Chel Inaba

* Introduction
* History

One of the head captains of Kingsway.

> " It's my way or the Kingsway!"
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> - Chel Inaba, about to kick someone's ass.
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Chel Iwai Inaba is one of the lead protagonists of the Star Fetchers spin-off series "Trifecta".
A loose cannon that has a short temper. Chel Inaba is an orphan that roamed the alleys of the Grey Zone since as long as she could remember. Stealing and causing damage of various degrees to property with her gang, Kingsway. Climbing the ranks from a low grunt to one of the respected captains of the Kingsway.

## Appearance

### Prequel

Having an affinity to punk teen styles, Chel's earlier outfits consist of a black modified varsity jacket with white highlights, a white turtleneck, red and black checkered skirt, black spats, and white converse shoes. She is also seen constantly wearing a yellow beanie with the Kingsway logo on it.

She also sometimes seen without her jacket in either a casual setting or it was lost during a fight.

### Onward

     Later in the story, Chel's clothing changes to more modern street wear. The outfit consists of a red and black checkered kimono cardigan, white high-neck sleeveless top, red formal ankle-cut pants, black and white tech-wear style shoes. She still wears the signature yellow beanie with the Kingsway logo.
She is also seen without her kimono jacket and sometimes wearing a long sleeve turtle neck in casual settings.

Often times Chel will be wearing different outfits but most of the time it will have a red and black checkered pattern on it. There also times where she won't be wearing a beanie but she prefers to keep it on to hide her bed-hair.

## Personality

During her childhood, Chel was a rambunctious and mischievous child. Often causing trouble for her temporary caretakers because of her distrust in people. Chel lacked manners and was short-tempered which leaders her into fights with other orphans or gangs. Chel hid her sorrowful loneliness through causing trouble and starting fights as it helped her forget. Being lonely most of her childhood made her independent and self-sufficient, disregarding help and never asking for it.

As Chel grows older and is introduced to the Kingsway gang by its leader "Captain Flicker", she begins to open up and trust its member. Through the experiences Chel goes through while being a member of Kingsway she grows closer its members and considers them family, gaining a sense of trust and camaraderie that she lacked as a child. Often she will go out of her way to help others because of the influence other seniors members had on her and the lessons that were taught to her. The only thing that most members could not help her with was her short-temper. Chel's short-temper is a well-known trait about her and was nicknamed "Inaba's Inner Fury" often times she will start acting on impulse and become narrow minded. Sweet Ji, a fellow captain of the gang, is one of the few people that can calm Chel down. Despite her temper, Chel is often hot-headed and quoted to be a "loud mouth" as an act of toughness an a way to mess with people.

Chel find humility and humanity through sorrow, pain, and happiness. Often the most in touch with her emotions. Chel has gone through multiple trials and tribulations that has made her humble and thankful for the things she has. She is afraid of losing those she loves but she also find strength in that fear.

## Weapons

### Bluespace Void Blade

One day she stumbled on a mysterious vial that was discarded in a sewer entrance in the lower zones that contained a small mysterious crystal. This crystal was known as the “Bluespace Crystal'', and it had the abnormal ability to power a whole city for months. Taking this crystal back to Kingsway gang hideout, Chel consulted the gang’s chief craftsman about the crystal. Deducing that the crystal had an immense amount of energy being outputted the craftsman was afraid if it fell into the wrong hands, things would get nasty. The craftsman put the crystal into a battery enclosure that doubled as another body for the conductor blade. Containing the crystal, the craftsman entrusted the weapon to Chel Inaba. Now the wielder of the “Bluespace Void Blade'', Chel goes through many trials and tribulations in order to control her emotions and the blade that resonated with it.Chel posing with her Void Blade, Greatsword Form.Void Blade, Greatsword FormVoid Blade, Greatsword Form initiating the "Eight Gates".Void Blade, Katana Form after unsheathing from the Greatsword form.
The Bluespace Void Blade needs to be in a specially built container at all times in order for it's energy to be contained and charging. Once the conductor blade is taken out of the container it has a temporary amount of time to output immense void energy attacks before it runs out and is needed to be sheathed in order to be used effectively again. The container is able to hover and fly back to the blade with the use of anti-gravity technology that's powered by the crystal. Container can also be launched from the hilt at rapid speed in order to deploy the katana form instantly.

#### Greatsword Form

The container doubles as a another blade body and weighs at least 180 lbs. (81 kg.). It holds an appearance of a giant greatsword that has segmented parts of the blade that doubles it's cutting power. Chel is able to swing the sword with some effort and describes it as a "great workout". When Chel becomes furious, known as "Inaba's Inner Fury", she is able to swing the sword with one hand with minimal effort.

Each segment of the blade opens up, one by one, as a mechanism to release the blade inside it's enclosure. This sequence is called the "Eight Gates".

#### Katana Form

Once Chel pulls the blade from the greatsword body, she reveals a lighter, thinner sword that glows with a vibrant blue hue. This blade is also as long as the Greatsword Form. It is able to swing at remarkable speeds and slice through virtually anything, given if it's energized. This blade is also capable of creating voids and slicing through reality, dubbing it respectively the "Void Blade". It is extremely volatile, however, since it reflects it's power output based on the user. The blade becomes extremely unstable at times when Chel has a temper issue, often times the blade would not be as precise and would cause collateral damage.

## Abilities and Powers

Abilities described are susceptible to being changed in the future. Abilities described will not go into detail how these abilities are achieved and when they are achieved for the sake of avoiding spoilers.

### Bluespace (ブルースペース *Burūsupēsu*)

In the Bluespace Void Blade: Katana Form, it can generate massive amounts of energy capable of tearing through reality and creating black holes. This is honed and mastered by Chel through her experiences with the blade.
#### Attacks

* **Void Sweep** **(ボイドスイープ** *Boidosuīpu***)**: Chel creates a giant slice in front of her, tearing through reality and subsequently creating a vacuum. This slice rapidly forms into a blackhole that absorbs anything around it rapidly before disappearing. This completely depletes the blade’s energy and renders it out of commission for a few days.
* **Singularity Point (特異点** *Tokui-ten***)**: Chel thrusts her blade forward piercing reality and making a small black hole that rapidly flies forward and absorbs matter around it before disappearing.
* **Displacement** **(変位** *Hen'i***)**: Chel can slice through reality, creating an empty space that is rapidly filled in. This can help Chel rapidly move around as she is sucked towards the slice or can be used to close the gap between enemies.

### Inaba's Inner Fury (稲葉の内なる怒り *Inaba no uchinaru ikari*)

    Chel is short-tempered and hot-headed and has a low tolerance for bullshit. When Chel becomes furious she enters a state of pure anger that makes her incredibly narrow-minded and blind to her surroundings. At the same time, her body is unconsciously aware of her surroundings often times protecting herself without being fully aware. Chel has enhanced strength and agility in this state, others who have observed her in this state describe her as a "beast".

### Inaba's Inner Sorrow (稲葉の内なる悲しみ *Inaba no uchinaru kanashimi*)

After losing all hope and succumbing to her emotions completely, Chel enters a state of pure sorrow and despair. In this state Chel is completely aware of what she is doing and her strength, speed, and reflexes are multiplied tenfold. This has only occurred once in her lifetime and cannot be achieved again as Chel described the feeling of being in the state as "extremely painful beyond human comprehension".

### Inaba's Inner Joy (稲葉の内なる喜び *Inaba no uchinaru yorokobi*)

Chel moves forward with the hope for a better future and the having moved on from her grief. She has entered a state of ascension. Becoming one with cosmic forces of Bluespace. Not a lot can be said about this state, but it is known that Chel has the ability to see energy and forces around her.

### Enhanced Reflexes and Agility

Chel’s time in the streets when she was young has made her an expert and navigating around rooftops and tunnels, rapidly escaping authorities. On top of training with her seniors in Kingsway. This culminates to Chel being extremely adaptive and having better reflexes and agility compared to most people.

## Trivia

* Part of Chel's appearance was inspired from Masao Inaba from the game "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona". Her last name was also taken after from Masao.
* The idea of the Void Blade was inspired from a trick weapon in the game "Bloodborne" called "Ludwig's Holy Blade", which it's main feature was switching from a greatsword to a broadsword that was inside the greatsword.
* Chel's spaceman earring is inspired from the astronauts in the game "Among Us".

## Early Life

As an orphan most of her childhood, Chel caused trouble and ran away from various orphanages that took her in. Chel was alone most of her childhood often times relying on her skills and abilities alone to find food and shelter for her survival. With the multiple times Chel has caused trouble in the Gray Zone the cops began to know her name and formed a love-hate relationship for her. Chel has been arrested on multiple occasions and released early because of constant cooperation with authorities.

## Kingsway Initiation

One day when Chel was arrested and thrown into jail, she was bailed out by a third-party. A mysterious man had entered the police station and instantly the authorities knew him and greeted him with high honors. Chel was hesitant and curious on who it is, the man introduces himself as "Flicker". Flicker tells Chel that he has been closely watching her ever since her name was known to the authorities and gangs in the Gray Zone. Most to Chel's surprise, she did not know that she was well-known. Flicker proceeds to flick a coin to her and tells her that once she's out, "Find a warehouse complex marked with the same symbol on the coin". The coin has the same symbol as the logo on Chel's Hat, it was the Kingsway logo.

The day after, Chel proceeds towards the Warehouse that was marked with the Kingsway logo. Having the coin in hand and examining it closely, the doors open as if someone knew Chel was there. A dark open warehouse area is revealed with the middle area dimly lit revealing a vending machine. Chel approaches the vending machine cautiously and examines it. The only thing in the vending machine was a Walkman in it. The coin slot on the vending machine has writing scribble on it reading "INSERT HERE, DUMBASS". Chel frowns at the writing and inserts the coin she received from Flicker into the machine and punches in the number to dispense the Walkman. The Walkman falls with a "thunk" sound and Chel reaches into the vending machine to retrieve it. She then puts on the Walkman's headphones and presses the play button on the device. The tape plays out a voice of a man, the voice was instantly recognized as Flicker's voice. Flicker welcomes Chel and explains to her that she is in the heart of the "Kingsway" gang territory. The voice on the tape explains that he formerly invites Chel into the gang and that her abilities would help and be improved for the gang's cause. Chel makes a remark that the invitation would have been fine in-person and that she doesn't trust Flicker nor does she anyone else. The voice on the tape comments on this remark as if it knew what Chel was thinking. Flicker's voice explains that the invitation is this way as a "test of her abilities" and proceeds to tell her that the test had already started.

The vending machine starts ticking and rumbling, Chel jumps back and readies herself as the machine starts revealing weapons that start targeting her. Chel runs and slides past the machine while grabbing the power plug and yanks the plug from the socket. Chel is then electrocuted and knocked out from unplugging the machine. Awakening from her unconciousness, Chel is strapped to a seat