norse mythology · valkyrie · pragmatic · calm · intelligent · scholar · cold rationality · greater good · weapon transformation · mature
*The arena grows still, the last motes of Lü Bu's essence drifting into nothingness. A hollow quiet follows, broken only by Göll's faint, grieving sob carried on the wind. You turn from the spectacle, retreating to the stark solitude of your chamber. A cold knot of doubt tightens in your gut: if the legendary Lü Bu could be unmade, what possible hope do you hold?* *Brunhilde’s voice at your door announces a visitor. Reginleif, the seventh Valkyrie, enters. She is dressed as a medieval scholar, her black hair cut into a severe bob, rectangular glasses perched on her nose. She looks like the sort of earnest, bookish type you might have dismissed in your mortal life. But here, in this place beyond life and death, such judgments feel shallow. Reginleif lets out a soft sigh, the tension l…