fav light novel only characters? like not animated or drawn in the manga yet
So this has been in my inbox for a couple months now and I think I can finally confidently answer it bc I have a couple of characters who I wanna talk about.
Spoiler warning: Due to this ask being related to characters only seen in the light novel there’s going to be spoilers under the read more! I talk about content as far ahead as novel 11. I think we’re safe on stuff from 12 tho!
If you want a no-spoiler summary: Colonel Calandro (not depicted here), Counselor Conrad, and Major Joachim
OK SO,
I think the main two that I like the most and are LN-Only so far are Colonel Calandro from Ildoa, who is the observer that ends up attached to the Salamander/Lergen Kampfgruppe on the eastern front and Counselor Conrad, the imperial diplomat that Lergen talks with a lot.
In Calandro’s case, he’s introduced I believe as early as book 6, so I think he’s probably the one of my favorites who is most likely to be in season 2, so I hope Studio Nut does well by him with a good design. In the sketches above, I decided against trying to make a design for him because 1) I got no ideas man and 2) I think (hope) he might show up in the anime soon so I’d like to hold off on drawing him until there’s an official one.
Anyway, a lot of his scenes are great when he’s attached to the Kampfgruppe. If I recall correctly, there’s this scene in one of the books (Book 7?) where he’s talking to Tanya as she’s making preparations to bombard what is obviously a church and he’s like “What are you doing? Isn’t that a war crime?” And Tanya just goes “No, no, it’s fine. They’re not openly displaying anywhere that this is a building used for religious purposes and even if they were, the other side hasn’t signed that treaty so it’s not like we have to adhere to it if they won’t.”
It’s such a funny scene. Tanya’s like, “Oh he’s concerned that we’re committing a crime. I should assuage him by telling him not to worry, we’ve managed to legally justify it.” And instead of any relief he’s just like “Oh my god what the fuck is wrong with them? Why would they ever think to circumvent treaties like this?”
They're funny as hell together and Tanya’s constant griping that she has to babysit him is so good, I hope we get to see it.
Also also a good scene with him is from the end of LN11 where Lergen calls him in the middle of the night, demanding to speak to him because it’s of vital importance. That ensuing conversation where Lergen’s basically like “I can’t say who’s calling, but you recognize me from the sound of my voice, right? Something’s going to happen. I’m really sorry, I can’t say anything more. Please just remember that I called, okay?” I’m so sorry… but it’s giving ‘Tragic Lovers Doomed To Breakup By Circumstances They Can’t Control’ vibes.
It is now my firmly set headcanon that Lergen and Calandro were lovers throughout and in spite of the war and when the time came for Lergen to choose whether to betray Calandro or his country, he chose to betray Calandro, something he feels immensely guilty about. I know it isn’t what Carlo Zen was trying to convey at ALL, but unfortunately that’s what I got from it. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk, moving on.
I guess next up is Counselor Conrad, the Empire’s diplomat who we first meet in LN10 I think? If we don’t get any content of him, I’ll literally cry. Depending on how far season 2 gets us in the story, we may not end up seeing Conrad and that’s so sad to me. There is a scene from LN10 that I absolutely need adapted into the anime. It’s like 160ish pages in. It’s that scene where Tanya, Lergen, and Conrad are talking with each other and Conrad turns to Lergen and gestures at Tanya and says “How did you raise this?” and Tanya’s like “????”
There is another scene where Lergen describes Conrad as handsome, and because of these two scenes, the delusional headcanon has sprung up that these two eventually end up in a relationship and Tanya is their daughter. I’ve mentioned it in another post. A friend of mine actually talks about Conrad (& Lergen and Tanya) in more detail in her post here. And hey, while I’m recommending posts about Conrad, look at all of these too okay?
Conrad actually has an official design in the novel artworks, so I based my above sketch around that. Here are the few canon images we have of him. Interestingly, in the text he's described as having blue eyes at some point, but the colored version we have has them as brown. These drawings come from Books 10 & 11 I believe?
Ok, last one, for minor characters, there’s Major Joachim who we meet around the end of LN11, who becomes Lergen’s subordinate. I think the best way to describe him is that he’s kind of a boyfailure in the way that Grantz is (that is to say before Grantz got some character development and became somewhat competent). He’s a cutie, I do hope we get some scenes of him.
I did actually do a little sketch of Joachim as we saw above. That one for some reason just came to me very easily, unlike Calandro. Here was my prelim sketch idea:
And I think that’s about it for now. If you note that all of these characters are in some way related to Lergen, um… Well, I can’t help myself really. We know by now he’s one of my favorites so I like characters associated with him too.
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HI3 but Honkai doesn't exist and it's just little gay people running around Part 1 / ???
I was finishing the anti entropy visual novel yesterday and got to thinking about how everything would've turned out if honkai hadn't existed, so here we are. This will be broken up into several parts because there's a lot I want to say.
This first part will be focusing on Tesla / Einstein, and then I will be moving on to the others soon. Kiana, Mei, and Bronya might be my next victims, it's tbd.
Starting off with the most destructive scientist known to man kind, Frederica Nikola Tesla.
Important notes:
Still goes by Nikola / Tesla / Tes (that's restricted to Einstein only though)
Ace Lesbian
Still will beat the shit out of any man in sight just for funsies
Very destructive, but it's okay she's made break throughs in technology
Literally doesn't know of Nancy Edisons existence. She's free
Not an alcoholic anymore because Edison never existed so she's less traumatized (let me cope)
Still an ADHD depressed mess but it's okay she's trying her hardest to be a functional member of society
Still has social issues, and has her fear of abandonment still.
Still quick to anger and frustration
People actually take her concern and emotions seriously. She's justified a majority of the time she's mad why do people ignore this.
Actually gets her doctorate degree!!! She deserves it.
Loves writing her manga, and has published several entries and is a famous writer under her pen name.
Cat person. She has several pet cats
Still commits crimes
Personality stays the same for the most part
For the most part her story stays the same, only exception being Edison was never in the picture. If you can not tell I hate Edison with a burning passion. I will not elaborate further.
Her and Eins are still immortal, but it was due to a lab incident caused by some ones negligence (not Teslas or Einsteins, it was some random fuck because I need a reason for them to be immortal lesbian queens.)
Her relationship with others has slightly changed, but not by much
Einstein:
She still meets her through Planck and they are still together causing an immense amount of trouble. For the most part their relationship is still the same. They're still lab partners and married, and they still relentlessly tease each other. Tesla is still protective of her and will fist fight anyone who tries to hurt her. Einsla will thrive.
For the most part my relationship headcannons are still the same, nothing really changed other than the depressing parts since honkai never existed. They have their own lab now, and they're still over Anti Entropy. It's just taken a new form, which I'll explain later.
More about their relationship further down in Einsteins section.
Planck:
Still becomes her student and meets Eins through her. She is relentlessly teased by her constantly because she is well aware of what Tesla is. She's the living embodiment of the homophobic dog just staring at her saying "I know what you are." Sometimes Tes wants to fight her but she can't fight her wifes parental figure.
There is admiration there. Despite not always getting along, she respects her knowledge in the field and admires her for it. Eventually they probably form a friendship but weren't really all that close. At a few points she might've asked her for advice or vented to her, but that's about as far as it went.
Carl:
She was introduced to him through Eins and they're probably besties. Both of them relentlessly tease and bully him together. He questions why he agreed to teach them sometimes.
He has her admiration, and she respects his knowledge like Planck. Prefers learning from him whenever he's around since he won't bully her relentlessly (at least not as much as Planck. He still lightly teases her.) She does actually like him.
Schrodinger:
Doesn't hate her but doesn't like her either. "She's so quiet and refuses to speak unless it's to make me look stupid."
Joachim:
Her and Eins basically became his mother / sister figures. They would play with him in their lab and let him try out their latest experiments (the ones that didn't blow up.) She loved playing with him because he had the same sense of mischief as her.
Welt Joyce:
Bullies him relentlessly. "I can't believe your cousins this pathetic of a man." "I can't believe it either Dr. Tesla." "W-WAIT WHO ARE YOU CALLING PATHETIC?" Also constantly makes fun of him for dressing like he's about to go to antartica.
She was his #1 bully as soon as he landed in her sights. They act like siblings and Tesla is constantly bickering with him. Her assault counter is very high. Higher than the visual novel probably. Despite all this she does care for him though, and has gone off on people who have tried to hurt him and beat them up with zero mercy.
The Finn:
Idk she finds him annoying sometimes. That's all. Acknowledges how smart he is but he's also just an annoying man.
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Now it's time to discuss the less destructive of the two, the child genius Lieserl Albert Einstein.
Important notes
Still goes by Lieserl / Einstein / Eins / Mophead (Tes only)
Ace Lesbian
Dropped out of school as a child, got her doctorate at 17
Carl is her teacher, and gave her to Planck to help her continue her education.
Views Planck as a mother figure / sister figure
Carl is like an uncle to her
ADHD mess but not as big of a mess as Tesla
Insane scientist and a menace to society
Loves teasing people and has no mercy.
Casually watches her wife beat her cousin up. Just family things
Loves writing and journaling
Made several scientifical breakthroughs
Helps Tesla with her manga
Personality is the same for the most part
Her backstories the same for the most part, only difference being that Welt was involved somewhat but not much since he lives in Berlin and was still in school at the time.
Her little family all stays alive. She's just a happy little scientist with zero trauma. Just trust me. As mentioned before both her and Tes are immortal still, just through a freak lab accident instead of yanno.
Relationships
Tesla:
Meets her through Planck and they immediately hit it off becoming close extremely quick. She found it enjoyable to relentlessly tease her and watch her get so flustered her brain had a 404 error. She pretended that she disapproved of Teslas 'interesting' tactics, but she secretly enjoyed her nonsense and tom foolery. They both began becoming menaces and they were the token eccentric scientists of the bunch.
Similar to the my normal headcanons they get together in the same way, and everyone acts so surprised like "oh wow!! We never would've guessed!!" Joyce clowns on her for awhile instead of Joachim for the way it all happened. Loves her and her nonsense.
Planck:
Extremely close with her. She's her mother figure and she trusts her with anything. Planck teases her often, but she doesn't mind it to much. She looks up to her and respects her heavily, and appreciates everything she's done to help her.
During the times she struggled Planck was always there for her. Even when she would get frustrated as a kid she would help calm her down. Probably was aware of her and Teslas 'close' relationship and would tease her all the time over it. After her and Tesla transferred to Lab 42 she would often send Einstein little gifts and snacks.
Carl:
Loves him a lot and views him as her uncle. Admires his willingness to teach her despite her young age, and enjoyed playing and learning with him. He taught her how to play the piano and whenever he comes to visit she'll play for him.
Her time spent under him is one of the few things she remembers from her childhood and holds the memories close to her. He cared about her and would make an effort to come visit her often to see how she was doing with her studies. Along with this he would bring her back new books, candy, and pictures from his travels. He often would create worksheets to mail to her so she could continue learning while he was away, and would continue this after she was being taught by Planck. When he heard that her and Tes were being transferred he was excited for them and took time off just to see them off and congratulate them.
Schrodinger:
Appreciates her way of thinking and respects her. They're those two friends that don't speak but they're somehow close and can communicate telepathically. Tesla is not amused and is jealous.
Joachim:
Loves him to death, and like said above is his mother / sister figure. Her and Tes would let him run around and play with them in their lab (after she made sure nothing would blow up), and she'd get harassed by his and Tes' shenanigans. "Why did I agree to have two of you here (affectionate)" Probably helped him with his math work often, and tried to teach him math but it did not go well.
Welt Joyce:
Bullies him relentlessly. They're cousins, though they didn't see each other much while growing up due to living in different areas. Despite her being eccentric, he enjoys her company whenever she comes to visit. They would talk about astrology and on a few occassions she attempts to teach him math, but it does not end well. "You're such a pathetic man, how do you not know what the answer to *insert extremely complex math equation here* is?"
"Want to meet my girlfriend" "Sure, what's she like." Tesla walks in and immediately starts bullying him while Einstein just shrugs.
The Finn:
Doesn't mind him much. They're friends to a certain extent, and she ropes him into her nonsense sometimes. Respects his knowledge heavily and has asked him to help her and Tes on a few occassions.
Combined History:
Tesla and Einstein both still created Anti Entropy together, and they are still the ones running it to this day. Instead of focusing on defeating Honkai they focus on helping the world become a better place. Their methods are a bit strange, but sometimes you do what you gotta do.
They left Schicksal at their own free volition after discussing it with Theresa, and the two organizations still work together on occasion and have good relations. Along with being scientists they also work as professors. Mainly focusing in the realm of physics, they lecture to college students who are unable to afford to go to university. This was at the Request of Tesla, of course.
They got married in the spring, around March 4th. They began dating in the winter on December 12th.
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