Nell: Abyssal Tactician
Nell Hathaway was already irreplaceable as a capable Executive Officer of Albion Headquarters and an Operations Controller who oversaw most of the Operations she planned herself. She was the envy of the staff cadets and her strategic judgment was already considered to have surpassed Alpha.
But the more indispensable she became,
the more Nell doubted her identity.
She had all but forgotten the existence of her family who had "rationally" forced her out to join the academy so that they would have one less mouth to feed. Even when she heard that contact with her family was lost after they moved to Axion, she felt devoid of emotion.
She believed her life began the moment she was selected to serve as an Executive Officer of Albion Headquarters. She felt that her family was Alpha, the Descendants, and the soldiers of Albion. In fact, Nell's Operations prioritized survival over success and many trusted and followed her because of it.
Nell's tactics were often seen as the product of her acting as a protective family member, not an Executive Officer.
I won't abandon them.
I won't drive them out.
That belief turned to doubt,
when she had to decide which "family members" would die and which would live.
If she left ten "family members" to die, a hundred more could live.
In order to save another thousand "family members," she had to sacrifice fifty others.
As an Executive Officer, she was abandoning more people than the Hathaway family, whose existence had all but faded from her memories, ever did. Her tactical choices were nothing more than a coin toss and were making her sacrifice more of her "family members" with each passing day.
Was I really part of their family?
Wasn't I just another Hathaway making a "rational" choice?
She wanted to gather her thoughts, but she lacked the mental fortitude. Even if she wanted to lie down and rest, the prescribed sleep hours allotted to Executive Officers had long been taken away by the screams of soldiers who died during Operations.
When those doubts led to her worst accident,
Nell finally faced her true self.
Her inner doubts had always been there.
She had always doubted her own worth, but had also been able to prove it.
While, she doubted that she could save them all, she knew that she could save the rest.
She even doubted that she deserved to be loved, so she prioritized her loved ones.
So her doubts
became an abyss that reached to the ends of her mind and yielded her Arche as a result.
Nell resolved to embrace that part of her.
Since belief in victory can come from the doubts of defeat,
she vowed to become someone who believed in doubts and to used the advantage of them.
Exclusive Arche, Breach Entropy Control
The Vulgus have used the term "dimension" as a unit of boundaries that divide the Void, Ingris, and a range of other worlds that exist. This was passed on to humanity through the Magisters and is one of the few concepts that the two factions share. The term "Breach," which refers to damage done to the Dimensional Wall, is also a common concept between the factions, but there a difference that exists between the Vulgus and humanity in how they approach it. While the Vulgus artificially create Breaches to tear down the Dimensional Wall, humanity replaces the broken Dimensional Wall with Arche and uses the replaced Breach entropy as a weapon against their enemy. Of course, Nell is still the only human who can use it that way.
"You've always had a lot of doubts.
So, I trust that when given such great power, you'll use it carefully."
- Alpha, handing Nell her appointment as Chief Executive Officer...