#nova (azure striker gunvolt)

[makuta-kotok]

GUYS I HAVE A THEORY

[neko-naruto]

i've lost my ignorance, security, and pride

Summary: Copen never did consider a karma so cruel in his journals when he'd write about the potential of his justified path coming to bite him in the ass, nor does he truly believe it when it's so viciously forced into his face by none other than Nova

Warnings: unethical surgeries, verbal degradation, Nova has something going on, check Ao3 port for full tags

Authors Note: *laughs nervously as I stare at the 2 ppl who like gunvolt on tumblr* so how do ya'll feel about toxic yaoi? cause I got toxic yaoi with a side of unethical surgeries and a title from a Nine Inch Nails song.

"You're such a swine," Nova purred, hand firmly gripping Copen's jaw, "A filthy, worthless, pig."

Copen snarled up at him, "You're one to talk, Adept."

"You're a broken record. Adept, Adept, Adept- it's your favorite word, right up there with justice," Nova said, smug grin slanting to a cruel smirk.

"I'll tear your very heart out in the name of God," Copen threatened, tried too at least. The paralytics holding him down made it very hard to come off half as threatening as he wanted to. He just had to grit his teeth and grimace as soft hands held his face and tainted his skin.

Nove gives a single chuckle, "I doubt you could so much as scratch me in your current state." He takes a step back from Copen who struggles to reach out and claw him open, tug him and punch him, do anything to hurt him in any way possible.

He can manage seething, "I'll sooner die than watch you ruin everything."

Nova claps twice and a row of soldiers file in, "Boys, take him down to the lab, I wish to impart a gift upon him."

Copen's eyes widen as the soliders encroach on him, hands gripping his arms and legs and holding him securely to the point it hurts. The crackling purple remains to hold his joints locked in place and muscles contracted so he can do nothing but breath and take it. When enough hands have him secured, Nova claps once more and they don't hoist him up. The purple Adept leans just enough that they're at eye level, he's grinning this sickly smile that makes Copen feel ill.

"What are you going to do to me?" The hunter questioned.

Nova reaches out to run a finger from Copen's ear too his chin and tilts up, "I'm going to make you despise your very existence."

Nova shoves aside Copen who fumbles for words and writhes to the best of his ability. He watches as the Adept turns his back as he's slowly carried away, dragged on the ground.

"I want him in heavy restraints when I arrive, and I want him awake while I do it."

Copen's blood runs cold as the words sink into his paralyzed body.

-/-/-/-

All Copen can do is stare at the ceiling even after the paralytics have come down, he knows the restraints are too strong for him to break. He's been stripped of his dignity and his pride and his armor, he can't manage much of a fight physically at this point. LED lights sear his eyes as they shine down on him mockingly from the ceiling, he can see the glint of scalpels, needles, and vials from the corner of his eye.

He hears the door open and tries to turn and see it but he awkwardly hits the brace clamped over his neck. It aches from the physical struggling he tried mere moments after being locked in. The struggling earned him nothing but mocking and laughing from useless foot soldiers.

"No need to worry, I have it under control. Thank you for dealing with the first part for me."

It's Nova, he sounds as calm and collected as ever. He steps in and the door slides shut. He shrugs off his regal coat and hangs it up on the door and trades for it an apron.

"You're gonna kill me down here, while I'm vulnerable," Copen declared as Nova washed his hands and hummed a tune.

"I would never," Nova said with a faux tone of offense, he steps over to Copen's restrained form and grabs a marker, "I have something far more sinister in mind."

"You're gonna cut me open? Harvest my organs and let me live out my remaining days without them sickly and frail?" Copen questioned as Nova brought the marker to pale flesh and ran dotted lines across Copen's chest.

"Don't give me ideas now," Nova said with a light laugh as he capped the marker.

Copen took a deep breath, "Than what it is it?"

"You're a smart boy, you'll figure it out," Nova chided as he grabbed the scalpel and pressed it against skin, "This may hurt."

He pressed down and it did hurt, it was a clean type of hurting though. A simple little slice down the front of his chest, from his clavicles to the base of his rib cage. He felt his breath hitch as the pain diffused, it was quick to return when fingers pressed into the slit of flesh. He bit his tongue instead of screaming, body spasming at the unprecedented intrusion.

Nova gave a hum, "Someone doesn't like being fingered. I guess I'll open you up a bit more before we get to penetration." He laughs at his own words and Copen just feels a wave of disgust wash over him at the fact Nova is comparing this to sex. Albeit, in a very subtle and twisted way, but it's a comparison regardless.

The scalpel comes down along two more dotted lines and with one quick motion his chest opens up. He feels extremely nauseated, like he'd vomit if he had anything in his stomach. He dry heaves despite gravity working against him, he convulses and wheezes as fingers prod at his inner muscles. Tracing over the bits on his ribs and tapping his beating heart and pinching at his clavicles.

There isn't the comforting discomfort of latex either, it's just skin on flesh. The taint of an Adept's touch is being ingrained into his being with every passing second of Nova exploring his body in a very unpleasant way. His finger nails dig into his palm into Nova forces them apart with bloody hands.

"Don't hurt yourself, you don't even have reason to hate yourself yet," Nova said in a tone far too soothing for a man so sinister and cruel, but it worked. Copen relaxed, he let his body go as limp as possible because as much as he wants to defy, he knows he can't win this one. Nova grins, "You'll have plenty of reasons to hate yourself soon enough."

A needle is held high, a clear fluid fills it, and then it's plunged into Copen. Close to his heart, but not quite, narrowly missing the most vital of his organs. The glass tube rests nestled against his lung as the fluid is deposited into his body. His breathing starts to slow all the while and the prodding sensation of Nova's fingers inside of him.

Anesthetic, how kind.

Three needles are held this time, red, green, and blue. There's hesitation on Nova's face as he lays them atop Copen's rib cage and contemplates. He grabs red first, "You know, you'll be the first to have three Septima's implanted in your body."

Copen starts struggling again, "You're turning me into an Adept!?"

"I thought that was clear," Nova said smugly as he snapped his fingers, bright purple crackling across Copen once more to paralyze him. He lets a finger, dripping with blood, hover over Copen's lips. The taste of ichor rests heavy on Copen's tongue and he squirms as best he can, the terrible taste of his own blood making him feel ill. Nova smirks a bit, "Now hold still, I don't want to kill you during this process. Although, three at once may kill you in the long run."

As the first of three needles puncture his heart he passes out with a gut wrenching scream that makes even Nova feel nauseated. A rending pain running through every single vein in his body as a Septima is implanted in him. He sees Nova's smug face and a wave goodbye as he fades out of consciousness.

-/-/-/-

When he awakes he finds himself in a hospital bed with stitches running up his front and a crusty sensation coagulating near them. It makes him feel ill, even more when he hears them crackle as he sits up. A sharp sting pierces him and he tries not to hiss as a bare hand clutches at his clothed chest. He's wearing one of those hospital gowns, but the blood and puss and Septimal residue soak into it in the shape of his cuts.

"I wouldn't be moving for a while if I were you," Nova said calmly from where he stood leaning in the doorway, dressed to the nines in his usual outfit. He has a bouquet of flowers in one hand with a gaudy 'get well soon!' card attached, it makes Copen cringe.

"If it'll kill me then I'll make a point of it," Copen snarled as Nova stepped in and ever closer.

Nova chuckled lightly, "You idiot," He doesn't use anything innately insulting which is odd, he's dropped his smug I'm better than you aura. He takes a seat on the foot of Copen's bed, "You're stuck in here now, we won't let you die."

"What do you mean I'm stuck in here?" Copen asked.

Nova was so bold as to reach out and trace along the front of Copen's hospital gown, he smiled the entire time. He pressed just above the heart and Copen winced, "You're stuck with Sumeragi, your Septima's are prone to malfunctioning. They're unstable unless you're here with our technology monitoring you to keep you alive."

Copen goes wide-eyed, "What?"

"You have to stay with Sumeragi, attach yourself to a Glaive, and hope that we'll trust you to use your Septima in taking down QUILL." Nova crawls a little further up Copen's hospital bed, "That or you go out there and wait for the inevitably of a premature death."

"So I have to sit here at your beck and call like a dog or die?"

"You're a smart one, a bit slow, but smart."

If he wasn't already nauseated with how close Nova is too him at the moment he'd feel like vomiting. He goes pale he knows that much and he swears his head starts to spin.

"So," Nova begins, reaching out to touch Copen's face and now there's no divide between them. They've become equally low, Copen's been lowered forcibly to become the same dirt all Adept's are. "What'll it be?"

Copen can't answer, he just tries to look away.

Nova wrenches him back into eye contact, "Did you not hear me, filth?"

"I'll take the Glaive." He submits but he doesn't want too, he submits because he knows he'll find out how to break the leash when he can escape. Until then he'd like to stay alive long enough to shoot down the likes of Gunvolt and the rest of QUILL, even if it means working for Sumeragi.

Nova grins as he pushes himself back, "I'll get it fashioned right away, I'll make sure your armor is reminiscent of what you wore when you tried to defile my name."

[shinigami-striker]

Gunvolt OVA Profiles | Wednesday, 02.08.2023

Here's every character profile both in (English and Japanese) from Azure Striker Gunvolt: The Anime on the Nintendo [3DS] eshop (ending on Monday, March 27, 2023).

[incorrectgunvoltquotes]

Question: What is Gunvolt to you?" Joule: My... friend. If it wasn't for him I would've never gotten to see the world. Oh, and- Kirin: Well, I guess I owe him my life. I guess... and also I'm not the only one, but... ZedΩ: Well, to be honest... I don't really know much about him. I can say this though... Nova: An idiot. Teseo: AN IDIOT. Zonda: ...Misguided. Copen: A damned monster whose stupidity is only matched by the side of his heart. Asimov: Need I say more? He's... "The Strongest

Jujutsu Kaisen, though I was inspired to make this quote from this reddit post: https://new.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/1awkg9e/what_is_eda_clawthorne_to_you_artofmacks/

[the-smashor]

Azure Striker Gunvolt: The Matthew Project

Chapter 0: Prologue

My name is Nova Tsukuyomi. And I used to be dead.

I suppose I should explain. I was the leader of the Sumeragi Group’s Project Muse, and of a group of Adepts. Our goal was to use The Muse to control all Adepts, to attempt to fix the world by force, behind the backs of our superiors. I desired to try and use this control to try and fix the world, and hopefully one day relinquish it once it’s perfect. This failed due to the efforts of Gunvolt. In his selfishness, he decided to prevent me from saving mankind, instead choosing the life of a single girl. He ended the lives of myself and my comrades. Yet… something happened. Something I didn’t see coming.

One of the people I recruited was Elise, a horribly traumatized girl who’s Septima allowed her to resurrect the dead. Her psyche had been broken to the point where her mind had fragmented into three parts, each seemingly having their own soul. This allowed her to manifest her split personalities in different bodies and resurrect herself, in a manner of speaking. But if all three bodies died, she would remain dead.

I had her be the last resort defense, believing that due to her second personality’s limitless vitality, she could permanently stop Gunvolt. What I didn’t rely on was the son of Doctor Kamizono, Copen, managing to break into the station and kill her using a weapon copied from Carrera’s Septima. I underestimated him, and it cost me the strongest member of my team. It was practically checkmate.

But, despite her death… we all came back. Some inexplicable miracle had happened. Shortly after Gunvolt had left the station, we all returned to life.

Carrerra gave us an update on his battle with Gunvolt, and footage I obtained through some loyalists within the company confirmed it. The Muse had been killed, and the Azure Striker had struck down his mentor. QUILL had collapsed inward on itself. Yet, I still could

However, we had quickly come to an incredible realization. The previous time we were killed, our Glaives were transported back to HQ. But this time, they were destroyed, perhaps due to the intensity of our battles with the Azure Striker. As such, when we got resurrected again, we had full access to our Septimas.

I knew there was no longer any hope of being able to finish Project Muse. And now that I had failed, I would lose much of my influence within the company, becoming a mere pawn in their games, more so than I already was. So, using some of my contacts within the company, I managed to get us all out undetected.

My new plan is to gain political power internationally, so that I can change the world personally, ideally overthrowing Sumeragi itself. We decided to establish ourselves in France. The nation was in turmoil due to a controversial incident where an Adept’s home was burned down and his family was killed by an individual madman, which had resulted in instability. The government was desperate, desperate enough to take the offer of help from a young foreigner with an impressive resume promising solutions.

Six months after our escape, I heard from my contacts that the national defense boundary had been compromised, and that Japan was under attack by terrorists we had fought before. Eden. However, they ended up being stopped by the combined efforts of Gunvolt and Copen. Copen challenging them is obvious, given his desire to kill all Adepts. Gunvolt, I didn’t expect as much. Joule was already dead, so I don’t know what would spur him into action with QUILL gone from Japan. Perhaps he’s more complex than I first believed.

One year later, it seems Japan has been completely sealed off to the rest of the world. No communication with the nation, be it through phone or internet, is possible. I’ve even lost access to my contacts. They also made the barrier opaque, and thus impossible to see through. I’m aware of the emergency lockdown process, there’s no risk of the people starving and an artificial sky is put in place to ensure some semblance of normalcy, but with Eden defeated I don’t understand what threat could necessitate such a response.

It has now been four years since we left the country, three since the barrier’s emergency lockdown began. Me and the rest of my men have created our own organization thanks to favors earned from the French Government, the Matthew Project, likely the most powerful organization in Europe, though nowhere near as powerful as Sumeragi prior to the emergency lockdown. We’re also likely not as powerful as ATEMS, who managed to break through the national defense barrier at one point shortly before a worldwide outbreak of a phenomena known as Dragon Radiation, which is causing Adepts to go berserk worldwide.

Our current objective is to learn how ATEMS accomplished this and, hopefully, learn to replicate it, as Sumeragi is still refusing contact with anyone else. In a show of good faith, I have elected to hunt down a rogue serial killer who fled to Europe after being found out in Egypt. It is believed this killer either possesses incredible hacking ability or is allied with someone who has such, meaning further digital communication is not safe.

 For the sake of safety, I’m sending a small team to meet up with one of ATEMS’ agents in person to gain any information we can. If all goes well, we should be capable of forming a plan of attack that minimizes risk and will get us in ATEMS’ good standing. Apparently, this killer originated in Japan, so I suppose it’s fitting that I’ll be the one to finish what my country could not.

[cosmosrebellion]

Another idea for the Symphogear Gunvolt crossover, this time, who I thought would make for a good main villain. A lot of GV's villain would make for great threats for Hibiki and the girls to face, but the winner to me has to be Shiden The Mighty (Nova in the English dub). Translating him and the setting he brings with Sumeragi and their Seven Swordsmen into Symphogear's world could lead to a lot of interesting character work.

And since the S.O.N.G girls tend to face giant world-ending machines as the final challenge every season, I have to point out that Shiden's Armed Phenomenon is a colossal armor coupled with two monsters that is described as having god-like power.

But the real reason I thought of Shiden - besides him being my fave GV final boss - is that his full name is Shiden Tsukuyomi, you know... like Shirabe Tsukuyomi. And yeah, that is something I think would be very fun to explore.

In my head it be all about how despite the two of them being related, they would see no value in that bond, because Shirabe already has a real family in Maria, Hibiki, Tsubasa and Chris, and she has Kirika's love, and Shiden is focused on securing Sumeragi's hold on power.

But they also would have parallels with how both were seen as "failures" by the people who ruined them an how they reacted to that.

How needing Linker to be fully in synch with her gear doesn't fully get to Shirabe because she has the love and assurance of her friends to remind her that she'll always be more than the weapon the F.I.S wanted her to be.

And how after Sumeragi failed to replicate the Azure Striker electrical powers through experimenting on Shiden, he seeks to prove his own value by becoming their most powerful tool, justifying his existence through the strength he can give to Sumeragi.

I also just really like the idea of a main villain who's main connection to the Symphogear team is with one of the F.I.S trio. Feels like a good shake up.

Also, another neat little parallel, Shiden is also admired by a green-colored, ligh-to-his-shadow-theme blade user named Jota. Though to make it tragic yaoi, Jota amires Shiden for the power he holds and his dedication to their nation.

I know making this connection seems a bit silly, but I had a ton of fun thinking of it. I really think I'll keep thinking about this crossover for a long time.

[strapstreams]

Archive Update!

Sumeragi has been busy since the Azure Striker took down their top Adept, Nova. But even Sumeragi has to contend with the forces of Eden, a group bent on making a world where Adepts can prosper, and where non-Adepts cannot. To that end, Azure Striker and Adept Hunter share a goal: Bring down Eden.

Join Gunvolt and Copen today as they unintentionally work together against Eden's first strike.

A Flash of Azure is now live on the archive channel!

[mohrezap]

NOVA DUEL – AZURE STRIKER GUNVOLT 3

[zxshadowxz9]

OK, BUT THE LIGHTING FROM LUMEN’S WING GIVING NOVA (who failed to become the Azure Striker) GUNVOLTS COLOUR SCHEME ON HIS COAT—

I’ve ascended to a higher plane of existence…!

[mechaseraph]

Tsukuyomi Nova from Azure Striker Gunvolt Not sure if I ever drew him before...think I doodled some Copens when I was playing ASG2 though

[pocketlink]

Long time coming. So glad I can finally put this to rest. Tracks 1-5 are up now, 6-10 will be added soon. Thank you!

[linesonwhite]

I don’t normally post sketches as my daily drawings, but I really liked how this one turned out when I got waaaay too involved in adding colors to it.

...I was really, really absorbed into a Kingdom Hearts and Gunvolt crossover idea.

And I posted this on twitter too, of course. :T

[cooplagoop]

[shinigami-striker]

Gunvolt OVA Trailer (Dub) | Friday, 03.31.2023

Here's the English dub trailer for Azure Striker Gunvolt: The Anime (an anime OVA based on the first game in the series) on the Nintendo 3DS eShop (inactive). The English voice cast is listed down below.

English Voice Cast:

Josh Keller - Gunvolt

Diana Garnet - Joule/Lumen

Maxwell Powers - Asimov

Hannah Grace - Moniqa

Stephen Wiley - Zeno

Chris Nelson - Nova

Peter Von Gomm - Copen

Vinay Murthy - Merak

Cyrus Sethna - Romeo

[incorrectgunvoltquotes]

Nova: I think my favorite report this week was about the server needed to be rebooted whenever it froze completely. Merak’s solution? Get an old pc with a CD drive, and every time it loses connection to the server it ejects the CD tray, which has a poking stick attached, which hits the reset button.

Nova: The line between genius and lazy was definitely blurred there.

Source: Reddit

[hexapyle]

( toots party horn obnoxiously )