Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

[Lewascan2]

My first time advertising an RP on this site, and I finally realized there was a place other than general interest checks for this to go. So, looks like I'm reposting this here.

PREFACE

50,000 years ago, the world came to an end at the hands of an unstoppable calamity, a hostile existence beyond true comprehension. Yet, from the ashes of its victory, humanity rebuilt from scratch, rendered ignorant of the foe they had once opposed till the very end. It was as it had been for countless ages, the purging of a failure and birth of a new cycle, a fresh start and the latest perpetuation of a twisted Samsara. Empires rose and fell, humans lived and died. Civilization waned and flourished. And all the while, the overseer exerted their pressure. Natural disasters, plagues and hoards of monsters. It sent them all, presented challenges, and as humanity united and adapted, tempered by trial after trial, so too did it increase the pressure time and again. And so it would remain until they finally inevitably stumbled and failed. All was as had been seen... and would surely be seen many times to come.

But this cycle had a bit of a hiccup...

The previous Samsara, the Previous Era, had come close to defeating it, closer than any before them. Tenacious, talented and lucky, failsafes were developed by humanity, and so it would come to be that the aftershocks of their work affected the Era to follow, not only in the form of technology, but in hibernating survivors... and even modifications to the very gene pool of humanity itself. They had not won, but they had laid the groundwork for their successors to perhaps succeed where they did not. The 50,000 year Samsara had not been broken... but it had been cracked.

The year is now 2011, and humanity is at war. Though you'd often hardly know it. Civilization flourishes upon the planet of Earth, and the global national and political scene remains a familiar one to a far less supernatural one, just about all the countries you'd expect where you'd expect to find them. In this day and age of the Current Era, normal people still live normal lives and remain the majority. Yet, underneath the surface, all is not as it seems.

It has been millennia since the first whispers of the term "Honkai" were spread across history by remnants of the Previous Era. Nowadays, it is nearly a household name, something most people don't wish to think about but certainly something that can be researched and discussed online. What was once responsible for mere disasters now assaults settlements of all sizes with heartless monsters from beyond reality, along with a supernatural sickness with a horrific fatality rate. Against this foe, from amongst the sheep and the ignorant, humanity has long since marshaled its forces, creating organizations and supersoldiers to combat this global and ever escalating threat.

You are one of those soldiers, a Valkyrie, infused with the Honkai's own power in order to fight against it... with all the benefits -and risks- that entails. Whether by passion of misfortune, you have found yourself one amongst many under the banner of Fire Moth, one of the premier Anti-Honkai organizations and global peacekeepers. Though they are rumored to have had many less than moral dealings in the past, the results of their work cannot be denied, and so you are one of many who -for their own reasons- have thrown their lot in with them. Now, all but freshly graduated from Valkyrie training, your latest test results have deemed you worthy of field work, and you have been placed upon a new squad with other fresh graduates.

While none of you are considered particularly strong -as fresh off the presses as you are, there is something to be said for safety in numbers, and those that survive long enough to prove themselves something other than cannon fodder will come out the other end tempered into fighters more than capable of facing the forces of Honkai alone.

The world before you is wondrous and dangerous in equal measure. The Honkai looms omnipresent, as shadowy interests pursue their own ends behind closed doors. It is a world on the brink; yet very few are aware. It is a world in need of saving, but that naturally begs the question of who can do it. You? Hah. Who knows? Such things are for the future. In the now, perhaps before trying to save anyone else... you should worry about saving yourselves.

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EXPECTATIONS

For those familiar with the setting, this is not the Current Era you may know. Though, it does have some connection to it. Instead, this AU asks what would have happened if Kiana and the crew failed, Project STIGMA collapsed and the Honkai won yet again and reset the world.

This, players, is the Third Era.

Due to the nature of the Finality Samsara effectively being a time loop, however, some events, organizations and people have at least managed to come into existence again, in name if not actions and personality. Naturally, however, as this is a disturbed time loop with remnants of the previous eras having made it past the end times, the world developed accordingly. So, yeah, there's probably a few canon characters from the Second Era out there in some form or another. In fact, I guarantee it. They aren't intended to be a focus, but the possibility of meeting them is there.

This RP will be run primarily on narrative with a supplement of a custom stat system to provide a framework for PC capabilities and maintain balance amongst the team (at least early on). To simplify things in a post-by-post format, I also intend to have a mandatory header that will contain certain critical information to keep track of during battles and such. Making sure that's tracked and displayed will make things much simpler on me and other players, avoiding the need to constantly comb through character sheets over every little detail. The inclusion of stats is in the pursuit of stakes, as I find hard "numbers" to be a reliable way of keeping things honest. Narrative will perhaps take a stronger lead over stats later on, but starting out, I feel it's appropriate for a bunch of rookies to be more "grounded" compared to the supernatural titans of the series.

In regard to plot structure, you'll start in a team that gets sent of various missions, some of which you may get to choose, which will otherwise generally be sandbox within that framework. And at some point, the "main plot" will creep to the forefront instead. Between missions, expect downtime periods where the plot allows to give PCs more chances for character interaction and provide an opportunity to allow training and other methods of self-improvement to incrementally increase PC's capabilities.

If that all sounds good to you, then welcome aboard.

I plan to take on roughly 8-10 players at most before cutting things off.

For those new to the setting, see the Honkai Impact wiki here for where I am primarily drawing core info for this setting. Of course, as this is an AU, not all of this is useful, but as an overview of the setting lore, it's pretty good if you want to dig in. There will also be a Discord to facilitate better OOC communication and discussion. I do have potential plans to have that available for character building if anyone is interested in working on it on there.

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INFORMATIONAL

Cosmology

The Imaginary Tree

The birthplace of the multiverse and a higher dimensional construct, the Imaginary Tree is responsible for the creation of most universes and is the source of the Imaginary element. This all-powerful tree holds the worlds of the multiverse in its branches, each one represented as a leaf. If a leaf falls, it is considered the end of that particular world; though, some worlds manage to persist for a while beyond that as Bubble Universes.

The Imaginary Tree -at some unknown point in time- first emerged from the Sea of Quanta and immediately began an unending rivalry with it, determined to consume the Sea and continue growing. The Sea of Quanta protested. And so the Tree would continue to extend its roots and drink deeply of the Sea, and the Sea would swell and attempt to reabsorb the Tree. This rivalry would persist for an unfathomable amount of time, during which, a branch of the Tree grew a new bud. This was the birth of human civilization. Time flows in the trunk of the Imaginary Tree and branches out into an infinity of worlds. Every branch is a form of civilization, while every bud is their past and present etched onto the dimension of time. Each twig is a world timeline, and each leaf is a universe. The Imaginary Tree is, in part, a construct of time that brings order to chaos, providing a way for time to flow linearly where it wouldn't otherwise.

Some speculate that the Honkai is a form of natural "pruning" mechanic in the Tree that helps breed, nurture and test worlds to determine which are worthy of expending the Tree's resources to maintain, but this is only speculation with no particular certainty behind it. Regardless of the truth, the Honkai's influence is practically omnipresent and inescapable, and humanity has no choice but to press on or else fail and become wilted shadows in the Sea of Quanta.

The Sea of Quanta

A churning kaleidoscope of existence, the Sea of Quanta is the primordial soup of reality. It is from it that all things ultimately emerge, and it is to the Sea that all things eventually return to be recycled for the new. The Imaginary Tree was born from the Sea of Quanta. Since these two were the only living things in the multiverse and diametrically opposed to the other's purpose, they quickly began an eternal rivalry. The Tree wishes to absorb the Sea, while the Sea wishes to drown the Tree. In order to facilitate this cycle, worlds "grow" as leaves of the Tree, and when they fail to persist, "fall" from the Tree and into the Sea, becoming bubble universes. Being exposed to the raw energies of the Sea of Quanta has the potential to leave a defining mark on the recipient's existence, changing them irrevocably, which can be a source of the Quantum Type.

Much of the Sea's chaos and erosion effect can be traced back to the lack of linear time flow. If the worlds of the Imaginary Tree are like multiple overflowing glasses of different drinks, then the Sea of Quanta is the puddle of mixed liquids, a chaotic amalgamation of mixed data and ideas flowing in all directions at once, cast adrift by the loss of connection to the Imaginary Tree. Unlike the Tree that has order and can sustain data, the Sea lacks the one-directional time flow required to give any sense to it. Hence, it has no form or properties of its own and requires an observer to make any sense of it.

The Sea of Quanta is also known to manifest beings called Quantum Shadows to deal with particularly resilient invaders or other existences within it, taking the form of starry voids in the shape of various Honkai beasts, complete with similar and enhanced abilities. These creatures normally exist in a "superposed" state of various "Quantum Layers" that makes them incredibly resilient. This state can be collapsed by the skilled usage of Quantum energy or with timely use of Time Fracture, collapsing the creature to a single dimensional layer and rendering them decrepit and vulnerable. If this weakened state isn't capitalized upon, however, the Shadow will eventually reconstitute its superposed state.

Bubble Universes

When a leaf "falls" from the Imaginary Tree into the Sea of Quanta, it becomes a fragmented version of itself, called a bubble universe, with some having more stability than others. No matter what level of stability they appear to have, however, their time is ultimately finite under the wear and tear of the Sea of Quanta, which forever seeks to chew up and assimilate them back into its primordial soup. Being now cut off from the Imaginary Tree's direct supply of energy, in order for them to continue to exist, bubble universes must either have a surplus of Imaginary energy to fall back on or attach themselves to more abundant worlds and feed off the energy in those ones to sustain themselves. Otherwise, they will falter and dissolve under the Sea of Quanta's erosion.

Within the Sea of Quanta, bubble universes do not always follow conventional sense or contemporary rules. Some people's memories are enough to create entirely new bubble universes, and creating such bubble universes is even a skill that can be learned with enough exposure to and experimentation with the Sea. Some can be artificially created and maintain stability through an Ether Anchor. An Ether Anchor is what tethers and holds a bubble universe together. It holds the world in place but cannot do much to combat the lifespan of a bubble universe. It is possible for a bubble universe to be disconnected from the Tree yet held out of the Sea of Quanta's reach for a time, but this is an especially unusual phenomenon.

The Allied

The Big Names

Schicksal

Based out -and encompassing most- of Europe, Schicksal was founded by three families that carried Stigmata Bloodlines: House Apocalypse, House Kaslana and House Schariac. Together, these Three Houses have led the organization for centuries with House Apocalypse as the hereditary leader -lacking power but blessed with intellect, and Houses Kaslana and Schariac as their knights -blessed instead with extraordinary strength. An organization of legacy and prestige, they have existed long enough that their founding escapes much of human record, dating back to an unknown BC period. While at one time, they masqueraded as a religious organization that had presence across nearly the entirety of Asia as well, corruption and ambition led to a crusade that would heavily damage their forces and reputation, driving their presence back to merely European territories. Since then, ambitions checked, they have come under more reasonable leadership and are working to restore public trust. With their focus on Stigmata bloodlines, Biologic fighters often hail from here.

In their constant "holy war" against the "demons" of Honkai, Schicksal is historically perceived to be highly associated with the Catholic Church, and their motifs and generally acknowledged religious authority support this. While this aids them in some ways, in others, it only leaves them stained by the association of such events as the Crusades. In the 1400's, they were acknowledged as the largest Anti-Honkai organization in the world, and even to this day, that perhaps remains the case.

There is something to be said for the idea that success smooths over all sins, however, as no matter their past mistakes, it's undeniable that the "protection" they offered -and still offer- is genuine in quality. They are the largest source of Valkyries on the planet, whether they wield Natural or Artificial Stigmata, boasting staggering superhuman manpower and no small quantity of S-Rank Valkyries. Combined with their possession of a large number of "holy artifacts" they have unearthed over the centuries to arm their greatest warriors with and otherwise study to create lesser derivatives of, they are truly a titan on the world stage and wield massive influence just about anywhere they go, even if it's often begrudging outside Europe.

Schicksal has a rather chilly relationship with Anti-Entropy, many members seeing them as deserters and "rebels" that abandoned the pride of their heritage and "holy bloodlines"; as a result, they tend to be rather condescending towards them. By contrast, the School of Taixuan is treated cordially, to the point you might even call if sickly sweet, and naturally, the Taixuan have remained suspicious at nearly all times, no matter what mask of cordiality they wear in return. World Serpent is respected as a competitor and rival... and simultaneously eyed with greed and hunger for the ancient knowledge they possess.

• Factional Benefits/Knowledge: To hail from this faction is to have the potential to hail from any of the bloodlines of the three Noble Houses. If you are part of this faction, have a Natural Stigmata and decide to choose one of these bloodlines, your stats are altered in different ways than normal. Kaslanas gain +2 Endurance. Schariacs gain +2 Honkai. Apocalypses gain +2 Intellect. They do not gain any other stat boost in exchange for a single massive boost to a one stat. In addition, due to the unusual commonality of Natural Stigmata here within bloodlines, you don't count against the normal limit of Natural Stigmata in the party. Outside this, Schicksal has the greatest access to Divine Keys, weapons forged from Herrscher Cores in the ancient past, along with the Sacred Relics -weapons developed through study of the former, and if your character proves themselves worthy and hails from this faction, they could be bestowed with one.

Anti-Entropy

Compared to their competitors, Anti-Entropy is a fairly young organization amongst those that hunt Honkai. Nonetheless, it has more than 60 years under its belt and is no less effective for it. Originally founded by dissatisfied elements of Schicksal, who were becoming increasingly disillusioned with the corrupt titan, they used their experience in that organization to build their own and sever ties. One of the biggest catalysts of this eventual severance would be the discovery of the Core of Reason... and the influence of the Herrscher consciousness still preserved inside. More attuned to modern sensibilities and technologies and largely lacking the "legacy" of old and established Stigmata bloodlines, they style themselves a "forerunner" of human ingenuity, sporting a high focus on Mecha-type methods of fighting the Honkai. Their arguably peerless laboratories and reputation draw intellectuals for all over, looking to seek greater heights of learning and make their own mark in the war against Honkai. Mecha type Valkyries often hail from here.

Anti-Entropy has a reputation as something like arms dealers in the public eye. With their heavy focus on mechanized and cold unfeeling infantry to blow up the enemy in a firestorm of ammunition, they sacrifice reputation for effectiveness in many respects. It doesn't help that they are based in the United States and get associated in more than one respect with the global superpower's penchant for "peacekeeping". As such, their leadership perhaps spends an inordinate amount of time having to court high political society to ensure their backers remain nice and secure while also making their own investments on the technological patent spheres.

Anti-Entropy generally holds mistrust and thin tolerance towards Schicksal. Similarly, they are wary of World Serpent but not outright borderline antagonistic they way they are towards Schicksal. They are, however, generally very accommodating and respectful towards the School of Taixuan and -by extension- are more inclined to friendliness towards World Serpent for also managing to stay in Taixuan's good graces.

• Factional Benefits/Knowledge: AE are led by the Herrscher of Reason from the Second Era, Bronya Zaychik. Through this, behind closed doors, the higher ups have learned much of what has been and what is doomed to come, and they are scrambling to make preparations for it. For this reason, they are also the least prejudiced faction against Herrschers and the most willing to attempt to save and recruit the humans possessed to create them. They also have in their possession several Herrscher cores from the Second Era or otherwise have some idea where to find them, just waiting for the right trustworthy hosts to take up their power in defense of humanity. Anti-Entropy also hold control over a special undersea facility known as The Deep, which contains a portal to the Sea of Quanta, something that can facilitate the justifiable acquisition of the Quantum Type for those that seek it.

World Serpent

An organization that once worked from the shadows and engaged in less than moral activities, the revamp of its leadership has seen the modern iteration become a figure upon the public stage in the fight against Honkai. Even so, some roots of their clandestine nature remain, with high-ranking officers often operating from behind masks and animal code names. Founded once upon a time by the being known as Grey Serpent, in this Era, it's initial reformation was at the hands of the ELF, Klein, having survived the destruction of Earth twice over through stasis. The ELF rebuilt what was lost, keeping some things that were useful and discarding some things that were less... palatable.

While the organization has seen a complete turnover with the death of even Grey Serpent, the legacy of the past members has remained in the borderline fanatical devotion of even today's followers towards the Thirteen Flame Chasers. Klein has done her best to temper this, but her efforts have seen little success in the face of the survival and eventual leadership bestowed upon two of the surviving Flame Chasers. Both now ancient beings that have survived planetary annihilation twice over, they are seen as borderline gods by most members of World Serpent.

On the world stage, World Serpent makes an interesting habit of being almost philanthropic, acting as a source of a steady trickle of advancements and improvements to quality of life across the world. As such, despite their name and less than heroic aesthetic, in the public eye, they are perhaps ironically one of the most trusted of the factions, their formerly clandestine methods leaving them with no untoward history to stain their reputation once they went public.

• Factional Benefits/Knowledge: With access to the vast archives of the Ark, World Serpent has the greatest leg up on uncovering the ancient technologies of the First Era. For example, while others like Schicksal have inklings of the process and even limited success, no other faction shares even half the mastery WS does at creating MANTISes. And should one wish to submit themselves for candidacy for the project, no other faction is more likely to accept, nor as likely to succeed. World Serpent has spies planted in both Anti-Entropy and Schiksal, and so key members are generally aware of what they know should a member seek classified info derived from another faction. Unbeknownst to the other factions, the current Overseer of World Serpent, Mobius Ormr, and her second in command, Griseo Ormr, are both legendary MANTISes from the First Era. Between the former's unrivaled ambition to improve humanity in any way possible and the latter's altruism and positive influence on the former, these factors have pushed World Serpent from the shadows into... some semblance of light.

School of Taixuan

A supernatural martial arts order, based out of Asia upon Mt. Taishan (commonly referred to as Mount Taixuan after the primary occupants), the School of Taixuan boasts 7 different sects spread across China, India and Japan, each one led by one of the seven disciples of the Celestial Emperya, who resides upon Mount Taixuan and only leaves to address major threats to the land. These disciples, in turn, each manage derivative schools that host between 100-200 students apiece, around a third of which are accomplished enough to be considered graduates ready to face the Honkai. For indeed, that is the primary purpose of the School of Taixuan, to teach humans to defend themselves against and exterminate Honkai beasts.

The order teaches a form of highly efficient Honkai manipulation that's purpose is to get the greatest effect for the least amount of risk of corruption. To do this, they use the legacy technique from the First Era, SWARA (Subliminal Weaponization & Artificing Of Reflex Arcs), to radically increase the muscular strength and neural responses of candidates, allowing them to carefully cultivate increased Honkai adaptability and utility. The true beauty of the subliminal hypnotic therapy inherent to SWARA is that it is something that can actually be taught, despite originally originating as merely the modifications applied to a single person. Through martial arts and teaching students to identify the Honkai energy within them as "Ki" and carefully and gradually stoke and master it over time, students learn to alter the flow of Honkai energy in their bodies, forever changing them into superhumans that cannot be technically considered "Valkyries", even though the vast majority of people do not perceive this distinction, given that there is functionally no difference between them in combat.

That being said, in order for this training to work, students must be taken on as early as possible and dedicate just about their entire lives to the Art. A potential student that has already passed puberty is considered a lost cause, and only those experiencing -or yet to experience- puberty are seriously considered and taken on as acolytes. If a student shows consistent promise and improvement, on average, they are considered a "graduate" of the school by age 18, becoming known as a Disciple of Taixuan. Greater mastery still sees them worthy of being promoted to a Blade of Taixuan, which is equivalent to being considered a Master. Disciples are considered accomplished enough to face Honkai beasts without risking being corrupted and comprise the majority of representatives you'd expect to see in Fire Moth, such is the adventurous and often foolhardy nature of youths.

Despite the traditional nature of the order, they have a surprisingly cordial relationship with World Serpent. Though their ideals do not always match up, the two factions usually take extra care not to come to blows and generally stay out of each-other's way. Similarly, they are generally warm towards Anti-Entropy but neither offer nor tolerate interference in the other's business. Conversely, they treat Schicksal with thinly veiled distaste, long memories far from pleased by the territory disputes they've shared in the past. On the world stage, the School of Taixuan has a relatively positive reputation. Given the tangible and public results of their training, they cannot be dismissed as kooks or crazies, and their oath to fight against the Honkai and defend the helpless associate them with the legends of mythological heroes, getting by with hard work and righteous hearts. Whatever some may say about them being "outdated", their results cannot be denied, and global acclaim and admiration belongs to their members as a result, with them widely regarded as the most difficult but safest path to obtaining the power to fight Honkai.

• Factional Benefits/Knowledge: If you're part of the School of Taixuan, you are no Valkyrie. You have no Stigmata and instead receive stat boosts from your SWARA training in the Taixuan Martial Arts. Even without a Stigmata, the "Ki" flowing through your veins grants you equivalent abilities. The Celestial Emperya is also known as the Immortal Phoenix and -by close acquaintances- Fu Hua. Despite her reclusive and traditional nature, she is known to be unusually positively minded towards the leaders of the technological behemoths, Anti-Entropy and World Serpent.

Fire Moth

Otherwise known as MOTH (Myrmidons of Taskforce Honkai), this organization was developed as a form of compromise between competing interests. Overseen by such entities as the United Nations and ASEAN and endorsed by all the major Anti-Honkai organizations, it is a place where they pool their efforts, comprised of members from all walks of life and organizations. In Fire Moth, politics are (ostensibly) tossed to the wayside for practicality, no other concern to remain than the collaborative extermination of Honkai. For this reason, MOTH has global presence and influence, sending teams anywhere and everywhere that they are needed to face humanity's long-time enemy. Ostensibly, through membership in Fire Moth, you can access the resources of any of the three factions that act as its patrons. In practice, however, they still keep many of their cards close to their chests, not sharing all their trump cards and individually feeling out the other members of the trio's intentions, always wary of untoward interests.

Fire Moth's primary headquarters is based out of England in the United Kingdom. Given their relatively chilly reputation with the other factions, this was one concession made to Schicksal to encourage trust and earn their agreement to contribute to the collaborative project with their support. The area it resides is considered to be United Nations territory and is under similar diplomatic protection, bolstered by the raw firepower of so many invested parities.

• Factional Benefits/Knowledge: Being a member of Fire Moth is more than just being a defender against the apocalypse. It also means being a representative and agent of whomever might have sponsored your entrance into the organization. Usually, this is one of the big names, like Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, World Serpent or the School of Taixuan. As long as you remain in good standing with your faction and pursue their interests, your deeds may earn you enough trust to not just avail yourself of the more high quality resources and assets of your faction, but to also vet outsiders -like other members of Fire Moth- to also recieve similar accommodations, even if they hail from competing factions. As a member of Fire Moth, you otherwise generally recieve respect and accommodation in most places you go worldwide just by having your insignia and identification on hand, your duties acknowledged as being of utmost importance as long as you don't make a nuisance of yourself.

Valkyries and Chevaliers

Powerful warriors, who have high Honkai resistance and who either have natural or artificial stigmata. Due to the constant exposure to the volatile Honkai energy and Honkai Beasts, many Valkyries are at risk of losing their lives not only in battle but due to the possible Honkai cascade as well, which is a phenomenon when a human with mild adaptability is corrupted by the Honkai and turns into a zombie, mindlessly seeking to destroy humanity.

Valkyrie ranks run from D to S. D-Ranks are generally relegated to a support role at HQ and do chores, support and logistics duties far from any real fighting. C-Rank is the minimum required to go on missions to fight even the lowest level Honkai beasts (usually under the supervision of a higher-ranking mentor/watcher Valkyrie. While B-Rank and above is an acknowledgement that you're strong enough to fight on the frontlines of major incursions, most often in teams but even solo. S-Rank is assigned to only the most powerful Valkyries, who are often in some ways more comparable to forces of nature than mere superhumans.

No matter what rank they are, all Valkyries are explicitly superhuman to some degree, the vast majority of them capable of easily overpowering even peak human combatants. Trained to use Honkai energy to enhance themselves and empower their weapons and battlesuits, Valkyries can massively outperform any mundane soldier in stamina, strength, agility and durability by leaps and bounds, able to shatter materials that might otherwise take a bullet's and artillery to penetrate, leap buildings and take inhuman punishment. The average B-Rank completely nullifies most mundane weaponry through sheer speed and reflexes or durability alone.

MANTIS/ICHOR

Massively Augmented Neo-Tech Integrated Soldiers, abbreviated to MANTIS. A procedure once thought lost to time and remnant of the First Era, it was rediscovered and revitalized in the Third Era. In a way, this can be considered the precursor to the far milder procedure that creates Valkyries. In the Present Era, while the project has been refurbished, it has seen far less success compared to the Previous Era, largely due to -of all things- an overall drought of sufficiently powerful Honkai beasts to be worth using for it.

The procedure involves extracting DNA from Honkai beasts and integrating them into human soldier using ICHOR (Intra-Chromosomal Honkai Gene Repeats) in order to grant them superhuman abilities and innate Honkai resistance. Before they were wiped out nearly to the last by the Herrscher of Binding, the First Era had been successful in making dozens -even hundreds- of MANTISes to defend humanity. There is a balance to play, however, as those that survived having truly powerful Honkai beasts integrated were vanishingly rare, and even when they did, often times, it came with some form of consequence or imperfection, including physical or mental mutations.

A successful MANTIS becomes generally superhuman all around to a similar degree as a Valkyrie. They have a strong innate resistance to Honkai radiation, able to naturally feed upon it, and in most cases, they stop aging, only known to perish due to being slain or from complications with their Honkai DNA. All MANTISes gain some measure of power from their beast, usually able to use any unique abilities the beast once possessed to some degree or another. It is for this reason that powerful Honkai beasts of at least Emperor-class with unique abilities are preferred for the costly and dangerous procedure. After all, if you only have one shot, best to gamble on the best possibility each time. Of course, weaker beasts are possible to use too, but the mediocre results are often considered to outweigh the risk.

The Active Honkai Reaction (AHR) is the final ability all MANTISes possess. It transforms them into a beast-like form either identical to -or drawing traits from- the Honkai beast that was infused into their DNA. Doing so, however, reveals a MANTIS's true nature, that they are no longer truly human but rather a Honkai Beast in the shape of a human that just happens to have a human mind. Unleashing this form, however, destabilizes that balance, the surge of Honkai power and instincts being allowed to run wild, as the alien DNA is brought to the forefront. Furthermore, unleashing this form risks heavily irradiating the area with Honkai energy, which can be dangerous to anyone with little to no Honkai resistance, like mundane allies. Most MANTISes cannot control this form and so avoid using it, lest they go on a rampage and need to be put down like any other Honkai beast. Those that can control it consist largely of those with iron will and focus.

The Enemy

The Honkai

An alien force of nature not incomparable to a living (and hostile) law of reality.
The Honkai is not just the monsters it creates but a force that provokes apocalyptic disasters, and it was responsible for both the black plague and the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. The Honkai scales its attack to the resistance before it, with each following attack adapting to counter the counter or attack from a new devastating angle, increasing in both frequency and intensity over time.

It spreads monsters, heralds (known as Herrschers) and influence through invisible, one-way gaps in reality, corrupting whatever it can reach with a miasma spread by the selfsame monsters and heralds, which also empowers Honkai creatures in the area as the corruption grows. The radiation spread by the miasma is aggressive, contagious and deadly to non-Imaginary beings, which as it happens, is generally everything except the Honkai. Even a brief encounter (as in, merely passing a monster on the street) is enough to be infected with the deadly Honkai Radiation, which rapidly induces fatigue, crippling pain and irreversible organ failure. Once contracted, the sickness painfully kills most patients in days if they are "lucky", if not hours or less with continued exposure. For the unlucky, sufficient exposure can transform them into zombie thralls, lesser beasts of the Honkai and puppets of destruction.

The only real defense against the infection is immediate amputation of the corrupted flesh/limb. Outside that, the only known proper cure is a vaccine that needs the condensed antibodies of 1,000 subjects, a one-shot miracle cure that can purge a normie victim of the corruption... or even lessen a Herrscher's power enough for the human consciousness within to take over once more and have a fighting chance.

Herrschers

Former humans granted godlike power by the Will of Honkai, they possess both a True Stigmata and a Herrscher Core that grants them control over an individual concept or otherwise defined word, their abilities being only roughly limited to their imagination and what they can justify falling under their Authority with mental gymnastics.

When humanity simply is becoming too organized and tough a nut to crack, the Honkai can make these special heralds, called Herrschers, who are former humans at their lowest, offered power and then possessed by the Honkai to enact genocide in a more direct fashion as generals, beacons and summoners for the lesser Honkai beasts. Herrschers usually result from a cumulative series of misfortunes and tragedies, culminating in "one bad day" and then being imbued with the power and will to end all life. Preferred candidates are those that didn't just have "one bad day" but those that have grown to actively hate the world and humans around them, which is then extended to encompass everyone else and turn them into zealot godling harbingers of the Honkai collective. It's possible for the human consciousness to take back control and usurp the Honkai power they've received to fight for humanity instead, but it tends to be no simple task and often requires outside interference.

Interference which, mind you, will have to succeed while not getting slaughtered by a being that commands a fundamental concept of reality. The 7th Herrscher of the First Era wiped out the entirety of Australia in a week with its control over "molecular acceleration" with a focus on flame and plasma. The continent burned. The Herrscher of Earth of the same era one-shot a whole continent with a black hole. Meanwhile, the Second Era Herrscher of the Void hurled apocalyptic meteors at the earth by making portals to deep space and could have destroyed humanity with just that if they weren't sadistically playing around. This is without even mentioning that they are each massive living power plants of Honkai Radiation, to a degree that can accidentally wipe out a city just from their presence if they lack either control or the desire to hold back.

Generally speaking, Herrschers (assuming one simplifies things to the pre-existing rotation used by the Will of Honkai) follow a set series of concepts. They do not necessarily appear in any particular order except for whichever of the set seems most appropriately devastating for the target civilization.

Known Are:

1st - Herrscher of Reason/Truth - Instantly (de)construct any creation that a civilization has ever achieved. Superhuman mental processing.
2nd - Herrscher of the Void - Portals, control over void-space, flow of time, distance. Ability to control/bend the imaginary space.
3rd - Herrscher of Lightning - Can control and generate all forms of electromagnetic currents.
4th - Herrscher of Wind - Manipulation of molecules in the gaseous state. Weather control. Can create the ideal fluid.
5th - Herrscher of Ice - Can de-energize matter, slowing movement to near absolute zero temperature. May be able to freeze time.
6th - Herrscher of Death - Can deconstruct/disintegrate and compose/regenerate matter.
7th - Herrscher of Flames - Can accelerate atoms to high speeds to generate massive amounts of heat, flames and explosions.
8th - Herrscher of Sentience - Can read and manipulate minds on a grand scale. Illusions, dreams and even memetic mind plagues.
9th - Herrscher of Earth/Stars - Can control and manipulate mass/gravity and can create black holes large enough to one-shot a continent.
10th - Herrscher of Domination - Can spread self/power among 1,000 bodies. Can manipulate/mimic/redirect other Herrscher powers.
11th - Herrscher of Binding - Can create a field that nullifies opposing Honkai energy and affects other energy forms to various extents.
12th - Herrscher of Corruption - A sentient infection that can corrupt/possess/hack anything, be it biological, artificial or psychological.
1st13th - Herrscher of Human Ego/Origin - A "mistake" that allied with humans. Has no innate "authority" but does have broad talent/capacity to manipulate Honkai energy. Eventually developed the capacity to personally restore a Herrscher's human ego/consciousness to primary control over the body. Doesn't need a human host/body to manifest and is self-sustaining until slain.
14th - Herrscher of Finality - Has/is the source of all other Herrscher powers. Meant to end an Era and reset for the next. Can control time.

Given that they are ultimately created with only the knowledge of their hosts for the most part, Herrschers don't tend to start with full mastery of their powers. While they have an innate understanding of what they can do, there's still a learning curve and certain amount of gaining experience involved. A young Herrscher is one at its most vulnerable, often drunk on power and arrogance. It is in their earliest days that is the best time to slay or otherwise remove a Herrscher from the board. As such, they have a bit of a defense against this. A newly born Herrscher most often unleashes an initial, wild burst of their power, which causes mass devastation and mayhem, attracting and spawning Honkai beasts to act as diversions/minions, along with corrupting the land and killing/corrupting any living being it can into zombies with Honkai radiation.

This devastating event, the initial awakening of a Herrscher, is what is known as a "Honkai Impact" namedroptitlecardhoh or "Honkai Eruption". Though, a Honkai Eruption can still occur without a Herrscher due to the usual escalation from Finality, a Herrscher's awakening usually integrally initiates one.

Honkai Beasts (WIP)

WIP, so be aware that any stat ratings are subject to change.

Honkai Beast Sizes/Classifications:

Vipralopa-class

As terrifying as it might be to consider, there exist even beasts above Judgement-class. These creatures are closer to a force of nature than a mere monster and can rival a Herrscher in power.
Standard Variant Threat Grades: [Error: Standard Grading Unavailable]

• Power: NA
• Endurance: NA
• Agility: NA
• Intellect: NA
• Honkai: NA

• NA.

Judgment-class (team of Valkyries, with several S-Ranks recommended)

Varying in size and form, these Honkai beasts are walking calamities that have the power to end an entire nation or civilization, usually created in response to instances of unusually accelerated and widespread advancement of Humanity.
Standard Variant Threat Grades: [Error: Standard Grading Unavailable]

• Power: NA
• Endurance: NA
• Agility: NA
• Intellect: NA
• Honkai: NA

• Benares:
• Chiyou

Emperor-class (lineup of A-Rank Valkyries)

Typically tower over ten meters in height. Anti-tank weaponry levels of force are the required minimum to penetrate their armor. Can shrug off multiple hits from a main battle tank gun.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:

• Power: B+
• Endurance: B+
• Agility: B+
• Intellect: D
• Honkai: B+

• Ganesha
• Son of Dawn (pink)/Son of Darkness(blue)
• Assaka (pink-blue)
• Imperator/Queen/Flame Emperor(orange)/Frost Emperor(blue)
  A singular Flame Emperor is tough enough to take on an army of 10,000 fully-armed mundane soldiers, including tanks, and slaughter half of them before dying to attrition.

Templar-class (a lineup of B-Ranks or one A-Rank Valkyrie)

Towering up to 4-5 stories tall, these beasts are armed with a massive tower shield on one arm and have a spear for their other. They can levitate above the ground and despite normally being slow moving are agile enough to leap into the air.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:

• Power: B
• Endurance: S (A from behind)
• Agility: C
• Intellect: E
• Honkai: F

• Storm Templar: A variant with even greater defenses and paralyzing attacks, rippling with electricity.

Knight-class (a group of C-Ranks or one B-Rank Valkyrie)

A horse-like creature that carries a Honkai zombie on its back, which is in turn armed with a lance capable of punching giant holes straight through armored mecha. Highly mobile and best avoided in a head-to-head confrontation.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:

• Power: C (B if charging)
• Endurance: C
• Agility: C (B if charging)
• Intellect: E
• Honkai: F

• WIP

Chariot-class (a C-Rank Valkyrie)

The most common Honkai beast, these gorilla-like beings are generally slow and clumsy but strong, pummeling victims to death. Stands about 1-3 stories tall.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:

• Power: C
• Endurance: C
• Agility: E
• Intellect: F
• Honkai: F

• Chariot
  Slow & clumsy standard, but strong enough to bulldoze through a stone overpass.
• Alloy Chariot
  Has a highly mobile pounce and can release a roar powerful enough to deafen a Valk for over 2 weeks.
• Blazing Chariot
  Explodes on death. Passively releases enough heat to cripple armored mecha.
• Frost Chariot
  Mostly spotted in cold areas. Fighting it up close risks severe frostbite.

Angel-class (a C-Rank Valkyrie)

Their thin yet ultra-dense silicon-base carapace is tough enough to make them virtually immune to small-arms fire. They typically appear in large numbers and attack with their sharp wings. They can fly at high speeds and are able to release short-range energy blades from their wings that can cleave through solid brick.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:

• Power: D
• Endurance: D
• Agility: C
• Intellect: F
• Honkai: E

• Archangel/Cassiel(armor)/Scarlet Uriel/Baradiel

Zombie-class (most can be easily taken out by a C-Rank Valkyrie in mass)

The result of a human with some resistance to Honkai radiation that is overwhelmed by it or a Valkyrie that experiences cascade, these creatures possess none of the intellect and humanity they once had, merely seeking to destroy and kill like any other Honkai beast.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:

• Power: E
• Endurance: E
• Agility: E
• Intellect: F
• Honkai: F

• WIP

Rules

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.

Mechanics

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.

Distance

Totally aped from Exalted: Essence, but it's way too perfect for my needs. This is how distance will be treated in combat and for abilities. If some effect modifies "range" or "area of effect", it is based in these narrative measurements. Generally speaking, Agility determines how efficiently you can close or make distance, with every point difference, allowing you to close or gain distance on a target by that many distance degrees, regardless of their desire.

At close range, characters are close enough to quickly engage. They aren’t necessarily touching already, but a simple shift of stance or two-step forward will get you there. Melee happens at close range.

At short range, characters are too far apart to swing a sword, but near enough to close the distance with a few fast steps.

At medium range, characters are far apart. One would need take a concentrated action to get to the other, and conversations must be shouted to be heard. This is the range band that covers the maximum distance for thrown weapons.

At long range, characters are so far apart that while they can see to one another, they cannot speak without a device or signal. The characters are too far apart to get to in a single movement action without supernatural assistance, and the only way to engage in combat is with ranged weapons.

At extreme range, characters are effectively so far away from each other that they cannot engage in any meaningful way. They can barely see each other, even the longest ranged weapons cannot reach a target. Combat is effectively impossible without supernatural assistance.

Character Building

Please keep in mind that you are playing Valkyries in a team of roughly equal individual strength (specialties depending). You should be generally new on the block, none of you old or overtly experienced. About the most remarkable achievement to your name is the fact that you actually have Stigmata at all. You are humans and novice psychics. Herrschers and MANTIS/ICHOR soldiers are not allowed (at least starting out).

Regarding lore information your PCs may know, generally speaking, the true nature, goals and functions of Honkai and Herrschers are completely unknown to the public, and those that do know have kept that information classified at the highest levels, as the Honkai has historically retaliated extra hard against information being dissiminated about its biggest secrets. Pretty much all you know as the average person and Valkyrie is that Honkai is bad and has been around for centuries, super monsters kill people, and Honkai radiation is no laughing matter. Herrschers are disasters that have been hushed as an existence, and the average Valkyrie isn't even aware they exist or what they are, since they don't appear very often.

If you have ideas regarding anything that hasn't already been addressed or are looking for a slight exception for the sake of a good idea, don't be afraid to ask questions. I can't promise satisfactory results, but I'll try to consider them. Honkai Impact 3rd has an incredibly high power ceiling and a power system with ridiculous potential for shenanigans. I would like to use every aspect of it and have those aspects available to players in some form down the line, but I'd like to be careful and generally fair how I go about it.

Character Sheet Template

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.

Example CS - Jessica Richter

Jessica Richter

American | Anti-Entropy | 19 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Natural Stigmata | Quantum-Type | Ice | Blade (short/katana)
POW - D | END - C (+1) | AGI - C | INT - E | HON - C (+1) | BUR - D

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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Jessica Richter

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[Birby]

Is this open?

[Lewascan2]

Is this open?

@Birby

Yep. Haven't filled up my player slots yet.

[ERode]

I AM FIRE

Yu-Ri Yun

Chinese | Anti-Entropy | 17 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Artificial Stigmata | Mecha-Type | Fire | Fists (Gauntlets)
POW - E | END - E (-1) | AGI - C (+1) | INT - D | HON - C (+1) | BUR - C
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Weapon: Red Star Banishers

A pair of HAZMAT gloves developed by ME Corp. Ostensibly made to assist in industrial metalworking, its true purpose is founded in anti-Honkai operations in cold-weather conditions. After integration with the Battlesuit Steamwork Rook, Red Star Banishers can store excess heat generated by the Battlesuit. This rerouting function enables the gauntlets to greatly enhance the heat output of every strike once at max capacity, allowing for an increased chance of causing targets to combust.

Battlesuit: Steamwork Rook

Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, Honkai Miasma sensors, and machine-human interfaces to allow for effective movement of prosthesis.

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 be used once per battle.

Honkai Arts

Pyrokinesis: B
Time Fracture: E
Honkai Sensing: C
Molten Forge: E _{Imbues flames with kinetic force, allowing for increased efficacy of physical interactions, such as pushes, pulls, or binds. At higher ranks, finer constructs of flame can be created.}

Burst: Inferno Alight

Rank: C
Duration: 2 rounds
Modifier Points: 6 (+2 Burst Refund On Kill, +1 POW, +1 AGI, +1 END Ignore, +1 AOE)

Effect: Removes safety limiters upon Steamwork Rook, before overclocking motor assist systems via a surge of Honkai energy. This dramatically boosts the Valkyrie’s physical capabilities, as well as generating an explosive amount of heat, which is vented out from the limbs upon impact with physical objects as a 20 foot long, 6 foot wide blast of fire. As well, upon destruction of Honkai creatures, Inferno Alight can break down their forms and convert them into Honkai energy once more, absorbing that energy to continuously fuel the Burst mode of the Battlesuit. With enough foes, it’s possible to keep up this Burst indefinitely, so long as the Valkyrie herself can withstand the strain.

Skills

Though her SWARA is incomplete, Yu-Ri was nevertheless once a Disciple of Taixuan and possesses a firm understanding of both the biomechanics and the philosophies behind the East Asian martial arts that she has been trained in. Alongside that are the skills that would have made her a proficient traveller: the ability to pantomine and read faces, a talent for cooking with fire, and the ability to scrap together a shelter out of the local environment. It's not too useful of a skill, when one considers how far civilization has spread, of course, but the romance of a martial artist wandering the lands on foot remains, and she would not let that romance die.

In opposition to that romance, however, is the training in science and engineering that she received once she became a member of Anti-Entropy. By necessity, Yu-Ri is able to maintain her prosthetics and her battlesuit by herself during long-term missions using portable tools, but special materials and facilities would still be necessary to bring her equipment up to 100% efficacy once more. She picked up a driver's license as well, though her training there only covered standard civilian vehicles.

As part of her rehab, Yu-Ri dances ballet and plays the piano, artistic pursuits no doubt recommended to her by the predilections of her doctor. She doesn't like it all that much though, as it feels as if she's cheating when mechanical limbs are just so much more powerful than human ones.

Gear

Outside of her toolbox and a jumble of tech (smartphone, table, power banks, chargers, USBs), Yu-Ri travels light. She's got a set of keys and cards, and her wallet, and that's basically all she needs to get around. Anything else? She can just buy it or make it herself.

Appearance

Black hair and ashen eyes, with skin like porcelain.

Yu-Ri is beautiful in the way that a doll is: uncannily perfect until she makes a face. And she certainly loves making faces. At a height of 5'4 and weighing 229 lbs if one includes all her prosthetics, she would have been wheelchair-bound without the technology that Anti-Entropy allowed her to prototype, and she knows it. There's an air to her, as such, an excitable air that loves the life she's still able to live. An electric energy zips through each step she takes, and her posture is bold, audacious, relentless. A candle burns, a firework explodes. And Yu-Ri? She ignites, despite the self-destruction that it would entail, for every scar earned is a life saved. Every step forward materializes that future most ideal.

Personality

The oath of the Kaslanas had sparked a flame in Yu-Ri once, and she had never stopped burning since. Never stopped, even as the fuel turned black, even as the wood splintered into halves.

A reckless courage shoots Yu-Ri forwards and onwards into danger, often with little sense of self-preservation except for a singular metric: how worthy of an end would this be? After losing her ability to live a normal human's life, after years of rehab and treatments to suppress the effects of Honkai corrosion upon her body, Yu-Ri's once-heroic resolve has degenerated into a simple desire to make the rest of her life matter, rather than make the rest of her life long. An ordinary happiness is not something she's interested in, and she obsessively trains and studies for the purpose of being able to snatch an opportunity to leave her mark in the world. To those around her, she appears hot-headed and rebellious, but ultimately good of heart, the sort of person that likely won't make it far in terms of rankings owing to a lack of professionalism and leadership ability, but still someone who could save lives in situations where others would flee.

To herself, however?

This is her Judgment of Shamash. To overcome her fear of self-immolation, no matter how much of her body breaks down into ash.

Biography

Yu-Ri Yun was born in an age of true heroes. What was the point, after all, of reading fantasy novels, when one could read the news instead? What was the point, after all, of watching superhero movies, when one could watch the news instead? Honkai, the scourge of humanity, and the Valkyries who stand against them.

Certainly, she wasn't the only child in her generation to wish to become one herself, to defend all that was beautiful in the world. And though she possessed no Stigmata, Yu-Ri knew she didn't need one either. A youthful Kaslana, possessing superhuman strength and an unearthly beauty, had summed it up themselves easily enough.

What you needed, before all else, was courage. Courage to never yield. Courage to become Humanity's shield. From there, from that origin, one would gain might enough to reach the heavens and strike down that false god, the vile Honkai!

And though the Yun family were but ordinary middle-class business people whom rose out of their farmer-roots, though her parents still wished that she remained in school and became a lawyer or a doctor...well, they had a first son to focus their attentions on, and the School of Taixuan had a reputation not only of safely training their students into fighting off the Honkai, but also a reputation of teaching kids discipline and mental strength. Room and board was cheap, the reputation was solid, and the master of the sect was a fellow countryman. What else was there to worry about then? Even if Yu-Ri fell short, at least she would be able to get it out of her system, that desire to be special.

But Yu-Ri did not fall short.

It wasn't talent nor intuition that saw that she reached the top of her class. It was the resolve to continually challenge herself. The foundation she formed as a Disciple of Taixuan was built, brick by brick, through the steps she took to reaching that near-impossible dream of hers: Kaslana. Wholly ordinary, possessing no background and no genetic gift, without any particular talents and empowered only by the innocence of a childhood dream, Yu-Ri sought to reach the same stage as the bloodline of heroes. Years passed. Her SWARA began to manifest. Her dreams were becoming more and more concrete.

The Honkai came.

It was a scorcher of a summer's day. She was meeting up with her elementary school friends at the aquarium. The sky split, the sirens sounded, and then chaos arrived soon after that. It was madness, in an instant. Panic caused traffic jams, infection cascaded into outbreaks. Her instincts told her to flee, and her training told her to as well. Her Master had been strict about this to every one of the disciples under her tutelage: until one's SWARA was complete, no matter how powerful you were, you could not fight the Honkai.

But if she ran now, she would always be running.

As her friends ran past her, Yu-Ri advanced. Her hand tore a tire iron out of a burning vehicle, and her gaze set upon the Chariot-class that loomed before her. One step. Two steps. Holding determination in her fist, soul alight with the Oath that was hers to take, she...

...opened her eyes, and thought she was in Heaven.

The next few months were a blur of surgeries and explanations, of diagnoses and tears, of admonishments that gradated into praise. They had found her in a pile of rubble, three hours after the incident was resolved by the Disciples of Taixuan and fire support from Anti-Entropy. Her training, incomplete as it was, prevented her from cascading into a zombie, while the surrounding fires were sufficient to cauterize the worst of her injuries. It had been a miracle that she had stayed alive long enough to reach the intensive care unit of the hospital, but the effects of corrosion meant that there wasn't much of her body to salvage at the end of it. Her arms had to be amputated. Her organs had to be replaced. Half of her skin had to be replaced with grafts. She was missing an eye. Her hearing would never quite be the same. Even with the most optimistic estimations, she would never walk again, and the compounding health complications would mean that she would die an early death.

Her Master could no longer train her; she praised Yu-Ri for her bravery and then banished her from the school in a single breath. By all accounts, Yu-Ri should have been crushed.

Her friends, however, had survived. Survived without injury, survived wholly intact.

That alone was all the justification she needed to know that she was on the right path. Life was already too short to begin with! What was the difference between another twenty and another fifty, if old age was going to hit her with migraines and joint pain and crippling debt anyways? Between a never-ending pity party whilst wasting away in a bed, between years of having to be manhandled by her ever-aging parents so she could take a shit, between the inevitability of being helpless to do anything other than squirm and move her head around, there had to be another way! There had to be something else.

Her teeth snagged upon the sleeves of her Master as she turned to leave, and Yu-Ri made one last bid. If she could no longer become a Disciple of Taixuan, then at the very fucking least, her Master could introduce her to Anti-Entropy, to the crystallization of human perseverance and ingenuity, where within forged steel and electric code, Yu-Ri could continue to live a life on her own terms, no matter how much shorter it'd be.

She stoked the flames within her, knowing that if it ever died out, she could not ignite it a second time.

And though it was a tough sell for all parties involved, in the end, human compassion won out. Without Anti-Entropy's help, she would never move of her own accord again, and wasn't that too great of a shame, to let this spark within a child die out? This child, who faced the heavenly tyrant once, who nearly lost her life in that incident, and who, having survived, wished to try again? If she could not pay the cost with money, then she could pay it with potential instead. Let her resolve be a bullet, slotted into a chamber.

Documents were signed. Her life was theirs.

In Salt Lake City, Yu-Ri began her rehabilitation, her transformation.

And years later, she left. She was a Valkyrie, not a Disciple. Her Stigmata were artificial and her limbs were prosthetics. But her aspirations, delusional and self-destructive as they were, remained intact.

Her adolescence had yet to end.

[Psyker Landshark]

Starting work on a sheet. Discord link'd be cool too.

[Lewascan2]

Hidered quote for space

Yu-Ri Yun

Chinese | Anti-Entropy | 17 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Artificial Stigmata | Mecha-Type | Fire | Fists (Gauntlets)
POW - E | END - E (-1) | AGI - C (+1) | INT - D | HON - C (+1) | BUR - C
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Weapon: Red Star Banishers

A pair of HAZMAT gloves developed by ME Corp. Ostensibly made to assist in industrial metalworking, its true purpose is founded in anti-Honkai operations in cold-weather conditions. After integration with the Battlesuit Steamwork Rook, Red Star Banishers can store excess heat generated by the Battlesuit, before releasing a super-heated blast of energy in close-range, which can inflict a Burning effect upon enemies.

Battlesuit: Steamwork Rook

Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, Honkai Miasma sensors, and machine-human interfaces to allow for effective movement of prosthesis.

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: Inferno Alight

Rank: C
Duration: 2 rounds
Modifier Points: 6 (+2 Burst Refund On Kill, +1 POW, +1 AGI, +1 END Ignore, +1 AOE)

Effect: Removes safety limiters upon Steamwork Rook, before overclocking motor assist systems via a surge of Honkai energy. This dramatically boosts the Valkyrie’s physical capabilities, as well as generating an explosive amount of heat, which is vented out from the limbs upon impact with physical objects. As well, upon destruction of Honkai creatures, Inferno Alight can break down their forms and convert them into Honkai energy once more, absorbing that energy to continuously fuel the Burst mode of the Battlesuit. With enough foes, it’s possible to keep up this Burst indefinitely, so long as the Valkyrie herself can withstand the strain.

Skills

Though her SWARA is incomplete, Yu-Ri was nevertheless once a Disciple of Taixuan and possesses a firm understanding of both the biomechanics and the philosophies behind the East Asian martial arts that she has been trained in. Alongside that are the skills that would have made her a proficient traveller: the ability to pantomine and read faces, a talent for cooking with fire, and the ability to scrap together a shelter out of the local environment. It's not too useful of a skill, when one considers how far civilization has spread, of course, but the romance of a martial artist wandering the lands on foot remains, and she would not let that romance die.

In opposition to that romance, however, is the training in science and engineering that she received once she became a member of Anti-Entropy. By necessity, Yu-Ri is able to maintain her prosthetics and her battlesuit by herself during long-term missions using portable tools, but special materials and facilities would still be necessary to bring her equipment up to 100% efficacy once more. She picked up a driver's license as well, though her training there only covered standard civilian vehicles.

As part of her rehab, Yu-Ri dances ballet and plays the piano, artistic pursuits no doubt recommended to her by the predilections of her doctor. She doesn't like it all that much though, as it feels as if she's cheating when mechanical limbs are just so much more powerful than human ones.

Gear

Outside of her toolbox and a jumble of tech (smartphone, table, power banks, chargers, USBs), Yu-Ri travels light. She's got a set of keys and cards, and her wallet, and that's basically all she needs to get around. Anything else? She can just buy it or make it herself.

Appearance

Black hair and ashen eyes, with skin like porcelain.

Yu-Ri is beautiful in the way that a doll is: uncannily perfect until she makes a face. And she certainly loves making faces. At a height of 5'4 and weighing 229 lbs if one includes all her prosthetics, she would have been wheelchair-bound without the technology that Anti-Entropy allowed her to prototype, and she knows it. There's an air to her, as such, an excitable air that loves the life she's still able to live. An electric energy zips through each step she takes, and her posture is bold, audacious, relentless. A candle burns, a firework explodes. And Yu-Ri? She ignites, despite the self-destruction that it would entail, for every scar earned is a life saved. Every step forward materializes that future most ideal.

Personality

The oath of the Kaslanas had sparked a flame in Yu-Ri once, and she had never stopped burning since. Never stopped, even as the fuel turned black, even as the wood splintered into halves.

A reckless courage shoots Yu-Ri forwards and onwards into danger, often with little sense of self-preservation except for a singular metric: how worthy of an end would this be? After losing her ability to live a normal human's life, after years of rehab and treatments to suppress the effects of Honkai corrosion upon her body, Yu-Ri's once-heroic resolve has degenerated into a simple desire to make the rest of her life matter, rather than make the rest of her life long. An ordinary happiness is not something she's interested in, and she obsessively trains and studies for the purpose of being able to snatch an opportunity to leave her mark in the world. To those around her, she appears hot-headed and rebellious, but ultimately good of heart, the sort of person that likely won't make it far in terms of rankings owing to a lack of professionalism and leadership ability, but still someone who could save lives in situations where others would flee.

To herself, however?

This is her Judgment of Shamash. To overcome her fear of self-immolation, no matter how much of her body breaks down into ash.

Biography

Yu-Ri Yun was born in an age of true heroes. What was the point, after all, of reading fantasy novels, when one could read the news instead? What was the point, after all, of watching superhero movies, when one could watch the news instead? Honkai, the scourge of humanity, and the Valkyries who stand against them.

Certainly, she wasn't the only child in her generation to wish to become one herself, to defend all that was beautiful in the world. And though she possessed no Stigmata, Yu-Ri knew she didn't need one either. A youthful Kaslana, possessing superhuman strength and an unearthly beauty, had summed it up themselves easily enough.

What you needed, before all else, was courage. Courage to never yield. Courage to become Humanity's shield. From there, from that origin, one would gain might enough to reach the heavens and strike down that false god, the vile Honkai!

And though the Yun family were but ordinary middle-class business people whom rose out of their farmer-roots, though her parents still wished that she remained in school and became a lawyer or a doctor...well, they had a first son to focus their attentions on, and the School of Taixuan had a reputation not only of safely training their students into fighting off the Honkai, but also a reputation of teaching kids discipline and mental strength. Room and board was cheap, the reputation was solid, and the master of the sect was a fellow countryman. What else was there to worry about then? Even if Yu-Ri fell short, at least she would be able to get it out of her system, that desire to be special.

But Yu-Ri did not fall short.

It wasn't talent nor intuition that saw that she reached the top of her class. It was the resolve to continually challenge herself. The foundation she formed as a Disciple of Taixuan was built, brick by brick, through the steps she took to reaching that near-impossible dream of hers: Kaslana. Wholly ordinary, possessing no background and no genetic gift, without any particular talents and empowered only by the innocence of a childhood dream, Yu-Ri sought to reach the same stage as the bloodline of heroes. Years passed. Her SWARA began to manifest. Her dreams were becoming more and more concrete.

The Honkai came.

It was a scorcher of a summer's day. She was meeting up with her elementary school friends at the aquarium. The sky split, the sirens sounded, and then chaos arrived soon after that. It was madness, in an instant. Panic caused traffic jams, infection cascaded into outbreaks. Her instincts told her to flee, and her training told her to as well. Her Master had been strict about this to every one of the disciples under her tutelage: until one's SWARA was complete, no matter how powerful you were, you could not fight the Honkai.

But if she ran now, she would always be running.

As her friends ran past her, Yu-Ri advanced. Her hand tore a tire iron out of a burning vehicle, and her gaze set upon the Chariot-class that loomed before her. One step. Two steps. Holding determination in her fist, soul alight with the Oath that was hers to take, she...

...opened her eyes, and thought she was in Heaven.

The next few months were a blur of surgeries and explanations, of diagnoses and tears, of admonishments that gradated into praise. They had found her in a pile of rubble, three hours after the incident was resolved by the Disciples of Taixuan and fire support from Anti-Entropy. Her training, incomplete as it was, prevented her from cascading into a zombie, while the surrounding fires were sufficient to cauterize the worst of her injuries. It had been a miracle that she had stayed alive long enough to reach the intensive care unit of the hospital, but the effects of corrosion meant that there wasn't much of her body to salvage at the end of it. Her arms had to be amputated. Her organs had to be replaced. Half of her skin had to be replaced with grafts. She was missing an eye. Her hearing would never quite be the same. Even with the most optimistic estimations, she would never walk again, and the compounding health complications would mean that she would die an early death.

Her Master could no longer train her; she praised Yu-Ri for her bravery and then banished her from the school in a single breath. By all accounts, Yu-Ri should have been crushed.

Her friends, however, had survived. Survived without injury, survived wholly intact.

That alone was all the justification she needed to know that she was on the right path. Life was already too short to begin with! What was the difference between another twenty and another fifty, if old age was going to hit her with migraines and joint pain and crippling debt anyways? Between a never-ending pity party whilst wasting away in a bed, between years of having to be manhandled by her ever-aging parents so she could take a shit, between the inevitability of being helpless to do anything other than squirm and move her head around, there had to be another way! There had to be something else.

Her teeth snagged upon the sleeves of her Master as she turned to leave, and Yu-Ri made one last bid. If she could no longer become a Disciple of Taixuan, then at the very fucking least, her Master could introduce her to Anti-Entropy, to the crystallization of three eras worth of human technology, where within forged steel and electric code, Yu-Ri could continue to live a life on her own terms, no matter how much shorter it'd be.

She stoked the flames within her, knowing that if it ever died out, she could not ignite it a second time.

And though it was a tough sell for all parties involved, in the end, human compassion won out. Without Anti-Entropy's help, she would never move of her own accord again, and wasn't that too great of a shame, to let this spark within a child die out? This child, who faced the heavenly tyrant once, who nearly lost her life in that incident, and who, having survived, wished to try again? The leader of Anti-Entropy hadn't even been an adult when she faced Finality at its worst and greatest. What ground did they have to stand upon, refusing a child who wished to fight for all that was beautiful in this fracturing world?

Documents were signed. Her life was theirs.

In Salt Lake City, Yu-Ri began her rehabilitation, her transformation.

And years later, she left. She was a Valkyrie, not a Disciple. Her Stigmata were artificial and her limbs were prosthetics. But her aspirations, delusional and self-destructive as they were, remained intact.

Her adolescence had yet to end.

@ERode

On the suggestion of the relevant player, reposted from discord to hopefully be helpful to those here.

Alright, then to run through my sheet review as succinctly as possible:

Appearance/Faceclaim: Love it. Great image. All around very cool.

General info: No issues here.

Stats: Numbers line up. Min-maxing aside, I know you're being deliberate and ready for the downsides.

Weapon: I should clarify that, by default, you are assumed to be able to inflict your elemental blight, regardless of your weapon's specific capabilities (as long as that weapon channels Honkai energy). If you're looking for a special property, I'd not be opposed to an alteration to the weapon to say it has a +1 to Honkai for the purposes of inflicting the Burning condition.

Battlesuit: Looks good.

Burst: Good stuff. Only thing I'd insist on is a clarification of the explosion size, which should be about as large as a bedroom.

Skills: Looks good.

Gear: Perfectly reasonable.

Personality: Hohoh? *Very interesting.* I am looking forward to seeing how this sort of mindset bounces off the the rest fo the party in character interactions.

Biography: This is the part I have the most potential issues/nitpicks with. Most of it is fine. There's just little bits I'd like to pick at for context. If I had to summarize my issues, it's that you seem to make a few too many assumptions about how public certain sensitive information is, and I'm not clear how much of the information an effective "grunt" like Yu-Ri is being implied to have.

TLDR: Everything but the backstory has pretty much got my full approval, so after we handle that last bit (and the other minor things I've mentioned here), you'll be ready to roll the second we have a character section to drop these sheets. Oh, and also, I prefer the whole sheet be contained in a hider for space saving purposes.

And though it was a tough sell for all parties involved, in the end, human compassion won out. Without Anti-Entropy's help, she would never move of her own accord again, and wasn't that too great of a shame, to let this spark within a child die out? This child, who faced the heavenly tyrant once, who nearly lost her life in that incident, and who, having survived, wished to try again? The leader of Anti-Entropy hadn't even been an adult when she faced Finality at its worst and greatest. What ground did they have to stand upon, refusing a child who wished to fight for all that was beautiful in this fracturing world?

@ERode

Alright, so onto my backstory nitpicks:

Firstly, Anti-Entropy wouldn't have accepted her on the grounds of comparisons to Bronya/"having no ground to stand on". She could have received admittance without receiving attention from anyone actually high up enough to have been told anything about Bronya being from a Past Era, much less about Finality.

That Bronya is rumored to be immortal (because she doesn't age now) is a public enough rumor, but any oddities beyond that? Not things the lower rungs of the organization make decisions based on. On that note, immortal beings are in this Era established to be a *thing*, with people like Fu Hua being much more in the public eye this go around. The methods of achieving it -or something close to it- are of course rare and successes rarer still, but I digress. Given Otto did publicly rule Schicksal for centuries in canon says something, I think...

Her teeth snagged upon the sleeves of her Master as she turned to leave, and Yu-Ri made one last bid. If she could no longer become a Disciple of Taixuan, then at the very fucking least, her Master could introduce her to Anti-Entropy, to the crystallization of three eras worth of human technology, where within forged steel and electric code, Yu-Ri could continue to live a life on her own terms, no matter how much shorter it'd be.

@ERode

That Anti-Entropy is the "crystallization of three Eras of tech" just isn't true. At best, they have two (via Bronya), and it's certainly not public knowledge. And they are further still unable to exert their best on a grand stage without inviting extra retaliation from the Honkai. Again, an issue of this being mentioned in what feels like the context of your character's inner thoughts, when she definitely shouldn't know this.

AE is fairly young compared to the other major Anti-Honkai organizations with barely more than half a century under their belts, considered an upstart that shot onto the scene with explosive growth (secretly propelled by Bronya taking the helm/exerting more influence). That they are considered perhaps the "crystallization of human ingenuity" is a more accurate way to put it from a common perspective.

What you needed, before all else, was courage. Courage to never yield. Courage to become Humanity's shield. From there, from that origin, one would gain might enough to reach the heavens and strike down that false god, the vile Honkai!

@ERode

The perception of there being a "Honkai God" generally originates from Herrschers on an insane rant, and since anything to do with Herrschers are basically totally classified from the public eye, that's not information that gets around.

That's not to say it's unfeasible that some people would come up with the idea that the Honkai are the judgement of some "god" independently of that, which would certainly be a thing Schicksal would be interested in campaigning fighting against in the name of the "real god".

Schicksal's official "religious" position is that the Honkai are demons, not anything divine. That's not the sort of terminology they'd promote being used. They wouldn't even associate the idea of a "false" god with it. After all, there's not really any evidence of a guiding , unifying force behind the Honkai that the public can point to anyway, so using that kind of terminology would just seem like it came out of left field.

I'd say it's fair to say the Kaslana certainly spread their own version internally, but externally, they have a responsibility to represent Schicksal's greater interests. So, any talk of "honkai gods" is drowned out by the greater narrative presented by the rest of Schicksal (and other Anti-Honkai factions for that matter). Anyway, compared to the other two nitpicks, this one is more tolerable and can honestly be blamed on an overly chatty/bold Kaslana managing to strike a chord with just the right person (Yu-Ri), so this is fine left as is. But the other two bits I pointed out should be changed.

Once that's done (along with the other minor things I pointed out earlier, this sheet is pretty much good to go.

[Aisede]

Hinode

Hinode

Japanese | World Serpent | 19 y/o
| Disciple of Taixuan | Human | C - Rank | SWARA | Katana
POW - C (+1) | END - D (-1) | AGI - C (+1) | INT - D (+1) | HON - D | BUR - D

Lightning

Biologic

Weapon: Lightning Soul

St. 7308 Labs designed this saber for arming Valkyries. Vast amounts of Honkai energy particles adhere to the surface of the blade. The blade has a unique shape, not to enhance its performance but rather a personal design choice. This weapon is essentially a super-taser, to a rather lethal degree. Arcs of electricity snap off its surface upon contact with any surface. It also seems to mildly enhance the penetrative power of lightning attacks performed by the wielder. Not quite enough to ignore a rank of Endurance normally, but when the user channels a Burst-tier feat of Honkai manipulation through the blade, it finally magnifies it enough to do so.

Battlesuit: Avenger

Features: The typical suite of comms, GPS, and subspace storage.

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 be used once per battle.

Honkai Arts

Electrokinesis: D
Time Fracture: E (1 use)
Honkai Sensing: C (medium range)

Burst: Lightning Strike

Rank: D
Duration: 1 round
Modifier Points: 5 (+1 Power, +2 Range, +1 to Honkai, +1 Paralysis)

Effect:Unleashes a monstrous slash of thrumming plasma and lightning out to Medium range. Raises her Power and Honkai by 1 rank for a round, as she focuses deeper on her control over lightning and attempts to inflict paralysis on any creature struck by the beam. Her Honkai is also considered an additional rank higher, but only for the purposes of inflicting paralysis. If inflicted, paralysis lasts for a single round.

Skills

From a young age, Hinode had been recruited into the Disciples program. It's among Taixuan that she discovered her passion for gardening. It wasn't much, but it was something to pass the time. Mizu-chan introduced her to the wonderful world of rice balls, and from there, more conventional cooking (that usually ended in rice balls.) Asides from gardening and cooking, Hino didn't have much outside of practicing Iado with Ni-sama. She's not great at much... But she's not very bad at anything either.

Gear

After suffering catastrophic casualties during the emperor incident, Hinode has since learned it is best to deploy with the neccesary tools. These include: a rechargable lamp, a canteen, keycard and ID, and some snacks.

Hinode is somewhat unfamiliar with how most technology works, having spent most of her life away from big cities and their luxuries.

Appearance

Brown hair, yellow eyes. She sports a long, efficient Japanese ponytail, tied in place with blue ribbon. Around her neck is a peculiar claw. Hinode typically sports a white and blue changpao, with darker blue sleevs, a black belt, and boots. Around her thigh is an awaji knot.

Personality

Hinode is... Average. Average looks, average build, and unremarkable when it comes to personality. At least, this is how she sees herself.

She may come off as a bit shy or awkward, especially when meeting new people. It's not neccesarily the fault of whoever she's interacting with, it's just... Well, if you know, you know. She'll still make the attempt to socialize, and that's what matters.

Outside of casual interactions, Hinod can become quite the different person. She didn't used to take fights very seriously, but now that's changed. She can be focused, and may come off as cold. But that's just her way of caring for the people around her. She can't lose people to carelessness again.

Biography

Hinode, Mizumi, and Ni. The three disciples were thick as thieves, even if the elder Ni-sama liked to police them more than was strictly necessary. It used to be just Hino and Mizu– the two had always been together, but after joining Taixuan, Ni-sama was unwittingly dragged into the cadre of stooges. Hino and Mizu would grab lunch from the latter's place, and Mizu's grandmother made the best rice balls. They'd train together, Mizu would cast "spells" (At Hino's insistence), and Ni-sama taught Hino how to not kill herself swinging a katana around.

They were good times. Happy times.

And then they went to explore a peculiar disturbance.

They deployed without backup, and without possibly knowing what they might encounter. A handful of scarlet uriels almost did them in before the real threat arrived, and when it did-

She... Prefers not to think about it. But she does. She thinks about it every day. A towering emperor, wreathed in flames like a demon straight out of hell. It was far worse than any playful predictions Hinode may have had before, and in no time at all, she learned first-hand what the ranking system was for.

Her friends were dead. Ni-sama was dead. Mizu, who was like a little sister to her, was dead. It was a miracle she lived at all, if just barely.

In the rubble and ruin, all she was able to recover was a severed horn. Ni-sama's lasting legacy.

Everything after that was kind of a blur. She needed... She needed, and that needing lead her to World Serpent. Taixuan, as much as she loved and supported them, couldn't help her anymore. And she... Wasn't strong enough to fulfil her duties to them either. But World Serpent promised her power, the same power that could have saved her comrades in the past.

She's still a Disciple of Taixuan. She always will be. But for now, she belongs to World Serpent.

One day, through them, she will achieve the power to destroy the Honkai.

One day, she will hunt down the beast that destroyed her life.

One day, it will face her blade.

[Aisede]

I'm sorry... I tried using a hider, but it wouldn't work...

Also WIP

[Psyker Landshark]

Liliana Lehtinen

Liliana Lehtinen

Finnish | Schicksal | 18 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Natural Stigmata (Kaslana) | Biologic-Type | Ice | Lance
POW - C | END - B (+2) | AGI - D | INT - E | HON - E | BUR – C

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

[ERode]

Edits made. Should cover everything that ya requested, Lewa.

[Letter Bee]

Not able to join this RP for the time being, but I am giving my support.

[KillamriX88]

Zelie Faramont

'Zelie Faramont'

Nationality: French
Age: 18

Image

Appearance: A sturdy, well-built girl, standing 6 feet tall with a fluffy mop of pink hair atop her head. If one actually manages to get a good look, her eyes are a striking, silvery-white in color.

Faction
World Serpent


Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyrie
Origin: Human
Rank: C

Grades
Power: C -- Endurance: C (+1) -- Agility: E
Intellect: E -- Honkai: C (+1) -- Burst: C

Type
Mecha


Element: Physical

Discipline: Greatsword

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.

[Lewascan2]

I AM FIRE

Yu-Ri Yun

Chinese | Anti-Entropy | 17 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Artificial Stigmata | Mecha-Type | Fire | Fists (Gauntlets)
POW - E | END - E (-1) | AGI - C (+1) | INT - D | HON - C (+1) | BUR - C
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Weapon: Red Star Banishers

A pair of HAZMAT gloves developed by ME Corp. Ostensibly made to assist in industrial metalworking, its true purpose is founded in anti-Honkai operations in cold-weather conditions. After integration with the Battlesuit Steamwork Rook, Red Star Banishers can store excess heat generated by the Battlesuit. This rerouting function enables the gauntlets to greatly enhance the heat output of every strike once at max capacity, allowing for an increased chance of causing targets to combust.

Battlesuit: Steamwork Rook

Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, Honkai Miasma sensors, and machine-human interfaces to allow for effective movement of prosthesis.

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 be used once per battle.

Honkai Arts

Pyrokinesis: B
Time Fracture: E
Honkai Sensing: C
Molten Forge: E _{Imbues flames with kinetic force, allowing for increased efficacy of physical interactions, such as pushes, pulls, or binds. At higher ranks, finer constructs of flame can be created.}

Burst: Inferno Alight

Rank: C
Duration: 2 rounds
Modifier Points: 6 (+2 Burst Refund On Kill, +1 POW, +1 AGI, +1 END Ignore, +1 AOE)

Effect: Removes safety limiters upon Steamwork Rook, before overclocking motor assist systems via a surge of Honkai energy. This dramatically boosts the Valkyrie’s physical capabilities, as well as generating an explosive amount of heat, which is vented out from the limbs upon impact with physical objects as a 20 foot long, 6 foot wide blast of fire. As well, upon destruction of Honkai creatures, Inferno Alight can break down their forms and convert them into Honkai energy once more, absorbing that energy to continuously fuel the Burst mode of the Battlesuit. With enough foes, it’s possible to keep up this Burst indefinitely, so long as the Valkyrie herself can withstand the strain.

Skills

Though her SWARA is incomplete, Yu-Ri was nevertheless once a Disciple of Taixuan and possesses a firm understanding of both the biomechanics and the philosophies behind the East Asian martial arts that she has been trained in. Alongside that are the skills that would have made her a proficient traveller: the ability to pantomine and read faces, a talent for cooking with fire, and the ability to scrap together a shelter out of the local environment. It's not too useful of a skill, when one considers how far civilization has spread, of course, but the romance of a martial artist wandering the lands on foot remains, and she would not let that romance die.

In opposition to that romance, however, is the training in science and engineering that she received once she became a member of Anti-Entropy. By necessity, Yu-Ri is able to maintain her prosthetics and her battlesuit by herself during long-term missions using portable tools, but special materials and facilities would still be necessary to bring her equipment up to 100% efficacy once more. She picked up a driver's license as well, though her training there only covered standard civilian vehicles.

As part of her rehab, Yu-Ri dances ballet and plays the piano, artistic pursuits no doubt recommended to her by the predilections of her doctor. She doesn't like it all that much though, as it feels as if she's cheating when mechanical limbs are just so much more powerful than human ones.

Gear

Outside of her toolbox and a jumble of tech (smartphone, table, power banks, chargers, USBs), Yu-Ri travels light. She's got a set of keys and cards, and her wallet, and that's basically all she needs to get around. Anything else? She can just buy it or make it herself.

Appearance

Black hair and ashen eyes, with skin like porcelain.

Yu-Ri is beautiful in the way that a doll is: uncannily perfect until she makes a face. And she certainly loves making faces. At a height of 5'4 and weighing 229 lbs if one includes all her prosthetics, she would have been wheelchair-bound without the technology that Anti-Entropy allowed her to prototype, and she knows it. There's an air to her, as such, an excitable air that loves the life she's still able to live. An electric energy zips through each step she takes, and her posture is bold, audacious, relentless. A candle burns, a firework explodes. And Yu-Ri? She ignites, despite the self-destruction that it would entail, for every scar earned is a life saved. Every step forward materializes that future most ideal.

Personality

The oath of the Kaslanas had sparked a flame in Yu-Ri once, and she had never stopped burning since. Never stopped, even as the fuel turned black, even as the wood splintered into halves.

A reckless courage shoots Yu-Ri forwards and onwards into danger, often with little sense of self-preservation except for a singular metric: how worthy of an end would this be? After losing her ability to live a normal human's life, after years of rehab and treatments to suppress the effects of Honkai corrosion upon her body, Yu-Ri's once-heroic resolve has degenerated into a simple desire to make the rest of her life matter, rather than make the rest of her life long. An ordinary happiness is not something she's interested in, and she obsessively trains and studies for the purpose of being able to snatch an opportunity to leave her mark in the world. To those around her, she appears hot-headed and rebellious, but ultimately good of heart, the sort of person that likely won't make it far in terms of rankings owing to a lack of professionalism and leadership ability, but still someone who could save lives in situations where others would flee.

To herself, however?

This is her Judgment of Shamash. To overcome her fear of self-immolation, no matter how much of her body breaks down into ash.

Biography

Yu-Ri Yun was born in an age of true heroes. What was the point, after all, of reading fantasy novels, when one could read the news instead? What was the point, after all, of watching superhero movies, when one could watch the news instead? Honkai, the scourge of humanity, and the Valkyries who stand against them.

Certainly, she wasn't the only child in her generation to wish to become one herself, to defend all that was beautiful in the world. And though she possessed no Stigmata, Yu-Ri knew she didn't need one either. A youthful Kaslana, possessing superhuman strength and an unearthly beauty, had summed it up themselves easily enough.

What you needed, before all else, was courage. Courage to never yield. Courage to become Humanity's shield. From there, from that origin, one would gain might enough to reach the heavens and strike down that false god, the vile Honkai!

And though the Yun family were but ordinary middle-class business people whom rose out of their farmer-roots, though her parents still wished that she remained in school and became a lawyer or a doctor...well, they had a first son to focus their attentions on, and the School of Taixuan had a reputation not only of safely training their students into fighting off the Honkai, but also a reputation of teaching kids discipline and mental strength. Room and board was cheap, the reputation was solid, and the master of the sect was a fellow countryman. What else was there to worry about then? Even if Yu-Ri fell short, at least she would be able to get it out of her system, that desire to be special.

But Yu-Ri did not fall short.

It wasn't talent nor intuition that saw that she reached the top of her class. It was the resolve to continually challenge herself. The foundation she formed as a Disciple of Taixuan was built, brick by brick, through the steps she took to reaching that near-impossible dream of hers: Kaslana. Wholly ordinary, possessing no background and no genetic gift, without any particular talents and empowered only by the innocence of a childhood dream, Yu-Ri sought to reach the same stage as the bloodline of heroes. Years passed. Her SWARA began to manifest. Her dreams were becoming more and more concrete.

The Honkai came.

It was a scorcher of a summer's day. She was meeting up with her elementary school friends at the aquarium. The sky split, the sirens sounded, and then chaos arrived soon after that. It was madness, in an instant. Panic caused traffic jams, infection cascaded into outbreaks. Her instincts told her to flee, and her training told her to as well. Her Master had been strict about this to every one of the disciples under her tutelage: until one's SWARA was complete, no matter how powerful you were, you could not fight the Honkai.

But if she ran now, she would always be running.

As her friends ran past her, Yu-Ri advanced. Her hand tore a tire iron out of a burning vehicle, and her gaze set upon the Chariot-class that loomed before her. One step. Two steps. Holding determination in her fist, soul alight with the Oath that was hers to take, she...

...opened her eyes, and thought she was in Heaven.

The next few months were a blur of surgeries and explanations, of diagnoses and tears, of admonishments that gradated into praise. They had found her in a pile of rubble, three hours after the incident was resolved by the Disciples of Taixuan and fire support from Anti-Entropy. Her training, incomplete as it was, prevented her from cascading into a zombie, while the surrounding fires were sufficient to cauterize the worst of her injuries. It had been a miracle that she had stayed alive long enough to reach the intensive care unit of the hospital, but the effects of corrosion meant that there wasn't much of her body to salvage at the end of it. Her arms had to be amputated. Her organs had to be replaced. Half of her skin had to be replaced with grafts. She was missing an eye. Her hearing would never quite be the same. Even with the most optimistic estimations, she would never walk again, and the compounding health complications would mean that she would die an early death.

Her Master could no longer train her; she praised Yu-Ri for her bravery and then banished her from the school in a single breath. By all accounts, Yu-Ri should have been crushed.

Her friends, however, had survived. Survived without injury, survived wholly intact.

That alone was all the justification she needed to know that she was on the right path. Life was already too short to begin with! What was the difference between another twenty and another fifty, if old age was going to hit her with migraines and joint pain and crippling debt anyways? Between a never-ending pity party whilst wasting away in a bed, between years of having to be manhandled by her ever-aging parents so she could take a shit, between the inevitability of being helpless to do anything other than squirm and move her head around, there had to be another way! There had to be something else.

Her teeth snagged upon the sleeves of her Master as she turned to leave, and Yu-Ri made one last bid. If she could no longer become a Disciple of Taixuan, then at the very fucking least, her Master could introduce her to Anti-Entropy, to the crystallization of human perseverance and ingenuity, where within forged steel and electric code, Yu-Ri could continue to live a life on her own terms, no matter how much shorter it'd be.

She stoked the flames within her, knowing that if it ever died out, she could not ignite it a second time.

And though it was a tough sell for all parties involved, in the end, human compassion won out. Without Anti-Entropy's help, she would never move of her own accord again, and wasn't that too great of a shame, to let this spark within a child die out? This child, who faced the heavenly tyrant once, who nearly lost her life in that incident, and who, having survived, wished to try again? If she could not pay the cost with money, then she could pay it with potential instead. Let her resolve be a bullet, slotted into a chamber.

Documents were signed. Her life was theirs.

In Salt Lake City, Yu-Ri began her rehabilitation, her transformation.

And years later, she left. She was a Valkyrie, not a Disciple. Her Stigmata were artificial and her limbs were prosthetics. But her aspirations, delusional and self-destructive as they were, remained intact.

Her adolescence had yet to end.

@ERode

Approved.

Liliana Lehtinen

Liliana Lehtinen

Finnish | Schicksal | 18 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Natural Stigmata (Kaslana) | Biologic-Type | Ice | Lance
POW - C | END - B (+2) | AGI - D | INT - E | HON - E | BUR – C

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.

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

@Psyker Landshark

I see no issues at this stage. Approved also.

As soon as we have a proper OOC up, you both have free reign to drop your sheets in the character tab.

[Lewascan2]

Zelie Faramont

'Zelie Faramont'

Nationality: French
Age: 18

Image

Appearance: A sturdy, well-built girl, standing 6 feet tall with a fluffy mop of pink hair atop her head. If one actually manages to get a good look, her eyes are a striking, silvery-white in color.

Faction
World Serpent


Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyrie
Origin: Human
Rank: C

Grades
Power: C -- Endurance: C (+1) -- Agility: E
Intellect: E -- Honkai: C (+1) -- Burst: C

Type
Mecha


Element: Physical

Discipline: Greatsword

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:
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.

@KillamriX88

Alrighty! After finding time to give this a look, I can give my stamp of approval!
The second we got a character tab to throw her in, you have free reign to do so.
Just a tiny minor addition I'd like is for her languages to be added in her skill section, at least English and French, I'd guess.
I insist on English because the main Fire Moth headquarters is in Britain, so everyone sent there is basically required to have at least functional competence in it.

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Hinode

Japanese | World Serpent | 19 y/o
| Disciple of Taixuan | Human | C - Rank | SWARA | Katana
POW - C (+1) | END - D (-1) | AGI - C (+1) | INT - D (+1) | HON - D | BUR - D

Lightning

Biologic

Weapon: Lightning Soul

St. 7308 Labs designed this saber for arming Valkyries. Vast amounts of Honkai energy particles adhere to the surface of the blade. The blade has a unique shape, not to enhance its performance but rather a personal design choice. This weapon is essentially a super-taser, to a rather lethal degree. Arcs of electricity snap off its surface upon contact with any surface. It also seems to mildly enhance the penetrative power of lightning attacks performed by the wielder. Not quite enough to ignore a rank of Endurance normally, but when the user channels a Burst-tier feat of Honkai manipulation through the blade, it finally magnifies it enough to do so.

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: Lightning Strike

Rank: D
Duration: 1 round
Modifier Points: 5 (+1 Ranged Slash, +1 to Honkai, +1 Paralysis)

Effect:Unleashes a single, monstrous slash of thrumming plasma and lightning out to 60 ft/20 meters. Raises her Honkai stat by 1 rank for one round, as she enhances her control over lightning and attempts to inflict paralysis on any creature struck by the beam. If successful, paralysis lasts for a single round

Skills

Gear

Appearance

Brown hair, yellow eyes. She sports a long, efficient Japanese ponytail, tied in place with blue ribbon. Around her neck is a peculiar claw. Hinode typically sports a white and blue changpao, with darker blue sleevs, a black belt, and boots. Around her thigh is an awaji knot.

Personality

In the past, Hinode may have been described as playful and cheerful. She can be easy-going at times, but for the most part she exhibits a focused mindset.

Biography

Hinode, Mizumi, and Ni. The three disciples were thick as thieves, even if the elder Ni-sama liked to police them more than was strictly necessary. Hino and Mizu would grab lunch from the latter's place, and Mizu's grandmother made the best rice balls. They'd train together, Mizu would cast "spells" (At Hino's insistence), and Ni-sama taught Hino how to not kill herself swinging a katana around.

They were good times. Happy times.

And then they went to explore a peculiar disturbance.

They deployed without backup, and without possibly knowing what they might encounter. A handful of scarlet uriels almost did them in before the real threat arrived, and when it did-

She... Prefers not to think about it. But she does. She thinks about it every day. A towering emperor, wreathed in flames like a demon straight out of hell. It was far worse than any playful predictions Hinode may have had before, and in no time at all, she learned first-hand what the ranking system was for.

Her friends were dead. Ni-sama was dead. Mizu, who was like a little sister to her, was dead. It was a miracle she lived at all, if just barely.

In the rubble and ruin, all she was able to recover was a severed horn. Ni-sama's lasting legacy.

Everything after that was kind of a blur. She needed... She needed, and that needing lead her to World Serpent. Taixuan, as much as she loved and supported them, couldn't help her anymore. And she... Wasn't strong enough to fulfil her duties to them either. But World Serpent promised her power, the same power that could have saved her comrades in the past.

She's still a Disciple of Taixuan. She always will be. But for now, she belongs to World Serpent.

One day, through them, she will achieve the power to destroy the Honkai.

One day, she will hunt down the beast that destroyed her life.

One day, it will face her blade.

[Lewascan2]

OOC is now up!
We won't be starting the IC too soon, but for those with completed characters, the portal is open!
https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5463197

[FernStone]

Is this rp still open? Very interested (being heavily playing honkai 3 the past few months haha, the opportunity to also rp it is amazing! And this sounds v fun & well thought out)