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PLAYER INFO
Name: BB
Pronouns: they/she/it
Contact: bbcakes @ plurk
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CHARACTER INFO

Name: Stelle
Canon: Honkai: Star Rail
Canon Point: Post-Penacony + Sweet Suite CRAU
Age: In terms of actual age? Somewhere in the six months to a year range. Physically and mentally, she's probably very early twenties.
Species: Originally an artificial human created to house a great and powerful evil. Now she's a canterwit, a horse-deer-fairy with strong ties to happiness and flowers.

History: Right. So there are these things called Stellarons, which are seeds of the god of Destruction that lead to destruction and overthrown civilization. You know, all around bad stuff. And Stelle is an artificial construct blessed by one of the gods, held by a group of international war criminals, and designed to hold a Stellaron inside her for Mysterious But Probably Good Reasons. As soon as she wakes up with a space nuke inside her, she fights off the god of Destruction's emissary beast, hops on a starfaring train, and starts visiting planets to thwart the evil Stellaron's influence on them.

From there: she visits an ice world and ends stratified classism within a week, then she visits Spaceship China and finds out that immortality sucks and fights one of Destruction's chosen emanators and leaves within a week, and then she goes to ~~Americaustralia~~ Penacony, finds out about the dark side of unfettered hedonistic capitalism in an exploitative dreamscape, fights unfairly imposed order in the name of preserving the freedom of sentient beings to choose their own path, and then leaves within a week again. Also she meets a lot of cool people who are definitely not designed to maximize people spending money to roll for them in a predatory gacha system. Nice.

Also, she has an extensive dream where she's in a violent/traumatic smut game for a few IC weeks (OOCly about six months), and gets changed into a horse-deer-fairy looking thing called a canterwit. That part's pretty important.

Personality:
✽ What is your character's main motivation? What drives them and keeps them going?

She's the Trailblazer - her main motivation is to blaze a trail forward. The first things both Trailblazers are told upon "being born" is to keep heading forward, to remember the feelings and people they find, and to reach the end of their story. They follow that path from the very beginning, without deviation, and every person they meet along the way gives them a reason to keep fighting.

✽ What is their biggest regret? Why?

While she was in her previous DWRP game, she was drugged and subjected to a trauma game - a "body scavenger hunt," in which contestants were let loose in an expansive basement and told to retrieve a specific number of body parts from the other contestants. While Stelle succeeded in filling out her whole list and went unpunished, the process included dismembering one of her dearest friends - something she still regrets intensely.

✽ What is their worst fear? Their greatest comfort?

The idea of losing control and hurting the people dearest to her was bad enough, but the knowledge that she was a vessel for a destructive, corrupting force led to the much more pressing fear of her innately wanting that sort of thing.

That said, it was those same friends she'd hurt that helped her move forward. Talking openly and honestly to those friends reassured her that no regrets had to be permanent, and working alongside them reminded her that regardless of what awful things she encountered, the friends she'd made could be what made her strong.

✽ Top three strengths?

A desire to help, a genuine devotion and care for her friends, and a willingness to stand up and move forward even when nobody else feels capable.

✽ Top three weaknesses?

She's inexperienced as hell, impulsive to an absolutely insane degree, and has been so warped and desensitized by the traumagame she was in that she doesn't quite react like a normal human should anymore.

✽ What was their last lie?

In her TDM thread with Firefly, she told her that the only reason she became a canterwit was so that Hazel wouldn't be lonely. While that was a part of the reason, her primary reason was to prove to herself that she was still capable of doing good, kind things, and that she wasn't just a container for evil forces.

She did also admit she got something out of it afterwards. Lying to friends feels bad. :((

Inventory: A ceremonial lance and a strange techy baseball bat, both of which she can summon. Past that, she'd just have the clothes on her back, her phone, and a few condoms.

Abilities: Oh god I'm going to try and just rush through these. Okay so:

Canterwit Stuff:
- Little star flowers nourished by positive emotions grow from her antlers down into her hair. These flowers can even take root on the ground she walks on if people are happy enough.
- She can shapeshift between three forms: a fully human form (which exhausts her quickly), a hybrid fairy-human form, and a full-on horse fairy form, which would technically be the closest thing she has to a "real form."
- She can fly in horse form. In theory. She's never tried it, given that after her changes she weighs several times more than the other fairy did.
- In theory, she can channel the positive emotions of others into healing/nature magics. In practice, she never learned how to do this from Hazel, and is hardly an experienced spellcaster to begin with, so she probably just. Won't learn how.
Trailblazer Powers
- As part of the Trailblazer's path, she's more far more resilient to heat, cold, and exhaustion than your average human.
Destruction Powers
- She's got a seed of destruction planted inside her, an immensely powerful force of evil that tempts others and can bring civilizations to ruin. Mostly this won't pop up unless someone actively tries to use her as a bomb payload, in which case that's more up to the mods for their nefarious purposes.
- She's also got a cool glowy bat that hurts when she hits people with it, and hits people REAL good.
Preservation Powers
- While holding the ceremonial lance, she can shrug off weaker attacks, take blows for others, and channel a roaring flame through the lance's tip.
Harmony Powers

Sample: Her TDM toplevel has a thread of appropriate length with Verso!