Empress

Empress (エンプレス, Enpuresu) is the incarnation of the Black★Rock Shooter character in Black★★Rock Shooter DAWN FALL. Her full designation is "Hemitheos Unit Type 01: Operation Codename Empress", and she was also known as "Black Rock Shooter".

Appearance
Empress is a white-skinned, thin girl with black hair tied up into asymmetrical twintails, the left being much longer and more voluminous than the right, and soft blue eyes. She wears a revealing black and white uniform with orange accents, which consists of a large, wide collar, a bikini top with two white stripes on the left breast, a pair of hot pants, a holster on her right thigh, and combat shoes and gloves. A blue flame can emanate from her left eye.

Personality
Empress isn't very emotional or expressive, but she can be quite stubborn when it comes to helping others. She defied the Colonel's order to leave Norito and Miya behind and instead took them back to their home in the mountain, protecting them along the way. Empress does not believe that there's a human in the world who isn't worth caring about.

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Empress was once the leader of the Hemitheos Unit, a group of human girls who were enhanced with nanotech to become humanity's guardians. She appears to have originally been from a place called Lighthouse No. 8.

Empress first appears in The Good, The Bad & The Mechanics, where she lays defeated on the ground by Lunatic, while her comrades, Strength and Dead Master, cry out for her. Empress was then taken to the base of an underground research facility named Area X, where she laid dormant for twenty years.

In the present time, after dreaming of Lighthouse No. 8, she was roused from her slumber and freed herself from the stasis pod she was kept in. However, she had lost all her memories, even those of herself, although she had a strong desire to go to the place she dreamt of.

Abilities
As the former leader of the Hemitheos Unit, Empress displays superhuman capabilities in battle. She is nimble and displays quick thinking, dodging all of a Titan's attacks and turning its attempt to pierce her with its tail back on itself. She was also able to sever the limbs of said Titan by kicking or swinging her arm at it, despite her thin build. Even without her memories, Empress' battle instincts remain as she knew she could fight Titans, though she did forget the very basic function of a gun after instinctively pulling it out.

Empress can breathe in the air around her without issue, unlike normal humans who require a respirator due to the planet being contaminated with Arche. She is also able to manipulate Arche in the atmosphere and reconstruct them into a powerful Coilgun for her own use, an ability that she rediscovered when Norito and Miya were in grave danger and physically beyond her reach. Furthermore, Empress can recover from severe wounds and regenerate lost limbs, albeit at a reduced pace after her awakening.

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