Human of the Dream City Sereinae Létoile (セレイナエ・レトアル) Age / Size : Over 22 / 163cm Species : Human Gender : Female Eyesight : Varying between decent and bad Basic personality : Calm, compassionate, and innocent. Tends to take an elder sister/mother role with those around or below her age, making her honest, yet soft-spoken, when needed. Has a hard time forgiving unrespectful people. Personality once with Jolty: Also became straightforward, curious and adventurous, while at other times lax and playful. Caring towards Jolty when he feels down, and knows how to take things lightly, she tends to forgive him. Likes : Jolty. Has interest over Jolty's hobbies and interests too. Likes her hobby, taking care of herself and the others around her. Dislikes : Her physical limits, seeing anyone feeling down, dishonesty from others. Name origin : Serene in french but with an additional "a". Her last name, Létoile, meaning “the star” in french, is the name she had since birth, and represents her as a symbol of hope for both her and Jolty, no matter the circumstances. Nameless and Sparkling Spirit Jolty (ジョルティ) Size : Spirit form : A human head ; Human form : 180cm Species : Heart/Soul of a live human. Gender : Male Basic personality : Bashful and melancholic, yet very straightfoward, generally respectful of himself and others, and tends to act dumb or funny when lax. Has a hard time forgiving unrespectful people. Personality once with Sereinae: Became less bashful and melancholic, but also sometimes reckless and standing up for Sereinae's sake, while forgiving her, which is something she respects, but she catches up to him if he goes too far. Likes : Sereinae, talking about whatever he likes with others, and mutual respect. Dislikes : Not being respected by others. He takes Sereinae feeling down personally. Name origin : Given by Sereinae, the name is associated to both lightning and, indirectly his brutal battle style while in a human body, which is opposite to Sereinae's swift battle style. Abilities of Sereinae: - High-level of empathy: Can sense any of people's emotions and feelings. She prefers focusing on only one person's emotions, just to not overload herself. This makes lying to her usually useless because she knows your emotions go against what you say, and therefore can sense how legitimate someone's words or actions are. - Can make clothes for cosplay, mainly of other characters, just to see if they fit her, and show them to others. She sells whatever clothes she makes as a job too. Abilities of Jolty: - Restricting another person’s strength : can immobilize an opponent if they happen to be a literal deadly threat to Sereinae. - If alone, he can take a more human shape and wield thunder-related abilities, but it never lasts long and then reverts into a spirit form. Common ability of the unison of Sereinae and Jolty: - Use of various danmaku styles: Unlocks Sereinae’s and Jolty’s true potential when both are in unison. Uses mainly thunder-elemental attacks. Sereinae’s attacks tend to have stars included in the mix. - Acquires high skills at dodging attacks. The electric abilities acquired from Jolty allow her to become very reactive to whatever attack is thrown at her (similar to spasms). She becomes more exhausted the longer she uses this ability, due to being human. - Gains ability to float with the aid of an already floating spirit. - This unison can have Jolty's personality influence Sereinae's, as they share in the same body. Abilities of Jolty's Human Form: - Ability to manipulate thunder and use it for heavy, ground-shaking attacks. - Unlike Sereinae, he isn't agile with his body, but his reflexes are still decent. Backstory and general information: Lives in a dark city with a beautiful starry sky, which is unrealistic for one. This city sees the light of the day once every two days. The appearance of the city could be misinterpreted as the outside world, but isn't. Therefore those unnatural and unrealistic sides of the city gave it its name as the Dream City. During her childhood, her ability prevented her from being a bully or a cruel person, as she would feel the sadness or anger of those she would target. She then used to avoid meeting sad people as it would make her sad as well, and wanted to meet happy people instead. She snapped out of that attitude at some point and grew a sense of compassion for them. She believed that if she made them happy, they would make her happy in return. It was a reason for her to become a therapist, but her parents were too scared for her. Facing people's negative emotions can weigh on her emotions because of her ability, but she is convinced that if she can help them fix their problems with this job, it won't be so bad after all. This ability is a double-edged sword. She now studies to become a therapist and have the best use of her main ability, therefore she got the idea to use her cosplaying hobby as a way to relate to other people more. Her studies help her understanding the human psychology better. Her parents didn't really allow her to live the lifestyle she wanted and were scared about what she planned for her future, so she moved away once she came of age. She however agreed with them that she shouldn't stay with someone unless she knows they care about each other a lot. She doesn't care about short-lasting relationships at all. During her teenager life, she had more like a peachy personality, becoming friends with her classmates, but never developing or engaging in any love relationship during that time. After parting ways with her friends after graduating from high school, she lived a lonely life, stayed in the city, and learned how to live independently. She still studied and worked part-time, yet prefers focusing on her hobbies when she can, to relieve the pressure. She progressively learned how to control her ability and avoid having it weigh her mood down. There are times where she wishes to go to other worlds to see more people outside her own. It isn’t always good to stay everyday at home after all, especially when you don’t see the light of the day often. Her hobbies include making new clothes, having a strong fashion sense due to the variety of clothes she makes and wears, either for cosplay or for sale. She also likes making city tours when she's not at home. She also happens to like reading at times, and had once thought about the job as an idol, but realized the job takes too much of her liberties, taking hold of even her private life, and besides, she learned that there's maybe another way to put a smile on people's faces later on. She resignated to that idea, but still admires the idols' work. Besides if she wanted to, she wouldn't be able to, she doesn't have the beauty standards according to the producers to become one, and she is fine with that. Each time she ran errands, she stumbled multiple times upon a atypical being in the shape of an orb, with two white eyes. Each time she did, she felt a strong sadness from this being, and felt the need to help him. She turned a blind eye to it, but couldn't keep the facade for too long, her ability made it too difficult. She asked it if it was okay after she saw him shed a tear, and it ruminated where it should go, it said itself it had no purpose and kept wandering the city in circles, and everyone else finds it creepy or odd. It has the ability to speak and one time Sereinae was surprised how it could sip a cup of tea without any hands or mouth. Upon discussion, Sereinae understood that both have a solitary life, and, after they've said goodbye once or twice, she suggested him to stay with her, like a sort of pet, it gladly accepted. This would keep to both of them company, ridding them of their solitary lives, and besides, she finds it cute. She sensed its worries nearly vanishing as soon as it was along her. This led her to keep it with her and in exchange she obtained the ability wield thunder magic. She jokingly said this would help with the electricity bill, and... she wasn't that wrong about it, honestly. They got even closer to each other with time passing by, and Sereinae's ability made understanding him easier, to the point they would become sidekicks. The orb introduced itself as the Spirit, a male one, he said this name would define him the easiest, but Sereinae didn't agree and find the name lame. She decided to call him "Jolty" from now on. He guessed it corresponds to its ability and how shaky it sounds. The reason Jolty had become bodiless soul wasn't clear. It was assumed it was a human before. When asked about it, he would rather feign ignorance or carelessness. When Sereinae asked, she sensed that he wasn't comfortable with talking about it, so she decided not to force things. During their daily life, she takes care of Jolty like in a sort of family. She made and wears a hair clip shaped after him as a special token of appreciation. With Jolty's influence, Sereinae grew a slightly nerd-ish side too, gathering more or less useful info about anything they want. With time they both take interest in each others hobbies, and started to visit worlds outside their own to expand their horizons. When she saw he is truly a human, she remembered about her vow not to form relationships during her teenage years, but now maybe there's a start for anything. At one time she stopped treating him like a pet as a consequence. During their time in Gensokyo, Sereinae asks Mokou for guidance through the Bamboo Forest in case she needs to go to Eientei for medical matters. Mokou, at first, mistook her for her enemy Kaguya, but not any longer. Later on she started to make and wear a new outfit for each time she goes to Gensokyo, trying to blend in with the other humans. She related to how people from the outside world get accustomed to Gensokyo's life style, such as the Moriya Shrine, and actually admires them for managing to get accustomed to it. She frequently asked them for advice, and visited the shrine. ...by climbing the Youkai Mountain instead of taking the ropeway, thinking it'd be good for her health. Jolty likes it when she cosplays as Sanae, so, Sereinae frequently wears her cosplay of her when at home, him associating the green, blue and white color association with serenity. Due to their adventurous and curious side, they also search info about whatever events or incidents that already took place, much to the people's fears that they might find too much out, but for them, it's like more like reading a story book while being less ignorant about whatever is or has been going on. Jolty once asked if Sereinae wanted to become a youkai for her physical limits, but she refused: she still dislikes her limits, but at the same time, she cannot afford to give up on her humanity and change herself forever, and guesses Marisa thinks like that as well. She also mentioned how much of a hassle it would be for her to try to become one, that she would become a target for Reimu to exterminate, and that she has other things in life that matter (implying Jolty and their future). All arcs and incidents listed below take place between Wily Beast and Weakest Creature and Unconnected Marketeers, and thereafter. The BraviOCOkina (but th18) and SereinaeAlt mods are canon to these stories, unless specified otherwise. The incident of the Dream City: The following stories are told from Reimu’s position as the protagonist. It was a darker night than usual, the skies, once covered with stars, got covered by dark clouds. Once Sereinae and Jolty found the source behind this, they found out to be helpless. Their opponent turned out to be too strong for them, or anyone. Jolty can barely restrict their power, but enough to make them defeatable… But not by Sereinae’s hands alone. As a matter of fact, if Jolty takes hold of it, Sereinae can’t use her abilities because of his absence. They decided then to quickly retire while they could. The dark clouds spread within the city until it gets covered in total darkness, as if it got submerged by it, and eventually seeped into Gensokyo, in the shape of a dark blue and pink miasma on the ground, causing the shrine maiden to react. She first guessed that the Scarlet Devil Mansion group was behind it, but, when seeing where the clouds came from, she changed her mind and headed to their actual source. Once she ended in the city, she found it familiar, because of the Outside World vibes, but something didn’t feel right. Once she met Sereinae, she tried to explain a bit of the situation, but Reimu cut her off, didn't believe it, and thought Sereinae was in league with the mastermind. The shrine maiden challenged Sereinae, but she didn't mind, not only she wanted to keep her from going to avoid having the situation make more victims, she wanted to test her strength when she sensed her confidence. Once Reimu won, Sereinae explained the situation even further, gave her directions, and had Jolty follow her behind to ensure she's safe. Once she arrived at the source, the shrine maiden saw Jolty behind her, and wondered why he came along. After hearing his explanation, she then laughed and said she could defeat anybody with spell card rules around, much to Jolty’s surprise at her ignorance. Their enemy doesn’t abide by the spell card rules at all, and is impossible to defeat. Although… Jolty’s ability can make Reimu able to win with his ability, or at least to make it abide by those so called rules as she calls them. Reimu finally agreed to this plan. Their opponent appeared before them, recalling the time Jolty ran away, before introducing himself as the other part of Jolty. Which Jolty dubbed as "Bad-Jolt" for some reason. Unlike him, he has an actual human body, of a hooded young man with red eyes and purple patterns on the bottom of the pants and near the edge of his sleeves. He looked annoyed by the fact Jolty and Sereinae had to rely someone else to face him. Considering Sereinae useless and worth throwing aside, and he would be better with someone else, and laughed about the name she gave him. Reimu, as honest and direct as she is, said out loud that she had been dragged into someone else's internal problems, she then thought about nothing but beating her opponent as usual, but when thinking twice, she added that Jolty shouldn't throw Sereinae aside, she noticed back then that they were trusting of each other, and finds it weird that part of him would reject her. She doesn't know that much about their relationship, but she can't stand for that Bad-Jolt badmouthing her either, and she knew Jolty is a human soul. He provoked Reimu to see if she can face someone else's inner demon. Jolty just let a loud sigh, things were clear to him, he still intends to stay by Sereinae's side. He reminded Reimu of her initial decision to beat their enemy and rushed through his other part, restricting her strength into making Reimu able to win. Once defeated, he made the city return to normal as a sign of guilt, but still claims he is right about Sereinae, and invites Jolty to prove himself that she is worth having around. She heard about the story afterwards, and felt sorry for both of them. She will try to give him the tools to deal with it, like any therapist would. The first thing being that he should try understanding why he is so untrusting towards her. What is the exact thing that he fears from her? That she might not be enough for him? Factually, he has no reason to fear her, but she still sensed he is too stressed about it, so she swore she will play her part in reassuring both of them. Additionally, she guessed any kind of people has their own other self inside of them, which seems to be in this case Jolty's subconscious. Sereinae followed Reimu to see if everything was back to normal in Gensokyo. To their relief, it is. The girl apologized to the shrine maiden for the inconvenience. Even though Reimu said she does this all the time with a smirk, Sereinae didn't believe it, and wants to reward her just to clear her mind. Reimu then asked for donations, but Sereinae asked if this question was honest. Then both of their stomachs rumbled, so Sereinae baked her own special meal and they both ate. This was so strange, for the shrine maiden to be offered something for solving an incident… It was from this moment onwards that Sereinae started to take interest in Gensokyo, starting to wander in this world, and her world, on occasions. The Subconscious of a Brave Heart Bad-Jolt (悪い・ジョルト) Size : 180cm Species : Manifestation of an inner spirit Gender : Male Personality : Usually insecure or worried, caring about Jolty in a twisted way no matter the cost. Ability : Capable of using power based on Jolty's negativity, and spreading doubt or fear in his mind. Likes : Being right, understood and listened. Dislikes : Being wrong, ignored, misunderstood, or thrown aside. His name given by Jolty. Secret God Arc (might not be considered canon due to clashing with the Sereinae Replica Arc): The following is a minor event that takes place after the previous incident. Jolty noticed Sereinae went missing for a few days, without even being told anything about it from her or coming back. He looked for her everywhere through the city, but still didn’t find her. He decided then to take the same path she took to go to Gensokyo, the same passage the clouds took to get there, to ask Reimu about her whereabouts, but in vain, she didn’t see her at all. Reimu knows what he has done to help her, meaning she has no reason to attack him. Having nowhere to go, he decided to stay at the shrine during the daytime, while still going back home during Gensokyo’s nighttime, only to still not find Sereinae there. After thinking for a while, Reimu realized that this isn’t normal at all, after all, why would she leave for a while knowing she needs to go back home after being gone for over that many days? This sounds like an incident, but on a too small scale to be called so. They decided to take action and, since this recalled her certain memories of children getting supposedly kidnapped, she then looked for a certain door. On the way forward, she kept protecting Jolty to help him avoid harm. Once they arrived at the Land of the Back Doors, they noticed Sereinae was trying to fly away from a woman sitting on a chair. They overheard the conversation, and the lady said “I know you have potential, I can sense it, though I’m disappointed even I can’t unlock it. As if there was a lock on it, meaning a key is required for it.”. Jolty wondered what she meant by that and decided to jump into the conversation, much to Sereinae’s happy surprise. She explained how she ended up here : once she passed a door in the back of their building in the Dream City as a shortcut back home, she ended up in this land instead, with no way to escape as the door she took was locked, then two dancers and a “creepy lady” challenged her, even though she couldn’t fight back, making her forced to just survive their attacks, one after another. It was later revealed that this lady wanted her as a new servant to replace her current ones, especially after having seen how Sereinae dodged the bullets with a grace that isn’t that far from a dance. Still, the girl refused, deciding that she will always stay true to Jolty. The lady then introduced herself as Okina Matara. She claims herself to be the reason why the dark clouds found their way into Gensokyo, through the door Sereinae took to get to Gensokyo and by extent the Land of the Backdoor. The secret god sees a strong bond between the girl and Jolty, then suggests they combine their powers in order for them to challenge her, making it essentially a test. She also insisted that Reimu shouldn’t partake within the fight as it would interfere within said test, and made her busy by making her face her two current servants. Sereinae saw them before, and admittedly guessed their outfits would fit her! Once she can use her true power, much to Okina’s delight, seeing her potential finally unlocked, they then fight. Upon winning, they passed the test, but Sereinae still stayed true to her decision and decided to go back home, only leaving Okina behind, disappointed. The girl’s final word to this is that if Okina wants it that way, the girl can still assist the servants once in a while, that is, if she asks her nicely, the thing being that, she can’t leave Jolty behind. The girl thanked the shrine maiden for protecting Jolty on their way here. Reimu didn’t mind about it that much, except for the fact she was left aside to fight the servants while the two others were fighting their bosses directly. Sereinae asked how she could make up for it. This time, the girl didn’t hesitate and invited Reimu’s friends and other people so that she could share the food with others. Sereinae Replica Arc: The canonicity about the past existence of the following character in Sereinae Létoile’s story can’t truly be confirmed! It is confirmed in the Sereinae Replica’s story. While Sereinae was doing one of her random Gensokyo tours, she stumbled into a house at the edge of the Human Village, the Serene Inn. There she made a surprising discovery… She met a girl who looked exactly like her, as if she was looking at a mirror, only the reflection had different clothes… The other girl who met her just greeted her the usual way, but something was wrong. Once the two introduced themselves, their first names happened to be the exact same! They kept asking each other questions, for each answered question, the other Sereinae remembered more and more about her past… Sereinae Létoile is just any ordinary human, with a last name, but the one who stood in front of her is nothing but the creation of someone, but told nothing about who they are. That creation not only got made from a bunch of Gensokyo characters, her appearance and personality are somewhat defined from someone else’s too! Realizing there’s absolutely nothing that can make her unique, her own self, she became so overly upset and thought in the end that only one of the two girls can exist… Even though Reimu tried to interfere, they both accepted their challenge, and fought against each other for the first and last time outside of Gensokyo for them to be unbound by the spell card rules, while keeping the shrine maiden away from it. Said shrine maiden wanted to save both of them, to her eyes, no one had to die, but she couldn’t. But unlike Sereinae, she couldn’t understand how the other one felt, that is to say, that the replica has to prove her right to exist in front of the original, through combat. If the original refused, the replica wouldn't be alright with that. There was one crucial difference between the two, one difference that made the original Sereinae stand out during the fight, and could make her a more viable servant… Her superior skills at dodging bullets. That gave her the upper hand in the entire fight. Her movements looked as if she was dancing frantically around the bullets, which was all that this someone wanted… Realizing the fake one failed at that purpose, and lost the fight, she had no choice but to go away for good, return the essence that made her to the Gensokyo characters, and her defined appearance go back to the real one’s. Before going away, the original girl still recognized the other’s skills at singing, and would like to get into it for her sake, and is sorry for the battle. Those characters can still retain a certain familiarity from looking at Sereinae’s face, but won’t ever be able to recall why. And after all, this isn’t a big deal for them. Reimu scolded Sereinae, yet the two Sereinaes wanted that clash to happen, and after all, she made those people a favor, by giving them back what is supposed to belong to them : their life essence. Reimu realized something came back to her, and, that this fight was for the greater good. She couldn't blame the girl anymore, she was quick to forget about it anyways. The real Sereinae then decided to make these events a complete secret from anyone but that shrine maiden, and took over the Serene Inn, working it in, hiring people to work for her while she’s away. She has to keep it open after all! She also thought about making some business with the clothes she makes there, from time to time while working for the Inn side. She has that lingering memory about having to take someone's life without being able to do anything about it. She remembered the replica talking about certain dancers, twin dancers, she asked Reimu about them, and wished to see them. They were friends with her. Once she got to the Land of the Backdoors, she offered to the Secret God to periodically help Mai and Satono, just as some sort of legacy of their relationship with the other Sereinae. Some time later though, Sereinae planned one day to resign from her part-time job as a servant, she had cosplaying and making and selling clothes as a business after all. And...things seemed off to begin, that those three have a relationship that didn't really exist, it was with the replica after all, not the original. And they ended up learning about the original Sereinae being half responsible for the replica's demise at some point. Yet, both Sereinaes looked like each other a lot, and behave the same way. It would take some time for the dancers to forgive her, unlike with Reimu. Who was the replica's creator in all of this? Okina Matara ended up having to tell the truth about the replica because of this reveal, that it was her creation. Sereinae may have at first sensed some sorrow coming from the secret god for having lost her creation, she didn't sense any remorse from her for what she has done : giving life to a replica who suffered the fact she couldn't ever become someone who's not a shadow of someone else, and whose identity and life is taken from someone else's. This caused the girl to become more and more disgusted about Okina as time went on and was the true reason why she decided to quit, not her other hobbies and businesses, just this. Okina made it clear that if Sereinae chooses to resign, then she wouldn't be able to use her doors to freely go to Gensokyo and see Mai and Satono again. While she didn't mind about the former, as she would likely find an alternate way to go to Gensokyo, Sereinae still wanted to challenge her to a spellcard duel, where if she won, Okina would then have to allow Mai and Satono to see her again sometimes, just not to leave her behind, alone with Jolty. She couldn't blame them for having to obey Okina's orders. Jolty's New Body Arc: Sereinae after a while was becoming tired to do everything in her house alone, with Jolty around not being able to do anything to help. She wished then that he had a human body to help. She supposed that if Jolty is a disembodied human heart and soul, then that would mean he can host a human body himself. Jolty responded that it would be immoral to just steal someone else's body to do it, and to that Sereinae agrees. He wasn't against the idea of having a human body, after all that time, deep inside, having a body in starts missing him, in that world. After brainstorming for a while, they thought about asking the puppeteer from the Forest of Magic, but she, being Alice, answered that she only makes puppets, and wouldn't be able to make it feel real even if it was human-sized. They've tried doing their own research on the human body, if it required magic to create one for example, how to make a blank body which shape and flesh would adapt to the heart and soul inhabiting it. They gave Alice the idea about it in case they'd need to use magic. It would take long until they find an effective way to create one, gathering as much info and help as they can to make things possible, or understand the whole thing at the very least. In the case everything failed, they'd get someone more experimented to do it for them. Sereinae was amazed by the fact everything worked out in the end. She was the one who made the outfit for him, and, although it took time for her to get used to his new appearance, she recognized him with his everyday attitude. She isn't used to living with a male human, but decided she would try this time. She also thought by now that she could use some help from him, but she's going easy on him at the moment, until he gets used to aiding her on his own. Jolty still felt embarassed to look like a real human the same way as her, and it took time for him to get used to controlling his own body like it was natural. He loses balance easily and has trouble getting up in a second, so Sereinae took things with patience. He mentioned it was as if he was an old man being helped by his granddaughter. He shook that idea off, he can't look frail and weak forever. Afterward she made a hat for him, based on a certain protagonist's design that he likes. It was a spiky beanie with a black band, on which there are two white spots, meant to refer to his spirit form. He wouldn't wear it when it's too hot. Jolty now has a new body, he has one reason less to stay with Sereinae, but, after all the time they spent together, and the fact she still needs him, he decided to stay anyways. It was out of the question to leave. They really formed a relationship after all that time, and Sereinae has stopped taking him for her pet after a while. He pointed out that with his new body, Sereinae can't use the fighting abilities from him that she uses. He suggested to teach her to defend herself in case he can't be there to help her, to which she replied that they're not in a hurry, that when the time will come they will practice physical combat. When they tried to go to Gensokyo, they noticed that they can't bring Jolty's body to Gensokyo through their newfound alternate way, that is, Wishing Portals, where they made sure that only the two of them can use them, fearing that curious people may abuse it, much to the incident solvers' ire. They must also find a way to keep that body safe from eventual danger. Sereinae recalled another sage who can use gaps to get anything she wants easily, and they both wouldn't like that body to serve as food for youkai. Jolty then had the idea of asking Reimu to put a seal over that body to repel the youkai while he and Sereinae are gone to Gensokyo. She only has to accept after all. With an actual human body, Jolty now has to get a job of his own to provide for both of their needs. Sereinae still doesn't abandon the idea of studying to become a therapist, and Jolty encourages it, as it can help them in their everday lives. New job means temporary absence, and also the need for Sereinae to be able to defend herself when in need, This was the opportunity for her to train.