Fu Hua

* Valkyrie Accipiter
* Hawk of the Fog
* Night Squire
* Phoenix
* Shadow Knight
* Azure Empyrea
* Fenghuang of Vicissitude
* Herrscher of Sentience

* Squad V (Formerly)

Anti-Entropy

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**Fu Hua** is a secondary character in Honkai Impact 3rd. She is a MANTIS, and ranked 12th in the Thirteen Flame-Chasers. She is codenamed "Vicissitude".

She is The Celestial and the Class President of one of St. Freya Academy's classes. She was also the leader of Project EMBER.

## Appearance

Fu Hua looks like a 17 year old girl of average height, contrary to her actual age. She has bluish-purplish hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. When in her MANTIS form, her eyes turn red and her hair becomes a mix of white and red.

#### Battlesuit Appearances

* **Valkyrie Accipiter:** Fu Hua wears a blue and white qipao, red glasses, navy leggings, and leather boots.
	+ **Hawk Of The Fog:** Fu Hua has a high ponytail instead of a low ponytail. She wears a light brown jacket, a white shirt, jean shorts, leather heeled boots, leather gloves, a purple ruffled neck tie, brown gloves, and a monocle.
* **Night Squire:** Fu Hua wear black glasses, a white and navy tuxedo, a light blue tie, a white bow, black gloves, and black dress shoes.
* **Phoenix:** Fu Hua's hair turns white and red. She wears a white and red qipao, red and black gloves, a red hairpiece, black leggings, and black heeled boots.
* **Shadow Knight:** Fu Hua wears a black and purple battlesuit, a black hairpiece, black heeled boots, and black and purple gauntlets.
* **Azure Empyrea:** Fu Hua has a high ponytail. She wears a white and black dress, a teal sash, black and teal heeled boots, a purple cape, a golden flower hairpin, and light teal earrings.
* **Fenghuang of Vicissitude:** Fu Hua's hair turns white and red. She wears
* **Herrscher of Sentience:** The appearance of the Herrscher born from the memories inside her body, Hua(?). She wears a golden crown-like hair accessory with a red jewel, a black bow, a black traditional Chinese dress with one sleeve, a golden belt, red bands, a white glove, a black fingerless glove, and black and gold heels.

## Personality

Fu Hua has a stoic, aloof, and cold personality. She is very obedient, to the point where she still followed Dr. MEI even when she was still angry at her for Captain HIMEKO's death. However, she is kind and respectful to her friends and comrades, especially to Book Of Fuxi, Fuxi, Nuwa, Su, and even Kevin Kaslana. But after the 14th Herrscher defeated MOTH and the Previous Era Survivors awoke from cryosleep, she changed. She gained split personality due to her uncountable amount of memories, she was so duty bound she forgot to sleep and eat for days, and she became even colder. After Fuxi and Nuwa's death, Hua hated the Honkai so much to the point where she created a rule that she and her disciples had to follow: "No mercy for the corrupted. No quarter given." This seemingly simple rule ended up killing thousands of people and made many of Hua's disciples, such as Lin Zhaoyu, orphans and ultimately led to their betrayal. Hua also became very lonely due to the fact that she was immortal and all her friends died from old age, so she began to avoid people entirely.

## History

Hua was born in the slums of a large metropolis during the Previous Era. Her father ran a dojo in the area, but as times changed so did people's perspectives on it. She stayed diligent to her training: running 1000 meters every morning and practicing the moves she had been taught. Even the day of a flight, she continued to keep her dedication.

As she was doing her usual jog, she ran into family friends. Different topics came up, but it almost always circled back to the dojo and the new school she was going to. It just so happened today was her last day in her hometown-- and that she was taking a flight to Aomi City to go to school.

A man who knew her father told her to focus on getting a degree instead of worrying about the dojo. He also brought up that a rich man had interest in buying the dojo to replace it with a restaurant--- that this would be a good opportunity. Fu Hua said she had never heard of that-- and reluctantly went along with what he said.

After her training, she went to visit her father in the hospital. He had apparently been attacked by what appeared to be a zombie, and was now recovering. He was awake, however, and was excited to see her. Apparently Hua was supposed to be gone for 6 months for school-- and he said he wanted to get a good look at her before she left.

Her father then went on to tell her to just focus on school-- to abandon training and try to get a career that would give her an actual future. She stayed silent. He sent her off gladly, saying he hoped she would make friends. She, in contrast, was quite miserable. Hua muttered to herself she probably wouldn't make friends at all.

A week into classes, she woke up early out of habit. Lamenting the fact she couldn't jog, she went back to sleep. Hua walked alone to class. She overheard a girl talking about a recent zombie attack-- but didn't know who said it. She asked around, but was met with scorn from her classmates. She finally found the student who mentioned it, but was openly mocked about her clothing. She left without asking anything. She was ostracized from her classmates.

Later, she was passing by a dark alley and saw a girl being attacked by what seemed to be a zombie. Hua quickly defeated the zombie and saved the girl, who greatly resembled the Current Era's Carole Pepper. They later became close friends and often hung out together. The girl was Hua's first true friend and gave her the confidence to make more. Before saying goodbye to each other, she gifted Hua an outfit.

Six months later, the Third Honkai Eruption struck East Asia and blue fire rained over Sapphire, just as Hua was about to return home. Hua ignored the alerts she heard on the airport and tried to rescue her friend, but ultimately failed. While she was held in a base of the world's anti-Honkai taskforce, Fire Moth. Hua was visited by the captain who rescued her. The woman, HIMEKO, explained to her that Aomi City was destroyed and that she was watching Hua's mental state to see if it was save to send her to a safe place in Australia. While HIMEKO tried to tell her to forget about the incident and focus on rebuilding her life, Hua demanded the truth. Seeing her resolve, HIMEKO accepted her answer, ultimately leading to Hua joining Fire Moth as a soldier in her squad.

#### Post-7th Eruption

HIMEKO was corrupted and became the 7th Herrscher. Hua was the only survivor, which caused her to be shunned by others. Hua however, continued to fight on the front lines. But Hua was very affected by HIMEKO's death. In fact- she was infuriated.

## Manga Story

#### Secret of the God Keys

Hua appeared in *Secret Of The God Keys* for a brief period of time. She seemed to listen to an order Dr. MEI was giving out and fought one of the 10th Herrschers.

#### Wings of Origin

After the defeat of the 10th Herrscher, Hua was sent to neutralize some Honkai Beasts in Australia at the age of 17, along with other members of her squad, all armed with 10th divine keys. As far as they knew, this mission was a “test drive” for the weapons. The members of the squad were told by MOTH to inject a liquid into their bodies, which they all did. This liquid was ICHOR, Intra-Chromosomal Honkai Gene Repeats.

Hua’s squad was all cut down by Ganesha, even though they were told there was no Emperor Honkai Beasts in the area. Hua was the only one left alive. She was struck by Ganesha, but had a flashback to her promise to HIMEKO to find her out why she turned. This promise gave her the inspiration needed to keep fighting, and Hua managed to activate the ICHOR.

Hua sprouts wings, and defeats Ganesha, becoming the 3rd known successful MANTIS (besides Kevin Kaslana and Su). She was also subjected to SWARA (Subliminal Weaponiziation and Artificing of Reflex Arcs), which gave her increased muscular strength and reaction time.

#### Defeat Of The 11th Herrscher

Kevin compliments Hua for fighting very well against the 11th Herrscher. Kevin then tells Hua that Dr. MEI is moving Hua to the Far East Branch. Hua replies that she doesn't care and Kevin notices she's still angry about HIMEKO's death. Hua asks Kevin on why does he want her to understand MEI. She rants on how Dr. MEI didn't try to understand her and how she won't try to understand her back. Hua asks him if she tried to understand HIMEKO since the Captain was Kevin's friend and Hua's savior. She claims that HIMEKO talked in her normal voice but Kevin killed her. Kevin tries to blame the death on himself, but Hua immediately tells him to not affiliate himself with MEI. Hua says that she will obey but she won't try to understand Dr. MEI. Hua then adds that she should've tried to see if the soldiers wielding the 10th Divine Keys and the soldiers killed by her ICHOR mods would understand her.

They grow silent as Hua contemplates that she might have said too much. Kevin tells Hua that he will stay in the Central Base, which Hua says of course he would. But Kevin tells her that it isn't for MEI, but rather it was because they needed understanding due to the fact they are comrades and they needed a common vision. He also mentions that only 3 cities were left and the Honkai attacks were becoming worse. Although the 12th Herrscher came shortly after the 11th and was in MOTH's custody, the MANTISes needed to keep fighting and win the war at any cost. Kevin tells Hua to understand them because the future of humanity lies on their shoulders. They then arrive at an intersection where they say their goodbyes. Kevin goes up to meet with SAKURA and Hua runs to the opposite corridor, where she hears the alarm for a Herrscher. She finally tells herself that she would obey.

#### Attack Of The 12th Herrscher

Hua fought a bunch of corrupted soldiers. She realized that the 12th Herrscher had awakened and sighed as she remembered that the 12th is SAKURA's sister. Hua assumes that the 12th Herrscher can create mental attacks and uses Fenghuang Down's 2nd power, Complex Manifest to shut down all human minds in the base except for Kevin and SAKURA's. Hua noticed that the 12th Herrscher was able to fight her at the same time as she fought her fellow Flame-Chasers. Using her Divine Key once more, she created a copy of herself manifested from her hatred towards the Honkai to prevent the Herrscher from interrupting her. After stopping the Herrscher's mental attack, Hua went to RIN's cell to meet with Kevin. Kevin told her she managed to prevent a lot of casualties, which Hua was relieved about. But then, he told her the bad news: that SAKURA was killed, the Herrscher hacked the base's silos and launched all of Fire Moth's nuclear missiles at the 3 remaining human cities. Hua immediately despaired for having failed to realize the Herrscher of Corruption's powers weren't mental in nature.

Saddened, Hua sat on the floor and Kevin did the same. He noted that all of humanity's victories against the Honkai always came at a horrible cost while the latter only kept growing stronger and stronger, and though they'd managed to defeat 12 Herrschers, the losses were so extreme that humanity had lost the war, no matter how much Fire Moth tried to deny it. Hua was surprised upon seeing Kevin's resolve waver. In truth, Kevin had never given up because he'd never tried doing so before. He revealed to her he never truly cared about the Honkai or humanity and that he'd become a MOTH out of selfish reasons. For this, he could never admit the truth before anyone, not even MEI. Such truth had caused Kevin an intense self-loathing. Hua told him that humans were all the same, that no one was born a hero, and that they were simply ordinary people who were forced into their paths. She also told him that she often questioned why was she doing something she'd never asked for. She once believed her path was to be a follower of HIMEKO and after her death, Kevin and that while she didn't like her path, and couldn't leave it anymore, she was never forced as it was her choice to follow it. She told Kevin that he could've left, but didn't and that no one had the right to blame him. Upon hearing Kevin blame himself, the two remained silent until Kevin rose his head again, refusing to give up. Hua also refused. After stating that humanity would win the war, Kevin and Hua returned to the base's Battle Command center, where MEI was waiting for them.

## Game Story

#### Chapter 2: Voice in the Dreams

Fu Hua was assigned to train Kiana Kaslana for the St. Freya exams. She tutors Kiana about stigmata, battlesuit types, and history. She is later seen cheering Kiana on when Kiana did a "duel" with Rita Rossweisse. Hua checks up on Kiana after collapsing from fighting a simulated Ganesha.

#### Chapter 6: Babylon's Prisoner

At the end of the chapter, Fu Hua followed Kiana and Theresa into the datascape within the database beneath St. Freya. She quickly grabbed Theresa and told her to leave, so that she wouldn't jeopardize her mission. Once they were both alone, she explained to Kiana that the "simulation" of the Second Eruption she experienced was actually illusions caused by Sirin, the Herrscher of the Void, in an attempt to take over her body. Left in an intense denial, Kiana started chanting Sirin's spell and willingly tapped into her Void powers for the first time, attacking Hua. Despite her newfound power, Kiana was defeated and captured by her. On Otto's orders, Kiana was brought to Schicksal's headquarters.

#### Chapter 7: Lift the Sword of Rebellion

While Theresa and Himeko were traveling to Schicksal's HQ to rescue Kiana, their Helios transport was attacked by Benares, who saw them as a threat to her master. Realizing Himeko was in trouble, Fu Hua flew to the Helios and attracted Benares' attention, luring her away from the ship. Hua then fought the Honkai beast midair and defeated her.

#### Chapter 8: Will of the Herrscher

When Fu Hua returned to the HQ, she tried to contact Otto, but was instead answered by Rita, who told her he'd gone to the lab and had her answer in his stead. She sent her coordinates to meet up with her. After fighting her way through hordes of Honkai beasts that were rampaging through the base, Hua rendezvoused with Rita and asked why was she the only one there and where Durandal was. Rita explained that Durandal and her squad were busy with the Honkai and that Otto wanted her to accompany Hua on her current mission: to stop Theresa, Himeko and Anti-Entropy's attack on the base. Hua asked a single condition, to not kill anyone, which Rita accepted despite being bothered by Hua getting carried away by her emotions.

Upon reaching Himeko and Tesla's location, Hua asked them to surrender and lay down their weapons. She tried to explain to Himeko that Kiana's powers were unstable and that she could endanger the entire planet if she awoke. Himeko called her out, saying that she was trying to kill an innocent girl and questioned the kind of justice she sought. Hua tried to retort that sacrifices were inevitable against the Honkai and that Himeko knew that showing mercy to the wrong people could be disastrous, but she told her she didn't understand the true meaning of inevitable sacrifices, that the tragedy wasn't the amount of people who died for others, but the very idea that a sacrifice was necessary to save people. After fighting each other, Hua defeated Himeko and knocked Tesla out. Rita tried to finish them off, but Hua stopped her, telling her she would become her enemy if she were to hurt them. Instead, they captured them.

#### Chapter 9: Journey for Tomorrow

At the Helheim Honkai Energy System Labs, Himeko's condition was stabilized. Rita and Fu Hua observed her while she was unconscious. Seeing that Hua was bothered by Himeko's state, Rita explained to her that she had thoroughly abused and overexerted her own body. Her condition was so delicate that they were unable to bring her to the Great Church and had to treat her in the HQ. Once Rita left, Hua used Fenghuang Down to soothe Himeko's pain and left with her a vial of HSN-b46, which could save her life at the cost of her powers. When the alarms of the base sounded due to the Great Eruption, Hua rendezvoused with Rita.

Rita relayed to her a message from Otto, who informed his experiment was a success and Kiana had been awakened as the Herrscher of the Void. They were then attacked by the Honkai. After beating them, Rita noted she'd never seen the HQ in such a terrible state before. Hua asked her where Tesla was held, Rita assured her she was safe thanks to the defenses of the guard tower she was in.

After killing the remaining beasts at Helheim, Rita contacted Otto to inform him and await further orders. Otto told her to stand by, as Durandal and the Immortal Blades were going to rendezvous with them. Upon hearing him, Hua was confused, as she knew Durandal was the only Schicksal Valkyrie strong enough to fight the Herrscher of the Void head-on. When she asked him who was fighting Sirin, Otto told her to not worry, as Theresa would secure the Herrscher for Schicksal. This worried Hua even more, as she realized Theresa and her friends were in danger. When Otto tried to calm her down, communications suddenly cut off. Rita told her that the HQ's comms systems were damaged by an EMP pulse, which made Hua realize that Mei had used her Herrscher powers. Deeply concerned, Hua asked Rita to fix the comms, contact Durandal and to bring backup, as the Herrscher was out of control and Hua needed to hold her off so that she wouldn't deal more damage. However, Rita refused.

Even more confused, Hua asked her why she was refusing and Rita told her that Otto had ordered the Valkyries to not fight the Herrscher, as he had his own plans to deal with her and didn't want interference. Furious, Hua told her that while she had no desire to argue, things were already out of control as Sirin was attacking innocent people, so she'd decided to stop the Herrscher on her own. This made Rita reveal that Otto had ordered her to stop Hua from interfering with his plans, as her actions could lead to unintended and disastrous consequences. Realizing talking would get them nowhere, Hua and Rita fought each other. Before she could use her Divine Keys, Durandal threw the Abyss Flower at them, interrupting their fight.

Sitting on a ledge, Durandal ordered Rita to stop, which she promptly did. She then told Hua to go, and that while she couldn't help her, she told her that she would've made the same choice she did, for the sake of her loved ones. Hua thanked her and promised to repay her kindness, before departing to the Helios. She landed on the deck just as the Herrscher of the Void was about to attack Bronya. Realizing the Herrscher had already injured Mei and Theresa, Hua told Bronya to get them out of danger and to not return, as she couldn't defeat her possessed friend. After acknowledging her request, Bronya thanked her for helping her escape from her coma. Alone, Hua and Sirin fought each other, which made the latter recall their last fight in Siberia, remembering the pain she inflicted upon her. Despite Hua's best efforts, Sirin defeated her and grabbed her by the throat.

While she'd managed to harm the Herrscher, her wounds quickly healed thanks to the Gem of Serenity. Sirin noted that Hua hadn't gone all out in their fight, realizing she hadn't used one of her Divine Keys unlike the last time. Before she could finish her off, Otto started clapping, interrupting her. After stroking her ego, Sirin recognized Otto was the one who had resurrected her. Otto asked her to spare Hua as a favor for him reviving her, as she was a friend of his. While he did this, he used a weaponised form of replicated Schariac Holy Blood and aimed it at her in the shape of spines. Unnerved by the feeling of that familiar power, as well as an aura similar to hers emanating from Otto, Sirin agreed to spare her and left, bored by Otto's flattery.

Once she was gone, Otto walked up to Hua, seemingly concerned that he hadn't seen her so injured since her failed assassination at Mount Taixuan 500 years ago. After promising her treatment, he celebrated the conclusion of the first phase of his plan. Horrified, Hua asked him why he had allowed the Herrscher to leave, while being fully aware she would try to murder Kiana's friends. Otto coldly told her he knew what she was going to do, and explained that it was part of his plan: to have Kiana regain control of her body and her Herrscher powers, like Mei and Wendy had before. Otto was fully certain that Kiana's bonds with her friends would allow her to overpower Sirin. Hua screamed that Sirin would kill the girls. Otto was aware of this, but he still refused to help them, as he calculated that Kiana would regain control once one of her friends sacrificed herself. For this, in his mind, the only ones who could stop the Herrscher of the Void were Theresa, Mei and Bronya.

Having realized to her horror how insane Otto was, being willing to sacrifice her friends and his granddaughter for his obsession with Kallen, Hua started to laugh bitterly. Otto then told her he was asking her a serious question, and that he'd only been sincere with her because her actions were beyond his control. He asked her if she would oppose him and if she was still trying to stop him. Hua stopped laughing and gritted her teeth. Furious and disgusted with Otto, Hua told him she felt no sympathy or decency in his words, only selfishness and lies. She verbally tore into him, calling him out for trampling on others' emotions and fates, while being unaware of his own sheer vileness. His actions in the Great Eruption had finally opened her eyes, showing her how vile and despicable Otto was.

Outraged and frowning, Otto used the Void Archives to form a replica of the Judgment of Shamash, and aimed it at Hua's head. After telling her he didn't lie to her and calling her by her Sovereign name, Jingwei, he shot her in the head.

Before Otto shot her, Hua used Fenghuang Down's Zeroth Power, "Sentience Link", to transfer her mind and soul to her Divine Key, while also binding herself to Kiana's soul. This allowed Hua to survive her fatal encounter with Otto and to accompany Kiana, once she was freed from Sirin's control by Himeko's sacrifice. She also used her power to help Himeko find the Key of Blankness battlesuit, which proved the key to saving Kiana.

#### Chapter 11-EX: Diane's Sojourn

For the next three months, Kiana and Fu Hua wandered the post-Great Eruption world, seeing the devastation the Herrscher of the Void had wrought upon humanity. Kiana rejected Hua at first, believing her to be an illusion and refused to speak to her. After a particularly nasty outbreak of Honkai Beasts in the north of Arc City, Kiana was unable to resist her urge to protect people any further and started fighting the monsters. This led to Sirin nearly taking her over and trapping her inside her own mind. One of the mental constructs Sirin attacked Kiana with was Hua. Thanks to her bond with her, Hua was able to speak through her construct, begging Kiana to not listen to Sirin and to not allow her to play with her mind. While Sirin laughed at Kiana fighting clones of herself, Hua took action and trapped Sirin once more, allowing Kiana to return to her senses.

While she initially believed she had a horrible dream, Hua told her she almost lost herself. Horrified, Kiana clutched her head. While Hua called her out for ignoring her for so long, she told her that she was endangering herself by ignoring the problem. Hua asked her to avoid exposure to Honkai energy and to not use her powers, or else Sirin would take over and destroy Arc City. Hua lamented her powers were waning, and that she wouldn't be able to protect Kiana forever. Still angry with her, Kiana called Hua out for spying on her and for betraying her in Otto's name. Ashamed with herself for her past treatment of Kiana, Hua couldn't find the words to say to her. When she asked her to leave her head and never return, Hua apologized and told her this was no longer possible, as their souls were now forever bound due to Fenghuang Down. When she saw Kiana's shock, Hua asked her to reunite with Theresa and her friends, as they were the only ones who could save her. Unfortunately, Kiana refused as she didn't want to endanger her friends anymore, Hua tried to convince her, but Kiana's rage kept her from listening to her any further. Saddened, Hua told her that if Sirin took over, she would have no choice but to put an end to all three of them.

In grief, Kiana lost herself in her memories of her friends, and of her happier times with Himeko. When she recalled the pain caused by her death, Sirin used that chance to lure more Honkai beasts towards her. Horrified, Hua begged Kiana to remain calm as the beasts attacked them. Desperate to keep Sirin from taking over again, Kiana fell to despair and tried to kill herself with her own gun. To stop her, Hua activated her Divine Key to manifest a physical body and used her power to calm her down. Sirin, annoyed by Hua's determination, told her she would never win, that she would have fun killing her and that Kiana's only purpose was to be her new body.

Hua recognized she'd made many mistakes, that she'd trusted the wrong person and that she'd lost her faith in humanity before, but she still refused to give up, as it was something completely contrary to her very being. And she would never give up, especially to protect someone whom she deeply believed in. To assist her in battle, she created three constructs from her memories of Himeko. Together, Hua and the Himeko clones defeated Sirin and sealed her off, and she told Kiana she would be able to forge her own path from now on.

Moments afterwards, three Templars jumped off a highway and attacked the still shaken Kiana. Before they could hit her, an apparition of Himeko manifested before Kiana, asking her what was she waiting for before shattering like glass. Having regained her senses, Kiana tapped into her Void powers for the first time, turned into the Void Drifter and defeated the monsters. Once she was done, Hua congratulated her for mastering her powers, but Kiana broke down in tears, angry with herself for having failed to do so before Himeko died. Hua told her that Himeko wouldn't be happy if she was consumed by grief and that she did everything she could to save her because she believed in her. Realizing she was right, Kiana stopped crying and decided to stop dwelling on her past pains, so that she'd live by her example. As the day dawned and with their friendship mended, Hua and Kiana left to a safer part of the city.