1.) Cooperative storytelling comes first.

2.) I won't tell you not to godmod within the bounds of reason, as this setting's power system is rather... flexible at the upper levels, and you'll need every advantage you can get. However, I will warn you that your primary enemy basically has godmod countering built into it. So, you know... play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

3.) In principle, auto-hits/successes that are not mechanically backed are not allowed. Declare your intent, and the receiver's post will decide the result, whether that be the GM or another player. To avoid this devolving into constant games of "can't touch me", however, there will be a mechanic for determining if your opponent falls within autohit/autododge territory; if they qualify, you do have otherwise unspoken permission to style all over them unless specifically told otherwise. This will go both ways, however, so play it careful.

4.) A backstory that fits various 'story beats' doesn't make your character good if their purpose is to defeat everyone and establish themselves as a superior top dog in an RP arms race. If you're not going to use your backstory to make a good story, expect to be retaliated against appropriately IC. Assuming it isn't just vetoed before it ever hits the IC.

5.) Powerful characters will be permitted (eventually), as the PCs grow to match stronger foes and learn and adapt from each battle. Various special items and circumstances may also provide individual PCs a boost, provided they take the appropriate steps IC-ly to not have it blow up in their face. The expectation is that power will be granted down the line, so don't be in a rush.

6.) Keep it cordial OOC. Nothing complicated.

7.) Post length is 2-3 multi-sentence paragraphs minimum, but longer posts are encouraged and welcome. That said, bear in mind, a shorter post is better than no post at all, just as long as it moves your character along and responds appropriately to the most critical IC stimuli.

8.) GM's ruling is final, but that goes without saying. Polite negotiation is one thing, but if I don’t budge, that’s that.

9.) I’m generally flexible on posting speed, but posting at your easiest convenience is preferred. Strictly speaking, the IC will move as fast as works for the majority, and anyone that's holding up the party will get passed over or sockpuppeted as necessary to move along. I don’t like doing this, so I’ll only resort to it if necessary. And I will inform the relevant player when doing so, if at least to give then one last chance to make a short post.

Stats: Generally speaking, regarding physical stats, F is roughly human, with E-rank as clearly superhuman with a minimum of peak human. D-rank is more blatantly superhuman, boasting feats like being able to shrug off small arms fire with only bruises most of the time. At C and B-rank, it's getting genuinely questionable if mundane means even have an answer to you. And at A-rank and beyond, it's probably easier to pray. More ethereal stats like Intellect aren't quite so simple, but it's a good rule of thumb.

Health: Your HP is equal to your Endurance stat with a minimum of 1 at F-Rank. At a C-rank, you would have 4. At A-rank, you'd have 6 and so on. Losing a health point is a big deal, not something a superhuman like you will lose from little things like cuts and bruises or even necessarily getting smacked around, but from a major injury like a lost or broken limb, gunshot wound, or other blow to a part of the body that would typically be considered lethal. You regain lost HP with appropriate medical care and downtime.

Being at 0 HP: Being at 0 HP doesn't necessarily mean you are dead, but it does mean you're incapable of continuing to fight/resist. So, you could potentially be conscious, but the most you can do is drag yourself away. Until someone helps you regain your strength, you're out of the fight. So, going to 0 isn't an insta-kill unless someone basically executes a finisher on you after the fact (which is still possible, of course). For most enemies, 0 is still insta-death, however.

Taking/Dealing Damage: Outside narrative influence and conditional circumstances/extenuating factors, as a rule, damage is a simple contest of Power vs Endurance. As long as you have equal Power to the Endurance you wish to overcome, a successful strike can by default deal a single point of damage +1 for each additional point that you Power exceeds the defense. This is, of course, mitigated by how well the participants write out their responses. While, on the surface, a C-Rank Power could not harm a B-Rank Endurance, if the attacker is smart and/or the defender careless, they can use such things as weak points to still harm them as if they were an equal rank. That said, if the rank difference is 2 ranks or greater in the contest, it is a gap that simply cannot be closed or overcome without exceptional circumstances.

Stat Contests: This goes for pretty much all contests, whether it be damage, dodging or status effects. Equal stats and a successful hit from an attacker grant an effect worth 1 point.

Status Effects: A contest of Honkai vs Endurance. To inflict a status effects, you must build up successful stacks of your element on the target. This can happen even if you otherwise deal no damage to them. On a successful hit with your weapon/attack/element of choice, you can attempt to inflict your elemental effect. If your Honkai is equal to the opposing Endurance, you automatically earn one stack, along with another for each level further that you exceed their Endurance. Once the target has accrued stacks equal to their maximum Endurance/Health, they are afflicted with the status effect. Status effects can be inflicted as a team effort, with multiple users of the same element able to contribute their stacks to the same attempt to inflict the effect,

Honkai Corruption/Exhaustion: Tracked separately from your health, you have a threshold at which your body simply cannot risk intaking more Honkai energy without experiencing a Honkai cascade and becoming a mindless zombie or otherwise simply burning up from strain. Once you reach your threshhold, you begin to cascade, becoming completely incapacitated, either through unconsciousness or a failing body. If this corruption progresses to completion, you die, full-stop. You gain a point of Corruption whenever you are overexposed to Honkai energy, either as a result of the environment or from your own abilities, and you are cleansed of points either via specialized treatment or extended downtime, allowing your body to filter out the excess. Higher Endurance grants you a hardier constitution against this, but the risk is always there. Death or madness. Pick your poison.

Honkai Miasma: When you fight the Honkai, often times, the area will be irradiated by Honkai energy. This will be noted by such things as "Miasma Level 1", and while inside such an area, your effective resistance to Honkai energy is lowered, as your body will already be occupying part of its resistance fighting against the passive area effect. Where normally, you might could use your Burst without any risk to yourself, in such an area, you may be vulnerable in ways you weren't while training.

Appearance: An image is preferred, along with a physical description in text.

Name: You know the drill. Any monikers should also be here as alternate names.

Nationality: Valkyries operate globally and draw their talents from just about anywhere as a result.

Faction: Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, World Serpent, or School of Taixuan. Choose your faction and have your resources (and perhaps reputation) determined accordingly. This will likely be where you primarily received your Valkyrie training. You may also choose "other", and we can hash out the details of a custom option. However, be aware that it will be inferior to any of the major factions. You are also automatically assumed to be part of Fire Moth, no matter what option you pick.

Age: The work of a Valkyrie is not a profession for the old. The wear and tear of Artificial Stigmata has a nasty habit of killing the host as much as any monster they're fighting. As relative newbies, your age should range from somewhere between 16-19 years old. Age is barely a consideration in determining who is old enough to fight in the perpetual struggle against Honkai, but pure rationality dictates avoiding sending out those that aren't fully physically developed. 16 is therefore the absolute minimum to enter battle, no matter what "genius" traits or talents they might hold, but the majority of new fully-fledged Valkyrie range closer to 18-19 as graduates.

Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyries can be female or male, but due to the fact that Stigmata are more attuned to female genetics, females are generally noted to be more compatible with Honkai energy. If you play a male, you will be in the minority, and a cap will be enforced on how many male PCs can be in the whole party to reflect this rarity. Generally speaking (at least statistically for this), only 1-3/10 Valkyries are male. It will generally be first-come, first-serve on playing a male PC. If you're going for female, you can ignore most of this and do as you will. A male Valkyrie is instead known as a Chevalier. If you are from the School of Taixuan, this limitation still applies, and -though it is not technically correct- you are still referred to by one of these two terms.

Origin: Human, Psychic or Disciple of Taixuan.

• If Human, your supernatural abilities most likely stem entirely from your Stigmata; you were born with a natural resistance to Honkai energy that makes you one of the precious few that can survive this process and (relatively) safely use the powers it provides afterwards. Unlike a psychic, it's possible that you have a Natural Stigmata, but the trait is still very rare and will be treated as such.
• If Psychic, you are still human and still likely use an implanted Stigmata, but you are a distinct variant of human. You may have a unique psychic ability or talent of some type, the details of which should be hashed out with the GM, but if your ability is anything other than unrefined and/or weak, your Type will automatically be Psychic to reflect this focus in your training. Psychics are about as rare as male Valkyries and will be restricted similarly in number.
• Disciple of Taixuan: It's also possible that your abilities are derived from receiving SWARA training and that you have no Stigmata at all. You are still human. You have simply undergone extensive training to cultivate the natural Honkai adaptability of your body. If you choose this, remove your Stigmata section entirely and use the optional SWARA section on the sheet.

Rank: You start at C-Rank and will have opportunities to be classed higher later, upon proving your metal. Playing a higher rank or "experienced senior" type is explicitly disallowed. You are all rookies. You may choose to play a D-Rank if you wish, but be aware that it will severely limit your combat opportunities until you rank up.

Grades: How you were ranked upon your last testing period, the score that said you were ready for field work. Grades for the typical Valkyrie run from F-A with particularly exceptional abilities being worthy of the S (Special) grade. You start with an average of "points" enough to have a D in every statistic, which you may adjust as you like. To have a "passing grade", you must have at least some semblance of competence in just about all areas, so only a single stat can be dumped further than an E. Conversely, no stat may be higher than C (unless the bar is raised by your Stigmata).

• Power: Governs physical strength or weaponry. The general capacity to do damage. Contested by Endurance.
• Endurance: Governs damage resistance, overall "health pool", resistance against status effects and constitution. Also governs how resistant you are to the corruptive properties of Honkai energy.
• Agility: Governs a combination of swiftness and precision. Generally contested by the selfsame, but can be used to get around Endurance to a degree through sheer skill and/or weak point targeting.
• Intellect: Skill with knowledge-based pursuits. Governs psychic strength if the user has the potential. Also partially governs mental fortitude against certain types of trials, contributing to resisting mental influence and attacks, like from a Herrscher Ego or a MANTIS AHR.
• Honkai: Governs manipulating Honkai energy, energy pool and inflicting status effects. Displays how skilled at manipulating Honkai energy you are with or without gear. This effects how much Honkai energy your body naturally gathers and can safely hold on the day-to-day, and the higher the rank, the more you have to work with at the start of combat. When battle starts, you get a one-time discount on the rounds needed to use your Burst at a rate of 1 round per rank above F.
• Burst: How often you can use your "Burst" with a base of 5 rounds. A lower rank than D increases the required rounds. Higher than D decreases them. This stat also governs your Burst’s potency. Every point above F grants a “modifier point” for the Burst, representing the release of suppressed power, and you have one modifier point by default for a minimum of two. Your Burst stat limits how far effective boosts from it can go, and your burst cannot raise any stat beyond a single rank higher than your Burst level (ie. A D-Rank Burst can raise a D-Rank stat to C temporarily but no further, no matter how many points are dedicated to it). The same applies to your other stats. You cannot raise them directly more than one rank above their base using your Burst, as your body can only contain so much power. You can’t use your Burst to increase your Burst stat, and you can’t use it to raise your Endurance for the purposes of defending against Honkai corruption caused by your Burst; the corruption applies first, before any buffs.

Type: Choose from among Mecha, Psychic or Biologic. Quantum and Imaginary are not necessarily absolutely restricted starting out, but due to their exotic nature, they cannot be taken casually, requiring a sufficient lore-compliant justification for them that doesn't overstep other character creation restrictions. Your type determines the delivery method of your element.

• If you're Mecha, you probably use machinery and other pure high-tech; you rely on your equipment and have the training or some other capacity necessary to maintain and repair it.
• If you're Psychic, you've likely got the rare natural trait that allows you to manipulate things with your mind and naturally tap into a sort of spiritual energy; you rely on your mental stamina and intellect.
• If you're Biologic, you fight with primarily physiological traits, being the most physically dominant type of Valkyrie; you rely on your honed body and physical training to get by, fighting with brute force, agility and skill.
• If you're Imaginary, your abilities draw from a closer connection to Imaginary Space and the Imaginary Tree. Imaginary is exactly as it says: literally imagination wielded to impose a personal view on reality, usually subconsciously. In a lot of ways, they have many similarities to other types, but the fundamental reason behind your abilities is different. However, all Honkai energy is generally Imaginary in nature, so what separates a true Imaginary type from the crowd is that they usually look at the world in an unusual or inhuman way. It might not even be incorrect to call them "deluded", except that the nature of Imaginary imposes the user's own reality, thereby making them not delusional. Suffice it to say, this type is very strange and extremely uncommon. Fundamentally, Imaginary abilities hew towards a nature of "creation and control", and it is the type closest to the nature of the Honkai itself.
• If you're Quantum, you have been exposed to the Sea of Quanta in some capacity and been changed by the experience. It is quite possible that you are no longer entirely "grounded" in reality, attuned to the nature of things that exist in more than one place at once. To say the least, the opportunities for this to occur are vanishingly rare, but the results speak for themselves. Like the Sea of Quanta, your abilities hew towards destruction, chaos and dimensions. You rely on manipulating space in some fashion.

Element: Choose from among Fire, Ice, Lightning or Physical and theme your other abilities appropriately. Each element provides appropriate utilities and advantages. Fire can set things on fire and generally inflict additional damage over time, able to inflict a searing heat that can ignore Endurance. Ice can freeze enemies (or parts of them) solid and provide breathing room, slowing or stopping foes. Lightning can paralyze foes with a large enough shock or enough cumulative blows. Physical can inflict bleeding wounds and lower physical integrity in a supernatural way, dealing damage with raw brute force. These are not the only things these elements can do, but they are the primary and simplest ones when channeling them with Honkai energy.

Discipline: Dual Pistols, Blade (short/katana), Heavy (cannon), Two-Handed (greatsword), Cross, Fists (gauntlet), Scythe, Lance, Bow or Chakram. Your character may have competent skill in the usage of a single one of these disciplines, which comes with an innate understanding for handling any weapon that falls under that type with either equal skill or an intuitive understanding of its operations at minimum. You can wield any weapon from your discipline with at least a bare minimum of competence if you so much as pick it up, and with time to study its functions, you can use it as well as any other you've acquired. By contrast, you are unable to use weapons outside your discipline efficiently, and you won't be able to use their unique supernatural abilities, only wield them in their most basic surface capacity as a weapon.

Weapon: Choose or otherwise create your weapon. Your weapon will be equivalent to a three-star in-game. It's possible for it to have a unique ability of some stripe, but nothing crazy. You can pick an in-game weapon (this is preferred), and I will help decide what that weapon's ability translates to in narrative, rather than stats. Or if you want to go completely custom, we can perhaps work something out. Available weapons can be found on this wiki.

Stigmata: Choose from among Artificial or Natural Stigmata (if qualifying). Stigmata (singular Stigma) are the visual indicator that a human has mutated to have Honkai adaptability. Your Stigmata may potentially provide narrative abilities, based off in-game abilities altered to equivalent benefits or from a standing lineage, like Kaslana or Schariac. Your Stigmata is the primary source of your ability to manipulate Honkai energy, making you inclined to a specific element, and you recieve stat changes based on which one you have. This stat change effectively lowers and raises the maximum starting threshold for certain stats. For example, an Artificial Stigmata means the maximum starting Endurance is D instead of C. Conversely, however, a +1 will allow you to overcome the normal statistical threshold for your rank, and it can allow you to have a starting stat at B if you wish to invest that far. Even if you don't use the increase to go above the threshold immediately, it is still raised, and you can invest a point later into that empty spot. Mark any alterations of this sort as (+1), (-1), (+2), etc in your stats section.

• Artificial Stigmata: Developed to mimic natural stigmata, these imperfect stigmata are made through DNA sampling and artificial DNA of a compatible bloodline infused with Honkai energy. While this method does allow for higher Honkai energy adaptability, allowing people to fight that never could otherwise, it significantly shortens the life of the user and also has a higher risk of cascade as time continues. It is only used on Valkyries that are not Stigma Awakened. You do not gain any stat boosts from your Stigmata, as your starting stats are assumed to already be partially the result of it. +1 to a stat of choice other than Endurance; +1 to Honkai; -1 to Endurance.
• Natural Stigmata: These stigmata are naturally found on individuals with high Honkai adaptability. They are often passed through bloodlines, such as the Kaslana or Schariac families. Those that naturally develop a Stigma are known as Stigma Awakened. Those with these Stigmata are immune to Honkai cascade, able to live normal lives with regular lifespans if they wish. That said, they can still be burnt out by the overuse of Honkai energy; the only thing their mutated blood really defends them from is a fate worse than death. Psychics do not develop Natural Stigmata. +1 to Endurance; +1 to Honkai.
• True Stigmata: These stigmata are granted to humans who have the potential to become a Herrscher. A True Stigma acts like a visual marker but can cause pain and emotional instability at high concentrations of Honkai energy. Owners of these do not experience normal Honkai cascade but instead fall prey to their Herrscher Ego, who may take over the body until suppressed. True Stigmata are often mistaken for Natural Stigmata. In fact, it's quite possible for a "Natural" Stigmata to turn out to have actually been a True one, awakening and becoming more powerful under the right conditions. They are generally restricted entirely and may be privately discussed/bestowed or otherwise granted upon appropriate candidates at GM discretion. In addition, your cascade threshold instead scales off the average of Intellect and Endurance, rounded up, as for you, Honkai energy is not at all harmful but rather a highly intoxicating substance. +1 to stat of choice, +1 to Endurance; +1 to Honkai; +1 to Burst.

SWARA: If you aren't a Disciple of Taixuan, remove this section. Otherwise, delete the Stigmata section instead. If you have SWARA, your martial training has taught you to manipulate the "Ki" inside your body to gradually cultivate and improve your natural adaptability to Honkai energy. Through extensive hard work and mystical teachings, you learned to alter the flow of Honkai energy within you, forever changing you into a supernatural existence. As a benefit of allowing your body to gradually adjust, you suffer none of the reduced lifespan issues Artificial Stigmata inflict. Conversely, however, your more grounded human nature leaves you more vulnerable to Honkai corruption than a Natural Stigmata would provide, and you are -generally speaking- a lot more "squishy" than a Valkyrie, relying far more on skill and not getting hit at all to carry the day. +1 to two stats of choice other than Endurance or Agility (cannot be the same stat), +1 to Agility, -1 to Endurance.

Honkai Arts: This covers your ability to -broadly speaking- freely manipulate Honkai energy in a number of ways. Each "Art" generally covers a category of capabilities and represents your capability with them. To learn Honkai Arts, you recieve 2 points per level of your Honkai stat past F. You also receive a third point that is automatically allocated to your chosen starting element each level. At E-Rank, your points are automatically assigned to the basics, your element, Time Fracture and Honkai Sensing. Beyond that, you can use points to unlock new Arts or upgrade a current one, and no Art can ever be more than one rank higher than your Honkai stat, demonstrating a specialty. Using Honkai Arts requires your battlesuit or that the relevant Art be rank B or higher. Not wearing your battlesuit treats your Arts like they are 3 ranks lower than normal, which is why B is the minimum, and they will always be weaker in that state.

• Arts are usually less like a single "spell" and more like and collective practice of multiple techniques. You can propose new ones beyond the base set to be judged by GM discretion. You can also use this as your way to attain the ability to use more than one element.
• F-Rank indicates total ineptitude in an Art, unusable; E-Rank indicates basic usability, allowing the infliction of status effects for example; D-Rank indicates an increase in raw power to the basic usage; C-Rank displays the beginnings of flexibility with its usage, allowing one the creativity to -for example- actively shape fire rather than merely generate it and display basic "kinesis"; B-Rank edges further into flexibility, allowing one to perform greater and more elaborate feats; A-Rank demonstrates conventional mastery; and S-Rank demonstrates being a cut above.

• Pyrokinesis, Cryokinesis, Electrokinesis or Bleed: ? (whichever matches your starting element)
• Time Fracture: ? (Every two ranks in this Art grants another use of Time Fracture in battle, the first use unlocked at E. Time Fracture is unique in that it is completely unusable outside the battlesuit and inflexible compared to other Arts, as it is the act of accessing a very narrow portion of the [Authority of Void] or rather [Finality]. All Herrschers are innately capable of it.)
• Honkai Sensing: ? (Your range and finesse with this Art follows the Range Grades. Higher ranges allow you to not just locate and track areas of Honkai corruption but also to eventually detect the presence of individual beasts and even determine their species before ever encountering them. This applies to anything with Honkai running through its body, allowing extreme skill to pick out the nuance of Honkai flow between a Valkyrie or a SWARA practitioner, for example.)

Battlesuit: Where the Stigmata acts as the power source, a Valkyrie's battlesuit provides the structure for their abilities, channeling the Honkai energy flowing through their bodies in the ways they desire. Whether it was developed in a lab or summoned from the Imaginary ether, your battlesuit is always on hand, able to be stored in a form of subspace while not in use and summoned back onto your body at a moment's notice. Battlesuits are rather unusual in the capacity of "armor", as they are less focused on protection and more on channeling Honkai energy safely. This, as a result, tends to mean they come across as "skimpy", as they are often designed to leave "breathing space" for excess energy to escape to not cook the wearer alive inside them like a microwave oven. After all, what use is there in protection from outside threats if the wearer suffers cascade from their own power? Of course, this is simply the commonality rather than an absolute rule, but the results speak for themselves, leaving most Valkyries to come across as rather eccentric in appearance. Your battlesuit provides no statistical benefits, being more like a work uniform than armor. Whatever protection it could provide is assumed to be inferior to the Valkyrie's own durability. However, most Valkyries cannot use their elemental supernatural abilities without donning it.

• Features: Outside its ability to channel Honkai energy, your battlesuit is typically possessed of a conglomeration of other utilities, including communications, GPS and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels. Whatever weapons or other tools you use can be stored within or retrieved from your battlesuit's subspace storage, which can hold a limited amount of possession and automatically absorbs the wearer's normal clothes and possession into it when the battlesuit is summoned. Most modern battlesuits also grant you access to the Time Fracture ability.
• Time Fracture: A legacy ability from a past Era, this technology and technique was developed after extensive study of the core of the Herrscher of the Void, eventually culminating in a mimicry of a single aspect of its abilities. Time Fracture partially displaces the user's temporal and spatial profile, casting the world around them into shades of purple from their viewpoint and -furthermore- into slow motion while leaving the user -from their perspective- moving at normal speeds. When a Valkyrie uses this ability, they effectively increase their Agility by one level for a single post or about 5-10 seconds, whichever is shorter IC, giving them the opportunity to dodge some form of peril and potentially retaliate in the same timeframe. Time Fracture accrues a very particular kind of strain, and as such, it has a large enough cooldown that it can usually only be used once per battle.

Burst: The special move of your battlesuit, a release of power that can typically only be pulled off sparingly. Your burst is a custom move or ability over which you have full creative freedom (within reason), either releasing the normal safety constraints upon your battlesuit or otherwise using a gathered excess of power to exert a higher tier of ability for a short time. You gain points of Burst modification for each point of your Burst stat, which you can use to determine how your burst strengthens you. This is typically a very draining effort that takes a toll on the body and puts you at greater risk of Honkai corruption. Your burst energy reserve charges over time, requiring preparation. Typically, it charges by post and is available (or otherwise held in reserve) approximately every five rounds, so use it tactically. This length can be modified by your Burst stat. Your Burst does not begin recharging until a previous use has fully resolved. Be warned that if your Burst rank is higher than your Endurance rank, every time you use it, you will take points of Honkai Corruption equal to the difference. You can mitigate this by deliberately casting your Burst at a lower rank, weakening it but subsequently making it safer. This way, it is available to you in some form even in areas with extremely high Honkai Miasma lowering your effective resistance to corruption.

• Rank: Equal to your Burst stat.
• Duration: 1 round +1 for each Burst rank above F. You can sacrifice rounds of duration for more modifier points, creating a more powerful but short-lived burst. You can lower this to a minimum of one round.
• Modifier Points: 1 point +1 for every rank above F. A point is required to be spent for every "notable feature", which will be determined by GM review.
• Effect: Describe your custom ability here. Keep in mind, your ability should stay "on brand" for your type and element, and anything that strays into the domain of outside ones will likely be vetoed.

Psionics: If you have chosen the Psychic race, this is where any talents derived from your nature will be described. While broadly speaking, you have creative freedom, your abilities here should remain within the bounds of the typical "cerebral" abilities you'd expect from a psychic. That means stuff like telekinesis, empathy, telepathy, remote viewing/scrying, and even perhaps precognition. Of these things, you are innately inclined to one or two and no others. Psychics are specialists that individually access only a limited few "skill trees" from amongst those available to their kind. Your rank of investment in the Intellect stat will partially influence what level of power and flexibility your abilities may have. It's also worth noting that psychic abilities are considered "useless" against the Honkai in most cases, so be sure to account for the fact that you can only fight Honkai with them indirectly. Psychics are best at anti-human operations over anti-Honkai. That being said, however, this means they have a potential niche use against Herrschers, who are simply humans empowered by the Honkai. If you didn't choose the psychic race, delete this section.

Skills: List any notable mundane skillsets or talents you might have, but do keep them within reason. As a rule of thumb, I expect your backstory to explain or otherwise easily imply exactly where each skill originated from. Example skills could be wilderness survival, cooking, piloting planes, any languages you know (at least passable English should be among them as a mandatory skill), and any particular acumen with technology (whether constructing or manipulating it).

Gear: Include notable assets, utilities and other equipment here. You are free to draw from any existing Present Era tech from the series within reason. Keep in mind you are low-ranking Valkyries, and the resources you can requisition for your missions are limited until you prove your worth. You should typically keep this within what you can carry on your person, either on hand or in your battlesuit's subspace.

Personality: You know the drill. Give us an idea of what they are at least like at a casual impression. What drives them? What annoys them? Likes? Dislikes? Dreams? Consider the Kakashi introduction as a template for the absolute minimum. A single paragraph is fine, of course, but more than that certainly wouldn't go amiss.

Biography: A couple paragraphs preferred. You don't need a novel, but this section should answer such questions as: What lifestyle did they grow up under? Why did they become a Valkyrie? Please note that whatever your backstory, your character should remain by the end of it a relative rookie to fighting the Honkai, pretty much freshly graduated/ranked up to a point where you're allowed to fight. Playing an "experienced senior", "ancient hero" or other archetype that would narratively only justify exceptionally honed skills and abilities is not allowed.

Other: Anything not covered by the rest of the sheet that you'd like to add, like interesting trivia or theme music.

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, 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 no 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 could 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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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 Dash

• Rank: E
• Duration: 2 rounds
• Modifier Points: 2 (+1 POW, +1 Range)
• Effect: Honkai energy coats the battlesuits arms and legs, lightening and empowering the user. It strengthens Isa’s arms enabling her to attack more easily, and increases the range at which she can attack - allowing her to move in and out from short range for an attack.

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.

Appearance: Sarah is a young woman with long brown hair. She stands fairly tall at 5'8", but otherwise her build is rather soft-looking, which is surprising for a valkyrie. She has fair skin, and the color of her eyes is a vibrant green. Sarah often wears a sullen face, however - and she always has dark circles underneath her eyes; probably the result of an overactive and unwearying mind. In her battle suit, her midriff and chest are exposed, and her skirt draws shorter. It also includes extended rods along her back and a diamond crown on her head.

Type: Psychic

Element: Physical

Discipline: Cross

Weapon: Tainted Cross - A gothic style of crucifix. It's surface is mostly a polished black, with a few deep red embellishments. This cross helps Sarah concentrate her psychic powers into projectiles and beams that are effective at long range. These attacks are unaspected with elemental damage, but the sheer force of their kinetic strikes can leave her targets bleeding profusely. Drain Strength: After applying bleed to a target, that target's Power stat is reduced by one rank for two rounds, but only when they attack Sarah.

Honkai Arts:
Bleed: B
Time Fracture: C [2 uses/battle] (2 points)
Honkai Sensing: E
Psychic Constructs: B (4 points) - Sarah can concentrate her telekinesis to create translucent objects of force. They are somewhat similar to the projectiles she normally attacks with, but these constructs have a defined shape and are longer lasting. They aren't more powerful than her standard attacks, but they can be of great utility if used intelligently. Typical uses include creating temporary weapons which can deliver her force attacks more conveniently at melee range, providing cover, or using constructed limbs to otherwise assist her mobility. This art does have its trade-offs. If Sarah is concentrating on three or more constructs, she's no longer able to use her telekinesis or projectiles normally due to the effort.

Battlesuit: Archon Mind
Features: Communications, GPS, Subspace Storage, and sensors to measure Honkai Miasma. Time Fracture ability. It can also release dense gases from various apertures. Having convenient matter to shape and work with like this help Sarah make her constructs more durable. The gas is what produces most of the construct's color, even allowing her creations to become opaque. Unshaped, the gas can obscure a short ranged area, but is otherwise harmless.

The suit is fairly revealing, like most, but it has a series of rods protruding in different areas. These rods are covered in arcane symbols. On her head sits a crownlike circlet with a perfect diamond in the middle. These implements were devised by the World Serpent after reviewing ancient materials on how to amplify psychic power.


Burst: Psionic Body
Rank: E
Duration: 2 Rounds
Modifier Points: 2 points
Effect: This burst removes the Archon Mind's inhibitor functions, allowing unrestricted flow of Honkai energy and Psychic power. It does not boost any of her stats. Instead, Sarah uses the additional energy to create a special construct body all around her. This outer layer is extremely hard and protects her from all angles. For a few seconds, Sarah may use her Intellect rather than her Endurance to contest attacks against her. This ability does not grant any additional HP, nor does it protect against Honkai Corruption.

Psionics: Sarah is one of the gifted few who naturally developed psychic powers. Her primary strength is telekinesis. She is quite frail for a valkyrie, but her preternatural powers make up for it. Even unaided, she can lift and manipulate impressive weights with only her mind. Most honkai and valkyrie are too resistant to psionics for her to manipulate or crush directly, however. That's why her style revolves around powerful force projectiles. Still, she is amazingly talented in this respect; combining her telekinesis with honkai manipulation is really what allows her to be a valkyrie. She can move her own body around like a toy with psychic effort. The reason her speed is so impressive is because she regularly augments it with this invisible force -- that technique makes her one of the most maneuverable airborne valkyries in her class. Sarah is also capable of remote viewing. She can scry on distant locations by focusing and shutting out her own sensory input. But if the place is nearby, this ability doesn't require so much exclusive attention.

Skills: Apart from being a marvelously talented psychic valkyrie, Sarah is a cunning tactician. She knows how to direct troops and how to execute a plan in the heat of battle. She was one of the top students in her class, so she's generally very informed and capable of adapting. She's good with computers, too, although she isn't a genius in that department or anything. Perhaps more uniquely, she has some degree of knowledge about ancient history due to her studies with World Serpent. She can recognize and translate ancient symbols. She might even be able to interface with surviving technological remnants, if given time.

Gear: Sarah carries a number of small explosives in dimensional storage. When she was experimenting with her psychic powers in combat, they were one of her first ideas. She could place the bombs easily with her telekinesis, and then set them off remotely. These days she is much more capable with direct psychic attacks, but she still makes use of the small bombs for tactical purposes like zoning her targets, manipulating the environment, or creating distractions. She travels fairly light otherwise. She carries a small laptop with various connectors, earbuds, and basic survival equipment. She also keeps a reference book on ancient civilization, and a small care package of beauty supplies.

Personality: Sarah has a somewhat gloomy disposition. She isn't exactly depressive or anything, but the way she puts so much effort into everything leaves her with a lasting air of exhaustion. She is a genius by some measures, and she's accustomed to taking things very seriously -- dissecting them, reconstructing them, examining them from every angle. But she is not immune to humor. Nor is she even as strait-laced as she would have you believe. She has a load of girlish feelings bottled up inside her; feelings that she has hardly had a chance to express during her short time with World Serpent.

Biography: World Serpent is a shadowy organization with roots reaching back into the distant past. Having a fuller perspective on things than most, they had set out from the beginning to collect the pieces that would be necessary to defeat the honkai. One area in which this perspective was obvious, was the organization's interest in natural psychics. Psychic powers were extraordinarily rare, thought not even to exist by most. But World Serpent knew of their existence. They tested children for them when they were young, and collected those who showed promise to themselves. Most of the time these powers were unstable, and they weren't as essential as one might think. Still, the range of aptitude was vast. And it was thought that outliers on this scale may be able to make a difference.

Sarah Hughes was scouted when she was nine years old. Her aptitude tests were impressive, but her raw telekinetic ability was nothing short of miraculous. Perhaps it was due to some freak of biology, or of fate. But with strict training, and applied techniques from the ancient days of humanity, Sarah's abilities improved even more. She became a promising young case, and it felt that all eyes were on her. The organization gave the girl respect, and a nice home - things she had always craved. So she threw herself into her studies, putting her natural gifts and her sharp intelligence to use by day and night. By the time she was a teenager, she was top of her class. Other girls had been looking up to her for advice for some time, and she started to develop a personality that was mature and serious - like a class president.

Sarah passed the preliminary requirements to become a Valkyrie candidate. Her physical scores were barely past the line of acceptability, but she quietly augmented them with telekinesis in order to get through. Unfortunately, the artificial stigmata was very hard on the young woman. She fell ill for a time, and her survival wasn't a sure thing. But she eventually recovered and became a full-fledged valkyrie. Fighting real honkai beasts was an enormous challenge. Sarah felt like she learned more about it in a few weeks than in all her time at the academy. It was awkward making use of her telekinesis against enemies that could simply shake it off. She experimented with different strategies, but it took time to find something effective. After some guidance from her mentor, she learned how to use a cross in battle, and how to amplify and concentrate her psychic powers into something that would pack a real punch. She's gone out on a few more missions since then, and has been moved up to a status of Rank C. The elevated position came with more and more difficult work for her. Still, Sarah was feeling more confident all the time. With an artificial stigmata, her entire future was uncertain. She couldn't afford to falter because of a little danger.

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