Aponia

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**Aponia** is a member of Fire Moth and a psychic MANTIS. She is ranked 3rd among the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, her codename being "Discipline".

## Appearance

Aponia is a tall woman with light brown hair. Her blue eyes are usually bowed down, like in reverence. She wears a long white veil with thorns and flowers accenting the sides. She has a tight white turtleneck with a butterfly brooch extending around a blue gem on her chest. There are various cross-like symbols over her body.

She has black and puffy sleeves which end in white cuffs. Her shorts are white and frilly. From her torso all the way down to her feet, she dons a long black cloth with golden accessories. Connecting to her back is a long robe that resembles blue butterfly wings. There are much shorter, wilted, butterfly wings connected to the black piece. Her heeled boots are a simple white.

## Personality

Aponia is a very soft-spoken woman. She somehow manages to stay that way even when she is upset. Despite her calm demeanor, she is someone who shouldn't be messed with. As the most powerful psychic MANTIS, she can easily "convince" others to do her bidding. For the most part, she seems to want the best for everyone — but her definition of "the best" is skewed due to her powers.

Aponia can see the future.

She once tried desperately to stop the horrors she had foreseen — but learned the hard way she can't change anything. Every attempt to fix the future usually caused further disaster. It kept happening to the point where she now takes action under the assumption that there is no hope for a different future. Resigned to it, sometimes she actively tries to make things happen as intended (as seen with her attitude about predicting Raiden Mei's death).

Ironically, the power of Discipline is one of control. It only works on people, though.

Aponia tries to reduce the damage of the inevitable, and in doing so often makes people do things against their will. However, this power isn't as simple as mind control. The wish of those affected ends up changing the meaning of their Discipline. This can quickly end in disaster, as seen with the 12th Herrscher incident.

Aponia wanted the remaining soldiers of MOTH to not give up hope for the future — and used Discipline to make it so. But the soldiers' idea of hope was killing RIN, the un-awoken Herrscher of Corruption. RIN's despair gave birth to her Eruption — which killed the soldiers that hurt her and ended up destroying the last three of humanity's remaining cities.

## History

Before the Previous Era ended, Aponia chose to merge her mind with Elysian Realm, becoming a nearly omnipotent being there as she was the main person tasked with its control.

## Trivia

* She, Kalpas, SAKURA, and Pardofelis are all connected to Sundown Alley.
* The name Aponia has a few meanings
	+ "**Aponia**" (Ancient Greek: ἀπονία) means the absence of pain, and was regarded by the Epicureans to be the height of bodily pleasure.
	+ ***Aponia*** is also a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.

## References

1. ↑ https://honkai-impact-3rd-archives.fandom.com/wiki/Ascetic%27s\_Memory#2\_-\_The\_Ordained