#honkai ato

[anominous-user]

Things To Definitely Say To Kevin (Who Just Came Out) (x)

[phoenix-is-the-hottest-thing]

[rosalette-roxburgh]

Design complaints aside i tuink the timing of the new seele valk is. super odd. Typically herrschers are released as the new one of the season spanning 10 or so versions before the next one and while the herrscher trio destroyed this pattern it would still be reasonable to say that seele WOULDVE have to be the 7.0 valk. this means either her arc will be longer then originally intended (typically three versions before they wrap it up) or there’s going to be nothing special for the 7.0 valk

[kiamania]

twitter oomfie just reminded me of the kosma harmonica description and i just realized it says "just like they agreed when parting" that means kosma was next to dystopia when she died and because they were fighting pe HoS her mind was probably getting eroded yet she was still able to remember her best friend this is so gut-wrenching and heartbreaking life is not good honkai impact 3rd ruined my life

alsoo another detail i wanted to add that makes this even worse is that kosma references the 8th eruption in his recollection of ato's death and we know ato died because kevin made the choice not to call for backup meaning that some employees at fire moth saw the situation in the 8th eruption with dystopia and just went "yeah let the teenager die"

[weirdw33b]

@anominous-user I wrote this and thought you might like it!

This is a previous era superhero story (with most of the previous era class)

So imagine an au where the flame chasers sealed the honkai at the price of their lives, this is like the "creation story" of Lepidoptera (it means Moth in Latin or something)

Anyways, fast forward to modern day where honkai is sadly still a thing, we meet our main character, aka Kosma, Kosma tells the story of the flame chasers to Griseo as a bedtime story, he also gushes about the superheroes like Deliverance, basically everyone in the flame chasers except Hua, Pardo and Griseo to his dad, Ato (btw, Kosma's adopted, he knows that and he doesn't mind that), and he goes to bed after texting his crush, Dystopia (I ship them together OK?)

Fast forward to Saturday morning when he is woken up by Blanca (his adoptive mother) telling him to hurry up because he's late to his part-time job as a lab assistant, btw, it’s run by Dr Mei, Mobius and Vill-V, he drops off Griseo at the daycare run by Aponia before a long day at work, he also gets a motorbike because Vill-V saw a design of it in his notebook, he names it 'Daybreaker', he also stops by Elysia’s flower shop to get flowers for confessing to Dystopia, once he gets back home he texts Kevin about his date ideas (Kevin also mentions Su in this conversation)

The next day, he goes to the dojo run by Hua’s dad to train. He also goes to band practice (the band's called Classically Rockin'. The members are Dystopia, Kosma, Rin, Hua, and Pardofelis. They're called that because Dystopia includes classical music in their mostly Rock songs). Oh yeah, the studio is owned by Eden, and after that, they stopped by Kalpas, Sakura, and Emile's bakery, Hua, Pardo, and Rin hangs out in Rin's room upstairs to give Kosma and Dystopia some privacy, Kosma confess and Dystopia accepts, they get attack by Honkai and all of the adults, aka Kevin, Elysia, Aponia, Vill-V, Kalpas, Sakura and Mobius all use the excuse of ("*secret civilian identity* told me to protect you!") and sends the teens plus non flame chasers side characters to Su, who heals them up as Bodhi, Kosma gets back home with Griseo (she was saved by Aponia earlier) knowing the fact that the heroes were bullshiting him and figures out who the heroes were, he keeps it a secret because superhero movie logic

Next honkai attack, kids get powers! Woohoo

Now children flame chasers + Rin and Dystopia gets into MOTH, the strongest force against the Honkai

Notes: Ato was a superhero (and part of MOTH) but retired after finding Kosma in a pile of rubble. He and Blanca then decided to settle down with Kosma. A couple of years later, they had Griseo

Rin and Emile all know that Kalpas and Sakura are superheroes, but they didn’t know about the rest

Divine keys still exist due to an imagery tree machine built by the scientists of the team (includes Blanca), but they get stronger after killing a Herrscher and taking their core

In the future, Senti becomes a thing due to a lot of negative build up and takes over Hua's body. After the 'I know you’re in their somewhere fight', Vill-V builds a robot body for Senti to fight in

Klein also exists, but I forgot to mention her. She was sick when Kosma turned up to work. She's a full-time lab assistant who mainly helps Mobius

Blanca is Mobius and Vill-V’s mentor. She helped Kosma to get his job

Kosma is also a lot more confident here, due to this being a silly little au

I also forgot about Himeko, Scrap Hua's dad, Hua's an orphans, and Himeko’s her adoptive mum, Hua owns the dojo, and Himeko helps her run it, it's from inheritance

In the future, they all get a Herrscher level powerup, and they defeat Finality (woohoo!). With very little sad stuff and are seen as heroes in Lepidoptera

Ships: Ato/Blanca, Elysia/Eden/Aponia, Kevin/Su/Dr. Mei, Kalpas/Sakura/Emile, Kosma/Dystopia, Hua/Pardofelis, Mobius/Vill-V/Klein

[zorkaya-moved]

❝  i will never leave you. it will be this, always, for as long as you will let me.  ❞

@decimatcd

Her light and her reason for fighting were almost all gone; the one for whom she fought so vigorously was dead. The small sunshine she worked so tirelessly for, her youngest brother, and then her twin brother. Victor told her to protect Aleksey first and foremost when he got the honkai infection while slowly withering away. Zarina promised to protect the remaining of their family, but what happened? Everyone died. Everyone. No one survived. She killed Victor; she killed Aleksey (no, Aleksey was already a zombie, and Victor was already losing himself).

Zarina felt sick to her stomach. Kalpas' touch brought back memories of the warmth she lost and she felt her nightmare return in full, rendering her feel nauseous and struggling to comprehend exactly what was happening. No, she had to bring back the control. The Honkai energy - the remainder of the Herrscher powers - was still in her body, it would eat her mind away if she gave up. It was getting cold; it hurt. The cries, the screams, but they not the other people. They were hers. It scared her, Kalpas' words scared her. Victor promised the same thing. He said he'll always be by her side, he said it wasn't her fault, he said that she needed to kill them both so they won't suffer the pain of killing her. No, no, no.

As if possessed, she steps forward and wraps her hands around the man's frame. There is desparation, her eyes are wide open and she tries to stabilize her breathing and her beating heart. It hurt, it hurt, it hurt. She doesn't want to lose this warmth, this last spark of humanity and fire that could melt her apathy and her inhumanity away. He will die, too, wouldn't he? If she gives up, if the world will be ruined if anything wrong happens. He will die, and she wouldn't be able to do anything. He will die and leave her, he will leave her, and this promise will be a lie too. He's lying to her face from her perspective, but it only makes her cling to him that much tighter. Zarina doesn't want to kill him, she doesn't want to suddenly come to her senses as she did with Victor's and Aleksey's frozen bodies in her embrace. Zarina doesn't want Kalpas to be the same. No, not even that. She doesn't want him to die, she doesn't want to let go. But he will, he most likely will. And that logic and that deduction hurt her all the more.

"Don't go, Kalpas. I don't want you to go," she utters, her tone trembling as her soul continues to crack and slowly come so close to shattering. It hurts, but he makes it better, his presence keeps her stronger and still keeps her as [Zarina]. She doesn't want to let him go. She doesn't want to lose this warmth, this presence, this promise, but in this age - they've long lost the ability to promise such beautiful things. Elysia was gone, Sakura was gone, Blanca and Ato were gone, Victor and Aleksey were gone. So many left. "Don't leave me alone. Don't go where I can't reach you. Please, Kalpas, everyone else left... And you will leave too..." Will she fall apart entirely? Or will she be able to carry on? Or will she would want to just try and kill herself altogether? Or will she asks Mobius to end her life? She doesn't know. "But take me with you. Just don't leave me behind. I don't care about mankind, the world, the future... just don't... don't disappear and leave me behind."

[esther-asteria]

PLEASE WELCOME ATO AND DYSTOPIA(could be the orange hair) AND KOSMA WITH NO HORNS

[anominous-user]

alternative ways to say "i love you" (MANTIS ver.)

[anominous-user]

headshots from a Thing i'm working on

[anominous-user]

previous era holiday icons (ft. almost every PE character)

[anominous-user]

separate images of the white tie flame-chasers (ft. dystopia n ato)

[anominous-user]

fellow dystopia lover🤝

🍓🤝

[anominous-user]

I sure do hope that flame-chasers anime includes Dystopia and Griseo's parents, and perhaps some Emile content as well

oh yeah I'm also kinda hoping for that as well.. though considering the anime's set in the Golden Courtyard AU apparently (same as Summer Survival Rhapsody A+B) i'm not sure if they'll make in-person appearances. though i wouldn't be surprised if they appeared in flashbacks, just for that good dose of angst

[phoenix-is-the-hottest-thing]

What's Kosma's relationship with Kevin? I couldn't find much other than he once looked up to him and after Ato's and Dystopia's death he left and rejoined cause of Griseo. Before that he was chatty and talked about him alot but what about after the rejoin? Also, is there a youtube channel having the videos on this arc? All i find is "mei asking/etc"..

Mm, I’ll just tell the whole story in order. This is taken from Kosma dialogues and recollections.

Kosma looked up to Kevin a lot. They first met during the fight against the 4th Herrscher (Wind), when Kosma was still young enough for Kevin to call him a child (teenager really, their age gap isn’t that big) and Kevin sent him away, telling him to stay alive.

He tried to be a vigilante, but it rarely ended well, as playing hero was a shallow solution to the problems around him (for example he thanklessly saved a woman by stabbing the man attacking her, but then the man’s young daughter tried to stab Kosma in revenge for killing her father).

Kevin and Kosma later met again in the MOTHs, which Kosma joined because of Kevin. Kosma also looked up to a senior soldier, Ato (Griseo’s father and another of the first MANTIS). Griseo notes to Mei that Kosma used be a real Kevin fanboy.

However, their relationship became Complicated around the time of the 9th Herrscher (Earth)’s defeat. Kosma had already lost his friend Dystopia to the 8th Herrscher, and his life wasn’t getting any easier.

We don’t directly see it happen, only the aftermath (Kosma’s recollection Daybreak Transformation) but what seems to have happened is that Kevin made the choice to let Ato die to ensure he could kill the 9th Herrscher, calling it the lesser of two evils.

The Herrscher was lying down on the ground, finally dead, but there wasn’t even a body left of Ato.

Kosma was enraged to the point of undergoing an Active Honkai Reaction (turning into a Honkai Beast) for the first time. He attacked Kevin in his anger, left his MOTH badge behind and then fled, only being found by Mobius months later. Aponia and Mobius teamed up to bring him back to human form.

Kevin welcomed Kosma back to the MOTHs, but Kosma didn’t join his unit again.

Kosma had become a silent boy by the time he left his Sim behind, taking care of the orphaned Griseo for Ato as her big brother. He still admired Kevin as a hero but couldn’t bear being close to him again— saying “I respect him, but our views differ.” He also came to have a very negative self-image, refusing to call himself a hero at all.

His mannerisms remained very similar to Kevin’s though, and in ER conversations he often thinks of what Kevin would do when he doesn’t know how to continue a conversation.

Don’t know of any youtube channel for this, but we have transcripts:

[zorkaya-moved]

"Lady Zarina.. if something were to happen to me, promise me you will save and protect the others. Please."

@etherealguard

It's as if a memory suddenly resurfaces with the power of a tide. She is no longer in the same room as Dan Heng, instead standing in the underground facility with HIMEKO by her side as they watch the soldiers train. They will become MANTIS soldiers to fight Herrschers with them all. Kevin is there, he's already shown to be the best candidate. Those men and those women will die, most likely. So many of them if not all of them will die and then there will be a next batch.

HIMEKO's hand on her shoulder feels heavy at that moment. Zarina doesn't care for the recruits and she doesn't care about those who will die but she does care about those she chose to care. The fight against Honkai will end in their full annihilation or their victory at the cost of majority of humanity. But it's the words that make Sokolova raise an eyebrow and look at the red-head with a light frown: If something happens to me, make sure to train them well; protect them in my stead, Zarya.

Back then, she was still a late teen, soon turning twenty. The people who looked at her were fascinated and amazed at this girl's combat experience and hre strategizing. There was nothing she couldn't do when it came to fights, survival and knowing how to protect oneself. A true talent, a prodigy. Her brother was injured while protecting their youngest brother and their parents perished from Honkai beasts' attack.

It's now she's back to the room with Dan Heng, his serious gaze does not befit one that HIMEKO wore then. But they both had one similarity: they were ready to go and not come back. Why did she remember that now? This memory has been lost to the countless others made. The Flamechasers are long gone, all of them aside from Hua and even then she doesn't remember anything, not anymore. They're all gone. Gone, gone, gone. And she's left alone and once again asked to look after others. Why can't she finally be the one to ask another to watch over others and finally be laid to rest? Let her step forward to finally meet her end. The fate and destiny of humantiy laid on her shoulders for fifty thousand years.

"N...o..."

Immediately, she shuts her lips tight and looks away from the other. Her arms are crossed under her chest as she shows a flicker of emotion, but a negative one. There is an obvious pain to her golden gaze as she suppresses the thought that decided to show itself out of the left field. Zarina doesn't want to look at his face. It reminds her of Elysia, it reminds her of HIMEKO, it reminds her of Kevin, it reminds her of MEI, it reminds of ... Ato and Blanca.

Look after Griseo, please. We know Mobius is watching her, but in the field... if it ever comes to it, please look after our daughter.

Ato. Blanca. They all failed you. She failed you. Griseo may not even be alive at this point. It's been fifty thousand years since Project ARK lost contact with their base. Humanity was reborn and restarted. But right now? No, no, no. Why does it repeat again? Why is she asked something like this? All over again.

Why ... do all these heroic people ... always put their hopes onto her and then go off to die?

All of them. Every single one of them. And they all left her. They left her to live and go on. The last hero who could kill her and promised to kill her (and who had the worth to kill her) also died. Kevin, why did you not kill her off before you started Project STIGMA. Her head hurts, her head hurts so fucking much from those memories resurfacing.

The screams, the agony, the zombified brothers. The unimaginable pain. The voice in her head. The agony, the fear, the erasure of one's self, the fight. The operation table. The light of lambs, the excruciating pain, the screams of thousands echoes in her head. Destroy humanity, end this civilization, become the weapon.

–Lady Zari—?

A hand reaches out to her, a zombified human looks at her in that moment. Victor? No, she needs to get herself back together, but instead she...

"NO!" She slaps his hand away, her voice echoing for a moment. The shocked expression crosses the faces of both. Zarina didn't expect herself to lose it. Has she ever shown him any emotion so bright and colorful? Any veteran from war will speak of how it changed them. Fifty thousand years behind her shoulders leave an exhausting weight. Families, friends, kids. How many does she have to watch die? Dan Heng reminded her of her son, a face she'd long forgotten. But that look... it reminds her of HIMEKO, of MANTIS soldiers, of more.

Zarina is silent for a second. She stares at the young man with blank confusion, shock and surprise. He's not a zombified human. He's alive. He's here. He's not one from Earth. He's not suffering from Honkai disease. He's not going to fight Honkai. He's...

"Dan Heng." She brings her hand to her face, massaging the bridge of her nose. "I apologize... I... I'll see what can be done. I need to... I need to step away." Her headache is worsening. The memories bring back the pain and the pain brings back the Herrscher powers. Sokolova stumbles away, trying to not let Dan Heng see her face. "Make sure to come back."

[phoenix-is-the-hottest-thing]

Hi i heard you are the resident ER lore expert?

I just finished ch3 of the story and i have absolutely not chronological concept of what happened, how everyone is connected, who died when n still confused abt sim!mobius and what she did with irl mobius 50k years ago from all the way in ch2. Also about Elysia becoming a herrscher. Vould u do like a quick timeline or smth to explain whats happening cos the data in the game isnt really arranged in chronological order?

That’s a pretty big undertaking but I can try to sum it up!

PE had 14 herrscher impacts over what seems to be a bit over a couple decades at most. Then they went into cryopods for 50k years. Then another 5000 or so years happened until the present.

and now, a readmore, because trust me, it's a LOT.

For a spreadsheet summary of who does what when, try @adorabledestruction's sheet.

Impact 1: Not much is known about it. It is defeated in secret. Many people try to study this Herrscher but go insane. May have happened during Mobius’s lifetime or earlier.

Mobius is born fully cognizant and able to speak. She receives her name and her earring from her dying mother. On her ninth birthday, growing cynical to the child abuse she is victim of, she swears that she won't let Humanity be humiliated.

An unknown amount of time later, Mobius and others found the Moth That Chases The Flames, AKA MOTH.

Impact 2: Huge mess, Humanity is losing. Mobius is locked up in her lab by MOTH for her safety. Elysia joins MOTH, seemingly by stealing Mobius’s badge to pretend she’s already a member. Elysia defeats this Herrscher. Mobius starts to investigate the Herrscher’s corpse, and Elysia reveals she can’t quite read what she’s thinking, prompting Mobius to admit she wants to surpass the gods.

Because the Honkai is not public, MOTH covers up the incident. Vill-V, a brilliant, bored student who just finished her homework, finds them suspicious and tries to find more about them, assuming MOTH caused the impact, and harasses them. One single day after revealing her identity in a declaration of war against MOTH, Elysia finds and captures her mid-spying on Mobius.

It’s noted that Vill escaped from MOTH’s prisons numerous times before being officially recruited. We do not know when her recruitment happens however, only when she was first captured.

Impact 3: Most of East Asia gets wrecked. Dr.MEI, Kevin and Hua get caught up and subsequently recruited by MOTH. Kevin quickly rises to being the top soldier of MOTH somehow. Hua is in HIMEKO’s squad, seemingly at the age of 15, but the timeline is whacky so don’t get too hung up on her age later.

Impact 4: Kosma meets Kevin for the first time while trying to do something about the disaster. He is recruited some time later into MOTH, seemingly having lied about his age. It’s not very clear. He admires Kevin a lot and joins the same squad as him and Ato, Griseo’s dad.

Impact 5: Kalpas’s “hometown” is destroyed. MOTH sends Ato and Kosma’s squad on a suicide mission to distract the Herrscher. Ato tells everyone to desert to stay alive, but Kosma argues with him that they’re more noble than that. He is initially triumphant when he sees soldiers (including Kevin) come back, but it turns out that it’s because the Herrscher is already dead.

Kalpas obliterated this Herrscher, sustaining grave frostbite. He recovers without external help and is found by Aponia near Sundown Alley, which is where Felis also comes from. He joins the Sanatorium she works in as a fellow employee, getting called “Mr.Mask” by the children. He like, carries boxes. Aponia teaches him more about how to human but he kind of hates her endlessly chill and forgiving attitude.

Kalpas may have fallen from the sky. Mobius also calls him an alien (but official said smth like “the one who’s out of place” instead, kudos on missing the point again)

Impact 6: The Herrscher of Death destroys a city. She had kept some human emotion, which made Kevin hesitate, and he blames himself for the Herrscher’s victims. Elysia tells him this guilt keeps him human, and asks whether he would kill the minority to save the majority.

Sometime before this point, Sakura tried to assassinate Dr.MEI. She fails but injures Kevin. MEI recruits Sakura, intending to form her own private force to consolidate and stabilize her position. Sakura joins Cocoon, whose job is to assassinate humans that interfere with MOTH’s mission.

Impact 7: HIMEKO becomes the Herrscher of Flame, murdering her entire squad except Hua. Eden’s concert is interrupted by a fire, but Hua saves her life. After they chat, Hua leaves to confront the Herrscher, but Kevin kills her before she can ask her why HIMEKO spared her. Broken up by grief, Eden joins MOTH, though her job is mainly to cheer people up at that point.

The MANTIS, Honkai augmented soldiers, are now a thing. It’s a surgery for now and has strong side effects. The first four are Kevin, Elysia(?), Mobius, and Sakura. The success/survival rate is extremely low, and only 13 soldiers will successfully be made before they develop the ICHOR method (injection) which will make Hua a MANTIS later.

The Sundown Alley incident happens— Aponia, who cannot yet see fate clearly but already has mild persuasion powers, has been hiding Honkai infected patients. Sakura, who was sent to the town to kill some traitors, finds out and starts an impromptu clean-up to stop the spread of the disease, murdering among others 73 children. She fails to kill Kalpas, who fights her on equal grounds. Kalpas and Aponia are captured. Aponia is blamed as a mastermind, but she doesn’t know anything. Aponia is forced to take the MANTIS surgery in hopes of being helpful to MOTH in the future, but she gains immense power and cannot be restrained anymore. Aponia can now use Discipline and see the future, and therefore that Humanity is doomed. She’s going to cause some problems on accident.

Kevin’s birthday party happens. Dystopia, Kosma’s friend and the only psychokinesis MANTIS, is present. Sorry I need to mention her before she dies. It’s cute.

Blanca, Griseo’s mother, quits the lab and recommends Klein to replace her. Mobius now has a new assistant.

Impact 8: The Herrscher of Sentience happens and people start falling into a dream and dying. Su, Kevin’s childhood bestie, became a doctor. He’s been trying to cure Honkai sickness but keeps failing (see Second Key manga for details). Kevin ghosted him for years but they meet again during a Honkai attack, and Su is recruited by MOTH. Su takes the MANTIS surgery from Mobius in a hurry, becoming a psychic. He, Dystopia, and Aponia try to team up against the Herrscher of Sentience, to pinpoint her location. Dystopia is killed. Su’s mentor in MOTH is killed by a traitor, his dying act to save Su from getting stuck in the psychic link pod thing. Aponia helps Su not succumb to revenge and he more or less becomes enlightened.

It seems Aponia has already settled in the Deep End around this time, but details are unclear.

Aponia gives Kevin a Discipline to resist the dreams, which renders him immune to Fenghuang Down later, but the counterattack against HoS happens before he can do much of anything.

Elysia comes to find Kalpas and makes a deal with him. She convinces MOTH to let him join as a soldier in exchange for giving him an endless war. She asks him to become a "KO Threat" someday, but she will die before cashing in. Aponia places a Discipline on him.

Gray Serpent is born some time after this, as Mobius's accidental first sapient creation. She tells him he is free. Once he leaves the lab, he starts experimenting with human behavior, creating numerous organisations in order to understand the "freedom" his creator spoke of. Sakura stops him eleven times over the years.

Impact 9: Ato is killed by Kevin’s inaction as the 9th Herrscher is neutralized. Kosma gets so angry he undergoes an Active Honkai Reaction and turns into a monster to eat Kevin. Kosma flees, sane but monstrous.

Mu is destroyed by the Herrscher, which is the final nail in the coffin of MOTH’s coverup. The Honkai is now a public matter and public unrest is at an all-time high. It won’t get better.

Exact details are unclear but it seems Eden undergoes her surgery around this time. Her conversation with Mobius about beauty happens shortly after.

Griseo, now orphaned, got caught up in an accident than mortally wounded her. In order to save her life, Mobius gives her the MANTIS surgery. Griseo lives, but her personality gets easily affected by others and her paintings are cognitohazards. Her Kalpas painting almost causes a civil war. An unknown amount of time later, Dr.MEI throws Griseo in the Deep End due to the danger she poses. (She’s not happy about it.) Aponia finds and adopts Griseo.

An unknown amount of time later, Mobius finds Kosma. She offers to turn him back into a human form. Kosma is either Disciplined to help this process, or he was way back during his surgery, it’s not completely clear. Kosma rejoins the MOTH as a footsoldier.

Impact 10: The 10th Herrscher keeps causing chaos by randomly turning people into Herrschers to mess with MOTH. Emile, Kalpas’s adjudant, is captured and eventually killed. Klein kills Mobius but is absorbed by her resurrection, which Su blames himself for. Dr.MEI uses the Key of Blankness, an armor that can interface humans and Herrscher cores, in order to destroy the Herrscher. She is severely weakened as a result.

Felis tries to rob MOTH by impersonating a volunteer and gets turned into a MANTIS instead. Since she was a rare success, they let her stay. Vill-V gets turned into a Mantis around the same time.

Roughly a thousand 10th keys are made. Hua is turned into a MANTIS during a suicide mission, the first successful ICHOR MANTIS (no surgery required).

After breaking numerous divine keys trying to make ICHOR work out for him, Kalpas makes a deal with Mobius. She takes something from him, which turns him into a MANTIS. As a side effect, he starts suffering from progressive cognitive disorientation.

MOTH experiments with 3 people teams. Kalpas Sakura Su is a disaster. They try to make Aponia fight alongside Eden and Su, hoping that they'd be stable enough to handle being near her at all. The only successful team is Hua, Kosma, and Felis. Yeah they really suck at working together.

Aponia awakens Fenghuang Down's first power for Hua, to give her a chance to survive. She uses this same memory as a demonstration and forgets she tried to help her.

Impact 11: A Herrscher that's essentially a MANTIS killer appears, as it snuffs out Honkai energy. Klein shuts down because of it and Mobius takes her chances against the Herrscher to rescue her. Vill-V is gravely wounded after trying to fight the Herrscher with technology, including a Key of Blankness replica. On her way home, Mobius rescues her as well, but Vill-V seems to have suffered some memory loss.

Kalpas, still angrily grieving Emile, tries to attack Hua but instantly gets taken down by the Herrscher's anti-Honkai field. Hua brings him to Mobius. Su controls his body with his consent in order to fight, but accidentally undoes Aponia's Discipline on him.

Thanks to Aponia's gift, Hua creates an opportunity for Kevin to kill the Herrscher. Elysia's crystal protects her from Kevin's attack last second. She loses almost all her memory as a result and sinks into a coma for several days.

Kevin digs out Kalpas from the debris with his sword.

The Tragedy of Binding has happened. All but thirteen MANTIS have died. Felis, who was sick in the hospital during the battle, wakes up to an empty building. She seeks out her companions and finds nobody. When she finally finds people, they are like soulless, having witnessed the horror of the Tragedy.

After that, Elysia tries to create the 13 Flame-Chasers.

Kevin drags Aponia out of the Deep End.

(ch29 detail: MOTH is opposed to it. The 13 are never an official thing, though they try to compromise with 5 people instead (Elysia, Kevin, Hua, Su, and Vill-V), which Elysia never acknowledges. It's her WHOLE ragtag band of disasters or nothing)

With Eden's financial help and against MOTH's wishes, the Elysian Realm is created. Can, Felis's sim cat, is born. Only three cities are left in the entire world.

Impact 12: RIN, Sakura's little sister, becomes a Herrscher. Elysia warns Sakura while asking her to become one of the Thirteen, implying that these events were extremely close together. RIN is captured by MOTH and held prisoner.

Sakura attempts to break RIN out, but finds her corpse instead.

Due to Aponia's Discipline of "never losing hope against the Honkai", a group of 54 MOTH soldiers arrange to kill RIN, traumatizing her and starting the eruption proper. RIN turns people into flesh-eating zombies and takes control of the base's computers. RIN launches the nukes created by Vill-V onto the last three cities. Sakura dies. Dr.MEI traps RIN into the black box, ending the incident.

The Flame-Chasers mourn Sakura, incredibly broken up by her death. Kevin swears upon her grave that they will defeat the Honkai. Felis leaves her Sakura Mochi, which nobody knows how to make anymore. Gray Serpent's fifty bodies simultaneously bow in her honor as he also mourns a lost friend.

After executing the 54 culprits, Kalpas threatens to kill Aponia for her role in Sakura's death. He at least lets her put her "do not kill innocents" Discipline back on him. He does not kill her.

While not, strictly speaking ,the final humans left on Earth, MOTHs are now acutely aware that humanity is doomed. Dr.MEI starts cooking up plans for the next era to survive. Under the cover of therapy, Vill-V beats up Su for the fifth divine key, to turn it from a deadly weapon to the cryopods.

Mobius experiments with the black box, using Hua as a test subject, as she plans to save the survivors by turning them all into sapient viruses. Hua goes into a coma. As they operate on her to save her, Fuxi fights with Mobius over this and leaves, taking Nuwa with her and joining Project EMBER instead.

An unknown amount of time later, Eden passes on EMBER to Hua despite the twins' doubts. Eden passes on the Elysian Realm to Mobius.

Vill-V acknowledges Griseo's request to take Kosma's place in the single seat ARK, and they start working on that together.

Su receives project VALUKA, while Kevin takes his place to handle project STIGMA. It is unknown why Mobius didn't receive a project, or if she got a different one. Most likely she wasn't trusted.

Vill-V is kept out of Jizo Mitama's development. She tries to stop Void Archives' development, for which her own body and mind was initially the vessel due to her fragmentation ability. Why try to stop it? She finds taming the Herrscher of Reason's core would only kill her and create a will with infinite knowledge and no interest for Humanity's survival, a description which sounds suspiciously similar to the Will of the Honkai present in CE. (And considering her visual motifs... well... think of that what you will...)

Considering current events, it seems that this was partially fixed by giving what we currently known as the Void Archives an AI ("a fragment of the AI Prometheus"?), but details are still unknown.

Tensions are extremely high.

Dr.MEI holds a meeting to investigate Elysia's sussy past, but nothing turns up. Elysia chats with Dr.MEI's AI, Prometheus, in the meantime, revealing that she plans to play the villain to give Humanity a chance to unite. After the meeting, Eden uses her Active Honkai Reaction for the first time and turns into a giant marine animal, flying a tipsy Elysia up into the sky to watch the moon together.

The next day, Elysia tells Aponia that she will die in ten days.

Impact 13: Exactly 10 days later. Not much is known. Elysia reveals herself as the 13th Herrscher, wearing makeup for the first and last time. Kevin kills her while at least Mobius and Eden are present. Mobius is forced to face her fear of death, and syncs up her sim for the last time. Sim!Mobius allegedly plants a seed in her mind so she may kill herself.

The day after Elysia dies, Aponia is shown contemplating the disappearance of the threads of Fate. Elysia rearranged the stars.

Final Impact: After Elysia's death, the surviving MANTIS decide to unite and fight the final herrscher together on the moon.

Felis, weak but crushed by survivor's guilt, decides to go. Aponia, seeking out a way to die well, asks Vill-V to fuse her with the Elysian Realm, which Vill considers suicide but seemingly agrees to. Kalpas fights a ravenous Kosma as a parting gift with an unknown outcome. Kosma refuses to leave on the ARK at the last minute. Eden leads seven Mantises beside herself to the Moon in her Honkai Beast form. Su fights the Herrscher from Earth thanks to his psychic powers. Aponia stays behind on Earth, to brainwash the weak humans who are doomed to die, so that they may die happy according to their own wishes.

Two MANTIS soldiers die within five minutes. Presumably they are Felis and either Kalpas or Kosma, most likely Kosma, but it's not yet possible to say for sure. Dr.MEI overloads the Selene and robs her of 30% of her Honkai energy, but it's not enough for them to win, so Kevin freezes hits the Herrscher REALLY HARD with Shamash. They have twelve hours to go home and hide in the Cryopods before all remaining life on earth is destroyed, ten of which are taken up by the trip.

Hua enters the cryopods. Su seals himself in the 2nd key to observe other universes. Mobius tries to talk Eden out of committing suicide, but fails as she had already taken her decision long ago. Kevin enters the cryopods. Mobius leaves her suicide note hologram message with Klein and waits out the cryopods' sinking, extremely weakened through an unknown method. Mobius greets Prometheus with an unknown purpose in mind.

AND IM DONE. That took. So long. I've skipped over some details but it should be a good summary.