Isa knew this too, but she didn’t care. What was the point of a long, boring life? For the first time in her life Isa went against her parents, getting an artificial stigmata and entered AEs Valkyrie training. After all, there was always a desperate need for more Valkyries.

Through the aide of technology Isa made it through, becoming a Valkyrie and deploying to a few battlefield operations. Her scientific background aided her and those on her team, giving her a different edge - she wasn’t the strongest in a fight but she could easily think of tactics on the fly, targeting weak points using knowledge she’d gained. She was driven in ways different to most of her peers too, not caring so much about the greater good and saving lives so much as constantly learning and evolving.

Reaching C rank wasn’t hard.

Then, she was recommended to Fire Moth. For Isa this was a great opportunity - an opportunity to learn more.

Weapon: Prototype Buster-Gunsword

• Ability: Begins charging energy to unleash a short-ranged bolt of kinetic energy. It takes one round to charge, to then be fired during the next. Landing direct hits during the charging phase can accelerate this to allow it to fire the same round. The blast can stun weaker enemies for 1 round. The bolt has a max range of 7 meters before dissipating completely. After 5 meters it loses the stun effect. Within 3 meters it retains full offensive power, but after begins to rapidly lose power.
  
  One round of cooldown before initiating another charge sequence, meaning up to two rounds in total before another blast is fired.

Stigmata: Natural Stigmata

• Natural Stigmata: Faramont

Battlesuit: Ivory Tower

• Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels. Micro-Jet boosters for short bursts of enhanced movement, or more dramatic ones under Burst-Mode conditions. Low-yield energy projectors are located in the suit's bracers.
• Time Fracture.

Honkai Arts:

• Bleed: C
• Time Fracture: E
• Honkai Sensing: E
• Over Boost: D -- She can momentarily use her innate honkai energy to power-up her gear. In her Ivory Tower battlesuit, for example, she can use this for offensive charges with her suit's thrusters, or even an enhanced jump followed by a sky-strike using those same thrusters. Her thrusters can be overcharged 3 times before they need a 1 round cooldown period. An aerial strike hits this limit immediately. If she has already boosted twice on the ground, a subsequent aerial strike will double this cooldown.
• Shatter Shield: D -- Using her battlesuit's energy projectors, she can put up a short-lived energy shield. It can absorb "1.5" hits per rank and then "shatters," lacerating any enemies in front of Zelie that are within melee range to inflict bleeding. Can deploy the shield in a dome formation, but this halves the number of hits it can withstand. - The shield will burn out if overused and require a 3-round cooldown. If the shield is not burnt out, it will fully recover after 2 rounds of no use. Even if not burnt out, it still requires a 1-round cooldown after shattering. - Full burnout occurs after shattering twice, or shattering after hitting its damage limit.

Burst: Overdrive Crash

• Rank: C
• Duration: 2 rounds.
• Modifier Points: 6 (+1 Boost, +1 Charge, +1 Armor Break, +1 Power/Endurance/Agility)
• Effect: She overcharges her battlesuit and weapon to the max. In this state she can rapidly charge forth using the boosters built into the suit and weapon to confront enemies head-on. The surge of energy restores all abilities to usable status and charges them instantly, skipping any wind-up period. She can reset an ability again during this period, but only once. Finally, she can launch an overcharged, armor-shredding blast from her weapon, but this will end the burst immediately upon use.

Skills: - Knows French and English

Cooking, cleaning, sewing, and anything else one might pick up when left to do all the chores the "scientists" running the Hermitage could not be bothered to do. However, it should be noted that Zelie's go-to recipes are very... hearty, and heavy, and in such portions that one is likely to be left in a coma for a week while their body tries to digest it all.

More relevant to her career as a Valkyrie, she has basic hand-to-hand enough to survive should she lose her weapon, but with a special focus in grappling. More specifically, she is adept at armed grappling with a weapon in hand. Despite the length and heft of her preferred weapon, getting face-to-face with her is no guarantee of safety.

Makes amazing hand-crafted bird-houses.

Gear:
She never goes on an assignment without the most vital of supplies: Ration bars, dehydrated food, water, a hot-plate she can power via her battlesuit if need be, collapsible pan, and cutlery. She also keeps a small book on person at all times, but no one knows what's it.

Personality:
She's very quiet and generally keeps to herself. One can be in the same room with her and almost forget she was there. The vast majority of her acquaintances don't even know what her voice sounds like. If it wasn't for her physical stature, she could almost disappear into the background.

The mistake is assuming any of this equates to her being timid or weak.

Finds cozy cottages on the coast mildly unnerving.

Biography:
She spent her early years in a Hermitage with a group of other children. While she wasn't born there, she has only the faintest memories of what came before, including her parents. She would come to know the truth of her situation in her early pre-teen years when her stigmata manifested. Centuries ago, the first of her bloodline too awakened their stigmata, becoming a bastion against the growing honkai threat. However, over time that bloodline diluted and the stigmata faded to obscurity.

The Hermitage was run by the former stewards of the Faramont family and had quietly collected the scattered offshoots in a bid to revive it and return to glory. Finally, it seemed they'd found success with Zelie and so bestowed upon her the Faramont name.

The next step was to put her to the test. If they could prove her potential, and their own, they could bring her to Schicksal and gain entry, and perhaps a high station, within the organization. True to her lineage, Zelie excelled at all tasks, but only relative to her age. Compared to the A and S-rank Valkyries of Schicksal she was deemed yet too inferior to be worthy of mention. It was still too soon to say she'd for sure reach such heights.

The head of the Hermitage grew impatient. They wanted to prove that their work meant something. Over a century and three generations had gone into finding this one girl. There had to be something to show for it all.

So they tested her upper limits. They pushed, she withstood, and so they pushed some more. The amount of energy she could channel proved remarkable for her age. However, like a light shining its brightest just before the filament burns out... they did find her limit.

The numbers they had recorded were indeed phenomenal, and as a testament to her fortitude and lineage, Zelia was still alive...

But they had broken the girl.

She was all but unresponsive. There was nothing they could bring before Schicksal's leadership. Without Zelie, the numbers were meaningless. Over a century of work and three generations -- wasted. Their dreams of grandeur were now little more the delusions.

However, in the end, the door closed by their folly would only lead to a new one opening -- for her. Schicksal would indeed hear of their work, of the reawakening of the Faramont bloodline, and the squandering of it all due to their excess of ambition. To say they were displeased was an understatement and the hammer came down. At the least, no more would children be corralled and observed. Zelie, meanwhile, was "sent away for treatment."

To World Serpent.

Someone had to say something. The numbers had been remarkable, after all. They had done their good deed, saved the children, and so what was wrong with a little compensation? OK sure, the compensation was a mentally shattered teenage girl, but it was for her own good too... probably.

She was in no condition to consent to their idea of treatment... but that also meant she couldn't say no. If in the end she picked up a weapon and carried on where she left off, all the better. The world always needed more heroes.

Even broken ones.