The Knight of Despair

* Ingame
* Crop
* Idle
* Breaching

**This Abnormality is Capable of Breach**

**This Abnormality is Capable of Employee Alteration**

**This Abnormality can Benefit the Facility**

## Probabilities

> *"All that remains is the hollow pride of a weathered knight."*
> -The Knight of Despair's Entry
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**The Knight of Despair (O-01-73),** also known as one of the **Magical Girls**, is a humanoid Abnormality with the appearance of a pale skinned girl that has long blue hair with starry flecks in it. Her hair gets darker and turns to black at the ends. Her head is topped with a tiara that has three, spade shaped endings. Half of her head is black with sharp horn segments protruding out of it. The other half being her pale skin tone with a black tear on her cheek.

The upper part of her arms show her normal skin, while her forearm is covered by the black coloring. Her dress starts at her chest with a grey coloring and black spade on her breast. As it moves down, it turns to blue - and then to black at the end. There is a noticeable galaxy-like pattern in her hair and dress. A white translucent cloak comes off of her back.

## Ability

The Knight of Despair's ability will trigger when an Agent performs a  Good work result for the first time in a Day. If this happens, she will manifest a blue veil around the Agent before they leave the room, blessing the agent and granting them a special state.

The special state is indicated with an icon above the affected Agent. The blessing halves all  Red,  White and  Black Damage taken by the Agent, but will cause all  Pale Damage taken to be increased by 50% and prevents the employee from performing any other work besides Suppression. The blessing remains until the end of the day and only one blessing can be given at the same time.

If the blessed employee dies or panics, their blessed state will be removed, the Abnormality will breach and her appearance will change - revealing black rapiers floating beside her, an eye open, and multiple spikes coming out from her body.

She possesses 800  HP and slow  Movement Speed. Like the other Magical Girls, The Knight of Despair possesses teleporting abilities to reach any room in the facility, which she will utilise at random intervals. Upon facing an Employee, she will throw a rapier towards them, dealing 50  Pale Damage,  slowing them briefly, and impaling them if they die. Her attacks take intervals to occur as she must stop to perform them. Her cry can be used to locate her.

She will continue breaching until the day ends or if she is suppressed. Once defeated, her rapiers will raise around her and impale her as spade particle effects emerge from the impact.

## Origin

In the past, she was once a knight who protected a kingdom and its people. After a conflict in her homeland, evil started to grow stronger. When the knight realized that she could not uphold peace any longer, she disappeared, becoming a knight with an obsession to protect. Alongside her sisters, one who fought for peace but succumbed to her own greed, and another who fought for justice - but ended up becoming a villain after realizing there was no evil left to fight - they were consumed by their own aspirations. Soon, they vanished.

The knight tried to redeem herself by saving others, not totally under the corruption of evil, but forgotten by the ones she used to protect.

## Details

The Knight of Despair responds to the four works in order of best to worst:  Attachment,  Insight,  Repression, and  Instinct.

Like all Abnormalities, her energy output is determined by the number of PE Boxes (Positive Enkephalin boxes) at the end of the interaction.

The Knight of Despair's emotional state is divided into 3 sections:  Bad,  Normal, and  Good. Completing 0-7 E Boxes will cause her to feel  Distressed, completing 8-14 will cause her to feel  Normal, and 15-24 will make her  Happy. Her usual cooldown timer after a task is 15 seconds.

### Unlockable Information/Upgrades

**Basic Information** (Cost:  20 PE Boxes)

Unlocks and shows the name of the Abnormality, subject classification, Risk Level ( WAW), portrait, Damage Type ( **W**hite 4 - 6), the amount of  E-Boxes (22), and her emotional states.

**Instinct/Insight/Attachment/Repression Work Preferences** (Cost:  7 PE Boxes)

Unlocks the percentage level list to the respective work.

**Managerial Guidelines 1/2/3/4** (Cost:  8 PE Boxes)

* "Managerial Guidelines 1"
	+ "The first employee who completes their work with a Good result will receive The Knight of Despair’s blessing. (From then on, the employee will be referred to as O-01-73-1.)"

* "Managerial Guidelines 2"
	+ "O-01-73-1 could only aid in suppressing Abnormalities. Furthermore, thanks to the blessing, RED, WHITE, and BLACK damage dealt to them was halved, however, PALE was doubled."

* "Managerial Guidelines 3"
	+ "The Knight of Despair’s blessing dissipated when O-01-73-1 died or panicked. After the blessing was gone, a new employee could receive it."

* "Managerial Guidelines 4"
	+ "When O-01-73-1 panicked, The Knight of Despair escaped from its Containment Unit. The same results occurred when O-01-73-1 died."

**Escape Information** (Cost:  20 PE Boxes)

Information if the Abnormality can escape or not. This includes her defenses when breaching:

 Red: Weak (1.2) -  White: Normal (1.0) -  Black: Endured (0.8) -  Pale: Endured (0.5)

### Observation Level

**Level 1** (1 Section unlocked):  Success Rate +2%

**Level 2** (2 Sections unlocked):  Speed Rate +4

**Level 3** (3 Sections unlocked):  Speed Rate +4

Unlocks the E.G.O. **Gift** 'The Sword Sharpened with Tears'.

**Level 4** (All details unlocked):  Success Rate +2%

Unlocks the E.G.O. **Weapon** and **Suit** 'The Sword Sharpened with Tears'.

### E.G.O. Equipment

* Weapon
* Suit
* Gift

**E.G.O. Weapon The Sword Sharpened with Tears**

 **Requirements:**  **Justice** Level 4

Even someone unskilled in dueling can rapidly puncture an enemy using this E.G.O with remarkable agility.
As mandated by chivalry, foul play is strictly forbidden in combat; however, mercy should also not be expected."

**E.G.O. Suit The Sword Sharpened with Tears**

The employee equipping this armor will think of sadness, such as how there are times in life when one may shed tears over the littlest things.
As with sorrow, perhaps sharing the burden will blunt the edge."

**E.G.O. Gift The Sword Sharpened with Tears**

 **Effects**:  SP +2,  Movement Speed +4, Attack Speed +4

**Observation Level:** 3

## Story

"An Abnormality of despair that has gone through a repeated cycle of faith and betrayal, leaving only the emotion that is expressed through black tears."

"A hero of the past who used to be a guardian of justice. She dedicated her entire life to protect the king, the state, the city, and the weak. The knight had to uphold the laws of God and the pursuit of valor, chivalry, and justice. However, after a long history fraught with hardship and conflict, the knight realized in retrospect that nothing was truly upheld on her watch. The truth changed a lot of people.

One who fought for good became evil upon realizing that there was no evil left in the world. One who dreamed of a world where everyone could be happy was tinged with greed and started to devour everything. Like them, so many things once thought to be forever constant faced changes and perished"

"Who said a knight never cries? Have you ever seen tears brought out by despair, not sadness? The endless stream of grief has long turned the eye sockets into hollow husks. Inside, black diamonds sometimes fall down like ashes.

The will to protect seems to remain unchanged after all this time; even in containment, it is still obsessed with the act of protection. All that remains is the hollow pride of a weathered knight. The tenacity of the hero who cannot leave the past behind is a pitiful sight."

"When Justice turns its back once more, several dozen blades will rove without a purpose. In shame of failing to defend once again, and in rage against the world, the swords will eventually point at those she could not protect."

"The knight who wanted to redeem herself by saving others was now dishonorably called the Knight of Despair; forgotten from the people's memory, just like the others."

## Flavour Text

* "The Knight of Despair occasionally sheds helpless tears while the work goes on, not saying anything to <name>."
* "The Knight of Despair still dwells in her past glories, just like her sisters."

## Trivia

* The Knight of Despair is the third of four Magical Girls, the others being The Queen of Hatred, The King of Greed, and The Servant of Wrath.
* The Knight of Despair is the first Abnormality to be capable of breach without the need of a  Qliphoth Counter.
* The Knight of Despair's equipment had its name changed from "A Sword Sharpened by Tears" to "The Sword Sharpened with Tears" in the May 2020 English re-translation update (ver 1.0.2.13e).
* Managerial Guideline 2 says pale damage is doubled, but looking into the code and testing shows it only increases by 50%.
* She deals different damage when breaching (Pale) compared to in Containment (White).
* In her containment cell her left half of her face is black but in the abnormality encyclopedia portrait its her right half of her face instead of left, thats because the image is mirrored.

## Gallery

The Knight of Despair Applying its Blessing EffectThe Blessing StateTransformingBreachingThrowing her sword across the roomThe Knight of Despair breaching and attacking an EmployeeThe Knight of Despair teleportingAn employee killed by The Knight of DespairDefeat Animation startingImpaledDefeatedThe Knight of Despair Details unlocked