BlazBlue Setting Material Collection Information

[Shadow Draygon]

You noobs, she's not a vampire.

She doesn't sparkle.

[harmless kitten]

Ragna's Drive is named Soul Eater.

The Azure Grimoire devours souls.

Blood Kain enhances the power of Ragna's drive.

HMMM.

Ragna does have an unused quote where he says something like, "I'm not suckin' your blood 'cause it tastes good!" but really, given the information from Rachel's material collection story, you could make an argument that Ragna isn't a vampire at all. Not even half. He lacks the needle teeth Rachel has too.

[Black Onslaught]

Ragna uses the Azure for his Drive.

His Drive is called " Soul Eater ".

It's confirmed Rachel bit Ragna to save his life after his arm was hacked off, and he was y'know bleeding out and dying on the ground.

Since she did this in the original timeline, I assume it carries over in the other ones due to her " acting as an Observer to the Boundary ".

Ragna doesn't display any traits of vampirism outside of healing(?) and that could speculatively be attributed to the False Azure doing that.

Looking at his sprite during Black Onslaught I notice that at the very end ( before his end battle pose ) both of his eyes turn red. Can someone confirm this?

[Mumm-Ra]

Ragna doesn't display any traits of vampirism outside of healing(?) and that could speculatively be attributed to the False Azure doing that.

Looking at his sprite during Black Onslaught I notice that at the very end ( before his end battle pose ) both of his eyes turn red. Can someone confirm this?

This be my first post. I assume that his healing abilities come from the Fake Azure, since his win quote against Hakumen says the following "Shit...why won't these things stop bleeding!?", and Hakumen's nox negates Armagus (The Azure). Regarding Ragna's eyes during Black Onslaught, I can only see one eye, its either his red eye, or my TV is too shitty to see properly lol.

[harmless kitten]

Rachel never bites Ragna in her short story though. I think--think, don't quote me on this--she draws a magic circle around him, it glows blue, sometime later Ragna....sort of wakes up, but not really, only his right (now red) eye open. He then drags himself to where the Black Beast's body was sealed, and is engulfed in darkness. Let me go flip through the past pages to find the summary.

But....I'm not sure anymore. The whole vampirism issue is, iirc, never talked about aside from Rachel's CT arcade ending, and that's only "oh yeah once I bit a boy with jade eyes. Felt good, man."

Both of his eyes are red? They look green to me. His right eye appears to glow red during Black Onslaught (or at least the part where Ragna's covered in shadow), though.

And y'know, we've never seen Rachel in direct sunlight. She might sparkle after all!

....

I'll get my coat.

(And just as a question, maybe we should move this conversation to the BBCS speculation thread? It makes it a little difficult to find actual info buried in this thread.)

[Black Onslaught]

True. On topic, what page was Rachel's short story translated or where can I read that?

[harmless kitten]

It wasn't really translated but there's bits and pieces of a summary on page 59. I think. I'm still skimming.

edit: quotan'

Also, can anyone help with Rachel's story? Rachel story is rather interesting in that Ragna himself unsealed the remnants of the Black Beast and got his arm replacement then. Rachel was merely watching. If so, then what magic was Rachel doing at the beginning? It says that there's a blue glow. Is that the BlazBlue? If so why didn't Ragna get arm replacement then? In short, I am totally confused with this story.

I honestly wouldn't take what Rachel says as the truth. She loves withholding info. And Ragna was like possessed during the time, so he might not remember. Rachel drew magic circle at the beginning. The magic circle glowed in blue and then consumed Ragna or sth. But Ragna's condition actually worsened after that. And then a few hours later, Ragna woke up by himself (only the red eye open, I think), dragged himself using his left hand to some black boulder, touched it, and some kind of seal crumbled. And then Ragna was consumed by darkness. Rachel left without watching more. I have no idea when Ragna got his arm back with my poor understanding. But he doesn't seem to have it back by the time he dragged himself to the boulder.

Rachel hates 'sucking blood' she think it's a low-sort of doing.

so she only bit ragna to 'save him'

But ragna's arm

came from the 'wall' behind him(in Short story)

Rachel have nothing to do with it. Rachel just made sure 'Ragna wont die from shock"

The church is said(presumed to be the burial ground for the black beast's remain)

By Rachel story, I was actually refer to Rachel's short story in the book, not Rachel's story in the game. The point that I'm not sure about is around here:

When Ragna's situation was at its worst, Rachel said sth like "I don't mind biting you" and then she blushed. And there was silence.

The question is what happened during that silence. Did she bite him or not?

But at any rate, I now believe that Rachel didn't bite Ragna once every loop, but only once in one of the earlier loop.

[redsilversnake]

This be my first post. I assume that his healing abilities come from the Fake Azure, since his win quote against Hakumen says the following "Shit...why won't these things stop bleeding!?", and Hakumen's nox negates Armagus (The Azure). Regarding Ragna's eyes during Black Onslaught, I can only see one eye, its either his red eye, or my TV is too shitty to see properly lol.

I think what he says would be more accurate as, "Damn it/Shit...My wounds aren't healing."

Also, Ookami just seems to negate everything rather than anything specific. It even kills Arakune rather easily in his bad end in CT, when other Nox's, like Bolverk, just harmed him.

[Mumm-Ra]

I think what he says would be more accurate as, "Damn it/Shit...My wounds aren't healing."

Also, Ookami just seems to negate everything rather than anything specific. It even kills Arakune rather easily in his bad end in CT, when other Nox's, like Bolverk, just harmed him.

Well, I got my information from the BBCS Story Discussion thread:

6. Zanma: Ookami - Hakumen's sword. It has a blade made from a special metal and can disable ars magus. Its true ability hasn't been revealed, but maybe next time.

Maybe he managed to kill Arakune because he's a giant blob of sethir, and Armagus are powered by that?

[Nina]

Looking at his sprite during Black Onslaught I notice that at the very end ( before his end battle pose ) both of his eyes turn red. Can someone confirm this?

I'm sorry for being a bit off topic, but, I just wanted to confirm this.

Yes, both his eyes are red during Black Onslaught.

But in the sprite sheet, both eyes are not red because it's just an effect, and on closer inspection you can still see a bit of green.

Edit: Getting back on topic.

I think what he says would be more accurate as, "Damn it/Shit...My wounds aren't healing."

Also, Ookami just seems to negate everything rather than anything specific. It even kills Arakune rather easily in his bad end in CT, when other Nox's, like Bolverk, just harmed him.

Ookami probably negates stuff connected to the Black Beast or azure. Iirc, Hakumen says that he killed Nu, who doesn't seem to die. When Ragna gets hit by him, his injuries won't heal, and he's afraid of Hakumen(probably since he is the Black Beast). And Arakune... well this is probably because he's also related to the azure

and is a failed Black Beast.

[Black Onslaught]

It's confirmed that Ookami's only confirmed ability is to negate armagus.

Although considering the way that Haku-men speaks in CT confrontations with Rachel, and the result it had on Nu-13 and Ragna it also appears to be capable of killing "things that can't be killed ".

It's also worth noting that Haku-men hasn't actually used Ookami's true powers as of yet according to BBCS' Kokonoe skit.

[Nina]

It's confirmed that Ookami's only confirmed ability is to negate armagus.

Although considering the way that Haku-men speaks in CT confrontations with Rachel, and the result it had on Nu-13 and Ragna it also appears to be capable of killing "things that can't be killed ".

It's also worth noting that Haku-men hasn't actually used Ookami's true powers as of yet according to BBCS' Kokonoe skit.

Oh. Forgot about the "things that can't be killed" part and mistook it for Black beast related people. Sorry about that.

Is Help me Dr. Kokonoe canon? Iirc Teach me Ms. Litchi isn't considered canon.

[Black Onslaught]

The events that happen aren't canon, but the information is.

[harmless kitten]

Teach Me, Miss Litchi's information (stuff about Armagus, the NOL, Dark War, etc.) is canon, its characterization is heavily exaggerated and its events are not. Help Me, Dr. Kokonoe would presumably be the same.

edit: Ninja'd. >:

[Suzaku]

It's a non-canon skit in which they discuss canon plot elements.

And that information came from "Teach Me, Miss Litchi!"

"Help Me, Professor Kokonoe!" is there to give players help with reaching the true ending.

[Black Onslaught]

Really? That's.. weird in a sense.

That reminds me Suzaku-bro, whenever you get down time would you mind continuing translating the short stories?

I was re-reading them the other night and got all curious about the others.

[zephyr07]

Nu-13's short story

an evil sign:

The only noises that could be heard within this silent room was the hum of the machines and the footsteps of the scientists who were deep in thought. On the screen of the central main monitor, the image of a girl with numerous cables attached to her was displayed. On top of that, the cable attached directly to her right eye made her a rather unusual sight. The girl was motionless. Whether she was alive or dead... That was something that was hard to be sure about.

“The readings have stabilised”

The female voice of the operator resounded through the loudspeaker.

“Right, that's good. Increase sethir levels by 500... inject it in!”

The old man in a white lab coat sitting in front of the main monitor issued out the order.

“Roger. Injecting an additional 500 amount of sethir.”

As the operator's voice resounded, simultaneously the noise level of the machines began to increase. After a moment, the cable attached to the girl's right eye began to undulate, and shortly became dyed black.

Instantly, like the beat of a pulse, the girl began to quiver slighty.

“Woooah!”

The surrounding scientists cheered slightly. Before reaching this stage, there had been countless failures.

“Right, all that's left is to wait for the establishment...”

“Yeah, it will take quite a while till the awakening. However, it seems we will be able to finish within schedule.”

The short and slender-built assistant seated next to the old scientist replied.

“Because this one took so long to reach us, I'm a little uneasy... The delivery is set for tomorrow at 1030 hours right?”

“Yes, it's scheduled to be delivered to the 13th Hierachical City Kagutsuchi tomorrow at 1030 hours.”

The 13th body delivered to the Hierachical city numbered 13... such an ominous combination, the assistant thought but kept it to himself.

The old scientist and his seated assistant gazed intently on the monitor with some emotion. After this all that was left was for the seithir to fully permeate, and then wait for the establishment process. Each of the scientists began to relax.

“Nevertheless, this 13th subject that we confiscated from Ikaruga... it seems it's level of completion is different than from what was declared”

“Yeah, it's something that Sector Seven made that was desgined by Dr. Relius”

“Hm, that puppeter huh? I guess I should say as expected of his work then. But still, to think that those damned Sector Seven could advance to this point...”

“They nearly stole a march on us. Nonetheless, it's too early for us to let our guard down”

“Yeah. There were 3 bodies that were built in Ikaruga. Out of those 1 was retrieved by us, the Libarium, and is now here but...”

“The whereabouts of the remainding 2 are unknown. While in the midst of recovering this subject, the Libarium's special forces ran into interference from a giant individual resembling a “demon”, and it seems another body was unfortunately stolen. The delay in the arrival of this subject is also the fault of the interference caused by the unknown individual”

“ A giant resembling a “demon” huh. I wonder who's he working for... and which other body did he steal?”

“Well, that has yet to be investigated into. Still, if it's the 12th then it's going to be a little bit troublesome...”

The 2 men frowned.

“Still, regarding the demon in Ikaruga, that's certainly some sort of fairy tale right?”

The old scientist uneasily shrugged the subject off. The other scientists laughed. The many tales of the “demons” and “monsters” in Ikaruga was widespread and was treated as common knowledge amongst them.

“Ah yeah, there's one more. There's this one case of the “grim reaper”. Have you guys heard about it?”

“You mean the one who's destroying the boundary contact mediums and cauldrons? Who or what is he?

“I don't know much. Other than the fact that he's dressed in red and has silver hair...”

The assistant disappointedly shrugged his shoulders.

“Boy oh boy, the intelligence department are rather useless aren't they...”

The old scientist replied. At that moment, a click sound indicated the door had opened.

“Ah~ sorry, am I interrupting anything? Pardon me...”

Suddenly, a voice they weren't used to hearing echoed from behind them, and the scientists turned around. Other than the half opened door, the top half of a slenderly built male suddenly popped out of the gap. He was clad in a dark suit, and held a hat in his hands. His eyes seemed to not know how to open.

“Hey, this is a restricted zone! How did you get in!?”

One of the scientists raised the alarm over the conspicious suit-clad outsider. With an innocent look on his face, the man in the suit casually slid into the room.

“I apologise for the sudden intrusion. I am Hazama from the intelligence department. So sorry, to have come while you're all in the middle of work...”

His voice dripping with sarcasm, Hazama introduced himself. It seems he had been observing their idle chatter. Whether he had heard their criticism of the intelligence department was undiscernable.

“... And what does the intelligence branch want?”

The old scientist replied with a level voice. Walking with steady and light footsteps, Hazama stood before the scientist.

“I came to retrieve the 13th subject but... I guess it'll take a little more time hm?”

“Retrieve? Isn't the 13th subject scheduled to be transported to Kagutsuchi tomorrow at 1030 hours?”

His face showing doubt, the scientist posed the question. The surrounding scientists' wariness of Hazama increased.

“Ahh~, well circumstances have changed somewhat. No actually, everything's going according to plan.”

“I do not understand what you're saying. Please explain.”

“You could call it a bluff. To decieve your enemies, first decieve your friends, as they say, right?”

As he said that, Hazama looked around at the scientists' faces. The old scientist quickly caught on.

“I see. In other words, the official order was just a diversion, huh...”

“That's right, that's right. The 13th subject is very important after all. If it were to be destroyed or stolen then, it'd be very bad wouldn't it?”

“...”

“Sector seven has already begun to move, and when they'll come here to cause disruptions is undeterminable. And also, there's...”

Hazama stopped mid-sentence. With one eye slightly opened, he continued in a low voice.

“... The situation regarding the “grim reaper” too.”

The scientists murmurred amongst themselves in low voices

“It seems you don't believe me. Then, I guess it can't be helped. Look here, this is the imperial edict”

While saying so Hazama casually drew out a what appeared to be a note written on a piece of paper from his inner pocket.

“The seal of the Imperator is present, do you see it?”

It was said with a light tone.

“No, it's fine. I understand. We will make preperations for the transport immediately. Please give us a while to make all the arrangments.”

“Ah, before that. The truth is, aside from the retrieval I was given a special order as well...”

“Special order?”

“It would be bad if there were some sort of mistake. So then, I need to confirm the number of the subject with my own 2 eyes.”

“Impossible...! How could there have been a mistake!?”

The assistant raised his voice, to insist that their work was without flaw. Hazama turned to face the outburst, his expression unchanging.

“... I understand. However, I will have to accompany you in, that won't be a problem right?”

The old scientist rebuked his subordinate, and tried his best to give a calm response to Hazama.

“No, of course it won't be”

The old scientist led Hazama along, into the depths of the research lab, and guided him into the subject's room. Attached to the binding devices, the 13th subject's body which hung from the restraints, was unmistakably alive. As Hazama approached he climbed up a stepladder, and examined the middle of the 13th subject's neck and chest.

“Ah, I see. It's unmistakably the 13th , yes.”

While tracing the number 13 engraving with his finger, Hazama smiled as he spoke.

“Are you satisfied now?”

“Yes, thanks to you”

“Then, let's hurry up and leave.”

Snapping the file shut with a bang, the old scientist pressed Hazama to leave. Then, he turned on his heels and began to walk quickly towards the door. Hazama turned and followed suit. However, on his way out he turned to face the 13th subject, and with both eyes opened began to mutter

“Yo, doll. It's about time to wake up from your dream. There'll be plenty of time to continue the rest in reality... no?”

As if in response, the 13th subject's left eyelid appeared to flutter weakly.

[kosmos badgirl]

Thanks for the translation, so far we have two complete translations (Ragna and Nu) and two summaries (Noel and Jin), right?.

[pktazn]

Suzaku and Sesame also did a partial translation of Hakumen's story but it's buried somewhere in the thread :[

And thank you zephyr for the translation :3

[harmless kitten]

Thanks for the translation, so far we have two complete translations (Ragna and Nu) and two summaries (Noel and Jin), right?.

Also yeah, tyvm, zeph! :D

[zephyr07]

Jin's short story

purgatory hell:

Flipping through the pages, Jin let out a sigh. Field officers and higher ranks were given an official office in the main branch of the Libarium. In a short while, the organisation was set to publish a new book entitled “Biographies of Heroes”. It covered heroes both past and present from the Libarium, as well as exploits of these heroes compiled into an omnibus format and written in an autobiographical style. As Jin was one of the top heroes still alive in the present age, not only did his face adorned the front cover, but a fair amount of the book was devoted to his introduction and exploits.

The one that was in his hands was just a manuscript. “The person himself should confirm all the facts” was a duty Jin was ordered to do, which was why he was even bothering to skim through the book.

“Ridiculous...”

There was nothing to confirm—— The introduction chronicled his life from the day he was adopted into the Kisaragi household, and the climax covered his activities during the Ikaruga Civil War. However, there were a lot of portions that differed from the reality as it had happened, and several parts were heavily dramatised. If everything was written the way it had really happened, then a lot of the book would have to be cut.

As he was about to sign off “No Problem” on the manuscript's first page, there was a knock on the office door.

“... Come in.”

It was a command given without even raising his head from his desk. With an “Excuse me”, the door opened. A young female officer respectfully bowed and entered. Jin's posture remainded unchanged, his vision still focused on the book on top of his desk, and he spoke.

“... What do you want?”

“ —— 2nd Lieutenant Noel Vermillion reporting. It's been a long time, Major.”

“... Noel... Vermillion?”

A name he had heard before. Jin knew this girl. It wasn't the first time they had met. During his time at the military academy, they had numerous conversations before.

—— Why is this girl suddenly back at my side? She's pissing me off...!!

Jin hated this girl's face. To the point where just imagining it would fill him with disgust. Noel stepped forward and presented something to Jin. Jin stretched out for it with only his hand—— it appeared to be a letter. He examined the letter, then broke the seal.

He grew dizzy. From it's contents he thought that it might be the higher ups all ganging up on him with this unknown scheme. It said Noel Vermillion was “to be appointed as a special solo soldier tasked mainly with intelligence and assasination, to be place under direct supervision of a division commander.”

—— Why?

It wasn't as if she had come from a special family line. If you looked at her grades they weren't excellent. The only thing that could be considered for special mention was her remarkably high armagus aptitude scores. She had little experience, and possesed insufficient knowledge. Jin went through the various information and details in his head, trying to mesh his speculations into coherent thought. However, no matter how hard he thought about it he couldn't recall any special reason for this girl to be appointed as his direct subordinate.

Once again, he grew dizzy. Just what kind of torture was this... He gritted his inner teeth.

—— This woman is the same.

At that point Jin raised his head for the first time. Her cheeks stiffened, a nervous look upon her face as she stood there. The Libarium's orders were absolute. Even a hero like Jin could ill-afford to go against them without severe consequences. This moment was another example of him always being unable to go against the Libarium's implicit laws, and it annoyed him immensely.

“... Congratulations on your new appointment, Lieutenant Vermillion. Further instructions will be issued to you in another room. Look for the person in charge. That is all; you're dismissed.”

Drowning the girl under all the instructions given in one shot, Jin hurriedly chased the newly appointed female officer out of his office.

“Damn it...”

Once he had confirmed that the girl had left his office, Jin let out an irritable sigh, and slammed his fists on his desk.

“Why... Of all things... That girl is...!!”

His irritation grew. As he exhaled and calmed down, Jin noticed an unusual feeling and turned around. Placed on a sword rack was the ice sword Yukianesa, and some kind of weird air seemed to be seeping out of it.

“... Bastard. What do you want to say?”

Jin directed his query at the sword of ice. However, there was no response.

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The next day, the Libarium's main branch was in ahuge uproar. Recently, a certain individual had been breaking in, destroying, and killing the personel in succesive Libarium branches in Hierachical cities. Reports that last night, a person thought to be the same criminal with the same M.O had destroyed the entire branch of the 9th Hierachical City, had filtered into the main branch.

As an aftermath of that incident, on that day Jin was swamped in paperwork coming in from all the other branches, and by the time he managed to finish up all the documents, it had already become dark outside. As he finished up the last of his paperwork and was contemplating putting down his pen, there was a knock on his door and at the same time a girl's voice could be heard.

“Excuse me Major. 2nd Lieutenant Noel Vermillion reporting.”

Ignoring her wasn't possible, so faced with no alternative Jin responded.

“... Enter.”

The massive doors slowly opened. Jin's vision remained firmly on his desk's surface. He paid no attention to Noel and resumed his work, until she handed him a letter.

“... What is it?”

With a suspicious expression Jin took the letter. Noel's hard expression remained unchanged. The letter had been sealed with a high level armagus. A level S-class code—— which meant a highly classified document. Only division commanders and higher ranks had the nessescary cipher and the the aptitude to use such high level armagus. Without both the letter could not be opened.

Noel took a step back and stood rigidly at attention. Although he wanted to tell her to leave if she was done, it was likely that the main branch had issued other orders to her. Furthermore the fact that she had specially hand delivered this letter to him probably meant that there was some further mission concerning her in it. Jin irritatedly glanced up from reading the letter, his eyes resting on Yukianesa, which was resting on the sword rack. Just like before, it was showing some kind of reaction. Bit by bit it seemed Yukianesa was transmitting some sort of pulse.

—— Is it this girl?

He glanced at Noel for an instant, but it seemed she wasn't paying any attention and was looking elsewhere. Jin began to chant the armagus code to decrypt the letter. The invisible letters appeared in quick succesion. Jin skimmed through the text.

—— The Grim Reaper again?!

Somehow the letter's contents were mainly about the rumored “Grim Reaper”. He had heard of a solitary person's criminal behaviour, but to think that such an individual could destroy several Libarium branches...

“—— In accordance, Noel Vermillion is to head to the 13th Hierachical City “Kagutsuchi” to investigate into the matter of the “Grim Reaper”. Also, detailed information of the “Grim Reaper” will be announced to the public, and the vigilantes will be informed accordingly. In addition, the name of the “Grim Reaper” is “Ragna the Bloodedge” ——“

“—— Ragna”

The words flowed naturally out of his mouth. In that instant, with a loud and flashy bang the scenery that Jin was seeing suddenly warped and distorted. When the broken pieces finally patched themselves together, the scenery was a totally different colour. Something from deep within him started to stir, as if in a hurry to be let out.

“ Ragna——”

Once more, he spat out the name. He couldn't be stopped. It was repeated over and over again. As if a bind had been loosened, blood rushed throughout his body properly for the first time, to him it was a great feeling.

—— Why, how could I have forgotten it till now. This, this rush of emotion!

[zdravkelja]

Thank you for translations

Are you planing to translate all stories?

[DonMagicJuan]

So Noel wasn't Jin's subordinate very long then before he went AWOL. Not even a full day it seems.

[p-kun]

So Noel wasn't Jin's subordinate very long then before he went AWOL. Not even a full day it seems.

It is indeed a glaring mistake by whomever wrote the short story. The same book has a timeline which indicates that she's been his secretary for over 1 year. I believe that canonically the later is true, since Noel graduated 6 months before Tsubaki and Makoto and was assigned straight to Jin's division. But by CT, both Tsubaki and Makoto have graduated and started working. Which means that Noel has been Jin's secretary for over 6 months at the very least.

[zephyr07]

Thank you for translations

Are you planing to translate all stories?

you're welcome. But no, not all. I believe ragna's already done by suzaku and sesame/suzaku are doing hakumen's. That being said I don't plan to do the rest unless they're all very interesting.

So Noel wasn't Jin's subordinate very long then before he went AWOL. Not even a full day it seems.

It is indeed a glaring mistake by whomever wrote the short story. The same book has a timeline which indicates that she's been his secretary for over 1 year. I believe that canonically the later is true, since Noel graduated 6 months before Tsubaki and Makoto and was assigned straight to Jin's division. But by CT, both Tsubaki and Makoto have graduated and started working. Which means that Noel has been Jin's secretary for over 6 months at the very least.

There's not really any conflict between the short stories and the timeline. The short story itself has that repeated diamond used to seperate the 2 portions of the story from which noel joined and then the order for the capture of ragna came in. Usually this denotes a clean break in the story, so some time could have passed. I used a 2 line break instead of the normal single line break to denote it but I guess it wasn't too obvious. Hm. If you're refering to "The next day" phrase of the 2nd portion, it's used to show that the attack on the 9th city occured "last night".