Chris was in internal rage after what just happened. The Captain spoke over the PA and said that they are diverting to a different station because of an emergency, and that they're sorry about the inconvenience. Chris didn't have enough cash for another ticket to Alpha Earth so she used a skill she has learned from the four years of slavery she's been through, not that it pleases her. She'd rather not put to use ANY skill she's learned during that time, though the ability to make one have no presence was incredibly useful for the situation she found herself in. She didn't heed the instructions to leave the transport when they landed on the station's space dock, instead she hid herself from anyone and stayed on the transport.
What was odd to her however is that the transport didn't take in any passengers from this stop. Though she didn't care much as it made hiding easier. She contemplated her options as the pilots pull out of the dock station back to deep space. She has a number of options that she's thought up of. She could stay hidden and hopefully the transport somehow ends up at the correct destination and get off there. She could hop off a planet (instead of a station) and find work there and earn enough for another ticket, or...
"Shit!"
Chris gritted her teeth as she slowly trudge towards the cockpit area while clutching her pendant. She was about to do something she knew she would regret later, like most of the things she's done in her life. As she drew near the cockpit, she could vaguely hear the conversation between the pilots, good, they're distracted. A few steps more and she was upon the door, with a deep breath she steeled herself for what she was about to do.
"Killter ich-"
but she stops as she makes out one word from the pilot's conversation
"Evacuate"
Evacuate what? She didn't know, but listening in she figures out that the mentioned emergency is involved. At that moment, tears began to well up from her eyes. Not because she didn't get to her destination, not because she was about to commit a crime, not because an emergency is happening somewhere in the vastness of space... She wept as she realized how far she has fallen so quickly. She was so quick to resort to a criminal act just to get what she wanted, Her friends wouldn't forgive her... She wouldn't forgive herself... It frightened her how quickly she slipped back to those times...
"..Gulp~"
She swallowed, and forced her tears away. And she pushed knocked on the door. Immediately the conversation on the other side stopped.
A few seconds pass, then a monitor on the left of the door sprung to life with the image of a man with greying hair, under a cap, and neatly kept facial hair.
"Miss you shouldn't be on board right now..."
He said in a low but gentle voice. Chris remained silent for a moment. But as the man was about to speak again...
"I want to help!"
She spoke up with a determined look on her face... She's prepared to atone for something she almost did, even if she didn't continue with it...
"I'm sorry but-"
And true to form Chris's impulsiveness surfaces and she cuts off the man.
"With the evacuation... I want to help people!"
Both parties were silent for a few moments, before the man closed his eyes and sighs as the door hissed open. The old gentleman was on the left seat while a younger man in his late thirties with auburn hair sat on the left seat. Both beckoned her to get in the cockpit as a small chair with seatbelts folded out of the floor.
"The destination is Union Station, Seems like someone didn't want the peace talks to happen."
"Eh?"
Was Chris only verbal response, but she clenches her right fist. Her long time goal has been to stop wars, to stop the suffering it caused, And for a long time as well, she's been going about trying to reach that goal in the worst way possible. This situation has brought up some old wounds in Chris...
"A lot of people of all shapes and sizes are in the station, I know we can't possibly fit all of them in this transport but we'll do what we can to get them to safety..."
The man continued as he slowly increased speed on the old transport.
"...Don't Give up on Living"
Chris said in a small voice, which earned her a look from both pilots, but they didn't pry further...
Her planned visit to the UUC capital is now put on hold...
was the words that kept repeating themselves over and over in her head. That along with the memories of her friends at S.O.N.G, the old man Genjuro, the love birds, Kirika and Shirabe, The idiot and Miku, and even the melodramatic Tsubasa. These memories are ultimately the ones that keep her going forward, that which keeps her from going 'back' to what she was. IT was one hell of a shock, she didn't want to believe it the first two days, thinking she was in a dream. But the pall of hunger reminding her that it's all real was a good enough aftershock to shake her out of her out of it. God knows what people were thinking as they saw her shamble around with glazed over eyes.
But Chris was a tough girl, she's gone through worse before... far worse. It's now three weeks since she found herself in this shit-hole of a place. She got over her initial shock and has somehow gotten herself both part time job as well as some very spartan housing. And most importantly, some information. The good news is, that her friends not existing and the world being not as she knows it is because the Gjallarhorn did throw her into another world or dimension or timeline or universe... This is good since that means there is a possibility of going back, or a possibility of her friends finding her and getting her out of this. The bad news is that she doesn't have any idea when the hell this is going to happen which means she's stuck here for the time being. More bit of news she's heard from the general conversation of people around her is that the world she's in is no stranger to these world jumping shenanigans. And that there is an entire system and organization that's in charge of it all the UUC
What she now has is a goal. She can't really act the damsel in distress, like really, she couldn't even if she tried. So instead of waiting for her friends to come find her, she's going to go off and try to return on her own, or make it easier for her friends to get her home. Though having a plan is completely different from executing it since this is a problem she can't simply blow up. And thus Chris having saved up every bit of cash she could was finally able to afford a ticket out of the backwater planet she found herself in, Destination... Alpha Earth...
You misunderstood slightly, The idea is that she's stuck here alone coz the Gjallarhorn threw her here instead of where she's supposed to go. And without the possession of that relic she can't really world hop.
I'm sorry to bother you again. But I would like to check with you first before going ahead with it. Would it be possible if I make Chris say an "Orphan" in the shattered universe. In which she's the only part of her universe that got in.
The object of interest that caused her unfortunate separation from her home universe would be something that does exist in her universe and makes this situation rather convenient for me to use to isolate her.
The reason I want to isolate her is that I think being separated from the world she knows and is beginning to love, while cruel, would give me more options for character development in shattered universe.
Although in this case I would have to rescind her faction being that of the UUC on her character sheet so she'd just be on her own for a while, though interactions with other characters may sway her one way or the other.
Originally Chris is hot-headed, antagonistic, and aggressive, and quick to distrust others. Though she has since grown out of her grouchy and almost consistently angry self into a more gentle person, she still has trouble expressing herself properly without just lashing out. She gets embarrassed easily and is somewhat socially maladjusted and awkward. Physical, intimate, or romantic gestures often lead to Chris getting flustered, even simple gestures such as hand-holding even if she's not involved in the actions, merely witnessing it is enough to cause her to start taking in more of her theme color.
Bio: In order to hopefully not spoil too much for those who haven't seen the series yet I shall keep this one short (but still have enough information to give one somewhat of an idea of what she has gone through).
Orphaned at a young age, Chris has spent most of that time basically being treated as nothing more than an object and used as such...
Which while not explicitly stated, Is pretty clear that it was sexual in nature. Used and Abused... Chris spends a good four years suffering in the pit of despair before she happily gets rescued by a UN operation... After which she's immediately kidnapped and then in addition to being used for sexual pleasure, she's also used as a human lab rat... It did come with perks, her relic, Ichaival being one of them. Though on balance, it was still a shitty deal.
Happily (more so this time) she gets out of this new hole she's gotten herself into with a bit of help from friends, the first friends she's had... And then she lived happily never after, Because fate isn't quite done throwing her and her new friends into more pits, be it of despair, self doubt and self loathing. I'd spoil even more if I continued, but I can guarantee that she did well enough, and has a rare position of being both a Senpai and a Kohai.
She finds herself employed as one of the attuned gear users of the Squad of Nexus Guardians of the Special Disaster Response Team. Which as their designation suggest are tasked with assisting in disasters around the world in a fancy, colorful and musical way.
Age: 17
Skills:
She is one hell of a singer, with a range to boot... And this will come in handy... Without donning her gear, she's actually not very good at many things aside from the singing part. She doesn't have as much stamina as her fellow gear users and she's also lacking in unarmed fighting ability.
She is skilled at improvising on the spot, thinking up of tactics, gambits, plans and decision making with quick thinking. It may not be well thought out plans, but having a bad one is better than having none.
In her gear, Chris easily has the most destructive potential with the abilities and weapons of Ichaival (which she initially refused to use because of it's destructiveness). Combining it with her quick thinking and inventive uses of the gear's various weapons, backed with an aggressive song, Chris is a dangerous opponent for one to face, and even more so as a group.
The Relic, Ichaival (A bow said to turn one arrow shot into ten) has a Symphogear form that specializes in ranged combat. It clads her in armor, maintained by a song, the music being played by the gear itself and the vocals being provided by the wearer, Chris. Chris has access to bows, crossbows, guns, missiles... And of course bigger versions of all three. While designed for range combat, Chris mastery of the gear and it's weapons allow her to fight up close in a sufficient enough manner that she can hold her own in a close combat fight with someone who has the skills and the equipment specifically designed for close combat.
The Symphogear system massively boosts the physical capabilities of the wearer and at the same time protects them from harm. So effective is the protection that it allows them survival even in space or within close proximity to a nuclear reaction and detonation.
Originally designed to combat Noise which has a Phase Contrast Barrier. This barrier allows the Noise to adjust what is called their Existence Ratio with the current world to levels ranging from 100% (able to fully interact with the world) to 0% (impossible to interact with) to render attacks governed by the laws of physics completely ineffective. The Phase Contrast Barrier allows the Noise to accomplish this by allowing them to shift/phase their existence across multiple planes of existence (think a pseudo-version of Saber's Avalon from Fate/Stay Night).
The Symphogear system overcomes this by allowing each strike to multiply itself across multiple parallel worlds and forcibly "tune" (drag) the Noise into the relevant plane of existence and make them susceptible to the normal laws of physics. (Source: Symphogear Keyword Compendium).
The basic weapons are a pair of crossbows (one for each hand) that can fire anywhere from one to five homing, explosive, energy bolts. Next in line are a pair of automatic pistols which is her preferred weapons for melee and extreme close quarters fighting.
Apart from those two basic weaponry Ichaival has some named weapon systems (presumably named by Chris herself) and combinations of weapon systems.
BILLION MAIDEN:
This is why my personal nickname for Chris Yukine is Dakka-Chan... This is her preferred weapon system, basically dual wielding twin-linked Gatling guns.
MEGA DETH PARTY:
A weapon system that launches two dozen soda can sized homing missiles.
MEGA DETH QUARTET:
After a few seconds of charging (through singing of course) Her gear assembles a quartet of missiles of significant size for use either as a weapon or as transportation via surfing. The large missiles can also be used as payload munitions where each one carries the smaller missiles from MEGA DETH PARTY.
MEGA DETH FUGA:
Half priced quartet, half the time to charge, half the missiles... Still can surf with em tho...
MEGA DETH SYMPHONY:
This time there's six, but with Missiles that split into more numerous smaller ones with enough velocity to bury themselves into rock.
MEGA DETH INFINITY
Just... more missiles...
GIGA ZEPPELIN:
Her Crossbows grow in size to load large segmented crystal bolts that once fired will break apart into numerous crystal shrapnel that pepper the target.
QUEEN's INFERNO:
Adds 200% more bolt slots on the basic crossbow form, allowing the weapon system to effectively triple it's rate of fire.
ARTEMIS SPIRAL:
The weapon system takes the form of a large bow, from which Chris fires a high velocity rocket as an "arrow"
RED HOT BLAZE:
A long range sniping weapon variation for when Chris can't afford to just spray the entire area with ordnance. Also useful for hitting people with...
And for some of the less often used systems:
SUPERB SONG:
Ichaival's Superb Song has never actually been seen in its real form. It's supposed to be a wide-area bombardment ability devoid of blind spots. Chris, however, modified it using Ichaival's reflectors to turn it into a directed energy attack. Of which it has the ability to nearly match a weapon fed by an infinite source of energy. I'm pretty sure Chris wouldn't want to use the original variation of her Superb Song while being on the same planet as something or someone she holds dear.
REFLECTORS:
A swarm of crystals which can project a very powerful barrier as well as redirect the energy produced by Chris's Ichaival. These little buggers are what allowed her to turn the wide area effect of her superb song into one coherent blast.
IGNITE MODULE:
This system taps into the inner rage inherent within everyone... And there is a lot rage in Chris... This is one of the simplest systems... It's a straight up power up... Dakka-chan basically gets darker, edgier more powerful, and most importantly, more Dakka. Effects include but are not limited to (this are the only one's shown in series) increased physical ability boost for the gear user, remove the charge up time on MEGA DETH QUARTET and allows MEGA DETH PARTY to fire a continuous fusillade of missiles instead of just a single launcher full.
X-DRIVE:
Achieved only via massive amounts of phonic gain (aka having a lot of other people singing with the gear user or having multiple gear users sing together) this sort of power-up is much more complex as it allows the gear to manifest weapons and systems previously unusable to the wearer, even vehicles. In Chris's case, it reduces her compliment of missiles and replaces them instead with about ten times as much in the form of beam cannons and guns.
ARMOR PURGE:
Chris forcibly detonates any relic she's wearing and turns them into energy projectiles that radiate around her. This leaves her naked for a few minutes before the energy coalesces around her and reform the clothes she wore before wearing the gear and the relic pendant (if the relic came in such a form like her Ichaival).
Faction: Unaffiliated
Also here's the Missile surfing that's oft mentioned she could do.
What's the verdict on Chris? Although at the moment, thinking about how the setting works, she might not like working for the UUC too much given her past and maybe a possible candidate for someone to Face-Heel-Turn at some point.