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This is a page entirely for Nachzehrer, disease-spreading black-blooded demons and the second antagonistic force for Starlit Heroics as a whole.
Tropes that apply to the Nachzehrer as a whole -
- All There in the Manual: As per all the monsters introduced throughout the series, there are entries on them on the wiki. In universe, there's also the cards made by the Abyss Knights to identify each and every single Nachzehrer (even the zombies) and their servants.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Other than the standard "decapitate them to kill them" for the zombies (which would make people question how the hell to kill a Dullahan), the Nachzehrer have a unique weakness — destroying the heart, which is more effective if not the defining way to defeat them. (It ultimately makes encounters with Murilegas and Behemoths all the more easier). The reason the heart is so vital is because it is where the Void Shard (the "embodiment" of a Nachzehrer) develops.
- Beneficial Disease: Zigzagged constantly. The Ranthedis disease inside the black blood is notable for giving people incredible super-human abilities all around and can even bring back the dead, but it is very volatile and not everybody comes back right or winds up becoming a mindless, grotesque monster.
- Bishounen Line: With certain choice exceptions, people that grow as Nachzehrer steadily return to their original humanoid forms while retaining their powers.
- Black Blood: One of their most infamous aspects and also their livelihood as they use the black blood to spread around the disease turn people into more of them. It is also one of their fatal weaknesses because if their heart (the Void Shard) is destroyed, it instantly kills them.
- Cosmic Horror: The black blood can infect anything but angels and demons, right? Which means... Thank god the Nachzehrer only live on Divixus.
- Color Motif: Black. And lots of it to the point where there are multiple puns based around it. And occasionally blue and red.
- The Corruption / The Virus: Anyone infected with the black blood of a Nachzehrer will go through a three-stage (four if you're one of the nastier monsters) disease called Ranthedis before eventually becoming one themselves:
- A zombie phase - Undead (Revenants & Cadaveliers only) / infected that can be differentiated from regular brought-back-from-the-dead zombies as commonly seen on Divixus due to their glowing blue eyes, black blood and pale-gray skin. Not only that, as time goes on, they become smarter and stronger due to the black blood strengthening their bodies but are still the easiest phase to dispose of. They also have different classes, depending on how infected they are-- up to fifteen and more, in fact.
- A cuccoon phase - After several days pass, the zombies all at once spontaneously seal themselves inside of cucoons made of special Anthodia silk that are immune to all conventional and magical attacks. They also create the cuccoons in dark areas so the sun wouldn't instantly disintegrate them in their next form.
- The vampire phase - Once they break out of their cuccoons, they are reborn as demonic bloodsuckers who have a vulnerability to the sun and light magic. A hard phase to defeat due to their incredible speed and strength, but at the same time, they lose their intelligence from before, becoming nothing more than instinctual hunters and are easily outclassed by the variety of zombie classes. This only applies to the zombies that are more monstrous in design and have to have more time to develop as Nachzehrer— exclusions being all the more developed classes. (Such as Dullahans, etc.)
- Cute Monster Girl: With the exception of Revenants, female Espers and Maranettes, the female infected retain a great deal of how they used to look like. Full Nachzehrer are a more straight-forward example, however.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: With some of the more monstrous zombie classes.
- Eldritch Abomination: They're so nasty that they're actually feared by the people that made them.
- The Immune: The Abyss Knights' Valiant Crystals are engineered to protect them from being infected by the Ranthedis virus that's in the black blood. Also, spiritual creatures such as angels and certain demon species (for example Succubi can be infected) are unable to become Nachzehrer.
- Gratuitous German: Thanks to Iduun being the one to name the species. It turns out they've gone through several incarnations in terms of naming, with Nachzehrer being the most accepted term.
- Night of the Living Mooks
- Power Levels:
- The zombies are at the bottom of the ladder due to them being incomplete.
- Full Nachzehrer usually range from no more powerful than above average to near god-like status (Iduun, for example).
- Stock Superpowers: The Nachs have their own special abilities, which are shared by the Abyss Knights. They consist of:
- Super Strength - As a standard. There's also the Macht (Power) skill which increases it even more.
- Made of Iron - Thanks to the Rüstung (Armor) ability, some Nachzehrer have bodies as tough as steel and increased magical defense.
- Healing Factor - Abhilfe (Remedy) gradually recovers the user's wounds, with Iduun's being an example of Nigh-Invulnerability.
- Elemental Magic - Naturally, due to being inhabitants of Divixus they have access to all eight elements. And the Zauber (Magic) skill increases magical power.
- Flash Step - The Blitz skill allows swift movement in quick bursts.
- Super Mode - Aufstieg (Ascendance), which brings out the inner strength of the Nachzehrer and makes them a force to be reckoned with. It has only been found naturally in powerful high-end Nachzehrer (Such as the main seven leaders for one), but the newly-minted Ascendance Charms would allow people of the otherwise relatively normal zombie classes have Aufstiegs of their own.
- Tragic Monster: Which depends on who they are, really.
- Zombie Apocalypse: The ones the Nachzehrer cause, though, are easily some of the most vicious and well-prepared in recent history.
Tropes that apply to the Neumond Reich Military as a whole:
- Arch-Enemy: As a whole to the Crimson Crusaders and the Eight Kingdoms' military forces.
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- Badass Crew
- The Empire
- Elite Mook: The Nachzehrer in the employ of the Neumond Reich military are usually more sophisticated and deadly than the ones in the wild. There are also the advanced Kriegers, which in and of themselves are expies of the Heartless.
- Wicked Cultured: On top of being black-blooded Eldritch Abominations that are able to spread around a downright lethal disease that turns people into evolving zombies, the royal family members are also classy and well-educated.
Tropes that apply to Neumond Reich and its inhabitants -
- All-Ghouls School: The Noir Luna Academy fits this to a tee, as it not only has fifteen out of the twenty zombie classes (Revenants, Espers, Wailers, Lataevi, Maranettes, Behemoths, Sirens, Dullahans, Militios, Sylphs, Sleepers, Murilegas, Succulinas, Cadaveliers, Niteris and in the form of impressionable (and surprisingly better looking) teenagers, but there's also vampires, werewolves, and other humanoid monster races that come in that make their way to Noir Luna as either students or teachers.
- Bait-and-Switch: There's actually two places to Neumond Reich - Bernsonne City, a large bustling metropolis full of attractions along with a world-famous resort and training ground. Bernsonne is actually a decoy to lead suspicious people off the trail of the place where the actual regime lives - the Veldemar capital, hidden deep in the mountains.
- Evil Tower of Ominousness: The Sable Fortress consists of several of these on top of being a Big Fancy Castle.
An entire monarchy made by the Nachzehrer as part of their plan to overtake the Abyss Knights and cover the planet of Divixus and beyond with the Ranthedis disease. These are the ones in charge of the whole ordeal, and are the elite inner circle of the Queen. Their primary headquarters lie in the Sable Fortress in the capital city of Veldemar, hidden by the mountains.
- Amazon Brigade: Carminella and her Vollstreckers are all female, for one. There are other examples.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Pretty much. They are countered by the Crimson Crusaders' Heavenly Virtues:
- Iduun - Wrath (Lirus, Allen and Umbra are Patience)
- Nevinna - Gluttony (Laitona and her three children are Temperance)
- Carminella - Envy (Thalassa is Kindness)
- Cupidite - Greed (Yumenshi, Verona and Sayura are Charity)
- Dormiende - Sloth (Julian and Nocta are Diligence)
- Crucio - Lust (1st half) (Luci ano Vuitton is Chastity)
- Reversa - Pride & Lust (2nd half) (Salutenia, Titania and Daniel are Humility)
- Undying Loyalty: The other seven members are indebited to Iduun in one way or another.
Queen Iduun / Irene Nachtsonne
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Luna / DarkSpecies: NachzehrerStarting Level: Lv. 3000 ( Actually halved to 1500 thanks to cloning herself)
- The Ace: Is a supremely powerful demi-goddess with control over all eight elements.
- Arch-Enemy: To Umbra, for many reasons. By proxy, she hates Thalassa and everyone associated to him because of it.
- Archnemesis Mom: Is technically one to Thalassa considering Carminella is her "sister."
- Almighty Mom: Technically speaking. She can back-talk anybody she wants due to her immense charisma and has the punch to boot.
- Anime Hair: Has absolutely giant twin-tailed hair that double as Ojou Ringlets... and is also in a lovely shade of maroon.
- Big Bad: Essentially of the entire Black Blood Crusades arc.
- Boobs of Steel
- Contralto of Danger: Has a deep voice befitting the queen of black-blooded demons.
- Cultured Badass: Is elegant, refined and reasonable to people she has no trouble with.
- Expy: Of Queen Zeal and originally Walpurgisnacht.
- Faux Affably Evil: Is polite, if not strict, to her enemies.
- Femme Fatalons: Long black ones.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Zigzagged. She shows a lot of love and care to her people, but she often does horrible things so she can keep them under control.
- Master of All: Has abilities spanning all eight elements.
- Meaningful Name: Iduun is named after the Norse goddess of the same name, and is incredibly old yet doesn't look a day over the age when she became a Nachzehrer.
- Her last name as a human, aka. Nachtsonne is Night Sun in German - reflecting the new moon theme of her kingdom and by extension, new beginnings.
- Nigh Invulnerable
- Ojou Ringlets / Mega Twintails
- The Ojou: Venerated by her companions and eventually the entire kingdom once she reveals herself as the savior of Neumond Reich.
- One-Woman Army: Trained indefinitely in case she ever had to deal with the equally powerful Umbra.
- Physical Goddess: The only human to ever achieve this.
- Really 700 Years Old: Iduun is well over ten thousand years old, since she was the one who founded Neumond Reich, had several generations of Abyss Knights-turned-Nachzehrer live there and so on. ( Which is well over a longer time than the German culture could have been even concieved— that is, unless you consider that Iduun is a natural born Divixean that fits the qualities and that her people migrated to Earth and helped inspire or even become the Germanic people.)
- Tragic Monster: Her family was murdered during a Nachzehrer raid when she was human. Then her Abyss Knight friend turns into a Nachzehrer, making her realize she's probably killed a bunch of her comrades without ever knowing and that Umbra is to blame for them even existing in the first place. She also just wants to be kind and caring to her Nachzehrer people, even if her methods are incredibly reprehensible.
- Unstoppable Rage: Her very wrath led to becoming a Nachzehrer in the first place.
- You Gotta Have Raspberry-Colored Hair
Carminella Nachtsonne / Ultimes
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Luna / EarthSpecies: Nachzehrer
The High-End Ambassador of Neumond Reich, the Nachzehrer Sin of Envy and right-hand assistant to the dean of Noir Luna Academy.
- Action Fashionista: Notable due to her extensively designed dresses.
- Artificial Human: Turns out, she's a Nach engineered from a torn out part of Umbra infused with parts of Iduun's hair and blood.
- Ax-Crazy: Much like the more sadistic members of Neumond Reich's military, she has no remorse for whatever she does for the empire unless it involves someone or something she cares about, and even then, she's very fickle.
- Blade on a Stick: What her main weapon, a shapeshifting laser staff called the Vile Rose, generally takes the form of.
- Color Motif: Black, violet and pink.
- Cute and Psycho: Naturally.
- Dissonant Serenity: Is unfazed and seems to enjoy the carnage that goes on during fights.
- Duality Motif: She has a turquoise eye and a red eye, and her hair is pink with violet highlights while her twintails turn from pink to white. It represents how she is an artificial Nachzehrer created from parts of Umbra and Iduun.
- The Fake Cutie: Is easily the bubbliest of the Neumond Reich army (second to the Dullahan Sunshine Nettagel) but is as bad as Reversa below. Inverted when in regards to the people she actually cares about.
- Expy: Of Nui Harime from Kill la Kill and Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: A mixture between Sweet and Goth, as noted by the pink and black in her design.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Underneath all the "sweetness".
- Kawaiiko: Notably, especially when compared to the otherwise stone-faced / emotionally mature villains.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Is one of the most fearsome opponents yet, but wears a fanciful goth-loli dress complete with Parasol of Prettiness.
- Mommy's Little Villain: Much to the contrast of Nevinna below, Carminella is pretty much Iduun's ideal obediant child - relentless and undyingly loyal. Whereas Nevinna is treated like a human being, Carminella is like Iduun's masterpiece.
- Meaningful Name: Carmine is a shade of red/pink, and Carminella doubles as a pun to caramelo, the spanish word for candy - further emphasizing the "sweet" nature she has.
- Mega Twintails: Has large ones rivaling her inspiration, only difference that her hair goes from pink to white at the ends.
- Multicolored Hair: Has pink hair with dark maroon colored highlights, and her twintails go from pink to white.
- Nice Hat: Wears a black hat like Nevinna below.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Is noticably tough like her Nachzehrer friends.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Granted, given her sickeningly upbeat attitude towards everything and what she is.
- Parasol of Pain / Parasol of Prettiness: Rivals Thalassa's Tethys that can transform into a versatile laser lance called the Vile Rose.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Enjoys the clothes Lestric makes for her.
- Terrible Trio: Along with her subordinates, Rhythmia and Cupidite.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: Among her myriad of powers is changing her appearance to look like anybody she wants. Is often subject to Glamour Failure due to failing to conceal her Mismatched Eyes.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Wears violet thigh-high boots.
Nevinna Ruzia
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / CloudSpecies: Nachzehrer
The Nachzehrer Sin of Gluttony, and princess of Neumond Reich.
- Anti-Villain: Is described as "kind and gentle" for a Nachzehrer and shows it.
- Animal Motifs: Snakes.
- Badass Adorable
- Big Eater: Naturally, as the Sin of Gluttony.
- Blush Sticker: Blue ones.
- Blade on a Stick: Wields a blade called the Serpenter - a long purple laser blade similar to a naginata.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Made an orphan at 11 when bandits killed her family. With Iduun's help, she found the bandits and slaughtered each one of them by herself...
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Combined with the whole Gluttony and poison theme...
- Extreme Omnivore
- I'm a Humanitarian
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Note, Nevinna defeats Laitona's super form intentionally wearing one of her large, elegant dresses as a sign of the Nachzehrer race's true strength.
- Lady of War: In her debut, she brutally defeats and eats Laitona whole, who by this point had been developed to be the most potent person in terms of killing Nachzehrer.
- Ojou Ringlets / Regal Ringlets
- Pimped-Out Dress: Her myriad of elegantly designed dresses.
- Poisonous Person: Has the ability to paralyze enemies with the special toxin she's able to make.
- Villainous Glutton
- Villainous Crush Towards Mereno.
- Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Is 16, but is incredibly skilled and can put some of the heroes on their knees. Laitona being the primary example.
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Luna / DarkSpecies: Nachzehrer
The first part of the Sin of Lust, and a Nachzehrer who takes on the form of a handsome white-haired man in a purple butler outfit. Is actually one of Umbra's sons come back to kill him to prove himself as his superior.
- Ambiguously Human: His ultimate weapon.
- Bishounen
- Humanoid Abomination: Is so far (along with his lady counterpart and Nevinna) the most normal looking out of the seven leaders.
- Mr. Fanservice
Reversa / Natalie Leitzal
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / FlameSpecies: NachzehrerStarting Level: Lv. 1000
- Ambiguously Human: Like Crucio, it is her most dangerous weapon.
- Ax-Crazy: To the extreme.
- A Love to Dismember: Keeps the severed arms and heads of victims she really likes and keeps them fresh.
- Battle Couple: With Crucio.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She oftenly masquerades as a normal person and acts friendly, even though she's far from it.
- Biker Babe: Complete with a motorcycle of her own that moves at near-invisible speeds.
- Brutal Honesty: Admits what she's doing is wrong and knows that she's an awful person but doesn't care either way.
- Combat Sadomasochist: Revels in pain and isn't afraid of death.
- Color Motif: Black, purple and red with blue eyes.
- Cute and Psycho
- Detachment Combat: Likes to take herself apart for fun, for example.
- Expy: Due to how long her character concept has been around, she's gone through multiple changes the more characters the creator sees. So far, the most notable ones are Rin from Fear Garden and Junko Enoshima. (The latter of which has influenced her most recent design)
- When it comes to expies made OF her, she has Selene from Tale of a Sun and Moon.
- Femme Fatalons: She has long red nails.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: She went from being a normal human being into a black-blooded Eldritch Abomination, and don't get us started on her ''interests...
- Humanoid Abomination: Like Crucio, she looks the most normal out of all of the members.
- Laughably Evil: Due to the non-serious demeanor she takes towards her enemies, she winds up making fun of them.
- Made of Iron: She is noticably more tougher than the other members.
- Mega Twintails: They're absolutely humongous. Although concept art reveals they were originally very thin and stringy in beta pictures.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her job as the second embodiment of Lust.
- Pet the Dog: She won't kill little kids no matter what, due to how much of a bond she's had with her younger sister Nina. She also acts genuinely friendly with other members of the inner seven and directly serves as Nevinna's big sister figure.
- Poisonous Friend: Is eventually seen as one by Candelabra once the latter grows more towards the heroes.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Any pain Reversa feels will get converted into pleasure, which doesn't help considering her incredible strength and endurance.
- The Sociopath: Takes this and makes it into an art form. However, she does give special exceptions to this in the form of her sister, Nevinna and people she likes.
- Undying Loyalty: The reason she even sticks with Iduun, due to "turning her life around."
- Yandere: She'll chase down anybody she deems "beautiful" and take their arm and/or head to preserve and keep to herself.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade S with leather boots that go past her knees.
Dormiende / Sirius di Shadre
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / EarthSpecies: NachzehrerStarting Level: Lv. 1200
The Sin of Sloth, and a Nachzehrer that takes the form of a hellhound-like creature with sewed-shut eyes. He is the essential tactician for Neumond Reich, because as he embodies Sloth, he never directly involves himself in battle but instead lets his traps and minions do the work for him.
In reality, he is a former king of Shadre who went by Sirius. He was also a former Abyss Knight loyal to Umbra and a father to his people. However, when his personal guard was ravaged by the one-man infiltration by Iduun, he was one of the only few left alive and after getting thoroughly beaten, she offers him to join her and start anew or else. Sirius willingly let himself become a Nachzehrer out of both respect for his defeat and the futility of his situation - the rest is history.
- Anti-Villain
- The Chessmaster: Since he's the Sin of Sloth, he never participates in a fight directly, but can orchestrate it well enough that he doesn't have to.
- Expy: Of Barragan from Manga/Bleach.
- Eldritch Abomination: And certainly looks the part, compared to his companions.
- Graceful Loser: When he lost to Iduun, he gave himself up and joined the other side without struggling... Even if it was out of cowardice.
- Noble Demon: He still retains his regal attitude from his human days.
Aureas / Telesa Hemidial
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Light / FlameSpecies: Nachzehrer
The Sin of Avarice. She is a Nachzehrer woman that takes the appearance of an angel. She is the treasury minister of Neumond Reich, as she oftenly steals things of value for the kingdom and is responsible for managing the finances.
In reality, she is Laitona's mother after she turned herself into a Nachzehrer. After Umbra took Laitona into custody,
- Angelic Beauty
- Abusive Parents: To Laitona when she was younger, ever since the father wasn't around to keep her safe. Reason being that Telesa didn't want to get wrapped up in motherhood and just cared about being with her husband.
- Expy: Let's see... Angelic appearance? Blue eyes? Avarice-themed? It's Artina except for the yellow hair.
- Fountain of Youth: Is technically 50+ years old, but her powers as a Nachzehrer allow her to keep a youthful appearance no matter how old she gets.
- Greed: Her primary motif, as reinforced by her Rich Bitch and The Hedonist tendencies.
- Light Is Not Good: Angelic in appearance, but is coarse and harsh.
- Meaningful Name: Aureas is latin for "Golden", which is her primary color scheme.
- Rapunzel Hair: Has hair that reaches down to her hips even despite having it tied into a ponytail.
- Rich Bitch
- Pimped-Out Dress: Aureas wears intricately designed dresses as a sign of her great wealth.
A group of high-end Nachzehrer who essentially serve as the official army for Neumond Reich, whose grip extends even into the commoners of the city.
- Quirky Mini Boss Squad
- Meaningful Name: Enforcers / Executioners in German.
- Praetorian Guard: They are the highest ranking soldiers in all of Neumond Reich's militia and serve under specific leaders.
Alptraum / Alex and Vanessa Sonnete
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: VariesSpecies: NachzehrerStarting Level: Lv. 1000
The leader of the Vollstreckers and a dream-themed Nachzehrer loyal to Dormiende. It is actually two people mixed into one body— a married Abyss Knight couple who had their Valiant Crystals corrupted and forcibly fused together to create Alptraum. They pine for the time for when they're able to return to normal and follow Dormiende in the hopes that he could help them. The Alptraum duo resent fighting, but involuntarily grow more bloodthirsty and Ax-Crazy as time passes.
- Anti-Villain: Type 2.
- Ax-Crazy
- Celestial Body
- Monster Clown
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Literally and metaphorically.
- Tragic Monster: Just read the above!
Rhythmia.EXE / Sera Flores
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Luna / CloudSpecies: Robot infused with a Militio Void ShardStarting Level: Lv. 940
A battle android and a supremely powerful technomancer powered by the soul of a once famous singer cut down in her prime. A Vollstrecker loyal to Carminella, and her best friend.
- (Not So) Ambiguously Bi: Grows a Yandere relationship towards Daniel the prince, but utterly fawns over her (female) commander.
- Battle Couple: With Carminella.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Shares this trait with Carminella and Cupidite, due to her innocuous appearance.
- Brain Uploading: Can appear as an A.I. on computers freely.
- Contagious A.I.: Given her supernatural nature, she can hop through multiple systems at once.
- Cute and Psycho: Looks cute on the inside, but is one of the most whacked out members of the Neumond Reich militia alongside Crucio.
- Cute Is Evil: Hence why she was paired up as Carminella's personal Vollstrecker...
- Detachment Combat: Takes herself apart depending on the situation.
- Expy: Of Giffany, Meloetta, Magneto, Ruon, the list goes on...
- Faux Affably Evil: Is a brightly-colored pop star idol android with a perky personality, but is also incredibly violent and manipulative.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Seeing as Militios are renowned for their ability to control metal, Rhythmia can form her robotic body into whatever she wants.
- Made of Iron: Literally. Due to her nature as an android, she goes into downright Implacable Woman territory if her Void Shard isn't destroyed.
- Meaningful Name: Rhythmia is pretty obvious considering her pop-star like image. However, it's also a shortened version of arrhythmia, which is a heart problem that involves sporadic heartbeats - given how the Void Shard is essentially the "heart" of the Nachzehrer race...
- Red Baron: Is known as the "Ultimate Charming Machine".
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Is virtually indistinguishable from a human and even bleeds black blood. (The reason being that the Void Shard creates it)
- Soul Jar: Even more so than other Nachzehrer, as her robot body can't even function as well without the Void Shard.
- Terrible Trio: Along with Carminella and Cupidite.
- Yandere: A textbook example when regarding her pursuits toward Daniel the Prince. Averted with her relationship towards Carminella and Cupidite.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A.
Cupidite / Sonia Morgen
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Light / FlameSpecies: Nachzehrer (Wailer / Succulina)
A Vollstrecker loyal to Carminella, and a perky girl that takes an angelic shape to belie her true sadistic nature. She, Rhythmia and Carminella are very intimate friends for this alone.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Shares this trait with the other two, but more prominently in her case.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A.
Machias Delvrute
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / FlameSpecies: Nachzehrer - Unique
The chancellor of Neumond Reich and a no-nonsense man.
- Expy: Of Judge Claude Frollo.
- Evil Chancellor: Inverted, interestingly. He's evil not to the people of Neumond Reich, but primarily towards the heroes.
- Foil: To the much cheerier and brighter Sayura.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is based off of Machiavelli.
- Nonstandard Character Design: His face is much more rigid compared to many of the other characters, much like one of his inspirations.
Echart Delvrute
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / FrostSpecies: Nachzehrer - EsperStarting Level: Lv. 850
Catherine Altozel
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: EarthSpecies: Nachzehrer - MurilegaStarting Level: Lv. 850
A Murilega (cat woman) Nachzehrer, and a Vollstrecker warrior loyal to Crucio. Despite this, she and her Succulina sister Vivian tend to go off on their own, usually doing their own thing and not being all that dangerous unless they're called to action. The two of them tend to bicker over trivial matters like all siblings do, but when they work together, they're nearly unstoppable.
Catherine, being the Murilega of the two, is incredibly fast and physically powerful, knowing a multitude of fist-based melee attacks to compliment her sister's more magic-oriented style. She is also hot-headed, brash, but also very charming when she wants to be.
- Anti-Villain
- Badass Adorable
- Catgirl
- Cute Monster Girl
- Friendly Neighborhood Black Blooded Cat Demon Lady
- Lightning Bruiser
- Those Two Guys
Vivian Altozel
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Luna / CloudSpecies: Nachzehrer - SucculinaStarting Level: Lv. 800
A Succulina (Nachzehrer deriatives of Succubi) woman, and Catherine's older sister. She is also a Vollstrecker and is
Celia Rodriguez
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / FrostSpecies: Nachzehrer - Dullahan
One of a duo of Dullahans that serve under Reversa. She and her brother Ivan are notorious murderers due to being two of the prominent members of the executionary task force.
- Ax-Crazy
- Headless Horsewoman
- Knight of Cerebus: Every time she and her brother show up, they usually wind up kicking the Crimson Crusaders asses, specifically Mereno and Vilutia.
- Ms. Fanservice
- Sinister Scythe
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Ivan Rodriguez
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / FrostSpecies: Nachzehrer - Dullahan
One of a duo of Dullahans that serve under Reversa. He and his sister Celia are notorious murderers due to being two of the most prominent members of the executionary task force.
Lestric Shemhaz
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: NullSpecies: NachzehrerStarting Level: Lv. 780
The Grand Couturier of Neumond Reich, and a powerful artisan mage.
- Ephebophile: Has a noticeable kick when designing clothes for teenage girls...
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is based off of real-life fashion designer Hugo Boss, who designed military clothing for the Nazi SS.
- Non-Standard Character Design
Marvo Shemhaz
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / EarthSpecies: Nachzehrer (Murilega / Maranette)Starting Level: Lv. 780
A Vollstrecker loyal to Aureas, and her personal assistant.
Cornell Nettagel
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Dark / EarthSpecies: Nachzehrer (Murilega / Maranette)Starting Level: Lv. 750
Sunshine's father, and a Vollstrecker loyal to Nevinna. A brave soul with an unfaltering love for his children, he serves as the bodyguard to Princess Nevinna and is one of her most capable warriors.
Dawn Nettagel
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Light / CloudSpecies: Nachzehrer (Sylph / Infector)Starting Level: Lv. 760
Sunshine's mother, and a Vollstrecker loyal to Nevinna. An experienced scouter
Monalis Astelian
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Luna / FlameSpecies: Nachzehrer (Unique)Starting Level: Lv. 800
Monalis was the former wife of the Phastimus, Divixus's equivalent to the Pope, and is Verona's mother. She was turned into a Nachzehrer by Telesa and is forced to do her bidding as part of a binding contract - if she ever breaks it, Telesa will go after her husband and daughter.
- Angelic Beauty: Much like her commander Cupidite, she has an angelic appearance.
- Expy: Of Yuyuko from Touhouvania in appearance.
- Light Is Good: As opposed to her commander, Monalis is not a bad person but is forced to do vile acts.
- Naughty Nuns: Wears black priestess-like robes.
- Rapunzel Hair: Has long red hair.
Ranthedis-infected creatures born from the animals and the other non-humanoid creatures that live on Divixus, effectively serving as an (even more) expendable army. They come in various forms and appearances, depending on the animal/creature they used to be and their new purpose as chosen by their humanoid masters.
- Always Chaotic Evil: Specifically designed to attack and desist anything that's not a Nachzehrer.
- Black Blood
- Cute Bruiser: Some of them are not as terrifying as others.
- Eldritch Abomination
- Expy: More of the Emblem Heartless than anything else in Starlit Heroics along with [[Video Game/Pokemon in general.]]
- Fisher Kingdom: There are different variations depending on location.
- The Heartless
- Our Monsters Are Weird
- Meaningful Name: Krieger is German for warrior - the Abyss Knight name, Warling, rings the same bells.
- Sigil Spam: They can be identified by the trademark upside down red star with black wings which serves as the Nachzehrer's symbol.
- Zerg Rush
Warlings with a small body that have a transparent watery outer shell shaped like a demonic horse. They are relentless hunters that track down their prey no matter how far they are.
- Animal Motifs: Horses.
- Battle Aura: It's a transparant water horse, too.
- Deflector Shield: It can be argued that weaker attacks can't pierce through the water aura.
- Expy: Of the three elemental horse enemies from Ōkamiden, strangely enough. It's also based off the Kelpie from Celtic mythology, but renamed to sound more fearsome.
- Lightning Bruiser
- Making a Splash: It is based off the kelpie, after all...
- Meaningful Name: Exequia (Funeral in latin) + eques (horse or knight in latin)
- Black Blood
- Color Motif: They all have blue eyes (with the exception of the Espers who have purple eyes) and gray skin, along with having the black blood as a universal symbol.
- Elite Zombie: All of them— even the standard Revenant over time, at least compared to the usual sort seen on Divixus.
- Foreshadowing: The cybernetic zombies on the Island of Shadows that Lirus and pals were on were training for facing these guys.
- Gratuitous Latin: They consist of primarily Latin names, if only because of how the Libratan Royal Family and the Abyss Knights classify them.
- Motif: They are based off of famous monsters from all sorts of mythology, i.e gryphons, sirens, revenants, dullahans, etc. There's some exceptions, of course, like Wailers and Lataevi.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Very different. It can be argued that they're Type M, since they have many aspects going for them.
- Transformation Trinket: The newly-minted Ascendance Charms allow them to invoke Aufstiegs, which would otherwise be impossible unless they were high-end Nachs like the Vollstreckers and so on. The reason being because Ascendance Charms are created from the melted-down Void Shards of wild Nachzehrer like the zombies, so it works as some sort of twisted power booster as well.
The most common type of Nachzehrer zombie, and the easily the least dangerous. They have the ability to grow smarter and stronger due to the black blood strengthening their bodies, but other than that, they're really just cannon fodder when compared to their more varied counterparts. They infect people by either getting up close and personal to bite them or spewing the black blood from their mouth, which is essentially quick-acting corrosive poison.
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- Breath Weapon: They spew the black blood from their mouth as their primary way to infect people. Ewww...
- Fragile Speedster: They're capable of running, but they're not that durable.
- Glass Cannon: They're weak when put up against the military or even a decently organized group of people, but if they get the upper hand, they're very effective.
- Meaningful Name: Even if they're not exactly the same thing as the folklore ones, they're called Revenants because of the fact that they're reanimated dead corpses.
- Poison Is Corrosive: The black blood is infectious and acidic, which is what really makes them more of a threat than anything.
- Revenant: Subverted, actually— a Nachzehrer Revenant is more comparable to a modern zombie than the actual folklore revenant. It's an In Name Only sort of deal.
- Zerg Rush
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart:
- Master of None: Revenants in Neumond Reich are basically normal people when compared to the others.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: While they are still more powerful than any normal person on Divixus, they are overshadowed by their more varied counterparts.
- Revenant: Played straight, unlike the wild version. Most of the time, a Revenant is someone who died as a human/humanoid and was reborn as a Nachzehrer thanks to the rejuvenative powers of the black blood. A problem with those is that they generally lack a soul.
A variation of the Revenant line that involves the victim's skin and most of their organs melting off of their body as an intense side-effect of the black blood. They are kept alive through the Void Shard inside their bodies, can freely control the flesh they shed and can use it for combative purposes. They
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- Body Horror: A bit more so than the other zombie classes.
- Dem Bones: Their base form, although they can assume the form they took before they became Melting.
- Expy: Based off of Sekhmet from Skullgirls, right down to being vampiric skeleton monsters.
- Meaningful Name: Their entire body except for their skeleton has melted off, for lack of a better term.
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart
Advanced mutations of the Revenant line that turn more demonic and fierce as time goes on. They are immune to all forms of attack as they can quickly heal their injuries, no matter where they are attacked - stronger hits only stall their recovery time. Their weakness is their Void Shard, and are some of the most tenacious members of the Nachzehrer zombie classes if it is not destroyed immediately.
- Expy: Very similar to the Regenerators from Resident Evil.
- Elite Zombie: Even more so, standing as the strongest variation of Revenant.
- Implacable Man: A generic counterpart.
Ghostly infected that can go through walls, turn invisible, cause illusions and possess living creatures or objects— they are identified by being accompanied by blue flames and having eerie purple eyes. They're dangerous enough to be a threat due to their mind games and effective magical arsenal.
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- Black Mage
- Bishounen: Male Espers, strangely enough.
- Expy: Of the Espers from Final Fantasy VI, which really makes sense when you think about it...
- In the Hood: Male Espers wear hoodies.
- Meaningful Name: Pretty obvious.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: And they're not even the worst offenders out of the whole group.
- Our Banshees Are Louder / Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Female Espers are this to a tee.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Magical zombie ghosts that evolve into demonic vampire monsters?
- Soul Power
- Supernatural Is Purple: Thanks to their ghostly powers.
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart:
- Black Mage
- Bishounen: Male Espers.
- Prehensible Hair: Due to how long a female Esper's hair usually is, they can use it as part of their attacks.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: When compared to the wild variant, female Espers look much more refined.
- Supernatural Is Purple
Infected that take on angelic-yet-deformed appearances to trick their enemies and can scream to attract their allies to them. They came about when Nachzehrer blood came in contact with False Angel demons.
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- Body Horror: Their arms can grow to a length that would be impossible for a regular human being and worst of all, they can make it longer. Couple that with the fact that they sometimes look so malformed they don't even look like people...
- Enemy Summoner: Their screams bring in the horde, obviously.
- Long-Range Fighter
- Light Is Not Good: They take the appearance of angels, for christ's sake.
- Meaningful Name: But of course.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Which is made worse when you realize that False Angels, the creature they were born from, are Cthulu-esque abominations of sheer terror in their true form.
- Screaming Long-armed Zombie
- Zerg Rush
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart:
Infected with a disproportionately large glass and flesh hourglass shaped body filled with black blood. Should prey come closer, they will entrap them in a lunar barrier and explode upon capturing them, killing itself in the process.
- Action Bomb: They exist only to serve as a sort of anti-survivor grenade, but that's not all they can do.
- And I Must Scream: Holy crap.
- Body Horror: Their body (and insides) have been reformed into the shape of an hourglass (with actual glass, no less-- how does that work?) and they house the black blood in the transparant glass surface for everyone to see. Imagine how they must feel.
- Expy: Of the Boomers from Left 4 Dead.
- Giant Mook: Second only to the Behemoth, the Lataevi are some of the tallest of the zombie types.
- Meaningful Name: Lata (wide in latin) + Aevus (time in latin), and considering Time is a branch of Luna magic...
- Taking You with Me: It attempts to capture nearby survivors and explodes on contact, spilling the black blood (and glass) all over the place and essentially sealing their fate. It's still dangerous to immune people because of the acidic nature of the black blood and the shards of glass getting thrown everywhere.
People that got infected by the black blood, generally at a young age. Their bodies have malformed into eerie doll-shaped forms and are identified by their pertutually grinning mouths and empty eye sockets. They can also manipulate people via the Luna technique, Dead Man's Dance.
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- Adult Fear
- And I Must Scream: They're children (probably not even 12 years old) that have been infected with the black blood who lose their eyes and are always smiling, even though it's obvious they're under a hell of a lot of pain.
- Body Horror: The description above.
- Bloody Tears
- Cute and Psycho: To an extent.
- Creepy Doll
- Eye Scream
- Lunacy
- Meaningful Name: Mara (referring to the old name for nightmare) + Marionette. And you know what? It really does fit.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: While the others were disturbing in their own ways, the Maranettes take the damn cake.
- People Puppets: Their trademark skill.
- Undead Child
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart:
- Cute Monster Girl: Generally speaking, but they have the ability to shift back and forth from "cute" to "nightmarish abomination", given their nature.
Heavily infected people who have grown stronger and larger as a result of the black blood. They possess immense strength and speed, and can be identified by their towering size, slender shapes (in the case of females — the guys are rather bulky) and bandage covered bodies.
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- Body Horror: They wear the bandages all around their body because they're bleeding so badly that they can't contain it anymore.
- Expy: Of the Tank from Left 4 Dead, obviously. Female Behemoths can be compared to the Witch though, except without the Disproportionate Retribution aspect but all the danger left intact.
- Large and in Charge: They're recognized as the most dangerous of all the zombie types and for a good reason.
- Meaningful Name: They're the strongest physically and the tallest.
- Mummy Wrap: Usually wears one all around their body due to extensive bleeding.
- The Dreaded: Actually not as much as some of the more destructive ones, such as the Magical Corpses and the Murilegas, etc.
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart:
- Amazonian Beauty: The females, generally speaking.
- Large and in Charge: Is usually the physically largest of the males and the tallest of the females.
- Super Strength
Siren / Stomablade
Infected women who retain a comely appearance and a lovely voice to drag in unwitting men (and sometimes women) to their doom. She is identified by her long, watery hair and is always shown to be near watery areas. Their male counterpart, Stomablade, are fish men with a shrimp-like appearance and appendages.
They were born from the Aqualius people, fish men/women who primarily live in the Frost kingdom Glacientyr.
Tropes related to the Sirens in general
- Always Female
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- Compelling Voice
- Cute Monster Girl: She's the poster girl for the Nachzehrer female zombies.
- Enthralling Siren
- Elite Mook: As she retains her original appearance and mindset (other than a raving desire to spread the black blood), she's this among the zombie classes.
- Fish People
- Flight
- Making a Splash / An Ice Person: Naturally.
- Mind-Control Music
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Has the Sirens Are Mermaids thing going for them, but can also grow wings to fly, which is a reference to the original definition of a siren, who were bird women.
- Musical Assassin
- Ms. Fanservice
- Power Gives You Wings: Since she has a mermaid tail, you'd think that she wouldn't get much done in a primarily dry environment, right? This changes everything.
- Sirens Are Mermaids
Tropes related to the Stomablades in general
- Fish People: Is based off of the real life Mantis Shrimp in terms of attack strength and appearance.
Infected men and women whose heads detach themselves from their bodies due to the amount of black blood that builds up in their neck, and much like their Siren counterparts, have a comely appearance. They are skilled in scytheplay (regardless of their previous weapon stance) and are usually accompanied by Exeques.
They can also disguise themselves so that they won't incite panic among normal human people and sneak up on them, but that's usually rare.
Tropes related to Dullahans in general
- Bishounen: The males, usually.
- Body Horror: The black blood building up in their neck to the point of decapitation sounds less than pleasant.
- Cool Horse: That happens to be one of the other zombie types.
- Cute Monster Girl: The females.
- Elite Mook: Among the zombies.
- Expy: Design-wise, Miku Hatsune. Idea-wise, Celty from Durarara!! for the girls.
- Strangely enough, the males resemble Valvatorez from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten.
- Femme Fatalons: The females have long nails.
- Headless Horseman
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: Their scythes.
- Losing Your Head
- Ms. Fanservice / Mr. Fanservice: A trope shared by most Dullahan characters.
- Sinister Scythe: They carry one around with them everywhere.
- Worthy Opponent: In a straight fight, they're usually the most honorable out of all the zombies, which is really saying something.
- Zettai Ryouiki: A common trait for the girls.
Soldiers who succumbed to the black blood and undead hordes. They retain their former memory of weapons usage and military training, making them more effective for killing instead of trying to infect people with the black blood. Due to bonding with their weapons, the black blood turned them into biomechanical monsters that are able to summon metal out of their body.
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- Armor Is Useless: — When put up against the black blood, anyway.
- Cool Guns
- Extra-ore-dinary / Cold Iron: Can manipulate metal into whatever it wants, making it a veritable One-Man Army as it can create guns out of anything, including itself.
- Fallen Hero: Since the military is actually not a villainous nuke-all group normally seen in these sorts of settings, as shown with Lirus, Roland, Julian and the other Crimson Crusader members, it's safe to say that these soldiers were honest, hard-working people before they got converted to the undead.
- Meaningful Name: Milito is latin for Soldier.
- More Dakka
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart:
Infected that grow fairy-like wings and have innate magical power. Despite what the name and charasteristics may imply, they can be both male and female. Sylphs are the fastest of the Nachzehrer zombies and the most powerful magic-wise, but can be taken down just as quickly.
Tropes related to the Sylphs in general:
- Bishounen: The male Sylphs tend to be this.
- Black Mage
- The Fair Folk
- Elite Mook: Among Sirens and Dullahans.
- Mask Power
- No Mouth: They have face masks that cover their mouths.
- Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: Sylphs are essentially fairy zombies that dress up and act like ninja assassins.
- Shout Out: Their uniforms have a striking similary to that of Neo Team Plasma's.
- The Ojou: A common staple among female Sylphs.
- Zettai Ryouiki: The females have this courtesy of some fancy bootwear.
Infected that grow multiple arms, legs and a scorpion tail that can transmit the black blood directly into their victim— giving them a horrific insect-like appearance. They are moderately slow, but can hit very hard and can also take it as well. As indicated by their name, they can incite sleep magic onto their opponents to make them drowsy and unable to escape.
Tropes related to the wild variant:
- And I Must Scream: Unlike their inspiration, which are merely illusions of a drug addict, these are very real indeed. Also, imagine a scorpion sting but a thousand times worse.
- Body Horror: Their bodies aren't just mangled— they're mutilated. Which is appropriate, considering what they were based off of.
- Expy: Word of God confirms that they are based off of the Abominations from Afraid of Monsters.
Tropes related to the Neumond Reich counterpart:
- Lightning Bruiser: They lack the bulky shape of the original Sleepers and as a result are able to move much faster.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Sleepers born in Neumond Reich generally have pale white-skin and dark hair colors.
Infected men & women that grow cat-like attributes along with a penchant for blood and destruction. They are usually physically attractive, strong and can tear their enemies apart due to their fast speed, claws and impromptu ether swords. They can also camouflage their grey skin and animal attributes (excluding their ears) should they need to infiltrate a heavy assortment of survivors.
They are based off of the Lucares cat people in physical form.
- Badass Adorable: And they tend to look adorable.
- Catgirl / Cat Boy
- Cute Monster Girl / Cute Monster Boy
- The Dreaded / Demonic Spiders: One by themselves isn't that scary, but a pack of them would tear through people without difficulty.
- Expy: The females are based off of the Nekomatas from Disgaea.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Out of all the zombies, they fit the flesh-eating part, but it's quite different in her case. (Cats are carnivores, for one.)
- Laser Blade: Can summon one to attack with if their big paw fists aren't enough.
- Lightning Bruiser
- Meaningful Name: Murilega is latin for Cat.
- Ms. Fanservice / Mr. Fanservice: Usually speaking regarding Murilega characters
- Purposely Overpowered: In the regular zombie medium, Murilegas would be invincible, which signifies how different the Nachzehrer zombies are. Even the Crimson Crusaders and co. have a bit of trouble facing them.
Infected women that become infamous for their attractive bodies and the ability to charm both men and women to be at their beck and call. They have immense magical powers and a wide movepool of spells to use it with, along with being able to camoflague their true identities much like their Murilega cousins.
They can also suck the blood of their victims to add to their own black blood, making them stronger in the process.
- Absolute Cleavage: The default dress of a Succulina is this.
- Always Female
- Cute Monster Girl
- Horny Devils
- Lightning Wizard: They can take the heat and dish it out too, not only in just in magic, since they are actually relatively decent physical fighters. But they're outclassed by the Dullahans and Murilegas.
- Ms. Fanservice: Their job, no less.
- Red Mage: From healing to offensive magic, they've got it all.
Literal undead that have been infected by the black blood while still in their coffins. They have grown long black tendrils that serve as legs, and every step they take leaves behind puddles of the black blood— they can also summon a shadowy entity to help direct the coffin's attacks. They are infamous for dragging their victim inside of the coffins and eating them alive.
- Animal Motifs: Spiders.
- Body Horror: The corpse inside, which is deformed to hell and back.
- Expy: Of the coffin enemies from Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
- Giant Spider
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Alongside the Sleepers and Maranettes.
- Our Zombies Are Different: They are guaranteed to be actual zombies. That, and without the coffin, they're essentially just Revenants.
Originally infected bug alien emissaries called Viatorans (Traveler in Latin), the black blood when combined with their unique body fluids created this special strand of Nachzehrer zombie. Niteris Nachzehrer take on a humanoid bee-like form (regardless of what they looked like before) along with mimicking bee hierarchy— there is only one queen and several workers and soldiers. They hide in dark caves and create a special purple honey — it tastes delicious but is lethal to anybody that isn't a Nachzehrer.
- Bee People: But of course.
- Body Horror: Think about it— your body being malformed into the same bee-like structure as everyone else and become part of a hive-mind. Thankfully, it's salvaged when you're strong enough to look like how you were like as a person.
- Bishounen Line: Soldiers originally look very mechanoid in appearance, but if they're powerful enough they can look the same as they did before turning into a Nach.
- Lightning Bruiser: Fast, strong and there's a lot of them.
- Meaningful Name: Niteris means "plague" in Latin.
Infected members of a species called Muvaren, which are flesh-and-blood sand spirits that help protect the desert continent of Mu. The black blood crystallizes their body into glass and turns them into feral monsters, as signified by their incredible electrical powers and being able to rot the land around them.
- Meaningful Name: Fulguren is a portmanteau between Muvaren and fulgurite, which is a type of glass material that is formed when lightning strikes sand.
Magical Corpse
Abyss Knights that turn into Nachzehrer but have not completely matured. Easily the most powerful and unstable of the zombie classes, surpassing the other types in strength, tenacity and viciousness.
- Punny Name: Is based off of magical girl.
Less an infection type and more an actual job class, they are Nachzehrer that are fitted with all-terrain armor and large vaccine blades that carry black blood. Due to the sterilization of the effects of black blood in clean water, Infectors are sent en-masse to turn people into Nachs directly with their syringes.
Irene Nachtsonne
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Luna / EarthSpecies: NachzehrerStarting Level: Lv. 1500
The Dean of Noir Luna Academy and master of the school.
- The Ace / Authority Equals Asskicking: Naturally, as she is the Dean, she is one of the most powerful people in the school.
- Boobs of Steel
- Conservation of Ninjutsu: Is a perfect, 50/50 split of the original Iduun complete with sentience and half of the original's powers. However, due to Irene, the original Iduun is significantly weakened.
- Cultured Badass
- Distinctive Appearances: Her maroon colored hair, turquoise-colored eyes and so on make her stand out when compared to everybody else. It's also a big hint that she's actually the Queen.
- The Ojou: Is treated like royalty by everybody, thanks to the contributions she makes for the community.
- Starfish Character: Irene is actually a sentient clone of Iduun with half of the original's power, made to keep an eye on the army she amasses in Noir Luna. Interestingly, due to her existence, the real Iduun's powers are also halved.
Reika Shimizu
- Story Debut: Unknown so farElement: Frost / EarthSpecies: NachzehrerStarting Level: Lv. 920
Irene's secretary and a peerless warrior.
- Archnemesis Dad: Is one to Thalassa seeing as Reika is her biological mother.
- Cultured Badass
- Expy: Of Rei Hououmaru from Kill la Kill.
- Hime Cut
- Meaningful Name: Reika is "lovely rose" while Shimizu is "clear water", both of which represent her elemental affinity.
Shade Chevaliers & the tropes that apply to them
A group of students and teachers from the Noir Luna Academy led by Vermiliel to help solve the troubles of fellow academy members and to help protect the school from harm from any outside threat.
- Badass Crew
- Foil: One to the Crimson Crusaders, especially since they're essentially the same group but on the Nachzehrer side of things.
- Fire-Forged Friends: It wasn't always easy for this group to come together, that's for sure.
- Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits
Sunshine Nettagel
A happy-go-lucky ditzy Dullahan girl who attends Noir Luna in order to become a full-fledged member of the Vollstrecker army like her mother Dawn and her father Cornell. She also wants to become an accomplished artist and occasionally gets taught by Vermiliel in the act of combat. She forms the Shade Chevaliers with Vermiliel in order to protect the school and the city from any danger, along with unearthing risky secrets about Neumond Reich itself all the while.
- Animal Motif: Butterflies.
- Color Motif: Yellow, white and black.
- Fantastic Racism: Considers redbloods (aka. anything that isn't a Nachzehrer) to be inferior. It's mostly out of ignorance than out of actual malice, but...
- Foil: To the more dark-aligned Nocta.
- Genius Ditz: An impressive artist, fighter and scholar... but noticeably less sharp than most of her friends.
- The Hero: From the Nachzehrer side.
- Losing Your Head: Well, she is a Dullahan.
- Meaningful Name: Her name should be a huge indicator of her personality from a first glance.
- Ms. Fanservice
- Ordinary High-School Student: By Nachzehrer standards, anyway.
- Ojou Ringlets
- Sinister Scythe: Naturally, she keeps one around.
- Zettai Ryouiki: Grade S.
Dusk Nettagel
Dusk is Sunshine's younger brother, and a powerful Esper boy who wishes to one day become a video game programmer. He attends school with his sister.
- Adorably Precocious Child
- Animal Motifs: Rabbits.
- The Archmage: Knows all of the eight elements, but sticks mostly to Frost and Dark.
- Bratty Half-Pint: At least until his Character Development kicks in at full force.
- Child Mage: Well, for as much as a child you can be considered at 15 years old...
- Expy: A huge one of Death Emizel.
- Foil: To the two rabbit boys, Vilutia and Mereno.
- In the Hood: Has a black and blue hood with similarly colored rabbit ears. It's part of his status as an Esper to wear a hood, but why rabbit ears?
- Meaningful Name: Is noticably darker than his sister in looks, at the very least. He's also a smidge whinier and more cynical. Again, until his character development.
Edgar Alhyde
- Chesire Cat Grin: Which gives him an already unsettling look... doesn't help that he's a Sleeper Nachzehrer.
- Eyes Always Shut
A mysterious Cadavelier student with an unnerving aura. He doesn't remember his name from when he was alive, so he uses Amisso as a replacement.
- Bishounen: Wow, being brought back from the dead as a vicious black blooded monster did nothing to change his complexion.
- Expy: Of Judge Nemo from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten. ( Which should say something about Amisso as a character already...
- Foil: To Daniel.
- Megane
Madeleine Mesarune
Originally a normal country girl that came from a remote village in the Outer Fields, she left to obtain the legendary purple honey made by the Niteris bee humanoid Nachzehrer. After toiling through several places by herself just to get to the cave, Madeleine comes across the purple honey and the Niteris along with it. Thankfully, the Niteris there lack a queen, so they don't intend on eating her — but make her the queen instead and a Nachzehrer to boot.
Ever since then, she has stayed with the hive for as long as she can remember— not being able to go back to her family because she can't face them after becoming what she is now and because she doesn't know the way back home. It's not until the Noir Luna Academy is addressed to her by her aide does she decide to attend it, eventually meeting up with Sunshine and the friends as time passes.
- Adorkable
- Alliterative Name
- Badass Adorable
- Badass Native: Was originally from a rural colony somewhere in Western Sacrionna.
- Badass Normal: Left home to search for the purple honey by herself and traveled a hell of a long distance to get it... by herself!
- Beware the Nice Ones: Is the most sincere of the bunch, but her temper flares easily.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Upon becoming a Nachzehrer.
- Farm Boy: Used to be one until she became black-blooded demon bee royalty.
- Foil: To Thalassa.
- Funny Foreigner: A bit downplayed.
- Friend to All Living Things: Is described to be a Beastmaster due to how in tune she was with the Earth element.
- Meaningful Name: Her last name, Mesarune, should ring bells considering she's Earth element...
- Pimped-Out Dress
Laruz Wilon
Reine Wilon
Melusine Eliones
Ambes Anima
Scarlette Le Thorne
Enthsam Fontaine
Nila Le Thorne
A group of all-around seedy people that idolize the Nachzehrer. Originally just a group of crazies, they eventually became intergrated with a corrupt branch of the United Lunardream Church to under the belief that if they unify their efforts, they will achieve absolute power. Ultimately, they gang up on the Crimson Crusaders with the Neumond Reich military to make sure nothing can stop them.
Sheol Ultimes
One of Umbra's first Nachzehrer experiments that survived his scourings. He was originally an unnamed blob of sentient black blood that grew as he consumed more and more victims before hiding back into the earth. In this time, he mused over the world outside with bitterness and confusion as he wondered what he was. As he left his underground nest, he was unstable and found his body was injuring itself - he would have died if he hadn't come into contact with a woman by the name of Lurienne.
She tended to his wounds and brought him back to life, to which he owed her gratitude and became indebited towards her. In return, she asked to become a Nachzehrer and the two of them have grown stronger as time passed, with Sheol eventually becoming a demi-god as he consumed more and more people.
He learns of Iduun and Umbra's struggle and becomes a third party - to take down the man who kills his own kind and to overthrow the queen who plans on taking over the world - Sheol would rather prefer everybody to rot in the void he creates due to all he's suffered. In this stead, Icharna Soul was founded and would go to any lengths to combat the other two's forces.
- Badass Beard: Has a short black beard in his human form.
- Expy: Of Le Mu in terms of toughness, King Gallon, etc.
- Eldritch Abomination: The shining example of the Nachzehrer as a species, as he was never human to begin with and barely sticks to his humanoid form.
- Meaningful Name: Which was self-given, actually. Sheol in mythology is a place of darkness to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life - appropriate considering the Zombie Apocalypse theming of the Black Blood Crusades and Sheol's Keystone Army-esque powers and underworld god theming.
- Pet the Dog: Is genuinely kind to Lurienne (his wife and life partner) and Neomenia (his equally disgruntled brother who agrees with his sentiments). He is also not aggressive to Umbra's other children such as Thalassa, etc and is also not aggressive to the heroes once he is defeated.
- Tragic Monster: All of his life, he's been nothing more than target practice and has consumed others to survive. And even then he's not planning to take over the world like Iduun, he wants to more-or-less empty it of people instead.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: His ideology once he's done with his plans. It's mostly towards the dregs in his group and not the people he cares about.
Neomenia Ultimes
One of Umbra's Nachzehrer children, and a horribly neglected boy. He ran away from home at a young age, despising his father for many reasons— more specifically how Umbra kills a countless amount of Nachzehrer without a second thought.
He is one of the leaders of Icharna Soul and possesses a ridiculous amount of power — having made an alliance with not only the Neumond Reich royal family but also a corrupt branch of the United Lunardream Church, ultimately making their plan to eliminate any opposition.


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Always good to honor the great work still being done in our industry. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented its 32nd annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Monday night. TVNEWSER reports: CBS News dominated its competition, pulling home 10 awards–the most for a network news division in a decade. In addition, former CNN host Larry King received a lifetime achievement Emmy (pictured right with Brian Williams and NATAS chairman Malachy Wienges).
National Geographic Channel was next with seven awards, followed by PBS with six awards and Discovery Channel with three awards. CNN, NBC News and the New York Times all tied with two awards each, with BBC America, MSNBC, HDNet HBO, the Los Angeles Times, CNBC, NPR and Smithsonian Channel each landing one Emmy.

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Meal times are important, if not sacred, for most families. That's why it's essential to have your little one sit down on the dining table and have a meal together with the family as soon as they start solids If you don't fancy chasing after your child with a spoon during mealtimes, a well-designed yet practical highchair could be the solution.
With the varying range of highchairs in different designs, functions and budget available, it can be overwhelming.
We make it simple for you! Here are some of the things to look out for when hunting for the right high chair for your child:
- Size: If you live in a smaller home or apartment, you may want to get something that doesn't take up a lot of space.
- Safety: Check the weight capacity. Does it have restraint straps to secure your child? If it comes with wheels, make sure they can be locked into place. Check the seat and tray to ensure that they are firmly secured and won't pose as a hazard to your child.
- Style: Find a highchair that will either blend in or add a splash of color to the other furniture in your home.
- Storage: Can it be folded up easily for storage? This feature is especially important if you have minimal dining space.
- Adjustable: Is the height adjustable for your child to sit comfortably up against the dining table? Some highchairs also come with reclinable seats and adjustable foot rests for baby.
- Clean: Is the tray dishwasher safe? Is the seat removable and machine washable? Kids are not exactly the tidiest eaters, so you will want to find something that can be easily wiped and washed.
- Budget: Whether you're looking at getting a standard or European-style highchair, hook-on, booster seat or chair harness, the prices can range from as low as to the high of RM. As it can be a hand-me-down item, do invest in a good quality one.
At Happikiddo, we offer an exciting assortment of highchairs too. Let's see what we have here:
Babyhome Eat
A light, minimalist highchair with a polished aluminium frame and wide base. It has a washable fabric seat, five-point harness and removable tray. It can also be folded compactly to be stowed away. Recommended for 6 months to 3 years.
Cosatto Noodle Supa
Pattern-powered highchair enriched with six multi-heights, 3 multi-reclines and an adjustable footrest. Remoeable with one hand, the tray comes with a cup holder. It can be folded for compact storage and has a fully washable seat pad. Superb for 6 months to 15kg (around 3-4 years).
Cosatto Pretzel Highchair Trona World Zoo
A wooden highchair with 3-stage adjustment for weaning, tothood and beyond. It comes with a comfy washable padded seat liner, removable flip-over tray and a foot rest. Suitable from 6 months to 10 years.
Nuna Zaaz
A highly versatile highchair that can be customised to any size and height. It comes with a five-point harness for the earlier years, and switchable to three-point harness thereafter. No crevice designs ensures easier clean-up with air-form cushion seat. Recommended for when baby can sit unsupported to 100kg.
Oxo ToT Sprout
An award-winning highchair, the seat adjusts in height and depth while the footrest is height-modifiable. The seat is contoured to promote 'sitting up straight'. Great from six months to five years.
The First Years On-the Go Booster Seat
Pull out the valve and it self-inflates into a sturdy full-size booster seat. The adjustable safety belt with T-restraint helps hold your child securely. When mealtime is over, just press out the air and fold down the back. With a self-carry handle, it's compact, lightweight and ready to go. From 9 months to 20kg.
The First Years Swing Tray Portable Booster
Designed with both kids and parents in mind, this durable seat has a unique swing-away tray that can be released and adjusted with one hand. As your child grows, detach the tray and raise the seat height to the family table. There's a three-point safety belt and two chair straps.
Mastela Booster to Toddler Seat
Perfect for travel, this wide booster seat has multiple height adjustments, can be used on most chairs and folds up flat. It comes with safety straps and a big removable tray, including a snap-on snack tray and cup holder. With a sturdy, non-skid base, it's great for six months to 4 years.
Mamas & Papas Baby Bud Booster Seat
The perfect booster seat for bringing your little one to the table, it has adjustable, non-slip feet, two chair harnesses for extra security and a removable, easy clean tray. Because it's easy to carry and store, it's ideal for using when you're out and about. Suitable from 6 months old, with a removable insert so it will give your little one a boost up to 3 years.
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Get yourself to the Greek – Halloumi Southside is open and looking FAB-U-LOUS!
Our new taverna is open! Inhabiting a former bank, our new Pollokshaws road location boasts a private dining room, event space, bespoke bar area and large open plan 80 cover restaurant.
Brought to you by Glasgow entrepreneurs, Toni Carbajosa and Kevin Campbell of The Rotunda Group, Halloumi in the Southside follows on the huge success of its Hope Street location, which opened in 2016 with their much loved 'small plates, big flavours' ethos.
Serving up a modern taste of the Mediterranean, the new restaurant and bar will offer small plates with traditional slow-cooked stews, delicately marinated meat skewers and tasty Greek flatbread kebabs; gyros, all on the menu. Expect mouthwatering souvlaki, and vegetable Dolmades, a traditional Hellenic dish served in fresh vine leaves.
At the bar, as well as an impressive selection of Scottish drinks they will host Hellenic craft beer, Mediterranean wine and artisan Greek gin. While some of their dazzling cocktails are named after Greek mythology, other crowd-pleasing creations are inspired by the breath-taking scenery of Athens – think wild blooming flowers; both perfectly Instagram-able and sure to please.
Following our strong stance on limiting plastic usage, sustainability is at the heart of the build, with reclaimed wood, furnishings and energy efficient fittings all being put in place to create a comfortable dining and drinking experience for guests.
Toni Carbajosa, co-owner of Halloumi, explains:
"We've been searching for a second Halloumi location for a number of months and when we saw this venue we immediately fell in love with the building. It's a beautiful setting for a restaurant and our team are being very careful to restore and repurpose.
We hope that everyone will love the location as much as we do, and enjoy relaxing, having a drink or sharing our modern Greek with family and friends in our new venture."
Lapreet Atwal, general manager of Halloumi said: "Halloumi is the best place to bring your family and friends to get together and we couldn't think of a better second location than opening in an former bank. We continue to be grateful for the support and can't wait to serve up our sun-soaked dishes in the Southside."
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A great bassist experiments with sound.
For as long as there have been effects pedals for electric guitars and other amplified instruments, there have also been musical purists who complain that players rely on those pedals too heavily, at the expense of their own technique. But it's hard to make that case when you hear how much a technically gifted player like bassist Victor Wooten can get out of a few magic boxes. In this video, Wooten puts three Hartke effects pedals—a chorus, a fuzz, and a looper—through their paces, adding a quick tap on the fretboard with his right hand just for fun.
Victor Wooten Pushes Pedals
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Click here to find downloadable pictures for Father's Day. Select one for class use, print, and photocopy for each students. Use coloring time to review colors and objects. ("Color Dad's hair black. Color the son's hair dark brown. Color Mom's blouse pink." etc.) After pictures are colored, have students cut around picture in oval shape. Give each student one sheet of light construction paper or other colored paper. Instruct students to fold colored page in half. Paste oval cut-out on front. Open card, and write Father's Day message on right side of fold. For very young students, you might write the phrases "Happy Father's Day" and "I love you" on a sheet of paper, then photocopy these onto colored paper before distributing colored paper. Students could then neatly trace the messages.
Searching for Dad
Instruct each student to bring a color photograph of his or her father to class. During the first five minutes, students must write a description of their fathers as seen in the photograph. For example, "My father is tall and handsome. He is wearing blue jeans and a white shirt." The teacher should then collect all photographs. Photographs are then shuffled and distributed to various students. No student should have his or her own photograph. After photographs have been exchanged, the first student chooses another student and says, "Excuse me, but have you seen my father?" The student he or she asks responds, "I don't know. What does he look like?" The first student then reads the first sentence of his or her description. The student being questioned responds with, "No, I'm sorry. I haven't seen him," "Yes, as a matter of fact, he's right here [returning the photograph]," or "I'm not sure. Describe him further." If called upon to describe him further, the student reads more of his description. A small prize may be given to each student upon his or her successfully locating his or her father.
"My father is the best because..."
Each student is given one minute to give as many reasons as possible why his or her father is the best father in the world.
Gifts That Money Can't Buy
Remind students that the best gifts in life often do not bear a price tag. These priceless gifts include a smile of support or encouragement, a kind word, a firm handshake, a warm hug, a helping hand, and so forth. Ask each student to list three to ten significant, but priceless "gifts" that he or she could give his or her father.
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I'm a modern, open-minded man-of-all-seasons who likes both sports and musical theater, both beer and fruity cocktails, and both Family Guy and Downton Abbey.
Despite this, when my wife was pregnant, I must admit I was somewhat terrified about having a girl. I know boy stuff (camping, baseball, puberty) really well but didn't know if I'd come to like and be good at girl stuff (tea parties, dress-up, puberty).
As it turns out, we had a son, who at age seven and a half is the joy of my life, as I get to relive a second boyhood through him. He's our only child, and as my wife says, that store has closed. So, whew, no princess stuff for me.


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Firstly, I'd just like to start this post by apologising for my absence of late, I have a note from my mom, that states why I have been absent from wordpress and I promise to make up all the work in the next week…
Hangovers are a messy business, they hurt, they bother, they bug and they bum you out mayyn!
hang.o.ver[hang-oh-ver] NOUN1. the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.2. something remaining behind from a former period or state of affairs.3. any aftermath of or lingering effect from a distressing experience: the post-Watergate hangover in Washington.
THE HANGOVER, a great movie, not a great feeling! Whether you have been slamming shots at a bachelorette party, drinking cocktails on a yacht, downing pints with the lads or hitting the box of vino in the fridge, drinking will always lead to some sort of hangover the next day. If you suffer from a mild or even catatonic hangover, these remedies should help you get back to normal a.s.a.p.
So, here are my TOP 10 Hangover Cures, try them all out and see what works for you, and once you find it, you'll want to kiss me, saying 'goodbye' to horrible hangovers for the rest of your life:)
Mexican food is not probably the first thing that comes to mind when you crack open that one eye and realise, 'oh yes that was a heavy night' But it defintely should be on your list of things to remember. Mexican food has some great hangover fighting properties that will have you reaching for the enchiladas in no time!
- Cilantro (Coriander) – Awesome Inflammation fighter. So all those swollen heads and tight limbs, will be eased by this tasty little herb.
- Avocado – Packed full of Vitamin E and essential fatty acids, Avocados really help with the abosorbtion of moisture and other vital vitamins, so reach for the Guacamole my friends and get scooping with the nachos!
- Beans – Remember to pack in those refried beans on any dish you have, even ask for extra. Beans are full of energy boosting fibre and loads of antioxidants which will help you start to feel less like a zombie and more human sooner than you can say ¿dónde está la salsa.
- Chillis – I learnt this lesson at Uni, Chillis are an incredible pain killer. The hotter the better, pack them in and get chomping, the active ingredient in chillis will help combat the aches and pains from a heavy night on the tiles and give you the fiery boost to get up and out of bed.
Now toast may not seem like a great cure-all creation, but it all depends on the topping!!
- MARMITE – This gooey spread has the entire world split in terms of its appeal. If you are in #TEAMMARMITE then stock up if your planning a big night out. Marmite is backed full of B vitamins which are good for your liver, kidneys and nervous system, all things damaged in some way by drinking alcohol!
- JAM – Now, you must make sure the jam is a majority fruit preserve or jelly. If you have a high fruit content in your jam, the levels of fructose and fruit vitamins can actually promote the growth and repair of all body tissues. Sweet huh?
- PEANUT BUTTER – Yes, I know it's high in fat and very calorific, but you've just sank a tonne of calories on alcohol so go with me on this one!! Although high in fat, Peanut Butter is also high in fibre. Get spreading and get those bowels moving!!
- HONEY – So, bees are annoying, but they truly did a marvellous job at creating the PERFECT hangover cure! Honey is awesome, and if you like the taste then get spreading! Honey has fantastic properties including being a natural antihistamine, anti-inflammatory AND anti-bacterial, honey boosts energy, can help with weight loss AND more importantly helps to speed up the oxidation of alcohol by the liver. This causes a 'sobering' effect and can help you get going quicker the next morning.
Okay so this is an obvious one isn't it? but it generally does work. Drinking alcohol can cause severe dehydration, which causes the brain to swell, which makes your head pound, your eyes hurt and your self inflicted hang over feel like your dying. Drink some water duddde!! If not before you go to sleep definatly after to wake up, make it your first port of call. You can also lose alot of electrolytes when drinking so after a few glasses of water try to have something like Lucozade, Poweraid or Gatoraid to replace those little fella's in the old brainio!
Okay, so, sex…or some sort of physically yummy time…BASICALLY, *blushing*, COME ON L.J PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!!! SEX IS A GREAT HANGOVER CURE, it gets all the endorphins going, makes you feel all stupid and happy and sweats out all the alcohol, now my mum reads my blog, and even has it bookmarked, so I can't go into any detail for fear of getting a 'talking to' and having that feeling of utter embarassment wash over me like a wave of humiliation. So this section gets a… just try it and see…..comment!!
Now this one I think sort of explains itself. Fruit and veg, blended up to create an explosion of taste and handfuls of multi vitamin goodness, blah blah blah… so here are the best combos 🙂
- CARROT ZINGER – Apples,Carrots & Ginger – Good for icky stomach
- MELON SQUEEZER – Frozen Strawberries, Watermelon & Fresh Lime – Vitamin C
- HAIR OF THE DOG – Cranberry Juice, Frozen Strawberries, Shot of Vodka – got the balls?
- BEEZ KNEES – Honey, Orange Juice, Natural Yoghurt – Sobers you up quickly
- MEXICAN STAND OFF – Pineapple, Pear, Ginger, Aloe Vera – Hydration
God my mouth is watering on this one!! This is my personal cure of choice, preferably cooked by someone else as the actual cooking process makes me icky, but all the same, the amazing combo of fat lard and grease mixed with some veg and meat tends to do the trick on pesky hangovers. For those of my readers who remain outside of the U.K the 'Good Old English Fry Up' is a combination of foods, tossed in a frying pan one by one, to make a hungry man's breakfast!
- Eggs (Fried, Poached, Scrambled, Boiled, anyway you prefer!)
- Bacon (In my opinion, GOT TO BE SMOKED!)
- Sausages
- Baked Beans
- Toast or Fried Bread (Bread usually fried after the bacon has been in the pan!!)
- Mushrooms
- Tomatoes
- Black Pudding (never on my plate, but the blood sausage likes to appear sometimes)
- Hash Browns (sometimes, in Cafés you get chips [fries] but not really often!)
- Salt, Pepper, Ketchup, Brown Sauce!!
Ginger is truly #Amazeballs if you don't mind the taste honestly get it in everything!! Whack it in an early morning juice drink, slam it in a midday stir fry, boil it up with some honey and a tea bag for a fresh alternative, chop it up into some cookies and bake when you wake! Ginger is a fantastic root – herb?? spice!! SPICE!! there we go, Ginger is a fantastic root spice, that can aide indigestion, sore throats, headaches, constipation, nausea AND vomiting and so much more. Just a little bit and you can start to feel the effects. I love to chop a little bit off, peel it, and smoosh it a bit to get the juice out, then dropping it in a pot of Chai tea, enahncing the flavour of the Chai and really giving myself an early morning WAKE UP call!!
My mum has always told me, that before I go out drinking I should always drink a big glass of milk, just to line my stomach, I never do it but this got me to thinking, could milk be a good cure as well as a prevention method? Doing some searching I realised that milk has some great properties for helping the day after a big drink…
Milk has been proven to help ease the symptoms of stress and even PMS, as well as being a great energy booster milk can calm those worries of 'what the hell did I do last night?'.
Milk is packed full of Vitamin A & B which among other things helps with eyesight, feeling a bit hazy after a skinfull, sip a glass of milk to help get back that 20/20 vision.
Milk is as many of you know is a good fighter against heartburn and indigestion. After a belly full of beer, Milk can help repair that fragile stomach lining of yours, coating it and calming it ready for a large helping of hangover food!
The proteins in milk, help to rebuild muscles, awesome after a gym session, but also great after a night where you've thrown a few shapes that you haven't necessarily thrown in a while, a glass of milk ro two can help to reduce the soreness the next morning!!
Sounds scary huh? It's not honest!! I used to work at The Body Shop, and if there is one thing I know it's that your skin is very important and surprisingly easy to damage!! Milk is packed with Lactic and Amino Acids, 2 things that are rammed into expensive face creams, lotions and potions! So fight that awful zombie face by always removing your make up before you sleep and drink some milk the next day to defeat that sallowed skin!
Thought you had seen it all? Thought that I was scraping the bottom of the barrel?? Thought I was done making you think I had lost it??? WELL NOT FOR LONG MY BEAUTIES!! What you see above you there is a neat little app. An app that claims to relieve your hanovers through the power of low frequency theta and delta waves that calm and relieve the brain during a hangover.
Now, I am a slight simpleton when it comes to all this brainwaves and hovercraft talk, but I am a total geek at heart and wanted to know more, so here is my little guide to brainwaves…
- BETA Your totally awake, completely active in the brainy department
- ALPHA Your Daydreaming, meditating, relaxing with a few OHHHMMMMS
- THETA Your drifting in and out of sleep, you know when you start to dribble
- DELTA Your in deep sleep, where all functionality of the brain is taken outside of the imaginable and can operate outside the confines of linear space and time.
So you see, this app, replicates the two states in which your brain is at its calmest, most relaxed states allowing your hangover to subside as your mind quietens down a bit! Try it for your self HERE and let me know how it works!
#10 – Prevention Over Cure
Now, this is the part where I'm supposed to say, don't drink, be good and healthy and don't destroy your liver, do not have that 14th JaegerBomb, no that Cocktail will not taste nice repeated, and yes that 27th beer is definatly a bad idea. But hell, we all do it, we all make mistakes, and we all have hysterical memories about 'that guy who got naked and climbed the lamp post'.
The best way to stop a Hangover though is to be well prepared before you go out. Always try to eat something, and don't do that whole 'if I don't eat I'll get drunker quicker' thing, it's reallllly bad for you and can actually cause tissue damage!! Try and line your stomach with carbs, they release their energy slowly and also give your stomach something to fight the alcohol with! Drink a glass of milk as my mum says and when you get home, make some toast or grab something out your fridge.
If all else fails, hang onto the kitchen floor so you don't fall off, keep your shoes on for alcoholic trips and remember not all dwarves are house elves, it's not right to throw socks at them and scream 'DOBBY YOUR FREE!'
Happy blogging, Cheers for Reading,
L.J x


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The flow of time puts everything on its place. It had been decided long before the current age that men are strong and defending. They solve problems and take all the responsibilities for their families. But nevertheless, being so self-confident and stable, men, as any other human-beings, have the right for their own whims. So, let's see what we have on the list of typical man's follies;)
Tasty food. This is considered to be the main whim of our strong and brave. No matter what they say – they all love tasty food. The best woman for them is the one who can cook some interesting dishes and feed his appetite) But note, there's no man who adores diet stuff. So, all those "green" salads and meat substitutes are not for them. All the food must be rich and nourishing.


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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of… an empathy… a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds
She listened to the waves wash ashore, and the whistle of the wind as it bored through the hole in the longstone. The shingles shifted underfoot when she stepped closer. The moon was near to setting, but still visible in the western sky, hanging low upon the rim of the limestone cliff that edged the strand.
"I can accept witcheries," Lammond said. "I know they're real. But wizardry? I think not."
Angharad shook her head. "What makes the one more believable to you than the other?"
"Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of – heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales."
by Charles de Lint (born 22 December 1951)
from Into the Green (1993)
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From 1st April 2013, our tenants will no longer be able to refer their complaints directly to the Local Government Ombudsman. Instead, they will be able to ask a 'designated person' or 'designated tenant panel' to consider their complaint once it has been through our two-stage complaints procedure.
Tenant panel
We are currently working with our Tenant Representatives to set up a tenant panel. In the meantime local Councillors and MPs will carry out the role as 'designated person'.
Updating our comment, complaint or compliment Policy
Due to these changes, we are currently reviewing our policy, which when approved by the Board and our Client Officers, will be published on our website and made available in local offices.
You might be be interested in reading our: Vexatious Complaints Policy
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On the same day as Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Chief Norman Chan urged citizens to "stay calm on the currency weakening," the Hong Kong Dollar has plunged to its weakest in 33 years amid liquidity concerns and a global carry trade gone rogue.
The Hong Kong Dollar has been in free-fall for the last year (interrupted briefly in the middle of last year) but as its drop accelerated in recent days, HKMA wrote a blog to reassure the people that their paper-money is safe:
Stay calm on the weakening of the Hong Kong dollar
There have been concerns and discussions in the market about the recent weakening of the Hong Kong dollar (HKD).
Chan then goes to to answer some questions (but it seems his headline sparked some sudden selling)...
This is the weakest in 30 years and near the weaker end of the peg band (7.85/USD), but do not worry, Chan says:
"However, this should not cause any concerns, as the HKMA will take action when the HKD exchange rate touches the weak-side Convertibility Undertaking (7.85) to ensure that it will not fall below 7.85."
Question 3 caught our eye - If the HKMA is not concerned about the weakening of the HKD, why did it issue additional Exchange Fund bills when the HKD was weakening last year? Was it intended to prevent the HKD from depreciating as suggested by some market players?
Good question.
His response:
This is not true. The issuance of additional HK$80 billion worth of Exchange Fund bills by the HKMA last time was solely in response to market demand for highly liquid instruments and had nothing to do with the strengthening or weakening of the HKD.
We do not have plans to issue additional Exchange Fund bills for the time being and hope that market players will not take it wrongly that the HKMA does not want the HKD to weaken.
In fact, with the widening of the spreads between HKD and USD interest rates, we are looking forward to funds flowing from the HKD into the USD, causing the HKD exchange rate to reach 7.85, a level where the HKMA will take action. This will allow the Monetary Base to contract gradually and create an environment conducive to the normalisation of HKD interest rates.
Which - roughly translated from double-negative google translate into English - means...feel free to ride this trend lower, but at 7.85 we will unleash hell (maybe). Remember, under Hong Kong's linked exchange rate system, the HKMA is mandated to sell US dollars at HK$7.85 when necessary to protect the peg.
What stands behind the Hong Kong dollar? How much can they intervene until it breaks (Soros-British Pound style)?
The Hong Kong dollar is backed by the HK$4 trillion (US$513.5 billion) Exchange Fund, one of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves. The fund, established as an asset war chest for defending the currency's value, also makes investments, earning a record HK$252 billion in 2017 income.
So who is to blame for the HKD's sudden demise? Simple - The Fed! (and HKMA gave you the answer in the previous paragraph)
As SCMP details, the main culprit behind the local currency's slump is the carry trade, an arbitrage whereby investors borrow low-yielding currencies to buy high-yielding currencies.
This is an arbitrage, where traders take advantage of differences in prices, selling a low-yielding product (the Hong Kong dollar) to buy a high-yielding product (the US dollar). In this case, the price difference is between the local borrowing cost known as the Hong Kong interbank offered rate (Hibor) and the US borrowing cost known as the Libor.
Simply put, traders are borrowing against the low Hibor, selling the Hong Kong dollar to buy the US currency for investments in high-yielding US assets. The difference between the two is widest since 2008.
As more traders pile on to the carry, more pressure is placed on the Hong Kong dollar, causing it to weaken further against the US currency... and The Fed's plan to hike rates (as many as four times) will do nothing to help ease the situation - meaning any dollars sold in defense of the weaker HKD will be battling global carry trade flows driven by The Fed's tightening.
Howard Lee, deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, said on Tuesday that while the Hong Kong dollar had reached its weakest level in more than 30 years, this valuation was "well within the design of the system."
"Since the global financial crisis, we have seen large amounts of funds flow into Hong Kong, and now we are seeing these same funds flow out,"
And in case you thought this was just something that geeky FX traders worry about, think again...
As SCMP reports, a leading Hong Kong chain store specialising in Japanese snacks and consumer goods has responded to the recent depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar by marking up its products by 3 to 5 per cent.
A strategy since put in place to minimise the impact of any exchange rate volatility had also backfired.
"After 2016 we tried to reduce the ratio of Japanese imports to about 30 per cent," Lam said. "But the stores have lost their appeal for our loyal customers, most of whom are drawn to our line-up of Japanese snacks."
One group of residents sensitive to a lower Hong Kong dollar would be the more than 300,000 foreign domestic helpers working in the city, who remit part of their wages back home every month.
But they should not worry as the value of the paper-money in their pockets evaporates... the central bank chief said "stay calm" remember!


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Awakening Sleeping Beauty: Unpacking My Vision Quest
At the Autumn equinox this year, I went into the forest for three days on vision quest. No tent, no food, no fire. Just me and water, a hammock, some tarps and my bundle and tarot cards. Many people have asked me to talk about it, but it's been a challenge. I think because the […]Read More


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There is a huge choice of cafes in Kawagoe, too many for one article. Part 1 introduces THREE of my favourites, simply chosen for the first article as they are the ones I visited most recently. The featured photo with the parasols is the last entry; Tsubakiya. Each of these 3 cafes are mapped in a My Map at the bottom of the article.
1. Hatsuneya Garden The Cafe
For a bit of peace and quiet off the beaten track awaits a chic cafe with a terrace at the front and a garden from the Edo period at the back. The cakes are delicious and the coffee strong. It is a place you can visit alone or on a date or with friends. Take out is also available.
Average price: about 600 yen per beverage or cake
Hours: 11 am to 6 pm seven days a week
Official Site (A little bit of English): https://www.hatsuneya.jp/cafe
A full review features on City-cost.com:
More on insaitama.com: Hatsuneya Garden Cafe【from Google Maps & City-Cost Reviews】 | KAWAGOE
2. Shimano Tea Room
Shimano Tea Room has won a place in my heart as it reminds me of tearooms I visited with family during my childhood in Dublin. The servers are dressed in the old traditional wear of black tights, black dresses and white frill aprons. They even wear the white laced head piece. The selection of tea is fantastic too and their sandwiches are decent. I recommend trying the tea here, but if it's not your thing they also have coffee and soft drinks.
Average price: Tea averages at 580 yen a pot (about 3 cups to a pot)
Hours: 10 am to 6 pm on weekdays and 9 am to 7 pm on weekends
Official Site (Japanese only): https://www.kawagoe.com/shimano/
You can read a detailed review on City-cost.com:
3. Tsubakiya
Enjoy a foot spa with your tea, coffee, soft drink or beer in the small zen garden with beautiful Japanese parasols. You can enjoy a speciality of Kawagoe, sweet potato, in the form of a light treat, or an original ginger ale made from kochi ginger. The small cafe, seating only 8 people, is located out the back of Tsubaki no Kura, a colourful and unique souvenir, trinket and amulet store. This shop is on the main tourist strip and is serviced by tourist and public buses. It is mapped on the Google map at the bottom of the article.
Average Price: from 400 yen for a beverage, from 680 yen for alcohol, from 350 yen for a snack
Hours: 10 am to 7 pm on weekdays and until 8 pm on weekends
Official site (English available): https://tsubaki-kura.jp/
You can read a full review on City-Cost.com:
There are many more fun, unique, quaint, chic and cozy cafes in Kawagoe. I hope to feature more over the coming weeks. If you have a favourite or a place you'd like to share, please do comment. Comments are always welcome. 🙂