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In the world of Blue Archive, a halo (ヘイロー) is a disk, ring or abstract pattern floating above a humanoid girl's head. Halos vary in colors, shapes, and designs, mostly referencing their respective students' personalities or general character theme. The halo's basic concept is easy to understand, yet mysteries around them still remain.
General Information[]
Seeing a halo is nearly as common as seeing gunfire happening in Kivotos. Halos act as a student's form of consciousness. If a student is unconscious (e.g. sleeping or knocked out), her halo will disappear temporarily and will return once she regains consciousness, which is denoted by her halo flickering.
Although it's generally believed and accepted by the students of Kivotos that halos belong to students as only they are seen with halos while other citizens aren't, it doesn't seem to be the case as other exceptions have been proven to exist with halos. Most notable is Tendou Alice, an android with a halo even before she was enrolled as a Millennium student. In her case, it's believed that she has a halo because she retains a connection to the Nameless Gods.
Another example is Decagrammaton's Prophets, giant robots/mecha roaming around Kivotos. In spite of being automatons, their connection to the mad god-machine has enabled them to gain halos of their own.
A few creatures, neither humanoids nor robots, also have halos of their own, such as Beatrice in her Ascended Form.
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Design[]
Although halos are generally believed to normally represent students they belong to— whether they be by their personality, design or history —the halos' designs themselves can be quite abstract, making it hard to understand their connections with their respective students at first glance. The halos' designs can also vary from a plain, classic angelic single-colored two-dimensional shape to a highly-detailed three-dimensional form.
There are certain cases where halos have designs simple enough to make them hard to distinguish from another student's halo at first glance.
As previously mentioned, some students have three-dimensional halos, standing in distinct contrast to the halos possessed by most of Kivotos' student body.
Abilities[]
The halos are the main reason why students are normally seen with firearms and other military-grade weaponry as they provide outstanding offensive and defensive capabilities, giving students more physical strength and allowing them to withstand small-arms fire and even tank shells.
Halos also provide regenerative abilities, allowing scratches from bullets to heal by themselves, though heavier injuries (often sustained during extended, intense combat) still require medical treatment. Besides strength and regeneration, halos are speculated to also provide other superpowers such as super luck believed to be owned by Ichinose Asuna.
Like most things, the halos have a limit. Although it provides regenerative abilities, a halo can only regenerate when given time. If a student receives massive continuous damage, her halo can shatter, resulting in her death. There are also some weapons that can allegedly destroy a halo in an instant, such as the halo-destroying bomb from Volume 3 that was originally intended for Yurizono Seia. However, it proved to be a "failed experiment", failing to deliver a lethal blow when detonated and was subsequently discarded.[1]
Trivia[]
- There is currently only one student in the current timeline who is confirmed to have a shattered halo in the game— Yume from Abydos High School.
- Shiroko Terror's halo was cracked when she appeared in Volume F. After she became playable however, her halo was restored while still retaining a dark color.
- Halos do not disappear when a enemy student or human mob is defeated in battle. Instead, the character model simply fades away.
- According to implications from the director of Blue Archive in a 3rd Anniversary Q&A, the shape of a halo can generally be seen by others, but like small details seen on someone's face, they are generally given little, if any attention. Officially hired language interpreters misconstrued (from Korean to English) that Halos' shapes cannot be seen by others over the livestream or that they have no form, despite this being seen as false such as the Plum Blossom Garden background showing a toy shaped like Sunohara Shun's halo, or a Trinity Festival advertisement for Seraphim showing Mari's halo accurately recreated on a chalkboard, which was shown as an in game CG to promote an event alt announced a week after said Q&A in Japan.
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