Eskieth Eden

**Eskieth Eden** or An079Cu2m6815 is a Combat Unit in **Project Angel**. She is one of the candidates who registered in the project solely for their own love of artillery.

## Physical Description

Eskieth Eden has long black hair with orange ends on each strand extending to her hip and wears an ex-shaped black pin near her right ear. She has a heterochromia of orange and black eyes,

Eskieth wears a suit without a top off, an orange necktie, black gloves, short jeans and stockings. Because of the fact that she handles extremely dangerous explosives, she wears an explosive resistant armor during combat to blow up the enemy into smithereens while she was present in it as she requested.

Since Eskieth's main combat strength lies in artillery, she has an all-purpose Backpack equipped with an Antenna that allows her to restock all her explosives. But thinking that an array of explosives behind her armory wasn't enough, she was gullible enough to attach many sets of explosives all around her body during combat.

## Personality

Homicidal, Energetic, Genius and a freak who persisted in taking control of the artillery and succeeded. It was no rumor that she was a heinous criminal who blew up an entire city into ruins, though she persisted that it was for good deed, she drooled at the same moment during the interrogation and landed in jail.

Despite being an explosion freak, she still has some human feelings in her, like the tendency to worry over Nox, the fear of being prosecuted by Alathea, or the determination to not let anyone die in the squad, it was the second reason why she didn't blow up the country yet.

Though Eskieth seems to be the person you would want to avoid the most, she mostly minds her own business unless you agitate her in some way. Whenever someone makes fun of her or mocks her, she makes sure that they get the worse of it.

## Background

Eskieth was born from the Eden family which was famous for producing artillery that supplies the entirety of Trestkania. Since she was born rich, she had everything she wanted that normal people can't obtain in their lifetime, yet she herself didn't see it that way. Everything was just a bore to her, she proclaimed that it didn't have the spark that would interest her and lived a bland life. This lasted for several years until she was taken by her father to the hangar that produces artillery. If there was one thing she was truly interested in, it's the thrill of the sudden outburst, or in other words, a grand explosion.

Since that day, she always insisted to her parents that they would take her to the hangar to check the production and wanted to inherit his position. Because this was a dangerous occupation, her parents denied her decision and wanted her to inherit her mom's business instead. Her response to that information, due to the fact that she has been to the hangar countless times, she had enough knowledge to make a bomb with her own methods and made one to prove herself. But it ended up as big mistake, costing her left arm and being gravely injured. However, this incident didn't leave her gasping in pain, but ecstatic by such an outcome from success in making her own method to make bombs.

7 Years after the incident, Eskieth unfortunately didn't inherit the position of her father ever since the incident, but instead turned into a researcher that specializes in explosions. Eskieth would usually coop herself up in her private underground laboratory, experimenting to see what the limits of an explosion can go other than causing a nuclear wasteland. But during such time, **The Great Morze War** was happening across the globe and it was her job to make strong weapons no matter how dangerous the aftermath were. One day, a teleportation pylon infiltrated into her residence's lawn and monsters started spawning out of it. These eldritch monsters were described as grotesque, bizarre, eerie, horrifying creatures, and those rumors were all true.

Desperate for survival, she hid in the laboratory to wait for rescue since the area was at the core from the swarm of pylons. She estimated that it will take hours for her to be rescued and will ultimately be killed in just a few minutes. Even after all this, she didn’t sink into despair just yet. Eskieth was banned from keeping artillery in her laboratory ever since the incident. When she chose to become a researcher, her parents appointed a supervisor that would monitor all her doings and forcefully confiscate most of her experimental artillery. But now that her assistant was dead due to the swarm of monsters around the mansion, she was free to make a bomb to her liking without any restrictions.

Well to her surprise, it all ended up as a huge incident and blew up an entire city instead alongside with the pylon. Eskieth's laboratory was reinforced with a special metal alloy that is extremely resistant to heavy impact, so if anything ever happens in the inside or outside, it will be unscathed, so she was fine in the process. After setting off the bomb, she succeeded in destroying the pylon alongside the remaining monsters. It was such a huge success she didn't realize that she could see the sky despite being deep underground, destroying everything besides the laboratory.

Due to experimenting with an illegal super bomb, destroying property worth millions, and almost killing ten thousands of people if they were to evacuate at least a second late, she was sentenced to 10 years of prison, it would’ve been longer if she didn’t eliminate every pylon around the city. During the interrogation, Eskieth simply smiled and shrugged it off like nothing, she was aware that if she didn't do that, more people would die in the process anyways. It was only then 3 years after the incident, Alathea saw a potential ANGEL member and proposed that she can be bailed out of prison if she were to join the organization. To **Alathea**’s surprise, Eskieth gladly agreed to it without hesitation.

## Relationship

### **Squadmates**

#### **Anellia Thena**

Her underclassmen in the Xero Squad. Since Eskieth was hailed as a genius in her entire life, she had a huge ego on being the best on everything, until she met Anellia. At such a young age, she was the only one who had a better score on the designing aptitude and it left her baffled. This all started with jealousy, but it ended with the fear of what her boundless potential is capable of.

Since they were both appointed to the same squad, they got closer bit by bit enough to be called acquaintances. But since she's vulnerable against those better than her, she would accidentally use formal language even if she was many years younger than her.

#### **Orion Veracus**

The leader of the Xero Squad. At first, she was expecting Orion to see Eskieth as an infamous criminal. Yet when they finally meet, her expectations were blown away, finding out Orion doesn't care about it that much. Orion thought that as long as she didn't kill anyone, everything is forgiven since she saved more lives from the incident.

As the squad's leader, everyone respects and follows him. But she herself doesn't know that she has been tamed by Orion due to his warm personality that she subconsciously follows his every orders without much thought.

#### **Lux Lumina**

Lux's self-proclaimed rival. If these two weren't in the same squad, it would've been eerily peaceful. These two fought often due to how Eskieth explodes the body of her targets, losing her researching material and Lux destroying her explosives before they even blow up.

Even if the war ended, they never got along up until now. Thankfully, the stains of war got them a bit closer to each other even if it was forcefully. The only progress they made was they stopped cursing at each other after every meeting.

#### **Nox**

A ghost member of the Xero Squad. Since Nox rarely shows his face except during meetings, he was sometimes forgotten by other members if things were to turn for the worse. But after finding out Nox's potential as an assistant to her research, she would force him to help her with the research to erase her sense of pain.

Due to Eskieth's ego, she never found Nox worth anything since he was just a mere SERAPH member. To her surprise, after witnessing his support capabilities, her opinion of him changed and started treating him as someone with a huge potential. All of this doesn't change the fact when he is sometimes used as a test subject.

### **Acquaintances**

#### **Alden Thena**

Secretly admires. Born from a rich family, her parents expected great things from her as their offspring. This all ended up in being pressured by her parents to be always the best so she did what they asked her for. But this all didn't end well when that's all what they see her as; an offspring, let alone their daughter.

Alden Thena, being the father of Anellia Thena, she secretly set up some camera around his room as a prank for abandoning Anellia. But what she spotted instead was the fact that he supported the entire Xero Squad behind the scenes with his own hands to secure his daughter's safety. That made her slightly more jealous of Anellia for having a doting father.

#### **Kythalos**

Barely knows anything about Kythalos. To her memory, she can count on her fingers how much they have met despite Kythalos often visiting Anellia for materials. Eskieth and Kythalos both share the worst chemistry in combat unless one serves as a distraction in combat, so she didn't really bother on looking into his files and focused on more important things.

#### **Alathea Guishe**

The one who bailed her out. She didn't think much about her identity when she bailed her out of prison. All she thought was that she looked really voluptuous and would go for her if she was a man. But when she found out that she was the person in-charge of Project ANGEL, she immediately retracted her statement and started using formal language in front of her.

Since Alathea gave her freedom in exchange for going into the frontline against eldritch beasts, she was in debt of being able to freely use her explosives on a larger scale and freedom. So she would act like a goody two shoes in front of her whenever she comes by her office to report.

## Abilities

### Wings of Quaoar

Eskieth's wings. She has four mechanical wings colored black with the edges red and orange, decorated with childish scribbles because she simply liked marking it that way. Since Eskieth is specialized in explosives, she is tasked with breaching the enemy defenses while also being in the frontlines. She has two alternative abilities; one is the ability to call out artillery from their base, and the second is to use brute force and apply it to her wings and transform them into gauntlets that yield extraordinary firepower. Despite holding such power, she can only reload 4 shells every minute so she has to optimize her fighting style with perseverance.

* Having such ferocious firepower, she only uses her gauntlets when she is needed in the frontline. But otherwise, she's a genius when it comes to tracking down opponents thanks to her wings being equipped with sonar equipment.
* Eskieth was supposed to be an Overseer Unit thanks to her impeccable accuracy on coordinates, but since she thought that being a Combat Unit allowed her more freedom on her explosives, she decided to change it.

## Trivia

* Eskieth is incredibly susceptible to praise. Because of her background, no one praised her and thought she wasn't doing well enough. So when Lux complimented the fact that she was good, she turned aloof and Lux started using it to her advantage.
* Quaoar meaning: is a Kepler belt or can be interpreted as "Distant". It is her attempt at trying to reach her goal despite being extremely out of reach.
* Since Eskieth never really had any proper conversation with others, she would act all haughty in front of others so they would think she's competent enough to be worth remembering about.