Brunhilde Riverstone

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Information

### Epithet

**Crimson Death** (クリムゾンデス *Kurimuzon Desu*)
 **Queen of Gehenna** (ゲヘナの女王 *Gehena no Joō*)
 **War Valkyrie** (戦争ヴァルキリー *Sensō Vuarukirī*)

### Also Known As

**Crimson Death** (クリムゾンデス *Kurimuzon Desu*)
 **Queen of Gehenna** (ゲヘナの女王 *Gehena no Joō*)
 **War Valkyrie** (戦争ヴァルキリー *Sensō Vuarukirī*)

### Age

15-16 (High School 1st Year)
 22 (Nov 2018)

## Background Information

### Family

Riverstone Family
 Unnamed Parents
 Unnamed Siblings
 Unnamed Spouse
 Eloise Riverstone (*Daughter*)

### Goal

Bring Riverstone to Nationals
 Prove that she is strong
 Bring honor to the Riverstone Family

### Likes

Sour gummies
 Hurdy-Gurdy
 Naruto (*Manga*)
 Volleyball
 War Games
 Studying
 Daichi Futakuchi
 Opera Music
 Tribal Music
 Her heritage

## Professional Status

### Occupation

High School Student (1st Year, Class 7)
 University Student
 Part-time Cafe Worker

### Teams

Izumitate Junior High (*Former*)
 Riverstone Military Academy (*Former*)
 Unnamed University (*Current*)

### Position

Wing Spiker
 Captain (*Co-Captainship with Daichi Futakuchi*)

## Seiyu Information

### Voice Actor

Molly Searcy (*English*)
 Sora Amamiya (*Japanese*)

### English Actor

Mara Elizabeth Wilson

**Brunhilde Riverstone** (Japanese: **リバーストーン・ブルンヒルデ** *Ribāsutōn Burunhirude*) was a first year student at Riverstone Military Academy, an alleged member of the *Medieval Music Club* as their famed club-president and serves as one of Riverstone`s two captains, sharing the captain position with Daichi Futakuchi and is his childhood friend, as well as a close friend of Sanae Taiga.

As of November 2018, she is a soldier of the Japanese Defense Forces, serving as a member of Japanese High Command and has kept close contact with her high school friends and high school teammates. After somebody proposed marriage to her, Brunhilde retired from active service in the Japanese Defense Forces and settled down in the Miyagi Prefecture with her spouse. As of now, she has become a mother, and is taking care of her only child, Eloise Riverstone.

## **Appearance**

   Brunhilde is petite and the smallest member of Riverstone`s volleyball club, from which all of the core members of her team come from. She has long blonde hair, large blue eyes, and a heart-shaped face. Brunhilde is noted for being very pretty. It is hinted that many of the boys in her class adore her. When playing in official games or during practice, Brunhilde wears her hair in a low ponytail and donned the traditional practice clothes of her team. She is described as incredibly beautiful but that beauty is often marred by her frequent scowls or even her provoking smiles, which does not appear when she is talking to other people.

## **Personality**

Outwardly, for the most part, Brunhilde is portrayed as an empty shell of a person who displays a disinterest in anything going on around her, unsure of how to act. She covers this emptiness up by changing her personality to be stoic, callous, cold-hearted, and even overly blunt given the situation in which she is under. She states that while the persona Alice Honda was a kind and deeply caring person, the real Brunhilde is vacant inside, filled with no emotions, and lacking a "heart" like other people. Although her teammates tells her that she seems more genuine and "less creepy" now, she continues to regard herself as lacking any true nature or identity. When acting as her false persona, Brunhilde is usually very shy, kind, and uncertain on how to interact with others (likely due to her isolation as a child). However, Daichi notes that Brunhilde's urge to show kindness to others stems not only from a desire to gain their esteem, but also that of the people around her: to be seen as a good person. This likely stems from her having been denied the esteem of others as a child and being raised to believe that she was an unfortunate mistake. The strongest manifestation of this tendency is Brunhilde's repeated and severe suicidal inclinations; she expresses the desire to die in a manner so that others will not hate her for having existed at all and will speak of her and remember her favorably. This was due to her upbringing, believing herself to be a mistake and hoping that by dying, nobody would hate her.

## **Background**

Brunhilde was born as the illegitimate and unrecognized daughter of Sigurd Riverstone, head of the Riverstone family and the true monarchs of the Riverstone Region located in England. She was raised on the estate owned and administered by the Riverstone family. Her mother was deliberately distant from her, spending much of her time reading or leaving the estate at night via carriages. She never participated in work around the estate and appeared to have some other source of income. During this time her older half-sister Ava would regularly visit her. Ava acted as the motherly figure that Brunhilde lacked, teaching her how to read and playing with her regularly. Growing up, she began to read every book she could get her hands on, including ones that depicted the typical relationship between a mother and her child, causing Brunhilde to question her own relationship with her mother, and desiring to understand what it was like to have meaningful physical contact with her. This led to an attempt to hug her mother resulting in her being violently thrown away and causing her mother to openly lament that she did not have the courage to kill Brunhilde when she had been born. Though bruised and bloody, Brunhilde was happy because it was the first time she had ever been spoken to by her mother. After this incident, she would not see nor interact with her mother again for several years. During this interlude, she came to understand her position in the Riverstone household, particularly that she was regarded by those around her as a curse and grave burden to her family; though she did not understand the reason for her treatment and rejection. Being the child of a mistress, she learned to harden her heart and openly refused to interact with people, until she was forced into her school`s junior high volleyball club by one of her fellow classmates. Afraid of rejection, she refused to tell them what her mother was like. Upon telling them of her past, instead of being rejected she was accepted with open arms. Throughout Junior and into High School, she expressed a desire to "connect" with people, being close with Riverstone`s substitute libero, and her fellow captain, Daichi Futakuchi.

### **Stats**

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Brunhilde is considered by many to be a technique expert, as she emphasizes technique and game sense over rare power, so she never really strains herself using jump-serves. She possesses fine-tuned techniques and is recognized to be Tsukishima, Ennoshita, and Hinata`s spiking teacher, being the very person who taught them technique and ball control over raw power. Rarely does she ever execute a jump-serve that just emphasizes raw power. Besides that, Brunhilde is an amazing all-rounder, essential to Riverstone in both offense and defense. Like the rest of her team, Brunhilde is flexible and efficient when receiving. Even though a middle blocker is usually rotated out with the libero, Brunhilde has shown the ability to play back-row capably but usually doesn`t worry about defense due to Daichi who handles all of the team`s defenses. She is the only other member of the team besides Daichi who has a stable jump-serve.