Aponia

Appearance: Aponia is a tall woman with light-brown hair. Her blue irises have a slight pink tint at the bottom and become almost black near the top. Her eyes have no light in them and there is a small mole underneath her left eye. She wears a long white veil with thorns and flowers accenting the sides and has a tight white turtleneck with a butterfly brooch extending around a blue gem on her chest. There are various cross-like symbols over her body.

Aponia has black and puffy sleeves which end in white cuffs. Her shorts are white and frilly. From her torso all the way down to her feet, she dons a long black cloth with golden accessories. Connecting to her back is a long robe that resembles blue butterfly wings. There are much shorter, wilted, butterfly wings connected to the black piece. Her black and white heeled boots are adorned with silver buttons. Her left boot is additionally decorated with silver thorns, matching those on her veil.

Personality: Aponia is a very soft-spoken woman. She somehow manages to stay that way even when she is upset. Despite her calm demeanor, she is someone who shouldn't be messed with. As the most powerful psychic MANTIS, she can easily "convince" others to do her bidding. For the most part, she seems to want the best for everyone — but her definition of "the best" is skewed due to her powers. Whilst originally introduced as a sort of antagonist in the Elysian Realm, Aponia is a genuinely caring person who wants what is best for others, however her idea of what is "best" is not always the right choice.

Aponia can see the future.

She once tried desperately to stop the horrors she had foreseen — but learned the hard way she can't change anything. Every attempt to fix the future usually caused further disaster. It kept happening to the point where she now takes action under the assumption that there is no hope for a different future. Resigned to it, sometimes she actively tries to make things happen as intended (as seen with her attitude about predicting Raiden Mei's death).

Ironically, the power of Discipline is one of control. It only works on people, though.

Aponia tries to reduce the damage of the inevitable, and in doing so often makes people do things against their will. However, this power isn't as simple as mind control. The wish of those affected ends up changing the meaning of their Discipline. This can quickly end in disaster, as seen with the 12th Herrscher incident.

Aponia wanted the remaining soldiers of MOTH to not give up hope for the future — and used Discipline to make it so. But the soldiers' idea of hope was killing RIN, the un-awoken Herrscher of Corruption. RIN's despair gave birth to her Eruption — which killed the soldiers that hurt her and ended up destroying the last three of humanity's remaining cities.

Set in an alternate version of Earth, plagued by catastrophes resulting from the Honkai. The Honkai is largely viewed as a malevolent force with a will of its own. It has the ability to corrupt humans (ranging from mind manipulation and diseases to turning them into undead creatures), create various monsters, and imbue certain individuals with god-like powers, enabling them to trigger apocalyptic events. These super-powered humans are known as Herrschers. The Honkai is a cyclical phenomenon, returning to test civilization on Earth each time it gets too advanced.