Characters

In *Shironeko Project*, the players must use characters in order to clear quests. The party with the characters used in a quest are set in the Formation screen.

## Character info

When the player taps a character's icon, either from the Formation screen or from the model in the Party, this screen opens. The screen displays all info about the character and can be used to give them equipments.

Above the character's image is the character's name, title, and two icons. The first icon is to set the character as the one present in the profile, which will also make the character appear as a helper for friends. This icon is unlocked when the character's affinity is level 6 or higher and content was unlocked in the Appreciation Room. The second icon, shaped like a heart, is to add the character to the favorites, making it easier to locate.

Inside the character's image, displayed at the bottom, are the icons of their Class and attribute, and the rarity (number of stars). By tapping on the character's image, it will send the player to the Character Display (キャラ表示) menu, which show the profile, voice actor (CV), full illustration, the 3D Model Viewer (モデル鑑賞), Mode Changes (モードチェンジ, if available), and the Awakened Photo (覚醒フォト, if it's unlocked in the Memories). The yellow button in the bottom of the Character Display goes to the Status Details.

To the right of the character's image are the following details:

* **Character Type** (キャラクタータイプ) - Shows the character's type. This doesn't have any effect, but some quests will require using characters of a specific type. Also, a few Town buildings give bonuses for specific types. There are seven character types: **Hero Type** (ヒーロータイプ), **Balance Type** (バランスタイプ), **Attacker Type** (アタッカータイプ), **Defense Type** (ディフェンスタイプ), **Skill Type** (スキルタイプ), **Technical Type** (テクニカルタイプ), and **Support Type** (サポートタイプ).
* **Parameters** - Shows the stats from the character.
	+ **HP** - The character's maximum health. The character is defeated if it reaches 0.
	+ **SP** - The character's maximum Skill Points. Each Active Skill requires a specific amount of SP to be used. If SP is lower than the amount needed, the skill cannot be used. Characters recover SP when landing hits on enemies.
	+ **Attack** (攻撃) - The character's attack power. The higher the Attack, the more damage the character's attacks can cause.
	+ **Defense** (防御) - The character's resistance. The higher the Defense, the less damage the character will receive from attacks.
	+ **Critical** (会心) - Determines the chance of causing critical damage. When a critical occurs, the damage of the attack will be greatly increased.
	+ **Attribute** (属性値) - The elemental damage caused by normal attacks. See attributes for more details.
	+ **Cost** (コスト) - The cost to add in the party. See Formation for more details.
	+ **Affinity** (親密度) - The affinity the player has with the character. See affinity for more info about it.
* **Status Details** (ステータス詳細) - This button will show another menu that displays the stats with more details (displayed in this order: base, additions from the weapon, EX Board (Slates), Town and Auto Skills, and the total), the character's Party Skill (red), Leader Skill (pink), Action Skills (green), character traits (green), Auto Skills (blue) and equipment details. The yellow button in the bottom sends to the Character Display.
* The door icon is to enter the Appreciation Room with the character.

Under the character's image and parameters is the space for equipments, where the player can add a weapon, two accessories and four slates to the EX Board. At first only the weapon, one accessory, and one slate (after being unlocked) can be equipped. The second accessory slot is unlocked by upgrading the Limit Break to 8 stars, and each EX Board slot is unlocked by using one EX Rune.

In the bottom of the equipments are two yellow buttons. "**Save Equip**" can be used to save the current equipment, so the player can get it back easily with "**Load Equip**" without having to scroll through all equipments to find them. Up to five builds can be saved for each Class.

Under the equipment section are four to five orange buttons:

* **Class Change** (クラスチェンジ) - Use this button to do Class Change for the character. Once Class Change is done, this will be replaced by a new button to change between Extra Form and Original Form (see Class Change for more details). The red button indicates that **Extra Form** (エクストラフォーム) is in use, while the blue button indicates that **Original Form** (オリジナルフォーム) is in use. Rune Sabers lack different forms, with the button disappearing after Class Change.

* **Level up** (Lvアップ) - Opens a sub menu with three options to level up the character:
	+ **Soul Board** (ソウルボード) - Is used to go to the character's Soul Board menu, rising the level, improving stats, and unlocking skills. When the Soul Board is fully upgraded, the character's rarity will increase by one, the character's title will change, the full name will be displayed, Class Change will become available, and the Cost will increase. Note that there are exceptions for one or more of these, specially for the name as some characters only have a single name or have the full name displayed from the beginning.
	+ **Combined Level Up** (まとめてLvアップ) - Used to automatically level up the Soul Board to the max available. So if there is not enough Runes or Soul, or not all nodes are unlocked (affinity level must be increased to 5 to unlock them all), it won't level up to 100.
	+ **Magic Medicine of Growth** (成長の魔法薬) - Use one "Magic Medicine of Growth" to automatically increase affinity to level 5 and level up the Soul Board to 100 without using Runes and Soul. This potion can be obtained in some events and login rewards.
	+ After Class Change, the three buttons are replaced by other two buttons. The first button sends the player to Raise Co-op, quests where the characters gain experience. The second button is to use Rainbow Rune Fragments as materials to level up the character.

* **Limit Break** (限界突破) - Used to improve the stats. See Limit Break for more details about it.

* **Skill Awakening** (スキル覚醒) - Use Runes and Change Spheres to improve Active Skills. Jewels can also be used to improve the skills.

* **Memories** (思い出) - Read the character's stories. Normally there are 6 stories. The first five stories are unlocked for each affinity level. After reading the 5th one, Runes can be used to unlock the last story, which will also unlock the Awakened Photo. Characters with Shinki have 2 more stories.

## Obtaining characters

Characters are mostly obtained from gacha, but there are also some free characters that can be obtained in the Main Story or in Events. See the gacha page for details on how to obtain characters in gacha.

Characters available for free are: