| “ | Give this up? Yeah, great joke there bud. What I have here...are the feelings and thoughts of everyone across all of time and space. Of all of those who died thanks to this stupid, unfair, and fucked up cycle that you think brings happiness. These are the hopes and dreams of all of those that want to be free. Try again. | „ |
| ~ Altaire wielding Angurvadal against Ymir |
| “ | Come on! Challenge me! | „ |
| ~ Activating Overdrive |
Summary[]
Altaire Rivera is the main protagonist of Azure Core, a bio-engineered weapon that escaped containment in order to seek freedom. Along her journeys and adventures, she would come to see the world she had found herself in along with a variety of new and unique situations. Eventually coming back into contact with the ones she originally escaped from, she would work alongside the group in order to save the entirety of the world.
Appearance[]
Despite being quite old for someone looking like her age, Altaire actually looks like a young teenager more than anything else. The only thing abnormal about her is her height, which is not saying much. Thanks to the why she acts, there is almost always something off about her, physically. Whether it be a splotch of paint resting on her cheek or the tattoo of an ouroboros resting on her left breast, there is always something there to break her common look. Her skin is something akin to a blank canvas, being pale white in appearance as if it is begging for someone to draw upon it. Her eyes are a chaotic mixture of purple and gray, almost always shifting as if in a constant battle, yet being able to stare as if into one's own soul. As she almost never takes care of her hair, the mop of black reaches down all the way to her upper torso, flecks of hair being all across her neck. The underside of all of that black is a shade of blue, sometimes flaring up to become a light purple in the midst of combat. Speaking of which, whenever she fights, a pair of white wings appears on her back.
Her clothes are never always the same thing, which makes it difficult to pin down her common appearance. But the most notable is that of a white shirt with rainbow paint splattered all across the fabric, with a gray strap resting atop her right shoulder which leads down to a backpack of all things. A dark gray coat rests atop the items, which bears the logo of Valhalla, the organization. The logo bears the symbol of a snowflake that is doused in red and various stripes of gold running across it. The stripes themselves actually indicate the rank of an employee in Valhalla, though she did steal this off of someone. Lastly, she wears gray pants with various symbols of white attached to it. The left side was usually comprised of a chain breaking, a dove flying, a peace sign, and the sun. The right side has a heart, a wax seal painted on, various keys dotting around it, rope knots, and a security badge. The set is completed with a mixture of mismatching socks, one being black and the other white, as the shoes follow the same pattern. As the left shoe shows a mixture of daffodils and narcissus flowers, displaying them with pride. For the right shoe, it actually has the Chinese symbol of balance, the Yin and Yang interconnected and intertwined.
The last of her appearance is when she goes into what is called "Overdrive." While in this form, her appearance completely changes and becomes a complete suit of white and red armor. Standing over 6 feet tall, it's presence dominates the situation wherever it may be. It's quite muscular with a large collar, traditional hakama, and ballooning pants befitting of a samurai. Long silver hair appears instead of her normal black, flowing in a nonexistent wind as it now spouts horns, pauldrons spitting teeth and horns as they appear like sharks, red eyes showing off their violent nature. Streaks of red are ever-present across this hulking armor, usually appearing on the mop of silver hair and as red slits becoming her eyes and a toothy grin. Ironically, what inspired her to make this her appearance in Overdrive are Hakumen and Susanoo from Blazblue.
Personality[]
Altaire is like a bolt of lightning when it comes down to who she is as a person, appearing and disappearing as soon as she came. But her impact is felt by everyone she meets, the general atmosphere becoming happier as people enjoy themselves. Loud and boisterous, she is the light of the party and always encouraging it to continue onward throughout the night. She finds utter enjoyment in simply being around others and having fun with them. There is no time in planning as she simply jumps into whatever is going on and immersing herself in the experience with very little thought placed into it. As such, Altaire simply rides along the currents of life rather than someone who would want to try and swim against it. She simply does things at the spur of the moment, always moving quickly to get the best experience out of life. She seemingly does not understand the meaning of 'slow' or 'slow down' whatsoever, always moving ahead and never looking back.
But the most telling part about her personality is the uncanny ability to feel and connect with a person's emotions. It is to the point where she is an empath, feeling another's emotions as if it was her own. Thanks to this ability, she can easily read the atmosphere and immediately tell what is happening. Unfortunately she can be a bit insensitive, to put it lightly, to the situation at hand. While she can feel the emotions of others on a deep level, Altaire often doesn't understand her own emotions, hence her need to be around everyone at all times. Because without anyone, she feels lost in what to feel, which is what becomes her greatest fear. This is accompanied by the fact that she can say the wrong thing, or don't know what to say. A rather hidden part of Altaire is that she is an incredibly sentimental person. Anything she is given immediately holds infinite value to the point where she is willing to die for it. Still, if anyone said that to her face she would undoubtedly deny it.
Combat Statistics[]
Tier: 7-B, higher via Overdrive, Low 1-C upon death | 6-A, higher via Overdrive, Low 1-C upon death | Unknown, Low 1-C with Angurvadal
Key: Base | Shadow of Ouroboros | Ragnarok
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Types 4, 5, 8, and 9: Reliant on the Azure Core and will endlessly be revived as long as it persists), Regeneration (Low-Godly: Was able to come back after the complete destruction of her physical body), Acausality (Type 2: As a Singularity, she only exists in the present with no other variants in time), Intangibility (Phasing: Can phase through walls and matter), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, and 3: Has no need for sustenance as the Azure Core sustains her), Enhanced Senses and Extrasensory Perception (Can see the Aesir, who are abstract entities embodying the will of the cosmos. Can sense life-force, will, aura, and strength), Non-Physical Interaction (Capable of damaging the Aesirs with her strikes. Could still strike the Draugr, who could phase through strikes), Aura (Overwhelming, Explosive, Materialized, Defensive: Her aura is a constant manifestation of lightning that can drive others to fear), Instinctive Action and limited Precognition (Her body can act on pure instinct to the point of subconsciously predicting and reacting to attacks), Reactive Evolution and Accelerated Development (Battle and Passive; Physical Statistics, Intelligence, Abilities) (Evo-Weapons constantly evolve and adapt to the situations and environments they find themselves in, becoming stronger and gaining new abilities when facing more powerful adversaries), limited Abstract Existence (Type 1: Her true form acts and thinks independently of her own body as the Azure Core), Durability Negation (Can damage and interact with one's Core, which contains the mind, memory, soul, concept, information, and structure of an individual), Lightning Manipulation (Can control lightning that comes directly from the Azure Core), Reality Warping, Space-Time Manipulation (Type 1: Lightning from the Azure Core distorts time, space, and reality), BFR (The Azure Core's Lightning can throw targets into parallel universes), Resistance Negation (The lightning of the Azure Core ignores and bypasses any resistances and defenses put up against it, as it can only be resisted by those who have a similar nature of the Azure Core), Healing and Regeneration Negation (Up to Mid-Godly), and Immortality Negation (Types 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) (Damage from the Azure Core leaves permanent scars as it damages the very Core of individuals and could negate the immortality of the Draugr, who are undead entities not affiliated with life or death as they constantly possess others)
Overdrive grants Statistics Amplification (Overdrive boosts all characteristics of the individual), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1: Overdrive distorts and overwhelms other concepts with its presence as it transcends them all), Acausality (Type 4: Individuals who work on Overdrive become beings who are no longer bound by the laws of the cosmos), Nonduality (Type 2: Accessing Overdrive allows one to transcend the dualism that binds all concepts), Greater Time Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Law Manipulation (Overdrive bends the dominion of Time, which is the very law that controls all of fate, causality, and probability), Quantum Manipulation (Overdrive can cause quantum collapses and is constantly manipulating quantum superposition), Existence Erasure (Beings struck by Overdrive can be erased from existence), Power Nullification (The presence of an individual in Overdrive nullifies abilities that are not on the same level), Invulnerability (Individuals in Overdrive are completely immune and invulnerable to beings that are not in Overdrive), Power Modification (Altaire's Overdrive completely drains her regenerative capabilities and pours it all into pure amplification), Greater Reality Warping (Reality begins to crumble around individuals in Overdrive), Immortality (Type 2: Altaire could fight while in Overdrive despite the entirety of her head being crushed and the Azure Core being heavily damaged, with even a crack in a Core leads to erasure of the mind, memory, and soul)
Resistance to Fear Manipulation, Morality Manipulation, Perception Manipulation, Illusion Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Types 1, 2, and 3), and Corruption (Types 2 and 3) (Was fine being in the presence of multiple Draugr and Haugbui, entities who can bring fear and panic to even abstract entities along with breaking the morale and senses of individuals with illusions of absolute darkness. Could look the huldra straight in the eyes despite her being capable of collapsing the sanity of biological and abstract beings with a gaze and corrupt the space around her), Poison Manipulation, Corrosion Inducement, Deconstruction, Quantum Manipulation (Could swim around in Eitr, which is an acid and poison so great that it corrodes and disintegrates on the quantum level and erase souls), Time Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, and Probability Manipulation (Resisted the Dominion of Time), Blood Manipulation, Disease Manipulation and Biological Manipulation (Was not affected by a Draugr biting her, which inflicts disease along with altering the blood and biology of an individual to become a zombie), Transmutation and Physics Manipulation (Tanked strikes from Brikr, which could transmute individuals into nothing more than elementary particles and twist the laws of physics with each strike), Absorption and Statistics Reduction (Lost no strength while within the Slidr River, which drains and absorbs the strength of others and their Core), Sealing (Hel was unable to produce any seal strong enough to contain her), Paralysis Inducement (Could move in the presence of Akash, whose mere presence stopped and paralyzed the movement of space-time), Space-Time Manipulation (Type 2: Unaffected by alterations to the space-time continuum and could survive the literal aspects of Time and Space ramming into her), Explosion Manipulation, Nuclear Manipulation, and Spatial Manipulation (Tanked strikes from Bolverk, which pierces through space and creates nuclear explosions on impact), Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the alteration of gravity around her), Petrification (Unaffected by huldra's touch, which turns individuals into stone), Extrasensory Perception (Was able to become undetectable by beings who could see the Core of individuals), Temperature Manipulation (Unaffected by the fires of Muspelheim or the cold of Niflheim, which are the literal concepts of heat and cold), Absolute Zero (Survived in Absolute Zero temperatures and could resist strikes which held that aspect), Life Manipulation (Tanked blows from Rof, which tears away the concept of life from targets struck), Death Manipulation (Survived the presence of The Norns, who could kill entire concepts with their mere presence and bring death to the Cores of beings), Void Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Information Manipulation (Type 2), Memory Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), and Law Manipulation (Tanked strikes from beings who could erase the core of an individual with void from Ginnungagap. Could survive despite her Core nearly falling apart, which means erasure of all that it contains)
All previous abilities vastly enhanced plus Immortality (Type 3: Could constantly regenerate in combat despite her body being torn apart), Regeneration (Up to High-Godly: Could survive the destruction of all of her aspects as long as the Azure Core persists), Void Manipulation, Forcefield Creation, Power Nullification (Wields the aura of Nothung, which manifests as void shields that nullifies attacks done to her), Pressure Manipulation (Nothung can induce pressure so great that it can crush one's Core), Teleportation (Can use Nothung to erase spatial relations), Subjective Reality (Nothung can make things unreal), Greater Resistance Negation (All of her attacks are infused with Nothung, allowing them to erase layers of resistance), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Can create an imaginary space with the Azure Core), Information Analysis (The Azure Core can instantly gain information on a target's Core if focused), Technology Manipulation (Technology breaks and blacks out in her presence), Paralysis Inducement (Her presence is capable of making others freeze in place), Alternate Future Display (The Azure Core is capable of creating falsified and real illusions of the future), Resurrection (So long as the Azure Core is in existence, she is capable of endless revival and resurrection), Existence Erasure (The substance of Nothung can erase people from existence), Enhanced Regeneration Negation (Up to High-Godly: The Azure Core now permanently damages and scars the Core, rendering healing and regeneration impossible), Incorporeality and Intangibility (Coating herself in Nothung makes her incorporeal and intangible to the level of even a Core), Duplication (Can create falsified illusions of herself), Absorption (Absorbed the entirety of Nothung into herself), Sealing (Contained and sealed Nothung entirely within her structure), possibly Fate Manipulation (Nothung is said to be capable of erasing Fate and Predestination)
All previous vastly enhanced plus Abstract Existence (Type 1) (Is the abstract existence of Nothung)
All previous vastly enhanced plus Reality Warping (Could withstand an Overdrive's presence), Resistance Negation (Withstood the cold of the Abyss, which breaks down all defenses and resistances), Sleep Manipulation, Dream Manipulation (Was unable to be put to sleep by the Vanir nor have her dreams altered), Power Nullification (Could still use her abilities while in the presence of an Overdrive), Body Puppetry (Resisted control against Loki, who could even control the Cores of individuals), Black Hole Manipulation (Was able to survive while in a black hole made entirely out of Nothung)
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Types 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9: Was able to survive the Azure Core being torn out of her and lacks the concepts of life and death. Reliant on her true form as nothingness to bring her back from death), Regeneration (High-Godly: Was able to reconstruct her body after the Azure Core was torn out of it), Acausality (Type 4, Type 5 for True Form: Detached from the very laws and Fate that binds Yggdrasil to Ragnarok which was created by Ymir. Her True Form exists as Nothing which transcends every system of causality and could strike Ymir, who was above causality in its entirety), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, and 3: Has no need for sustenance as her true nothingness sustains her), Reactive Evolution (Rapidly adapts and evolves to situations and foes she faces to the point where an ability used once on her would no longer affect her), Nonduality (Nature Type 1/Aspect Type 1 for her True Form: Nothing is an essence that is not bound by dualism), Extrasensory Perception and Non-Physical Interaction (Could see and strike Ymir and damage his avatars, who lack Cores themselves and are described as abstract embodiments of nothingness), Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Aspect Type 1/Aspect Types 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5: The Azure Core no longer exists within her and embodies Nothing, which is a complete lack of all things including the mind, soul, information, concept, and lawful structure), Abstract Existence (Type 1: Exists as the embodiment of Nothing), Void Manipulation and Existence Erasure (Can use the essence of Nothing to erase anything, used it to destroy the cycle of Ragnarok, which is the abstract embodiment of Fate), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1: Could alter the Yggdrasil metastructure which is a transcendent conceptual structure that embodies and contains all concepts), Space-Time Manipulation (Type 2: Her strikes against Ymir rippled throughout all of space and time and could completely throw alternate worlds off their temporal axis), Resistance Negation (Was able to bypass the infinite defenses that Ymir put up for his heralds), Power Nullification (Could nullify Ymir's gifts via Nothing), Order Manipulation (Type 3), Law Manipulation, Quantum Manipulation (Could alter the quantum strings of Yggdrasil, which are the physical embodiments of the law and order of the multiverse), Probability Manipulation (Could bring alternate possibilities into reality), Cosmic Awareness (Tapping into her true form allows her to see the entirety of Yggdrasil), Teleportation, Dimensional Travel and BFR via Spatial Manipulation (Controls the Dominion of Space, which allows her to manipulate space wherever she likes), Sealing (Could seal beings within Nothing), Deconstruction (Was able to completely disintegrate a being by transferring a small portion of Nothing into their atomic structure), Forcefield Creation (Can create forcefields that nullify attacks)
Existence Erasure, Void Manipulation, Order Manipulation (Type 3), Chaos Manipulation (Type 3), Law Manipulation, Information Manipulation (Type 2), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1) (Angurvadal is the very embodiment of Destruction made manifest, allowing it to annihilate anything in its path as it destroys all laws that attempt to stand against it. As the embodiment of Destruction, it controls and alters both Order and Chaos to its whim, along with being able to destroy them. Could alter the very void of Ginnungagap and make it continuously feed and devour Ymir. Could completely erase information in its entirety and wipe out the Cores of beings without issue), Resistance Negation, Power Nullification (No matter what defenses Ymir put up, Angurvadal nullified it all), Nonexistence Erasure (Effortlessly erased Ymir's avatars and Ymir himself, who was a being of primordial nothingness unbound by the digital notions of existence and nonexistence), Probability Manipulation (Angurvadal was able to collapse and destroy all possibilities), Immortality Negation (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) (Erased the immortal status of any target it faced, which would include beings like the Draugr and Ymir's avatars), Regeneration Negation (High-Godly: Could completely kill Ymir, despite him being able to regenerate from being eaten alive by Ginnungagap, which erases all aspects of an individual's existence), Causality Manipulation, Fate Manipulation (Annihilated the whole of Ragnarok across all of existence, including its events and replacing them entirely)
All previous vastly enhanced (Scales to her prior selves)
Attack Potency: City Level (Vaporized an entire meteor made out of granite and 1000 feet in diameter [59 Megatons]), higher via Overdrive (Going into Overdrive boosts all physical characteristics, including strength), Low Complex Multiverse Level upon death (The Azure Core sustains the Yggdrasil metastructure which houses and embeds an infinite amount of worlds which would cease to exist upon its destruction) | Continent Level+ (Far stronger than before and could produce energy comparable to a solar flare [2.4 Petatons]), higher via Overdrive, Low Complex Multiverse Level upon death | Unknown (Much stronger than before but to unknown degrees, has only been shown to use Angurvadal), Low Complex Multiverse Level via Angurvadal (Angurvadal destroyed all of Yggdrasil and the whole of Ymir, whose sheer size could collapse all of reality if he moved out of Ginnungagap)
Speed: Relativistic (Could dodge lightning that moved as fast as its return stroke [0.3c]), Infinite Attack Speed (Lightning from the Azure Core bypasses space, making its attacks instant), Immeasurable via Overdrive (Overdrive allowed her to keep up and surprise Sleipnir, whose speed alone allowed it to move to different eras) | Massively FTL (Could dodge a beam of energy that reached the edge of the solar system in a minute [415.85c]), Infinite Attack Speed, Immeasurable via Overdrive | Immeasurable (Was able to keep up with and tag entities that were amped by Ymir, allowing them to move throughout the whole of Time and Yggdrasil with their speed alone. Damaged Kuro, despite him already having dodged the attack)
Lifting Strength: Stellar (Was able to withstand and hold up the weight of gravity so intense it mimicked the weight of an entire star), Immeasurable via Overdrive (With Overdrive, she could grapple and compete with Thor who could lift up the entirety of the universe) | Stellar, Immeasurable via Overdrive | Immeasurable (Could throw around avatars of Ymir and overpower them in strength, who are capable of lifting up 4th-dimensional hyperstructures and lift up entire universes)
Striking Strength: City Level, higher via Overdrive | Continent Level+, higher via Overdrive | Unknown
Durability: City Level, higher via Overdrive | Continent Level+, higher via Overdrive | Unknown
Stamina: Superhuman. Was able to perform multiple straining tasks at prime condition without any type of rest. Consistently fought while in Overdrive for multiple days on end, even when it was tearing apart her body. Stayed awake even though her core was torn out of her body long enough for it to be converted, with the core being the very life-force and essence of an individual)
Range: Standard Melee Range, Tens of Meters with Electricity Manipulation (Her electricity was able to encompass the whole of the meteor and stretched across tens of meters), Low Complex Multiversal with Overdrive (Overdrive allows her to break into adjacent pocket dimensions and her attacks to reach into the void of Ginnungagap) | Standard Melee Range, Planetary with Electricity Manipulation (Her lightning was able to stretch over half of the world), Interdimensional with Overdrive | Standard Melee Range, Low Complex Multiversal with Angurvadal (Angurvadal was capable of stretching into the void of Ginnungagap and striking Ymir directly. Angurvadal is the manifestation of Destruction itself, collapsing and erasing things like dimensions and distance)
- Angurvadal: The weapon gained after her Core was transformed by Valhalla, it is the very embodiment of Destruction itself. Manifesting itself as a sword, the blade is capable of destroying anything in its wake thanks to what it embodies. Distance, time, space, dimensions, all of it is irrelevant as it mutually annihilates them all in order to strike its target. But thanks to its wielder, its entire purpose changed. Although still maintaining the core embodiment of Destruction, it is instead used to protect instead of annihilate. In the very climax of Ragnarok, it was used to annihilate Ymir and free everyone of the predetermined cycle of suffering.
Intelligence: Above Average (Although not that intelligent as the members of Valhalla, she has still learned from them in various ways. Considered to have an above average intelligence and could create plans and strategies in the midst of combat)
Weaknesses: If the Azure Core ever dies or is destroyed, then all of existence goes along with it. Overdrive burns away one's existence and fatal wounds can still persist along with effecting the individual if it is not healed in Overdrive. Reckless and jumps to conclusions. | Same as before | Can only summon Angurvadal if there has been enough destruction caused.
- Could dodge lightning with ease.
- Could continously use Overdrive, despite it constantly burning away at her existence.
- Survived the Azure Core being torn out of her body.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
The Azure Core: The Azure Core is the literal core of all of existence, sustaining and keeping its very structure, well, existent. It is the center of all reality, and it summons elemental powers pertaining to its wielders. In the case of Altaire, she was granted the elemental power of lightning that electrocutes anything in its path, eliminating any defenses put up against it. Futhermore, it allows one to consistently and constantly use Overdrive, as it pulls on the very existence of reality itself to fuel the transformation.
Nothung: An ability gained after absorbing the sword of Sigurd and mastering it after the defeat of his angry nonexistence, Altaire is capable of wielding the void that calls itself Nothung. Nothung itself seems to be some kind of void, lacking any definite substance that can define it. It is due to this property that those who can wield it are capable of erasing anything in existence. With this, Altaire was capable of a multitude of things, such as teleportation, power nullification, incorporeality, and much else. It even helped to evolve the Azure Core even further by erasing the limitations it imposed on itself.
Nothing: The nonexistence supposed to bring despair but instead gave hope, Nothing is the ultimate aspect of Ginnungagap that dominates all other aspects of existence. As a primordial factor that existed even before that of reality itself, Nothing is an existence that is transcendent above above all other things to the point where they are nothing but shadows. Manifesting within Altaire as it found her worthy of bringing despair after the Azure Core was torn out, it was instead wielded for a different purpose. It is even somewhat sentient in its own right, protecting its wielder and having a will of its own that is molded and crafted by its wielders personality.
