Serenity Ishihrsa

> One day, I'll set this right.
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The girl herself.

Serenity Ishihrsa (informally Serenity Nakama) is one of the heroes of the Traveler's Retreat and by far one of the oldest characters in the entire roleplay, having been introduced as far back as January 2015.

## Profile

### Appearance

During Reality Check, Serenity is an average height, pale-skinned woman who wore dark blue hair, She wears a long dress with a blue to darker blue gradient and white lace that goes down to her knees, grey striped socks, and sparkly, white shoes. Her left arm is entirely mechanical and has been that way for many years now.

After the events of Reality Check, she has changed her outfit, still wearing a dress, the shirt now goes up to her neck, her skirt's design has changed to a dark blue gradient to light blue with a shooting star pattern, purple stockings, and light purple shoes. She has also started wearing a light bluish purple jacket and black fingerless gloves.

### Personality

At the start of Reality Check, she was rather arrogant, loud and inconsiderate, having actively disregarded Janice's feelings on numerous occasions and heavily antagonized Pre-Retcon Gaster for what she later would describe as 'petty and stupid' reasons.

Over the course of Reality Check, it would be revealed that her arrogance was all an act- a hard shell she formed to protect herself and her childhood friend group from the cruelty and agony of the world they grew up in. She harbors heavy guilt for how she treated people, most notably her brother, Aldur. feeling that she had no right to act the way she did for so long.

By the end of Reality Check, she has learned to be more compassionate, patient and understanding, having finally started to tear down the walls she put up for so many years.

## History

### Pre-Alternia

Not much is known about Serenity's life before her sudden appearance in Alternia. It is said she lived with her brother, Aldur, her mother Kurieita, and a currently unknown father.

She has stated that she found Alternia when she came across an abandoned grey door in the forest nearby her village when she was a child.

### Early Alternia

Much of Serenity's life during Alternia is shrouded in mystery- most of it having been lost to time or forgotten outright. She spent most of her time during this era working together with her friends and her brother to take down the Death Shards and Ocram- the latter of whom she would eventually face and defeat sometime before mysteriously vanishing.

Serenity herself claims she can't recall much from this timeframe anymore, either.

### Before Reality Check

Immediately prior to the events of Reality Check, Serenity was living in the ruined remains of the Terminus Terra Base- having been completely and entirely broke and incapable of affording real housing elsewhere.

It is unknown where she was during the four years she was absent, with Serenity herself claiming she's incapable of remembering anything that happened in those four years.

## Relationships

### Aldur Ishihrsa

Her relationship with her brother is notably strained, with him having dealt with several years of neglect and emotional abuse from Serenity.

As much as she loathes the actions of her sibling, she still cares for him deeply and wanted nothing more than for him to be happy once all was said and done, I n the aftermath of his death to Webdings Courier, it is known that she constantly mourns him and wishes there was more she could of done to prevent what happened.

### Kurieita Ishihrsa

Not much is known about her connection with her mother- she has gone on record to say they were never particularly close and Kurieita herself was always absent.

It is implied that Serenity is actually rather glad she never had a chance to connect with her mother.

### The Traveler's Retreat

While her opinions on each member of the group varies, she considers all of them her close allies and most respected friends, having spent the better part of a full year fighting alongside them, She remains incredibly loyal to the group, and would most likely die for any of them if the opportunity were to take place.

### Ocram

Viewing him as not much more than a being of pure incarnated destruction, her feelings and opinion on Ocram have changed from hatred and scorn to pity over the course of her life, now feeling bad that someone could be born into a world of so much hate and pain.

## Capabilities and Skills

### Darkness Manipulation

Serenity is very skilled at manipulating Darkness and harnessing Dark Magic, It is noted that she was born with incredible dark magic prowess, Over the course of the years, she has begun to use it more frequently after finally letting go of the viewpoint that dark magic is inherently evil- an opinion she held when she was younger that held her back.

### Light Manipulation

Her preferred element to Darkness- she is actually significantly weaker in Light-aligned magic. In childhood, she had a significant bias for the element, once believing Light was inherently good and those who use Darkness for any purpose are inherently evil. She now believes the viewpoint to be closeminded and incorrect- now utilizing both Light and Dark equally.

### Ice Magic

Her secondary element, she is particularly good with Ice magic, having learned it alongside Aldur's Fire magic training as part of covering for each others weaknesses and strengths.

### Flight

Likely her most untrained and weakest ability, she is capable of short term flight, most notably having used it during her brief fight with Aldur at the end of Reality Check. She does not use this ability frequently, having very poor control over it.

### Telekinesis

Also not an ability she uses quite frequently, she is capable of basic telekinesis.

### Teleportation

Serenity is capable of teleportation, having been taught the ability at a rather young age by her mother.

### Gunsword Arm

Her mechanical arm- while not inherently a power per say, is still something she has at her disposal. It has three separate modes, Gun, Sword and Default, In the default mode, it is a regular, if robotic, arm. In sword mode, it takes a katana-like form, although Serenity herself has stated the blade is rather unpractical at times. in gun mode, she can use it as though it were a rifle, She, unfortunately, has to create her own ammo, meaning she can very well run out of bullets mid-battle.

## Trivia

* Serenity has canonically eaten a number of inedible objects before- most notably a USB and a rock. This was stated sometime during the Cursed Wave sub-plot.
* She is a lesbian, having an on-screen appearance of her ex girlfriend, Frost, and having never been shown to be into men romantically.
* In development, she was originally written to be a lot more unreasonable and rude, This was later changed in order to make Serenity a more realistic character.
* In the classic era of the roleplay, she was not human, and rather depicted multiple times as a Pokémon, namely a Gardevoir, Kirlia, Gallade and once, a Uxie and Hoopa.