Ascalon

## Ascalon

### Relations

Ridill Arondite (Friend)
Dr. Verona (Boss/Creator)
Arg0s (Pupil)

### Affiliation

FLOW
 OPIA

## Physical description

### Eye color

Purple with white symbols

Ascalon is an NPC in Reflection. She is played by Jay. She is a uniquely powerful ESPer with the ability to dual wield Reflections, a skill which has kept her at the number one power ranking in FLOW since the organization's founding. She is famously reserved and difficult to talk to, especially when interacting with the mass media.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Ascalon is a tall, young-looking woman with long blue hair and pale skin. She has purple eyes with white, star-like symbols around the pupils. In her FLOW uniform, she wears a blue dress with detached grey sleeves, with a miniskirt in front and longer tunic in the back. She also wears dark leggings. She wears a ridged headpiece that can produce holographic wing-like projections with unknown properties. Her dress has a similar symbol on the back that seems to produce a larger version of the projection, as well.

In casual dress, she often wears short pants and a large white hoodie that can zip up around the face and across her arms. The hoodie has thick blue lines around the zippers and patterns reminiscent of orbits on either side of the head that are the same color.

### Personality

Ascalon is a famously reserved and spiny person. Compared to other FLOW agents from both Waves, she is well-known for being rude on camera and hard to relate to or connect to as the hero figure that GEIST often pushes FLOW agents to be. Even among people who she is familiar with, she is often shy and avoids most attempts at conversation, speaking primarily in short, matter-of-fact sentences. Despite this, if one can overcome the herculean effort of becoming Ascalon's friend, they will find that she is incredibly passionate about her interests, including fighting and training her own ESP.

## History

### Early Life

Ascalon was made by Dr. Verona using schematics recovered from an unknown location in the Coda. To hide the truth of her origins, Verona, the Director, and Ascalon all maintained a narrative that she was "discovered" in Beleth, a ruse which managed to remain upheld due to Ascalon's general lack of interest in revealing things about herself to other people. Upon manifesting her Duality ESP, she bound to two Reflections and joined FLOW as a member of Wave One, quickly becoming one of its most accomplished agents.

### FLOW Wave Two

Following the coffin incident that occured on the first active day of FLOW's second Wave, Ascalon journeyed to the Undercity to retrieve a large amount of missing Reflections, delivering them to OPIA the following night. She attended the Darkside bar alongside the rest of FLOW, where she had a conversation with Arg0s at the urging of Verona and Ridill. They got along surprisingly well.

After Arg0s unlocked his own ESP, "Fractal Duality", after communing with his Reflection, Ascalon rushed into OPIA's VR lab, both excited to learn that someone had the same ability as her, and jealous at the additional powers Arg0s was able to manifest. During the mission to save Colt from the Demonic Courts of Logic and Compulsion, Ascalon and Aura attempted to regroup with Wave Two but found themselves unable to open any of the entrances to the GEIST warehouse where Colt was being kept. Ascalon abandoned Aura and simply flew over the wall, using her Reflections to scare off the powerful Demons bearing down on her teammates. She was then tasked with cleaning up the remains of the crisis as the only FLOW member who had come out of the mission mostly unharmed.

### The Court of Death

While watching over the Coda with Twice, Ascalon had food delivered to her by Ace Galatine. She spoke with him while looking over the edge of the Coda about Ace's motivation and plans for himself after finding his sister. She told Ace that if he left OPIA once all was said and done, she'd eventually drag him back. Some time later, Ascalon met with Arg0s at the OPIA gardens. She discussed Arg0s's ESP and how it differed from her own, and offered to train Arg0s in emulating how she used Duality. Arg0s accepted, and with Ascalon's tutelage, caught on surprisingly quickly. After a sparring match empowered by ESP, the two separated.

After the disappearance of Basilisk Id into the Coda, Ascalon guarded Twice and the other engineers working on repairing the elevator between the first layer of the Coda and and the surface. After OPIA came under fire by GEIST, she returned to the hospital with Lyst Solais to assist Cast and Serve in defending it. However, due to an unknown quirk in her engineering as an artificial being that she did not share with OPIA's AI, the GEIST AI was able to easily disable Ascalon's systems using his Reflection, Signal. Ascalon spent the rest of the battle unconscious.

### Epilogue

Following the conclusion of the battle with the Court of Death, Ascalon returned to guarding over the Coda from Station One alongside Twice. She spoke to Twice about how she felt embarassed at being so easily dispatched by the GEIST AI and having private information about her revealed so forcefully. She expressed her desire to make it up to the rest of OPIA and FLOW by not failing so easily the next time. Some time later, she saw Ace off from FLOW.

### Act Two

Ascalon joined Arg0s as a supervisor for the Gate of Gravity. After a brief conversation with Basil, Mic, and Treble, she spent the rest of orientation asleep. During a Demonic invasion the same night, Ascalon used her bow Reflection to fight against a massive Demon. Several days later, Ascalon participated in OPIA picture day, where she bemoaned her photo op taking thrice as long as everyone else's. The following day, she met with the Gate of Gravity to discuss who was capable enough to go on the upcoming global offensive against the Demons.

## Abilities

### Reflections

Due to her unique ESP, Ascalon is able to wield two Reflections - a greatsword and a greatbow. The specifics of their abilities are unknown.

### ESP

Ascalon is an ESPer. Her ESP is "Duality", which she uses to metaphysically separate her body into two isolated portions with different properties. This allows her to bind to two Reflections simultaneously without dying, although she can still only use one at a time.

## Gallery

Concept art of Ascalon, art and design by Neko265Ascalon's Sloog Plush
## Trivia

* Ascalon's favorite animal is the sea slug
* "Ascalon" is an anglicization of the city of Ashkelon/Ashqelon in Palestine, which the legendary lance/sword used by Saint George to slay a dragon is also named after

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.patreon.com/posts/reflection-67093789
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Neon Sparks
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chasing Ghosts
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 For Tomorrow
5. ↑ Sum of Experiences
6. ↑ Colt Classic
7. ↑ Night Ride
8. ↑ Tumbling Down
9. ↑ For Today
10. ↑ Crossing Threads
11. ↑ Dying Flame
12. ↑ Take Your Time
13. ↑ Through The Gate