✨ you only get one chance...

[liltuna]

THE FIRST IMPRESSION MEME   You only get once chance to put your best foot forward. Screw that up, and you'll be forever seared in someone's mind as the person who had spinach in their teeth, or worse! ✨HOW TO PLAY 1. Drop a top-level! 2. If you have previous CR with someone, you'll have to let them know what your first-impression of them was. If this is your first time meeting, you'll be compelled to share what kind of vibe they give off. It's okay to be honest! Are they gross? Do they seem approachable? Do you find them incredibly hot?  3. Find out if your first impression was correct! Maybe that strange loner actually has a heart of gold? You'll never know unless you talk to them!

Comments

[flamescion]

[Then perhaps consider her Knight Moonbeam battlesuit.]

Oh come on, Valkyries are a cool enough legend that of course a bunch of girl-dominated groups are gonna take their names! In Schicksal the Valkyries are a collection of women who have been altered with Honkai DNA to save the world. I mean, the organization Shicksal is pretty shitty, but the Valkyries themselves are just trying to help humanity.

[cryptant]

[ Ah. Now that's the iconic Valkyrie look he remembers from the Norse Lostbelt Cryptercord chat with Ophelia. ]

So it's inspired. [ He hums. He is unfamiliar with "honkai". Nonetheless, he nods, thinking it must be similar to Lord Animusphere's Designed Children project which was a failure before poor Mash. It certainly revealed Marisbury's lengths to protect the future, even with methods Kirschtaria thinks a little too much. ] Forgive me. It wasn't too unrealistic for you to be a true Valkyrie from Norse mythology, considering this place.

[flamescion]

It's fine! Really. I actually didn't have to have my DNA altered since I was kind of born this way.

[Great cosmic power packed into one girl when she was not yet emotionally stable? Yep, great for the planet. Real great.]

[cryptant]

[ That confirms the design baby comparison. But Kiana's a great deal more expressive than Mash Kyrielight, or at least how she used to be. It gladdens him the girl shows more emotional range now. ]

I assumed that. Truthfully, one of my old teammates had special circumstances involving her conception.

[flamescion]

[Kiana became more like Mash the more Herrscher Cores she absorbed. Losing her range of emotion, her ability to feel pain, and her ability to taste — becoming less of a person and more of a vessel.

It wasn't until Mei took away the Gem of Conquest become the Herrscher of Thunder.]

Is that right? How is she now?

[cryptant]

Yes. Something of the like. [ Kirschtaria won't disclose Mash's or his teacher's secrets. Those are theirs to share rather than his. ] She was doing wonderfully the last time I saw her. [ Kirschtaria confirms with a thin smile. As good as the circumstances permit that poor girl to be after losing the only home she knew. ] She has a reliable senior with her, so I know she's in good hands.

[flamescion]

I'm glad to hear that. Being alone can be rough.

[She knows, after all. Kiana was alone from ages 12 to 16. And then after the fourth eruption despite her friends trying to contact her... Which doesn't even count the time she felt alone when she lived with her dad but he barely acknowledged her.]

[cryptant]

We can both agree that it is more enjoyable to do everything with friends.

[ He has experienced this in those Singularity runs. ]