Fu Hua/Herrscher of Sentience

== Appearance ==
When first waking up in Fu Hua's body, appeared physically identical to her aside from newly white hair with grey ends and crimson eyes. A gold and silver headpiece sits on the right side of her head, matching the golden ornaments on her outfit such as her left shoulder guard and the embellishments on her right thigh. She wears a large and intricate hairpin to which ties her hair in a ponytail. Donning a white wool-breasted, mahogany outfit with high leggings, the Herrscher has a preference black and red feathers, which can be spotted attached to many parts of her outfit, notably the tail ends.
In Herrscher form, she continues to adopt Fu Hua's appearance, allowing her hair to fall freely and return to its usual ashy gray. Unlike Fu Hua, there is a streak of white hair near her right temple, and a braided wreath at the back of her head that is tied into a tail at the center with a black ribbon. Her headpiece turns into a carved golden ornament with a rosy gemstone hanging in the middle of her forehead. A gold talisman hangs from a ribbon choker around her neck. Her new outfit is mostly black with silver designs and several new golden accessories, such as her belt and arm brace. She wears a black sleeve on her right arm with a silver glove, contrasting her sleeveless left arm. A red circlet is clasped with a gold lock under her shoulder, and she wears a fingerless black glove. Her attire also has black tails and silver, feather-like secondary tails. For footwear, the Herrscher of Sentience wears gold heels and high black socks.
==Personality==
Unlike Fu Hua, the Herrscher of Sentience is a much more lively and free-spirited character. Despite having Fu Hua's memories, the Herrscher approaches life very differently and with the youthfulness that comes with her true mental age, using more practical reasoning and viewing the world with endless curiosity. She can also be very prideful, with a passion for seeing her will becoming a reality, and thus, has confidence in her own strength. However, after having her identity shaken, the Herrscher of Sentience's pride made her rather sulking and stubborn, though at the same time, weary, as she struggles internally to console her existence with what she "knew" was right and wrong from Fu Hua's memories.
==Story==
Born as a Honkai entity in Fu Hua's unoccupied body when Otto was healing it, the Herrscher of Sentience was overwhelmed by the thousands of years of memories still lingering in Fu Hua's brain. Because of this, the newborn had been convinced that she was Fu Hua, a survivor from the Previous Era on a mission to exterminate the Honkai. One of the first emotions she felt when she woke up was rage. This is because one of the more recent memories displayed Otto, who at the time was talking to her through the life pod, shooting "her" with a mimicry of Judgement of Shamash when "she" had called him out during the Battle of Schicksal several months prior, which left her in this current state.
Coaxed by what little voice of Will that could reach her, the Herrscher of Sentience broke out of the life pod and killed Otto's standing body. Because she had Fu Hua's knowledge, she also knew that Otto had body doubles lying around, so she manifested her outfit before going to trash the Schicksal HQ, with the goal of burning down the facilities that held Otto's Solium bodies. However, the man just appears to her after her rampage, advising against such a feat since he knew better than to store his bodies all in one facility. Realizing the man wouldn't die so easily, the Herrscher relents and Otto tips her off with the location of a particular feather of Fenghuang Down, which, unbeknownst to her, held the consciousness of the real Fu Hua.
Acting on Otto's tip, the Herrscher of Sentience arrives at the World Serpent base in Africa, where she confronts World Serpent agent Jackal, demanding to speak to Kevin Kaslana, who had the feather. Jackal refuses to let this chaotic stranger to be even near her Sire and opts to stall and eliminate the new threat. This leads to Jackal nearly dying herself when the Herrscher of Sentience frees herself from the other's traps, just as the commotion caught up to Kevin. Kevin then takes Herrscher of Sentience out of the base to talk. While she bore resemblance to Fu Hua, he wasn't fully convinced that she was his old compatriot. After a brief spar, Kevin gives in and hands the feather over to his opponent, before offering her a spot at his organization. The Herrscher of Sentience, however turns him down.
Before leaving, she warns him of Otto's deception, as he was the one who had pointed her to Kevin, despite the tenuous alliance between World Serpent and Schicksal at the time, likely hoping she'd stir trouble with him. She then takes off with the feather and unlocks it far away, quickly noticing the severely weakened consciousness of Fu Hua sealed within. The Herrscher of Sentience channeled some of her Honkai energy, which restored the other's form enough so that Fu Hua could recognize the person before her. The Herrscher of Sentience introduced herself to her counterpart as Fu Hua, much to Fu Hua's bewilderment, but as their conversation went on, Fu Hua realized that she was in fact a Honkai-born Herrscher. Despite this realization, Fu Hua didn't comment on the matter because she recognized the other's fragile mental state.
It wasn't until after the two traveled all over Mount Taixuan, collecting other feathers to help the Herrscher of Sentience restore "her" memories, that the Herrscher began to doubt herself and Fu Hua's existence. Though she didn't want to absorb Fu Hua's feather after having her as a companion, she also felt that Fu Hua was challenging her identity by claiming to be the real Fu Hua. After being prompted by the Will, the Herrscher of Sentience approaches Fu Hua and explains her inner dilemma. Fu Hua only warns her that she cannot absorb her, and after an attempt, the Herrscher realizes the other is right, leaving her even more confused. To settle their debate on who was the "real Fu Hua" however, the Herrscher of Sentience spots the Hyperion ship that has just arrived in the mountains. She gleefully remarks that they now have two judges to help finally settle her identity crisis—Fu Hua's close companions, Kiana Kaslana and Bronya Zaychik.
===Chapter 25===
In order to cut the links between the Domination puppets and their hosts, Fu Hua asked for the aid of the Herrscher of Sentience. After their last parting, the two had maintained a mental chain link with occasional bouts of information coming from the Herrscher's end but ultimately with the Herrscher shutting Fu Hua off.
After hearing Fu Hua's plea, the Herrscher then replies, irritated that after both the puppets and an agent of World Serpent had tried to contact her, the "old timer" was also asking for her, too. Fu Hua then asks to borrow some strength as she didn't have Fenghuang Down anymore, to which the Herrscher mockingly accuses Hua of turning into one of the puppets, as she knew that Herrscher powers used within the Theater of Domination would be snatched by the Herrscher of Dominance. Fu Hua insists that the powers will remain as long as they "win this fight." The Herrscher then dryly remarks that such a victory would mean nothing to her as Hua's crisis was not her own. In response, Hua tries to implore the aid for Kiana's sake, which the herrscher dismisses by recalling that Kiana chose her class monitor instead of her, thus making it Fu Hua's responsibility. It is then that Fu Hua implores the aid for her own sake, which gets the Herrscher to quiet and the chain to loosen slightly between them. Hua then tells the Herrscher that all Kiana and her wanted for the Herrscher was to become her own person, as the Herrscher has her "own beliefs, opinions and persistence" on who she wanted to be, before inviting the Herrscher to return.
The Herrscher of Sentience is silent for a while, which gets Fu Hua to realize she is running out of time. The Herrscher then remarks that Fu Hua was a better talker than the puppets, but still insists that it was Fu Hua's mess, so the other had to clean it up herself. Unfortunately, Fu Hua had run out of time and before the Herrscher could finish that thought, the old timer had already uttered an apology before pulling on the mental chain and regaining her old strength briefly, which gets the Herrscher to panic. Hua then severed the hosts' links in the puppets, but the sentience powers are taken away, leaving the Herrscher of Sentience "fine" but with the link between them, momentarily broken. 
===Chapter 26===
In the aftermath of the Herrscher of Domination fight, the Herrscher of Sentience cuts off all energy flow in the chains, making her own Herrscher core useless, as she no longer wishes to hear a single apology from Fu Hua, believing them to be a "burden."
===Testing Blade===
Herrscher of Sentience and Book of Fuxi converse within the mind space of the Herrscher regarding their inability to contact Fu Hua who has suddenly disappeared. But not before the Herrscher is done venting out her frustration regarding this event on monsters she has conjured with the help of her Divine Key, now turned into a brick. Book of Fuxi states that the Herrscher's and Fu Hua's mind spaces are connected, so they should have been able to contact Fu Hua… unless a tragedy has befallen her. Herrscher of Sentience finds the concept ridiculous and attempts to console the dejected Book of Fuxi by saying that whatever Fu Hua got herself into was likely out of her own volition.
Out of nowhere, the defeated monsters reappear but freeze soon after, maddening the Herrscher. How could someone manipulate the greatest Herrscher's own mind space! The monsters soon condense into a ball of white mist that greets the Herrscher. Its voice resonates with Fu Hua's memories she possesses, but she's unable to filter them quickly enough to tell who it belongs to. Annoyed even more, she demands the ball to reveal its identity. The ball ignores said request and instead asks for a favor the Herrscher is unable to refuse, as it pertains to Fu Hua, wanting her to stay instead of looking around for her missing companion.
==Trivia==
*Herrscher of Sentience frequently breaks the 4th wall when included in Captainverse events.
**She also is fond of scamming, she can be seen scamming the player and others in multiple events.
*She created the Fenghuang Pinions.
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