Hikari

**Hikari** (ひかり), also known as **Alcyone** (アルシオーネ *Arushiōne*) is the co-protagonist of My Imaginary Sentinel (私の想像上の歩哨 Watashi no sōzō-jō no hoshō). She is a Sephir, the Sentinel of Time and the first of the Pillars of Creation who resided for eons within the Sacred Root without contact to the material planes. She eventually takes form on Earth after a fateful meeting with the protagonist Ren. He officially became Hikari's herald at the beginning of the events of the Sentinel War Arc and the two also developed a romantic relationship.

## Appearance

Hikari is a beautiful young woman with long odd shaped silver/white hair and vivid sea blue eyes. She often wears a track suit while at home with Ren or a light violet dress. Aoki is the first one that throughout the series, introduces her to the mortal notions of "fashion" and "beauty" as well as lady-like expected behaviours causing much confusion at first due to her being unaccustomed to the physical world, but also spiking her interest.

When she first met Ren she appeared to him in visions as a child in order to match his desires as a young kid. As time progressed she metaphorically grew up with him matching his physical age at 19 at the time of their first true encounter.

## Personality

Hikari is easily describable as a shy but very kind young woman. Her presence is often seen as welcoming and warm even though she is often described as absent-minded most likely due to her unacquaintance with the physical feeling associated with the beings of mortal planes. Despite this, she adapts quickly and has a very funny childish side which often shows in presence of Ren or his cousin Aoki.

The fact that she is the eldest pillar of the universe didn't apparently cause her to grow doubtful of her duties unlike her brother Aeon, and she stated to always have much fun living in the mortal planes, although she was not originally meant to take form there. This cheerful side that often shows in the mundane life are in contrast with the slight arrogance that shows when posed before a more serious threat. When in her ascended forms she is also completely lacking any empathy which is often a problem in the early part of the story before she learns to control how to manifest her power.

## Powers and Abilities

**Sovereignty of Time** (時間の主権 *Jikan no shuken*): As an incarnation of the first pillar, Time, Hikari is one and only attractor of Time.

* **Chronokinesis:** Hikari is able to control the flow of time as well as influence events and odds around her. Although the degree in which the universe is affected by her abilities varies depending on the use of her ascended forms she is seen able to easily reverse time even in her base form, a task which is very taxing even for her brother Aeon in his Seed Form.
* **Timeline Manipulation:** As time is arguably the strongest force in the universe she is able to influence light and perception, as well as memories and rewritting realities**.** This includes the ability of generating Singularities several times stronger than the ones created by Axel, as well as bending space in a similar albeit minor way to her brother Rigel.

* **Timeline Phasing** (段階 *Dankai*): With mastery over time, Hikari is also later able to shift things or people into an uncorporeal being by substituting them with an afterimage from the future or past.

* **Timeline Conjuring** (魅惑的な *Miwaku-tekina*): Similarly to her phasing and reality bending abilities, she is seen able to conjure objects of various sizes and forms by pulling them from different timelines. This ability is virtually limitless and well paired with Ren's imagination as everything that he can imagine comes to existence in a parallel timeline from which he can pull it out using his Beacon.

**Attractor of Thought:** As all sentinels Hikari is an attractor for thought-particles which grants her superhuman durability, strength, stamina and immortality. As part of the inner pillars of creation she also presents nigh-invulnerability even to her husk, although being hurt often causes her to lose control of herself due to the unknown concept of pain. Nuclear energy is however effective in causing critical damage as for all other divine fragments.

**Names of God** (神の名前 *Kami no namae*)**:**

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