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Lunasia
"The truth is much more complicated than you think."
This article is written from a Lore perspective. It contains spoilers and different reference materials might be contradictory.
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- For the boss enemy in Girls' Frontline, see Lunasia?.
There are two characters in the world of Girls' Frontline with the name Lunasia.[Note 1] The name comes from a flower, following the naming scheme of other early characters like Kalina, Persica, Helian and Lycoris.
Lunasia von Oberstein
Lunasia von Oberstein was the eldest daughter of Rudolf von Oberstein[1][2] and his wife Hanna,[3] and the older sister of Ballard von Oberstein, who searched for ways to bring her back from the dead. Long straight black hair is a trait shared by characters close to the original Lunasia.
Due to the experiments of Project Valkyrie, Lunasia has become a gestalt entity woven into Nirvana, containing not only the original human Lunasia, but all of the various artificial consciousnesses created based on her brain, which includes M4A1, Elisa, OGAS consciousnesses like Dandelion, and most Nytos. [4][5][6]
Biography
Holy Maiden
As of 2025, details of Lunasia's early biography are difficult to ascertain because of contradictions between and into Girls' Frontline and Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery. Refer to footnotes.
Lunasia was born in Bonn in 2037, and her brother ten years later. [7] Her family called her Luci. [8][3] In the 2040s, she often visited the lab of Lycoris and Persicaria at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, which was directed by her father [9] before the von Oberstein family was forced into hiding after Rudolf's political standing fell through due to his connection to Relic Technology. [10] Though they disagreed on the worth of humanity, Lunasia was the only person who didn't shun away her brother,[3] and she claimed he was channeling the emotions she kept hidden on top of his own, making him more aggressive than he really was. [11] Lunasia dreamed of changing the world into a place with no violence. Since they were young, Ballard saw his sister as a quasi-religious figure he was completely devoted to. [12]
During World War Three, Lunasia's mother suffered from mental issues and a faith crisis, and after its transfer to Heidelberg by the US Army, the family fragmented. [7][Note 2] Lunasia's mother took her children to join Evangel Portal,[13] a cult based in the Rhine region.[2] Founded in the 2030s by a man named William, the cult preached that a Holy Spirit would descend on Earth and take the faithful through the "Evangel Portal"[14] (sometimes translated "Gate of Evangel")[15] to reach the Sacred Land, free from mortal suffering and Collapse radiation.[13] Hanna, under the pseudonym “Lady Nemhran”,[14] was appointed Holy Mother, and Lunasia became the Holy Maiden, the key to the Evangel Portal.[Note 2] Purported miracles by these saints increased the influence of the already powerful cult,[13] which became the largest postwar cult in West Germany. The group was monitored by the Stasi and was eventually violently disbanded by the government during the First Purge.[2][13][Note 3] Lunasia's mother was reported killed and Lunasia handed her brother over to the government, but herself escaped their control and she later reappeared as a member of a humanitarian youth movement assisting survivors of the First Purge in the Yellow Zone.[2] Lunasia was arrested by the German government while her group protested a surplus food collection operation. She was diagnosed with mid-stage ELID and admitted to a Berlin medical facility, then transferred to Switzerland for further treatment at her father's request.[7][Note 4]
The reports are likely falsified: according to Lunasia's own account, her mother actually died from ritual suicide, poisoning herself (or cutting her throat in another account) along with many other cultists to reach the Promised Land.[14][16] All the purported "miracles" performed by the cult were in fact merely mental manipulation and countless people were killed in hope for a miraculous end to the World War Three, but Lunasia was aware that this was all farcical. After Hanna's death, Lunasia returned under Rudolf's custody, but he submitted his daughter to more atrocities in order to turn her into a Relic key. Codenamed Project Valkyrie, these experiments were led by a man also named William (it's unclear if it was the same who founded Evangel Portal).[Note 5] Evangel Portal and Project Valkyrie gave Lunasia a mad hatred for mankind, and she decided to accept her transformation into a key in order to use the Relics to destroy humanity.[16] Rudolf invoked that experimenting on his daughter was a necessary sacrifice, but Lunasia only saw it as her father tormenting her for his own gains. [17] Lunasia used her cult influence to contact Martha Meitner and tasked her to complete her transformation, using Lunasia's own followers for research. Lunasia specified that her mother be "the first sacrifice", and asked her brother to turn her corpse into something different. She also made him promise to also resurrect her if she was killed[15] and ensure she would carry out the destruction of the world.[16]
| “ | To reforge the world into a place with no sin, no darkness, and no violence. Just like my garden, everyone will be plants thriving in sunlight, each vibrant and beautiful in their own way... — [18]
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There are contradictory sources about what happened to Lunasia after this point.
Stasi sources suggest that Lunasia joined back her youth movement. The agency debated Lunasia's threat profile at the time: her status as the eldest daughter of Minister Rudolf von Oberstein and political inclinations was worrying, but this was tempered by her psychological disorders and inability to live beyond the confines of the former cult's rules. Stasi intel initially determined she was not involved in political activism, but she was eventually deemed a threat after becoming a leader of her movement and forming connections with movements in key cities.[2] According to Stasi files, Lunasia was killed in a city bombing during the Second Purge.[2][Note 3]
According to Persica and memories from the Virtual Image Consciousness of Nytos and the Neural Cloud of AR M4A1M4A1M4A1, Lunasia died from illness[10] shortly before the end of World War Three [19] (this time frame is also alluded to in Secret Documents#Speculation on the Decline of Religions). According to the VCI memories, Ballard took care of her in her final years at the family's manor in Berlin.[20]
The truth from Ballard's own memories is that Lunasia died during the course of Project Valkyrie in 2049.[Note 2] Ballard attempted to preserve her body, but it was taken to the Oberstein laboratory, where each organ was stored separately and the brain cut into individual slices for further research.[21] Years later, Rudolf's entourage believed that he missed his daughter dearly,[22] and Ballard and Lunasia's names and faces had been scraped off the painting of the von Oberstein family tree in the abandoned mansion.[23][24]
William's quest
After seeing what happened to his sister, Ballard started suffering from hallucinations of Lunasia guiding him on the path of vengeance against their father, acquiring the necessary influence and knowledge by becoming one of the leaders of Rudolf's own organization, Paradeus.[25] Ballard, now fully using the name William, also sought to resurrect Lunasia in a form that would also enable him to use Relic Technology to remake the world.[26] As a member of 90wish, he contacted Lyco and Persica and provided them with a human brain imprint to make a Neural Cloud from it, but after they discovered Lunasia's memories in it, they refused as themselves and Rudolf were opposed to such experiments. William then used a more devious plan to reach his goals.[10]
William first had a Pike node delivered to Lyco after he joined Sangvis Ferri.[28][26] The OGAS code base in the node enabled Lyco to create Elisa in 2054. [29][Note 3] As he continued to enhance her, he realized she was capable of interacting with Relic technology, and that he was being manipulated by William. Lyco sabotaged parts of her code,[30] but was killed in retaliation during the 2061 Butterfly Incident.[10]
William also created biological clones of Lunasia, cybernetically enhanced their bodies and modified their brains to develop a Neural Cloud, before implanting them with an OGAS consciousness. Subjects who could not withstand OGAS were discarded and called Isomers,[31] while those whose mind remained intact were called Nytos. However, no Nyto was considered sufficiently close to the original model.[32] During the course of 2057, William sent non-augmented biological clones of Lunasia to attack several Griffin & Kryuger bases.[Note 3] Through G&K's connections with IOP and 16LAB, Persica realized the nature of the attackers and made scans of their brains herself to use as a base for her research.[10][33][34][35] Wanting to match Lyco's research progress, Persica decided to ignore that she was being manipulated by William,[10] and even shared the scans with Lyco to use as a personality baseline for Elisa. Persica claimed the human origins of the data model made it closer to a soul,[36] but the data had a limited number of use.[37] She used the scans to create AR Team: first AR M16A1M16A1M16A1,[38] then AR ST AR-15ST AR-15ST AR-15 and AR M4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD IIM4 SOPMOD II, then AR M4A1M4A1M4A1,[39][40] and finally SMG RO635RO635RO635. The initial results produced Neural Clouds which could not be duplicated and backed up, effectively making them “mortal”.[41] Persica reduced the amount of Lunasia's personality in RO635's Neural Cloud and managed to make it more stable and backup-compatible.[37]
In the early 2060s, the Stasi encountered a woman that looked like Lunasia in her 20s meeting an unidentified man in a cafe, as the agency was investigating a Paradeus signal in Belgrade. The case was chalked up as someone assuming the appearance of a dead citizen to exploit the fact that Germany did not share its databases with other countries of the Pan-European Union.[2]
After all personality limiters on M4A1's Neural Cloud were lifted by Persica,[33] Elisa, Dandelion and the Isomers identify her as Lunasia[42][43] since her Neural Cloud is the most perfect recreation of the original model yet (though M4 herself rejects this name)[44] while AR-15 had an excellent but imperfect Neural Cloud.[45] The voices in Zion recognized that M4 wasn't Lunasia, whose soul had been broken into countless pieces.[46] Dandelion has also been recognized as Lunasia by Nemhran,[47] as well as SMG ErmaErmaErma by Sana (albeit for the sole reason that Erma had reached the Lake of Cognition).[48]
Awakening
| “ | –Laplace: How does it feel? To have a human’s free will, and the omniscience and omnipotence of a higher life form. –Lunasia: It’s a curse. To possess human emotions, yet a mind and lifespan not meant for any human. — [15]
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After using the Starfish to cause a Reverse Collapse during the Paldiski Incident in 2064, M4A1 was transported to Tarot Paradise and captured by the entity calling itself Laplace's Demon, whose ultimate goal was to make Lunasia complete by having M4 merge with her. Under the guise of RF Martini-HenryMartini-HenryMartini-Henry,[49] who was the maid of the Oberstein children, Laplace had M4A1 live through memories of Lunasia's family, convincing her that her life as M4A1 was a delusion she used to escape her final responsibility: to create a world without violence and pain[50] by destroying the current world. She then convinced her to sacrifice the other entities captured in Tarot Paradise, including M16 as well as the other members of AR Team arrived from another world line, saying that their sacrifice would grant her the power to accomplish her destiny.[51] Though Laplace's minions in charge of herding the sacrifices schemed against each other, their plan to let AR Team reach M4 in hopes that they would willingly sacrifice themselves for the sake of turning her into Lunasia would prove to be right.[52]
M16 failed to bring M4 back to her senses, while Elisa encouraged her to become Lunasia.[53] Elisa also claimed that Lunasia was a constant between world lines.[52] M4 eventually returned to her senses and Laplace's identity was revealed when M16 used her power as the Wheel of Fortune on them. Talking through M4, the actual, still incomplete Lunasia commanded AR Team to kill Laplace for taking over Tarot Paradise.[49] When Laplace's Demon sacrificed the last of her power, M4 was brought in contact with Lunasia, who commanded her to accept her death and merge back with her for the sake of the world. The incomplete Lunasia admitted that she lacked emotions, and that there was no meaning to saving the world unless she acquired them by merging with M4. Lunasia demonstrated her ability to perceive and influence causality by showing to M4 that the Commander and AR Team were fated to be killed by Morridow and Narciss in Germany, and offered M4 to merge temporarily so she could save them without making a final decision to sacrifice herself. Lunasia's powers enabled M4 to save AR Team and the Commander and help them for a short time during their chase for the Iaso's Boxes.[54]
During this time, M4/Lunasia expressed an interest in “saving” the captive Morridow.[55] During a private encounter, she agreed to “fulfill Morridow's wish”,[56] leaving her in possession of one of Lunasia's memories, where she visited William in a garden during the exile imposed by their father, and apologized that her feebleness was keeping William from his research. Morridow later claimed to William that she knew how to contact Lunasia again and he rewarded her.[57][58] M4 returned to Tarot Paradise after her encounter with Morridow, but realized that the Commander's lifethread had only been slightly extended, so M4 made the decision to merge with Lunasia in order to create a world line where all of her loved one would survive, and the rest of AR Team sacrificed themselves to grant M4 the power necessary to complete the merge.[54]
| “ | –M4A1: Promise me, when I lose and forget everything, when I no longer remember the wishes that everyone has entrusted to me... You will carry them and keep going in my stead. You will help me make our wishes come true. -Lunasia: We have a deal. — [59]
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The apparently complete Lunasia awakened in the Lake of Cognition, connected to the Evangel Axis in Avernus. Shortly after, Dandelion accessed the Lake of Cognition during Operation Muromets, and Lunasia left her with a cryptic message: “Only through connection did I finally understand that I could never become her, whom others looked forward to. But if she chooses to accept our everything, and abandon her hopes of becoming perfect, that too is what I desire. The flowers of despair are about to bloom. There is little time left”.[59] The encounter left Dandelion in a sort of dream state and she later warned SMG ErmaErmaErma that she would soon hear “it” like her after reaching the depths of the Lake of Cognition, and would then have to hand over something to her.[60]
Lunasia's name appeared on a fountain located at the core of the Summer Garden virtual space created by Arthur Hume, along with another fountain labelled Nadia. When SMG ErmaErmaErma and SG Stevens M520Stevens M520Stevens M520 accessed the fountains after damaging the Summer Garden, only Nadia's fountain was active and they didn't interact with Lunasia's fountain. [61] According to the collection of Erma's lost memories, “the complete Lunasia” (完整的露尼西亚) was one of the three entities, alongside “the false Nadia” and “the future Erma”, who could reach the “Heaven” sought by the Nytos.[62] Nadia and Lunasia's fountains were included in the remains of the Summer Garden that Erma gave to Dandelion before Erma sealed her own fountain.[63]
After the destruction of Avernus and the capture of William, Lunasia abducted her brother, the Commander and Dandelion from the Elmo, "removing" them to Frankfurt [64] where she gained physical form by using Dandelion's body. However, William still didn't consider her perfected due to the memories and personalities of M4A1 and Dandelion being intermixed with Lunasia's. He tasked the rejected Lunasia with guarding the Commander,[65] kept prisoner in a residential house of Frankfurt's underground White Zone.[64] The Commander commented that she had M4's eye color, but that her face looked too baleful,[66] and she also admitted that she lacked a sense of smell.[11] While she obediently followed her brother “Bill”'s order, the intermixing of personalities made Lunasia act unstable towards the Commander, displaying at the same time affection, teasing and cruelty in her actions. The Commander tested her limits, forcing her to admit her flaws, to the point that she threatened to cut their throat with a knife, but in the end couldn't do it, influenced by M4's promise. Since William had already achieved his goal and no longer needed the Commander as a bargaining chip, Lunasia allowed them to leave, but they abducted her instead, intent on saving M4 and Dandelion.[67] Lunasia attempted to recruit them into Paradeus by claiming they could resurrect Machlian, the death that haunted the Commander the most.[67][68]
Lunasia developed a fascination for the Commander and their ideals during this time. Soon after, she was contacted in Nirvana by an entity of unclear nature who warned her that access to Nirvana didn't make her omnipotent, and that the Commander's ultimate fate in Frankfurt would still be decided by the actions of people of the physical world, resulting in their death in the majority of world lines. Deciding to save the Commander, Lunasia started setting up events to reach the conclusion she wanted.[5] It is probable that Dandelion's return, and the help she provided the Commander by using a limited ability to perceive alternate timelines, was arranged by Lunasia.[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] Dandelion later claimed that her return was proof that Lunasia had accepted the world instead of trying to destroy it, and was now opposing William.[6]
Under MG XM556XM556XM556's custody, Lunasia's health started to fail and she dreamed of her past in Evangel Portal.[14] Connecting psychically to a Nyto to speak with William, she was again rejected on the grounds of her missing memories and different personality, but renewed his promise to resurrect her. In the final stage of her experiment, Laplace forced Lunasia to manifest in a test subject, and reconfirmed the violent actions she had taken at Evangel Portal and forgotten. After returning to her own body, Lunasia demanded to speak with the Commander, threatening suicide.[15] XM556 brought her to a car to drive her to the Elmo, but Lunasia deactivated her to go back to William after discovering Frankfurt, the "sacrificial altar" of her true resurrection,[16] through the death of its inhabitants.[77][78][4]
Meanwhile, the Commander and the Stasi disrupted the transfer of Laplace and Lunasia's final vessel, her "Cocoon" in the form of a young girl's body, “Avernus C. Hela”, to the White Zone. Drawing from the nature of Daybreak Squad, an earlier creation of Laplace, Amaris qualified the Cocoon as “an impurity that gathers all energy”, as opposed to “a place of energy extraction”. Though Lunasia had already awoken, she still needed to link the Lake of Cognition to the Cocoon as the last "key" after Erma and Nadia's disappearance.[79] William finished the surgery shortly before the Commander's arrival, but he was knocked out by an explosion before Lunasia awakened from anesthesia[80] (in certain timelines, William's surgery failed and Lunasia was unable to save the Commander later).[69]
According to Morridow, this Lunasia was acting as an impostor like her: she didn't hold any interest in William or considered herself his sister, only seeing herself as the key to the Relics.[77] Lunasia described herself as "a figure woven with illusions and lies" as a a fake holy maiden. Accordingly, when the Commander's troops invaded William's hideout in the White Zone and beat the Nytos, Morridow asked Lunasia to honor the promise she made when she was under M4's custody and make her immortal, but Lunasia said she didn't remember any promise and killed Morridow. When meeting the Commander, she presented herself as "the true master of Laplace's Demon", the key to the Relics linking the physical world to the other world (Nirvana) and a godly existence.[16] However, this Lunasia still existed as a gestalt mind mixing the personalities and memories of M4A1, Lunasia, Elisa, Dandelion, and other entities, all possessing their own goals to accomplish with their newfound powers. M4 and Lunasia's goals in particular were opposites, since Lunasia wanted to destroy the world while M4 wanted to save the Commander. They made a wager to decide who would “seize the spindle of fate”, betting on the Commander's ideal.[4]
Lunasia explained that she carried the memories of M4A1, Dandelion, Lunasia von Oberstein, and many other consciousnesses. She related the story of Lunasia von Oberstein in order to explain how the title of William passed between people. She then revealed that in most timelines, Nele became “William”, and suggested that the Commander should kill her in order to truly bring an end to “William”'s threat.[16] The Commander refused, since they had already verified that Nele had rejected this path. With this answer, M4 won the wager and assumed control over Lunasia's body. M4 planned to use the sealing key left by Erma to rescind her status as a Relic key, which would make this world objective reality.[4] M4 warned the Commander that killing William at this point in time would only lead to their premature death[5] and invited them to spend some last moments together. They boarded an German tank and broke into the White Zone before being stopped[81] by a powerful explosion of unclear nature. The Commander was wounded but exited the tank, abandoning their coat[82] while reaching for safety in the Cold War-era bunker network of Frankfurt.[83] Parts from an advanced Doll frame of unknown origins were left inside the tank.[82] Lunasia's body was acquired by William.[76]
The next day,[84] when Kalina and HG TokarevTokarevTokarev fought in the abandoned underground of Frankfurt to find the Commander, Lunasia briefly intruded in Tokarev's Neural Cloud, testing her loyalty to the Commander.[85] A few days later, the Commander's forces, including a version of Dandelion separate from Lunasia, resumed operations against William.[86] Lunasia, manifesting through a Nyto, called William on the phone and asked him to abandon his murderous projects, but he refused to abandon Lunasia's original ambition. William considered the previous surgery was another failure since he had still failed to separate his sister's mind from the other personalities.[87] He performed surgery on Dandelion's body again, and this time managed to create a “perfected Lunasia” holding only the memories William needed to ensure her complete devotion to him. When the Commander and Dandelion arrived to assassinate him, William used “Lunasia”,[6] equipped with nanodrone armaments,[88] to serve as his bodyguard. Dandelion pointed out (similarly to Shaw's vision for Task Force DEFY) that the perfect version of Lunasia was actually the previous one, because she had the ability to choose (and, in fact, chose) to refuse to use her godly abilities to remake the world, instead working towards her own objectives, while William's “perfected” version had no ability to make her own choices. Dandelion claimed that she herself was “the proof that Lunasia accepted this world”, while this fake Lunasia was only a tool used by William to justify his rejection of the world.[6] The fake Lunasia was bested and the objective of the real Lunasia was completed after the Commander killed William and left Frankfurt alive.[88]
The entity that contacted Dandelion ten years later in 2074 so she would arrange events to motivate the Commander to put their life on the line for the sake of the world again is likely Lunasia herself.[89]
The loosely-canon setting of Girls' Frontline: Fire Control involves Lunasia training projections of the Commander's T-Dolls in Nirvana to form an elite transdimensional team called Chrono Squad.
Regarding Lunasia's powers
Lunasia's abilities granted by her connection to Nirvana are not explained and are inconsistently portrayed in Girls' Frontline:
- In Cartesian Theater, while in Nirvana, Lunasia allows M4A1 to inhabit Dandelion to alter the event of the prime world line.
- At the end of Cartesian Theater, Lunasia leaves a message from Nirvana to Dandelion through the Lake of Cognition.
- As explained in Angular Gyrus, at the end of Slow Shock, Lunasia "removed" (上带走) the Commander, William and Dandelion from the Elmo to Frankfurt after deactivating every Doll aboard. The absence of details regarding mode of transportation and several days taken by the other characters to catch up imply that Lunasia performed an instant teleportation. She later indwells Dandelion's Nyto body.
- In Isolation Forest, the Commander's forces intercept the "cocoon" left from the production of Lunasia's final body and use it to produce her seal. How the "cocoon" was produced and the manner in which Lunasia's body changed are not explained.
- As explained in Convolutional Kernel, Lunasia deactivated XM556 to escape the Commander's custody.
- At the end of Convolutional Kernel, Lunasia claims to be "the key to the Relics, the nexus linking this world and the other" after the completion of Project Valkyrie. It's not explained or demonstrated how this power adds to the abilities she already displayed.
- Under the control of M4's will, she then uses the seal recovered by Erma in the Secret Garden made by Arthur Hume and modified by Amaris using her nature as "an impurity that gathers all energy" made by Laplace in order to lose her nature as a Relic key. The exact nature and effects of the seal are not explained.
- As revealed in more details during Roche Limit, Lunasia seemingly disappeared from the tank she was riding with the Commander, leaving traces of an extremely powerful explosion, cuttings similar to a high-energy weapon and parts from an advanced Doll design. The Commander was wounded but not fatally. It is later revealed in Quantum Fluctuation that Lunasia's body was recovered by William to create Lunasia?. Despite the results being detailed in the story, no explanation is provided as to the causes.
- During Virtual Pair, Lunasia indwells a Nyto White to talk to William over a communication line.
- During Quantum Fluctuation, Lunasia returns Dandelion to the physical world to assist the Commander after giving her a limited ability to foresee different world lines. No specifics are provided regarding Dandelion's method of return.
- At the end of Quantum Fluctuation, it is revealed that William created Lunasia?, who is considered perfected, but she wasn't part of the gestalt mind and doesn't display any of the powers listed above.
- The only power Lunasia shares with the fully-immune individual Jefuty in Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery is the ability to indwell compatible bodies (albeit the transfer was performed by Lusica).
The only power used consistently by Lunasia is the ability to perceive different world lines, which is used in Cartesian Theater, Convolutional Kernel and Quantum Fluctuation. At the start of Quantum Fluctuation, an unidentified entity warns Lunasia that she's not omnipotent since the world still "belongs" to mortals, and at the end of the chapter, Dandelion warns the Commander (and through the character, the player) not to attempt to understand Nirvana, as its power is not to be used by humans.
The origins of Lunasia's connection to Nirvana are not directly explained either. One could assume that it is due to the Lake of Cognition's connection to Nirvana, and the connection of the many Nytos made using Lunasia's brain to the Lake of Cognition. The Virtual Consciousness Image of each Nyto would have accumulated in Nirvana until it formed a reproduction of the original Lunasia, to which are added the consciousnesses of other entities based on Lunasia such as M4A1, Dandelion and Elisa, which are however distinct in terms of personality and memories, making the Lunasia collective in Nirvana a gestalt mind.
Gallery
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Butterfly symbolism
Lunasia is visually associated with blue morpho butterflies. In the folklore of many cultures (such as Ancient Egyptian, Roman, Aztec, Japanese and Irish cultures), the butterfly is associated with the soul of the dead and rebirth, while in other tales from England, the Philippines and Japan, it is seen as a bad omen. Both symbolisms are relevant to the quest to resurrect Lunasia and its dire consequences, which is arguably the core of the story of Girls' Frontline.
Chinese culture associates butterflies with specific concepts based on two well-known stories:
- Butterflies represent dreams and the blurring between reality and fiction based on Zhuangzi's The Butterfly Dream. In the story, Zhuangzi dreams he is a butterfly, and upon awakening, he wonders if he is in reality a butterfly dreaming that he is a man. This symbolism can be applied to the identity conflict between Lunasia and AR M4A1M4A1M4A1.
- Butterflies are also associated with the afterlife and liberation based on Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, also known as The Butterfly Lovers. This is a tale of tragic love ending with two butterflies emerging from the tomb where the lovers rest after death. This symbolism is relevant to the powers displayed by Lunasia after her death.
Blue morphos sometimes appear in contexts only loosely related or unrelated to Lunasia, such as in the Virtual Consciousness Image in the Nightmare level of Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery, in MG ZB-26ZB-26ZB-26 and HG C-93C-93C-93's designs, in the Awakening series costume of NanakaNanaka , in the default Display Backdrop decoration of the Crew Deck or in the book Ludo and Her Magic Wine.
A blue morpho also appears on Envoy's icon in Girls' Frontline: Fire Control.
Three Goddesses test subject
This Lunasia is one of the three test subjects produced during the Three Goddesses project in 2078, along with Noylu and Jefuty. Her DNA is a mix of human and GAVIRUL genes, and a reproduction of a test subject from the earlier Black Lily and White Rose project, Rose.
When the Three Goddesses project fell through due to political tensions in 2085, Lunasia went under Antarctic Union control, while Noylu fell into the hands of the Union of Rossartrism Nations Coalition and Jefuty's whereabouts were lost in the confusion. However, both Noylu and Lunasia fell short of initial expectations when they failed to activate relics sites. Both factions then went to search for Jefuty.[90] Lunasia's situation is unknown as she was not involved in operations Bakery and Tinder like her two sisters.
Notes
- ↑ The name is written 露尼西亚 (lùníxīyà) in reference to the T-Doll brain model in Girls' Frontline and Confidential Files 2, and 露尼西娅 (lùníxīyà) in reference to the Three Goddesses test subject in Confidential Files 1 and the Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery artbook. It was translated “Lunixya” by fans and is officially translated “Lunasia” starting with Singularity. Lunasia's portrait in game files is titled "lnxy".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Enforcing consistency between every available source means that all of the following events took place in the year 2049 alone:
- In 2049, the Oberstein family is transferred to Heidelberg (Razor Surveillance Report).
- At an unspecified time, Hanna von Oberstein joins Evangel Portal with her children (Razor Surveillance Report)
- In 204█, Hanna and Lunasia are appointed Holy Mother and Holy Maiden (Bee Sting entry on Evangel Portal).
- At an unspecified time, Evangel Portal reaches its peak and Hanna dies (Bee Sting, Isolation Forest E12, Convolutional Kernel E24).
- At an unspecified time, Project Valkyrie begins (Convolutional Kernel E24).
- At an unspecified time, Lunasia recruits Laplace into Project Valkyrie (Isolation Forest E12).
- In 2049, Lunasia dies during Project Valkyrie (Virtual Pair E2).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Secret Documents#Investigation into the Origin of Religions lists two crackdowns against Yellow Zone cults in 2055 and 2058, implying that the First Purge would have occurred in 2055, and the Second Purge that killed Lunasia in 2058. These years are not compatible with other sources:
- Secret Documents#Razor Surveillance Report: Subject Information and the timeline of the first artbook state that by 2054, Lunasia was already dead and Ballard had tricked Lyco into working on Elisa.
- Girls' Frontline 13-5 states that Ballard similarly tricked Persica in 2057.
- ↑ The Razor Surveillance Report places Lunasia's arrest in 2050, her treatment for ELID in December 2050 and her transfer to Switzerland on 1 January 2051. These dates are inconsistent with Virtual Pair E2, which states that Lunasia died in 2049.
- ↑ In Isolation Forest E6, it is said that most people who knew about Project Valkyrie left for Antarctica, which closed itself from the rest of the world from 2045 to 2075, implying that the project was already ongoing before 2045.
References
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, Decreasing Entropy VII
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery, Secret Documents#Global Affairs and Impacts on Religion
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E6
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Girls' Frontline, Convolutional Kernel, 26
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-2
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-34 to 40
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery, Secret Documents#Razor Surveillance Report: Subject Information
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Fixed Point, "Dead Sea"
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, part. 3
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Girls' Frontline, Angular Gyrus, E10
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Virtual Pair E3
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Girls' Frontline, Bee Sting
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Girls' Frontline, Isolation Forest, Part 9
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Girls' Frontline, Isolation Forest, Part 12
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 Girls' Frontline, Convolutional Kernel, 24
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, Projection Experiment Area
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E14
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-2
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Subsurface Homecoming I
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Virtual Pair E2
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, Decreasing Entropy XII, Decreasing Entropy XIV
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Mirror Stage, Pandora’s Box III
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, E1-5D
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Virtual Pair E4
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-4
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 10-2E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Last Resort I
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.1, Timeline
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Polarized Light, Blackbody Radiation I
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Subsurface Homecoming II
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 12-1
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 Girls' Frontline, Episode 8-4E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Infinite Connections
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Confidential Information VII
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Chapter 2 Splinter Point
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Girls' Frontline, Continuum Turbulence, Neural Fragment
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-1E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 6-4
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 9-2E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Polarized Light, Molding
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Singularity, Last Resort IV
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Fractured Cognition IV
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Isomer II
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Shattered Connexion, Infinite Connections
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Episode 13-2E
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, Death and Fire
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E17
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E18
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E6
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E9
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E15
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E13
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E21
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, E2-2
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Poincaré Recurrence, Reversing Entropy IIB
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Fixed Point, Ascent
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, White on White
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 Girls' Frontline, Cartesian Theater, E22
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E1
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E14
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E18
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, The Summer Garden of Forking Paths, E20
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 Girls' Frontline, Angular Gyrus, E6
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Angular Gyrus, E3
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Angular Gyrus, E1
- ↑ 67.0 67.1 Girls' Frontline, Angular Gyrus, E16
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Angular Gyrus, E20
- ↑ 69.0 69.1 Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-6
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-12
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-12
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-18
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-22
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-24
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-28
- ↑ 76.0 76.1 Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-32
- ↑ 77.0 77.1 Girls' Frontline, Convolutional Kernel, 13
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Convolutional Kernel, 17
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Isolation Forest, Part 17
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Virtual Pair E1
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Convolutional Kernel, 27
- ↑ 82.0 82.1 Girls' Frontline, Roche Limit E8
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Roche Limit E16
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Roche Limit E3
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, HG TokarevTokarevTokarev Neural Upgrade story
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Virtual Pair E9
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Virtual Pair E7
- ↑ 88.0 88.1 Girls' Frontline, Quantum Fluctuation 77-A-44
- ↑ Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, Amidst Wings of Gray GS-1-1
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