Strength (DAWN FALL Character)

Strength (ストレングス, Sutorengusu) is the incarnation of the Strength character in Black★★Rock Shooter DAWN FALL.

Appearance
Strength has tan skin, short white hair, and orange eyes. Her asymmetrical bangs cover her right eye, and a black and orange hairclip adorns the mid-left side of her bangs. Much of her outfit, which is black and gray with orange accents, appears to be falling apart or missing: she wears a dark gray hooded jacket reaching down to her calves, with large gray sleeves that cover her arms save for her fingers, and a large collar that has a sharp teeth pattern on the front covering her mouth. She also wears a tattered gray bodysuit with the leggings missing most of all, large gray combat shoes, and two olive green satchels holstered to her waist and shoulders. Her hands are thin and claw-like with orange fingers.

Personality
Strength suffers from gaps in her memories and occasional headaches, and believes that Empress is the cause of her suffering. When she wields her Gigantic Arm, she is belligerent to the point that she destroys everything she touches, but when it is removed from her, her personality significantly changes.

History
Strength first appears in The Good, The Bad & The Mechanics, where she is shown fighting back against a horde of Titans by herself. She angrily shouts out for Empress to appear, and soon becomes overpowered by the Titans, crying as her Gigantic Arm is removed by them. At some point after, both her and Dead Master were captured, put up on crosses, and appear to have been manipulated with.

Strength appears again at the end of The Good, The Bad & The Mechanics, where she leaps off of her Black Trike to crush a tank-type Titan that Empress failed to destroy completely. After coldly greeting Empress, she attacks her and attempts to kill her by blowing up a tank trucker she throws upon her, only to find it was empty. Strength continues attacking Empress and tries to fire missiles from her Gigantic Arm at her, but is intercepted by Empress' own Black Trike, who rams into her and causes all her missiles to miss. Empress escapes on Black Trike, and Strength has another headache as she sees a memory of herself being seemingly manipulated. She shouts in frustration and curses Empress before getting on her motorbike and leaving to go elsewhere.

Later, Strength observes the beehives of swarm-type Titans from afar and witnesses Empress summoning the Coilgun in its entirety. When Empress is about to be bombarded by swarm-type Titans, Strength suddenly appears and protects her with her Gigantic Arm. She berates Empress for struggling for a fight that Strength sees as pointless. Empress calmly replies that she fights because she is able to, and Strength retorts by saying that a kid like Norito isn't worth caring about, but Empress tells her there's no such thing as a human who isn't worth caring about. Strength remembers Lighthouse No. 8, and annoyed, she takes off on her motorbike again, wondering why she can't help but hate Empress.

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