Hikari (Fatalis)

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## FatalisHikari

### SKILL

**Mobile:** HARD - Fatalis Gauge + sacrifices stamina to overload World Mode**Switch:** HARD - Fatalis Gauge + overload World Mode

## Information

### Added

**Mobile:** 4.0.0 (2022-07-07)**Switch:** 2.0.1 (2023-03-16)

### Unlock

Read Story F-6
**Mobile:** (purchase Final Verdict)**Switch:** (unlock Final Verdict)

### Signature Song

Testify

**Hikari (Fatalis)** is a Partner in Arcaea and a story variant of Hikari. She is unlocked upon completing Testify in Axiom of the End and reading through story F-6, which requires the Final Verdict pack.

## Character

### Name

*Main article: Hikari § Name*

"Fatalis" is a Latin word meaning "fated/destined" or "fatal/deadly".

### Appearance

Along with a single red butterfly near her hand, Hikari now wears two white hairclips roughly resembling her Fracture variant's contraptions and a pink-colored bow clipped at her bangs. Her hands sports a pair of long white gloves. Her hair is now much longer and faintly pink, being knee length and curled in a spiral pattern. Her eyes, previously brown and glinted, are now pink and dulled-out, with an iris pattern resembling a blooming rose. Her default expression changes from a warm smile to an emotionless, blank stare.

Her clothing consists of two-layered garments. The top layer is a white smock dress with an oversized sleeve similar in design to Tairitsu (Tempest), the ends of the sleeves are flared with a gold trim, it is buttoned with two pink colored bows close to her chest, with two more of the same bows on the sides of the dress. Attached to her neck is a white pinned collar with a gold outer rim. To her right is a pink rose with a segment that seems to drift around the right and disintegrate. The lower layer is a double tiered white thigh-length skirt with a similar frilled mock turtleneck as her original design, but with a more dense pattern. She wears a pair of double tiered white thigh-high boots with a round outer trim and a light red pointed inner trim. The lower part of the boots have various small pins attached, including a pink rose with a gold wing that is attached to both sides.

Various large pointed contraptions colored in white with a gold outer rim similar to her Fracture variant, float at her waist level. Though these differ in construction as they now resemble either push daggers or scissor blades.

### Personality

Hikari retains her defining traits of impulsiveness and naïvete, although they now make her more ruthless and pragmatic than she is before, only putting her own continued survival into consideration and nothing else.

## Story

*Main article: Hikari § Story*

Hikari is depicted in her Fatalis form in illustrations from the Final Verdict and Silent Answer Main Stories.

## Gameplay

### Stats by level

**Mobile:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

**Switch:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

**Mobile:**
Hikari (Fatalis) receives bonuses to her STEP and OVER stats based on overall World Mode progress, with a bonus of +1 STEP/OVER for every 30 tiles completed across all World Mode maps\*. This bonus is capped at +100, for a maximum total STEP/OVER of **310/300** (i.e. 6.20x / 6.00x). On reaching this maximum, her STEP/OVER stats will be displayed in red, indicating that the maximum cap has been reached.

The STEP/OVER bonus is given by

STEP
Bonus

=

OVER
Bonus

=
min

{

Total number of World Mode tiles completed
30

,
100

}

,

{\displaystyle \text{STEP}\_\text{Bonus} = \text{OVER}\_\text{Bonus} = \min\left\{\frac{\text{Total number of World Mode tiles completed}}{30}, 100\right\} \,,}

and her total STEP and OVER stats are given by

# STEP

STEP
Base

STEP
Bonus

{\displaystyle \text{STEP}=\text{STEP}\_\text{Base}+\text{STEP}\_\text{Bonus}}

# OVER

OVER
Base

OVER
Bonus

.

{\displaystyle \text{OVER} = \text{OVER}\_\text{Base} + \text{OVER}\_\text{Bonus} \,.}

\* *This excludes infinite maps, scenery maps, Lost Chapter: Beyond maps (which do not use tiles), and all event maps that have not been active since v4.0.256. Event maps that are currently active in the Event Chapter and those that were once active since v4.0.256, but are currently inaccessible are counted. For newly rerun event maps that were last run pre-v4.0.256, all prior tile progress will automatically be added to the current total.***Switch:**
Hikari (Fatalis) receives bonuses to her STEP stat based on overall World Mode progress, with a bonus of +1 STEP for every 30 Tiles completed across all World Mode maps. This bonus is capped at +80, for a maximum total STEP of **460** (i.e. 9.20x). On reaching this maximum, her STEP stat will be displayed in red, indicating that the maximum cap has been reached.

The STEP bonus is given by

STEP
Bonus

=
min

{

Total number of World Mode tiles completed
30

,
100

}

,

{\displaystyle \text{STEP}\_\text{Bonus} = \min\left\{\frac{\text{Total number of World Mode tiles completed}}{30}, 100\right\} \,,}

and her total STEP stat at any level is given by

# STEP

STEP
Base

STEP
Bonus

.

{\displaystyle \text{STEP} = \text{STEP}\_\text{Base} + \text{STEP}\_\text{Bonus} \,.}

### Skill

Hikari (Fatalis) uses the unique **Fatalis Gauge**. This behaves like the default HARD Recollection Gauge, but with a black "fatal" threshold that slowly rises from the bottom of the bar as the song progresses.
Letting the Rate fall below this threshold immediately sets the Rate to 0 and results in a Track Lost.
The fatal threshold rises slightly with every PURE note, up to a maximum of 70% depending on the player's performance.
The rate at which it rises will differ for each chart.

The exact threshold is given by

# Fatal Threshold

(

PURE Notes so far
Total Notes

)

2

⋅
70

.

{\displaystyle \text{Fatal Threshold} = \left( \frac{\text{PURE Notes so far}}{\text{Total Notes}} \right)^2 \cdot 70 \,.}

The threshold will therefore rise faster as the chart progresses.
Note that like the standard HARD Gauge, the Fatalis Gauge will still reduce the Rate loss for LOST notes when Rate is under 40. This reduced Rate loss zone does not climb with the fatal threshold, however, and all LOST notes will therefore incur the full -9 Rate loss after the fatal threshold reaches 40, even if the current Rate is less than 40 above the threshold.

**Mobile:**
Hikari (Fatalis)'s skill has a second effect, where using her in World Mode will consume double the usual stamina cost, and then "overload" World Mode. When overloaded, all World Mode chapters will be inaccessible for one hour. This can be instantly overridden by refilling stamina using Fragments or Memories. After using her skill, the stamina count can go into the negatives, which will take time to refill back to zero. Note however that the usual minimum stamina must be in possession before starting a play, e.g. for a non-legacy, non-Beyond map, playing a song when at 2 stamina will cause the stamina to fall to -2 after completing the song, but songs cannot be played if at 1 stamina.

Her skill will not trigger the Beyond Challenge in World Mode's Lost Chapter: Beyond, meaning all plays will be treated as Track Lost, with penalties to Performance, and no Performance bonuses for maps that have a hidden bonus (e.g. L-6, L-14).**Switch:**
Hikari (Fatalis)'s skill has a second effect, where using her in World Mode will "overload" World Mode. When overloaded, all World Mode chapters will be inaccessible until the player completes a song in Music Play.
### Other effects

Using a sealed Hikari (Fatalis) to play Testify will re-trigger the visual effects that occur when first playing it in Axiom of the End. Using her to play Arcahv when unsealed will also re-trigger its visual effects.
When using her to play Arcahv, the Rate can fall below the fatal threshold and into negative values without triggering a Track Lost.

### Notes

At Level 20 and with maximum stat bonuses, Hikari (Fatalis) has the highest STEP stat out of all partners by a wide margin.
When accounting for her doubled stamina cost in World Mode however, she is slightly outperformed by a maxed out Tairitsu (Tempest).
Since her maximum STEP is slightly less than double that of Tairitsu, she will progress fewer steps after one song play than Tairitsu will after two song plays.

**Mobile:**
Despite her seemingly high OVER, Hikari (Fatalis) is not recommended for use in Lost Chapter: Beyond as she will always incur a Track Lost. Since Beyond chapter progress heavily penalises Track Lost unlike other World Mode chapters, this significantly offsets her high OVER.

Hikari (Fatalis) requires a total of 3000 tiles to reach her maximum stat cap, which was not yet possible as of v4.0 when excluding infinite, scenery, and limited event maps. Her cap was first reachable in v4.1.4 (10/11/2022).
Below is a timeline of the maximum stats for Hikari (Fatalis) since v4.0.256:

**Switch:**

## Trivia

* On iOS, upon unlocking Hikari (Fatalis) the Arcaea icon will change to her face from Testify rather than Tairitsu's face from Lost Desire.
* Hikari (Fatalis), along with Hikari (Fracture) and Insight, is one of the only partners with an unknown (???) type.
	+ She is later on revealed to be a 'new' type of partner called "CREATOR" after reading the story A Perfect Wish.
* This partner's STEP and OVER stats used to be half the value (V4.0.0) of its current stats, and were "buffed" with the release of the Silent Answer (v4.0.255) update.

## Artwork

* Testify jacket art
* Callima Karma jacket art
* Loveless Dress jacket art
* Story Entry F-6
* Story Entry One Last Dream
* Full body artwork
* Icon in the partner select screen
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