Raiden Mei, also known as Raiden Bosenmori Mei and better known as Acheron, is a playable major character in the 2023 science fantasy turn-based tactical role-playing video game Honkai: Star Rail.
The individual known as "Acheron" was a mysterious swordswoman who claimed to be a member of the Galaxy Rangers. In actuality, she was a Self-Annihilator and Emanator of the Aeon of Nihility, IX who embraced nothingness after failing to save her homeworld from destruction.
She is voiced by Juhuahua in Chinese, Park Ji-yoon in Korean, Allegra Clark in English, and Miyuki Sawashiro in Japanese. Clark has also voiced Maki Zenin and Kasumi Miwa in Jujutsu Kaisen, Beidou in Genshin Impact, Noel Niihashi in Burn the Witch, Derieri and Matrona in The Seven Deadly Sins, Mitsuru Kirijo in Persona 3 Reload, and Dorothea Arnault in Fire Emblem. Miyuki has also voiced Jolyne Cujoh in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Mordred Pendragon in Fate.
Appearance
Acheron was a tall, beautiful woman with light skin, a curvaceous physique, and bright violet eyes with diamond-shaped pupils. She had long, indigo hair that fell down to her hips, with long bangs that covered the left side of her face, a long strand flowing down the right side of her chest, and a cowlick on top of her head. Her hair was fastened using a brooch into loose, low pigtails that spilled down her back. Having previously been an oni, Acheron once had a pair of thin red horns sprouting from her forehead.
During her life in Izumo, she wore black sandals, a white kimono, and a red obi that had a flower called a "crimson knot" patterned on it.
Story
Background
Come from the beautiful planet name Izumo, which is also in a star system with another planet name Takamagahara. One day, Yaoyorozu no kami descend from Takamagahara to destroy everything. To fight back, Izumo people forge 12 blades from body of Sovereign send by Kami. However, it still not enough, as more and more enemy send by Kami destroy more and more part of their civilization, the remaining people decide to break 12 blades to created 2 new blades, Origin and End. Acheron come into disagreement with her friend Shiraga Oni on how to save Izumo. So they fight with Archeron wield the Origin why Hakuhatsu Kia wield End. While in the fight, everyone on Izumo turn into Oni form over exposer to Kami powers, only Acheron and Shiraga Oni retain their sense of self. The fight end with Archeron kill Shiraga Oni with both of their blades broken.
However, all their effort would mean nothing in the end. As both of Izumo and Takamagahara are fate to be consume by the black hole star that they orbit, which is actually IX all along. Mean they will died and never have a chance to be embrace by Finality. It is in this moment that acheron accept Nihility, the meaningless of existent, use her life force to created the final blade from her broken origin blade, "Naught", unleash her attack to IX in her last attempt to save Izumo. But failed anyway.
| “ | I knew this world was fleeting... ...And yet...And yet |
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| ~ Acheron lament to herself of her failed attempt to save Izumo |
Penacony story arc
(TBA)
Equipment
- Naught: Acheron carried an ōdachi-style sword called "Naught," though she rarely drew it from its sheath. On her homeworld of Izumo, twelve blades were forged from the remains of powerful beings known as the "Yaoyorozu-no-Kami." These blades were referred to as "Edict Edges" and "Sentinels." Containing the powers of mighty Kami within, the Sentinels each possessed unique supernatural abilities and could be used to slay Kami. The Edict Edges were later shattered and reforged into two blades: "Origin" and "End," which represented the nature of a warrior's decline into an oni. Acheron wielded Origin against End for the fate of her world, causing both of the blades to shatter. After Acheron realized the quest for peace had been meaningless all along, the remains of Origin were transformed into Naught: a new weapon forged through the power of the Nihility.
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Trivia
- Acheron's Chinese and Japanese voice actresses, Juhuahua and Miyuki Sawashiro respectively, both also voiced the characters Raiden Mei from the video game Honkai Impact 3rd and Raiden Ei and Raiden Makoto from the video game Genshin Impact. Honkai Impact 3rd and Genshin Impact are both developed by miHoYo, the studio behind the creation of Honkai: Star Rail, and both belong to an overarching connected fictional multiverse in which Honkai: Star Rail also takes place. Raiden Mei, Raiden Ei, and Raiden Makoto all shared similar physical and thematic similarities to Acheron, leading fans of miHoYo games to conclude that they were all alternate reality versions of one another.
- Whereas the Chinese and Japanese versions of Acheron retain the same voice actresses behind the performances of Mei, Ei, and Makoto, the English version deviated. In the English version of Genshin Impact, the roles of Ei and Makoto were performed by actress Anne Yatco, which led to some fan disappointment when Allegra Clark was revealed to be voicing Acheron. Clark received negative messages on social media, which Yatco and others denounced.
- "Acheron" is the name of a river located in the Epirus region of Greece. In ancient Greek mythology, the river Acheron was frequently depicted as the entrance to the Greek underworld. In later sources, including Roman stories, the entrance to the underworld was instead depicted as the fictional river Styx.
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