Herrscher of the Beginning/Synopsis

(Herrscher of the beginning)

## History:

### Age 0-12:

Lanying was born to a poor family in belarus. She spent the first 5 years of her childhood under the protection of her parents. Eventually both her father and mother both got infected by Honkai radiation which led to both of them dying in front of the young Lanying which scarred her for the rest of her life. Not long after the Schicksal organization arrived and took her and some of the other children to the Babylon tower. After arriving, Lanying and the other children were subjected to lethal and horrific human experiments. When Lanying eventually asked about their motives she was told the number of invasions and honkai creatures had increased and that what they were doing was for the good of humanity.

Inside of the tower, Lanying and all other children were deceived by the scientists who said their parents died from a disease called "Houkai'' to encourage them to become obedient guinea pigs and accept their fate to help in the revolution of humanity. After this they would start injecting small doses of honkai energy into their bodies, twice every week. During the periods between doses the scientist would run response tests on the children to see how they would react. During the first few months within the tower Lanying managed to befriend some of the children and grew to deeply care about them. If one of the children became used to the response tests and didn’t show any reaction they would be brought to another sector and a different set of tests would be run. Lanying was one of these children; when she arrived in the new sector she was placed under the care of a single scientist who ran far more severe tests on her body. After two years within the tower Lanying and the other children were subjected to a heavily mutated version of the “Houkai cure” vaccine this drug caused over half of the children to horrifically die from severe internal and external wounding within the next month. Lanying with a small handful of the other children managed to survive these experiments and showed positive effects from the drug. Lanying and the remaining children were then subjected to further experimentation to the point of them constantly being on the brink of death on a daily basis. Lanying would eventually be brought back to the other children where she and the others were again injected with the “Houkai cure” this resulted in most of the children dying with the exception of Lanying and another test subject who went by the name Sirin. Lanying and Sirin would grow a bond through the tests but eventually were separated by the scientists telling Sirin that Lanying had "died" from the "Houkai cure". This was because the scientists noticed that the two were reacting less to the experiments due to the comfort they got from one another.

After a few weeks Lanying discovered she had the ability to become invisible and intangible. This allowed Lanying to easily sneak around the tower and find some of the other children. Lanying despite her horrific torture and experimentation she still had a kindhearted personality which allowed her to confort some of the other children. During one of her trips outside of her cell Lanying forgot to make herself invisible resulting in her being spotted by the scientists. Due to Lanying’s weak body from all the experimentation she was caught and tortured as a punishment.

### Age 13-18:

One night Lanying snuck out of her cell and went to meet up with the other children, but upon arriving, Lanying discovered that most of the children had been injected with more Houkai drugs which caused many of them to horrifically die within Lanying’s arms. Upon this event Lanying went on to brutally torture and kill 43 of the scientists within her immediate proximity. This sparked her hatred for the scientists and she decided to make every scientist feel the same thing her and the other children felt, she would make them understand what they had done. Unfortunately Lanying was cut off by Sirin who was in the process of massacring every scientist within the tower. Lanying was then targeted by Sirin who not immediately recognising Lanying, feared that she would inform the valkyries that Sirin was responsible for the massacre. Lanying managed to escape to the tower’s reactor and upon absorbing all the Houkai energy within the tower she awakened as a new Herrscher. The Herrscher of Time, Lanying would then use her time manipulation and other abilities to brutally torture hundreds of scientists within the tower before dragging all of them into the same test chamber in which so many children had died. Before killing them all by brutality mutilating them from the inside out, she did this in groups so that some scientists could watch their comrades die in agony. While she stood there taunting them and randomly killing one of the scientists just to further make them suffer.

After the incident, Lanying is seen laying in her cell manically laughing while screaming that she had brought justice and the scientists got what they deserved. Lanying would then calm down before being freed from her cell along with all the other children. Lanying noticed Sirin sneaking away from the group and followed her while being invisible. When the two were away from the group Lanying grabbed Sirin (who still hadn't recognised Lanying) and began asking her why she had killed all of the children. Sirin responded that the children could have told the valkyries of her role in the massacre. Sirin then told Lanying that if she told the valkyries, Sirin would have her head. Lanying then followed Sirin to the reactor promising to protect her if anyone attempted to threaten her. Upon reaching the reactor both of them were confronted by the valkyrie Patricia Highsmith who saw them both as being suspicious. Upon Sirin declining Patricia’s offer to surrender, Lanying asked the valkyrie if she knew about the horrific human experiments the children had been subjected to. After the valkyrie stated that she didn't know Lanying explained the situation as Sirin added that she should be helping the children escape if she really had a good heart. Despite Patricia sympathizing for the two girls, she still made it clear that they had to surrender which resulted in Sirin challenging Patricia to a fight. Sirin won the fight within a few seconds and Lanying watched.

Afterwards both Lanying and Sirin are seen in their cells, Sirin laughing maniacally and Lanying contemplating whether or not she truly was a valkyrie. Lanying would then leave her cell and witness Sirin heading towards the reactor alone. Deciding that Sirin could handle herself, Lanying left her alone before encountering a group of valkyries, who noticed the amount of Houkai energy within her body came to the conclusion she was a Herrscher and attempted to kill her. Lanying then trapped the valkyries inside one of her pocket dimensions not wanting to hurt them. Lanying then deposited the valkyries outside the tower before escaping the tower herself. Lanying would then meet with the valkyries and try to reason with them to no avail. Lanying then proceeds to stop time and incapacitate all the valkyries before escaping.